Show r i i Opinions I Comment of fhe the American Press What Is a Liberal Ones One sentence of Roy W. W V. V Howard's Howards Howards Howard's Howards Howard's How How- ards ard's letter to the president asking askling ask ask- ing ling for lor a breathing spell for Cor business business business busi busi- ness has hag escaped the attention it deserves He spoke of tho the presidents president's presidents president's presidents president's dents dent's stated interpretation of ot Am American rican liberalism inferring that he considered the president a true liberal Tho The essence of or the new deal is government regulation anti and compulsion compulsion com coma the essence of liberalism is freedom The new deal and liberalism are completely anti anti- No man man can be a liberal liberal liberal lib lib- lib lib- eral who docs does not believe in the utmost po possible ible freedom of t the e Individual compatible with the general welfare and he requires requires' strong proof that the general welfare wel wel- fare tare will wiIl b be advanced before consenting consenting consenting con con- to abbreviation of ot fr freedom free free- e- e dom Liberals ma may of f course change their views and words may may change chang their meanings but a libera liberal liberal lib lib- lib lib- era eral cannot change his views in inthis inthis this one respect and remain a lib Jib lib lib- eral New erat-New New York Herald Let Lef People of Louisiana Louisana Resume Their Sovereignty a The king is dead long dead long live the king And in this case let the new v sovereign be the p e 0 o p pIe lc Ic of ot Louisiana who had little enough self government even before they surrendered the remnant of it The dictatorship itself can not of course go on The Kingfish is history and will have no suc sue cessor Dictators are arc neither born nor made J They make malce them them- selves Their power is personal and can not be transferred even If It there were wre a competent heir to receive it And the very nature of of dictatorship renders less probable probable probable able the presence of any such Buch per per- son The rhe dictator rises to power 1 by the very qualities which he will not tolerate in his subordinates The military to maxim to maxim to learn to command first learn to obey may hold good where both command com corn mand and obedience are impersonal impersonal impersonal imper imper- factors in an established system It is is' meaningless in a regime resting on the prestige of the person who created it Even if it the alternative is chaos it dies with him The problem for Louisiana is difficult The Long proletarians have now no leader and they are rightly distrustful of the New Orleans aristocracy which when it was in power denied them the schools and the roads which Long has given them Ulem Nationally the importance universally universally universally uni uni- assigned to the death of ot ofa ofa ota a single man again illustrates the power of personality The share the wealth movement is as real as ever and the number of f those who would like to share sharo that wealth wealth is no lc less s But in Hucy Huey Long the cause was embodied in ina ina ina a person Much as most of us deprecated his purposes and his methods he was waa a tren tremendous personality Without him the movement becomes a le mob incapable of organized action action action ac ac- ac- ac tion either for g good od or for harm The split of the south into right left leU and center is probably post post- The leader of the left is gone the leaders of ot the right avow their allegiance to the thc fetish o of party regularity and Roosevelt Roosevelt Roose Roose- velt if he retains the leadership of the center will wiIl be the custodian of that fetish It is a strange structure of national national na na- na- na lifo in which the death of ot one man man and and that man Huey Hucy Long could LOng could make so much dif dit- dif dif- San terence ference San Francisco Chron Chron- icle icie After the Shyster The announcement that the American Bar association intends to offer assistance to the State Bar associations to bring about the elimination of oC unethical practitioners practitioners practitioners shysters is another evidence evi evl- dence that the profession proCession is taking taking taking tak tak- ing its responsibilities in the field fieldmore fieldmore more seriously There has been too much 1 laissez faire in respect to the practices of irresponsible lawyers Reputable lawyers arc are busy men and it takes personal sacrifices and irksome activity to censure malpractice But a sense cof ot of the serious discredit to the calling of ot the law for which a small smaIl class is responsible has grown and much work is being done to weed out undesirables The national association can help practically in many cases especially espe espe- daily to awaken state and local associations to effective action Its prestige should give weight to its influence for inspiring vigorous vigorous vigor vigor- ous o ous s and persistent effort and tone up the pr professional morale to a militant treatment of ot the lawyer criminal evil Chicago Chicago Tribune I Army Training School General Douglas MacArthur soon to be QC relieved from duty as army chief of ot staff after five years of ot meritorious service has been decorated again with a distinguished distinguished distin distin- service medal and therefore therefore therefore there there- fore becomes one oneo of the few lew men in military service service entitled to wear an oak leaf cluster The citation made specific mentIon mention men men- tion of his success while army chief chic in developing the so called four army organization of land forces and his program of modernization modernization modernization mod mod- of ot tactics equipment training and organization The The four division organization promulgated by General MacArthur MacArthur MacArthur MacAr MacAr- thur provides for four divisions of men each In the United States proper instead of ot nine divisions as hoped for but never realized under the tho defense act of 1916 The theory of ot the four division organization is that by maintaining maintain maintain- ing a par army that is each unit complete even with a minimum representation it is possible to develop a vast training school The soldiers may be regarded as as' as officers who in the event event- of war would be able to quickly train the new recruits drawn in to bring the army up to war strength General MacArthurs MacArthur's equipment modernization program also ties in with the par army theory in that available funds will be used for the development of new types of tanks rifles and weapons rather rathe than the amassing of ot large quan titles The practical reason for this is that war equipment becomes becomes becomes be be- comes obsolete almost as soon asit as asit asit it is designed Thus the United States national nation l larmy army while pitifully small numerically numerically numerically nu nu- nu- nu when compared with the standing armies of ot other nations na na- it it ranks eighteenth in size is is really not considered as a de defense de lense force in In its present status but is a concentrated training school which may be expanded expanded expanded ex ex- ex- ex when the occasion de de- de mands This seems to be a logical development of r the small peacetime peacetime peacetime peace peace- time army policy Long Long Beach Press Roosevelt and Food Prices Roger Babson says action by President Roosevelt to keep the therise therise therise rise of the cost of ot living within bounds is both sound economics and good politics There cn be beno beno beno no disagreement Increases have occur occurred ed and more are believed coming Prices Price beyond average reach would constitute a matter more serious socially than pout pout- ca cally caily ly The administration is stressing an Inquiry into prices directed by Dr Walton Valton H. H Hamilton a former Yale Yal professor who now Is described described described de de- de- de scribed as adviser on problems Several former new deal agencies supposed supposed supposed sup sup- posed to have operated in consumers consumers' consumers consumers' ers ers' Interests have been consolidated consolidated consoli consoli- dated under Dr Hamilton The work ork of ot Dr Hamilton and h his s considerable staff is being pointed to on the administrations administration's n ns n's behalf benaIt In answer to the complaints corn com plaints against food prices in Detroit Detroit De De- troit and other cities While the Inquiry is described as s intending considerably more it is stated that the prices of ot foods and in meats ats will wiIl be handled Apparently not at once f f feasible because the appropriation for it t was killed by the Long filibuster st r as congress was adjourning we think special Independent inquiry by the federal trade commission would do most to clear lear up the meat ment situation None before accomplished accomplished ac ac- anything and at the peak of ot the new deals deal's emergency powers its ag agencies cies were hardly more than sources of ot agitations But an Investigation undertaken within the administration supported supported sup sup- I ported by the presidents president's active Uve interest Is bett better r. r than none It Ie emphasizes the subject and may obtain cooperative action t to prevent prevent prevent pre- pre vent prices from rocketing The field of foods should be the in inquIry's inquiry's in in- first concern Detroit News Still the Worlds World's Hope lope The complete fa failure ture of the league to affect the course of Japan in Manchuria and China left its prestige sadly shaken If ft t fails a second time to prevent pre pre- vent yent yent yenta a military potent nation fro from iiI imposing its will upon Ii a a weaker sister in the league two results results' its its' are arc re certain The first will be a loss of prestige pres pres- tig tige which will wiIl make malce it virtually helpless in the face of f any anyone one new new crisis The The second will be the loss loss' of of all aU confidence the smaller nations nations nations na na- na- na may yet et retain that the league can serve as their bulwark bulwark bul bul bulwark wark against the aggression of a amore amore amore more powerful neighbor With all its failures the league still remains the only hope the world possesses against the threat of t War on a large sc scale Albany Je Albany y Knickerbocker Press Autogiro in n War Games Gaines In the recent French army maneuvers maneuvers maneuvers ma ma- where the problem of air attack upon motorized armies was studied the autogiro or flyIng flyIng flying fly- fly Ing windmill developed by the Spaniard De Cierva seems to have played an important part A machine that can scurry along the ground like a frightened cockroach cockroach cockroach cock cock- roach hop over obstructions like a grasshopper then soar away In Inthe Inthe inthe the air like Ilke a dragonfly has a versatility that no no airplane can equal Chicago equaL Chicago News |