Connecticut western news., 1919-10-23

"1IIISIly anu lS III lllS NllH lSSShI articles by Vice President Marshall and other writers.
 Canaan, Conn. Oct. i, 1919. l Contest Editor
 American Magazine
 New York
 Dear Sir:
 You ask for letters on the subject of ''work, pay, and the cost of liv- ing" I belong to the class of work men known as school teachers, and we are the poorest paid of all classes 1 except the ministers. But we have the biggest job and the greatest res possibility of all people in the world except the ministers. Therefore, since we have such a great opportun- ity for service and sacrifice in help ing others we ought not to put up any great kick. The fact is that the most fortunate people are those who have the greatest opportunity for service.
 : There never was such Gissatisfac- tion and unrest in the United States as today. Yet the workers aTe paid higher wages than ever, and in spite : of the high cost of living are enjoying more of Iha comforts and pleasures of life and are spending money more freely than ever.
 But they believe that there is still injustice. While the poor have not grown poorer, yet the rich have grown richer. Government statistics show that just before we entered the war there were 206 men in this country who received each a million dollars of income in a year, and 10 of these received a million and a half. That fact shows 9 very unjust distribution of wealth, and the workers know that in the past capi- tai has exploited labor for it's own benefit and paid them starvation wages, and that this has resulted in the accumulation of vast sums in the hands of the rich. Besides, the rich have gone about with their noses in the air. and they have been over bearin r. and this has angered the poor.
 But the workers have become in- telligent, and they have found out that by organizing together they can compel capital to divide up more cquitably, and by agitation and strikes they arc rapidly doing this very thing.
 If there is chaos in the country today, it is nothing to what there will be during the next five years, for the workers will certainly compel a scaling down of the wealth of the rich and raising of the fortunes of the poor This is only right and just.
 But there is danger ahead, for the workers believe that the government, including even the Supreme Court, is in league with the rich, and the workers are determined to have jus tice, no matter what comes. They not only have no reverence for the government, but they hate it as some thing which is causing injustice.
 Our government is in danger of being overthrown, and there is just one remedy, and that is for capital to hasten to disgorge and give the workers their just portion of wealth. If the rich do not divide willingly, they will be forced by organized labor to do so unwillingly.
 Yet this will not bring peace. Or ganized labor is unjust, insisting that the unskilled and lazy workmen shall receive as much pay as the skilled, and they are not willing to give Ca fair days work for a fair days pay" Even if there were a lcveling down and leveling up, the greater part of mankind would continue a selfish struggle to accumulate unjustly. The only thing that will bring peace will be for men to learn to love one another, 'thy neighbor as myself" and this can come only by devotion to Jesus Christ, and yielding to him, and being filed with the Holy Spirit.
 Homer F. Yale