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BRISBANE
THIS WEEK
End of the Treaty
Millions for New Farms
Too Many Apologies
The Mirror Monocle
Chancellor Hitler has demolished
the remaining fragments of the Ver
sailles treaty, no
tifying the great
powers that they
may no longer
control, as they
have done since
1918, the princi
pal rivers of Ger
many.
The Rhine,
Elbe, Oder and
Danube rivers,
within German
territory, now re
turn to German
““ control and
Arthur Brisbane France is con
tent to ask other
powers to join a protest. Mere pro
tests amount to little in European
diplomacy, as the world learned
from the Ethiopian war.
That settles, finally, the Versailles
treaty, a foolish effort to enslave
a nation that made the emergence
of this, or some other, Hitler in
evitable.
Mr. Tugwell seeks an appropri
ation of five hundred million dol
lars to provide poverty - stricken
farmers, now on worthless farms,
with other land that will support
them; also barns, houses, out-build
ings. He thinks $50,000,000 a year
for ten years would do the work,
and plans to vacate 9,000,000
"worthless acres.”
Anything that will diminish hu
man misery is desirable, even
though incompetency may be in
part responsible for the trouble.
In England, the government,
guided by experts, is making ex
cellent pasture lands of soil that
was worthless. Our government
might investigate that process.
General Markham, chief army
engineer, advises putting an air
base in the harbor of our Midway
island, far away in the Pacific
ocean. The War Department says,
apologetically, that this would be
a commercial development, al
though it might be useful for de
fense.
Why an apology? Nobody in Eu
rope, Asia or Africa apologizes to
us for building an air base, or asks
our opinion about it.
The War department says there
is no treaty obligation forbidding
such an air base. If there were,
what of it? Treaties can be can
celled, and should be when they
are foolish or unjust—for further
details, ask Hitler.
Germans are said to be wearing
a new eyeglass called a “spy mon
ocle.” Arranged to look like the
ordinary single eyeglass, the "spy
monocle” is arranged with a mir
ror, permitting the wearer to look
behind him and see if there is any
body listening to his conversation.
German police eagerly discourage
any one who suggests that the Nazi
government is not perfect.
The opening of the Bay bridge,
connecting San Francisco and Oak
land, California, is important not
■only to California and the two united
cities, but to the whole country.
This magnificent bridge, elimi
nating ferries on the bay that sep
arates San Francisco and Oakland,
is a magnificent accomplishment of
engineering and public spirit.
Mr. Green’s American Federa
tion of Labor decides on a “fight
to a showdown” with Mr. Lewis’
"Committee for Industrial Organi
zation,” which wants to unionize
all the 30,000,000 workers not yet
organized, and seems to include tak
ing over Mr. Green and his fed
eration also.
Next on the program appears
to be a big labor fight: Mr. Green
is thoughtful, wise; Mr. Lewis is
forceful, determined. The outcome
cannot be predicted. The outside
citizen will pray that there may
not be too much interference with
returning prosperity.
A greatly increased demand for
tools shows that more men are
getting jobs, and announcements of
new wage increases, big and little,
are many. Twenty-three more firms
have announced better wages for
28,000 more workers.
An average increase of $l3O a
year, less than 50 cents a day,
might seem unimportant, but it
means one hundred and thirty
million more dollars that 1,000,000
workers will have to spend, in a
year. That is not unimportant.
England intends next time to de
vote her energy and strength to
protecting herself.
Sir Samuel Hoare, first lord of the
admiralty, says England has n o
"commitments” like those of 1914,
that would compel her to send
troops to the continent if war should
start. She will do as she pleases,
which means that she will probably
stay at home, busy with enemy air
planes, perhaps helping to finance
friends on the continent, as she did
in the Napoleonic wars, as she did
before and since.
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WNU Service.
Washington!
Digest
National Topics Interpreted
By WILLIAM BRUCK ART
NATIONAL PRESS BLDG. WASHINGTON, D. C.
Washington.—There is an "era of
good feeling” going the rounds that
is quite different
Era or than anything we
Good Feeling have had since
early in 1929. It is
being promoted with a great deal
of enthusiasm and present results
as well as indications justify the
promotion work that is going on
in the New Deal press agent circles.
This era of good feeling is quite
an interesting thing from another
angle, namely, politics. It is being
used by the politicians again to es
tablish President Roosevelt in the
same situation as he found himself
at the beginning of his first term in
the White House. I am afraid he
is being built up again as a super
man and, in politics, a superman
or his position is hard to maintain in
the public mind.
Business also is indulging in this
era of good feeling. Business al
ways puts its best foot forward, just
as lovers do. It wants to develop a
spirit of good will on the part of the
public and it wants to show its finan
cial backers how things are coming
along all hunky-dory. There is noth
ing wrong in the attitude. It is per
fectly logical and human—and it is
very interesting to see this wave of
healthy feeling grow.
The important, as well as the in
teresting, thing about this era of
good feeling is that to the expert
students it shows a gradual, if not
conclusive, decline in depression
conditions. It proves that things
are on the up grade—not that they
are at the top yet, but that a mo
mentum is being established which
may carry the economic recovery
to the top if the federal govern
ment settles down and treats busi
ness with fairness.
As I said above, New Deal press
agents are promoting this business
recovery for all that it is worth.
Naturally, they are attributing it to
the re-election of Mr. Roosevelt as
the basic factor in this upward
surge of business. They are cap
italizing it to the fullest because by
so capitalizing it, the political
party in power gets its due share of
credit. There is no doubt that they
will continue on this course because
everyone likes to read or hear about
improved business conditions, resto
ration of dividend payments, in
creasing volume of traffic, any and
all things that show the nation is
slowly but surely getting back on
its economic feet.
While the New Dealers are shout
ing from the housetops how Presi
dent Roosevelt has accomplished all
of these things, there comes a dis
cordant note from business itself.
Business leaders, just like politi
cians, want credit for whatever is
accomplished, whether they are re
sponsible or someone else. They do
not care any more than politicians
whether the credit properly is
theirs. It is simply an exposition
of the vain, glorious trait that seems
to exist in nearly everyone.
• • •
Business is seeking to show that
it is pulling itself together, open
ing new factories,
Whose raising wages, in
the Credit spite of New Deal
policies with the
handicaps that some of those poli
cies include. So, business is seek
ing to counterbalance the politicians
and the politicians, speaking
through New Deal press statements,
are trying to fortify their own posi
tion as saviors of the country. Nei
ther one is correct. Without doing
too much debunking, I believe it
ought to be said that President
Roosevelt and his associates have
executed some government policies
that have been helpful to the busi
ness structure. With equal frank
ness, it ought to be said that busi
ness leaders have taken the bull by
the horns and have proceeded to
help materially in putting commerce
and industry back on the right track
again. Neither one ought to take
too much credit. Some credit is
due each but neither one nor both
together is entitled to claim all of
the credit for the recovery of busi
ness that is now underway.
The answer to the upward swing
of business lies chiefly in the fact
that the depression has worn itself
out. It would have worn itself out
just the same whether the admin
istration was New Deal or Repub
lican. It would have accomplished
just as much in the way of ex
panded buying power and increased
production whether Mr. Roosevelt
was re-elected or whether he had
been defeated and Governor Landon
of Kansas had been elected at the
end of the recent national cam
paign.
I am reminded by this discussion
of a remark that the late Eugene
Black made while he was governor
of the Federal Reserve board. On
that occasion I asked him whether
there were signs of the end of the
depression. His reply was, "not
yet.” He added, however, that the
depression would destroy itseJX as
every other- depression in history
had done and that when this point
THE SUMMERVILLE NEWS: THURSDAY, DECEMBER 3, 1936
of exhaustion had been reached,
commerce and industry would take
an upward swing. Then, he added
with reference to some of the eco
nomic students of the administra
tion in power: "It will wear itself
out and good times will come back
again—and every doggone professor
and economic theorist in the world
will try to claim credit for it.”
So, I think it can be said without
equivocation that if anybody or any
thing is entitled to credit for the
indicated recovery movement, we
had better be fair and admit it was
a combination of circumstances, not
the least of which was the natural
law of supply and demand. It seems
utterly silly to me for any individu
als or groups of individuals to at
tempt to corral all of the praise.
* • •
Those who have access to the mar
ket pages of the great metropolitan
daily newspapers
Wage must have been
Increases impressed by the
rapid fire an
nouncements coming from big in
dustrial corporations of wage in
creases, bonuses for employees and
melon cutting in the form of divi
dends for the shareholders. They
must have been impressed, like
wise, with the sharp rise in secur
ity prices that obviously has re
flected the expanded business and
increased earnings.
A prosperous nation may not al
ways be a happy one but there is a
certain psychology about a prosper
ous nation that makes it carefree.
It is a psychology that makes the
average man and woman forget to
a large extent about the recent
pinch of economic displacements
and, as well, those same people are
inclined to disregard and give no
consideration to the morrow.
Let us look into those circum
stances. When corporations or other
forms of business have reasonable
years in their particular lines, early
in the winter they begin to see what
the year’s total will be. They can
figure rather accurately what the
returns will be in the last two
months, say, after they have made
their totals for the first ten months
of the year. So, whenever they
reach that stage in a reasonably
successful year they can make their
plans for distribution of the profits.
Now, we have a tremendously
high tax rate on corporation sur
pluses and we have rather high
tax rates on incomes of individu
als. Corporations and other busi
nesses, therefore, start figuring how
to do the best they can with the
earnings of the year. Some of them
determine that their employees
should share substantially in the
profits of their labors; others want
to distribute as much of these earn
ings as they may to their stock
holders because such a showing
creates a demand in the market for
their shares and such a demand is
influential in establishment of the
corporation’s credit for borrowing
money if it needs to borrow from
the banks. In either event, corpora
tion managements obviously give
considerations to the tax the corpo
ration would have to pay and I
think it is not a matter of condem
nation for them to turn over as much
of their profit as they can to those
interested in the business instead
of to a government which wastes
so much.
To be perfectly fair, it must be
said that the money now being dis
tributed either in dividends or in
bonuses to workers or in wage in
creases was earned before the re
cent election. Its distribution, how
ever, is motivated largely on pros
pects for the future. In other words,
those responsible for these distribu
tions of earnings feel that they can
let that money out of their hands.
They may not be distributing all of
the sums available but the “era of
good feeling” is accepted by all of
them as indicating the chances for
continued earnings are bright.
♦ ♦ *
I have merely touched on the ef
fect of distribution of earnings
among the holders
How It o f capital. It is
Works Out just as important
to consider the
effect of distribution of these earn
ings on the laboring classes. Labor
has been convinced under the Amer
ican system for many years that it
is entitled to some share of the prof
its from its products. Employers
are taking that same view to a
greater extent than anywhere else
in the world. When labor gets bo
nuses or gets increases in its pay,
there is a reaction among those
workers who have sound judgment
that prompts them to do the best
they can on their jobs. That is to
say, they become contented work
ers and they are less susceptible
to the propaganda of radicals who
seek to promote strikes and labor
disturbances to further the ends of
communism. That is a part of the
era of good feeling as much as the
added earnings of corporations or
the enthusiasm of politicians over
victory.
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SUNDAY I
chool Lesson
By REV. HAROLD L. LUNDQUIST,
Dean of the Moody Bible Institute
of Chicago.
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Lesson for December 6
PAUL’S PARTING COUNSELS
LESSON TEXT—I Timothy 6:6-16; II Tim
»thy 4:16-18.
GOLDEN TEXT—I have fought a good
fight, I have finished my course, I have kept
the faith. II Timothy 4:7.
PRIMARY TOPlC—Paul’s Last Letter.
JUNIOR TOPIC—PauI Awaits the Great
Adventure.
INTERMEDIATE AND SENIOR TOPIC—
Passing on the Christian Torch.
YOUNG PEOPLE AND ADULT TOPIC—
Transmitting the Gospel Heritage.
The apostle Paul was an example
in many things, and not the least
important of these is the manner in
which he was constantly on the look
out for young men who by the call
and blessing of God would take up
the gospel ministry. He realized
that there was much to be done and
that if the Lord tarried he and his
co-workers would pass on, and the
work must needs be carried for
ward by younger men.
Not only did he seek out such
young men but he “followed
through,” giving them encourage
ment, instruction, and opportunities
for service. How shortsighted is
the church that fails God at this
point, or which, for the sake of local
and present usefulness, hinders
young men and women from obtain
ing the needed training for Chris
tian service. The fields are white
unto harvest but the laborers are
still few. Let us pray them out and
help them on their way.
Our lesson centers around the
counsels of Paul to his young friend,
Timothy. Written near the end of
his life, the letters are filled with
all the sweet earnestness of his
great soul. They present four im
portant truths which merit the care
ful attention of every Christian, and
even more particularly of the
Christian worker.
I. The Gain of Godliness (I Tim.
6:6-8).
In a world which knows little
but the urge to gain material riches
we need to emphasize the fact that
it is still true that a man is not
profited if he gain the whole world
and lose his own soul.
The great gain of godliness is
that inner fellowship with God
which brings true contentment of
spirit.
11. The Snare of Riches (I Tim.
6:9-11).
The pages of human history are
full of the names of those who have
fallen into this trap of Satan. Sad
to say, not a few of them have been
Christian leaders.
Notice that it is not the money
itself, or the amount of it that con
stitutes the danger. It is the desire
or the "mind to be rich,” and "the
love of money” that “is a root of
all evil.” Hence Paul’s admonition
comes to each one of us to “flee
these things and follow after right
eousness, godliness, faith, love, pa
tience, meekness.” What a sermon
in a dozen words!
111. The Fight of Faith (w. 12-16).
Christianity is not only an inward
grace which reflects in “godliness
with contentment” and in fleeing
the snare of riches, but it is a daily
fighting of the good fight of faith.
It is imperative that there be “a
good confession” (v. 12), coupled
with a keeping of God’s “command
ment without spot, without re
proach, until the appearing of our
Lord Jesus Christ.”
The servant of Christ, in view of
the coming of the One who is “the
King of Kings and Lord of Lords,”
is to live a consistent, clean, and
irreproachable life.
IV. A Divine Deliverance (II Tim.
4:16-18).
"All forsook me,” says Paul.
How tragic! How weak and unde
pendable is the arm of flesh! “But
the Lord stood by me.” How glori
ous! How mighty and gracious is
our God!
The follower of Christ may find
himself without a human friend or
supporter. Those who stood by in
younger and more successful days
may have disappeared. But let us
remember that our trust is in God
who has never failed any one of his
children. “He abideth faithful, he
cannot deny himself.” (II Tim.
2:13).
Worship and Prayers
It is for the sake of man, not of
God, that worship and prayers are
required; that man may be made
better that he may be con
firmed in a proper sense of his
dependent state, and acquire those
pious and virtuous dispositions in
which his highest improvement con
sists.
Learning Only Good
The wish falls often on my heart,
that I may learn nothing here that
I cannot continue in the other world;
that I may do nothing here but
deeds that will bear fruit in Heaven.
—Jean Paul Richter.
W'indow of Hope
Eternity is the divine treasure
house, and hope is the window, by
means of which mortals are per
mitted to see, as through a glass
darkly, the things which God is pre
paring.—MountfcTd.
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Perfection does not consist in
doing singular things; but it does
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The sophisticated person finds
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A man who knows that his hard
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All friendships between men are
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