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In the things r read ;J ,l* , keep on discovering that this man J. Edgar Eloover is more than a great detective; he is a splendid thinker and philosopher. The other day I read an article he recently wrote about human conduct, and the above from the*Bible was his text.

In his writing he said in the simplest words that the essentials of human decency and good conduct are three: justice, mercy, and humility. That, with the scriptural text above, seems to make "**t*tnat fine little sermon.

Of his three essentials it seems to me that the third is the foremost-humility. For unless a man possesses that, he is unlikely to be highly merciful, or unusually just. Humility. is certainly one of the brightest stars in the crown of human virtues.*

No man ever is truly great who is not humble. Without it, his other useful characteristics will be of lesser value. Vanity and egotism can find no place where humility lives. The chief reason why every world thinker has listed Lincoln among the world's all-time great, is because he was the most humble of men. It was his unbelievable egotism and immeasurable vanity that made me so thoroughly dislike Roosevelt.

Words of practical wisdom fell recently from the lips of Emil Schram, president of the New York Stock Exchange. Ffe was speaking to a western audience, and he said: "The United States cannot live by bootstraps alone. Someone must make the dollar to give someone else for social benefits. And the government is a very poor businessman, as well as a very poor middle*:".; ffe was trying to give sensible advice to people who look more and more to the government for everything, and who fail to understand that the government produces nothing. When he said that the government is a poor businessman, he sure said a mouthful. In all its invasions of business, government has proven inefficient, impractical, wasteful. and unsucc.""t;t. * *

Unemployment lists are growing, according to government reports. But don't forget THIS; unemployment doesn't always mean what it did during the early thirties. In those days an unemployed man was generally a man willing and anxious to work, who couldn't find decent employment to feed himself and his family. IIe wasn't choosy. He was hungry.

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To a very large extent the unemployed we see listed today are in no such desperate straits. The unemployment figures are taken mostly from the unemployment compensation rolls and listings, and a large part of them are not desperate, hungry, or willing to take any decent employment. They, perhaps, haven't folrnd exactly the kind of work they are accustomed to, and with unemployment pay available, they are not forced to take what comes. Tens of thousands of men on the unemployment rolls are driving their own cars, and living well. I know lots of such. This is NOT a criticism. They are complying. with the law, and would be foolish not to take the compensation. But the word "unemployment" doesn't necessarily mean a hungry or desperate man as it often did in days gone by.

.rttJr",l".j S""r.a"ry of Agriculture

Brannan has declared bluntly that unless we spend the money to keep the farmers prosperous we will have the doggondest depression in this country that anyone ever heard of. Thinking this, he feels that no sacrifice on the part of the rest of the population for fattening the farmer and keeping him fat, is too great, and should be accepted calmly and dutifully. "Our great productive power makes possible the biggest surpluses, the most colossal waste, and the greatest economic crash the world has ever seen," he is quoted as saying. * * *

Let us pass the question of whether or not Secretary Brannan is to be accepted as a qualified prophet or authority on depressions. Taking him at his own estimate' we find that a new and entirely self-appointed prophet has arisen in our midst crying "Hear Ye ! Hear Ye !" Mayhap, like the seer in Scott's "Lady of the Lake," something unknown to us "gives him mystical lore, and coming events cast their shadows before." ***

At any rate, we hear him propounding an entirely new philosophy of economics that is startling in its sirnplicity. The long and short of it is that the rest of this nation must dig into its pockets to fatten the .farmers and keep them fat, regardless of how deep or difficult or painful that digging may become. One thing we must admit with regard to his theory; it's the simplest doctrine of economics ever preached. You don't need trained economists to handle it. Any apple-cheeked farm boy can do it. The fact that furnishing Cadillacs for the tillers of the soil may have the