Entered as second-class matter, La Fayette, Ind., under act of March 3, 1879. Published monthly, $1.00 per year. TH TRU T RUTH and only Truth is eternal. It was not born and it cannot die. It may be obscured by the clouds of Falsehood, or buried in the debris of brutish Ignorance, but it can never be destroyed. It's all that is, or was, or can ever be. It exists in every atom, lives in every flower and flames in every star. When the heavens and the earth shall pass away, and the universe return to cosmic dust, divine Truth will stand unscathed amid the crash of matter and the wreck of worlds. Falsehood is an amorphous monster, conceived in the brain of knaves and brought forth by the breath of fools. It's a moral pestilence, a miasmic vapor that passes like a blast from Hell over the face of the world, and gone forever. It may leave death in its wake and disaster dire; it may place on the brow of Purity, the brand of the courtesan and cover the hero with the stigma of the coward; it may degrade the patriot and exalt the demagogue, enslave an Horatio and crown a Humbug; it may wreck hopes and ruin homes, cause blood to flow and hearts to break; it may pollute the altar and disgrace the home, corrupt the courts and curse the land; but the lie cannot live forever, and when it's dead and damned there's none so poor as to do it reverence. is -William Cowper Brann. 62 PE W Uncle Sam paints his property regularly NCLE SAM has been in business long enough to know that property that is not kept up properly, soon becomes dilapGovernment statistics show that the loss on property, due to deterioration, amounts to over one billion dollars annually in the United States alone. idated. T Proper Training of Apprentices Painting and Decorating Trade Among First to Fall in Line With Laudable Movement Launched Several Years Ago (By PHILIP ZAUSNER, Sec. D. C. No. 9.) HE movement for the proper training of apprentices was launched by the Building Congress some two years ago and among the first to fall in line was the Painting and Decorating Trade. The various Employers' groups known as the Master House Painters and Decorators' Association, the Society of Interior Decorators, the Cabinet Makers" Employers' Association and the Association of Master Painters and Decorators of the City of New York, in conjunction with the New York District Council, organized the Joint Apprenticeship Committee of the Painting and Decorating Industry. This committee, through the co-operation and assistance rendered by the Building Congress composed of some of the most prominent builders and architects in the industry, on the one hand, and the Board of Education, through its Advisory Committee the outset, we encountered considerable difficulties, some due to the skepticism on the part of our membership as to the proper motives of the employers in this movement, and others because of the reluctance of many of of the employers, themselves, to co-operate. However, little by little, we succeeded in convincing our own membership as well as the employers, that we were on the right track toward a needed improvement in the industry. To our members, we were able to show the advantage of taking an active part in this movement which was destined to branch out and become of considerable influence whether we wished it or not rather than remain passive and so encourage the various forces which are unfriendly to Organized Labor to get hold of this movement and control it to the detriment of our membership. The employers, on the other hand, following the splendid example set by their leaders, who not only employed their quota of apprentices, giving them every possible opportunity to learn the business in a proper manner, but by contributing a great deal |