The Raymer enterprise., 1920-02-19

area Is. after all. only a matter Of
plan, time and money, and notwith-
standing the fact that Europe is bank.
rupt today. the money must and will
come. The barbed wire will be rolled
up, the mines and shells Will be dug
from the fields, the villages will be re.
built; everything that has been de-
stroyed will be replaced. Physical re-
construction Is the least Of Europe's
problems.
The great problem Is the reconstruc-
tion Of life. The war-deyastated and
disordered the life Of the world. It
Threw everything into confusion; It
left the scheme out Of balance.
Only Road to Prosperity.
We live by work. Prosperity means
production. Poverty is underproduc-
tlon. Stripping economies Of all Its
hlgh-sounding jargon. the simple truth
that everyone knows Is that the world
has only the things It works to pro.
duce.
1t may not be amiss to state few
facts known by everyone which ex.
plain the meaning Of production: We
i've on the earth. 1t 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 well us the fertile soil, mean moth.
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
thlngs Is by working. II little work IS
done we have shortage. There isn't
enough food to go around, there aren't
enough clothes, enough coal, and as a
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
90 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 2
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 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 up.
less this prescription is taken. Fur.
ther, we must know that II we delay
taking this remedy II will be longer
time before we get well. The pre-
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
to compromise. The en-
ployer who meets labor with the
thought In his mind that he is better
to fight than labor, because
be has surplus and can eat and be
warm, while labor has been living from
hand to mouth and will starye, Is
He had better get the
idea out of his head that you can
starye men into submission. There
vas day when that was true, but
hat day has passed, never to come.
The man who depends upon his abll-
ity to turn key In the factory door
md go off on vacation, imposing
ais will on his Yorkmen, will discover
hat these men stopped certain
gent" late Of Pottsdam now Of Hol-
and, from doing this very thing to the
world. He may wake up some morn
ng to learn new definition of the
word fight"
One thing that people do not realize
s that the men who fought the worlds
light for freedom are the men who are
low complaining that they are not
getting q square deal. Who made up
he fighting men of the war, the rank
md file Of the armies that stopped the
Prusslan Push? Who were the great
of the volunteers and the
ronseripted men numbering millions
who went to the front for the allies?
The teamsters, the shophands, the mill
the factory hands. the coal
miners. These ere the same men
who are the center of the labor prob
lem.
Mr.. Employer. you are dealing with
ex-soldlers. Please don't forget It.
They fought for you. You wouldn't
have any business today If II hadn't
been for them, and when you think Of
The bond you bought, remember the