The Chesterfield advertiser. [volume] (Chesterfield C.H., S.C.) 1884-1978, 1919-05-01
CHANGES COMING
WITH WARS CLOSE


Washington, April 27.-The big.
gest word and and one of the most
far reaching consequence to the
American people of today is readjust-
ment just as the one which preceded
two years ago was equally important
except from different viewpoint
preparedness. Happily the days of
preparedness and the real war times
which followed it, with the baleful
wave OF Bolshevism slightly felt in
tnis country are quickly giving way
10 That we love best readjustment.
so many requests have come to
The States Washington corrcspon-
dent for synopsis of the present sit
uatIon and an idea of what the future
may hold in store for us that it has
oeen found feasible to incorporate
Chese requests and their replies in one
story which is herewith presented,
and let us visualize the situation not
from Washington that is polit-
lcal viewpoint alone-but from the
angle of the average citizen who
knows but little of Washington and
its political ways.
Repeating again that after pre-
| pardness had to come was then read
Justment, the American people have
pulled themselves together in excel
lent shape since the armistice terms
were flashed in November, and capital
and labor, which must work harmon
iously both to rehabiltate and recon-
struct unless disorder and chaos shall
rule, are showing Frightening signs
of friendly union.
During the two years that the Uni
ted States was at war it was appar-
ent that a cessation of hostlities
must bring with it a certain disturb
ing influence which fattcns and pros
pcrs on abnormal and disordered con-
ditions and that our mathchless lead
er, Woodrow Wilson, has already
practically put these sinister influ-
ences out of existence is distinctly
pleasing. The work is not yet done
but is well on its way towards salts
factory end, while Bolshevists and
Red leaders in this country do not
nearly so much look with complais-
ance on the inside of our prisons as
they did or thought they would with
the ending Of the war and the begin
ing of our reconstruction period.
Dozen Big Issues.
Should we examine the present sit
uation we will find that the big issues
of the day in our reimbursement pro-
gram number somewhere around
dozen and that it is not our great ma
tional lawmaking body-congrcss-
that will set these in motion but the
people-the common people the
people in Buffalo, Milwaukee andDe-
troit and New York and Philadelphia
and Boston, our big industrial centcls
and in rich agricultural sections Of
great West and the far South, where
democracy is found in its purcst form
among the rank and file Of people
Getting down to concrete facts, the
big question is that of stablizng the
relationship existing between capital
and labor and right there plans are
being worked out under the direction
of Secretary Redficld Of the United
States department OF commerce and
board of experts which will have for
It's main purpose the reduction in the
cost OF labor on the one hand and the
price Of every commodity on the
other. That will permit the laboring
man to buy as much for his dollar as
he does now and, at the same time,
remove the clogs from large building
and construction enterprises which
now are stopped because of the cx-
cessive cost Of labor. In other words
this board would get labor an capita!
together and SO harmonizc conditions
that our big commercial operations
might continue while the dollar that
is received for such labor will buy
just as much and possibly more than
it does now.
This is the biggest and most impor-
tant of all our present day problems
with the exception of the league of
nations and with its solution other
readJustment questions will be com
paratively easy.-The State
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