Show Hard Labor Ahead But Horror Gone As We Ve Survey New Ne Years Year's Promises By BURTON KLINE I The close of the year is a time for tor assessment What do Americans see about them at the end of 1933 Most of them have been too busy in making things come to pass to notice notice no no- tice what they have made If they take a look they wilt will find they have handed themselves the finest Christmas Christ Christ- mas inns gift In years and this time may mayl wish each other a happy New Year with feeling and not with a phrase No one need remind them of what they've been through in the past pasti i three years No one need tell them they now are arc on the way out o oi of it Even the skeptics admit as much It Is needless to tick off the proofs of this the six million workers put I back to work retail rebiI trade nearly 20 per cent better than a year ago but ago but why go on with the catalog In any case the American habit is not to pause for pride over each little onward onward onward on on- ward step but go on I The ten months since March 4 have been witness to marvels but the end of the year ear brings not the backward but the forward look Recovery Yes Yes Yes-so so far But what of the fu future fu- fu ture turc Is It on solid ground I For these ten months any American Amer Amer- ican concerned about what has been I happening In and in-and and to the to-the the country has had to have active eyes so dense has been the traffic of events so freighted with meaning every event ent By now the trends become more distinct distinct dis dis- dis I their meanings more able Dip into the significance of this one one Democracy Strives On OnI I E Some days das before the fact tact drifted Into the regular news channels Mr i I Durno writing from Washington for lor lori i Inside Stuff forecast the need of an extra night shift shUt at the White House I to handle the presidents president's mail In a single day it had run to letters Whatever these separate letters said to the president their very volume says one thing to the country AmerIcans Americans Amer Amer- leans as never before are concerned for or their country and interested in its government While the rest of the world has run to ships and isms here is 3 a democracy not surviving merely but stronger than ever At Ata a time when other despairing peoples peo pee pies ples have sought salvation in a single gov governor the American people have never been more nearly the governors of their own affairs Two elements clements have probably contributed contributed contributed con con- to this awakening the awakening the stings of the depression and the gentleman gentleman gentle gentle- man now in the White House Those with political or personal dislike of the man may prefer to think otherwise otherwise other other- wise but there is b no blinking the response to these friendly calls Mr Roosevelt has paid In every AmerIcan Amer Amer- ican lean household over the radio These letters in fri a single day are a line on that No other president received received re reo re- re so many To call caU this leadership scarcely covers the facts Mr Roosevelt is directing a national urge Whether he ic himself aroused it future ians lam may dispute for tor years The present present pres pres- ent point is alt all that matters Where Opposition Springs He now has all aU about him a soil of public opinion out of which anything and everything can be be will be grown Critics of what is occurring may think hink they oppose Mr Mi- Roosevelt They oppose this irresistible growth It Is why Mr Roosevelt has had his way whenever he pleased Looking ahead and not back it Is hard to see a matter of gre greater ter importance importance tance than what's to spring from this soil soU of new opinion with opinIon with what dead growths its it's to enrich itself for new ones what ones what new ones it is growing already By warrant of this immediate present present present pres pres- ent it is possible to predict almost anything of ot the immediate future future- Mr Roosevelt's to life lUe proposal 10 10 people out of ot the slums and Into the country country business business and bankIng banking bank bank- ing from now on busy transplanting themselves to this new soil of at opinion ion Ion to grow up or grow under under the the regimentation of every industry adaptable to it it with toil correspondingly correspondingly correspondingly correspond correspond- lightened the lightened the hour 30 week for release from this toil toil leisure leisure to indulge in indulge that voracious appetite that all Americans have for every conceivable conceivable conceivable able thing to eat and wear and see and read the read the rise of leisure and amusement Industries to cater to this The prospect lifts all curbs from these speculations These thin things will not noL be brought about by button button- pressing They may have to be toiled for fought for But if jf a prospect of toil toU and battle batUe looks forbidding contrast contrast contrast con con- It with what the country faced at this time but a year ago That's one assessment appropriate to the period Hard labor may lie ahead but horror horror horror hor hor- has been left behind Copyright McClure Newspaper Newspaper- Syndicate |