The Bismarck Tribune Newspaper, March 5, 1919, Page 2

CATHOLIC GALL "TD RECONSTRUCT Church Countil Lay$ Down Lines to Guide in Solving Post- War. Problems. TO. INSURE SOCIAL JUSTICE. Re-e.nployment, Labor Reforms, Socia! Betterment, Economic Conditions and Relations Between Em- ployer ahd Worker Sub. jects of Official Pro- nouncement, Drawn up by the four bishops who represent the hierarchy of the Catholic Church in America in the admintstra- thon of the National Catholic War Council, an official pronouncement on the soclal and economic reconstruction problems facing this nation has been issued from the headquarters of this church couneli in Washington, D, C. The document bears the signatures of Bishop Peter J, Muldoon of Rockford, Ill; Bishop Joseph Schrembs of To- jedo, 0.; Bishop Patrick J. Hayes of New York City and Bishop William T, Russell of Charleston, S, C., and reads in part as follows: Foreword. “The ending of the Great War has brought peace. But the only safeguard of pence is social justice and a con- tented:people. The deep unrest So em- phatically and so widely voiced throughout the world {s the most seri- ous menace to the future peace of every, nation and of the entire world. Great problems face us, They cannot be put aside; they must be met and solved with justice to all. “Inthe hope of stating the lines that will best guide us in their right solu- tion the following pronouncement is fasued by the Administrative Commit- tee of the Nationa! Catholic War Coun- ell, Replacement of Men in Service, “The first problem in the process of reconstruction {s the industrial re- placement of the discharged soldiers and sallors. The majority of these will undoubtedly return to their previ- ous occupations. However, a very large-number of them will either find their previous places closed to them or will be eager to consider the possibility of*mbte attractive employments, The mosé“Important single measure for meeting this situation that has yet been \suggested is the placement of auch:men on farms. Seyeral months lecretary Lane recommended to Congress. that,. returning. soldiers and sailors should be given thé opportunity to work at good wages upon some part of the millions upon millions of acres of arid, swamp and cut-over timber landés‘in order to prepare them for cul- ni. President Wilson, in his an- nual address to Congress, endorsed the proposal, As fast as this preliminary stask “has. beer performed. the men should be assisted. by government loans to establish themselves as farmers, either as owners or as tenants having long-time leases. Farm Colonies. “It'is essential that both the work of preparation and the subsequent settle- ment of the land should be effected by | groups.or colonies, not by ymen living independently of one auother and In Gepressing isolation. “A plan of this sort !s already In operation in England. The importance of the project as an item of any soclal reform program is obvious, It would afford employment tv thousands upon thousands, would greatly increase the mumber of farm owners and independ- ent farmers and would tend to lower the cost of living by increasing the amount of agricultural products. If it 4s to Assume any considerable propor- tion¥ it must be carried out by the gov- @rnménts of the United States and of ae Greatness! Apply this word to your favorite newspaper, the . Bismarck Tribune. It is GREAT in circula- tion, which means strong In reader-interest; it is great in advertising vol- ume, which means strong in business service. It.is GREAT, editorially, because it serves its com- munity and is a power for good—the fearless attor- hey-at-large for the peo- | TOTAL AMOUNT OF: | Monev for goods sold In business, Pay for work done, Profit on real estate or j otier property sold, Interest received, (except on public bonds), Rents received, Dividends received, Endowment or annuty receipts In excess of premiums paid in, Any other cash received, (except proceeds of life insurance policies, gifts or fnheritances, scci- dent and sick insurance payments and personal injury damages). the several States. Snould ff be under: taken by these authorities and oper- ated on a systematic and generous scale it would easily become one of the most beneficial reform measures that bas ever been attempted. Employment Service, “The reinstatement of the soldiers and sailors in urban industries will po doubt be facilitated by the United States Employment Service, This agency has attained a fair degree of development and 4fficiency during the war, Unfortunately there is somg dan- ger that it will go out of existence or be greatly weakened at the end of the period of demobilization. It Is the ob- | vious duty of Congress to continue and strengthen this !mportant institution. ‘The problem of unemployment is with us always. Its solution requires the co-operation of many agencies and the ‘use of many methods, but the pflmary and {odispensable instrument ie @ na- tional System of labor exchanges act- ing in harmony with State, muni¢ipal and private employment bureaus.’ © Women War Workers. “One of the most important prob- lems of readjustment is that created by the presence in industry of im- -mense numbers.of women whoshave taken the places of men during the war. Mere Justice, to say nothing of chivalry, dictates that these women should not be compelled to suffer any greater loss or inconvenience than is! absolutely necessary, for their services to the nation have been second only to the sétvices of the men whose places they were called upon to fill. One general’ principle {s clear: No female worker should remain in any occupa- tion that is harmful to health or mor- als, Women should disappear as quick- ly as possible from such tasks as con- ducting and guarding street cars, clean- ing locomotives and a great number. of other activities for which conditions of life and their physique render. them unfit. Another general principle is that the proportion of women in industry ought to be kept within the smallest practical limits. If we have an effi- cient national employment service, if.a goodly number of the returned soldiers and sailors are placed on the land and if wages and the demand for goods are kept up to the level which is easily at- tainable all female workers whe are displaced from taskg-that they- have been performing only since the begin- ning of the war will be able to find suitable employments in other parts of the industrial field or in/those domestic occupations which sofely need their presence. ‘Those women who are en- gaged at the same tasks as men should receive equal pay for equal amounts and qualities of work, National War Labor Board. “One of the most-beneficial govern- mental organizations of the war is the Natlonal War Labor Board. Upon the basis of a few fundamental principles unanimously adopted by the represent- atives of labor, capital and the public it has prevented innumerable strikes and raised wages to decent levels in many different industries throughout the country. Its main guiding princi- ples have been a family living wage for all male adult laborers, recognition of the right of tabor to organize and to deal with employers through its chosen representatives and no coercion of non- union laborers by members of the un- fon, The War Labor Board ought to be continued in existence by Congress and endowed with all the power for ef- fective action that it can possess under the Federal Constituttén, The princi- ples, methods, machinery and results of this institution constitute a definite and far-reaching gain for social jus- tice. No part of this advantage should be lost or gjven up in time of peace. © Housing for Working Classes, “Housing projects for war workers which have been completed or almost completed by the Government of the United States have cost some forty millfon dollars an are found in eleven cities. While the Federal Government cannot continue this work in time of peace, the example and precedent that it has set and the experience and knowledge that it has developed should not be forthwith neglected and lost. The great cities in which congestion _ Bring In Your Pictures ' “We have just received a large stock of all the latest designs in. Picture Motldings—We can make you any style of ; ; Frame you desire. - * FURNITURE REPAIRING, REFINISHING—WINDOW SHADES AWNINGS, ETC. A.-E. SHIPP, Prop. bad_ housing are : West of Postoffice Pia HERE’S DIAGRAM O DEDUCTIONS: Business expenses, Interest (except on money’ borrowed to buy - tax exempt securities), ‘Taxes (except income, excess _ profits, profits and = improve-* ment), Business losses not ‘cov~ éred by insurance, Casualty. or: theft’ logsea outside business, not covered by insurance, Bad debts, Depreciation’ of income pfoducing property, Loss en war plants, Religious, charitable. and philanthropic contribu-- {fens up to'15 per cent of net income, dlagracefally apparent ought to fake up and ‘cohtinue the work at least to such an. extent as will remove the worst features of a special condition that is a menace at once to industrial efficiency, civic health, good morals and religion. Social Insurance, “Until the level of legal minimum wages 1s reached the worker stands !n need of the device of insurance. The State should make comprehensive pro- vision for tnsurance agalnst Illness, in- validity, unemployment and old age. So far as possible the insurance fund should be ratsed by a levy on industry, as 1 now done in the case of accident compénsatiop, The industry in which 8 man ts employed should provide him with all that is necessary to meet‘all the needs of his entire life. Therefore, gny contribution to the insurance fund from the general revenues of the State should be only ®light and temporary. For the same reason no contribution should be exacted from any worker ‘who Is not getting a higher wage than is required td meet the present needs’ of himself and family. Those who are below that level can make such a con- tribution only at the expense of thein present welfare. Finally, the adminis- tration of the insurance laws should be such as to interfere as little as possible with the individual freedom of the worker and his family. A New Spirit a Vital Need. “ ‘Society,’ said Pope Leo XIII, ‘can be healed in-no other way than by a return to Christian life and Christian institutions.’ The truth of these words is more widely perceived to-day than when they were written, more than twenty-seven years ago. Changes in our economic and political systems will have only, partial and feeble effi- clency if they be not reinforced by the Christian view of work and wealth. Neither the moderate “reforms sdvo- cated“in this paper nor any other pro- gram of betterment or reconstruction will prove reasonably effective with- out a reform in the spirit of both labor and capital. The laborer must come to realize that he owes his employer and Society an nonest day’s work in return for a fair wage and that conditions cannot be substantially Improved until h@ roots out the desire to get a maxi mum of return for a minimum of ser new viewpoint. He needs to learn the long-forgotten truth that wealth is stewardship, that profit-making is not the basic justification of business en- terprise and that there are such things as falr profits, fair interest and fatr prices, Above and before ‘ill, he must cultivate and strengthen within his mind the truth which many of his class have begun to grasp for the first time during the present war—namely, that the laborer is a human being, not mere- ly an instrument of production and that the laborer’s right to a decent livelihood is the first moral charge upon industry. The empl right to get a reasorable i i wewitk Yu? On! BOY- kt ONLY RAD fee, The capitalist must likewise get a | eres EXEMPTIONS: | » $2,000 if, you’re married lived 4 with ; wite (or: husband) ‘or were ‘head:of:a- $200 for each child under and INCOME |" 18 or men sically defective de- pendent supported, if-you're not head. famfly, # Mo FIGURING YOUR TAX: it TAXABLE INCOME*is' under “$4,000, TAXABLE INCOME X .06 = INCOME TAX. If TAXABLE INCOME Is over-$4,000, Add to tax 12 per cent of amount over $4,000, If NET INCOME is over $5,000, over $2,000, you must make‘a IF YOU'RE NOT HEAD OF A‘F. is over $1,000, you must make to pay a tax. WHILE By CARL SANDBUR N. EB, A. Staff Correspondent Recently Returned from Europe Two years ago Edward Gylling. Ph. D., was profesosr of statistics in the economics department of*the Univer- sity of Helsingfors, Finland. He was ity on the land question. was many years a senator. He be- lenged in the artistocracy, the ryling class, On form today he ought to be sitting in the seats of ihe respectable people who govern Finland. Edward Gylling, however, @idn't |want to be respectable. He is today in the eyes af the government of jland a criminal, an outlaw, a traitor, | under sentence of death for treason. Once, twice, three times, the Finnish junker government has reached out with writs of extradition calling for Edward Gylling to be taken from Stockholm, wher he now lives, and brought back to Finland to be shot as a traitor. And once, twice, three tim the. socialist-liberal coalition govern- ment of Sweden has said in effect to the Mannerheim_Prussian vernment of Finland: “Hands off this. man! Whoever takes him must come with clean hands.” HELD FINANCE MINISTRY Gylling was finance minister of the People’s Republic of land, ser up by Red Guards in January, 1918, audi overthrown in April and May by j nish White Guards reinforced by Prus sian battalions taken from the n front in France., “I was against the revolution ar advised another cour: Dr. G said to me, “but the workingmen w for it. It was amass drive. Thi could not be stopped. them or against tliem. So I joined with them and .went the Ifmit. ; “We took the railzoads, the bank: the. big landed estates, the factor all the industrial property in Finland except that of the cooperati Ww sent locomotives and machinery which we had manufactured to soviet Russia in exchange for trainloads of grain. His_ father RRR Ree HS Busnes, DUT he has id rent to m- terest on his investment until his em- ployees have obtained at least living wages. This is the human and Chris: tlan in contrast to the purely commer cial and pagan ethics of industry bd Wi WHAT WE COULD WHY- FOR WoT SESS GETS FOR HIS ANKLE TWISTING SAY BO-7'D co DUMB-YE EIC—-ETC-ETC See- IF T ONLY HAD A HUNDRED SHINE ‘EM IN THE BACIT 109,000 -'r WE .COULD:deT ou @ DIFFERENT ONE~ MAYBE Wot Add a SURTAX of 1 per.cent.on amount from $5. $6,000, dad an additional 1. per cent t0 the surtac. for each $2,000 additional NET INCOME. IF YOU'RE HEAD OF A FAMILY and NET. INCOME ig This goes, though exemptions may Jeave nothin, FINN REBEL LEADER HID WEEKS IN CELLAR AND ATTIC known as Finland’s foremost author-| west-! I,had to be for! family, tally: or: phy: ; 0 ‘tho surtax: for. return. ‘AMILY and NET INCOME) $ a return, , ~% i on which. \ JUNKERS SEARCHED The aim wassto achieve a social revo- lution. We maintain that the political revolution whereby the socialists of Finland elected 102 in the Finnish.par- ment was a legal authorization of policy which we enacted. MPTIO: BY THOUSANDS “I was in Viborg April 20. German eavalry and Finnish White Guards had captured the city afte week of fight- jing. I was told by witnesses of the |exeeution of revoly s by hundreds. | Between 8,000 and 3,500 were taken to fields outside Viborg and shot down | in sections of 100 at a time. Special efforts were made to get all officers of the new republic. |, “2 hid in a_cellar of a workingman’s | jhouse for 11 days. A comrade was jwith me. The first two days we had} | nothing to eat. We heard the boots of soldiers searching the kitchen over our | heads., We heard they come down snd | ‘knock the butts of tHeir guns against the se wall we were hiding behind. ; We were cramped so close we couldn't stand up or move around. Pelieve me, we were a sight when we came up, stiff, dirty and 11 days of whis on our face j “Lf went at night to another house. ; There I stayed three weeks in a gar- reading the newspapers and hear- jin to day how the white ter- lror was ng everything before it, how the Inbor movement of Fin: | ahd was gone to hell in a erand smash. SSCAPES IN DISGUISE aved my face and smeared it 1 dust. Lf put on a suit, of Using a passport -friends had it for me, I went to the railroad jstation and bought a ticket for Hel- singfors, the capital of Finland, the t place I wenld be expected. Oy train how if T was captured I would be shot they got me, “In Helsingfors I stayed at eight different workingmen's homes. They ; Were under suspicion and their homes! on of the LADDER relieved in_@ 24 HOURS E sulobong tha "name £a= i rinare ofeounterfeits 100,000 BUTTON’ WE COULD GET LITTLE COURTNEY: TO WASH THE- 4 | BACK OF HIS NECK —(cHear AT THAT PRICE) jout ‘all the wo I read newspapers toning | Vices Var ORU ‘ searched nearly every day by squads of White Guards. I grew a beard all over my face. I put on goggles. Then with six comrades I started on a trip to Abo. They got a passport and rail- toad ticket. They dat in seats behind, in fronty and ac the aisle from me, | And so I got to Abo,and there saw my wite and three children. ‘There I had three weeks, Stowed away in a coal box by a fireman on a steamboat run- ning to Stockholm I came here. “A revolution is terrible. . It brings t and best In men.” GRAY DEAD i 1 | Well Known Bismarck Wonran Suceumbs at Home of Daugh- ter—Funeral Friday Mrs. Carolyn Gri vife of George Gray,.and mother of Mrs. Carl Nelson,| died this morning at the home of the; Jatter at+620 Ninth -street, after a month’s illness. ‘The deceased wi rs old, She was a pioneer r of Duluth, where she resided until five years ago, when she came to her home with Mr Vv ern Produce .Co., and two daughters. Mrs. Carl Nelson, wife of the manage! of the Norther. Produce, and ™ John Hebner of Coleharbor, Mr: s killed in action American war. | services will he held at 2| o'clock iday afternoon at Webb's} chapel, I ‘ Hutcheson of Mc-! Cabe church officiating, and interment will be made at I view cemetery Mrs. Gray's death was hastened by | renuous labors which she dedi- ! cated throughout the war to patriotic work® She was a charter member of d to Companies A and [, and she worked indefatigably in! the interests of the soldiers, She was! a woman of the best American ty who made friends of all With whom she came in contact and whose death ix a real loss to the community. uneral or Tonsilitis, gargle with “war salt water, then apply— us) SOF, GOFA20 YOUR BODYGUARD” ~ Bismarck Furniture Company 220 Main Street Furniture Upholstery Repaired, Re- finished and Packed. man in case of trouble. Why wait all the time. Why wait until your fixtures are jned.. Our Plumbing’ Fixtures, for patterns progress. laundry tub, not to mention other may bring people back. adyice and counsel. “Phone 561° FRIENDS tro a RR GIRL He isa good counselor on household sanitation, FRANK G. 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