Show M AS OTHERS SEE IT editor standard society is like a great complicated machine which when all il the parts are perfect properly adjusted sufficiently lubricated the requisite Ite power to drive it and a skilled mechanic to regulate its operation will run very smoothly and render the service tor which it was intended but neglect tile the lubrication and the replacement ot of worn and interior parts arts and the machine will not function function properly and may finally collapse the machine may by proper care and replacement of worn vorn 1 parts be made to function indefinitely and just so with society each person Is a part of thi the organic whole and where properly adjusted 1 e adapted to the work to be performed properly lubricated fed clothed and housed with sufficient time tor for rest study and recreation will function perfectly society under our present economic setup is not functioning properly there are ten or twelve million parts that are not fitted into the scheme are not working out of approximately million population in the nation 48 millions tire are working parts a little more than ten million parts in the social organism are old and worn and should and must bei be retired on a compensation sufficient elent to maintain them in comfort the rest of their lives and substitute ute in their places younger and better parts these labor veterans cannot be scrapped and thrown into the scrap pile nor sold old to the junk man but as parents of the newer and better parts who ati are e willing and anxious to take their heir places in industry agriculture etc must be amply ed cd for our altruistic emotion develop ed cd during tens of thousands of years of our progress forbids us to chloroform them tho some may perish from inactivity and ennui there will always be plenty to do tor for the ambitious in civic social and religious jig legious lous life in beautifying the home in teaching the young in morals manners and character and many other minor activities not interfering with rith productive labor A E EDWARDS myton ut |