The daily Nome industrial worker., 1916-01-01

tHe Nile ClSdlcLtt 10 Io pS coChCWCu, the fast life and the merry one rele- gate to the rear and men will cut their clothes according to their cloth
 Human nature fashions great schemes for self improvement, self advancement and self instruction. The vanities which disturbed the progress to the higher plane of life where the high brows dwell in in eellectual ease arc to be cast over board. The pleasures which have been a Jonah are thrown to the whales and the human bcrquc starts out on the calm waters of 1916 with a favorable breeze and weather sublime.
 Most people begin reforms with the notion that the most effective way is the way of the demolition of the worldly pleasures. Still in the minds of men, all qualification of desire is of the world the flesh and the dovil and therefore entirely evil.
 It's goo6 way to make people contented to get them into thinking that they live too well. Over and over again bave papers whose pur- pose in life is to serve the great capitalist told the people that Am ericans lack thrift; that their stand ard of living is entirely too high; that they eat entirely too much meat; smoke too many cigars and drink too much beer. And the peo- pie get to reckoning that that's about the size of it and they pro ceed to save. Thereupon John Capi- tai comes forward and says that in asmuch as they can live upon one dollar where heretofore two had hardly sufficed, it is not reasonable to pay so high wages.
 The fact of the matter is that few of the workers at any rate live well enough. The cigars that they do occasionally smoke when on a blowout are made from tobbacco leaves are cullod as worthless. The beer that they drink is premature and unseasoned; the clothes they wear are hand-me-down and often shoddy; the grub they get has been subjected to the wiles of the adul- terator.
 Why not reverse tho nrocGSG and come to the conclusion that the workers haven't enough picGsurabie habits; that they should drink bet. ter stuff and smoke better tobacco, wear better clothes live in better 'houces and cat better food. Why not reverse the process and say in- stead of cutting this pleasure out and that. we add another little gra- tihcation to our innumerGblc de- sires?
 Don't you see that thereupon art sest he inccstiye to make it be forthcoming? Isn't it about time it is realized that it's the ginks that have cushioned sets and fatty sala- ried jobs with bount;ful tables and silk and fine linen that preach the stiffs economy.
 Don't ever believe tEct any of those people think that you are IS good as they arc, and entitled to as good as they got. They don't and the powers that be don't.
 In any event the certain fact is this that labor will be paid just as little as labor is prepared to accept and what with the enormous compe- tition in the field of labor, labor IS generally inclined to set low val ue upon it's work. Certain t is that the lower standard that labor adopts the lower will labor be paid. Therefore the idea that general era of thrift and general dispost- Gion to become asceticc end to live ,on peanuts shells is one that ' will rebound not to tho benefit of labor under the system, but to the employing classes.
 This New Yccr resolution route is a wrong steer for the working men if it coneD to g moderation of their standards of living. Their re, solutions should be directed to. wards enlarging their standards and compelling payment of wages to meet its new dcmandS. It is all very fine to talk thrift and economy