The Salt Lake tribune. [volume] (Salt Lake City, Utah) 1890-current, 1910-05-01

we not preach 10 empty pews; at least.
not so many empty pews.
Dr.. Macarthur thought, however, there
wcro many signs OF Improvement In inc
churches today. Among the good signs
he thought was the attitude of IN" dallN
papers C5wardE religious news. lie saln;
''The newspapers of the city today give
n great donl more space 10 the report
ng of religious happenings than thcE
did forty years ago
Improving Labor Conditions,
''The New York Churchman can always
be counted upon TO bc interesting Whem
tho labor problem For my part All
thcso so-called problems settle down
to tho question, Do | love my noighbor
as myself However. wo won't discuss
that now but simply listen to the re-
port from Plttaburg, long step lor-
ward In improving labor conditions mas
been taken in the steel industry, largely,
II is reasonable 10 suppose, as result
Of the facts brought to light by the plttS-
burg Survey. That careful review OF
Industrial conditions found that one IN
five of all the steel workers In Allegheny
county in 1905 was working every day
in the week. The steel corporation has
200. 900 employees. The executive OIL
GERS of the corporation on March sem
telecraphic Instructions to the heads oi
all constituent companies insisting thal
the spirit OF resolution adopted IN l'g'
should be observed and carried into ell
feet There should he and must ne no
unnecessary deviation without first tax
inc UP the question with our finance
committee and asking for change 4l ne
views Of the committee, which prnphnlg
Will not under any circumstances be Sc
cured.
THE resolution referred TO was that
Sunday labor be reduced to the mini
mum; that all work (cXcepting such re-
pnir work as cannot be done while op-
erating) he suspended on Sunday at All
steel works, rolling mills. shops, quarries
and docks; that there snail pc no no con-
,f,, a.
materials II was not thought PRAGUE
able to apply the recommendations to
blast furnaces and some other depart
ments, where a break in continuous oper-
alton would occasion large financial loss,
but much OF the encroa chmcpt on sun
day rest In rolling mills and open -henrtn
foundriee can be avoided, and this WIZ
effect In PlttsburE alone over 0OuO mon
The action OF executive officials Is. as
the Survey says. an evidence oi ousl-
ness courage in line with the best I'M
pulses and soundcst judgment OF some
of the broadcast minded industrial leaders
I'm America,
Must Rest One Day.
'Jt remains to provide similarly for
weekly day OF rest in the continuous
processes such as the blast furnaces;
and this we are assured is being serious
ly considered, That IL is quite practical
bic foreign experience has shown and
IL is economically justified a siN-day
man does better work than n seycn-day
man whose life is cramped and his eni-
cheney dulled by unbroken toll More
men may have TO he employed IL cAcn
Is TO have an 1InbroSen twenty-tour hours
interval OF rest. but there Will be coun- |
ierbalancIng gain and moro men VIII be
given an opportunity to test their apll-
ties as 'understudies' or the 1orcnlch
and overseers. II the steel corporation
will take this further step. the logical
sequence OF the step IL has already taken |
Is action will have an influence beyond
he limits OF its own industry. and in all
,mployments that seem 10 demand con-
inuous operation.
Money Spent for Education.
1t would be interesting to know how
much money has been expended in the |
,ause OF education since the close OF the |
Civil war. it Is matter Of almost daily !
occurrence TO read of the gift Of vast !
sums OF money to this or that education
II institutions, and the Foundations
he matter from the widest standpoint
laye within the last decade amount
ID to tens OF millions of dollars. Here is
IN interesting account OF an educational
people. | take pleasure in quoting from
he Living Church Of Chicago;
'There have been reports in the daily
papers of projected university 10 be
,stablished under English and American
auspices in Hankow. The plan has large
Y been developed by the Rev. Lord Will
tam Cecil, priest OF the English church.
brother OF the Marquis of Salisbury. who |
spent several months in China studying
eligious conditions n few years ago, and |
Tho has written very intclligently for |
he English reviews on that subject
"Among the distinguished names I'm be-
lalf OF the project are those OF Rev
Walter Lock, warden Of Keble college;
Rev. J, Carter Of Pusey house. Oxford;
md from Cambridge, Canon Mason, mas
er of Pembroke. the Rev. j. o. f, Mur-
av. master of Sewyn, and others OF
hardly less distinction. These names be-
ng those of churchmen Of most trust
worthy character lend much weight to
he enterprise. The plan is to build up
university. modelled on English lines,
Il which western civilization may he In
erpreted to the Chinese.
'The demand for such education Is al
eady felt Five thousand Chinese are
tudying at the University Of Tokyo. and
many hundreds at the English and
american universities. in addition TO the
arge numbers at the missionary colleges
n China itself. such as own St
Tohn's university In Shanghai and the
Boone university at Wuchang."