The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1932-09-17

been compiled at Mr. Hooyers expense. But when one
goes through volume like that by Dr. Dexter he
can not help recognizing that they have their real
value and very explicit service to render
It seems that it was the founder of Christianity
who said: by their fruits shall We know them" So
let us turn to the end product of the joint efforts of
Herbert Hoover and American individualsm-the
United States of America in 1892 This description is
taken from the Hoover paradise, not from any
Communist spellbinder but from Professor George
s. Counts, a learned Columbia university savant:
Here is society which manifests the most ex-
traordinary contradictions: mastery over the
forces Of nature surprising the widest dreams of an
tiquity, is accompanied by extreme material inse-
curity; dire poverty walks hand in hand with the
most extravagant living the world ever has known
an abundance of goods Of all kinds is coupled with
privation misery, and starvation an excess of
production is offered seriously as the underlying cause
of severe physical suffering; breakfastess children
march to school past bankrupt shops laden with rich
food gathered from the ends of the earth strong men
by the million walk the streets in futile search for
employment and with the exhaustion of hope enter
the ranks of the damned.
Great captains of industry close factories with
out warning and discharge workmen by whose labors
tney have amassed huge fortunes through the years.
automatic machinery increasingly displaces men and
threatens society with a growing contingent of the
permanently unemployed racketeers and gangsters
with connivance of public officials fasen themselves
on the channels of trade and exact toll at the end
OF the machine gum economic parasitism either with
or without the law so prevalent that the tradition
of honest labor is showing signs of decay the wages
paid to the workers are too meager to enable them
TO buy back the goods they produce consumption is
subordinated to production and philosophy of de-
hoerate waste is proclaimed widely as the highest
economic wisdom
The science of psychology is employed to fan the
names OF desire so that may be ensaved bv their
wants and bound to the wheel of production: a gov
eminent board ad ses the cotton growers to n1ow
under every third row of cotton to bolster the mar
ket; both ethical and .esthetc considerations COM
monty are overridden by hard-headed business men
bent on material gain; federal aid to the UNEMPLOYED
Is opposed on the ground that would pauperize the
masses, when the favored members of society ALWAYS
nave lived on dole; responsible leaders resort
10 practices of the witch doctor and vie with one an
oCher IN predicting the return of prosperity an ideal
Oh rugged 1ndivdualsm, evolved in simple pioneer
ing ana agrarian order at time when free land ex
Seo IN abundance used to justify the system which
exploits ptilessly and without thought of the morrow
Inc nature and human resources of the nation and of
the world
One only can imagine what jeremiah would saw
II ne could step out of the pages of the Old Testament
and cast his eyes this vast spectacle so full of
tragedy and of menace"
IL Will be pretty hard to deny the truth of this in
dictment or the responsibility of Mr. Hoovers brand of
lndiVidualism for its existence
Given few more generations of it, with no con-
siderable revision, and one may quote appropriately
passage from Mr.. Hoover, cited by Dr. Dexter: The
things of the spirit alone persist"