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REGISTRATION AM) AFTER.
By the press accounts which have
been received there were no serious
disorders Registration Day through-!
out the United States. There were |
numerous arrests before it, and j
probably upon that day, but little |
disturbance tocl< place. Whether j
all who should register did so or
not is the reallv important question
and so f; r even official intimations
on this head are somewhat inde
finite.
it would be much easier to handle
a resisting than a non-resisting op
position. and doubtless the oflicialsj
fee! that the non-resistance tactics
which Ihe militarists in every coun
try have had to meet, have been
always the most difficult.
Quite evidently general disturb
ances v ere apprehended in the
various hire r cities. and it was
taken for granted opponents of
conscript ion would manifest that
opposition in a violent manner.
That would have been unpleasant'
but would lur e been relatively easy
to handle. What is not so easy and
what is most to be feared quite
evidently, is the non-resistance
which refuses to register hut which
keeps tin peace and says nothing.
To what extent that occurred is
not yet know n That cannot he
told off hand in a day. It is upon
the extent to which it did exist that
the success or failure of registration
will be found.
The opposition to conscription
which duly avoids disorder but
which docs nol obey the mandate
to register is one that to the ordi
nary news gathering agency does
not appear like an opposition at all.
But obviously for that very reason
it is the most powerful of all.
That there lias been a strong sen
timon against conscription in many
circles in the United States everyone
knows. But so far, and apparently
the officials are up to this keeping
their own counsel, no one knows
whether all these went and register
ed.
It would appear that the same tac
tics which have been practiced in
other countries by the so-called
slackers are being favored lure also
and for the same reason. The anti
drafters know very well that the
power is ail in the hands of the
draft officials. They have the police,
the lega authorities, the courts, the
army and Ihe navy, and opposition
of an open nature to this would
he little worse than useless. It
would compel a great deal of indi
vidual suffering and finally be with
out result.
It is likely that this has been al
ready realized and that no such vain
policy has been pursued. But it
will be some time before the pub
lic is aware to what extent actual’
registration was or was not evaded.
The figures ought to be soon
enough available.
BUSINESS AN USUAL.
Apparently everything is boom
ing and war or no war business is
proceeding ns usual without any in
terruption.
However there was no intention
that business would he interrupted
by war. It was quite otherwise. It
‘was intended that the important
financial obligations which the En
tente Powers had incurred with Am
erican capitalists should be fully
protected and the government has
handed over ample funds for this
purpose to the powers needing it.
The precaution has been judici
ously taken by a very practical ad
roinistration that the monies ad
vanced would he spent In the United
Slates, so that it will all come back
to the wealthy in the natural
channels of business and in the na
tural order of wealtli concentration.
The process as a financial pro
cess has others beaten by many a
long mile. The government spends
no money abroad and will raise no
money in foreign countries eithei.
It will collect from its own people
and pay it out to a few of the best
in this country who will be, thanks
to this sagacious policy, richei
than ever.
The process of taxation which the
senators and congressmen are de
vising with much debating and very
great activity of gray matter, is
directed towards the collection or
interest money upon loans. Those
loans have been the means of furth
er rehabilitating the credit of the
Entente Nations in the United
States, which means that American
captains of industry and finance
will get the wad. Accordingly the
dribs and drabs in the form of taxes
which common folk dole out will
in the sum total Ive turned over to
those who will enjoy the proceeds
in the form of profits from their in
dustrial activities, and which the
loans were intended to pay for.
Nothing lias yet been devised li.,e
war for hastening the concentra
tion of wealth into fewer and fewer
hands and giving fewer and fewei
men greater and greater profit*.
The most magnificent stroke of po
licy, 1'i'te incidentally directed to
this »j:d. has beer, the financial Po
licy of the administration in loan
ing money to he spent here.
Business is certainly active as
usual. A little more active it may
he, due to satisfying war orders,
contracts and the like.
On the whole therefore American
businessmen must be extremely gra
tified at the turn of events which
takes from Peter to pay Paul a
greater profit than the mind of Paul
ever dreamt of.
But suppose the people of the
Entente nations after the war, ut
terly disregarding the self sacrific
ing policy of this country and its
fine action in coming to their de
fense, should as is not impossible,
repudiate the war debts, who will
finally pay?
I!I SOU T!\<;.
The convention of Women’s Clubs
rcsoluted against the substitution
of female for male labor and the
importation of coolie labor into this
country under the pretext of war's
necessities.
So at least a dispatch reports
and it is to he hoped that the re
port is correct, for it shows that the
Women’s Clubs have quite a pene
trating opinion of what employers
will do when the war Is on, and ap
praise with no uncertain guage the
standard of patriotism which ani
mates the noble hearted captain of
industry.
What the employer wants is pro
fits. That is the end of his business.
It he is a manufacturer he wants
"a fair return upon his money”, it
ho is a financier he wants his prin
cipal and interest secured", and so
on down the line. During war time
he is entitled to profit just as much
as any other time, and he is going
to have it, if he can impress his
ideas as to the how and wherefore 1
upon the legislators and the people, I
It will not lie hard, just now, to
raise the cry that there is a short- 1
age of help and that it must he
forthcoming either. 1
It is likely that the ladies in con
vention assembled, called the turn
sure enough. We will see.
THE HUMAN FACTOR.
Of recent years since men began
to introduce efficiency and other
systems of a similar kind into their
factories, they discovered that much
lepended upon the employees them
selves. They could not all assimilate
the blessings of the efficiency svs
ems and produce more in a shorter
ime for a nominally higher but re
atively smaller pay.
So it whs they began to consider
he human factor as something well
worth considering.
The tact was realized that through
the labor hired applied to the ma
chinery and raw material came the
values produced and through the
values produced came profits.
To install the efficiency system,
therefore, men of certain capacity
and sound in wind and limb and to
a certain extent unmummified of
brain, were quite essential and
thereupon when they began to over
haul their human material they
discovered that by the methods
heretofore prevailing there had
been an appalling waste of such
in the industries.
Hence in order to have the work
ing men in a better position and in
a better condition to produce pro
fits, certain reforms were under
taken with much flourishing of trum
pets as high grade modern welfare
work and philanthropy.
But it was all a matter of dollars
and cents, and if it wasn’t a matter
of dollars and cents the workers
could have remained in the same
conditions as had prevailed for so
long without protest.
Now we are going to hear a good
deal more about the human factoi
in the coming days. As all know
the United States wants soldiers.
The soldiers has to meet some ele
mentary physical standards. You can
not make a soldier of the diseased
or the deformed, of the maimed or
the sickly. He has to have good
eyes, sound teeth, healthy lungs,
and reach certain moderate stand
ards of height and weight.
Just now tlie process of examina
tion will be indulged in. Just _a^ j
the process of examination has been ;
indulged in, in the regular army
by physical examination of recruits.
A special report of the chief army !
surgeons has revealed that most ot !
the recruits are defective and they [
are defective to such an extent that !
there is occasion for alarm. Yet it.
recruiting some hap-hazard discri
mination is exercised by the re
cruiting officer. He accepts no man
obviously unfit, but even the obvi
ously unfit have to tegister and may
be drafted and subjected to exami
nation.
It is when the doctors get busy
in industrial centers they are going
to 4>e UP against a few startling
facts which will show the inroads
commercialism and modern industry
has made upon the Amer
ican citizenship. It will reveal a
high per centage of diseased, tuber
cular, and wholly unfit subjects for
military service. Complaints will be
loud over this, and we will hear
quite a bit about the waste of the
human factor in industry.
It takes something like a na
tional emergency or the profit ele
ment to stir things up. So far
men have been denouncing slum
conditions, unsanitary workshops,
insufficient wages and so forth and
so on and all they got for their
pains has been the appelation of
knocker or agitator and the like.
But now when efficiency in indus
try is being boosted, because it adds
another whack to the employer’s
growing pile, and because the coun
try needs stalwart fighting men of
ficials and enplovers are beginning
to kick about unhealthy conditions
of labor.
But there have been the reports
as to these tilings for years. There
have been the statistics as to occu
pational diseases, there have been
the growing figures of the unem- :
ployable and you couldn’t get a j
sou! to listen and take an interest j
in it all for one second.
Now when the other fellow is to
be their keeper and the maker ot
their profits! they will jump up In
a hurry and want to know why it
has all been neglected so long.
The reason it has is because the
workers failed themselves to orga
nize to remedy conditions them
selves. and expected someone to
come along with reforms on a
silver platter.
MEXICAN RAIDERS LOST
TEXAN RANCH;ESCAPE
MISSION Texas. «Jne 5.—Elud
ing the border patrol a band of
Mexican cowboys attacked and
looted a ranch near this place and
killed the owner after they le d
looted it of everything valuable
and portable.
The rHiders made their escape
across the boundary without
any difficulty. The raiders were
an independent hand of marauders
and do not appear to have any
affiliation villi either the Villa or
other Mexn an forces.
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