Twin city review. [volume] (Champaign, Ill.) 19??-1929, 1925-08-07
Observation-Disclosures
; Comment and Criticism
.r.-,-;i...-:...t-,,..,.ii-.i-,,-i...-,.-ii-..-

trade unions are deYounR more anu
more attention TO the subject. Car
ment workers and painters and other
building trade workers have gained
the five-day week in several cities and
the organized upholsteIers have set
the shorter week as their goal.
Significant testimony a. TO the value
of the five-day week mas been received
as the result of a survey by the Ne"
York World, which reports that the
movement is gaining. Latest to come
to the support of the fiye-day week Is
Reginald Pelham Bolton, president OF
the Electric Meter Corporation, who
declares that employees in his com
pany have done more work IN tne
short week than when they WORKED
five and half days.
Mr.. Bolton said the fiye-day week IN
his company was begun experiment
ally last year. ut.
"It was understood" he said, that
the arrangement would continue 50
long as the work did not fall behind.
During the first week thereafter oul
outside staff, two-thirds of the per
sonnet, turned in within three days
an amount of additional work CORE
spending to the Saturday morning
average performance"
= =
Robert NJ. LaFollette died at the
age OF 70 and left $4,000. He gould
have made millions. lie cared nothing
whatever for money. lie was a hard
worker and devoted to his Self-ap-
pointed task. He did not accumulate
a fortune in dollars but he accumu-
lated the love Of mankind.
There were many reasons why he
was one of the most loved men in the
world. One of these was his achieve
ment in the seaman's act. When
President Wilson signed the LaFol-
lette seaman's act, Andrew FuIuseth
who, too, has devoted long lie TO
love of his fellow man, exclaimed al
most reverently: The last of the
bondmen are free!"
In every port in the world anu
wherever there are men who go down
to the sea in ships they speak lovingly
and in softened tones OF the great
lover of mankind who has gone.
The Mexican incident is closed"
say the daily papers. A lot OF bad
feeling toward the United States has
been created and the incident is closed.
If that is the idealism of American
diplomacy, then it is time the Volstead
act was repealed and somebody passed
the alcohol.
The Mexican incident will not be
closed until American good sense,
he
restored to its former standing.
About ten years of effort was de-
stroyd at one swoop, and the incident
is CLOSED"
If the State Department regards
the incident as closed, the State De-
partment has made another blunder
and somebody needs jolt.
American workers are deeply ins
terested in this so-called closed Incl
dent, because the Americn labor
movement has done more than the
State Department ever dreamed oil
doing to beget understanding of the
American people in Mexico.
Out in Ohio the fight against the
Yellow Dog contract goes on. From
now until the next legislature meets
there will be steady campaign to
educate the people on this important
subject.
Ohio has started a lot of things.
1t is a vigorous State. 1t is prolific
and a productive state. If il can put
the yellow Dog contract out of busl-
ness it will add to its laurels.
1t will be good If other State Fed
erations of Labor will find out from
the Ohio State Federation how this
fight is progressing and then get into
the battle themselves:
In the heated controversy stirred
up by the Scopes trial it is easy To
forget the big question involved in
the case.
The paramount issue is not to get
| the anti-evolution law declared uncon-
| stitutional; or to prove the contention
| of the fundamentalists; OF whether the
earth and its inhabitants came by d
slow process of universal adaptation
or whether all was made in l6 hours
by a gesture and a divine utterance--
these are beside the mark.
The main and most important queS-
ton involved is: Shall freedom OF
speech and thought for educators BIZ
stifiled 10y action of group of legis.
lators who. if it is fair to average
them with other State legislatures
are not especially equipped for such
an important function of judgment
much less of suppression.
| Freedom of speech and thought or
the part of educators and on the part
of all the people is very important
and any State may we'll ponder on the
thought of the danger of abrogating
them.
Press reports to the effect that the
District of Columbia courts have beer
asked to enjoin the payment of salary
to the superintendent of schools AM
head of the science department of the
schools of the District, because of the
teaching of evolution, will occasion ne
surprise to those familiar with legis.
lation on the subject.
| The Summers amendment to the an
nual appropriation bill for the Dis
trict contained the provision in 1922
and again in 1926 that no portion OF
the money appropriated under the bill
shall be paid to a school official whC
permits % the teaching of disrespec
for the Holy Bible; ca the teaching
of partisan political views, or go tn,
teaching that ours is an inferior form
of government,
The purpose of this rider to the bill
was thought by the teachers to be K
ensure safe and sane" policy Of
aloofness from participation by the