Evening star., 1939-12-31

Destitute youth was taken oil the streets
and put to work cleaning the Nations
forests. Farmers were saved from bank
ruptcy with enormous subsidies These
measures seemed to accomplish, for the
time being at least, their purposes. Their
cost was fantastic. The national budget
went out of balance by astronomical
figures. So did local budgets every
where.
Brushing aside all the details, the New
Deal was characterized by an increasing
liberalization of the activities of life, an
increasing assumption of responsibility by
the National Government for the welfare
of its citizens, and increasing demands
on the Government by these same citi-
zens.
More Radical Experiments
In Russia and Germany.
In America, everything considered, it
was mild. Far more radical experiments
were underway in two other great ma
tions. Russia and Germany. Communism
had made progress in Russia. The con-
cept of the welfare Of the individual was
replaced entirely by the concept of the
welfare of society as whole.
Everything would be managed for the
benefit of ALL The Communist leaders
pursued their ideal with considerable
efficiency, under the circumstances, ac-
companied by revolving cruelty. A million
or more were deliberately starved to
death to make the system work.
Even more radical was the German
experiment. BY strange combination
of accidents queer house painter,
former tramp, rose to supreme power
At first the world looked upon him as
a clownishly ridiculous figure. He put
into force system of federal control
and RECOMMENDATION in some respects
worse than anything that had come
out of Russia. 1t was for one thing,
uninhibited. Both countries discarded
Christ and the God of Christ. For the
enforcement of their systems they had
to be free from all moral and ethical
obligations.
World Again at War
As Decade Closes.
Incredible incident after incredible in
cident followed in rapid succession
Austria, Czecho-Slovakia, finally Poland.
Europe was terrorized by the gangsters
of Hitler far more than any American
community ever had been terrified by its
gangsters and kidnapers. AS the decade
comes to an end, the two most powerful
European nations and the chief Gus
todians of the continents civilization,
France and Great Britain, have plunged
into a great war to end this reign Of
terror.
1t is the strangest war man ever has
witnessed-it will grow stranger as time
goes on. The very magnitude of the
struggle is such that it can hardly be
appreciated. 1t has been, to date, rather
clash of minds than arms. Many more
will be killed in combat in the end.
In the background mysterious and
menacing, stands Russia, bear turned
vulture. 1t apparently has discarded its
own ideals, to a large extent, and adopted
those of Hitler. The allies are fighting
to save the people of Germany from the
gangsters. After that they may have to
fight to save the people of Russia from
the gangsters.
Finland, aided by winter and darkness,
seems to be doing good job against one
set of gangsters for the time being. She
is not proving such easy meat for ruth
less, merciless cuthroat as were Ethiopia,
Albania, Austria, Czecho- -Slovakia, Dan
zig, Poland.
Significant Advances Balance
Spectacular Disasters.
The decade has been thronged with
dramatic events of no particular conse-
quence in the worlds history because
they merely happened in the midst of
the currents and were not part of them
the abdication of British King, the ce-
menting of Anglo-American friendship