The times dispatch. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1903-1914, 1912-07-14
Plu gin G Dc ep Into
Problems That Con-
front England.
WORLD is SWEPT
BY AGITATION
Those Countries Which Have
Highest Civilization Are Most
Violently Affected by Dis
turbance of Social Con-
ADMINISTRATION Must Be
Handled Without Rancor.
Especial to The rimes-plspatch. !


London July ls.-Dr Nicholas Muir
ray Butler, president OF Columbia uni
versity. is apparently taking busy
mans holiday after the Chicago con
ventlon, where his nerves almost
wrecked. by plunglng into the study
OF English problems. such as tho IN
surance act. He mas already seen
Lloyd George and others who are at
tached to the government. but says
ne VIII not express any opinion as 20
the merits OF the Insurance measure
until he has had time TO thrash 1t out
with the opposition.
The industrial unrest In England is
occupying DR.. Buffers close attention
just a t present. On this topic ne said
10 the correspondent:
The most remarkable thing IS that
those nations having the highest poll
teal civilization. are ali suffering from
the sweeping wave OF social Industrial
unrest. Another curious thing IS that
this unrest is not political. though fire.
qusntly II assumes a political COM
ple%ion Il is entirely economic. This
IS really a period OF mental readjust-
ment due to the high cost OF living.
The masses OF the people have quite
diHerent views as to living from what
they had forty and sixty years ago.
They want shorter hours Of labor. more
leisure. more comforts and more Iuxur-
les. and they are getting them yet
these socially desirable Things natur-
ally limit the productivity OF the work
ers. Hence. through lessening the SUP
ply OF finished products. prices natur-
ally rise. and the purchasing power OF
wages is naturally lessoned Add also
the flow OF population from the cUun-
try districts where the people are agri-
culturists and food producers to the
cities where they become food eaters.
and 1t will be found that this n
creases the cost OF foodstufrs and hence
the cost OF living.
on the other hand. the employers
have hXed scales OF wages for certain
classes Of work. and 1t is hard for
them to see the logic of increasing that
scale when the productiveness OF the
employees is lessened Through, shorter
hours. on the workers with fixed
wages the situation IS bearing amer
cusly and the problem Is one which
must be met but TO mine legislation
unless essentially constructive. VIII be
OF little benefit What must be done
to my way OF thinking. IS that wages
must be increased sufficiently 10 pre-
serve for the workers social desira bill
ties shorter hours, better housing and
more comforts, while the productivity
and profit making power must be in
creased by the enlargement of the
markets, development OF scientific me
;hods of distribution and adjustment o.
tariffs.
The problem must be handled by
broad and constructive minds. with
cut rancor and with Justice TO all. In
order to be solved. as solved IT must
he"
Tyler Plans Innovation.
George C Tyler. of Leibler & Co.
who has planned an innovation in his
project OF taking the entire English
cast and The New sin" and the au-
thor. B. Macdonald Hastings. to Chi
cago for their first presentation OF the
play in America, says he believes this
TO be the irst time Chicago has been
chosen for the launching OF an Eng
lish play with an English cast. When
asked why Chicago and not New York
had been chosen. he said Chicago has
Just as much right to have first pro