TRAINING FOR PUBLIC SERVICE
Training For Public" Service TRAINING young men and women for public * service is a new, but promising, movement in this country. Specialization is the modern way. Our universities recognize this...
...Ely is a member of the Executive Committee of the Mayor's Committee of National Defense of New York City...
...A number of senators, it is said, have already given their pledge to vote for thus amending the Senate rules...
...Because of this feature of the Senate it has been able to keep measures before the public, to thresh them out thoroughly, to expose riders and jokers and graft and corruption in legislation...
...Law, engineering:, journalism, forestry, commerce, teaching, mi dicine, agriculture—all these, and the rest are included in schools and courses...
...It is encouraging to note that a bill by Assemblyman Ev.mte is now before the Wisconsin legislature to create a school for puhlic service at the University of Wisconsin, "devoted to training mill and women for the service of the State of Wisconsin and for service in the cities of the State by practical training methods...
...to lose them would be to lose our most precious possession, the thing best worth fighting for, if fight we muyt...
...Our universities recognize this fart, and provide for it, in nearly every human enterprise...
...A Confession of Guilt (Editorial from the New York "World") 'J'HE sudden desire of the news print paper manufacturers to have the Federal Trade Commission fix "a reasonable price" for their output is a confession that they have been guilty not, only of extortion but of unlawful restraint of trade...
...LIBERTY and Monopoly can not live together.—* Heket D. Lloyo...
...But he writes...
...The World has no interest in the case except to secure justice in the public interest...
...The House of Representatives is a place where the majority rides rough shod over the minority, with allowances of only the most fragmentary speeches upon the most important of measures...
...Good citizens who have been bewildered by the frantic, efforts of a bought-and-paid-for press may well read and consider carefully this protest and warning against an internal danger that is looming up before us...
...larger newspapers have been better able to protect themselves...
...Those who believe, as i do, in compulsory military service and the necessity for full preparation for national defense are bound also to acknowledge the inalienable right of American citizens to hold different views and express them without obloquy...
...It makes its own paper and is not at the .mercy of Hie- trust...
...Worse Than a Foreign Foe WE ARE printing the following extract from a letter which appeared in the New York Hinting 1'nst of March 16, 1017, as a wholesome indication that not all advocates of militarism are blind to the dangers within this country of the suppression of full and free dis-cussiou of national problems and perils...
...But it was not \mtil the Department of Justice took action that the manufacturers showed concern...
...It would furnish expert hired help for the tax payers...
...If ever there was occasion for rigorous enforcement of the law...
...Surely our case is not so weak that we must be unfair to those who disagree with us, but whose patriotism we have no moral right to question...
...The Senate should not abrogate its high privilege...
...After all, the Sherman law has teeth in il...
...No Gag for the Senate From an Editorial in the New York "Mail" Protesting Against Cloture for the United States Senate \X7" ASII1NGTON dispatches imply lhat the Senate is expected to amend its cloture rules, at the present special session, in which it has been called for the purpose of confirming presidential nominations...
...Every day It becomes clearer that we are facing a more serious peril than a foreign foe—the virtual denial to law-abiding Americans of the sovereignty of the individual conscience and the right of frre speech...
...In the Senate it cannot be done...
...In the House measures framed behind committee doors are rushed through before the public knows what they mean...
...When they think it over, they will feel differently...
...the news print paper people in their greed deliberately created it, as they now admit by their headlong retreat...
...No bill could be passed until every Senator had a. chance to speak once upon it, to say his full mind...
...Is an unprejudiced mind inconsistent with love of country and a desire to serve it to the uttermost...
...These are more necessary for the protection of our institutions than navy and army...
...Because of their greater resources the...
...The Senate has been the place for deliberate action...
...They will hesitate to remove from Congress the last vestige of free, full speech...
...For eighteen months the Federal Trade "Commission has been conducting an investigation of the news print paper industry...
...When finally they saw that they were threatened with criminal prosecution \inder the Anti-Trust Act, all at once they abandoned their attitude of defiance and hegan to dicker for terms...
...through no fault of the combination of manufacturers...
...But the practices the manufacturers' have pursued have been confiscatory in the case of many smaller newspapers, to which the price of paper has been arbitrarily doubled and trebled...
...Such schooling would be helpful...
...But public service, which deals vitally with all human efforts and relationships, remains largely neglected...
...But its success must rest—as in all educational training—upon disinterested, intelligent, courageous, truth-seeking democratic direction...
...as they acknowledge by their eagerness to reach a place of safety...
Vol. 9 • March 1917 • No. 3
