The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1929-12-19
REASON By Ff aASBIs

J~HE other evening we listened to plush tongued
il radio artist who enlarged the theme of our
endless wealth and endless obligation to feed the
appetite and patch the trousers of all mankind
1t of those irritating prattlings which
cause ones fingers to itch for club particularly if
one be wondering how to keep above water for the
next thirty days
You would have gathered from this righteous and
invisible person, calling all of us to Judgment that
everybody in the United States is at this minute
bullying with bonds, wearing pearl-cclored spats,
driving a Rols-Royce and troubled only by an in
ability to decide whether to spend the winter along
the Mediterranean or in the West Indies.
While meditating on how to meet overdraft
file demurrer to an ultimatum that your tele-
phone will be disconnected unless you walk up to
the captains tent and settle without delay, it is
somewhat exasperating to be reminded by some
radio Dolly that you are many times plutocrat and
that you have shamefully neglected your sacred
duty to the Armenians the Arabans.
THE greatest myth in all this world is our ma
Il tional wealth
We have great mass riches but all around it we
have mass poverty.
They inSeparable as light and shadow, as
heat and cold as Joy and sorrow
We have so much wealth per capita, but it is not
distributed and in the nature Of things, it can not
be- have so much money in circulation per capita,
but most of it is locked in the fond embrace of a
few.
We have many who have millions, but we have
millions who have nothing.
To escape the payment of their debts, the
politicians of Europe organized chorus OF decep-
ton Immediately after the arnistice, and this
chorus constantly has chanted the cantata of
American opulence since, the result being that
the inhabitants OF far off lands visualize a
dazzling mountain of gold and their hands out
stretched for perpetual hand-out.
This persistent din has made its impression in
America and many believe and many affect to believe
that Uncle Sam should serve Santa Claus for all
mankind not only at the Christmas season. but all the
year around.
His reindeer should ceaseessly roam amending
miles in distant regions of the globe, matter how
the wolves may howl round the door of poverty in the
United States.
WYE have in this country as dire need any land
w ever knew; we have as wretched necessity as
ever pointed the finger of shame at civilization;
have millions in tenements, unfit for CATTLE have
multitudes of unemployed which ask in vain for
work. have disabled soldiers, unable to their
bread in the land they saved
We have widows who dig with their fingers for
enough to keep their children fed we have washer
women who toll as no slave did; We have thou
sands of farmers who not make both ends meet
strive they may while the great rank and file OF
the middle class are only little way ahead of the
hounds all their days.
SO let dvest ourselves of this notion of bound
less plenty at home and lmitleSs obligation abroad
The extremes of fortune abide in all lands they
always did and they always will
Let remember when the divine impulse to helI
the needy knocks at the hearts of the fortunate thai
the needy at very door.
lie us ponder that old line of wisdom and Justice
Charity heginSnet home"