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Show C THE CITIZEN 6 ness; proneness to idle leisure, is our FOUR CROSSWAYS master, and it recognizes no law till it finds itself suddenly dethroned. In (Continued from Page 3) Russia it bowed first to Menshevism, then to Bolshevism, and finally to the is the essence of socialism, communism. We feel this black menace, mighty peasants. The man on the but we dont see its head, not yet. soil runs things in the end, whether Class consciousness, artificial social he knows it or not. Strangely, his organiaztion, internationalism, athe- - power lies-f not in organization at all, i sm rthati s it7ahd alF areproducts Tracin' the- aciT thatThe is the fountain of national life and that when the of industrial, commercial, congested city life. No such human weed ever time is ripe superior forces come to his aid. grew at the countryside. The real socialists are not the Debses not at all. Rural Industries. What both agriculture and industry Unthinkingly, the masses shout for the dawn of a grander day, when the need most is to live in close proximworkers collectively will own everyity, so they may feel their interdedo will the chiefs when their thing, pendence, so they may engage in mu. "banish would managing. Aye, they commerce, so each from and God from heaven capitalism may enrich the other. Life on the such a the earth. The dawn of day modem farm is Factory would surely be the last. But out in work in city is enervating. A combithe country dawn grand days endnation is bound to help both, and it but masses not for maybe, city lessly, will preserve the natural balance bewomen. and men for tween the two. Men and women crave Industrial Waste. rural life. It is human economy. It Agriculture and industry are inter, is also business economy. It tends to dependent, but we see them separatreduced cost of production and a betWe itself. divided house a ed, against ter quality output. It preserves famsee embattled farmers marching upon ily life, the home. It will tend to political conventions. We see makeep in the community the capital in fast industry dispensing chinery that its agriculture and industry have with human hands, discarding excess created. Electric current, good roads, labor that, finding no gainful employand motor transportation favor a We about. wanders ment, aimlessly rural migration of industry. Only the see the benefits of machinery dissiherd instinct and fear stand opposed. waste. pated by Will they yield to sunshine? Let it scientificness, declining morale, be noted that comspecualtion, they are the waste that munities are looming on the horizon. burdens industry and commerce and They are growing. But will they inacts like leeches upon the men who fluence the destiny of America? till the soil. Our farmers have no We are at the cross roads. There grievance against either industry or is no standing still. Whither lies our wholesome commerce, but they do future? In further speeding up inhave grievance when this waste is dustry and commerce, in more conto be shouldered them, upon sought solidation? Will we attempt to when they support too large a city farming, only to see it fail? population. They have a grievance It seems impossible, but we may have against this thing called organization still farther to go before we recognize that serves only to make them tenthe need of readjustment and simant. vid hired hands. But in vain plification, of restoring the natural do they seek relief in political assembalance, of casting a more solid founblies, in legislative halls. The govdation. ernment could not help them if it In the eternal recurrence of things would. Already it has helped too lies hope, hope that if the cycles come much. The farmer doesnt want paternalism. He doesnt want to be ever faster, men need not wander back so far in quest for the wisdom plunged farther into an enervating of the ages. Naught is new. To be tutelage. He wants to get out of debt. Freedom, thats what he wants. original is but to be sincere. And, as Napoleon said, not every man is an As if in a last attempt to save itatheist who would like to be. self, corporate business is widely disEither we draw further to the centributing its capital stock, but ownerter and socialism, until the crash ship cannot be diffused without also as it must if we do, or we take diffusing the responsibility that goes comes, new root in the soil now. with that ownership, the responsibiLife is Resistance lity of sound management. It will Will history repeat itself again? work so long and only so long as men more of the caliber of those who now It need not. There is an old theory in the world, says Gutzon Borglum, manage corporations continue in manthat a race must fall and fall hard, agement, but whence will come the men to take their place? The farms and suffer tremendously, before it can are about depleted, and within the rise. There was an old theory in my listless rank and file, enervated by youth that a child had to have scarlet fever, typhoid, measles and every organizacitj life and tion, the right men. will not be found. other kind of disgusting ailment. I Too complex is our economic life. dont believe in either of these theories. There is enough resistance in the Its problems defy solution. Simplificabirth of a great thing to give one all tion is the crying need. I Our dilemma is not due to the evil the zest necessary for creation. machinations of a group of master dont think the suffering of depravThere is no master class. ity, or disease, or failure are necesminds. Humanity, high and low, much of it, sary to happiness nor to great sucdrifts not unnaturally into slavery. cess. Men have plans, though manUnrestrained selfishness, opportune kind has not. By the margin of a hair AMERICA AT THE tually-benefici- al dry-as-du- st. Over-organizati- on, rural-industri- al fac-toryi- ze high-power- ed Napoleon failed at Waterloo to arrest gold standard and definite stabiliza this historical process of national sui- tion of the franc. cide. It was the bravest attempt yet. Where will this speculation lead? The greatness of the plan outdid even Experienced financiers are the the military brilliance of its guiding question? Economists are asking de making genius. Napoleon fought with Homer ductions that vary greatly in conin his pocket, not with the tomes of tent. They all believe that if conMarx. Now, the halo of a nations tinued too long the drive may bcL love hovers carried beyond all reason, with an inbaffled world stands still aghast. He evitable, destructive awakening a: defied public opinion, but the opinthe result. Undoubtedly such deducion of the peasant, he said, was worth tion is true, providing all this mar something. Disraeli made the Queen ket activity is purely speculative of England Empress of India. It was gambling. not so long ago. Now the spirit of Yet, is it all speculation? In the Gandhi is turning the unhappy emlast nine months the United States pire, not toward socialism, but toward has shipped, mostly to Europe, nearfree agriculture and rural industries. ly a half billion dollars of accumuChina is in ferFaith is a bottle. lated gold. European stocks have ment. Mexico lies prostrate. Italy boomed. The markets here has not enough land to sustain her and boiled and shot unprecei population. The iron heel of debt is dentedly upward, yet our markets upon all Europe. America is buying have lost this gold. Financiers have upon the installment plan, even mortfound themselves in a quandary congaging her future generations, by cerning an explanation of such bonds for public improve The publics mind on the ments that 'will be gone before they condition. situation is again proving unfathom, are born who will be called upon to able. pay for them. Maybe they wont pay. And with all this fever," It wouldnt be the first time. savings deposits continue to show a Agitation of thought is the begin- month by month growth all over the ning of wisdom. When farmers beand loan corpocome alert we may view the future country. Building rations are piling up assets. An exwith greater serenity. Progress, then, cellent barometer, too, of how the takes on new hope. This fall the two publics purse strings are blowing great parties will bid high for the lies in the turn from baby bonds vote of the farmer. He holds the bal(those of less than $1,000) to those ance of power in politics this year. of larger denominations. The agitation will do good, even Statistics from far and wide reveal though no relief can come. Never was in demand for there occasion for finer oratory, to be a decided sure. But, also, never was there bonds of $100. Resultingly, borrowfewer of greater need for deep, sound think- ing corporations are issuing these baby investment notes. Printing. Never have we had so many exing and bookkkeeping costs are as amples before us. for a $100 bond as for one of Will America now exalt herself? great and there is no advantage, of Will she exalt mankind? She stands $10,000, to an investor. During the at the four cross ways. Let her move, course, war Liberty bonds of $100 each creatand fare she well. JLK ed a demand for that size denomination and private corporations naturIS OUR PUBLIC FINANCIALLY ally followed the demand. Then along CRAZY? came excellent partial payment plans and small investors, rather than acThere is a national hue and cry have at the moment against what is term- cumulate several $100 bonds been putting their money in those ed as the speculative insanity of the American public. Day after day of a larger category. Bond houses say the security-buyin- g of over 4,000,000-shar- e trading sespublic is fast outgrowing $100 sions on the New York Stock Exinvestchange, and intensified activity on purchases. They are seeing ment rather than speculation. And all the other exchanges of the counretry, have been .responsible for the the bond business is flourishing, multitudinous warnings that our ports show. Absorption Of flotations goes on apace. Bonds are not being people are heading for financial dampiled up on the shelves of the sellers. nation. All of which might show that the But this speculative fever, if it can be truly called speculative, has not American public may not be as finanbeen confined to the United States. cially crazy as some would have the Unprecedented trading has been the others believe. order also in other world centers, particularly London and Paris. And each of these three markets Fish New York, London and Paris has The Season is Now Open its own answer for existent condidont Forget your tions. New York lays the activity FISHING TACKLE to the faith of the American public in our countrys credit facilities. London at to due Britains says activity there is remarkable trade recovery. Paris lays the responsibility on hugely in creased gold imports and consequenASEEgWHATrOUl$A tial gain in bank note circulation. It 224-22- 6 also sees confidence being restored State St. by the prospect of a return to the overhis-tombr-whil- e-a have-seethe- tax-exem- pt so-call- ed let-do- wn and Feel Fit 1 |