The Elk Mountain pilot., 1921-01-13

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to men," This has been the song of
the angels for nineteen centuries.
When can human beings join in the
song and have the music fit the
facts? Peace on earth has not ar
rived Ill will among men and toward
each other still covers the earth with
strife and yet 1.-THE dreams which ma
tions dream come true"
Nineteen hundred years is but an
afternoon in the scheme of things. If
weariness with the old order may be
thought of as a pathway leading to
the new, then it is no longer a
Straight and narrow way" The
way towards better things is becom-
ing broad and more and more are
"The many who walk therein"
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Santa Claus attempted to send
Russian trade to the United States.
The British Empire, in compliance
with its conception of the Freedom
of the SEAS" proclaimed its usual
blockade, and the administration at
Washington, seeking sincerely to
serve the public good, seems to have
felt that it is better that American
shops should shut down than be made
busy producing products for ex-
change with Russia. Suffering in
Russia; idleness and distress in
America, and still the song of peace
on earth, good will to men,
1t is stated that President Wilson
has just refused to accept S150,00O
for the contribution of a single ar
ticle for publication, and that toe
when he was free to select his own
subject and determine the length of
his own production. He is reported
to have said that no literary produc-
tion could be produced that would be
worth $150,000. Surely the Sermon
on the Mount, the Ten Command
ments, the Declaration of Indepen-
dence. any one of the great master
pieces of Shakespeare, Gothic, and
numbers of others, have been infinite
ly more to mankind than anything
that could be measured with the
yard stick of one hundred and fifty
thousand dollars.
Wilson should have accepted the
offer and furnished revised edition
of his Fourteen Points. Surely the
Fourteen Points were worth more
than one hundred and fifty thousand
dollars to mankind in the fastening
of Armistice Day, in the ending of
hostilities, in the saving of life, and
they were worth infinitely more than
that to those international monopo-
lists who used these points to secure
a cessation of hostilities and then
compelled their betrayal when the
guns were silenced.
1t would be worth the hundred and
fifty thousand to the people of this
country to get the point of view of
the man who had share in the
drafting of the Fourteen Points and
also in the making of the Treaty of
Paris.
When the terms under which labor
is employed are unsatisfactory to the
workers, they sometimes withdraw
and when they do, they are denounced
as strikers. Always when conditions
are not satisfactory to the employers
they withdraw the opportunities for
employment, they too go on strike,
but this is never called the strike of
employers 1t is called the result of
hard times. 1t is known to be the
cause of hard times for productive
workers.
Whatever one may think about the
strike of the workers, it must be
agreed that when the private owners
of the great monopolized industries
voluntarily close them down, go on
strike and refuse to serve the COM
mon good, that the innocent and
suffering public" ought to have some
thing to say about it.
If the privately owned monopolies
will not "play the game" will not or
cannot keep their shops going, then
either publicly owned enterprises
must undertake the task of provid-
ing employment in producing the
means of living, or living becomes
impossible.
There are many reasons for believ-
ing that the productive workers will