The Daily Alaska empire., 1934-09-18
 Don't Worry, Mir. Forbes!

(Daily Journaltof Commerce Seattle.) ,
 B. C. Forbes appears worried In the current issue of his magazine he writes:
 I have four sons, two of them approach
 ing the age when they must go out and
 face the earning of a living. President
 Roosevelt's recently announced ambition to
 have the Government guarantee "the security
 Of the home, the security of livelihood and
 the security of social insurance" causes
 to wonder if the prospect of much
 sheltering so much safeguarding, so much
 financial protection, much paternalism
 will cause them to discount, disregard, de-
 spise my teachings.
 I have tried to impress upon them that
 they must fit themselves to make their
 way in the world, that they must develop
 self f-reliance that they must cultivate
 spirit of manly independence, that they must
 be prepared to earn every penny coming to
 them that they must expect nothing for {. nothing in this world MT. Forbes need not become nervous or "jit- ery." His boys will likely make out first rate. No Presidential announcement will lift from their shoulders the burden of meeting lfes problems. There will be plenty of trials to test their mette. Mir Forbest objects, as do many right-thnking peo- ple to apparent drift toward paternalism. He is sincere, believe, and in view of few ridiculous subsidies proposed MT. Forest senses a trend away from of the principles that have fostered in dividual initiative in America. There will however always be ample incentive for the display of mental and physical energy in this country, and as one moves back from the picture he may obtain the broader view that President Roosevelt has of general conditions.
 We doubt that the President entertains the thought that life for average individuals should be made long siesta on bed of Rather, our President has in mind the hope that industrial and social insecurity evident in recent years be made less hazardous to millions of good citizens He may feel that the time must come again when hat ssauv Uhn aptc work can find it." That condition does not obtain nowadays Maybe the President is not thinking so much of the sons of prominent men such as those boys of MT Forbes, he is of the vast numbers of men in middle life who automatically cast aside under our present system-cast aside like so many cattle as no longer worth their feed-cast aside by
 greedy industrialism that has financially benefited comparatively few
 The President may be thinking of the millions of American women now denied the right to earn their livelihood even at the most menial tasks in this, the So-called most enlightened nation on the globe. The President may be, and undoubtedly is aware of the tact that social and industrial security IS more assured in certain smaller and poorer countries of Europe than has been the case in America, and that there has been lack of in centive for individual initiative in those lands No, MT. Forbes, you need not become unduly worried at least not for some time to come The people of America and President Roosevelt do not want coddlng paternalism, but they do want more tangible industrial and social security that can he obtained under the hit-or- miss hog in the trough system that ensnarled us in the economic mess we have been laundering in for the last five long years They want that security to which decent aw-abiding citizens of an intelligent progressive nation entitled and unless we miss oIr p,ess they are in line to get it. Even under such assured security your sons will have ample opportunity for the exercise of all the individual initiative and ability with which they are possessed