Evening star., 1933-12-07

A great wave Of change Is sweeping
through the heart of the common man
Of America and will form the motive
force Of the machinery Of an idealistic
| Christian government in the future,
Secretary Of Agriculture Wallace de-
cleared this morning at the twenty-hfth
anniversary meeting Of the Federal
lea, at the New York Avenue Presby-
terian Church.
THE World War was q superficial
| phenomenon compared to this funda-
mental ground swell" he said I'VE
must build the machinery, and the
hearts Of men will provide the engine
| to make 1t go. We must go beyond the
economic field into the fields of re-
]igion, the artistic and the beautiful"
Secretary Wallace pictured the dis
cord Of our present social order, with
its competitive spirit. to be replaced by
an ideal cooperation.
The Secretary said he had never wit
messed, before he came to Washington,
| social drinking such as Is prevalent
here. He was at loss to know whether
this was due to the times attending re-
| peal or to the situation in the Capital,
he said. The people who do the social
| drinking seem to be drifting into an
principal END CT life, but are extraor-
dinarily decent people. despite their
habits, Secretary Wallace said.
McNary Objects.
Senator McNary, Republican, Of Ore
gon. the Republican leader. entered the
first objection to the bill, saying the
Government, as now. should assume the
burden of proving food Is deleter.ohs
The bill would reverse that, placing the
burden on the manufacturer.
The Senator agreed foods should be
made safe for consumption. but said II
the Government seizes a food product
| and charges the manufacturer with a
violation Of the law, it should be forced
to prove the alleged infraction.
Campbell exhibited X-ray pictures
showing metal trinkets in the stomach
of q child who had eaten candy with
q prize inside.
The bill would bar this candy as well
as confectionery covered with resinous
glaze. which Campbell said in many
instances was nothing but shellac.
Urging regulation of the cosmetic in
dustry, the witness exhibited a picture
! Of a school teacher who had been blind
! ed in few days after using an eyelash
beautifier.
The problem OF craftsmanship" Sec
retary Wallace said. "is to mold a
policy leading toward a higher state
Of humanity and to stick by that
| policy and make 1t seem desirable to
| the people in spite of short-time
political pressure to the contrary.
| True craftsmanship and true religion
therefore have much in common. Both
are beset by those, who. processing to
be able politicians and hard-headed
men Of affairs, are actually so exclu-
sively interested in the events Of the
| immediate future or the welfare Of a
time point Of view they are thoroughly
Impractical and theoretical"
He pictured a Nation controlled by
spiritual principles. and denied the
claims Of those who contend that greed
and profit seeking are the mainsprings
Of human conduct.
| This self-seeking attitude resulted
| from the doctrines expressed by the
| classical economists OF 100 years ego
| giving the idea of selflshness as the
main motive for action IAN apparent
| foundation in nature" he said.
Criticizes Protestantism.
Although speaking before an audience
representing practically all the Protestant
denominations in America, Secretary
Wallace criticized Protestantism as hav'
ing become more material and q.
fostering an extreme individualism.
THE reformation in action contracted
rather than expanded the doctrine oi
Jesus" he stated. Nevertheless, the
extraordinary emphasis on the indi.
vidual unleashed forces which enabled
man through energetic self discipline
| to conquer q new continent in record
breaking time, to develop an unprec.
| edented control over nature and to de-
| velop capitalism as temporary mech
anism for social control"
He said the children Of the best
| Protestant families have come to &C
| cept las a matter Of course an attitude
| toward the universe and toward Their
fellow man which is based on pseudo
economics, pseudo science and pseudo
| religion"
"But unfortunately" he continued
"the religious attitude which produced
such keen scientists and the aggressive
business men makes 1t impossible for
us to live with the balanced abundance
| which is now ours as soon as we are
willing to accept it with clean under
standing hearts"
1
To achieve to this abundance, Secre-
| tary Wallace declared, it will be neces-
sary to have "a Reformation even
greater than that of Luther and Calvin
I am deeply concerned in this because
I know that the social machines set
up by this administration will break
| down unless they are inspired by men
who in their hearts catch larger vision
| A <l,~f.v r.f7f
the past"
It also will be necessary, he said, for
| the man on the street to change his
attitude. Such a transformation OF
human nature is not impossible, as has
been envisaged, but can be brought
about in times such as these, he de-
clared.
The old faith in endless mechanical
progress and the beliefs in continual
rising land values and higher wages
has been rudely shaken, Mr.. Wallace
asserted, but it will be impossible to
enter into the still almost limitless pos
sibilities of science and invention until
we have acquired a new faith, q faith
which Is based on q richer concept OF
the potentialities of human nature than
that of the economists, scientists and
| business men of the nineteenth cen
tury."
| 'I am wondering II the religion we
shall need during the next hundred years
will not have much more in common
with the Christianity Of the second and
third centuries or possibly even with
that of the Middle Ages than with the
Protestanism of the past one hundred
| years." he added.
| He said the strong personal initia-
| tive conferred by the Protestant reli-