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The OREGON StATESalAN;Salera.irOregoSun 21, 1937
'Vo Favor Siray Us; No Fear Shall Awe",
From First Statesman. March 28. 1861 '
Charles A. Sprague
. , THE STATESMAN PUBLISHING CO.
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. r Hon of all news diavaicixra craditrd L. II or out Hirrwltt credited In
; this paper. '
Sky Carriers of Death
Glenn Martin, veteran airship builder, has just com
pleted for Soviet Russia a huge airliner which is described as
the first flyings boat capable of making a non-stop flight
across the Atlantic with a commercial load of -passengers,
cargo and mail. It is a monoplane of 63,000 lbs. gross weight,
a passenger capacity of 46 by day and 26 by nigfit in individ
ual berths. Its cruising speed is given at from 145 to 170
mph. It will be able to fly from London to New York in 23.0
hours, with 1000 miles in reserve. It is cowered bv four 1000
hp Wright engines. Its wing spread is. 157 feet, the largest of
any living boat built in this country.
What the Russians plan to
fesses not to know. Whether
north-pole flights to iorth America, or just for experimental
and exhibition flying is not disclosed. i
But the creation of such
that America's moat may not
country. We have been content in our assured security be
hind tne spread of three thousand miles of water. But what if
vast flying fortresses can come over the top of the world, or
hop across oceans? The time when they can do this success
fully a military undertaking seems still remote, not only
because ox difficulties in manufacture and finance but also
because of the comparative ease of defense; but this Martin
monster of the air lanes hints what is coming. And the new
Coeing bombers which this country is building show what
1 capacity for death from the sky is being proven.
J . Madame Chiang Kai-shek in one of her columns to Am
erican papers, says that ''never before in the history of the
world has there been anything like the mass bombing and
msrhinA-cmnri In c nf trrvma o nrl fnwno onrl nanrtlo wViinh Vtoa
been going on in China during the last few days." As Chinese
armies struggled through the inundated rice fields to retreat
from the Shanghai line Japanese planes riddled them with
machine guns. Bombs wiped out the cities which might be
refuges for the retreating troops. Agains this air force China
finds itself impotent. i i
England, long secure from invasion because of its island
position, then threatened by submarines during the world
war, is now thoroughly alarmed because of the risk of war
from the skies. I Feverish preparations for eventualities are
being made in Britain, with particular emphasis on air de
fenses. Sir Samuel Hoare, home secretary, confessed the new
exposure in speech in the house of commons;
'The fact remains, beyond fear of contradiction, that the po-
sition today Is much more formidable than It was In the years of -
' the war. ,j ... -. r
- "It Is! so formidable that there are some people who say It
'.' i no use attempting, to take defensive measures that an air at-
: tack always breaks through and that nothing we can do would
, be effective." -; , , i k .
, Sir Samuel discounted such extreme fears, and sketched
-briefly government .'efforts toward protection against air
raids. There is, no practical defense against bombing of build
ings, (other than by driving off the attacking ships), so. they
are preparing for protection against blast and splinters, with
public shelters for those caught in the streets and advice to
householders on how to construct their own shelters.
If the world continues its plunge toward anarchy, and
the mechanism of warfare continues jtr improve urban pop
ulations in exposed positions will live in constant fear. And
as intimated above, even this country may find itself within
range of huge planes that ride on jtop of the skies, sothigh
as to be invisible to the eye, dropping cargoes of splintering
bombs and sickening gasses on the New Yorks and SanVFran
ciscos now the 'pride of the world Rearm as we will, the
nly adequate protection will b somehow to change the minds
sf men who rule the nations of earth.
-Religion in a Neo-Pagan World
Today's neo-paganism attests the decay of religion.
Churches struggle against the tide. Numerous devices are ifr
troduced to hold adherents or gain new ones. Still there is a
tone of discouragement among religious leaders, a wonder as
to what the future holds for organized religion as represent
ed by the church. . ' ..' ,
Has the world learned to do. without religion? With the
corrosion of old faiths does the whole, structure topple into
ruin? Does the quest for pleasure satisfy? As people have ok
tained more creature comforts have they found no further
need for reliance on the support of creeds or faiths? Modern
civilization abounds in knowledge made available to- all
through libraries and laboratories and universities. It flour
ishes with abundance of material goods to sate - the pam
pered appetites of men and women, and relieve them of pain
and suffering and drudgery. Does the world then need any re
ligion with its presumed connection with divine power? -Joseph
Fort Newton, one of the nation's distinguished
clergymen, writes jn the November Atlantic to describe the
letters he gets (his fan mail) in response to a daily newspa
per feature he syndicates, called "Everyday Living." He says :
"Fear, anxiety, loneliness, and unkind nesa, these four things
make human life horrible; and the worst' of these is fear." :.
Here is one thing these letters have revealed to him:
"It Is amazing to me to find how many, people go limping
through life,-crippled souls, owing to some hurt or humiliation,
some: injustice or cruelty, suffered in childhood. The stories told
are staggering of starred souls, of people looking for some- -thing
they have lost, of stabbing hurts and devastating frustra-
. tioa." " ; ! ; , . v
Behind the veneer of modern . self-sufficiency there is
more spiritual unrest than ever before. The wrecking of old
landmarks in politics, economics and in religion has left peo
ple more confused and bewildered than. ever. The task of
those who like Dr. Newton are trying to give people true bear
ings in the storms of present day life must be indeed oner
ous; and their opportunities for real service far greater than
before. Only the task calls for one more skilled in minister
ing to the human mind and heart than those whose religion
was limited to the catechism.
Life offers an endless drama in which the characters suf
fer heartaches and bafflement, fear and frustration; For
these there seems no answer to the mysteries of life save that
of simple faith whose common expression is in some form of
religion. - i ;. .'
An Indiana-congressman, female, proposes to chop down all the
Japanese cherry trees on federal property in this country as a rebuke
te Japan. What a stupid -gesture, robbing our own people of a large
share of its. Ternal beauty. It could not injure, Japan or restrain that
country's war lords; and would merely expose us to ridicule. It is of
a piece with that bigotry which drove German out of American schools
ia wartime.
Erazil has abandoned iti coffee valorisation schemes vhlch.hare
cpst that country millions of dollars. It found that other countries ex
panded their acreage as -fast as Brazil destroyed its own coffee. A
proteesor at Cornell university has studied all these attempts at gov
ernment control of prices and production and found Invariably the re
sult was damaging to the country that attempted it. Yet the United
States seems doomed to make the same attempt with cotton and other
important crops. .
Gov. Earle of Pennsylvania turned earth on a sew five-and-a-half
million dollar state finance building at Harrisburg, which will com
plete the 135,000,000 capltor group authorized in 1887. The main
capital was a job rotten, with graft. Public ethics ha,a improved great
ly since Matt Quay was political boss of the keystone state. .
People are growing accistomed to downtown traffic lights. Soon
there will be demand for them at other traffic intersections, like Court
ad Capitol and Center and Capitol, perhaps State and 12th and
Talrgrounda road and North Capitol, - - -
Editor ard Publisher
do with the ship Martin pro
they mean to use it in over-the-
monsters of the skies reveals
for long give insularity to this
Bits for
Breakfast
By J. HENDRICKS
Coming of new . 11-21-37
pastor of historic )
church recalls times j
of founding days here:
!
Circuit Judge Fred W. WJlson
sends to this desk a copy of The
Dalles Optimist of Friday, Novem
ber 12, the leading editorial
article of which, under the title,
"He Will Be Missed reads:
"As he appears before various
groups, the Rev. Robert A. Hutch
inson is expressing his farewells
as he and his family prepare to
move about the first of the month
to his new charge at Salem. 'Bob,'
it goes without saying, will be
missed. He has provided much of
the spice of life for people - of
The Dalles and vicinity- during
his pastorate here with his soon
taneous flow of Irish wit to flavor
a constructive philosophy of life
which has been as inspiration to
aU of us. 'Bob' has been a man
of high Ideals and strong convic
tions, with courage to voice those
convictions and with no. compro
mise for bigotry and religious or
racial intolerance. He will leave
a material monument to his pas
torate in the beautiful church
built under his personal super
vision, while in the hearts of all
his friends there will remain the
memory of a strong and inspiring
leader."
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The fact that the above apprec
iative words come at the behest
of Judge Wilson recalls j historic
Connections of the founding days
of Salem and of Oregon. I
Joseph Q. Wilson, father of
Judge Wilson, was one of the!
early influential members of' the
First . Congregational church of
Salem. Judge Wilson is' one of
the chiefest members of the Con
gregational church of The Dalles.
The First Congrega tional
church of Salem, of which Rev.
Hutchinson is taking charge as
pastor, with his first sermon in
that connection this forenoon, ia
one of the oldest of that demon
inatlon in Oregon and on this
coast.' ;,
It was organised July 4, 1852,
in the first public school building
erected on the site of Salem. The
capital city was then only about
two years old as a platted town.
Thus that church will have its
86th birthday next July 4th.
One of the early substantial
members and supporters of and
workers in the First Congrega
tional church of Salem, as said
above, was Joseph G. Wilson, and
it transpired that he was the man
who, above any other, gave Salem
the state capital. That interesting
story has been told several times
in this column. But for Joseph G.
Wilson (and. but for the alumni
of WiUamette university) Salem
would not have been voted the
state capital. Had the majority
been lost then, it would not have
been won ever.
Joseph G. Wilson, aided sub
stantially in raising the funds to
erect the first building that be
longed to that church,, where the
present one stands, the lots hav
ing been donated by the then
pastor, Rev. O. Dickinson.
One of the methods of raising
funds, for the support of that
church in the '60s was by the
sale of pews. At the sale conducted
for this purpose on September 29,
is S3, pew number S0: went to
Joseph G. ' Wilson," the highest
bidder, as the record shows. Mr.
Wilson also conducted the choir
In those historic days., -
He was one of the most vigor
ous of the pioneer .. boosters of
Salem, buying a good deal of
down town property and erecting
buildings. He owned the buildine
in which the Statesman newspaper
and the territorial printing office
were housed, when they were
moved from Oregon City to Sa
lem, June 21, 1853; along with
his cousin James W. Jfesmith,
afterward U. S. senator, congress
man, etc. Each had a half In
terest." "
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Joseph G. Wilson was elected
to congress from Oregon in 1872,
but died before the time came
for him to take his seat.
Rev. Hutchinson thus has his
toric traditions of prideful char
acter as he begins his work in the
capital city. It is predicted that
he will live up to them.
Is
The Bits man is glad to endorse
every word of the editorial that
follows, from the Portland Jour
nal of November 11:
.The effort to perpetuate the
memory of Dr. John .McLonghlin
In a bronse bust to be located in
the south garden of the rehabili
tated McLoughlln bouse In Ore
gon city is a worthy project of
the Oregon Congress of Parents
and Teachers. The nlan is to hv
it achieved by two-penny contri-
ouaons from the school children
of the state, thus making them
partners in the entemrise to me
morialize a great pioneer figure
ui us uregon country. The seal
of the state-wide Parent-Teacher
organisation, the approval of the
many; school boards throughout
the state, and the contributions
of the children, will make possible
this worthy undertaking."
Fourth Son Arrives L
But .no Sisters About
' To Gret Ilia Advent
SILVERTON Mr. and Mrs.
J- A. Richards are announcing'
the birth of the fourth son - la a
daughterless family. The infant
was bora to the Richards Thnrs
day night at the Silverton hos
pital. Diane Hobart is recovering sat
isfactorily from a tonsilectomy
performed Friday morning at the
Silverton hospital and Alice Char
pUlos is getting along- very well
following a m a o r operation
Wednesday morning at. the local
hospital.
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The Safety
Valve
Letters from
! Statesman Readers
THOUGHTS ARE OFFERED
To the- Editor:
In i order to make a success of
anything, we must have faith in
it, and the same thing applies to
our government. The most of us
have been educated to believe (hat
we must have an income of some
kind if we would live. Most of
us at least must work if we would
have an income. When there is
no work some of us may go out
and create a job, or as we some
times say ! make our own job. It
may be something like football.
We see an opening in the line.
It could be selling cars. We see
a chance, with our personality, to
get in -the game. We gradually
crowd the fellow across the street
out of the business. Without giv
ing any thought to him we are
called a success. We made our
job or did we just take the o ler
fellow's job away from him?
-And so; it must be unless new
buying power is found in all walks
of life. When one laborer suc
ceeds in taking an old job nothing
has been accomplished. More jobs
can be created through shorter
hours. It. Is said we buy 65 per
cent . of all goods shipped from
Japan. More jobs can be created
If we don't buy their things and
make them ourselves. Millions of
pounds of meat are bought in
other countries. More jobs can be
created if we grow our own meat.
However, other nations cannot ;
buy from us if we do not buy
from them. It would be just as
if the farmer never sold anything,
out was always buying, Perhans
some of our trouble lies in the
Cacti that nations like Japan pay
a much lower wage. How can we
trade with her or rather let her
flooo? our country with goods
manufactured with an average
wage of 67 cents per hour.
A reduction in the hdurs of
labor for hire in agriculture would
help the small farmer to get as
much-fori his labor as the large
grower pays for his hired help. He
could pay lor that little home.
:' HUGH L. MAG EE,
j Grande Ronde, Ore.
- Propaganda from Spain
To the Editor:
Sounds! very nice ... "Its
credit line, 'By The Associated
Press, guarantees accurate, swift
and impartial coverage of the
news wherever it breaks.' (From
your item captioned 100 000
men . . )
Fifty per cent of the 100.000
men must be communists then,
because 50 per cent (conserva
tively speaking) of the news
flowing from European parts dis
regards verified data concerning
the troublesome . Spanish situa
tion (and it seems most of , the
reporting is congregated there).
As a consequence the majority of
the reading public has a distorted,
untrue, anjust view of the true
facts in iSpaln. And why T Sim
ply for the season that either the
AP for i its Spanish contingent
of reporters numbers only mem
bers of the oddly named loyalists,
and therefore conveys to the too-tlad-to-bemlsled
- American jub-
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:00 Jaaanette MacDonsld. i
4:30 Old aoBsa of tha church.
5:00 Studio.
8:15 Beasaaca o( trans porta tioa..
I :J0 La parade. . ,
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S:00 Sandy Teoin( hoar. .
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' T:30 Ueadlinea and byliaaa.
8 :00 Concert oreh.
8:15 Studio.
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8 :45 Studio.
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10:00 New World oreh., MBS.
10:30 News.
10:45 Vocal varieties.
11:00 American Lutheran church.
12:30 On a Sunday Afternoon, MBS.
1:30 Oklahoma Outlaws,
1:45 Today's tunes.
2:00 Les Hite's Tea Dangante, MBS.
3:35 Streamline Swing MBS.
2:45 Rabbi Vagntn. MBS.
3:00 Thirty Minutes ia Hollywood,
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4 :0O Stan Lomax, sports talk, MBS. .
4:15 Raymond Gram Swing, news, '
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4:30 Ted Weems oreh., MBS.
4:45 Hollywood news, MBS.
lie padded reports ALWAYS
FAVORABLE TO THE CAUSE
OP THE RUSSIAN GOVERN
MENT OF SPAIN, or, and which
may be the case the reporters
in Spain" are afraid to turn out
anything inimical to. the usurp
ers now occupying ; the throne
with direct authority from Mos
cow. It makes me. feel sad to real
ize that there are countless thou
sands of United States citizens
who even now, November, 1P37,
A. D., believe (because somebody
told them so) that ths Spanish
loyalist misgovernment is FIGHT
ING THE SAME BATTLE WE
AMERICANS FOUGHT IN 1776.
Now this is really L pitlfuL It
would be very, very -funny "ere
it hot for the fact that so many
of lour supposedly sensible folk
in 'the states actually believe
such twaddle! We're : Just . too
good for our own good, that's
all; we're too simple-minded.
", (Turn to page , col. S) , j
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6:15 Deep South Negro Choir, MBS.
S:0 Popular melodies.
7:15 Paul Whit oman' a oreh., MBS.
7:30 Old fashioned rwival, MBS.
8:SS Hancock assemble, MBS.
9:00 Newspaper of the air, MBS.
9:15 The Pasting Parage, MB 3.
9:30 Ways King's ore., MBS.
10:0 Freddie Martin's oreh... MBS.
10:15 Tod Weems' oreh., MBS.
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10:30 Information bureau, MBS.
10:45 Neighbor Jim.
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11:15 Tha variety show.
11:45 Leo Preudberg's oreh, MBS.
,13:00 The value parade.
12 :8U Musical memories.
12:45 Lucky Girl, MBS. .
1:00 National emergency count il, MBS.
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6 :45 News.
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7:30 Hits of today.
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9:03 The homemakers' hour.
10:00 Weather forecast.
10:15 8fory sour for adalts.
10:45 Oelbert Moore, violinist.
11:00 School of the air.
l-i-.oo Xewa.
12:15 Noon fans hour.
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: atalf, Helea Ana Thomas, home
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:uu tbo symphonic hour.
4:30 Stories for boys and girls.
5:00 On tha campuses.
5:45 Vespers, Bar. D. Vincent Gray
8:15 News. j
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7:0 4H elub meeting.
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On the
By DOROTHY
The Message to , Congress
- A French Journalist, who sees
many similarities between the
Roosevelt and Blum administra
tion s , between
the New Deal
and the French
Popular' Front
government, re
marked' yester
day: "Here! in
America- the
Chautemps gov
ernment has also
succeeded the
B Ural . govern
ment. Only here
OorwUKla-Bpws Mr Roosevelt ap
pears both as Blum and as Chau
temps. You have a shift to the
right, under the- pressure of i fi
nancial necessity, but the Popular
Wba I. "
The analogy is suggestive. The
President's message is more con
ciliatory than any-in a long time.
It recognizes that there is a con
dition in the country which de
mands the reconsideration of cer
tain policies, especially those con
cerning taxation. It otters an
olive branch to. private enterprise.
It pleads for co-operation.
'-,
The President does not abandon
the program which was sketched
as a reason for calling this emer
gency session of Congress. And,
from the viewpoint of realistic
politics, it is difficult to see how
the President could suggest, I or
imply, that it should be suspended.
The Roosevelt administration rep
resents the left wing of American
public opinion. That is where its
strongest support lies. The more
lntransigeant wings of business
opinion appear . to expect Mr.
Roosevelt to act as though he had
been elected by the supporters of
Mr. Landon. That is silly. j
o a
But the Blum-Chautemps gov
ernmentto carry the analogy a
little further is demonstrating
how extremely difficult it is to
effect a transition in policy which
will really accomplish the results
which are universally desired. Be
cause such a transition by such a
government is unlikely to be made 1
whole-heartedly. The French Pop
ular Front government, for ' in
stance,,' Is now pretty well con
vinced that the forty-hour week,
which they established universally
by law, is having a very bad ef
fect on production and on the
total (economy. But it is afraid of
the trade unions and therefore
afraid to recommend its modifica
tion. I Similarly, and like ' the
Roosevelt administration, it wants
to attract and release capital, but
it feels that it must guard against
peculation. But to guard against
peculation and at the same time
to recognise that there is such a
thing as healthy speculation, i and
that without it many of our most
prosperous industries would never
have come into existence, Is diffi
cult. . t
What is needed, both in France
and here, is seriously to consider
whether, on fundamental theses,
the government may not have
been mistaken. A ' fundamental
theses of this government -which
was reiteralea again this week by
the Mayor of New York, Mr. La
Gnardia has been that relief
from unemployment can be
achieved by radically shortening
the working day and the working
week, thereby "distributing"
work, and that the higher r the
wages of the industrial workers,
the larger Is the total purchasing
power of the country, and! the
greater is economic prosperity and
stability. , j
That high wages and more lei-j
sure time for workers are socially
desirable is not. debatable. That
they are a desirable goal Is- not
debatable. But that, under all con
ditions, a radical raise in, wages
and radical shortening of the work
week, will reduce unemployment
and bring about general prosper
ity is extremely debatable. The ex
perience of France would seem
to demonstrate that it is probably
not so. If what should be a result,
is put in the position of a cause,
then the result .may be Quite dif
ferent from the one which Is de
sired.
The willingness to question a
few fundamental theses is jless
likely to be found in the Execu
tive, who is committed to them
pretty definitely by a series of
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speeches and messages than in
a1 tw a
iungress, wnicn is oniy committed
to the broader objectives
Congress, for iinatanro .
cept the President's recommenda
tion that the tax structure be re
considered from the viewpoint of
Bumuiaung.p r i v a t e enterprise
without necessarily accepting the
President's theory of how u
should be done; It might ques
tion, for Instance, whether stimu
lation to business for the purpose
of encouraging wpansfon and era-
ZtZ1 T be give ln doses
administered to Special categories
small business men. for instance
or whether what is not needed
Is stimulation to the whole busi
ness front in terms of the dynam
ics of business;
Certainly when the government
starts out to assist a; whni ca
tion of the population agricul
ture, for instance it has devised
programs for the whole group, not
for individual : ratrrrlAa nt it
Price subsidies to cotton growers
are not granted tn small t
and withheld from large ones.
oiinuany, u tne thesis- of the un-
4tf.ta.lL.. A i
un muiea pronts tax Is unsound,
it Is impossible! for this column
to see why it Is! not unsound in
Small Industries and businesses
do not exist in a separate economic
world of their ; own. ; They exist
alongside of, and often integrated
with, large businesses, and to an
enormous exten they are depend
ent upon the large businesses es
pecially for. credit. If the large
corporations are shut ; out of the
benefits of a reformed taxation
system, the small businesses which
are actually irrigated by the large
ones, simply will not je. That, at
least, is the belief of some econo
mists who have been most consist
ently right. One of them pointed
out a long time aeo that rh
amount of credit extended m
business by business is1 1 ftrtror than
that fitrnisthed hr thaivhAin
mercial ban kin r Rnr.m ani rf
ln pre-depression days the ratio
of credit sunnily K
to credit supplied by member
banksf the Federal Reserve Sys
tem Was more than 'double!
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In the field of Monnmiii isri.L
lation which is made with the idea
of fulfilling promises! to specific
categories of voters, is; appallingly
uauiserous io a system which is
intimately integrated. Thers la a
a conservativ. n.iinn.i
. avwiu-
ment ln England because of the
havoc created by the New Deal
of the first Labor government,
which eventually was repudiated
by a large section of labor. The
whole argument of reform or re-
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j juiuaurj. two are
the same thing, essentially. One
needs reform for recovery and
recovery for ref.rm if you ac
cept the theory of the- New Deal
that reform Is possible without the
destruction of the existing eco
nomic system. ! ,
The essential i to such an late
gration is ia temper and pro
cedure. The principle must be ac
cepted that; in I ail classes and
groups are men of reason, good
Will .Tiff Hfli1ar.tHI..
nM.kamiiug, W a O 8 e
uymions can De rreely consulted,
whose motives peed not arouse, a
priori, t distrust; and i whose ob
servations, with the facts to but
tress them, can furnish material
for deliberation, by the represen
tatives of the people. In that con-,
nection one might remark that we
seriously need to consider the re
organization of; our government,
but we need to consider it. The
plan proposed by the Administra
tion does nothing to reform what
is one of the weakest and yet the
most important parts of the whole
Federal structure the legislative
body. Congress Itself,' which des
perately needs implementing with
a civil service pf advisers.
.
Reform that Is built in a day is
Jerry built, and wjll collapse in the
first storm. There are innumer
able examples to prove it in Eng
land during the first: Labor gov
ernment; in Germany under the
republic, and in France right now.
And a good pre-fabricated govern
ment hasn't yet; been devised any-;
where. ' ! I
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Temper, too. is important, and
especially at this moment. There
are men of reason and under
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