New-York tribune., 1918-12-25

living to which the workers themselves
aspire. There are other minor conditions
to be fulfilled, but these two are the chief
conditions, and if they are fulfilled all
else Will follow.
First, to the increase of the produc-
ton of wealth The problem we have to
solve is this: We have to bring within
reach of the masses Of the people the COM
forts, refnements and luXuries that have
hitherto been the monopoly of the few
This cannot be done except by increasing
the production Of commodities so ina,
there may be enough to go around. Ger
tain Socialists, who ought 10 know better,
have falsely taught that the poverty or
seml-poverty of the many is due to the
luxurious living of the prosperous sections
of the community. This is not the truth,
and if through all the years of Socialist
preachings the result Of each years in
dustrial effort had been divided equally
among the members Of the community.
there would have been no appreciate I'M
crease of prosperity for any. and there
would have been one dead level of pow
erty for all
High Spending
The PLAN fact IS that the prosperous few
have created a standard of living which
must not be destroyed by reducing them to
the condition of the impoverished many.
1t is the impoverished many whose stand
ard of living (and whose power of reach
ing that standard} must be raised to the
standard of living of the prosperous few.
This can be done and it must be done.
n do ho
Increased production is feared bv the
workers, because Of the false teaching of
pre-war economists that Increased Droduc-
tons involves "overproduction" and con
sequent unemployment. But increased
production does not involve this danger If
1t IS accompanied by increased consump-
ton-ln other words by the raising of the
standard of living of the mass of the
people to the same level at which the
standard of living of the prosperous few
is to-day. In peace time, especially high
earning and high spending Cor. to express
1t better, high production and high con-
sumption of commodites) are economic
virtues. They result in developed and
expanded industry, and this, in its turn. is
guarantee Of peace and national safety
because of the Germans realization of the
potential value of an industrial system. so
expanded and developed, as a war machine.
to which purpose it be turned if they
should attack us anew. And where war
is concerned prevention is better than
cure!
The German Glass Way
The class war does not appeal to women.
1t happens to have been made in Germany,
being used by the Germans strictly for
expectation to other countries, including
our own.
The Communicated class war has
found its admirers in this and other coun-
tries almost entirely among men. It IS ab
horrent to women, as we'll as being ridicu-
lous in their eyes
The Labor party lecturer works himself !
up into frenzy in his efforts to incite the
working woman to the class war. He tries
to rouse her to class jealousy by his de-
nuncIaton of the employers wife in her
silk Dress But the working woman sim
ply and calmly adheres to her determina-
ton not to prevent the employers wife
from having silk dress. but to have q
SIX dress, too! In fact she is quite pleased
to have look at the employers wife's
SILK dress, as she may thereby get some
ne" ideas to be carried out when she is
ordering her own silk dress
The working women who spend their