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Contrast this with the condition of mechanics who are giving equally of their best to win this war. They are not given even decent conditions under which to do their work. They rush to the yards and the factories in response to the call and find not only no place provided for them to live, but no protection from the sharks who take advantage of the demand for rooms and houses to raise all the cost of living. It is no wonder that we have a disastrous turn-over of labor. Nor is anything done to protect and care...
...recently advocated unrestricted profiteering. We have business men who persistently oppose schemes for national saving on a large scale,-such as discontinuance of the purchase of non-essentials,-because it would injure their particular business. We have employers who refuse to give their workmen enough wages to maintain a decent standard of living. We have various over-rich persons in the community ignoring completely our government's plea for conservation. We have lawyers, politicians, and other men holding positions of public trust that are susceptible to advances by unscrupulous individuals. We have ministers who have become impregnated with the subtle...
...from which we all spring. They undoubtedly have violated many of mankind's sacred laws, but they are human. When, crushed by the burden of insuperable odds, they shall finally turn their faces toward an honest peace, we must be ready to do our part in seeing that a decent consideration is given their proposals. In preparation for that time, we need not hurriedly condemn their every utterance. We should do better rather to maintain our traditional virtue of fair play...
...first thing that Smileage brings to my mind," said Major Henry Lee Higginson '55 in his address at the Smileage meeting yesterday, "is the old proverb, 'All work and no play makes Jack a dull boy.' A man in the army, without any source of decent amusement, is very liable to suffer from a loss of morale." Major Higginson then went on to tell of the need of entertainment that prevailed during the Civil War as compared with excellent conditions now being provided at the army and navy cantonments...
Smileage is an expressive term. It represents the future pleasure and enjoyment of the men in army cantonments today. The problem of supplying decent recreation to the soldier in his spare moments is a serious one. The Y. M. C. A. has long recognized its importance in the building up of a healthy morale, and has given ample outlet to this instinctive desire in frequent entertainments. The Government has now seen fit to establish Liberty Theatres at all important training points...