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FRIDAY. JULY, 7. 1933
LET’S KEEP GOING
CERTAIN of the President's advisers are
reported urging curtailment of the ad
ministration's $3,300,000,000 public works pro
gram. Their theory is that, since the tide has
turned and prices are mounting, public spend
ing on so large a scale is needless.
We trust that this report is untrue. If it
is true, the President should turn a deaf ear
to the proposal.
Much of the recovery so far is traceable to
the prospect of large federal expenditures on
needed and socially valuable public works.
Should the government now adopt a timid role
in place of the bold depression assaults that
so far have proved successful, the spurt prob
ably would slow down. Should this occur, it
might be difficult to start a forward move
ment.
The timid way was Mr. Hoover’s w r ay. It.
is not the Roosevelt way. Experience proved
that Mr. Hoover’s public works program was
too small. Let us not make the same mistake
again.
To change the tempo of our proposed pub
lic spending would be unfair to labor, industry
and congress; they supported the recovery
program with the understanding that the gov
ernment would do its share.
Title two of the national recovery act was
the government's pledge to contribute of its
vast credit the specified sum of $3,300,000,000
to prime the industrial pump. Many labor
leaders, economists and congressmen thought
the sum too small.
“You can't prime a pump with an eye
dropper,” Senator Wagner said.
We should not, as Senator Costigan just
has declared, leave re-employment of our mil
lions of jobless “again to the chance hope
of automatic recovery.”
, President Roosevelt is fond of comparing
the administration's efforts to win against the
depression to those of a football game. A
winning team will not drop the ball deliber
ately within a few yards of the goal posts.
CENTENARIANS
‘‘/CENTENARIAN likes movie thrillers,”
reads a recent headline relating to the
100th birthday of a man.
This old man, born in London, migrating
to New York at 15 and getting a job the first
day oft the boat, has journeyed all the way
here from 1833. He has crossed decades and
eras as a traveler crosses nations. He has
come from the far places in time and his
tory.
He ought to be a storied traveler. All
very old people ought to be. But they seldom
are. Why? ,
Senility is one answer. The flush of life
may have passed. Another answer is that
people gradually care little for the tales of
far travelers. What they have to recount is
a drug on the market.
The present is absorbed in the present, the
.local in the local. Therefore, far travelers
over the years, having no listeners, do not
trouble to keep their observations and stories
up to date, and when they finally arrive at the
70's and 80 sand 90 s they are out of step
with their contemporaries.
They are more likely still in the far lands
from which they long ago came.
Another reason is that the average jour
neyer into senescence is, after all, only an
average person, and the average person ab
sorbs little of interest worth telling. He does
not grow richer like some old painting.
When the vast ingenuity of America has
finished devising mechanical speed and effi
ciency, will it not turn to the urgent problem
cf turning out old people adorned with all
the accumulated richness of the lives they
have lived?
THE ROOSEVELT DOLLAR
TN reversing his policy on monetary stabiliza
tion and international co-operation. Presi
dent Roosevelt is putting all his eggs, for the
time being, in the domestic basket. He says,
in effect, that we shall try' to improve our own
lot before casting our lot with others in a com
mon endeavor for world recovery.
Asa long range policy, of course, that
would be suicidal. But the President advances
it only as a temporary emergency policy’. He
indicates that he is willing to negotiate with
others on fixing the value of money after he
has depreciated the dollar or boosted prices to
a satisfactory level In this country.
What is a satisfactory price level or the
best figure at which to devaluate the dollar?
There is little agreement on that point. The
President apparently has not made up his
mind.
He has the power under the new inflation
.’*w xo devaluate the dollar to 50 per cent of
its normal gold content. Instead of using that
control power, for the moment he is letting the
dollar find its own level.
It is not necessary either to praise or to
criticise the President for this policy. The
truth is that nobody knows which is the bet
ter method. There is no sure way. It is an
experiment.
The American people have faith in the
President in this experiment. Even Europe,
though offended by the President's tone and
disagreeing with his new policy of economic
isolation, admits that he has produced more
and better recovery results in four months
than any other statesman or government in
the world in a much longer time.
Naturally. Americans are willing to trust
the President, rather than his critics, so long
as he continues to -deliver—as he has deliv
ered since March in an almost miraculous
way. *
Though there has been no definite state-
ment by him. It generally is believed that the
President is inclined to pick the 1926 level (or
average 1924-1925. which is about the same) as
the proper level for price stabilization at home.
We have heard no better suggestion than that.
But, obviously, until some such stabilization
is achieved for home purposes—regardless of
foreign considerations—the farm relief subsi
dies fixed by the administration and the wage
levels fixed under the national recovery law
will have little meaning.
The most reassuring part of the picture is
the President's disinterestedness. In working
out the most difficult problems ever given a
President, he has no selfish purpose to serve.
In seeking the most effective degree of refla
tion of the dollar which had become dishon
estly dear, in influencing price and wage levels,
he is not trying to stick any one group at the
expense of another—either creditor or debtor,
capital or labor, country or city.
Insofar as the job can be done without
partisanship and with e scientific detachment,
he is attempting it.
That fact, perhaps more than any other, is
behind the faith by which Americans have
moved prices upward, opened factories and
stores, and begun to re-employ the Jobless.
SAVING OR NO SAVING?
j\4TEMBERS of the scientific being dis
charged by the United States govern
ment are not long-haired men with peculiar
notions. Neither are they individuals with low
efficiency ratings or those whose services are
rated by superiors as unnecessary.
They are being dismissed, or “separated”
and “furloughed” for one reason only—lack
of funds. That is, in order to save the small
amount of their salaries for use on such proj
ects as public works.
Typical Q f young women scientists who are
being dismissed is Miss Marjorie G. Lorentz,
research worker on metallurgy at the Na
tional Bureau of Standards.
When builders suspect a flaw in the metal
to be used, say in building anew airship or in
withstanding the stress of a great building,
they may test it by an etching process They
take a cross section of the metal, treat it with
the right reagent, and then photograph it.
The photograph, because of the action of
the reagent, will show up occlusions, or im
perfections, and also the shape of the metal
particles.
Miss Lorentz has experimented with many
sorts of metals a>nd reagents and has made
convenient tables showing the best reagent
for use with each metal for each purpose.
These have been published as scientific papers
of the bureau. So that now, the man who
wants to test a piece of copper just may look
at the table under copper and learn exactly
what is best for his purpose.
Miss Lorentz also runs a sprt of center
or exchange of information of all sorts on the
subject of metallurgy. She abstracts all cur
rent publications on this subject and indexes
them in an up-to-the-minute file. This Is
probably the only such information file on
metallurgy open to the public in the United
States.
She answers letters of inquiry from the
public at the rate of more than 100 every
month, and has daily many other requests for
advice and data by telephone and personal
calls. To meet repeated requests for the same
data, she has compiled books on several
metals.
Her government service, despite her youth,
is of fourteen years' duration. She never has
held another job, but has turned down offers
at higher salary, because she looked upon the
government place as a permanent career.
For a saving of $2,700, the amount of Miss
Lorentz' salary, the government is sacrificing
her important service and closing to the public
this unique source of essential information.
SPENDING IS THE CRUX
(By Dr. Harry Elmer Barnes)
'T'HE spending of money is the crux and
pivotal element of the capitalistic system.
Saving may be a greater Christian virtue, but
spending is what runs capitalism. When
spending ceases, capitalism goes into a tail
spin.
A forceful argument in favor of more ex
tensive spending now comes from the pen of
Dr. Arthur Dahlberg, author of the much dis
cussed book on "Jobs, Machines and Capital
ism.”
Dr. Dahlberg believes that the time has
come to "smoke out” purchasing power, not to
coax it out. We must force people, not coax
people, to spend.
We have run our economic system in ac
cordance with the pretty theories of meta
physical economists who have reasoned that
people quite automatically will spend as much
as they can—that human wants are insatiable
and that no capitalist will pass up an oppor
tunity to accept interest or profits.
But the facts of today prove that capitalists
do not act in accord with these venerable
academic theories.
There are today about *42.000.000.000 in
bank deposits. Only approximately one half
of this is circulating as in 1929. "Our rich
individuals and corporations are everywhere
cutting expenditures and building nothing;
they have reduced their rate of spending to
about 50 per cent of the 1929 rate.”
From 1927 to 1929 some $20,000*00.000 was
put into new investments, such as capital
plant. Since that time new investment almost
has disappeared.
The result has been a destruction of pur
chasing power, the dynamic element under
the capitalistic system. The rich, who still
have purchasing power, refuse to exercise it.
This leads to wholesale unemployment and,
the resulting destruction of the purchasing
powfer of the masses. The net outcome has
been an ever-deepening depression.
The government has stepped in to prevent
hoarding of gold. But this is a mere drop in
the bucket compared to the hoarding of re
sources in bank deposits. Feeble efforts are
being made to increase mass purchasing power
through a process tax on agricultural products
and through a *3.300.000.000 appropriation for
public works.
But we have *42.000.000.000 in bank deposits ■
which could be forced out and put to work to
create a body of purchasing power which
would make existing efforts appear dribbling
triviality by comparison.
To smoke out this great reserve of pur
chasing power, Dr. Dahlberg proposes a tax
on bank deposits of up to 1 per cent monthly.
Such a tax would be collected easily, since the
banks now have to make a monthly statement
of accounts and collect a tax on checks.
The bank could deduct this 1 per cent from
the depositor's balance each month and trans
fer it to the credit of the government. Such a
tax would net nearly $5,000,000,000 annually—
a sum large enough to take care of a really
adequate public works program and farm re
lief projects.
MEN WHO RODE THE TRAIL
ten years he followed the bellowing
herds up the trail to the markets of
Kansas and to the pasturage beyond. Thou
sand-mile treks on cow ponies and back
again—what is there to equal this hardihood
today?
Virtually born a-horseback, George W.
Saunders of San Antonio lived life in the
raw until he could grow wealthy faster as
a livestock commission broker and builder and
owner of the Union Stockyards at St. Antonio.
When his hair began to whiten he helped
form a society for reminiscence and reunion—
the Old Trail Drivers’ Association of Texas—
and served as its president from the time it
was formed in 1915 to his death, at 79, three
days ago. t
Here in this association were men who
could tell tales. And they were astute enough
to gather yearly in San Antonio to be made
sure of listeners —they listened to one another,
or at least waited their turn while the other
talked and listened raptly to himself.
In the evening they go into a picture show
and in the news reels see the take-off of a
plane that crosses the continent in eleven or
twelve hours, a twenty-mile jog for the cattle.
They gaze upon the synthetic "Westerns”
specially procured for them, and there are far
more cheers than jeers, for, after all, horse
flesh and youth survive the gaudy trappings
of a movie range life which would have been
scoffed out of court by the men who rode
slowly up the long Chisholm trail.
Hardihood? Still, that depends. Life in a
dark, dingy flat calls for its stamina as well
as the burning sun of long days behind cattle
on a dusty trail, with storms and stampedes
to vary the fare.
And rigors of unemployment are relatively
so severe that the trials of the old trail seldom
could hold a candle to them. One was the
hardihood of action, the other the hardihood
of resignation.
Bring back the hardihood of action, some
how!
FEDERAL RACKET DRIVE
evidence that the federal de-
A partment of justice means business in its
drive against rackets is Attorney-General Cum
mings’ selection of Joseph B. Keenan, Cleve
land lawyer and experienced crime investigator,
to be assistant attorney-general in charge of
the federal war on racketeers and gangsters.
Announcing that he will strike at gang
leadership, some of w-hich is “intelligent, ed
ucated and expert,” Mr. Keenan says:
Racketeering has been a profession. Be
cause of the huge returns it has brought, into
racketeering men from other lines of endeavor,
including my own.
That last, coming from a lawyer, is cour
ageous, refreshing, promising. It long has
been apparent that high legal skill is at the
command of “big shot” racketeers, not only to
defend them in court after arrest, but to guide
them in disguising and concealing coercive
practices under a pretense of legitimate busi
ness.
M.E.TracySays:
AVERAGE people no longer can follow the
London folly; it has become too confused
and chaotic. The delegates themselves are at
sea. Nothing like a program remains. The best
that can be hoped for is some kind of com
promise which will save the conference idea,
even if it does not mean very much.
Stabilization is the rock on which the parley
cracked. All governments represented are for
stabilization in principle, but when it comes to
practice each wants the kind of stabilization
that will guarantee its present prospective ad
vantages. No government is willing to surren
der its right of money control.
The right of money control has assumed a
new importance in this age of debt, specula
tion, and trade rivalry. Through it, govern
ments not only are whittling down their obliga
tions, and undermining one another’s industrial
system.
The arbitrary depreciation of currencies has
become a definite factor of international com
merce. Governments are making use of it
to protect and promote trade on the one hand
and to break down competition on the other.
If anything, it is proving more effective than
tariffs.
a a a
POLITICAL internationalism is giving way to
economic nationalism, with industrial ob
jectives displacing ’he idealism of statecraft.
The movement for industrial control which is
sweeping so many countries only accentuates
this paradoxical tide in human affairs.
People throughout the world are looking to
their respective governments to protect them
against the ravages of depression. That is re
juvenating the defensive complex. On every
hand, the national government is coming to be
regarded as the one agency which can safeguard
people against the threat of industrial con
quest.
This may not mean war in the sense, of pow
der and bullets, but It is war in the sense that
people are mobilized to combat one another on
a national basis. The stress and strain of econ
omics are driving us back to nationalism.
The more we expect from our governments,
whether internally or externally, the more
vigorously they must act to satisfy our demands.
aoa
INDUSTRIAL control at Moscow, Berlin, Wash
ington, Rome, and other capitals means only
a sterner mobilization of man power and re
sources on a strictly national basis. Disciplined
action under governmental supervision is the
same thing, whether intended to produce armed
or industrial strength on a national basis, and
will have the same effect on international re
lations.
The futile efforts to stabilize fifty kinds of cur
rencies, many of which have been unstabilized
deliberately to further selfish interests throws a
clear light on the problem we face.
If we were in a mood for real stabilization,
we would be talking about a common currency
under international control. We dismiss the
thought of such a currency as impractical, just
as we dismiss the thought of a common language.
It would involve too many changes, upset too
many traditions, and require too many con
cessions. In this, as in everything else, we want
the advantages of internationalism, without giv
ing up those of nationalism—a happy family of
nations without a common language; stabilized
values, without a common currency; peace,
without disarmament; law and order, without
authoritative courts or an international police
force. *
THE INDIANAPOLIS TIMES
(Times readers are invited to express
their views in these columns. Make pour
letters short, so all can have a chance.
Limit them, to 250 words or lessj
Bv Asa Weibert.
An Open Letter to Gov. McNutt:
Well, old boy, you sure had a keen
edge on your political ax when you
went after scalps at the state school
for the deaf. Os course I realize
that you are not the boss and that
you have to do as you are told, or
you might lose your job, but why
don’t you appoint men who can
handle the jobs?
On June 26 a boy from Technical
high school was sent here to replace
the engineer who had been em-'
ployed at the school for twelve
years. He held the job for one day
and then admitted that it was too
much for him. The man sent to
replace him. applied to you for a
farm job, but was appointed as en
gineer, although he had had no ex
perience as an engineer.
This morning I lost my job as
fireman. Now don’t think this is a
sob story, for I can get work some
place, and I am proud to say that
I never have sold my vote for a job
or received a job through political
influence. But why do you have to
deceive the men to whom these jobs
go? Every one who comes here
thinks that we work eight hours a
day, when in fact we work twelve
hours a day, seven days a week.
Now here are the facts about my
job. I work twelve hours a day,
seven days a week, and make $76.50
a month. I am paid once a month.
I have a wife and six children to
support. My wages average about 21
cents an hour, and since July 1 the
wage for this job is $68.85 a mopth.
I never lost my job because 1
voted the Republican ticket, but be
cause, when I filled out your ques
tionnaire, when asked my politics,
which I think is nobody’s business,
I answered “None; I vote for the
man, not the party.”
A farm manager was sent to the
school to replace the very capable
and efficient man who had w’orked
here for fourteen years, and who
listed himself on your questionnaire
as an independent voter. The new
man resigned before beginning his
For what is the hope of the hy
pocrite, though he hath gained,
when God taketh away his soul?—
Job 27:8.
Hypocrites do the devils
drudgery in Christ's livery.—
Matthew Henry.
This is the last of three articles on
cosmetics.
ANOTHER type of preparation
much used on the skin is the
wrinkl# remover.
In this field particularly there
is a vast amount of charlatanism.
It is safe to say no wrinkle re
mover thus far available is effec
tive. Most of these are astrin
gent lotions which give a sense of
contraction on drying, but really
do not contract the skin at all.
Preparations have been made
with egg white which stiffens on
the skin and gives the woman the
impression that her skin is being
straightened out.
From time to time, quacks have
introduced other methods which
are exceedingly dangerous. One was
the injection of paraffin under the
skin, with the idea of raising up
the wrinkled area.
Unfortunately, paraffin injected in
can’t afford to own a home
vJ nowadays.” How many times
have you heard that remark!
And has it ever occurred to you
that if it is true, then you really
can't afford to own anything? If a
home is actually too expensive to
keep up, then surely rental property,
too, does not pay for itself, and,
theoretically speaking, all our build
ings are falling about our ears.
It may or may not .be significant
that women as a rule want homes
of their own, and that men' often
dissuade them from the idea. A
husband's arguments in the matter
are many and probably sound. But
they never really make sense.
Chief among them is the fact that
the amount of money put out at in
terest would bring in such and such
a per cent ret Jum. Then, they say,
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The Message Center
I wholly disapprove of what you say and will defend to the death your right to say it.—Voltaire
Daily Thought
Wrinkle ‘Removers’ Often Are Dangerous
—= BY DR. MORRIS FISHBEIN -
The Love Birds!
Keep Pools Clean
By Swimmer.
THE city apparently is making
an attempt to see that its
bathing beaches and pools are
kept free from contamination, but
still many swimmers are being
fected this summer, as in past
years.
With thousands seeking relief
from heat in the w'ater, it would
seem that this is a major prob-
Questions and Answers
Q—Do female frogs differ in ap
pearance from males?
A—The back of the female gen
erally is browner and has more
spots, and the male is nearly all
green. Both have white bellies
with brown mottlipgs. The throat
of the male is yellow, and that of
the female is dirty white, mottled
with brown. The ear of the male
is much larger than the eye, and
in the female it is about the same
size as the eye.
Q—Have all the Popes been
Italians?
A—Nearly all have been Italians,
but there have been a few of
French and other nationalities.
Pope Sylvester the second, gen
erally is regarded as a Spaniard,
though actually born in southern
France. A Holland Dutch Pope
was Adran VI, Adrian Dodel, born
in Utrecht in 1459. The only
English Pope was Adrian IV,
Nicholas Breakspear, created Pope
in 1154. Os the early traditional
Popes, Peter was a Jew\ and Vic
tor of Carthage was an African,
but not a Negro.
Q —ls gold pure in its native
state?
A—lt frequently is alloyed with
silver, and sometimes contains
traces of copper and iron.
work, when he saw how much of it
there was to do.
Well, I can have the satisfaction
of saying that as yet I never have
taken bread off another man's ta
ble, neither have I taken food from
my neighbor’s children and given it
to my own, and another thing, I am
glad to have had the honor of work
ing for a superintendent and chief
engineer who hired me because of
my qualifications for the job and
not because I supported any politi
cal party. I could write all day,
but I know that you are for McNutt
and McNutt only.
So, until 1936, do your worst.
Editor Journal of the American Medi
cal Aasociation of Hvrcia. the
Health Maeazine.
this way sometimes is associated
with the sudden growth of tumors.
Another dangerous method in
volves the peeling of the face with
solutions of carbolic acid, causing an
irritation and crusting. At the same
time adhesive tapes are applied to
force the wrinkled skin into place
so that when healed the wrinkles
will not be visible.
There have been some exceeding
ly unfortunate results in such cases,
including large scars, and, in ad
dition, contractions of the skin in
some cases to such point that it
was impossible to close the lips or
shut the eyes.
No one should indulge in such
methods of wrinkle removing with
out an understanding of the ter
rible results that may follow.
A Woman’s Viewpoint
-
the upkeep of the home is too ex
pensive. Taxes, insurance, and de
preciation costs are more than
leasing the property would amount
to, et cetera.
All very true, no doubt, but
strangely unsatisfying to the woman
who feels that there is no stability
in life unless one can have a place
of one's own.
a a a
MEN set up the theory that
money, as a possession, is pre
cious. And it's a stupid theory, if
you want my opinion. I don’t see
what money is for if it isn't to fur
ther the happiness of the individual
and the family, and if it can’t be
used to get those things for which
men and women ever will long.
And a home, I feel sure, is the
fundamental desire of every human
lem of health. I realize that funds
are short and that conditions may
be even worse in the future, as
far as money goes, but here seems
to be the spot for a philanthro
pist to step in and help.
I believe that money could be
spent in this way about as well as
in any way I can conceive. Let’s
have the city try to do something
and let’s have the public co-op
erate. It’s up to the swnmmers
as well as to officials.
Q—Who was the leading wom
an with Eddie Cantor in "The
Kid From Spain?”
A —Lyda Roberti.
Q—When did congress authorize
the construction of the treasury
building in Washington, D. C.?
A—The act was approved July
4, 1836.
Q —What is the ‘Cheka?”
A—The secret policed Soviet
Russia.
Q —What is the maximum
amount of gold money that indi
viduals can hold under the latest
presidential edict?
A—Not more than SIOO.
Q—Give the chemical content
of eggshells.
A—About 90 per cent calcium
carbonate; 1 per cent water and
traces of magnesium carbonate
and magnesium phosphate.
Q —How many fourth class post
offices are in the United States?
A—On July 1, 1932, there were
33,127.
Q —Please describe Transylvania.
A—lt is a region and former
principality in southeast Hungary,
21,500 square miles in area. It
belonged to Turkey from 1535 to
1699, when title passed to Aus
tria and it now is part of Rou
mania.
Q —How long did the American
revolution last?
A—From 1775 to 1781.
Q—Can hen eggs be manu
factured?
A—No.
Q—To what race do the Per
sians belong?
A—The white race.
Q —How many Negro church
members of all denominations are
there in the United States?
A—5,203.000.
Most skin specialists are con
vinced that creams are valuable for
exceedingly dry skins. Most people
whose skin is dry will have scaling
of the skin if they use strong toilet
soaps.
Authorities are convinced that
soap and water are suitable for oily
skins, but not for dry skins.
Fortunately,' the skin is a living
tissue and therefore has certain
automatic powers of regulation.
The circulating blood keeps the
skin in a healtnful state.
Therefore, the most valuable step
in the care of the skin is encourage
ment of good circulation. This ob
viously is accomplished by proper
diet and hygiene.
Hot and cold bathing may be
useful in stimulating the flow of
the blood in the capillaries. Gen
tle massage aids also in maintain
ing healthful circulation.
heart. What’s more, I wouldn’t give
two figs for any country whose
people had lost that simple desire,
because it would be a country al
ready in a state of disintegration.
You can't expect a population of
tenants to take much of an interest
in the welfare of the town, the
state, or even he nation in which
they rent. They can move too
easily.
We don't feel any intense loyalty
to a place in which we can own
nothing, and where our roots are
not planted in the soil. Real patri
otism already is dead in a land
where absentee ownership is the
rule.
So it’s high time we studied the
flaws in a system that taxes the
home owner out of existence to
keep politicians in office.
-JULY 7, 1033
It Seems
to Me
= BY HEYWOOD BROUN =
>TEW YORK. July 7—Clifton
< Crawford, a favorite comedian,
gone these many seasons, had a
story in his familiar monolog about
a reckless friend of his named Her
bert who noted an advertisement in
the daily press.
It read: “Colonel Montgomery
Moore, who Is about to go on an ex
pedition to Africa, would like to
find a male companion who will
join him in shooting lions.”
The advertisement made a deep
impression upon Herbert, and about
4 o'clock the following morning,
after an enlivening celebration, he
rang the bell at Colonel Moore's
house. The butler was loathe to
admit him. but Herbert insisted
that his mission was important and
that he came in response to a notice
in the papers.
Eventually the Colonel was awak
ened and came downstairs. Herbert
greeted him cordially. “I under
stand." he said, “that you plan an
expedition to Africa and that you
are looking for a man to join you
in shooting lions."
In spite of the lateness of the
hour, the Colonel nodded with en
thusiasm.
“Well.” said Herbert. , *'l just
dropped around to tell you I won't
go.”
ana
Going Far to Sag ‘AV
THIS seems to me to have been
the function of America at
the economic conference. There may
be good reasons for our unwilling
ness to participate in a concerted
effort to devise a stabilized inter
national currency, and yet it is a
rather silly business for us to urge
the nations of the world to gather
in a conclave merely to hear our
announcement that we intend to go
it alone.
Since nationalism rides rampant
for the moment, there is no good
purpose in assigning praise or
blame. Every representative gathered
in London was eager to get the best
he could for his own country, with
out regard to the welfare of the
world.
It seems impossible just now
to hit upon schemes mutually ad
vantageous.* You can not expect a
group which is boot-strap minded
to think in terms of universal wel
fare.
The cause of internationalism has
reached its lowest ebb within the
time of any living man. Even* Rus
sia's brave experiment has departed
from its original broad vision and
become distinctly home brew. For
all the phrases flung out by some of
the orators the recurrent refrain
has been. “Yes, but what do we get
out of it?”
Internationa/ism Ebbs
AT the moment this is not a
world of brothers, but of sec
ond cousins, once removed. But ii
we are, each of us, to play in our
own backyard and till the indi
vidual half acre I am not convinced
that the final end of international
arrangements has been reached.
There have been other failures.
There will be more.
Men are magnetized. Eventually
we must be drawn together, though
seas and mountains and monetary
standards lie between us.
We are parting now because of
technical differences. In quarrelling
over standards of silver and gold,
we are overlooking ties much
thicker than provided by any metal.
It may even be that in the short
run it is advantageous all around
for us to go back to set up some
sort of national self-sufficiency. For
the short run. yes, but history is a
record of more enduring tides.
Peace and destiny and universal
welfare never have been short run
matters. Those national antagonisms
which bring about war move some
times as slowly as any glacier, and
they will be rooted out of existence
only when we are able to look be
yond the breakers which mark our
coast line.
a a a
For the Time Being
I HAVE not the slightest doubt
that there is at present general
support for President Roosevelt't at
titude of “America first. America
second, and America third.” Every
leader throughout the world is play
ing his own nation across the board.
So, if you like, the parley is break
ing up in sheer tragedy. But tragedy
is a term reserved for those plays
which end with a final record of
failure and frustration. This is not
the end. A lot of missionary work
has flowed under the bridge. More
must go down the mill race.
This is not a settlement; it is
merely a truce. Worse than that, it
is an armed truce.
But the broader view can not be
defeated eternally. After govern
ments have failed, peoples will come
together. We are kin. and not all
the statesmen born can keep us
asunder forever.
(Convrieht. 1133. bv The Time**
Aged Spinster
BY MARGARET BRUNER
Deep huddled in a shawl she sits
wiihin
Her lonely house—no definite goal
in view-,
Marked by no special goodness, no
dark sin—
Life is a lane she somehow
.wandered through.
If love's bright shaft ever had
touched her heart,
It left no softening halo on her face,
Almost she seemed to have grown
counterpart
With things inanimate: A chair or
vase.
Years took their toll; her hearing
long since gone.
The world to her is but a panto
mine;
The lyric rapture of the birds at
dawn
Comes dimly as a half-forgdtten
rhyme.
She hears not any footfall on the
walks.
The people pass like phantoms in a
dream:
Life has become an empty thing
that mocks
And hurries by, a swift, unneeding
stream.
She knows her morrows will be much
the same
As all her yesterdays, unless the
breath
Os life should fail; who knows, per
haps a flame
Will kindle when she meets her
lover, Death.