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Have the men freedom to a (silnf where. In many phases o f our life, It lias amounted t" license to do almost anything thut we tunes obtained peace o f mind pleased ness and honor* or that brought profit oi llitercouiiiilliih alloii did not exist, when education was meagre slid science mi developed, whut the Individual did wa< On food rt*ct)g»i*»*«l tin* the prilifiple of universal u a li»tn in un dead it* a »melt.” Mr. I’erkins' retían»« for Ida t»e U ef «re outlined ia the following follow precedent and old uietboda too yeurs. They have »wept away old prece dents, old customs, and they will even tually sweep away many of the luw« now ou our statute tasiks. The man o f to day who does not fully comprehend all tills Is doomed to lie somewhat o f a failure, while the taken a long stride tow aid success It 1» not many years since | was a lad. 1 «txl yet at that time there was lio su> li thing us u telephone. The tele graph was !u very meagre use; fust ex not exist It took was the much derided one possessed by l»arliis <• recu. When Abraham I.lncolu I’ rcsl w hs dent It tisik four days or more for a letter to travel from his home In till It took him several And yet only a Our fattier» had none o f the modern machinery with which social and husl ness Intercourse Is now carried on. Their son* ure wrestling with the prob lem o f how to use these new method' of Intercommunication and »till adhere lo the luws, the precedents and the hook learning o f their futhers. This Is OtTH great problem. ■Ion on bis mind; yet as we look back at tbeiu from this distance they seem Infinitesimal wbeu compared with the changes tbat have taken place In tbe World tbe laet quarter of a century and tbe treuiendoua changes taking place lo w . George Washington was a représenta ttve o f tbe beat typo o f Amertcau a coatury and a half ago. l i e was a •uholar, a soldier and a statesman, yet ♦ dustriallj and economically ♦ ♦ have been very great, yet I ♦ almighty Is rec eding Into the background more than ordinary talent, will here after look honors, for hLs rewards, public for hli not In one direction tw o:— First— and but I d foremoat— In som* work accomplished, and, sec J believe they are infinitesimal ♦ ♦ compared to the changes that ♦ ♦ are coming. Precedent makes ♦ ♦ cowards of us all. ♦ But the ♦ In place o f having tt said o f him al X ♦ ♦ ♦ educator, the scientist and ♦ ♦ tbe inventor have left us no ♦ ♦ ondarllv, lu wealth acquired. ♦ » choice. his death that he left so many hundred W e must adjust our ♦ thought and action to new e thousand dollars It will he said that h« ndividualism . rendered a certain amount o f public conditions. service and. Incidentally, left a certain * ♦ G E O R G E W . P E R K IN S . ♦ ♦ ♦ satisfaction to him. he w ill live a mori With Intercommunication drawing 1» simply another expression for ing a man's wages. It Is Inevitable because It gives sta h struggle to throw o ff In a night, as It were, the precedents o f an old world for the realities o f a new. Precedent makes cowards o f us all. Hut the educator, the scientist and the Inventor have left us no choice. We must udjust our thought and action to As u matter o f fact, when a working the pa|>er» tell us the trouble is all alMiut ami that U what he asks for: hut It» soul hern end It would not have way down underneath what he Is really mattered much had there beeu a case striking for Is a larger percentage of o f siuiill|s>x at tbe north end. the profits o f the business The pa tient could have done pretty much as he pleased without endangering any oue else. 1* tiotn* ern end o f Manhattan to-day must be quarantined Immediately to protect other people. much as he pleased he would have Itecu Indeed. In those day* the Idea that a man had not tbe right to heat his own child as he pleased was not have tv license to drive a horse. procure a With the ad vent o f tbe automobile a license ha* become a necessity. automobile knows first how to operate called “ freedom o f the Individual.'* In my Judgiueut thl* proceas Is ouly In Its Infancy. d>> as he pleases Is now being seriously % challenged, and I most heartily agree with what Mr John D. Rockefeller. Jr., said recently at Cornell University to the effect thut one o f the chief quail flea Hons for a manager o f a large busi ness concern Is rapidly coming to be the human quality aud ability to ad The changes o f the last twenty five yea rs socially. Industrially aud econom ically have licen great, yet I believe they are Infinitesimal compared to tbe Images that ure coming. I believe these change« are going to deal most largely with the relation ship o f man to man. In tills country we have lieeti living III an Hge o f the iituinat freedom to the Individual. It ha» been the Individual Istlc period, when the order of the day has seemed to he "every fallow for him self and the devil take the hindmost." W e have glorleti In the freedom ol tbe Individual and have practised this tionship. la and economic necessity. Centralization la the order o f the day. The telegraph, the telephone, the auto mobile and tbe airship are tbe causes. face new conditions, different and spirit o f public A man living In Boston who wishes service. One reason why I am strongly foi to talk to a man living in San Fran- around responsibility to his country talk. not only lu time o f war but lu time ol Bible more wonderful than this. to capital and a fair tierceutage to labor after ordinary wages and Inter est have been earned. »hating can he done satis facturllv only when the bu*Jhie»a con cern makes public its transactions, sc that the lalsirer and the «¿o.-kholdei can know* as much about tbe hUHtuesx as does the manager himself. lu the adjustment o f difficulties tie tween capital aud labor I am confi dent that o|ieu books will accomplish ♦♦♦♦♦♦♦♦♦♦< ♦ ♦ ♦ ♦ ♦ ♦ ♦ ♦ ♦ ♦ ♦ These changes are fa r reaching and What are we going tu do about tt? IVhat Is to be our men tal attitude? H ow are we going to approach them from ♦ ♦ ♦ ♦ ♦ who lived In a strictly Individualistic age? Can we approach them from the knowledge we have gained from law hooks which were wrltteu In the In he combatting I f we do the * “W 1TH interoommuni- cation drawing the ♦ world to g e th e r, th e a ct o f an e * individual can affect a large ♦ number of people; therefore « mighty that form of freedom which « the saute point o f view a* did our fathers, dividualistic age? - ♦ ♦ ♦ handle these problems? we Why a New Era Co-opera lion Matt Succeed Pare Individualism. ♦ fundamental. J f I ♦ ♦ « ♦ f # we will * ouw-ard ♦ ¡g simply another expression » for license to do as one « ♦ I ilea son can no longer exist.” « — G E O R G E W . P E R K IN S . J ♦ rush o f uew thought and new coudl- ttoua, provided lu large measure by the scientist, the educator, the inven tor. peace. H e Is much more apt to be I faithful, conscientious servant than It be lmd not had military training. WK#t the Future Hold# Forth. Is It a sad, pessimistic future that uufolds? Goes portunities i goals? worth living under future, and more with fluer op worth while Let me see If 1 can picture It as 1 Iw eedi capital Hud labor was that of are It. .wner and slHve, then came the period past. First, Just a glance luto the .f master and man. theu the period o f About the ouly goal we have bad period ; has been the almighty dollar. The In my Judgment we are Just now en- another o f the business, with a fair |iercrutage au optluilattc mployer aud employe, each letng a decided step forward one tional line* as welL the uew conditions or does It hold out In the long ago the relationship be- for require a 'might uiNkes right.’’ ieriod o f new Industrial relationships. Consideration speedily becoming a social. Industrial Instrument to his ear and proceeds to I ng was given to this problem aud d if i life hardly serin dl.v < hauglug and we are entering a others. >f ferences were settled on tbe basis o f All this la rap- for universal military training Is that It giving. What la the outlook? Until recent years little broad tbtnk- but develops In the youth a sense o f all Can The freedom o f the business man to alone mean actual profit I hiiius Society Is finding It necessary to take away much o f what has hitherto been himself edents and customs but State and na much more than open shops. It and. second, to control It. fo r slmrlng plan* based on the earntng9 Tbe public must know thnt the ntan who operates an not t-laco simply rings a hell, puts a llttlo P rofit buggle* there was no s|M-ed limit and We live li By profit sharing I do not mean given little attention. When we were all driving horse* and ilization. the man o f tbe future must order to survive and succeed we wli profit sharing. thut a man could not whip his horse as First, because the world Is being drawn together in one centralized community through the wonderful de- Telopmrnt in »cience aud the marvei- lotm work of the inventor. Second, because In our country ewpea*ially we are entering upon a new stage of development, which calia loudly for men who will render dis interested public service. It can he solved only on the basis When I was a boy there was no So did this problem. I f eur government Is to endure, If we are to take our proper place among They have wiped out not only old prec No mere Increase in wages can ever satisfactorily solve hav« servants? the nations o f the world In the new c iv lie may not reallte this. but. sub consciously. this Is precisely what ha Hut a case o f smallpox tn the north will he as I briefly sketched them: man strikes It is not merely to obtain laborer and to understand their rela Tbs Day of Individualism Cone. I have tw o reasons for believing thai future conditions tled aud most o f the (teople lived on just difference* between capitalist and new conditions operated by tbe same type o f public an Increase in his wage; that Is what Relation of Capital and Labor. causing a struggle of tltunlc propor be doing his share to provide a bettei country In which lo live. advantageous to capital as to labor. 11 When Manhattan was »[»arsely set a man ment in our pork barrel legislation! Could we afford to have our railroads bility to business and because It Is as cense to do as one pleases# can no ridiculed. rational, worth while life aud he will torlly or iterinanently by merely rais therefore, that form o f freedom which It Is a difficult, complicated problem and Is tions fereuu’a old age made a deep Impies Our only decoratkm—the esssev Animals, and had any one suggested Entering s Nsw World. were, on the Instant. cloee o f tbe Revolutionary W ar to Jef The changes of the lust ♦ twenty five years socially, in- ♦ How the Reward# Will Come. bs kouts cart never tie settled satlsfac ciety for the Prevention o f Cruelty to world, where everything Is done, as It The changea that occurred from tbe It Is Inevitable, because strikes snd longer exist. W e are Just entering a new electrical Crea! Changea Taking Place Rapidly. tie signs o f tbe times so certain as thla. achieving. can affect a large number of people: eight hours aud fifty minutes. ^ttoiua men ascribe lo tbe men of tbs prêt riling ugs a wl»<lom more (ban human, and suppose abat they did to be beyond amendment. I knew that •g» (o f the Ite volution I well. 1 be longed to it and labored with It. It deserved well of its cmiutry. It was eery like the present, but without (be experieue« of tbe present; and forty years of experience Is worth a ceu- tury uf book reading; and (bis they would say themselves were they to arise from tbe dead. hereafter T o my mind there Is nothing tn tb« other communities are striving for Hud community, the act o f the Individual mnrblne from Chicago to New York In wrote a letter In which be »aid:— will but fur his fellowmen. community what the workingman In try has made In the lust twenty five aided and alone, tra v e l»»! In a flying Thomas Jefferson, In bis old age. activities required to be not only for blmselt cation has told the workingman lu on* the world together In one centralized few weeks ugo a young woman, uu «u t «loua entirely new lines. Man's It Is Inevitable because lutercommuul lion these three great factors account for tbe NtlipeiuloUN progress till« coitn ton to Is* Inaugurated We find It difficu lt to strike Look at tbe spectacle we are pro- seating to the world at this very in»- Such a goal will prove a far greatei days to go from his home to Washing GEORGE W. PERKINS. and honesty. amount o f money. uols to New York closely come somewhere near the standard of Germany's public servants In efficiency benefit o f the community as a whole the worklnguiHU to think for himself. — / Food tv progress la the human lui'lliinllon to It la In Germany, but we must first have public servants who will at least more and more circumscribed for tb« our educational system, whh h teaches “I 1)0 AS I li k i the only flying muchlue we knew a lout On# o f tile greatest stumbling block# m*7 bo as desirable In thle country as Tbe man o f exceptional ability, ol several weeks to cross the ocean, uud By GEORGE W. PERKINS, Government ownership o f railroads Individualistic the liberty o f the Individual win be Tills advance ts Inevitable because of dollar press trains did article:— at thla time, how many o f you think wo Interests o f the Individual and wher* euguged. eduea man w Ito doe* comprehend It will have Mr. I'erkliiH retorteil. "Individ of Mayor Mitchel'# Supply Commit!##. the community takes precedence over the the business lu which they are Jointly who»* tallies were recently discovered ludtvidualiMin. Ckelrmae whole, which be has lived, or tbe nation. Hear Tieutoii, \ J , said to lim e lived l-c.tssl years ago. remarked thitt the legislation wan violutiou of (tie did not a ffect many people Ingtoii Is probably greater than the gai between Washington ami the mat In I f our railroads were to be taken over and operated by our government would duplicate Germany's success? would answer ''Sit.” the Individual, or the community to the man o f llm Kdlaoii type and Wnail urm nit^ o f ro operiitioii noun* one h A very country n*eu age has not been a success, either for Thomas A K i II hhii typifies the sclen legislution which Mr. PerkiiiM fnv wbifh our his deeds did not reach very far and H*t o f our time, hilt (lie gap lad ween R E G E N T | mi I> üc heurltig or**<l unii of ou • period where the welfare o f the George W. P e r k i n s , Chairman of the New York City Committee on Food Supply, Finds That Science and In vention Are Forcing Revolutionary C h a n g e s in t he World’s Industrial Re lations, Whether We Like It or Not. pr»|ioiM*il majority o f comparatively small consequence for he dbl not know us much alunit »clem e as a young schoolboy o f to day. and he would he were he euterlng the gov erumoot's service In time o f war the course they have taken? large The advance» tu acidice, Intercom fertuin happl Ifnw mauv o f them W e are, beyond question, entering miiiilcatlon * on the gov em inent'» employ In the rati road husluess he is as con scien tiou s a* Has the country been benefited by In the early days, when Instantaneous 1 and could answer “ Yea” ? fancied renown, regardless o f Its effei t A T A lit c l worked simply to acquire :: c.it I'nr on one's fellowmen. IS AS DEAD AS A SMELT who time first question asked when a man die« Is, “ How much was he worth?” with erlng a period of copartnership, scarcely a thought as to how much where the tool user will be part tool ; he did for his community or his coun ,wtier uud where capital and labor will try. mare more equitably lu the profits of Mut what has U aU amounted to? Hi enters public service In time o f peaci lu more nearly the same spirit that hi would enter military service In time ol war— namely, from a sense o f patriot!) duty and a desire to serve his countrj and his fellowmen. In recent years we have been hearlni a great deal about government owner ship o f our railroads. W e are told tha: in Germany the railroads are owued bj the government and that their opera Hon Is most successful. Thla Is trus but In Germany condition« are vaetlj different. The military training o f the youth, ti fact, the entire trend o f education ti Germany Is to Impress upon the youni men o f that land that they owe servlci to their country. When a man eaton There Is hardly a miracle In tha The doctrine of “ State rights” la being rapidly demolished. The na tion Is being obliged to assume many o f the functions o f government here tofore performed by the State, and this tendency Is growing. The State, viewed as an Individual with the right to do as It pleases wlth- tu Itself, without regard for other States, can no longer be tolerated. Ouly the nation can act In matters that affect interstate relations, and with Intercommunication and trans portation developed to their present stage a considerable percentage o f a State's activities are Interstate la their effects and consequences. Tha World !• Drawing Togethar. W e must therefor* take on a new nationalism. Tbe world has been drawn very closely together by tho cable and tbe transatlantic liner but It Is on tbe verge o f being drawn In finitely more closely together by tha wireless, the airship and the subma rine telephone. When fbese are practical, everyday Instruments of intercommunication aud transportation the social prac tices and the Industrial methods o f one nation w ill quickly and seriously affect all other nations. This will re quire the yielding by nations o f cer- tlu o f their Individualistic rights and prerogatives In order to safeguard and benefit tbe world as a whole. This opens up a great, uew vista— It presents problems that are In tensely Interesting r.nd o f far reach ing Importance. The period that Is upon us offers large opportunities for Individual thought. Initiative and action, for con structive work and for constructive statesmanship. The mighty changes taking place In Europe tell us with unmistakable voice that the reconstruction period 1s at hand. The man o f the future must realize It. H e must be ready te adjust himself to tbe new conditions. H e must have sufficient vision, Intel ligence aud courage to cast aside the methods and precedents o f a bygona age He must let the deed past bury Its dead. He mnat not look back te the sotting but forw ard to tho sun.
