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Show THE CITIZEN Living And Saving Wage Makes Business Prosperous Does he mean it, or is it clever This is tho political propaganda? question labor men are asking themselves concerning a series of five specially written articles which appeared in the Chicago Tribune under the e of James J. Davis, Secretary of Labor. Certainly, no student of economics has taken a more advanced position on the wage question that is disclosed in these articles, wherein the Secretary of Labor advocates a buying and saving wage in place of what hea terms the obsolete living wage, phrase which has become sterotyped Incidentally and without meaning. President Harding is quoted in support of the new position taken by Mr. Davis, this excerpt being produced from one of his finest speeches as The workingmans low testimony: est wage must be enough for comfort, enough to make his house a home, for enough to insure that the struggle the out existence shall not crowd things worth existing for. In defining his buying and saving sufwage, Mr. Davis says it must be ficient for even the lowest paid wage worker to be able to purchase the necessaries of a comfortable living based on American standards and to save an 'amount that will meet the exigencies of a time when the awage worker shall have ceased to be prolucer. 0 It is pointed out that of the 41,500,-0in persons gainfully employed he United States, 24,800,000, or nearly 10 semi-skille- tor their income. IB- - rte For U. of workers under the uplifting effect of this larger enjoyment in life there Senator S. im ERNEST BAMBERGER is no measuring the new spirit and energy and even genius that we may be unshackling and bring as a stimulant and contribution to our national progress. As a quickening to our business prosperity the new wage will mean even more. Mr. Davis has been delving into historical records and uncovers the fact that in every period dur750 of years there has been ing a cycle an advance of at least 20 per cent in the wages of workers. He therefore reaches the conclusion that even if there had been no war to boost wages, the normal and natural rise above prewar standards would have ensued. It is the law of progress. IT Mill . 50-ye- First Congressional District. DON B. COLTON s, Workers Constitute Buying Public. These constitute the great buying writer. public in our country, says the made They are purchasers of goods these It is for in the United States. to provide not that we should seek Ammerely the living wage, for if the as erican workman enjoys anything remuch as spending it is saving. To ward him a saving wage is no more which thpn a just credit to the trait las made him the greatest producer, the greatest buyer, the greatest market known to the world. Some employers have been paying a withbuying and saving wage, perhaps and out' knowing it, asserts Mr. Davis, comments: My contention is that what these employers have been doing must become general. Sooner or later to all the rest will have to catch up will them. I believe public opinion it, compel it. Without our knowing workgreat social changes have been and ing themselves out among us, is the prominent in this evolution workers demand for his share in the this new day. He larger benefits ofmere worker at the Is no longer a bench, an automaton. His intelligence and rapid las been expanded by newhave been His tastes experiences. in increase heightened along with the. has risen He, too, bis intelligence. of books, of pictures, to the enjoyment at music, the theatre, a chancea fewthe of higher education, to cite but his new demands. In other words, the newly enlightnew ened working man has risen to amema as place as a human being and Conscious ber of our rich community. of having taken that place, he is now entitled to insist upon enjoying all the has advantages of it. The worker down. mounted and will never climb The effect of a buying and saving wage upon the nations business life 1 Second Congressional District. E. O. LEATHERWOOD m cifi JUDGE J. W. CHERRY sociation, capable of purchase m tire worlds production For Superintendent Public Instruction DR. C. N. JENSEN produce 70 per cent of the v ver. This country should i stronger position in detern market. It also might develo great assistance to such an ganization if the audotl . Standard Oil company icas companies who transact umes of business in the on to closely their Beneath this stone Sleeps William Raines; Ice on the hill, He had no chains. Reduce wages to that of the Chinese coolie, and you close the factories of the United States, you close the coal mines, you stop the railroads. Cut the standard of living of the American family in half and instead of mining 500,000,000 tons of coal to keep up our factories and run our railroads you would mine 200,000,000, with the loss of investment in present equipment and the loss of the profits from the operation of our industries upon which the other 27 per cent of those gainfully employed now live, and , upon which those who are merely clipping coupons and hence not counted as 'gainfully employed live. For the rich can not purchase all of the products of our mills and mines and farms; moreover, the luxury of the. rich will rapidly decline when the profits on the purchases of the wage earner at his present standard of living cease by reason of the reduction of that standard. Mr. Davis, says that in paying the American worker in terms of a buying and' saving wage we are not giving capital away; we are bringing new brains and enterprise into the use of co-ordina- te operations with those of the pic nd to no St th be ac er, era e i ga: thi v !tl em nic Jay; itiv If Mars is headquarters quitoes thats one message everybody has heard. At fifty miles Drove Ollie Pidd; He thought he wouldnt Skid, but he did. ear t tl 21 thi lei I err Here he sleeps One Johnny Fonker; He rounded a turn Without a honker. Cif Flying in nta tf( Xi and i ai Moonshine.' a song of licker, Sing Auto Prices very high, jailbirds Selling rotten rye! When the rye was opened, When the hootch was tried, customers Took a drink and died! ty Ra July 24 ty Daf Speed and thrills! performed by intrepid and auto racers. PLAN TO PROTECT SILVER PRICE AFTER PITTMAN ACT Formation of an export silver asso- elation along the lines of the Copper Export association has been proposed by the American Gold and Silver institute as a means of protecting the future market for American silver when the purchases authorized by the Pittman act have been completed. a Big events commence includinf a mission, ci i Jta il on ier orl . capital. When the workman saves, the whole country saves. When the workman buys, the whole country profits, and sums up with this wise V plo sociation. He died maintaining His right of way. Four-and-twen- BV !ar Here lies' the body Four-and-twen- tial ifer i Of William' gni i Lies slumbering here One William Lake; He heard the bell, But had no brake. industries. of siM be in a unique position to I speculator to come to it for i dation. The United States u Epitaphs for Motorists. Here rests the remains Of Percival Sap; He drove his machine With a girl in his lap. Unemployment. the 7,097,283 women clerks and wage earners in the United States and the wives and daughters of the 23,346,373 men clerks and wage workers in the United States could buy another cotton dress, another woolen dress, another silk dress, the question of unemployment in the textile industries would be solved. And what is true of textiles is true of nearly all philosophy: I am sure that a buying and saving wage is not impossible from an economic standpoint; it is not simply a short cut to the remedy for many of our industrial ills, but it is to mean a vast improvement and addition to our life as a people. I think we are on the brink of placing opportunity more largely in the hands of the man who most needs it. On that ground alone it would be possible to base the contention that the buying' and saving wage is something not to be opposed.' It is rather to be accepted and Speeded as a business advancement, as an enrichment to our physical and, spiritual health, and to our general good as a people. SB For Judge Supreme Court If each of . seel For Congress ar It has been said that if every Chinaman in the Chinese republic would add one inch to the length of his shirt it would absorb all the excess cotton fabric manufactures of the world. Mr. Davis believes producers will find it much easier to develop their absorbent markets at home. Increased Wage Will Solve skilled workers, these laborers, and servants. To encent 14 per nay be added another raged in clerical and kindred work, or 74 naking practically 30,400,000, gainfully emjer cent, of all those ployed on a wage of weekly salary jasis, who look to the pay envelope ers, Republican Nominees is equally important with its social consequences, says the labor secretary. I know that if we bring millions by-lin- earnper cent, are the actuald wage work-sr- forced to market their prod diately in order to develop wherewith to meet operating silver export association prc Jou ganized to extend credit to ducer would make possible a pey derly marketing of the gii?e nil tion of the country. This, T is not a factor at the present the reason that the internatii is below the Pittman price. ibo The London control of tin silver has been sustained h sub cause of the speculative den il uni the metal for delivery in t f This is a factor which mm ted overlooked in anticipating cess or failure of an export ai pn here. There must be a li old market, and unless the speco ad come to the rescue of the m cal he has in supporting the Lq ket, there will be difficulty ing such an association. Ac toin ith to, yt 311 Cl $1.25 stand and war tax. UGGEST Uf( en Pn ng . in it e Discussing the proposition, H. N. Lawrie, . 4 . the managing director of the institute, "i among other things, says: An effort should be ma&e to develop an export association similar to that organized for the purpose of marketing the copper production of the nation to better advantage. Most silver producers are li k tl , U Dm : rti al in |