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Leaders of Workingmen, Espe
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cially in Great Britain, Are Ex
erting a Steadily Increasing
Power, Declares Mr. Bertelli.
Seems Certain to Control Govern
ment After Next Election—Up
set of Class Rule Is Drawing
Near in All Nations at War,
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By C. F. BERTELLI. |
PARIS, Féb. 16.—REvery country at
war in Burope is now being governed
* largely in accord with many of the
cardinal principles of practidal so
clalism. In Russia at present we have
soclalism, so-called, but in reality
anarchy-—no law, no government, no
responsible authority, no security
either of persons or property, no safe
ty for anything or anybody. |
The peasants, who form 90 per cent
of Russla's huge population, have not|
; yet had 'the land divided. Those who
have seized a share in thplr-’purtlcu-‘
lar communes have no fixity of ten
ure,
Russia In State of Chaos.
What is going to happen to the
other national asssts-—-mines, rail
roads, plants, cahals, waterfalls, etc.,
L 6 man can guess The revo’utlon
has brought Russia to a state of
chaos.
In France and England we have
strpng governments in control of all
‘trade, industries and prices of neces
#ities. <ireat Britain has adopted
measures to force farmers to till the
goil, to spced up shipbuilding, to com
mandeer shipyards, to operate rall
roads, to produce standard boats, and
to insure the employment of canals
long more or less disused.
. These are "war measures,” but
there is a growing feeling that som
of them will surely be continued when
“peace comes.
Opposition s ltkely to come chiefly
from the eomfortable commercial
guu- and short-sighted capitalists,
he first class is composed very
largely of middlemen—agents and
warehousemen who come between the
producer and the consumer, employ
ing very little labor, but capturing
the bulk of the profits and artifjcially
,Wdc the price of goods. Their,
| s are numberaed onoce British So
cialists get’ their plans accepted.
.~ The more timid capitalists fear
confiscation' of capital, but most of
+the greater and far-sighted of cap-
Aains of industry see there is an ex
~ ceptionally good place walting for
them undor the new regime as direc
tive organizers, and are helping the
new movement along.
Land Owners In Fear.
014 Tories—in both Unionist and
Liberal parties—who live on rents
from lands left to them through a
long line of ancestors have a deep
?u- of the times ahead. Lord Yans
owne’s letter, it may be recalled,
provoked a chorus of critiolsm tlxat
the Marquis was more afraid of the
British working man than he was of
the Kaliser. The new Unionists, how
ever, are of a different. mold, and a
trade union deputation recently lald
before Bonar Law, who did not op
pose it, a proposal to make a com
pulsory levy '‘on capital in order to
pay off the ‘war bill at one atroke,
The admission of the Chancellor
of the Exché&quer, who is also leader
of the Unlonist party, that some such
scheme may be adopted, has greatly
alarmed old-fashioned economists,
As few running factories have
enough loose capital to pay the p?o
--posed levy it would be necessary to
mortgage the business as a going
concern. With everybody in the ecoun
try going into the mort.sn?e market
at once only the State would be able
to take them' up. Thus the State
would acquire an Interest in every
business in the lan.d
Under the impulse given by lLloyd
George with old age pensions and
,Y\ompulgory insurance, England was
already In pre-war days trending to
ward practical Socialism. The mam
moth conflict did not so much arrest
ite course as deflect it. Attention
was turned from question of griev
ance in accordance with Socialism*
principles toward directive centrali
zation and stimulation' of the na
tional wealth-—particularly toward the
greatest 'form of national wealth, the
national energy.
Grievances Are Put Aside.
Questions of grievances rfemain in
abeyance, particularly th} Constitu
tion of the louse of Lords, though
this will probably be taken up this
year. The education and electoral re
form measure that have been taken
up and put through in England dur
ing the war belong more to social re
form than to Socialism, though both
are regarded as sociallstlc stimulants.
It is labor leaders in Great Britain,
and not to Soclalism, who are exert
ing a steadily {nereasing power in the
Government of Great Britain during
Q_\Q war. Not Shaw, Hyndman,
.=tenford; but Henferson, Barngs,
vCl(nes, Roberts, Hodge and others
haVes represented the working men in
the Cabinet, and all have been work
y ing men themseives. Barn#s, Clynes
and Hodge in particular have proved
that a working men can take over a
° great national administrative depart
ment and keep it running smoothly.
John Burnms, disapproving of British
participation in the war,- dropped out
dance every Saturdey, 3 to ¢ p. m
Monday, Wednesday and Saturday
nights, 9 to 12. Private lessons day
and night. Phone Ivy 5786, Lane's,
217% Peachtree street.-—Advertise
ment,
of the Cabinet in August, 1914, and
has since kept silence baqth In the
House of Commons and out of it. He
is no longer a force. ‘ !
Break in Diplomacy Near.
British diplomacy is the only fea
ture of the national activities, which
Ts still confined to a speclal caste,
and even here there is a chance of the
lee breaking. Henderson Id being
talked of strongly as a successor to
Sir George Buchanan at Peu'ogrld.
and with the Washington and’ Paris
Embassies also eperd the movement
for a new school of diplomats has re
celved great impetus,
As to the future, it is certain that
labor men will take a still larger share
in the ig;)vernment of the British Em
pire. enderson had proved his ca
pacity as a political machine organ
ized by planning a movement to run
3;)0 labor candidates at the next elec
tion.
The new electoral reform bill haas
swept away 80 many of the antiquat
ed privileges which enabled the purely
political parties to gerrymander the
contests, and has added so many
iworking people-~the unknown quanti
ty of thousands of women as well as
younger men—that some shrewd po-
Htical judges think most of the can
didates may be elected,
« They will have most to offer the
men now in the army, whose views
have been radically upset, and who no
longer feel like electing a man he
cause his grandfather and his great
grandfather' before him happened to
sit for the same seat. g |
Labor Majority ‘Expected.
Obviously, with 800 members Labor
would have a majority in the House
of Commons, which seats 670 mem
bers, and 1f they do not galn them all
they can count on a coalltion with the
radical wing of the Liberty party and
the bulk of the Nationalists, of whom
they have always been close friends.
Fven if they fall far short of the
number necessary for that, they will
certainly be so strong that the leaders
will be affered portfolios in any coali
tion Cabinet and take a large part in
the government of the British Empire,
In Great Britain the formidable post
war problems of employment, produc
tion, wages, prices, etc., will occupy
great attention, and Barnes, Clynes
and Hodge, for example, have grap.
pled so successfully with these sub-
Jects that no thoughtful Prime Min
ister can afford to leave them out.
Already many employersshave real
ized that there will be a scarcity of
labor the day after peace is declared,
and under the guidance of John
Hodge’'s Pensions Department they
have set up schools in Switzerland to
teach branches of thelr trade to thh
digabled British soldiers now Interned
there, paying them whils they teach
them, guaranteeing thema permanent,
well-paid jobs at home as soon a 8
they see fit to move,
When one turns from Great Britain
to France one does not see the same
steady progresas In a definite direction,
England, with her habit of compro
mise, has often taken long years to do
what ¥rance has done almost in a few
days, the adoption of constitutional
government belng, of course, the most
outstandnig instance.
France Aots Quiokly.
Any day, therefore, a sudden turn
of the wheel might cause France to
take over, by the lssue of a single
decree, more of the main channels of
the national life than England has
come in three and a half years. KEs
pecially is thls so under the present
Government,
Clemencean has onl{ to be oon
vinced that any kind of measure will
help toward winning the war for it to
be adopted at once, and he is never
daunted by the slze of the under
taking.
Rall transport was already, from
the first of the war, under military
control, the railwaymen balng mob
-Ilized as soldlers, but left at theiy or
dinary posts in accordance with ag
efficlent system of consoription,
The River Belne steamboats, a
cheap means of travel from Paris to
various suburbs, being unabls to make
ends meet with war prices, were tak-
Or Go Without Ther
We do not want to be considered alarmists, but the garden seed situation is- really
critical. It is no exaggeration to spy that you must buy garden seed early or else you
will be compelled to do without them. : / *
There is going to be the greatest activity in garden making this spring that the
United States has ever seen and there has never been a time in the history of the seed
. business when stocks of seeds were so small in comparison with demand.
In our mail order department we are working some 250 employees. Every
facility in that department is strained to its limit, yet we find it impessible to keep
up with the constantly increasing flood of seed orders.
Advices from other prominent seed houses show that they are having a similar
experience and it is plainly apparent that there will not be enough garden seed to
go round this year. Those who put off seed buying until planting time, as they
usnally do, will be disappointed.: ¢
We have already found it necessary to limit the quantity of seed sold te any one
person on over one hundred items listed in our catalogue. On many items we are
, already sold out and they can not ba réplaced. This condition will steadily ' grow
worse as the season advances.
We urge you to buy seeds now, not on our account, but" to safeguard the seed
supply for your garden this spring. Get a catalogue, make out a list qof your seed
needs at once, buy and take them home. In this way only can yoiut be sure of
having them. ;
Further, we ask that you buy no more’ seeds than you are reasonably sure of
needing. -We want to make the limited quantity of seeds available go as far as
possible in supplying the gardens of the South. It is a patriotie duty to produce food
in 1918 and the home garden. is the only chance that tens of thoysands of town and
city dwellers have to produce food. - ;
Please take this warning as to the seed situation seriously. It is for your benefit,
* not ours, and you must act promptly or go without seeds. Buy your seeds now
regardless of whether you buy from us or from others.
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en over recently and the service is
maintained chiefly for munition
workers. .
Munition and aeroplane factories,
of course, have been bullt or con
certed, equipped, organized and run,
as in England, by a special Govern
ment department. The food of the
pmple{bu alko come to a consid
able éftent into national hands.
France was the first of the Allied
countries to adopt the sugar card,
and this winter has put in operation
the mild card, By this the mu
nicipality, wijch issues the card, gets
corrx)rol of the milk supply and as
sures a sufficient and good supply
to the children, a favorite policy of
thoughtful practical Socialistg™
The latest proposal i{s the provision
of municipal slanghkter houses, with
a view to wringing down the price
of meat. These will be under the
‘charge of special officials, who will
#ee that the meat ls sold as early as
possible at cost price. (o-operative
slawghter houses are also being stud
fed as a means of reducing costs.
Wherever necessary for the good of
the country the Government has used
its influence to deflect trade inty
more useful channels, The trafle of
the pastry cook and confectioner, for
instance, is under sentence of death
in order to save sugar for material
purposes, while chocolate must only
be sold in the form of a drink.
A percertage is to be added to;bills
at high-class restaurants which goes
straight into the coffers of the State,
and another homely measure {s that
the poor man is allowed to eat more
bread with his restaurant meal than
the rich man, whose allowance is
strictly cut down. -
Italy, following France lin many
tkings, has devised perhaps the most
radical single measure of all, Power
is glven to the Government to requi
sition all lands, determine what shall
be grown, share out free of charge
the lands and the material for their
cultivation and mobilize clvillan la-l
bor.
The last is the most Adrastic stepl
of all, and goes farther than anything
England has dared to propgse. The
power it gives over the lives, of the
workers of all ages and both sexes
is 8o vast that English labor leaders
themselves have been its strongest
opponents. '
It remains to be seen whether ftaly
will be able to show by its successful
working that it can be as beneficial
to the workers as the other measures
which have been go usefully adopted.
{ermany for war purposes {8 being
yun by X stern bureaucracy. How
ever, experts who never ilose sight
of the great strength of the Social
Democratic party in Gema.n{ are
convinced*that the dfsciples of Marx
and Bebel will soon have a big voice
in the affairs of the country—perhaps
beforé the war is over, but in any
case soon after, President Wilson's
clarion ecall for respomsible govern
nient in Germany {8 increasing the
ineyitablity of this State,
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‘Jail for Life' Rath
all for Life’ Rather
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Than Register, Vows
’ iiioiaiiin
DES MOINES, IOWA, Feb. 16—" T will
stay in jail all my life before I will reg
ister for the draft.” .
Dominick Kuchan, Austrian allen, de
fled the Federal Court and refused to
register when ordered to do so by Judge
M, J. Wade. He has been-in jall since
October because of his fallure to comfly
:\_’ith Government congcription regula
jons.
Kuchan did not rebel until 'h%dwu
taken from the Federal Bufld!n’ ore
District Judge Guthrie.
“I will not register,” he announced.
“If I my fieoplo over in Austria would
kill me when I visited my native land
agalin.
The bafliff retorted:
~ ““When youq’vt back home there wont’
be enough your people left to kill
you.” -
The prisoner was returned to the
county jail.
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