Judge — September 5, 1931 — page 15: what you’re looking at

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When Stalin Speaks 7 ex Stalin speaks, the whole world listens.” Thus Dr. George Counts begins his foreword to a pamphlet in which is given the full English text of Stalin's remarkable announcement of a new industrial policy for Russia. Hence- forth wages are to be paid in propor- tion to skill and to work accomplished, Class warfare is suspended as industry is concerned. No longer are places of responsibility open only to members of the Communist Party. Bourgeois intellectuals such as. en- nd other technicians are in- vited to join in the completion of the Five-Year Plan, and are to be fed and housed as well as the proletariat, and £g the same privileges as to vac: tions and the education of their chil- dren. Some observers regard this great step as a “retreat from com- a confession of error or par- tial failure. Dr. Counts interprets it as a wise compromise with immediate circumstance, and evidence of the real strength of Soviet leadership. Colonel Hugh Cooper, the American engineer who is building a huge hydro- electric development in Russia, points out the significance of the new policy for the world at la It will, he says, do more to bring about normal relations between Russia and the rest of the world than anything else that has happened in the past five years. “The world need never r Rus- sian dumping now because all Russia’s strength is to be concentrated on pro- ducing higher living standards for her own people, It should provoke a bet- ter feeling in America toward Russia, ind it would be a good thing if every thinking man the United States read the speech from beginning to end so that he might know better wh: Russia is trying to do. Anything th: nd for Russia is good for An gineers < munism America should watch the effect of the new policy with the utmost atten- tion, We have too much individualism and not cnough social plannir sia is trying now to get the benefits of individual incentive under a state controlled plan. It is this supreme effort which makes the Stalin pro- nouncement, as Dr. Counts says, “an historical document of the first rank.” Other Intoxication [stexteaten persons should not drive cars. Few dispute that, But alcohol is not the only source of dan- yerous intoxicatio: A. letter-writer remarks in the New York Sun that many accidents are due to auto-intoxi- cation, He “Auto-intoxication prompts those possessing it to stop on crossings, turn corners at danger- ous speed, distegard street lane lines, ignore possibility of a sudden stop of car ahead, back up on the walker try- ing to cross the street, stop at # fire plug, to fail to see the traffic prohibited left turns, to 1 essary noise. Apparently a pun was intended. But there is a genuine point here. Medically, auto-intoxication means the presence the system of poisons caused by improper diet. These poi- sons affect the glands and the brain and slow up both the thinking pro- cesses and the muscular response. So auto-intoxication may careless driving. In all our tation against intem- perance, we have been obsessed with moralistic tradition, Intemperance in rating may be as dangerous as. in- temperance in drinking. It has been aid that William Jennings Bryan, for all his fervor against alcohol, hastened his own death by egregious intemper- ance at table, and could have lived much longer if, instead of vast quanti- ties of grape-juice, he had imbibed an equal amount of good wine daily. And the dangers are social as well as in- dividual. No one can estimate how many of the blunders of government. how many cruelties, injustices and sacrifices of life have been due to the acts of statesmen, judges and gencrals 13 says, uuse stupid or whose minds are dulled or warped by pathological conditions resulting from long-continued errors in diet. There’s nothing to be done about it. You can’t | nst third help- ings of ste by law a minimum time for mastication. But if we could see the parallel clearly, we might in time come to see that no sort of per sonal habits are properly subject to control by legislation. Too Many of Us orse pocrorine is the only pro- fession not overcrowded, accord- made by T. S. Hard- the number of gradu schools with the ble, he finds that ngineers, too awyers, too many architects, chemists, too many den- many doctors, too many nurses. Apparently very few young people make enough inquiry about the arcers they are choosing before they 1 to spend money on their train- to a survey ing. Compari number of jobs there are too many too m tists, too But wait a bit. There are also too many unskilled workers (note the sta- tistics of unemployment). There are too many skilled workers (ask any trades union leader). There are too many white-collar workers, too many farmers, too many little business men. ‘There are too many poor dubs every where. Almost the only class of which there is a shortage (outside of horse doctoring, of course) is that of lead- ers. There is no profession or other vocation which could not use a large supply of first-rate people. What is the solution? Probably there are several—birth control, bet- ter education, shorter hours of work and larger pay. And, above all, a planned social structure. Not only material resources and products, but also human material and abilities could certainly be apportioned and distributed more sensibly than. they are by individualism run wild. RIL W, comicbooks.com