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About The Sunday Oregonian. (Portland, Ore.) 1881-current | View Entire Issue (Nov. 1, 1908)
eL Tr-"a. DM! .1: li jgCtX jVk.i r, l T7TT TT ' SIVSTNG THEIR.BOYi RIGHT "I AS PUT INTO PRAfiHeS THE , "GREIAT-AND NE3AR.GRE1AT 1 l I i ! I i ' i 'J ; ' Ir ' lit- iHr' I $ -lit ; BT JOHN ELFRKTH WATKINS. YOUNG Theodore Roorelf flT-dollar-a-wcek Job In th Connoc tlcut carpet factory calls to mind how other ions of the great and near great ar being- or hava ben put through course of prout by their 11 ludtrious dads. Jiiot the other week since the leaves beffan to turn Opon Mills Keld, only son of Whltelaw Reld, our millionaire Ambassador to the Court of St. James, started In as "emergency" In the office of his father's newspaper, the New Tork Tribune. This means that he Is on the bottom rung- of the Journalistic ladder must hold himself In readiness to run to fires and riots and murders, and all that sort of thing. In the wee sma' hours of the morning. But this beginning was not made until his dis tinguished father had put him through Tale, where he made a spei-lalty of economics and political science, and where he got his sheepskin four years ago. Since then he has been grinding sway at the Tale Law School. So while his recently wedded sister has been dancing with dukes and princes, snd shining at the Court of Edward VII. young Reld has been content to shine In the green light of the student's lamp ratner than the limelight that beats upon a courtier, such as he might have been. These are wise dads, but when the praise is handed around these sons de serve a share for not kicking over. the traces and heading up the fatal but al luring path of least resistance. The President also sent his fledgling through college 'tis said the young man will get his diploma, carpet mill or no but. unlike the elder Held s. Mr. Roosevelt's business wasn't one at whose bottom he could very well start bis son. although, true enough, .'ohn Adams did Indenture his boy to learn the Presidential trade. Rockefeller Boy's ftart. The university is considered a pre requisite by most of our great daddies, few of whom had Its advantages them selves. There Is John D. Rockefeller, for a notable example- He sent his son and namesake to Brown, where he took the lead In religious work and was treasurer of the varsity football team. Young Reld. by the way. played on the Tale eleven. "John D. Jr.," be gan at the bottom, down at the office of the Standard OH Company, after leaving college, and so Industriously did be apply himself to the art of mak ing money that he Injured bis eyesight at the sendoff. Bo those who have since seen this stocky, square-shouldered young man remember, most of all, that he wears very heavy glasses. While he was at college and serving Ms apprenticeship at 2 Broadway, he lived as frugally as a poor man's son, and only lately he was quoted as say ing that 30 cents is enough for any man to spend for bis luncheon. His cousins. W illiam O. and Percy A, were similarly started In at the bottom In the Standard's offices. Young- Hill and Havemejrer In Overalls. J. J. Hill. the multi-millionaire "builder of the Northwest," made bis eldest son. Louis. Jump Into overalls and learn railroading from the shop up. He made good and his father made him president of the Oreat Northern. H. O. Havemeyer hasn't sent his boy. Horace now 23 to college at all. but has put him early to work In his sugar refineries. William C Whitney, however, sent his boy, Harry Payne, through Tale and then started him in a banking bouse at J a week. Thomas F. Ryan has set up his sons, Arlan J. taged 2S) and Clendenin J. (24) In a banking and brokerage rlrm of their own. which they call "Ryan Brothers." His eldest son. J. B.. now 33, mansgea the Ryan estate at Suffern, N. T.. while fc!s youngest son. Joseph J., Is a student at Georgetown University. to which Catholic Institution the mother has do nated a wing known as "Ryan Hall. Your.g William Vincent Astor son of Colonel John Jacob who will probably be the manager of the bulk of the vast Astor real estate !n New York, was put through our St. Paul's School and Is now at England's historic liton, where lately has been sent the 13-year-old grandson snd JU'5.Wu.i-.) heir of Marshall Field. Th:s future prince of finance is now but 13 and he and young Astor are playing hell with the eons of the r.oblllty of Knglsnd. with whose fathers the old college hss been a favorite since It was founded and rii-hty endowed by Henry VI a half century before Columbus dls- ! i itM ! ti' 11 i Ha ( ! ? :mi .v c t covered America. One of Its sights Is the "black hole,'" the cell containing the ancient "flogging block." over which pu pils of former years knelt to be whipped for such offenses as absence from roll call. Astor Like Soldiering. William Waldorf Astor has gotten his son. John Jacob V, now J2, a lieuten ant's commission In the English First Life Guards. While this troop was at swimming practice Summer before last a trooper, kicked by a horse, sank Into deep water. Toung Astor bravely dived In and brought him up. to be finally re suscitated. This hobby for soldiering seems Inher ent In the Astor blood. John Jacob HI. It may be remembered, was on McClellan's staff In the Civil War. while John Jacob IV gave a battery to our Army for the Spanish War and equipped the soldiers completely, also gave himself and was a Colonel and a good soldier. Before that be had been a militia Colonel on Oov ernor Morton's staff. It Is ssld that neither John Jacob V nor his elder brother. Waldorf, has renounced hi American rftisenship. Toung Waldorf, now 29. two years sgo proved his loy alty to American womanhood by mar rvlng Mrs. Shaw, one of the three beau tiful Langborne sisters, of Virginia. Astors In Politics and Diplomacy. Polittos has been the choice of two other great-great-grandsons of the first John Jacob Astor. These are Lewis Stuyvesant Chanler, Lieutenant-Governor of New York, who Is running against Mr. Hughes for the Governorship of the Empire State, and William Astor Chan ler. who has been a representative In Congress from New York. Lewis was educated at Cambridge, England, and went through Columbia Law School. William took up soldiering and went to the front In the Spanish War. receiving special commendation for his part in the siege and battle of Santiago. Another great-great-gTandson of the first John Jacob Astor is young Peter Augustus Jav. son of Augustus Jay, who In 1870 married Emily Astor Kane, great-grand-daughter of the founder of the family. He chose a dip lomatic career, and six years ago. when scarcely more than of age, was appoint ed third secretary of our embassy at Paris, whence he was promoted in less than a year to the second secretaryship at Constantinople, where he became full secretary In 1906. Last year he was again advanced to the secretary ship at Tokio. William Waldorf Astor, It 'may be remarked, dabbled In diplo macy for a while, being Minister to Italy under Arthur. One more young scion of a million aire family who has chosen this call ingone which requires more common sense, tact and shrewdness than the public appreciates Is Lloyd Griscom, son of Clement A. Griscom, the Phila delphia shipping magnate. His father put him through the University of Pennsylvania, where he proved a prod igy, getting his Ph. B. degree when only 19. Next he was sent through the law school, and when Just 21 was ap prenticed as private secretary to that astute statesman and publicist, Thomas F. Bayard, our first ambassador to the court of Queen Victoria. Then he went to the Spanish war as a oaptaln and re-entered the diplomatic .service as secretary at Constantinople. While still in his twenties he was minister both to Persia and Japan and now is ambassador to Italy. But reverting; to soldiering: as a means for. these millionaires' sons to work off their potential energy there is young H. H. Rogers. Jr., who is a captain In the aristocratic 15th Regi ment, N. G. N Y., as Is also Cornelius Vanderbllt. Both volunteered in the war with Spain. Two VanderWlt Methods. Commodore Vanderbllt did not be lieve In more than an aSademlc edu cation for his son, and that son held to the same view, but the fourth gen eration was sent to college. In starting their sons the Vander bilts Cornelius IL, and William It exerted different methods. Those of the former Cornelius IIL, Alfred Gwynne and Reginald C were made to rise early, wear simple clothes, go regularly to church and Sunday school, read Informing books and follow a regime of alternate study and whole some recreation. William K.'s sons William K., Jr.. and Harold E. on the other hand were allowed to enter the limelight almost from Infancy. Cornelius III. was sent through Yale, where 'he took a post-graduate course -t i L J. JO . 7SO?JCEFEIIs.EK In marine engineerhig. He was then put into the shops of the New York Central, where he donned overalls and worked at the mechanical side of rail roading from the bottom up. Since then he has spent his spare moments working out Inventions, three of which a truck, locomotive tank and fire box being of importance. After his father "cut him off" with $1. 500.000, be cause he married against the paternal will, his brothers and sisters gave him J8.000.000 of their share. He Is said to have so successfully handled this small fortune that he Is today richer than his brother Reginald. Alfred G. was made head of the family by his father's will, but the scandals that have recently at tached to him and Reginald indicate a reaction against the discipline enforced during their boyhood. On the other hand, their cousin, young William K., has a desk in the Vanderbllt offices and It has been predicted that he will some day be the forceful head of the whole family. His younger brother, Harold Mental Suggestion as a Cure for Disease So Wide a Gap Between Physical Sclenca and Philosophy That It Cannot Now Be Bridged. BT ERNEST BARTON. ITH the revival of learning lame the division of knowledge into specialties. During the dark ages It was not necessary for so little was known In any department that an Indi vidual could cover the whole field. With the advent of state dogmatism came the destruction of all tlte accumulated learn ing of the ancients, except what was deemed, harmonious with the dogma. Li braries were destroyed in the name of utility and faith. A "man attained the standards of theology and science; that is. the rudiments of science, science based on oi at. least tortured Into con formity with the dogma. Here was Ty cho Brahe, Emmanuel Swedenborg, New ton, Galileo and others who were scien tific specialists in astronomy, mineralogy, physics, etc.. but also accomplished theo logians. Later on, when scientists ad vanced In their research, they found the dogma a hindrance, and finally threw off the impediment on their progress. Since then science has advanced so rapidly that nature is studied In an order ly fashion, according to the natural clas sification and re-dlvlslon. The time is past when a scientist is an authority on animate nature. He must devote his time to a single branch, aoology or botany; nay. he must choose a sub-dlvlslon of these sciences and give up his whole time to his specialty While the gain is apparent In so sub dividing knowledge, there is one distinct loss. The specialist is prone to neglect other branches to the degree of losing sight of the unity of nature. The per spective Is" lost.- Every bit of knowledge must fit In with the other bits of the same department, and also with nature as a whole. There can be no gaps In nature. There may be (and admittedly are) many gaps in our knowledge, but these gaps will be filled, are being filled. n p. r. i' r.Pt S.. Is fresh out of college. Speaking of Cornelius H's mechanical genius, John Jacob Astor IV is naturally gift ed in the same way. He is a prac tical engineer and used to enjoy hand ling the levers and throttles of locomo tives on the road. He built the first suc cessful electric storage battery launch In America and has Invented a turbine engine and a road scraper on which be has taken out patents probably Just to see If he could, for he has released them to the public His young son, William Vincent Astor the boy now at Eton is said to show the same bent. Had these three sons of millionaire fathers been born- poor, perhaps they could have made names for themselves through this genius. But, like princes, they have been born to their calling. E. H. Hariman has his boy, Averell, at Groton, Mass., In the-school which, What would a scientific fact be worth without reason? How could any of the known natural laws have been ascer tained without reason? What would Darwin's experiments amount to had he not been a keen reasoner? An experi menter without reason is a waster of time and matter. The question Is not. May a scientist construct a theory, a law on the facts of his experiments? but, rather. How far can he go in logical de ductions? Here Is a case in point: A literary person, well Informed in both letters and certain branches of science, arrives at this conclusion: The state of conscious ness of a person or the activity of his mind and the braincell are closely re lated. When a cell differs from the nor mal ceil, the consciousness or mental activity differs from the normal. If the cell Is physically changed, then It may be restored to "normality" by physical remedies. If there be abnormality in consciousness or mentality without the changed cell, then restoration is not brought about by physical therapeutics, but by mental therapeutics. The office of the physician is to administer physi cal remedies; mental remedies should be administered by some one not a physi cian. Now this looks very well on paper, and I admit that the medical profession merits this lmpntation. I do not mean that no physician understands psychology (that is, the little that is known in that domain of science), but I do mean that most practitioners iave become so ma terialistic that they confine all their at tention to physical science, thereby leav ing a gap between science and philoso phy. It is this gap which the above lit erary person would fill up by putting mental therapeutics into the hands of persons outside the medical profession. The chief difficulty In this matter is In the classification. The whole subject hinges on the classification. For all this la Incomplete. The question is put thus: Is the braincell changed in structure? If so. drugs; if not. suggestion. But now may we, know whether the cell is changed or not? We can't put it under A) 7 Wff?iis; -Safes!?- iOW I i t iff f llliiW MS: especially since the President's sons commenced there, has become the Eton of America. George Gould had tutors for his boys, Kingdon and Jay, and before going to college they said their ' lessons in a spe cial schoolroom at home and. like their sisters, speak French and German flu ently. Kingdon, who is Just about of age. Is said to show much of the finan cial genius of his grandfather. He and his brothers have been brought up with Spartan discipline by their father, who Is devoted to sports. He had a J75.O0O polo ground made for them at his Lake wood home and both Kingdon and Jay are expert players. Jay, who is now about 13, challenged France once and England twice at court tennis and In 1903 won the Queen's cup and the champion ship of the world. George Gould, the father of these boys, neither smokes nor the mlcrosope until after death, and then neither method of treatment would avail. That can't be denied by any one, not even the Christian Scientists. So we have to fall onto the symptoms. And this would be reasoning backward, and spoil the theory. But supposing we could - put a brain cell under the glass while the patient is still alive. What would we learn? We might find a physically changed cell and vouch for the fact. We might find a cell not changed in appearance; 1. e., our eye. our glass and our light might be unable to find any change. Could we then vouch that no change existed? Cer tainly not - We would vouch for the fact that we found no change; a negative only. In the glass we lean see a cell, a nucleus, a nucleolus, membranes, zones and form. No one has seen an atom, not even a molecule. Hence we do not know how they are arranged in either health or disease. A Martian might see the size and color of an Ore gon farm and not see the size of specks forming the soil, whether gravel or clay. We see the cell, but not the molecules, and much less the atom. Hence we know nothing about the arrangement of the individual molecules. Myriads of them would have to change before the glass would betray the fact. And we know less of the arrangement of the atoms. That was the finality of matter until lately. Now, we suppose an atom made up of Several atoms. Just this way: If a Uranian cannot see the earth,, he can not see Portland, nor can - he ' see the Skldmore fountain. Does the change in the cell precede the change in mentality or does it follow? Possibly both theories are applicable. However, in a case where the abberation appears without a visible change in the cell (assuming the cell can be examined) Can we then vouch that no ohange ex ists? Millions of molecules may be changed In thousands of foci and remain unknown to the eye. Hence, it is diffi cult to understand how a functional and organic classification can be made. Rea son would point out that the two differ in degree, not in kind. i - '$5Wwr" - m THEODOKE.1 I OGDEN MILzL-o? drinks. His father, the first Jay Gould, brought all of his sons up under rigid discipline and It Is their boast that none of them ever drank, gambled or played the races. It is said that George the greatest stickler of the family often 3Colds his brothers for using tobacco. J. P. Morgan sent his son, J. Pierpont, Jr.,' through Harvard and then put him to work in the Morgan offices, where he has developed a sound financial head and an accurate knowledge of values, enabling him to fit right into his father's place when the latter is away chumming wltlv Kings and Queens and buying up the art treasures of the Old World. The multi millionaire Senator Hearst sent his boy, William R-, to- Harvard, where he was suspended for playing a practical Joke. Then the California Senator bought the lad the San Francisco Examiner, "just to amuse him." This was the Independence party leader's start In Journalism. J. Ogden Armour, the present head of the beef trust, when he left college was put As for the cure by suggestion. It has become en vogue to talk about and prac tice the modern phase of what was dur ing the Middle Ages called magic, witch craft or black art; only they were vastly more proficient in suggestion than their modern successors. Of course, as long as we could not do a thing of the thou sands they did, we set the historians down as liars. Now. when we have stumbled onto the rudiments, we qualify our opinion by 6aying that nine-tenths was exaggerated. When we have doubled our knowledge we will say they exagge rated one-half, and when we have caught up with them In our proficiency we will reluctantly admit the records in evidence. We need not now speculate much on the effects of these arts. All we have, to do Is to read history not expurgated his tories published by sunday school associ ations, but the original pages. Before going further let us Inquire into the nature of suggestion. What Is it? what does It accomplish, and how? What are the effects? Words might be used by the thousands to show our wonderful sagacity about sub and peri and perconsclous self, etc., but save us from folly. It can be stated In one sentence: The domination of one mind by another. That's all It amounts to. It is a question if any one should give up his own free will. To be a .full man he must be able to do things of his own free will and accord: his own will, not that of the suggeiiter; his free will, not oompelled by the suggester. Should the unfortunate realize his weakness and beg me to help him, I would do eo in any lawful way, but not by suggestion. The fact that he asked for help shows it would not be Interfer ing with his will. There Is a subtle egotism An this ad vocacy. I know, my mind Is superior, therefore It ought to prevail. He Is weak mentally, therefore he ought to bo thankful to me for substituting my mind for his, my will for his. Ethically there is not half the objection in eliminating the possibility of perpetuating the phys ical race by weaklings, at least as long as there are strong men unemployed. It is granted that the ethical status of the question of suggestion Is not settled. A whole movement is on foot to elim inate free will yes, a movement by a number of churches. One church will not Join a movement to enthrall the mind. Why should they? They themselves are already past masters In the art. and have "aT.T'JEJJrOlT MORGAN eH-V In his father's office among other clerks and was told to ask no favors. Nelson Morris, the other millionaire beef packer, started bis eldest son to work In his packing-houBe when the lad was but 13. Hetty Green is said to have allowed her son Edward but 60 cents a day for his meals, and to have strapped htm so tight financially that up to the time he was 20 he would sell the morning paper after she had finished it, thus to get a little spending money. However true this may be, she put him through Fordham Col lege, made htm study law, and, after he was admitted to the bar, started him clerking In a railroad office. Then she made him claim agent of the Texas Midland Railway, It being his chief duty to settle with farmers whose cattle were run over by the trains. He is now pres ident of the road and director In various others. It Is all a great gamble, this business of starting boys out. Wben the first John Jacob Astor left the German village of Waldorf, with his pack of clothes on his back and $2 in his pocket, his old school master, watching him disappear In the distance, said: "Hanyacob will make a good journey through the world, for bo has' a clear head and his skull Is thick hehinil the ears." Yet John D. Rocke- ! feller, among his neighbors at Oswego. was known as a lazy boy, too mucn oi an idler and a dreamer to ever make a liv ing. And Daniel Webster, who, when a lad. was paralyzed with stage fright when called upon to recite in school, be came the greatest orator our land has ever known. practiced it since near the beginning of their sect. Suggestion can be begun at the cradle, and some get money In advance for con tinuing it after the grave. There are children in this city that never got a dogmatic statement nor any thing else by suggestion. They got every thing on its merits; the question of merit was Bettled by them, not their parents. Their intuition, judgment, feeling or sense was allowed free swing. And the result Is satisfactory. When a child of 11 can sense the fundamental difference between NIobe and Salome without being taught. It must prove that cramming "morals" into the weary ears is not necessary. Nor is it desirable to begin the suggestion, or call It by Its other name, hypnotism, dur ing babyhood, so that by adolescence the mind is so enthralled that it knows no will except that of its "superior," who can boast: "Give me a child; allow me the care of a child from infancy until 7; let me practice my suggestion (under what name no matter) during those seven years, and I fear not that it will leave me." Do you suppose such an organization need Join a movement gotten up by ty ros, when they themselves are past mas ters? 1 A Litany. Tlieodosla Pickering Oafrlson. Not from the jooil Intentions of the fiM, From storm or sudden death or pain or wrath, Wa pray deliverance ; But from tho envloua eye, tha narrowed mind, Of tooaa that are the vultures of mankind. Thy aid advance. Not at the strong man's righteoua rase or hate. But at the ambushed malice laid in wait. Thy strength arise; At those who aver seek to spot the tair, White garmen or a neighbor's character With mud of lies. Not from the gocd intentions of the fool. The honest enemy, or unjust rule, Or flame or sword; But from tha venomed word; the slander ous guess, . From envy and uncharitableness. Deliver us. good Lord. ' Trained falcons to carry dispalehea in time of war hava been tested In the Rus sian army. Their speed is four times as great as that of carrier pigeons. I :
