The Arizona copper camp., 1919-09-20

troubles of capital and labor, accord
ing TO Clarence w. Barron, editor Of
the Boston News Bureau and one Of
the foremost authorities on business
and finance in the United States to-
day
In the course Of a lay sermon on
Social Service" at ST. Stephens Epis-
copal church, Cohasset, recently, Mr..
Barron emphatically stated that both
higher wages and profit-sharing would
lead to nothing but failure and discon-
tent unless they represented increased
production, honest value and mutual
justice as between workmen and en-
ployers, employers and workmen.
Honesty Is Solution
Honesty and mutual service, he said.
afforded the only permanent solution
of the present industrial troubles, and.
broadly speaking, they formed the
basis of all social service, he declared.
incidentally, he touched on the
League OF Nations, saying that it was
our duty not only to love our neighbor,
but TO defend him. and that was what
the League of Nations was intended
TO bring about.
Identified for over a quarter of a
century with the financial center of
! Boston and generally regarded as the
oracle of commercialism pure and
simple, ii seemed strange to those who
knew Mr.. Barron to see him preaching
as a layman in a prominent church
pulpit
It was evident, however, that Mr.
Barron breaches as he does everything
else, in an efficient, successful and
pleasing manner When he accepted
the invitation of DR.. Barlow, the rec
tor, to be the lay preacher at the even
ing service, he was only practicing
what he preached, social service of an
unusually broad and high character
Business Is Human Service
Mr. Barron declared there was a
new age in the world and it's distin-
gushing characteristic was human
service. Business is more and more
becoming human service-mutual
service-distinguished from CONNER
cialism or the selling of goods merely
for profit" said he. "All mutual serv-
ice is education when it becomes of
the heart as we'll as the mind and pro-
notes spiritual development.
:In this new age the spiritual truth
of.human fellowship becomes the bus
mess truth. The business and the
spiritual laws existing between buyer
and seller are similar between en-
ployer and employe. It is a mutual
relationship and mutual service; but
service is not always in the same
plane. 1t is the duty Of the employer
to think, and 10 think for both parties;
to organize, and to organize for both
parties. IL the wage worker is faith
full with his hands, the wage buy
thought He must think for them and
teach them TO think Progress is mu
tual and is made by mutually in
thought
''The social service relation, the mu
tual relation, is in all things of life, in
politics and government. The man
who does not think it worth while to
vote is usually he who complains loud
est of bad government. He often does
not sec that in failure to vote, and to
vote intelligently, he harms not only
himself, but his neighbors. Citizen
ship ought to be classified between
the voting and the non-voting Those
franchised should be in different
class. Those who hold the franchise
should be fined for not exercising it.
"The laws of investment and of
speculation come under the same
Christian laws-social and mutual
service. One should not put money
into an investment that does not pro
mote public good, and the best invest
ments will be found in those that per
form the widest public service, and
that rest upon the widest human con
sumption and needs.
knowledge Of Values Necessary
mo man should assume a specula.
tive obligation where his possible fail
ure would involve other people. In
the stock market the people who make
panics and hurt business are those
who are thoughtless concerning the
obligations of mutual service. and over
buy or oversell, and then, when some
accident happens, they are forced TO
reverse their position and assist in
tumbling values about like house of
cards. Speculation is properly based
O,,1tr on social cprUicp--t hp service Of