THE NEW BUSINESS
The New Business DEAD, please, the article by Mr. Brandeis in this maga zine on "Business—The New Profession." The famous "attorney for the whole people" is one of the nation's foremost experts on...
...Governor West, who has been holding several hangings in abeyance until the people had spoken, will now order the gallows put in readiness for the victims...
...This is simply good business management and common sense...
...Therefore anything we can do to make the people who do our work at ease in mind and body we regard as good business management, just as we regard fire-insurance, improved machinery and labor-saving devices...
...More than $20,000,000 new capital has been invested in local business enterprises...
...The conservation of the health of employees will be a fundamental principle of good business management in the future...
...This is his duty as the state's chief executive...
...Thus is ended an interesting chapter in the present movement toward more complete self-government in state and nation...
...Therefore large corporations are spending money liberally in playgrounds, rest-rooms, libraries, gymnasiums, sanitary lunch-rooms, moving-picture shows, safety devices, ventilating systems and similar devices for the well-being and enjoyment of their employees...
...Portenar has written vigorously, clearly, persuasively and out of an intimate first hand knowledge of the field...
...Does this seem fitting...
...Time will be when in all the states capital punishment will go the way of the rack and the thumb screw...
...The future policy of Trades Unions is discussed by the author, and legitimate and effective extensions of their activities which are in harmony with law and honorable conduct and in keeping with agreements are pointed out...
...Our people have always been able to maintain themselves against the enemy in every crisis, In this enlightened day and age, when peace movements are world-wide, is it either wise, or fitting, or generous to parade our military power...
...He vigorously denounced the recall of judges and declared, "I must disapprove a constitution containing it...
...The firms that have realized the enormous importance of this discovery are already reaping the benefits...
...The Oregon Journal explains the adverse vote of November 5 on the ground that "we are not yet convinced...
...He must bow to the popular mandate...
...A list is given of 103 leading corporations of Milwaukee showing that— "There have been many new companies incorporated recently, and many others have increased their capital, in sums from $5,000 to $1,000,000...
...There is in this idea of "professionalized business" the promise of a new order of things...
...The famous "attorney for the whole people" is one of the nation's foremost experts on the social aspects of business and industry...
...Foes of the judicial recall wanted to force all mention of this "heresy" out of the Arizona constitution...
...Irvin Passmore...
...Do we as a nation stand for peace and industry, or for war and destruction...
...This the voters did, in the election of December 12, 1911, but with the openly-expressed determination to put the judicial recall back into her fundamental law as soon as possible...
...Human Happiness a Business Asset HUMAN LIFE is gradually becoming recognized as a business asset...
...Fostering Business FROM THE Milwaukee Journal we quote this news item: "Despite the general opinion that presidential election year is always a slack one in all lines of business, 1912 has not proved so in Milwaukee...
...Under Wisconsin's progressive government, special privilege languishes, but legitimate business flourishes...
...Business men are learning that well-fed, well-clothed, contented men and women, working in well-lighted, well-ventilated quarters and on schedules arranged in accordance with our modern knowledge of psychology and physiology, actually turn out more work and better work than under-paid, discontented help, working under uncomfortable and insanitary conditions...
...Why Suggest War...
...Checked But Not Halted OREGON voters decided to retain the death penalty...
...The New Business DEAD, please, the article by Mr...
...We think that here he has caught and expressed, admirably, the new idea of Service that is coming to find expression in buying and selling and producing, even as it has been manifested, more and more frequently, in education and statecraft...
...Friends of the recall, reinforced by others who were not convinced of its wisdom but nevertheless unwilling to deny the people of this commonwealth the right to determine for themselves the kind of government they wanted, fought against striking out the recall provision...
...A well man is of more use to us than a sick man...
...It is even better for Arizona to manifest so dogged a determination to rule herself...
...But it is inevitable that Oregon will, some day, abolish capital punishment...
...Employers of large numbers of human machines are realizing the surprising fact that, as a cold business proposition, it pays, not in sentiment but in dollars, to take good care of their employees...
...A happy, contented woman turns out more work and better work than an unhappy one...
...The voters of Arizona have again asserted a fine spirit of independence which will, in the end, transform all her institutions into instruments for maintaining full and complete self-government...
...And, in the recent election of November 5, they did so...
...IT IS currently reported in the newspapers that the first ship to pass through the Panama Canal is to be a man-of-war, selected by the Secretary of the Navy...
...It was in October, 1910, that the constitutional convention of the territory of Arizona wrote into the constitution with which it planned to set out upon its career of statehood the provision for the recall of all elective officers, including judges...
...This is a new fact in the development of the race...
...A compromise was reached whereby Arizona was to be required to vote once more upon this matter of applying the recall to the judges...
...This isn't charity," says one firm, "we want that clearly understood...
...There are the products of the various industries in our country with which to lade a vessel...
...Which is the more remarkable, his idea that no man should have two terms as President, or his admission that the Constitution might be changed in any respect without opening the way to civic chaos, disorder and "mob rule...
...Let the first ship to pass through the canal indicate the primary use of it...
...When Congress has provided a means of muzzling effectively business of the "dog eat dog" ethics, then the spirit of Service will be free to expand and to elevate all business to a higher plane—to the plane of industrial democracy...
...Life-insurance companies are realizing that they can increase their dividends faster by cutting down the death-rate than by increasing sales or by reducing expenses...
...Killing criminals has not proved a deterrent to crime...
...Why not seize this great opportunity to impress upon the nations of the world that we are a peaceful people, engaged in beneficent industry...
...The Arizona Spirit BESIDES giving women an equal voice in government with men, the new state of Arizona distinguished itself in the recent election by restoring to its constitution the provision for the recall of judges...
...Fairfield, California...
...When it is fully recognized by the industrial world that sickness is a material liability and that health is a realizable commercial asset, says The Journal of the American Medical Association, contagion and preventable diseases will be hunted down and exterminated as relentlessly as modern industrialism now pursues counterfeiters, forgers and other commercial criminals...
...So, as the price of statehood, Arizona was compelled to strike this provision out of her constitution...
...This canal is for commerce...
...It is well for Arizona to have the recall of judges in her constitution—if her people want it...
...Why is it thought necessary, then, to send foremost a ship of war...
...A contest arose...
...But, on August 15, 1911, President Taft vetoed this proposal...
...and the practice of it cannot fail to leave a stain upon society...
...And it is reported that— "The increase in capital of established institutions in the past three months has been $2,805,500, and investments in new businesses $3,293,774.89...
...Then the question of admitting Arizona to statehood came before Congress...
...This constitution was decisively approved by the voters at the polls...
...A Query PRESIDENT TAFT now says the Federal Constitution should be amended so as to permit only a single presidential term, of six years...
...A BOOK which should be of interest to economists, students of industrial problems, and the great mass of organized working men is A. J. Portenar's "Organized Labor: Its Problems and How to Meet them...
...If one asks these men why they are doing these things, they will disclaim any charitable or philanthropic motive...
Vol. 4 • November 1912 • No. 47
