Evening Star Newspaper, September 27, 1931, Page 21

BRITON SHOCKED - BY GLOOM IN U. 5. enable & be sources, form (free from the abuses of the Brit- % may grot exportable surplus sold in the markets of the world. But America’s immense natural a brium and give back dominating financial credit, and the resilience and energy of her people will, in my opinion, rapidly re- | store her THE SUNDAY LAR, Wl kikGeoN, D. C, SuslTEMBER- 27, satisfactory answer. The oblem con- fronting us is that a third of the total volume of our world trade appears to be rmanently eliminated. Unless within three years the genius of the Enzlish race discovers some means of supplying that deficlency, we can scarcely hope to survive at a first-class economic unit. (Copyright. 1931, b Newspaper to Te- the North American v w Alliance, Inc.) of such companies received from some localities depict a general condition. ‘The committee, composed of utility, transport and banking leaders, gather again in about two months to study the gathered data. So far it has not .indicated what remedies if any, it | may suggest. TRANSIT AGENCIES OF U. S. UNDER SURVEY Commerce Committee to Determine If Companies Are Threat- 1931—PART THOMAS ASKS RADIO RIGHTS FOR-LIBERALS | ONE. Socialist Leader Wants to Substi- tute Ether for Soap Box been told many times, can be met by the right to hire a hall,” he sald. “What is a soap box compared with a radio station?" The commissicn heard Thomas on an application for reversal of an examiner’s report recommending removal .of the station from the air for technical violations. Icuis G. Caldwell, representing the station, told the commission that ad- * ¢ B—7 — URGES COURT ENTRY Baker Also Holds U. 8 Should Adopt Capper Arms Resolution. CLEVELAND, September 26 (P.— Entry of the United States into the World Court and adoption of the VISITORS TO GO T;MASS Services to Be Held at Oldest Cath- Capper resolution governing sale of arms, are seen by Newtcn D. Baker as the Nation's best preparation for the coming International Disarmament Conference at Geneva. Baker, speaking before the- Adult Education Association, said the confer- ence needs the support “of a nation big enough to reduce tke burden of military expenditures, big encugh to set up the machinery that will secure her the golden key. In the Britich position, unfortunately; there is no_ parallel. With desperat> courage we have just averted financial disaster by a budgetary decisien which will still further impoverish every in- dividual citizen in the country. Follow- ing this comes suspension of th: gold standard. I believe the nation as a whole will pay its taxes honestly and cheerfully. I believe that for two or | mitted violations of regulaticns of fre- quency, announcing phonograph rec- ords. " and giving call letters, were “trivial and inconsequential and did | not warrant the death sentence.” | ; i Legation Secretary Moved. Recent changes in the Unit:d States | Foreign Service include the transter of |8. W. Washington, West Virginta, third | nternational peace. opinion. secretary of legation, from Rio de Jan- | “What will happen if the world does “The advent of radi> has changed |eiro to Tokio, and the transfer of Wil- | not find a way to remove the intoler- the situation so that it is idle to say [liam H. Beach, Virginia, consul, from | able burden of armament, no one can that the right of free speech, as I have | Bombay to Antwai | say,” he concluded. e FREIGHTER IS AFLOAT TAMPA, Fla, Scptember 26 (#).— |BY the Ascoclated Press, olic Church in Virginia. | The freighter Shooters Island, lmund" A Nation-wlde inquiry to determine | whether city transit agencies generally | FREDERICKSBURG, Va., September | in Tampa Bay since Monday, was floated | are threatened by inadequate revenurs | 26 (P).—Prominent Cathollc clergymen today after a portion of her cargo of | Was ufl?"‘g;‘fl,gé i;g;)'sgvtn speciel | from several nearby citles will attend phosphate was Temoved. et Commeroe. ©8 Cham- | tne first outdoor mass at. the site of the three years we shall make both ends| gpe is en routs from the Florida West | .. : oldest Catholic Church in Virginia, near Theet, : | Btreet cars, busses, taxis and even sub- | here, Sunday, October 4. The outdoor But when Amcrican bankers and | Coact to New York. Her mastor, Capt. | ways are to be investigated in cities of | mass is planned as an annual event cconomists asked me with friendly con- | A. A sald inadequate channel |all sives. Questionnaires will be sent to | following the restoration of the ceme- cern what would happen at the end of | lights cau her to run on a mud flat thrae years, T could not give them a 'Monday night. ened by Slump. in Plea fer WEVD. Refusal to See Fortunate Position of Country Astounds Editor. By the Associated Press. A Socialist leader tcday urged the Radio Commission to permit liberals to substitute the r>dio for ths soap box. Norman Thomas, advocating that WEVD, the Eugene V. Debs Memcrial Station in New York, be kept on the air, said it was very important that there b2 provision for the extznsion of minority The writer of this dispatch is assistant editor of the London News-Chronicle, leading English Liberal newspaper. He has Jjust returned to England after en intensive survey of economic conditions in the United Stater. He visited Ameri- can industrial centers, and iaterviewed President Hoover, business leaders, finan- clers, economists’ and” newspaper editors. BY A. J. CUMMINGS. By Radio t0 The Star. TLONDON, September 26 (N.AN.A).— After a close investigation into indus- trial and economic conditions in Eng- land I have just completed & fairly exhaustive inquiry of the same kind in _the United Stetes. I have visited many industrial cen- ters and consulted scores of Amcrican citizens whose names are houschold words in politics, industry, commerce and finance. As an Englishman, com! direct from a land which for 10 years has bzen faced unceasingly with acute problenis of diminishing trade and increasing uncmployment, I am immeasurably as- tonish>d &t the depth ond extent of the psychological depression in the United States. | In England there is nothing to com- | pare with it. We have lived with the slump so long that we have ccme to regard it as an uncomfortable bedfel- low to be endured as patiently as pos- sible until it can conveniently be got rid of. We have not squealed or whined at our prolonged misfortune. We have kept a stiff upper lip and taken our punishment as we took it in the World ‘War, deeply consclous all the time, as in the darkest days of the war, that in the end we should shake ourselves ' free. | | the Chambers of Commerc> to ascertain | tery last year, and the erection of | whether 12ports of threatened failure | crucifix close by, R, Free Parking ~—for Our Customers Phone Orders Call Marion Gage, Personal Shopper NA. 5220 . Velour Portieres Wide to pair Guaranteed sunfast—over a dozen smart color combinations. With French open edges. $7.50 Felt-Base Rugs 9x12.Ft. $ 57 5 Size Finished with a smooth, glossy surface that makes cleaning ever so simple. All perfect. . 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But they have been thor- oughly flattened out by a catastrophe which came upon them like a bolt from the blue. i From business men in New York and | in Chicago I Heard more gloomy talk in a week about the depression' than I had heard in England in a year. Except on rare occasions news and comments in American newspapers and magazines about the depression have deposed from the place of honor th news and comments about racketeers and gunmen. ‘The theater revues were studded with somber cepression jests; popular ed- vertisements were based on depression | data. ‘Taxicab drivers, waiters, shoeshiners, elévator men and all casual acquaint- ances, as soon as they recognized my English voice, wanted, in melancholy tones, to know whether the position was as terrible in my country as in theirs. 1 myself began to feel more depressed in mind than I had felt since the retreat of the British Armies in France in the last Springtime of the War. Was it possible, I asked myself, that I was dwelling in a world of {llusion? For on the surface of life there are few signs in any American city of the severe distresses which, 1 was assured by nearly every one, would create in the coming Winter one of the gravest social problems in American history. ‘The standard of living is still very much higher in America than any- where else in the world. Americans of all classes live with an air of opu- lence that cannot be matched in any m{_%pmn cauntry.m i chaliy ey are more finely c . _They eat better and more varied (ooe\?. ‘They live in more material comfort. The Working classes have a wider margin of personal pleasures. They enjoy luxuries which no other proletariat could possibly afford. ' Marvels at Many Cars. Hundreds of thousands of working | men travel to the factories and mills every morning in their own motor ears. The motcr is to an American working man what a bicycle or a two-penny tram car ride is to an English artisan. Until he has crossed the Atlantic Ocean the average American citizen cannot clearly perceive the chasm that separates his own conception of social comfort from that of the average Eu- ropean. In spite of the high unemployment figures and the many tragic tales of privation which were poured into my ears in every considerable city, I did | not any of the squalor or large | aggregations of idle men and women such as are a common feature of Eng- lish towns in cur industrial north. In Canada, where again the standard of living is markediy lower than it is in the United States, and where in- dustrial conditions are almost equally bad, T found a healthy spirit of hope- fulness and courage which was in strik- ing contrast to the melancholia of its| richer neighbor. | Moreover, some of Canada’s leading men told me that in contact with American business they had observed the ssmie down-and-out symptoms which had been apparent to me, and they did not disguise their lack of sympathy for what or~ of them ce- scribed as “the vulnerable and mercu—} rial temperament” of the American race. . ‘What, then, is the caus? of this ex- sggerated mental reaction to hard times in tha richest country in the world? The explanation rests, I think, almost entirely on the fact that | in the last 10 years the Arerican peo- ple have been taught by their politicians | and industrialists that they were i mune from the evils that beset the rest of the world. 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They had mass preduction of every kind of commodity upon an unprecedented scale, and a high and seemingly limitless consumption. In the history of the world there has been nothing to approach the artifical stimulation of production and sales which characterized American industry | in the fiyst decade that followed the war Americans of all classes squandered and mortgaged their resources and| gambled recklessly in the stoci kets in the confident expectation that. whatever might happen to an effetc Europe, the good American times would g0 on to better t'mes, which would last forever, Uneasy warninzs were uttered by few economists who were generally re- garded as senile croakers. Then in 1929 the crash came and hit the Ame:’- can Nation with a stunning force which | went near to destroying her national morale. That is how I have explained to the British people the strange fact that| America is for the time being a shell-| shocked pation. It is & strange fact tc British eyes, because in Great Britain | we know how much more serious our | own plight is, H When American millionaires and | well-to-do taxicab drivers with haggard | faces have assured me that they were “ruined,” I have become aware of the! relativily of ruin. | British trafle since 1921 has been! slowly sliding into the qu: . Amef- | ican ‘trade has dropped suddenly from & great height on to fairly solid ground. | Believes U. 8. to Lead. | Among all the nations America 'fll’ undoubtedly recover first from the de-; pression, and with the least immediate damage. She will be in a mood to face realities. The standard of living among all but the very wealthiest will be somewhat lower. A scientific check will be put on ted and reckless' speculation. It may be found necessary to work out some permanent S-gal. size 4ogal. size 94c 8174 Super Service paint is made especially for Goldenberg’s. All regular stock colors, including white. For inside and outside use. 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