The Bridgeport times and evening farmer., 1919-11-13

maintenance Of the social order and for the suppression of a soviet method for compelling social changes by such policy as that of MT. Lewis and his union.
 Theorists and reasoners in the clouds conceive that we are approch- ing. or are perha ps in, a new psy- chological condition of labor, to which they contribute this unrest and which they seek to analyZe. I am still old fashioned enough to believe that man is no different now than 20 or 50 years ago, and that no psychological analysis of present conditions will serve to stop the operation of the old economic laws which are con- stantly at work as the law of gravi- tation is at work, and like that, al- though resisted by temporary coun- terforces, make themselves felt and will make themselves felt as of old.
 ''I do not mean 10 say the tremen- douS upheaval of the war will not compel employers in dealing with em- ployes, by reason of the just power employees have as full a right to live and as full right to be heard as to the question of what they shall re- ceive and the terms of their employ
 
 sonable dividends on their invest ments
 That Is the change I think is here. and which I believe to be perma- ment, but that change is quite con sistent with the present social order with the right of property, and the needed stimulus to any social order which the right of property gives We are in the aftermath of the war; many things We see are directly traceable to temporary conditions the absopuon Of the nations in the war compelled. But there Is to be re- action toward previous conditions that were regarded as normal, as the war recedes in its effects and in point of time: and the changes so many people gee now will grow less and less as time goes on.
 We shall have made progress in the compelling of one class to rec ognize the rights of another, and in the general public's sympathy with that change, but 1t is not going to be radical departure from society as we have known it. A tendency to swing back to the normal will grow stronger and stronger as the violent changes wrought by the war cease to have their effect.
 
 the same old people and success
 is going to follow the exercise
 of the prudential virtues in the
 long run; and distress, defeat
 and disappointment are going to
 follow Iaziness, lack Of thrift and
 a disposition to look to someone
 else for a Livelihood"
 I'm an optimist; I believe in prog res and l believe in social progress but a real optimist Is not a man who l thinks that great changes for the bet ter can be obtained all at once. They are necessarily slow; they come step by step, and while this war has shaken up society so as to make a 1 longer step possible, 1t has not changed men, and 1t has not changed women, and 1t has not changed their mode of living, nor their tastes, nor their personal aims and ambitions, nor the social standards, nor the busi- ness standards, nor the operation of the usual stimuli upon human ma ture.
 Therefore I look to a recurrence after 8. time of a society better than l the pre-war society in that there shall be more people moved by the broth erhood of man and the Fatherhood of God, than before and with a bet l ter measure by the public of the duty of groups toward one another; of ern- ployes towards capitalists and em- , ployers, and capitalists and employers . toward employees, constantly adding as we shall to all the useful and benefcent machinery for, the adjust ment machinery for the adjustment of relations between them that public estimate of their mutual duties will, i in the long run bring about"