| Show IA AN WITH R A GENIUS FOR FIGURES D United States ate Corn Com Commissioner missioner of Labor T I oho ho le Is credited with lIh saying Figures gures I but iut hats hives t rat lIt in Washington and Ind n 11 made quite I I s h lIv before tore toren t n al rn my of Sciences I I 1 his work In III an artl I a 11 t I Ir If H B T MIl Of n of r th the Loud board ot of COm cont T 1 of i 1 1 j Is qUoted lis an an 11 I al a troll II all u uI allI I I erred t ra rero n ot of I I I rb JoI I a hor urn om r 1 J N III alt alty y and I Is a living IBI it of s I are ar brn t 11 ba has IL natural i 1 iI not excel at t U Ur r of n Agates M ha not lint II found 1 I I is I laid aid and 1111 In int t nt talented d I y I I In fit t f th I Gp n f to 10 th the I II e d by the fun funi I i rat Ir labor ala Ia I I as a nil nn II flU II of Ih t I f the th only In haa IIA fr rn th Ib 1 past fill II t r h en I hIe I I 1 81 is aa I its state bureau I ah IJ of the j r f So 10 eon lion hall he filled the position In fact that it II might He seem to 10 have been 1110 dally Ct loo for tor him or rather ilea lie he and educated to occupy this partiCUlar niche In the temple ot of economics A native ot of Ne Hampshire where he was al torn born jut just years eana ago aro Colonel Wright Logan berau the study ot of lAW at An early age ae but intermitted his hll or of laurels to enlist for Cor erv Ice In the civil chII war ar with the rank ot of colonel lie he resumed pia hili studies and III admitted to the nil bAr In 1505 Following the eXAmple or of many other IOns eons of oC New Nel who have found Cound its ItH opportunities for tor a great ca career career reer hardly adequate Colonel Wright removed to Dos Boston ton whore where his hIM I were so 0 highly appreciated 1 that list he uever er lacked for occupation lit lAW lire soon lOOn mounted to the sum lum ut of a year tr but 11 hi hie del desire to wrestle rt with on a large arre scale tutt h readily resigned it Il tar for 1 tees re employment a state tat where wheN h he war a particularly In his hll el Thu Thus after arter beginning life lite se IN Ii a country serving four yearn II as a 0 and lea more mort In the I rol with an dab dah III al a II milking as a legislator 1712 state senate h lie homily found Cound his hb as aa a statistician That hi he won I on renown lath at home hame AliI and abroad I la ilow well known knon nil Ills brooks brookson on special ma may be numbered 1 by the dozen RIKI oal only two years ago 10 lie be 11 war honored by appointment to membership hi the institute of oC and hono honorary membership In the lilt Im pedal of oC Sciences Colonel thorough work as al su u ot of the 1111 national census ot of his hili adopted state attracted attention be I ond the confines of Massachusetts his lectures before the Ille Lowell Institute of oC Boston In ISTO on phases ot of the labor question ethically considered stamping him as A man ot of broad sympathies with lIh 1 a comprehensive grasp of at the In Its relAtion to the world at large larre 1 Ile war wa fur for A year university lecturer on time factory system nt at yard arll and war II In ISO 1362 the rt recipient of th the degree ot of A M 1 from Crom Tufts college It was wal in III April 1114 that the Ilona I committee on reported with whit amendments a bill providing tor or tilt the or of a department ot of labor spa sta et at the seat fAI or of with wIlh n commissioner to ht be al appointed by till the prell president by and with the advice and consent of oC the senate Hnat After Atter able ble o opposition particularly In the lenat len sen senate at ate end lie tacking on of oC amendments calculated d to Injure or kill It on Its r re return turn to the house houle the bill was all flimsily accepted in III conference committee and went to the president who whose approval It promptly Some Born ot of the senators Haying argued that thAI labor was hud hardly worthy orthy the ape I Ilal distinction of 01 a department h by It Itself self nn and that thai there RM already a bu resu lIt of the scope ot of which could lit he enlarged to provide for tor an any 11 excellent speech at were evoke that UIt proved hi bl the worth and Importance ot of this department I One In pAr particular by Mr fr loran I oran of ff Ohio was WAI note noteworthy worthy for tor the brood broad minded view taken of Ih the and for tor th the elucidation ot of tM the Intimate relation that exist bf be tW labor and the ultimate welfare or of the country I doubt hl he said ahl It If th then re h has ever eer been n before lime can congress a question of greater Ire or ont one that more direct directly COn corns the welfare of humanity y It is II a generally accepted axiom th that t bad laws ant and evil 11 ort Ip and spring prine from that cupidity and anil n flees that haws ever been pr predominant In human nature This Thill loII Is only true for tor II a very tt ron considerable portion of oC oCth th the imperfect and vicious legislation of oC I which the people justly complain mn may maybe be traced to a lack ot of reliable data and accurate knowledge e upon tilt the part of oC the average lAwmaker ot of n true con or comprehensive understand lug Ing of the science ot of society or ot of that which M 1 Com Comte Ie more compact ly and succinctly designates a science which concerns itself with all the various phenomena Incident to man manIn manin In society and re resulting torn the multi multiform form torm actions and peculiar and chAng iX t e r rl f t 1 J J P tt r rale ale r sr r n t 1 vie viet vier I t r e r ris I is p r c lI I Ly henc hat t C u S N J CARROLL D WRIGHT ing condition ot of ot of till this human species existing H to sock social I life lite The object of oC the bureau tersely I 1 to promote a more moNt general and better comprehension of oC social Iden science 1 science Inee la Is based upon UllOn statistics which collect col late arrange and nd compare facts from which tile the statesman a ascertains and without which he cannot Ihnot those great In accordance with which the state sate must oct act If It would promote and foster t the he will well be In and AUt happiness of Its It la II from tron Unis source alone that the political economist can An equitable and nd Just rule to govern the production and distribution of wealth Colonel seems to 10 have car carried ried out the original Idea ot of the era en of this bureau to the ot of thOle moat mat COmpetent to judge Judt as 18 It Ice evidenced b by his retention in attic through averal vera I administrations That he hu has risen Above the plant plane occupied 11 by the mere and has haa grip pled with lIh problems which the desires leall to 10 solve that lie he Irma co Id ed th the Immense aggregation gg Uon ot of data accumulated b by him and h his assistant and ana made It available U A solvent for tor the WO woes II le II hoped It if not admitted 11 by all TRUMAN IN T r FITO EiTO |
