The Washington herald., 1921-03-29

Nv curious onooker of painter. with
BRAINS was the reply. If those who
CONCERN themselves. or are inevitably concerned,
with American social and economic troubles would
bufmix their theories and remedies with good horse
sense. healizing that the largest and most vexng
elements involved is human nature, they would get
practical results just as the painter did from his
mixture.
1t seems impossible for the EMPLOYER and en-
pioye, the investor and the worker capital and la
Dor, the social worker and the victim OF his SYM
pathy=to realize that the colonePs lady and Judie
OGrady are but sisters under their skins So is the
colonel and Judie's husband, brothers So is the
Wall Street hnancier and the man who cuts his
lawn. So is the industrial manager and the man
who swests or swears, at the wage paid him
This one simple, universal fact is the basic
consideration in all economic troubles and differ
ences. All are influenced, swayed and motivated
by IT. Once this is admitted and acted upon, the
rest becomes far simpler. 1t is the human basis
1t is what American equality means in the last
analysis.
That is why such men Abraham Lincoln and
Theodore Roosevelt stand pre-eminent in American
history. The workers themselves and the SUBJ
merged tenth fourth, whatever it is recognize
the rest which is bound up in variance of ability of
talent training experience, and fitness mental and
physical, for certain tasks, employment and voca-
tions.
Not all men could become scientists painters,
musicians, lawyers, doctors, merchants or thieves
They endowed with other quantities of character
and brains. Not all haze the same kind of brains
TO mix with their paints Not all can manage are
executives, administrators, have the quality of
leadership. Not all become skilled mechanics.
though all have some field of usefulness and value
for which they can have developed usefuiness with
increased advantages. so ra
The world is full of folks and no two of them
are alike save in basic human nature 1t is a fact
however, that everyone has some especial work in
which he can develop greater value and that upon
this modern education is more and more basing its
methods. 1t is because so many reach adult wears
only to realize that they have not had the chance to
hnd their right place, that they have ability outside
OF and beyond their vocation, that there is so much
discomfort among otherwise reasonable men.
1t is recognition by labor of the variance of
ability that it organizes and picks as leaders certain
from their ranks who have shown the quality of
leadership. They admit this difference of ability:
this difference in mental quality as we'll as quantity
this grading in character and fitness, among them
selves 1t is but a step to the same recognition as
to industrial management and the diverse Qualities
which make up what are known as capitalists
Admitting this meeting on the American level,
leaders of the two ranks, of any group certainly
reach agreement After all, no matter what
form the relation takes the undertaking is but CO.
operative and the solution is but to the propor-
ton of distribution, with all the elements which
enter in placed frankly on the table