The Commonwealth. [volume] (Everett, Wash.) 1911-1914, 1913-09-18

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words, the individual creates condl-
tons and not the conditions the in
diyidual; that the individual is greater
than the herd. In the arithmetic, es-
pecially land it should not occasion
surprise, for the arithmetcs as well
as all the other books are written and
printed by the book trust, which is, of
course, owned by the ruling class; and
who ever heard of anyone, individual
ly or as a class teaching anything In
furious to their interests?) does the
ruling class get in its fine work. There
is hardly an example but what teaches
the morality, the desirability, of seek
ing riches through rent, interest and
profit Small wonder that when a
teacher asks a group of pupils TO write
Essays on what they would like to do
when they grow up that only two out
of Ia express a desire to be honest
and useful members of society. One
would be a farmer, another a ma
chinist, while the other 112, carried
away by the beautiful examples so
carefully laid before them by the
modest book trust, unanimously pre-
fer to be lawyers, merchants, real
estate men and other parasites.
School Books Express Economic In
terests of Profit-Mongers.
Do you think this is an exaggerated
statement? Let us see. One would
suppose, for instance, in opening an
arithmetic, that you would see ex-
amples something like this:
124. If a certain machine, operated
eight hours a day, can produce 10 pair
of shoes in that time, and the machine
could be so improved that it would
produce 20 pair of shoes in the same
time, how many more shoes would the
people have to wear each year and
how much less would the shoemakers
have to work?
That would be an example worth
while, and would aid in the desire of
every pupil to aid in invention and
improvement to the end that as much
wealth as possible would be produced
with the minimum expenditure of hui
man toll. But there is nothing like
that. The proof has been read too
carefully by the trust proofreader.
Here is what you do see, however:
! a. If a mans income for year is
$3.50 and his expenses are $1,32O,
his expenses are what part of his in
come?
(The joke of the above is that
United States statistics show the aver
age income of the average American
family to be $500, less than half shown
in the above example.)
] 7. A dealer buys IT'S lbs. of Irvine
at 28c per ID. He sells it at 35c per
lb. How much is his profit?
SO. Two men are working on the
same job for the same wages. One
works Is days and the other Fl days.
I fthe total wages are 500, how much
does each receive? (This is at $2.75
per day, over twice the average wages
actually received by the workers.
How the Poison Is Administered.
1. A merchant buys II gross of
cards of hooks and eyes at $5.O4 per
gross. He sells them at sc per card.
Required, his profit.
There are numerous examples like
the following:
AZ. In a certain year the value OF
agricultural implements manufactured
in the United States was estimated at
500, 2O742S.
(There it stops. We wonder what
the objection is to haTing examples
showing how much labor gets for pro-
ducing these implements and how
how much the farmers had to pay)
SO. The average pay of locomo-
tive engineers is about $435 a day;
conductors about 1915 a day,