The daily Nome industrial worker., 1917-08-08

DrOOh no cnanSe III the present.
 Really when we pass beyond the controversial insufficiencies of argu- | ment as to the causes of the war, is 1t rot a fact that the war is today | because of the fact that the social | system is not adjusted to the social | economy? Will we not recognize that because today the masses, the l vast majority of human beings are still immersed in their individual | istic concepts or rights and privi- leges, or duties and property, wars are possible?
 We have been compelled to main- tain ourselves first or second dimen- | sion people in a fourth dimension age.
 Consider that enormous, oppres- siye and sinister fact that all the great inventions of the human mind has benefited the masses but very little if at all In the great cities of the world ore discovers as foul smelling vicious and degrading pov- erty as in those places existed hurd- | reds of years before. but with far greater numbers suffering from it's existence in tie present.
 Today hundreds die of extreme cIcthing, unsanitaly housing. To 1 increase the territorial holdings of this nation or that human lives are sacrificed with reckless indifference to open up and to develop a trade route the world is plunged in an inferno Of war. "Pain still craWla', as it did hundreds ot years ago. from the corpse of pleasure, a worm that gnaws all day and at night creeps back again to the heart Cf the sleeper and stings him back to the curse of the light: and that millions may minister to this mag got breeding Pleasure of the few or the equally insensate ambition and pride of power of another small coterie, they must still remain chain ed to the milcstones that have been left long behind in the progress that has been made by the brain of mankind.
 This is an age of billions. But those billions are for the few, for the many there is the still scanty store that is reckoend by the mind with too much ease to have any stim- ulating standing in the compleXity of present day things.
 It is this self evident mal-adjust Iment everywhere. summed up in the statement that some have too much while the most have too little, that the beginning and the ending of ou" struggling, fighting, strife, and difficulties may he noticed. Nor will there be any improvement until this is finally adjusted. The earth produces q plenty. There should be room for all as there is sufficiency for all. This may be admitted. No one sees the blessing in bloody strife save those who realize that it is in it that they may obtain a pro longation of possession. With an adjustment of human society to the economy so that human activities may contribute not to the comfort, pleasure and redundancy of the few but the happiness and welfare of all engaged in those activities, the pro gress will then have achieved re- ality and perfection and all mankind will reap the benefit of the those things, to which human beings have all, more or less, in some degree contributed.
 It is not impossible that we are nearer such state of things than most will admit. The present civil and military turmoil, the incessant agitation, the profuseness of ideas, the general recognition that there must come soon a period of general re construction in many lands-all of these things indicate the approach of such time when the past and present mal-adjustmcnt will no longer be tolerated and instead of having the earth and the fullness thereof for the benefit of the few, it will exist and have it's being far all, in full tide of happiness.