Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1929-08-07
INDUSTRY SOUTH
SEEN AS RU|NOUS
VOL DeCries Present Trend.
Alfred p. Dennis Discusses
Tariff Barriers.
BY THOMAS r. HENRY,
State Correspondent OF The Star.

UNIVERSITY OF VIRGINIA, August
THE present industrialization Of the
South by Northern capital spells pow
erty and ruination for the great mass
of people of the South" Mathew Woll,
vice president of the American Fedora
ton of Labor, told the Institute of Pub
lie Affairs here last night.
In holding out the inducement Of
cheap and docile labor to outside cap
ital. Mr.. Vol contended, the South has
not reckoned on the vicious industrial
ism" certain to result in immediate
wealth to the few, but impovishment
to the many" and with the returns from
the investments being spent elsewhere.
Manhood and womanhood," he said,
''are urged to leave the mountainsides
and enter the life of this growing in
dustrialism. Lured by the wealth Of
the North a new social order is being
created. All elements of vice and
viciousness of our industrial order fol-
low and slowly bat surely the workers
the masses Of the South-are realizing
the lash of a hardened industriaiism
Poverty Instead Of Riches.
INSTEAD of riches they find poverty.
The community itself awakens. It OBJ
serves that the wealth Of the COM
munity has not been used to enrich
that community, that 1t is absorbed by
foreign capital to be enjoyed elsewhere
or perhaps used to crush the very in
dustry 1t caused to come into being be-
cause corporate wealth has found more
Turing opportunities elsewhere"
Declaring that he was in favor OF the
constructive utilization of Southern re-
sources in industry. Mr.. Woll said that
industrial enslavement of the man.
hood and womanhood and childhood
was too high a price, and urged the
States first Of all to safeguard their
human values.
1.-The greatest of all wealth." he said,
sis that which is measured not by a
monetary standard but by the happi-
ness and enrichment of life enjoyed by
the many"
European threats Of retaliation
against high American tariffs through
the formation of great customs union
will not be realized, Alfred F. Dennis
vice chairman of the United States
Tariff Commission, told the institute.
Pressure Unlikely.
Asserting that If European industry
could be administered under centralized
authority Europe could apply economic
pressure to us aplenty," Mr.. Dennis
said that this is very unlikely because
Of the human nature" Of the European
peoples.
THE international cartel uniting in a
common economic effort hitherto dis
cordant, competitive countries" Mr.
Dennis said. lis only slight step to-
ward this goal. Let us suppose Europe
dominated by an all-powerful. benevo-
lent despot preoccupied with the job Of
setting Europe to rights. Let him as
sign the European societies that can
best build automobiles or weave fancy
silks to do so for the peoples that pos
sess less competence at these jobs. Let
Manchester, England, follow its best
and specialize in fine cottons for the
whole of Europe. Let Lodz, Poland
after its competence specialize in
coarser weaves. Russia can produce
cheaper and better barley than Ger
many; let Russia become the purveyor
of cheap barley to Germany and let
Germany provide Russia with necessary
chemicals and electrical machinery.
Let each community and class serve &C
cordlng to its natural competence
Such settlement runs counter to hu-
man sympathies, hopes and aspirations
The unrestricted competition of Ger
man mills and laboratories would thrust
Italy back to the primitive peasant
stage of human culture from which it
Is rapidly emerging. The peasant states
of Eastern Europe would remain peas
ant states for all time. There must be
hewers Of wood and drawers of water,
but no human society Is willing to &C
cept servile status
Because of these ambitions of each
European state to be self sufficient, Mr..
Dennis pointed out, their legislatures
will continue to raise high tariff walls
against each other leaving the way
open for American imports.
Russia's Lofty Barrier.
Russia, he pointed out, probably has
the highest tariff wall in the world
which is like lofty barrier. whose