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are indistinguishable terms. ... Just as... the most im- 
portant knowledge to the employer is that a living wage is 
the first charge upon any industry. . . . A living wage must 
certainly mean sufficient reward for labor to provide health- 
giving food, good clothing, shelter with sunlight and air and 
warmth and comfort, education and recreation—books and 
music—sufficient reward to tide over periods of sickness or 
other unemployment and to make provision for a happy and 
serene old age. It must give opportunity and time not only 
for the development of the powers within us, but also for 
expression of human fellowship. 
WALTER LIPPMAN, EDITOR, NEW REPUBLIC AND 
EVENING WORLD, NEW YORK! 
Or you can insist . . . that a business which does not pay 
a living wage is not paying its labor costs; that such busi- 
nesses are humanly insolvent, for in paying less than a living 
wage they are guilty of as bad business practise and far 
worse moral practise than if they were paying dividends out 
of assets. 
JAMES ROSCOE DAY, CHANCELLOR OF SYRACUSE UNIVERSITY? 
. . . Thinking men and women will say we must have 
the best conditions possible for our laboring men. The 
country demands it. Our civilization, our progress, our pros- 
perity, have their roots in the contentment and thrift of the 
men of mechanic arts and manual labor. The better homes 
they live in, the more comforts within these homes, the 
nearer they live like the well-to-do, the more promptly their 
bills are paid, the more like other folk they and their wives 
dress, the more self-respecting their boys and girls are, the 
better it is for our land and country, the greater country we 
shall have. . . . It will be a sad day for this land when that 
man cannot dig enough out of life’s task to make a happy 
1 Supra 1—8 March 27, 1915. 
24My Neighbor the Workingman,” New York, Abingdon Press, 1920, 
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