PART THREE
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PART THREE
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VOL. XLIX NO. 27.
OMAHAn SUNDAY MORNING, DECEMBER 21, 1919.
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True Conception of R eal Church Obtained Only After Reversion
To Simple Principles Taught Little Children hy Their Mothers
Millions of People Retain Their Faith
And Reverence for Omnipotent Being in
- V Sweet Memories of Childhood Religion
"Little Brown Church in the Vale" Conveys to Innumerable Americans-the Incep
tions of Their Youth Their First Prayer Taught by Mother First Sun-
. . day'School Glad Christmas Time Accept Preachings of Good Saint, Coun
try Parson, as Way to Live to Attain Everlasting Life.
Harking back to the old days
when the family used to all prepare
for the Sabbath worship at the
crossroads, where the highly re
spected of the community gathered
rych Sunday to pay homage to their
God, back to the days when the
hitching posts were all filled with
the aristocratic farm horse straps,
while the masters were attending
divine service within the old edifice
immortalized in the "little brown
church in the vale," M. S. Briggs of
Plattsmouth, in giving his concep
tion of the true church, urges Amer
ica to recall the days of its youth.
His theory is almost generally ac
ceptedthat if- the. adult can be
brought to recall the , days of his
youth, to remember the little prayer
he arned at his mother's knee, and
re-grasp that childhood reverence
for the Almighty God, the church
of today, would" be assured of mar
velous growth and development
But does Mr. Briggs know how to
sufficiently retard the mad rush of
the modern man toward business
and worldly success to make him
realize the crying need of the church
of today for- just that type of mem
ber to build up the Holy Kingdom
on this earth.
- The open discussion of "what is
a church" will be continued in The
Bee for yet a week or two. Opinions
of readers are welcomed and pub
lished insofar as space permits.
Organized Working Christianity.
"Responses to the query of The
Omaha Bee like that which has as
surance in a multitude of minds and
is even now clamoring for an an
swer, we alike are inquiring the full
significance of the term, 'What is
the church?' Not that we do not
have an adequate conception of the
true meaning, but what -do people
situated in the dfferent walks of life
understand by the. expression, 'the
church.'
1 " 'The little brown church inf the
vale.' conveys to millions of people
the inceptions of youth, of mothers'
teaching of the little ones when the
first -lispings of 'Now I Lay Me
Down to Sleep,' of the first Sunday
school, of the glad Christmas time,
of the angel's song of Peace- on
Earth and Good Will to Men,' and
with the preaching of that good
saint, the country parson, is the ac
ceptance of the way ,to live and also
tp everlasting life. v '
"This in general is the meaning
which millions of people accept as
'what is the church?' and this they
revere as being 'True as Gospel.'
This belief, this faith we would have
them ever keep.
. Carpet on the Aisles.
"There is the fine church in any
of our cities, whose carpet on the
aisles are of plush and one's feet
sinks into the nap thereof like
the barefoot boy, 'who tramps the
mead, knee deep in June'; with the
great pipe organ, the high-salaried
chorus, and the eminent D.D..
whose theology is some tortuous
discourse on the evolution of man,
or the rising from some other
source or other animal, the human
race; where go to be entertained
those who wish to have their minds
diverted from the stress of busi
ness, and do not care for the movies.
ThiS i an example not of the com
mon church, but one phase which
has caught the eye of the laboring
man.
"He sees six long days of cease
less toil not fully paid, and with this
vision of the 'church of the rich' he
prefers a rod and line under the
shade of a .friendly tree by the river
side, and who can censure him 'with
ugly facts staring him in the face.'
"Church to him is not 'The Lambs
bride,' but a place where 'so much
per' the rich, and he who has be
come so by unjust gains can salve
their consience.
Erroneous Conception.
( "Of the church in general, this
conception is erroneous, but sad it
is in some instances is true. Then,
there is the church to which you
belong because it gives you stand
ing in society, it helps your busi
ness and permits you to do things
which otherwise society would cen
sure you for doing.
"Now the church in general, be
reft of the classifications and doc
tornal divisions, is the organized
working force of Christianity, is that
land of people who have consecrated
their lives and talents to the service
of humanity in whatever station
in life they may be.
t This is what ministers to the
sick, the unfortunate; educates the
child in the ethics of right leaning
vouches, love justice and humanity
cares for the orphan and seeks the
best in the world and with a faith
in God and his Christ that will move
mountains for the betterment of the
race, is taking the Bible as its text
book and with a charity that suf
fereth long and is kind, endeavoreth
all things and never faileth, is the
true church which the Master in
stituted among men, and a mem
orial to the life, the bread and
the message which he brought and
delivered from a loving Father.
The True Church.
"This is. the true church. The
workin church and the work of the
Master cannot be separated from the
work for His children, those who
need your service.
"If you cannot be of aid to' the
ones with whom you are traveling,
whose needs you know and who are
at your finger tips, with whom you
touch elbows in your everyday life,
your mission has been in vain. Let
not the sun go down on a day in
church it seems the Bible school is,
and should be, the one with the
greatest possibilities for a better
life here and a true and abiding
faith, leading to that life which is
to burst on our view and realiza
tion, when we shall be baptized,
born into that world of service be
gins this one of many doubts.
"M. S. BRIGGS,
"Plattsmouth, Neb."
Uncle Sam Does Heaviest Business
Of The Year Helping Santa Claus
Indifference of Members.
"All the ministers and church
workers are interested about the
church problem as it presents itself
today, namely: Indifference on the
part of church members going to
church and the inability on the part
of pastors to attract the young peo
ple to the so-called house of wor
ship. ,
"Why not begin right now at the
bottom and see if the trouble is not
with the ministers and the church
reformers before them. They are
sincere and have accomplished much
in bringing the world to a closer re
lationship with God; inasmuch as
righteousness has been their inten- j
tion to teach an! if they had only!
continued in the teaching of right
eousness and showing to the world
the need of the Lord over this world
taking -the form of flesh to die in
order that through His blood we
may be saved, instead of trying to
restore the church of God without
inspiration, in ' other words a
prophet or messenger ' sent from
God.
Petty Church Ordinances.
They probably would . not have
so many divisions among them and
these little petty church ordinances
and different plans of salvation they
hand around for people to take their
choice would not stand inN the way
of the .different denominations con
solidating under one name, which
could be tailed the National Chris
tian association, instead of the
church which we haven't on the
earth now, unless God has sent a
prophet to restore the church since
it fell away during the period of
time known in history as the 'dark
ages.' 1
"Jesus told us there would be a
falling away before He would come
to earth again. These educated
preachers', they know God always
did send a prophet even in the
.. L:.u ..... 1.. U-a "'a sena a
to a fclioTbei hoe7 liSie J'hhatt oSSS?
aki. riJ ; any change in the order of things.
'ISSS; they are In- sent hn the Baptist a prophet
spiring. We remember them through t0. prep,lre -!het wy Jor ?urt hor'
We. They are a foundation and f. with authority to baptize, but He is
spiration all along the journey. The not represented as ordaining any-
o j j nn-. h franc attui- H Ttuici
aVTgood all PthaCffi' aynCdS' when Prophets taken, from'W h
good? so much the better. The fel- lhere. was Tmore such authority
rn,hm triif. rordial and whole- ,VCI? u u" Jesus
souled, an. encouragement to bet
ter lives, greater effort for more ef
ficient work.
Encourage th6 Church.
"These are good, and while there
exist many things not in harmony
with the teachings of the Master,
encourage the church for it is a
lamp post in a dark country with
many a sea of quicksand on either
side. You may not like the preach
er, but remember he is human.
"Of all the departments of the
until Jesus ordained the
Twelve Apostles; and although He
gave them authority to baptize and
heal all manner of disease, they
could not lay on hands for ordina
tion until after Jesus sent the Holy
Ghost, which opened the meaning of
all the scriptures to them and in
spired men with power to organize
churches. "
"He told them to preach repent
ance and remission of sins. But
don't they see, He said: 'But tarry
ye in Jerusalem until you be en
dowed with power from on high.
In j n a
IIU (i f 11(1 ,
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, The men at the post office sa
they are glad when the Christmas
season is over, because these are
the busiest days of the year foi
them. Extra help is. engaged fo:
the annual rush of the parcel posi
distribution, . but even then th'
packages accumulate faster thai; .
they can be delivered.
The basement of the post office
yesterday looked like Santa Claus'
headquarters,- with heaps of presents
sent from friends and relatives to
ihose near and dear in Omaha.
On the main floor are other heaps
of presents sent by Omahans to per
sons in every state in the union and
to nearly every country, in the
world. The limits of the parcel post
system were extended this year to
include countries not heretotor rec
oognized in this manner.
Behold I send the promise of the
Father upon you.' He also said,
'When He, the Holy Spirit of
Truth, is come He will guide you
in to all truth.'
Take Upon Themselves.
"Can any of the preachers say
they have such a spirit as was sent
to these apostles, who by laying
their hands on other ;n could im
part this wonderful spirit, which is
also called , spirit of knowledge,
spirit of prophecy, etc.?
. "They are taking upon themselves
the places of the Milchesidek priest
hood. Paul says, 'No man taketh
this honor upon himself save he
that is called of God, as was Aaron.'
Now, how was Aaron called? And
God said unto Moses (an inspired
prophet): 'Go call thy : brother,
Aaron, and when thou hast laid thy
hands upon liim he - shall be a
spokesman unto thee.'
"We find after that Aaron became
a prophet. Now if we have any in
spired men to restore the "church
they must hava bten thost few ax
priests that renounced the Roman
faith, and if they were inspired their
followers should not have branched
off and fixed up different ordinances
to suit their notion. They should
have stayed with Martin Luther and
others of the ex-priests.
Where Is Authority?
"These priests renounced the Ro
man ordinances, so how could these
men have the authority to perform
God's ordinances any more than any
good man who hasn't had the hands
of any of today's preachers laid on
them for ordination? Trace it back
Where do these preachers have any
more authority to administer bap
tism, the Lord's Supper, or any
other form than an other man,
young or old?
"They will say thes Lord com
mands it. Yes, He did command
certain forms, but no one but the
ones He authorizes to do these
things can, do one bit of good by
administering them. The church is
; not a sort of lodge that people can
get into by a certain form of 'riding
the goat,' neither is ft an assemblage,
1 a building or a minister.
"B,ut it is composed of individuals.
Jesus said, who have overcome the
world. He' says. 'Ye are the body of
Christ,' without spot or wrinkle or
any such thing. If we count on
these different organizations and
people in general, oh, how many
spots and wrinkles there would bel
Thank God for a way to be saved
without these different plans mapped
out by different Christians.
I , Set Aside These Forms.
"H is hot peine to ounish any
body for what they can't help, and
if a time came that these church
forms did more harm than good.
God is able to take care of the sit
uation, and it remains for the church
leaders to set aside these forms that
they think was done by the early
church which differ and keep
churches from consolidating and
Christianize the world by preaching
the Christ life, repentance and re
mission of sins. .
"It is the different forms and cere
monies which keep, out Christian
unity. We can have Christianity and
be just as righteous without belong
ing to one of the churches in name
as any one who goes through such
forms.
"This notion about the modern
preacher being called of God ought
in some way be proven. They just
conclude of themselves that they
want to preach and educate for that
profession and they go wherever
they get the best financial ' offer.
Their sermons sound nothing like
anything had been revealed to them
as jt was to the old Apostle Paul..,,
Need the Holy Spirit.
"He said what he knew of God.
He hadn't learned from books, neith
er was it taught to him by men, but
by the revelation of God. Alex
Campbelf somewhere said: 'We
haven't got the Holy Spirit with us
at this day, neither do we need it
"It is true we haven't got it with
us now, but never was it needed
more to help men straighten out this
sectarian trouble.
"I used to gi,ve freely to my
church when I was a believer in the
doctrine of my parents, but since my
eyes are open I feel that what little
I have to give will be given largely
to a better charitable work than
paying a lot of preachers to keep up
these Christian divisions.
"The Salvation Army is doing a
good work and they don't pretend to
be the church of Christ. I am not one
of them, but I long for the time
when form will be swallowed up in
love, and righteousness will be
preached as the door to life eternal,
and only plan of salvation.
"MRS. C. B. WHEELER,
"2627 Olive. Street, St, Joseph, Mo."
Vital Knowledge of God.
. "Dear Editor:
"My answers seriatim are, first, each,
some; the first and last most; sec
ond, the list; third and fourth, try
not to be in either class; fifth, it is
emerging, as its leaders and mem
bership advance from selfishness to '
unselfish service for humanity, which
is. perhaps, the chief manifestation
of the spirit of God within the in
dividuals composing the hurch. .
"Sixth, much of its theology is
pagan; its juvenile teaching and
emphasized form of service, so far
as it is pagan and not Christian, in
vites seven worse devils for every
one cast out. .This might be called
"conventional" religion. But so
far as Christian, is still slothful and
wasteful; is content to reach too
few. Its weekday service is too
negligible, otherwise spirituality and
service would be much greater.
"Seventh It should always be
abreast the times, very efficient and
very inviting to seekers after the
truth. Never luxurious, out quite
common, clean and neat
"Eighth Life; spiritual life; Im
n.tnuel; God with us Righteous
ness, true and lv'e personified in
us. A congregation of people in
union with God and His Cihrist. In
His Spirit passionately in love with
humanity; His instruments to bring
to the earth His kingdom of peace
and good will among, men; to-save'
men from the worship of self and
materialism .(sin) and its resulting
death; in the power of His Spirit
resurrecting (re-creating) them to
life eternal, that is a vital knowledge
of God and His Christ, resulting m
life eternal; a walk with God here
and now and forever as was intend
ed in the creation. '
"EXAM.
" "Osceola. Neb. ,.
Defined In Verse.
"The church is the greatest in
stitution for good known to man
kind. It is the gateway to heaven .
and eternal life. Its motto is, 'Look
up, lift up.'
"Some go to church for the music
there; -
"Some go to drive away dull care;
"Some go to hide some guilty deed;
"Some go to aid a brother in need.
"Some go to show a new silk' gown;
"Some go to sneer at one who's'
down.
"Some go some evil gossip to hear;
"Some go a lonely heart to cheer.
"Some go to sing, and some to pray,
"Some go to seek the better way.
"One country, one language, one
flag today,
"But the Ideal Church, I'm here to
ay. . .
"Will come, when creeds are done
away,
"And one House of God points the
heavenly way.
"MARY M. KENNARD. r
"Lyons, Neb." ,
Soldier Buys a Bottle
Of Cold Tea and Camp
Is Now Ready for War
Camp Upton, Dec. 20. Soldiers
here are laying for the driver of a
certain taxicab. Not long ago a
private returned to camp elated over
a "prize? he had managed to smug
gle by the sentry. Safe in the bar
racks, he called his buddies about
him and brought forth the "prize"
for exhibition purposes, to be. fol
lowed by a treat all around.
He drew the stopper from the
nonrefillable bottle and put the top
to his lips. A second later his an
ticipatory grin changed to a look of
mingled horror and chagrin. Swiftly
he lowered the bottle and spat the
stuff on the floor, with a grunt of
ineffable disgust. ,
"Great jumpin horn toads F lie
ejaculated. " 'Snothin but cold
teal"
Out of the window went the bottle
of tea, to the accompaniment of
threats from the private and his bud .
dies.
Lid Tilting in Panama 15 Years Ago Did
f Not Fill Inebriate Wards, But Event
!, Out-Tilted St. Louis Celebration
if
Program Arranged by President of the Republic and Mayor Alcalde After Visit
A Of William Howard Taft Was Long to Be Remembered CeremonyEvery
Bar Room Fronting Cathedral Plaza Opened for Two Hours at Government
Expense and Populace Was Served Any Bottle Liquor They Requested.
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By WILLIS P. JOHNSON.
(Author of "Tour CmtnrlM of tho Panama
Canal." Etc.)
v "Believe me, Friend Pancho," Bret
Harte't immortal Enriquiz would
have said, "thees elevation of the lid,
it is nothing 1" So would he have
aid, had he been at St Louis the
' other day, when for a space a fed
eral court writ lifted, or tilted, or
perhaps merely tip-tilted, the prohi
bition lid, and let old spiritus fru
menti ooze forth again, like the
fisherman's genie. To long-re
strained Missourians, thirsting to be
shown, it may have seemed an open
ing of the golden gates of joy. We
are told that in that one nuit blanche
11 patients were received at the city
inebriate ward, the police reported
210 violations of the fuel regulations
and a total of 510 infractions of laws
and ordinances occurred because of
the aforesaid lifting of the lid.
"But what are they," the exultant
Missourian might have demanded,
, "among so many?"
"Believe me, Enriquez would
have said and so should I "it is
nothing!" " ,
,- Another Big Occasion.
"For he and I have memories of
another occasion, in another city,
when the lid was truly lifted, and
not only lifted, but quite lost; and
yet the city inebriate ward, if there
was one. resorted not 11, nor even
one-eleventh part of 11, patients re
ceived s all that night of nights.
It was at Panama, in the good old
days before the canal; or when what
was to be the canal was nothing but
a ditch in the mud, and the street
cleaning department consisted of in
numerable black vultures, and Col
onel Gorges he was only a colonel
then was teaching us that the only
way to be saved was to live under
mosquito nettings. Those were the
days of the water wagon, too, the
real, simon-pure, " honest-to-good-ness
water wagon, made of a hogs
head on two .wheels, with a donkey
between the shafts, and a Castilian
Hidalgo perched above, purveying
the product of suburban wells to
urban housekeepers. Still, the aque
ous chariot was not the supreme
emblem of Panaman social cheer
in the good old days; though now,
they say, the lid is on there tighter
than in Maine or Kansas. Oh, tern
pora! Oh mores!
Not "Bleak December.'
It was IS years ago, this very
month; and though "distinctly I
remember" it was most emphatical
ly not a "bleak December." On the
contrary, it was an uncommonly
joyous season.' Panama had got
her independence; we had got the
canal; Gorgas was "getting" t-
mosquitoes; Roosevelt was re-elected;
Huerta's incipient evolution
was snuffed out; and Taft had come
down there to make everybody hap
py. At the end of Taft's visit it
was necessary to have a celebration,
in which the ancient city should
fairly out-do itself and quite dis
tance all other places in the world.
So the president of the republic,
and the Mayor Alcalde of the city,
and various other distinguished
functionaries, got together and pre
pared a program. .
Of course, there was a dinner.
There always is. And I remember
that my vis-a-vis explained to me
that we were having more different
kinds of things to eat and drink,
from more different parts of the
world, than had ever been served at
a single banquet since the lamented
demise of the late Gen. Lucius L.
Lucullus of Rome and Pontus There
was a speech, too, from the guest of
honor; for the embellishment of
which he was coached to ejaculate,
in choicest Cincinnati , Castilian,
"Viva la Republica de Panama I
Hasta manana! Adiosl"
. Used Real Fireworks.
Also there were fireworks. Oh,
boyl You boy, fond of your fire
crackers on the Fourth of July;
fonder still of an occasional cannon
cracker; fondest of all of igniting a
whole pack at" once, within the cav
ernous and resounding recesses of
an empty barrel Think of what I
saw, and likewise heard, in the mul
titudinous detonations of a string of
cannon crackers 30 inches ifK diam
eter and 30 feet long. A string,
quotha? A 'rope, a cable! How
many hundreds of thousand gross
of individual crackers there were in
that Brobdingnagian mass, depon
ent sayeth not; but I know that the
chief engineer of the canal went out
upon the old sea wall and wept bit
ter tears,- to think that the thing had
not been laid along the yet uncut
Culebra Cutl
All these were, however, merely
the preliminaries, the hors d'oeuvres
as it were. The piece de resistance
was yet to come. And it was what?
That every bar room fronting on
the Cathedral plaza should be wide
open for, two hours, at government
expense I
Let us consider that proposition,
with calmness and restraint
Cathedral Plaza Popular.
The Cathedral plaza was the chief
park of the city. At one side was
the great cathedral, with, its spires
shingled with big slabs of opales
cent iridescent mother-of-pearl. At
one end was the palace of the arch
bishop, with the offices of the Pan
ama lottery on the ground floor. At
the other end was the big building
of the canal administration. But be
side these its circumference gave
ample room for numerous thirst-destroying
establishments, chief among
them being the Grand Central ho
tel, whose gigantic barroom was
sure to be the synosure of Panama
that night of nights.
True, the Cafe of All Nations,
whose glittering sign proclaimed
"All Nations Welcome Except
Carriel" was far away on the road
to Section, and there wer? others
scattered elsewhere throughout the
city. But for that night all the city
was in Cathedral plaza. -
Immune from Temptation.
Being myself an approved im
mune from the land of the W. C,
T. U., I felt quite safe in going to
see the sight I did my duty to
ward the others, exhorting Young
o remain upstairs at the Grand Cen-
tral and Barrett and Lee and Scha
fer to stick to the legation, and
Bailey and Eland and Payne and the
rest to keep somewhere out of
harm's way, while I alone went
forth, armored in stern sobriety, to
witness the lifting of the lid.
My eoiga of vantage was aa up
ended cask, in one corner of the
barrom" of the Grand Central hotel:
A spacious room, from which the
many little round tables, at which
we used to drink lemonade and play
dominoes, had been removed. From
end to end ran the bar. Behind it,
about a dozen agile acrobats, hand
ing out thirst-quenchers with both
hands at once. At one end, a com
bination of football center rush, and
subway jam, pouring in, pouring in,
pouring in; something like South
ey's description of the way the wa
ter comes down at Lodore, only
more so. In front of the bar, from
end to end, an incessant foot ball
scrimmage at the goal line, three,
four, six deep. At the other end, a
reluctant yet rejoicing throng,
pouring out, pouring out, pouring
out into the purple tropic night
where the moon was weaving ara
besques of palm leaves on the
broad paths of the Cathedral plaza,
and the orchestra at the Commer
cial club was playing "La Pa'oma,"
and the Southern Cross hung low
ever the Isles of Pearls.
No Single Drinks.
I'm not sure that they paid much
attention to "La Paloma" or to the
moon-woven arabesques. They were
probably more interested in the
bounty of the Republic of Panama
which they bore beneath their arms
or closely clasped to their manly
bosoms. For there were no single
drinks dispensed at the bar that
night; not a cocktail nor a highball
nor a rickey nor, a fizz, not a straight
nor a royal flush. Such picayune
hospitality would have been beneath
the dignity of the Republic of Pan
ama. No, my Missourian friends,
there was nothing less than a bottle,
the cork undrawn, to each and every
guest And it was "Nominate your
poison, gentlemen I". Whatever ones
if
thirst or fancy coveted.vthat did he
get. It may have been beer, it may
have been champagne; for some it
was Bourbon, for some rye, for
some Black and White.
And so the lid was lifted, in a
fashion truly worth while. For two
hours, all too brief and fleeting, it
was not only lifted but lost and
quite forgotten. Then I climbed
down from the cask and went forth
to see the appalling results of this
most disgraceful and disgusting
orgy. For of course there were in
numerable fights and the police cells
were crowded and
"No Such Animile." '
Hold hard, Missourit 'There
wasn't no such animilel" In all Pan
ama that night there was not a sin
gle fight- In those two strenuous
hours I saw not a blow struck nor
heard an nagry word spoken. The
police cells remained empty. The
policemen had nothing to do but to
watch the fun and to edge in for
their bottles when they had a
chance. And the only individual I
could find that night who was per
ceptibly "under the influence" was
well, he was a man from the
United States, who claimed to have
been the original compounder of the
ambrosial beverage described by
Kipling, champagne and curaCao,
half and half!
Remembering that, then, when my
Missouri friends expatiate upon their
lifting of the lid, and when in little
old New York the perennially hope
ful talk of a brief tip-tilting before
the fateful days of mid-January, I
say, with the mocking wraith of
Harte's Enriquez, "Believe me,
Friend Pancho, eet it nothing 1" 1
Remembering that, too, I wonder,
and wonder, and wonder. Shall I,
or shall I not, revisit Panama and
see the Cathedral plaza with the
lid on? '
' Canadian bank clerks, whose
wages average from $22 to $25 a
week, will be given a bonus at
Christmas time, -
Sweat Machine But Not Man,
Says Apostle of New Economy
Lord Leverhulme, Millionaire Soap Manufacturer.
And Firm Believer in Six-Hour Day, Declares
Labor Is Not a Commodity But an Entity Must
Share Risk With Profits.
: New York, Dec 20. A new type
of man has come to town a man
with new ideals.
Labor, he believes, is not a com
modity, but an entity; not a ma
'liine, but a personality.
This "square deal" to him does
not mean a golden lining for the
employer's pockets, but partnership
with his employes. This is his re
ward for faithful service in the busi
ness of war and business of com
merce. ,
William Lever, first Baron Lever
hulme, Lorti Leverhulme, and head
of Lever Brothers, millionaire soap
manufacturers, is the apostle of this
new economy. In his suite at the
Hotel 'Plaza here Lord Leverhulme
raid characteristic tribute to labor.
He said:
"The American laboring man is all
right So is his English brother.
Both bent their shoulders to the
wheel during the stress of war and
both deserve credit for their her
culean pcrforminces. Neither has
been the cause of more unrest than
is natural at such a critical juncture
in the world's reconstruction affairs.
Enlightened Laborer.
"The enlightened working man
has a right to consider his condition
and to make provision for his own
welfare and the welfare of those
who shall come after him. Shorter
hours and more money .are points at
issue upon which he takes his stand,
sometimes to the consternation of
the great employes
"But thinkers are beginning to
realize that the six-hour day does
not mean a loafer's paradise. Sweat
the machine and not the man is the
new trend of industrial thought Its
effect on the continuous running of
machinery is where the employer,
will gain. ,
"Under a six-hour day our ma
chinery will run an increased num
ber of hours, even to the' total of 24
hours, while the human bein'- run
ning the machinery is not running;
more than six-hour shifts.
"With a 12-hour working day for
the machine and a six-hour day for '
the machine tender, increased pro
duction will result, because the hu-'
man being who guides the mecha
nism remains fresh on his job to the
last and does not falter in his effort
to increase production.
"I do not believe in mere profit
sharing This means that the work
er ventures nothing in his partner
ship. He should take part of the risk
involved that his profit shall be the
more.
"In our firm we pay the highest
prevailing wages, with the employes
as copartners under a distribution of
shares which participate in profits."
Port Sunlight is the name of
Lever Brothers' manufacturing cen-T-"
ter. a community unique in eco
nomic annals, with modern houses,
tecreation centers, employes banks
and loan associations.
Lord Leverhulme will make a
tour of America's largest cities to
review business conditions, .