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the meetings both in the editorial and
: Hav/ng, been absent from Forq Hall news columns and both before and
'two tjllccessive Sunday ev!ijj,lngs, I after the meeting.
'feel it' incumbent upon me to demonOn a week-day night in Glen Ridge,
! st rate ,that I made good use of the New Jersey, on my way home from
time elsewhere in the interest of our Cleveland, I had a very attentive audi.work,
ence in the Congregational Church,
I I fou.nd the Calvary Presbyterian and they expressed the wish that they
, Church in Buffalo ( located· in the mlg,ht inaugurate a similar meeting in
· down-town district) eager to learn all their town, which ls made up almost
about how ,ve· dq it at Ford Hall. The entirely of families whose heads go to
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'pastor, Rev. John W. Ross, had been New York every clay lor business.
', trying fc:ir a year to get me to speak
Suppose there were a chain of Ford
': to his people about our work, · I spent Hall meetings running through a ya, one whole evening with him and a rlety of cities. Stranger things might
; group of his leading men and on Sun-: happen. Everywhere the story of our
day evening occupied his pulpit, They work is told, the response Is immedidecided at once to plan for a series of ate •and intense. Already there are a
Ford Hafl meetings In their church · number of meetings like ours.
They
I during all the Sunday evenings of may not use our name nor <lo every; April and If the meetings are success- thing just as we do it, but they are
ful, they will run them all next win- animated by the same purpose and that
: ter.
I That same Sunday morning in Buf•
j falo, I was called out of the congregai tion at the Delaware Avenue Baptist
, Church to talk to the Men's Bible
; Class about the Ford Hall meetings.
NEXT SUNDAY'S PROGRAM.
Another surprise was to find bhat Mr.
John Howle, the proprietor of the
In the first place, no meeting qf the
Hotel Touraine, whose guest I was,
but had never met before, was an en- Ford Hall Folks as originally planned.
thusiastic admirer of the Ford Hall That will come April 13 instead-'-in
nieetings and the Sagamore Sociologi- Kingsley Hall at 3.30 as usual.
But next Sunday evening, In Ford
cal Conference.
It was through Mr.
Howie that I had the privilege of Hall, Dr. Colin A. Scott of the Boston
meeting, In Cleveland, Mr: Peter Witt, Normal School will lead a Conference
the City Railroad Commissioner afld on Social Education, his own topic
friend and co-worker of the late Tom being "Training for Leadership." NoJohnson, Mr. Witt has a strong per- where would It be easier than at Ford
sonality and is a most forceful speak- Hall to demonstrate . that In every
er, I got his promise to speak for us community and in .every social group
next winter.
there are Individuals, many. of them,
At Pittsfield, Mass., last Sunday whom Nature meant to be leaders.
afternoon, In the Y. M. C, A. building, Prof, Barnes,· you remember, declared
. six or seven hundred men, Including that the Garfields and the Lincolns
the mayor of the city, an ardent Ro- are not necessarily rare and he .further
, man Catholic, listened for an hour pointed out that he always looks eager: with the most eager interest to the ly in a crowd of recent lmmlg1•ants ,for
:; story of what we are doing at Ford those having the signs of leadership.
.' Hall, and then they questioned me MIRs Lotta A. Clark, Director of the
, keenly just as we question our speak- 1915 Pageant, and :Miss Mary .Mulry of
I ers. They wanted to know If a town South Framingham, wlll contribute,
, the size of Pittsfield could maintain a · also, to the ve1·y Interesting topic of
meeting like ours and I told them not tho evening and tell us how we, may
only that it could but that it ought to, all help to malce our community life
' 'Jlhe newspapers of the city were most more beautlftil and more co-operative.
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ss of a Public Fortun
our renders huYe ngreed with us 1i1 om· estinm te
if the Sundnr eYeni11g· IPord II nil meeth/
,n for the Inst llve years h~· 1lte Bnp:
,ignecl to furnish u JJIU('e w!Jere, tmder
11nrchlsls, soeinlists, single tuxers, iI
l'rotestnuts, JewA nnrl CntholiN! exr
·11ing pul.Jlic issues relutlng to soelnl i
•nt. We wish tlrnt nli who, like Dr. ;
PlllOllt 'l'emJ)le, lltt ye clenom1eed thes(
111estloned their n1lne 11riY11tel~·, wouli
o \Yhich expression was (.(I Yell n t the
~a. 'l'hn l occui;ion furnished n el1111i
l1ose l1ehnlf these meetit1!{fl were i11n1i
ll1e good reee!Yecl. 'l'hcse "J 1'onl Hall
111selyes, chose n comnllttee to ex111·es,
; in tlie lllO\'elllent. Here nrp ROllle of
1J-11osslblr a little grnntliloqnentlr n!
111st sincerity: "'l'hro11gh nrnl l1r tllci:
''1 ,lemlicl exposition of ii- true religioufl
1 sectnrinn bins nml nflllintions, n rncl
inclus!Yencss thut lgnoreR nil rnl'inL'
d~ious urnl llistinctious. , , , Kor cou
1l'cl, im;trndetl, lnl4J~irec1 hr · tJ)e Hpe
11 us from yenr to ~-en!'!
J1ulcec.l,
n Jmrning desire to liYe grnmlly t'o
,tio11 of Individual Attendants
:-Sixty 1mclergrnclrn1t·cH from eight of the New Englund 11niw1·:iliJ1;1i1,IUlll. c;ollel!Cll_ ntte1Hlecl, i\Inrl'l1 7, 8 null n, the ni11th.J!.:1-
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FORD HALL FOLKS
. NORMAN HAl'OOOU,
Norman Hapgood,
New York.
, "Perhaps the greatest problem of democracy Is to bring Into the lives of
the working majority as fine a spiritual and Intellectual element as can
be had by what are now the more
favored classes.
Towa1,t1 this great
end your work at Ford Hall -is contributing nobly."
I~N\', NICHOLAS YAN I>EU l'YL,
company of his fellows that real progress Is made,
"I wish the Ford Hall meetlng!l
continued success and that they
should have the good fortune to retain your Invaluable leadership tor
many years to come. I count them as
_not the least of the many ways In
which you are doing valuable service
for the city and the country,"
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1e corvomte exprei,sions of gmtitnd1
Jnll Folk" gu ye Yoice 011 their reeeut ,
,,1n·esslons on the ])Hl't of m1111~· iucliYl
well wo.r!h quoting. Let it JIOt he fol
MR. and MRS. COLEMAN are to SOME LESSONS FROM RECENT INbe nt home at 177 West Brookline
DUSTRIAL OUTBREA,KS.
,111 men nml women with such Rignltlc111
street, Monday and Tuesday evenings,
ufmun, i\Inrgolis, Ilolskr, HnlliYnn,
April 14 and 15, from 7 to 10, 'and will
(Address .of Rev. Nicholas Yan Der
;·s n sulrnrbuuite: "I um oue of those
be very glad to welcome any of the
Pyl of Maverhlll at the Ford Hall
:~ cnme iuto existence looke!l upon ~11"
Ford Hall friends wlio desire to have
Meeting, March 23, 1913,)
a looJc at the Birthday Book.
I. drenriest nucl gloomiest of cln~·s, lit
I . ~onsider this Invitation to ~peak
ill llnylng these meetingK conHunccl,
to the men and women who assemble
Edward A, Fllene,
·1:1y now ns the best cln~· In the week.
"It seems to me that these meetings every Sunday night at Ford Hall as
1rnnme intUcntcs nu Irish origin: "iYt
are filling a great need In our city- one of the most honorable opportuni('l'C seems to clissolYe like surface sh
such a need as Is met in New York _tles which has been offered to me. . I
in I nucl clnss iuherltnnccs tllnt hind :
· by the Cooper Union. In a way this have been here on a number of occa•
same need ls met here in Boston by slons and I was naturally Impressed,
I ~ide relations, DiYestecl of these w
the dity Club, but the Influence o! as everybody Is Impressed who comes
1Hl women, children of n commou pnr!
Into this hall on Sunday night, at
that organization ,1s limited to the
,11111nn family," A womnu tfoclnres: i
men who have time for club life, hearing the freedom of utterance and
To
~ results in counection with the Ford
while the man who has only Sundays the frankness of the que.sticining,
and a small wage ls left to think his note how ·the problems of. our modern
1ueltlng uwny of rndnl 1n•e.incllce, mo'
life are being faced here In Ford Hall
own way out of his difficulties.
and Ueutile. 'l'he Oenlile In the
"Here in Ford Hall on Sunday even- ls one of the most refreshing experi!'Ye-opener with rel-(nl'cl lo his hrothq
ings there Is· the opportunity 'tlch ences that one may have. With most
11;irc1 Hnrris, ·wise, Hdrnlmun nucl !J'I
the members of the City Club ave • bodies of people, whether It be the
11 plnlt'orm light IJegimi to tlnwn 111)~
found so valuable-the opportunity to labor union or the manufacturers' assoclntlon, one feels a certain llmlta•
meet the man who may disagree wl-th
11rs from the theuloglcnl .se111lnnrif.'R,
tlon, one feels that he Is up against a
you and talk things over In a friendly
,Prs nre they going ~o seml 0111? Not
way, By such means l believe there 'shut mind. And shut minds are never
!I here is tile testhn1111y ol' n HnRsl
wlll grow up In our city a feeling of responsive minds. I think one of the
1·p cnn henr ft•om the -;nme plntfo1l
good fellowship among our citizens great clifflcnltles of today ls the shut
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mind. For that reason I looked with
which should do away with the disschools, n Jewish Ilnllhi, u C'hrh;t1
trust the fellow who has to make a great deal of hopefulness at the an·
1 Chinese womnn nncl n ,fo\\''.-4]\ phil
nonncement of the address whlr.h Is
good often entertains toward the fel('!Ill unclerstnml.
I feel thnt·. t11e ti
to close this series . of meetings, the
low who has made good; a feeling
11 recognize tlrnt we nil hnYe lo lire r
which should lead the fellow who has address to be given by Dr. Gifford on
"The Social Value of Free Speech."
made good to a point of view from
n re nil llrothers In spite of t.hc fncl
'l'he outbreak at Lawrence has bewhich he can see that it is only In the
rl'ilglous,"
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· of nny new mornment nlong .religio
u11on those It ls designecl to l1e11efi~
ir:1s these, whkh might he 11111lt.lpth,u, ., ..~ -.•••.
lie l<'ol'cl Hnll mcetlni;s hnrn hulncecl II f'l'if'IHIIY
nl the Chtn·ch, townrcl the hullrldnnl ()hrlK!lnn,
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FORD HALL FOLKS
·s that real prog1 Hall meetlngi,
rnd that they
I fortune to releadership tor
I count th'em as
many ways In
valuable ser\'lce
·ountry,"
M RECENT IN'BREAKS,
;holas Van Der
:he Ford Hall
23, 1913,)
:atlon to speak
1 who assemble
Ford Hall as
allle opportuniared to me,
I
umber of occa•
1lly Impressed,
;erl who comes
clay night, at.
utterance and
)slionlng.
To
of our modern
i in Ford Hall
eshing experle. With most
1er it be the
1facturers' asertain llm!ta•
1 up against a
nds are never
1k one of the
\' is the shut
r looked with
iss at the an·
ess whir.h is
neetings, the
Ir. Gifford on
,e Speech."
mce has be-
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vestigation of the government; $8.7!1
come anclentr' l1lstory, but that strike
undoubtedly marks an epoch so far as per week, an average wage for 23 od4
Thirty-three per
in~iistrlallsm ls concerned here in New thousand workers.
En~\and.. It was the first invasion by cent. or that 23 odd thousand received,
th\l' sydlcallsts' mov<lfne!)t as expressed according to this report, less than
by q,e industrial workers of the world $7.00 per week and only 17 per cent.
here: in the East; we In New England of that 23,000 workers received mo1;e
than $12,00 per week. And only about
had·. been sleeping while in Idaho, ln
6 per cent. of that 100 per cent. of
Colorado, ln Pennsylvania anrl on the
Pac!tjh coast they had been struggling workers were minors. This will give
with' the great aggressive force you an idea as to the wages officially
tabulated hy the investigators of the
whicl\ bad grown up ln France.
Mi\Qy of you have probably thought Unltild States Gover111i10nt. That, too,
that we In the United States were hav- was for a full week's work. Wheri I
. Ing al.l the difficulties and that they
was in Lawrence, two weelrn ago, I
found1 that the1;e were 10,000 people
were 1,ot having any difficulties any•
At
where · else.
As a • matter of fact, out of work at the present time.
various times during the year they
though, '. wherever Industrialism has
gained a foothold, wherever aggres- are coinpelled, through •slaclmei:,s of
sive ind ustriallsm exists, there you business, to be out of work. One mill
find ex!lctly the same difficulties which man told me that It was their policy
have been pres•sing here.. But the to have two men for every job in the
significant fact of the outbreaks in all city of Lawrence!
these c011ntries in Em•one and here in
While I was in Lawrence myself at
the United States Is uiat they are the time of tlie strike, I made a little
most se1•ious among the unskilled la- investigation on my own hook aside
borers wl~o have been receiving the from the government. I think that it
lowest wage, So, in order to state a ls just as reliable only lt ls not quite
solution of this great problem we so comprehensive. I want to give you
must beg!µ with that great mass of the facts which I gathered at that
unskilled labor, with that great mass time,
of people who are receiving low · Here was a family Hv!ng at 194
wages.
There lies the cause of the
Lawrence sfreet in the city of Law·
trouble at least for the present, and all. rence, composed of a father and a
measures looking toward its solution mother and 14 children. Only one of
must attack first of all this problem of
the children is of sufficient age to be
low wages,
Some of you have seen permitted to work. According to the
the report of the Lawrence strike statement which they made to me, and
made by the investigating committee I believe them, the ,father is a wet
which was conducted under the super- finisher in one of the mills and. revision of Charles P, Neill, our commis- ceived a wage, of $7.50 per week. The
sioner of Labor,. I found that report oldest boy, 16 years of age, worked
exceedingly difficult to get and I also and he received $5.00-a tqtal of
could not quit, understand why at first.
$12.50 Income for that family of 16
When I wrote 'to the Department they people; $2,50 of that was paid each
wrote back immediately that the Senweek for the rent of three rooms-16
ate had confined the number of copies people in three rooms, leaving $10.00
to be printed to just, a sufficient num- to shoe and clothe and feed 16 souls.
ber to meet the demands of the Sena- ·Something has got to give when that
tors and if I would apply to the Sen- sort of a wage strikes that kind of a
ator from my State I would tmdoubt- .family-as everyone appreciates wl10
edly receive a copy, The Senators of · has a few children of his own.
· this state have been unusually alert
Here is another fa,m!ly which lives
In answering all previous communi-, nt 28 Allen street. "The man was a
cations that I have ever sent to them,
weaver. He had a wife and four chilbut I found them exceedingly derelict dren, the oldest one 12 years of age
in their duty when I wanted a report and the youngest one 8 weeks.
The
of the Lawrence strike. ( Only after· wage of the father was $6, 70 per week
writing repeatedly and waiting some when he worked a full week. That is
eight weeks In all was Mr. Van Der for six human beings-$6.70.
Py! able to get a copy of the report.)
Another case. Family lived at 108
According to this report the 23 odd
Arlington street, which was composed
thousand mill workers in the city of · o·f a fathe1· and a mother and five chilLawrence who worked a ,full week in dren. /J'he oldest chlld was 28 »9ars
November, 1911, earned an average of and the youngest 14. The father hap$8,76 per week. That Is from the in- pened to be out of the country fbr his
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nry C. Cra11
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Nixt-r mulergrn<lnates Crom eight of the New Englund unihave agreed with us In olll' ef:\tlllH~f·e;~!U:S~~ ntteiulell, J\fnr('h 7 8
I) tile niuth nu'° 0veuing Ford Hall meet!·
1~1 llrn reuri, l>~· the Bn1
'lliHh II l)IU('e wliel'e, l]Jl(l(•
wiitlistfl, 1slngle tnxers, i
FORD HALL FOLKS
,Tewl:l nwl Cntholi<:fl ex1
i~sueR relnt.ing to sodnl
country's salce as well as his own. them up in the economic scale, the·
ii thnt nil who, like l >1·,
The mother kept house and the chil- birth rate decreases, We have ample
1,,, httve <10no1mC'ed the~
dren worked-all of them are over evidence of that here. It -is the poor
Then,
age but one, The total wage for that who have all the children.
,•it· y11l11e 111·irntelr, won I·
whole famlly was a little less than gradually, you get less and less until
,-,~ssion wnR given nt the
$33,00,
you come to what is known as the
ll"('llKion r111·nlshNl !I (']JIil'
Here is another family at 101 Ames- American Trinity-father, mother aiid
IIJN;e meefl11gA were i111111\
Unfortunately, in _a
bury street. Father, mother and two one little kid.
<'iYe1l. 'l'heHe "J<'or11 I-lnH
children, Everybody works in that great many families, even that one
Iltlle kid is being eliminated and the
'l' a conrn1lttee to expresi
family Including father. (Laughter.)
The father received $8.06; the mother · father and inother are going it aione,
•lllent. Jlel'e are i,onie of:
received $7 .00.
Annie, the oldest, ~ Now the consequence of. such a con, IHtle grnmlllor111entlr nl i
received $5.00. Thomas, the boy, re- dition of affairs as I found In Law·: '"l'hrough arnl 11? the1J
ceived $5.40-a little less than $25,00 rence Is Inevitable, In the first place,
,,~itlon of Jl trne religiorns
for the Iirhole family,
you are going to have a great deal of
ii:tH null a!lilintlorn,, a rn1l
Moreover, at 167 Ehn street, in Law- juvepile delinquency, A week ago last
~ thnt ignores nll rnl'inl.. I
rence, there were, in January, 1912, 74 Ivionday, or two weeks tomorrow, I
<liHtinctio11H, , . , Kor C'Oll
people,
divided into 14 famille's, spent a night at the Lyman School for
There
among whom there were 22 wage- Boys out here ,in Westboro.
,1•1!, Jm;iplre11 1,r tl)e Hpe
I
earners; and the average wage of the \ were in the vicinity of 425 boys,
yenr lo ~-enr ! Irnleetl,
wage-earners of that whole house was asked each 1boy, as he came into the
<lesire to Ii re grnmll~• fo
$6.66, Again, here was an Interesting hall or as I met him, "Where did you
family that came under my observa- come ·from,?" He said: "I came from
"Where do you come
tion-a father and mother and 19 chll- Lawrence,"
dren; the oldest one was 40 years of from?" "I came from New Bedford,"
age and the youngest was 6 weeks and "Where do you. come from?" "I came
vidunl Attendants
from Fall River."
A couple came
all of the same father and mother.
, ex11l'e8sions of gm titnd1
(Laughter,) Now, of course, you say from Haverhill, one or two even from
n ,·e voice on their reeent I
JI11medlately: what In the world do Boston, But I did not strike a single
these people have so many children boy, mark you, that came from a conn,
,11 the part of llHlllr imllri•
for? (Laughter.) '!'hat has been sald try town in Massachusetts, Not more
q noting, Let it uot be fo1
thousands and thousands of times to than 5 per cent. of the boys there
11·0111en "·ilh snc'1 sig11lfk111
me-;--lf these people wm.. bring so come from the country, In a study of
rgolis, Uolskr, Snllivnn,
many children lnto the world then let the juvenile delinquency of the Cook
n11He: "I nm one or t hmm
them suffer. But how about the poor County Juvenile Court In Chicago, for
children who never asked to be born? a period of nine years and covering
1•xistenee looke1l upon Sn
What shall we say about them? Have 18,000 cases, it was shown that al:111!1 gloomiest of tlnrs, In
they no rights which the community most every single case was the result
lil'Se rneetingK contiune!l,
bound to respect? Are we not, as of the breaking down of the home due
Ihe bei,t !lnr iu the week.
Either the
citizens and as human beings, under to Industrial conditions.
some obligation to the children who father or mother were immigrants
·n tes nu Irish ol'il-(ill : "1Vl\
have been brought Into this world? It and could not easily adapt themselves
" 11lssolve like smfnce sh
has. been figured that It requires at to the changed situation or the father
K inherit1111ces that html
had died and the mother was comleast $9.00 per week for a husband and
111K, ,l)iyeHtell of these W\
wife to live on a basis of· economic pelled to be the wage-earner for the
·hildren of n common vnrq
efficiency, and that a man ought to famlly and vice had entered into the
Every case, without any ex- have at least $3.00 per week for every home,
1,1"," A "·onrnn lll~elnres:
minor child depending upon him.
So ceptlon hardly, resulted from the
connection with the For!l
you can see what would be the neces- breakdown of the home due to social
,.,· of rnc·iul 111·e,i1Hliee, mo1
sary wages of a father and mother and conditions,·
I<'. 'fhe Gentile in -the ~
13 children. A man wlll never earn it
It seems to me that the industries of
11·ith regr\l'll lo hli; hrotll 1
In one of the Lawrence mills.
On Massachusetts that pay low wages are
the basis of an efficient economic ex- simply courting revolution, A writer
b, Wise, Sthulmnn Hll(l I!'II
istence a father and mother and' four
in an E'ngllsh review has said that a
Ii,ght beghlK lo tln \Yll 11!101
children would need at least $21.00 nation that connives at a wage Insuffi" tlle,,Jogkal _seminari(,s, ,
per week, where many of them get a cient for a decent economic existence
, going ~o send ont? Not
great deal less than half that amount. ls courting revolutloil. A nation which
lie teslhn,,nr ol' tt Hnsi;lt
Now, the only way to reduce t)rn birth
connives at a wage whi-ch i-n ins1tffi• ·
rate Is to raise people In the economic cient for a decent economic existence
,. from the -:111ue plntt'or
scale.
Over a century ago Adam is co1trting revolntion,
People have
,Jewish Itnl.Jh'1, u C'hrl,if,
Smith, the first of the scientific politi- got to live In one way or another and
·uman nrnl n ,Jew,~h vhllt
cal economists, recognized that the
if they cannot li,le by earning suffiil:nHl. I feel that. t\1e th
birth rate always Increased as people cient money they are going to steal,
I hat we nll have lo lire f
lived in squalor, In poverty and in They are going to break out in strikes
misery,
And, according as you lift like that of Lawrence and Little Falls
,titer,; in svile of the fact
and (
we sh
trial I
and a
Lawrr
wage,
of the
nut
slnmm
lnnd a
nnd tr
!'llJ)lt('fl
pr-ofltn
heavy
"/111111
n1:eo1111
llllnol
rreogn
slave
a l'CRll
holng
or yo1
lshed
n depn
she w1
hncl 111
llll0I',
who "
hot· to
was nl
or Lor
she 111
go wll
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0
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called·
Ano
ence 11
unskll
· onr h
aho11(.
11s wl
t_lons
have
Is
111{1 Pr
i
\" lllOVOlllellt along l'eliglo\l
, it lK deKigne1l to heneflt
\\"hkh 111ight. he u1111t.ipll ..
:1 ll mcetlngfJ hnvn hul11ce11 II f'l'IPndly
ll'(•li, townr!l the in11lvil11111\ ChriH(ln11,
,•rnl,'in henrlH of thoRe who, lil'c rears
11nto!l uml bitter?
11·
'I'he d
wlw!'e
front
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Vern.
I
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('!11ii11l'I: 'J'he I'l'ef4l!lent. lllllknteH his plll'[IOHe to re1•oguil'-(i
IIJPl'll. uliol"l' llJPre pnrfl8t11lKhlp 1111!1 lo 11111101!1 (he dril Hel'Vku
"'Vere
Amerl
very l
remen
dream
'rhe fl
child
It IIIJ
lcn "111
us the
wiped
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saw J
hands
sayl111
0
hll\'C
.
;1riste;n unw in force.
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the·
nple
)00r
hen,
mtll
the
and
n a
one
the
one.
COil•,
,awace,
1 of
last
I', I
for
1ere
I
the
you
1'0111 ·
ome
rd,"
1me
c1me
1'0111
1gle
)\111·
1ore
1ere
I' of
look
ror
·Ing
alsnit
cine
the
rnts
Ives
her
omthe
the
ex~
the
cial
i
of
are
iter
t a
nffince
1ich
11[/i·
·11r,e
ave
and
uffi-
nnl.
!ms
alls
l
and Colorado and Pennsylvania, and
we shall have a great deal of Indus, trial Inefficiency, We have heard again
and again that these people up in
Lawrence were not worth, a living
wage, and tragically true It Is. Many
of them are ·not worth a living wage,
But who Is to blame for the situation?
The doors of opportunity have been
slammed In their faces in their own
land and~ they ha:ve come here crushed
and trodden down without any mental
capacity whatever, and without any
profitable way of using their strong
heavy hands.
5
boi· and are ·heavily laden and I will
give you rest.' .When I went to Elllls
Island today and saw the people, the
latest arrivals. I said: There you
stand, my young fol!rn, in your 60
groups with your 50 languages but
you won't be that way long, You
won't be that long. These are the
fires of God that ·you have come to. A
fig for your feuds, Jew and Russians,
Englishmen and Irishmen, Frenchmen
and Germans, Into the Melting Pot
with you all because ·God is making
a new America." That. is the spirit
with which these people come, we must
Many of .you have . followed the . bel/eve. They are belated but they
accounts of the Investigation of the are not inferior peoples. If you draw
Illinois vice commission which has a line from the top of society to the
recognized that a great deal of white bottom you will meet exactly the same
slave traffic and its consequences are kind of people all along the way. In
a result of the low wages that are the city in .which I live, in the aristobeing paid to girls. I wonder If some cratic. section called the Highlands, we
of you .have read 0. Henry's "Unfin- have a· bunch of men who are called
ished Story." According to that story the Dirty Dozen. (Laughter.) Elverybody knows who they are. You have
a .dbpartment store girl there was, and
she .was receiving a low wage.
She the dirty dozen at the top of society
had an ideal and it was Lord Kitch- and you have the dirty dozen all along
ener. And one night, Piggie, a fellow the way; and I am quite sure you have
who worlrnd in the same place, asked a dirty dozen at the bottom of society.
her to go out with him. Just as she
Over 2,000 years ago Aristotle, a
. was about to go out she saw the face great philosopher, speaking of the anof Lord Kitchener looking at her and cestors of many of us Teutons, said
she n1t1de up her mind she would not that they were so barbaric and so stugo wl'11 Piggie. But what might hap• pid that p1,obably they never would be
pen on another night, when Lord able to count beyond the fingers of
Kitchener was not looking and Piggie their two hands. Most of the people
·called?
on the platform here belong to that
Another complication Is the pres- race of people whom Aristotle, the
imce In this country of a great mass of great philosopher, thus characterized.
unskilled workers who cannot speak And the race, since his time, has proour language, who know very little duced a Shakespeare, a Kant and a
about our customs and who come to Newton, and Is practically overrunning
us with the traditions and supersti- the world, including the Philippines
tions of .their, lands. Some of you . and Cuba and South America with Its
have read Zangwill's play, The Melt- commercial ideals, We have no such
Ina Pot. and you remember' that scene
thing as inferior peoples. We have bewheri;, David, the yo11ng Jew·. fresh lated peoples but the moment the door
from· the blood-stained pavement of of opportunity ls opened these so-called
. Kishlneff first met the social worker inferior people crowd in-and crowd
Vera.
And Vera says to David:
out almost every single American who
"Were yon· happy when you came' fo is h;ylng to go that way, It Is a very
America?" "Ah," he says, "It was suggestive thi!1g that a· few years ago,
vei·j, heaven for me because you mu~t the boy that won the prize in the Bosremember, Vera, . th_at I have been ton Latin School for scholarship was
dreaming· about America ·all my life. ' named Schnltldn, His father never
'I'he first gaii1e that I played at as .a came over in the Mayflower. (Laugh-·
child ·,vas 'to sell my furniture and set ter.) But, as Mr. Dooley says, his ,faIt up in Ame'rica. All my life Amei·- ther came · over in a· later boat.
lca ··had been beaming and beckoning
(Laughter.) So what seems to be the
us ·the land where all tears should be complication with reference to our Inwiped from the eyes. And then, when dustrial outbreaks is not at all the
I came into New York Harbor and
complication; for they have had exsaw your Statue of Liberty with its actly the same scen~s in Elngland
hands upraised, it seemed to me to be where their population ls purely nasaying 'Come unto Me all ye that la- · tive. To blame it on the foreigner ls
ICHERS NEWS LI
•ERENCE ON SOCV
ary C. Crawford
ching
school is alread\
that there must ·1
arithmetic in the
solid things that t
has to he at tim
an obedient pers<,
told. Simply bee
consiclerahle port
reason ·why, at o
same institution,
l'eversed. Wlw i
submissive, ah~a)
a follv\\'bl', why iL
become a leader
whut to do, getti,
low him in his id(
may he, in a wa)
well-rounded chu
necessary for the
the Ame'rican citi,
How this aclmii·.
practical in any s,
quarters of an he
grade and extendi1
the school prog'l'!u
entertainingly dev
of work in this wa'
being· done. Miss·
idea has been appl
ham, to the pm
arithmetic-by reL
dertaken by her p
the community's
station,-and iviisr
developed her the
history may and s
mate relation with
about us today.
More than one "
evening at Ford Hi
picture, as the Co1
a very happifvini
some day embo'dy
this stimulating 'id,
When enough pe<
g'l'aduated from su
monwealth will hav
ly "co-operative."
-~~1i~l~
ce on
f been
of the
ch Dr.
c an<l
gham
, howt able
thaf
ig• vaapers
1
g· For
imple
fact
leadf our
glorimders not
what
. does
e hisj they
:et the
hg' for
/them.
inthat.
ted in
I, want
f very
)ut it.
school
hance.
is de~ dis-
'fn
far as
[·cl an
t done
,ready
power
,le get
carry
chilt the
l
12
Pfbspeciiv;
Mi;1ist~;a·inc~nf~r~t,c!e at *Aitlover'1lilmhiii,f~~ •,;
t; ,:,•
*:
nun
i--:lxtr mHlergnHlnnt·eH from eight. of the New I!lnglnml uni·
11,l(l'eed with ur; In our est.lnu1,te 5 tr:: •.,,•aitiw,ik.all!L.
ttell(le l\Inrl'h 7 •
tile niuth nuii1.1g IPord Hnll .me.e,1·
--, · ----·---·------ --'<' rearr; hr tile B
:1 pluee \Y\Jere, UJI(
I~, Kingle tuxe,rs,
, n rnl Cn t holil'S el
6
, relating to sodn
nll who, like Di
:1rn 1leno1111l'e<l th
:1l11e Jll'irntel~·, wo~
,11 ,rnH giYen nl
1111 rmnif:1hed n eh
It Is
a libel against humanity. They are
exactly the same kind of people that
we are, everyone of us who are here.
I shall never forget the time that Jane
Addams spoke in the town of Milford.
After she had finished her splendid address the president of the club, who
happened to be a relative of a gentleman who was once Governor in this
Commonwealth said, "Miss Addams, we
have a great many Italians here In our
town and we would like very much to
do something for them. Can you tell
us what to do?"
FORD HALL .FOLKS
n libel against the foreigner and
ii
tll
lllePlltigR were In
'fhese "J<'or!l I-I~
•·1111m1ittee to ex)lr
1. Jlm•e ure Rome ·
gr,niillloquentl~• Ii
11 th I
l'llrough nml ~·
:
1
11 of ll trne rellgioi~
111cl allilintionR, n rj
11 lgnorerc; nil rnelnl
'
1l<'linm:. · · · Kor <'\
j
i11Rpire<l hy tl)e i:
lo Yen r ! Jrnleet1
1·e to· ]lye grnmll~• \
1
1.
1
,.,
('
1 shall' never forget Miss· Addams'
answer. She said, "Now If you go
the1·e a11d feel that you can teach them
everything and they cannot teach you
anything, that you are a sort of superlor creature to th em you had better
stay away; but If you go among th ese
people and look upon them as human
beings like yourself, who are cooled by
the same winter and warmed by th e
same summer, who bleed when they are
pricked, who love th eir children, juS t
as you love yours, and who have aspirti
d d
f th m j11st as yo11
a ons an
reams or e
may have, yourself, all you need to do
Is to go among them and common sens9
will teach you what to do."
There Is the solution.· (Applause.)
I am not afraid of the foreigners. I
have been one. I have graduated froqi
b
I
them. And I have now een sllrv ng
Puritan churches for 20 years. The
people In the parishes. I have served
are not afraid of me but they are
afraid, very much afraid, of the Ital•
!ans and the Jews and the Pollacks"f
and
'
i
all the rest of them. Yet, w 1en orelgners" are caught young they amount
to something.
Another great difficulty' In this whole
question Is the stupendous Incapacity
on the part of one class to understand
the other class. This Is particularly
true with reference, not only to the natlve and the foreigner, but with reference to the capitalist and the worker
and the worker and the capitalist. In
talking with Et tor, with whom I became very well acquainted during the
Lawrence situation and afterward, he
said to me one day, "Doctor, you are
the only decent minister that I have
met In my life." (Laughter and Applause.)
I said to him, ".Joe, have
you met a great many ministers?"
And, with that bland smile upon his
face,-lt ls always there because he Is
a fellow absolutely without temper,
though you would not think so to. read
.
I
i
al Attendants
i
,l'es:::lous of grntitt1
,·oi<'e on their rel'en 1
,. pnrt of rnnn~· imll
i11g'. Let it 11ot he t
('I\ \Yilh such signltlq
~. no!Rky, Hnllim11
, : "I um one of tho(
, I Pnee lookecl. 11po11 ,
l
"ltHHllieKt of tlnyK,
1\iedlngH continue
I ,psi <lnr In Ihe wel
, nu JriRh origin: ""\
,,,,ol\'e like snrt'nce .
llerltnncl'K thnt hln
lliYeHtcd of theRe
I l't'II of n conrnton !Hl
A \\'Olllllll lfol'lnreHI
11 \'etlon \Ylth the Fo
1· rneinl pre,inclke, 1
The Genllte in th
·1 regnrcl to hh: hrol
\'isl', Nl'hnl111n11 11ml
1 heginH lo tln \Yll n
1(•,1logienl Kon1innrie~
illg ~o SelHl out?' Ne
I <'SllnH,ny ol' n Hn~.
1·11m the 'IH\llO plntf
11·ish Hnbhi, u Chl'i
:111 nml n ,Jew\'llt pl
<1. I reel thnt t\10
l \Ye nil hnve lo liYe
I':-< in 1,pite of the f
1111·ement nlong rollgl
i:-: tleAlgnecl lo l1ene
it-h 111lµ;ht he 111111tl1 . __ ~ , , -11\eetlugs hnrn lnclncecl II fl'ie11clly
,. to\Ynr!l the ltullYiilnnl (1hr1Htlnrt,
I. ·111 henr!A of thoRe who, JlYe ~·eurfl
(•11 untl biller?
T
~
d
some of his speeches,-he answere ,
"Yes, lots of them."
"Joe," I challenged, "could you give
me the names of some of the minis•
ters with whom you have spoken?"
And he could not give the name of
'one! (Laughter.) His judgment was
just as bad about ministers and about
people on the other side as the judgment of some people on the other side
was of Mr. Ettor and of Glovanlttl.
I realize how difficult It Is for people to
understand. I have been writing more
or less a:nd i have ti'ied to be fair and
one reason which makes me to believe
that I am fair Is that I have been
scored by all sides. The Socialists
have drawn up resolutions and called
me a Judas and I have been sharply
called down by the other side; but I
realize that -they are not bad fellows
. on either side If they could come to·
gether. (Applause.) Let me read you
a letter. I think It Is a splendid l!lt·
ter. If it had been written to me by
the superlntenden~ of my Sunday
school 1 would ha:v11, thought he was lndeed a Christian. (Laughter and Applause.) It was written from Essex
County Jail by Glovanlttl and written
to a lady here In Boston for whom we
all have high respect.
A couple of
books-I think they were Lincoln's
speeches__Jhad been sent him and here
ls his reply,
[Then followed a beautiful Jett.er of
thanks for the books and expressive of
courageous willingness to 01eet whatever might come as a result of devof
tlon to the principles of liberty.]
Now, let me read another letter. I
have been writing a series of articles,
as Mr, Coleman has stated, for one of
our religious papers and I have re•
celved a great many letters, many of
them most appreciative. But here Is
one of another kind .. (Laughter.)
This 111anufacturer says ministers '
11re so used to preaching twice a Sun
bl
day to a lot of people who are una e
to answer back that they get Into a
slipshod way when writing .for publlcatlon. "Take your letter of the 10th.
You say 'One of my children Is at Wellesley College and the boy I
goes to HarJ d
vard next yeur. Whether n Po an or
in America, we are 1111 God's chlldrel\
and no man who has a heart In his
bosom can enjoy what you and I enjoy of security and comfort without
wishing at least that every man should
have enough to bring up his own ch!l·
dren as you and I do ours.' I' think
that Is empty sentiment. For If that
means anything, It means that you
1,,;~--;;i,e('foj '11ower l,y drtlle-of
<'11hll11:1,
liellll;TIIlY.. l'teilll\!f"l'IWWib""'"""'""
'rllP T'reHl!1~11t lnclkntefl his 1n11•pol'ie to 1·e1·01,1nl:w . '
t;hoY<' uwre tlltrtlK111H•hlp
14~·Hte1 n uow in . t'on•e.
lllPt'li.,
1
1111!!
to uphol<l lhu
dl'H
He1•vk~
i
think this lg
whom we irn
be able to s,
and his son
his children
I do not belle
mon sense o
would preacl
In your chm
mental nonse
great deal J
ter.)
But, as Car
refuted an er
a man ls wro
Glovanlttl ol
ror does not
why they g,
mlhd. The s
men. And (
who Is able
:, tremes of bo
.'. you who hav,
.to tho Jury
~~ay that It I:
1ilve speecher
t~ .. ln my l\!1
told me, p,
heard anytl
l'OOlll. Yon
of 1ieQple. Y
peo1jle In LI
have brien cl·
the ert;or or
kill ?IWtb b1
(Prolonged :
Now just
Every body
solution. S
hand. I n
conditions a
11lstol. The:
train of clrc
It dld· not b
going· to enc
no scheme,
even Ji' It 1
church ls
shouting dis
tlon at the
Is going to r
morrow mo
Nor Is It fo
these dlfficu·
the city of
wealth had t
on top of tl
with the hi!
that could l
try, lhey c
more lnflue1
to send him
plause.) I
until I met
day after th
,.,f
er Seminary
11 l..:111-;'l111ul 111il- 1 Af;
\I,
,___ c..-----"-~-
(lie ui11(h HU- , ,
)LKS
ir his speeches,-he answered,
ots or them."
" I challenged, "could you give
, names of some of the minis·
!th whom you have spoken?"
, could not give the name of
Laughter.) His judgment was
bad about ministers and, about
on the other side as the judg•
' some people on the other side
Mr. Ettor and of Glovanlttl.
, how difficult It Is for people to
0,nd. I have been writing more
and I have tried to be fair and
;on which makes me to believe
am fair Is that I have been
by all sides. The Socialists
awn up resolutions and called
1das and I have been sharply
own by the other side; but I
that they 11re not bad fellows
r side if they could come to·
( Applause.) Let me read ypu
I think It ls a splendid let·
it had been written to me by
,erintendent of my Sunday
would have thought he was In·
!hrlstlan. (Laughter and -i\,pIt was written from Essex
rail by Glovanlttl and written
here in Boston for whom we
high respect.
A couple of
think they were Lincoln's
-had been sent him 11nd ))ere
J]y,
followed a beautiful letter of
,r the books and expressive of
1s wllllngness to meet what•
ht come as a result of devolie principles of liberty.),
)t me read another hitter. I
1 writing a series of articles,
ileman has stated, for one of
ions papers and I have regreat many letters, many of
·,t appreciative. But here Is
other kind. (Laughter.)
ianufacturer says ministers
)d to preaching twice a S11n,
ot of people who are unable
back that they get Into a
·ay when writing ,for publlcake your letter of the 10th.
1ne of my children Is at Well:ge and the boy goes to Haryear. Whether In Poland or
0,, we are all God's chlldren
an who has a heart In his
enjoy what you and I en:nrlty and comfort without
least that every man s1lould
;h to bring up his own chil>n and I do ours.' , I' think
pty sentiment. For if that
·thing, it means that 'you
FORD HALL FOLKS
think this Ignorant Polish laborer, to
whom we have been referring, should
be able to send his girl to Wellesley
and his son to Harvard and not have
his children wor'k and help the father.
I do not believe that this ls either common sense or Christianity and If you
would preach a high protective tariff
in your church instead of that sentimental nonsense you would be doing a
great deal better service."
(Laughter;)
'
But, as Carlyle observed, you haven't
refuted an error when you find out that
a man is wrong, Convicting Ettor and
Glovanlttl of being wrong and in error does nothing until you find out
why they got that error into their
mlhd. The same way with these other
men. And the big man ls the man
who ls able to see possibllltles In ex,; tremes of both sides. I think most of
,"', you who have read Glovanlttl's address
. , to the Jury will believe me when I
~}f!.Y that it ls one of the most impres1;1lve speeches that I have ever listened
ti>.: in my life. The judge of the court
to(~ me, personally, that he never
hei.lt·d anything lllce it in a court•
roo~lc, You can electrocute that kind
of pe~ple. You can club them as those
people in Little Falls are reported to
have bMn clubbed but you will not kill
the erfor or kill the ideas. You can
kill nietii ,but yo1t· cannot kill ideas.
( Prolon~ed applause,)
"Now Hist•: a word about the solution.
Every body ,has a programme, for the
solution. So I am going to try my
hand. I recognize that the present
conditions are not like a sh~t, out or a
pistol. '!'hey al'e, the result of a long
train of •circumstances and conditions.
It did not ,begin yesterday and ls not
going to end today or tomorrow. And
no scheme, no matter how fine it is,
even if it be as fine as the one the
ch\1rch ls preaching comes within
shouting distance of an adequate solution at the present time. No scheme
ls going to usher in the millennium tomorrow morning at 7 o'clock shal'p,
Nor ls it forcti that ls going to solve
these difficulties. If the authorities of
the city of Lawrence or the Commonwealth had taken Ettor and placed.him
on top of the Bunker Hill Monument
with the biggest kind of a megaphone
that could be heard all over the country, they could not have given him
more Influence than they did by trying
to send ·him to the electric chair. (Ap•
plause.) I never heard of Joe Ettor
until I met him in Lawrence the Monday after the Sunday he arrived, Now
7
nobody in this country or in Canada
Is Ignorant of the existence of Ettor
and Giovanlttl. Who did it? Who did
It? Force ls not going to solve this
difficulty, Whether It Is the force of
the industrial Workers of the World
or the force of the authorities. ' I recognize the value of shock movements
In the progress of the world. I recognize that though John Brown was rash
and crazy in trying to overturn the
government of the United States what
he did had its place in the struggle
which was to wipe out slavery, And
all these movements perhaps, have
value in this way, But fundamentally
I believe that this ls a human problem
and not an economic problem at all.
I may not agree with the philosophy
of men like Ettor but I can and do
have high 1·espect for any man who ls
willing to throw his life in the bal•
ance. There are immense altruistic
forces at work in the world today and
I find that they are in all these social movements. I am sure I should
be untrue to myself as a minister of
the church if I did not say that the
church, also, is ministering to that
great end. You may not think so,
some of you, but it Is true just the
same. The platform of the Baptist
denomination under whose auspices I
am here-and I am not a Baptist- ls
one of the finest platforms that I know
anything about. The church ls con•
servatlve and she moves slowly and
people are not all agreed and there are
people In It, I regret to say, like that
man from whose letter I read an extract. But there ls a great company of
men and women in the church who be•
lleve in a high doctrine of brotherhood imd are ready as individuals to
advocate any scheme that will bring
to an end the unhappy conditions
which exist in the industrial world today, If there ls any programme that
ls in existence today that will heal the
hearts of the industrial world, I am
sure that I and thousands of others in
the c'hurches are ready to go ahead
with it.
SOME OF THE QUESTIONS.
Q, If the government should pur-
chase one 0£ the mills in Lawrence
how long would it be able to pay wages
of $9.00 per week?
A. I do not suppose the government
could run one of those mills with any
greater profit than it ls being run at
the present. time. I perhaps should
have said that in all these low wage
1Jlfllcultl't,s the blame should be upon
our present competitive system rather
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than upon the manufacturers. I think
any attitude which condemns the caJ)ltallst is altogether unjust.
.
Q. Why Is it that the strikers do
not get even-handed justice in the
court?
. A. Well, it deJ)ends upon the court.
(Laughter.) I think the court in Lawrence was extreme but I think that
Judge Mahoney acted from the most
·honest motives and thought locking
·men up was the way to cure them.
But he made a mighty big mistake.
He filled up the jail and then he could
not do any more. (Laughter.)
Q. What does the speaker think ls
a reasonable J)rofit for a· capitalist?
· A. That depends upon who is the
CfiJ)ltalist, I suppose,
(Laughter.) I
would not want to say more than that
an exorbitant income from capital Is
unjust. The Adams Express Company
declared a secret dividend of 200% fl
few years ago which made It possible
for a friend of mine, who is. a strong
believer in Socialism, to go to Europe
and have a flue trip. He Is ready tO'
take money although he condemns' the
system.
,
Q. Supposing you were a working
man In Lawrence working for $8.30 a
week which ticket would you vote?
·, A. The Progressive ticket.
(Applause.)
Q. In your opinion what does the
red flag constitute?
·
A. I got Into trouble answering
that question once.
(Laughter.) I
know what it means theoretically. I
know what it leads to sometimes practically, I am not afraid of the red
flag; some · people are. I think perhaps if it causes an offence better not
use It when something else w!ll .do
just as well.
Q, Does the speaker think that one
strike teaches the lesson of preventing
another?
A. I think so.
Q. Do you think a revision of the
tariff wlll -improve conditions in this
country?
.
A. Well, I am not expecting a great
deal In that direction. (Applause.)
Q. Would a minimum wage of $2.00
a day increase or decrease the army
of the unemployed?
A. I think the matter cif
minimum wage, generally adopted, has a·
great many complications. I do not
know just how it would work out.
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ALI-'J!BU
JllcCANN,
THE TRUTH ABOUT FOODS.
''I'll tell the truth about foods if I
die for it," Is the brave te_xt uJ)on
which. Alfred McQann has preacher!' a
most arresting sermon In his just-published book, "Starving America." Some
of the topics here covered are: "Why
15,000,000 children in America are
v,1yslcally · defective"; ''Why A.mer!-'\
cans are rapidly :becoming a n_atlon of
dyspeptics"; "Why we have no apJ)e•
tlte ror wholesome foods but crave
highly seasoned and degenerate foods."
The book is written in the same impassioned style that made so pro.found
an Impression when Mccann appeared
on our platform early in the- season.
And, of course, being a book, it can develop much that, in a talk, could onlr
be thrown out as a stiggestion.
Particularly valuable are the weekly dietaries given for children of various ages.
A thing which ought to be made possible at once, by legislation, is the "legally standardized loaf of .whole wheat
bread made of ·certified whole wheat
meal," for which the author eloquently
calls. Already, we learn, som.e official
attention has been given to this. demand and 'only recently Mr. McCann
was personally Interviewed by Governor Sulzer, of New York State. vYhen
the facts here presented are known ·to
the masses, there ls bound to be · a
great change in ehild culture.
And
that the principles embodied in the
boolc wlll be incorporated In future
courses of medical training there Is
good reason to hoJie. The price of the
volume is $1.50, and ·it is published
by F. M. Barton, Cleveland, Ohio.
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: Hav/ng, been absent from Forq Hall news columns and both before and
'two tjllccessive Sunday ev!ijj,lngs, I after the meeting.
'feel it' incumbent upon me to demonOn a week-day night in Glen Ridge,
! st rate ,that I made good use of the New Jersey, on my way home from
time elsewhere in the interest of our Cleveland, I had a very attentive audi.work,
ence in the Congregational Church,
I I fou.nd the Calvary Presbyterian and they expressed the wish that they
, Church in Buffalo ( located· in the mlg,ht inaugurate a similar meeting in
· down-town district) eager to learn all their town, which ls made up almost
about how ,ve· dq it at Ford Hall. The entirely of families whose heads go to
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'pastor, Rev. John W. Ross, had been New York every clay lor business.
', trying fc:ir a year to get me to speak
Suppose there were a chain of Ford
': to his people about our work, · I spent Hall meetings running through a ya, one whole evening with him and a rlety of cities. Stranger things might
; group of his leading men and on Sun-: happen. Everywhere the story of our
day evening occupied his pulpit, They work is told, the response Is immedidecided at once to plan for a series of ate •and intense. Already there are a
Ford Hafl meetings In their church · number of meetings like ours.
They
I during all the Sunday evenings of may not use our name nor <lo every; April and If the meetings are success- thing just as we do it, but they are
ful, they will run them all next win- animated by the same purpose and that
: ter.
I That same Sunday morning in Buf•
j falo, I was called out of the congregai tion at the Delaware Avenue Baptist
, Church to talk to the Men's Bible
; Class about the Ford Hall meetings.
NEXT SUNDAY'S PROGRAM.
Another surprise was to find bhat Mr.
John Howle, the proprietor of the
In the first place, no meeting qf the
Hotel Touraine, whose guest I was,
but had never met before, was an en- Ford Hall Folks as originally planned.
thusiastic admirer of the Ford Hall That will come April 13 instead-'-in
nieetings and the Sagamore Sociologi- Kingsley Hall at 3.30 as usual.
But next Sunday evening, In Ford
cal Conference.
It was through Mr.
Howie that I had the privilege of Hall, Dr. Colin A. Scott of the Boston
meeting, In Cleveland, Mr: Peter Witt, Normal School will lead a Conference
the City Railroad Commissioner afld on Social Education, his own topic
friend and co-worker of the late Tom being "Training for Leadership." NoJohnson, Mr. Witt has a strong per- where would It be easier than at Ford
sonality and is a most forceful speak- Hall to demonstrate . that In every
er, I got his promise to speak for us community and in .every social group
next winter.
there are Individuals, many. of them,
At Pittsfield, Mass., last Sunday whom Nature meant to be leaders.
afternoon, In the Y. M. C, A. building, Prof, Barnes,· you remember, declared
. six or seven hundred men, Including that the Garfields and the Lincolns
the mayor of the city, an ardent Ro- are not necessarily rare and he .further
, man Catholic, listened for an hour pointed out that he always looks eager: with the most eager interest to the ly in a crowd of recent lmmlg1•ants ,for
:; story of what we are doing at Ford those having the signs of leadership.
.' Hall, and then they questioned me MIRs Lotta A. Clark, Director of the
, keenly just as we question our speak- 1915 Pageant, and :Miss Mary .Mulry of
I ers. They wanted to know If a town South Framingham, wlll contribute,
, the size of Pittsfield could maintain a · also, to the ve1·y Interesting topic of
meeting like ours and I told them not tho evening and tell us how we, may
only that it could but that it ought to, all help to malce our community life
' 'Jlhe newspapers of the city were most more beautlftil and more co-operative.
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if the Sundnr eYeni11g· IPord II nil meeth/
,n for the Inst llve years h~· 1lte Bnp:
,ignecl to furnish u JJIU('e w!Jere, tmder
11nrchlsls, soeinlists, single tuxers, iI
l'rotestnuts, JewA nnrl CntholiN! exr
·11ing pul.Jlic issues relutlng to soelnl i
•nt. We wish tlrnt nli who, like Dr. ;
PlllOllt 'l'emJ)le, lltt ye clenom1eed thes(
111estloned their n1lne 11riY11tel~·, wouli
o \Yhich expression was (.(I Yell n t the
~a. 'l'hn l occui;ion furnished n el1111i
l1ose l1ehnlf these meetit1!{fl were i11n1i
ll1e good reee!Yecl. 'l'hcse "J 1'onl Hall
111selyes, chose n comnllttee to ex111·es,
; in tlie lllO\'elllent. Here nrp ROllle of
1J-11osslblr a little grnntliloqnentlr n!
111st sincerity: "'l'hro11gh nrnl l1r tllci:
''1 ,lemlicl exposition of ii- true religioufl
1 sectnrinn bins nml nflllintions, n rncl
inclus!Yencss thut lgnoreR nil rnl'inL'
d~ious urnl llistinctious. , , , Kor cou
1l'cl, im;trndetl, lnl4J~irec1 hr · tJ)e Hpe
11 us from yenr to ~-en!'!
J1ulcec.l,
n Jmrning desire to liYe grnmlly t'o
,tio11 of Individual Attendants
:-Sixty 1mclergrnclrn1t·cH from eight of the New Englund 11niw1·:iliJ1;1i1,IUlll. c;ollel!Cll_ ntte1Hlecl, i\Inrl'l1 7, 8 null n, the ni11th.J!.:1-
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FORD HALL FOLKS
. NORMAN HAl'OOOU,
Norman Hapgood,
New York.
, "Perhaps the greatest problem of democracy Is to bring Into the lives of
the working majority as fine a spiritual and Intellectual element as can
be had by what are now the more
favored classes.
Towa1,t1 this great
end your work at Ford Hall -is contributing nobly."
I~N\', NICHOLAS YAN I>EU l'YL,
company of his fellows that real progress Is made,
"I wish the Ford Hall meetlng!l
continued success and that they
should have the good fortune to retain your Invaluable leadership tor
many years to come. I count them as
_not the least of the many ways In
which you are doing valuable service
for the city and the country,"
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1e corvomte exprei,sions of gmtitnd1
Jnll Folk" gu ye Yoice 011 their reeeut ,
,,1n·esslons on the ])Hl't of m1111~· iucliYl
well wo.r!h quoting. Let it JIOt he fol
MR. and MRS. COLEMAN are to SOME LESSONS FROM RECENT INbe nt home at 177 West Brookline
DUSTRIAL OUTBREA,KS.
,111 men nml women with such Rignltlc111
street, Monday and Tuesday evenings,
ufmun, i\Inrgolis, Ilolskr, HnlliYnn,
April 14 and 15, from 7 to 10, 'and will
(Address .of Rev. Nicholas Yan Der
;·s n sulrnrbuuite: "I um oue of those
be very glad to welcome any of the
Pyl of Maverhlll at the Ford Hall
:~ cnme iuto existence looke!l upon ~11"
Ford Hall friends wlio desire to have
Meeting, March 23, 1913,)
a looJc at the Birthday Book.
I. drenriest nucl gloomiest of cln~·s, lit
I . ~onsider this Invitation to ~peak
ill llnylng these meetingK conHunccl,
to the men and women who assemble
Edward A, Fllene,
·1:1y now ns the best cln~· In the week.
"It seems to me that these meetings every Sunday night at Ford Hall as
1rnnme intUcntcs nu Irish origin: "iYt
are filling a great need In our city- one of the most honorable opportuni('l'C seems to clissolYe like surface sh
such a need as Is met in New York _tles which has been offered to me. . I
in I nucl clnss iuherltnnccs tllnt hind :
· by the Cooper Union. In a way this have been here on a number of occa•
same need ls met here in Boston by slons and I was naturally Impressed,
I ~ide relations, DiYestecl of these w
the dity Club, but the Influence o! as everybody Is Impressed who comes
1Hl women, children of n commou pnr!
Into this hall on Sunday night, at
that organization ,1s limited to the
,11111nn family," A womnu tfoclnres: i
men who have time for club life, hearing the freedom of utterance and
To
~ results in counection with the Ford
while the man who has only Sundays the frankness of the que.sticining,
and a small wage ls left to think his note how ·the problems of. our modern
1ueltlng uwny of rndnl 1n•e.incllce, mo'
life are being faced here In Ford Hall
own way out of his difficulties.
and Ueutile. 'l'he Oenlile In the
"Here in Ford Hall on Sunday even- ls one of the most refreshing experi!'Ye-opener with rel-(nl'cl lo his hrothq
ings there Is· the opportunity 'tlch ences that one may have. With most
11;irc1 Hnrris, ·wise, Hdrnlmun nucl !J'I
the members of the City Club ave • bodies of people, whether It be the
11 plnlt'orm light IJegimi to tlnwn 111)~
found so valuable-the opportunity to labor union or the manufacturers' assoclntlon, one feels a certain llmlta•
meet the man who may disagree wl-th
11rs from the theuloglcnl .se111lnnrif.'R,
tlon, one feels that he Is up against a
you and talk things over In a friendly
,Prs nre they going ~o seml 0111? Not
way, By such means l believe there 'shut mind. And shut minds are never
!I here is tile testhn1111y ol' n HnRsl
wlll grow up In our city a feeling of responsive minds. I think one of the
1·p cnn henr ft•om the -;nme plntfo1l
good fellowship among our citizens great clifflcnltles of today ls the shut
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mind. For that reason I looked with
which should do away with the disschools, n Jewish Ilnllhi, u C'hrh;t1
trust the fellow who has to make a great deal of hopefulness at the an·
1 Chinese womnn nncl n ,fo\\''.-4]\ phil
nonncement of the address whlr.h Is
good often entertains toward the fel('!Ill unclerstnml.
I feel thnt·. t11e ti
to close this series . of meetings, the
low who has made good; a feeling
11 recognize tlrnt we nil hnYe lo lire r
which should lead the fellow who has address to be given by Dr. Gifford on
"The Social Value of Free Speech."
made good to a point of view from
n re nil llrothers In spite of t.hc fncl
'l'he outbreak at Lawrence has bewhich he can see that it is only In the
rl'ilglous,"
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· of nny new mornment nlong .religio
u11on those It ls designecl to l1e11efi~
ir:1s these, whkh might he 11111lt.lpth,u, ., ..~ -.•••.
lie l<'ol'cl Hnll mcetlni;s hnrn hulncecl II f'l'if'IHIIY
nl the Chtn·ch, townrcl the hullrldnnl ()hrlK!lnn,
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·s that real prog1 Hall meetlngi,
rnd that they
I fortune to releadership tor
I count th'em as
many ways In
valuable ser\'lce
·ountry,"
M RECENT IN'BREAKS,
;holas Van Der
:he Ford Hall
23, 1913,)
:atlon to speak
1 who assemble
Ford Hall as
allle opportuniared to me,
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umber of occa•
1lly Impressed,
;erl who comes
clay night, at.
utterance and
)slionlng.
To
of our modern
i in Ford Hall
eshing experle. With most
1er it be the
1facturers' asertain llm!ta•
1 up against a
nds are never
1k one of the
\' is the shut
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iss at the an·
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neetings, the
Ir. Gifford on
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vestigation of the government; $8.7!1
come anclentr' l1lstory, but that strike
undoubtedly marks an epoch so far as per week, an average wage for 23 od4
Thirty-three per
in~iistrlallsm ls concerned here in New thousand workers.
En~\and.. It was the first invasion by cent. or that 23 odd thousand received,
th\l' sydlcallsts' mov<lfne!)t as expressed according to this report, less than
by q,e industrial workers of the world $7.00 per week and only 17 per cent.
here: in the East; we In New England of that 23,000 workers received mo1;e
than $12,00 per week. And only about
had·. been sleeping while in Idaho, ln
6 per cent. of that 100 per cent. of
Colorado, ln Pennsylvania anrl on the
Pac!tjh coast they had been struggling workers were minors. This will give
with' the great aggressive force you an idea as to the wages officially
tabulated hy the investigators of the
whicl\ bad grown up ln France.
Mi\Qy of you have probably thought Unltild States Gover111i10nt. That, too,
that we In the United States were hav- was for a full week's work. Wheri I
. Ing al.l the difficulties and that they
was in Lawrence, two weelrn ago, I
found1 that the1;e were 10,000 people
were 1,ot having any difficulties any•
At
where · else.
As a • matter of fact, out of work at the present time.
various times during the year they
though, '. wherever Industrialism has
gained a foothold, wherever aggres- are coinpelled, through •slaclmei:,s of
sive ind ustriallsm exists, there you business, to be out of work. One mill
find ex!lctly the same difficulties which man told me that It was their policy
have been pres•sing here.. But the to have two men for every job in the
significant fact of the outbreaks in all city of Lawrence!
these c011ntries in Em•one and here in
While I was in Lawrence myself at
the United States Is uiat they are the time of tlie strike, I made a little
most se1•ious among the unskilled la- investigation on my own hook aside
borers wl~o have been receiving the from the government. I think that it
lowest wage, So, in order to state a ls just as reliable only lt ls not quite
solution of this great problem we so comprehensive. I want to give you
must beg!µ with that great mass of the facts which I gathered at that
unskilled labor, with that great mass time,
of people who are receiving low · Here was a family Hv!ng at 194
wages.
There lies the cause of the
Lawrence sfreet in the city of Law·
trouble at least for the present, and all. rence, composed of a father and a
measures looking toward its solution mother and 14 children. Only one of
must attack first of all this problem of
the children is of sufficient age to be
low wages,
Some of you have seen permitted to work. According to the
the report of the Lawrence strike statement which they made to me, and
made by the investigating committee I believe them, the ,father is a wet
which was conducted under the super- finisher in one of the mills and. revision of Charles P, Neill, our commis- ceived a wage, of $7.50 per week. The
sioner of Labor,. I found that report oldest boy, 16 years of age, worked
exceedingly difficult to get and I also and he received $5.00-a tqtal of
could not quit, understand why at first.
$12.50 Income for that family of 16
When I wrote 'to the Department they people; $2,50 of that was paid each
wrote back immediately that the Senweek for the rent of three rooms-16
ate had confined the number of copies people in three rooms, leaving $10.00
to be printed to just, a sufficient num- to shoe and clothe and feed 16 souls.
ber to meet the demands of the Sena- ·Something has got to give when that
tors and if I would apply to the Sen- sort of a wage strikes that kind of a
ator from my State I would tmdoubt- .family-as everyone appreciates wl10
edly receive a copy, The Senators of · has a few children of his own.
· this state have been unusually alert
Here is another fa,m!ly which lives
In answering all previous communi-, nt 28 Allen street. "The man was a
cations that I have ever sent to them,
weaver. He had a wife and four chilbut I found them exceedingly derelict dren, the oldest one 12 years of age
in their duty when I wanted a report and the youngest one 8 weeks.
The
of the Lawrence strike. ( Only after· wage of the father was $6, 70 per week
writing repeatedly and waiting some when he worked a full week. That is
eight weeks In all was Mr. Van Der for six human beings-$6.70.
Py! able to get a copy of the report.)
Another case. Family lived at 108
According to this report the 23 odd
Arlington street, which was composed
thousand mill workers in the city of · o·f a fathe1· and a mother and five chilLawrence who worked a ,full week in dren. /J'he oldest chlld was 28 »9ars
November, 1911, earned an average of and the youngest 14. The father hap$8,76 per week. That Is from the in- pened to be out of the country fbr his
'
~CHERS
FERENCE
nry C. Cra11
aching·
ing of
which
ice on
l been
of the
ch Dr.
k und
1gham
, how)t nlile
e that
SlliJJI
scl1,
tlrn1
nl'it
soli,
has
an <
told.
com;
reas
sa111,
l'GVC1
i't,!
Jg' Vil··
a
_)H))Crs
UCCOI
g For
what
low Ji
may
well-1
,imple
e fact
leud)f our
glorirnder1s not
what
t does
e hisi they
et the
1g for
them.
en in, that.
ted in
. want
I very
mt it.
1chool
1ance,
neces.
the A
Ho,
pracli
quart<
grade
the sc
entert.
of
WOI'
being,
idea hi
ham,
a1·ith111
dertaki
the co
station,
develop
history
mate 1·,
about u
l\101·0
evening
picture,
a very
some cla
this stin
When e
gradual,·
monwea!
ly "co-op
is cle1 dis'.ar us
rd an
'done
ready
?OWer
.e get
carry
· chill the
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THE
,11..0RIM 'CITY
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I
OOHS
DOW
R
FRO
Prospective Ministers in Conference at Andover Seminary
ic Forum
Nixt-r mulergrn<lnates Crom eight of the New Englund unihave agreed with us In olll' ef:\tlllH~f·e;~!U:S~~ ntteiulell, J\fnr('h 7 8
I) tile niuth nu'° 0veuing Ford Hall meet!·
1~1 llrn reuri, l>~· the Bn1
'lliHh II l)IU('e wliel'e, l]Jl(l(•
wiitlistfl, 1slngle tnxers, i
FORD HALL FOLKS
,Tewl:l nwl Cntholi<:fl ex1
i~sueR relnt.ing to sodnl
country's salce as well as his own. them up in the economic scale, the·
ii thnt nil who, like l >1·,
The mother kept house and the chil- birth rate decreases, We have ample
1,,, httve <10no1mC'ed the~
dren worked-all of them are over evidence of that here. It -is the poor
Then,
age but one, The total wage for that who have all the children.
,•it· y11l11e 111·irntelr, won I·
whole famlly was a little less than gradually, you get less and less until
,-,~ssion wnR given nt the
$33,00,
you come to what is known as the
ll"('llKion r111·nlshNl !I (']JIil'
Here is another family at 101 Ames- American Trinity-father, mother aiid
IIJN;e meefl11gA were i111111\
Unfortunately, in _a
bury street. Father, mother and two one little kid.
<'iYe1l. 'l'heHe "J<'or11 I-lnH
children, Everybody works in that great many families, even that one
Iltlle kid is being eliminated and the
'l' a conrn1lttee to expresi
family Including father. (Laughter.)
The father received $8.06; the mother · father and inother are going it aione,
•lllent. Jlel'e are i,onie of:
received $7 .00.
Annie, the oldest, ~ Now the consequence of. such a con, IHtle grnmlllor111entlr nl i
received $5.00. Thomas, the boy, re- dition of affairs as I found In Law·: '"l'hrough arnl 11? the1J
ceived $5.40-a little less than $25,00 rence Is Inevitable, In the first place,
,,~itlon of Jl trne religiorns
for the Iirhole family,
you are going to have a great deal of
ii:tH null a!lilintlorn,, a rn1l
Moreover, at 167 Ehn street, in Law- juvepile delinquency, A week ago last
~ thnt ignores nll rnl'inl.. I
rence, there were, in January, 1912, 74 Ivionday, or two weeks tomorrow, I
<liHtinctio11H, , . , Kor C'Oll
people,
divided into 14 famille's, spent a night at the Lyman School for
There
among whom there were 22 wage- Boys out here ,in Westboro.
,1•1!, Jm;iplre11 1,r tl)e Hpe
I
earners; and the average wage of the \ were in the vicinity of 425 boys,
yenr lo ~-enr ! Irnleetl,
wage-earners of that whole house was asked each 1boy, as he came into the
<lesire to Ii re grnmll~• fo
$6.66, Again, here was an Interesting hall or as I met him, "Where did you
family that came under my observa- come ·from,?" He said: "I came from
"Where do you come
tion-a father and mother and 19 chll- Lawrence,"
dren; the oldest one was 40 years of from?" "I came from New Bedford,"
age and the youngest was 6 weeks and "Where do you. come from?" "I came
vidunl Attendants
from Fall River."
A couple came
all of the same father and mother.
, ex11l'e8sions of gm titnd1
(Laughter,) Now, of course, you say from Haverhill, one or two even from
n ,·e voice on their reeent I
JI11medlately: what In the world do Boston, But I did not strike a single
these people have so many children boy, mark you, that came from a conn,
,11 the part of llHlllr imllri•
for? (Laughter.) '!'hat has been sald try town in Massachusetts, Not more
q noting, Let it uot be fo1
thousands and thousands of times to than 5 per cent. of the boys there
11·0111en "·ilh snc'1 sig11lfk111
me-;--lf these people wm.. bring so come from the country, In a study of
rgolis, Uolskr, Snllivnn,
many children lnto the world then let the juvenile delinquency of the Cook
n11He: "I nm one or t hmm
them suffer. But how about the poor County Juvenile Court In Chicago, for
children who never asked to be born? a period of nine years and covering
1•xistenee looke1l upon Sn
What shall we say about them? Have 18,000 cases, it was shown that al:111!1 gloomiest of tlnrs, In
they no rights which the community most every single case was the result
lil'Se rneetingK contiune!l,
bound to respect? Are we not, as of the breaking down of the home due
Ihe bei,t !lnr iu the week.
Either the
citizens and as human beings, under to Industrial conditions.
some obligation to the children who father or mother were immigrants
·n tes nu Irish ol'il-(ill : "1Vl\
have been brought Into this world? It and could not easily adapt themselves
" 11lssolve like smfnce sh
has. been figured that It requires at to the changed situation or the father
K inherit1111ces that html
had died and the mother was comleast $9.00 per week for a husband and
111K, ,l)iyeHtell of these W\
wife to live on a basis of· economic pelled to be the wage-earner for the
·hildren of n common vnrq
efficiency, and that a man ought to famlly and vice had entered into the
Every case, without any ex- have at least $3.00 per week for every home,
1,1"," A "·onrnn lll~elnres:
minor child depending upon him.
So ceptlon hardly, resulted from the
connection with the For!l
you can see what would be the neces- breakdown of the home due to social
,.,· of rnc·iul 111·e,i1Hliee, mo1
sary wages of a father and mother and conditions,·
I<'. 'fhe Gentile in -the ~
13 children. A man wlll never earn it
It seems to me that the industries of
11·ith regr\l'll lo hli; hrotll 1
In one of the Lawrence mills.
On Massachusetts that pay low wages are
the basis of an efficient economic ex- simply courting revolution, A writer
b, Wise, Sthulmnn Hll(l I!'II
istence a father and mother and' four
in an E'ngllsh review has said that a
Ii,ght beghlK lo tln \Yll 11!101
children would need at least $21.00 nation that connives at a wage Insuffi" tlle,,Jogkal _seminari(,s, ,
per week, where many of them get a cient for a decent economic existence
, going ~o send ont? Not
great deal less than half that amount. ls courting revolutloil. A nation which
lie teslhn,,nr ol' tt Hnsi;lt
Now, the only way to reduce t)rn birth
connives at a wage whi-ch i-n ins1tffi• ·
rate Is to raise people In the economic cient for a decent economic existence
,. from the -:111ue plntt'or
scale.
Over a century ago Adam is co1trting revolntion,
People have
,Jewish Itnl.Jh'1, u C'hrl,if,
Smith, the first of the scientific politi- got to live In one way or another and
·uman nrnl n ,Jew,~h vhllt
cal economists, recognized that the
if they cannot li,le by earning suffiil:nHl. I feel that. t\1e th
birth rate always Increased as people cient money they are going to steal,
I hat we nll have lo lire f
lived in squalor, In poverty and in They are going to break out in strikes
misery,
And, according as you lift like that of Lawrence and Little Falls
,titer,; in svile of the fact
and (
we sh
trial I
and a
Lawrr
wage,
of the
nut
slnmm
lnnd a
nnd tr
!'llJ)lt('fl
pr-ofltn
heavy
"/111111
n1:eo1111
llllnol
rreogn
slave
a l'CRll
holng
or yo1
lshed
n depn
she w1
hncl 111
llll0I',
who "
hot· to
was nl
or Lor
she 111
go wll
J)Pll
0
Klt.r•hp
called·
Ano
ence 11
unskll
· onr h
aho11(.
11s wl
t_lons
have
Is
111{1 Pr
i
\" lllOVOlllellt along l'eliglo\l
, it lK deKigne1l to heneflt
\\"hkh 111ight. he u1111t.ipll ..
:1 ll mcetlngfJ hnvn hul11ce11 II f'l'IPndly
ll'(•li, townr!l the in11lvil11111\ ChriH(ln11,
,•rnl,'in henrlH of thoRe who, lil'c rears
11nto!l uml bitter?
11·
'I'he d
wlw!'e
front
.Kish Ir
Vern.
I
Rjle(•l11I vower h~• drtll(' of' ITelllgfT.--,1e"'""'l"'lr-e"'l""lll"f:!"'t"'*""·'U"'Vib""~"";"a"',G""-"'J£""-¥'"•---~
('!11ii11l'I: 'J'he I'l'ef4l!lent. lllllknteH his plll'[IOHe to re1•oguil'-(i
IIJPl'll. uliol"l' llJPre pnrfl8t11lKhlp 1111!1 lo 11111101!1 (he dril Hel'Vku
"'Vere
Amerl
very l
remen
dream
'rhe fl
child
It IIIJ
lcn "111
us the
wiped
I can
saw J
hands
sayl111
0
hll\'C
.
;1riste;n unw in force.
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'FORD HALL FOLKS
the·
nple
)00r
hen,
mtll
the
and
n a
one
the
one.
COil•,
,awace,
1 of
last
I', I
for
1ere
I
the
you
1'0111 ·
ome
rd,"
1me
c1me
1'0111
1gle
)\111·
1ore
1ere
I' of
look
ror
·Ing
alsnit
cine
the
rnts
Ives
her
omthe
the
ex~
the
cial
i
of
are
iter
t a
nffince
1ich
11[/i·
·11r,e
ave
and
uffi-
nnl.
!ms
alls
l
and Colorado and Pennsylvania, and
we shall have a great deal of Indus, trial Inefficiency, We have heard again
and again that these people up in
Lawrence were not worth, a living
wage, and tragically true It Is. Many
of them are ·not worth a living wage,
But who Is to blame for the situation?
The doors of opportunity have been
slammed In their faces in their own
land and~ they ha:ve come here crushed
and trodden down without any mental
capacity whatever, and without any
profitable way of using their strong
heavy hands.
5
boi· and are ·heavily laden and I will
give you rest.' .When I went to Elllls
Island today and saw the people, the
latest arrivals. I said: There you
stand, my young fol!rn, in your 60
groups with your 50 languages but
you won't be that way long, You
won't be that long. These are the
fires of God that ·you have come to. A
fig for your feuds, Jew and Russians,
Englishmen and Irishmen, Frenchmen
and Germans, Into the Melting Pot
with you all because ·God is making
a new America." That. is the spirit
with which these people come, we must
Many of .you have . followed the . bel/eve. They are belated but they
accounts of the Investigation of the are not inferior peoples. If you draw
Illinois vice commission which has a line from the top of society to the
recognized that a great deal of white bottom you will meet exactly the same
slave traffic and its consequences are kind of people all along the way. In
a result of the low wages that are the city in .which I live, in the aristobeing paid to girls. I wonder If some cratic. section called the Highlands, we
of you .have read 0. Henry's "Unfin- have a· bunch of men who are called
ished Story." According to that story the Dirty Dozen. (Laughter.) Elverybody knows who they are. You have
a .dbpartment store girl there was, and
she .was receiving a low wage.
She the dirty dozen at the top of society
had an ideal and it was Lord Kitch- and you have the dirty dozen all along
ener. And one night, Piggie, a fellow the way; and I am quite sure you have
who worlrnd in the same place, asked a dirty dozen at the bottom of society.
her to go out with him. Just as she
Over 2,000 years ago Aristotle, a
. was about to go out she saw the face great philosopher, speaking of the anof Lord Kitchener looking at her and cestors of many of us Teutons, said
she n1t1de up her mind she would not that they were so barbaric and so stugo wl'11 Piggie. But what might hap• pid that p1,obably they never would be
pen on another night, when Lord able to count beyond the fingers of
Kitchener was not looking and Piggie their two hands. Most of the people
·called?
on the platform here belong to that
Another complication Is the pres- race of people whom Aristotle, the
imce In this country of a great mass of great philosopher, thus characterized.
unskilled workers who cannot speak And the race, since his time, has proour language, who know very little duced a Shakespeare, a Kant and a
about our customs and who come to Newton, and Is practically overrunning
us with the traditions and supersti- the world, including the Philippines
tions of .their, lands. Some of you . and Cuba and South America with Its
have read Zangwill's play, The Melt- commercial ideals, We have no such
Ina Pot. and you remember' that scene
thing as inferior peoples. We have bewheri;, David, the yo11ng Jew·. fresh lated peoples but the moment the door
from· the blood-stained pavement of of opportunity ls opened these so-called
. Kishlneff first met the social worker inferior people crowd in-and crowd
Vera.
And Vera says to David:
out almost every single American who
"Were yon· happy when you came' fo is h;ylng to go that way, It Is a very
America?" "Ah," he says, "It was suggestive thi!1g that a· few years ago,
vei·j, heaven for me because you mu~t the boy that won the prize in the Bosremember, Vera, . th_at I have been ton Latin School for scholarship was
dreaming· about America ·all my life. ' named Schnltldn, His father never
'I'he first gaii1e that I played at as .a came over in the Mayflower. (Laugh-·
child ·,vas 'to sell my furniture and set ter.) But, as Mr. Dooley says, his ,faIt up in Ame'rica. All my life Amei·- ther came · over in a· later boat.
lca ··had been beaming and beckoning
(Laughter.) So what seems to be the
us ·the land where all tears should be complication with reference to our Inwiped from the eyes. And then, when dustrial outbreaks is not at all the
I came into New York Harbor and
complication; for they have had exsaw your Statue of Liberty with its actly the same scen~s in Elngland
hands upraised, it seemed to me to be where their population ls purely nasaying 'Come unto Me all ye that la- · tive. To blame it on the foreigner ls
ICHERS NEWS LI
•ERENCE ON SOCV
ary C. Crawford
ching
school is alread\
that there must ·1
arithmetic in the
solid things that t
has to he at tim
an obedient pers<,
told. Simply bee
consiclerahle port
reason ·why, at o
same institution,
l'eversed. Wlw i
submissive, ah~a)
a follv\\'bl', why iL
become a leader
whut to do, getti,
low him in his id(
may he, in a wa)
well-rounded chu
necessary for the
the Ame'rican citi,
How this aclmii·.
practical in any s,
quarters of an he
grade and extendi1
the school prog'l'!u
entertainingly dev
of work in this wa'
being· done. Miss·
idea has been appl
ham, to the pm
arithmetic-by reL
dertaken by her p
the community's
station,-and iviisr
developed her the
history may and s
mate relation with
about us today.
More than one "
evening at Ford Hi
picture, as the Co1
a very happifvini
some day embo'dy
this stimulating 'id,
When enough pe<
g'l'aduated from su
monwealth will hav
ly "co-operative."
-~~1i~l~
ce on
f been
of the
ch Dr.
c an<l
gham
, howt able
thaf
ig• vaapers
1
g· For
imple
fact
leadf our
glorimders not
what
. does
e hisj they
:et the
hg' for
/them.
inthat.
ted in
I, want
f very
)ut it.
school
hance.
is de~ dis-
'fn
far as
[·cl an
t done
,ready
power
,le get
carry
chilt the
l
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Pfbspeciiv;
Mi;1ist~;a·inc~nf~r~t,c!e at *Aitlover'1lilmhiii,f~~ •,;
t; ,:,•
*:
nun
i--:lxtr mHlergnHlnnt·eH from eight. of the New I!lnglnml uni·
11,l(l'eed with ur; In our est.lnu1,te 5 tr:: •.,,•aitiw,ik.all!L.
ttell(le l\Inrl'h 7 •
tile niuth nuii1.1g IPord Hnll .me.e,1·
--, · ----·---·------ --'<' rearr; hr tile B
:1 pluee \Y\Jere, UJI(
I~, Kingle tuxe,rs,
, n rnl Cn t holil'S el
6
, relating to sodn
nll who, like Di
:1rn 1leno1111l'e<l th
:1l11e Jll'irntel~·, wo~
,11 ,rnH giYen nl
1111 rmnif:1hed n eh
It Is
a libel against humanity. They are
exactly the same kind of people that
we are, everyone of us who are here.
I shall never forget the time that Jane
Addams spoke in the town of Milford.
After she had finished her splendid address the president of the club, who
happened to be a relative of a gentleman who was once Governor in this
Commonwealth said, "Miss Addams, we
have a great many Italians here In our
town and we would like very much to
do something for them. Can you tell
us what to do?"
FORD HALL .FOLKS
n libel against the foreigner and
ii
tll
lllePlltigR were In
'fhese "J<'or!l I-I~
•·1111m1ittee to ex)lr
1. Jlm•e ure Rome ·
gr,niillloquentl~• Ii
11 th I
l'llrough nml ~·
:
1
11 of ll trne rellgioi~
111cl allilintionR, n rj
11 lgnorerc; nil rnelnl
'
1l<'linm:. · · · Kor <'\
j
i11Rpire<l hy tl)e i:
lo Yen r ! Jrnleet1
1·e to· ]lye grnmll~• \
1
1.
1
,.,
('
1 shall' never forget Miss· Addams'
answer. She said, "Now If you go
the1·e a11d feel that you can teach them
everything and they cannot teach you
anything, that you are a sort of superlor creature to th em you had better
stay away; but If you go among th ese
people and look upon them as human
beings like yourself, who are cooled by
the same winter and warmed by th e
same summer, who bleed when they are
pricked, who love th eir children, juS t
as you love yours, and who have aspirti
d d
f th m j11st as yo11
a ons an
reams or e
may have, yourself, all you need to do
Is to go among them and common sens9
will teach you what to do."
There Is the solution.· (Applause.)
I am not afraid of the foreigners. I
have been one. I have graduated froqi
b
I
them. And I have now een sllrv ng
Puritan churches for 20 years. The
people In the parishes. I have served
are not afraid of me but they are
afraid, very much afraid, of the Ital•
!ans and the Jews and the Pollacks"f
and
'
i
all the rest of them. Yet, w 1en orelgners" are caught young they amount
to something.
Another great difficulty' In this whole
question Is the stupendous Incapacity
on the part of one class to understand
the other class. This Is particularly
true with reference, not only to the natlve and the foreigner, but with reference to the capitalist and the worker
and the worker and the capitalist. In
talking with Et tor, with whom I became very well acquainted during the
Lawrence situation and afterward, he
said to me one day, "Doctor, you are
the only decent minister that I have
met In my life." (Laughter and Applause.)
I said to him, ".Joe, have
you met a great many ministers?"
And, with that bland smile upon his
face,-lt ls always there because he Is
a fellow absolutely without temper,
though you would not think so to. read
.
I
i
al Attendants
i
,l'es:::lous of grntitt1
,·oi<'e on their rel'en 1
,. pnrt of rnnn~· imll
i11g'. Let it 11ot he t
('I\ \Yilh such signltlq
~. no!Rky, Hnllim11
, : "I um one of tho(
, I Pnee lookecl. 11po11 ,
l
"ltHHllieKt of tlnyK,
1\iedlngH continue
I ,psi <lnr In Ihe wel
, nu JriRh origin: ""\
,,,,ol\'e like snrt'nce .
llerltnncl'K thnt hln
lliYeHtcd of theRe
I l't'II of n conrnton !Hl
A \\'Olllllll lfol'lnreHI
11 \'etlon \Ylth the Fo
1· rneinl pre,inclke, 1
The Genllte in th
·1 regnrcl to hh: hrol
\'isl', Nl'hnl111n11 11ml
1 heginH lo tln \Yll n
1(•,1logienl Kon1innrie~
illg ~o SelHl out?' Ne
I <'SllnH,ny ol' n Hn~.
1·11m the 'IH\llO plntf
11·ish Hnbhi, u Chl'i
:111 nml n ,Jew\'llt pl
<1. I reel thnt t\10
l \Ye nil hnve lo liYe
I':-< in 1,pite of the f
1111·ement nlong rollgl
i:-: tleAlgnecl lo l1ene
it-h 111lµ;ht he 111111tl1 . __ ~ , , -11\eetlugs hnrn lnclncecl II fl'ie11clly
,. to\Ynr!l the ltullYiilnnl (1hr1Htlnrt,
I. ·111 henr!A of thoRe who, JlYe ~·eurfl
(•11 untl biller?
T
~
d
some of his speeches,-he answere ,
"Yes, lots of them."
"Joe," I challenged, "could you give
me the names of some of the minis•
ters with whom you have spoken?"
And he could not give the name of
'one! (Laughter.) His judgment was
just as bad about ministers and about
people on the other side as the judgment of some people on the other side
was of Mr. Ettor and of Glovanlttl.
I realize how difficult It Is for people to
understand. I have been writing more
or less a:nd i have ti'ied to be fair and
one reason which makes me to believe
that I am fair Is that I have been
scored by all sides. The Socialists
have drawn up resolutions and called
me a Judas and I have been sharply
called down by the other side; but I
realize that -they are not bad fellows
. on either side If they could come to·
gether. (Applause.) Let me read you
a letter. I think It Is a splendid l!lt·
ter. If it had been written to me by
the superlntenden~ of my Sunday
school 1 would ha:v11, thought he was lndeed a Christian. (Laughter and Applause.) It was written from Essex
County Jail by Glovanlttl and written
to a lady here In Boston for whom we
all have high respect.
A couple of
books-I think they were Lincoln's
speeches__Jhad been sent him and here
ls his reply,
[Then followed a beautiful Jett.er of
thanks for the books and expressive of
courageous willingness to 01eet whatever might come as a result of devof
tlon to the principles of liberty.]
Now, let me read another letter. I
have been writing a series of articles,
as Mr, Coleman has stated, for one of
our religious papers and I have re•
celved a great many letters, many of
them most appreciative. But here Is
one of another kind .. (Laughter.)
This 111anufacturer says ministers '
11re so used to preaching twice a Sun
bl
day to a lot of people who are una e
to answer back that they get Into a
slipshod way when writing .for publlcatlon. "Take your letter of the 10th.
You say 'One of my children Is at Wellesley College and the boy I
goes to HarJ d
vard next yeur. Whether n Po an or
in America, we are 1111 God's chlldrel\
and no man who has a heart In his
bosom can enjoy what you and I enjoy of security and comfort without
wishing at least that every man should
have enough to bring up his own ch!l·
dren as you and I do ours.' I' think
that Is empty sentiment. For If that
means anything, It means that you
1,,;~--;;i,e('foj '11ower l,y drtlle-of
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'rllP T'reHl!1~11t lnclkntefl his 1n11•pol'ie to 1·e1·01,1nl:w . '
t;hoY<' uwre tlltrtlK111H•hlp
14~·Hte1 n uow in . t'on•e.
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to uphol<l lhu
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think this lg
whom we irn
be able to s,
and his son
his children
I do not belle
mon sense o
would preacl
In your chm
mental nonse
great deal J
ter.)
But, as Car
refuted an er
a man ls wro
Glovanlttl ol
ror does not
why they g,
mlhd. The s
men. And (
who Is able
:, tremes of bo
.'. you who hav,
.to tho Jury
~~ay that It I:
1ilve speecher
t~ .. ln my l\!1
told me, p,
heard anytl
l'OOlll. Yon
of 1ieQple. Y
peo1jle In LI
have brien cl·
the ert;or or
kill ?IWtb b1
(Prolonged :
Now just
Every body
solution. S
hand. I n
conditions a
11lstol. The:
train of clrc
It dld· not b
going· to enc
no scheme,
even Ji' It 1
church ls
shouting dis
tlon at the
Is going to r
morrow mo
Nor Is It fo
these dlfficu·
the city of
wealth had t
on top of tl
with the hi!
that could l
try, lhey c
more lnflue1
to send him
plause.) I
until I met
day after th
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ir his speeches,-he answered,
ots or them."
" I challenged, "could you give
, names of some of the minis·
!th whom you have spoken?"
, could not give the name of
Laughter.) His judgment was
bad about ministers and, about
on the other side as the judg•
' some people on the other side
Mr. Ettor and of Glovanlttl.
, how difficult It Is for people to
0,nd. I have been writing more
and I have tried to be fair and
;on which makes me to believe
am fair Is that I have been
by all sides. The Socialists
awn up resolutions and called
1das and I have been sharply
own by the other side; but I
that they 11re not bad fellows
r side if they could come to·
( Applause.) Let me read ypu
I think It ls a splendid let·
it had been written to me by
,erintendent of my Sunday
would have thought he was In·
!hrlstlan. (Laughter and -i\,pIt was written from Essex
rail by Glovanlttl and written
here in Boston for whom we
high respect.
A couple of
think they were Lincoln's
-had been sent him 11nd ))ere
J]y,
followed a beautiful letter of
,r the books and expressive of
1s wllllngness to meet what•
ht come as a result of devolie principles of liberty.),
)t me read another hitter. I
1 writing a series of articles,
ileman has stated, for one of
ions papers and I have regreat many letters, many of
·,t appreciative. But here Is
other kind. (Laughter.)
ianufacturer says ministers
)d to preaching twice a S11n,
ot of people who are unable
back that they get Into a
·ay when writing ,for publlcake your letter of the 10th.
1ne of my children Is at Well:ge and the boy goes to Haryear. Whether In Poland or
0,, we are all God's chlldren
an who has a heart In his
enjoy what you and I en:nrlty and comfort without
least that every man s1lould
;h to bring up his own chil>n and I do ours.' , I' think
pty sentiment. For if that
·thing, it means that 'you
FORD HALL FOLKS
think this Ignorant Polish laborer, to
whom we have been referring, should
be able to send his girl to Wellesley
and his son to Harvard and not have
his children wor'k and help the father.
I do not believe that this ls either common sense or Christianity and If you
would preach a high protective tariff
in your church instead of that sentimental nonsense you would be doing a
great deal better service."
(Laughter;)
'
But, as Carlyle observed, you haven't
refuted an error when you find out that
a man is wrong, Convicting Ettor and
Glovanlttl of being wrong and in error does nothing until you find out
why they got that error into their
mlhd. The same way with these other
men. And the big man ls the man
who ls able to see possibllltles In ex,; tremes of both sides. I think most of
,"', you who have read Glovanlttl's address
. , to the Jury will believe me when I
~}f!.Y that it ls one of the most impres1;1lve speeches that I have ever listened
ti>.: in my life. The judge of the court
to(~ me, personally, that he never
hei.lt·d anything lllce it in a court•
roo~lc, You can electrocute that kind
of pe~ple. You can club them as those
people in Little Falls are reported to
have bMn clubbed but you will not kill
the erfor or kill the ideas. You can
kill nietii ,but yo1t· cannot kill ideas.
( Prolon~ed applause,)
"Now Hist•: a word about the solution.
Every body ,has a programme, for the
solution. So I am going to try my
hand. I recognize that the present
conditions are not like a sh~t, out or a
pistol. '!'hey al'e, the result of a long
train of •circumstances and conditions.
It did not ,begin yesterday and ls not
going to end today or tomorrow. And
no scheme, no matter how fine it is,
even if it be as fine as the one the
ch\1rch ls preaching comes within
shouting distance of an adequate solution at the present time. No scheme
ls going to usher in the millennium tomorrow morning at 7 o'clock shal'p,
Nor ls it forcti that ls going to solve
these difficulties. If the authorities of
the city of Lawrence or the Commonwealth had taken Ettor and placed.him
on top of the Bunker Hill Monument
with the biggest kind of a megaphone
that could be heard all over the country, they could not have given him
more Influence than they did by trying
to send ·him to the electric chair. (Ap•
plause.) I never heard of Joe Ettor
until I met him in Lawrence the Monday after the Sunday he arrived, Now
7
nobody in this country or in Canada
Is Ignorant of the existence of Ettor
and Giovanlttl. Who did it? Who did
It? Force ls not going to solve this
difficulty, Whether It Is the force of
the industrial Workers of the World
or the force of the authorities. ' I recognize the value of shock movements
In the progress of the world. I recognize that though John Brown was rash
and crazy in trying to overturn the
government of the United States what
he did had its place in the struggle
which was to wipe out slavery, And
all these movements perhaps, have
value in this way, But fundamentally
I believe that this ls a human problem
and not an economic problem at all.
I may not agree with the philosophy
of men like Ettor but I can and do
have high 1·espect for any man who ls
willing to throw his life in the bal•
ance. There are immense altruistic
forces at work in the world today and
I find that they are in all these social movements. I am sure I should
be untrue to myself as a minister of
the church if I did not say that the
church, also, is ministering to that
great end. You may not think so,
some of you, but it Is true just the
same. The platform of the Baptist
denomination under whose auspices I
am here-and I am not a Baptist- ls
one of the finest platforms that I know
anything about. The church ls con•
servatlve and she moves slowly and
people are not all agreed and there are
people In It, I regret to say, like that
man from whose letter I read an extract. But there ls a great company of
men and women in the church who be•
lleve in a high doctrine of brotherhood imd are ready as individuals to
advocate any scheme that will bring
to an end the unhappy conditions
which exist in the industrial world today, If there ls any programme that
ls in existence today that will heal the
hearts of the industrial world, I am
sure that I and thousands of others in
the c'hurches are ready to go ahead
with it.
SOME OF THE QUESTIONS.
Q, If the government should pur-
chase one 0£ the mills in Lawrence
how long would it be able to pay wages
of $9.00 per week?
A. I do not suppose the government
could run one of those mills with any
greater profit than it ls being run at
the present. time. I perhaps should
have said that in all these low wage
1Jlfllcultl't,s the blame should be upon
our present competitive system rather
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than upon the manufacturers. I think
any attitude which condemns the caJ)ltallst is altogether unjust.
.
Q. Why Is it that the strikers do
not get even-handed justice in the
court?
. A. Well, it deJ)ends upon the court.
(Laughter.) I think the court in Lawrence was extreme but I think that
Judge Mahoney acted from the most
·honest motives and thought locking
·men up was the way to cure them.
But he made a mighty big mistake.
He filled up the jail and then he could
not do any more. (Laughter.)
Q. What does the speaker think ls
a reasonable J)rofit for a· capitalist?
· A. That depends upon who is the
CfiJ)ltalist, I suppose,
(Laughter.) I
would not want to say more than that
an exorbitant income from capital Is
unjust. The Adams Express Company
declared a secret dividend of 200% fl
few years ago which made It possible
for a friend of mine, who is. a strong
believer in Socialism, to go to Europe
and have a flue trip. He Is ready tO'
take money although he condemns' the
system.
,
Q. Supposing you were a working
man In Lawrence working for $8.30 a
week which ticket would you vote?
·, A. The Progressive ticket.
(Applause.)
Q. In your opinion what does the
red flag constitute?
·
A. I got Into trouble answering
that question once.
(Laughter.) I
know what it means theoretically. I
know what it leads to sometimes practically, I am not afraid of the red
flag; some · people are. I think perhaps if it causes an offence better not
use It when something else w!ll .do
just as well.
Q, Does the speaker think that one
strike teaches the lesson of preventing
another?
A. I think so.
Q. Do you think a revision of the
tariff wlll -improve conditions in this
country?
.
A. Well, I am not expecting a great
deal In that direction. (Applause.)
Q. Would a minimum wage of $2.00
a day increase or decrease the army
of the unemployed?
A. I think the matter cif
minimum wage, generally adopted, has a·
great many complications. I do not
know just how it would work out.
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ALI-'J!BU
JllcCANN,
THE TRUTH ABOUT FOODS.
''I'll tell the truth about foods if I
die for it," Is the brave te_xt uJ)on
which. Alfred McQann has preacher!' a
most arresting sermon In his just-published book, "Starving America." Some
of the topics here covered are: "Why
15,000,000 children in America are
v,1yslcally · defective"; ''Why A.mer!-'\
cans are rapidly :becoming a n_atlon of
dyspeptics"; "Why we have no apJ)e•
tlte ror wholesome foods but crave
highly seasoned and degenerate foods."
The book is written in the same impassioned style that made so pro.found
an Impression when Mccann appeared
on our platform early in the- season.
And, of course, being a book, it can develop much that, in a talk, could onlr
be thrown out as a stiggestion.
Particularly valuable are the weekly dietaries given for children of various ages.
A thing which ought to be made possible at once, by legislation, is the "legally standardized loaf of .whole wheat
bread made of ·certified whole wheat
meal," for which the author eloquently
calls. Already, we learn, som.e official
attention has been given to this. demand and 'only recently Mr. McCann
was personally Interviewed by Governor Sulzer, of New York State. vYhen
the facts here presented are known ·to
the masses, there ls bound to be · a
great change in ehild culture.
And
that the principles embodied in the
boolc wlll be incorporated In future
courses of medical training there Is
good reason to hoJie. The price of the
volume is $1.50, and ·it is published
by F. M. Barton, Cleveland, Ohio.
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