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riiiLADELrnu, thuiisday. jANUAnr ai, 191a,
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ffAere Is plenty of "vacuity trimmed with lace"
end every once in a while it marries tome
degenerate descendant of so-called
foreign aristocracy, and adver-
g5 Uses its wardrobe.
A Dnty and an Opportunity
TftB chief of the Bureau of Foreign and
Domestic Commerco la right when ho says
that the time is ripe for a rapid expansion
of foroign trade. He la subtle, too, -when ho
exhibits figures which demonstrate the Im
perative necessity of an annual balance of
exports over Imports amounting; to half a
billion dollars If wo are to hold our own. "Wo
owe Europe approximately that amount.
Which must be paid either In goods or In
rold. Payment In goods means wealth, pay
ment In gold means bankruptcy.
Europe Is strlckon. Its workers are In the
trenches at the battle front Instead of In
the mill and factory. There will bo a rjcarclty
of labor for tho next generation and a con
sequent scarcity In the product of labor. The
United States Is at tho door of a great op
portunity and a great duty. Its duty Is to
produce a surplus for the consumption of
Europe and Its opportunity lies In tho need
of the bleeding nations. The farmers, manu
facturers and bankers will do their share It
the Government will permit them.
Robbing America to Feed Europe
THERE aro numerous suggestions forth
coming as to how tho people of the United
States can get along without bread, or with
out so much bread as thoy are accustomed
to uso. All sorts of substitutes for wheat
loaves are proposed, while some of ur en
terprising economists have declared that
hardship In the matter of food will bo a good
thing for the country, for It will teach
economy.
These things are Interesting, of courso, but
they are not particularly satisfying to the
poor man, who only knows that the wheat
crop was a bumper one and he Is required to
pay more Instead of less for his bread as a
result. Then enter that old scapegoat, sup-ply-and-demand.
But the demand has been
artificially creatod by wasteful and destruc
tive, tactics abroad; and so our own supply
must bo artificially conserved by heroic ac
tion. The dilemma Is man-made and It must
be man-solved.
The Bat as News
THOSE ladleB who attended tho Russian
feto at the Bellevue-Stratford should not
bo aggrieved that a description of the antics
of a bat in tho ballroom occupied more space
in the report of the affair than the description
of the more charming but less uncommon
performers. The reason for this is found In
tho facta themselves. "While the bat was about
no one had eyes or attention for anything
else. Therefore, the faithful chronicler of tho
news mustireport t-hat happened, and he did
It with a careful precision that Is the admira
tion of his superiors and the delight of the
readers.
The bat Is news, because It was for the time
tho thing the people were Interested In. The
unusual is always diverting and sometimes
Informing, It Is the thing which makes us
alt up and take notice. An automobile run
ning up Market .street is so common that no
one turns his head to see It, unless It be to
dodge. But if George "Washington had seen a
motorcar about Independence Square ho
would have forgotten all about the Revolu
tion to go out and look at It. And an ocean
steamship ort Broad street would attract
almost as many spectators as go to watch a
circus parade. The man who Bald that It Is
better to bo different than to bo right under
stood the art and science or attracting atten
tion. And the Bellevue-Stratford bat we
mean the winged one could not have planned
better If ho hod wished to get into tho lime
light. A New Kind of a Trust
THE lawyers in tho Attorney General's
jtHce In "Washington should give careful
consideration to the status of the Forgers'
Trust, the existence of which has Just been
disclosed. There Is an exceedingly nice point
involved Jn the classWcatlon of this com
bination. Does it exist for the purpose of
restraining trade and driving competitors to
the wall, or is Its primary purpose the pro
motion of business and Its protection from
undue Interference with those who would
destroy It?
The forgers are no worse than the steel
Manufacturers, or the oil producers, or the
tobacco men, if we believe all that has been
Bald of the great combinations which they
hava organized. If the Attorney General will
fait to his assistance the acute legal mind
Of the Secretary of State he may be able
to decide whether to Invoke the Sherman
law In thl case or leave tho officers of the
trust to the tender mercies of the criminal
courts.
What Is Shaking Europe?
SEISMOLOGISTS will soon be telling us
why the Alps and the Apennines are
trembling; on their foundations and why
earthquakes h&va been felt in Switzerland,
Wwtera Austria and Eastern France, as well
H throughout the whole length of Italy, Jn
rtadlnif Sicily on the west and tha 'Greek
jalaada on the east The shocks began In the
Abruszl, but Within a wwk tbay have spread
to tn north. and wuth along tha erf at moun
tain www. uirgiBg tst ?m tissual
$,ftem mm t srit Imwfllmg'mm tt ogi
itt&mm 1 rHf iff
Kftto 44. ftn' I: tUMi war $ Mmt
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a question about which men of science and
laymen may speculate to their heart's con
tent. Soma man familiar with tfie compara
tively slight jar that It takes to send an
ovatahcher hurtling down a mountain side
will doubtless como forward with tho theory
that tho cannonading In progress In tho
Bouthcrn theatre of war for the past flvo
months has shaken the earth to Its founda
tions, and that tho vibrations passing through
tho rocky masses havo finally produced tho
appalling catostropho which Is for tho mo
ment dlvldlpg the attention of the world with
tho war.
A Peremptory Mandamus
A PEREMPTORY mandamus, has Issuod
from tho Common Pleas Court roqulrlng
Councils within 30 days to comply with the
law and give effect to tho housing act. This
is the answer of competent Judlolnl authority
to tho attempt of the municipal legislature to
emasculate by Inaction a law of the Com
monwealth of Pennsylvania.
Tho City Solicitor, In his official capacity,
will appeal to the Supreme Court. This will
assuro some delay, and delay Is what tho
antl-sanltarlans In Councils want. They havo
an Idea that thoy can pcrsuado the Legisla
ture to take tho tooth out of tho prosont
housing act. They fancy that Harrlaburg
can be persuaded to retract, to taka a step
backward, to swallow Ub own conclusions
and substitute a mako-bellovo housing law
for the real housing law that Is now on tho
Btatuto books.
They reckon without their host, for In his
Inaugural address Governor Brumbaugh put
the full weight of his authority behind tho
principle Involved. A now and toothless
measure will not get by him. Ho Is fore
armed because he Is forewarned, and "slip
ping one over on him" will not be so easy as
some of tho Organization men Imagine.
Tho Governor Is not of the samo typo as
Select Councilman Eduard Buchholz, who is
also a Real Estato Assessor at 13000 a year
as well as an expert on bathtubs. Tho Gov
ernor has spent most of his life directing tho
ignorant Into the paths of knowledge and
cleanliness, but Mr. Buchholz, whoso Ideas
of progress are novel, says that tho "poor
devils who como from Russia and other Euro
pean countries never had a bathtub in their
own country and thoy certainly would not
know what to do with one if they had It In
their tenements." Fifty years ago there wero
few bathtubs in tho world, yet after strenu
ous efforts and careful education most people
In this United States know now how to use
them.
A peremptory mandamus from the court
and another from tho peoplel Councils Is
not a big enough obstruction to stop the
progress of sanitation and decent living.
Orgies of Progress
IT IS beginning to appear that Mr. Villa
tackled a bear when he began wrestling
with Carranza, and there is some reason to
OBsumo also that "Washington made a bad
guess when It picked the Juarez bandit as
a winner.
There is some decency left in Mexico.
There are people there who will not and
cannot countenance tho orgies which Villa
has Introduced Into government, True, most
of tho awful things he does have been kept
from public knowledge In tho United States,
although every now and then reports of
typical Incidents leak through; as when Gen
eral Scott waited patiently for an interview,
and Villa, somewhere else, waited Impa
tiently for his prey to be brought to him,
In tho form of a Spanish girl, whose reputa
tion for beauty had reached his ears.
Carranza is not a paragon by any means,
but In comparison with Villa he shines lumi
nously. Our own President, meantime, de
clares that blood-letting and murder and
rapine and pillage are the privilege of the
Mexican peoplo, In which they should bo per
mitted to indulge to their full content. They
ore doing It.
Terror That Reason Allays
THE effect of the German airship raid upon
the .east coast of England Is almost en
tirely psychological. A few houses were
wrecked by bombs dropped from the Invading
aerial fleet, six persons were killed and about
a score were Injured. This material damage
Is not commensurate with the risk taken by
the invaders. But the British have been
dreading such a visit ever since the war be
gan, and last year and the year before
the whole country was excited by reports
that German aeroplanes had been seen at
night over various coast towns, When the
airships actually cross the North Sea It mat
ters not what they are, Zeppelins or aero
planesthe actuality strikes terror to the
heart of the timid and makes the brare won
der what It portends.
But the terror will react Into determina
tion. The Inviolability of British soil Is a
sacred tradition not to be disturbed with Im
punity, and the British will tako a grip upon
their courage, hasten the drilling of their vol.
unteer armies and send them across tho
Channel at the earliest possible moment to
reinforce the troops on the battle line. The
Germans, perhaps, do not make allowance for
this psychological Jacking up of the British
courage by these affairs. But It la the most
noteworthy result of tho aerial raid, as well
as of the sortie of German warships which
attacked tho coast towns a little farther
north a few weeks ago.
Notwithstanding the momentary panic, the
intelligent Englishman knows that the Zep
pelins have not yet done anything which Jus
tinea the belief that they can be used for
actual military attack. They are useful as
scouts, but that is about all. They can
frighten people by dropping bombs, but the
bombs do not hit what they are aimed at.
England U still safe from invasion If she
keeps command of the North Sea with her
navy.
What Pennsylvania needs as much aa a
new Constitution In the law books la a new
conscience In the voters,
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The District of Columbia really ought to be
-dry" for h protection of the innocent and
unsuspecting Congressmen.
Better sell those 31 old fire engines for Junk
before they fall at a fire, and a whole ware
house, with lta contents, is reduced to ashes.
What srudg did the Mercantila Library
have against the Washington Memorial
Library at Valley Forge that 1 should sad
to t ii99 valutas ot 0Qvernmnt report to
m ma on its ovs xntfve for intsmung
THE LITTLE PEOPLE
AND ClTt STREETS
The Unsubdued Frontiers of Civilized
Society Stories of the City Jungles.
Making tho Streets Snfo for Children.
(Dy a Member of the Child Federation)
THE South Philadelphia Branch of the Child
Federation recently sent a representa
tive to tho meeting of the Hoard of Recrea
tion to urge consideration of certain matters
pertaining to tho Interests of children who
piny In tho stroets, especially as touching
streets In which they might well play under
supervision.
The Board of Recreation appointed a corn
mltteo to Investigate tho feasibility of using
as play space, under supervision, tho street
areas Immediately adjoining small city play
grounds and school yards which aro used as
public playgrounds,
"Getting children oft tho streot" has been,
tho slogan of many 'efforts In tholr behalf.
As a symbolic expression this represents vvoll
enough what needs doing. Aa a matter of
fact program It Is a folly and an Impossi
bility. For thousands of families In our
crowded quarters tho "homo," If constantly
lived In by tho normal group of from flv6
to ten persons, must become a hotbed of 111
health. Yards, gardons, private grounds?
Oh, not Tho street and tho street alono Is
tho resource for life.
Tho Streets ns Doorynril
Change the homo7 Yes, by every practica
ble mensuro of education and of economic
progress. Tho surest method Is to provldo
lncreaso and security of Income, but that
seems, In view of tho unskilled economic
leadership from which our city and our na
tion suffer, a silly dream, at least as a thing
to expect today or tomorrow.
But why not attack tho street as an Imme
diate program, whllo working at other lines
of Improvement? Paronthctlcally, lot us urgo
that we never practice tho fallacy of chrono
logical sequence In social Improvement mat
tors, thinking and saying, "this must bo done
first or before that." Tho law of social Im
provement is analogous to tho law of tho
expansion of gases In physics, rather than to
the axiom about the straight lino as the
shortest distance between two points in
geomotry. We aro to wolcomo pressure at
any ono point as a symptom of an equal
pressure In every other direction, evon
though wo may not seo theso other pushlngs
and may fall to understand or lke the goalv.
toward which they aro making.
Now, tho streets ore tho dooryards and
play spaces of millions of children, taking
cities in any number under view, and will
so continue. They aro at this moment more
easily within community control and man
agement than tho conditions of housing, the
provision of playgrounds, tho rate of wages;
In short, than any one of the big general
social reforms which aro to alter significantly
tho background of child life. No matter what
special provision for playgrounds, recreation
centres and so on bo made, the street U and
must be part of the city child's home outfit.
Nothing can be dono which will evor "keep
him off tho street," except partially as to ln
t or ort and fractionally as to tlmo.
Life in the Jungle
It Is probable that child life in tho forested
Jungles has Its own conventions and safe
guards as woll as dangers. Even In tho
land of tho Bandarlog (see Kipling's Junglo
Books as convincing authority), the elders
havo worked out a system of life for their
young, and by this system little people are
prepared to become elders of quality and
parts, fit to conduct tho system for the next
supply of little people and so on, and so
on, to the result that the race shall con
tinue without deterioration which la prob
ably tho only real business that a race has
to attend to. At any rato, If It falls In this
business It can succeed In no other, though
It may keep Its head above water a long
time.
There is a slckenlngly close likeness In
many physical particulars between un
pleasantnesses of the primitive Jungle life
and the Uvea of many people in the crowded,
poverty-damaged, avoided areas of American
cities In which wo find the real and as yet
unsubdued frontier of civilized society. And
here the constructive, socially minded citi
zen Is the frontiersman, cutting down and
clearing oft the obstacles to reasonable liv
ing; building up the things which shall re
main. What can he do with the street? Aa
it stands It is an active, formative, living and
constant Influence. Its Interest Is vivid, Its
hold tenacious, usually unbreakable. Here
are two or threo pictures of its work.
Firo Worshipers
A frosty twilight.
A tuppenny hapenny bonflro In the gutter,
hardly larger than might be built on a tea
tray, Is tended zealously by a bunch of tho
little people who busily feed It with every
eorap of paper, wood and dry refuse that can
In any way be coma by. Not one of the half
dozen firo worshipers counts his ago at more
than eight years. They crouch so close to tho
blaze that danger seema to clutch at them
from every wavering blaze. Two of them I
know and greet, "Hello, Dominic, How are
you Jlmmy7 Does the policeman let you
have a Are like that? It Isn't election, you
know."
Out flashca a quick arm In a vivid ges
ture toward tho blue coat a half square
away, "Oh, yessum, we ain't allowed to
have It, but he's a good cop, He don't do
ua nuttln'. We like him. We get peanuta
for him."
It's a Fight
Christmas Eve about 8 a'clock.
Sixteen-year-old John Is driving a grocery
wagon and, with one of his pals. Is help
ing itwo feminine agents of Santa, Claus de
liver Christmas dinner baskets In the nar.
row streets and alleys of the th ward.
Suddenly a peculiar piercing whistle splits
the air, John's head Jerks to attention and
his answering whistle travels back before
the cleft in the air haa had time to close.
Round the corner from the wider street
dashes a chunky boy on the dead run, John's
horse Is stopped before the boy Is near
enough to speak, and John leaps to meet the
panting word.
"How soon can you come? We've got a
fight,"
"I can no I can't, I'm helping with these
d Christmas baskets,"
Then, turning to the supervising agent
of Santa, who listens with interest the more
Intense because John Is a volunteer, free to
stop at any preferred call of pleasure, ha
inquires, "How much more'long will It take?
With a sudden access of calculating- optim
ism she responds firmly, "About half an
hour, I should say.
"Hot stuff," iy h$ foot-loose acout,
"we'll hold it back till e'ejo"
"fUght-ftru be wit yt, OJdtep, lany,
iturry up , blM i wattiifl
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As thoy hustle along tho agent says,
"Whoro la your fight, John?"
"On street."
"Docs your gang fight mostly north or
south of your own street?"
"Huh, we don't caro, wo fight anywheres
wo can get It."
At 11 o'clock, ns they part, tho agent says,
"I'm awfully sorry wo couldn't get through,
and you had to miss your fight."
"Oh, never mind," says John, "wo have lots
of them. I was glad to help you."
More Episodes of the Jungle
Many episodes of girl Ilfo In tho city Btreota
nro such as to make the soul shudder. There
grows on tho mind, through an extended
sojourn In tho Jungle, an understanding of
tho frequency of such episodes and tho part
adult men play in them. It in unspeakably
base and horrible Ono Is struck with amazed
horror to find how widespread Is tho expec
tation of sex danger to little girls, and how
often tho fear of tho risk is Justified by tho
ovent. No ono ploco of knowledge of tho
street Is so damning an indictment of human
backwardness in tho caro of offspring. In
stinct degraded to unreason, not grown up to
reason, seems tho basis of life.
The Child Federation stands for tho Idea
that slnco (note we say since, not If) children
nro to Hvo In and be formed by tho street,
the street must be mado a place whero
children may safely live and be formed.
It hopes to hammer out of its studies of
child life and Its surveys of conditions a
concrete program of certain practicable
measures of streot uso3 and development.
Some points aro already cloar, somo things
aro being tried already In othor cities. We
hopo shortly to present an account of such
efforts and to indicate In some detail tho
work to be done In our own city.
THE PRIDE OF THE LOW-BROW
Illustrated From History, Our Supreme Achieve
ment in Fiction.
By BURTON KLINE
HISTORY, our supreme achievement In fic
tion, has somowhere among her fascinat
ing records the story of a stag dinner given
by Plato to a bunch of his friends. But, being
not quite certain of tho table manners of
Diogenes, the Grecian Emerson had omitted
that most celebrated of lowbrows from hla
banquet. Whereupon Diogenes promptly
came to the dinner anyway and, arriving
right in the middle of it, he pained them
all by kicking up tho rugs and yelling In
a fury, "This Is how I trample on the pride
of Flaitol"
"But with still greater pride, O Diogenes!"
Plato gently Insinuated; for the rare old
boy was always there with tho ready answer.
There la the whole essence of low-browlsm.
And there Is the complete answer to It. Now
and again you read In your newspaper of
tho death of some hermit who haa retired
from society In a great huff. The old fellow
bad probably applauded himself all his life
for being a strong man, quite above the
disgusting follies of life In Philadelphia.
Strong? He was nothing of the sort. Dio
genes, "trampling on the pride of Plato," was
not more 'haughty than he.
Tho great thing is to wear trousers, eat
scrapple, Hvo life according to all tho rules,
and be somebody In spite of It, History also
records the pithy remark of a certain French
man who was running for Senator, When
asked why he was doing so, he answered, "In
order not to seem eccentric,"" Everybody else
In his district was running for Senator, and
he was too well-bred, too strong, to seize
an easy opportunity for seeming to be su
perior to his fellows. There was a real
man. He saw that no one is really on the
way to distinction till he has conformed to
all the rules.
The low-brow who" wears overalls to a
wedding may think he Is trampling on the
pride of Plato, Instead he la confessing to
an enormous love of himself. It isn't brains,
but the lack of brains, that thinks to win
not by beating tho game but, by busting the
nlles. There's the weakness of the Socialists,
Their philosophy Is a confession that they
can't play the game and want the rules
changed In their favor.
Among the many distinctions of George
"Washington, one of them, perhaps the most
lmpprtant, has been forgotten. George waa
perhaps the loveliest dancer of his age. Now
go to any dance, and you will meet many
men who scorn to be thought "lovely"
dancers. They feel superior to grace, but In
reality grace Is superior to them And they
confess that fact- in their very defiance.
They expect to wn by not playing the
game. Whereas jjhe great thing is to be as
upert In thamlnqetaa you are In the J?real
deney. -
Pity the poor JowVgrow, He thinks he is
"being himself," when he Is only tripping tha
dancers.
Sense and Spirit
There 1 ever a tilvorce between the world of
sense and the world pf spirit, end the question
of how much love we may expend upon ex
ternal thpg will always arts, and will always
b a cans of perplexity to thost who do yiot
show to abandon temlre to the genaral
drift p Miwual Me. This quMttaa i as dlffl
At a thf nte qurtlt of what we our
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Some of the Reasons Why Industrial Insurance Is to Be Regarded m
SOMEBODY Wrote tho other day that tho
tlmo has now como when tho public rec
ognizes that tho employer is In duty bound
to look after and take care of his employes
It was a few days ago, also, that tho Penn
sylvania Manufacturers' Association, through
its president as spokesman, said: "Wo shall
support any measure" (in tho Stato Legisla
ture) "which we think will promote Industry
and improvo tho condition of Industrial work
ers without endangering tho first ossential to
their comfort and happiness wages."
Tho association declares itself to bo in favor
of the principle of workmen's compensation,
and says that It wants Pennsylvania to havo
a workmen's compensation law.
These threo facts aro full of significance.
The writer who referred to tho employer as
a guardian of tho wolfaro of the omployo
misconceived entirely the now social spirit In
Industry which ho thought ho was Interpret
ing. The adoption of his idea would lead to
the worst kind of class legislation. The last
thing that tho workers want, and certainly
the last thing that they should have. Is pro
tection through any form of employers'
paternalism. Labor Is not asking for work
men's compensation as a favor; neither is it
trying to get something for nothing when it
makes the demand.
Mutual Advantage or None
The quotation from tho statement of tho
Manufacturers' Association Is so worded that
it seems, in part, to express tho views of tho
rearguard of retreating paganism In Industry.
That tender solicitude for tho comfort and
happiness of the workers, that firm deter
mination not to do anything which would
endanger their precious wages, rests on no
truer sanction than does tho practice of rank
ing1 the workera a Uttlo lower than machines
But the complete statement of tho associa
tion as to Its attitude toward workmen's
compensation shows that tho members of
that body regard themselves neither as phil
anthropic patrons of labor nor as victims of
oppression, and that, therefore, thoy are of
sound mind on one of tho most Important
questions to como before the present Legisla
ture at Harrlaburg. Thoy are not out for
workmen's compensation as a charity or as a
surrender.
Social legislation, if It Is to bo worth whllo,
must be founded on the advantage of both or
all parties concerned. The law of advantage
which has made every Inch of nonomic his
tory promises tho universal adoption of In
dustrial Insurance. A square deal for Indus
try's rank and file stands on a par with a
f square deal for Industry's captains. If "social
and economic Justice" means anything at all
It means the opportunity of overy employer
and every employe to put forth his utmost
effort for himself. Co-operation toward that
end Is the way to economic freedom. It is
tho democratic way toward greater democ
racy. An article on "American Kultur," re
cently published on this page, dealt with
altruism and self-interest as the allied forces
which are building a splendid national effi
ciency. Enlightened self-interest brings em
ployers to the support of workmen'a com
pensation. Tho Folly of Obstruction
True, the making of a compensation law is
accompanied by more or less conflict; but the
less of It, the great- thfl gain for both aides.
Tho New York law has been called excep
tionally severe on the employers, though the
Judgment time (s not yet, the statute having
been In operation toq short a time. But if
the employers got the worst of it, they may
blame themselves. In a few years' tlmo sev
eral bills were drawn up, two of them find
ing their way to the atatute books, and each
one after the first waa regarded by the labor
forces as a new and bigger victory, Had the
employers withdrawn their violent opposl
tlqn earlier In the legislative history of the
New York law and co-operated mors, will
Ingly In the framing of a bill they undoubt
edly would not have lost so much ground,
In the States which still lack compensation
laws the employers are not likely to adopt
the policy of obstruction. Nothing can stop
the progress of industrial Insurance. Eyery
country In Europe, except Switzerland and
Turkey, haa workmen'a compensation, and o
have the following 2 States of the Unions
New Hampshire, Massachusetts, Connecticut
Rhode Island, New York, New Jersey, Mary
land, West Virginia, Ohio, Kentucky, Michi
gan, WUconsIn, Illinois. Minnesota, Iowa, Ne
braska, Kansas, Texas, Louisiana, Arizona,
Nevada, California, Oregon and Washington.
In a dozen or mora other States bills will be
considered by the Legislature this year.
No State which has once enacted a com
pensation law has changed U ralnd'ubout Us
underlying principle, Maryland atarted the
ball rolling In thla country with a law which
waa afterward declared unconstitutional, but
that State came back a little later with a
constitutional statute. Ohio began with an
elective act After its repeal Dudlsy R. Ken
nedy, peeial county tot the Youngstown
Bai and. Tube- Company, one of the
J herib to to prawnt ijwuroac fund of
A JOB FOR JUSTICE. J
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EMPLOYERS' SIDE OF COMPENSATION
Matter 01 social, Katncr liian Llass, Legislation.
By RAYMOND G. FULLER
that &tate, said : "There has been no btmI i2
found with that act, except that It Hi M
go far enough in lta provisions toward toS?
ing It compulsory for employers to tni iJ
honco waa not as universally token UnP
iaSo 01 as wouia liavo been If the ting
tages of compensation had been morewiiliSr
u..u;.B,.uuu Uy uiuiJioyers ana empiom
Ohio passed a compulsory act In 1913.
Employers In those States havln 3
pensation aro not seeking to have tha ftitj
utos repealed. As tho National Civic Fedd?
uon reports, experience under the aclj hS
mostly removed the objections which too?
nlnVHI"0 WrrnA nn.,ln..n ... 11 I. .1
r.., .ei. i'.uviuuo iu moir pussige, T6n
indorse the principle of workmen's comjipai?
uon. inoir criticism concerns tho form ff
which it Is variously embodied In tha alffif
cnt States. Industrial Accident Board) ?
port active co-operation among all pwdJ
witn respect to proposals for itahitaT
amendment. It Is, therefore, not JtirprijSf
that tho Pennsylvania Manufacturers' Aag
w.v.v.., .,,,..,1, m v u, , ia uumjjeriaaiign iaw Wt
this State, should coll attention to the iet
that tho form of the law Is a question ntBT
Justifies dlff. renco of uplnlm.
The Question of Cot J
Tho principal remaining objection Mists
to tho cost of compensation. Data irtlsf
afford a true comparison of the cost tpjt?
ployers In settlement of accident cUi&
under tho new laws and settlement unders!
previously existing system, or lack of BjitSt
aro not yet available, though It appears il4
in ucium casn tno employers as a wnoie ro
out more In real compensation In a jtm
period than they did under the old UabUtj
laws. H. H. Kinney, secretary of tbe,lM
Angeles branch. of the State Industrial Ar
dent Bureau of California, Is quoted tuftSk
lng that tho emnlovers In that State narteC
all told, than before the law went Into eSct
Certain It la that many economies must fc
reckoned In striking tho balance, Flnucljf
advantage to the employer consists partlrj?
thn fnnt thnt nHllntlnn hpphmpa fired. Hi
.t .. ,., i.i -,J.. s.,n.'T
WUI1 UaillllUlU Ilia JJIUUUU1U UUUUCUk lVB,.vi.
current period and add It to the cost of'gT
finished product. Tho ultimate comw.
pays It In such proportion and In wt6 tg
tangible fashion that it passes unnoticed. to
truth ia that a compensation law ion at
add a burden. It rather regulates a bonte'
that already exlBted In some form or
and distributes It by means of lrwurwj.
This ideal result will bo more compel
realized when nets are both compuliorjr m
uniform, and tho desired uniformity wWJ
the sooner achieved tho faster the indKiaw
States adopt the provisions of the twigs
acts wbjeh experience shows glye tho Wg
Kiiltn S
Thn rnnt nf rnmnpfinnrlnn and the CGfi.lL
Insurance aro subjects which merit uwnjjj
tailed treatment, and will, therefore, b Cfc
sidered In a subsequent article. TS iwrn
of the ambulance-chasers and the reduces
of litigation suggest only a few of the J2
tages to employers protected by a C0B',S
tlon law. M
Social Not Class Legislation- M
There are certain economics that MJL.
not only to employers, but to the PwWi
lareo. One la the saving In trial court 3
especially where the administration wm
law Is Intrusted to an accident b0"Jg:
largo Industrial centres at least one-j;
ino lime or tno inai wuna --
employers' liability litigation, The Kg
saves a great deal, also, In poor ttmM
pendltures. This economy Is the more p
Ing when It la considered that, with Sfe
or their families who are placed m "-
where they are compelled to e Jj
this kind, there Is danger that 'Sl
H1I ,a wpiV enntie-h to acquire thS P;
More Important than money con'llJfrt.ff
irreater sense of common Interest,
employer and employe. When botb T
vate ana social aavaniaHoa -
compensation are Bummed up.tne rf
Am n h a nractlcal expression of " 5
that we are all members of one boor.
TO A PnOEBE-BIRD
Under eaves, out of the wet.
You nest within my "'
You never sins for me, and l
You have a golden speech.
You sit and quirk a rapta tall
Wrinkle a rawed crest,
Then pirouette from tree to ran
And vault from rail to nest.
And when In frequent, witty trigs"
You grayly slip and fadet
And when at hand you realist
Demure and unafraid,
And when you brtar your brood t
Of Iridescent wings .,
And green Its dewy In your
Your silence I what lHf
Not of leather that snh. I
To swlu 9T PMOao or Jf"?
O Phoete, With our lack vl " j
What poafto Jrw ,,, mtg
wiwtr wnmtt, to m -
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