Saturday news. (Watertown, S.D.) 19??-19??, 1919-05-08
EDITORIAL
IMPRESSIONS FROM ABROAD.

The other day we stumbled upon a copy Of Impression" for
February, 1918, a magazine published in Edinburgh, Scotland anu
edited by G. E. Whitehouse. 1t was so full Of meat that we became
interested in perusing its many thoughtful and helpful s"sses-
tons
For instance, in the opening editorial we find this paragraph,
following a brief review of conditions incident to the war, and
Impotence which many people are exhibiting because we have not
settled back into the old channels with one fell swoop, as 1T Were:
an a word, we are witnessing the very natural and forgiyabIe
manifestation of one of those psychological weaknesses OF '"ol"'
paatnre@aghas spell reaction4-and; ultimately. We shall find our
feet-AannHiTour heads, TOO. Week by week, something occurs to
press home the realization that slowly, but surely, conditions are
own betser and better; we ae striving, little by little, toward
$ recapture of the normal. Aud as these conditions improve, we
must be ready to meet them, to add our quota to the sum total o
renewed and redoubled effort; to use every legitimate weapon 10.
our own betterment and for the general advantage o 'e S'"1
Tnrcrful and optimistic words, those, worthy the toughtlui ch
siaeration5 of every American. citizen as well as of those to whom
the conditions as they improve, and to add our quota to 'e am
total of renewed and redoubled effort il we would take advantage
of the opportunities presented. 44#
Some one has said that Opportunity should be graspcd by the
forelock, since if we wait until its tetock comes within our reach
we are likely 30 miss it entirely 50 Americans must be up and doing,
ever on the alert to use every legitimate weapon for our own bet
terment and for the general advantage oil country.
But another article in the same number likewise attracted our
attention. Il is from the pen of Thomas Dreer and ap''&Fs 1nder
the caption of How to- Beat Bolshevism, and because America mas
SO little Of the boshevik sentiment, speaking relatively, and because
the transference of conditions to America which gave rise to the
Development O extreme radicalism in Russia and hungary and Ter
MANY MIGHT eyontuate in a serious state Ct affairs in the worlds
greatest democracy, we reproduced the entire article III yeTer-
davis edition, Inadvertently, however emitting to crcdlt 1T to I'M
presaons,, Undoubtedly those who perused it found it worth
while.
John i. Rockefeller, the third, a member Of one Of the worlds
richest families, recently sounded a similar note of warning to
American employers and men of wealth, but the old adage that a
prophet is not without honor save in his own country applies with
equal to our captains Of industry.
America will solve its problems-there isn't any question about
that-and without serious consequences. Capital and labor must co
operate, since neither can win and retain prosperity without the as
sistance of the other.
sslhe only way to beat the bolshevists-the labor aghators--is
by providing for labor something better than the bolshevists offer"
declares Mr.. Dreier in his opening paragraph. SAnd. the time To-
provide 49, IN before the bolsheyists do 1T. An old saw tells why:
IA stitch iii time saves nine, The trouble caused by the new kind
of thinking which this policy calls for is not small. To provide for
labor something better than the wild agitators can get for it is q
job for men. And, what is most important the need is great -and
Immediate
There are still q lot OF fefows who are entwning the Amef-
lean Hag about themselves as d cloak TO cover q multitude Of sins.
Some politicians are accusing the labor department Of having
been under the influence Of union labor Probably the department
thoughtstha as between politicians and union labor, it would bet
What Is standpahsmas Why anything that doesn't agree with
yur notions about how things ought 70 he run. And what isshesss
~ sheyisn2 Anything that isn't standpatisrnl
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ENanGa9e i'll anoheraW war dnring the next generations Why not rspn
aGatea MI Snternal@S debit ~ that ease nobody wonldsfurnish II the
money with whichatos begin another onslaught upon humanity
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