The daily Nome industrial worker., 1917-03-30
EXPERIMENTS.

Following the example set in other cities, some authorities in New York determined to show that people could live well for much less expensive diet than popularly was supposed to be followed.
 They got some cops and upon them experimented to the immense satisfaction of the authorities if not 10 the satisfaction of the cops prov ing that their theories were correct,
 Tn effect what they were driving at was this. The higher costs o1 stables had made living according 10 regular and average standards almost out ot the question except for the most highly paid of the wage workers. They came to the conclu- sion then that they would be per forming an act of charity-some- one is always thinking up charitable things in this wicked old world to show the workers that within the compass Of their small wages, notwithstanding high prices a regi- men could be devised which would give them a healthy, wholesome diet and vet leave some money over.
 They wanted to show that the present standard of living could be lowered and the workers still exist.
 Ii may be pointed out that when these philanthropic exprimenters be gin to work out their plans, labor is the goat.
 Now these of New York might have attended to the other end Of the industrial scale and considered the employers. They might have concludcd. after due consideration, that they would request the employ .r 10 grant an increase in wages whereby wages would adapt them selves in a relative measure to the higher cost of the necessities or life. They might have pointed out that inasmuch as all the necessities and luXurics of life are produced bN labor. they are entitled at least 10 an equivalent share of their pro duet as would maintain such standard of living as they had been accustomed to. These welfare work CTS might have argued that as matter of pure industrial morality. inasmuch as the workers by their labor produce all wealth, they are entitled to it strictly speaking
 However no such thing happens. They forge; the existence ot the employer in lavishing their tender hearted pity upon the poor work ing man. Their hearts yc2rn for service. and they take into consider ation the few pennies available foI food clothing and shelter for the workers, and they proceeded with plans and experiments to devise ways and means whereby the work CTS can secure sufticiency of food 10 prevent too loud rumblings in their empty bellies and too much suffering from sheer starvation.
 It is very beautiful indeed. and it is what will always happen when the worker allows himself to be the plaything of the shallow parasites ot Capital If the worker thinks that such experiments are bound to re suit in an amelioration of his con alton surely he deserves nc better fatc.
 Really these social workers are earning their keep for capital and the time may be coming when scien- fife dieting may reach the stage when the workers can live upon grass or reindeer moss
 If artificial selection can reach that pitch of development, it is to be hoped that natural selection Will do the rest for those workers who have submitted in a docle fashion to be the butts of these parasitic attentions. and they. will be gifted by nature with long ears and horned hoofs, so that they would learn to properly appreciate the masters crib and to know their owner.