Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1919-08-13
THE CALL FOR WORKERS


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and comments thereo
in an editorial under the captio
The Worlds Call for Workers
Work alone can solve the problel
which the world faces, the editc
says, and he reasons it out afte
this fashion:
For nearly five years the world
was busy destroying the accumu-
lations of centuries, and during
that time it had to leave undone
the things which ordinarily
would have been done. Now
every man on earth must in one
way or another bear some of the
burden of Germany's war upon
civilization and hasten to do the
things which need to be done.
For five years dwellings were
left unbuilt and existing ones un-
painted and unrepaired; food
was consumed and destroyed more
rapidly than it was produced as
4O,OOO,O0O to 5O,000.00O men bat
tied for existence or prepared for
the great struggle; railroad build
ing ceased, highway construction
stopped, streets were unrepaired,
hotels were not constructed to
meet the worlds increasing
travel. The result is there is now
an enormous vacuum of empty
store shelves, of unbuilt dwell
ings and hotels and railroads,
and of food supply Inadequate
to feed up world of hungry
people.
There Is only one way to over
come the situation. All the COM
bined power of all the govern
ments of earth cannot change
the inescapable, unalterable
facts. But men, individually and
collectively, can meet the mighty
problems We face by work, hard
driving work; by work of brain
and Drawn and machine power.
Production and more production
to the limit of mans ability VIII
insure world prosperity.
Under production will mean
world proverty and suffering.
The responsibility of the SOL
dier on the battlefield to do his
utmost was not greater than is
the responsibility of every
worker now to bring forth the
greatest results, whether on the
farm, in the mine, in the factory.
in the bank, in the pulpit, in the
teachers room, or at the editorial
desk.
Every ounce of increased out
hNE 70 70
wealth and will help the world
TO carry and eventually pay it's
Indebtedness. 1t will help to feed
and clothe the world and will
lessen the cry of hunger which
has fed the fires of Bolshevism
in Europe.
The soil. the mine, the factory,
the brain, are but plants for the
production of things which will
add to the worlds wealth and
help to fill up the worlds vIc-
uums.
The work must be done by
every man with all his neart."
No other kind of effort is worthy
to be called work.
The man who plows, the man
who breaches, the man who mines
the coal or the ore, the man who
runs the machine or he who digs
the ditch, if he would do his duty
to a suffering world, must do it
with all his heart. and feel that
every pulse-beat which he puts
into the work helps to enrich all
humanity in its broadest sense.
Any man who halts in his work,
4, IL ru-Il los. . tn
efficient and only partially pro-
ductive where he should be eff
cient and largely productive, is
n Stacker in the worlds great
battle against proverty and mis-
cry.
To the chosen people of old.
God said: Thou shalt remem-
Der that wealth. individual and
National, and for the world, can
be created only by work.
Talk as we may about profiteeI
ng and the evils of. big busines
there remains the fact that tt
United States is feeding and clotl
ng Europe and that we are sendir
abroad more than we are keepir
at home. But instead of workir
more hours and harder we have C,
lown the working day and men gel
orally are less productive per hol
than they used to be.
Until we produce more, prices w
continue to be high. All the maj
made laws in the world cann
override the old unalterable law
supply and demand. If we ca
produce more we shall have NOR,
that applies not only to goods bl
to earnings. If we cut down pr,
duction we may boost the wage p,
hour all we have a mind to, but l
matter how much the wage it WI
not buy as much as the lower wai
when men produced more.
There is just one answer to Il
whole situation and it lies in il
creased production. There will
little trouble with either prices
wages if every man turns in ar
produces as much as he is abl
Every dollar of wealth in the wor
was created by men. Everythir
we wear, eat or use was made,
at least made ready for the markt
by men. If men do not produce muC
it is obvious that what they do pr
duce will be high in price and the
will not be enough to go aroun
democracy, socialism, bolshevism
any other ism will not alter tn
condition. If we want better tim
we must work for them.
Some consideration is now bel
given plans for new big power da