The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1935-11-02

COMMERCIAL doors are
gradually closing, one
by one, all over the world,
and as each one closes the
race for survival grows hot
ter and more bitter.
1t means that the unde-
veloped territories are be-
coming more and more
scarce. These territories
are themselves in the throes
Of industrialization.
And where this is happening.
you will find mostly yellow or
black people. They are at the
threshold of the kind of civiliza-
ton at which the Occidental
world stood 100 or $50 years ago.
They are beginning; we are close
to the ending. Most of us of the
Occident refuse to believe it and
that Is because of the Super-ego
of infallibility with which we have
lmbued our outlook.
DUT, nevertheless, foreign trade
- is dWindling. The British en-
plre, famous for a century for its
free trade policies, has been forced
by the tightness of the race. into
erecting barriers and fences
against the exchange of goods.
produced by its own machine, and
derived from the very sources
which now threaten it's supremacy.
America is no different. We con-
tmually harp on exports. AS long
as the balance of the trade scales
IS tipped we'll to the export side.
we are satisfied. But the inclina-
ton III that direction is growing
steadily less and less.
In the old days, it was a case
OF empire building for profit. The
Morgans, the Rockefellers. the
Rothschilds and the Sassoons
founded great family dynasties.
But no more.
IL is now case of empire hunt
ing Tor the sake of self -preserva-
ZION. 1t Is race for the survival
OF the flttest and the yellows and
blacks are just awakening and are
The freshest of the racers.
We have to step up the speed
SO as to keep the factories and
business running, so as to keen
men employed and consuming
AND when we do that we create
more money and more SURPRISES
THE Surpluses have to be sold
Il to the undeveloped nations
and on these they are building
their new era. The money we
create. we reinveSt abroad into
producing more materials to pro-
VIDE more supplies for the fac
torres of our civilization, which in
TURN, create more SURPRISES. and
more wealth to be invested all
over again.
1t is an endless merry-go-
round that we have built, and the
more it whirls around, the faster
and faster it travels.
And we ride with it-blinded bv
That feeling that We can not be
wrong and supposing that the
way out is sheer speed.
We have this clearly written
today in every quarter of the
globe, Egypt is nominally and on
the record free country-but the
British actually possess it be-
cause of the millions of pounds.
shillings and pence they poured
into Egypt.
Persia, like Ethiopia, is to all
interests and purposes an indie
pendent nation-but who has first
call on the Persian market?
Great Britain, because of the
huge investments in Persian oil
and other commodities. Who has
had possession of China for so
long? The Western World-Eng-
land, France, Germany, and the
United States.
Japan also has been a part
- ner but now Japan has decided
the time is ripe to announce to
the Occidental that from now
on, japanese money will provide
the only investments which will
hnance the awakening of the
Chinese industrial era.
IN this manner alone will japan
possess China, and not with
troops, bayonetS and bombs.
And so it is now with italy and
Abyssinia. If Mllssolini builds
bridges, lays roads, builds towns,
sets up electrifcation in Abvs-
slnla, the Philippians will buv
Italian products needed to create
these things. and relieve the pres
sure in Italy.
But then what happens when
all these markets are glutted?
Where do we go from there to
find fresh markets for reinvest-
ment of the surplus goods and
capital that the new markets have
created for our system of living?
A time will come when there
simply won't be any place-and
so the strongest empires will then
take from the weak-and the
weak will be swallowed up and
disappear.
THE World War broke out be-
Il cause of this obvious fact.
When that ended, through sheer
exhaustion of mankind, more
than anything else, another kind