New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1917-08-22

two out OF many:
Required Experienced house parlor maid;
three in family; six maids kept"
"House maid required; family two; SIX
maids"
That "enriching manual laborers' would
not necessarily wreck England is suggested
by the report of year ago made by the
medical officer Of health for Woolwich. lie
wrote:
"As result of the increased prosperity IN
Woolwich the homes are better furnished
the provision of bedding is more satisfactory
and the children are better clothed. With
better financial conditions many of the homes
almost despaired of have become improved
almost beyond belief, which goes to prove
very emphatically that if we want to elinll-
nate the slum type of human being and the
sum type of home the surest and quickest
way is to give the workman 8 good living
wage. 1t is only natural that wives and
mothers get tired of struggling against tide
of difficulties which every day threatens to
engulf them"
Shifting Subterranean Forces
The social change in Great Britain is the
result of many agencies What Santayana
calls "the molecular forces of society" have
undermined the old class system. This
shifting of great subterranean forces is
felt BY all though the resultant battles proph-
ecy.
Mr.. Balfour Gin the Horse of Commons
on July 10, 1910 has spoken of "theNvast,
complicated machinery of permanent oihcials
by which alone you can carry on the colossal
business of government" When | was IN
Dublin A. +. said TO me that 1t was III per
cent of a people that know what they want
On June 10, 1917, Lord Robert Cecil said IN
the House of Commons:
of fundamental questions arose, they had
to be determined by force, and it was alb
surd to suppose they could be settled by any
questions of counting votes. In these cases
il was not often a majority that settled
them: il was the burning heat OF convection,
of determinations of a small body OF desper'
ate or determined men to carry through what
thew believed to be for the essential welfare
of the state"
The movement toward democratic control
is vaster than the desires. or competency IN
manipulation of any single group IN the
community Prince Kropotkin in his fare
well letter to England wrote:
"There are moments in the life Of man
kind when certain general ideas prepared by
a slow evolution of the mind get hold with
an unprecedented clearness OF the great
masses of men. Such moment takes place
now"
MANY institutions other than those of capt.
tai and labor in industry are included IN tnls
movement toward democratic control Inc
Established Church is undergoing the same
shifting of great subterranean forces.
William Temple. Albert Mansbridge, and
others of "the life and liberty movement
have written:
"Ihose who are promoting this movement
are convinced that we must win for the
Church full power to control It's own NE
even at the cost, if necessary, of disestaollsh-
n,ent and of whatever consequences that may
possibly involve
Uglness a Matter of Course
Agriculture is being examined in the same
hard. dry light as industry. John Galsworthy
has recentld written in 1.-The Observer:
I'VE do not realize the great deterioration
cf our stock; the squashed-in, stunted, dis
proportionate, ,commonized look Of the bulk
of our people. Uglfless has become matter
of course"
The causes of this? He cites the great in
dustrial towns, with their town-blight, cramp,
poor air. poor food and herd life The cure?
Fresh air, good food, sunlight and modicurl
of solitude. In short, wise agricultural
policy of arabic land, small holdings, garden
allotments and decent housing.
Sir Horace Plunkett in his pamphlet "A
Better Way" has said:
"The evil of external government is see
at its worst where England, rich country,
with so per cent of its population urban, IN
dustrial and commercial makes laws for Ire
land. a relatively poor country, with over 10
uer cent of its population rural and agrlcult-
ural."
Finally, General SHUTS has essayed the
problem of the coming commonwealth with
an authority and clarity which no other
statesman of recent years has shown. Or
May Is he said:
mo political ideas which we have evolved
in the past will apply to this world which Is
comprised in the British Empire. What ]
feel in regard to all the empires of the past.
and even in regard to the United States, Is
that the effort has always been toward form
ing one nation-always one nation. All the
empires we have known in the past and that
exist to-day are founded on the idea of as
sanitation, of trying to force human material
is entirely different You do not want to
standardze the nations of the British En-
pire; you want 70 develop them toward
greater nationality. These communities, the
offspring of the mother country, or terri
tories like my own, which have been annexed
after the vicisstudes of war, must not b.
moulded in any one pattern. You want them
to develop on the principle Of self-govern-
ment. and therefore your whole idea is diff
ferent from anything that has ever existed
before. That is the fundamental fact we
have to bear in mind-that this British com
monwealth of nations does not stand for
STANDARDIZATION or conventionization, but fof
the fuller, richer, and more various life OF
all the nations comprised in it.'
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