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Show Some Things to Think About Th. . destruction of food and cotton was capitalisms way of solving the problem. But the problem was not solved. It was proved, however, that if the people could buy all that they needed to eat and wear there would never be over production. HATE IS A POOR FOUNDATION. Anything built on hatp cannot stand or survive. Such a foundation is laid in sand, sometimes quick sand at that. Hate cannot direct or stay the hand of Destiny. Hate only adds fuel to the fire. Americans, cleanse your hearts of hatred. If you do not you will be burned by the fires you are feeding. ADd what are the fires that'hate is feeding? The are the fires of rebellion, and the rebellion, once started, will turn into anarchy which will pull uown every institution you are talking talk-ing about saving. The words and shafts dripping with hate being uttered today are the meanest and most violent forms of sabotage and worse Fellow citizens abandon your campaign camp-aign of hate or leave hope for your republic behind. RAISE PRICES DESTROY PEOPLE Up and up go the prices of necessities. The raiseis near-ing near-ing the 30 per cent mark. Up and up go the salaries, increases increa-ses here and increases there, necessitated, in some cases, by the exorbitant prices of commodities. It all adds up at the door of the taxpayer aud he appears to stand thore dumbly and take it and seems to call for more no protests, no objections object-ions What about those who cannot get raises? They have to grin and bear it. if they can't get milk they take water; if they can't get butter they take margarine. If they can't get. meat they take beans. God help the poor. It is high time that the robbed and plundered common people peo-ple get together and demand an abundance of the good things of life before the time comes when they will be put in concentration camps for asking for it. President. Robert M. Hutchins To His Chicago U Graduates. What an Indictment. "We are turning you out on the world at one of the darkest hours of history. The dangers that threaten you seem more me acing than any that ever overhung a graduating gradua-ting class. The equipment with which you confront them looks pitifully inadequate to the task. "We may go to war. The political, social and economic institutions under which you have been brought up may dis-sapear. dis-sapear. All the plans you have made may fail. All the hopes you have cherished may be dissapointed." I ABUNDANCE ' fOR ALL NOW Who says there cannot be abundance for all? Those who say it tell a falsehood. Let us see. The great engineer, Hoover, was one of these and it was he, backed by the National Chamber Cham-ber of Commerce, who started destroying food while thirty I million people were hungry. His administration ordered every third row of cotton plowed under in 1931; 12,000 acres of : peach trees were uprooted and 800,000,000 pounds of grapes destroyed in California. Of course the New Deal improved on this. It was not a political move but one of capitalism's trump cards and used the world over. A million cows were killed while, if fed properly, the people could easily have used 27 billion pounds of odditional milk and cream, 2 billion pounds of butter, 2 billion pounds of beef. We produced one-fourth of all the hogs in the world and because people could not buy lard and pork we destroyed nearly six and one-half million hogs. Thirty million people couldn't buy mutton chops so they killed over two million sheep. The worms and the buzzards got fed to the limit but poor, homely humans could not get j what they needed. MASSES HARD HIT Down on all the lower levels people are called upon to te loyal and give and give until it hurts, while up at the top tne ghouls of finance are gathering in. all the profits with which to further i their power over a id' control of the people. If people can be forced to give their sons at $21 a month then the takers of outrageous profits can and should be made to cut these profits prof-its to the absoluteminnimum BIG FISH WELL FED The truth has come to light that corporatioas, banks, insurance in-surance companies and others are rolling in new-inade moDey. Dividends from January to May of this year amounted to nearly one and three-quarter billion. U.S. Dept. of Labor reports that retail food prices have advanced 10 to 22 per ct. Rents in workingmen's districts have gone up 12 to 22 percent. |