Jasper County Democrat, Volume 17, Number 85, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 30 January 1915 — Page 4 Advertisements Column 1 [ADVERTISEMENT]

, • _ • Ml . Province of the -t, Slate In Disputes L-yjll Between Capital and Labor jj-jy ♦♦♦♦♦♦♦♦♦ By MARTIN G BRUMBAUGH, Governor t of Pennsylvania \S—- - ' 4 1 PROPOSE that we shall consider the man rather than his toil. I suggest that it is not the province of the state to act as umpire in industrial disputes. It is the province pf the state to become a party to arguments from the very beginning of any serious dispute. THE ENTIRE COMMONWEALTH IS A FACTOR' AND A PARTY TN EVERY DISCUSSION OF THIS CHARACTER, AND ITS BIGHT MUST BE CONSIDERED AT THE VERY BEGINNING lAS WELL AS AT THE TERMINATION OF EVERY SUCH CONTEST. ' There should be ho inherent antipathy of labor for capital or vice Versa. Their interests are identical, and it is within the power of the state, and, indeed, it is-the state’s duty, to compel both sides to recognize this fact • Let me go a step further and predict that within the next twenty years the state will be as greatly concerned about the leisure time of the people, young and old, as it is now concerned in their working hours. Most crimes are committed during the period of idleness. IT IS OUR DUTY TO INTEREST THE STATE AS A GOVERNING AND LEADING FORCE IN THE USE OF THE HOURS OUTSIDE THE WORKSHOP, AND I PROPOSE TO DO WHAT I CAN IN THE ADMINISTRATION OF MY HIGH OFFICE IN THIS DIRECTION.

Modem Japan Deserves High Place Among Civilized Nations By LINDSAY RUSSELL. President of the Japan Society of New York WHAT I particularly deplore is a certain habit of mind among otherwise sane and efficient Americans that harks back to old prejudices and a belief in old libels against the Japanese, no matter how often or how fully they have been overset and disproved. There is less of it than there was, but its manifestation is frequent. - That is the unpleasant side. On the other' hand, f have found of late among the leaders of the American press and people, like former President Taft, for instance, a calmer and more reasonable view of the Japanese position and American responsibility in face of it. Our society sets its face against the common misunderstanding, BASING ITS' ATTITUDE ON A (’LOSER STUDY AND MORE SYMPATHETIC APPRECIATION OF JAPAN’S ANCIENT iCIVILIZATION AND MODERN UPLIFT, WHICH HAVE COMBINED TO GIVE IT A FIRST PLACE AMONG THE CIVILIZED NATIONS OF THE WORLD. , . So wonderful lias been the progress and so., unique the national life on which the newly acquired accomplishments have been overlaid that there is at first an excuse for misapprehension by the foreigner, but it should disappear on closer acquaintance. INSTEAD, THE LAND OF THE RISING SUN (SO CALLED BY THE CHINESE, SINCE IT IS OVER THE SHORES OF NIPPON THAT ASIA FIRST SEES THE MORNING) IS THE MOST MISUNDERSTOOD COUNTRY IN THE WORLD.

Why Warlike Nations Decline In the Quality of Populations By DAVID STARR JORDAN, Former President of Leland Stanford University IFTER a long period of continuous war the Homan empire found /A difficulty in refilling the emptied military’ranks with efficient Roman soldiers. Military selection had taken tlie strongest and left the empire without the ablebodied citizen youth who would have been their descendants. Our own civil war took a million men, some of the men with the finest qualities. Many of them left no descendants. Those who were unfit were left behind. North and south the nation has suffered by this loss. The new generation of men and women since the war has taken the nation’s problems into their hands, BUT THESE ARE HANDS NOT SO STRONG OR SO ABLE AS THOUGH THE MEV OE TODAY STOOD SHOULDER TO SHOULDER WITH THE MEN THAT MIGHT HAVE BEEN.' The Bien who died in that war had better stuff in them than the father of the average man of today. Those states which lost most of their young blood will not recover for centuries,- perhaps never. We can never know how great our actual loss has been. THE WARLIKE NATION OF TODAY IS THE dECADENT NATION OF TOMORROW. THE NATIONS THAT ARE AT WAR ALL ARE PAYING THE SAME PENALTY. REVERSED SELECTION IN EUGENICS WILL HANDICAP EVERY ONE OF THEM.

Working Women Should Be Protected by a Compulsory Minimum Wage Law By Miss GERTRUDE BARNUM, Special Agent For United States Industrial Commission IFEEL a sense of shame for those wealth* women who live in luxury on the money wrested from poorly employees of their husbands AND A GREATER SHAME THAT THE MONEY THEY r HAVE TAKEN IN THIS MANNER THEY HAVE LAVISHED IN EXTRAVAGANCE AND WASTE. There is no fairness in the average business man in dealing with his female employee. He gets her for as low' a wage as her necessities compel her to accept, works her for as many hours as she may endure and makes as much profit out of her as he possibly can without any humane considerations. The workingkomen themselves are largely to blame. They have accepted these conditions and pretended.to be satisfied with them in order to get employment and gain the favor of those wherexploit them. ' THERE SHOULD BE A COMPULSORY MINIMUM LAW FOR EVERY FEMALE LABORER, WHETHER SHE BE IN THE FACTORY, THE STORE OR THE HOME.