NEWS WORTH REMEMBERING
News Worth Remembering THE critical situation existing between Germany and the United States at the time the last number of La Follette's was written, has since been fortunately relieved....
...I. M. Rubinow, executive secretary of the Social Insurance Committee of the American Medical Association, said: "The problem of destitution of millions is the gravest problem that con-fronts this, as well as any other civilized society today...
...Under fourteen, children should not be employed...
...sunshine and music...
...This report is known as the "Springfield Survey...
...But when the full record of his service has been written his greatest lesson will be the application of his plant methods toward the rearing of a better human species...
...For the past three years "Harper's Weekly" has been owned by an independent corporation, backed by men of national prominence...
...This means the merging of two of the oldest of American periodicals...
...When the cactus had to contend with hungry beasts and heat of the desert, it developed spines and a thick hide...
...Address B. B., care LA FOLLETTE'S MAGAZINE, Madison, Wis...
...One of the "arguments" advanced by the railroad managers in opposition to this demand of the train service employees is that "wages have steadily increased...
...It was also shown further by exhibits submitted during the western arbitration that during the more recent years, 1900-1913, the cost to the transportation companies for wages of engineers and firemen decreased 12 per cent...
...Friends of the Senator had secured a half dozen elms from Washington's plantation home on the Potomac...
...Less Than Living Wages Undermine Family Life "Workers who give their full working time to an industry should receive, as a very minimum, a wage which will provide the necessities of life...
...Norman Hapgood, editor, will retire...
...proposed by Representative London's resolution to make an exhaustive inquiry into the whole question of social Insurance...
...Dark Days Ahead "Hey, Moike, and phwat do ye t'ink Of these new sanitary drinkin'-cups...
...This resolution received the hearty approval of authorities in every field of activity devoted to the betterment of working class conditions...
...As a consequence, the labor cost to the railroads of engine and train crews has decreased...
...To produce these results for the railroads they have had to work excessive hours...
...Stone emphasized the value of extensive public works, such as the construction of highways and reclamation work generally, as an immediate means for absorbing the army of the unemployed...
...Summing up the problem, Dr...
...Would you like to enter a business that requires small capital at the beginning and that will grow rapidly...
...He said that the working people pay out $100,000 in premiums for every $40,000 received in benefits...
...Until they are sixteen years of age it is of first importance that they develop normally and receive training for the work of later life...
...pleasant companionship and the training which fits a nature for the enjoyment of its task as well as to insure efficiency...
...Burbank regards it as a fortunate circumstance toward the progress of the race that the wealthy idle have no families or only small ones...
...By good environment I mean enough to eat, first of all...
...Louis Democratic Convention on June 14, are going to impress the Democrats with their presence by means of a unique feature, a "Walkless Parade...
...Rows upon rows of white clad women, decked with yellow streamers and sashes, and carrying picturesque yellow parasols, will form a complete line around the Jefferson Hotel and the Coliseum, the two central points for the delegates, so that every man as he comes and goes all day long will be surrounded and confronted by the visible indication that women all over the United States want the vote, and moreover, want a suffrage plank in the Democratic platform...
...Senator La Follette was scheduled to make the principal address, but was unable to be present because of the pressure of business at the national capital...
...It was shown that wage payments to transportation employees required only 19 cents out of each dollar of revenue earned by western railroads in 1913 as compared with 21 cents out of each dollar of revenue in 1890...
...On March 2 the lower house voted fifty-one to thirty-six in favor of taking the suffrage bill from committee...
...sunshine and air and room to grow...
...The Independent" is sixty-eight years old...
...And it remarked pointedly, "The German people know to what considerable extent its enemies are supplied with all kinds of war material from the United States...
...We can neither work in unison toward the development of a better species, or at odds, with animosities and a preying one upon another...
...The method of social insurance is the only one which, in the experience of modern Europe, has succeeded at least in mitigating the sea of human destitution, and promises to abolish it altogether...
...Otherwise, family life will be undermined...
...Trainmen Refute "Increased Wages" Argument Railway trainmen are waging a vigorous fight for the Eight-Hour work day...
...directing intelligently, or groping blindly...
...That there is always some pressure exerted in academic communities, as elsewhere, to keep radical propagandists quiet and to discourage destructive criticism of the existing order no one will deny," he says...
...Underfed, underpaid, ignorant and helpless folk, peopling the deserts of our cities, go through identically the same readjustment...
...Any occupation, therefore, is objectionable which interferes with such development or training...
...In gathering the data the investigators visited factories and mercantile establishments, and called upon many workers in their homes...
...Their children give promise of the best flowering...
...At this writing it has not been announced whether he will continue actively in journalism, but there are newspaper accounts to the effect that he will accept from President Wilson an important appointment...
...On May 5 came Germany's reply...
...As a rule, it is exerted subtly, often unconsciously, in large universities which are supposedly free...
...It is apparent from these facta that the productive efficiency of transportation employees has increased faster than their rates of pay...
...Information was secured from labor organizations, the commercial association, and various official documents...
...Capen states that upon the settlement of this question depends the whole welfare of American educa-cation...
...They develop, barbed, suspicious, embittered natures...
...The German government considers it has gone "to the utmost limit of concessions...
...Coincident with his message to Congress of last month, President Wilson caused to be sent to the German government a diplomatic note reciting the violations of existing international law by German submarine commanders, and ending with the ultimatum: "Unless the Imperial Government should now immediately declare and effect an abandonment of its present methods of submarine warfare against passenger and freight-carrying vessels, the government of the United States can have no choice but to sever diplomatic relations with the German Empire altogether...
...These were transplanted in the school yard and the public square of the little Wisconsin village where Senator La Follette spent his boyhood days on the farm...
...The report continues: "Either the 'necessities of life' should include enough to allow workers to carry insurance and save something for old age or else industry should provide directly for the care of incapacitated workmen and for the dependents of workmen who are killed at work, by payment made by the employer—the cost to be distributed over society by some form of insurance, or by some other method...
...Congress has no moral right to refuse to the American people, at least, all the information on the subject...
...Working conditions should be made as wholesome and safe as possible...
...Fire hazard should be minimized, machinery guarded, sanitary conditions maintained, industrial diseases prevented, and good light and ventilation provided...
...The immediate aim of Luther Burbank has been to contribute to the flowers...
...When considered on the basis of freight tonnage, it was found that it cost the railroads for wages to locomotive engineers and firemen 65 cents for each 1,000 tons carried one mile in 1890, while, in 1913, engineers and firemen transported 1,000 tons a mile for only 33 cents, a decrease of cost to the railroads for these employees alone, during this period of slightly more than 50 per cent...
...Responsibility in such matters is single, not joint...
...He is as practical as potatoes and beans...
...He said that before constructive work could be performed in the direction of alleviating Unemployment the Government should make a careful investigation and secure official data...
...The German note recited at some length the grievances of Germany against what the note terms Great Britain's violations of international law "surpassing all bounds in outraging neutral rights...
...These and other questions affecting free speech in American institutions of higher learning are discussed by Dr...
...The bargaining power in settling the terms of the work agreement should be as evenly balanced as possible between the employer and the employee...
...Hereafter it will be incorporated with "The Independent...
...C. L. Harper of the State Department of Education delivered an address in which he suggested that the planting and the care of these elms be made symbolic of the whole Conservation movement...
...The ceremonies were participated in by seven of the neighboring district schools...
...It is stated that "instances are not unknown where the governing boards of state institutions have behaved as if the institutions under their control belonged to them, and neither the educational officers nor the public had the right to demand reasons for their acts...
...So the crust of human bitterness, the thorns which men have retained from a harsh, barbarous life, could be quickly removed if selfishness and rapacity could be eliminated...
...There must be cleanliness instead of filth...
...Every worker should have one day of rest in seven...
...It took the cactus a thousand years to develop spines," he said, "but even this dumb thing can be taught in a few years to no longer bristle to protect itself when properly cared for...
...Is There Academic Freedom...
...The train service men's publicity Good Openings For Business In Wisconsin ARE you interested in a live retail enterprise...
...Social Insurance Is Made a Live Issue Social insurance to remedy the evil of Unemployment was placed squarely before the American people as an issue when on April 6 a hearing was held before the Committee on Labor of the House of Representatives on London's resolution calling for the appointment of a commission on social insurance to prepare a plan for the establishment of a national insurance fund...
...During the evening automobiles will be stationed at intervals from which men and Women will make suffrage speeches, reminding the delegates again of the suffrage plank...
...It has done this "not alone by the friendship connecting the two great nations for over one hundred years, but also by the thought of the great doom which threatens the entire civilized world should the cruel and sanguinary war be extended and prolonged...
...Its extent varies with the institution...
...It has vigorously upheld the administration of President Wil-sin...
...Women and children should not be employed at night...
...fairly good clothes to satisfy self-respect...
...It deals with the industrial conditions of Springfield, Illinois...
...Irregularity of employment should be minimized and when workers lose their positions adequate facilities should exist to help them find new work...
...Commercial insurance is absolutely inadequate, and social insurance is the only solution," declared Commissioner Nesbit...
...The present movement for an eight-hour day is, therefore, a reasonable request by transportation employees to participate in the results of their own labor, not primarily in terms of dollars and cents but in form of a shorter work day...
...SuffrageGainsStrengthin The South In Kentucky on March 8 the state senate passed a bill giving women the right to vote on all state issues...
...less in 1913 than in 1890...
...N. I. Stone, of New York, formerly statistician for the United States Tariff Board, gave his unqualified approval to the London proposition...
...This action the government of the United States contemplates with the greatest reluctance but feels constrained to take in behalf of humanity and the rights of neutral nations...
...Eight hours for a day's work is the standard which is now widely accepted...
...absolute not relative...
...Washington Elms Planted at La Follette's Birthplace Mount Vernon, the historic Virginia home of George Washington, was brought in a unique manner to Mount Vernon, the Wisconsin birthplace of Senator Robert M. La Follette, on Arbor Day...
...There is the greatest need for a commission of the kind The "Plant Wizard's" Philosophy Luther Burbank's Views on the Influence of Economic Conditions By JACK JUNGMEYER "THE human plant responds to thousands of refined influences which do not affect other organisms, adapting itself quickly to new environment and yielding most rapidly to development or blight...
...S. P. Capen, of the federal Bureau of Education, in his review of the year made to the Secretary of the Interior...
...Harper's Weekly" has been in existence fifty-nine years...
...They spring from the best social soil, which is about as far removed from the world's nob hills as from its poverty alleys...
...University of Michigan Gargoyle...
...Harper's Weekly" Merges With "Independent" Magazine readers everywhere were interested in the announcement that on May 1, "Harper's Weekly" ceased publication...
...This significant statement is contained in a report, just published, by the Russell Sage Foundation...
...Hours of labor should not be so long as to injure health or to deny workers opportunity for self improvement, the development of home life, and an intelligent interest in public affairs...
...President Wilson and Secretary Lansing after careful consideration of the German reply, notified the government at Berlin that this government accepts in good faith its assurances that its submarine warfare will be changed so as to meet the demands of the United States...
...The fact that the substantial middle class, the workers of the world with hands and brains, are more prolific and produce the hardiest stock...
...conditions vary from these requirements and what important steps should be taken here, as in many other cities where industrial unrest proves that employers and workers and the general public have not solved their mutual problems...
...The vote fell little short of the necessary two-thirds...
...Suffrage organizations are finding encouragement in news items from Southern states...
...The government at Berlin announced to the United States that new orders had been issued to its naval commanders holding them to a strict compliance with international law and the rights of neutrals...
...Sure, Pat, and soon we'll have to spit on our hands wid an eye-dropper...
...Altruistic, efficient, gentle people are nurtured in clean, inspiring en-vironment...
...Are professors allowed to speak their minds freely, or are they merely "hired men," to be engaged and discharged without assigned cause at the pleasure of the university trustees...
...for each 1,000 tons of freight hauled one mile...
...We know of some especially favorable openings in Wisconsin which will interest you...
...Yet the German government expressly reserves the right to "complete liberty of decision" in the future if what it considers violation of "the laws of humanity" by other belligerents is not brought to an end by the efforts of the United States...
...The report shows how far Springfield...
...Charles S. Nesbit, Commissioner of Insurance of the District of Columbia, gave the committee the results of his investigations into insurance against sickness as it affects the working people in the district...
...A flower can be coaxed out of almost any weed...
...If the business cannot provide this there is a serious question whether it has a right to exist...
...One thing would at once stand out as a wonderful ally," he continued...
...The "Walkless" Parade The suffrage delegates to the St...
...Burbank is not a theorist...
...If so, write us...
...Yet the President, through Secretary Lansing, remarks in his final note to Germany: "In order to avoid any possible misunderstanding the government of the United States notifies the Imperial Government that it cannot for a moment entertain, much less discuss, a suggestion that respect by German naval authorities for the rights of citizens of the United States upon the high seas should in any way or in the slightest degree be made contingent upon the conduct of any other government affecting the rights of neutrals and non-combatants...
...During the course of the recent arbitration between the western railroads and their engineers and firemen, it was shown that the proportion of total operating expenses arising from payments to transportation employes was 14 per cent...
...bureau has issued a statement on this feature of the controversy in which they show that wage increases have not increased the cost of operation...
...Luther Burbank, philosopher-plant wizard, was elucidating his observations on the analogy between plant and human society, after forty years of ceaseless experimenting...
...Secretary of State Lansing summed up the situation as it exists today, diplomatically, when he said: "So long as Germany lives up to this altered policy, we can have no reason to quarrel with her on that score, though the losses resulting from violations of American rights by German submarine commanders operating under the former policy will have to be settled...
...Write for our book (it's FREE) giving full details of the proposition...
...Men with families dependent upon them should receive enough for the support not only of themselves but of a normal family...
...They say: "Engine and train crews have transported proportionately a greater volume of freight than they have received increases in wages...
...Not contention and nagging and the choking influences of the slums, with coarse living, but a coaxing out of the delicate tendrils of endeavor and idealism upon the fundamental trunk of mere physical existence...
...But these railroad managers, in this connection, make no reference to increased train loads and decreased operating expenses which compel their empoyees to work harder and handle more traffic for any additional wages they may have received during the past few years...
...While this report is concerned with the conditions of only one city, nevertheless exposes the fact that employers in Springfield are not doing justice to the workers in the various industries, and suggests that the conditions prevailing in Springfield are typical of most industrial centers of the United States...
Vol. 8 • May 1916 • No. 5
