The daily Nome industrial worker., 1916-07-07
FRONT PAGES AND PEOPLE.


 coma Labor Advocate comments upon the fact that war and politics and sensational tragedies or disast- CTS for the most part fill the front pages of the papers, and answers it's own question as to why it is so, by declaring that probably the peo- thinking they want it. The Advo- cate looks forward to the time when matters of real worth will attract attention and these other vanities will not appeal to an educated peo- ple. The Advocate also looks to the accomplishment of such a fact through the means of the labor press which will up-lift and educate the workers.
 Now a good many others besides the Advocate have wondered at the very thing that it wonders at, and sought for an explanation much as it seeks it and discovered it in ihe lack of an educated taste much as the Advocate explains it.
 A good many clever writers wonder why their brilliant books, essays, pamphlets, articles don't make a hit while readers keep their eyes glued to the baseball column of the press or deyour the days war news with greedy brain They think that the Ielrls of wisdom that fall from their inspired mind should be eager > s, ught after by an admiring pub lie.
 And in consequence of this they blame the public. That will not al together do.
 Society is constituted so that what does interest the public are the doings of the great ones in war, politics or society.
 The mind automatically divides into caste. It is more concerned over the goings of the industrial overlords than in the comings and goings of the industrial underlns. No one reads in the society columns of the establishment at the village of Kosykorner of new union, while everyone observes with in terest that Mrs. Gotamazume the richest bride of the season, i'm ported Q creme de menthe hat from Paris.
 It is not by chance that the do- ings of the great capitalist politi- clans interest the public. It couldn't be otherwise, because that political activity is. the manifesto ton of the economic strength of cer- tain great interests. If they did not not represent great and powerful interests in caste creating minds they could not go attract attention.
 The workers care very little about their own interetss. They are indifferent to labor organizations. inc agitation for thoir own better ment. They are in a great way con eerued only with the great employ ing interests. The War and the rumors of war involve the great ca. pitalist interests of the world and to minds which think in terms of caste and which interpret their own with those caste interests, whether they l are or not, the news is of intense in terest.
 This explains why even books written for circulation among the hoi polloi except when the works of a master, seldom or never touch the hoi polloi at all There all kinds of old families and titles and yil- lains who are phony princes or counts marching through the pages of buncombe, but they effect their purpose just tho same and are popular.
 Nowadays when we see movies portrayed to meet the popular taste, we find very few writers at all Gp- pealing to the national life in the sense of the lives of the masses. Four-fifths of the magnificent houses and apartments and the life of auto. driving and ball giving that are developed for the benefit of the public, haven't anything at all to do with the common people. And the people like it, because all