Free trader-journal. (Ottawa, Ill.) 1916-1920, 1918-05-09
PAGAN SAYS j. s..
SUCCESS DEPENDS.
ION THREE PARTNERS.
WAGE GARNER, WAGE PAYER
AND CONSUMER, HE SAID, ARE
DECIDING FACTORS IN FUTURE
PROGRESS OF NATION.

James o. Fagan author and lectur- /
er and former railroad man, who is /
now working in behalf of the national
| Industrial conservation movement, I
talked TO large audience at the
Thigh school chamber last night
IN the subject of American Indus
Try and the War his talk being IA
lesson in practical patriotism in
which he told them that employer.
employee an dthe public must get on
a common ground and that the war
is going to bring about vastly i'm
portant changes in the relations OF
he three. He said. in part
During the past - or 20 years
personality in America has been
pretty nearly a dead issue To quite
an extent We have permitted the ma
'hinery Of our civilization to smother
I |H' P'i 9Vubl ppiiSdlIub " bul NIli-
iren, to our communities and to our
national life. For example we elect
! Sunday school superintendent or
} hire a school teacher and then we
have said to ourselves. Thank God.
he children are taken care OF. or we
! elected secretary OF chamber OF
: commerce and then quite number
VI us have stayed at home and said
E in our hearts. Thank God, the com
. nunity is taken care Of
Our eyes are beginning to open
/ our personal responsibilities will not
. Town either in chamber of commerce
! or the affairs of the nation. Social
I crvice is the new patriotism and in
n he interests Of American democracy
such men are needed today as
4 Urgently as they ever were for the
purpose of national safety at Ban
+ lockburn or Waterloo. at Valley
Forge or Gettysburg. The great cry
o II America | for personal service
II nd personal patriotism and the reply
this appeal has not been up to the
/. mark We are rcaping the identical
hing which we have planted
Dollar Patriotism"
- The uncomfortable rumor is 90
ng around in some parts Of the coun
a. ry that the inherent and right
G Gus convictions of Americans arc
r being sacrificed on the altar of com
mercialism 1t will be good for us
/. 0 remember what happened to the
q. id on the streets. He was stand
ne on the sidewalk when another
= lrchin came along and without an,
$ apparent reason gave him a coupl,
S u clips square in the face. The box
lidnt bulge an inch He simply
II stood there and whimpered and
when policeman said. You little
u Iool, why didn't YOU fight or run
5 lway?' the boy whined. How could
~ | mad my foot on a nickle Be
leVe me, there is considerable sig
li'cance and point to that story
? Personality is the big factor in
] american industry that is now on
) rial President Wilson's first move
II the war game was a personal ap
peal to the social and industrial
patriotism OF The nation at large. To
y convert loo0O000O people. long at
: peace, into a war nation. to divert
d our great national energies from first
20 last into channels of war is a
gigantic undertaking. but the thing
5 here and now to be done.
President Wilson went straight ia
me men trained for big business en-.
: 'erprises, to Mr.. Edison and Mr.. Vail
md Mr.. Willard and scores of 9th.
- rs and said, Come TO washington
Il ma these men of big affairs came at
. once, something like GOO of the men
/. VINO were directing the largest bust.
!. ness affairs and largest manufactur.
# ng plants in the country and thou.
= sands OF other men of national repu.
h tation are giving their services TO the
n nation in its need. The president has
II used his influence to bring into the
a national service the greatest business
5 minds in the union and the response
y 10 these appeals will constitute a
= lasting and glorious memorial of the
|. war
And all honor is due also. TO the
( great army of workers. men and
z women organized and rnorganized
Z to the rank and file as well as To the
II leaders, the practical men of genius
I VINO are out to harness the universe
II to our war.lke requirements.
Publicity Great Factor,
h The second big factor that indus
. try needs in its relation to the war
I Is publicity In the industrial world
we are beginning to realize that pub
+, lcity, or social persuasion, is the art
OF bringing the wage Garner and the
v wage payer, the men and the man
ayers together in the interests of All
Of the people. The industrial situa
llon in America today is giving soci
ETY. a lot Of trouble and society is be-