FEAR AND INTELLIGENCE

Northland Age, Volume 5, Issue 9, 29 November 1935, Page 6

FEAR AND INTELLIGENCE

Everywhere, up and down Europe, the fighting men and the fighting machines are gathering. And for what —if not because every nation is deathly afraid of every other ?

It is a tragic commentary on this generation’s inability to come to grips with its fundamental problems. In all these warlike countries the basic difficulty is the same—unemployment, stagnant business, the baffling complexities of a society which has learned how to multiply the production of goods, but has hardly begun to learn how to distribute them among i£s people. . . . As long as fear rules, the powers must pile up great armies, hold manoeuvers on a scale only less expensive than war itself, fill the sky with grimly droning air squadrons, and get the costly grey warships afloat on the seas. The money, the energy and the devotion that might go to make life easier for millions of people must instead be spent to prepare for death and destruction. . . . Here is man, arrived at last at the point where every human being in the world could be provided food and shelter and all the comforts and luxuries of modem civilization, with a minimum of properly apportioned labour. He possesses the machinery, every factor necessary to that long visioned goal—except the intelligence to properly use them. Kittaning Leader-Times (U.S.A.)