PASS THE SEAMEN'S BILL
Pass the Seamen's Bill IN THIS Year of Our Lord, 1913, the shadow of slavery rests upon our country—a country dedicated to the equal rights of men. Sailors under the American flag are held in...
...I'd rather see a savior of the United States than set up to he one...
...of auxiliary schools, kindergarten, and instruction of the blind...
...He didn't win...
...But as for other men setting up as Providence over myself, I seriously object...
...Getting licked is the precise procedure by which men grow strong enough to do the licking...
...And that to my mind is an image of government...
...Senator Lea was leader, organizer and a big share of the motive power behind the fight to oust, the reactionaries from headship of the powerful committees...
...A Word for Luke Lea SENATOR LUKE LEA of Tennessee probably has a feeling today, as he contemplates the revised committee list of the Senate, that he has been in a fight, and that while the decision was a draw he got most of the punishment...
...exhibits' showing the teaching of religion, history, language, geography, astronomy, natural history and industrial economics, and the library...
...Careless or perverted public opinion is the real source of most municipal woes...
...They know how difficult it is to start a new enterprise...
...American cities are gradually increasing their functions and extending their control in matters of public interest...
...because I have found out, I have actually found out, that men I consult with know more than I do, —especially if I consult with enough of them...
...It must be made strong and effective...
...He who fights and doesn't run away will live to fight another day...
...and we favor the repeal of all laws, and the abrogation of so much of our treaties with other nations, as provide for the arrest and imprisonment of seamen charged with desertion or with violation of their contract of service...
...by practice they get to be widely apart.—Confucius...
...Lea will not worry...
...Every moment of delay in righting this great wrong but adds to the country's shame...
...There is a Providence to which I am perfectly willing to submit...
...That is the way I feel about this saying of my fellow-countrymen...
...I never came out of a committee meeting or a conference without seeing more of the question that was under discussion than I had seen when I went in...
...They know what the thing is that they are struggling against...
...In the selection of civic functions, however, they are still conservative...
...Justice to the seamen, protection to the traveling public, the honor of the nation, require the speedy enactment of this law...
...Washington Times...
...General policies should be determined by the voters, but the technical methods and details of carrying out those policies should be left to experts...
...In Germany, on the other hand, cities engage in such undertakings as the complete development of land subdivisions, which the American pub-lie would not, at least as yet, consider...
...And their enslavement is sanctioned by law...
...I suspect that the people of the United States understand their own interests better than any group of men in the confines of the country understand them...
...BY NATURE men are nearly alike...
...For twenty long years the seamen have striven to secure freedom, decent working conditions, and safety...
...These are most serious points of omission from our point of view...
...It is like a family counsel deciding upon the necessity of medical treatment for a sick child, and calling in a physician to diagnose the case and write the prescription...
...Sailors under the American flag are held in bondage...
...The Shipping Trust was strong...
...Here are those pledges: REPUBLICAN "We favor the speedy enactment of laws to provide that seamen shall not be compelled to endure involuntary servitude and that life and property shall be safeguarded by the ample equipment of vessels with life-saving appliances and with full complements of skilled, able-bodied seamen to operate them...
...they should furnish the public with such knowledge of the operations of the city as it may require for its intelligent guidance and action...
...It is the opinion of Colonel Judson that the people can best govern a city through the election of a small commission of fair, broad-minded men, imbued with the civic spirit...
...The men who are sweating blood to get their foothold in the world of endeavor understand the conditions of business in the United States very much better than the men who have arrived and are at the top...
...DEMOCRATIC "We urge upon Congress the speedy enactment of laws for the greater security of life and property at sea...
...The Breslau school museum is one of fifteen permanent educational expositions established in the -German Empire since 1904...
...The commissioners should be elected, but the personnel of those employed in the city service should Wilson's Views on "Playing Providence" From "The New Freedom" IDON'T WANT a smug lot of experts to sit down behind closed doors in Washington and play Providence to me...
...The principal duties of the commissioners should be to secure and utilize the services of experts...
...President Taft killed it with a "pocket veto...
...Congress has not listened...
...Such laws and treaties are un-American and violate the spirit, if not the letter, of the Constitution of the United States...
...I am not willing to be under the patronage of the trusts, no matter how providential a government presides over the process of their control of my life...
...and a large hall containing examples of school work from Germany and other lands...
...Let him remember La Follette's experience of having Administration, patronage, over-whelming majorities, all devoted to the business for years of suppressing him...
...An Efficient City AN EFFICIENT city government, says Colonel William V. Judson, at the close of four years' service as Engineer Commissioner of the District of Columbia, is one where each function that the city chooses to exercise is well selected, and performed according to a carefully determined common standard, at a minimum cost, with dispatch, and without discrimination between citizens...
...On the second floor are busts of well-known educators of the past— Comenius, Pestalozzi, Diesterweg, and Froebel...
...THE CITY of Breslau, Germany, has a new "school museum," where the best things in educational progress are shown for the benefit of the public...
...They know that somewhere, by somebody, the development of industry is being controlled...
...Let Senator Lea contemplate the experience of La Foleette, on whom the Senate "walked out" when he made his first speech...
...Last session, however, with the "voice of the voters" still ringing in their ears, the people's representatives at Washington passed a Seamen's Bill...
...It was not a thorough-going measure, but still it afforded some measures of relief...
...The abolition of this "involuntary servitude" was pledged in both the Republican and the Democratic, platforms in the last campaign...
...The commissioners should also hold the reins of government so that the different departments shall not encroach upon each other, but shall have a fair and equal opportunity for development...
...Colonel Judson approves of the principle laid down by President Hadley of Yale, that the test of government is its ability to secure and utilize the services of experts...
...I have never met a political savior in the flesh, and I never expect to meet one...
...A great many citizens must give time and attention and careful study to municipal problems in their broadest aspect, so that their well-digested opinions shall help to create and uphold the right policies for the city government...
...I have never found a man who knew how to take care of me, and, reasoning from that point out, I conjecture that there isn't any man who knows how to take care of all the people of the United States...
...They know how far they have to search for credit that will put them upon an even footing with the men who have already built up industry in this country...
...Then let him consider that yesterday La Fot,-lette, having survived his enemies and grown to a place of power and leadership, was called to the White House to consult a President of the opposite party about that party's program...
...I am one of those who absolutely reject the trustee theory, the guardianship theory...
...be selected, promoted, retained, or discharged with an eye single to merit and fitness...
...I am reminded of Gellett Burgess' verses: I never saw a purple cow, I never hope to see one, But this I'll teU you anyhow, I'd rather see than be one...
...A very important part of city government, says Colonel Judson, should be a bureau of research and publicity, for it is very important that public opinion should be active, well-informed, and just...
...Above are the exhibits of manual training and domestic science...
...A half-way measure will not be tolerated...
...On the first floor are exhibits of school architecture, school furnishings, hygiene and statistics, mathematics, physics and chemistry, and a testing room for scientific apparatus used in the school...
...of drawing, singing, and physical training...
...As a very young Senator with a very great deal of "pep" in his composition, we trust Mr...
...The campaign resulting in their election should reveal the general policies favored by the people...
...In China the city furnishes neither a water system nor a sewerage system...
Vol. 5 • March 1913 • No. 13
