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New-York tribune., 1922-12-17
Hoover on Individuals

dium in @ social philosophy. accordi,g 40.
Hoover. The two otfirnes Of taoe,,, \.
Illustrated by socialism on he on. H.,
and artocracy on the otter soesli.~
slmes taat an human beings are us,.l
altrg m alone, faN1cy proved 5. a.
gha.t fsiiur" boz Russia as veil AZ tr 4,
own failures .n attempt. % nat onaii1.i :.
d.sty. Autoc-acy fails because t aus-..
that few human beings are endowed B, a,
Creator with ~ divine attributes. lrii,l
ualism alone e.sims shat human beings A,
b1ta so-l.d and I'll .ne .,c up Of s.s.i
ins.nc,s, impul ulscs ard ambitions. some q.
strpcti,c. some creative. The final e.lnsi
tion Of selfish instincts brought abss, osi,
by education. iays Mr Hoover, boz Ae a-,
Is not y~t cc'-e vixen tho social fyisn sr
endure founded upon a'frlism alone
Perhaps a good description Of al gog'-
ment i. contained 10 these feE Hnes n,
inherited instincts that ge carry over 3,s
thousand Of generations mut be osy,,.
hcnded in workable system.
iNf pi ,'W OF fN' "NiiN DIT fY iN'N'N ny
destructive instincts while slrezrsstiy
and cnarging those OF atr1.st.e eharaH
AID constructive impulse Tor ihas We slA
:or the future
Ile crux Of American .Hiiyidualism afi
o. American government unquestioaaaI
rests. a. Mr.. Hoover says, upon the 5rr
cipe that each individual be given a ehSne
fcr the development Of the best With Nasi
he las been endowed"
Democracy" he ssys must ssnglr'
leadership from Be-. ova mass.
Human leadership carnot u reJlsnisdsd y
selection like cIeen bees bu; y
the rise Of abli'y, character ard !risb
geiee."
BEATRICE WASHBUN
New-York tribune., 1922-12-17

INpfviDrAusN Hy Herbert Hoover. Double
das. Page 60.
w Herbert Hooyer's new book We
have at lqst an authoritative
voice on some OF the soci questions
- OF the day "lndiv.dualism" is an ct-
rlarat.on not only OF Mr. Hooyers personal
creed but Of the hall formulated. inarticul lte
creed that we Americans profcs 10 live hy.
Most ~ NJ haze dtti ac.ual or accurate
knowledge Of the principles upon which oar
iovcrnmcrt was built. by which We live and
for which We fought W.h tho ret OF tho
world So have been wand RING IN a maze Of
conjecture and theory for the Iast seven
years. Old fallacies haze been exploded. a
new word rebuilt. philosophicl and religions
that We thought as sold as the earth have
gone the way Of all thing, human carrying
with them ONE OF the finest traditions tnat
We had
Herbert Hoover in this ittle book has civ.
en- shor. and sympathetic review OF the
situation, and, like some other great con-
structive thinkers, his English style is CON
spicuous for It's breyity and distinction.
After the conflict Of the last decade" he
points out, "it is necessary for every one 70
take clear view Of the social system under
which We live and with which so much fault
has been found. The United states has a
social system OF her own made from mate
ruls brought in revolt from conditions in
Europe"
Just wherein this system differs from that
Of Europe, what it represents and what il is
aiming for is what he undertakes to show.
lndiyidua'ism is the name Mr. Hoover ap-
plies 20 our system CT democracy, a modern
indiyidualsm tempered by the great Ameri-
can principle equality OF opportunity and
entirely removed from the eighteenth cen
tury idea Of indiyidualsm following the
French Revolution. when it was a ease Of
every man for himself and the devil take the
hindmost.
we have in America too much experience
OF life 10 fool ourselves into pretending that
all men are equal in ability, in character. in
intelligence, in ambition he says. "All we
can hope TO assure to the individual through
government is liberty. justice, equality Of op-
portunity and stimulation to service"
lndiyiduslism represents the happy me.
New-York tribune., 1922-12-17

C("HE greatest pleasure in life is
that Of reading. while we are
young" so wrote he whose inecm-
parable gusto made Stevenson
rs aloud: I'VE are all mighty fine fellows,
Ut We cannot write like William Hazlitt."
lscwhere: "Ah. never again shall feel
ht enthusiastic delight with which ! gazed
; the figures and anticipated the story and
dycntures Of Major Bath and Commodore
runnion, Of Trim and my Uncle Toby, Of
ION QuiXote and Sancho. Of Laura and the
air Lucrctia. whose lips open and shut like
uds OF roses" And again: $50 passed
IS hole days. months. and ! may add years;
md I have only this 20 say now. that az my
'fc began, so could wish that it may end"
Well. there are probably those who, like
This reviewer, can say that among their
dncst days were those spent in reading Will
lam Hazlitt-when young. Reading, alas!
s not now as il was then. And we, too,
might exclaim, that as our life began, 50 We
could wish that it may end
So to one to whom the magic name William
Hazitt has power 20 evoke far of, happy
days passed like dream the news that
Life" was in preparation stirred the spirit
as il it had been the distant roll Of drums.
The first definite report OF the approaching
event came this way in the London letter Of
Simon Pure in the September "Bookman."
The biographer named was one p p. Howe,
q gentleman before quite unknown to me-
As Mr.. Pure observed the life Of Hazltt has
been undertaken before, by several people,
generally only to be abandoned. Stevenson
intended to write il; but. so we have been
told, the "Libcr Amoris" disgusted him with
The task. It seems bit curious that one
~ho Dragged as much about his traffic with
wenehes as the charming r. L. S should have
been so innieky. Though the "Liber Amoris"
is not pretty book, and should be far from
The first thing read BY one newly coming
upon Hazlitt Persons have been known to
have for years kept themselves from the
pleasures Of Hazlitt by an untoward meeting
at the outset with the "Liber Amoris" For
tunately, II is a rare book and difficult TO
come by.
New-York tribune., 1922-12-17

Mr.. PURE hinted at the mysterious
legends Of dark secrets" in Hazlitt's
lifei Possibly more inaeeuracy" he de-
clarcd, els current about Hazlitt than could
be collected about any writer OF equal stand
irg in the nineteenth century" He "im-
agined' that the forthcoming book would con-
tain great deal Of hitherto unpublished in.
formation; il was obvious" that an enor
nous amount Of research and trouble had
been given to the work. and he "envied" Mr..
Howe his task and his opportunity.
Upon the publication OF the book in Lon
acn a short time ago it received very ex-
tensive and highly distinguished press ].
c. Squire wrote at the length Of about two
newspaper columns in The London OBJ
server Augustine Brr.ll about column in
The Times" Walter De La Mare page and
half in "Ihe Westminster Gazette" "The
Spectator" gave the book something over n
rage. "The Morning Post" very solid col
nmn, and "The London Bookman" lust short
Of Two pages. The temper in general Of this
volume OF comment was most impressiyely
orlogistie. "A volume" declared "The Spec
tator." "for which no claim. however large.
can be considered absurd"
The book is now available in IN American
edition II is. 10 begin with, an uncommoniy
handsome volume in every way. The six
photogravure illustrations By which il /.
enriched are each very beautiful. And. 10
take another aspect, the reference machinery
OF the volume is peculiarly complete: as AN
instance Of the thoroughness in this matter
each page bears in an upper corner the date
Of the year with which It deals. The por-
traits Dir. Howe ASSERTS in his preface. are
with single exception "a self-portrait in
state Of preservation which units it for re.
production). complete; and the frontispicce
is from painting which has no. hitherto
been reproduced. To the sparse correspond
enee which has been hitherto known the au.
thor has succeeded in adding ei7htecn let
ters All that diligence could do has been
done. Mr. Howe has adopted the method Of
presenting his narrative as far as possible
In the words Of the various witnesses. and
he has with the most rigorous consistency
held to this procedure. The English press
gave him a great deal Of praise FOR his
efaeement Of himsex His modesty has, in
deed, been equal 70 kis diligence.
New-York tribune., 1922-12-17
New Life Of Hazlitt
By Robert Cortes Holiday

rnE lIFE or WILLIAM HAzLlrr ny T. J.
Hose Sew York Ororse ~ pofaa Company
New-York tribune., 1922-12-17

Individualism represents the happy me-
The Connecticut labor news., 1922-03-24
RAIL BOARD WILL
 PROBE CONTRACT

Chicago, March 24.-The railroad labor board has finally ordered an in vestigation of the shop contract plan used by railroads to evade the trans portation act. The first probe will be the Erie railroads action in leasing its shops to the Meadville Machinery Company of Meadville. Penn.
 The Erie was the first road to con- tract it's repair work and more than a dozen systems have have adopted this plan.
 Under the contract plan hours are heightened an dwages reduced The Meadville concern Is headed by Will liam Schlafge former mechanical engineer of the Erie
 The railroad labor board has ruled that the pay of car inspector shall be 72 cents an hour for an eight-hour day. The Meadvile company has cut rates for this important work to so cents an hour, with the work day II and 12 hours.
 Railroad shop employees declare that the violation of the transporta- tion act is so transparent that the railroad labor board should i1nmedi- ately denounce it.
The Connecticut labor news., 1922-03-24
Greenwich
 Builders To
 HoldWage
Joint Conference Board Makes Fifteenth An nual Agreement to Mutual Satisfaction.
Especial to The Labor News.) o1, AHa~oE> %l~A rr@

Especial to The Labor News.)
 Greenwich. March 24.-For the I5th consecutive year, the Greenwich building contractors and the Green wich building tradesmen have come to an amicable agreement on wage and working conditions through their joint arbitration board and this week renewed an agreement between them that will be effective until May, 1923, and by which the workers hold every thing they had before and were not asked to give way after the both sides had been carefully considered by the joint board. By agreement, however, the tradesmen took a slight decrease. Under the new agreement the scale of wages for the next year will be as follows:
 Carpenters, $8 per day; masons, So; plumbers, $8: electricians, $8; fathers, $8; common laborers, $4; and hod car riers, SC per day. These are practi- cally the same scales as in effect now and mean that Greenwich will again lead the state as a progressive build ing industrial community.
 Greenwich has for years led in the matter of settling industrial disputes. By aa agreement catered into many years ago between the contracting employers and the different building tradesmen, joint board to settle all disputeE over wages, working con ditions, capability and any other mat ter that might arise in dispute, was organized. It has functioned ever since and in but one or two remote occasions has its decisions ever been appealed. In these, under the self same agreement, a third and disinter- ested party was brought in and his decision was final. Because of this amicable working together Greenwich has been remarkably free from even the semblance of labor troubles
 The joint agreement board is a permanent organization. It was es- tablished in 1908 and is practically self-perpetuating George Chandler, vice-president of the (. F. of L. and secretary of the State Council of Car penters, IS secretary-trasurer of the board. Each side is equally repre- scented and the fact that they can agree mutually, set wages suitable to all and do it without even the. sug- gestion of dispute, is an example the rest of the state might we'll follow.
The Connecticut labor news., 1922-03-24

The stories published in the New Haven papers were to the effect that conferences held recently between the employers as represented by thc Building Exchange and the employcs as represented by their union agents had resulted in naught and that a like
 ly deadlock strike and lockout was to occur on April I, when the present agreements expired. They even went so far as to quote the secretary of the building exchange in a manner that could have been interpreted as 1T he was looking for some such troublc.
 The entire fallacy of the stories iS evident to union building trades men in the knowledge that for two years there has not been a conference as 10 an agreement on wages and hours held between the unions and the boss es. A year ago when the tradesmen wanted to renew their agreements the employers refused to meet with them or when they did meet referred to the Builders Exchange. As a result there was no agreement, no meeting and so far this year the building trades have not asked, have not had and do not expect to have any meeting with the bosses.
 The carpenters union was made the brunt of the stories with the oft-re- peated tale of SI an hour as the bone of contention. The carpenters have long ago met that issue of working and wage scales satisfactory to them selves and their bosses and there is no trouble on that score. The plumb CTS, the electricians, the rest of the building trades with the possible eX- ception of the bricklayers who have had separate understanding with the bosses, are all in the same boat The here would be also but for the fact that year ago when the drive against the building trades was on they were able to prove to the contractors that they were paying better wages on agreement in other cities and so came Tn under the state builders exchange rating.
 But as far as any trouble occurring here this spring in the building trade, if it does 1t will be up to the employ CTS. The tradesmen are satisfied to go along as they are going. Ninety per cent. are at work at wages higher than that offered by the bosses a year ago and the bosses seem to be doing business. If there is any attempt made to defect this wage then there might be troubie-but the organized building tradesmen of New Haven and vicinity will not start it.
The Connecticut labor news., 1922-03-24
GREENWICH GUSTS
 SHERRY ENG. co.
New Haven Open Shop" Building Firm Hits Snag in
 Tackling Job.
Especial to The Labor News.)


 Greenwich, March 24.-The Sperry Engineering company of New Haven which is understood here to be one of the leading "open shop" firms i'll the building trades in Connecticut, learn ed few days ago that Greenwich is one town that cannot be fooled by such propaganda. The lesson was a costly one to the Sperry company or someone else and Is not likely to be repeated i'll the near future therefore.
 The Sperry company somehow cap tured contract for a big alteration job in Greenwich and a week or so ago landed in town with it's trucks, equipment galore and got ready to go to work. But then it found that Greenwich wasn't New Haven or some other hide bound city of the state, but Greenwich, and as soon as the Sperry company tried to go to work found it couldn't In fact it couldn't start and was practically chased out of town and the contract is still i'll process of a beginning. Efforts, it is understood, are being made today to patch things up so that the Sperry company can go ahead with the job. The only way it can go ahead, according to local building tradesmen backed up by their agree ment with local contractors, is to have the Sperry company forget its anti-uniOn sentiments and be fair.
The Connecticut labor news., 1922-03-24
FEAR TEXTILE STRIKE MAY BE
 EXTENDED INTO CONNECTICUT MILLS

be made and having thus far kept it's promises.
 The strike is at a deadlock, espe- cially in Rhode Island where troops are guarding the mills and preventing picketing so far as possible to do so, and the state board of mediation and arbitration has given up all hope of bringing about a settlement. The strike is now on its ninth week there and although the workers have time after time agreed to meet the board and the mill operators the operators have refused to join in and the dead lock persists therefore. There are 2I mills, employing I5,ooo hands idle in Rhode Island because of the arbitrary action of the employers. Efforts to harass the workers and prohibit them picketing the mills have so far met with failure except i'll instances where the pickets became crowds. Then the crowds were dispersed but pickets sufficient to properly picket the plants allowed to remain under supervision of the troops.
The Connecticut labor news., 1922-03-24
Spread of Wage Cut Re sistance Into Massa- chusetts and Other New England States May Follow Here if Reduction Is M a d e Again.

Grevious fears are now being held that the big textile strike, that began several weeks ago in Rhode Island and New Hampshire mills and is now spreading through Massachusetts following announcements of cuts in wages, will eventually extend into the mills i'll Eastern Connecticut and thus completely tie up all New England textile industry. While wage cuts were put into effect in the eastern Connecticut mills some weeks ago and accepted by the workers, they were recently added to by another re- duction resulting in the strike. While as yet intimations have not been made that further wage cuts will be made in Connecticut, 1t is almost cer- tain that if such an attempt is made, the Connecticut textile workers will join the strike and tie up the entire industry in New England. Only the American Woolen Company mills i'll the New England States are not af- fected more or less by the strikes, that company having announced some months ago that no wage cuts would
The Connecticut labor news., 1922-03-24
FRED ORR OUT FOR
 COUNTY SHERIFF
New Haven G. O. P. Club Head
 Getting Ready to Enter Fray.

President Fred w. Orr of the New Haven Young Mems Republican Club is going to resign again and this time it appears as if Fred is going to make 1t take" The resignation is said to be scheduled for April Is and from the amount of publicity other officers of the club have been giving it it appears that it must be so.
 What may be the republican clubs loss may be New Haven county's gain for it is being said about the street corners that the genial MT. Orr is to get busy in the running for the re- publican nomination for county sheriff this fall. There isn't a question of a doubt about MT Orr's ability, popu- larity or deservingness of the office He has done more to put the repub lican club on it's. feet than any other leader in the city and has been per sistently ignored and hampered by the republican powers that be.
 These same powers that be are not such powers now as they were once and if Mir Orr is out for the no1nina- ton for sheriff he will bring behind him a support that will give those re- puted leaders another rocking. Mich ael McGovern, G. O. P. leader in the old Twelfth, is also being mentioned but Mike so 'tis said, doesn't want to do any running He has run his heels off enough oyer Fair Haven way for the powers that were and is entitled so he thinks, to something where he can take it easy so far as running is concerned.
 With Col. Geddes of the county commission, just nominated for post master of Waterbury out of the sher- if race, the way is clear for New Haven man. Therefore it looks plausible about Or
The Connecticut labor news., 1922-03-24
COAL STRIKE IS
 ORDERED; SCARE
 HEADLINES START
Miners May Go Out April T, But Meanwhile Public Should
 Sit Tight.

Unless something now unforeseen intervenes between now and April I, COG, 900 coal miners in this country will go on strike to compel the coal mine operators to give them d de- cent wage, or at least to give them work enough each month that will provide d decent wage under the pres ent scale to provide for their families. l the strike comes and it's extremely likely 1t will now Connecticut will be we'll cared for in the matter of coal while it lasts, but there IS some high and lofty lying being done by the re- tailers as to what their supply is on hand and what the price may be.
 For instance on the second page of the New Haven Times-Leader on Tuesday night in the first column appeared an article saying that New Haven coal dealers had enough coal on hand to tide the city over for a lengthy period. A few columns re- moved was another story from other course) in which the high sign of urged yb get in their supply now when the getting might be good. The Times-Leader was not the only offender in that way, all the daily press for some days has been doing the same. If the strike comes 1t will show up things that may bring down the price of coal and with summer coming the worker can afford to wait and see what happens.
 The order to strike was sent to 5000 local miners unions and dlrect- ed the miners to give the operators their fullest cooperation in the pro- lection of mine property and coun- selled against violence and violations of the law In addition to affecting all union miners i'll the United States, the order also directed approximately 6,65o union men in western Canada to join in the walk-out, but did not apply to 14ooo miners in Nova Scotia.
 Never before in the history of the coal industry has suspension or strike order called for cessation of work by all union miners i'll the United States. In the past, wage contracts in the bituminous and an- thracite fields have not expired at the same time. Cessation of the suspen- sion, in whole or part, is left to the unions policy committee, composed of more than 100 union officials, which will meet in Cleveland today to consider plans for conducting the strike.
 The unions membership, excluding that in Nova Scotia, which will not be affected by the strike, is about 500, ,ooo men. Of, these, approXimately 75,ooo are in the three anthracite dis tricts of Pennsylvania, and the re- mainder scattered over the soft coal fields. Past suspensions in the an II Go11c haua cally closed all operations, leading to the official estimate that almost 6oo,- GOO men will be called out of the mines
The Connecticut labor news., 1922-03-24
Meanwhile Shops Go On Six Day Week To Get Motive PowerOut
MILK PRODUCERS HAVE JUBILEE OVER
 STRIKE VICTORY
Upstate Dairymen Banquet to Cele- brate Higher Price Shut
 Out.

Putnam, March 24.-More than 50 farmers of \Vindham county who are members of the New England Milk Producers Association enjoyed ban quet Tuesday evening at the Putnam Inn, the affair being in the nature of celebration of the victory they helped their organization gain i'll the six-weeks' milk strike, during which time they refused to make shipments of milk to D. Whiting & Sons of Bos- ton, the only milk dealers in New England that held out against the de- mands of the farmers.
 The speaker of the evening was Richard Pattee- of Boston, managing director of the New England Milk Producers Association. He reviewed the strike and gave many interesting inside facts" that proved of immense interest to his audience. In conclu- sion he prophesied that the day IS not far distant when the farmers of New England will jointly own and CO., operatively operate factories in which products now made from milk by in dependent concerns, will be nlanu- factured and sold direct to the con- sumer He went into the details of the project, which Is backed by the N. E. M. P. A., quite extensively and his audience manifested keen interest in his outline of the undertaking.
 County Agent Frank L. Davis acted as toastmaster and among the speak CTS were John Stromberg, president of the Windham County Farmers As sociation; Albert Williams, 5. How ard Peckham and former (Windham) County Agent Benjamin Ellis.