Evening public ledger. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1914-1942, 1917-10-13
N CHURCHILL ON DISREGARDING THE Co

| the one no describes-and the girl asso.
! ciates herself with the I. w. w. agitators
until sho discovers that they are as
! greedy and as constituencies as the man
who brought about her own undoing"
II gather that Churchill has not written
a propagandist book in tho interests Of
| labor" Owen remarked.
Far from that" admitted. 1T is not
propaganda Of any kind, unless one could
call 1t propaganda for social righteous
ness. Two.thirds Of the book deals with
the life OF Janet and her relations with
her employer This part Is as depressing
as the life OF the workers In q mill town.
Toward the end a new spirit manifests
itself when he brings the social and in
dustrial conditions Of the mill town into
contrast with the spirit that prevails in
an adjoining village, the seat Of a ia
nous academy founded TO keep the torch
OF learning alight. Janet wandered into
the village one summer day and met by
chance one OF its choice spirits, n man
OF breadth OF vision and tolerance OF
spirit The experience was restful She
finds him in the mill town while the
OF the strikers. She goes to his soup
kitchen for relief from the atmosphere OF
selhshness which she breathes i'm the
J. w. W. headquarters. She meets there
sympathetic woman whJ is working
with the man. Finally she falls i'll and
is taken to hospital in the village. While
she convalesces she has frequent CONVEX
sations with the sympathetic woman. She
is told, what she had discovered for her.
self, that the ills of society cannot be
cured by the simple formula Of the I. w.
w, which provides for a series of strikes
for higher wages until the Capitalist
class is destroyed and all the instru-
mcnts of industry arc in the hands Of the
workers. She is told also that every.
body, even the capitalists, is willing to
help the world along if only he can be.
lievo that what he is told to do will help,
and she begins dlmly to perceive that
there is no possibility of bettcrmont until
employer and employe, laborer and capiE
talist, begin to think Of the voluntary be.
stowal Of service"
"Ah, I see" said Doctor AGcFabre
slowly. 'He is applying the teaching that
he that would save his life will lose it and
he that would lose his life will save It,"
THAT is about it," admitted and
that is why he calls his book "rhc Dwell.
ing Place Of Light God is light. he has
the sympathetic woman say, and she OK
plains that sRc likes to think Of men and
women seeking TO grow toward Him"
Doctor McFabrc picked the book up
from the table and began turning the
Jcaves. May read it, he asked.
Certainly. You will find it worth vogr
while. 1t is q tragic story Of absorbing
interest. And I should call it a. great
book, for the reason that Mr.. Churchill
has discussed a great problem with a sin
cere and earnest purpose to throw some
light upon II, Janet is a character that
Will live, for there are thousands Of young
women who will recognize in hers some
phase OF their own experience and some
Of their own aspirations"
GEORGE w. DOUGLAS.
THE DWELLING. PLACE OF LIGHT. rv
winston Churchill, author OF Tho Inside
OF, the cup. etc, New York: Tho Mac
milan Company. $1.GO