Elmore County Republican. [volume] (Mountain Home, Idaho) 1910-1915, 1912-06-08

bell.
AS long as our civilization is es-
sentially one of property, of fences,
of exclusiveness, it will be Knocked
by d%elusions. Our riches will leave
us sick; there will be bitterness in
our laughter, and our wine will burn
our mouths. Only that good profits
which We can taste with all doors
open, and which serves all men
Emerson's essay on Napoleon.
No more difficult or important I'M
dertaking awaits the American woman
| than to accept the challenge to de-
mocratize her own special field OF
labor. 1t is in doing this that she is
going to make her chief contribution
to solving the problem of women in
industry. 1t Is in doing this that she
Is going to learn the meaning of de-
mocracy. 1t is an undertaking in
| which she a work-her clubs for
diyidual part, just as every man has
a direct part in the characterization
of public life.
Individual effort aside, though it is
the most essential she has various
| special channels of power through
| which che can work-her clubs for
instance. If the vast machinery of
| the Federation of woman's clubs could
De turned to this problem of the de-
amortization of domestic service
what awakening might We hope for.
Yet it Is doubtful If it will be throug
the trained Woman's organization tina
the NEEDED revolution will come. 1t
| will come, as always, from the ranks
of the workers.
Already there are signs that the
woman's labor organizations are will
ing to recognize the inherent digni-
ty of household service. And this
is as 1t should be. The oma who
labors should be the n to recog-
nize that all labor is per Sc equally
honorable-that there is no stigma
in any honestly performed useful ser
vice. If she is to bring to the labor
world the regeneration she dreams,
she must begin, not by saying that
the shop girl, the clerk, the teacher
are in a higher class than the cook,
the waitress, the maid, but that We
are all laborers alike, sisters by vir-
tue of the service We are rendering
society. That is, labor should be the
last to recognize the canker of caste.
The Current Literary Digest has a
timely article on, "Refitting Human
Misiits.' The officers of our Y. M.
c. A.. estimate that IS per cent OF OIL
youths make a mistake in the choice
of their vocations. Reports show that
in reality no deliberate choice is mad
but that the first job that presents
itself is taken with the hope that
something better will soon offer. The
result is a large percentage of mis-
Its" that the Y. M. C. A. has set
out to correct, and to this end one
of the New York branches has estab-
lished a vocational bureau, with an ex'
pert adviser in the person of Mr.. Gus
tave A. Blumenthal, who is described
as a vocational analyst.
He Is a man with large gifts of
sight, apparently, for it seems that
he often has only to look at his sub
ject. to size up his predestined ca
reer.
Work began in the vocational bu-
real May /, and Mr.. ~Blumenthal,
at the outset, showed the uncanny ma
ture of his gifts by exposing" some
4 the very committee with which
ne is to work the coming year.
His examinations were certainly
vivid and diverting portraitures, dash
ing and brilliant sketches of the men
under fire, all Of which were unroll-
ed with supreme audicity.'
Foreclosing the Mortgage on War
8 the attractive title of an article
by Daniel Starr Jordan in The World
Work:
War is dying. 1t dies because it
cannot pay its way. 1t dies because
through the spread of education and
the demands of commerce, no part
of the civilized world can be suffer-
ed to engage in a life and death
struggle with any other part. The ma
tons are no longer separate entities,
but each Is a part in a unified whole
to which international war Is mis-
chievious and hateful.
Wars have been rarely fought for
causes. Mostly diplomacy has Of
Tered only pretexts,
"The unseen Empire OF finance"
The great house of Rothschild, its
five branches recognize no country,
has prepared to take a nation into
pawn, all for a moderate percentage,
absorbing its bonds and placing