The labor world. [volume] (Duluth, Minn.) 1896-current, 1918-12-21
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This republic will prove ungrateful
e the achievements of the quiet little
man. who has filled the post of secre-
tary>'of War: are. allowed Ito go with
out fervent and ;enthusisstic .apprecia-
ton. Viewing the work 2of,ithe war
department as a whole, we find an
efficiency and an absence of scandal
that should be the pride of the ma
ton. Politics has had no place in
our army. The most efficient men
have been selected without regard to
politics. Indeed. the only *criticisnl
involving politics has been that Of
short-sighted ,partisans who wanted
political favorites with no adequate
military training or experience placed
in command of troops. Political
activity was avowedly made a bar to
appointment to high commands. 1t
is safe to say that the world never
saw an army so free of political in
fuence, and animated by such high
spirit of idealism and true manliness
as that which America sent to France.
We take for granted achievements
that were new in military history.
We have proved that a great army
can be raised and maintained without
swashbuckling and carousing. that
young men can become soldiers with
out becoming demoralized.. Those
who heard the CHASTITY stories of
disease in the armies that fought the
first campaigns of this war realize
the magnitude Of our achievement
The presence Of soldiers in or near
American cities has meant, not a
relaxing of standards and an increase
in Hcentiousness. but the reverse.
Many a city and town is cleaner to-
day than ever in it's history because
the army authorities took more care
for the welfare of the soldiers than
| these towns had taken for the welfare
Of their own native boys. In big and
little things Mr.. Baker has proved
himself great executive and states
man.-The Public.
is A DISGRACE TO THE STATE.
The latest bulletin sent out to the
| newspapers by the Minnesota Public
Safety commission is in the form of
a plea that the commission be re-
tanned in its full power until it is
automatically dissolved-which. will
be when it is. if the commission can
not prevent it. T..
The safety commission did very ef-
fective work in hampering the
political opposition TO the ,Burnquist
plunderbund, thus adding to the
minority vote that reelected Burn
quist, and it may be presumed. that:
the commission. looking through
eplunderbund goggles, has an eye on
nineteen twenty: 'a'' ~
The bulletin tells us that. now. the
war is over. there will be many
problems too complex for the state
government to properly. handle and
that the. commission should remain
| in power to see that no new political
parties are foisted upon the people
:Tpfaarlttiss. that Wouldn't hesitate. a
! minute to clean out the whole state
capitol, the safety commission In
cluded.
Likely there are some of the state
newspapers that will fall for the COM
1 missions plea, but they are: ct the
toad-eating variety that gulp down
! with keen relish everything that
/ comes from the commission-and
about everything that comes from
that august body<Sis political propa-
! ganda calculated to. give, the plumber
| bund protection and further its
depredations.
The Public Safety commission has
been a; disgrace to- the state-a grind
ing autocracy that respected, no mans
| rights. 1t should be abolished at the
first days session Of the state legis-
1aturej and everyone of it's members
sent to prison for the high crimes
, committed in. the name of the law
| The Mesaba Ore. *
The latest automobile statistics for
the United States have many points
of interest. even for those who walk
or. who ride suspended from straps.
Nebraska, for instance. state which,
one would think, to hear its politicians
talk, not so very long ago was
ground under the heel of Wall street,
has the largest number of Internal
| combustion; pleasure vehicles per
capita of any state in the American
Union: That is to say, it has one for
every eight persons in it's population.
On per CAPITA basis the west u.s. In
this respect, far ahead Of any other
section of the country. Among the
strange revelations made by the fig
ures may be mentioned the fact that
Maine, although leading all the other
eastern states. ranks twenty-first in
the list; that Montana has more auto
mobiles per capita than Ohio. Arizona
more than Kansas, and Arizona more
than Ohio. In the number of ma
chimes New York ranks first with 1884,
900, although it is thirty-third on the
per capita basis. But If that substitute