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...Belgenland (Red Star) ? Lionel Atwill, famed actor, with his wife, Elsie Mackay, actress...
...Clarence Mackay's fervid and interesting attack on the modern tendency to place life, liberty, and the pursuit of happiness under bureaucratic control" is unfortunately based upon a slight error of historical analysis. New Jersey's well advertised Blue Laws unmistakably prove that "the pursuit of happiness", especially on Sundays, was carefully regulated by the government long before the present generation of "self-seeking people" arrived on the scene. And if Mr. Mackay pushed his historical inquiries a little further he would discover that the price of bread and ale in England was wont to be fixed by town authorities...
...possible all tendencies toward unregulated competition, and only in the first hectic days of the Industrial Revolution was it allowed full sway. Even before its full evils could become manifest it was checked by the factory and labor legislation of the early nineteenth century. When Mr. Mackay declares that "we must change our present tendencies and get back to the public policies of our fathers" he runs the danger of advocating what he proposes to abolish...
...which sprang up during the brief period when competitive activities ran riot. The cases of the Standard Oil Company, the Chicago meat packers, and the railroads are too recent to have been quite forgotten; and they serve to prove rather pointedly that the "spur of competition", for which Mr. Mackay pleads, leads but to monopoly and its evils. His case rests upon the assumption that the private entrepreneur bitterly pressed by keen business rivals will always act for the eventual good of the public...
...Avon; author of best sellers for 40 years: The Sorrows of Satan, The Murder of Delicia, Problem of a Wicked Soul, God's Good Man, The Devil's Motor, The Secret Power, etc., etc. She was of mixed Italian and Scotch Highland blood, was adopted in infancy by Charles Mackay, famed song writer, who afterwards sent her to a French convent to be educated. Queen Victoria admired her work; Tennyson wrote her a letter of encouragement...