10 SVENSKA POSTEN TORSDAGEN DEN 9 JULI 1936 OLD TIMES AND NEW By Henning Holmstrom Crisis in Culture, concluded If I with the foregoing have been successful in exposing to view some of the worst faults in. our social system; then—even to him who, for the present, may have a fairly' re-munerative occupation—it should be obvious that the present system of producing and manufacturing ali kinds of goods for the purpose of personal pecuniary profit to the own-ers of industry must be discarded. Such a system—if it really can be called a system—is iniquitous and un-christian; if what’s worth preserv-ing of the Western civilization is to be preserved, then that system must be changed into one whose main object is to produce and manufacture to supply the needs of every inhabi-tant of the land.—Can it truthfully be said that a regime which after be-ing in continuous force for nine years, with unemployment during the following three years steadily mount-ing until it includes nearly one half of all the workers of the country— can it be said that such a regime of negligence can be part of a system? If such action, or rather utter neg-lect to act, can be explained at all, it might be considered a product of a mentality of disregard for every-tbing else but “me and mine”—a mentality which finds its expression in the adage of the French aristo-cracy of the ancient regime—“What of the ‘canaille’? they die, they suf-fer.—What of it?” Fersonally, we may like the idea of being our own masters . . . the exitement of paddling our own canoe down the rapids of life. This was morally permissible not so very long ago when (to continue the meta-phor) there were more rocks and boulders in the rapids endangering the passage. Then there were onlj a few of the younger pioneers of those who constituted the little community of farmers and fur hunters, daring enough to take through the rapids the three or four canoes loaded with pelts and furs which every spring were shipped to the city, some two hundred miles down the river. However hazardous these trips were, everything generally went well, and for years there had been no loss at all. Then copper ore was found. This ' .hey were mining in a primitive y since the dangerous rapids^ .vented the use of any larger con-veyance, the ore was shipped in canoes just as the furs, though not in the same boat. But since these car-gces were necessarily heavier and more unwieldy, some were lost; whereupon it was decided to clear away enough of rocks to make the passage safe. After all the men had been working on it for a whole sea-son, they had succeeded in maning a channel some thirty feet wide safe foi boats of very light draft; still they were shipping the ore as before, in canoes. Then some big mine operator learned about the ore deposits, staked some claims a trifle further up the river, built a couple of flat-bottomed scows that would hold some thirty tons of ore and still draw no deeper than a canoe holding about a fourth of a ton. His ore, however was found to be of far poorer quality; so he wished to buy the com-KHinity’s claims and offered a mere trifle—hardly enough to pay for the work and other expenses for clearing the channel, which latter he meanwhile kept using far more than tl ose who hade , made it, refusing to give them any remuneration what* ever for using it. The pioneers had been thinking of building a scow or two for them- SECRETARIAL TRAINING .... offers the best stepping stone to •excellent positions in business offices and in the Government Service. * Minimum entrance salaries for Stenographers in Civil Service range from $120 to $135 per month The Private Secretary who is thoroughly qualified and possessing a pleasing personality is practically always assured of a good position. Our Free Employment Bureau is filling from 100 to 150 positions every month. An exceptionally high-class Secretarial Training School for those who desire something better than the ordinary ..ens kontor - Te. SEATTLE UAL SCHOOL h noggrann LJuilding MAin 2844 Westlake Ave. near Pike selves, but having spent considerahle cash on clearing the channel, they were short of cash just then and had to postpone the building. Even at a far higher price than what had been offered, the pioneers would have been averse to parting with their mine. The get-rich-quick craze hadn’t yet infected them; they wished to work the mine as a side line, the fur hunting being on the decline. But the “big man” wanted it, and he wasn’t going to let the notions of a bunch of hay seeds and trappers prevent him from accomplishing his purpose; so he saw to it that they were molested and vexed in every possible way—he even even had his fiatbottomed tow boat (intended for pulling the empty scows up-stream) sink some of the pioneers’ canoes by crowding them on the rocks in the channel. This, although claimed to be accidental, was, however, nothing of the kind. Finally, pestered beyond endurance, the little fellows had to give in, after the agents of this man had stirred up dissension in the community; the end of the matter being that a stock company was formed, in which he appointed himself president and held the controlling in terest; although the community claims, with superior ore, were worth several times more than his own. But he was to furnish the Capital for machinery and equipment, that is; lend the money to the company, at an interest rate, that most iikedy, was in keeping with such a successful and benevolent man’s busi-ness ethics.—If “he and his”, as in the fairy stories, lived happily ever after I do not know. But we mustn’t judge too harshly the little fellows who trusted in honesty, if they lost faith in a social system which makes such things possible. These same conditions, in the year 1930, made it possible for a New Tork bank which for years had been doing business under a misleading name and which bank in that year was some eighty million dollars short on money left there on deposit—made it possible for the directors to use up another million or more for buy-ing up, practically, the entire bar of that city, some two dozen lawyers, including all the city’s outstanding trial lawyers, for the purpose of keeping themselves scot-free of the law. The present administration, under the leadership of President Roose-velt, has, it cannot be denied, done something to get the country out of the depression; had he not been hindered by the senile majority in the Supreme Court, there is little doubt that the results would be stili better. At any rate it would certain-ly be a grave mistake not to give him another term of four years to finish up what has been started under his administration. The next instalment will be the last of this series. HANS SKYDOSUNG (forts, från sid. 8) ställelse, då motorn började arbeta. Han ämnade åka långt bort och sä skicka i väg bilen, medan han tog sig en promenad i för honom obekant terräng. Då de hade kört tjugu minuter, knackade han pa vindrutan. — Vart har ni kört mig? Det var då ett konstigt håll ni valt. — Herm sa’ att det gjorde detsamma — och eftersom jag bor här i närheten, så . . . — All right. Ni förstår att inrätta er. Var äro vi då? — Vid Prescot Street, sir. — Stanna här — tack! Bilen stannade, och sir John steg ui. — Ska jag vänta, sir? — Nej, tack, ni ska väl förresten hem, smålog John välvilligt. Var så god — köp litet blommor med er hem åt er hustru! Han kastade en guldsovereign åt