Show people demand real security active interest of religious Relic rious bodies seen as solution of our troubles by EARL GODWIN ASHINGTON beneath the washington uproar of a political campaign the great thing the people want Is security this craving is the reason for the growing support for old age pensions farm loan betterments and well managed relief it Is the reason for the appearance of a deeply religious feeling on the part of millions of devoted american church folks that it Is high time to let a little of the kingdom of heaven into hito the affairs of state security in old age Is so greatly to be desired that four million people are still supporting the townsend old age plan despite exposures of its un workable woi kable premises the townsend people gain the first page but as my friend congressman maury maverick of texas says you cant eat the front page national Kat ional security can come only by well laid foundations such as that now guaranteed in the social security law which starts oft off slowly providing now at least 30 monthly for old folks in 32 states more people in moie more states get aboard in time more money Is surely to be provided in time but it will bereal be real mone money not the inflated and useless money of the townsend plan these things run through the mass mind of america along with the rum riun beings of discontent over relief and no one Is more discontented over relief relict than roosevelt whose all embracing plan includes a nation of people working in an economic plan where federal relief Is unnecessary meantime I 1 am going to be bold elou enough h to say that the real solution of our troubles begins to appear in the active interest of many religious bodies man made economies based antoo great a love of business and not enough love of the individual may never work again at the same time the simple and strong tenets of the sermon on the mount and the golden rule are coming more and more to the front these precepts contain the depths of wisdom and are at the bottom of the liberal and progressive policies they were founded with creation at a time when corporations were yet to be devised therefore Is the decision of the church of latter day saints to take care of its own people on relief going back to the old testament practice of tithing on the part of the more fortunate members this Is a good example of taking care of the unfortunate on the basis of genuine love for ones neighbor it tales takes away the professional charity worker than whom there Is no greater blight those who deal in the depths of 0 religious philosophy are convinced that a return to first principles if 14 the one way out of chaos I 1 think roosevelt Is basing basin his statecraft on these principles FACTS ABOUT the dupont boys and the liberty league had a grand celebration the other day on the anniversary of the death of which went down under a court opinion to harmonize with their views the wall street first page carried a pontifical announcement no by some min niken of industry proclaiming that industry had kept the faith and that Vill without bout everything was lovely in industry that wages are high and hours short and everybody satisfied the impression sion the nig big business boys would like to generate Is that was a crazy socialistic bit of bunk that nothing but III came of it and that the only reason we are progressing at all Is because and the blue eagle are no more the facts are that working hours have bave increased while in rat uy in u stances wage g cutting has been acute particularly among aroon industries with rates at so 60 much per hour bour one thing that nita NIIA fostered was waa the five day week in industry will put many more men to work that lias bas practically disappeared child libor labor lins has increased whereas was certainly keeping the kids out ot of factories and giving the jobs t to n men the family budget of 0 industrial employees lind had more money for food anil dal cloth clothes es and that boosted boomed the farmers income now the big boys of industry point to increased production and better profits and all that but they apparently are taking it out of the hides of their employees plo I 1 know department stores where the file girls are working longer for or less money and purchasing 11 i lagging behind helped smooth out labor troubles and on the day liberty leaguers were celebrating the death of 0 RA there were men on strike to in this country whereas their disputes could have been settled under the codes 0 0 STOPS RELIEF FOR CITIES not only individuals cut broke in the post war depressions our chief mendicants mendi cants were cities and other minor governmental units about two thousand of them tattered and ragged in a financial sense was the proud city ity of detroit and it was because of de froats plight that senator couzens of that city helped put through h the law giving these bulted aca communities ea al ni s chance to re recoup aup themselves hy by a sort of bankruptcy process it was a practical t 1 scheme to let the busted towns cal s scale e flown down their bonded debts borrow some money from the reconstruction finance corporation and thus keep the creditors from taking the municipal shirts right off the cities backs congress was doing for large aggregations of individuals in cities just what it was doing for the single individual who was in trouble with the mortgage holder older li lint but in the case of 0 one district down in texas a small group of bandhold ers kicked they wanted all or nothing and went to court and eventually tb the e supreme court knocked out this law I 1 in n a highly legalistic and extremely unrealistic opinion it Is an opinion that stops about 2000 cities from getting the financial relief they should get although in some instances their financial condition has improved it was a decision in which five judges voted the law was unconstitutional and four believed it was 0 K and strange to say chief justice hughes voted toted with the minority the majority of conservatives based their opinion on something that chief justice chase said nearly a hundred years ago the old dead hand of pre civil war states rights dictated this opinion through the legalistic minds of the five conservatives on a court of nine yet the states themselves wanted this law for the benefit of their poverty stricken cities just as the states want to waive any and all state rights if rich old uncle sam will take care of the poor and jobless men and women where the states cant cut but states rights are greater than the solution of any national problem in the eyes of the courts majority and so we are once again tied to what some one said a hundred years ago it Is much like china 0 4 0 CHILD LABOR AMENDMENT mention of child labor reminds me there Is 19 considerable talk about a drive to put over the constitutional amendment against child labor twenty four states have bare ratified the amendment twenty two have rejected it those which have rejected it are permitted to change their action to ratification but those ratifying must stick to their decision there Is a strong title tide against a child labor amendment or any such legislation on the part of the rural districts cities and industrial centers where child labor abuses are bad st strongly support port child labor prohibitions and they tire are the spots whence come the present demand for an end to the th e abuses farmers representatives here say that farmers look to their children for help at planting and harvest times and they feel that while the government Is seeking to wipe out real abuses that such legislation might also prohibit a farm boy and girl from doing the necessary chores this child labor amendment may become a political issue the younger americans who have been suffering under udder the depression and who are taking an interest in government are all for this limitation on youngsters going into industry while the old folks are thrown out of jobs if the matter comes to a vote you would mould find about 70 per cent of democrats tor for it about halt half the republicans public ans most all of labor and only a small section of the votes totes in the farm belt THEY DO NOT PAY now Is the time of year when the european governments should pay this government an installment on their cpr war debt but they will let it go without even an apology they owe all told and they are now over a billion dollars behind in their half yearly installments to pay off tills this huge debt finland which owes a small amount pays reg regularly at the rate of every six months and the only money uncle sam Is getting gettin g back for the billions loaned tor for war purposes it if europe would gayour pay our taxes would be much lower I 1 officials here keep a straight face about these debts and refuse to discuss them but privately they admit they never expect to see europe pay a nickel outside of finland france germany england and italy are now using money they owe us nud and they tire are using it to build up new war machines more armies ar rales more navies and new devices to wipe each other out by the bellyful in the next nest european war of course europe needs more money needs it from us and cant get more credit while she owes us anything thin that Is fixed by the johnson law so europe now and then makes guarded u added suggestions hinting a full payment to us but that would merely be like paying oft off a debt of five dollars in order to be able to borrow about twenty llo however wever I 1 dont look to any further financial dealings with europe in any event our national spirit now Is against with a european war in any way and certainly with our present neutral feeling we are not going to countenance the financing of another war ver over there 0 newspaper union |