Henderson daily dispatch., 1936-04-14
OTHERS VIEWS
CoMn1ENDs FATHER DoErTERL

To the Editor:
The right-minded thinking people
OF Henderson, were much cfarginei,
when they read last night the letter
to the editor, by Rev. Leo G. Doet-
teri in this paper. Shame on us that
such conditions were here to be re-
ported, and more the same that one
of Gods chosen few should have to
leave his sacred precinct to 60 out
and do his best to cleanup the town.
Now this WArehouseman is not so
much to blame as it may appear at
first thought. He is doubtless as good
as any man in our midst. It is our
system of government under which we
live, and have for seventy years, that
is to blame. The devilish capitalistic
government under which we are dy-
ing is entirely responsible for our in
dividual, as well as our public disre-
gard not only for sanitation but for
religion. Conditions are not going to
be any better as long as we worship
the man who works, If you wish to
call it work, all the week and goes to
church on Sunday in fine car to
hear thirty minute sermon that was
made FOR his ears, returns to his fine
home, eats sumptuous diner, goes
to his elegantly furnished room and
smokes fine cigar as he sees thrO-
ugh his window on the street the
brothers and sisters of Jesus Christ
whom he has helped keep in poverty.
Goldsmith had it right when he wrote
| about two hundred years ago that:
I'LL fare the land, to Fastening ills q
prey.
| Where wealth accumulates, men de-
cay"
Allow me to quote here few words
from Father Doetterl's excellent let;
| ter, that should be fixed in the hearts
and minds of all America. The words
are from noted English divine; who
| said: Communism is a challenge to
| the injustices and evils of the social
| system, warning to Europe to set its
| house in order. We may repudiate its
doctrines and it's methods, but we can
not ignore the fact that Communism
is demand for a new social life. II
we turn a deaf ear to the laboring
masses cry for that life, we are moi
worthy to bear the name Of Chris
I is for Europe to give that new life
to its working millions"
In this connection the Washington
Daily News says, in recent issue
speaking of how liberal England is in
carrying for the INDECENT, that; "The
total cost of these services last year
| was more than two billion dollars, or
about one seventh of Britain's total
income. To equal this the United
| States, with three times England's
population and a present income Of
Fifty billion dollars, should be spend
ing about seven billion dollars a year,
a figure far beyond the, outlay. Based
on the 1929 income we would be
spending around thirteen billion dol
lars.
Britain wisely looks upon this out
lay as revolution insurance. She es-
capped violence when the industrial re-
volution spilled blood over France,
Germany and Austria. She has escap-
ed the violence of the postwar era
that overturned Russia, Italy and Ger
many. Now she insures her demo
cracy by the only method known to
man-social reform"
quotations above should, think, very
seriously engage the attention OF
| every adult in our country. For more
than seventy years, we as citizens of
this country, have fought desperately
to get ours. We have sacrificed large
ly our health and left off every COM
fort almost to get money. We have
care but little for the unsanitariness
of our Warehouses and the other
plces where we make few shackles.
We have not even stopped to think
that those around us were suffers for
our gain. Who wants to say, that
those who have the wealth of our
country today are not the debtors OF
those whose work gave them their
riches?
I believe people are better than they
ever were. 1t is the way we have been
doing things that is causing all the
arouble. Let us change our system
We have sense enough. Then all our
warehouses, factories, backwards, will
be clean as happy and contented
people can want them.
1 very sincerely thank Father Doet-
teri, for his interest in our town. He
base done what is, not only the pri-
vilege, but the God given duty of
every man and woman here.
JAS H. WRIGHT.
Henderson April TO- 1896