Salt Lake Telegram | 1935-09-07 | Page 4 | The Age of Fear

I Jt- Jt The Age ge of f Fear 5 wor world d has seen mankind moved by f many emotions emotions emotions-by by pride by hate by b greed creed by the lust of adventure It is the misfortune mis f fortune of the pre present ent generation that thi this era ithe Is the age ge of fear Half Hill a million f fighting men practice battle tactics in the plains and nd mountains near Bolzano Bol Bol- zano Eano zano G Germany summons conscripts and masses masses' fighting lighting p nes for the first great military maneuvers held eld in the reich since 1918 France completes tes a fabulously expensive and intricate intricate intricate cate set et of border forts and sends out two armies of f recruits to engage in mock warfare on ona a a. mile 40 front Engl England nd sets h her hr r Mediterranean Mediterranean z 4 nean nean leet to fo work under the shadow of Mussolini's Mussolini's Musso Musso- r linis lini's guns and orders orders' the e great home fleets fleet to toi i assemble at Portsmouth for lor autumn maneuvers Ev Everywhere in Europe the Ute fighting men and and the fighting lighting machines are gathering And for lor what wh-a if if not because every nation is is deathly afraid of every other t It lit is a j tragic commentary on inability to I come to grips with wi fundamental fundamental problems In L i Hi aI j MM oj ft th baa W Ij tt I. I a i V l 1 i I is the same unemployment same unemployment stagnant business the baffling complexities complexities' of a society wh which ch has learned how to multiply the production of goods but has hardly begun eg n to learn how to distribute distribute distribute dis dis- dis- dis tribute them among its its people If there ever was an issue that deserved d all the effort of every great nation natio this one is it But Bu fear holds the I stage and directs things otherwise The money the energy energy and the devotion that might go to mal make e life easier must instead be spen spent to pr prepare pare for lor death and destruction Until fear fearis is mastered the mastered the great advance which the race as a whole might make m ke must mark time help help- lessly