Twin city review. [volume] (Champaign, Ill.) 19??-1929, 1925-10-23

! Comment and Criticism
Observation-Disclosures

To see the American Federation
| OF Iabor In convention at Atlantic
| City Was 70 have ones faith in organ
lied labor renewed and strengthened.
Il vas to realize that in the American
| Federation Of Labor is banded a great
body of men and women earnestly at
NOR kin furthering a program whien
| has brought incaleulable benefit 10
the workers and the nation in the past
ami will bring even more benefit to
the workers AMI the nation in the
| future.
The delegates knew their business
and We're intent on the task at hand.
They were not 10 be led astray by
side issues or by speakers with pet
theories for Iemaking the world in the
twinkling of an eye. They were on
the march toward better, happier
America for the workers-for all pro-
ducers-and could not be entieed from
their path.
The working men and women of
! this country may rest assured that
out of the 1925 convention of the hosts
! of organized labor will come the inn
petus for a bigger and stronger labor
movement The American Federation
of Labor, under its present Leadership,
Is going steadily and irresistibly for
ward This was the big fact inn
pressed by the convention on every
delegate and visitor.
Timely warning against intolerance
is being sounded by President Cool
idge, Charles Evans Hughes, DR.. Liv-
ingston Farrand and others.
The President, in his Omaha speech
to the American Legion; Mr.. Hughes,
in an address at Detroit, and DR.. Far
rand, who is president of Cornell Uni
versity, roundly condemned the spirit
that would make all conform in their
economic, religious and moral views
to standards set by the majority or
what passes for the majority.
The growth of intolerance is one of
| the most serious menaees to democ-
racy in the United States and it is in
deed cheering when those in high
| places, many of whom have them
selves been guilty of fostering intol-
GRANGE, are at last reused to see the
evil thing that it is.
The French and Spanish combine
offensive army being sent against the
Riffians in Morocco is said to number
| 100000. Reports from Paris and
Madrid say the liberty-loVing tribes
men are about to be crushed.
In the meantime, few miles back,
| simple Observation-Disclosures all
are tending their flocks and going
about the task of providing themselves
and their families with food and cloth
ing. The first some of them know of
| the war is when a French or Spanish
airman, or an American mercenary IN
the French service, flies overhead and
amuses himself by dropping bomb
in the midst of their grazing herds.
One can dimly imagine what must
be the mental reaction of these people.
One dominant thought must be that
these killers overhead are Christians.
They must believe that Christianity Is
barbarous, murderous, pitiless be-
lief.
Figures compiled by a life insurance
company shows that $4,000, 900 Amerl-
cans carry life insurance on when
they pay annual permiums amounting
to 81, 800, 100000. The policies have a
valuation of S64 ,000,0 100000.
These are large figures, particularly
interesting now that the Union Labor
Life Insurance Company is to enter
the field, insuring workers, and who
ever else may want to be insured.
1t would be interesting to have the
figures about life insurance profits. 1t
doesn't appear that insurance com
panies are so anxious to make those
figures public.