Judge — October 10, 1931 — page 15: what you’re looking at

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Put Them to Work OWERFUL CHAMPIONSINP for a “reconstruction” campaign to re- lieve unemployment comes from so expert and conservative a source as the Engineering News-Record. It ad- vocates a seven-billion-dollar bond issue for public works. That would sct five million men to work. “We are not forced to depend on charity. We can work our way out. And the means are available. We lack neither the money nor the ability to organize and plan quickly. No one who recalls what was done in 1917 and 1918 in carrying out in a few months a vast building and equipment program and putting the country to work for na- tional purposes will have any doubt of our present powers. A national emergency lies ahead, but a national spirit and united purpose can carry us through by work in pl arity.” Road work alone could put an end to the whole problem, There are 2,000,000 miles of dirt roads that a necd to be modernized, and it would take the labor of every unem- ployed man for at least two years to do the job. Add to this some of the crying national needs already listed on this page—destruction of inscet pests, reforestation, flood control, im- provement of harbors, housing—and it needs little imagination to see that for every dollar borrowed untold dollars would come back in the greater pros- perity and happiness of the future. And a not very distant future, cither. We've got to spend millions for re- lief. But we ought to start spending billions for work. The most elementary eco- nomic rule is this: the one thing a community can least afford is idleness. The Borah Boomlet Dox’? lay any, bets on Borah for President. The talk about him as a progressive nomince may sound like a boom, but it’s really bosh, If you will look back through the files of That goes without saying. JUDGE agra seies deacon newspapers, you will find him listed s a potential candidate in every pre- convention period since 1908, Never yet in the twenty-four years since he went to the Sen has he Jet himself be jockeyed into the position of being even receptive to the overtures of the anti-administration crowd. He’s a be- tween-seasons rebel but « presidential- year regular. As one of his colleagues has said, “He always shoots until he sees the whites of their c Not that we think much the less of him for that. Borah is just about the most useful 1 in Congress, and a good deal of his usefulness comes from the fact that when it comes to the test he’s an organization man. We need in public life more mugwumps, more lone wolves, more sharpshooters. But as lor ours is a government of par- ties, we also need more men who know as Borah knows how to draw the line between legislation and politics, who keep their independence in the cham- ber yet hold their places of authority in the party council, Get Together With Russia H ven Coorer, the Ameri neer whose views on Russia are s worth hearing, has come back the seventh time in five years. a result of Stalin's a new policy mmunism has been discarded, that “they are now operating on a basis of State capitalism and eventually will turn to a modified capitalism.” ‘This should be discounted, of course, be- cause there can be no such thing as capitalism without private ownership of land and the tools of production, and Russia betrays no intention what- ever of surrendering the common con- trol of these. Of more current importance is Colo- nel Cooper’s comment on our relations with Russia. engi- As to political recogni- tion, he says: “No, not until the moun- tains of ignorance in the United States concerning Russia and similar atti- tudes in Russia about United 13 the jc cooperation ; in favor of the United States approaching Russia at once along the lines now being worked out between France and the Soviets. The Franco- Soviet negotiations now in progress deal, for the most part, with trade and not with the old czaristic debt and questions, I do that the present world economic depression can be re- lieved quicker by recognizing that Russia is by far the soundest economic market readily available to relieve this depression, I am positive the United States could perform a great service to the world and to ourselves if we would promptly accept the official pro- posals from Russia for an open, round- table world trade conference.” If France, the most nation in the world today, can with impunity get together with Russia, why need we still be timorous? Shortage of Daylight Daveeut saving days are done. Sun time is back on the job, and The of summer were if you ask us, we don't like it. already long eveni stretched longer and that was all to the good. But now the short evenings of autumn have suddenly become shorter still, and that’s too bad. If daylight is worth saving, why not save some more of it? Probably it would not be wise to keep the clock set ahead the whole year round, for too many people would have to get up and go to work in the gloomy dark, But Octo- ber is a month in which most of us could use that extra hour handily, and April is another. i t from anybody to urge that > an issue now. Li tures to with too many weightier matters — uncmployment, taxation, child labor, prohibition and such. But jot this down as something worth thinking about in the placid days to come, sla- cope more RSIW. comicbooks.com ae