EDITORIALS:
Getting Started WILLTAM KENT, brave, brainy, progressive, independent Congressman from California says: "The battle against privilege which we must fight to a finish has but started." No truer...
...Newspapers are seeking to discredit it...
...10 cents for a sheet of twenty...
...Some would reform Reform...
...I hope every reader of La Follette's will feel, as I do, the importance of the following message, and will themselves co-operate and enthuse others to do so.—B...
...Paul and Minneapolis—it is $9 in those occupations in which women and girls are chiefly employed...
...We are not urging anyone to extravagance under the plea of employing the unemployed...
...a vision thin...
...And it presents with remarkable clearness the terrible evil of patent medicine advertising...
...James Russell Lowell...
...Washington Post...
...doctor's bills, amusements...
...Others demand reform of business and industrial practices...
...We, are glad this particular story conies from a fine crusader who is first of all an artist...
...if you would like to get a glimpse of the unseen forces at work bringing "influence" to bear upon editors...
...Do the citizens of non-suffrage states realize the significance of this fact...
...Mouths of Wisest Censure" AS a people the Americans have a resentful fondness for their caustic critics when they recognize that a sound basis for the strictures exists...
...Public opinion is the great world lever of today, and in the year which must elapse before a declaration of war public opinion would crystallize against war and prevent a conflict...
...I never knew of a fight between two men if they let a day or a week elapse before proceeding to get physical satisfaction after their quarrel," said Mr...
...Daniels...
...We have all just seen what an election day is like as a purely masculine enterprise...
...The Shop Early Campaign has always been addressed to lengthening the Christmas season...
...A minimum wage of $8.75 a week was also ordered in manufacturing, mechanical, telephone, telegraph, laundry, dyeing, dry cleaning, lunch rooms, restaurant or hotel occupations in St...
...This board, when organized, will have at its command all the data on wages and cost of living gathered during the last year by a staff of trained investigators under the Industrial Commission...
...35 cents per hundred...
...Florence Kelley...
...He is a veteran newspaper man, with ten years of experience on a New York daily...
...A Suffrage Test WOMEN voted in the recent election for eight United States Senators and for thirty-seven members of the House of Representatives...
...A "SHOP NOW...
...On the whole, reporters are the severest critics of the system that filters the news through the business office...
...IN BUILDING future cathedrals in Europe it might be wise to use armor-plate in their construction.—Nashville Southern Lumberman...
...Shop Early—Earlier...
...But more strikingly prominent still are the remaining un-progressive states of Missouri, Indiana, Pennsylvania, Delaware, Vermont and Maine, all of which, however, are working toward compensation legislation in 1915...
...Unemployment exists in wide reaches of industry, and many conscientious people are saving their money in order to be able to give more in charity to the unemployed...
...aware, The great world waits new horrors...
...They must upward still, and onward, who would keep abreast with Truth: Lo, before us gleam her campfires...
...The "Wisconsin law of 1913 charged the Industrial Commission with the duty of finding out, in each case, what "minimum wage" should be applied, and then fix that as the legal wage...
...Adams is already known to a large public for his splendid work in exposing the patent medicine frauds...
...IF BERNARD SHAW Is correct in his contention that the way to abolish war is to make it as horrible as possible, we might as well consider the fray in Europe as a farewell performance.—Nashville Southern Lumberman...
...MY FIRST WISH is to see the whole world at peace and the inhabitants of it, as one band of brothers, striving which should contribute most to the happiness of mankind.—George Washington...
...On the lecture platform and in the printed book he stimulates us irritatingly but effectively...
...the blare Of war is over land and main...
...C. L. HOW CAN WE MITIGATE THE HARDSHIP ENTAILED BY THE WAR?— A SUGGESTION By Mrs...
...If the countries now engaged in war in Europe had had the treaties of this character, they would not now be fighting...
...Paul, Minneapolis and Duluth to investigate wages and the cost of living...
...Here is a novel of exceptional worth...
...The beautiful Carnegie Library stood unoped and unutilized...
...The recommendations of the advisory will be presented in due time to the Commission, which in turn will issue orders based upon the scale of wages recommended by the board...
...The picture of a. Court where just men seem To settle all...
...For this year there is a second end in view...
...John Ryan, a distinguished veteran in the movement to bring about industrial justice, was active in this investigation...
...if you wish to understand how it happens that newspapers are cheating so many of you out of what you in good faith pay for— then read Samuel Hopkins Adams' new hook, The Clarion, (Houghton Mifflin Company...
...WE ARE shipping immense quantities of pork to Europe, thus proving again that the pen is mightier than the sword.—Washington Herald...
...The Clarion's "message" is to be gathered only out of the stirring incidents of a battle royal for ideals...
...Recently a petition was sent to this Commission by Milwaukee citizens, asking that this law be now invoked...
...It is the business side that objects...
...I only know that where women and men go together to vote the "any old place" barn, livery stable, empty store, or whatever it happens to be, is replaced by a school, or a library, or even a church as a polling place, and that the benefit is both financial and spiritual...
...The Rev...
...which only goes to demonstrate the essential truthfulness and virility of Mr...
...He knows "the game...
...Where-upon the Commission issued orders fixing the minimum weekly wage to be paid to women workers...
...If you happened to see any pictures in the papers of the women voting in the West, you will catch the point...
...THE National Consumers' League, under the leadership of the able and brilliant Florence Kelly, has accomplished a wonderful work...
...Zueblin is constantly engaged keeps him in the publie eye and turns many readers to his books, The Religion of a Democrat and Democracy and the Overman...
...A Shadowy Court By MARY STEBBINS SAVAGE IN eagle flight the bird-craft ride the air...
...The advisory boards took up, item by item, the living expenses of the typical working girl, including food, clothing, room rent...
...We suggest, therefore, that the Christmas Shopping Campaign bo started not, as usual, to get people to shop as near as may be to Thanksgiving Day...
...Features especially emphasized among these standards are that the scale of compensation for the injured should be based on two-thirds of wages, with adequate medical attendance, and the inclusion of all employees except farm labor, domestic service (except in connection with hotels and restaurants) and casual employment not carried on for the profit of the employer...
...The petition set forth that women and children are not paid a living wage in candy factories, department stores, knitting factories and laundries...
...Even a misprint sometimes tells the truth.—Philadelphia North American...
...The League by constant agitation, has done much to awaken woman's conscience in shopping, and to create sentiment for reasonable hours at all seasons, especially for the holidays, making the commemoration of our Lord's birthday more in accordance with his spirit...
...campaign would enable purchasers to select with care and calmness, to remember everyone, being free from flurry...
...blow for blow Mad...
...Two big areas, the solid south broken only by Kentucky, Louisiana and Texas, and a Rocky Mountain strip extending eastward over the Dakotas, are still backward and untouched by the forward-sweeping wave of compensation...
...I should think, that be governed by a few million other people's wives in a far distant country...
...Paul and Minneapolis...
...Newspaper workers know how true to life is this picture of a newspaper...
...And it would assure to all participants the consciousness that they are diminishing the area of charity by affording an opportunity for work at a moment of the most urgent need for employment...
...It is without doubt the best contribution yet made to the fight against the unholy alliance between Business and Journalism...
...We, the taxpayers, owned these places so suited for the dignified aet of suffrage...
...However, the usual effort is being made to obtain restraining orders from the lower court, and it is possible that legal complications will delay the payment of these living wages...
...Security for the payment of compensation awards, and an accident board to enforce the law...
...I efforts of the Consumers' League in relation to N PAST YEARS, as all the world knows, the Christmas shopping have been wholly directed toward the welfare of the sales clerks and cash children, the delivery men and boys, the wrappers and packers, the changemakers and all the vast and growing army of employees in the Christmas trade...
...are regarded as essential...
...The time, therefore, seems opportune for an appraisal of results, for the adoption of new ideals," says the Association in sending out its "Standards for Workmen's Compensation Laws...
...And that perhaps is natural...
...Three Views of War NEW occasions leach new duties...
...The Rising Tide of Workmen's Compensation Laws "EXACTLY one-half, or twenty-four, of the forty-eight states have enacted workmen's compensation laws during the past four years," is the announcement of the American Association for Labor Legislation in a new bulletin which by the aid of a colored map graphically depicts this revolutionary advance...
...Upon the facts thus determined, the boards made their recommendations...
...vet through this monstrous din There comes the strength of silence, and a dream That haunts the people still...
...In cities of the second class, including Duluth, it is $8.50...
...Adams' story...
...nations strike, until the cup of woe The human race must drink brims everywhere With tragic ill...
...This is the period when merchants long for customers and manufacturers yearn for orders, when employees dread dismissal...
...They do not as individuals question the faithfulness with which the author portrays existing conditions...
...The League has educated women to a sense of their responsibility as buyers and consumers...
...The dust, the dirt, the obscene joke, the tobacco juice that seldom hit the cuspidor: these vanished in the face of the feminine invasion...
...we ourselves must pilgrims be, Launch our Mayflower, and steer boldly through the desperate winter sea, Nor attempt the Future's portal with the Past's blood-rusted key...
...This book is being attacked...
...What is wrong...
...What he found indicates that the problem of establishing a living wage is not so mysteriously complex as the reactionaries would have us believe...
...A distressingly large number satisfy their intelligences and consciences with fervent agitation for cleaning dirty alleys...
...This year we propose to being far earlier than ever was suggested before...
...Their ruthless talons set to rend a foe...
...Some time ago the Minimum Wage Commission of Minnesota appointed advisory committees in St...
...WE ALL remember what the ordinary business office was in the days before the woman stenographer became part of every well equipped place of business...
...Concerning Suffrage By ANNA CADCGAN ETZ THE MEN in my ward ambled over to a barn on election day to perform the highest act of citizenship...
...Through it runs a good new-fashioned love story with a good old-fashioned outcome...
...He is of the first rank of magazine writers...
...Under the procedure laid down in the Wisconsin law, the Industrial Commission now will appoint an advisory board of fifteen persons—five representing manufacturers and merchants, five representing the workers, and five representing the general public...
...The school house was handsome and commodious...
...A Story of a Newspaper THERE is not a newspaper in the country that isn't out for reform...
...It is a vivid, swift-moving epitome of the nationwide struggle between intrenched privilege and honest reporting...
...We must have reform of the newspapers, as a business, before we may hope for much headway in reforming other institutions...
...We are coming to see more and more clearly that (to quote Professor Ross) "the defection of the daily press has been a staggering blow to democracy...
...EUROPEAN Countries Contaminated with Chol-er," says a war item in a newspaper...
...This is the moment of the greatest dislocation of American industry by the European War...
...The educational work in which Mr...
...And of the further fact that no state that has adopted equal suffrage has ever abandoned it...
...No truer words were ever spoken...
...When you buy a garment with the White Label, you know it is made in factories that obey the state laws, make their goods on the premises, do not work overtime, nor employ children under sixteen years of age...
...It is practically certain that within the near future numerous bills will be drafted to strengthen existing laws and to extend the compensation system over the remaining twenty-four states...
...And he knows how to write...
...Charles Zueblin's is one of those "mouths of wisest censure...
...IF THERE IS in the affairs of mortal men any one thing which it is proper to explode, and incumbent upon every man by every lawful means to avoid, to deprecate, to oppose, that one thing is, doubtless, war.—Erasmus...
...Contaminate the source and the entire stream is made unwholesome...
...Living Wages for Women Workers WAGES of working women in two important industrial states are being raised to a higher level...
...And it will be fought to the triumphant end...
...The "War on War" Stamps RECENTLY, La Follette's called attention to the work of the Progressive Women of Massachusetts (257 Washington Street, Boston) who are issuing "Make War on War" stamps with an appeal for world-wide disarmament...
...A living wage is on the way for the great army of women and children who toil...
...The newspapers are the fountain head of public opinion...
...IT WILL surely come home to men in the East in a little while," says Max Eastman, "that they are being governed in national affairs to a considerable extent by the women voters of the West: and, while a man may hate awfully to be governed by his own wife he would rather do that...
...We, the taxpayers, are forced to pay rent for the barn...
...These orders were announced to go into effect November 23...
...But rare is the paper that cries out for reform of the newspaper business...
...Measured in terms of ultimate achievement, this great struggle is indeed only at its beginning...
...A "Crowning Act" RATIFICATION of the new peace commis-sion treaties between the United States and twenty-six other nations was held up as "the crowning act of this decade of human effort" by Josephus Daniels, Secretary of the Navy, in a campaign speech at Farmingham, Missouri, recently...
...If you want the answer...
...Why, I have never been able to understand...
...The polling places, one and all, bore a striking resemblance to the old time business office and one and all they would be improved by the co-operation of women with men...
...it is a safe prophecy that nobody living today will see the day when these countries engage in war with the United States...
...In cities of the first class—St...
...We are pleased that in making this correction attention may again be given to this commendable endeavor toward making this war the last...
...Many want government reform...
...This year the trouble is that there is not work enough for all to do...
...We merely suggest that money which will, in any case, be spent in December should be spent with greater care and consideration in October, and November In hope of mitigating the present hardship entailed by the dislocation of industry caused by the war...
...General Secretary, National Consumers' League...
...An error was made, however, in stating the price at which the stamps are supplied: the correct price is $3.50 per thousand...
...Strange schools of craft infest the sea below To spread fresh terror in the deep...
...beyond this, where we kneel, The Bar of God, our Court of Last Appeal...
...We propose that all the Leagues make concerted efforts to get the Christmas Shopping started as soon as they read this letter...
...time males ancient good uncouth...
...Next year will see an increase in peace treaties, to include every civilized country...
...Now that we have these treaties with these nations, great and small, the possibility of war is reduced to a minimum...
Vol. 6 • November 1914 • No. 45
