. The Saturday evening post. ely piling up repetitions of the sameidea from different authorities. Mr. Gompers has saidthat the greatest single achievement for progress in thisday and generation is the substitution of the ideal of pro-duction for service for that of profit alone. Our workers will produce, says Robert Smillie, leaderof the British coal miners, if we get the guaranty thatproduction is not to make millionaires but to make com-fortable happy homes. The reader, I imagine, is left with the shrewd suspicionthat either he is very dull and stupid or that those authori-ties are astonish
. The Saturday evening post. ely piling up repetitions of the sameidea from different authorities. Mr. Gompers has saidthat the greatest single achievement for progress in thisday and generation is the substitution of the ideal of pro-duction for service for that of profit alone. Our workers will produce, says Robert Smillie, leaderof the British coal miners, if we get the guaranty thatproduction is not to make millionaires but to make com-fortable happy homes. The reader, I imagine, is left with the shrewd suspicionthat either he is very dull and stupid or that those authori-ties are astonishingly deep. Suppose the entire shoe in-dustry in this country were on lower Manhattan Islandand the sea suddenly rushed in and engulfed the it would be discovered that the shoe industry, despitethe profits which go to a number of the big manufacturers,has rendered quite a little service in its way. Indeed it is obvious, or one might say more than obvious,that any number of industries are rendering a tremendous. amount of service, even if private profits dogo to private owners. Even the Britishcoal mines, owned as they are by the meresthandful of passive, absentee, nonfunction-ing dukes, do undoubtedly render someservice to the British Empire in producing their vast out-put of coal. Industry should be conducted for use, it isasserted, rather than for profit. But really are not most ofthe goods which are produced now under the profits sys-tem put to fairly good use? Only a lunatic would deny this fact. Indeed, when thecritic of the present system says that industry should beconducted for service and use instead of profit he meansnothing of the kind. His use of language is confusing,obscure and wholly muddled. He implies by his statementthat industry at present renders no or comparatively littleservice of a large social nature, a statement which ismanifestly absurd. Things That People Work For WHAT he really means, of course, is that private profitsshould at the mos
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