Arizona republican., 1916-02-18
SOCIAL CENTER
 | CUPID CORNERS APPUR TENAN I
This Among the Things Emil Siedel Eminent Socialist Would Have to Better Conditions of the Human Race

A social center with . "spooning parlor' is advocated by Emil Seidel, 1 former mayor of Milwaukee and one | time candidate for vice president. of | tie United States.
 MT. Seidel believes the social cen l ter is the preparatory school that ! builds for the future. He would have | it educational and social and he would encourage the young folk to | come and whisper sweet nothings by establishing cozy corners here and | there for the purpose
 The well known socialist would let the community act as aids to Cupid since the young people nowadays l have no homes. Home is dead i issue.
 i Science has robbed home of it's old meaning by the introduction of i canned foods and canned amusements It is no longer necessary for a woman to remain at home to be d good housekeeper or entertainer. All she needs is a can opener.
 | Mir. Seidel values the recreation center as a unit Here home prin- l these same principles injected into the government. His ambition is to build | for a national family.
 I'll be proud if l can help in l this he said yesterday. Mr. Seidel | is on a lecture tour of the country | spreading the gospel of socialism l The reason MT. Seidel gives for the l growth of the sentiment for socialism | is that no other forces have the remedy to offer for the problems of the day
 There are so many problems to be solved he said. First, how to check the decline of the standard of living. Second, how to meet the increased cost of living, and another question, what to do with trusts and grasping power and then again how to reor- ganize food production, collection and distribution on an efficient basis The solution of the latter problem will solve the first don't you see? The trusts are ready to be owned col lectively; by that l mean by the na : tion, the state or the municipality or in other words the people. When the
 
 no longer exploit the people"
 Mr. Seidel is bitter in his denounce- ment of the farmers condition in this country. It is disgrace to civilization. The farmer and his family are excluded from society and given a bare living It is inhuman brutal he exclaimed" My ideas are not visionary, but practical The government should plat the land, de velop machinery, introduce labor say ing devices, conserve water and col feet the food grown and market col lectively. We have the grandest op- portunity offered any race We should have made the most of it il the last year and q half when there have been three to four million mer out of work"
 MT Seidel believes there has beer a waste of over three hundred billior dollars through the unemployment ot those men averaging as he does $1 ,O0t a Xear to a man.
 That was the power that should have been used to begin the system the economic background of the ma tion-the national railroad. Every railroad in the United States is { petty, mean affair. There is not on, in the country of which we can bt proud. In the south the railroads arc all bankrupt, all in the hands of re. ceivers little rain, bit of snow and there are wrecks, washouts. An, strain brings a breakdown and tn, grain cannot be hauled. Talk abou carrying continental army from thu Atlantic to the Pacific" Mr. Seide laughed and continued to laugh fo many moments at the idea of a war
 "A war with whom? Those killed by the war or those crippled by it $25O,000,000 for preparedness collected by greed, graft, ignorance and i'm perialism. Let the government buiIC railroad, to organize, land anC market the products collectively. Le there be homes, fool, clothing, educa tion, health and wealth for all"