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

been compiled at Mr. Hooyer's 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.
1t seems that it was the founder of Christianity
who said: by their fruits shall We know them" So
let turn to the end product of the joint efforts of
Herbert Hoover and American individualism-
United States Of America in 1882 This description is
taken from the Hoover paradise not from any
Communist spellbinder, but from Professor George
S. Counts, 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
uquity, is accompanied by extreme material inse-
curity; dire poverty walks hand in hand with the
most extravaganza living the world has known
an abundance Of goods of all kinds is coupled with
prvation misery, and even starvation; an excess of
production is offered seriously the underlying
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
why oiAooocu huge through years.
automatic machinery increasingly displaces men and
threatens society with 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 is So prevalent that the tradition
OF honest labor is showing signs of decay the
paid to the workers are too meager to enable them
to back the
subordinated to production and philosophy of de-
hberate waste is proclaimed widely as the highest
economic wisdom
Inc science of psychology is employed to fan the
flames of desire that may be enslaved by their
wants and bound to the wheel of production: gov
ernment board advises the cotton growers to plow
under every third row of cotton to bolster the mar
ket; both ethical and esthetic considerations com
monty overridden by glard-headed business men
bent on material gain; federal aid to the unemployed
Is opposed, the ground that it would pauperize the
masses, when the favored members of society ALWAYS
have lived on dole; even responsible leaders resort
to practices of the witch doctor and vie with one
other in predicting the return of prospective an ideal
OF rugged individualism evolved in simple pioneer
ing and agraran order at time when free land ex-
sVed IN abundance used to justify the system which
exploits ptessly and without thought of the morrow
The nature and human resources of the nation and of
the world
One only can imaginegwhat jeremiah would say
II he could step out of the pages of the Old Testament
and cast his eyes this vast spectacle so full of
tragedy and of menace"
1t will be pretty hard to deny the truth of this in
dicment or the responsibility of Mr. Hoovers brand of
individualism for it's 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"