Show if I 1 0 re ke I 1 DICTATOR Eu ropes third adolt adolf hitler leader ot of the nazi move ment in germany has become chancellor thel ot of the german republic and head of the government this makes the third european nation to come un under der the control ot of a virtual dictator stalin in russia mussolini in italy and now hitler in I 1 germany are manifestations of the failure of the peoples of those countries to manage their own affairs successfully I 1 I 1 bear a great deal of loose talk to the effect that what america needs is a dic dictator I 1 dont think we need anything of the kind and dont think that the vast majority of americans want to bo be organized disciplined and contro controlled in the way that people living under a dictator have to submit to we have never tailed failed yet in america to work our own way out of our troubles and I 1 think we are on the way out now SOCIALISM are me lie headed we are much more likely in AE america to come to some mild borm orra of socialism irac a its in than we are to arrive at either corn I 1 or a dictatorship but we are not likely to call it socialism any more that thai england calls her present system of government socialistic which it practically is all t the he signs of the time are pointing I 1 dressing essing to lr increasing governmental control if not ownership and operation of public utilla ties natural resources means of transportation transport por port atlon tation and communication it would not surprise me if 11 I 1 were here to see it to find the united states twenty yen yurui from now wiring owning sit all of the mines oil wells railroads ds telegraph and telephone I 1 i 1 lines el radio broadcasting ad castIg systems ea electric 1 light 1 all and power er plants steamship lines and a I 1 other enterprises which are essentially monopolistic in t their beir nature and incident incidentally mt ally if any more people stop paying taxes it if wont be long before the nation or its governmental subdivisions own all the land COOPER CO OPER TIO 14 in a new ua way y A group of sa s1 sixty at y three unemployed ed N new ew york business men arc opening up a operative cooperative co store with the aid of manufacturers lecturers rs and jobbers of merchandise of all kinds they are getting their rent on a percentage basis or of sales and their merchandise on consignment this Is 13 only one of hundreds perhaps thousands of operative cooperative co efforts it at self help which fire are being made in all parts of the united states some will succeed and some will not but out of them may grow some valuable lessons legons which can be applied when good times come again and which will make it easier because ot of this experience to meet the next economic om to crisis I 1 I 1 near heard from an english friend the 0 other ther day that the members of the great british operative cooperative co society are getting through the depression much easier than the general run of the people the hardest thing tor for most americans to learn Is teamwork TEABE hidden avay amay bif if all the money that has ever been burled buried and its shere v hereabouts forgotten could be dug up and put into circulation there might be enough to ease the depression materially I 1 learned the other day from a russian friend that he knew the exact spot where ten million dollars was burled buried just before the bolshevik army arrived and it if there were any possible way of getting the money out of russia he could lead mo me to the spot I 1 declined the offer but I 1 was reminded of it when I 1 heard from down on the eastern shores of maryland that a young roan man who had bought sri an abandoned graveyard as a site bite for a filling station had bad found an iron pot containing thirty thousand dollars in old coins burled buried in the ground and from out in arkansas comes the report that workers for the american red cross have turned up nearly six thousand dollars that was hidden by an ancient hermit who committed suicide a few weeks ago after writing instructions to the red cross workers how to find his burled bugled treasure adventurers are arc still searching for pirate gold on various islands of the west indies and dredging the deep seas tor for I 1 sun sunken ken treasure ships it Is the most fascinating fame imaginable but those who play it seldom win SECURITY in old age pension my friends of the american association for old age security report that efforts are being made by politicians in several states to abolish their old age pension system on the plea of economy and go back to the horrors of the town and county poor houses it seems to me that this Is about the last place to practice economy of course the poorhouses poor houses made jobs tor for politicians and profits tor for local tradesmen supplying bad food at high prices the experience has always been that almshouse support of the indigent poor costs twice as much mu ch as providing the small pension of five file or six I 1 dollars a week to every needy person of advanced years I 1 twenty legislatures have old age pension 1 bills up for consideration now I 1 hope and believe that the time will come soon when every american can look for fort t ward to have at least enough to live on after reaching the age of sixty five or ft perhaps seventy it if this be socialism make the most of it M H M 4 ha i t |