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THE "SQUARE DEAL"
President Roosevelt in his
MARCH 7, 1934.
IS LIFE WORTH LIVING? The Very Idea!
By A MAN OF FORTY
GRAVELY doubt it. Very I look at our political system
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not. There have beon. many patent to accomplish these occasions during the past, fow forms for which I believe the vast years when, lying down to sleep, bulk of our countrymen are eager I should have been content it for men to live in, the destruction the provision of decent houses
THE PRINCE OF WHALES OST girls look upon us pa
ain't heard nothing yet,
Did you ever hear about the time we went whaling? It was in all the papers.
spirited defence of his recovery often I am quite cortain it is and I see. It apparently im-Mu romantle figure, but, they measures when addressing NRA. Codo officials, was at no great palna to answer those who assort that he has shown a disposition towards the adoption of Socialistic had known I should not awake.
This is an age of disenchant- alums, the ameiloration of the views. Charging that the machin-ment. But oven I, profound pessi- lot of the unemployed, a more just ery of democracy has been por mist as I am, have been aurprised division of the fruits of the earth,
fall into mitted by, inertia to
to find how many of my friends the reform of divorce and marri disuse, he takes the stand that the share something approximating tonge lawa, unusual conditions call for the my views.
I I turn back to my own lot.
I am not a Down-and Out.
was on the "Robin Redbrenat that WO first embarked: A four-masted schooner with four-wheel brakes and a blege funnel
We will not weary you with do- tolls of the first part of the
application of special monaurea,should be called, I suppose, a suc-. After working for well over 20 voyage, at least not yet. Dawn in. northodox though some of them cessful man.. I have plenty of years-including four years spent the stokehold man, stripped to the may be, Samme of these, he work, I earn a comfortable salary, in the Army-I have no more waist, slaved and sweated making envíanges as of permanent adopt-I have two charming children, i security of tenure than when I toast. Aloft in the foretop-gal- fan, based on the determination have never known (except na abogan. A stroke of bad health lantsalls, struggling sallors furlod soldier) what it is to be short of may reduce me to the gutter, and and unfurled the calls monotonous ly. In the crowsncat, tho-lookout, that there shall be no return to food or to be cold and suffer my children to the workhouse.
I look at my children. After I harried by crows, kept consolesa conditions which reflected sor miserable physical discomfort for
watch for whales. fous maldistribution of wealth and more than few hours or days at have educated my son as well as
We were standing on the bridge, s time. My income tax keeps two am able, and made him as idly spinning the wheel this way power. Running right through
healthy and amiable and cultured and that, when the lookout men on the dolo the President's utterance there is
Yet what doce it all amount to7a young man as good food and the humanitarian note, considera-
exercise and teaching and modi- cried. "Tally hol" and other sailor-
like phasca. cine can do, I have no certainty, tion for the little man as well as
Whon Dorothy Massingham. the "big follow." The Roosevelt
author of "The Lake." committed whatever that he will not be killed in war or reduced to mained living "New Deal," in fact, is the Proal-suicide recently a woman friend that is worse than death. dent's conception of a "Square said to me: "What's the
with life? In the world so beast Deal."
Ty that no decent people can live in it?" It was a cry from her own tortured heart.
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Only three things can bring a
"Heave to!" we ordered. "Hanve to it is, sir," replied the crew, heaving.
our first mate.
We called to
"No, sir," he replied; "I can't hear a damn thing." falowed.
"Bring the ball aft!" We bel-
I say with the deepeat convic-"Have you taken the soundinga?", lon that were it in my power to decide once again whether I would become a father, I should say: No. The world, as it exists to-day, no fit place to bring children into,
already,
Very soon we were all busy bait-
With the first year of the Presi- mun pence. Any one of them may And there are far too many in it ng hooks while the whale, who
dent's term of office concluded, there is a natural disposition to take stock of the situation. Time alone can fully demonstrate the rificacy of many of the Adminis
suffice, but two of the three are
could smell the prawns, hungrily probably needed for most people.
circled round the ship. We balt- They are deep and passionat "It may well be that I am passinged the anchor on both flukes and, love: work that has joy and through a phase. Those of my taking hold of the chain with both dignity and service in it; a surfriends who feel as I do and, as hands, awung it around our hand heller that life in fullling some have said, they are an aston-
tration's economic measures, but purpose--Divine, or whatever you ishingly high porcentage-soldier / few times and then hurled it
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some degree, drained from us.
Sixteen years of fret and struggle since have carried the attrition steadily on. We are be- Ing overborne, perhaps, by a second wave of fatigue; a socond period of neurosis. We worked for next to nothing for four years; we have been taxed to the uttermost
feel since. We
Almost Immediately we got a nibble. "Lend a hand here" we shouted. The whale had eaten the climbing up the chain! prawn off the anchor and was
"Give us a hairpin'!" wa yelled. "You mean a harpoon sir?" in- quired the mate.
"Have it your own way," we ro- plied sternly, "only gimme the thing."
in the States at any rate there apprefer to call it. poara to be a firm belief that the
physical and spiritual, was, to Few possera all three. Cord in the war, Our strength, into the vasty deep. Chief Executive during his frattainly not I. year at the White House has been Without these a man may seek definitely successful in his efforts anodynes in sport, drink, gambl to restore confidence and
ing, lechery. They are not much of elevato the national standard social values, It will be recalled more, pleasant than they sound.. that President Roosevelt in his Bensational inaugural address de clared that the money-changers have fled from their high seats in the temple of our civilization," and ho bespoke the restoration of the ancient truths. "The measure of the restoration lies in the extent to which we apply social values more noble than mere monetary profit," he said:
one
There are nearly 2% millions of people in this country with no work to do. There are some millions of us with too much.
We feel, some of us, like flies crawling up a window; we go so Or we are as machines, turning far, alin down, and start again. out pound notes spent faster than we can produce them; or we ara lasects on a treadmill. We can't stop, or we tumble into the plt.
Life streiches ahead devoid of aecurity and repose. We are to, greater or less degree like that "Stricken Deer." Cowper.
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though we have engaged in two fights and, being pronounced by the world victors, we say: It all seems so damned futile.
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My critics who believe in the teaching of the Christian Church will say we lack religion. That is true. We lock it and we shall go on lacking it. We think.(I grant we may be wrong) we are too
I look round the world and intelligent to accept it. I. per .onally, Am Bickened by the Chur- see boneath the crust of Euron quarrels between various and Aala a ferment that threatens ches all professing to worship tho to disrupt with even more hideous
ong Christ. consequences than in 1914.
tion to
The whale was only a few feet. away from us now and making horrible slobbery noises. Die of the crew handed us the harpoon.. Taking steady aim, we plunged the harpoon straight into the mon- ster a gaping mouth,
"Ouch!" said the whole. "Atta boy!" yelled the crew.
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The whale struggled firecoly, but we had him fast,
We called the crew together. In giving effect to his purpose,
"Boys," we said, "do you think the ship ought to tow the whale the President, has resorted to
or the whale tow the ship?"
of the many radical devices of polities,
'Well, sir," said one Industrial innovation, and finance
Aremon, stepping forward, "we've -in conformity with the Co stitution, according to numerous
I was offended by the Churches' only got two scuttles of coal left, of 1 look on the inventions attitude in the war; it failed me and unless we use the gas stove Courts' tests: and in compliance with the principles of essential scientific men and I see in them. democracy, according to his own devices for hurling men and wo-bury with its sureness that God in the galley the steam is going to
men on the scrap heap and for was on our side and ita exhorta be only luke warm." publicly stated views. In
us to disembowel the We decided to let the whale tow eventful year of Mr. Roosevelt's destroying ourselves by bomba
The Church has done nothing to The mate approached us. "The. Presidency, Washington-the poll- and poison gases borne on the enemy in the name of the Lord! the ship. tical capital of the nation has winds,
"Pat something soft under it," I see everywhere the tyranny of win me back. It is playing no glass is falling, sir.?? gained an unprecendented - ascen-. dancy over New York-the anan- wealth-comparatively little of it worthy part in the solution of the
It ought to be fighting like a cast, and wo suspected dirty wea cial capital-and the shorn power obtained by honest toll of either crucial problems of these days, we replied.The-sky-was--over- of "Wall Street" has occasioned hands or mind, as ordinary folks tiger on the side of the poor and ther ahead.
"All hands aloftl" we cried. the applause of the great agri- know toll, se ale millors who the oppressed. As it is, there is "Take the salle down. It's going are not getting enough to eat or not a clergyman in the land who cultural regions in West, and South which politically have al- auflicient clothes to wear. I ne stands so high in my catimation as to rain." ways reflected antipathy to "big almost a complete lack of justice George Lansbury, I had almost business."
in the distribution of talents, in written in the public estimation." the opportunities awaiting thone It may be equally true. talents, in the rewards of labour.
Roosevelt's Administration un-
It is no satisfaction to me to
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The whale was getting restive and tugging forcely at the anchor- chain. We had to got a number of men to push hard against the other end of the ship to keep the monster in check.
In picturing American soldiers slain by munitions sold by their own compatriots to Japan, in the event of war breaking out be tween the two nations, Senator Borah may have attempted to make his hearers' blood creep. | WALL ST. CHECKED Allowance must be made for the rhetorical gymnasts in which he Haw fit to indulge. But the issue with which he was dealing is one which demands attention. and definite action. It is obvious that the manufacture and sale of armaments for pri- vate profit la contrary to public interests, and, what is much more to the point, is helpful in the creation of an atmosphere-in which the preservation of peace beconics increasingly difficult. In the efforts, spread over many years, which have been made to bring about some worthwhile measure of disarmament, this question of munitions manufac ture has again and again been brought forward for discussion,WINS INDUSTRY
reply: "It has always been so and I shall be remloded of the joy
We had just time to get the bin- but ao far it has not been found
must be ao. Things are better of the wind on the heath; of the The early success of President than they were. They may be companionship of books, of the nacle reefed and the rudder heist- possible to impose any form of
If, after all these centuries of gift of friendship of men and ad aboard when the storm broke. more worthy, animals, of the pride that is in The wind howled in the rigging. limitation. Vested interests doubtedly has reposed in bla atriving by men which are directly concerned ability to obtain the support of more able, more saintly than I, we creative work, of the beauty that the cabin boy howled in his bunk. Hailstones rained on the deck I am deeply conscious of them while the wind lushed itself into with the production of arms and the vast manufacturing industrial have progressed no further than dwells in a garden.
interests of the United States this, what comfort does that
like (Continued on Next Columns.j munitions have immense re-without simultaneously antagoniz- bring?
a frenzy: the waves came green mountains, and the bosun sources of wealth at their dis-ing organized Labour. This has
was struck down by an Isobar. posal, and their power and in- been accomplished in large degree
Slowly the whale forged ahead. fluence is such that they will not through the National Industrial
It spouted a couple of times, Recovery Act, which has enabled
straight at the funnels. We had to easily be dislodged from the the organization of the various
cork Its spouter. Bo that the stokehold Aro would position which they have secur- manufacturing industries without
not be put out. We were lashed ed. Yet, when the whole situat-violation of the anti trust laws while simultaneously gratifying
to the wheel, and the second mate lon is dispassionately considered, Labour leaders through its direct
nailed to the binnacle. it is clear that disarmament un-recogniton of the long controvert- accompanied by control of the ed principle of "collective bargain- Ing?" The tariff has at present traffic in arms can be of little been left at republican
"protec- real value. So long ng the tion levels.” manufacturers of the weapons war are permitted to sell their products to will ing buyers, 80 long will
The elimination of child labour, there be a danger of their "awont shops," shortening of hours attempting to encourage situat- and raising of wages have awaken ions which make for the use of ed the hearty apploval of millions who instinctively feel that the these weapons. Obviously, it is forces of social reform have at in the interests of the manu- last found effective leadership. facturers that there should be Social welfare workers everywhere have rallied in riking enthus war, and not peace. The ques-insm for the President's various tion is one which concerns every | "Now Deal" monstres. President country, whether manufacturer Roosevelt has further consolidated or buyer of munitions. Once it his popular strength by bringing the Federal credi, sid resources is tackled on international lines, directly to individdal farmers and with strict governmental control home owners, instead of continu- Ing. the cumbersome, indirect of output ensured, a big step methods of credit assistance pre- forward towards the abolition viously initiated. Gigantic Fed- of war will have been taken.eral Job-making programme and Public opinion should assert it direct emergency rdief hava given the "New Deal" a personal mean- self on this issue and bringing to millions. A the year end, statesmen of all countries to a the Irard realists, 12 the domains realluation of the dangers in- of politics and economics find themselves to a great extent herent in existing conditions. politically disarmod
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SOCIAL REFORM
"She doesn't sleep so well si nce we decorated her room."
"Send up a couple of rockets!" We roared:
Alas! all the stuff we had left two catherine-wheels and a packet of throwdowns. The ahip was trembling like an aspirin loaf, and any moment we expected it to fall to plocos.
The chief engineer came to us with his resignation written out. "I'm going home," he said. Then he had the nerve to ask for a re- Temare,
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rat." WO oxclaimed. "Would you desert a sinking ship
at a time like this?"
"My onth I would!" he replied. We shot him between the eyes.
"There's mutiny down below, sir and the first mate as he came. panting up to the bridge. * ^erew say that if you-hadn't.
e un all the rockets on your inst birthday we'd have had aselatance by now."
velled.
Just then there was a horrible cronking of timbers. The crew rushed on deck, wild eyed.
Abandon ship we v "A" hända aboard the whinto!"
We had no time to unlash our not from the wheel, so we just brokk ft off at the stem, and d it with us. Three minutes boarded the whale the sanky