The Mena weekly star., 1920-01-22
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 KANSAS!

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 The entire country is almost as deeply interested in what Kansas has done as Kansas itself. For in the pas sage of the bil for the court of indus trial relations, Kansas is establishing an experiment. station for the nation in the matter of industrial legislation
 If the legislation proves effective in Kansas, every state in the union will enact it. If Kansas has found a great aid to the solution of the problem of industrial strife, giving to labor and capital alike a square deal and pre- venting the wasteful, baneful methods of the strike. the country will give Kansas the chief seat at the cele bration table
 It is doubtful if a measure of such sweeping importance could have been enacted anywhere else outside of Kan sas as an emergency measure, not to mention it's passage by such an over whelming vote. At public meeting in Topeka Friday night, B. F. Harris. of Champaign. H.. declared that no state could have enacted such a measure without a governor like Henry ]. AL Athf aAN lAaN AQ bVNCfuOf VOufd nave secured the enactment of such meas ure without a people back of him like the Kansas people.
 Fortunately, Kansas had the gov ernor and the people who were willing to make the effort The industrial court bill is the sum of the effort. It provides an open door for labor: tri- bunal to see that labor gets all that it is entitled to get and gets it without the old strongarm methods of strikes and riots It pledges the good faith of the state to see that labors rights are protected and at the same time that capital Is not endangered. But above all, the Kansas industrial court bill is 8 public welfare measure. It is not properly speaking, an arbitration bill It Is not. as labor representatives call 1t. an "anti-strike'' bill. It is a bill to give the public that protection which the people cannot get outside of gov ernment activity. and every restric- ton of the measure on capital and on labor alike is merely incidental to the protection of the people.
 It Is doubtful if Kansas itself recog- nizes the possibilities of the measure that has just passed both houses of the legislature For if 1t meets tho purpose for which it is intended. 1t will point the way for national action, the importance of which has not been equaled in the domestic affairs of the country since the abolition of slavery.
 If the Kansas law is declared uncon- stitutional by the courts. or any part of 1t Is declared unconstitutional, at least the state is to be given credit for the courage of it's action in taking the step toward the solution of the pro- blem of industrial strife No othor state and no other governor has had that courage, and the very least that can be hoped from the Kansas law is more than other states and the feder- al government have, as yet, given pro- mise of doing For, at least, the Kan sas law will form a starting point, a beginning place in the settlement of the industrial relations between capi- tai. labor and the public.
 It is a glorious thing that the right governor and the right kind of coura- geous citizenship met at the right time, as il happened in Kansas The country is mindful of the happy cir. constance, as is evidenced by the manner in which the country now is tipping it's hat to the state and to Gov. ernor Allen