The Survey October 1916-March 1917 . rds for thechurches and their members has scarcelybeen challenged during these years. Onedenomination after another has eitherformally adopted or tacitly acceptedthis new creed of the churchs social,economic and industrial faith. The re-port of the Social Service Commission atSt. Louis took advanced ground on theright to work, the equality of industrialopportunity for women and men, ashorter working day and one days restin seven, a living wage and the demandfor industrial democracy in collectivebargaining, with larger control overworking conditions by the w
The Survey October 1916-March 1917 . rds for thechurches and their members has scarcelybeen challenged during these years. Onedenomination after another has eitherformally adopted or tacitly acceptedthis new creed of the churchs social,economic and industrial faith. The re-port of the Social Service Commission atSt. Louis took advanced ground on theright to work, the equality of industrialopportunity for women and men, ashorter working day and one days restin seven, a living wage and the demandfor industrial democracy in collectivebargaining, with larger control overworking conditions by the workers. Yetit failed to meet with any oppositionand was adopted without dissent, andwith the outspoken approval of severalrepresentative employers present. Equally advanced positions weretaken on housing, recreation, commer-cialized vice, prison reform and theeducational training of the ministry andmembership for social service. TheCommission on the Family recom-mended the requirement of uniformmarriage licenses, with an interval of. Best and Cheapest Service in the World Here are some comparisons of telephone conditionsin Europe and the United States just before the war. Here we have : Continuous service in practicallyall exchanges, so that the telephoneis available day and night. A telephone to one person in ten. 3,000,000 miles of interurban orlong-distance wires. Prompt connections, the speed ofanswer in principal cities averagingabout 3Vi seconds. Lines provided to give immediatetoll and long-distance service. In Europe : Nine-tenths of the exchanges areclosed at night, and in many cases,at mealtime. Not one person in a hundred hasa telephone. Not one-eighth as many miles inproportion to population and terri-tory. In the principal cities, it takesmore than twice as long for theoperator to answer. No such provision made. Tele-phone users are expected to awaittheir turn. As to cost, long-distance service such as we have here was not to be hadin Europe, even before the war, a
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