Twin city review. [volume] (Champaign, Ill.) 19??-1929, 1925-01-30
LIVE TOPICS
OF COUNTRY
AND TOW \

The abolition of prison made goods
must be accomplished Sald kfiga.
in eraer 10 pruteet fsee labor in The
state
The ely is fof prison made gosds.
Keep the prisoners al work Is TIE
slogan. We are led 90 believe that a
IS better fer msn 20 work IN prison
than 70 remain Idle, all Of which Is
true.
The objection Crews out of the
method Of farming out prison labor
to factories or eoHeerns with the am
Of putting cheapls made roduets on
the market. Do aAay with thls abuse
which conflicts viii every legitimate
firm paying the saion scale and o.
sanlaed Labor viii not object 20 the
men in prison working.
The Indiana State Federation Of l..
bor will oppose state conslabulalA
nill that is expected 10 come before
this session of the legislature on the
ground that so ol 100 men cannot
patrol the state when II
lakes more than 400 10 patrol Indiana.
polls.
A state constabplary bill in Illinois
will be opposed en- similar grounds,
The inadeuuacy OF the foIee. and the
danger Of using an adequate fotse
against Organized Labor, if such is
are the reasons for Labef's
opposition TO eaaStabulary bill,
Machinery has revolutionized Labor
throughout the civilized world. In
Russia In 1920 there We're 80 workers
per 1000 spindleS in the Russian
textile industries. There are now 10
per 1900 spindles. The
change is attributed to the addition Of
to increase the productive
ness of labor.
Today enc man can produce many
times what bis brother of halt
century ago could produce, yet is Il
not true that in many of these IN.
dustlies the owners wish to hold the
wages of employees down to the mini
mum scale?
The tendency has been to look nj
labor from the standpoint of the num-
Der of hours spent at work, and not
at the amount produced with the ald
of machinery.
II labor was worth 25e day fifty
years ago il is certainly worth many
times that now. Three men can cut,
bind and thresh field of grain to-day
In less time than Ave times the nun
Der fifty years ago. Yet the farm
hand is not paid rsoporiionately.
The reason is that machine prodae-
ton is credited to capital and not 10
Labor. Had it not been for Organized
Labor the eommnn workman would
still be drawing Zoe day.
LaF'ollette failed to carry North
Daokta, which had been virtually con
ceded to him. II was supposed TO be
a great Republican victory; but re
cent light thrown on the balloting IN
that state indicates that 10000 LaFol-
ette voters lost their ballots by
Coolidge electors on a.
straight Republican ticket Their
ballots were thrown out. If they
could have been counted the state
would have gone for LaFollette by a
good majority.
The Rev. Thornton Anthony Mills
las resigned his pastofate OF stald
in Chicago. The reslg
lation is a result of objections on the
,ar of the trustees to Dr.. Mills act
n bringing a "hobo" colony to worship
1t the services.
The staid congregation felt that the
mixture of hobos with the elite was
,ot conducive to the best Christian
,thics, and il appeared TO them that
10 good could come by brushing gar
nents with hobos.
Dr. Mills has evidently tried some |
hing that has never worked success
uly. The church has created mis- |
ions In the slum districts for the
Of outcasts with whom |
he better element does not wish to /
ningle.
There are two sides to the contro-
.ersy. The trustees thiak that If the |
Reverend doctor wishes to be mis-
ionary he should 90 into the slums
md not bring the slums to them. TIE |
loctor, however, thinks differently. |
Ie believes, evidently, that there
hould be no lines between sinners oil !
he elite type and those Of the slums.
rhe resignation is the result.
The Family Welfare society, IN |
outlining the reasons for the various
IMPLICATIONS for charitable aid place
incapaeity first in the list. /
second comes the problem Of unem- /
,loyment. Fifty-seven families dur
ng the year felt the pinch Of being /
brown out Of work at a time when /
'unds are most in demand.
This is one Of the problems which |
ne country fails 10 recognize II
titles would plan municipal work Tor
he winter months many Of the un- |
employed would be able to make the'r
way and not become subjects Of
.harity.
The average person would rather
york for mis- living than to accept |
lelp from charity. and in the end II
Al comes out Of the same pockets |
+ We do not pay for the keeping. u /
,ur poor in taxes upon public I'M /
We pay through the Com F,
nunity Chest. The poor must be taken |
are Of. And whichever method we
.hoose il j. six Of one and half !
lozeu Of the other-Only in case they /
are cared for through charity the
.ity has nothing TO show Tor their
.eep.