Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1931-07-10

insisted, "has been created by the very
machinery of progress which we our
selves have built up to take care OF
new and increasing standards OF liy-
ing. Sentimental attachment for me-, h.
DDS of the past can play no part in
what is going on in the present any
more than sentimental attachment fer
the old hustle prints OF 1850 are q
reason for women resuming the use
of buStles today.
Even the steps we have already
taken to meet the desire for fresh Straw
berries in New York IN January or a
chiffon dress for high school gradu-
alton in June have not answered the
questions for the future. Every day
we are being called on to add still
further to the speed with which We can
serve the public. The change in meth
DDS of distributing merchandise has
been made inevitable through our
realization that todayS tempo Of living
demands utmost economy of time in
translating the newest in design, mate
rial or manufacture into the item in
the customers hand"
That the chain store depends chiefly
for its success on the quality of the
management was stressed by Alvin
Dodd, head of an Ohio chain store
concern.
President Hoover and Stain were
contraSted as the two great world lead
ers Of the day in an address last night
by John Spargo, noted political econo-
mist.
THE supreme intellectual challenge
Of our time in the domain OF social
and political science" he said, lis that
which has its polar centers set in Mos
COW and in Washington. 1t is persona
60 &o1i hand and
Hoover en- the other. Behind each
there is great radition-behind
Stain are Lenin and Marx, and behind
Hoover are Lincoln and Jefferson. One
seeks to subordinate the cit.zen to the
state, the other the state to the citizen
1T is not an accident that President
Hoover has become the worlds fore
most leader of the forces aiming at the
elevation of the individual human lie.
The opulence of our resources, the
extraordinary chronological develop
ment already attained, and the rela-
lively high standards of living which
have made millions regard as necesSI-
ties the luxuries of yesterday, combine
to make a generous evaluatlon OF in
dividual life the natural expression OF
our national tendency. Equally the
position of Stain is the logical result
of the present state of Russian eco
nomic development"
The celebrated "f1ve-year plan" Mr..
Spargo said, has per Sc no necessary
association with Communism. It Is, he
said 'in large measure the product Of
memorable necessity. 1t is an attempt to
carry into effect ideas which were cur
rent in Russia, in non-revolutionary cir
cles, long before the Bolshevist regime
came into being. This program would
have been attempted had the revolution
never taken place. 1t is morally certain
that it would be continued if the eX-
isting regime should fall"
Rec nition of social maladjust-
ment." he continued, land sympathy
for the victims of it are not confined
to. those who are enrolled in movements
of protest or revolt. Mr.. Hoover is fully
as keenly aware of the ills incidental to
our civilization as Stain is, and fully
as serious in his desire for their re-
moval. The familiar antithesis of the
passionately humane socialist and the
callous and inhuman capitalist is a
grotesque creature of the imagination
Under the American conditions, what
ever may be said for those of Europe,
the active participation in business by
the government will never be success
because, even at its best, it introduces
the element of political manipulation,
Mr.. Spargo declared.