The daily Nome industrial worker., 1916-06-10
ALL ROUND PREPAREDNESS.

La0t January at the Annual Good fellowship meeting of the Illinois Bankers Association they were ad- dressed by Geo w. Perkins. Ali Round Preparedness was the theme he chose, and the address was ordered printed by the Association and sent to the various papers in the United States. It comes now somewhat bclatedly to the Industr1- al Worker.
 The Industrial Worker like every other paper receives volumes of such material delivered by the espe- cially wise ones, in Congress ,at conventions and other gatherings. Some are nonsense pure and simple,
 and well merit the wGste paper
 basket, but the address of Perkins is not in that class.
 Perkins epitomlzed in hi3 address,
 which was, in the nature of things too, strongly political, the views
 which are held by the captains ot because more clearly than anything else such a one may be expected to unfold those views, to reed and know them, whatever one thinks o1 them, is well worth while-indoea is supremely essential to understand the current movements in contem- porary history.
 It is interesting therefore and in structive to know that Perkins thinks first of all that the United States is "unprep,red for war at arms, unprepared for war in indus try, unprepared in leadership. Those are his words.
 Perkins is no laudator temporis acti-bOoster of the good old days and it's laws and it's customs. h. deed what he wants and what he insists upon is that the laws anu customs and manners of thought and action be more fittingly ad- iusted to the needs of the time.
 We must recognize in our laws, in our business, and in our social intercourse, the fact that electricity, in it's many forms, has swept away the last vestige of the methods ol business and social intercourse in vogue in the days when many of our present laws were placed upon the statute books. Second, we must realize that because of the central izing power of electricity the maxim ! that competition is the life of trade l no longer holds good, and must give way to the maxim cooperation is the life of trade.
 Third, we must realize that thai God-given power which we call cleo tricity has wiped out man-made state lines, and, with almost light ninglike rapidity, has drawn us, whether we will or not, into one body.
 Fourth, we must admit. therefore that many of our laws, in place ot being in our law books, should be in our waste baskets.
 Everything that Perkins says here has been said by socialists ong ago. It has it's basis upon tho naterialist conception of history md Perkins himself insists upon he material fact of electricity hay ng changed our methods of busi- ness and social intercourse. No thinking person but will agree that 7 he case is we'll stated.
 Thereupon Perkins proceeds t0 ,ttack the present political situa- ion with all the fatuOus zeal of What troubles him ln- ( Iced is the fact that the Trust is { lot received with open arms by the ( people, that laws are not made with $ , view of assisting business of that t lind instead of hampcring it, that l Il fine everything is not done to i make United States Business and ( ,rofiteering permanently and ade- luately supreme over all the rest ot he world. Perkins is convinced l hat if this is dono then will this z country be a better place for him { md his children. He asks in Pauline tone of evangelism: What ;hall it profit son to inherit mil { ion dollars if, aS the result of the i lnpatriotic conduct of his father, i