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MONDAY, MARCH 10, 1919
BETWEEN WAR AND PEACE
We are getting into a state of need
less alarm over the industrial situ
ation. It is well to be serious; foolish
to be panic-stricken.
The United States will be rich be
yond our dreams a decade or a gen
eration hence. What does that signify
for us? How can that help us now?
The answers to these questions are
not far to seek.
When all the people invested in
Liberty bonds they felt assured that
the future would take care of their
investments, that there was no chance
of loss unless the United States was
defeated.
The United States has won. Its fu
ture is certain. The future of its
farms, its factories, its mines is cer
tain. Yet we see all around us tim
orous men—capitalists and laborers—
who think that the future is insecure.
When the individual capitalist is
compelled to readjust his business
and faces immediate losses he loses
heart. His faith in the future weak
ens, although he knows, if he stops
to reason, that the future must neces
sarily to be more prosperous than the
past. The individual laborer, tempor
arily unemployed, imagines that the
country is on the verge of bankruptcy.
If our optimism were founded
merely in a desire to enthuse it would
be futile, but our hopes have sound
reasons for being triumphant over
our doubts and fears.
We must not lose sight of the fact
that the process of feeding and cloth
ing ourselves, one hundred million
selves, will continue without ces
sation. Capital must be invested, and
men must toil to keep this procession
in operation.
But it will be argued that there is
such a thing as business stagnation,
that there have been hard times in
the past.
If we cast a retrospective eye over
the hard times of the last hundred
years we shall find that they began
in lack of confidence, in a panic that
frightened capital away front invest
ment in enterprises. The average
business man, seeing the whirlwind
approach, rushed into his storm cellar,
thinking that his whole state had
been blown away and he did not come
out for months. He did not regain his
courage for years. The hard times
were the result of litis obsession, this
lack of confidence in the future.
Business men, we fancy, are accept
ing the period or readjustment with
more courage than of old. They know
from experience that the time to work
hardest is in the period of stagnation.
It is a temporary state and by good
doctoring can soon be removed.
In the hard times of tire nineties
neither public officials nor business
men did much to relieve stagnation.
If someone proposed that a few mil
Hons De expenueu on ioaua ur uurei
public works the economists held up
their hands in horror. It was a false
system, they said, and would lead to
worse disaster.
We have a larger vision today.
Knowing that the future is certain we
are simply bonding that future now.
We are spreading its profits, by a
retroactive process, back to our own
time. We are mortgaging the future
in the sure knowledge that the future
will be able to pay.
Where shall we find the money?
some will ask. Money is the cheap
est thing in the market. It is locked
up in public or private strong boxes.
It is to be had whenever investment
becomes alluring. During the war wt
loaned our money, or most of it, to
ourserves and spent it among our
selves.
Government—federal, state, countj
and city—is not waiting for invest
ments to prove alluring. Government
is planning extensive public Improve
ments throughout the land. Bonds
will be issued so that the future may
take care of the present. In a word,
government forgoes profits in the
present so that the workers shall not
be idle and trusts to the future to
square the debt.
Why is not the governmental sys
tem desirable in private business? In
Butte, where thousands of men are
idle, the heads of a copper company
say:
“We do not need to keep the mines
open because we cannot sell our cop
per, but we wish to keep them open to
provide jobs for returned soldiers and
those who wish to work.”
It is to be hoped that they will
carry out this plan. It will not pay
them in immediate profits, but it will
result in a future prosperity which
will be much more extensive than will
be possible if millions are unemployed
during the period of readjustment.
But the 'employers cannot accomp
lish the task by themselves. They
must have the co-opcration of labor.
Both must be satisfied that the future
is certain, that a little self-sacrifice
now in the way of reduced profits and
wages, will be fully compensated for
when the war ends.
“When the war ends” sounds odd,
but it describes the situation exactly.
The war has not ended. War meas
ures are still in force in this country
and in Europe and other parts of the
world. The normal course of busi
ness cannot return until the peace
treaty is signed.
Here we have the explanation ot the
present lull in business. We are be
tween war prosperity and peace pros
perity. When peace actually comes
there will be a revival of business all
over the globe and he is sadly lacking
in vision who cannot see that the
wants of mankind long limited by war,
will demand a production never before
approached in human history.
If we but maintain our tranquility
and create work during the period of
readjustment, we shall tide ourselves
over safely and even prosperously into
the golden times ahead.
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SHOULD TAKE ACTION.
The first resolution passed by the
Alaska territorial legislature should
be one demanding that every regis
trant under the selective service law
who, after having declared his inten
tion of becoming a citizen, knowingly
claimed exemption from military serv
ice on the grounds of being an alien
of this country, surrendering his first
papers, and also demanding why an
investigation was not made to ascer
tain just why in Alaska there were
more of these slackers or near-ene
mies than in any other part of the
1 United States according to popula
tion.
The Dispatch suggests the follow
ing resolution:
Resolved, That congress should at
an early date enact such legislation
as shall debar from being a citizen of
the United States every registrant
under the selective service law who,
after having declared his intention to
become such a citizen knowingly
claimed exemption from military
service on the ground of being an
alien or because of his foreign nativ
ity; and
That congress should at an early
date enact such legislation as shall
secure the prompt deportation of all
such registrants; and the department
of justice make a complete investiga
tion of the situation in Alaska, and
why prosecutions were not made of
persons guilty of advising or aiding
--Juneau Dispatch.
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The suffs. have won a signal victory
in Alaska. For the first time that we
know of in the territory, a woman
now occupies a major government po
sition. Miss Frisbee, for the past
three years an assistant in the office
of C. B. Walker, register of the U. S.
land office at Juneau, has been ap
pointed register.—Douglas News.
BRITISH MINERS’ DEMANDS
LOSING THEM SYMPATHY
LONDON, March 10.—It is calculat
ed that $200,000,000 will be added to
the annual expense of the colliers of
Great Britain and $1 a ton to the cost
of coal to the consumer if the miners
are granted the higher pay. shorter
hours and modern methods, which
they demand, and if they do not pro
duce more coal under those condi
tions.
Although the miners in America are
fewer, it is pointed out that the pro
duction there.is enormously greater,
owing to better working conditions,
modern machinery and modern mine
equipment. Sympathy with the de
mands of the miners in their demands
is somewhat withheld on the ground
that they were given preference over
others in demobilization. Mine own
ers claim that, because of this, the
workmen should place the supply of
coal on a satisfactory basis before
raising questions of hours and wages.
American War Service Organizations
Help Soldiers of France and Italy
By MRS. RHETA CHILDE DORR. Authoreu and Traveler
A big contribution which the United States has
made to our fighting allies is the war service work
among the troops of the nations affiliated with America.
None of the war service organizations was known in
France or Italy until we came into the war. Before
the war ends they will be as familiar there as they
are here.
When the Y. M. C. A., K. of C., Jewish Welfare
and Salvation Army huts were established in France
the native population was mildly interested but little
curious. They thought the huts were canteens for
American soldiers, a sort of an offshoot of the Bed Cross, with which they
were already acquainted. But soon the American soldiers began to frater
nize with the French poilu and the latter, after visiting the huts, spread
the tale of the many and varied conveniences and necessaries provided for
the Americans. Moving pictures and entertainments, books, writing
materials, banking facilities, athletics and games, education—a long list.
The K. of C. and the Jewish Welfare board care for all allied soldiers
in the same huts maintained for American fighters. The Y. M. C. A. has
established a special service for the Poilus with the approval of the French
government, which has military supervision over them. “Foyers des sol
dats” they call them—literally, homes for soldiers. They need homes,
these brave, tired, unconquerable French poilus. After four long years
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with the invading Huns they love to drop into their foyers for a cup of
hot chocolate, a smoke and a comradely talk. Their slender pay, a franc
(20 cents) a day, does not permit them the extravagance which marks
the American soldier. But chocolate, coffee, bouillon, cakes, pencils, post
cards and the like they can buy. Ten centimes (two cents) is the maxi
mum charged for these articles.
The most celebrated of the foyers, the Foyer du President Wilson, is
an underground cavern at Fort Douaumont, northwest of immortal Ver
dun. Other foyers in the area over which the fighting has been most fierce
have been lost to the Germans, but of these, 47 have already been replaced
and the others will be, for the French government sees in them great pos
sibilities for education of the soldiers.
This brings us to the other newly established American institution,
the public library. The library war service of the American Library asso
ciation has established in “Y” huts, Knights of Columbus huts, Red
Cross houses, Y. W. C. A. hostess houses and other stations overseas, cir
culating branch libraries with a constant supply of books and magazines.
These are not entirely fiction libraries, although of course good fiction is
included. The American fighting man reads to improve his status as a
fighter, to help him in his special line of work, and to get him a better
job after the war. The library war service provides him with technical
textbooks and with every kind of trade and professional work, from law to
agriculture.
The French government has viewed this service with admiration. A
commission recently was formed, with President Poincare as chairman,
to study the American public library system and to establish it throughout
France. Already the sysfetn has been established in the foyers des sol
dats. The library war service sends libraries of fifty to one hundred books
to each foyer, and the department will soon be enlarged, as the French
government has requested that agricultural and other works be added.
The war department has asked for moving pictures illustrating scientific
farming, forestry, manual training, machinery, playgrounds and recrea
tion centers.
American institutions, American secretaries like these are spreading
from France southward into Italy. The K. of C. has ordered 100 secre
taries to Italy, where ten huts are being constructed. At almost four
hundred points the Y. M. C. A. has established its work. Soon Italy will
have its homes for soldiers. Wherever the American flag goes to help
in the war for liberty there also will go the war service agencies, the help
ing hand.
Seven of these agencies have been authorized to work abroad and at
home for the soldier, sailor and marine. These are the Y. M. C. A., the
Y. W. C. A., the National Catholic War council and Knights of Colum
bus, the War Camp Community service, the Jewish Welfa-e board, the
American Library association and the Salvation Army. To maintain their
efficiency a great deal of money is necessary, and the week of November
11-18 has been set apart to collect the sum of $170,500,000 to be divided
among the seven.
Who contributes to the sum helps our men in every camp, cantonment,
aviation camp, naval station, warship and transport in this country and
in Europe. He helps the French and the Italian soldier. He helps to
maintain the fighting morale of the allied armies. He helps to beat the
unspeakable Hindenburg, the bloody-handed \ on Tirpitz, the mad maniac
of Potsdam. Every dollar given to that fund helps to win the war
quickly and to bring back the men for whom millions of hearts yearn.
Permanent Christmas Trees and Memorial Planting
A CALL is issued by the American Forestry association to every community
in the United States to take steps to make its community Christmas tree
permanent. The association hopes to see the community tree, in many places,
become the central point of a me
morial tree planting scheme in honor
of the sailors and soldiers who gave
their lives in the war. The call fol
lows :
“At this Christmas season let us
consider plans for making the com
munity Christmas tree permanent. In
such a tree we would have a reminder
of the year-around Christmas spirit
and a dally lesson before us all of
what the Christmas spirit means, to
say nothing of the elimination of the
great waste every year caused by cutting another tree. In nearly every com
munity there will be found an ideal spot for public gatherings. There Simula
be the living, growing tree that would come to be the gathering point not only
at Christmas, but at other times. Such a tree might become, in many places,
the center of a scheme for planting memorial trees in honor of our sailors
and soldiers. Let us look ahead to next yenr by having your committee con
sult the city or state forester in regard to planting a permanent community
Christmas tree.”
The nation-wide movement to plant memorial trees is widening in scope.
Among the many Indorsements are these:
T. Gilbert Pearson, National Association of Audubon Societies—The
planting of trees means more to bird life than can be estimated. The Audu
bon societies most heartily Indorse the plan for memorial trees.
Mrs. Ida Evans Arnold, General Federation of Women’s Clubs, Chicago—
In the planting of the Lincoln highway we are preserving the native flora
of our country for those to enjoy who come after us; we are assisting In the
building of a permanent monument to those who lost their lives In the war;
we hope to establish a hind-feeding zone and sanctuary from coast to coast.
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A Capitalist?
Capital is accumulated savings. A capi
talist is a person who has saved a portion of his
earnings and has invested it in some income
producing property. Every owner of a Liberty
Bond, a War Savings Stamp or a Savings Ac
count is a capitalist.
Why not open a Savings or a Checking Ac
count and become one of them?
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