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Forward (Newspaper) - October 13, 1933, Racine, WisconsinPage four Friday october a 1933. To hell with Prosperity give us Security by Oscar Ameringer the most Beautiful and significant of ail greetings is the biblical greeting. Peace be with but where of where m peace where Are the Fig that Shade your Contentment where the vineyards that give you cheer you Are Rich beyond the flights of phantasm. Your Prairies wave with Golden Grain. Your Honey bees Rise from a million acres of sugar beets and sugar Cane. Your garments grow in Fields of Fleecy White. Contented cows Graze in Green Meadows. Contented sheep Munch on Flowry Hills. Contented hogs Grunt in Cool wallows. Beneath your feet Mother nature deposited the fruits of billions of years of labor. Your mountains Are pregnant with the metals and minerals wherewith forge pruning Hook and Plo share Are wrought you have harnessed the winds of heaven the might of falling streams the lightning of Thunder Clouds the fiery heat you Fly around the Earth in seven Days. You talk around the Earth in the fraction of a second. Your beasts of Burden Are Worms on a thousand wheels i your arks Are floating palaces propelled by hissing water. The Power of one of your great turbines surpasses that of All the slaves of Rome and Babylon. Yet where is your Security the prime ingredient of peace and happiness peace be with thee of toil less toilers wandering in the streets knowing not where the next crust of bread will come from. Peace be with thee Lucky worker in shop and mine watch ing with furtive eyes the hungry Brothers threatening to take your place. Peace be with thee Herder and Husbandman who never knows from Day to Day what far off gamblers May decree. Peace be with thee merchant in the marts of Trade beset by Batih and Duns and notes come due. Peace be with thee Money changer harassed by night flares of visiting Bank inspectors. I us Viia Iii Ett statesmen Nijiu politicians shivering in awaiting changes in fickle winds. Peace be with Tecc teacher healer and advocate with beg Gared pupils patients and clients. Peace be with thee on Rich of the Rich who dwell in palaces surrounded by hovels and Dens of by Hunters Gold diggers purse snatchers kidnappers High and Low. Peace peace there is no there is Security for none. F our feet stand at the Gates of earthly Paradise. Our Heads Are Back in antediluvian caves. We have Learned everything Bat thinking everything but to nine the Depths of our souls to uncover the purpose of our doing. What Are you after mow Prosperity Well Yotive had Prosperity Over and Over again and each rising wave of Prosperity hurled Yon into deeper draughts of asperity. And Pray what do yes Musu by talents and each other out of Over flowing swill troughs like greedy hogs. I do not care what you Call a society in which everyone works enjoys the fruit of his labor and bestows Security on Young and old. But i do that it be hastened Modi at mortal men May hasten destiny for humanity a Fol not be Homan a Refl it kills the predatory beast wet Tim itself. In such a scientists Tell us and there is no of vow win of of a year at the least that such a society would be socialistic goes without saying but Why worry about socialism in a country where the ninety and nine would gladly Exchange their boundless opportunities for the Security of a two thou Sand Dollar a year government Job Asdahl Nelson building materials 1x1 state St 1 Myers service Static Diamond products 400 Lake ave. 2100 no. Main St first Relief pork sent to Butte sixty two thousand pounds of pork were dispatched from St. Paul to Butte Mont. This is the first of to be diverted to the use of the destitute. Other shipments will follow. Of gadgets and thugs Yon do not know what do with but near higher and higher Prosperity what is to Gamble with on Ever rising of gild edged rag paper in boxes of tin of Gold in Concrete of glittering trinkets on empty Heads and Idle hands to Awe and outdo other fools of jiggers to Chase about at Breakneck Speed mixing Beauty and breaking to hire songsters Tor singing songs that Well not from our own hearts word jugglers to coax laughter or tears from Frozen chests dancers whose Grace de Light your eyes above jowly Cheeks and fatty launches on spindly plenty of work for everybody is that what you mean by Prosperity or do you mean Security the father of peace and happiness of. That s it. You want Security and you seek Security in possessions for which you fight speculate and for which you lie and cheat and Rob. Wherefore with All your possessions you have no Security and consequently neither e nor if it of a for Al. To Toi of Cote qty b great bar Jam surr or overcoat mad to order for appointment Call Alex Andersen w w. Nash clothing co. John Vincent Barber shop 1434 state St. the Ark we buy and sell everything come in you May find what want you 1211 Douglas Are. Rowley s have operated markets in Racine since j868 Whene there is need of shoes remember a. F. Milker 1138 Hayes Avenue we carry a Fine line of men a Young men s shoes and oxfords at reasonable prices. Repairing done by men with Over half a Century Bakers grocery o a Cotoc fresh meats and groceries free delivery service Jackson 3435 Street Blackhawk garage general repairing 107 fourth St. Pm. 1450 Mezinis photographs live forever. Picture framing. 501 main St. Phone j. 2290 state Street tavern Beer so and Loc fish Fry saturday Nite 1308 state St. Peter Pallesen Jacob Pallesen Theos Brothers expert shoe repairing first class materials and reasonable rates. Hats cleaned and blocked. Member Racine shoe of Catt ill Kos a Soullion 237 main it. Phone j. 3161 is Security you want and that is really at the it snare m Siri Dand f oar its a we to from Owr to do to hungry could As stars and Strintz we have the Means wherewith to rear the highest Civi Iua i lion the culture and eat Bluh the loftiest of r that Ever prevailed on do Curry or w. W. Rasmussen new and i Seii i m Ming fit Tyks 1747 Orimal s markets the stores that save you Money 1515 w. Sixth Street 1103 Carlisle Avenue Jack. 32 Jack. 29 our advertising Lichter in Honey it t no for our specials Hornet it Mhz at right Pirren i f Don t guess in a mme la Kuvin furl trial far or liable to Mil Al the right jut Call acc Ken i Pricr. Ii m. S. Barr fuel co. . 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