The Butler County press. [volume] (Hamilton, Ohio) 1900-1946, 1932-07-08
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The air is filled with proposals to
mitigate the effects of depression.
Come now the railroad unions pro-
posing a reconstruction finance corpo-
ration to make loans to wage earners
to be used for necessities.
1t is true and more than true
that the government has poured
out money and credit to the bank
ers and mostly the bankers have
tucked the money away in safe
keeping, ridding themselves of
their frozen paper, hogging ev-
erything.
The government likewise has
helped the railroads which at long
last were faced with a day of reckon
ing when paper had to be met and
with no chance to meet it with new
issues, as of old.
1t is fair to ask that something be
done for the plan man who has no
mill for the issuance of bonds or
stocks--who has not even job.
But the really adequate thing to do
for the common man, the plain man,
or whatever else people have to call
working man, is to GIVE HIM
WORK.
To give him loan of up to $500 as
the railroad unions propose, would
get many a family out of desperation
and it would turn loose flood of
purchasing power.
AS an immediate relief measure it
would have great effect.
But meanwhile unless we drive
for permanent measures we shall
be simultaneously on the road to
a repetition of disaster.
Money loaned, money raised for
construction, money put into what
ever emergency project, has to be re-
paid even as the war debts have to
be paid, and even as they plague, SO
probably will these new obligations
platter plague us for repayment.
But when desperation rides it isn't
fussy about the horse.
However and nevertheless, there
must be ground gained toward PER-
MANENT CURE.
There is, within the present eco-
nomic order, but one way to effect
cure, and that is by these two things:
IA greatly shortened work
week.
q Progressively increasing
wages.
Today's calculations show 30-hour
week absolutely necessary.
To put into American circulation
for commodities the money that in the
past has been drained away and either
sunk abroad or boarded at home there
must be rising wage rate.
Thus three things are gained:
There is work for all;
2-There is leisure in which to
use commodities that require time
for their using;
3-There is the purchasing
power among the masses with
which to buy.
Recruits are enrolled for the 80
hour week almost daily.
The light seeps in.
Men are thinking more than they
thought four years ago.
1t becomes clear to increasing
numbers that ten million Americans
will not continue to go hungry with
out some kind of vigorous protest.
1t is incontrovertable that rea-
soned, logical readjustment is better
that disorderly upheaval in blind
effort to find relief.
Let us concentrate all effort toward
bringing into action the measures
that will wipe out depression and
make America henceforth depression
proof.
America can have permanent pros
perity for the masses if America has
the vision and the courage to do the
permanent prosperity possible. If
thos ethings ARE DONE prosperity
will not only be possible, 1T WILL
BE INEVITABLE!