The labor journal. [volume] (Everett, Wash.) 1909-1976, 1922-02-17
By Glenn Frank Editor the Century
Magazine


''The New Disorder" mentioned in
my subject refers to the political,
social and industrial discomfort that
today belts the globe and to the I'M
settlement and disorder that natu-
rally attends such unrest. But, the
sense in which am using the phrase,
the new order, may not be so appar-
ent at first glance, for l am using
the word "order" in the sense of that
law and order of which we frequently
hear so much from a certain type of
reactionary politician who thinks that
by raising a great hue and cry about
law and order, he can send out
smoke-screen that can effectively
conceal his corrupt political inten-
tons.
In fact, | am not using the word
order" in the sense Of peace and
quiet at all. Of course, we have
peace and quiet in the village grave
yard The only trouble is that every
body in it is dead Now, we want
peace and quiet in this country. We
want this country to keep its social
and industrial equilibrium and if we
can prevent it, we will not permit
EIIdLlCs lIIGS pOiSlplG ~ pcs VI IduA-
calism to throw this country off its
balance and disturb its equilibrium.
But, the equilibrium we want is
not the equilibrium of a boulder that
has been sitting in the same place
for ten centuries without a culver.
The equilibrium we want is the equI-
lbrium Of a moving wheel that can
keep its equilibrium only as long as
it keeps rotating.
| want to discuss a new order in
the sense of some new ordering, some
new adjustment, some new cOrrela-
ton of the political, INDUSTRIAL and
social forces of our democracy to the
end that radicalism and revolution
may be defeated, but defeated not
primarily by swinging a big stick at
the results of radicausm but by re-
moving the incentive to radicalism..
A Re Discovered Christianity
There was a time when the schol-
airs and pioneer minds of the church
began to dig around the roots of
primitive Christianity when a great
many people We're disturbed and said:
"This is going to give US a reduced
Christianity
1t has now dawned upon us that
the scholars and social pioneers who
have been digging around the roots
Of primitive Christianity the past %
years, have given US not a reduced
Christianity but a re-discOvered
Christianity, not the Christianity that
has to do solely with the cultivation
Of private virtues in the individual
but the Christianity that has to do
with the establishment Of moral
order in politics as well; re-dis-
covered Christianity that demands a
clean soul and a clean society; a re-
discovered Christianity that allows
no conflict of interest between the
evangelist of private interest and the
missionary of social interest; re-
discovered Christianity that looks on
moral order not as a postscript added
because of exigencies Of the indus
trial age but as an integral part Of
primitive Christianity which is re-
lated to society as well as the indi-
vidual.
If we are to achieve a new order,
instead of slumping into a new dis
order, it is imperative that IN the
future the average citizen maintain
a tolerant attitude toward opinion; a
democratic attitude towards wealth
and an aristocratic attitude, toward
work.
Do not Jump to a conclusion until
/ have defined what | have in mind
when / speak of tolerance, democracy
and aristocracy in these three con-
nections.