The gazette-times. [volume] (Heppner, Or.) 1912-1925, 1922-02-02


that it came from the pen of ], E. Ed
genon, president Of the National As
of Manufacturers is enough
to solicit your earnest consideration.
He is the head of an organization
whOSe total number of employees
runs in past figures. 1t is to be be-
iieped that his opinion is the opinion
of the average member and as such
is a piewpoint upon which the work
er can concentrate his attack or sup
support.
The industrial antagonisms that
have done so much to halt the prog
ress of civilization as well as bring
privation and suffering on untold
thousands Of innocent persons is as
a rule a situation brought about by
persons whose only direct interest
has been a selfish one.
The understanding between EN-
ployer and employe can be made as
near perfect as any relationship
known to man. In many cases it has
been made perfect. In many others
the understanding has been warped
and twisted, illwill and an unfriend-
ly spirit has been given birth to and
instead of mutual benefits from good
team work the two factions have
been forced to a contrariness OF d.
rection that has all but destroyed
both.
In the last few years this has been
a condition that has grown rather
than decreased and in tracing the
cause to its source one is convinced
that outside interference is the grim
underlying base upon which has been
piled the troubles of capital and la.
Dor and the same base in its cease
less shift and change keeps these
troubles in endless ferment ant
makes their clearing away difficult il
not impossible.
Good intention is not a guarantee
against the unhappy consequences Of
unwise action on the part OF either
individuals or nations as units. The
intelligent as we'll as the properl,
motived use of the powers witt
which men are endowed and Of the
opportunities which are made avail
able to them by a benefcent Creator
| is the only formula by which the
highest success and happiness may
be obtained A vast deal more is re
CURED Of us than simply wishing Il
do right. Every person according tt
his endowments and opportunities
has an intellectual as we'll as a mora
responsibility. This fact is made
emphatically clear in the Parable o
Talents. Through the honest ant
industrious employment of his ener
gies and abilities, the man to whom
his master had given FIVE talent
doubled his capital, and the one o
lower degree to whom two talent
were given registered also one hun
dred per cent profit on his efforts
Tc the third member Of the historica
trio was given only one talent, pre-
sumably because of his inferior men
tai endowments. Like many of hi
descendants living in the present ag
he went off and hid his talent an
finally returned empty-handed. II
not recorded what he did beyond this
But it might reasonably be inferre
that during the absence of his maste
he was delivering a course OF let
lures under the auspices Of the Pa
estine Welfare and Protective Assc
citation on "The Evils of Prohteerin
and the Rights Of the Down -Trodde
Workingman." AT any rate, the tw
efficient producers were highly CON
mended and promoted, while tn
Stacker" who was more concerne
about obtaining his rights than PEI
forming his obligations was cor
demned for his slothfulness.
But even if all human condu'
could be assayed and found to cor
tain in perfect proportionthe ell
ments of pure motive and intelligeI
direction, there would still SOM
times probably be frictions in the r.
lations Of men. Indeed, as long {
there are varying degrees of hums
capacity, a frictionless world is il
conceivable. Mems opinions and i
! terpretations of moral law are as
verse as their viewpoints, and it
from the clashing of viewpoints til
friction results. The problem Of r
$ moving friction is, therefore, Il
l problem of assimilating viewpoint
: This would not be very difficult ta'
4 if only the acceptance of abstra
e principles was involved. But It is
: the concrete application Of commo
ly accepted principles that the d
+ ference in viewpoints is always dill
S cult and sometimes impossible
: reconcile.
r The ATTRACT right Of organizati'
y in the proper manner and for legi
= mate purposes on the part Of a
Il persons is universally recognized.
) the industrial realm the abstrs
e right Of such persons either indivi
n ually or collectively to bargain wi
v,Lo,,eoeyar thev uieh ic pot deoi