, 1935-01-07
The World
At a Glance
By LESLIE EICHEL
Central Press Staff Writer
By EsLIE EICHEL

Oh LESLAE EItHEL
NEW YORK, Jan. IA newspaper
man in a certain city is busy dig
ging up news items" Of Is year.
ago for a weekly radio broadcast.
Much Of the news sounds humor.
ouS-or tragic.
The world has expanded greatly
since then. Entire new p~hiloSophie.
and economic systems have taker
their place on the coSmic stage.
People of today, however. are moi
so much interested in looking back
ward. as forward.
What will people Is years hence
say Of today?
What Will Live?
What. for example, of the New
Deal will live?
The actions Of the other President
Roosevelt. who used a Big Stick
seem antiquated and wholly in
adequate. Barely 30 years have pass
ed. Yet we now look back on that
not only as the Victorian age. but
the age Of American economic in
nocence.
Twenty-Five years from now2
NRA labor clauses, in all prob
ability. will seem mere distant
milestoneS. CThe mastery Of en-
over empioye will be negli-
The uproar whether q broad fed
eral housing plan IS socialistic or
not will bring amused wonderment.
tThe social duty OF a government
will be considered obvious.)
The ordered production of crops
as well al manufactured goods viii
be accepted as a necessity.
A fundamental single tax for the
distribution OF wealth probably will
be here-forced by economic exigen-
cies of federal and state govern
mentS, as well as social pressure.
The money manipulations-tht
efforts to make one dollar seem two
or three dollars-will seem looney
perhaps.
Crime prevention meetings will b
looked back upon as something
much further in the past than 1884
35-for the essence Of crime will be
then to be in the economic anc
social depths (which will have beer
alleviated greatly.
The mass movements of the age
the relationships, the organization!
based on division through prejudice
or conquering through emotional
ism viii seem Unreal and fright
some.
The cry TO preserve individual.
rights. raised when monopolieS ano
exploiters resisted efforts at control
will seem ironica.
You may finish your list yourself
as you believe 1900 will view pres
ent-day problems.
They Will Have Turmoil
The people of 1860 will have their
troubles, no less than we OF to-
day.
AS the peoples Of the world climb
the ladder. the complexities and
illnesses Of life increase rather than
decrease.
But the human capacity TO meet
new problems likewise increases
That Is evolution, that is develop.
ment.
The people Of rs years hence still
will have wars. still will have secret
treaties, still will have usurpers AND
exploiters. still will have black re-
action. Human nature does not
change.
The people OF 1910 could not con-
ceive OF the most terrible war in
the worlds history which was tc
begin III only foLl years. They could
not foresee a world depression that
would follow.
They had risen out of the depres-
sion OF 1918. World trade was
booming. Orators everywhere were
remarking upon the friendly spirit
IN the world. OF the vast interchange
OF trade among countries. In only
two countries we're passports re-
quired. 50 open had the world be-
come to all people.
To-Day, n gates o. every coun-
try are locked. Today. even a casual
traveller has difficulty entering a
country. And trade is locked out
everywhere.
In 1910, even under the Big Stick
Roosevelt Whose economic philoso-
ply was meagre in present day
termS). the nation calmly drifted
into the era Of monopolies, which
even then had begun TO deprive the
individual business as well as the
individual man u his economic in
dependence.
Wages Of 1910 seem desperately
low compared with wages OF today
But turn to a comparison OF costs
-am the feeling arises that the
standard OF living has fallen. in
spite OF radios. autos, icelesS refri-
g~erators, airplanes, washing ma
chimes. etc.
A third Of the nation was not on
relief in 1910.
Labor Program
Senate progressives will put
through a strong measure clarity
ing Section IA. on collective bar
gaining.
Senator Robert La Toilette OF
Wisconsin predicted that when the
Roosevelt administration permitted
tHe wagner LABOR Dill 20 be cOmpr0-
missed In the last session there would
be turmoil.
There has been great turmoil.
Labor asserts that most OF the
strikes were In reality lockouts.
Labor charges intimidation Of
even worse nat re than hitherto ex-
p~erienced in "the dark ages Of Ia
bor."
Labor declares that the Roosevelt
administration has failed TO carry
out the provisions of even the COM
law.