THE NENANA DAILY NEWS
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THE GREAT UNREST
(From The Eagle Magazine!
The greatest driving force in the
world is fear. Working men and
women, small business men, and
many professional men live in the
fear that during the productive, or
working years of their lives they
will not be able to lay aside enough
of the world’s goods to protect them
against the hardships of poverty
and of old age. Every working man
and working woman—and this ap
plies equally to many business and
most professional men—knows that
at some time he or she will reach
the “peak,” the high point, of earn
ing power. In certain trades—such
as mining, lumbering, railroading,
iron-working, and so on—men reach
the height of their earning power
before they are fifty years of age,
many of them when they are forty
or even less. Under the driving
force of cheap production, their
jobs depend upon their ability to
keep pace with their younger and
more active fellow-warkers. Now,
the man with a family, who has
passed thirty years of age and who
does not own his own home— and
certainly has not laid by a r.est
egg against the perils ol advancing
years—finds himself each year • en
deed, each month—rearer the time
that he has grown to feat , namely,
the period when his earning power
will not be equal to the sums that
he must spend fo” the needs ol
life. In other words, before the nest
egg is sufficiently large, he has act
ually reached the period when he
must draw upon the principal he
and his wife have saved.
It must be conceded, of course,
that this fear is not felt to nearly
the same degree in a a agricuitura'
family as it is in an industrial
family. The farmer who has ter
acres of land and some livestoeV
can live comfortably, even if frugal
ly, until the hand of death is laic
upon him and his wife. But this i:
not true of the man who works ii
the mine, the factory, or on tin
railway; it is not true of the in
dustrial worker. When the latter cai
no longer hold his place in the mill
he has no farm on which to grov
garden produce, feed a cow, and
at little expense, care for hogs
chickens and other food creatures
Hence, the industrial worker dread
more and more the end of eac
year of his working life, becaus
there are so few additional year
left in which he can work and mee
the necessary expenses of himself
and save.
But all around him he sees ev
dences of wealth and comfort:. H
sees a very limited group of me
and women in every communit
who are not living under the weigh
of this fear because, either throug
inheritance or through their ow
efforts, they are provided again!
the rainy day when as business me
they give over the cares of businei
or as professional men they qu
practice. Many of these men o
wealth have accumulated what, t
the great industrial group, seem t
be inequitably large fortunes. Man
of these more fortunate men hav
been making millions, working n
more hours a day than their en
ployes who are not able, with the
utmost practice of thrift, to add
each year to the family nest-egg
even paltry hundreds of dollars of
; dollars. Very often, too. the base*
■ of these tremendous fortunes have
; been natural resources such as coal.
1 iron, lumber, oil, water power, and
j so on, which might properly belong
| to the state—that is, to all. Very
' often these fortunes have been made
; by monopolies that have been cre
| ated or made possible and protected
! by government itself.
Today the average man and wo
■ man, more than ever before, are
I asking this question: If men and
j women work and save and bring
Children into the world, and love
: them and have ambitions for them,
' why cannot such parents give these
children at least the advantages of
1 decent housing, sufficient food, and
!—more and more they are asking—
an adequate education? Since mil
lions of American men and women
parents, who are in every way
! worthy citizens, are not, under pres
' ent conditions, able to do this, is
it possible that the great force for
good which most call God. has de
creed that always there must be a
barrier between the natural and tire
! just desires of the many, and the
happier lot that has been given tc
the relatively few? To this quer\
the average man and woman an
swer no, and again, NO. The aver
age man and woman believe thal
the answer to the problem is to bt
found not in ascribing any such de
cree to God, but rather in placing
the responsibility upon the unjusi
economic conditions and, frequently
in addition, on questionable laws.
! The World War has brought hom<
to men and women, as never before
i
the truth that we are all made pret
'' ty much in the same mould. Th<
, rich and the poor alike love thei:
children; alike they seek those con
1 ditions that will make their child
Jren happy; alike they seek warmtl
, ! against the cold; alike they enjo;
. * food and they dread hunger; alik
. i they want an old age free fror
i! cares and, fibove all, free from th
, fear of poverty. During the danger
• ous days of the war, in every com
, munity, the ideal held up, and ou
, rallying cry, was, “One for all an
.; all for one." Under the spell of tha
51 splendid sentiment, “the boys i
j! khaki" left the fireside of the banV
j i er and the miner and the grocei
sj and all of them, whether from th
t j home of plenty or that of poverty
_ j faced, or were ready to face, deat
j against a common foe upon th
_! battlefield.
This stirrinp of deeper impulse
of our people during the war. he
reacted upon our industrial lif
since the armistice. Men and wome
in those days believed that if Chi
Cause was successful, a happier da
would come to those who previou:
ly were moving along the roa
whose end was blocked with th
portentous shadow of the great fea:
That hope is not being realize
The fear of ^poverty in old age
as grimly portentous as ever. Wag«
are higher!—yes, but the cost c
living has kept step with the a<
vance in wages. Work is plentiful!
yes, but on the other hand thei
I is much evidence that a reaction
: may come at an early day which
! will bring about a panic, closed
factories, and consequent low wages
Men and women know today that
money is only a medium by which
! they exchange their labor for coni
; modities; and they fear the earl>
! coming of the day when, for theii
. labor, they will not get enough
money to buy the things they nee<
today, and to save enough to bu\
the things they will need tomorrow
or next year when they may n<
j longer have work or physically be
j able to work.
Now what is the remedy for thi:
• condition? What can remove th«
I fear which is so deeply planted ii
■ the very fibers of the average mar
and woman, especially of our in
dust rial workers? The answer i;
'manifest: insure to every man ant
i woman who is willing to work ant
to save, the ABSOLUTK certaint;
of escaping the things that they feai
when the years of lessened produe
tion and of old age creep upor
them. Let them be certain that foi
their labor, whether in terms o
money or of something else, the;
will be able to live in decent house:
under decent conditions; to rea;
i decently and to educate properl;
their children. And then, over am
above that, insure t.o parents ir
'their old age, even if they can m
: longer work, a decent house ir
1 which to live, with proper food am
clothing and the dozen or mor<
j conveniences that are necessary ti
! the happiness of those who ben<
! more and more under the weigh
* of years.
I This is the answer. The solutioi
' may not come so easily. The worke:
must see that stint on his part o
production will tangle up the bes
efforts at solution. He must pro
duce all that he can be fairly aske(
to produce, lie must Rive in labo
: all that he can be fairly asked ti
give. For only in such intelligent!;
conscientious production can theri
; be enough of the necessities, le
alone the luxuries, of life, to sup
ply the needs of the teeming mil
! lions. Labor is not doing its shari
in solving the problem when it at
tempts to restrict production, am
the working man or the labor lead
er who preaches that doctrine is .
criminal obstacle to the better day
On the other hand, the large ern
ployer and the wealthy corporatioi
must understand that whether the;
wish it or not, the time is coming—
indeed, is close at hand—when limit
. ations will have to be placed upo
the huge earnings that are paid t
stockholders and to a favored fe>
in the management rather than dis
’ tributed fairly among all—even th
least important—who have part i
production. The economic systet
that has permitted John D. TJock«
feller to accumulate approximate]
' one thousand million dollars in
lifetime, is manifestly an unfa!
(' economic system, and the processt
of law that permit such tremei
dous accumulation in the hands c
4 one man should be changed an
the selfishness of it discouraged b
taxation of incomes and inheri
anees.
e i
It is plain to the writer that, 1
remove fear, the worker under ox
present system of production mu
receive enough money in wages 1
let him buy what he needs, live ;
he should, and save enough for h
old age; or government itself mu
step in and so socialize all basic ii
dustries as to insure every worker
being provided with the things e
sential to life, thus removing tl
fears that have been described.
In Europe the radical grot
known as Bolshevists say that tl
only way to do this is to overthro
the present capitalistic, or industri
system—that is, the wage system
and substitute for it a socialistic i
communistic system in which pr
duction is not for profit—that i
through wages and dividends—bi
for use; and production for use, a
cording to communistic economic
is alleged to mean that each 01
shall have the things necessary
him through all the years of h
life, provided he does his full sha:
of work, whether of the hand or i
the brain, in producing tho
things.
The editor is not a believer in
Marxian socialism. He is honestly
opposed to the communism of Lenin.
He believes in private property;
j but he believes there should be a
| fair distribution of what is pro
duced among all the factors in pro
duction; that capital should receive
its fair return; and labor its fair
return. He holds that the word]
.“fair" means there should be a!
just proportion between the amount
received by the man who puts in
the dollar, that is, capital; by the
I man wHo directs an enterprise,
that is. management; and by the j
group—by far the largest—that i
furnishes the third essential in i
production, that is, labor.
Many far-sighted manufacturers]
seeing the rocks ahead, are steering i
their industrial ships into safer]
channels by giving a fa;r share of,
the proceeds from production to]
their workingmen. Among such man
ufacturers are the Studebaker Auto
mobile Company, the National Cash
Register Company, the Proctei
Ganvble Company, and others.
Progressive men ard women in
terested in government and economic
mutters, favor such legislation on
the part of the sia'a and the itder
l al governments as well, through a
! system of taxation, in the future
’ direct the accumulation of huge in
1 dividual fortunes into new channels
1 —the development of better appar
■ ! atus for production, and a wider
1 and more generous distribution of
I the returns of business among the
; industrial workers. Intelligent and
; patriotic leaders of labor are seek
i ' ing to inform the working groups
• of the issues involved in the "Great
II Unrest” and to point out the un
; ^selfish and the intelligent part that
• must be played by labor. In the
I hands of these three groups lie the
• hope of a solution to “The Great
i: Unrest”; and if they fail—well, one
- ] nas only to look across the Atlantic
;! to study the grim reality that has
; overtaken other peoples and that to
.; day, to a much less degree, thank
- - God, is threatening us.
;1 Let us make life a thing to be
- j loved, and not to be feared. Let
I us make parenthood a thing to be i
- ’ desired, not something to be avoid
i ed. Let us make work a thing to be
. entered upon joyfully, not something
- to which we must be sullenly driven.
i Let us make old age a period to be
; looked forward to tranquilly, not
- contemplated in fear. This condition
- can be brought about. It can be
i brought about in our lifetime. It
) can be brought about in this great
f i republic.
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Mail Carrier C. H. Calhoun left
for the Kantishna this morning on
s j his regular monthly trip to the dig
_! gings with a large load of aecumu
Et ;
: lated mail matter.
Mail for the Outside was dis
^ i patched on the train leaving for the
I south this morning.
o A shipment of first class Outside
ir mail is expected on Monday.
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. i Mail for Fairbanks, Livengood and
lower river points was sent out on
is i
yesterday’s train.
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state that the wind was blowing a
gale there today.
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Rev. Frederick B. Drane, of St. H
Mark’s mission, left for the lowe
river yesterday on a tour of inspec- i
tion of the Episcopal missions in j
the Koyukuk, Yukon and upper j
Tatiana districts. He is traveling with
a dog team and is accompanied by j
a native boy.
Mr. Drane will visit first at Tan- j
ana, going from there to the up- •
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Tanana river and down that stream
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place of Archdeacon Stuck, who;
died recently at Fort Yukon.
Reports from the end of steel
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being put in order for work yester
day and it is expected that things
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first of the week.
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A report from Seattle tells of ■
the marriage recently of Tom Me-!
Kinnon and Mrs. Emma Carr, both;
well known residents of the Inter- j
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The home of Walker Blakcy was ;
gladdened yesterday by the. arrival |
of a boy, the little fellow having j
made his appearance at the Govern- i
ment hospital during the morning
Walker says he is going to make a .
pitcher of his son, to cinche the |
championship for Xenana.
The commission ticket office has:
been moved from the general office
building to the quarters in the gen-;
era! stores building, formerly occu-j
pied by the accounting department, j
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