The daily Nome industrial worker., 1916-11-17

that is the theme or professional writers and the subject of quite vol | luminous modern treatises is the eff ciency that concerns itself with the real purpose of all social activities: profit making.
 We never want to overlook the fact that this is the sole object of all activity at the present time: to make money. No one bothers
 about the higher social functions: 1 that society be well fed, that society
 be efficiently fed, that society be we'll clad and efficiently clad, that
 society have good homes and be
 efficiently sheltered.
 When Candidate Hughes said that i he stood for America first Amer 1 ica efficient, did he mean that he :! stood for seeing Americans fed fist
 of all. clothed first of all, educated first of all, well sheltered first O.
 all, living in comfort and luxury
 
 the giant progress mechanical in
 vention had made? Did he mean
 therefore when he said America
 efficient that he objected to. the false
 grading system, the speculative
 gambling in food and clothing, that
 he would shut off export trade until
 American wants were hrst or all
 satisfied, that the tenement and the
 slum would have to go, that the pur
 nose of human labor and human in
 genuity should be in America devot-
 ed first, last and all the time to
 American welfare, that all could
 more greatly enjoy and all need. be
 more greatly satisfied? Why cer-
 tainly not. The man is not insane.
 He knows what he is talking about. He knows very well that the rents } from the tenements enable many or
 his friends to have delightful time . of ease with dignity; he knows that , the profits from export of food ana clothing have reached globular mil lions and his friends have grown fat l nursing their war babies. He knows
 that this has resulted in great ln- , dustrial and commercial prosperity . and the dividends of the owning class have been long in the land
 That is what he means by America and those are whom he means by | Americans. The America first Is the ; American trade and the American , dollar and the American profit first; and the America efficient is the eff cient industry which continues to make profits and to extend and spread out and control gigantic mil lions.
 , They think in terms of profits That has become part of the na- } tional mentality which capitalism , has forced upon us. When we talk } about prominent man we mean a
 man who has a good bank account; when we speak of an independent man we know that we refer right , well to the man who has no need to beg for a job When we say that a man is successful we mean that he has made money and has a good } store of this worlds goods. The 1 America that is considered is the America thinks exclusively of those interests. We all know that. We all know that trade and barter and r commerce and industry: dollar mak- , ing in a word is the real end and 1 aim of American activities. The } main purpose of government nowa- [ days is to assist those ends and aims , that American dollar making may be first and American trade and in- : dustry may be efficient.
 Back we come then to the Staff l of Life. What has that got to do : with America efficient? The high 7 price for loaf is the price we pay . for America first, America efficient , You will have noticed how every pa 1 per has gloated upon the soaring ex- l ports of the United States since the l war began: America first. You will , note that domestic prices have also } contributed to the genreal prosperity [ of the maker and merchant: Amer 1 ica efficient Now no one would !; think of saying, "By the Gods ot ; War, the main purpose of human industry should be the satisfaction