The daily Nome industrial worker., 1917-05-24

or anlmal-very interesting to be sure, and at times almost human, under their skins.
 The caste idea remains still strong even in the United States. The ancient Identification of gen. tilty and nobility with a higher class was the egotistic indulgence of the higher orders" who despised the boors'" and "churls" and "vil- lains'.
 That was in another age. But to- day the young college American refers to the "mucl1er" as in con tradistinction 10 his own noble self, and the acts which he contemns rae "mucker's acts''. The inbred caste idea will not down, and even ex- tends to the mortified maiden oi the mine boarding huse who told her mother in tones suggestive 'of scrilege there was a mucker in the machine mans bed'.
 Usually it is the boast of the Am erican that caste and class do not exist and that the well conducted man is received everywhere, quite regardless of his position in life.
 The experience of every person knows that this is weird delusion, and that the man in over-alls as well as the man in broadcloth has his caste ideas. In camp boarding houses usually there is a separate table for bosses and higher skilled workers, while the shovel stiffs" usually are herded together and receive scant enough attention from the fiunkeys who direct their isolici tous care towards the "bosses table.
 Indeed we see the relation ot master and servant seldom men. toned except in court decisions, but maintained rigidly by the caste ridden nature that is in a grea- ra,r hereditary, covert but strongly subtle
 The rich man may conduct hiIa- self beyond the rules ot good con duct and get away with it. if the worEingman does it, it affords a real good excuse for giving him the bad eye.
 Through tattered rags" it was the Bard pointed out, S nall vices do appear, robes and furred gowns hide all". Under more ancient sy- stems of Jurisprudence, the man who had many possessions could compound a murder for so many cattle or so much live stock of one kind or another. Today so many dollars will satisfy justice while the man who has none, goes to jail for an identical offence
 That versatile if more serious than amusing journal Life" had a cover design, during the war, of the Kaiser stamping across the world with feet that left a blood stain in every print: he was paying none tary compensation for the sinking of the Lusitania with the disdainful Here's money for you Am ericans: may want to kill some more children" IT is hard to tell Life" intended this as an attack upon the Kaiser or an at lack upon the American character. It was most certainly both.
 Yet, more significantly, it may De asked, if the law feels itself sa- .isfed with monetary fines. why should we cavil at the Kaiser or the 'eopl&if if they regulate their stand lrdsof living by power and pelf that 'ne has got? If it were possible to every private soldier, the icion of a noble family or one con lected with great wealth or receiv- ng a princely remittance, his posi- ion would immediately change. He would instead of being an unwel- ome guest at pAblic places, be the lonored of them all
 Indeed the literary hacks that 'rind out ephemeral. but doubtless cry profitable Scenarios and short tories for movies and for magazines rave shtruck upon this solution when making the common soldier hero. 1
 The other day in the local mo- ion picture show was producea.| The Wall Between. Before in erests could be reused in the hero hey had to make him bankers on, with powerful and wealthy re