New Mexico state record. (Santa Fe, N.M.) 1914-19??, 1920-01-23
claim on our hearts and heads the
time to prove II is now.

claim on our hearts and heads the
time to prove it is now.
Our Comparative Plenty.
In our house things are well. We
have been saved the devastation of
a Our acres are ample, our yield
has been plentiful. We have an alum
dance Of material. Our man power
has only been lightly touched by the
war. 1t Is true that we gave nearly
seventy thousand lives that the Prus-
slams might not pass: that autocracy
might not shackle the world. 1t was
our best blood, Europe gave for four
years, and she gave of her youth I'M
i'll her man power was almost eI-
hausted.
We cannot sacrifice Europe with
out being sacrificed. If Europe falls
America will totter. The storm of I'M
rest that rocks Europe to ruin will
shake America. We must work and
gire-lOan, IL you please.
The heart of labor is warm. It's
sympathy is born of suffering. The
gospel OF the brotherhood of man is
the message that labor has always
taught. ] am sure that If | could pic
ture the poverty of the children and
women and men of Europe-if could
only make people see what | ave seen
in Europe, our differences would seem
trivial by comparison with their sur
ferings. Men would will 10 work and
find joy in the working. What greater
compensation can come to conscience
than working to feed The hungry, TO
clothe the naked, to comfort the lowly?
If the heart of capital is stone and
cannot feel the message which comes
over the seas. let labor show thai IT'S
heart is humane and that it will suffer
injustice. if need he. a little longer 10
save fiesh and blood, brother and sis
ter workers, on the other side OF the
ocean. It's n crime against God and
man TO stop production AT this mo
ment-and extravaganza n this hour
is a greater immortality than proStltu-
ton.
did not stop with the gathering OF
figures, because | knew that while
figures are important they frequently
fail TO tell the full truth. Ohicial re-
ports and statistics, granting that they
are accurate, are at best only photo
graphic. The photograph records with
mathematical exactness the exterior OF
things. Ii seldom gets to the heart.
The photograph is the still picture
the picture Of The motionless fact. I'M
pressions are more like oil paintings.
They possess the human touch. T',ey
reach the heart within. Back Of the
dauhs OF paint III the canvas are the
throbs OF a heart. The Aim is only SEN
sitized. Mans brain is sensitive. The
photograph r%eproduces the outline the
painting. the substance.
Plain Record Of Facts.
In reporting 10 you the things I saw
and heard, want to give You photo
graphs-the figures and facts as
learned them, and the impressions
gathered from the speech and life
of Europe. have tried to keep my
WIS INV llohl ~ JUN ~ ''"' -
lenses would be unbiased.
In the June OF 1914 Europe had n
place In the sunlight of peace. The
fields were filed with peasants. bend
ing their backs to toll. Villagers were
happy In the COMMON routine OF their
simple lives. Factories. mills, mines
and shops were filled with men.
Wheels hummed. smoke streamed from
Industry was singing. In
the cities traffic roared, trains ratified.
II was the story OF a busy. working
world.
Problems there were. OF course. the
problems normal To the growth and
OF the world. There was
unrest. too. hut children scam
pered 10 school, patient women sang
grooming n To their babies, Men
carrying dinner buckets whistled on
their way 10 work. There were shad-
ows-the unlighted side Of the worlds
street.-the Sums and the tenementS;
bur mel and women were planning
and fighting the black ugliness. and
everyone had faith in the tomorrow.
The world was making headway-it
was growing better: its conscience was
awakened. We were becoming our
brothers keeper. II was a normal, !
good old world. II was good
TO be alive.
Then came the day. the day iha
viii never be forgo,ten-the day that
the world: the day Of four
at the end Of which civilization
was almost h~unchbacked.
1920. western Newspaper Union,
Repiant Your Lost Teeth.