Evening star., 1939-07-16

What strikes hardest when compare what we had in the
1905 with what have the 1905 is the extra
ordinary increase not only quality OF fes necessities but
in variety remember when orange luxury for
Christmas and birthdays today who that he cannot
have orange he wants it, In multitude OF ways we have
increased these sixty the quantity variety and
quality of the necessities of life And to believe those
who wreste with the problem of what industry with the help
of the machine has learned to do in producing Enough
believe that have the TOOLS the technique the knowledge
today to produce all that necessary tor satisfactory orderly
life for every man. woman and child the United States
Very it does not get to everybody in proper proper
ton And there problem make use of the abundance
know how produce learn how to get to
in proportion to his earning power.
Is that harder problem than learning how to produce
abundance? doubt it. 1t simply and patient
efforts. What is it that Whitman said'
Now understand we'll - is provided in the
of things that from any ition of success shall come forth
something to make greater struggle necessary.
What most important in solving this hard problem of
distribution? Is that Freedom experiment and
apply that the main has brought tremendous advance
health and production? The promotion of the general well
fare depends upon the freedom of seek opportunity
for his daily bread and the right when he has
earned it.
We wouldn't have believed that sixty years not
generally and boldly. We did clearly that the
greatest essential in securing this welfare the largest
freedom - freedom even to be fool
All right but today sixty ago. all gains may be
back if shattered by grew with the notion of
the nobility of 1t essential the larger freedom of
the bettement of the world. Had not the Civil War
given freedom the esaved? For what better purpose could
men live and die?
But after time realized that there before this
Civil War peaceful forces work. and moral that
with time and patience would have produced general freedom
this country spared devastated regions bitter hates and
crop of problems.
Nothing convnces more today that the world can in
time learn that there always forces work that though
SLOW less destructive their effects than and
revolutions proved themselves nothing
certainly of this than mans experiment with the League
of Nations. When fftyodd nations agree for
limited time that there may be way avoid when
they point where they put their to
that makes its object the finding of this then
there planted the world new hope new ideal Make ne
mistake about it, is the hopes and the ideals of the world
that in the long push the spiral upward.
In hasty push the button civilization quickly dis
card any organization that does not automatically work
Having resolved signed petitions set machinery expect
that will go planned 1t obvious enough
those who lived through the Great War; and who have studied
the settlements, that the Covenant might have lived to
greater glory if the had made sacrifices we'll the
conquered
fundamental gain from the Great War lies in the fact
that there nation earth in which there not few
who realize that deusion that the victos beset
by dangers than the conquered, that
sacrifice less than Our present job want world
fit to live to discover why the tremendous undertaking
of bringing the nations of the world together for
purpose failed One of great early machine builders used
say when he had finished his work. Now her boys
and see why she doesn't work.
The world has built large machinery tribunals
dplomacies societies. League of Nations and now job
why this machinery. inspired it by the noblest and
oldest of mans dreams, does not work satisfactorily.