The labor standard., 1919-10-01

causes, and an old age insurance fund.
 Accomplishments of Modern Industry ] Now there is another side to this
 picture.
 | The other side is that modern indus
 try has accomplished wonderful things for society at large, with which noth- ing in previous history can compare. | Modern industry is not more than fifty years old, in fact twenty-five years would really be a truer state ment. Yet who can compute it's vast accomplishment?
 Especially is this true in this coun- try. For nowhere else can labor con- ditions compare at all with labor's ma terial conditions here, and at that without the highly organized, intelli- gent leadership of the unions of Great Britain.
 Japan at present works children fourteen hours aday.4s
 A Sicl-World The world is sick and needs a diap- nostician. venture to enter the field with the thousands who are now en- deavoring to diagnose the case of the worlds malady, and to proclaim it one of malnutrition.
 The world has not been functioning alright. Its rations have not been bal anced. Its diet has been wrong. Too little carbohydrates and too much pro- teln and fats among the favored mem bers.
 This IS the reason the trusts are car featured as fat men, no doubt We must now engage an international group of dietitians.
 It would be folly to expect any xys- tenn of industry to accomplish in fifty years the regeneration of a society many thousands of years old.
 Half Century Accomplishments
 Present day industry has done more in those last fifty years to benefit the human race than all social effort in previous history of all time. But the greatest accomplishment to its credit. which some find difficulty in appreci- ating, is that it has stirred in men their latent cultural wants, the pos- session of which they were but dumbly conscious of. The awakening of this consciousness arouses ambition for it's to stimulate all human efforts.
 The North American Indian did not have these qualities, so he was spared these problems.
 Shall we not, though, accept the problem of progress as part-not of the white mans burden, but as part of the white mans joyous task?
 The wonderful record of the effort of industry administering to human wants has been the fruit of >the efforts of but an infinitely small humber of E members of society who have been directors of industry's activities. bernate in times of light deamnd and
 Problem Now Too Large
 Now the problem has grown too large. Human desires are multiply ing like the pfoverbial grain of mus tard seed, andsa larger force of trained industrial administrators must be brought into being to meet the task.
 Great as is the record accomplished by the present leaders of industry, it is puny compared to what the future requires. We must reorganize our in- did our military army in the war.
 The forces for evil and destruction let loose during the war are as nothing to the forces for good and progress which have been stirred as a result of the war. The war has been the mighty effort of the world to burst the bonds which tied it down to the old order of things, which now is ban- ished.
 No longer will policy of "the pub lie be damned" be endured. No longer shall might be right. Henceforth self shall be the actuating impulse, not only of nations but of in dividuals. The new order of indus try must accord the principle of self to each of it's members.
 At last democracy, which has been on trial these 40 years, is to be pro- nounced no longer an experiment. It shall divest itself of the apron strings which have bound it, and it shall as- sert itself in logical extension to the in his industrial affairs, which Is a much more intimate rela- ;ionship than democracy in political affairs. A Radical Departure in Government
 If any one has followed me this far ne may have asked: "What has all this 70 do with, Community Councils ?"
 Just this:
 One hundred and forty years ago ,ur forefathers founded this Nation ,n the principle that the people should ,e governed by the consent of the gov ,rned. That was a radical departure n government for those days. Kings stood aghast, and the record of the times indicates that the fathers of ,ur country were worried enough at their novel undertaking. We have now practised democracy with success sufficient to induce the whole world practically to .dopt it, and there are no kings left o worry about.
 We do not any longer enjoy mo- lopoly of political democracy. So if we are going to maintain our demo- ratio leadership in the world, we shall lave to extend it's scope.
 We must democratize industry now, md that is where councils have their ,alue. They are the forums for the of the spirit of the time, which shall constitute our literature of he' present century.
 Prosperous Country Impossible
 Without Prosperous People
 We see in comparison with Rus ia and China what political education las done for our peoples prosperity. t is not what it ought to be, but it is letter than these others, and it is go-