The Lake County times. [volume] (Hammond, Ind.) 1906-1933, 1919-12-04
Mhere Is The Old fride of The Producer

Saws the IlttsbuIsh Chronicle Telegraph.
a negro appned to the superintendent OF a plantation
for work
All right said the manager come u the morning
and ! viii put YOU % work and pay you what you are
worth"
10 sad. couldn't do at" replied the negro. Use
Cetjn mo dan dat now"
This is a humorous incident which leads 10 a more
serious reflection What has become of the old fashion
ed American who took pride in his work. and pride in the
TACT mat he could do a lot OF work. and give value re-
ceived2 He is still with us. no doubt. but at present IL
would seem that 70 say the least, he is not in the public
eye-not even in humorous stories
To-day It doe not seem to be a question Of giving
a dollars worth Of service for a dollar. but Of getting
as much money for as little service as possible. 4 fun
days pay for a half days work would Be a very popular
slogan just nov The man who would dare 60 travelling
over the country advocating a fun days work for q full
days pay would. ii he escaped bombing. doubtless end
up in the nearest lunatic asylum
II Is Of course natural, not only natural. but proper
and Just. for every man to get as much money as he can
for the services he performs The cost OF living is
neutrality-suspicious. and men cannot exist on
three times the wage or a few years back They are right
IN demanding a living wage, as much more than a living
vase as il Is possible TO ger.
But this. rs our friend Kipiing once said several
times - another story TO give 4 man more than ne IS
worth does not necessarily involve giving him more than
a living wage. and viceversa. 1t imposes Injustice upon
someone else and adds to the general high cost Of living
and dissatisfaction.
There are some producers of food. clothing and othr
commodities. Who take pride in that which they produce
There are sIll a great many men Who take pride in their
work and what they can accomplish There are a great
many manufacturers who take pride not only in their
goods but in their men too. and are interested in seeing
that their employees are surrounded Uy the proper con
ditions both at work and at home.
Now since there are meny manufacturers who take
pride in their prospects, some manufacturers who take
pride in their employees. ard some employees who still
take prfde in THAR work. /. mould that tho situation
IS not entirely without hope and that We may yet get
back 10 the place where a man may make a decent livins
and still give a full days work for a full days pay. and
not be ashamed 70 say so
When the present clouds Of industrial difficulty roll
by-and they VIII DO that very thing the republi-
cans again get into control ana things get normal ant
sane and understandable-why won't somebody start an
organization for getting together the warning classes q
that we can have good goods good wages. good service
and a little peaceable, good living7
. A firm has Teen robbed regularly
every two weeks for the last six years without being able
TO detect the thief, but instead of becoming used TO het
operations of the marauder and accepting it as a habit
not to be broken. they are sim trying to ind out how II
IS done.
FRENCH doctor claims having attained results in
experiments on restoration ~ youth and prolongation Of
human lie, And Of these restoration Of youth is By fal
the most desirable.
If FLYING PARsoN" Maynard can preach ike he
can fly. the country's due for a real evangelizing one OF
these days
Mr. ~CARRANzA is kept busy answering American
protests.
THE NATION should steel Itself for series . presi-
Dental booms.
Il people are beginning to see red. and
the anarchists had better look out