The daily Nome industrial worker., 1917-03-19

SS SttLl!- u IIdS iAdIte SldNSS bi lAe Lamp of Foil all mankind that have to work for wages. They have neither the leisure nor the oppor- tunity for more esthetic culture, and they are contented with refrains and movies and ballads and novels that raise a smile when it should be more worthy of the indignation of any thinking person that their brains could have become so atro- phied by disuse.
 The vistas that open up before the person who has trust that a socialist system will ultimately sup ersede capitalism are not all vision ary. Nor is the least of the crimes of capitalism that which has Le- numbed the minds of so many of the workers. But with the advance in education and the earnest work of agitation discontent against pre- sent conditions is growing and growing will overthrow this night of slavery and the bondage of the mind and sense it entails.
 Wasn't it Mills that said better Socrates dissatisfied than a pig satisfied, and that blessed dissatis- faction with things as they are, which refuses to hug the chains that ! L T 10 oi, "a nj n O factor of our present so-called civili- zation
 l Rightly men refuse to be contented under an eXploitatiye system. Right 1 ly they refuse to accept conditions today as the last word in progress i rightly they refuse to stop at sucl milestones Of progress as the wei fare and social worker would hav, us believe were to be the end o concerted effort.
 There can be no cortentnIgn without industrial freedom. and tha bringing with it leisure and oppor tunity will bring Us to a land of ar where not the honest effort Of tht clown. nor the mediocre effort o the fiddler, nor the artistic atrocity of the comic supplement- nor tht raucous attempt Of the ballaGis' will be the last word in ,.rt.
 Till then We may have to ray big salaries to Sundays for religion, bis wages to Chaplins a; tEe movies great royalties to the C0hens in tht songs and marches an1 ra5tinie, iIs as we are compelled to pay tri3lt' to the economic maghatrs that WI are allowed to live.
 It all should urge the worEers the real mainstays of modern socie ty. and civilization, to establish ; condition of society where neithe' will they be the poor blood drencheC pawns of the battlefield in war, nol the ragged and hungry louts of th' workships during times of peace That is our portion today. Wha pleasures the workers enjoy the, steal from the time supposed to b, | devoted 10 their masters service 1 That is the lot that has been c4s ] for them that they should take thei 1 pleasures coarsely and quickly ant in undigested courses that vii satiate for the time and be quickl. forgotten in the purge of the day toll and the misery of mechanica labor. So today We have canned music and the silent drama: token of the industrial slavery of minC and body which takes it's pleasure hastily and also under mechanica conditions of cut and dried formula The board of censors will see tha we enjoy neither too much tha which will excite our senses, nor to' much that will inspire our discon tent In the goodness of thei
 mastery they will see that while a lambs we may be led to the slaught CT of the workshops, but that a sheep too we will not be allowed t be deceived by the imaginary wolve in sheep's clothing. They approv Chaplin and all is well.