The Archive · 1934

What to Think of

That the American public does not quite know what to think of all these reforms. arises do they think the N.R.A. where you come from?" Everywhere the same.

The verdicts of complete question la the ignoramises are listen in fact, more attentively, since the experts are tone and cil non-committal. Thue only by "discussions with citizens in all walks of lifo that any. summary of the national jean be made.

Four months ago bread lines were common; to-day they are comparatively rave. Four months ago, every city. alony the "Pacitie Const had ite eax parks wher for tke. prices of used cars normal and where there were bunds reds to distract the would-be pure chaser' now there are only scores Tt was in she bread-lines that the germ of ind' men, with the' transparence of unger shooting in the skin row

opaque eyes of misunderstanding honchoness and the aeds jostled each other shamefacedly for {the wherewithal 19 live. "One told his. story. He was the second generation of an immigrant family, From Central Europe. His parent had' prospered in their small wave He, too, had found " job and don well. "But. the distance from Parental peasant stock was too short for him to understand thab the golden fountains of indus might one day run dry, And hi reaction was angry. Hiis family had come across the world to. cape from just this, and afler brief illusory enjoyment of what were riches to them had been suddenly and inexplicably dumped buck' into the state of starvation from which they hed fled. -Starvation" while farmers. were using grain as fuel because did not pay them to sell itt His stand was that something had better be done

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