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Show 3R(HEIR ""wVIOUY HILLS. Well all I prj'iw is just what I nail in the lie icrs, or what I run into. Wo arc Hvin.r in :i rrrf.it iven - j 1 he, jr-oai- . yi..; UlO," .-Vp ,i- time. For millions mil-lions of folks it is a very hard time. There is nothing that they personally can do to help their position. posi-tion. Their living has always been made by working, work-ing, by holding an honorable job, but there is no job to hold. CVe used to think that if a man T.s out of a job for a few months fit that was almost a record, but v it goes by the years. What can done to relieve it? Its our only fiblem. All the rest that our Gov-4iment Gov-4iment get all excited about mean SDEtthing. The Bonus, the Townsend chlan, the C. C. C. the A.A.A. the lail "R.A., Inflation, Deflation on the rald, off the gold. All the whole mess B just little side issues compared re-employment of those out of imYrk. In fact, most of these other 3 are just side lines of the unem-'uILpyment unem-'uILpyment issue. If everybody was H-king, there wouldent be all these 'GiI1hers. If every soldier had a job he ? puldent think of wanting a bonus. J the old folks children were all JE Forking, and lots of the older ones owtr-re themselvs holding jobs, there :tF"uld be no Townsend Plan, gold, nbyi:ver, debts, all these wouldent !an a thing, if folks were working. jp?:t with all the honest effort, and all banning and all the money thats 3 en spent along various schemes, r; -employment has held Its own If t Increased. Tho N.R.A. at the time of launch- y looked like it would do the work, 1 it fell from its own complicated :ucture. I wrote a little gag at the ps&:ne and said that the whole N.R.A. iuhn should be written on a post a"&d. Nobody can work a man over l focertain number of hours (without ani.ll. liion.tra pay) and nobody can pay any-'cborie any-'cborie under certain sum (no matter hat line of business it was), no- idy can hire children. There was le whole N.R.A. in those few words. codes, no lobbying, no running Washington. You dident say a jL'an had to hire more men, you said flit couldent work the ones he had p er a certa-in number of hours, and 4ffp-t number applied to all industries. ,,,rhere wag enough money spent by zi srybody running to Washington codes to pay off the depression, pijid then all business got sore. All (is looking for the best of it in their jjgljules, and they went home and andiosed up their shop. This other iy, everybody would have been on lie footing. You dont get kicks lien you know that everybody is j eatod iike you are being treated. i The minute a thing is long and implicated it confuses. Whoever roto the Ten Commandments made r.n short. They may not always be , ';pt, but they can be understood, hey are the same for all men. Some staB'idustry cant come in and say, 1 fu1"'3 ia a SDec'aI ant unique busi-ir busi-ir uiss. You cant judge it by the noM-.hcrs." Well no committee come lllman-carrying-it into Jerusalem ' jyOking for Moses and saying "Ours fre; a special business." Moses just at 'eat up on the mountain with a let-rjiWr let-rjiWr 0f credit and some instructions tlie ;it, and they applied to the steel lltli. cn 11,0 oibnen, the bankers, the X'S sinners, and even the United States md thamber of Commerce. And he said, S "-lore they are Brothers, you take in Pii and live by cm, or else." ie ct Well thats whore Moses had it on T drt ugli Johnson. Hugh had as good itentions, but Hugh Mosos Johnson j I cut up on Capi- 1 l Hill and come ng 3wn with 21 ily ' uck loads full 0"'! codes. He just "try niUlent come in 'it plain and say, urriiou shalt pay much. And .oils shalt work Booty muI, ony 80 lanf'uch, and if thou twi' mst not gettilh ns 'lee some more, air u payeth them enlK.ikewise." Hush should have been am B. C. (before codes.) Course that is not all our troubles. m't I wouldent have solved everythiim liin.iy inoro than the Commandments thc'ive solved human weaknesses, but illiiriey did stop all arguments as to Tge'liclher they were good and fair to 1 was concerned, and they left no SlifgiMncnt as to whether they would ule iork if you kept them. I expect ilielli.cre is a lot of lessons in the Bible tcr r;'t wo could learn and profit by and -ip us out, but we are just so busy ius notb.ing wo havent got time to p uily e;n out. Hut in Moses time the iiiil-c'ch dident gang up on ycui and say, I vil''1''1" change that Comnsandnicnt or )f a N- wont play." 9 ovt'r' d ; tei'5 ! |