The Wrangell sentinel., 1920-04-08
Shall Chaos or Reconstruction in Europe Follow the Great
 World War?
GREAT NEED IS PRODUCTION
Men Must Be Given lnducement to Work and Guaranteed Fair Deal. ing in the Distribution of
 the Result.
Article VI.
By FRANK coMERFoRD.

The world lives by two kinds of work, the work on the soil and the la- Dor spent in making things. In this way we get the things we eat and wear. We have eaten up our surplus. The worlds reserve is gone. We are literally living from hand to mouth. To overcome the food shortage we must put every inch of available ground into production. Only by doing this can we live and gradually get back the sur plus which stood as protection against crop failures.
 Production is not automatic, it is the work of man. There is not anything complex about 1t. You cant use magic. To grow things men must blow and gather. The will to work is our greatest need. The land is available. God furnishes the sunshine and the rain. To get the blows, trac- tors and farm tools we must look to the industrial arm of life. Here again Is the call for men. We are short of man power Men were killed and NilpPitd liC wal. lhC llth " hb survived the war must help do the work that would have been done by those who did not come back. In their present frame of mind they do not will to work, at least under the old conditions obtaining before the war. It is necessary to furnish them with an inducement to work. There was little inducement for men to work before the war. The discontented are not kicking at work. Their objection goes to the unfairness shown in dis tributing the result. It isn't any se cret. They are shouting it from the housetops of Europe, they demand larger share of the things they pro- duce, or they refuse to work. There is a good deal of human nature in it. too. It is only human nature to think of self. There isn't anything unnatural in the workingman looking for reward. Willingness to work is largely based on the thought of working for oneself.
 Five things are necessary to start and keep production going. In other words, to get the clothes, shoes, stockings, coal and comforts of life, to give the farmer the tools he needs for agricultural production, so that We may eat; to provide the transportation necessary to collection and distribu- tion, to bring the city to the country and the country to the market we must do five essential things.
 Productions First Need.
 First, we must have plants, and F use the word in the most general sense. These plants must be equipped with machinery and tools, they must be ready for work.
 Second, a plant is useless and stands idle unless we provide raw ma terial, the tbing furnished by nature that man and machine work into the finished product.
 Third, we must have coal. Coal runs the machine and keeps warm the home of the man who runs the machine. The helplessness of the world without coal is brought home to me while l am writ ing these articles. The miners have left the pit. The government, through the courts, has tried to force them back. The effort is a failure. The streets are dark at night. The houses are cold. Business is crying out against necessary restrictions imposed because of the coal shortage. I realize as I never. have before how dependent We are on the men who pick and dig the coal. All of the intelligence and culture, the courts, the gold, are but symbols of power. When the coal miners folded their hands and set their teeth things stopped.
 Fourth. transportation is necessary to the gathering, collecting and deliy- ering of raw material and the distribu- tion of the finished product.
 Fifth, and last. but first in impnr- tance, is man power. The purpose of production is man. He is master of 1t at every stage, in every department. Without him production is impossible. The business men who proceed on the theory that men could not live without
  first and greater truth that there would be no business without the workers. Man cuts, digs, gathers and hauls the raw material. He hews the wood. builds the plant. He mines the ore. he makes the tools, the machinery. He oils it, sets 1t in motion. He runs it. He makes the furnace and the boiler. He digs and shovels the coal which makes the power. He defies the heat of the furnace. He builds the locomo- tive and pulls its throttle. He makes the freight car and stands in the. sleet in the dangerous railroad yard with the signal of safety.
 Railroads All Worn Out.
 Transportation in Europe is partly paralyzed. During the war railroad tracks and roadbeds were allowed tC deteriorate. It could not be helped but the fact that it was unavoidable doesn't alter the situation. Roadbed