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About Central Point herald and Southern Oregon news. (Central Point, Or.) 1917-19?? | View Entire Issue (June 7, 1917)
INDIVIDUALISM ISAS DEAD AS A SMELI tin*»*!* We Mud It d ifficu lt to Htrike Hit ; i l < g entirely new linen. Tliofiin« Je ffe rs o n , in Ills ole] age. n»iie i letter in whl<-h he s a id :— Some im*n a*-rib«* to ¡he well of the pr •Hiiog age m wisdom more thau human, and wappoae what they did to be heyoud 11 memliiient. I knew that •gv | of the Ucvolution) well. 1 be- longfd to it iiud labored with it. It des erve«l well of ita country. It was *ery like the preaent, but » itliont the experience of the present; and forty years of experience is worth a cen tury of b<H>k reading; and this they Would say themselves were they to arise from the dead. G ra a t C h a n g e . T ak in g ^ l a t . R ap id ly . The ebauges that occurred from Ihe close o f the R evolu tion s”y W ar to J e f ferso n 's old age made a deep Inipres- alou ou Ills m ind; yet as w e look back 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 Changes in the World’s Industrial Re lations, Whether We Like It or Not. -------------- +. .... T A IJKI'ICXT pulilir licit ri it” A at them from this distance they seem infinitesim al » h e n com pared with the chanties that have taken place in the world the last quarter ot a century and the treuienduua chanKes taking pluee now. George W ashington was a representa tive o f the best type of A m erican a century ami a h alf ago. lit* w as a scholar, u soldier and a statesm an, yet he did not know as much about scleuce as a young schoolboy o f to-day. Thom as A Kittson typ ifies the «den list o f our time, hut the gap between the man o f the Kdlson type and Wash ington is probably greater than the gap com m unity, the act o f the Individual E n terin g a New W orld. When Abraham I.inroln u s * P resi dent It took four d a y s or more fo r a letter to travel from Ills home In Illi nois to New York. It took him several days to go from his home to W ashing tled and most o f the people lived on aided and alone, travelled In ti flyin g m achine from C hicago to \c»v York in Its southern end It would not have m attered much had there been a ease eight hours and fifty minutes o f sinall|>oi at the north end. W e are ju s t entering a'n ew e'ectrical world, where everyth in g ts done, as It tlent could have done pretty much as were, on the Instant. one else R ut a case o f sm allpox In the north Our fathers had none o f the modern he pleased w ithout endangering an y eru end o f M anhattan to-day m ust l»e T h eir sons are w restlin g w ith the prob quarantined Im m ediately to protect lem o f how to use these new methods other people. When I w as a boy there w as no So of Intercom m unication and still, adhere ciety fo r the Prevention o f C ru elty to to the law s, the prec«*deuts and the A n im als, nnd had an y one suggest,«! book learning o f their fathers. that a man could not w hip Ills bor«,* a s T h is Is O C R great problem. It Is a much a s he pleased he would have 1«. n d ifficu lt, com plicated problem and is cau sin g a stru ggle of titanic propor 1 «ieu that a man had uot the right to tions—a struggle lo throw o ff In a night, as It wer<*. the precedents o f an old world for the realities o f a new. Precedent m akes cow an!« of us all. ridlcul«*! Indeed. In those d ays the heat his own child as be o'ease, buggies there w as no speed lim it and a inventor have left us no • hope. license to d rive a horse We must adjust our thought ami actio n 'to ne« conditions T h e Day of Individualism G one. was given little attention. When w e w ere all d riv in g horse* and Rut tile educator, the scientist and the m an did not h ave to procure a With the ad vont o f the autom obile a license has becom e a n ecessity. Tbe public must know that the man who operates a., autom obile know s first bow to „penib* near Trenton, V J ., said lo have lived RIo.OOO yen i s ago ically have licett great, yet The nitvancea lu ad»*n< e. lnter«*om m unicatioii am) In nnl’ e rsal educa Ttie |,a- m achinery with w hich social and busi ness intercourse !s now carried ou. whose hones wen* recently discovered the longer exist w eeks ago a young woman, un few ye ars socially. Industrially and econom ami Is «Imply another expresalon fo r II ceuse to do ijs one pleasese can no • When M anhattan w as sp arsely set m ar W ashington therefore, tb at form o f freedom which And yet only a ton to he Inaugurated. The changes o f the last tw enty fir e between can affect a large num ber o f people: I b ii.v e they are Infinitesim al compared to the It and. second, to control It. Society Is finding It n ecessary to take a w a y niiicb o f w hat has hitherto been called freedom o f the Individual.” |n m y Judgm ent this process ts only In Its Im ages that are coming in fan cy. Ihe I Relieve these changes are going to deal most largely with the relat 0:1- shi|> o f man to man In this country w e have been Jiv in g necessity of co-op«*nition some one in an ago of the utmost freedom !<* the d „ as lie pleases is now being seriously reinarkeil that the legislation was individual It has been the Ittdi» Idttnl- iatic p«*riod. »»hen the order of the «lay challen ged. uu,l I most heartily agree has seemed to lie “ e v e ry fellow for him said recently at C ornell U n iversity to s e lf and the devil tak e th» hindmost We have gloried in the fre«*dnm of die individual and have practised this tbe e ffe ct that one o f the c h ie f quail ness concern Is rapidly com ing to he Mr. I'erkins’ reasons for his he freedom to a point when». In many phases o f rttir lif<*. il has amounted t ju s t d ifferen ces lietween cap italist and are Mntlined in the following llceiiHe to do alm ost anything that w* laborer and to understand their rela pleased fancied renown, regardless o f Its effect tlonship. ' • I'n tll recent ye ars little broad think on one's fellow men. in g w as given to tills problem aud dlf- * on certain propone«! foo«l legislation whiclt Mr. IVrkins fnv on,«l ami which ce«o^ni/.cil a violation of the principle of Individualism. Mr. IVrkins retorted, “ Indlviil oalism is as d«‘ad as a smelt." lie f article:— . or that brought profit or In the early days, when tnstuntunenu* By G EO R G E W. PERKINS, intercom m unication dl«l not exist, when Food tion these three gn*at factors account for the stupendous progress this ootin- education w as m eagre an«l science tin Ois> rtf I hr area test stum bling block* irv has made In the last tw en ty-five te a rs - o f com paratively sm all consequence, for C h a ir m a n o l M a y o r M itc K a l'a S u p p ly C o m m illa a . In progress Is the hiinnin Inclination to fcUow precedent and eld method* too They have sw ept a w a y old prece dents, old custom s, and they w ill even developed, what the Individual did »vas "might m akes r ig h t ” A ll this is rap idly « hanging and w e are entering • perl,si o f uew industrial relatlonslii(«. o f m aster and man. then tbe |>erlod o f i>erlod In m y Judgm ent w e are Ju st now en teriug a i>eriod of copartnership, w here the tool user w ill be part tool ow n er and wtiere < apltal and labor wiu sh are more equ itably In the pro fits oi taken a long stride tow ard success It 1 « n«t m any ye ars since I w as a lad. and ,e t at that time there w as no the business In which they are Join tly The tele engaged graph w as In very m eagre use: fast e i- TbU advance la Inevitable because of took '•or educational system , which teaches sd 'e ra l tvta'ks to * m s* the i> run, and the w orkingm an to think fo r him self. tin only flyin g machine we knew shout G E O R G E W. PERKINS. feretices » e r e settled on the basis o f em ployer and em ploye, ea, b being a decided step fo rw ard matt who does comprehend It will have w ss the much derided one |ste*,*Hsed hy 1 1*rlus Green the human q u ality and ab ility to a d ow ner and slave, then cam e the period la» som ewhat o f a failure, »vhtle the It ficatlon s fo r a m anager o f a large busi did not nffect m any people fu lly comprehend all this Is doomed to press trains dhl not exist. w ith w hat Mr. Jo h n D. R«»ckefeller. J r . In the long ago the relationship be- tweeen capital and labor w as that of who does not such thing as a telephone The freedom o f the business man to his d«»eds did not reach ve ry far and tually sw eep a w a y m any o f the law s now on our statute books. The man o f to d a y R elatio n o f C ap ital and L a b o r. With InfrrcommunlcHMon draw ing the ».-rid together In one centralized It 1« Inevitable because Intercom m uni cation has told the w orkingm an In on« com m unity w hat the workingm an In other com m unities a re strivin g fo r and achievin g