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TUESDAY. SEPT. 5. 1933.
BLUE EAGLE RAILROADS
'T'HE Roosevelt administration has appealed
to the country's railroads to help in its
re-employment campaign. The railroads,
which already are beginning to feel the bene
ficial effect of the New Deal, can not refuse
to co-operate.
Joseph Eastman, federal co-ordinator of
railroads, points out that railroads can not
ccme under NIRA, as such, but that they can,
and should, apply the principles of the blue
eagle law.
First, they can provide increased employ
ment by bringing their maintenance of way,
equipment, and structures up to date.
“There is so much deferred maintenance
and other work,” Co-ordinator Eastman told
railway presidents and labor leaders, “which
sorely needs to be done that this not only will
help the country, but be the soundest of
economy.”
The federal public works administration is
empowered to make loans to railroads for
maintenance, but thus far no application for
a loan from these funds has been filed.
Second, railroad managements in confer
ence with labor can adjust working schedules
to “establish in fact at least an eight-hour
day.” This plan, too, would provide more jobs.
There are, in normal times, approximately
1,750,000 railroad workers. Now about 750,000
are unemployed. As labor leaders have shown,
It. is not feasible to expect other industries, as
they come under the blue eagle, to absorb
these men. The railroads themselves should
re-employ most of them.
HITLER’S RACE MYTH
TF Herr Hitler deliberately had set out to
prove the irreconcilable contrast between
the traditional ideals of the United States and
the Nazi policies of Germany he could not
have done a better job than in his closing
speech to the Nurenberg convention.
He was talking to Germans, and not to
Americans, but the significance of Hitlerism
as he expounded it will not be lost to Amer
ican readers.
He presented three ideals for a nation:
First was purity of race. Purity of race
as Herr Hitler uses that phrase simply does
not exist. What the Nazi pleases to call the
Germanic race is a mixture. The purest race
is the Hitler-hated Jewish race, because of its
enforced isolation in many countries and
through many centuries; but even among the
Jews there has been constant alien mixture
of strains.
Assuming that there were so-called pure
northern races, the idea of perpetuating them
would be contrary to the American ideal.
From the beginning our country has been a
melting pot. Not only our blood, but our
Institutions and culture, flow from many
sources.
Hitler's second ideal is the selection of po
litical leaders from descendants of the imag
inary pure blood forefathers of the nation.
His third proposition is that democracy has
failed because It defied this ideal.
This is fantastic. Herr Hitler would find
the “purest” American blood, according to
his standard, among the poor whites in illit
erate mountain pockets. Incidentally, he
would find them Just as intolerant as he is.
To limit the powers of government to any
race, or color, or creed is not only repugnant
to Americanism, but to the civilization pro
duced by Europe in its long, slow climb from
barbarism. In more ways than one, Hitlerism
is a reversion to a lower level of civilization.
THRIFT. RECREATION, CRIME
AT present there is much excitement about
public economy and also concerning
suppression of crime. These two major social
objectives of today often conflict. In no way
is their opposition more evident than in cur
rent attitudes toward curtailing national,
state and local contributions to recreation for
children.
This is an important point, since it is"“a
well-established fact: (1) That the great ma
jority of first offenders today fall between 16
and 21 in age level and (2> that no item is
more powerful in reducing juvenile crime than
adequate facilities for well-directed recreation
on the part of American youth.
Our cities, for example, present a curious
and dangerous Inconsistency when they se
verely curtail appropriations for recreation
and at the same time bewail the growth of
crime.
The National Recreation Association has
summarized admirably the essential facts and
principles involved:
Children must, should and will play. For
the current generation of children there can
be no postponement—for them it is now or
never. Under modem urban conditions, public
provision has to be made if children are to
have proper opportunity for play. Not only
their happiness, but their safety, health, or
ganic development and character are in
volved.
-Recreation of a wholesome type is needed
today as never before, especially for the un
employed who have so much enforced leisure
on their hands. Idle, with a resulting tendency
toward low morale, with no resources to buy
the diversion offered by commercial recreation,
the large number of unemployed adults pe
culiarly need the resources of public recrea
tion.
“This is especially true of young adults,
full of life and rigor, undisciplined by previous
work experience, disappointed in their rightful
hope and expectation of jobs. Through with
school, without occupation, they are exposed
acutely to anti-social forces and other de
teriorating temptations of Idleness.
“Idleness is, and always has been, danger
ous and expensive. Recreation is no substi
tute for work, but it can and does help tre
mendously.
“Budgets for public recreation are small—
they present opportunities for only trifling
savings as compared to the social value of
the services they supply.
“Greater tax costs are probable if recrea
tion is eliminated or .too severely reduced.
Not only are human values of happiness, safe
ty, morale, character and the like at stake.
Decreased expenditure for recreation will in
volve increase in taxes to maintain jails, re
formatories, prisons, asylums and hospitals.
“The chairman of the national crime com
mission has said, ‘lf we expended one-half
of the money spent to deal with criminals on
playgrounds, with facilities for the normal
expression of these warped lives, we would
not have half as many people go into prison.’
“Because of considerations like these, many
communities have extended their public
recreation services, and many emergency re
lief commissions for the unemployed have
found it necessary to establish and support
recreation activities as part of their essential
service to the unemployed.
“Taxpayers—who also are human beings
and often parents—and tax-appropriating
bodies face today heavy burdens and diffi
cult decisions. No hasty and ruthless slashing
of budgets can be wise.
“The times call for cuts, but they also call
for care, for thought, for discrimination, for
a careful weighing of the social value of the
services involved as well as of costs.”
These are considerations full of fact and
sense. The quantitative aspects of the issue
are eloquent. The annual cost of crime and
rackets in the United States today is, at a
minimum estimate, some $12,000,000,000.
If doubling all formal recreational expen
ditures would cut the crime bill by even one
tenth, it would be the best investment which
any public unit from the federal government
to the city ward is making in our day.
And the monetary burden of crime is not
the only consideration. There is the human
factor of danger, death, 'suffering and sorrow.
It is a truism of modern criminology that
crime prevention is the only vitally hopeful
item in e campaign for crime repression.
The element, of adequate recreational facilities
can not be left out of the picture in any com
prehensive program of crime prevention.
PROFITEERS, BEWARE
rpwo things are necessary to make the New
Deal a passable success. One is enthusias
tic support of the ideals of Mr. Roosevelt and
his more forward-looking advisers. The Presi
dent needs encouragement in the face of the
mutterings and double-crossings of the pirates
and profiteers who reluctantly have given lip
loyalty to his program.
The second necessity is a frank analysis
of apparent defects in the New Deal W’hich
will facilitate revision before it is too late.
The best comment of this sort which has ap
peared recently is an article by John T. Flynn
on “The New Partnership,” in Common Sense.
After expressing his admiration for the per
sonal idealism of our President and the gen
eral aspirations of the economic planners, he
examines into how far the NRA measures up
to the conceptions embodied in the planning
proposals of even Professor Tugwell.
There is no more competent writer on
American economic and financial conditions
than Mr. Flynn, so we may take his criticisms
with appropriate seriousness.
Mr. Flynn finds that the great danger in
the NRA, as at present conceived and admin
istered, is its failure to curb profits to such de
gree as is necessary to assure adequate pur
chasing power and sufficient consumption to
get the capitalistic system on its feet.
The fact that too great a proportion of the
social income was drained off in profits, at the
expense of workers and farmers, before 1929
led us into the collapse of that year. Mr.
Flynn fears that unless such far-reaching re
visions are made in the NRA as practice and
experience require, the best that we can expect
is the delay of sweeping business collapse
which inevitably will lead to a worse disinr
tegration of capitalism.
The fair-minded exponents of economic
planning, from George Soul to Rexford G.
Tugwell, had in mind a plan W’hich W’ould be
the result of the collaboration of all eco
nomic groups and w T ould “comprehend a con
trol of w’ages, interest, production, prices,
labor conditions, industrial operations and
profits,
“The NRA provides for a type of planning
which is solely the product of the employer
class and merely allows labor and the con
sumer to protest—with no assurance that
their protests will have much weight.”
If we are to have a true social co-partner
ship, the plan can not be allowed overwhelm
ingly to favor either employer or worker. It
must be something which will allow all of us
to sink or swim together.
The consumers—the largest of all groups—
are in an even weaker position than labor.
They are unorganized and woefully and in
adequately represented.
Very important and ominous indeed is the
fact that there is no provision whatever for
the systematic control of profiteering. Hence,
when the employers forget their contrite spirit
and reform resolutions of the dark days from
1929 to 1933. we might have a period of price
skyrocketing which will wreck the whole NRA
program.
Most fundamental, the trouble with the
NRA is that it savors of the old-fashioned
“scarcity economy,” and aims to solve our eco
nomic problems by curbing production rather
than by stimulating consumption.
“It moves on the problem from the wrong
direction. It proceeds upon the theory that
we must curtail production instead of expand
ing consumption. It still is under the domin
ion of that false and dangerous notion that
we grow too much wheat and cotton and make
too many shoes and too much clothing and
too many homes for this country.
“We do not produce enough houses for our
millions of workers to live in. They must exist
in the cast-off hovels of other men. We do
not produce enough suits of clothes for half
our male population. In 1929—0ur biggest
year—we turned out twenty million suits of
clothes in a nation that needed fifty millions."
David Lamar, “the Wolf of Wall Street,”
has been arrested. Probably some NRA en
thusiast who took him for a wolf on a door
step.
NRA AND THE COURT
IN the little semi-circular room at the Cap
itol in Washington, where sit the nine
black-robed Justices of the supereme court of
the United States, there probably will appear
eventually zealous lawyers protesting consti
tutionality of the new deal.
They will argue that the National Recovery
Act denies them the due process of law guar
anteed by the Constitution. These lines of
attack have been repulsed in the lower couits;
but they probably will be pursued into the
quiet of that small chamber in the Capitol
where so many of our laws actually are made.
Extraordinary national conditions have re
sulted in extraordinary enactments since
March 4. Attorney-General Homer Cummings
is convinced that none of these is extra-legal.
“The life, letter and integrity of the Consti
tution have not been impaired,” he told the
American Bar Association.
These new laws have not modified the
Constitution, as Donald R. Richberg, general
counsel for NRA, has pointed out; nor are
there any constitutional rights to do anything
forbidden by these laws.
The issue, when it comes before the su
preme court, will be whether this country,
acting through its legal representatives, can
invoke extraordinary, but none the less con
stitutional, means ro correct an extraordinary
situation.
Justice Oliver Wendell Holmes once said
that the court should judge its issues “in the
light of our whole experience, and not merely
by what was said a hundred years ago.” If
the court follows that principle, there is no
reason to fear the lawyers’ attacks on NIRA.
Fashion designers plan to restore the hour
glass figure. Well, it’s time.
Let’s see —wasn’t there a fellow named John
Garner or something, who was elected Vice-
President or something?
One thing about the depression—it tends to
reduce superstition. Not nearly so many peo
ple still consider a $2 bill unlucky.
What some of the banks need is a little
less window-dressing and a lot more house
cleaning.
I
An argument over a 5-cent cigar started a
fight in Cleveland the other day. Probably it
was made of scrap tobacco.
There seems to be a standard style for
serving blue eagle eggs this season—hard
boiled.
A 4,000-year-old boat containing primitive
fishing tackle was found in a bog in Finland.
Thus establishing a fishing world’s record for
waiting without getting a bite.
Scientists class ants as the most intelligent
of all insects, probably because no matter
where you put that jar of picnic jam they
always seem able to find it.
Canadian court has ruled that it is wrong
for a wife to go through her husband’s pockets.
Not only is it wrong, but in these days it is
nearly always useless.
A porpoise, says a natural-history shark,
has a much larger brain than a man. But
even then the poor fellow is very much at
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sea.
Nationally known authors organize under
the wing of the blue eagle. Be handy in case
they want to indulge in any flights of fancy.
Spanish supreme court has a tough case
brought by a girl who demands the right
to fight bulls. Only right the bull has is
habeas corpus.
M.E.TracySays:
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OUR export trade continues to rise, notwith
standing discontinuance of government ef
forts to boost it. July tvas the third consecutive
month to show an increase. At that July was
not so hot. Even though it showed an improve
ment over June, just as June showed an im
provement over May, it merely brought us back
to where w’e were last October.
Our export trade took such a dive last winter
that it had no choice but to come up or disap
pear. In February it amounted to little more
than $100,000,000, or about one-fourth of the
monthly average for 1928. It was almost bound
to show an increase with or without the aid of
a w’ell-organized commerce department.
Depreciation of the dollar undoubtedly helped
to turn the tide, but the withdrawal of commer
cial attaches and trade boosters did not. The
fact that they failed to overcome the effects of
a world-wide slump should not be interpreted
as proving their uselessness. Neither should
concern for domestic recovery or enthusiasm
over the progress already made blind us to the
importance of foreign markets.
We are not going to find prosperity until
foreign markets have been opened on a larger
scale than ever before. This country’s industrial
system can not be reduced to the needs of
domestic consumption without collapsing.
B B B
IT is all right to argue that the American peo
ple could live by themselves or off one an
other, if they had to, but not according to the
standards which they have set up in the past
and which they hope to see improved in the
future.
Curtailment of production at home may be
practical as a temporary measure of adjustment,
but in the end this country must look to in
creased consumption of its goods abroad. In
the end it must get its salesmen on the road
once more, induce its banks to grant the neces
sary credit, and adopt a policy which will pro
mote business overseas.
The more our government undertakes to su
pervise industry, the more responsibility for the
development of foreign trade it must assume.
Our government can not expect producers
and manufacturers to keep more people at w r ork
for higher wages if it lies down on the job of
helping them to sell goods abroad.
The industrial system we have developed is
tuned to a certain amount of foreign trade. It
will not function normally until that amount is
restored.
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SOME of our leaders are altogether too indif
ferent to this aspect of recovery.
While it is desirable to get our own house
in order before we do too much splurging out
side, it is folly to suppose the national earning
power can be raised to its proper level without
seeking and developing markets abroad in every
possible wav.
We are in no position to turn our backs on
international .trade, or even regard it as a minor,
factor of the recovery problem.
We are in no position to ignore Russia or
neglect Latin-American countries.
While w r e can plow under some of our crops
for a while, we can not keep them plowed under
and prosper. Sooner or later, we must find out
lets for normal production, or face the alterna
tive of living on a lowered scale.
THE INDIANAPOLIS TIMES
(Times readers are invited to express
their views in these columns. Make your
letters short, so all can hare a chance.
Limit them to 200 words or less.)
By the Fireman’s Band.
As Mr. Shusler says, “I am taking
the liberty” to correct some of his
misleading statements that he had
in your columns of Aug. 22. He
certainly has been very much misin
formed or is trying to misinform the
public.
First, Mr. Shusler speaks of the
police and firemen’s band. There
has been no such band for the last
three years, and furthermore, when
it w r as in existence it did not take
any park board engagements.
For the last two years there has
been a firemen’s band which never
has played a competitive concert.
The firemen’s band plays for
churches or for civic organizations
and for such as the openings of new’
streets, none of which would hire a
band to play engagements if there
was no other entertainment to be
had.
Mr. Shusler says that in former
years they played twenty concerts
in the parks and this year they only
played three, due to the firemen’s
band playing them. Well. Mr. Shus
ler, it may be new's to you, but that
is three more concerts than the fire
men's band played for the park
board.
If you do not know w T hy you are
not getting those twenty concerts
this year, I will try and inform you
so that you will not try and mis
lead the public into believing that
the firemen’s band is playing them.
There is a depression on (and it is
felt by us as well as you) and there
are many people W’ho are not able
to pay their taxes, so the appropria
tions had to be cut, consequently
the park concerts had to be cut and
you boys had to suffer. We do not
play any engagements W’here there
is a charge.
If you will remember, we had a
committee wait on you about two
years ago when the firemen’s band
organized, so that we could be on
good terms with your organization,
but for some reason you w’ould not
accept our committee, so who w’ere
the square shooters, your organiza
tion or ours?
We have the reputation of putting
bread into people’s mouths, not tak
ing it out, and we still are living up
to that reputation. Here’s hoping
that you are broad minded and fair
enough not to try and mislead the
public.
By E. H. Bentinsr.
Your Saturday issue contains a
communication from one who says,
“Who am I? Just a carpenter of
Indianapolis, W’ho has heard and
heeded the call of the Carpenter of
Nazareth, the Social Communist.”
If this is a poetical reference to
Jesus of Nazareth, I would suggest
that the writer examine the state
ments of Jesus with reference to the
Scriptures and His attitude toward
the church of His time.
Jesus w r as the adopted son of a
carpenter (builder) of Nazareth.
This does not make Jesus a “car
penter.” Jesus w r as one of the
“wreckers” in the social order of
the times, but Jesus “wrecked” in
order that something better might
be “builded.”
He was expert in “remodeling.”
As such, Jesus reverenced the
Scriptures. (See John 10:35; also
Psalm 82 quoted by Him.) See also
Mark 14:49 and Luke 16:29-31. This
“carpenter” certainly reverenced
“the Scriptures.”
Jesus respected the “church.” 1
(See Matthew 23:2ff.) He chastised
the leaders whose works did not
prove their “sayings.” But Jesus
commanded the hearers to “observe
and do all whatsoever they bid you 1
npO fast or to do without food has
been more or less a custom of
groups of mankind from a very
early day. Fasting continually is
being revived as a fad by groups
of unenlightened thinkers in the
medical field.
One hears the strange notion that
everybody ought to fast at least once
each month for tw’enty-four hours
to give his stomach a rest.
Actually, the stomach is a crea
ture of habit and puts on an act of
irritation with plenty of hunger
pains when it does not get its ac
customed nutriment at the usual
hour.
The question that concerns the
doctor more particularly is whether
there 4s -any advantage to fasting in
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Fasting Is Not a Cure for Disease
Hey!
Over 35 —Barred
Bv Frank T. Baine. Jr. _
IN these hectic dafs of a four
year drastic depression, w’hen
the coast-to-coast promotion of
the NRA is on, she man in the
street past 35 years of age and
unemployed, is wondering what
part the new promotion is going
to play in his personal welfare.
On house-to-house canvass, he
is asked to sign on the dotted line,
asking him to patronize only those
showing the blue eagle.
In the first place, how is the
unemployed person going to pa
tronize any store, blue eagle or
not, W’hen he has no funds to
make purchases? Again, these
same stores displaying the blue
eagle are not hiring employes past
Questions and Answers
Q —How can newspapers and
clippings be preserved against the
disintegration of age?
A—One method is to mount
each page or clipping between two
sheets of strong, thin transparent
material such as silk or Japanese
tissue. This treatment adds
strength to the sheets and also
delays the chemical changes in
the wood pulp fiber composing the
newsprint paper. The sheets
should be folded as little as pos
sible and should be kept in a tight
container in a clean dry atmos
phere.
q —what is the address of Mau
rice Parmelee?
A—Ten Bank street, New York
City,
observe.” He w r as a regular worship
per in the synagogue.
The individual who would “hear
and heed the call of the Carpenter of
Nazareth” has a large program on
his hands whether he be a member
of some church or not. This pro
gram w’ould lead him into some
church group, for Jesus reverenced
the Scriptures and respected the
church.
Dr. Benson and Dr. Evans appear
to be doing excellent “carpenter
work” (building). Neither is a
“WTecker.” Both build with such
materials as become available.
Those who know them best, love
them most of all for what they have
done as “builders.” They have no
need of public debate, being “knew’n
by their fruits.”
(No, I am not affiliated with their
denominations, nor have I ever had
financial dealings with them! Dr.
Benson has assisted me in placing
patients financially unable to pay
for treatment). The Nazarene said,
“By their fruits ye shall know
them.”
Our church-supporting people
probably are humbled by reading of
their being "ignorant, superstitious,”
but we think the wTiter might w’ell
have omitted the word “hypo
critical.” Jesus addressed some
strong language to “the hypocrites”
among them, but He never classified
all of the worshippers as “hypo
crites.”
My flock also has joined “the
cavalcade” into the churches. It is
a satisfaction to serve these “ignor
ant, superstitious” people, but I can
not easily find “hypocritical'’ mem
bers among them.
Perhaps they are so ignorant and
superstitious as to take seriously I
the Nazaren’s words, “I am thei
Good Shepherd; My sheep hear My
voice, and they follow me.” They j
do get caught repeat- j
ing. “Thy rod 'and thy staff they
comfort me.” (Psalms 23).
BY DR. MORRIS FISHBEIN
Editor Journal of the American Medical
Association and of Hysreia. the
Health Magazine.
periods of illness. Fadists have ad
vocated fasting for the cure of every
type of disease from acne to xeroph
thalmia.
It is safe to dismiss fasting at
once as a cure-all. It will not cure
any disease as a specific remedy.
There is no advantage in keepiflg
anyone hungry for long periods of
time.
Very close to the fasting faddists
are those who subsist, as A. J. D.
Camertn says, on “monodieta.”
These are people w’ho eat bread
and water alone, or fruit juices
alone, or any other single food sub
stance, with the idea that it leads
to a specific cure.
35 years of age, because the in
surance companies that write the
compensation (a joke) taboo men
in shops past 35 years of age.
Again, new’ annual crops of
younger people are ’ each year
seeking their initial employment.
Now it does seem that this large
class of middle-aged people that
form such a vital part in our so
cial affairs should organize among
themselves, patronizing only such
stores or firms as will employ peo
ple past the insurance companies’
deadline age.
The unemployed have had
enough political ballyhoo from
all parties during this depression
and refuse to take of the mystic
manna longer. So, to the unem
ployed past 35, NRA—“No Relief
Available.”
Q —ls there any scientific basis
for the belief that the moon causes
insanity?
A—No.
Q—Has the earth ever been cir
cumnavigated on a straight north
and south course?
A—No.
Q—Have any of the plays of
George Bernard Shaw’ been pro
duced as movies?
A—No.
Q—Why are troops always or
dered to “route step” just before
marching over a bridge?
A—Experts testify that a few
soldiers marching over a long
bridge in regular step might pro
duce more vibration than a whole
regiment out of step.
Q—ln what year w’as the S. S.
Olympic built?
A—l9ll.
Q —How long does it take to
travel over the Trans-Siberian
railway from Moscow to Vladi
vostok?
A—Nine days or more.
Q—How many establishments
in the United States are engaged
in the manufacture of harness,
saddlery, whips, etc., and what is
the yearly value of their prod
ucts?
A—The census of manufactur
ers for 1931 showed 184 establish
ments manufacturing harness,
saddlery, w’hips, etc. Their prod
ucts were valued at $9,272,628.
Q —What is meant by the “in
dustrial revolution?”
A—The change that transforms
people with peasant occupations
and local markets into an in
dustrial society with world-wide
connections.
Q —Does drinking a glass of
water after a glass of milk alter
the food value of the milk?
A—No.
Q —Did a Canadian girl, who
married a United States citizen
before Sept. 22, 1922, automatical
ly become an American citizen by
reason of such marriage?
A—Yes.
Q —Does a state Governor rank
higher officially than a senator?
A—Yes. A Governor is the high
est authority in a political unit of
the United States, and would
rank higher than a United States
senator, who shares his authority
with ninety-five other members
of the United States senate.
Q—What is the form of govern- ;
ment of Siam?
A—lt is a limited monarchy. I
Prajadhipok is the king.
It is safe to say that no one ought
to fast purely on the basis of a no
tion that it may help him. After a
physician has examined a patient
and understands thoroughly the pa
tient’s metabolism, he can tell
whether the limitation of the pa
tient’s food is going to be a use
ful measure.
He also can select foods on the
basis of their reactions in the hu
man body and on the basis of the
necessities of the patient for health
building materials.
A selection made on a scientific
basis is much more likely to be
helpful to the patient than doing
without food entirely and suffering
unnecessary pains for the satisfac
tion of feeding a *ancy.
SEPT. 5, 1933?
It Seems
to Me
“BY HEYWOOD BROUN,; ■
NEW YORK, Sept. 5.—1 didn’t
think of it in time. It is toe
late to add it now. When I was
writing about it just the other day,
I might have referred to the decline
and fall of Huey Long by saying that
it was a political career which began
in a mud bank and ended in a
washroom.
I might even have added that it
was a public life which ended in the
precise place toward which it had
been tending for five years.
B B B
One More Holiday
NOW that NRA has begun to
jell with its promise of shorter
hours and unofficial holidays I think
that this dispensation well might be
honored by some set community fes
tivity. We have a Labor day de
voted to the celebration of honest
i toil, and why not now a fellow feast
j d°dicated to the reverse angle of
I encouraging partiotic leisure? There
1 might even be a Loafers’ day pa
| rade. in which all the participants
are borne along in taxis.
I read a sermon just last week in
! which the preacher asserted round
i 3y that there would be ample work
|in heaven I hope that this feature
j has not been included for my sake,
; because I think that I could live
i happily without the stress and
strain, just as I have managed to
do here on earth.
Others have not succeeded quite
so well. We are an unbalanced lot,
and rarely in this clime do you ever
meet the man who can put his back
against a tree and stay there for
any reasonable time.
Even as I write. I betray my own
weakness for energy, action and per
severance. The word “reasonable”
shows me up. Why shouldn’t the
sitter go on sitting still till the frost
comes?
• 808
An Unfair Attitude
IDLENESS has a bad name among
us, because often it has been
purchased on terms which were un
fair. Those of us who come from
the proletariat naturally resent such
ease as is assumed by robber barons,
past and present. But that doesn’t
mean that idleness itself is funda
mentally evil.
Even the most visionary of the
Communists can’t quite get away
from the notion that Utopia will be
a place of vast activity. In these
kingdoms of a dream the workers
pour out of the factories to devote
themselves to wood carving and the
little theater movement.
Russia, which has experimented
in economic forms ostensibly aimed
toward a newer freedom, has left
the land seething with activity. Just
what Bolshevism has accomplished
is a matter of dispute, but it does
not seem up to the present time as
if the Soviets noticeably have in
creased the areas of tranquility and
sweet repose.
It is fair to add that capitalistic
countries have even less to boast of.
The machine has shortened the
hours of labor in the heavily indus
trialized nations, but, at the same
time, increased the intensity of the
working day.
And, for the most part, we use the
term “labor-saving device” not so
much to indicate an implement by
which man may free himself for in
activity as to identify a gadget by
means of which he can do more in
a given time.
B B B
Blushes of the Idle
AND with each easement from
manual labor has come a whole
! new flock of needs and ap
j petites. It isn’t enough any more
|to feed and clothe the sons of
j Adam. They must have their radios
and automobiles and motion
pictures. Complete leisure and re
laxation leave us all a little
ashamed. Ask a man, “What did
you do bn your vacation?” and he
is almost sure to give you some re
port of fish entrapped, miles walked
or motored, and sets of tennis
played. He would not dare frankly
to admit that he lay on his back
much of the time or that he went
jin extensively for twiddling his
i thumbs.
j lat least will be faithful to my
I contention that there already is too
much work and too many workers.
Just because I believe in the
beauties of idleness I’m going to end
this column right here, a little
short, and let somebody else fill it
out down to the margin line.
(Copyright, 1933, by The Times)
Only a Vision
BY CHRISTIE RUDOLPH
I’ve worn emeralds and silk about
my throat,
And heard the fierce power and
angry stroke
Os anvils upon a burnished steel
glitter,
And seen strong black men along a
a muddy river.
But I want cool skies and the smell
of fruit
And my feet entwined with some
fragrant root,
With a pillow of leaves beneath my
head,
So why must I see you, stranger,
instead?
Oh, I’m only a woman that is weary
and weak,
So vanish, fair vision, and let me
sleep.
So They Say
The Carnegies, Rockefellers, Bak
ers, and Fields are gone forever. It
will not be possible under the new
economic system to amass great
wealth; wealth will be widely dis
tributed in lowering commodity
prices, in raising wages.—Ex Gov
ernor William E. Sw’eet of Colorado,
now of NRA staff.
Imprisonment for fifty years is
certainly a more drastic penalty
than death.—Warden Lawes of Sing
Sing.
You can hot legislate the human
race into heaven.—The Rev. C. H.
Parkhurst of New’ York, criticising
reformers.
Moslems work less than the rest
of the world in its feverish search
for fame and wealth. They pass
several hours a day in rest and
meditation. Rex Ingram, movie
director, recent convert to Moham
medanism.