Evening star., 1932-11-27
BY L. A. BROPHY,
Associated Press Stan Write


(Copyrisht, 1899. BY the Associated Press.)
CHICAGO, November 26.-A score OF
reporters with pencils as scalpels today
probed the thoughts CT that huge
stratum CT American society that might
be called the inarticulate masses.
Their assignment was: Find out what
I the people are thinking about.
They were told These ale critical
times. Many say a revolution in civil
ization impends. Find out what is in
the minds of these people whose
thoughts are never made public becaur e
they are not pubic characters. Talk
to the housewife, the butcher, the mani
curist, the barber, the prizefighter.
SO, the Chicago staff of the Associ-
ated Press went out into the homes,
shops, stores of the Nations second
greate-t city, the mid-country'S me-
tropclis.
What did they find?
A New Psychology.
A slice Of life, a sociological pot
pourri.
They found. even in the most humble,
keen viewpoint on the troubles OF the
Nation and the world.
They uncovered evidences of a new
DSyCIlOlOSJ lllt c14IN AAFh-
an adaptation to conditions that
brought the Nation up short four years
ago when easy money few cut of the
window and people began to scan the
fundamentals for comfort.
They found that some of the workers
with their hands envisage a new mode
of living based on today's capacity, or
non capacity, to earn the essentials Of
life.
They discovered that other workers
envisage disaster unless an industrial
remedy is found.
Here is a flash-back of their dis
coveries:
Work, do something unusual, that is
the only way. to success today-beer,
when will 1t come back-a comfortable
glass in a beer garden, comfortable
music-my husband has been cut of
work for three years, but we are hopeful
there is struggle between idealist
and cynic today-a conspiracy to force
down the standard of living exists.
A Steel Man Speaks.
Here are some of the thoughts brought
back by the reporters:
Manufacturer-Ralph J. Cogswell,
Glencoe, H., steel business:
MY principal thought today is how
to get business for my firm. I have
concluded that we must revert to the
old system of barter, theoretically at
least. We are trying to find out what
our customers need, then we go to a
manufacturer and get what he wants
at price that we can resell profitably
There is business today, but one must
do something unusual to get it. The
old methods are in the discard"
Promotion executive-E. Poss Ba-tley,
head Of the 1888 Chicago worlds fair
promotion:
City dwellers do not realize the plight
of the farmer. With corn 8 cents a
bushel, and the prices of other things
the farmer sells at comparative level,
he cannot live. That is the greatest
question to be answered today, how to
improve the farmers lot. When the
solution is found, stability will have
been achieved"
Lawyer-william H. Short, Western
Springs, III:
Eight or nine hours a day I have
been thinking about tax searches, tax
forfeiture and quit title suits. The rest
of the time have been quite interested
in the struggle between the idealist and
the cynic-are Hoover and Roosevelt
fine gentlemen whose souls have not
been stained by politics, or are they
pawns Of big interests? Are settlement
workers justified in attempting to help
the large family whose father is illit-
crate and unemployed when they know
the father will drink up the next money
he earns. It's nice question"
A Prize Fighters Thoughts.
A former pr.ze fghter-Kid Howard:
Il am thinking about my wife. She
is home enjoying good, cold glass Of
beer. I hope to be with her soon and
knock over few myself. Outside of
that, not a thought on my mind"
Carpenter-Albert Michiels:
Now when they modify the Volstead
act they do not want to go half way
in the matter. We do not want 2.75
per cent beer; we want per cent
beer. I would like to see the old beer
gardens come back. remember when
a man could take his family on a
Sunday evening to the. old Winona
Gardens on Broadway, enjoy his dinner,
play Glow Worm and Blue Danube,
We never heard of Communism in those
days"
Hobo-Jack McBeth, president of the
Hobo College unemployed for Is
years.:
Times will never be better until an
e.ght-hour working week-that is two
hours a day and four days week
is adopted universally. The present
Government IS a complete failure. but
will continue to be so until the organized
hobo organization or some other pro-
gressive and far seeing action takes it
over"
Worker-Robert T. Cougle:
Economic prosperity and stability
have been throttled and destroyed by
the over-centralization of wealth and
commercial and industrial power in a
few selfish hands. Undo the gigantic
mergers Of recent years and eliminate
the chain stores; put industry and