The Carlisle independent., 1919-10-02
Longs Quality Store
 Carlisle, Arkansas

Carlisle, ArkanSaS are to say the least, not discouraging to those educated geaiuses outside the ag- itators ranks whose inflamatory modes of speech suggests the thought that they could perform patriotic duty to their country by holding their tongues
 Socialism appears to be digging it's own grave as a distinctive doctrine, and seeks to hide its identity while it's plans are being sponsored, officially, and unof- fieially, by the very men who protest trat they have it.
 The Eggs in the Basket
 1t is said of the late Andrew Carnegie that he put all of his eggs in one bas- ket and watched the basket" Hence he profits; hence the, libraries and hero- medals. In hese days when the railroad men who have a plum tree to shake, would retire capital, and tell it to go way back and sit down, they should be forewarned that they need not look in the bureaus and pigeon holes of their proposed silent minority director, the Government, for any Carnegies to pilot their fortunes. There are lot of things said about Mr. Carnegie, and they are worth bringing together We have | I. l. have been worth vastly more to the public than to himself; and his great success in legitimate business has satis- fled the wants of the population and tended to the promotion of the general welfare.
 When A1r. Carnegie was in Washing ton several years ago, testifying before the committee investigating the money trust the question was raised as to whethed he had charged too much for steel, or paid paid too little for wages to his employees. As to the first argu- ment, it is pertinent that he was great price cutter in the business, Mr. Carnegie carried into execution mass production, and like Henry Ford, of this late period, he made his money by lowering prices and increasing the volume of production.
 What these two men did, the Ameri- can workmen might do for their fellow eountrymen. for if the two captains in industry lowered prices with in- creased production, why can't a nation do it?
 AIr Carnegie's critics who take the fact that he made a great fortune as prima facie evidence that re charges too much for steel might switch their assaults Mr Ford and say that he charged too much for his automobile. For both have been champions among prie cutters And both prospered through mass production.
 ''Labor As Commodity"
 The United States Government main- tains the Department of Labor, with an organization that gets into every nook  and corner of the country. In addition twenty-five of the States have their own labor bureaus. That is part of the official labor organization in the nation. The Monthly Labor Review is printed by the Department of Labor at Wash l ington, and in its attempt to get into every phase of industrial situa- ton it takes up every angle of the question. "The Guild idea continues to make headway in theory and practice alike in Great Britain,' says the Re view. which reeounts the efforts of the l railroad men of England to bring about 1 immediate national ownership of the industry, and the establishment of a system of joint conrol by the trade unions of the state, a la Plumb plan. l The official Review comments concern | ing these activities, particularly with reference to the guild idea: Their ini- tial dogma is one which MT. Gompers l and others have made familiar through with adifferent meaning) in the United 1 States. It is that the labor of human 1 being is not commodity or article of commerce, and that the present wage system, in treating labor as commodl- i ty. ia guilty of a violation of human