Show Prosperity Impossible i Until Rural Half Of America Gets Square Deal From Pathfinder Magazine Most of the guiding spirits i ithe in inthe inthe the industrial and financial world tha that are still so stony to th the consideration will ill give no I rights or welfare of the other othe I half of the people Thinking only of themselves and their profit profit- I sheets they refuse to take th the I human element into account I How However ver there are signs that tha j the Hindenburg line which the they I have so far been able to maintain I I is beginning to to weaken in spots spot Some of those behind that lin linare line are starting to run for cover J A Afew I few are becoming almost panic panic- stricken with fear of the retribution tion they now begin to realize I i is coming A leading Chicago fi financier ancier i een i is quoted in the Hearst papers a as coming out at last and declaring The basic need is to raise farm fare prices not simply for the benefit of the farmers or that their creditors creditors credi credi- I i tors but in order that they mayonce may mayonce I once more begin to buy the products products pro pro- I ducts of industry I i This pronouncement coming from such a source is most sig sig- I It shows that some of the more open-minded open of the big I business authorities are beginning to o look the situation in the face to o inquire what is actually wrong I and to welcome real remedies This is progress I Depression is now entered on its ts fourth year Trade and industry industry indusI indus indus- I try have been dammed up ever I since 1929 The situation is like I a 3 log jam or an ice jam Something Something Something Some Some- thing is needed to blast the interlocked interlocked inter inter- locked obstructions out of the way and let things take their normal course ourse And it wouldn't wouldn t take so much ouch to do it now I Big business made a contract I with the people of America but America but it t has defaulted Big business declared declared de de- lared that it could lead the country country coun coun- try ry to unbounded prosperity Our factories were to be kept busy night light and day Products of every I kind rind were to be marketed in limitless lim lim- I modern quantities through advertising and pressure high-pressure cel cel- I cel-I ling ing Wages were to be maintained maintain maintain- maintain maintain-j ed d at the war-time war level the farmers farmers' farmers farmers' farm farm- ers ers' rs crops were to find a ready sale ale in a highly protected home market the standards of living Jiving In short ere vere were to be maintained business was to boom all aJI the time This his plan was admirable The point joint where it went wrong was when big business clung to its own profits and blocked everything which would give the farmers farmer a chance hance to sell their products at Lying living prices A better era is now coming We dont don't mean better for those mil mil- lion dollar corporation officials who have so long had their finger in n the great American pie We Ve dont don't mean for those pres high sure salesmen and hosts of middlemen middlemen middlemen mid mid- who do nothing to create I wealth but who fatten on the wealth which is produced by the toil of other We Ve dont don't mean the I I the plutocrats plutocrats plutocrats pluto pluto- idle rich or high-hat high I who claim to be the upper crust of soci society ty We Ve dont don't mean the gamblers or stock promoters or bootleggers or rich quick schemers We Ve mean a better era is coming for what these upper crust people look down upon as I the lower classes classes lower lower simply because they do not have so much of the material wealth which permits permits permits per per- I mits them to buy good at fancy prices and to live Jive in luxurious ease We Ve mean a better era for all who work for a a. living whether they live in New York or Chicago Chicago Chica Chica- I Chica-I go in the other big cities in the small towns or on the farms I After all the goodness of pie I depends mainly on the filling I IThe The great middle classes the classes the people peo peo- people peo-I peo pIe who work and produce useful j things who give more to the world I Ithan than they take out of it these it-these these after all are the real people the people the thereal real America That rich upper crust crusts can be yanked off oU with very little loss to humanity And look out for THE YANKS ARE CO COMING Pathfinder COMING Pathfinder Magazine Maga Magazine Mag Mag- a azine ine Washington D. D C. C I |