The Washington times., 1933-09-12

Gnbertse fremont Street. Peachtree
Street and Michigan Boulevard may not the scythe
any than the farmers along pennsylvania Avenue
at a-haf Street, the of
Little (as I remember my National CapitaD but the
farmers in West Virginia. western Pennsylvania, Mary
land lower Illinois and dare say Iowa and Oregon still
cut wide swath with the odfashoned scythe-the same
hands of Father Time All this summer have seen men
along the roads County work. and the upland farms
scything away for dear life.
An Alien Land
have long suspected that American critics of rural
American life get their facts in city apartments and
write them into books which read in city apartments
The advantage of this method is that when you have
grudge to express facts stand in your way 1t is also
good thing for the reader who if he has the luck to
60 voyagng in America, finds himself in foreign land
totally different from the described to him in realistic
novels It's better than going to Paris TOR when the
guide books all too accurate and OF Whch the sur
prise has been spoiled by the movies
Further in connection with these stamps, it is re-
ported that President Roosevelt ordered all traces OF
likeness to himself removed from the representation
of the business man. After seeing the mess the ousl-
ness man has got himself into during the past tour
years, it is wonder the President suggested subst
tutng womans figure for the college professor IN
it kindly taken? Or Mr.. Moey going into the
publishing business anyhow?
Are Politics Trivial?
Of the German teachers who driven out by the Nazl
regime are coming to The New School for Social Re
search it has been announced that their work is too
serious to admit of political byplay The announce
ment itself is good politics. these great men are 10 De
taken in their field not protestants against any
political regime, but scientists philosophers ana
teachers The fact that they driven out OF their
homeland by politician is political fact of the first
mportance but they not going to make politics out
of their position here.
Yet the way the announcement is phrased strikes me
as not exactly fortunate. found the same thing IN
Ludwig Lewisohns plaintive "Up Stream in passage
contrasting Americans with Germans. "The aestheuc
and phosophc saturaton of the great masses OF the
Germany people," he says, " naturally led them to
esteem political action lightly Presently he brings
political action down to the level OF lynchmg ana
assures that thousands and thousands of Germans
of the wears 192O-22 reading great poets were
CRYING for more inwardness' and were despsng the
politicians and the ndustriasts, while they were re,
building the broken universe in their souls. The end
of which was the struggle between Communists and
Nazs and the arrival in power of Hitler
What Is Serious?
T. is agreeable to me to think of scientists in the
midst of all our troubles specializing the nature OF
the universe Ensten is of the great glores OF our
time: a philosopher is worth more to nation than
steel nagnate But I do not think that political by
nlav" can be dismissed today lacking in seriousness
f. ought to solve the problem of how men are to 1--we
together without offense to each other without dis
asfers of economics confess that politics hasn't be-
0un to tackle the problem; perhaps because Intelligent
noen have deluded themselves into believing that the
subject is of no importance in comparison with the
snecroscopic analysis of the of light from Arcturus