Show PROBLEMS FACING STRICKEN WORLD shall chaos or reconstruction in europe follow the great world war DANGER IN GENERAL UNREST practically universal feeling of discontent will grow unless the causes which gave cave it birth are removed article VII dy by FRANK COMERFORD A specter baunta europe it lit the ghost of 0 unrest when I 1 started out to interview unrest in europe I 1 did not glye elvo my ear to the hie idle theorist who always knows knowe all about everything but never from direct experience with it nor did I 1 go to the agitator who preaches un unrest in red words Nel neither ther did I 1 seek out the type ot of fanatical labor lender leader who Is eager for trouble who Is trying to mobilize unrest and marshal it the banner or of revolution I 1 passed by the alio place hunting timeserving time serving politician I 1 wa was a not internee interested ted lit in platitudes and promises I 1 sought knowledge of unrest from those who knew it from contact with will it those biose who were part and parcel of it I 1 went to the wan man lit in tile street tile tho average man I 1 talked with the sweaty dirty coal ml miner nt the mouth month of tile shaft lie ile had just come from his day in the darkness deep in the ground I 1 visited ahe the ronn man who works in the I 1 listened to lo the rough speech of 04 the tea teamster nister I 1 went to tr I 1 tortes find talked with men bet acu it the two whistles mitch mark the time of tile the noon meat meal they munched nt at black brend bread ato ate cheese or sausage gulped ten tea coffeo coffee or cheap diluted red wine I 1 spent alino will tile the idle tile the idle b by choice nowell as well as those without work through no fault of their own only yesterday ninny yee ye most of these men were in khaki now back on the job lu lit overalls they were thinking ng their speech was troubled discontent looked out from their eyes I 1 could feel it they talked it bill bu noer never as unrest always protest unrest must be quieted their state stale of mind Is tile alio proD problem leia unrest Is epidemic it Is 14 mill militant tant there Is little of pacifism ism tit in it it Is 19 real it Is not without aitho ut cause to get clone to the cause of this disease which threatens revolution one must know ann understand what Is 6 going on oil lit in tile tho minds of the men inen we tte are looking to and depending upon to do the worlds work it take a d prop prophet liet to understand that if lueil lived Is i not given to tile the things irritating ilicin and n d la 18 vot not found for the irritation serious trouble will follow 1 while war la Is licit hell it has tit at least the of discipline A revolution tt an growing out of unrest would mean mob mildness madness terrorism fanatical fanatic til brutal cruel and merciless once started it if would spread like ilka wildfire tito tho world would be swept from its I 1 senses the ore would run lit iff course until stopped because there was wai nothing left to burn who dares picture the state in ig which it would leave tho the world lit in this day when tile the nones nerves of tile the world are on oil edge when cold nud hunger irritate one shudders when ho he thinks of the fate of civilization if unrest Is not checked before it explodes in pass passion fort and wrath unrest existed before the will war it was nn acorn then it Is ain in now before the war men were complaining and justly complaining about their lot the difference now Is that four years in the trenches have caused them to stop complaining and act taught them much nili cli they learned df cf the greatness of force back of their present tendency to net act Is the grown vitrice ani and tile tho war lesson before tin the war they complained pla ined ned today they de demand tiland it is interesting litte te to examine unrest in the complaint stage esthese as these men knew it before 1014 these plain itile ordinary average nv crage men im have 0 always been intensely human they loved their wives nivea and children they lived for their it othes homes they felt keenly their responsibility for the happiness loved ones they hae but one tiling to give before the war they gave it unsparingly it wits wag their labor their one source of income was M is the pay envelope cm elope with their wages they had find to buy aloes clothes food and provide shelter for forthe the file lives they brought into UK the world nod and tor for tile women they lied had chosen to fae be the moth era of those children home before all cil f kest home la Is the inter natio uni an anthem thern it Is the ali heart song of the roan man the club plays no part in ills his life prom lils home he goes to work and from work he goes home Shant shanties teR and tenen tenements are not homes home 4 these men inen ime haye always alwais protested against title he ugly shacks attacks lit in which they were compelled to house their loved ones they bit their lips in jobless days daye when thear children went to lied bed hungry resentment grew in their hearts when they saw gaw how chow poorly dressed their wives find I 1 hildren wore were they muttered curses cheif i hen their ehi dren yere were forced to 0 a 0 wo work rk thy wanted to give their th rh adren n better education than they hey bad hild had a better chance in life and they laughed nt at laws child asbor white conditions died chil 1 dren to work or starve As aa these I 1 men grew older their fri families grew in rizo and demand while their ability to earn decreased the trag tragedy imlY registered 1 in their pay envelopes they were being ground between growing needs and diminishing wage tito grinding not only hurt their bodies it furrowed their brain they lived in dread of poverty it h had ad been their nurse they tented feared it would bo be their pallbearer Il poverty had find taken its revenue revenge upon them they were resolving that it if they could licit help it it would not put its lash upon their children they knew poverty intimately it a wort word a name it was a living linte hateful ful cruel companion it was the devil doall that recruited the lie alaras of scarlet hall tho the magda maeda lens of the slums anti and always th army was mobilized from the he of 0 the poor children who had find been robbed of theair youth who had never owned it a flower poorly fed and 04 drably clad draggi d out of bod bed by alarm clocks sounding the call to toll when they should have been answering the school bell children physical ly unfit for the breadwinners struggle children without tho lie moral endurance necessary for tile tho tight light were driven into no womans comans land the rotten scum under the world light in education before tile tho war men were brooding on oil these things papers books magn kincs zincs mirroring life pictured these horrors they were ole subject of public discussion and debate men returning from a hard days work talked those these filings over mill wah heir their wives aft er the children had hal gone golic to bed find and ninny litany ik n man left ills his supper table to peck through gli the half closed floor door into the room where ills his biddles were sleeping tiptoeing back only to took look into the lie eyes of a mother nind see reflected there atle fen fears rn he felt the invention of the typesetting machine the alie cheap manufacture of paper tile growth of public tiel school tool systems and public libraries aTles brou brought glit light to tile the lark dark minds ot of the workmen in that light they saw dinote clearly needs anti and more completely realized their thear rights it 13 he tin diral ambition of man mail tod to climb linb ile he wants to get or on anti and up ignorance had find kept him blin from froin climbing ignorance e la Is darkness men stumble when they try to go forward lit in tile tho dark I 1 education Auen tion Is lie light in tile lie road they sought nought to make haste to milk make up tit for or tile the lost time education 1 taught them atheni to want things for themselves all and their families that their fathers find and iti mothers others never thought of wanting the itic homes which satisfied their parents depressed anti and irritated them liem the alio bathtub find and tooth brush bresli are arc acquired tho the desire to straighten tile back that lias has been bent in toll too long laput Is put there by education one thing stood in the lie ay it obstructed ted the he path upward to decent living they saw tile the barrier clearly find and distinctly poverty they saw tills this impassable obstacle wits was ninde made out of poor wages they saw more they saw that poor wages bult built tile lie poor housea and filled them organized the bread line lanci introduced the soup house out of their thoughts in their experience they aliey carved a truth As ali long as somo people have more than they can possibly it use while others through no fault of their heir own have less than they absolutely need something Is wrong anti when the call to arnia camo came alil these e thoughts were living in ill the lie mass mind of the file world many not con concerned ernce with the problem of the other oilier seven eighths knowing nothing of what wits was happening lit in tile minds of the lie men and women of toll and caring less they lid did not know lint these men wore were uniting and planning to tear down tile tho wall of poverty copyright 1120 1920 westmont newspaper Newa paper unlue |