The Ely miner., 1930-02-21

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BY Arthur Brisbane
Mr.. Hughes, Chief Justice
Henry Ford's New Plan
No Bolshevism Needed
A Real Stigma
Mr.. Hughes is now chief justice and
the people have in their service a man
of great ability, profound knowledge
of the law and highest integrity. They
know that Mr.. Hughes, for the sake of
public service, exchanges a private
law practice worth $5OO,O00 a year for.
the small wages paid by the richest na-
tion to its highest. judges.
Henry Ford may spend 500, 0,0O0,OEW
establishing schools that will enable
students TO "fit into life" when they
come out at eighteen years of age. He
says: "The reason we have so much
crime and facketeering is because
schools do not teach our young men
how to fit in the world. Racketeering
is nothing but a revolt against the
present improper, Intellectual system
of teaching"
Schools at present are better than
they were so years ago before racke-
teering became a science. Students
should all learn to use their hands,
particularly those not well adapted to
using their heads. 1t would be waste
of time for men of the type of Vol
taire, Milton, Moliere or Beethoven to
learn a trade, but they are scarce.
Mr.. Ford should modify his resolu-
ton to devote the rest of his life to
educational undertakings" Part of
his effort should produce tractors of
the caterpillar type rplenty of power
with the traction 'track" fully in
closed, protected from dust.
In one column you read about a
"mob'' of 1000 idle men, fighting po-
lice in Cleveland, twenty In the mob
injured, officers hurt.
In another column you find com
fort, perhaps, in news from Washing
ton that our national banks have re-
sources of over twenty-nine billions
Of dollars.
Seven thousand four hundred and
eight institutions have on deposit
more than twenty-five billions.
A country so rich ought not to have
so many men who are willing to work
and idle.
You are told that the mob of riot
ing unemployed men in Cleveland had
been Influenced by "Bolshevik propa-
ganda."
1t is very easy to say "Bolshevism."
But when a man Is out of work, wor-
ried and perhaps hungry, he needs no
help from Lenin to make him danger
ously dissatisfied.
Men adrift on a raft in midocean
that had never heard of Lenin or
Bolshevism have killed and eaten
each other.
Five states Of the South, highest in
illiteracy, are conducting educational
campaigns to reduce "the stigma"
Census takers list illiterates.
Iowa has only IL percentage of IL
literates, lowest in the nation. Ne
braska came first until 1920, and Is
striving to regain the championship.
hard-working people to study at night
when they are tired out, and learn
enough about their A B C's to remove
the illiteracy stigma Is not doing
much.
To be able to read and write when
you lack leisure to do either, and have
no access to books worth while, is no
help.
AS well teach q man 5000 miles
from Egypt to read hieroglyphics on
Egyptian monuments.
Hard, under-paid labor and lack of
work are a stigma" worse than IL
literacy.
The world still loves titles. In a
Los Angeles lawsuit about money col
lected for a newly invented religious
"cult" you meet a mild-lOoking gentle
man called "The Four Winds Of the
Whirlwinds." He wrote down with
his typewriter $4,000 pages dictated
by angels to the priestesses of the
"Great Eleven Cult"
"Concords of stars led the priest
esses to various locations, and there
the angels did their debating"
Men and women gave tens of thou
sands Of dollars in return for non-
sense of this kind, which proves that
the human race is largely foolish.
Ogden L. Mills, assistant secretary
of the United States treasury, In a
few words convinces you that this
country has genuine prosperity II
prosperity consists in getting more of
life's good things than anybody else
gets.