The producers news. [volume] (Plentywood, Mont.) 1918-1937, 1935-10-25

in a money mad and profit mott
waited society. Every economist,
who has developed even peanut
brains, knows that we live in a
land of potential plenty. Even with
our present machinery-and mech
anization is constantly accelerating
every high school student is IA
miliar with the fact that we could
create three or four times the a.
mount of goods and services that
We are now turning out. But in 6
years of agoniZing effort our brain
Solons at Washington have not
yet found the modus operandi to
distribute the enormous amount
of goods that are pouring forth
from the tail erd Of our factories,
shops, mines and farms.
Will we continue our present
vicious economic program? Sure
We will. Most of the American peo-
ple-not being endowed with the
capacity to think-will complacent-
ly agree with Herbert Hoover, who
last fall in the Saturday Evening
Post, said that call change is
fraught with grave danger" Per-
haps if the ex-president would read
Wells history Of civilization it
would dawn upon him that society
has been constantly upon the
change since the days of the cave
man. But now he insists that So
ciety must forever remain static
and stagnant. I am reminded of
the statement of Sam jones who
said that stagnation is the next
station to word that rimes with
it.
Under our present order money
is the only medium that we can
exchange for the necessities and
Injuries Of life; yet we carefully
lock our money in bank vaults so
as to nullifv its capacity to pur-
chase-which is exactly equivalent
to the imbeciitv of locking up food
clothing and shelter in the same
bank vaults. Surely wisdom viii
die with Us.
The poet certainly vivi-sected ard
laid bare our civilization when he
said, water, water everywhere and
not a drop to drink" Even the
monkey has brains enough to eat
when cocOanuts are plentiful. But
we haven't advar ced that far. Two
ffthS Of our school children this
minute are suffering from under
nOurishment.
Well perhaps there is a method
in our madness. If these food starv
ed kids cannot study or think they
will grow up mOrons and cling to
the wleckage of our present eco
nonic system as though it were
a priceless gift from the gods.
We have 100000 of willing
tO-work people on the bread lines
in our noble civilization; 12,0O0,-
600 are out Of work, without the
means of economic security. Even
those who aIe given jobs or the
public works program, are produc-
ing little of practical use to So
ciety-largely luxury jobs. Millions
OF young people are dumped upon
the worlds markets from our col
leges, seminaries and chronological
Notwithstanding for a chance
to produce-which being denied,
they enter lives Of crime. Why
should we allow them to produce
more goods, when we are incapable
of distributing the goods we a. e
already producing? The only pos
sible way they can obtain Jobs is
to crowd out the marts of trade
those who already have jobs. The
last thing our civilization wants
them to do is to create and pro-
duce Let them freeze, starve, be.
come hitch mixers or enter the
ranks of racketeers and gangsters.
Who cares. Now if these Young
people could only become consum-
ers without becoming producers
what a valuable asset they would
be to our profit order. Markets!
Markets! That is what we want. If
these young people could only es-
tablish stratosphere communica-
tons with the planet Mars, Nep-
tune, Uranus or some Of the other
supposedly inhabited worlds that