The people's voice., 1941-10-08
Salvation by Catastrophe
By CARL WHITMAN, in Fairlawn & Paramus 4

By CARL WHITMAN in Fairlawn & Paramus IN J Clarion
There time when catastrophe that caused great
destruction of and commodities regarded
general calamity.
Since close of the Century, the civilized world has
passed from semvage and Of scarcity to
the machine of production to an era of
During normal times the production plants of
variety turn out enough goods to feed coe and house twice
people the population of the world numbers today
But the point of distribution find large section of
the population lfed, llclothed and lhoused There is
poverty and privaon for millions in the midst of plenty
flood in the Mississippi flats huge fire in large
ctyany catastrophe at all that destroys burns the
listing stored surplus weat hailed as spur to prosperity
The destructive elements of nature alone however,
ducon scale Monopoly capital is by nature proconum
ling animal not interested in changing it's habit to allow the
common people to work and honest living.
Ten Germany nation of 60 million souls had
million unemployed and the population whole lacked the
every warehouse buged with surplus commodities German
monopoly capital found itself the of collapse and the
powerful handful of men who controlled feared would be
superseded by system OF production and distribution for use
such as that already functioning in nearby Russia.
German monopoly capital, faced with the threat of al
broad democratic upsrge found way to survive by taking
direct political control of the state and putting everybody
work at producing instruments of war and destruction Mil
lions of the younger generation were drafted into the private
army of monopoly capital known the Brown Shirts Com
pusory military service resurrected in Germany
German monopoly capital pointed out to the rest of the
world that it had unemployment had created
another of artificial prosperity for itself For at least five
last past 500 of Germanys labor and produc
ton plants working day and night creating instruments
of and destruction.
New Germany had suddenly become the best market for
monopoly capital of other nations for Germany
OIL rubber metal cotton and other required
thus successful in discovering ersatz for unemployment
of inducing artificial prosperity In order
the competition monopoly capital of other industrial nations
followed suit lesser degree Salvation by
trophe the only way out for monopoly capital
Like avalanche the theory of salvation by catastrophe
gathered momentum finally engufng the whole civilized
world. Unemployment hrank jobs multiplied in the great
workshops producing instruments essential for destruction AL
anything not designed for and purposes of desuc
ton is soemny labeled non-essential.
Here in the United States they killed pigs and livestock
powed them under with fourth of wheat and
cotton in order to artificial scarcity In Europe Asia
Africa, they do little beer-there they kill men,
and children and pow them under by the millions order to
find employment for the remainder at profit
In 1914-1918 they killed off Is million of the best
mankind and powed them under But 1929 they again
SO million idle and relief in midst plenty
Abundance rumped and poverty Poland placed
finest canned hams the shelves of the butcher of
every village in the United States {
The knaves who yet alive stand in before the
yenuy of German monopoly capital that abolished unempoy
and created the complex machines that
truction profitable for monopoly capital
The public in general has thus far been able to n
basic evil of the world calamity monopoly
capital the sophisticated mind however