The Washington times., 1932-09-30
Against Russia
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Against Russia
To make this thorough anti-Communs day, give the
rest of my space to Mr. Reuben Maury Answering his
question before allowing him to put it, will say that
the Russian experiment experiments people believe in
it; they have faith enough to try something's they believe
in the future And the time wrote the phrases to
which Mr. Mauy objected it seemed to me that even those
who cried loudest for he American system did not be-
eve in it in anything at all Now for the criticisms
mark you made in recent column Of yours, writes Mr.
Mauy 1.-The remark has stuck in craw for three days
and three nights wouldn't bother you about it. It
to the effect that the Russians being extremely
noble their method of trying to pull through the world
United States while probably would pull through would
be ignoble in its method of doing I cant see it. In
fact resent that remark Reasons for resenng have
been cropping up in what term my brain ever since
my eyes read it.
What's Noble?
What is so noble about the Russians effort to keep
going and what is ignoble about ours? The Russians
any of the various fated White Russian armiesmerey
let gang of racketeers into their government and
throw overheard every obligation of that government
They did not begin all again. some claim they did
They kept everything of material not mental or pirtua
value which had been developed under the old regime and
have been trying those foundations
Where is the nobility in that? So far can it was
act Of international bankruptcy, more less.
which one admire particularly if he fraudulent
bankrupt But have yet to hear any call him noble
and so. would lay little bet, have you.
In America
through the terrific Job of recovery without Bolshevik
Fascist any other kind of revolution Our substitute for
revolution may be bourgeois and unexcitng middle class
and muddling and tedious. But think that when you
the Russian and the American producers for nobility
the American wins For what have been doing since
October 1922 We have been standing to every wind
that blew; and there have been terrific The
great majority Of Americans have to whmper in this
storm We haven't killed off any of intelectual col
lege professors engineers Great Thinkers though
of them wouldn't have been missed. We haven't wrecked
piece of the vast equipment for making useful things and
circulating money which built up by working like slaves
for $50 years Our best efforts going into fairly
concerted attempt to make what have and what
believe give better service for the greatest possible
Of people We have the factories the natural
the great domestic freetrade market Well, the growing
movement toward the fve-day week and sx-hour day is
all of
Even Hoover
"And that is just example. The Reconstruction
Finance Corporation is another sodont augh-are the
Presidents business conferences cOnfabs and
conclaves And is the resolve that somehow
Federal prohibition has got to be blasted
Au these things to to be evidences of pretty
noble attitude the part of Americans since you've begun
argument about nobility We started with pretty
noble concepthat every is entitled his chance in
life Whenever that concept has been in serious danger
Of being rubbed out by and thieves we've had
nonvolen upheaval which has swung us back to the old
ideal, toward it at least One Of those things is
believe, going That put it over without
Mysteries without running after takers and fools and
economic patent medicine and without shooting lot
people, to to indicate the presence of some
nobility somewhere in America"