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nent settlements of differences which
have arisen between employers and their
labor. On the other hand where here
and there a representative of a corpora
tion Is found who does not accept the
principles of collective bargaining, he
finds. when trouble arises they can
usually be settled only by drastic meas-
ures, which cause a great loss to his
company and labor He also usually finds
that settlement made in this manner
results in continued troubles during later
days.
With this acceptance of labor organl-
cations as having equal rights to exist
with capital organizations comes the
corollary that the officials and experts of
both the capital and labor organizations
should be held equally accountable under
the law for their actions, and likewise
that both the capital and labor assocIa-
tions should be subject equally to gov
ernmental regulation and financial liza
bility.
believe, in view of the evidence at
hand, that employers and employees are
beginning TO look upon each other with
more confidence and respect, and to con-
slider the creation or maintenance of pros.
perity as dependent upon their mutual
cooperation and efforts. / therefore he
lieve that we as a people are going to
work out the great new labor problems
which have arisen in the last couple of
decades In sensible, friendly manner
and without recourse to serious bitterness
and civil strife.
If this belief is we'll founded our pros.
poets for happiness in the coming years
look bright. These prospects are further
strengthened when we see workman and
employer lined up shoulder to shoulder
TO night industrial accidents and disease,
and the whole people insisting on proper
care FOR those who are hurt. upon sensi.
Bile industrial safeguards for women and
children workers and upon their Govern.
ment assuming the principle that human
welfare and happiness take precedence
over all other rights.
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RIGHT OF LABOR TO ORGANIZE
Combinations Capital Made Unions Worlmen
saryCollective Bargaining Is the Result and Employees
and Employers Are Better Terms
By JOHN PRICE JACKSON
Pennsylvania COMMISSIONS of Labor and Industry

| TNTIE experiences of the officials of the
i Department of Labor and Industry,
especially the mediators, all show that
capital and labor are learning how to ad-
just their mutual relations in a friendly
manner, under the new conditions which
have arisen by reason of great aggrega-
tions of capital and enormous organiza-
tions of workmen. 1t is now almost uni
versally recognized that as men with
capital are by law permitted to pool their
money for the purpose of obtaining
greater power in getting results. so
laborers have a right to organize and pool
their Individual influences In order that
they may have greater power to obtain
the conditions which they consider right.
The large number of men having their
savings or capital Joined together in the
form of a legal corporation employ to
represent them as body the very best
legal, technical and business talent-the
company officers = which is obtainable
In other words. these men, In doing busI-
ness, bargain collectively through these
experts in their employ. Just so the men
who have pooled their influences together
III tne FORM OF laDOf organization, or
union, should be accorded the same right
to deal collectively as is accepted now,
without question. for their employers
usually the stockholders OF a corporation.
In order to bargain collectively in this
manner the labor union must have its
committees. officers and other represen-
tatives through whom it, as large body
Of men may act. These representatives
should be the most level-headed and skill
full Obtainable for the purpose, Just as
are the representatives of the stock
holders.
Those engaged in the work of media.
tion and arbitration for the Department
of Labor and Industry have found that
goodly proportion of the employers of
Pennsylvania have come to recognize the
inherent justice of this argument. They
have also found that where employers
accept this principle, as rule they have
little difficulty in making fairly perma.
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No man ever got rich by taklng

No man ever got rich by taking
money out of one pocket and putting 1t
in another. The city as a whole will be
no richer IL the Board of Education is
compelled to pay one hundred thousand
dollars for the water used in the schools
The water has to be paid for now by the
people in some form. 1t would have TO
be paid for by direct increase in the
school tax II the Water Bureau presented
bill for it. The only valid argument
in support of the proposed change is that
It would clarity municipal accounting.
There is great need for such Qualification
and nowhere more than in the Water
Bureau. But don't let us fool ourselves
into thinking that we are going to save
any money merely by change in book.
keeping methods.
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BOTH ENDS AGAINST THE
MIDDLE

TNHE fixing Of an increase in wages 10
l. four.tenths OF one per cent of the pee
pie has brought measure Of satisfac
tion to four.tenths of one per cent of th'
people. This has often happened. II
the establishments of industries, now this
group, now that, obtains a greater share
of the national output now by the vol
untary action OF employers, now through
a strike threat More frequently by the
law of supply and demand have the tai.
ents Of men, like the earth they fructify
and embellish brought forth their In
crcase-their increased increase.
But this Labor Day, which finds labor
celebrating a prosperity unequaled In a
century. brings it a new and strange
and doubtful victory. An industrial
group, sharply defined as "employes on
steam railways more than one hundred
miles long engaged in interstate COM
merce." has had its wages fixed at
higher level, not by the accustomed
processes of inevitable readJustment. but
by act of Congress. Organized labor
about two per cent of the populatlon--is
supposed to have gained flrmer sense
of its power-at the cost of something
very much like heart disease. Unorgan.
lied labor does not quite know whether
to grin in patience or scream in protest.
The employing classes ask what results
are to follow IL this amazing precedent is
allowed to stand.
Unorganized labor is an ambiguous
term. 1t really means "organizable
labor"-the men and women more or
less skilled with their hands who have
considered but have not accomplished
unionization. But in the realm of our
labor parlance there is no descriptive
phrase for that army which might be
called "unorga liable labor" This army
contains, CLERKS statesmen. journalists,
professional mea o., the great and lesser
professional. small shopkeepers, who
rank as employers only by courtesy
in fact, most of the people one bumps
up against in the days activities. What
does a wage.hxing act mean to them?
It means that the only tangible )organ'
ization over which they, in their indis-
tinct, "mlddleman" status, have any
imposed a tax
upon them which there would be only one
way of equalizing. 1t would be to de-
mand that group by group the unorgan-
lied and unorganizable strata of the pop
ulace have their wages increased by
Congress. The man who is being
"played"-"both ends against the mid
that way IS barred,
Yet, indirectly, he ultimately dominates
our affairs He 1t is who, though he be |
a clerk, will have lawyer son. He 1t Is
who. through the weakness Of his isola-
tion, has learned the necessity for em. |
phasizing his indivdualism by squirting |
on the ambition of himself and his fam |
Ily. But he who produces the represen-
tatives is himself unrepresented.
His Congress has Joined the tide OF |
forces that impersonally press
against his welfare and independence,
It is up to him the more forcefully to
recall that Congress to its former dis
.inction as a Judge above blind economic
forces, to see to it that his Congressman.
Or prospective Congressman, is aware
that increased fixed wages without rep.
is taxation without represen.
.ation.
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Uncle Jim yelled, "BoYw louder than
one boy responded BOY !" yelled Uncle
Jim. "and that means all of you" one by
one they shambled in. when he had them
all grouped about his desk, he said This
thing you've done Is called round robin
Which letter did you make. Tommy"
Tommy, taken quite Off his feet, said II
made the cap J an the n an the"
"Thatl do" interrupted Uncle Jim, that
bench out there that you fellows sit on
will be called Anxious until next Saturday
night. II you can behave in the meantime
you can hold your jobs and keep on
jumping when / yell Boy Now, then,
rush this copy up stairs
And every one of those kids lived to
thank Uncle Jim.
Evening public ledger. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1914-1942, 1916-09-04
Qualifications for Voting

Editor Of what Do You Knop Is-can
person getting his citizenship papers out
m "a May, 1915, vote in the November cleo
where he lives now? If he moves his resi-
dsnee TO another division OF the same ward
aiter registration day, could he vote at the
election In November? - - '''s
voter must have resided in the state
She year, ana IN the election division where
election. Naturallzed citizens n,sv vo,a ne ~
they have the qualifications Of resldenee n n
me state and district and payment Of taxss
ana II they have been naturaiized one montb
.e pS.ele election To move to another division
si "s.i' ~ months OF the election would bar
va5,n,s '''-s"' native or naturalized. from
Evening public ledger. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1914-1942, 1916-09-04
Truth Society

I, M.-There is truth society,"" known
as the American Truth Society. 1t was
city, It's object Is "to propagate a spirit of
pure Americanism: to preserve the tradl-
tions of the United States inviolate; to op-
pose and resist by truth all attempts of
corporations societies and individuals to
dominate the public opinion of the United
States for the purpose of discriminating in
the interests of any one race by means of
leg Station, literature. education or organ
lied propaganda; to propagate the history
OF the United States and the States COM
prising the United States among the people
of the United States. and TO combat with
represent or suppress the history OF the
United States"
Evening public ledger. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1914-1942, 1916-09-04
Somebody Else

Editor Of "What Do You Rnoio l''-Kindly
advise what Is the pOssesslve of somebody
else" Is II somebody else's" or some
body's else? q. w. M
somebody's else" CRATES on our ears hor-
ribly. Usage is certainly .'somebodv
elses." though 1t is not an elegant ex-
preston; neither, for that matter, is some
body else" though acceptable in colloquial
conversation In the possessive IL would
be better TO say some other persons" The
phrase somebody's else book" even il pre-
scribed by scholars, could not live IN tha
language. Usage is the test in such ques-
tons. Language was made for man, not
man for language -
Evening public ledger. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1914-1942, 1916-09-04

In the calendar year OF 1915 the ex-
ports and imports amounted to more than
100000. 600, and IN the first seven months
Of 1915 they have reached the unpreSe-
dented sum OF s21s,2s5,4Ts. II the busi-
ness continues at this rate for the year
the foreign trade win be sssO.O00.000. or
nearly $1,000 900 day,
Shippers are using our Wharyes who
never used them before. II We do not
keep their patronage after the var Il
via be our own fault. The future Is n
our own hands. II We have grown as
thesa hgures Indicate without making
sisofoua effort, what cent ~ Dc Il We
really sct ahont t7
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Answers to Saturday,s Quiz

I. Waiver; legal term; forbearance to insist
on rights on claims.
2. Retna: layer at back of eye which IL sensi-
tive to light.
8. Gross earnings. total earnings, net earnings.
the gross earnings minus the cost of con-
ductlng enterprise.
4. ContagiOn Is the transmission OF disease
from one person to another. Infection
has the mere general imnlirRt,"n - VI
ness caused by germ originating In an
other person or In u common source.
8. Summer ends on September 23.
o. Jlgger; q yernaeular term for any contrl-
for which II Is not easy TO find n
namei 1t L, used to describe a, certain
consisting of n double and single block.
7. Windward. the direction from which the
wind blows; leeward. the direction opposite
to wlndward.
8. MOsales; works Of art In which pictures or
designs are produced by Joining together
small pieces OF glass, stone, etc,
0. Pros and cons; reasons for and against.
10. AEnew T. Dice: president Of the Reading
Railway.
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The late Judge Psnnypacker-it

The late Judge Pennypacker-it
win be as Judge rather than as a Gov
ernor that Philadelphia win remember
him-was a conservative OF the old
school OF which the present generation
has Few examples; the "hghting Tory =
relic Of an America where eonserva-
tives were not mere standpatters but
were fundamentally democratic enough
to use radical methods 70 assert their
honest conservative faith. His finest
trait vas q quiet intellectual courage
which he followed even when il made MIN
3 minority Of one. His open espousaI OF
pfo-German ideas IN a letter to this
Newspaper was recent example OF his
Independence ana indifference 10 the
majority opinion. His incapaelty for
modifying his own vsry definitely
sraspea viewpoints 2 suit the political
ana seelal atmosphere produced more
fhan 1ne tempest q witch public opinion
ultimately declared an "a the wrong
HNI HI4s alH4zz Noe 4er him the eFeaii
Evening public ledger. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1914-1942, 1916-09-04
Tom Days Column
The old Reporter

Yes, can see you're busy and III beat
II in minute, but / Just looked in on
Uncie Jim Chambers over in the p. l..
local room. and can't get over how fine
he's looking, Can't help thinking about the
strike OF the copy boys on the Record yeahs
and yeahs and yeahs ago, when Jim was
telegraph editor there.
One night when Uncle Jim came on duty
he found this on his desk
Evening public ledger. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1914-1942, 1916-09-04
QUIZ

issued?
2. What Is the reedblrd?
3. What Ii "Indian tobacco?
4. by. what body In Philadelphia Is the school
tax levied?
3. What Is meant by "class Hesitation?
O. About what was the length of Lincoln's
Gettysburg address?
Z. What IL intensive agriculture?
8. What n rix-dollar?
0. What Is malt?
10. For what characteristic are Damon and
Pythias memorable?
Evening public ledger. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1914-1942, 1916-09-04
THE TROUBLE WITH GENIUS

TETooDRoW WILSON is either a
w genius or an intolerably highty per-
son. say some Democrats. who subtly i'm
ply that he must be the former to be
President at all. But they forget to men,
ton that these particular extremes often
meet in one personality.
Evening public ledger. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1914-1942, 1916-09-04
Napoleon's White Boots

Brook avenue, Boston. Mass'J
Long as AIOl lived there in leisure 1t was his de-
The white boots he'd made for the King. that
And then be would chGckle and laugh, his mind
AS he You'd yS5 of PosSms fSs snnss moTs g99d ,.
Napoleon m mad, i,'OuS'''u francs "hi'h made
He laughed a. az 1hs six shoes he made; he roared
And then & he would go through the as II he
Figure TO Yourself my children the Emperor in
little man; but ah,, bright eyes, and a warrior
Here little Sld Mqll would struggle. and upon his
Show how S the. the Emperor stamped them to reject
His story pleased all the people. whether pIous
For when Moll told Of the white boots 1t always
The King Hng WSIId S "a say % YPnT bill Ehl Eh! Do
Why shhSSuld Should | Pay thousand francs? Robber,
One th9Sssnd francs for Two white bOOts DO you
While ona ySg 81 s5i and steal your wealth like
Then give me back the bootsr' I'd yell, III you
For may NAY, have chance to sell. or else to give
Then he would STAMP stamp u and yell and shout that
one day gs MdIi f5ifr dsd s9dld' ana in his , ,h
So thus the romantic footwear had their famous
Then when Napoleon got caught in Sedan at
The town q Alsaee changed It's King for more
Then they threw ,ths white boots away; a VIII
lager picked them up "
And carried them home In triumph to boast of
One day he died and when they sold the old
white boots OF the King. ''a
The things which cost a thousand francs co,,ld
only six dollars bring.
So died the soshlsE and the man. and so passed
While NapoIeon PLUNGED onward till he met
his Waterloo.
Oft In fancy as We linser over the conflicts of
We wonder Il an our battles are but white shoes
tThe bitter endl
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LET'S KEEP IT UP

MO MAN can study the history OF the
IN port of Philadelphia without being
convinced that Director Webster OF the
Department OF Wharves. Docks and Fer
rles, is performing great service TO the
city in urging upon the people the i'm
portanee Of continuing the work OF de-
yelopment both by private and public en-
terprise. The following figures show the
foreign trade OF the port at ten-year in
tervals since 1850:
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Ye Ineompleat Chronleler

What delicate compliment is paid 10 the
readers by the editor OF the magazine pub
fishing the following:
The Frank Story OF Fool A personal
revelation. intimate ana bitterly true told
by the fool himself for the benefit OF others .
/ read this over the shoulder OF one 81
the Others" but could not get the name
Of the magazine. ]. B. sanborns
Evening public ledger. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1914-1942, 1916-09-04

The brotherhoods did not bring this
thing here. The President OF the United
States brought 1t here.-Senator Reed
In the debate on the wage increase bill.
Just so. The brotherhoods held up
the President and the President held up
Congress. 1t is unusual for Senator Reed
to perceive so clearly.
Evening public ledger. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1914-1942, 1916-09-04

TT is common gossip in Ocean City that
i Assistant Cashier Marshall, of the
First National Bank, told Assemblyman
Mark Lake that certain woman there
quit attending church because she couldn't
stand sitting. REUBEN.
Evening public ledger. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1914-1942, 1916-09-04

If any young man thinks he Is
handicapped by his environment let him
consider the log cabin in which Abraham
Lincoln was born and take heart. The
transfer of that cabin to the nation to.
day is a fitting act. 1t win now be pre-.
served as a symbol of democracy and
as an inspiration to every youth who
has the will to rise
Evening public ledger. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1914-1942, 1916-09-04
Damage by LIghtnInr

no. 50! urinz oue year ~ 1893 - The
ord Of lightning ana h vas fos,ns ses -. rec
ny mat year strokes of lightning cs,,s.ls eei,
a-nleses as follows 1856 buildines sfrnes, ese
psaperty 70 The value OF ss.ofs 90 - -
ny sapss e. ssa persons killed $40 persons ~
aelS@ go. 80 hsaa o. I've stock struck IL
s nfF insurance naper EeDt trark ~ 80
s---se p nsntalas ana ssElinated ~ nssz. 3
stt 'azs Qceas.aaed thsfeby AZ 81 az go -
Evening public ledger. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1914-1942, 1916-09-04
what were the pemocrats called into

What were the Democrats called into
power to do?-The Presidents speech
of acceptance.
AS matter of fact they were not
called into power at all. The country
simply allowed them to slip into office
by fuke. while the Republicans did a
little necessary house cleaning. Mr.
Wilson may not like to admit it, but he
Is merely q locum tenens.
Evening public ledger. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1914-1942, 1916-09-04
NATIONAL POINT oF vIEw

IN almost succeeding in adjusting diff
SuItles that would never have arisen but
ho LOT nus magnificent lncapaeity Mr. Wilson
mas q ehain OF almost brilliant accomplish
ments to his credit that stretches ali ths
way from Vera Cruz TO the railroad yard
Evening public ledger. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1914-1942, 1916-09-04

Inc railroad business is In no real sense
prNate business. In so far as Govern
meht influence affects railroad manaea-
ment. as II must in periods OF grave crisis
she Goyernment should assume ana 40.
Intervention in the public IntsTsst as ns
make sure that the private owners Of ths
roaas are given a square deal II thar
means an Increase OF rates, SO be itN
Springfield Republican.
Evening public ledger. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1914-1942, 1916-09-04

OUR stenographer, having nothing
better to do, noted in the report of a
party in Houston, Tex, these among the
most prominent present: Clarence Darl-
ing and Leila Mushaway Jewell Ayars
and Fuller Boyles, Agnes Sick and Bless
Peayy.
Evening public ledger. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1914-1942, 1916-09-04

He is n Machlavell, but when It
comes to execution he has but a straw
mind and hands of clay.
No. this was not said of the man
you are thinking about. 1t is Won
Mackensen's characterization of an Aus
trian general.
Evening public ledger. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1914-1942, 1916-09-04

Ths o. Henry story which tells about a
girl who couldn't take the easiest way out Of
poverty because Lord Kitchener was WATCHING
dresser Is called IAN Unfinished story" Three
or four correspondents have asked about IT.
Chicago Tribune.
And other correspondents might ask
how she came within eye-range OF X. Of
KS dresser-or was it one Of those
"lons, long looks?
Evening public ledger. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1914-1942, 1916-09-04

No one is more delighted at being
compelled to work on this holiday than
the railroad trainmen who voted to strike
and were afraid that they would be taken
at their word
Evening public ledger. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1914-1942, 1916-09-04

no reasonable man contends thai Ny.,-
YORK should not contribute IN proportion III
asF wealth to any tax which bears sairlv -,
All the states and sections Of the eonr,,--
5at Il ia manifest that the idea 81 ths
gsLaoeretie party controlled by the SOLID
a2Atn y always % milk the nroaoero,,-
Northern commonwealth as drv = rrs.. 49,
tieapie - taxes which ahau burden ~
sealh az HEtse ~ pazzihie.-Ro Rochester posz
Evening public ledger. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1914-1942, 1916-09-04

The editor of the Mt Pleasant Journal
sent to his composing room some edi.
torial comment upon the Rev. Harry "
Fosters suggestion that churches build
roof gardens so that ministers would
not be preaching to empty pews on sum-
mer evenings" and the inspired COM
positor put this head on it:
ROOF GARDENS FOR CHURCHES.
Evening public ledger. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1914-1942, 1916-09-04

DESPITE the jeers of unappreciative
readers we are determined to see those
white boots through to the end-that is
to say. to the lower extremitles-but We
print the concluding lines In agate, thus:
Evening public ledger. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1914-1942, 1916-09-04
In Defense Of Yers Libre

This gratis stun eontrlbs do write
To make the gentle reader curse
Is priceless. Sir, and that Is quite
Excuse enough Tor our free verse.
CASA WAPPY.
Evening public ledger. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1914-1942, 1916-09-04

The one-term provision Of the platform
upon @upoh whleh Mr, Wilson wes elected was a
scrap OF paper the sooner forgotten the bet-
ter, II has been forgotten. but IL h hsd
remained energetic it might have proteesed
Mr.. Wilson. whom We should love ~ ~
gard aneetionateiy as an ex-Presidsnt
from criticism which is enforced by bis
bility.--chicago Tribune. 7p04si-
Evening public ledger. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1914-1942, 1916-09-04
What Do You Know?

Queries OF general interest iDiIl be dusiDcrcd
iH this column. Ten questions, the dnstOers to
i0hieh every tuell-inI0Tined person should k,Ioo.
are asked ddly.
Evening public ledger. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1914-1942, 1916-09-04

Congress has sent out orders for a
strike to begin promptly at a. m. No.
yember T.
Evening public ledger. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1914-1942, 1916-09-04

ON Market street near Thirty-ninth a
poetic painter declares
Little dash of color,
Little dash of paint.
Make n thing OF beauty
OF thing that amt