| Show Pre Y a i I i n 9 0 pin i ihs ih's I Comment of fhe the American Press Concord 1935 1635 I I do not believe that it ever happened to any other town so small as this to have living in it as contemporaries such men as Emerson Hawthorne and Thoreau Thoreau Tho- Tho reau said James Russell Lowell at at the of the founding of Concord Mass 50 years ago The intellectual and literary supremacy that these names held then in the tho United States remained a classic as Concord Con Con- cord celebrated its tercentenary yesterday The fame of two of these Concord Concord Concord Con Con- cord Americans furthermore is not a purely literary one Emerson Emerson Emerson Emer Emer- son and Thoreau were moralists whose effect has been wide wid and various and far reaching To cite two instances Nietzsche as Havelock Ellis Ems records in the Encyclopedia Encyclopedia Encyclopedia En En- cyclopedia of Religion and EthIc Ethics Ethics Eth Eth- Ic ics looked upon as a a kind of e C elder I 1 d e r brother and throughout the whole of f his active life some volume of Emersons Emerson's es essays essays es- es says always alwayn accompanied his wan wan- It was a reading of Thoreau's Tho- Tho reau's essay on Civil Disobedience ence it is said that clarified and confirmed Ghandi's ideas on th the political use use of passive resistance about 30 years yearn ago when h he was for formulating m u I n. n tin go his program Through these two moral philosophers Occidental and Oriental and at the ends of ot the earth in their moral recommendations then the intellectual energies of ot two Concord natives have made themselves felt in the lives of millions Add to this anonymous and indirect Influence tho the direct effects of these writers upon their own ow-n countrymen and upon educated educated educated edu edu- Europeans Latin Americans Americans Ameri Amen cans and Orientals and it must be admitted that Concord has made its mark in the world Hawthorne's Haw Haw- thorne's name is known to the literate of ot Europe and the two Americas at least and hi his influence influence influence ence upon the art of novel writing has been great These writers of such a n. small New England town as nI well as the embattled farmers of Concord fired a shot whose echoes a afe e still sounding strongly on the towns town's three hundredth birthday birthday birthday-an an occasion occasion oc oc- oc- oc casion caslon that centers the pride affection affection af at- and respect of all aU Americans AmerIcans Ameri Amen cans in the birthplace of at American American Ameri Amen can cn culture especially at at the North Bridge and in the m modest burying ground round where three small headstones within a few yards ards of one another stand as an a dramatic and gigantic understatement of the fame of Emerson Thoreau and Hawthorne New New York Sun Foreign Grown Food Whether or not Senator Borah is a candidate for tor the Republican nomination I for a r president h e scored a direct hit with his declaration declaration declaration decla decla- ration the other day in an Idaho address Neither the American farmer nor the American farmer and the American treasury combined can compete with the cheap labor costs of foreign countries The senator was flaying the Roosevelt tariff policy for tor despite direct pledges to the contrary tariffs tariffs tariffs tar tar- iffs on on farm products are being evaded and the farmers of ot the nation nation nation na na- na- na tion face serious competition The farm policy of ot the administration administration adminis adminis- calls cals for all aU kinds of s sub sub- b- b sidles to encourage the decreased production of farm products Tho The foreign policy of the administration tion calls for trade deals with foreign foreign foreign for for- eign nations The two policies have collided head on head and and the tho victims are the farmers of the na na- na- na tion Senator Borah made this direct and startling allegation To my astonishment I am Informed in informed informed In- In formed by a leader of at a farm cooperative cooperative cooperative co co- co- co operative movement in the cast east that 40 per cent of all purchases of farm products for a certain group of cooperative plants came from foreign countries It must b be bo a matter of very great concern to agriculture to know that th t 40 per cent of the tho sup supplies supplies sup plies of oC these large cooperative plants arc coming from foreign fields where farm labor Jabor is paid between one fourth and third one-third as comp compared with what is paid in inthe inthe inthe the United States An examination will show that in some lines of agricultural products products products prod prod- tho the Importations are Increasing increasing ing at the rat rate of ot 00 OO 00 par por cent An Increasing number of people are in agreement that to balance the situation created by the tariff on industrial products it Is proper that a processing tax be laid on farm products and the receipts distributed In some form to the farmers But to then permit foreign for for- eign farm products to enter the American market to undersell the taxed products is an an Impossible situation S f rj The administration faithfully promised the nation when congress congress congress con con- gress surrendered to the president president president dent its 13 ts tariff-making tariff powers that there would be no reduction in protection of American farm products The pledge was made it will vill be recalled when Senator Hiram Johnson J fought to include such a prohibition in the tariff bill Upon that pledge congress surrendered We wonder how long Senator Johnson can remain si silent silent silent si- si lent in view of the betrayal San San Bernardino Sun to fo Democracy There is a pronounced swing swing- bac to democracy and democratic democratic democratic demo demo- cratic Institutions in the opinion of Sir Herbert Samuel English liberal This reaction he finds has become m most 0 s 3 t pronounced within the last year A year ago he heard talk of dictatorship on all sides There was a feeling that the strong man was needed to pull pun countries out of the dumps Now the great man notion Is pretty much deflated How did this thin come about Simply Simply Simply Sim Sim- ply according to Sir SIt Samuel by watching the performance of the sup superman They haven't haven made good Their countries are not as aswell aswell aswell well along toward recovery as the democratic nations and their people people peo peo- pie are without freedom of action ac ac action action ac- ac tion and In come instances without without without with with- out freedom freedo 1 of ot thought or con con- science It used to be said that racy Inefficiency was wa only compensated compensated com corn by the fact that nobody could think of ot any better form of government all things considered But now democratic countries are arc showing that even on the score of practical affairs they are ahead head of dictatorships Can It be that In Inthe Inthe the multitude of ot counsel there J ii wisdom as well as S safety San Francisco Chronicle Just from tram what is said of them those barefooted Ethiopian trIbesmen tribesmen tribesmen tribes trIbes- men are no ones with which to play this little pig went to mar mar- ket Seven ministers ministers of ot II 11 duces duce's cabInet cabinet cab cab- inet met are Benito Mussolini Ethiopia EthIopia Ethiopia Ethi EthI- opia might not now be so 0 critical if the dictator had used the same principle In building his army |
