Evening star., 1941-03-15

ing icebergs. His heart was light
and his conscience clear. He had
escaped all natural enemies. The
aber-toothed tiger and the cave
bear roamed far to the southwark,
and those little two-legged nui-
sances which had annoyed his an
cestors were forgotten. So the man.
moth ate his fill, happy and care
free. The glaciers had been re-
treating steadily for several thou
sands of years, hadn't they? And
there was no reason why an Ell
terprising mammoth should not ex-
pect to have his descendants browse
around the North Pole.
He didn't notice the birds flying
South. He laughed at the little
furry of snowflakes. He had warm
coat OF hair and these things
passed. He did not realize that the
glaciers had started moving South
or that the climate had changed.
They dug him out of an iceberg
just the other day, frozen solid,
taken by surprise. in an unfair ca
price of nature which had appar-
emily no further use for hairy man.
moths and had decided that the
PleiStocene Age was over.
American Tycoon.
Then there was the creature
known as the American Tycoon
genus G. o. p, who cavorted
among the lush savannahs Of
laissez-faire stufing his NAV with
rugged individualism. corporate
mergers, Wall Street Write-ups and
similar delicacies left behind tie
retreating forces of mercantile
philosophy. For generations the
pastures had grown wider, the grass
richer and there seemed no reason
to believe that eventually the en-
tire world might not become the
playground for this creature. Nat
ural enemies had been left behind.
Bryan was discredited, Socialism
was anathema and Theodore Roose-
welt was in his grave.
He did not notice the rising tide OF
unemployment. he paid no heed to
the growing threat of war. These
things would pass-they always old,
didn't they? - and human nature
did not change He had big cash
reserves. laws and judges. habits and
PHILOSOPHERS, which provided him
with a thick coat against the storm.
He did not realize that the climate
of opinion had changed or that hu-
man nature had rung down the cur
tain on the age of rugged indlvld-
ualism and industrial laLssez-faire.
They are digging them up every day
noW-in Detroit. Pittsburgh, Wall
Street and La Sale street-and ship
ping them down to the Defense
Commission where their tusks, hides
and meat can be used to promote
the welfare of society.
Labor Big Shot.
And finally there is the mammoth
labor big shot-hairy Of eyebrow,
broad of bottom, trumpeting and
gambolling in the wide meadows OF
union organization. Union dues,
initiation fees. sympathetic strikes,
collective bargaining, political p.7S-
sure-tactics are his bill Of fare. He
sees the cold. blue ice wall Of re-
treating capitalism shrinking back
into the misty distance and he reck-
ons that there is no limit to his
opportunities. He looks forward to
the day when every man, woman
and child will belong TO a labor
union and pay dues to him and eXalt
and fatten his power. Rival G. I. o.
and A. F. L. lock tuSkS like bull
mammoths in the mating season,
while defense projects stand waiting
coyly on the sidelines for the out
come of what mastodons know as
"jurisdictional conflicts"
Yet I see the birds flying South.
sniff the snow in the silly head
lines and the hysterical publicity
which decries the effort of honest
workers to better their condition.
Hitler is on the march and America
must be defended. Perhaps the cli-
mate of opinion is still changing and
a country which acclaimed the rise
/ of labor in the 1905 will be content
| that labor has risen but will snow
under the labor big shots who be-
lieve that their will is the measure
of the labor movement and their
personal power the test of the pub
/ lie welfare.
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