South Bend news-times. (South Bend, Ind.) 1913-1938, 1922-07-16


II IS 10 be finish aght between the striking rail-
way employees and the employers. The striking
ployes refusing DEGREES Of the labor board and
the railroads scorning the suggestion OF that board
for arbitration. are settling down for the long fight
Of endurance.
The strikers hope that public opinion. under
stress Of reduced transportation viii force the
pIoyers to recede.
The owners OF the roads hope that they can find
enough unemployed men to fiji the places Of the
strikers and put their equipment such shape that
10 be
With the coal miners. there Is the same situation.
The miners unions refuse TO arbitrate unless all
mine owners gather at the conference. One wing
OF the employers refuses and the government gets
ready with its army or federal marshals It's in
functions federal troops to that no open
violence Is added 20 that greatest OF all violence.
which occurred when the mines were closed
what Is wrong with a nation that produces such
a condition?
II you look over the records of the draft boards.
you might find plausible reason TO believe that
are a nation Of children. rather ignorant children
at that.
Those RECORDS showed that 80 per cent of the
white men Of draft age could read write their
own letters showed that Al per OF
that mental age listed as 13-and this IN spite OF
the compulsory education IN most states.
II you should suggest that this condition Is due
TO these facts you would be wrong. For this IS
fued Of quarreling boSt with boys minds
Those who showed in these draft figures are not
leading unions or owning mines and railroads
They are shrewd leaders. these both sides
who have elected to battle to a finish and let the
public be damned.
one side sees in defeat the end Of unionsm
The other side sees constantly decreasing profits
and so the hght goes
The real trouble IS that only these leaders but
he government at washington Il thinking in terms
OF 1922 instead OF 1922. The sober truth is that
the habit OF thought and the laws OF the land are
tinctured or controlled by conditions that existed
one hundred years ago.
Every one OF our legal concepts was inherited
from the day when the Individual counted iu in
dustry. They were drafted when most men. his
own time IN his own way produced the things he
needed.
Every artisan was also a capitalist. Every cap
itallst a worker. Production came from
the unit OF the individual No one else suffered
II he quit his Job. He alone paid the renalty
idleness or arrogance.
The world has changed from that Individual
system 70 a mechanical system IN the past century.
The entire Industrial social life has been shift
ed to mechanical basis-without changing the
ideals OF justice to meet that shift in conditions.
Men are longer shoe makers, tool makers
woodchoppers. or stage drivers.
II one stage driver quit IN the old days, II one
blacksmith left his forge. wagon maker closed
his shop. there were others do the work.
Today transportation stops because the individual
has been suppIanted by hundreds OF thousands OF
men who must keep the entire system OF transpor-
tation going 81 all fails.
There IS no such thing simply shutting down
one engtne-as the old stage coach might have
stopped.
When one woodsnan left the forest It mattered
little. Today his successor who works With ma
chinery IS a half million OF who formed
into a single unit and becomes the fuel industry.
And we trying to solve the problems OF this
mechanical age with the rules the ideas. the grin
ciples formulated IN the days OF the individual.
Machinery has been a wonderful thing. 1t has
created au Injuries and comforts OF modern life.
Blu: 70 has not created a community that is
necessary 20 man Il and It.
IL IS time for all OF US from the president who
calls on an army IN desperation. to the owners who
stand by their sacred rights and the worker who
sticks 10 his ancient theory OF justice, to revamF
ideas.
We have created a machine age We must have
now code 20 escape being ground up It's wheels.