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WEDNESDAY, MARCH 7, 1934,

THE MANUFACTURE OF MUNITIONS

+

MARCH 7, 1984.

IS LIFE WORTH LIVING?

The Very Idea!

THE PRINCE OF WHALES MOST girls look upon us as romantic figure, but they ain't heard nothing yet.

Did you ever hear about the time we went whalinga It was in all the papers,- was on the "Robin itedbreast that we first embarked. four-masted schooner with four-wheel brakes and a blogo, funnel,

We will not weary you with de

first part of the

By A MAN OF FORTY President Roosevelt in hla

GRAVELY doubt it. Very I look at our political system spirited defence of his recovery. ofton I am quite certain it'is and I aed it apparently im- measures when addressing N.R.A. | not.

Thore have been many patent to accomplish those re- Code oficiala, wax at no grant occasions during the past few forms for which I believe the vast paine to answer those who assert years when, lying down to aloep, bulk of our countrymen are cager that he has shown a disposition abould have been content If the provision af decent houses for men to live in, the destruction towards the adoption of Socialistic had known I should not awake.

This is an age of disenchant of alums, the amelioration of the views. Charging that the machinment. But avon 1, profound pessi- lot of the unemployed, a more just ery of democracy has been per mist as I am, have been surprised division of the fruits of the earth, mitted by inertia to fall into to find how many of my friends the reform of divorce and marri disuso, he takes the stand that the share something approximating to age laws. unusual conditions call for the

my views, application of special measures, northodox though some of them may be. Some of these, he envisages ns of permanent adopt fon, based on the determination that there shall be no return to conditions which reflected a nez-

I look at my children. After I fona maldistribution of wealth and

have educated my son as well as I am able, and made him as power. Running right through

healthy and amiable and cultured the President's utterance there is

a young man as good food and the humanitarian note, considera-

exercise and teaching and medi- tion for the little man as well as

eine can do, I have no certainty like phases Massingham, the "big follow." The Roosevelt author of "The Lake." committed whatever that he will not be killed "New Deal," in fact, is the Prost-suicide recently a woman friend in war or reduced to mained living dent's conception of "Bouare Bald to me: "What's the matter that le worse than douth.

I say with the deepest convic- Deal."

with life? In the world so beant- tion that were it in my power to ly that no decent people can live, decido once again whether I would In it? It was a cry from her own become a father, I should say: No.

BETTER VALUES

a

With the first year of the Presi- dent's term of office concluded, tnere is a natural disposition to tako stock of the situation.. Time nione can fully demonstrate the efficacy of many of the Adminia- tration's economic measures, but in the States at any rate there ap- pears to be a firm bellef that the Chief Executive during his first year at the White House has been definitely successful in his efforts to restore confidence and to olevate the national standard of social values. It will be recalled that President Roosevelt in his sensational inaugural address de- clared that "the money-changers have fled from their high seats in the temple of our civilization," and | he beapake 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 profi," he said.

I am not a Down-and-Out I I turn back to my own lot. talla of the should be called, I suppose, a sur- After working for well over 20 voyage, at least not yet Down In cessful man. I have plenty of years--including four years spent the stokehold mon, stripped to the more waist, slaved and sweated making work, I earn a comfortable salary, in the Army-I have no

have two charming children, security of tenure than when I tonst Aloft in the foratop-gal have over known (except as a began. A stroke of bad health lantaalls, struggling sailors furiod aoldier) what it is to be short of may reduce me to the gutter, and and unfurled the saila monotonous ly. In the erowsnest; the lookout, food or to be cold and suffer my children to the workhouse. -misorable physical discomfort for

harried by crows, kept ceaseless more than fow hours or days at

watch for whales, a time. My income tax keeps two men on the dole

Yot what does it all amount to?

When Dorothy

tortured heart.

Only three things can bring a mag peace. Any one of them may Buffice, but two of the three are probably needed for most people, They are deep and passionate love: work that has joy and dignity and service in it: a sure belief that life is fulfilling some purpose-Divine, or whatever you

prefer to call it.

Fow possess all three. Cer- talaly not. I.

Without these a man may seek anodynes in sport, drink, gambl Ing. lechery. They are not much more pleasant than they sound.

The world, as it exists to-day, is no ft place to bring children into. And there are far too many in it already.

We were standing on the bridge, idly spinning the wheel this way and that, when the lookout cried, "Tally hof" and other sailor-

"Heave to!" we ordered. "Ileave to it is, sir," replied the crow, heaving.

Wo called to

our first malé.' "Have you taken the soundings?"

"No, sir," he replied; "I can't hear a damn thing."

"Bring the balt aft!" Wo bel- lowed.

Very soon we were all busy balt ing hooks while the whale, who could amell the prawns, hungrily circled round the ablp. We balt- through a phase. Those of my

It may well be that I am passinged the anchor on both Bukes and, friends who feel as, I do-and, or taking hold of the chain with both I have said, they are an aston-hands, swung it around our hend ishingly high percentage-soldier- a few times and then burled It

into the vasty deep.

ed in the war.

Our strength,

physical and spiritual, was, to 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 second wave of fatigue; a second There are nearly 21⁄2 millions period of neurosis. We worked of people in this country with no for next to nothing for four do. There are some years; we have boon taxed to the work to

uttermost since. Wo fec) as millions of us with too much.

We feel, some of us, like flies though we have engaged in two crawling up a window; we go Ho fights and, being pronounced by the world victors, we say: It all far, slip down, and start again.

seems so damned futile,

Or we are as machines, turning out pound notes spent faster than we can produco them; or we aru insects on a treadmill. We can't teaching of the Christian Church My critics who believe in the stop, or we tumble into the pit.

will say we lack religion. That is Life stretches ahead devoid of true. We lack it and we shall go security and repose. We are to greater or less degree like that on lacking it. We think (I grant "Stricken Deer," Cowper.

we may be wrong) we nro too

Almost immediately we got u nibble. "Lend a hand here!" we shouted. The whale had eaten the prawn off the anchor and was climbing up the chaini

"Give us a hairpin!" we yelled. "You mean a harpoon sir?" in- quired the mate.

"Have It your own way," we re- plied sternly. "only gimme the thing."

away from us now and making The whale was only a few frei horrible slabbery noises. Ода от the crew handed us the harpoon. Taking steady alm, we plunged the harpoon straight into the mon- ster's gaping mouth,

"Ouch? snld the whale. "Atta boy!" yelled the crow.

The whale struggled but we had hire fast.

frecely.

In picturing American soldiers alain 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

We called the crow together. rhetorical gymnasts in which he

In giving affect to his purposo, saw fit to indulge. But the the President has resorted to

look round the world and Intelligent to accept it. I, por "Boys," we said, "do you think am sickened by the the ship ought to tow the whale issue with which he was dealing many radical devices of mailities. seo teneath the crust of Barone sonally, am s various Chur- or the whale to the ship?"

'Well, sir," said one of the is, one which demands attention industrial innovation, and finance and Asia a ferment that threatena ches all professing to worship the

-in conformity with the Co- to disrupt with even more hideous one Christ:

firemen, stepping forward, "wo've and definite action. It is st.tution, according to numerous consequences than in 1914.

I was offended by the Churches' only got two scuttles of coal left; I look on the inventions of obvious that the manufacture Courts' tests: and in compliance

with the principles of essential scientific men and I see in them attitude in the war; it failed me and unless we use the gas stove and sale of armaments for pri- democracy, nccording to his own devices for hurling men and wo. utterly with its sureness that God in the galley the steam is going to

publicly stated views. In one

mon on the scrap heap and for was on our side and its exhorta-be only luke warm."

tion to 113 to disembowol the We decided to let the whale tow eventful year of Mr. Roosevelt's Presidency, Washington-the poll and poison gases borne tical capital of the nationhas

winds.

win me back. It is playing no glass is falling, air." gained an unprecendented ascen-

I see everywhere the tyranny of worthy part in the solution of the "Put something soft under It," dancy over New York-the Onan- wealth-comparatively little of it crucial problems of these days. we replied. The sky wAS over- cial capital-und the shorn power obtained by honest toll of either It ought to be fighting like a cast, and we suspected dirty wea of "Wall Street has occasioned hands or mind, as ordinary folks tiger on the side of the poor and ther ahead. the applause of the great agri-know toil. I see nine millious who the oppressed. As it is, there is "All hands aloft!" wo cried. cultural regions in West and are not getting enough to cat or not a clergyman in the land whe"Take the salle down. It's going South which politically have al-sufficient clothes to wear.

stands so high in my estimation as to rain.” ways reflected antipathy to "big almost a complete lack of justice George Lansbury. I had almost in the distribution of talopts, in written "in the public estimation." the opportunities awaiting those It may be equally true. talents, in the rowards of labour.

vate profit is 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 becomes increasingly-difficult, In the efforts, spread over many years, which have been made to bring about some worthwhile.. measure of disarmament, this

business."

WINS INDUSTRY

destroying ourselves by bombs enemy in the name of the Lord: the ship,

on tho The Church has done nothing to The mate approached us. "The

It is no satisfaction to me to

The whale was getting restive and tugging fiercely at the anchor. chain. We had to get a number of men to push hard against the other end of the ship to keep the

monster in check.

question of munitions manufac- ture has again and again been brought forward for discussion,

reply: "It has always been so and I shall be reminded of the for but so far it has not been found

must be so. Things are better of the wind on the heath, of the

Wo had just time to got the bin- possible to impose any form of

The early success of President than they were." They may be. companionship of books, of the nacle reefed and the rudder holst Roosevelt's Administration un-If, after all these centuries of gift of friendship of men anded aboard when the storm broke. limitation. Vested interests doubtedly has reposed in his striving by men more worthy, animals, of the pride that is in The wind howled in the rigging. 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 with the production of arms and the vast manufacturing industrial have progressed no further than dwells in a garden.

I am deeply conscious of them while the wind lashed itself into interests of the United States this, what comfort does that munitions have immense re- without simultaneously antagoniz- bring?

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a fronzy; the waves came Ike sources of wealth at their dis- ing organized Labour. This bas

green mountains, and the bosun, posal, and their power and in- been accomplished in large degree

was struck down by an isobar.

Slowly the whale forged ahead. through the National Industrial fluence is such that they will not Recovery Act, which has enabled

It spouted a couple of timan, casily be dislodged from the the organization of the various

straight at the funnels. We had to

its. cork

that. position which they have secur- manufacturing industries without

spouter. So the atokehold fre would ed. Yet, when the whole situat-violation of the anti trust laws while simultaneously gratifying

not be put out. We were lashed ion is dispassionately considered, Labour leaders through its direct

to the wheel, and the second mate it is clear that disarmament un- | recognilton of the long controvert-

nailed to the biangele, · accompanied by control of the ed principle of "collective bargala- inc." The tarif hás at present trafie in arms can be of little, been left at republican "protec- Feal value. So long, as the tion levels." manufacturers of the weapons

of war are permitted to SOCIAL REFORM

aell their products to will- ing buyers, 80 long will there be a danger of their attempting to encourage situat- lons which make for the use of these weapons. Obviously, it is in the interests of the manu- facturers that there should be war, and not peace. The ques- tion is one which concerns every country, whether manufacturer or buyer of munitions. Once it is tackled on International lines, with strict governmental control of output ensured, a big step forward towards the abolition of war will have been taken. Public opinion should assert it self on this issue and bring statesmen of all countries to a realisation of the dangers in- herent in existing conditions.

The elimination of chlid labour. "sweat shops," shortening of hours and raising of wages have awaken- ad the hearty approval of millions who instinctively feel that the forces of social reform have at last found effective leadership. have rallied in striking enthus- Social welfare workers everywhere

m for the President's various "New Deal" measures. President his popular strength by bringing Roosevelt has further consolidated the Federal credit aid resources directly to individual farmers and home owners. Instead of continu- ing the cumbersome, indirect methods of credit assistance pre- vlously Initiated. Gigantis Fed- eral job-making programme and direct emergency rollet have given the "New Deal" a personal mean- Ise to millions. At the year end, the hard realists in the domains

of politics and economics find themselves to great extent politically disarmed.

♫

"She doesn't sleep so well alnes we decorated har room.”

"Send up a cuuple of rockets!!! We roared.

Wis

Alas! all the stuff we had left two catherine-wheels and a packet of throwdowns. The ship was trembling like an aspirin loaf," and airy moment we expected it to fall to pieces.

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- ference.

"You

exclaimed. rat." we "Would you desert a sinking ship

at a time like this?"

My oath I would!" he replied. We shot him between the eyes.

"There's mutiny down below, sir," auld: the first mate as he came panting up to the bridge. "The crow say that if you hadn't used up all the rockets on your last birthday wo'd have had analstance by now.". *

. Just then there WAS a horrible creaking of timbers. The crow rushed on deck, wild cyod.".

"Abandon ship we yelled. “All hands aboard the whnlo!"

We had no time to unlash .out=" solf from the wheel; so we just broke it off at thatom and, carried it with us. Three minutes after we boarded the whale the ship sank.

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