The Wrangell sentinel., 1920-03-18

ton Of life. The war-devastated and disordered the life of the world. It threw everything into confusion; 1t left the scheme out of balance.
 Only Road to Prosperity.
 We live by work. Prosperity means production. Poverty is underproduc- tion. Stripping economics of all its high-sounding jargon. the simple truth that everyone knows is that the world has only the things 1t works to pro duce.
 It may not be amiss to state few facts known by everyone which ex- plain the meaning of production: We live on the earth. It Is land and WA ter. In the ground are minerals. The land grows crops. We need the min erals that are In the ground. We need the crops, but minerals in the ground. as we'll as the fertile soil mean noth- 1 ing until man by his work brings the mineral from the ground and makes the soil yield. We must have food, we must have clothing. we must have shel- ter, and the only way we can get these things Is by working. If little work IS done we have shortage. There isn't enough food to go around. there aren't enough clothes, enough coal, and as result the prices of all these neces- saries go way up But this is not so important as the fact that when there Is not enough to feed the world some go hungry, others must starve. When there isn't enough coal, some are cold. others freeze. When there aren't enough clothes for everyone, some must be ragged and half-naked. Ev- erything by which we live is the re- suit of work. Stop work, and poverty follows. Work. and plenty results. Work is responsible for everything that goes to make life worth living
 To understand Europe's condition today, one must stop and realize that the war stopped production. The re- suit is shortage of everything. There isn't enough food, there isn't enough raw material, there isn't enough coal. The whole story is told in the word Poverty.
 Only Cure Is In Work.
 There is a cure; the prescription can be written in single word. Every one knows that word but knowing the word and adopting the word are differ ent matters. Before we can get back to normal life this word must find root in the consciousness of the peo- pie. We must realize that the world will continue sick and grow sicker un- less this prescription Is taken. Fur ther, we must know that if we delay taking this remedy it will be longer time before we get well. The pre- scription is work. Every effort should be made to make every man will to work. Every employer must not con- tribute to unrest and provoke idle ness by refusing to negotiate with his men. and into this negotiation he should go with friendly spirit and willingness to compromise. The en- ployer who meets. labor with the thought in his mind that he is better equipped to fight than labor, because he has surplus and can eat and be warm, while labor has been living from hand to mouth and will starve. is shortsighted. He had better get the idea out of his head that you can starve men into submission. There was a day when that was true. but that day has passed, never to come. The man who depends upon his abil- ity to turn a key in the factory door and go off on vacation, imposing his will on his workmen, will discover that these men stopped certain gent" late of Pottsdam now of Hol- land, from doing this very thing to the world. He may wake up some morn- ing to learn a new definition of the word fight"
 One thing that people do not realize is that the men who fought the worlds fight for freedom are the men who are now complaining that they are not getting a square deal. Who made up the fighting men of the war; the rank and file of the armies that stopped the Prussian Push? Who were the great majority of the volunteers and the conscripted men numbering millions who went to the front for the allies? The teamsters, the shophands, the mill workers. the factory hands, the coal miners. These are the same men who are the center of the labor prOb- lem.
 Mir. Employer, you are dealing with ex-soldiers. Please don't forget 1t. They fought for you. You wouldn't have any business today if 1t hadn't been for them. and when you think of the bond you bought, remember the blood they gave.
 (Copyright 1920, Western Newspaper Union)