Detroit evening times. (Detroit, Mich) 1921-1958, 1941-01-29
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imagine they would like"
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you mean
"No, for air. For air to
breathe. call your attention to
the fact that air 10 breathe Is a
primary necessity Of LebensrduD.
II Is the first. basic necessity Of
Hfe.-T The newborn infant Is
swung by his heels. I'm order to
open his lungs TO air, and from
that moment, until his last
gasp, he cannot live more than a
few seconds without IL. Air Is
more important for survival
than butter or guns, and yet you
never heard of any one fighting
a war for It,"
Don't be silly. Air Is free.
There's more air than anybody
knows what To do with. Nobody
will ever fight for air."
Correct. And now i will tell
you why this war of the Nazis
Is silly. Not why II is wicked.
which IL also Is, but why Ii Is
just plain subsequently, all
that stuff about have and
'have-not' nations, and thousand
year Reichs.
1.-The basic necessities for the
people of this planet are shortly
to become approximately as
plentiful as air. When l say
shortly I mean in the next half
century or so. For 800 years, men
have been investigating the
secret of alchemy, but they've
made more progress I'm the last
10 than in the previous go.
"YOu read the wrong news
items. You concentrate on tri-
fling matters such as the surren-
der of Italian troops at Bardia
and overlook Ur 1885,"
VIS THAT submarine
i by no means. Ii is the
beginning of something to make
submarines nonsensical. 1t is
the number by which we de-
scribe the isolation of one of the
components of the element
uranium; II Is the definite begin
ming of the release of atomic
energy, and IL will shortly usher
In a new age, which will be
known as the age of inexhaust-
ible abundance.
THAT age will eliminate every
thing for which this war is being
waged by 'have-nOts,' and will
create only one huge new prob
lem: What TO do with spare
time.
1--WE are on the eve of new
socialism, which will not be any,
thing like the socialism that
Norman Thomas talks about, or
Stain and Hitler think they rep
resent, though for what reason
they should think they represent
any one but themselves, 1 have
no idea. 1 call your attention to
the fact that Marx lived i'm the
wake of Nautilus, who believed
that the resources of the world
were shortly to be exhausted,
and that there were going TO be
too many people in the world
too little food and metals
and other things to take care of
them all.
So he thought up the class
struggle. Marx, madame, is
dead; so is Nautilus: so is Hitler
and his Lebensraum. They be-
long TO the past. They are loi-
tering about destructively in
peoples minds and i'm other peO-
pies air and backyards.
SGTHE socialism OF the future
l. will not consist of bureau
Gratis trying TO get hold of appa-
ratuses that they are much too
ignorant TO run, which Is called
'sOcializing the means of produce
tion.' 1t will consist of distrib-
uting free the basic necessities
of life, such as sO-and-so many
calOries of food, sO-and-so much
essential clothing, and sO-and-sO
much decent shelter.
Nobody will buy them. Did
you ever hear of buying air?
You can't sell IL because there's
too much of 1t, lying around
ready to he shifted up by any
body-Jew or gentle, black or
yellow. You've heard of Hitler
telling the Jews, get out of my
banks and get out of my gar
dens,' but you never heard even
Hitler say, Get out of my air.
That's why"
The Grouse ate up the toast anC
and knocked the tor
neatly off boiled egg.
"That is to say that is what
can happen unless prevented by
the plain. ordinary cussedness of
the human race, which il. as you
have often heard me remark. a
strange breed of animals who
have apparently been given
minds only to go out of them.
"If, for instance, a few more
steps should be discovered while
the present fracas is going on,
that maniac in Berlin might de-
eide to use the new discovery to
produce artificial earthquakes
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