Show 00 KEELING OUR HEADS read with dismay of strikes ill in large industrial centers Also they read regretfully or of the rioting in C VA projects were The fhe riots reading Xo No were cre tragic ragie and made depressing thinking lawless They are arc a always s 's futile There are arc better ways was to obtain a hearing from a patient tolerant and s sympathetic or government Regardless of all that may mar be said for or against tIle the justification of the strikes which began Friday in Iii the thic cast there thero is s tills this satisfaction satisfaction satis- satis faction to be found jn in the accounts le regarding regard regard- arding ard- ard ing the them describe them themas as peaceable A hothead here and 1 there here violence but in inthe in inthe may indi resort to 10 the re from the m main in walkouts w we e the tho usual strike of the past ast The A American can tak a great deal or of pride in their behaviorism during the past four years cars of chaos Idleness hunger and sickness stalking among people is a grave graye matter millions affected woefully woefully woe woe- fully and nul other m millions straining a point to help their neighbors there has been occasion for a severe test of the mental balance of our om people The times have been few and aud far be- be when the tension has reached the breaking breaking break break- ing point The outstanding ills instances ances were the called so-called hun hunger er march on and the invasion of the capital b by the bonus army armr Looking back on both of these there was nothing noth- noth ing catastrophic ill in them here and t there cre ill iii the country there have been disorders which at the mo moment were taken quite seriously But by and arge the tue American in all walks of life has bas his Ilis head t f-t At no time have we lad had ng approaching a disturb 0 Out or of these facts the country should find assurances that we are rc still committed to the notion that we shall have to doggedly patiently pa- pa and soberly work our way out of the depression Proceeding ill in that fashion we weare are arc emerging from it The signs are arc to be read everywhere It is no longer a matter of prophecy by the thc habitual optimist who seemed to believe that our troubles were psychological and that we could think our wa way dut Dr Cones Coues formula didn't work but real effort backed cd by fortitude has and is work work- fu ing Some few of us may be worl worked ed up a bit now and then about called so-called red rea plots but it simply doesn't seem to be in tile tho American scheme to give countenance to the slightest suggestion of revolt against our traditional system of settling things over here There are arc undoubtedly numerous creatures of questionable questionable ques- ques mental balance who nourish wild schemes of political and social upheaval to reach some fantastic goal but in most cases the rest of us can laugh them off Ye We can cando rio do this safely Henr Henry Ford said the other day we are in no danger of a red revolt because the country countr is too large and we arc a too numerous numerous nu- nu people That is not the reason Russia Russia Rus- Rus sia with over square miles of territory terri tern tory and people is larger and more populous than the United States with its square miles and tion The simple fact is that as a people we stand firmly against riot and ruction and will tolerate none of it America keeps its head With improving conditions continuing we shall come through this thing unscathed building build build- lug ing on far firmer foundations than can be laid py by unleashed passions and reasonless warfare |