The morning journal-courier., 1907-12-25
Wednesday, December 2S, 1907.
erHE WORLD DO MOVE"


 J Courier without interruption on ac- count of the intervention of<a holiday is an illustration by itself of the ip- exorable spirit which controls the pub lication of a morning newspaper Its afternoon contemporary can enjoy it's well earned rest for twenty-four hours, but the morning newspaper must con- tinue to perform the junction which calls it into existence and which alone justifles it, All over the world today the makers of morning newspapers are hard at it gathering in the odds and ends of current life and arrangins them together in order that when the brief play spell of the rest of the work a.day world is over the record will be written as carefully as if there had been no loiterers.
 We speak of this with no regret for personal sacrifice, if it may be called personal sacrifice to toll while others spin We speak of it because 1t demon ktrates the hard and fast character of the laws of life They do not demand that everybody shall work at the same time. That would doubtless disarrange the general scheme of human pro gress, but they do demand that some- body shall at all times be doing the work which cannot be dispensed with. We are all familiar with the protest, 7 which is more of a regret than a com piaint, against the lapor imposed on others while we are idle. People some times reason falsely that because this is the condition the old world is con structed upon a wrong oasis. We fear that if they were to be given the direc- ton of things they would so mix things IlIlllilur1ltE, progress would certainly be impossible and suffering most likely. It \ has been said that the daily newspa- per could be dispensed with upon hol- idays and no loss Of information and education recorded. It certainly could be dispensed with many times during the normal year, as thinCs turn out but if that should be the theory. upon which newspapers were made 1t would be found that at some one time 8 loss would be recorded which would set the world farther back than the sus- pension had theoretically set it for ward
 It Is human experience that the old world insists upon moving and moving with precision, and in order that that may be accomplished our periods of idleness and rest must differ The imagination can easily determine what the consequences would be, for exam, pie. if the New York, New Haven and Hartford Railroad company should de, eide to stop all trains on holiday. The act would gratify the protest to whict we have alluded and which is based on the aippant desire that all shal work or be idle at the same time. bu 1t would distribute distress and suffer ing where distress and suffering car be least endured. It is not so many years ago that the General Assembly of the State of Connecticut awoke tt The realization that it's insistence upol a Sunday which should know no sys tenn of transportation was fraugh with danger to the public welfare Tn management was conronted with tn movement of men and things, the neg leet of which threatened that section of New England through which 1t trains passed with serious physica and commercial disaster in time l is not so many years ago that tn people of New Haven would have re sented the trolley service which is iioy among the necessities of mankind up on every day in the year, and nor and more during the still hours c the night If 1t were proposed to-da to remove that service and let the car -a lie Idle for any single day in the yea tht suggestion would be met with
 fury born of realization of the re suits Turn in whatever direction " may, where we find men and wome at work when the great majority ar as rest or in enjoyment of an idle day she same obdurate demand of tn world will be met that at no one tin, can all of the hands be given over t idleness and all the machinery CT shrouded in silence The world q naove' and 1t will take more than tn combined forts of the generousi disposed to make 1t hesitate for a mo ment.
 A gcod-hearted men vas once hear to lament his inability to remove a of the people whom he saw crowde together in the copgested districts { the country, where each could have
 home and each lead an ipdepender existence. Hc was surprised to be tol that # he had the power the use of
 would bring only trouble and despair