Evening public ledger. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1914-1942, 1919-11-27

is no one at hand to set it right.
The optimists. however, will remem-
Der Brownng's poem, in which lust and
murder were running riot within doors,
while young girl went up and down
the street singing
Gods in his heaven.
ANS right with the world.
Things might be much worse than
they now are The prospect was much
darker in America on Thanksgiving Day
in 1864. During the whole wintc" Of
Valley Forge our forefathers passed
through a period of discouragement in
comparison with which the evils which
apparently threaten US are trivial.
When Governor Bradford issued his first
Thanksgiving proclamation, after the
harvest of 1921. the hazards that still
confronted the brave pioneers were such
as would have made the eaSe-Dving
pessimists of the present quail before
them and plan to take the next snip back
to the old country.
The war has left many things in So
luton, but it has not produced condi-
tions which at all resemble those that
Europe by Attila. nor has civilization
been turned back for centuries, as hap
pened when the barbarians from the
North overrau Rome and produced what
is known as the Dark Ages.
Civilization has triumDhed. 1t has been
tried bv five. The world was tested that
it might be known whether there was
loyalty enough to right and justice to
beat down selfish greed when it sought
TO force its way upon the nations. And
it stood the test.
This fact stands out TODAY as the great
achievement of the war. 1t should not
be forgotten as one contempIates the
difficulties encouraged in Strengthening
out the tangle in which the war on
meshed the nations.
In twenty-five or fifty years the issue
of Fiume. the efforts of Russia to find
herself after centuries of despotism, the
struggles of the little nations to get on
their feet. the debates over the wisdom
or unwsdom of a league of nations, will |
be remembered only by the historian.
They are merely the dust stirred up |
by the wheels of the chariot of prog !
ress. binding to those by the roadside, |
but disappearing as the chariot moves on. !
What is happening in our own country /
need discourage no one. On the sur
face. there is discomfort, talk of revo-
luton. peaceful or otherwise, and there .
are those who would have us believe
that the conflict between labor and cap
ital was never before so fierce
But while the winds Of agitation lash
the waters into foam the deeps are
calm.
1t is not in talk that we discover the
mind Of the people, but in action.
The other day they had an election in !
Massachusetts, where extreme radical
ism was put to the test. The voters of !
the state, two-thirds of whom arc for
eign-born or sprung from parents born |
abroad, repudiated the kind of radical
ism for which one candidate stood. and |
elected by the largest majority in a
generation the candidate who insisted |
that this is country Of law, that those
laws are TO be executed by regularly |
chosen representatives of the people, !
and that the peace officers owe their
allegiance to the people, who are the
state, and not to any private organiza-
tion of their own making.
The attempt to bolshevize the labor
unions of which much has been said, |
will fail as surely as the effort to boil |
shevize Massachusetts The expulsion !
of the "borers from within" has already |
begun, and it will continue until or
ganized labor has purged itself and re- !
moved all cause for suspicion of its |
genuine Americanism.
And aapital is seeking more zealously !
than ever before to come to an under |
standing of the point of view of labor. |
1t was announced only yesterday that |
ten corporations, with a capital of bill !
lions, are working out a plan of CO.
operation with the employees which will |
give the men a larger share in the man
agement of the business and more
generous share in its profits. En-
ployers in all parts of the country are
studying the problem with a sincere |
desire to put the workers and the wage
payers in human relations that they |
may work together for a common end.
These things that are happening are
much more significant than all the de- |
claiming in the proclamations and on
soap boxes which has been deafening the
ears to the quiet processes of evolution.
"All's right with the world" as Pippa
sang, in spite of the fact that it has
not yet reached its goal; just as all is
right with a twelve-year- boy who
has not yet reached mans estate. We