Arizona republican., 1917-10-28

| for the unrest of today, but it is never | theless a factor to be considered not | from the point of view of a saloon, but | from the point of view that it has re- moved something from the life of the man and has not replaced it.
 Prohibition has been a wonderful l thing for Arizona. It has emptied her 1 jails; it has multiplied her bank ac- | counts and has emptied her poor houses, but considered only from the | point of removing the Saloon 1t has not | been complete success. A reform | that takes off the top only, leaving the i foundation standing, is not complete; | the real problem is to remove the
 cause. Prohibition will undoubtedly eventually remove the cause, but it will be generation or two, and in the meantime, something must be provided | to replace the saloon.
 Considering the matter as it relates | to unrest, it takes no stretch of the
 imagination to see that it provided something for the occupation of the | leisure hours. It provided place where there were bright lights, where a man | could sit around and chat with his 1 friends, taking the occasional drink, | perhaps and there is no doubt about l it that after a man has taken a few l drinks, he is not in the mood to mag l nifty his troubles.
 It is argued by some that the | movies replace the saloon to some extent but if one observes the attend. | ance at the moving picture theaters at
 the mining camps, he will observe how | few miners are included. Very few | men who work underground in sil- ! ence and in m-darknesS all day will | | select the same conditions for his rec- i reational hours. It is unnatural
 This is not intended for a moment | to discourage prohibition, but it is in | tended to show that one of the great i problems of the camps today is study l | of what recreation for the miner con- sists, and to provide that recreation l It is also intended to show that when we remove something from the life of a man, we must replace it. Noticeable again is the fact that with l the diversity of nationalities repre- sented in a mining camp, there has been an increase in unrest. This is perfectly natural, for with the increase in the number of nationalities, neces- sarily must come an increase in the number of recreational pursuits avail able for and appealing to the various classes represented Many of these peoples are clannish; they do not care to mix with others, this characteristic serving to no other purpose than to increase the difficulties of the occu- patton of the other eight hours.
 Then, too there has been for sev- eral years a growing feeling of suspi- cion of our government-thati it is for the rich, this suspicion having come
 very largely from the foreigners in our mining camps who have come from government of this nature
 Probably the most important factor ill industrial unrest has been the in- | crease in the size of individual organ | izations. Many of us have to look back but few years to recall the days of | the old style mining camp, which con- sisted of five or six, eight or ten mines, employing one hundred to two hundred men, practically all American labor, | each mine with its men in close asso-
 citation with the boss" each with it's | baseball team or athletic club, rivaling ! the other teams of the district, and | each man loyal to the organization for | | which he was working. In those days It was not such long jump from the
 man at the bottom to the one at the | top, but today, when thousands instead | of hundreds are employed, an organ l zation where the workman is even in indirect communication with the head i | is virtually impossible The impossi- |
 
 an intimate association with the work | men is evident; the lack of this how ever, is regarded by many of the work men as snobbery, and it is certainly one of the factors that tends to de- yelop disloyalty.
 We hear it argued on many sides that extreme prosperity is at the base of our industrial unrest, but it is diff ficult to find any evidence of this Un- rest is as prevalent in districts that are not as prosperous as in the higher
 paid camps.
 The problem seems to be sociological
 and educational-socologi in the
 sense of providing the proper social in
 fluences in the communities that have
 leisure hours reforms, and large or
 ganizations, and educational in the sense of giving the workman a knowl- edge of how to use the things provided for him for recreational purposes. The problem is one of camp welfare, every . camp being a distinct problem in itself. : It is impossible to say whether or not music would provide recreationaI de- sires to the workmen of any one camp; i whether there should be parks, clubs, or Y. M. c. As. Camp welfare is the \ problem and this in itself, brings up |. it's own individual problems
 Probably the most difficult of solu- | ton of these is whether these forms of 5 recreation should be company owned ! and controlled, company owned and ' community controlled or community owned and controlled. There are argu- E ments for and against all of these methods
 American workmen resent anything 7 that savers of patronage to such an 5 extent that they will not use the things provided for them if there is a sem : blance of patronage connected with i. them. Foreign labor is not so discern 7 ing. although it must be remembered |. that many of the immigrants to this |! country have come here to avoid this 7 patronage.
 In most of our mining camps we find ' clubs, parks and organizations of many T kinds, company owned. This is un- l. doubtedly the better way, for 1t is gen. G erally very difficult in any community . to obtain the same things community i. owned, and if it were left to the com \ munity, they probably would not be . there. It is with the best of intentions I that we find the heads of departments Y of mining companies on the boards of directors of local community affairs 1 They are doing it because they feel a n desire to do something for the com E munity. and because they feel that 7 their presence on these boards and