The Bridgeport times and evening farmer., 1919-04-12
The Best Cure for Bolshevism, the Road to Prosperity, Is Told In
 This Article

But before wages come Work. Without Work, impossible.
 Any normal will that, considering his own moral mental and physical welfare, Work comes before wages in every way That is, on Q choice between Work without wages and wages with Work mans total welfare would be best served by choosing the first
 Work is the first rule in moral, mental and ctal sanitation The lack of it in Europe is directly responsible for the social disintegration there.
 So that there need be no suspicion of the state ceive state of society where those who had the skill strength would Work voluntarily for those who had for the sake of the service.
 And such a conception would not be difficult, for that is what most of us are doing all the time anyway. A man receives wages for what he does the shop. But how much does he receive for what he does for his family? Nothing all. Nobody pays him for rearing and educating his boys girls. Nobody pays him for keeping his home neat and attractive Nobody pays him for turning his mind public questions and giving his judgment through the ballot Nobody pays him for support ing church and school and other beneficial works Nobody pays him for the most important all-beng good citizen.
 We sell certain amount of time and strength at the shop in order that may give the rest of time and strength to the service of others with
 spirit such that, broadcast through out Europe, would bring peace. more speedily than the ablest Conference could do it-peace and sanity and wise reorganization of life.
 Well" says someone, If it is simple that why they O simple as that but human nature is not.
 European industrial leaders would probably say, 'But if we start what are we going to start what assurances what guarantees, what prospects
 
 Don't you see where the hindrance is?-in the relics of the old greedy order which the did entirely burn up.
 How foolish this hesitancy is How utterly yet how humanly foolish!
 Europe went to without any guaranty, a mad rulers word. Started the world fire put life, national honor, commercial standing, preStige-put everything threw that basket over the rearing steed of war and trusted to luck!
 Yet, having that; there is hardly a man over there who will take the same chance on the only investment that has never yet failed to win Adventure of Work.
 Doesn't it strike you pathetic, that a people will wager everything on destructive war and hold back from the slightest advance construc- tive Work?
 millions upon millions money faith in the very element that produced those mil Ions the element that will produce the mil lions and billions of the future the element of Work.
 Idle money Why? Because it causes idle men-idle among those money; idle men among those who have money a all.
 brings back to where began: anything that stops flinders Work evil And most of these hindrances preventable.
 The time ts coming-in the moral sense, it is al ready here-vvhen ma be he 0 no rights in money or property e operating the general benefit.
 During times forbidden hoard food material that necessary the nation the emergency. The first step a storation of peoples abroad ought be legal prohibition of hoarding money is need ed the wheels of industry going again. You have put oil the wheels before they will turn If you stand around insisting a guar anty that you your oil back with profit before you put on wheels will turn.
 It is the way with the enterprise, which. under present conditions, s capital You have got it on the wheels and them ming. Until you that; production, o ploy- Inent, health, of the blessings of turning peace is possible.