New Britain herald., 1916-09-15

iumvirate-capital, labor and the public. If the men who control these three factors can be made to recog- l nize their duty toward a higher de- gree of cO-OperatiOn-can come to puIl together for a common good, America will face the critical hour of opportunity with safety and coEd- Gcnce. To produce such harmony is tine aim of the Industrial Conservat on m OVement.
 Tho Personal Duty.
 Talk With your legislators-not bit terly or dictatorially or as a scold, but helpfully. Tell your side of the case to your employees and open the facts and figures to their intelligent leaders. Not all the f9ir miudedress $ found at the counting-rnom end of industry. The manager ana the labor CT are fellowworkmen for the same employer; in different capacities per- haps but neither less essential or vital to the success of the enterprise than the other. Drop in and give the editor of your paper frank statement of the truth and point out his unfairness Tell him how the funny fat figure Of The Trusts and the scrawny one of the Common People, are cultivating false notions and prejudices that hurt not you so much as they do the fair ness of the law and of public opinion.
 'Try to realize that your business is really as much the community's business as your own; that as your business prospers so does the com munity dependent upon 1t for a living. Do you realize that every dollar earned can be traced into five distinct money drawers of a community be- fore it gets back to the bank from which it was first drawn to fatten a payroll and therefore it has a tre- mendous responsibility toward the common prosperity and economies? Cultivate publicity and the commun- ity spirit.
 Tell the newspapers about it and let the editor know that you and he are partners for the city's welfare. Editors are human and honest The public has brains and 1t digests what it reads with far greater discrimin- ation than some of us are prone to realize You can fool all the people some of the time but not when they lave the truth from dependable sources. And the public has no more desire to send puppets or crooks to make laws than you have. If it under stood, it would be far less disposed to annoy industry. It is all very well to compla gently trust the good judg- ment of a egislator-assrmin that he had any-but if the other fellow persists in getting his side of the case in and backs it up at the polls there is som ething for you to do.
 The Business Man As a Citizen.
 We are all too prone to consider the business man as a class distinct from the general maSs-tO forget that the business man is also a citizen and a neighhor. He sometimes fOrgets 1t himself. It is his town, just as it is the town of his emploYe. The one wants it to be good town quite as much as the other. It is his home, where his children must grow up, get their education, form their future ac- quaintances marry and pobahly cast their lot Is it to his interest to proSt1- ute that town to he status of merely economical Industrial battlefield or a place of harmonious relations, of pros perous homes of wholesome domestic ideals and of cordial community spir- it?
 "Taxes are not alone the burden of the rich; they inevitably descend along the scale of wealth and are shared