There is a certain force in human beings called LOVE. This force leads sometimes, and happily it leads usually, to domesticity, morality, care of children and lifelong devotion. Then the force is used properly. The same human passion leads to murder, suicide, theft, to almost all forms of crime. There is another human passion called AMBITION. This human force of ambition, with a Lincoln's conscience to guide it, saves a republic. The same force guided by Benedict Arnold seeks to betray the nation. ---- Consider yourself a ship launched on the sea of life under certain conditions--but with the essential condition in your own control. The wind may be feeble, you may drift for a while or move very slowly--move at least in the right direction. The wind may blow a gale, and you may feel, as so many do, that you cannot control your emotions and your appetites. But if that comes show at least as much interest in yourself as a sailor does in his ship. Take in sail and fight the storm, instead of going willingly to destruction. ---- Four things puzzled and impressed the wise man that wrote the nineteenth verse of the thirtieth chapter of Proverbs. Think to-day about the third of these things: "The way of a ship in the midst of the sea" The way of a human being in the midst of life is like that of a ship on the ocean. Make up your mind that your own way at least shall be controlled by the rudder of conscience, and learn from the passing ships a lesson of use in your own life. ONE OF THE MANY CORPSES IN THE JOHNSTOWN MINE The widow says to the mine owner: "Here he is, dead--killed working for you. Where were you when he was killed? Driving in your carriage, enjoying the difference between his EARNINGS and his PAY. Was one dollar and thirty cents per day too much to pay him for this risk? Was it too much to let him save something for us--who now have nothing? Is there nothing to arbitrate when the man who risks his life and gets nothing asks arbitration of the man who risks nothing and gets all? ---- There are many men in America--honest and sincere--who believe that strikers are nearly always right, that failure of a strike is a calamity. Other men, less numerous, but also honest and sincere, consider strikes an evil. They believe that labor unionism threatens "capital," threatens national energy, and our national industrial supremacy. ---- Let us endeavor to take a clear view of the strike question, and to discuss--as free from bias as may be possible--some of the main viewpoints of those interested. We may, at the start, accept two statements as sound: First. The employer wants as much money as he can possibly get. Second. The workman wants as much money as HE can possibly get. It is impossible for both or for either to win absolutely. The success of one must leave the other penniless. Let us look at the matter of a coal strike only, for simplicity's sake. In a coal mine you have three factors: