1912–13 Volume 37 No 1–5 - Phi Delta Theta Scroll Archive

558 THE SCROLLdeals with the army and army affairs, including matters relating to the statenational guard.Senator Fletcher continues on the important commerce committee, whichconsiders all river and harbor improvements. He is also a member of thecommittees on the public health, the national quarantine, Porto Rico, thePacific islands and the Philippines. Since he entered the senate four years agohe has served on several important committees, including those that investigatedthe Ballinger and Lorimer cases and the Titanic disaster. President Wilsonappointed Senator Fletcher as chairman of the commission of seven to investigateagricultural credit societies and farmers' cooperative organizations inEuropean countries. This commission, with similar committees appointed byvarious states, sailed for Europe in April, though Senator Fletcher, on accountof his important duties in Washington, could not accompany them.THE COPPER TRUST'S WAR ON HEINZE DRAMATIZEDFrederick A. Heinze, New York Delta, '89"The Dollar Mark", a strong play and a great dramatic success, is basedon the stubborn fight of the Amalgamated Copper Company, commonly called"the copper trust," against Frederick Augustus Heinze, whom it sought tocrush. Poli News, a sheet Issued for Poll's chain of theatres, says : "The storyparallels very closely the incidents In the career of a Montana Copper King,"and describes the plot as follows:"The Dollar Mark" is one of George H. Broadhurst's master-pieces, writtenin the same virile style as this author's "Bought and Paid For" and "The Manof the Hour," but more compelling in its appeal because the plot is taken fromreal life and the story deals with one of the most dramatic episodes in thehistory of modern finance.The hero of "The Dollar Mark" is a young mining engineer, who Is seenin the first act in his blue shirt and corduroys. He has just discovered an almostfabulously rich copper mine, and he receives a visit from a syndicate of Easterncapitalists. These men offer him a cash pi ice of $2,000,000 for his mine, buthe rejects the proposal. They swear that they will crush him.The second act is in New York, where the young miner has plunged intothe vortex of the financial world of Wall Street. He has established a successfulchain of banks and has become a world power in the marts of money. Butthe defeated syndicate of capitalists, jealous because they have been deprivedof the opportunity to make millions from this copper mine, plot to ruin the"upstart" in the financial world.They hope to effect their purpose by a pretense of friendship, and they invitethe young millionaire on a yachting party. While they are at sea it has beenarranged that a run shall be made on the hero's chain of banks. The plot isdiscovered through wireless messages and the capitalists are forced to takethe young financier to shore, where he arrives in time to save himself fromthreatened financial ruin.