The Butler County press. [volume] (Hamilton, Ohio) 1900-1946, 1935-04-19
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" Where with our
roo Little Hatchet
we tell the truth
about many things, sometimes pro-
foundly. sometimes kippantly,
sometimes recklessly.

So many things are so very wrong
that we cannot expect complete re-
construction in day
But we cannot expect reconstruc-
ton at all unless the job is tackled
with reconstruction as the objective.
Repairs do not lead to reconstruc-
ton.
/ Quite possibly they lead to more
complete breakdown.
Whatever may be the contention re-
garding the system as whole there
are major parts of it that never will
work, except for the production of
injustice, without complete recon
struction.
Tinkering, for example, will not
solve the problems of the coal mining
industry
Tinkering will not solve the prob
lens of the textile industry.
And these are two of the largest
industries in America, counting num-
bers of persons involved.
The tendency to cast mantle of
sacredness about old things persists.
1T always has been;; it must con-
tinue to be-
What queer notion this is in an
age that counts its motions with an
electric eye, sends great airplanes over
oceans and looks to the zephr train
as logica latest successor to the
covered wagon.
However, as long as there are work
ers who actually do not want to join
unions, we cannot allege that all of
the blindness is on the side Of employ
ers.
j What we can ellege, though, is that
employer blindness is a blindness that
dominates, because employers have
power to say there is work, or there
is no work"
The competitive order also pits en-
ployer against employer and a great
many who would like to exercise vi
sion dare not, for fear of extinction.
One set of employers, hoping to
] check the avarice of competition tell
congress they would like to have the
Wagner bill become law.
Another set, devoted to the strug
gle for the survival of the wicked
est, clamors to the contrary.
Unity Of purpose exists only among
groups, and even in groups there is
often much disunity.
Not only does the nation not know
much about where it is going, but
it doesn't have any one purpose to
go in any one particular direction.
The air is filled with the noise of
dispute, debate, disunity
In time, so we hope, definite
opinion will crystalline in major
ity, and then definite direction will
be possible IF we make it impossible
for a minority to seize control and
/ compel obedience by the majority.
Even in that event we should have
direction, but we do not want to
achieve direction that way, and the
majority would continue to resent un-
til it could unhorse the minority.
1t seems a difficult time in which
to be too sure of very much
A great many persons are sure
much Of the time, and all of the time
there are some who are very sure.
Some are sure of everything at 20,
sure Of nothing at 50-sure Of moth
ing except possibly their own mind
and their own bleiefs, but even these
are more than likely subject to modi-
| fication as new facts come to light.
! At the base of everything today
the ferment, the debate, the desire to
get going probably is the fact that
the masses of the people are coming
to know more about their economic
order, its good points and its faults,
than they ever have known before.
| The economic order is being taken
| apart" in the public mind more than
ever in our history