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 bk 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