The potters herald. [volume] (East Liverpool, Ohio) 1899-1982, 1940-02-22
Truths Pondered While
Riding At Anchor
MIR. MODESTUS
. DO MANY THINGS:
= MAKE MANY ERRORS
= Do NOTHING: MAKE NO
ERRORS
= THEREFORE,: DO NOTHING

tobacco and oil
And income taxes
Supporting lot of fat jobholders-
Just big bureaucracy
Paying fancy salaries, to a lot of
fellows
Most of them ordinary men, no bet
ter than you or me
Pulling out and tying up red tape
Passing the buck
Running us all in debt
Chinese officials had word for it
'Do many things: make many
errors
"Do few things: make few errors
"Do nothing: make no errors"-
Therefore: do nothing
So they passed the buck on to the
next chairholder-
Herbert Hoover recently made dis
covery-
"Solve unemployment, or ruin the
nation"-
But Herbert is not now where he
has to do something
Time was, when Herbert followed
the Chinese motto
Herbert passed the buck, doing little
about it
Now he discovers that nobody has
solved unemployment
Wants to go back to the good old
days of 1929
In 1880, 1881, 1882: Herbert did
little about unemployment
Except to get count of noses Of
unemployed
And then hide the count
Herbert was the government"
And he would not interfere with
private business
Except to fork over a lot of money
for the banks
To pay off railroad bonds; help
HELM Maria out
Call out the army against the old
soldiers
Possibly, making some errors
Government used to be something
run by SOldlerS-
For the benefit of someone called a
ruler
Mostly used to collect vast taxes
Also, collect prettiest girls for
harems--
Chopping heads off for objectors-
Something like that doing now in
Nazidom and Soviets-
No recent reports on what happens
to prettiest girls
But gathering taxes and chopping
heads
Goes on according to, ancient pat
tern
With much interfering with private
business
Which is one kind of government
The essential function of Govern
ment--
Is social control: control of social
forces and assets
Such control, of social forces and
assets
Today, or yesterday, has been per-
sonal-
Directed toward personal benefits
Naturally resenting any interfer-
ence--
With the purpose and methods of
personal control
Individualistic control of social
potencies---
Is a contradiction of government in
terms
AS we'll as being calculated to de-
stroy-
Social functions and processes q.
That is why personally controlled
business
Does nothing, can do nothing
About Unemployment.
about the development of the infant
postal service from the days of Ben
Franklin to the regime of Postmaster
General Farley are still at work, ano
along other lines of service. For dec
ades, many of the only practicable
roads were toll roads; but they have
become public highways, and since the
coming of the automobile have beer
enormously expanded under public
service and operation.
Schools were once private; but ir
1886 teachers in public elementary
schools numbered S70,963; faculties i1
universities and colleges numbered
9S,917.
Private, personal and commercial
police, private and volunteer fire com.
panies, and other such services have
had their functions taken over by
public service officials who numbered
$50, ,2O5 in 1880. These three items
total 1,S25,S persons, not in private
employment.
All music was at one time private
in its patronage; but today the city
of San Francisco is not the only mu-
nicipality having its own great concert
hall, with municipal symphony or
chestra. These services, and similar
developments Of culture, once depend
ed upon the royalty and the wealth
Of their patrons. During the depres
sion, millions of music lovers have en-.
joyed musical privilege which the!
never before had access to, because OF
the public organization of concerts anc