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MOST OF INDUSTRIAL WASTE IS CHARGED ! TO MANAGEMENT; I Le? Than Twenty-five Per Cent It I Placed at Doors of Labor Says t..- Hoover'* Committee h I- 1 6t. Louis, Mo., June 4.?Responsi-, bility for more than 50 per cent of the waste in industrial processes, which is causing enormous annual losses to the nation, csyi be placed at the door of the management and Jess than 25 per cent at the door of labor, declared a report of the American Engineering Council's Corner. imittee on elimination of Waste in j .Tnrlrxstr-v marip TVllblic todav at a meeting of the council's executive | |v , board. The committee was appointed |V by (Herbert Hoover, secretary of ?. , commerce, when he was head of the - council. The report showed that the margin of unemployment amounted, 1x> more than a million men; that ?L* > > i>ilKons of dollars were tied up in | '* ' idle equipment; that high labor' turn-over was a rough index of one of tlhe commonest wastes, and that jf waste of tdme and energy and K.v- money through duplications and estimates and bids in building trades [1<U1 1I1W iJUXiiuao vi uvuaio y. Both employer and employes restriA output, it was said. Both capital and labor are blamed for existing abuses, but the annual losses through waste by conflicts between . them is much less than popularly supposed. _ - From four to five million workers were idle during January and Febru&y of this year. In 1921 half a'million dollars will be lost in wages in the building trades, it was said. 'Nationwide machinery to obtain conjtinuous information concerning P unemployment conditions throughly out the country is declared neces' jjT, " Sary. Means for regulating employment in the principal industries ? '; were urged and a nationwide plan of cooperation between the govern\ ment, the public, trade associations the industries, labor bankers and l::' engineers was outlined. ; t The waste inquiry was in charge v of a committee of sixteen headed iby J. Parke Channing of New York, .as Chairman and L. W. Wallace of |jv.' ' Washington, executive secretary of the American Engineers Council of the Federated American Engineering societies as vice chaiAnan. i. This 'was the 'beginning of a movefc . ment by the country's organized engineers about 200,000 in number, for better industrial conditions and more harmoqdoais realtions between capital and labor. The full report &V comprises 125,000 words and deals with the deep seated causes of waste and does not consider "the present business crisis due in part to world- ' wide waste and extravagance cause j % . by the war," as an excuse for transib 1 tory experiments, (but as an opport tunity to point out the need for per- ^ "manent reform. ^ The Committee outlined the fol- j J, lowing proposed program of govern- T . mental assistance to eliminate waste ] !"A national industrial information service should be established to inxiriah (more timely, regular com plete mftwmation covering current V' / production "and consumption and stocks of commodity; a national]] .policy regarding public health should be fostered and encouraged; tie national program .for industrial '? rehabiliation should be encouraged and should offer opportunities foreducation and placement to those have physical defects as well as those handicapped because of indus? trial accidents; a natidnwide prograin for industrial standardization, should be encouraged in conjunction' | " with industrial iterests; the govern- j ^ f ment should recognize necessity fori ' . a revision of such federal laws as I ? interfere1; with thp n-r ' J industry; a body of principles should j | .be accepted which could bejxlevelop- v Lyj&ed for the adjustment and settle E lament of labor disputes." - t s Public support for the movement a Bs?. the report said, should be brought J s r - about through public recognition of p I a greater stabilization of style to I lessen the demoralizing -1> I seasonal fh*-*- ? -street of |< j .^^oatlonfr as well as a.(i (*uore distribution throughout J; the year of public demand. Thej chambers of commerce) the report, ( said, should inaugurate anti-waste j campaigns and collective purchasing agents should educate the public irt' better methods of buying. After emphasizing the need of reform and improvement in plant management and administrative policies the report urged the cooperation of labor. "Organized labor should develop a policy of increasing output," it was stated. "The attitude of opposition or indfiffererifce o proper standards for production should be changed to a frank and aggressive insistence of such standards; there should be a scientific examination of the basis for wages; certain union rules should be modified in regard to machine operation, apprentices and craft workers, distinctions which result in restriction of output individu al workers should realize their responsi'bilites for waste resuting from ill-health and disregard of safety measures." Declaring that the annual economic loss in the country through preventable diseases and death amounted to $3,000,000,000 the report urged a more general use of safety methods already perfected. It was asserted that 75 per cent of the deaths and serious accidents in in dustry could be thus prevented. In regard to the'ntimber of days lost ,the report said: ''Forty two million persons lost 350,000,000 days from dHnes and disease and n on-industrial accidents annually; fprty two per cent of the waste of illhealth, is preventable; in 1919 tihere were 300,000,000 industrial accidents resutling in an economic loss to the country of about $853,000,000; industrial accidents are^ caused by the carelessness of the workmen and a lack of ordinary safeguards." Plant idleness came In for its share of the blame for waste. In the printing industry alone the report said, an investment of (more than $100,000,000 in stocks of paper car ried to meet trade requirements could be cut in half through standardization in the brands of paper. The building industry wm said to he about sxty percent efficient. In the shoe industry the waste is% put on about 35 per cent. The average plant in the metal trades group is from 25 -per cent to 30 per-cent, behind the best plant in output per employee. In the ready made clothing industry the report said, it should be relative ly easy to save three quarters of a million dollars a day?an increase of forty percent in efifectiveess. The, value of the output in this industry ,V ?X ?/*AA AAA AAA I jo puc ixi ?vuv,uuu,uuu a year. BEST BOOK MOST OF US DO NOT READ Between the revolutionists who question whench we came and the theologians who question whither we are going, we still have the satisfaction of knowing that/we are here. These were the opening words of a noted lecture, delivered by the Rev. Dr. Talmadge, on evoluton. All of us lenow "we are here," but for what purpose? If, as Dr. Talmadge asserted, there is "satisfaction" in the knowledge %f our existence "it must be for the reason that we have at least some proper conception of the vhy and the wherefore of our being lere. There is nothing that is created jut that is for a certain, fixed defilite purpose. Every tree and plant ind flower, sua and star and planet, las its place and purpose, can it be ess true of man, the final and great. :st work of the Creator of the earth ind "all that therein is?" And where best to obtain the knowledge by which we shall know >f the purpose of the life that has >een given us. of the laws and orders j >y,which~we are here," and assurance j >f the rewards of life beyond the >r;ef period of earthly existence? Where is this knowledge to be ob- j ained but in the Best Book that most i >f UP. fir> ?mfr vni/1 RiMo*? Twi/? vww ? t is everywhere, printed i? every lan ! ;uage, presented freely and gener_ j usly?but how seldom read, at ' east, by how few people? Inquiry I tras made of a* clergyman, who has I xceptional opportunity for observa- J ion, extending over many years, a^ | ppr0::imately estimat'ng, 1 ' ' b' ms an wer was: "Five t>~le reaH - . ? cent" of the peo. I ? ?nd apply the teachings of ;ne Bible, the one book that millions jf times, during years extending over the centuries, has been declared the Best Book ever written. A recent secular writer has declar. ed that the Bible has exerted a wonderful "induerice ovdr the lives and minds of Wen," that "it ie the book that has hpld together the fabric of Western civilization;" that it "has been the handb&ok of life to countless millions t>f men and women; that "the civilization we possess could not jhave come into existence and could p .not have been sustained without it." tl 'And yet this man, who rays this de- d 'servedly and generally accorded high n tribute of real worth and aid to tbs c 'Bible would "modernize" it, bring ? lit up to date, to the conditions and i1 Iways of the people of today. Rub. n ' bish! Better, if we may coin a word,, d 'better antiquitize the people and c take them back to Bible days and c ; Bible ways of doing things. b j In referring to political affairs of these days we frequently hear men- c tion of "the faith of the fathers" and : the need to. return thereto. Why not " with reference to living, also, urge return to "the faith of the fathers" h i * I as they had its inspired from the Bi- j a 1 ble which was their constant staff and j | guide V L i We talk and talk seriously in these a days of reconstruction, wi?h refer- v ! ence to material affairs, to govern, vs 'ment and civics. And well we/ may, v> for serious problems, many of them, tl 'confront us, and their solution will j t< j not be in the lifetime of any of us. It They call for our help individually g [and collectively. But it is not possi- n ' 1- 1 - -L - 1- - ?L _ _ 3 iL. 1.. V Die xo ?iiu penecu uitr SUIU- j u I tion of those problems through the j tl application of th^ laws and princi-1 a '^diajiLfEJiinirajEiiiJEranin |i ii ij V ! ji ! } i! ; l| ' i j [j * 1 I II I li i ji jarazninuara^^ c> les recorded in the Beat Book rather r han to depend entirely on the wis. E om of men. Wisdom acquired along s lodern lines and based upon modern li oncepts? Is "love your fellowmen" f 0 ancient as to have lo;3t its potency, f s virtue? Or, has the divine com- ? land, delivered away back in the E ays of Mount Sinai, has the divine n ommand: "Thou shalt not steal," ea;;ed to mean what it says? Shall it p e modernized by having added to d fie Biblical injunction?"unless you g an get away with it," which is al- 0 Dgether too common a conception f 1 these dave. ii But, aside from all or any desire to " e controversial, the Bible is such an 0 bundant store of wisdom, of direc- ^ ion for right living, that it would h eem that all should desire to know nd use that which it so freely pro. * ides, that is so easy to get and use ^ ith unquestioned advantage to all c ho live by its precepts. And who ^ iat -has learned from the Book how x. live has not at the same time ;arned how to die? 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It reaches ? rect to argument of the h: _ J ^ J iy tu spcnu. lur necueu :ise your business in The HafflaHKBftBBRBfi ead, the Book of Bool^s, the Bible? 1 )id not many whose names have long ince been forgotten, who were but ittle known, perhaps only in the J amily circle, derive much of satis- i action and profit, much that made \ hem lovable and beloved, from the t lible and get from it that which i lade them what they were? j Is not the father revered who daily rayed that he might with more un- t erstanding read his Bible? Is it for- I otten that mother, who lived a life f gentleness and sweetness, of help, i ulness to all with whom she came f n contact, ever mindful of doing c unto others" as she would want \ thers to do unto her, who guided a er life by the Best Book? Was not er chart and compass thru life and, J passing oui," kneeling by her chair r he open Bible before her, did it not t ight her way as no earthly beacon i ould have done??Jacksonville i 'imes-Union. < Madame Marie Curie, discoverer of adium, now visiting this country, j ras awarded the gold medal of the rational Inst;tute of Social Science c ecently. The award was made be_ j' ntiea r\ f V? n iWAaf I A'f Vi/lT* /) ! _ I 1 a uot ux uic gi to u utiivnt vi uv* unr j overy to humanity. N \ aiMigfBfiiiaiaiaiaiiiiiuan! the ty Drive E PRESS & BANNER he "Life Saving Dendising efforts. Bankplumbers, , merchants, of selling, is today ralue of advertising, nidation level the pix>br is to reach the buying id forceful manner, igh which such advershould be chosen with greater number of perinterested. \NNER is read ty County than any other i fertile field, one subigher order; with monmerchandise?adver Pres* and Banner. t POLES AND GERMANS KILLED Annaberg, Slesia, May 31.?Fifty 5oles and 16 Germans were killed md a total .of about 175 ,were vounded when Polish insurgents atempted today to take Annaberg, ifter a brief shelling by small field ieces. > The Poles were repulsed and fled o Kalmow, whither the Germans mrsued, and drove them out. Seven hundred rebels marched on Vniirberg and engaged the German ion of 300 with rifles and mahi-D-e guns. The Germans replied vfoh steady valleys for two hour? ird then counter attacked. The fighting became hand to land, rifles being clubbed and gremdes and knives, brought into ac * ion. After an hour of street fightng the Poles- broke and fled, leavng their dead and wounded in the streets. The town of -West Stockbridge, - ;" / r Vlass., is so healthful *that no phyisi:ian can be induced to settle ther* rhe Selectmen are raising a special jurse for a physician who will agree ;o live in the town. ianuzfiugjaniiiiiwaa i| ! it 11 ll : jj i !i |l - r 11 !| if I'll