Indiana daily times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1914-1922, 1920-07-30
|IGH COST is
IN
j THE u. S. MIND
London Times Man Finds
Chief Cause for Concern
in This Country.
HAS FAITH IN GENIUS

LONDON, July 29.-The high cost OF
living in the United States, the mania
for automobiles, the high price Of labor,
the whirlpool of 1uggled millions of dol
lars in all activities of life, and prohi-
hilton are discussed to the extent OF
nine columns in the London Times
American number"
But the London Times correspondent
found that the H. C. L. took precedence
even over the presidential election.
His conclusions were:
But one may be distressed, IS Ameri-
cans are distressed, at the extreme dis.
traction and confusion of thought and
aim and the-as it seems-truly terrible
ztravagance and costliness OF life which
can not. one fears, continue without ca
tastrophe, but for which no remedy yet
appears in sight.
ELECTION MAY
PROVE MEDICINAL.
For the first of these two things
it is probable that the presidential cleo
ton, though fer the moment only add
ing to the chaos, may prove medicinal.
by compelling the people to divide more
or less into two equal camps and to
focus their attention on some few caT-
tinal questions.
''For the latter one can only trust to
American genius.
Measured by all precedent the pres
emit scale of living would seem to be,
for any length of time, simply intoler-
able.
How il can be altered without 4
heavy scaling down of the wages Of labor
it is not easy to see; nor how that seal
ing can be attained without such pre-
vious industrial crisis as will cause wide
spread unemployment.
PRECEDENTS
COUNT FOR LITTLE.
But precedents have way of gov
erning little in America.
1T may be that the people will some
how not only tolerate the intolerable,
but will turn it to such account that So
ciety will settle down to hitherto IN
heard Of conditions as peacefully as and
with greater comfort to the masses than
ever before.
''The economic progress OF the United
States has, in any case, always been
paroxy smal, periods of intense growth
alternating with panics and fits of
abysmal depression.
after each setback, however severe,
tao country never has failed to so on
more triumphantly than ever.
There are new and disturbing factors
in the problem today, it is true.
'-The United States can not solve its
own difficulties in n vacuum.
ana the immense proportion OF I'M
digeSted, or partially digested, elements
of foreign populations seem 10 expose
the country peculiarly TO infection by the
disease OF unrest which is working in
all the world.
ANGLO-SAXON
INFLUENCE.
Nothing in American life however, has
bees more remarkable in the past than
the completeness with which the old An
glo-Saxon core of the nation has sue
ceeded in imposing it's character on and
dominating the whole people.
1T is natural that an Englishman
should see in its continued dominance the
best assurance of the safety of the coun-
try and there is certainly nothing yet to
show that the core has lost anything OF
its vigor or is likely to be any less able
than heretofore to hold the people steady.
NO; the United States is very worried
about itself at the moment; and il may
well be, for its pulse is aiarmingly fast
But the mere fact that 1t is alarmed
and therefore on the alert, is much; and
no one who knows the people will have
any doubt that, whatever the immediate
complications may be, the nation Will
come through more aboundingly vital
than ever"