Evening star., 1938-07-31


they could. Quite right. And you
would pay the bills.
What about your own children the
while? Why, you would be training
them to work and earn wages or run
businesses so that they, in turn, could
support the children Of these youths"
Maybe, when you had paid your share
Of the youth subsidy. you would have
enough left for the their tuition. And
maybe you would not. That Is the
logic Of 1t.
And 80. says the speaker. "the youth
OF America would go back to work"
Back? What were they working at
before, please tell us. What splendid
thing is oratory!
1t is don herold who furnishes the
rebuttal to Mr. William Hinckleys
argument, doing so very neatly in a
few paragraphs in the August Serb
ners. Whether mr. herold ever heard
of Mr.. Hinckley or not. the reviewer
does not know. but he answers his
case sweetly and prettily. Says mr..
herold:
Frankly, or Franklinly, am won
dering about the future Of country
in which, for or IL years or more,
all the growing boys are inevitably
observing that if you succeed in ex-
ceiling at one thing or another you
stand q very good chance Of getting
your ears slapped back. -.
Il am afraid that governmental
paternalism and governmental discour-
agement Of initiative may be producing
a Nation Of defeatists at II.
why strain? Why not just relax?
God and Uncle Sam will take care of
you. no matter what happens. Just
lie back and doze in the gentle arms Of
the Great Federal Father.
Are defeatism and parasitism the
two great lessons We are giving Amer
lean boys today?"
THE cheerful mr. herold is not the
only person viewing with alarm
this month. either. The Atlantic
Monthly, under the general heading
Of Assault on Civilization" pub
lishes three separate articles, and
these are by some quite famous names.
One of the names Is Thomas Mann.
The other two are M. w. Fodor and
George Slocombe. both journalists.
Mr.. Fodor an authority on Central
European problems and Mr.. Slocombe
Of long acquaintance with European
affairs. They are all in a head-shak-
ing. not to say a breast-beating mood.
DR.. Mann calls his article Man
kind, Take Care!" and delineates in
it the steady progress Of Europe away
from the idealism Of the 10th century
in the direction Of barbarism. He is
more concerned with moral degenera-
tion than political; he centers his
warning and lament on the fact that
this movement toward primitivism is
based on lies, on the glorification of
the lie and on the hatred of truth.
1t is = solemn, beautifully written
piece.
Mr.. Fodor describes what has taken
place in Austria since the Anschluss-
prosecutions Of the Jews, distribution
of government posts to Germans. con-
flscation and looting, confinement of
innocent men in concentration camps,
and all the rest of it. A gloomy bit
Of reading, certainly.
Mr.. Slocombe takes up the case Of
France. for which country he has con-
siderable respect. He finds it the
only one in Europe which has not
backed down before NaA or Fascist
bluff and which owns its own soul
today. This is not the opinion which
other observers hold Of France, but
1t is Mr.. Slocombe's. He makes a sum-
ciently interesting case Of 1t.
FRANCES case. however, is further
considered for the month by yet
another well-known English journalist,
Mr.. F. Britten Austin. Mr.. Austin
writes in the Commentator and calls
his piece, France Has No Friends"
His position is exactly the reverse Of