public would also be interested in assisting every boy or girl in selecting se-lecting the occupation they were best adapted for. . The decreased need for clerks, book-keepers, or bartenders, would not throw these people out of employment. em-ployment. They would be given other places in useful vocations that would greatly increase the national na-tional wealth, and thus increase the averao-e reward for each worker, no matter in what department, for the more wealth created the more there would be to consume; while if it were not created it could not be consumed. As one place would pay as well as another, there would lie no strife between citizens to get the '-fat" places, to which are at- II I T I Socialist Column Conducted by members of the Manti Local. Below will bo found an answer to the several queries often propounded by seekers for information, which it is hoped will be read with interest. The open letters to "Sam" will be resumed in next issue. In the Socialist state, also called the co-operative commonwealth, people will not bo equal mentally or physically, but they will be equal in opportunity. That is, the door of employment will be open to all on exactly the same terms. Just as the schools aro open to all children chil-dren today, each child being as-'siirned as-'siirned to the room or studies that tacneu greater rewards, in pontics, pon-tics, the office would seek the man; while under the present system the reverse is the case. Incompetents, by the use of money and cunning, can and do get the highest positions, posi-tions, while- those roally qualified must take a second place or be left out altogether. If a man is in any kind of business busi-ness today, and some trust desires to control the field, what happens? No laws are made to make the small fellow quit the trust just runs him out. The question has been asked: ''Would Socialism make any law prohibiting a man from doing business busi-ness 'on his own hook' if he so dosiresf "We think not. liutthe public will furnish employment to every citizen in which they will get the full results of their labor, and surely no man would then work for a private individual for less. And if the private employer gave the workers the full results of their labor he would gain nothing - he would soon quit. And after all it is not such an enviable position posi-tion to bo an employer, it is not joy unmingled; and in looking at the strife and turmoil which exists today in the labor world, we are led to believe that (he employer will get tired of it about as soon as the employee, and then, Hurrah for Socialism ! it is fitted for, so every department of human activity will be open to every citizen on the same terms. No accumulated capital will be renuired to onfarro in any line of work. People will not do the same amount of labor, ami therefore will not earn and possess the same amount of wealth. for instance, if A works 4S hours a week, he will have the right to take from the public wealth twice as much as I!, who worked only 2 t hours that week. A havine produced twice as much, the price of articles being written in the " r, ruin time neces. sary to produce them, is entitled to twice the product. The motto will be: Kaeh man according to his deed; while today it is: Kach man according to his (freed. There will be no need of any common bank or fund. The credit on the books of the Nation will stand until it is withdrawn, just as the Nation now keeps account with those bonds that are "registered." Kveryono would have the right to choose his vocation under Socialism, So-cialism, within the bounds or rules that the ma jority would establish in such matter. When an employer needs a book-keeper today he assures as-sures himself as well as he can that the applicant is lilted for the position. posi-tion. If later he finds another person whom he believes is better fitted, the first one employed is discharged and the better qualified installed. So in the public industry indus-try all applicants would have to fit themselves for the position, and prove by an examination that they are fully qualified. Hut if there were twenty qualified book-keepers today for the one job, would not nineteen have to do something else? "Well, that would be the way under any system. The public would employ only to fill its needs, and it would take those who stand the highest in the examination. The others would be given places that they were qualified to till in other departments. I!y this means the public would have the highest skill in the nation in each and every department, and men best fitted for places would get them. The