The labor world. [volume] (Duluth, Minn.) 1896-current, 1916-08-05
PROSECUTING A GIFT.

cartoon caught our eye the other day, q cartoon
In which the famous McCucheon had daveted his talent
10 publishing lie to all who read the paper for which
he works T.
In the upper picture appeared a militiaman, who
by some freak of transformation depicted as &C.
cupying 'pup tent in which he could not even sit
upright On the tent beat the fierce rays Of the Texas
sun. Under the picture ran the Legend "As sweiter
on the Rio Grande.'
In the lower picture, President Wilson half re-
Ginning in an easy steamer chair the deck of the
legend: "Alps swell the Potomac"
One thought oppressed us-not that the president
was being abused for there is plenty of that but that
man OF great talent was prostituting that talent
Imposing the public the idea that while the
lolled at and invited his SOUL other men were
suffering because of him.
Whatever the country may think of his course every
man who pretends to intelligence and the least informal
ton about the activities of government knows that
Woodrow Wilson has not spared himself It is not
nara 10 recall that one summer, while congress re-
NAMED In session. he took vacation but devoted his
time to the duties of his office in WASHINGTON citv
which does not invite those who seek to escane from
summers ardent heat
And the people know that even when the president
mas escaped for few weeks to New Hampshire the
cares and work Of his office have ever with him
that not day went by of his vacation that he was not
called on to give time and thought to official duties
his summer, While we suffering from the I'M
Wonted heat in city, usually SO delightfu, in
summer ne still remains IN the fiercer and more I'M
broken climate of Washington. And sometimes when
saturday comes he goes for short cruise on the Po
tomae' returning Sunday night or Monday morning.
just as many of us leave work for a weekend at
the lakes.
Inc American people do not begrudge these hits
OF rest to the man who really take vacation
"nle ne remains their servant at WASHINGTON They
would gladly give him greater comfort If thew cou1d
They do not all with him. but only mean souls
question the devotion he has shown to his Office
no one OF Intelligence does know that he has heen
called on to carry greater burdens than any president
since Lincoln.
And then there is the greater lie implied in this
plcture' that this patient Washington is some
no" responsible for the undenable hardship Of tho
boys who suffer from the heat of Texas For had
counsel OF the newspaper for which Mr. McCutcheon
works been followed: had it its way instead If
thousand of boys Texas there would have hae
1our times as many in Mexico. The sun would have
oeen hotter the desert would have been unre1ieved
ana beside all this they would have been daiv Offer
ing tner lives, and thousands would not have returned
Against THIS tragedy that is fightns-that man
"ho IS depicted by this clever artist as taking hs
unmnd1ul OF the thousands of his fellow countrvmen
1t IS pitiful thing that any man shoud do this
tn1ng 1t is douby sad that man of ability whose
ABILITY has been employed in conveying lessons Of real
use to his country should prostitute his talent in an
effort to bring contempt man who does MT sn.ro
himself In his efforts to serve America