Show FACING ACING r STRICKEN WORLD ARTICLE III by frnk comerford wear wears an anxious look one bought is area a ing her from the itu stu or of her bier misery inie ery she open opens try br b r eye eyes n ida sn allement when the she notice notices d notes noted tha the striking change that haa hall me over her he ch children illren it ik 6 pr er although gh I 1 eh he well ell knows what they ae 80 goat gone through how end and they buffered suffered it is ut t karango to her that they be bare 1 aureil when hen ehe she remembers th a ce of tile he years before the war the biet ie t se rane ive lives they tb lived and the mr ar y year cars iii I 1 which they lived la in wet et i il ailed called ti trachea aches chea ole elect t in b 14 on tb tin P kige edge of a ati strip ip ol 01 of hell bell 11 lid d no man a land trea breathed thed the in I 1 of 0 burning flesh saw their pal gowett go went buried their their dead grinned et t pain ia faug a ched heil at death ner ew of teel could not stand what the that hare have gone by it through without bring being u v 4 they have put on macj agali agala it ia is strange to them the quiet treet are dull the de mobilized soldier trl the letlow 1 the tenseness le tie 0 over er gesslin pree sion sets in during the war he be tare lave time to think of anything except the job ahead of him every minute every move wa was life or death to hiu hils no he lie realizes see for the first time what hat he ha ban gone through th rouKh won dira why he ie alive two thought thoughts possess ma hs mind one the memory ol 01 every minute of the deya days demoz and u gats of the war the other ol 01 what ie in ahead attend of him what ie Is he lie going to do with h his 3 life lie ile in Is at a I 1 strange c crossroad ross road tho the word job doe ant mean much to him it 1 amt 1 it that ho be ie is lazy ue ile hae has to pinch himself to r alue alize that it is oer and aud that he be is bulk baik from the ar or fleetw en the chizy ef of machine na ehino bul bill let lets and tho the shriek of ehra ui he pent spent uns 4 time tivie thinking and fain thought tN were not all about the war lie ile never cit t U used I 1 e d to the war but he learned to for forget 11 t it he ile has brought brought more than souvenir ou venir nd memories from M its ex prience pei peA ence lie ile has brought home many thoughts ideas and from the trenches trene hea many a juht looking att 0 er no mana mans land listening to the I 1 ban ahee heel of war he thought and resolved that it f he ever eme came back he be wanted and would have a better chance in thi this queer thing called life lie ile feels that he be has ha paid for a place an I 1 he be has ha pall ail he ile has famed the right to a st decent cent place plate in the world for which he be fought he ile helped nave save be and he look looks to tho world to ave save him from a meaningless 9 less machine existence if it he ha hai nude made lip up his lots win mini I 1 to use fre he lie la Is willing to work want wants to work ork hut but he insists on being part of hie his work rather fau pau f au h bix Is work being all of hin liin he lle sice feel feels and measures thine front from an intensely hu man angle he ile beels hie his lumA uness the war the alao and deanin meaning of the human being it wa was ufa or death path he ile is alie he ile wants a human interest in n iiii it work 11 II kindreds of demobilized soldier soldiers in daffe ent word words in different languages have aall to me mei if the world lant foung going to give us a a bett chance than it t gave us its before the war then the world gannt worth fighting for ahen hen we e fought they tol toll I 1 ua us it was as to make the worl 1 eafe safe for democracy 1 sad 0 to make life worth orth while e thought this meant ua us aa ours N e have learned that life ten fall t only a e question of a job and enough to eat we want to b bo c treated like human beings A man wants to feel that hie his work means more mor to him than just wage wages he ito spends most of hia his time at work the reet rest of it is 13 spent with his hi family and in sleeping ele so he lie will bo be able to work the next day why he have an inter e cut at iu ill ti tie 0 buyince bu nince 9 und and wha wh hould nt the tile business busi nees ba hae e an interest in himl we uon t want to run the business all wi wo ask ie is a say any in it a friendly gay say in it some people think that tr to be tel fel ie Is to bo be fed free irce it lent being free means being treated like a linnian being 11 I 1 liao lime found many goo pool I 1 honest holiest men and women who have bae lost interest in work they say we dont ion it get a fair share of what we ue make we fight among ourselves oure elvee for job jobs because we have to or starve an I 1 they pay us u as little as a they can 11 1 I am not reason ing or arguing a r ing this question I 1 am stat ng ing a f fact a clu which indicates indi ates the state of maud of in billion lilion rit if men and women in hurbie truje uru je who did bit tor for civI civillia liza tion ion during the past toji years yearn calling these people bolshoi ts d do lot not silence them nor solve the lem cm such tactic a irritate and deelen the he unrest their grien grievance nce mut must be given a fair patient hearing their tule of mind must be rec konel biti if we hope to ger get ck ek t normal liv lying ing I 1 have heard JIP ne eay say that t these hese people leople must be pvc to wader under tan I 1 that they must work or tarve starve no so law or government in tit the world is a powerful enough to coarl compol to work this is particular ay true of the he people today to thlik of using force orce is foo liall suicidal we have had enough of force di ill ring the he last fou fourbears f our rears ears and the tile farther we get t away from the idea of beating one another into submission aub mission tile better oft off we all shall be the present resent unrest is positively dangerous li it t isn t like any enrest at we have liae e ever eer er lial hot before it ie Is u he e restlessness of human le I 1 eings ings who bave ave been face to face citi ilrath we need a lot of ea linness and common sense ly kindly conference we e must try ry to understand each other and by jast lust compromise help each other of one ne thing I 1 am sure and that is if f an effort is made to use blind brute force orce on the working people 0 of the corll 11 unrest w will ill be act i n motion a whirlwind will bleak bieak up on the world ahe plain open road back to happi nees ness is to operation if we stop for a moment and realize realize what we hae hase been through and the change changes that have come upon na its while we were ere loing through it we will fini fint gatting to gether ether easy ITil unreal reat blocks the road it fetters letters the will to work we must face tho the truth and the sooner we do to the better the world is broke the war has bankrupted ea europe one thing and one thing cal anly will bring us back to pane normal livel living jg it is work Sym patay and understanding will do more to secure peace stimulate work than defiance challenge an I 1 threat threats A normal worl I 1 is one in which wen men live and wil togeal er in peace where all men have a chance to be hot haiby 17 this means ail aa interest in work a joy in working living to work ork rather than working to live men must have food clean wholesome fool and enough of it to do tl air work aitho it exhaustion men fen must I 1 ave cloth a 9 not only the quantity out an I 1 ire we damary to protect their bo be lies from the iier fier but clothes that satisfy nor normal mal instinct instinct for appearing clean and neat decent clothed sustain self re 8 t men alen without them are less 1 nor mal and moral there roust must be a time between uie tile md nd of tie tl e day and tl ill 0 beginning of sl 1 p in which men can call kno know an I 1 en joy their families she roan man alo Is 1 so used up by hh hii das work that he fals fads asleep at his supper table playing fair with his w wife fe and chi ch illren iren an ani I 1 his employer playing fair with him all men are boye boys even after they have gray hair this quality is ably the finest an I 1 best in them they need a playtime a recreation time they lose something and the worl I 1 lose loses more when they do tie not get it it is not enough that bo be lies are fed minds must not be starved light is the right of every human being with eyes mutation is light the hainan race must have light none one of us were intended to live in darkness children are entitled to a school time a jump the rope time a top time a play tinie time A child w wl ci enters I 1 ur or woman hood without ever having known a goes aee through life with colne thing missing something lout lost the creed of the changed world is that while tie tl worl 1 id doben towo t owe anyone a living it Is obligate obliga tM d to td give glie every human being a clia chadee tee to make a d decent living the new commandment is that thi this chance mut must be given I 1 found these thoughts in the unreal unrest in curole they are strong ly deeply rooted in the of 0 t the he people they are growing men and or are 0 gardening protecting these ideal ideas any effort to or destroy these ing thoughts though ta will be resented ant on I 1 fought by the gardener gardeners they are not weed thoi cht ethey they are the bloom blooms of 0 hopi an I 1 belong be loii to tl t e poor they will fight and de die before ther they will eee see these hope ir frow tile the un anler ter foot this ie Is the only wily garden they have like 11 I 1 loo I 1 of the deal fertilized it the living care for it copyright 1020 western newspaper New paper union |