Perth Amboy evening news., 1923-07-14

by the public of all private proper
ty.
In this country it has been an or
derby process. The process has been
along legalized lines but fundamen-
tally has been the same sort of a
movement. The Interstate Commerce
Commission has been the instrument
tally through which the American
people have virtually assumed man
agement of the railroads. State
public utility commissions have ex-
ercised the same powers in the
states. Rent commissions and other
regulatory bodies have carried the
policy out vigorously.
No Future In Business
The situation which this move
ment has brought about therefore
is this: that the youth of today can
not safely be prepared to enter any
kind of business where the public
as a whole is depended on as the
customer for tangible goods. If the
young man is trained to build houses
for rent, he will find that a labor
union will regulate the wages he
must pay his workers, a trust will
regulate the prices he must pay for
his materials, city ordinances will
regulate the type and size of houses
he may build and finally, a commits
sion will regulate the amount of
rent he may charge. He is not his
own man. If he seeks to operate a
street railway, a public utilities
commission will fix his rates. The
same is true of w~aterWorks,, gas
light, electric power and light. If
he seeks to operate steam railroads,
he will find both the Federal and
State governments are policemen
standing at his side combining his
activities. If he wants to mine or
sell coal, he will find prices fixed
for him by the public fuel admin
lstrators and, ultimately doubtless
VIII lind ris mine or his business
taken away from his entirely. So
on down through every type of ac-
tlVlty which may be considered a.
public utility.
Finally, if he sets up any kind of
store for merchandise, he will find
his activities curtailed by sales taxes,
excise taxes, excess profits taxes
and income taxes.
With the constant advance of
this leveling process, designed for
the benefit of the people as a mass
the indications are that a time in
eVitably will come when there is
out one field to be entered where
fortune may be found.
II has been of special interest to
note that in such popular upheavals
as the French Revolution and the
RUSSIAN Revolution the terrorizing
armies and mobs, the governments
ana the citizens uniformly have re-
speeted and exalted the artist. He
may be a great orator, a great sing
en- a great vtolinist, a great painter:
sven a clown, a buffoon or ajuggler.
u II he has developed some in
dIVlduallstlc art which gives what
Tue people regard more than their
moneys worth in the way If enter
talnment, instruction or amusen1en,
me people will spare him and bis
fortune; indeed they will exaIt him
and add to his riches. 1t is a world.
old spectacle.
when Alexander the Great was
laying waste the eastern
ne destroyed whole cities. iaayina
not one stone on another. Enterine
the city where Pindar, the most fee
nous poet Of his day dwell ALL
ahder went to his house ana posted
a placard on it. addressed to hi.
!roops. 1t read: Touch not the
mouse Of Pindar the poet" tIi,
Souse n goods alone were spared
90 on down through the ages N,
at'isls nave ben spared and promote
To increased public favor,
me best way, therefore. to in.
sure the children of such turbuIen,
umes as may come in the fntrr.
OF fortune, is to develop their artis'
nc talents for the mass Of tb,
people apparently demand NOT th'
constructlve work of empire buiIder,
30 much as artistic attainment.