The Bridgeport times and evening farmer., 1918-02-14

DOT Party to be submitted to the this is clear.
 incomes and private riches. These uses include provision for infancy, maternity, disablement, infirmity, sickness, and old age; the improve ment and equalization of education, the endowment of scientific research of all kinds, and the promotion of all the arts, especially music, literature, and painting. Every single item of this catalogue-the manifesto does not forget to insist-has been grossly neg lected under the regime of capitalism
 Such are the four principal heads The document closes with two addi- tional sections, one dealing with foreign policy and the other with the absolute necessity of putting the ad- vancement of science in the forefront of the Labor program. "An auto cratic sultan may govern without science if his whim is law. A Pluto cratic party may choose to ignore science if it is needless whether it's pretended solutions of social problems that may win political triumphs ulti-
 
 Party can hope to maintain it's posi- tion unless it's proposals are, in fact, the outcome of the best political science is continually wrestling fields from human ignorance. If Law is the mother Of Freedom, Science, to the Labor Party must be the Parent of Law" Such are the reassuring final sentences of this remarkable pamphlet. 1 have necessarily omitted nearly all detail, but to satisfy the healthy human appetite for the concrete I may mention that the general scheme comprises somewhere or other in it's vast confines such things as sex-qual- ity, unification and reorganization of railways and canals, light railways, afforestation, small holdings, raising of school age to 16, shorter hours of work for all young persons, repeal of conscription after the war, complete personal freedom, free trade, free speech, free press, complete adult suffrage with three months residential qualification, same civic rights for common soldier as for officer, com plete abolition of the House of Lords no element of heredity or privilege in any new Second Chamber Ministry of Health, Local Public Health Ser vice, doing away with the present wasteful costly system of house-to- house industrial life assurance in favor of national insurance, and lastly the standardization of the manufacture and retailing of alcoholic drink.
 Now. while the Labor manifesto which I have attempted to describe is a wonderfully complete affair-indeed I see no essential omission in it ex- cept a plan to cheapen and expedite legal justice, which is at present ir the hands of a highly anti-social trade union-it is not only a small docu. ment but a. document prepared for 2 particular occasion, and it does nor deal adequately, or it does not deal al aspects of the questions which i raises.
 Educational Reform.
 For example, take the supreme question of education. To multiply schools and the apparatus and oppor - turities of teaching will not bC enough. The party of reform must in sist on a thorough reform of educa ton. The elementary mechanical sub jects, like reading, writing and arith metic, are fairly well taught. But tn, great scientific principles-such as tn, principle of evolution-are simply no taught, so that the pupil usuall, leaves school without a glimmering o any general idea which he can use t. . help himself to explain and judge tn various phenomena of life.
 = Nor are those inseparable subjects I history and geography, basis of poll l tical wisdom in an electorate, wei j. taught. Geography is taught bette 1 than history. but the whole .teachin 1 of history in all schols is. grotesque e rotten, and vicious. There exists n school manual of history, and scarfe ly any history of any kind, in whic' 0 historical values are not sentimental e ized, falsified, and turned upsid . down in the most astounding manner s Economic history, which is nine g tenths of history, is nearly alway l. ignored. Thus every school histor S will point out the idylIic relations tha
 
 rous premier, Lord Melbourne an v the girlish Queen Victoria. But n . school history will point out that LOT = Melbourne's income was derived fror
 mines in which boys of six worked i
 absolute darkness fourteen hours - day.
 Without some grasp of economi
 history an electorate is bound to 'mak a fool of itself in politics. Such pro gress as Labor has already achieve is the direct outcome of the Educatio Acts which began in 1S70 And it further efforts towards advancement will depend for their success on it further interest in its own education To endow research and the arts, t provide buildings and teachers an,