The Washington times., 1933-08-04

duty of will be to spend between fifteen and twenty
thousand dollars year.
No Admttance!
We will set up a new Ellis Island, with new Standards
WISE but md refused admittance to foreign
unless they had of money-thrty dollars, be-
leve enough buy good dinner for four people in
boom times. But it admitted to this country appalling
number of immigrants without cent to their names, and
with little prospect of either making spending anything
for some twenty years. during which they were to all m
tents and purposes public charges "Babes detunct
but heavily advertised magazine used to say just babies
About half year ago propounded the theory that no
one has right to be born unless he (or she) prepared
to take proper share of the universal burdenwhch
to spend What this world needs good con-
sumer; the machines will attend to production We used
say that the who eats without working is parase
we now know that the who works without consuming
is Mr. Stuart Chase has recently supplied the eco
Homc background for my moral proposa-al men cannot
at present work. he says, and grimy adds all men must
eat"
Eat or Get Out!
But I am afraid that Mr.. Chase, being economist
merely that all must eat in order to keep aVe
whereas my meaning is that all men must (that S snouo
be compelled toy in order to keep the social system
alive they and buy radios and silk stockings ana
crepeoed shoes and golf sticks and IA suits Of clothes
year. They must whatever can produce.
know sounds silly but no has yet found for
stop producing things which will be less painful than the
stoppage of the past three years. and If produce them
We'll have them consumed if we have to pass law
Actually we have passed law in favor Of consumption
only have disguised it under codes and wage increases
and shorter Our Government being unready to DO
the simple thng-gve each man, woman and child $lOOOO
year-has made the manufacturer and the retailer
mddeman So far it appears that the employer OF steel
workers must pay not less than fixed of money
weekathough could get to work for less and the
work has, in the past been worth less The extra cents an
hour and dollars week being paid to the worker not
he has hem but because he must have them
in order to buy and to what we are all making
Not paid to Work.
In dozen different ways, the Government has helped
and will help the employer to pay that extra wage Il am
not opposed to the wage, which still to me puly
small nor to the aid the Government gives. am merely
pointing out the hidden joker-hat already paying
neonle to consume what raise the farms and make
in the factores The system superior to the doe be-
cause the dole makes think Of charity 1t IS also superior
o the direct division of national dividends because does
not offend our habits and all be bankers and FAC
torv owners and saesmen imagining that things are as
they always were.
But thew aren t. When, in 1914, Henry Ford began to
nav So day $2a-day job, he started revolution
profound the he advanced by his system OF
aroe-scale production. He longer paying men to
work but working them in order to pay them AS a
nvate citizen he could not the country Now we are
ali following him. starting the road of paying not as
much as the worker needs in order to ve but much as
11o want him to have so that all be prosperous
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