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We have proceeded in our efforts basing our actions on the absurd sophistry that men are ragged because we have raised too much cotton, and wool; men are hungry because we have produced too much beef, pork, and wheat; men live in wretched huts because we have made too much lumber, cement, and brick fn other words, we have hitched our mule to the wrong end of our vaunted Car of Progress, and headed it for the relief rolls rather than the banquet table.

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The economics Professor told about a little eight-yearold girl who wrote a play about early colonial days, which she named "Betsy Ross." The p'lay went like this: First colonial soldier said to the second colonial soldier: "Say! This here country of ours ain't got no flag !" The other replied: "Gee ! Ain't it fierce? Let's go tell the Captain." So they went to the Captain and said: "Say ! This here country of ours ain't got no flag !" And the Captain said: "Gee! Ain't it fierce? Let's go and tell George Washington." So they went to George Washington and said: "Say ! This here country of ours ain't got no flag !" And he said "Gee! Ain't it fierce? Let's go and tell Betsy Ross." So they went to where Betsy Ross was doing her housework, and they said: "Say ! This here country of ours ain't got no flag!" She said "Gee! Ain't it fierce? HOLD THE BABY AND I'LL MAKE ONE.'' *'k*

So he modernized the little girl's play, and had two American citizens in 1938 in the first scene. The first one said to the other: "Say! Lots of folks in this here country ain't got no jobs!" The other said: "Gee! Ain't it fierce? Let's go tell Congress." So they went to Congress and said: "Say! Lots of folks in this here country of ours ain't got no jobs!" And Congress said: "Gee! Ain't it fierce? Let's go and tell the President." So they went to the President and said: "Say ! Lots of folks in this here country of ours ain't got not jobs !" And he said: "Gee ! Ain't it fierce? Let's go tell 'John Enterpriser'." So they went to "John Enterpriser" and said: "Say ! Lots of folks in this here country of ours ain't got no jobs !" And "John Enterpriser" said: "Gee! Ain't it fierce? QUIT SHOVIN' ME AROUND AND I'LL HIRE THEM !''

The Professor talked ,", ;";. an hour in this fashion to a great throng of business men who seemed to get a tremendous "kick" out of his clever illustrations, and his kindly worded criticisms of probably well-intentioned men who seem to actually believe that the only way to solve the unemployment and economic problem in this country is to reverse the laws of cause and effect, of supply and demand-of all nature. in fact. We haven't trifled with the law of gravity as yet, but we're likely to at any time if one of the Brain Trusters takes the notion.

What a myriad o, .,."J*"*nnlto"opti"", sophistries, and political and economic nostrums have been foisted upon this nation of late. And regardless of how absurd and impossible they may be when exposed to the great white light of reason, there are apparently always armies of people ready to accept and swallow them. The germ of something for nothing is insidious. It spreads with great rapidity, and penetrates deeply. * * *

Just the other day a labor leader who busts into the headlines very frequently, announced that the only way to stop Fascism in this country is to provide shorter working hours, higher wages, and a legislated planned economy to keep them that way. The fellow apparently doesn't even realize that if we had those things fixed by law WE WOULD HAVE FASCISM RIGHT THEN. For such is Fascism, pure and simple. Well-simple anyway.

Which reminds me trrlt Jhe trouble with our present labor law is that it plays both ends against the middle, and the employer is the middle.

As far as forcing *"J" "n*"rd by main strength is concerned, Russia tried that, and succeeded. Competent authority says that wages in Russia today-in terms of sqins-31s six to ten times as high as they were ten years ago. And the cost of necessities is twelve to twenty times as high as they were then.

Today Germany steals all headlines. Frightfulness drives everything else from the news. Remember how, during the War, we called them "Fluns," and sort of shivered at the things we were told about them? Then the War ended, and Time, the great healer, erased the memories. In time it came to be whispered about that those frightful things never really happened-that they were not really "Ffuns." But now we know. They were! The "Huns" of Hitler seem to be giving the Huns of Attila cards and spades in the sad game of frightfulness. He is torturing thousands to glut his greed for that which fools call power and glory, he has again placed Christ upon the cross of his barbarism. They cannot even decorate the tomb of the German Unknown Soldier any more. He might have been a Jew. But there is some solace in remembering that ages after the haughty Reich he has created has crumbled into dust, when the wild goats browse over his forgotten grave, and the lizard sleeps among his broken fortresses, the Rock of Ages at which he scoffs will stand as it stands today, the citadel of a civilization built on brotherly love and the Golden Rule, that all the mad dictators have no p€rmanent power to harm.