The Carlisle independent., 1919-10-23
THE NATIONAL CAPITAL
(By J. E. Jones
High Ideals and Low Morale

While the main body of the Sen ate has been trying to adjust the country and itself, to new human ideals along the lines of constitu- tlonal government for the world and having a mighty hard time of It, a lesser group of Senators has been hobnobing with the bourgeo- isie about Pittsburg in an attempt to determine the true causes of the steel strike. in order to make d report thereon to the august Sen ate.
 There are 531 members of the two houses of Congress. and every mothers son of them has some kind of an idea as to how the new human ideals should be dovetailed into the cog wheels of life.
 There are likewise the leaders of capital and labor, and the rep resentatives of the public, scram- bled in Industrial Conference at Washington and even though they are pretty well removed from the atmosphere of Pittsburg, they have at least fifty-seyen varieties of versions about the industrial unrest, and the industria l and capitalistic chiefs are like the pol iticians, since they are Architects All with blueprints and drawings that show conclusively just how the edifice for new humanity is to be constructed. Unfortunately. however, the ensembled proposals of these most illustrious thinkers resemble a conglomerate intellec- tual chaosthat would be the envy of that miraculous mixer known as General Jazz.
 Why doesn someone analyze the aseven Ages of Man again Can we afford to forget the obed- ient infant that is mewling and obeying the nurse, the whining school boy recognizing the author ity Of the teacher, the lover suppli- eating at the feet of Annabel or Hortense. the soldier, marking at tention and doing kitchen police al the command of his officers. the justice, obeying the authori- ties and following their decrees, the aged man, in the autumn-time of life enjoying the slippered pan taloons that he wears while years blend his existence into the second childishnesS and mere oblivion, during which period sons, daugh- ters and grandchildren boss the old man about? Always, it seems man received and obeyed orders. But now, in the whole big affair managed by General Jazz we have worlds of wisdom concerning new human ideals, and the rights of man-the lahoring man in partic ular whose ancestors have been bossed since the days of Adam, who expects to be bossed himself everywhere, except when he comes to work in the establish ment controlled by capital. Cap tai shall not hold his destiny in charge. he deciares-and the new isms of new ideals teach that cap ital Is nothing more than an incn- bus. therefore it should be re- moved from the vision of these new ideals.
 In fact the bright minds of Con- gress. the industrial conference, and the scattered dcmes of wise men and women throughout America are trying to put patch es on the leaky tubes and the punetured tires of the whole pop ulation. and since labor and capi- tai are the biggest factors in the compilation. all the specialists have turned their attention Ill that particular direction
 As q simple matter of fact whole new tires are needed tor industrial omniJuses just as m wartime. For America can attain i's ideals ara ptot,''- in, rights ns hi aanity a;. ri.:n-, r sr.ly lanor dI,o capital can bc hso s..' back to the normal trend of their ways fully determined that the battles