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Show LABOR SOON MAY BE ONLY EOOCATED CLASS IN U.S. 1 Workers Want to Learn and Are Willing to Study, Stelzle Says. By the Rev. Charlea Stelzle una night. Juat Iwfore tha war, 1 waa a vlaltor at tha Foopla'a paikce In Hruaaala. A blj crowd of worklasman Jammed tha main lrtura hall to llaten to an addraaa on irunomlea. At S:30 the men and women wera waiting for th iM-lura ti heln, and ratine their aup- r- "'r-n frml an.1 l)S'"1- wlchea, aa they wulted. And they had all paid aa admlaaion fee. Kor an hour or mora th.y aat. listen- ; Inn to hard facta and cold atatlallca without a funny atory to Ushten up I the diacuaaion. These worklns; n'P1 were thlnkera. They wera hunirry for the truth ami tiiey eacerly drank In the well thought out preaantatlon of the lecturer. And no doubt thta made them mora Intelligent Intelli-gent fiKhtcra for democracy. a 1 A profeaaor of aorioloary from Princeton univeraltv caqie to the I-lHr I-lHr temple in lower New York when I was directing Ita work, and to an overflowing; over-flowing; audience ho talked for nearly two houra on auhjecta that might Mi.lly hava bored hla regular atudenta "Do you think theae men will understand un-derstand what my huahand will tell themr aaked hla wife, before ha be- la-an.. I "If thay"ra not Intareated they'll walk out." I replied. Not a man left the hall. . ' Kor a, rood many years I hava been talking to worklngmen In their labor J halls on vartoua phaaea "of tha Indua- : trial problem. N'owhera hava I 'found! mora Intareated and mora intelligent audiences. ; s 1 Tha men listened, not because ofj mere pollteneaa. but because they were t vitally concerned about what waa be-1 ins aaid. i Thay never aak that tha meeting be. dismissed promptly at S. and theyi don't fidget wben tha cock strikea the hour, as Is usually tha cass in a prayer meeting or a preaching service, "If present tendencies continue, said the librarian in a big Kastern city, "the working people will be the only educated edu-cated class in America Judging by the character of the books they are reading. "Moot other people read light, fluffy stuff." be added. see Whatever may happen to the Bolshevik Bol-shevik movement in Ruaala or tier-many, tier-many, we may be sure that in America the labor movement will be founded upon reason and fairness. Hut ado n't let's Imagine that working work-ing men who actually think as our worklngmen are doing will ever be satisfied with anything less than Jus-tics. |