Alma record. (Alma, Mich.) 1878-1928, 1921-06-02

Every now and then we hear bus
mess men expressing either their
hope or belief that business will soon
reach normally
Isn't il fact that when we hear
this word normally mentioned by the
hoary haired business veteran, alto
gether too many of US little dream
that the vast multiplicity of trying
experiences he has lived through in
the by-gone years are the very eX-
periences that he is living through
again. Such man is the one who
really understands what ''normalcy"
means.
This single word "normalcy," and
how to establish normally is the one
great task overshadowing all others
in every legislative hall Of every ma
ton throughout the world today. Nor
malcy in affairs, national and inter
national and in the small business af-
fairs of the individual citizen is the
sacred goal incumbent upon every one
Of US to reach.
Labor can't cop the whole country
and run it. Capital can't do this
either and it doesn't want to do it.
Labor cannot say, Here Capital, here
is this lopsided state of affairs
throughout this country. Here it is.
Take it. This is your charge. Take
it and take care of it. We can't
help. We won't compromise.
This attitude isn't going to get La
Dor anything, but will lose for Labor
whole lot, for it is setting the
brakes on industrial activities
throughout the country and making
progress impossible for anyone.
Labor works for livelihood, for
benefit, for gain, for a living. Cap
ital works for the same thing and
has an equal right to prosper and to
make a living. This is free country.
The working people have never been
deprived Of the right to vote. Here
few months ago, Labor of its own
free will throughout the country
voted for the man of its choice, Mr..
Harding. There was no intimidating
of labor to vote this way or the 9TH
er. Mr.. Harding drew forth the adj
miration of the majority and received
the vote Of the majority largely
through the fact that he was con
spicuously free from petty muck
raking intimidations to win votes.
Now then what are we laboring
men kicking about? Haven't people
in business been taking chances
against failure that people not in
business know nothing about? Have
not the Federal Tax agents been in
sisting on every cent that the govern
ment has figured out to be its due :?
Do working people know anything
about worry? No, they do not, or
mighty little anyhow. Then what are
we. working people kicking about
when it seems likely that abnormally
high wages will have to come down
to normally. | would like to find
that working man who is willing to
invest 100000 without any prospect
Of at least small margin of benefit
to him. If any person in this United
States knows laborer who would do
such a thing as that, bring him out
till we see what he looks ike. He
can't be found. Yet this very thing
which he refuses to do against him.
self, is exactly the thing he seeks to
impose on his employer by insisting
that mis- employer shall risk losing his
investment altogether without even
small margin of dividend in return
for the responsibility.
Ny fellow laborer has forgotten
the Golden Rule.
We all know that business failures
are frequent, that the men on the
payroll receive something definite,
that the business he is working for is
taking chance, yes, many chances,
and unless a business enterprise is
given considerable free swing, it is
going to make it very difficult for
that enterprise to succeed, and we
know that they often fail.
The whole discussion on this one
question of normally or moderate
pace, resolves itself into one great
fundamental law of operation; or ]
might just as well call it, Gods great
law of harmony, for that is what il
is fundamentally and substantially
The government can't handle itself
capital can't succeed, labor can't pros
per, nobody can do anything unless