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Volume 9 November 24, 1911. Number 47 
The Reorganization Plans 
The reorganization of the dis- 
banded trust companies does not 
seem to be as easy a task as first 
thought for and the results obtained 
by reorganization while legal do not 
necessarily afford opportunities for 
competition. Prof. Bruce Wyman 
in the Boston Transcript writes: 
‘*Probably we need to see with 
our own eyes the failure of this 
tobacco plan to work out competi- 
tion in practice before we will be- 
heve that the law cannot produce 
competition, if only its prohibitions 
would be obeyed. Then, perhaps, 
when driven to the realization of the 
permanence of monopoly in certain 
businesses, we will at last come to 
believe that monopoly is good where 
it is natural. It will then be appre- 
ciated that these great concerns 
which have been gradually devel- 
oped in the inevitable course of a 
predetermined evolution may be 
turned to the common advantage 
by the effective regulation of them 
by the law. These attempts in re- 
cent years to utterly destroy the in- 
dustrial trusts, from this point of 
view, seem almost as unintelligent as 
the terrorist propaganda. Rather 
‘poye[nSei oq pynoys spray sAtyoods 
-a1 IdY} Ut staONpoad aAtTpooTo osoyy 
as the law has, with striking success 
in our time, been regulating the 
public services. These great indus- 
trial corporations are as much af- 
fected with a public interest in their 
control as any public service cor- 
poration.”’ 
This statement by Dr. Wyman 
seems to express in a nugget ot wis- 
dom the experience of the country. 
There is nothing essentially wrong 
in combination for trade purposes, 
for from it, result improvements 
otherwise impossible. A trust is a 
good thing when it serves good ends 
by good means. The whole problem 
is to prevent selfish aggrandizement 
on the part of illegal and unscrupu- 
lous organizations and yet not harm 
legitimate, honorable combinations 
which promote and do not harm the 
public weal. 
Epictetus on Thanksgiving 
The return of Thanksgiving will 
recall the words of the heathen 
Philosopher Epictetus of whom little 
is known save that he was a slave 
of Epaphroditus ‘‘a profligate freed- 
man’’ of Emperor Nero. He was 
lame as the text indicates and in 
increasing years. He was probably 
born at Hierapolis of Phrygia. He 
says, ‘‘Good Heaven! any one thing 
in the creation is sufficient to dem- 
onstrate a Providence, to a humble 
and grateful mind. The mere possi- 
bility of producing milk from grass, 
cheese from milk, and wool from 
skins; who formed and planned it? 
Ought we not, whether we dig or 
plough or eat, sing this hymn to 
God? Great is God, who has sup- 
plied us with these instruments to 
till the ground; great is God, who 
has given us to grow insensibly and 
to breathe in sleep. These things 
we ought forever to celebrate but 
because the most of you are blind 
and insensible, there must be some 
one to fill this nation, and lead, in 
behalf of all men, the hymn to God; 
for what else can I do, a lame old 
man, but sing hymns to God? Were 
I a nightingale; were J a swan, the 
part_of a swan. But since I am a 
reasonable creature, it 1s my duty 
to praise God and I eall on you to 
join the same song.”’ 
Epictetus has found the 
spirit of Thanksgiving. 
true 
‘‘ Heating Question Again ’”’ 
Two of our leading papers have 
taken occasion to call attention edi- 
torially to the question of over- 
heated houses. The Boston Herald 
avers: ‘‘That it is not improbable 
that more people in this latitude are 
physically injured by the heat in 
winter than in summer. The dried 
out super-heated atmosphere of 
many of our winter abiding places 
is exceedingly unwholesome and re- 
sponsible for many of the petty ail- 
ments which develop into real 
afflictions.’’ Sixty-five degrees Wah- 
renhite is the suggested high tem-' 
perature. Another periodical takes 
up the question of the moisture in 
the atmosphere of our houses as 
being an overlooked item of great 
importance and even claiming that 
a modern heated house is often 
dryer than the dryest climates 
known on our globe. Care in filling 
the cold water pans in furnaces is 
suggested and the placing of water 
filled receptacles about in hot water 
or steam heated rooms to supply the 
moisture which has dried out. Cer- 
tainly these are important items 
—first an even lower temperature 
and second an even and larger de- 
gree of water saturation of the at- 
mosphere. 
Essex Railway Service 
It is the modern systems of trans- 
portation which adds so much in 
these days to the joys and advan- 
tages and prosperity of country life 
on the North Shore. Isolate 
communities and deprive them of 
their opportunities for a ‘‘way out”’ 
and you have erippled the pleasures 
our 
of country life and put an effectual — 
damper upon progress and prosper- 
ity. 
made by the Town of Essex is war- 
ranted and the easement requested 
by the railroad commissioners seems 
justifiable. The petition of the 
Board of Selectmen for better ser- 
vice should be granted. The condi- 
tions in the surface traffic and in the 
overhead equipment should be im- 
proved so that it can no longer be 
said as was stated by Congressman 
Gardner’s private secretary at the 
hearing ‘‘that Essex has the poorest 
street railway service in eastern 
Massachusetts.’ 
Shop Early 
It seems strange that the season 
of brotherly love, good 
Christian Greeting, even the Christ- 
mas season should be marred by 
greed, unkindliness, thoughtlessness 
and a persistent disregard of the 
true Christmas joy. The holiday 
season has become a grand holiday 
‘‘rush.’? Cars are over-crowded, 
stores are ‘‘packed,’’ tired and wan 
girls are over-burdened, the mails 
are over-crowded and the expresses 
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