Evening star., 1932-07-15

taken the jobs and brought about all
this deStitution.
Yet l never heard of a tax even
proposed on the automatic machine.
instead We continue to tax men. We
tax the slave and let the master 60.
There would be question of money
to pay the bonus if Congress would
contiscate the wealth of these machines
tax every machine in proportion to
the amount OF unemployment it causes.
Instead these iron monsters are Sacro-
sanct from the tax gatherer I am
not proposing to tax either labor or
capital. Both are equally slaves of the
machine. / propose taxing nothing
but the machine itself.
Our form of government Is good
enough. Personally. I can't think that
the form of government makes any
difference whatsoever If We should
set up communism or absolute mon
archy tomorrow nobody would know
the difference unless they read the
merely a wrapping around the psy-
chology of people. The psychology
Of the American people would not
change-so the wrapping Of government
would make no difference. We would
be foolish to change
truth-that the one enduring thing
about national life is its culture-its
art. its music, its poetry. its science.
There is no enduring value to the
dollar There is no enduring value in
exchange of goods-but only in the
making CT goods And only in the
making Of goods as culture is put into
them-as this culture permeates down.
ward from the artist to the carpenter,
from the poet to the bootblack.
"a Return to Real Values"
Il have been in the hotel business
most of my life. This is the only year
since I was a small child that haven't
been able to make my way But that IS
not the reason I'm here The bonus is
only little thing. 1 joined this move
ment because I realized it is the only
constructive movement in the country
toward a return to real values. The
veterans are the only ones who could
put it over. They may not realize their
aim in just my words-but that is the
underlying philosophy. It's what the
poor fellow feels but can't say.
This is fundamentally a demand
for the overturning of superficial val
ues, for restoring the dignity OF life
for freeing man from the tyranny OF
the machine"
other sidelights on the mind of the
B. E. F.:
"A Negro who has a bootblack stand
on the campus of the University OF
California at Berkeley
I'm a business man. I made good
money out of blacking boots for the
college boys in good times when I could
get Is cents shine But last year their
daddies didn't give them boys no money
to spend and lots of them started shin
ing their own shoes in their rooms or
didn't have them shined at all. So I
lust had to cut my price to 10 cents,
and could hardly get by at that price.
"All the boys goes home for the Sum-
mer. so there amt hardly no business
at all and 1 hadn't been able to lay by
any money over the Winter at 10 cents
a shine, so 1 couldn't pay the rent any
longer. I figured if I could get the
bonus right away I could keep my
business until the boys got back. But
now I guess my wifell have to close up.
do I think the Government can af-
ford to pay the bonus? Yes, sir. I'm
only a dumb colored boy, folks says. but
that's the way 1 reckonS it. Every time
they put up an argument against the
bonus Mr. Patman's got better one for
it-so I can't see no reason they can't
pay it"
Indiana Farmer Speaks.
A farmer from Indiana:
Why don't the papers print the truth
about us? They just print half the
truth, and it looks worse than no truth
at all.
I'm from Indiana and I had a 181-
acre farm out there, but they took it
away from me. What could do with
pork selling at 3 cents a pound and
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