Evening public ledger. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1914-1942, 1914-11-14
VARIOUS TOPICS

| There are millions OF acres in the arid
West which arc good for pasture, and for
nothing else. In this region the most
industrious "dry farmer cannot make
n living on 16O acres, nor even on tho
enlarged homestead OF 800 acres which
has helped in settling some semlarid sec
tions. Physical conditions limit the set
tier to grazing as his sole means OF
| livelihood. Why not give him home
stead large enough to enable him to sup
port his family at this honorable and
necessary calling?-Chlcago Journal.
City registration bureaus and disiointed
city activities will never fully meet the
unemployment problem Its permanent
solution will be along national lines: IL
will involve, first, n thorough organlza-
ton, Federal, State and city, of the labor
market: second. an organization of busi-
ness that will minimize the unemployment
resulting from financial nervousness
make industry so sensitive that 1t will not
close it's doors without giving its reasons
and put upon the public the burden of the
transfer of labor from shop to shop. While
II Is evident that this is a task so huge
that it must be approached patiently, II
must also be approached promptly. As
yet we scarcely know what are the means
of obtaining labor statistics and diffusing
them; of separating the employable ana
unemployable; of dovetailing industries;
OF preventing casual labor by scientific
planning; even of reaching the immediate
results of unemployment, as evlctions and
Generalization. Information must be
sought on all these heads, and careful
and durable legislation planned, while
at the same time we are under the neces-
sity of contemplating emergency meas
EVanlng
What American courts OF justice need
is stronger determination that justice only
shall prevail, that what may appear to-
day as an innocent, inconsequential rul-
ing shall not grow tomorrow into
dominating precedent overturning justice.
That is the big reason for unnecessary
litigation. Lawyers, instead of telling
clients where the right lies-and law is
supposed to be crystalized right-go into
court and take chance on winning what
should not be won.-Portland (Ore1
Journal.
There is no question that public opinion
tends to swing back and forth between
progress and standpatism. There are one
or two features about this change that
are not to be overlooked. The reaction
is never as strong as the forward move
ment was. Things never sink back into
quite their old condition. AT least part
of the gains are retained. And the re-
action is never, permanent. Human ma
ture is never satisfied with standpatism.
1t is made for progress. So after a period
of stagnation interest in progressive
measures revives, and the progressive
group regains power. That is the his
tory of politics everywhere. The figure
of the pendulum isn't adequate. For the
pendulum merely swings back and forth.
Social forces advance and retreat-but
they continue to push forward in the long
run-Kansas City Star.
With FIVE Sundays and two holidays
election day and Thanksgiving-there will
be % business days for the month, and.
at an average of 100000 a day. there
might be a trade balance of some S70,-
OOO, 900 in our favor for the month.-New
York Press.