INCREASED COST OF LIVING CAUSE OF ECONOMIC UNREST

That the general labor unrest throughout the country is due rather to the increased cost of living than to a revolutionary tendency is the opinion of Professor William Z. Ripley of the Department of Economics, and now a members of the National Board of Adjustment.

"The great mass of laborers are outraged at the price of shoes, of clothes and food. They are impatient because of the high cost of living," said Professor Ripley in an interview yesterday. "It is this which causes their unrest."

Professor Ripley does not think that Bolshevism is the principal cause of the labor trouble in the United States. "Of course, the European situation has an effect on American workingmen, but it is not the primary reason for the strikes now prevalent in all parts of the nation," he said.

"I do not believe that the world is coming to an end," Professor Ripley continued. "It is true, we are passing through a trying period, but we will come through safely if only we do not grow impatient."

"The employer has a grave responsibility. He must try to put himself in the other fellow's place, to see his point of view."

Only in this way, thinks Professor Ripley, can the differences between labor and capital eventually be settled. He looks to the younger generation, to the men who are now being trained in the universities, to help solve the economic problems confronting the nation. An intelligent study of the labor question will do much to aid the country to find a pacific solution to the acute problems of the present time, he believes. But Professor Ripley is not affraid that the United States is facing a period of actual revolution such as Russia is now passing through. He is confident that there is no danger of a general labor uprising