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Show expected'. 'of' thenvthan to devote themselves to breaking strikes. ; ' ' v ' . There is a chance for. the college man to break strikes by'using his education and his training to help 'brin'abont conditions that will make strikes obsolete, but the college man will never be useful in that way if he takes sides against the man who J toils and does it while JUe l still a callow student I CoHS- "Men" as Strike Breakers. ' Some of the "strike breakers" who are taking , j'the places of elevated and subway employees ' in : . CSTcw York are college students. ; X . Of late, it has become a favorite diversion forihe youths who so proudly style themselves college ''men" to take the places "of men -who go out on strike- Perhaps they think it is a manly thing to do, , but ten years hence, when they begin to get an idea . Sf.'what life, really is, they will not be so proud of ' 'their'exploits. -V ) : - We do not believe in strikes. They cause losses . o botb sides and they always make the innocent and disinterested public suffer. But so long as men wiH not reason, together and will not use common eense' in their dealings with each othery so long will there7' be strikes. The strike is a serious matter to the man who works for a living. It means that his wife and babies will very probably be cold and hungry, hun-gry, and thathe will be plunged into debt.' He - etrikes because his employer "has nothing to arbitrate." arbi-trate." Few workingmen want to strike and they woul4 avoid it if they could, but what can they do? There is wrong and in justice on both sides, but "we prefer to believe that there is more on the part of . many of the employers than on the part of the work- . lngmen. , . ; But what does the "college man'' know,, of these, things? What does he know of the bitterness of the : struggle for existence, of the agony 'tha tears a man's heart when he sees those for whose living '.hs toils suffering cold and hunger? Not a thing, yet hs goes with as much zest as to a football gameto take the place of such men and to lessen their chances of making the few dollars upon which they depend for a livelihood. : . . . . . r , - ' , - of course, the rashness and impetuosity of youth must hot be judged too. harshly"; but the' college in-V in-V fluence and the college Spirit have accomplished mighty little if college students have no higher am-; litiou, no fuller realizations what 3s 'arid will be j ' ' - . , . ' ' O '., ' . ' . . . - r.- ' ' ' -' . : .. . . . . : . . ' . . |