Americus times-recorder. [volume], October 26, 1919, Home Edition, Image 8

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APPROACHING THE CRISIS.
Two industrial conferences in Washington
have come to an abrupt end, with the chasm be- '
tween capital and labor, which these conferences''
were expected to bridge, wider than ever. The! 1
deep and earnest efforts of Presidnt Wilson and (
Scretary Wilson have come to nanght. The secre
tary is said to have stood with tears streaming from (
Eis eyes as the conference of coal operators and ]
miners broke up Friday evening, and he contem- )
plated the untold suffering facing the nation after ■
the mines close down, as they are to do, on No- *
vember I, with winter only beginning.
Apparently the nation is on the threshold of j
the showdown between capital and labor. Condi- |
tions cannot continue as they are; there must be f
an end to the situation, and the end must come (
soon. Capital says it cannot and will not go any ;
farther; labor says it must and will go farther. .
Capital says production must not be decreased and j
that wages have reached the limit; labor says it i
must have more pay and less work. Capital says
an automobile is a luxury, not a for the .
average laboring man; labor says it is time for the (
laboring man to enjoy some luxuries. .
Labor has always accused capital—and with <
more or less cause—of being arbitrary and tyran
nical. But recent developments have shown that (
labor is assuming a tyranny no less harsh and re- .
morseless than that which the employer has shown
in the past. In the case of the Industrial Confer
ence, we have the labor group demanding arbitra
tion of the steel strike, and in the case of the miners’
demands we see them absolutely refusing to con
sider arbitration of the dispute in case negotiations
fail. In the steel strike labor appears to be losing,
and is willing to arbitrate; in the latter labor knows
it has the nation by the throat and proposes to
freeze it into granting an increase of pay and a de
crease of work.
And all because of the strange and false god
of Bolshevism finding a following in America.
If labor were attempting to solve the prob
lems the nation is up against it would find universal
sympathy in its stand. But it is not; it is appar
ently actuated only by the selfish dogma of “I’m
going to get mine; regardless of what happens.”
In these troublous times co-operation, not di
vision of efforts and purposes, is needed. To get
the nation out of the danger zone and bring down
the cost of living there must be greater, not less,
production; the city laborer must employ more of
the industry seen on the farms; there must be
thrift, not wild extravagance; there must be hon
esty and trust between the employer and the em
ploye, and there must b a spirit of mutual con
cern and interest and brotherly love.
Perhaps we shall safely weather the storm
that appears to be brewing. Possibly we are not
entirely bereft of sanity and shall yet be governed
by the rule of reason. But the use of force will not
bring about better times for labor. Labor may
paralyze industries and bring the people of the na
tion to misery and want in an effort to secure a
greater per centage of profits, but such methods
reduce profits, and labor is bound to suffer equally
with the remainder of the people.
Let us hope a happier day of better under
standing is just ahead of us. And, in the meantime,
let us of rural Georgia prepare to make ourselves
more nearly self-supporting and self-sustaining
than ever. Then we ll be able to laugh at the re
mainder of the world.
THE POOR AND JUSTICE.
A report on “Justice For The Poor,” written
by Reginald Heber Smith, of the Boston bar, and
with a foreword by Elihu Root has just been
made public by the Carnegie Foundation. Mr.
Root’s foreword calls the report a “systematic
treatise and practical handbook on the administra
tion of justice in the United States in the direction
which is at this time of the most critical import
ance." Mr. Root also says of the report: “It is
full of trustworthy information and suggestions.”
We quote the following extracts from the vol-
time: •
“The administration of American justice is
not impartial; the rich and the poor do not stand
.. _
CHEER UP AGAIN.
W say the prices now are high, so high we re
stricken dumb; we shudder when we go to
buy; cheer up, the worst is yet to come! The
shoemen say there are no hides, and daily
leather grows more rare; and so the price of
footwear slides ten parasangs up in the air. The
clothiers say there is no wool, the sheep are dead
and on the ice; it takes some influence and pull
to get a suit at any price. The bakers say there
is no flour, and so the children have no bread,
and We are weeping every hour because our
hopes are lying dead. The barbers say there are
no barbs, and we must let our whiskers grow un
til they spread like noxious yarbs, and wave and
wiggle to and fro. The grocer says he cannot
groce for less than ninety-five per cent; he sees
the sheriff drawing close when profits sink, is his
lament. And so things go, from day to day,
the whole blamed world is out of plumb; but let
us all be blithe and gay; cheer up, the worst is
yet to come. The worst will come, and then the
slump, the big reaction will appear; and we will
carry to the dump the pirate and the profiteer.
on an equality before the law; the traditional
method of providing justice has operated to close
the doors of the courts to the poor, and has caused
a gross denial of justice in all parts of the coun
try to millions of persons.”
“The majority of our judges and lawyers view
the situation with indifference. They fail to see be
hind this denial of justice the suffering and tragedy
it causes, the havoc it plays in individual lives, and
its influence in retarding our Americanization pro
gram ”■
“The effects of this denial of justice are far
reaching. Nothing rankles more in the human
breast than the feeling of injustice. It produces a
sense of helpfulness and bitterness. It is brooded
over. It leads directly to contempt of law, dis
loyalty to the government, and plants the seeds of
anarchy. The conviction grows that law is not
justice, and challenges the belief that justice is
best secured when administered according to law.”
The report is based on a study by Mr. Smith
at -first hand of courts and legal-aid organizations
throughout the country during the last three years
and on his experience as counsel for the Legal Aid
Society of Boston. The report says the denial of
justice to the poor is nation-wide and is due to
delays which handicap the poor litigant, court costs
and fees charged by the state which often prohibit
altogether access to the courts by the poor, and the
expense of lawyers’ services.
Regarding the remedy for this deplorable sit
uation the report suggests that lawyers’ services be
supplied gratuitously to the poor and that they be
aided in the matter of costs and advice by legal
aid organizations.
J What Other Editors Say
LET THE SUGAR BOARD STAY.
Southern sugar growers are opposing a bill
now in the agriculture committee of the senate
to extend the powers of the United States sugar
equalization board until the end of the year 1920.
In doing 30 they are opening up another field
of exploitation to the profiteer.
At present the price of sugar, despite its
scarcity, is being kept down by the measures of
the sugar board. There is no present immediate
relief in the situation and Americans, who are the
largest sugar consuming people in the world, are
threatened with an even more serious sugar famine
through the purchase of a large portion of the Cu
ban crop by Europeans.
With the limitation of the American supply
from Cuba, which is our principal source of cane
sugar, now is no time to drop the regulation of
price and supply. Government regulation of food
may not be advisable in normal times, but until
production reaches its former normal level it is
foolish economics to destroy the powers of the
sugar board.—Atlanta Georgian.
TO FURNISH THE HOPS, JOHN.
The Youngstown Telegram tells of an Ohio
man who has invented a machine by means of
which he can gather half a bushel of grasshoppers
at a time. The invention consists of a motor tri
cycle on the front of which is a funnel through
which the insects are drawn by a revolving fan into
a box. We can admire the grandeur of the con
ception and the cleverness of its execution, but just
what the deuce anybody would want with half
bushel of grasshoppers is beyond us.—J. D. S., in
Macon Telegraph.
SOME BOOZE.
An Atlanta cooperage employee, working
with discarded whisky barrels drained a little dregs
from each until he finally had accumulated $1,500
worth of fine, or its equivalent in jail. Verily, that
whisky had a kick in it.—Atlanta Constitution.
SPEAKING OF AUTOS.
While Georgia can boast of I 15,454 tagged
automobiles, we doubt if one-fourth of them are
given in for taxation, while the ones given in are
mostly valued as second-hand flivvers. —Lumpkin
Independent.
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Will make liberal advances on cotton
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