Identifier : ArenaMagazine-Volume40 ( find matches )
Title : Arena magazine - Volume 40
Year : 1908 ( 1900s )
Authors : B.O. Flower (ed.)
Subjects : Progressivism -- United States liberalism reformism social reform Christian Socialism Gay 90s political commentary Benjamin Orange Flower Progressive era social gospel
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neral attention not only in this country but inother English-speaking lands. One of the most deeply mteresting features of thisissue is Helen Campbells vivid pen-picture ofHorace Traubel and his literary work. Mrs.Campbell is one of the ablest magazine essayistsand writers of our day, and Mr. Traubel is one ofthe most unique and mteresting of our conscience-guided literary workers. Mr. Elmer Grey, one of the leading architectsof the Pacific coast and a prominent contributorto the leading architectural journals of the country,contributes an interesting and suggestive illus-trated paper on The Architecture ofThe ChristianScience Church, in which he takes issue with thechampions of the Greek model for Christian Scienceedifices. The special attention of all our readers is calledto Herbert Constables brief but extremely val-uable and practical paper on Postal Polls. It isan important subject well worth the attention of aQserious-minded statesmen. 370 Digitized by Google Digitized by Google
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Photo, by Punly ROBERT TREAT PAINE, Jr. Digitized by Google 11 We do not take possession of our ideas, but are possessed by them;They master us and force us into the arena,Where, like gladiators, we must fight for them.—Heine. The Arena Vol. 40 October, 1908 No 226 A SQUARE DEAL FOR THE RAILROADS. By Carl S. Vrooman. THERE is no disputing the fact thatduring the past year the railroadshave been hard hit. There has been ashrinkage in the values of their securitiesthat can only be computed in billions ofdollars; at the present writing there arebetween nine and ten thousand miles ofrailroad in the hands of receivers,* whilea number of other lines are threatenedwith a similar fate in the near future;during this period of depression hundredsof thousands of railroad employes havebeen discharged ;f and for some monthspast thousands of empty freight cars havebeen standing idle on every importantline in the country while practically nonew rolling stock of any sort is beingordered by any of t

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