The Birmingham age-herald., 1919-10-05
''The Alabama
 Home"

Millions of gallant young men have fought for the New World Hundreds of thousands died to establishit. If we fail to honor the promise given them we dishonor ourselves.
 What does the New World mean? What was the Old World like? It was a world where toll for myriads of honest workers, men and women, purchased nothing better than squaor, penury, anxiety, wretchedness; a world scared by slums, disgraced by sweating; where employment, through the vicSsitudes Of>industry brought de- spair to mutitudes of humble homes world where, side by side with want there was waste of the inexhaustible riches of the earth, partly through ignorance and want of forethought part ly through entrenched selfishness.
 'If we renew the lease of that world we shall betray the heroic dead. We shall be guilty of the basest perfidy that ever blackened peoples fame. Nay, we shall store up retribution for our selves and our children. It should be the sublime duty of all without thought of parts- anship, to help in the building up of the new world, where labor shall have it's just reward and indolence alone shall suffer want'
 What is this "New World" the Premier of Eng land talks about and how are we to establish it? It is the philosophers stone in both business and industry. It can only be the cooperative profit sharing plan by which labor in addition to the usual pay, shares with capital in the profits of bus mess and industry, minimum wage being guar Il.
 Is there not enough intelligence in the world to do away with so much poverty and misery and agitation and to nstill hope and satisfaction and contentment in the hearts of all who toll?
 You hear discussed the six-hour, the eight-hour or the ten-hour day. A thousand years ago Alfred the Great decreed that eight hours should be for work, eight hours for sleep and eight hours for rest and recreation
 Has there been found a wiser plan? There is not in life such thing perfect equality, except before the law for nature in her ruthless moods gives all to and nothing to another, so the in- telllgence of the world is bound to work out the plan whereby all who give their lives to honest toll shall be protected in such way that life seems very gift and not an eternal drudge
 The Pilgrim father sought these shores in quest of greater freedom and great was his suffering and sacrifice to obtain and build what we have today We stand for an absolute industrial free dom; the toller, whether in store or mine or mill to work with the same freedom that the eagle has when he flies toward the sun.
 We stand for the highest pay and shortest hours that industry will bear and we hope for bet ter days when dissatisfaction and unrest will be but a remembrance and nightmare of the past
 Scientific writers tell us that man in remote
 
 of the tiger, the hyena and the ape, and that as time passed on the evil traits disappeared and even now continue to disappear, and that at some age in the future he will, in goodness and intel hgence, become almost divine
 We hope for better days without having to wait for so very long time. There is one universal trait of evil in the human heart that it is in our power to lessen now: It is greed and selfishness. Let us begin the New World that Premier Lloyd George hopes for by each of us using our little might of power in trying to banish these two ills from the human race. Let us try to so improve the condition of society that poverty will no longer dare to raise her wan and hideous face Let us so change living conditions that each family will be enabled to own its own home and have enough to educate the children and accumulate enough at least to provide for sickness and old age. The paying of high wages and creating favorable liv- ing conditions, however, is not sufficient in many instances to bring about the result so much to be desired. Those who earn and know not the last and yet the most important thing of all must be taught Ito learn to systematically or else all efforts for betterment shall be in vain
 It is conditions and not theories" that we deal with, so let each of VOW to do our part and all join hands to carry the light little further on. so that this New World that Premier Lloyd George