Minneapolis spokesman. [volume] (Minneapolis, Minn.) 1934-2000, 1934-08-17
Howe About:
By ED HOWE
G. Rsn syadioats.--wNU Service.

OF promptly Furnishing ofhcials when
they are dishonest or negligent. {.
But the determination to live BY
Communist principles will wreck
SovietiSm. Communism Is so pal
pably weak in 80 many respects II
cannot succeed. The objection to
the teaching Of Karl Marx is It will
not At human needs. The poor man
Is entitled to Justice; but so Il the
man who refuses to remain poor.
And in the human experiment
there has never been found a tribe
Of men wherein the majority were
willing to remain In perpetual pow
erty. Nature provided means for
all to become well-to-do, and the
better specimens Of men will not
consent to forever remaining I'm.
comfortable when comfort abounds
and may be easily attained by not
unreasonable effort. I may not be
here to see the end of the Russian
experiment, but let younger men
remember the prediction that Com.
munism must be given up there.
Like whisky, 1t is a fool; it will
not stand practical trial.
Negroes are very disagreeable In
bothering whites for gifts. 1 have
spent the present winter in an
apartment house In Miami, Fla, and
have found everything satisfactory
except my failure to satisfy the
negro servants. An old fellow liv.
ing nearby Is so much annoyed
that he will not let a negro maid
come in; he does his own cleaning
mp, and I often 60 over to enjoy
his Indignation. I have been
whipped into submission but ad.
mIre q man brave enough to re,
bel In a good cause. The poor
whites are as bad as the negroes
In begging. About the only real
vlgOr shown in the United States
during the past winter has been
displayed in begging campaigns.
Every one Is apt to be little pref.
udiced when discussing his own
case. and It really seems to me
do my share In proper giving. but
the American system Of begging
seems to me disgraceful. Much of
II Is racketeering: the selfish bust.
ness Of boss beggars who hide be-
hind the scenes and browbeat timid
citizens into engaging in charity
campaigns they do not themselves
believe In. Ask any American what
he is most disguised with. and he
will probably tell you 1t is commit.
tee begging. The smart French do
none Of It: the Germans and Eng.
lish very little. II is an American
weakness one Of many we all dis.
approve of. but do not quit. In.
stead Of quitting. the nuisance is
becoming worse every day: leaders
In II are trained as others are
trained to become stenOgraphers,
doctors, lawyers, machinists. to pull
teeth, and receive large incomes
from the dishonest business.
There Is more than the usual
complaint lately about big business
men. A new charge is they do not
manage their wives and children
with reasonable efficiency. No
American does; specially foolish
women and children are as COM
mon among the poor as among the
well-to-do. The manner in which
American women muss I'D their
men has been the wonder of for
eigners since the foundation OF the
republic; Americans no more assert
themselves In their homes than
they do in politics. And look at
what the politicians have done to
them. Americans need q lot
Of reform In a lot Of ways.
II Is pitiful to see a sweet little
girl grow into habits a woman
must have. :. A little girl TN.
reseryedly trusts her father, be-
Heves in him: loves him. A woman
knows she must trust. love and he.
lieve in husband and father with
great caution. / took part in
quite a romance the other day. On
the street I saw a little girl. three
or four years old. walking with her
parents. She was holding her ia.
TIERS hand. but occasionally LET 20
! and ran to look at something In the
windows Once when she came
back, with her hand out, to be led.
I took II. but she was still looking
at the wonderful windows: she
thought she was still walking with
her father. It was quite a thrill.
Then she ran to another window.
and, when she came back, took her
fathers hand. without knowing she
had been bold with a stranger.