| Show Writer Re Reviews Causes Behind Present Psychological Revolt By BURTON KLINE KLINEr r A wise we commentator on the modern scene has remarked that a depression lasts as long Iong as it takes to kill oil off those hose who have brought it about Recovery Re covery begins with the appearance of new bra brains ns new blood new new vitality When you ou come down to it a de de- such as we have been through is more than the product of economic forces Humanity has its high Ugh tides of splurge and expenditure and ebb tides of cold feet After Alter a debauch de dc- bauch auch of spending spend and speculation it lies ies lies down bawling bawlin in prostration It lies ies so until the inherent vitality within with with- in n reasserts rea itself itsel Young blood new brains are arc the expression of returning vitality Where are they today AU All too little littlen In n sight In business at least And for forthe forthe the he reason we have rove to go some distance dis tance back Few a appear ocar to have plumbed the damage done this naion nation na- na ion Uon by the war that gave this count coun- try ry one of its grandest souls and greatest great est men Few have noticed that in the 63 years since the outbreak of the Civil war the United States h has s been quietly waging another war that goes goeson goeson on to this day Warfare it has been too oo in the strictest sense ense of ot the word Only tod today y are we counting the casUalties casualties cas ens- and paying the bills The warfare war warS fare referred to is the war can business has waged against youth and brains In the the American people took themselves to be fighting for a great humanitarian purpose the purpose the abolition ab ab- ab- ab of human slavery They thought such a cause worth any sac But when it was over they had poured out rivers of the nations nation's best blood bleed And be because use ause of U this s terrible loss oss the country has ever since then been jeen poorer in brains brain and initiative than it might have been As a consequence of it all we still sUll are poor in Iii fighters however rich richin richin in m builders These are important but we still are a people who having constructed a machine are anxiously awaiting those capable of running it HOW RUSSIA DID IT ITIn ITIn In lit 1866 the year after Lee had bad surrendered surrendered sur stir rendered at Appomattox a czar of Russia wi wiped d out slavery in his dominions dominions dominions do do- minions with a stroke of his pen What had cost here rivers of blood blood he achieved a drop of ink What moved him hitri to this act of peace was the same sort of book that with willi us brought on a war A worse one was WU averted by Ivan with A Sportsmans Sportsman's Sketches All AU it did was wasLo to Lo portray in disinterested terms the theme life me and character of the Russian serf It did the business for humanity and end It remains a masterpiece of literature Russia lost nothing but a disgrace to itself The Civil war came to lo pass for reasons rca rea sons other than humm humanitarian wlm It was the inevitable clash between two sharply opposed systems of life the the machine machin slave versus the human slave the the new business man of the thc north versus the old going easygoing individualist of the south The business man won and set setout set out outto to cash in on his victory The years s since nce 1865 are the story of business pouncing on whatever would foster business The brains it most eagerly employed were thos those devoted to invention invention in in- and science those science those able to save it money money For 68 GB years the cOuntry country country cOun- cOun coun coun- try has been absorbed in building up upa a blind system blind to the brains needed to balance it For 68 years business has held In Inlow Inow low ow esteem the young man of independent inde- inde pendent views the more so If he nod had the he handicap of college training He was vas a poet or something Business BusIness' has las wanted chiefly well trained clerks and it got them It got little else And that's what's the matter maUer with business today A RUN DOWN CLOCK We are arc witness to the withering down of a system that has systematically systematically cally stifled itself It has robbed itself Itsel of the young the new the vitaL It Itis Itis is jg a clock run down for want of Its main spring In not very long the vitality of ot the therace therace therace race will express itself itsel in new brains new men They have yet to show up in n busin business but show up they will In Inthe Inthe the he meantime something remarkable has las happened Until this year of grace 1933 business busi bui ness was WM about all we did cud Business offered the only career Business piped off oU all the brains G Government was vas no career at all and drew but buthe the he second Suddenly last autumn a new and young-spirited young man was elected to the presidency Look over the men he helas has las picked for important posts They are young And they are man many Running Run Run- nine ning a country solemnly devoted to life liberty and the pursuit of happiness happiness hap hap- has become important ag again ln The capital of the United States has been een transferred to the place where George Washington designed it to be This new deal you have heard of is isa isa a 1 psychological revolution All AU but a minority have gone through it A population population population pop pop- of a hundred and more million millions is s seeing it through Few of the things taken for granted in the past ten years will ever go on again Even business will catch up with the times It will have lave to or there may be no such thing ns s private business The American people will have time to develop their talents and talents and who knows how many how m many y are arc concealed among them This is not the language of rhapsody but the words of ot fact Suppose this recovery program flags for a while while- as well veU it may What of it The vitality vital ity and ity-and and the Ingenuity ingenuity of of live peo people le will carry it on Something Something Something Some Some- thing has been started that no one will consent to see sec die The rest will wil catch up but already the sighted far know we are in ma ina a new day where to garble the words of the most eloquent of the apostles young oung men see vi vl and old men inert dream their dreams b Copyright McClure Newspaper Syndicate |
