Evening Star Newspaper, June 9, 1935, Page 39

MARINE RESERVE RECRUITS NEEDED Only 20 Days Remain for First Enlistments in Bth Battalion. But 20 days remain for first enlist- | ment recruits to join the 5th Bat- | talion, Fleet Marine Corps Reserve, as | recruiting for the battalion will be discontinued after June 30. After that | date only re-enlistments and transfers from the Eastern and Southern Re- serve areas may be made. A few vacancies still exist in the | band. Applicants for the band should | apply at 458 Indiana avenue on any Saturday at 3:30 pm. when First Lieut. Leon Brusiloff, officer in charge of the band, receives new recruits. | escent THE SUNDAY STAR, WASHINGTON, D. -C. JUNE 9, 1935—PART TWO. . History’s Rabble-Rousers (Continued From First Page.) don, forced the little boy King Rich- ard to sue for peace and wrung from him concessions that for the time were all but incredible. Troops Became Marauders. And very promptly Wat Tyler ran wild, turned his peasant troops into a marauding gang and was himself slain by the mayor of London. John Ball had his head cut off. His un- disciplined mob was cut to pieces and dispersed, and the net result was a government policy of repression of labor for generations to come. There is a deeply important lesson in this peasant’s revolt in that far- away time. John Ball was not so mad as historians have said. He was simply a visionary. He represented that pathetic aspiration of men for an ideal economic system, that yearning for equality of opportunity and po- | sition and wealth that is the evan- hope of all generous-minded Young musicians, interested in mili- | men—and is not possible in a world tary band careers, are desired. Several vacancies exist in Com- | panies A and B, both rifie companies. | been completely successful in seizing | Applicants for these two companies | the control of all England in 1381 | should apply at 458 Indiana avenue | there would have accrued from it no | on Tuesday or Wednesday evenings, |slightest change in the social and | Lieut. Lieut. contacting, respectively, First John W. Augustine or First Wilfred J. Serpas ‘The purpose in discontinuing re- eruiting a month before the camp period is to discourage the applica- tions of men who are attracted only by the 15 days in camp and who would not show the required interest throughout the training year. The age limits are from 17 to 35, parents’ con- sent being necessary for all under 2 ‘The battalion. on a paid drill basis, drills every Wednesday evening. The drill for June 26, however, has been | canceled. Instead, on June 24 the en- tire battalion, with band, will fall in | at 6:45 p.m. for the purpose of taking | like ours. If John Ball and Wat Tyler had economic position of the masses of the people, no deviation from the slow and painful and groping progress of the people of England toward the industrial and political conditions that exist today. Cromwell did seize control later. He was absolute master of all England. He had vision and principles and morality. And after Cromwell’s death the reaction from his rule resulted in social and economic abuses more serious than those which led to his successful revolution. Masses Stirred to Fulile Action. All through the patheiic annals of man’s tortuous and blood-stained the rabble-rouser accomplished any real good for the mobs he directed. In nearly all cases he injured them, their condition worse. If not that, he accomplished nothing. The men in history who have bettered the condi- | tion _of their fellows were distinctly | not rabble-rousers. Such men as Lu- | ther, Washington, Charlemagne and Peter the Great were wise rulers or | chosen leaders or preachers of a new | intellectual doctrine. [ Stir Emotional Hatred. activity is his stirring the masses to | emotional hatred, class bitterness or | mob action outside of reason. In that | recent exchange of amenities by radio | | between those two doughty champions | of the New Deal, the Messrs. Johnson and Coughlin, which displayed so charmingly the refined and cultured ; tone of intellectual disputation when | the church militant and bureaucracy | militant Giffer in their views, there was a most erudite appeal to literature. | The champion of regimcntation com- to the Pied Piper of Hamelin. Where- upon the great radio voice roared back that the knight of the N. R. A. there- by accused his followers of being rats. It cannot be expected that two gen- tlemen so profoundly learned in the | subtle principles of money, currency, | banking, production, wages and prices would be equally versed in literature, and they appear to have missed the | delicate implications in the story of the Pied Piper. The Piper undertook to charm with his music all the rats out of Hamelin, for a fre. When the | rats had been destroyed the frugal burgomasters refused to pay him ‘Whereupon he blew his seductive notes upon his pipe and led ali the children to their death. The comparison fits badly. In the first piace a rabble- rouser never drives out any rats, and bringing them to their deaths or| | leading them to excesses that made But the essence of a rabble-rouser’s | working in an economic system that is harshly competitive. Even where the cause was just and the move- ment soundly based, the remedy was fantastic, the method unwise, the re- sult failure. ‘When the sober observer casts & philosophical eye at the historic | leaders of mob movements he sees in | the queer individual figure a certain uniformity of type, a strange simi- larity. All of them were creatures of their time. They invariably played | upon the ignorance of the masses about issues that were vital and fundamental and personal for the day | and age. Appear in Critical Perlods. History shows no rabble-rouser whose understanding was much su- perior to that of his following, not even when they were obvious dema- gogues and frauds, like Catiline. They all appear, without exception, to have believed in the weird lot of lost causes, foolish reforms, fanatic schemes and visionary movements they led. And finally, they appear throughout history in critical periods, when war or economic distress or in- tellectual upheaval has disturbed the | existing order and unsettled the emo- tions and the minds of men. It was inevitable that a long and tragic depression growing out of a long and tragic World War should pared the champion of social justice i produce a crop of rabble-rousers in every country deeply wounded by these calamities. They are, like all the others of the past, creatures of their age. | others, quite incapabale of under- | standing the social order they attempt to change. | express the pent-up emotional bitter- ness of their time. In our time the issues of slavery and saivation and peasant rights are no longer public questions. Our issues are economic and racial. Consequently the rabble- rousers of our day stir the emotions They are, like all the| Like all the others, they | of masses sore beset by poverty or deeply hurt by war. Russian Masses not Roused. Lenin and Trotsky, in Russia, were not rabble-rousers. They merely en- gineered a coup d'etat which put a tablishment has not been seriously harmful as yet. All that it has done 50 far is to restrict production some- what, to debase the currency some~ what, to weaken the financial strength of the Government somewhat, to frighten investment somewhat and to reduce the standard of governmental | integrity somewhat, so that business enterprise has been reduced and re- covery retarded. Misled by Vague Promises. All over the Nation thoughtful and intelligent men are convinced that our Government is in the hands of rabble- rousers, and they are fearful of the future. They are mistaken. There is no cause for such fears. They have been misled by vague references to a changing social order and empty platitudes about the forgotten man and & New Deal. These distressed gentfemen do not read the Communist periodicals or the radical journals. Whatever their philosophy, the con- tributors to those journals are very shrewd observers, and for more than a year past they have had this admin- istration’s number. There is not one thing in the present outlook to indicate that the market for private yachts is going to be de- pressed. If you will consider what this Government has done for the silver speculators, the farmers, the labor | mean nothing beside the promise of | poverty in California. unions, the stockholders in bond- burdened enterprises and other special groups, you will realize that it does | not surrénder to the mob but, on the contrary, to very substantial special | interests quite apart from the mob. | The worst that can be said of the yresent administration is that by vague promises to remove economic distress | and social inequality it has encour- | aged the masses of the people to em- | brace any fool scheme presented to them. It has sowed the seed from which has sprung a whole crop of rabble-rousers—the most vehement, noisy, conspicuous and colorful in American history. That the adminis- tration has been pretty thoroughly frightened by this development is ob- | vious. When it embraces Upton Sin- clair one day and knifes him the next, it gives itself away. Its persistent efforts to kill off Huey Long are re- T tion keenly aware of their economic disadvantage and able to express them- selves politically but lacking under-| standing of economic principles. In- tensify economic misery by years of depression, encourage bitterness by political railing at all those not in acute distress, offer false promises to | remedy all economic ills by political manipulation, and you get a vast area of the population all set to follow any modern visionary or demagogue. No Cause for Astonishment. ‘Thus we come to an explanation of the emergence in our time of such strange figures as Sinclair, Townsend, Long and Coughlin. Intelligent people are astounded to see that millions ac- cept and follow the various ridiculous programs set up by these men. There is no cause for astonishment here, not when you consider the crusades, or Joan’ of Arc, or witchcraft, or flagel- lation, or the alchemists. It makes little difference what programs they present. The laws of prices and wages economic betterment by whatever hocus-pocus. Upton Sinclair was going to end That is & good trick if you can do it. But how he was to do it was never clear to any- body, including Mr. Sinclair. But after five years of depression many of the people in California are in poverty, and most of these are ready to adopt the program of any man who promises to end that condition. The people who follow these rabble- rousers are not all moved by the same impulses. Many of them are moved by a perfectly natural resentment of | the bitter hardship of their lot. For these there should be only sympathy. Others are motivated by desperation. | With nothing to lose, they are willing to follow any leader who promises change. And some are moved by hate | and envy and greed. Lower Pension Age Sought. | The deluded Townsendites have been so intoxicated by the iliusions of wealth without effort that they now propose to reduce the pension age from 60 to 50 or 45, and the millions who pursue this economic monstrosity terment of whole segments of the pop- ulation will arouse mass emotions, and there is no way to bring about such wholesome economic change by legislation. manifestations of the intellectual malady that has afflicted our Govern- ment; the notion that economic prin- ciples can be changed by legislative manipulation. Sharing Wealth Would Ruin System. There is no way, for example, to share-the-wealth and maintain our present economic system. It is easily possible to tax private wealth out of existence. Our present currency, credit and fiscal policies are pointed in that general direction, although the great protagonists of the more abun- dant life have no intentions of the kind. It is also possible to take private wealth by taxation and distribute it | as political charity to worthy party | workers or Townsendites or the noble citizens who were drafted in war—as long as the wealth lasts. But there is no way to share-the-wealth in our present economic order and preserve that order or its productivity, That s all there is to it. The program of the National Union for Social Justice consists primarily of a series of resounding and mean- ingless platitudes about property and human rights and just taxation, to that extent resembling the platforms of other political parties that are in- tended to citch votes without pre- senting any real issues. But it con- tains a few specific provisions. One of them appears to be a vaguely worded provision for the confiscation of all types of Government bonds. | Another calls for the creation of a Government bank to keep the cost of living constant and to establish a non-changing price level. Another calls for a “just, living wage.” There is not in the entire program any def- inite, practicable and workable meas- ure that promises any improvement in the standard of living, level of wages or betterment of our sociaty. The ancient, bromidic common- The rabble-rousing pro- | grams are merely acute and advanced | of social unrest into temporary pop=- Da3™ place that history repeats itself is ever demonstrated by the rabble- rousers. They are of a piece through | the changing mores of our social or- der. They spring from the depths | ular prominence. They frighten con- servative people. Rarely they do great harm. Usually they merely create a disturbance. Sometimes they can frighten a cowardly parliament into stupid legislation. And then they fade out, sometimes on the gallows, sometimes on the equally fatal gibbet of popular derision. But they all fade out. Within a few years we shall be asking what has become of the fantastic lot that now engage our at- tention. | Even in petty detalls the history of | the rabble-rouser repeats itself over the centuries. Whenever he com- mands a sufficlent following, even su- preme authority, whatever its private taste in the matter, makes acknowl- |edgment and gives audience. Peter the Hermit was invited to present his plan before Pope Urban. Joan of Arc was received by Charles VII of France and obtained approval of her visionary plan. And our own paladin | of social justice was invited to give | his views on money to our Senate, This writer has been a stud:nt of Government records for many years, It is his judgment that an occasion so ludicrous has been rare, even in the long annals of congressional blun- dering. Later on there was granted a | gracious reception at the White | House. This writer predicts that there will be no more such White | House visits. Garden Party Planned. LANHAM, Md., June 8 (Special).— The Twentieth District Democratic Club will hold a garden party June 15 on the estate of Judge W. McD. Lindsey here. Richard Downes chairman of the Ways and Means Committee, which is in general charge, There will be various amusements, re- freshments and other features. ‘nnw include the children of middle- | aged people, who see in it the possi- | | bilities of enjoying $150 a month with- small minority of fanatics in control of a vast nation. The Russian masses were not roused at any stage. The Dart in the Veterans of Foreign Wars | journey toward a better economic life | in the second place he does not de- Department Encampment parade. there appears these vivid personalities | str ren. P P! P l—mlsslonanos. Tenitis ichatiatans liberately destroy children, although vealing. Capitalism Gave Masses Power, THE EUROPEAN WAR DEBTS The training schedule for the 1935 — { training camp. which takes place a self-chosen Messiahs, tyrants, vision- aries, demagogues—who have played Quantico under canvas and field con- | upon the ignorance, credulity and ditions from August 4 to 18, has been submitted to headquarters, U. S. Ma- | rine Corps. for approval. The sched- ule includes several bush warfare problems and a battalion in attack problem. One dav of the schedule is devoted to competitive drills for various cup and efficiency trophies. These com- petitions and awards will take place on “Visitors’ day,” the last Saturday in camp. Transportation to and from camp will be by steamer. Vincent Di Francisco, Com- pany D, was promoted to private first Pvts. Michael J. Hanley, Com- pany B: Canterbury B. Pierce, Com- pany C; John F. Bowie, Jesse W. Padgett and Roderick S. Scott, Com- | pany E. enlisted last week. Pvt. Pierce is the son of Lieut. Col. Harold C. Pierce, U. S. M. C Pvt., Hanley is Western High School’s star athlete and winner in the recent high school cadet competitions. Both Pvts. Pierce and Hanley are candidates for appointment to the Naval Academy. Who Arefi\:ou? ’ The Romance of Your Name. BY RUBY HASKINS ELLIS, United States | 'HIS is the name of an English family, originally of Saxon stock. The name signifies “high” or a “hill.” The family was established in Leicestershire as early as 1851, when we find a record of one Edward, son of Thomas Hoe, baptized. We also find the name of Richard Hoe on parish registers of Leicestershire. Robert Hoe, born in 1784 in the vil- lage of Hoes in Leicestershire, is first of the American family of the name. He became interested in the Colonies and sailed for the New World in 1803. He was a carpenter and soon estab- lished himself in business. His first commission was the building of a bridge in Westchester County, New York, and in 1805 he formed a com- pany which later became known as Robert Hoe & Co. He took out some of the first patents for printing presses in this country and in 1846 developed the rotary press. which was universally adopted by publishers of newspapers. The Public Ledger of Philadelphia was the first to use this type of press. Robert Hoe, 2d, was a patron of the fine arts and a generous promoter of art centers in America. He died in Tarrytown, N. Y. ‘The name of Hoe is found in many New England States, New York, Penn- sylvania, New Jersey, Maryland, Vir- ginia and other seaboard States. (Copyright. 1 TRUCK KILLS FOREMAN ON SPERRYVILLE PIKE Walter Erwin, in Charge of Stone Work on Road, Crushed by Loaded Vehicle. ®pecial Dispatch to The Star. CULPEPER, Va., June 8—Walter Erwin, in charge of stone work on construction of the Sperryville pike, was crushed fatally beneath a truck of gravel today. He died shortly after being brought here. The accident oc- curred four miles west of Culpeper. Erwin was lying on the ground, sighting along his instruments be- hind & mound of dirt when the truck driver, Otis Kilby of Culpeper, backed directly over nim. Erwin had been in the employ of road construction companies for 22 years, He was 40 years old and un- Imarried. His mother survives. The funeral will be held at his home, near Staun- ton, tomorrow afternoon. Church Service Set. BRIGHTON, Md., June 8 (Spe- cial).—There will be a service of cor- porate communion in St. Luke’s Epis- copal Church tomorrow morning at 11 o'clock in connection with the church’s “forward movement” pro- gram. Dr. Thomas F. Opie, rector, will preach. 5 : o Mamba Feared. A mamba, the world’s most feared snake, has arrived at the Zoo in Lon- l‘on. ~ hopes of men. From Spartacus lead- ing his forlorn attempt to free the ! tory and contemplate the long line of | the prevailing gladiators and slaves to Coxey leading \ his ragged army to Washington in 1893, there is the endless line of men who have stirred the masses to futile action, often to riot, rebellion and revolution. It would be a grave misconception | of historv to assume that all these rabble-rousers were conscienceless demagogues seeking power. Many were exactly that. But a few were visionary reformers of the noblest ideals. A few, like Spartacus, or that appealing figure, Nathaniel Bacon, who led the futile revolt in Virginia in 1675, were making a hopeless fight against zer.uine evils The one outstanding fact is that his- tory does rot show a single where | this is frequently an incidental result of his acfivities, Picturesque Personality. When we glance backward in his- rabble-rousers, we see through all the multi-colored variations of setting and locale and time, certain essential principles. Always the rabble-rouser has a certain picturesqueness of per- sonality. Always he is ignorant of the essential facts of the issue he raises Always he appeals to emotion instead of reason. Always he promises some- thing he cannot deliver. And always his following comes from the ignorant the unthinking, the discontented and the unsuccessful. | It s all too sadly true that these groups also include those who because of these qualities are submerged and oppressed, sometimes slaves, some- times serfs, sometimes tragic victims of the inexorable laws of economi popular notion, so sedulously cul- tivated by our Communist intellec- tuals, that the Russian people adopted | a Communist order in preference to system is positively funny. The Russian masses did not | know the difference between Karl Marx and Groucho Marx, and they accepted the changed order in pref- erence to death by machine guns. When we consider the Hitler regime in Germany, the Mussolini control in Italy and the narrow escape from a universal strike in England, we realize that the United States has been for- tunate. We have reached the turning point in depression and have had to endure nothing more than a Federal Government which appeals to the emotions of the masses for political purposes and makes vague promises of revolutionary change. Its spasmodic, blundering interfer- | explosive coml h the existing economic | A consideration of the economics of the rabble-rousing in our time fllumi- | nates our whole economic situation. | The modern capitalistic system, grow- ing out of the industrial revolution, did two things among others. It gave the | masses of the people political power. | And it made the masses of the people literate. Two things, among others, it did not do. It did not end inequality in wealth, income and wages. On the contrary, it created a competitive sys- tem in which there are differences in income based on a competitive basis of productive value and also on an un- fair basis of unequal opportunity and privilege. And it did not give the masses understanding of the extremely complex principles which determine economic life. In other words. we have a highly bination of economic in- quality in a large stratum of popula- out work, while father and mother live on $50, until they themselves reach the pension age. | Out in California people at the pen- slon age are trying to buy goods on installment, with payments toc be made out of the pension, and it would appear that unattached females are | looking toward matrimony with elderly widowers. But these impulses of ce- luded people—and a desire for vctes— led a Governor of California and a Legislature of California to vote solidly for the Townsend plan. It is a waste of time to analyze any of the plans of the rabble-rousers, It is inevitable that their plans are wholly without sense, for the simple reason that they are founded on the shifting sands of economic fantasm. The programs of rabble-rousers are by their very nature not worth con- sideration, for the reason that only schemes for impossible economic bet- . THEIR SETTLEMENT by WILDON LLOYD 5 of the Journa se one o the promotion and betterment of Intern: The greatest An able piece of work. It th A well-documented book. Mr. Lloy riving at thc amount of War Debi London information NICHOLAS American War Loa st. and based on C in the least space. 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