Askov American., 1942-04-02

The strident-voiced one usually has
some sinister purpose in view and
so we become regimented and herded
into another blind alley.
Parts (only small parts at a time)
of civilization have been repeating
this for centuries. They start to
turn over" but are caught in the
clashing-gear of reversing" move
ments-or reactionary movements,
with the under-tows of static-ism
and soon find the chains riveted on
the other ankle. At the present mo-
ment the whole world is turning, is
spinning like a whirling dervish.
Sooner or later it will collapse, ex-
hausted. From that state of exhaus-
ton it will arouse, maybe rapidly,
and look upon the wreckage.
Will it repeat history? Will it re-
turn to its vomit? doubt it. I be-
lieve new light is breaking through
the darkness. l believe many mil
lions now see that light, understand
it, will be led by it. That light illu-
mines the most vital truth of all
human history, namely, that all the
earth belongs to all men, that meth
er language, nor color of skin, nor
cultural backwardness, nor stage of
political development can justify ma
tional and race inequality"
The words quoted were spoken by
none other than Josef Stain (he's
now our ally and we may safely
quote him-some with our fingers
crossed), in the committee report on
the Soviet Constitution. But no mat
ter who spoke the words, they are
true. There can be no unity of civil
lied society until that truth is recog-
nized and enforced. There can be
no freedom of "all peoples" no free
dom of all seas, no equal rights for
all peoples until all peoples have
equal access to the earth and equal
enjoyment Of its resources, and its
socially values.
Every honest man will agree to
that, will agree that it is the end we
ought to seek. Such a fact, when
realized, will un-spur the riders and
un-saddle the. ridden. The enforce
ment of its sacredness will give man
the power to use his brain, his skill
and his talents to satisfy his own
needs, and to up-move civilization.
It will estop him from cornering and
monopolizing even one inch of the
earth not required for personal pur-
poses.
If this means Wrenching from the
grasping hands of greed the fat lands,
the fruitful trees and the precious
minerals under the lands, so be it..
If it means the determination of a
few million human swine-so be it.
The human race is at stake. The few
must yield to the needs of the many.
There are, admittedly, several ways
by which the end sought may be
achieved. AS to which one, if any
we now know, the future may use
is secret No one knows what sud-
den turn events may take. All our
plans, all our letter-perfect schemes
and exact blue-prints may be caught
in a cyclonic catastrophe and scat
tered to the four winds. While we
are pecking with an ice-pick at ''our"
spot in the wall whole section of
the wall may collapse at another
place. We must be ready and willing
to walk in. We must not refuse be-
cause we didn't do it with "our" little
pick.
World events are the big factors
in bringing about such opening.
Events are conspiring, fermenting and
seething. They are laundering and
hammering at the gates. Which gate
will fall first no one knows. Efforts
of individuals, even large numbers
of individuals, are inconsequential as
compared to the human forces of
evolving human society expanding in
the womb of time. When the hour of
delivery arrives men must be ready
to cooperate in caring for the new
order-of directing and cultivating
it. If not it may become deformed-
may be even strangled at birth, just
as the French Revolution was.
This does not mean that everybody
must do ''big" things. It means that
the disinherited, the economically en-
shaved, the socially outcast, must
agree on what they want. The de-
tailed 'splan" of the "set-up" must
wait-that is we must not now war
among ourselves as to which blue
print (if any We'll use at the time.
The main" objective is that never
again shall the good earth become the
private preserves of the few. You
mean :? Yes, I mean that the
past and present owners of the earth
are on the way out
O. M. THOMSON.
Willernie, MINI.
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