The daily star-mirror. (Moscow, Idaho) 1911-1939, 1919-09-26
GOLDEN RULE IN BUSINESS.

GOLDEN RULE IN BUSINESS.
AS hard-headed a business man as
ohm D. Rockefeller, Jr., is reported
have said day or two since that
Industrial peace will never arrive I'M
III both capital and labor put into OPP
Iration the golden rule. 'Bolshevism
b not likely to spread in the United
States when the wage Garner knows
hat capital is treating him fairly, >
continued Mr.. Rockefeller. There
lore, the sanest industrial policy is
that which has constantly in mind the
Welfare of the employees as we'll as
profits, and which, when human con-
siderations demand it, subordlnates
profits to welfare"
This is the prophecy. What are the
signs of its fulfillment? dispatch
of the same day announced the trans
fer by the Eastman Kodak Company
of six million dollars worth of stock
Ito it's older employees and the setting
aside of a like amount for the new
er employees as soon as they became
eligible through length of service
not as a gift, but to be paid for on easy
terms at par value, about one-s1xth
of its real value. On the same day
the Endicott-Johnson corporation OF
New York announced that each year
. henceforth, after paying certain
fixed dividend on preferred stock, the
remainder of the profits shall be di-
vided fifty-fifty between the workers
and the owners of the stock. These
are not concessions with string tied
to them If so, they would be worse
than useless. And they are compli-
mentary to the employees as to the
employers, for discontinued, dlsloyal
workmen would never inspire such ex
preston of good will.
Surely, these may be accepted as
signs of good omen. They mark the
long, long journey travelled by society
since feudal lords forged an iron col
lar about the necks of their serfs.
Are they not rainbow promises of AM
erica's immunity, as Mr.. Rockefeller
indicates, to Bolshevism, which, full
OF hate and forgetting that two wrongs
never make a right is attempting to-
day to forge an iron collar about the
neck of capitalism? The golden rule
has not yet arrived, to be sure, in the
industrial world. But let us renlem-
her this: when it does arrive it will
be as a still, small voice. 1t will
come in no noisy, raucous convention,
but it will steal into the heart of the
employer at his desk and of the
artisan at his bench or lathe. 1t will
be more enduring for the amelioration
of humanity than any bargain or COM
pact, even though it be engraved on
steel and stored in a fireproof vault
Rocky Mountain News, Denver.
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Italy acts as if she had not had
enough of war. There is now SER
ions talk of another war in Europe
and the situation is regarded as SER
ious. The Dagoes entered the war
for one purpose nly-conquest-Snd
they were promised territory if they
joined with England and France.
They demand the territory that was
promised them. Italy is going on the
old plan that has ruled and ruined
Europe, that might makes right and
It is difficult for the Italians to rise
10 the heights of American ideals.
There is now talk of an alliance be-
.ween Germany, which is yet the most
powerful nation in Europe, with Italy, ]
he remnants of Austria, Bulgaria and
THAT can be consolidated of Russia. !.
such an alliance would mean a men
zee to the peace of the world.
"a "a ~
President Wilson was taken Ill and
breed to cancel the remainder of his
peaking tour. He has made a won
erful tour, speaking twice day for
1eeks and his collapse should cause
O surprise 1t is notable that his
hysical strength is what collapsed
nd it was not the strength of his
rguments nor the strength of inter-
It the people were taking in his adj
-esses 1t is to be hoped he re-
,versrspeedily.
At this writing the wood chopper OF
merongen is still on the wrong end
the ax.-Eyracuse Herald. II