The Washington times., 1933-03-04
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thank God, only material things.
Values have Shrunken to fan
tastic levels; taxes have risen;
our ability to pay has fallen;
government of all kinds is faced
by serious curtailment of in
come; the means of exchange
are frozen in the currents Of
trade; the withered leaves Of
industrial enterprise lie on
every side; farmers find no
markets for their produce; the
savings of many years in thou
sands of families are gone.
More important, q host of un.
employed citizens face the grim
problem of existence, and in
equally great number toll with
little return. Only a foolish
optimist can deny the dark
realities of the moment.
Plenty at Doorstep
Yet our distress comes from
no failure of substance. We are
stricken by no plague of locusts.
Compared with the perils which
our forefathers conquered be-
cause they believed and were
not afraid, we have still much
to be thankful for.
Nature still offers her bounty
and human efforts have multi
piled it. Plenty is at our door,
step, but a generous use Of it
languishes in the very sight of
the supply.
Primarily, this is because the
rulers of the exchange of man.
kinds goods have failed through
their own stubbornness and their
own incompetence, have adj
mitted their failure and
abdicated. Practices of the u11-
scrupulous money changers
stand indicted in the court Of
public opinion, rejected by the
hearts and minds of men.
They Have No Vision.
True, they have tried, but
their efforts have been cast in
the pattern of an outworn
tradition. Faced by failure Of
credit they have proposed only
the lending of more money.
Stripped of the lure of profit
by which to induce our people
to follow their false leadership
they have restored to exhorta-
tions, pleading tearfully for
restored confidence.
They know only the rules Of
a generation Of Selfseekers.
They have no vision, and when
there is no vision the people
perish.
Money Changers Flee
The money changers have
fled from their high seats in
the temple of our civilization.
We may now restore that temple
to the ancient truths. The meas
ure Of the restoration lies in
the extent to which we apply
social values more noble than
mere monetary profit.
Happiness lies not in the
mere possession of money; it
lies in the joy of achievement,
in the thrill of creative effort.
The joy and moral stimulation
of work no longer must be for
gotten in the mad chase Of
evaneScent profits. These dark
days will be worth all they cost
us if they teach us that our
true destiny is not to be min
istered unto but to minister to
ourselves and to our fellow men.
Recognition of the falsity of
material wealth as the stand
ard of success goes hand in
hand with the abandonment of
the false belief that public Of
flee and high political position
aresto be valued only by the
standards of pride of place and
personal profit; and there must
be an end to a conduct in
banking and in business which
too often has given to a sacred
trust the likeness of callous and
selfish wrongdoing
Small wonder that confidence
languishes, for it thrives only
on honesty, on honor, on the
sacredness of obligations, on
faithful protection, on unselfish
performance: without them it
cannot live.
Nation Asks for Action
Restoration calls, however,
not for changes in ethics alone:
This nation asks for action,
and action now.
Our greatest primary task is
to put people to work. This is
no unsolvable problem if we
face It wisely and courageously.
It can be accomplished in part
by directing recruiting by the
Government itself, treating the
task as we would treat the
emergency of war, but at the
same time through this employ
ment accomplishing greatly
nneded projects to stimulate
and reorganize the use of our
natural resources.
Hand in hand with this we
must frankly recognize the over
balance of population in our
industrial centers and, by en-
gaging on a national scale in
a redistribution, endeavor to
provide a better use of the
land for those best fitted for
the land. The task can be
helped by definite efforts to
raise the values of agricultural
products and with this the
power to purchase the output
of our cities.
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