Salt Lake Telegram | 1936-02-01 | Page 4 | What Readers Think

What Readers Thi Think RULES 1 a. letters ietter to OU words word 2 5 a Write on 11 ona on tide Ide of ot the pa pal per only tb write legibly J 3 la ta rJ g Ji racial JI and Jeg partisan isa dt dis discussions J- J barred b b personal aspersions as 43 not deal desired red 4 4 a Writers raim sign true truo names namn and residential ad addresses a pen name Damo may maybe maybe maybo be bo published of authors author real name 5 5 i. i t o contributions art are not considered 6 Views View expressed 2 In thin depa are those taos of the contributors and do 11 not nut necessarily reflect the tile views It t Tr-e Tr Jer J ram 7 1 The fhe department cannot be used as a. asan asan an nn me Hum tf This Ibis department de cc does lIou not rout more mar than one ono contribution a work week from the same ame author TOO MANY CORNERS Editor of The Telegram There is something seriously wrong in a country with unlimited unlimited natural resources from which to produce wealth and the necessities necessities ne ne- ne of life Ufe in which there are several millions of workers begging begging begging beg beg- ging for employment and a Do serious serious serious seri seri- ous need for the commodities which this wasted labor and materials materials ma ma- could produce Spellbinders like Al AI Smith tell how wonderful he has been treated and what unparalleled opportunities ties there are arc for everybody in inthis inthis inthis this country and no rio doubt it is wonderful for a few tew of the fortunate fortunato fortu fortu- nato nate ones but what of ot the 50 per perce percent percent ce cent t or more of ot the American people people peo peo- pIe who make up the lower Jower financial financial finan finan- cial strata of our economic so society so- so those clet-those those who are vainly trying to get a foothold and are for ever slipping back back Is our present profit system so wonderful for lor them Smith painted a glowing picture pic pie ture of the great middle class of this country but as a matter of ot fact tact the middle class of this country Jj Is fast being liquidated A very few are absorbed into the upper stratum the stratum the great m ma majority ma- ma are arc being forced down into the great group The trouble with this country and with the world in general is that there are are too many corners in it C Corners in money corners in business corners in ties Everything worth while has hasa a fence around it and a sign Keep out Some Individual or corporation has preempted everything everything every every- thing of value of-value value and is maintaining a stranglehold to keep out com corn petition Sure the profit system is fine for those who have the breaks and the sky as DS the limit The system of the big fish preying prey preying ing tag on the smaller ones all the way down the line is fine tine If It you chance to be one of at the very J largest fish Ish Al Smith and the other malcontents malcontents malcon malcon- tents of the Privilege league who chafe under the new deals deal's mild restraints on their activities will have a hard time convincing the common people that their sheep's clothing conceals anything anything any any- thing but wolves j C. C CS S. S WILKINSON