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Speaking at the dinner on Saturday night Senator Ladd took up "Agriculture the Nation's Problem." Dealing with the position of the farmer considered some years ago as the backbone of the nation, and now rated by same as next to Bolshevists Senator Ladd spoke first of the reasons for their plight, and then suggested some measures for meeting the situation...
...poverty and weakness of the Old World, we are wealthy and powerful. But, continued Mr. Morgenthau, on returning to this country from Europe that was so alive with momentous issues, he was disgusted to see that we had suspended our international thinking and had apparently for gotten a problem that is as much ours as any one else...
...Greener spoke on "Volunteers in Social Settlements." He told what a social settlement must be, its opportunities for serving the community, and the requirements and opportunities for men in the work. Hugo Francke'15, who followed him, said that the chief problem in industry today is the lack of understanding between employer and employee. Social service, he said, is the best possible connecting link between the two, and the social worker has an excellent opportunity to get at the difficulty and help to remedy it. T.S. Woods spoke on "Social Service and Some of Its Experiences...
...experiences in the past should be sufficient to teach us that we have nothing to gain from delay. Friendly relations with Great Britain--commercial relations, in particular--can in the long run best be preserved by solving each problem as it arises. In justice to the American citizens whose interests were impaired, the Harding administration should strive for the immediate settlement of these claims...
...employees represented by the union, through a special agent, is sometimes efficient, and sometimes not. In general, it might be said that it concerns itself chiefly with the settlement of primary matters, such as wages, hours, and so forth, and does not attempt to deal with the underlying problems of friendly relations between employer and employee. On the other hand, the shop committee system, besides settling the matter of wages, also goes a long way toward handling the problem of the relation between employers and employees. In a few cases this system has failed to work, on account...