SCALING THE MOUNTAIN BY STAGES.

Hawke's Bay Herald-Tribune, Issue 2, 18 January 1937, Page 4

SCALING THE MOUNTAIN BY STAGES.

Many people are so busy 'trying to devise ideal systema of social organization that they miss the obvious steps of honest work for the day's wage oaad r^nef(\F.ay for ?h6 day's worK of konest goods sold for an honest price, says tho "Minneapolis JoUrnal." They are so coneerned with the reduction of axmaments or the refusal to take the oath 6f allegiance as a gesture against war that they will not take the trouble to study the actual problems of materials and markets, of eeonomic interdependence of the reliatiOn of tariffs and trade agreements to the eanses of waif. Yonng inen will even pledge themselves never to bear arms at their country 's call, and then go out and act as pickets in a labonr war in which their heighboufs are being kiiled. It is time to concern ourselves with dreams of Utopia when we have done our honest best to nnderstand the complex problems of an industriai civilization, with a view to discovering hidden centres of selfishness and greed and bringixig them to light where they may be eliminated. There is nothing recondite about honesty and deceney. "When we have done our absolute best in these directions, it will be time to discuss the ultimate organization of society. We cannot scale the mounlaiu afc a leap, but the uext slep we, overy yue, have I power to take.