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In Washington
He that passeth by and meddleth with strife belonging
not to him, is like one that taketh a dog by the ears. Pro
verbs 26:17.
WAS THOREAU RIGHT?
It is hardly surprising that the celebration recently held
nt. CanptwA. Mush., in hnnnr of the 115th birthday anniver
sary of Henry David Thoreau did not attract much attention Vcan leaders are trying to m im-'
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CliKDIT FOR TUB IP-Tl'KN
dollars for highway construction pur
poses to give unemployed famiie em
ployment, . This, program, wlil send
00,000 men into highway camps and
will set. in motion the .wheels of fac
tories which supply goods to con
tractors. . , , , . ... . .
And tliroughout . the nationj bank,-
now under way at Los Angeles might
well bo dedicated. f'
Here, 'a'' In few other corner- of
the world, is the opportunity for the
cementing of friendships that can
bring a clearer understanding- to trie
participants' and through them to
their nations. Here is the'opportun
lng houses are putting into clrgula,-j ity for men and women from all parts
tion new money for the accomwoda- jof the world to learn that between
tlon of their patrons, railroads have i themselves and their fellowman there
outside of his home state.
proven. en t In business with President
Only a small group attended the ceremonies, and news of tempting to establish the iact 'that
the event received very little space in papers outside of Con- cnlcf executive is responsible lor
the present upward trend.
cord. And this, in spite of the fact that Thoreau ranks as Tbae lcadere shouW go slowly ,n
one of the greatest thinkers and writers the nation has ever this enterprise. For them to assert
produced, is only natural; for Thoreau preached a doctrine .fne'rurec
which is not very popular in the United States today. j business improvement might lay him
. - open to the suspicion that he had
Thoreau, as you doubtless remember, went to a little pond something to do with causing the ae
iiTthe woods near Walden, built a rude cabin there, and lived ;,pr!'on"
. , , .. ... , . . , i Tne ract of tlle m"er Is that
as a sort of hermit. He wanted to demonstrate that most 'president Hoover was not responsible
of us spend our lives struggling to acquire things that really ,or th0 nard tlme8 ot tne p8
don't do us very much good when we get them. He lived juu tTrc'rUw
the simple life and spent most of his time thinking and writ-ing them.
jng. j The depression was the result of
. But the nation has come a long way from the simple life :D n!L tmhV 'tSJwL.r
as Thoreau lived it. If America two decades before the jthe world war to 1929. international
Civil War was too much engrossed in a frantic effort to get ;nkere. domestic banners, heads or
non-essential things and perfonn non-essential deeds what .-lgh7B
would you call it today ? Thoreau s time was an era of placid 'poor, Republicans and Democrats, an
leisure by comparison. , jf them had a hand in creating' the
' ..Thoreau never lived to see the era of mass production andr ZTLTtA
JTiass disti'ibution. of installment purchasing and high pres- binty m the matter and for any one
sure selling, of speeding automobiles and blaring radios. an of them to attempt to place the
iuiiuiiu uit me jjrt-iuenii is not gooa
sportsmanship. ,
. However, In a limited way the presl.
dent Is responsible for the present
improvement in conditions. To the
extent which the reconstruction and
relief meneurw of the administration
been able to preserve their credit
both of which are necessary to quick
en the return of prosperity.
America spent a dozen hectic years
gambling with destiny. Her people In
dulged in a money-making orgy and
a spending frenzy. They hypothecated
the future for the glories and pleas
ures of the present; and when the
future arrived it foreclosed on its
mortgagors.
Nobody alone Is responsible fot this
condition. And nobody, who had the
ear of the multitude, foresaw the con.
sequence of the golden, material era.
The few economists who hoisted' the;
danger signals were disregarded and
scoffed at. ,
The result has been painful, but It
is only the" difference of national
lines and the physical characteristics
that residence In varying parts of tne
world have brought.
Meeting on an equal basl-3 In an
event where the test Is In the mind
and body and not in the name of
the country from which they come,
tne athletes will be overlooking a duty
to their nations, to the world, and
least of all to themselves, if they do
not make' friends with other com
petitors. 1 . 1 i 1 J ,
Good far beyond figuring in dollars
and cents will result if the thought
of friendship for the sake of a better
understanding is not overlooked. The
United States has offered' itself as a
generous hot to the cream , of the
B II erbert Flu miner
WASHINGTON Return of that
burly and now gray-haired chap,
ceorge Akerson, to the political
scene as eastern publicity director
for the Hoover campaign somehow
seems to be Just one of those things
that were bound to happen.
Most Washington newsmen and po
litical observers never quite became
accustomed to his absence in and
around the White House. His rela
tionship with Hoover had Its begin
ning when the president made up his
mind definitely to seeic the Repub
lican nomination.
At least that's what everybody
thought when George quit newspa
per work back in 1925 to become a
member of Hoover - 'personal office
staff lh' the department of com
merce.' '. ' ' v: ' "'
He was regarded from Jhe start
Essentially as a political press rep
resentative. , . , ; ' " '
UK'S' 'SON' TO HOOVER '
! But there 'are other reasons,'1 per-
'haps more personal, why Akerson
has forsaken his desk as a motion
picture executive to do ' publicity
again for President Hoover. There
has been an unusual intimate side
to the relationship through the
years of these two men.
It was Akerson, as much as any
one. who made "the Chief" . known
to the world. He always talked of
"the Chief" wherever he went. Ev
erybody knows the president's dis
like for those little human stories
of his sayings and doings so val
uable for publicity purposes.
But he did much to make Hoover
understand in the days that he was
with him as his secretary.
To the .president, he was never
'George" or "Akerson." Always
It was "Son." And when he left
the White House he went with the
assurance of both the president
and Mrs. Hoover that they would
ever regard him as "Son" a mem
ber of the family.
. Perhaps this, more' than any oth
er one thing, prompted him to re-j
turn to the'firing line to battle forj
"the Chief" orice more. ' ' '
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is evident that the era of retrtbatton i world's athletes. Ii would be too bad
is almost over. If President Hoo7or's if that cream were .not churned
relict program has been of virtue In through contact to a butter., that
nowi'as we were three or four years ago, that the modern
ultra-complex civilization is man s noblest achievement.
I !;It jis true that our national income has greatly increased
since, the time of Thoreau; our homes are infinitely finer and
more'' convenient ; our methodH of transportation and conv
inunlcation have broadened our horizons and stimulated our
minds; the common people are better informed and letter
ed'uc&ted.
,v gut are we any happier than the people who lived more
lhari'a century ago? Our greater knowledge and larger
wealth bring with them also greater problems. The higher
wf eimb, the greater the danger of falling. Some men are
advancing the theory that we are on the verge of destroying
oU,! civilization because o our inability to solve the compli
cated questions which face us.
i Yet we arc doubtless safe in asserting that men will not
turn back. Only an occasional Thoreau can be satisfied to
separate himself from his fellow men and live in primitive
Simplicity. The rest of us will continue in the fascinating
race, struggling to attain wealth and luxury and fume and
influence. For in most men lives an unquenchable desire to
attain, to possess, to excell, and to rule.
Thoreau's own age found him a bit "queer", and we "mod
erns" have even less time for his strange philosophy. ',
i Why? There were many advantages in his way of life.
And in the past two or three years the American people
have had ample cause to doubt if their high-speed society is
really getting them anywhere, We are not quite as sure: wo contributing to it, Mr. Hoover is
eniuiea to creau. But so lar as rem
edying fundamental conditions lscon
ccrned. Mr. Hoover should not claim
credit for thlB has not been accom
plished yet.
i Mr. Hoover's reconstruction program
Is acting on the buelncss world exact
ly as a priming of water acts on a
leaky pump. It Is hastening the llow
of normal business Just as the prim
ing hastens the flow of water to the
top of the well. It Is speeding up
tho recovery of business in the hope
that tho speeding up process will set
in motion the laws of economics that
aro neccHsary to sustained business
prosperity. To this extent Mr. Hoover
is entitled to credit for bringing buck
good times.
Out here on the Pacific const we
can understand how this priming of
the pump is working out. Tho con
grew appropriated many millions of
TYPHOID MARY
..To most of us, "Typhoid Mary" is just a name out of
medical history. It was u little bit surprising, the other day,
to read that the woman on whom a generation of medicos
havo fastened that name is still alive, an inmate of a cottage
of North Brother island, New York City.
Typhoid Mary has been there move Hum 17 years. She is
in perfect health and she has committed no crime, but she is
under detention and she probably will be to tho end of her
days.
She works in the laboratories of a city hospital on the
island, takes all her meals by herself in her little cottage,
and while she is not strictly a prisoner she is never allowed
to get very far from the watchful eye of the city health de
partment. Now and then she is permitted to go into the
city for an afternoon, but she always returns in the evening.
There is something unspeakably tragic about this woman's
ease. Mary Million that is her real name -has the misfor
tune to carry the germs of typhoid fever in her system, and
although she has never had the disease herself at least ,r7
cases of it, several of them fatal, have been traced to her.
To permit her to have her liberty would be to loose a cer
tain, devastating source of infection upon everyone with
whom she came in contact. So she must live in a cottage on
an island off Manhattan, a virtual prisoner, cut off from the
freedom that makes life worth living. Was there ever a
woman much more unfortunate?
This case, somehow, seems to symlxilize the way in which
the modern world has erected restrictions on individual
liberty for the sake of the common good. Mary Mellon is
the victim, not of wilful injustice, but of the order of society
which must, now and then, sacrifice one for the sake of
many.
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speeding up recovery, he is entitled to
credit Xor It: But lie has not cured
the fundamental came ot our nation
til distress. Only time, which measures
tho swing, of economic laws .can do
that. Albany Democrat-Herald. -
FOSTKKINO" FRIENDSHIP '"
Tho world needs -many-' fUiinfcVt to"'
day, including efficient leadership.
economic balance and the fostering' of
friendship in the interests of greater
understandings and general goodwill.
It Is to that need of the fosteriniof
friendship that the Olympic gamea
could be spread, figuratively, to make.
this world a little better eating.
Walla Walla Bulletin. , ." ' ',"
Not Very Speedy '-'
The first1 railway trains lh Eng
land' and this country ' rah very
Slowly. Coal tf n ins ' In Erigrnnd, -for -a
time, 'moved 'aFthe rate of three
and thffce--dartors ''infioi 'p5; houf..
The first American- locomotive jused
for,c0afrnriulhig was .(lie-,, Stour
bridpe Lion,' 'which i moved 'at a
fcpeed of ten, mllos per hour.
'MYSTERY STORY RKADKRS ' '
There 'are many little, stories,
heard' now and then in private con
versations, about their personal re
lations. One of the best concerns
the time the two crossed the coun
try together on a business trip.
They had procured some detec
tive books before leaving to induce
sleep on the train. In the sam
drawing room, - Akerson occupied
the upper berth and "the Chief"
the lower. Far into the night they
read as the train rumbled on.
"How' many murders have you
got up there, Son?" asked Hoover.
"Pour up to now, Chief," replied
Akerson. -
"Give me- that book," came the
command, and George surrendered.
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By Match King
By Elmer, W. Peterson
STOCKHOLM (P) The ghost of Ivar
Kreueer, suicide match king, is stalk
ing through the political campaign
of Sweden as the country prepares
to elect a newr second chamber of the
riksdag,, ox. national parliament.
The role which the spectacular in
ternational .financier played in the
politics of. his-home country Is Just
beginning to be understood.
Spread His Clfts
He is beinK revealed as a political
opportunist." 'seeking goodwill where
It would do mm the most gooa. in
vestigations ' of the financial wreck
which he left, shows that he gave
money to-'1 several Swedish parties
and contributed also to political
treasuries in other countries where
ho had Interests.
But here in his homeland; the
liberal party, which for four years
has held the balance of power,
seems to have been recipient of the
real political sympathies of Kreuger.
A year 'ago he handed 50.000
crowns, then equivalent to $13,500,
to ! Carl Gustav Ekman, present
prime minister and leader of the
liberals. ' This was done while
Kreuger still -enjoyed public respect
and confiderice" and there is no ques
tion but that it was, politically,
ethical gift.
Ekman has returned tho money
voluntarily to the Kreuger adminls
trators, announcing that the former
match king mnde the contribution
on his personal Initiative and with
oufi asking any favor.
This action has been Interpreted
as a move to force other similarly
benefited parties to come out Into
the open. At any rate Ekman 's
frank tactics have rather minimized
Kreuger as a campaign issue, .
Politicians who, ordinarily, might
have been violent in their denuncla
Hons, havo been mentioning Kreuger
with considerable ' tact. There is
rather general agreement that the fi
nancier's true political convictions
were overshadowed by his desire for
untrammeled progress in his busi
ness projects;
In Stockholm he had many friends
among newspapermen and the press
did much to gild his name. He held
a majority interest in a press bureau
which transmitted news of Sweden to
all parts of the world and investiga
tion of his affairs has shown that he
was thoroughly alive to the value of
modern publicity.
That he was a thorough political
opportunist was revealed by the files
of the Stockholm, Dahblad, a news
paper which he owned until It was
absorbed by the Stockholm Tlgnlnen.
While he was in control, his hired
writers flirted with all parties, criti
cizing only mildly and patting each
on the back In turn. i
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