Evening journal., 1918-02-19


oatmeal yeast bread Will be shown.
Next month the demonstrations will
show how TO save fats and sugar.
proving therefore 10 be fundamental
and not incidental
Some reformers would eliminate
middlcmen and substitute a wide Na-
rlety OF cooperative schemes OF direct
trading. How often do they realize
that no one has over placed any oh
siacle in the way of direct trading be
tween consumer and producer. 10 Is as
t feasible today as 70 ever was. But %
has gone out in response 40 changing
conditions. while the 'middloman sys-
tenn that has risen In lbs place has
proved It's right 90 exist by actual per
/ formance In The face OF competitive
conditions Hundreds of schemes that
look we'll on paper fail miserably every
wear because they are based ON fanci-
mi theories rather than on the coid
facts of The economic law ana OF hu-
man nature
misunderstanding and Ignorance
have been our greatest menace-nlis-
understanding of class toward oin'r
classes: misunderstanding of iunda-
mental economic law, mlsundcrsiand-
ing Of the mutuality of our rcsponsi
bliiv. misunderstanding OF thc fact
that we are all human and aciual-
ed by human attributes, whether rich
or poor. The employed too often views
his helpers as Dee docs his machiner,
and the worker too commonly REGARDS
his cmplovcr as Of the same GOODNESS
and hardness as the stones OF his rae
tory wall.
,.And how are we prepared 10 NEE
J this crisis2 Can we boast "a rea-s,riu'
b. measure of German efficiency ana or
: qanization? or OF French economy
A or M British determinatlon2
1 els our industry today organized OIL
r. n basis of efficiency or are we TOT
10 hv industrial uncertainties as lo W.i
? shall direct. controversies as to th
b. diyision OF the fruits OF industry. mh
taken relations between business an
n ihe Government. sadly involved In
/. maze OF half-baked notions about bus
7. ness and economies. and largely moul'
ed bv preindices and theories. raih'
than bv experience and fundament
facfs2 out OF an attempt 10 pla
poliiics are We saddled with unwis
and partisan laws and a very seriou
remnant ~ the menacing spirit OF cias
n haired and wasteful anlmOsiiy.
and let ms not forget That plans 10
. reconstruction are already engaging th
best thought OF other nations ana al
Y along the line. just ar intelligent plan
U for rehabililating business are Ia pro
press-in England, FRANCE, Japan an'
even in Germany AS there are Tor tn
I prosecution Of the war.
- The Doom OF Destructive Aniialor>.
+ III might not be amiss. right here q
p draw the analogy that the proiessiona
J agitator has had his own peculiar par
Z In this war Just at the very minute
+ when employer. emplOye and the naiiol
! are slraining every energy 90 make ih'
p patriotism OF industry effective or oush
F. 90 with an our moral and physica
- vitality. the agiiaiOr has been abroad
In the land. undermining our natona
z defense. checking the sheels OF Industry
- and blackening the name ANA Tame %
p organized labor. In many instances h
d. has been unmasked I'm his ncfWiOu
Z work as the agent Of the kaiser
whether paid or only an innocent tool
: and "a traitor 10 the American working
man. 70 is time for the patriotic Amer
, lean lahoring man. i0 purge the counirl
OF such scOundrels. and 10 Is the hop
s of every friend of american industr'
that the search will not cease till aglia
TORS who place their own professiona
ambitions and money above the wei
, fare Of American industry are driyel
: from The land
j. "There Is no force on earth so Ger
tain and sure 90 perpetuate that intel
p ligence essential 20 democracy rs ire
: press. Publicity has cured more ill
than The law ever did What we nee
, above an else Is the truth and On
y facts.
: What the effects Of an this will b
J after the war cannot be foretold, hut
there has been any lesson learned Ou
- of the crisis 10 Is that there IS IN
j. nnitely more power in n land wher
individual initiative has full play thai
o I'm an autocrailc government. Th
p thought Of the hour is to avoid hamper
= ing industry and antagonZing it
y rather 10 foster ITS development %
4 friendly cooperation and an open FIELD
h. someone has said that that c0untr
Is governed best which is governe
p least. Nothing proves II so much a
+ this war nation where liberty an
o opportunity are an open field viii ds
S vel0p the highest Of human enecier
cies and produce industries and bus
\ ness institutions which In time Of per
y will presen' a bulwark Of irreslstib
i strength 10 defend the democracy whic