Salt Lake Telegram | 1937-07-19 | Page 6 | Prevailing Opinions

Prevailing Opinions Comment 4 the American Prei in ths dictatorships, and not by ' mere raps over ths knuckles, either. It is the essence of dictatorship to say to tha people in effect: "You will take what I give you and like it." If a person so addressed ad-dressed does not like It he still has to pretend he does or get a worse dose. The Ideal pattern for the citizen of a personally governed country coun-try is a sheep with the "bah" removed. re-moved. Sacramento Bee. Investment in Exile? According to reports from Nanking, Nan-king, General Yang Fu-cheng, co-leader co-leader of tha Sian mutiny last year, haa been given $1,000,000 In Chinese money and told to take a trip around the world. Yang, one of those who held Generalissimo Chiang Kai-shek prisoner for 11 days last December, ia' said to have a commission from Chiang to investigate military and economic eco-nomic condltiona in tha United States and Europe. But it is understood un-derstood that Chiang neither expects ex-pects nor deeires reports from the traveler, who planned to sail late in June for Los Angeles .on the first stage of his journey. All this sounds very much as if Yang were being sent on a ride, Instead of being taken for one. Somewhere on bis wsy around the world it may just be possible that Yang will find a place that looks aa if it might be healthier for him than his native land. Well supplied with funds for "traveling "travel-ing expenses and pocket money," Yang might aettle down with a somewhat longer life expectancy than might be his in China, If this is true, everyone's "face" will be saved at a cost leas than that of rebellion or civil war, and Occidentals can learn a lesson in civilised suavity from their Oriental Ori-ental brothers. Detroit Free Press. Dictatorship Secretary of State Cordell Hull aaid the other day' in the course of a public address: "It is my firm belief that only a free and self-governing people peo-ple can poaaeaa the necessary scope and vitality of spirit aspiration as-piration and enterprise to reach out for a better and fuller life." No people, unless they are to a large degree free and self-governing, can reach out for anything. any-thing. Reaching is discouraged " WPA "Career" Workers Colonel Somervell, WPA administrator ad-ministrator for New York, Is making mak-ing plans to dislodge soma of ths people who have not stirred sines they got their first relief job under the C W A in 1933. He bints darkly that these "career" relief workers may not find it ao comfortable com-fortable on home relief with their monthly allowance cut in half. That is no doubt true; soma of them may even be aroused from their lethargy and go forth in search of real jobs. But the inertia of certsin WPA workers and the deterioration which has made soma of them unfit for regular employment are a consequence, not a cause, of the situation which troubles Colonel Somervell. Instead of berating frail humanity hu-manity for following a natural impulse to play safe and avoid unnecessary exertion, the colonel ought to be demanding reforms In the relief policies which are responsible re-sponsible for such developments. If the pay and conditions of work in a relief job compare favorably with what tha workera could obtain ob-tain in private employment it ia a foregone conclusion that relief Jo ha will be regarded aa prised possessions. Hard though it seems, ths recipient of relief must be given a strong economic inducement in-ducement to get out and fend for himself. Thst is admitted by Colonel Somervell whea he aug- . gests that cutting the monthly allowance might havs a galvanising galvanis-ing Influence, It further reflects upon ths administration ad-ministration of tha work relief system to learn that no scientific study of the qualifications and records of the WPA "career" workera haa yet been made, not even with a view to dislodging those who havs become incapacitated incapaci-tated for return to private employment em-ployment Washington Post ,