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Show AMERICAN FORK CITIZEN j 1 1 -3 . . . k 1 1 4 t 1 - - p . 1 : i j CI 1 I nrscltrc TTaufcfiifft'am Keep Our Government liberal, Cry of President and Spokesmen Roosevelt's Definition of Term Means lie Has Cast Die For Realignment of Policital Parties; Time May Prove Fallacy of Today's Liberal Doctrines. By WILLIAM BRUCKART, WNU Service, National Presi Bid-., Washington, D. C. WASHINGTON. There is a great to-do being made these days about "liberalism." We are told in the press, through the radio, in personal conversation! that "liberalism," liberal lib-eral thinking, is vitally necessary; It is urgent that our government be kept liberal, and that our daily live be moulded along liberal lines. President Roosevelt says so, and sought In a recent speech to define liberalism; his spokesmen repeat and emphasize what he has said; the vast army of ballyhoo -artists on the government payroll is saying it after the manner of a stooge for a ventriloquist A lot of Republicans, Republi-cans, trying to ape the New Dealers, Deal-ers, are saying it, too, and making just as much of a mess of the proposition propo-sition as the less alick-tongued among the New Dealers. Well, any way, at any cost, there must be liberalism. If we don't be liberal, we are warned, the devil will get us. The nation, its 130,-000,000 130,-000,000 inhabitants and all of their works will sink to the depth of perdition. per-dition. It's a very sorry situation, indeed. Recognizing the need, the urgent necessity for liberalism, Mr. Roosevelt Roose-velt undertook recently to define it. I quote his words from a recent speech in Maryland where he had gone to try to bring about the defeat of Sen. Millard Tydings in a race for the Democratic senatorial nomination: nomi-nation: "For example, Mr. A is a composite compos-ite conservative. He admitted that in 1933, interest rates' charged by private bankers to ordinary citizens who wanted to finance a farm were altogether too high; he admitted that there were sharp practices, excesses ex-cesses and abuses in issuing securities securi-ties and buying and selling stocks and bonds; he admitted that the hours of work In his factory were too long; he admitted that old people, peo-ple, who became destitute through no fault of their own, were a problem; prob-lem; he admitted that national and International economics and speculation specu-lation made farming and fishing extremely hazardous occupations; and he even admitted that the buying buy-ing power of farmers and fishermen had not kept pae with the buying power ot other kinds of workers. "But conservative Mr. A ot only declined to take any lead In solving these problems in co-operation with the government He even found fault with and opposed, openly or secretly, almost every suggestion that was put forward by those who belonged to the liberal school of thought "Mr. B, I said, was a composite liberal He not only admitted the needs and the problems like Mr. A, but he put his shoulder under the load; he gave active study and active ac-tive support to working out methods, meth-ods, in co-operation with the government govern-ment for solving the problems and the filling ot the needs. Mr. B did not claim that the remedies were perfect, but he knew that we had to start with something less than perfect per-fect in this Imperfect world." Would Force Realignment Of Politics of Country M. ' Roosevelt's pronouncement on what constitutes a liberal followed fol-lowed very closely a statement he bad issued in a meeting with the newspaper Correspondents at the White House, ayuig that he had no objection to election of "liberal Republicans." Re-publicans." Said he: "If there is a good liberal running on the Republican Repub-lican ticket I would not have the lightest objection, to hit election. The good of the country rises above party." The imrrtanceAgCVse two dec larations? - Mr. RoosevelYfo for a new aUment parties. He, K. : previou. i bthMJM Katie1 ty or tne. kdud lesser poUJcal groups and BaYsalai. In effeir come with me Into a new fiAon of forces and actW Of courtfuo on who hariTu3!erMr. Roosevelt's course since his political politi-cal ears were first pinned back in defeat ot hit malodorous ! J?lanAo add six justices ot his own choostngi to the United States Supreme court could have failed to recognize this eventuality. He was planning to -force realignment In politics in thi country for some months; but now the thing is out in the open, and the Democrats and Republicans, alike, know what confronts them It it is .their desire to maintak) the present political party setup. - , What will happen is quite -another question. Undoubtedly, the Democratic Demo-cratic parly will be the greaisuf-ferer. greaisuf-ferer. . It has to be so, bectuO'Mr. Roosevelt became titular' head of the Democratic party by virtue of election- to the presidency in 1932 and again in 1936 as the candidate of that party. So many of the'for- mer Democrats have become 'ye tmZTZS; viction or as a result of havine wjf 4fflce on New Deal coat tails that there is no turning back for hem, Dlgett Thus, there is a split, with those who subscribe to the New Deal theory the-ory of liberalism on the one hand and the Democrats who adhere to the hundred-year-old principles of the Democratic party on the other. There will be some Republicans drawn into the new alignment but they will be fewer than the wing formed from Democrats. The Republicans Re-publicans who will go over to any new alignment will be of the type of Harold Ickes, now secretary of the interior, Senator Norris of Nebraska (who once wore a Republican label) and others of the here-today-gone-tomorrow category. And further, as to what will happen: hap-pen: my observation is that these so-called liberal movementi don't last very long. They crack up on the very principles which are supposed sup-posed to be their foundation stones. Always, there are too many "leaders." "lead-ers." Every "liberal," who catalogues cata-logues himself as such, shouts about it and produces plans for saving the world wherever anybody will listen, conceives himself to be a leader. Someway, the ideas and Ideals ot these liberal leaders always differ. Each invariably takes the position that his plans must be adopted unanimously or the world will go to pot Meat Subject to Quick Change; Try Something Else Then, too, their ideas are subject to such quick change that few of them are retained very long. They are cast aside for something else that has more glamor. A case in point is an incident ot recent history. his-tory. After New Dealer Senator Pope had been licked for the Idaho Democratic nomination for senator by the youthful Worth Clark, there was talk among the New Dealers about having Senator Pope seek reelection re-election independently; It was proposed pro-posed and discussed with Mr. Roosevelt whether Senator Pooe should embrace the faith of the La- Follette's, progressive ticket In Idaho. Ida-ho. It was found, however, that the LaFollette.s had a candidate for the senate on their ticket To the suggestion that he withdraw" and let Senator Pope be their candidate, the LaFeuette spokesman said: no tree! tr-ee! Senator Pope isn't progressive enough for us and Senator Pope had campaigned as a 100 per cent New Dealer. One can walk around the halls of congress any day when the session is on and find hundred-per-centers arguing how far "reform" must be carried; what "liberalism" means. And, in downtown Washington, where the really Important headmen head-men of liberalism are to be found, they are constantly fuming and fretting fret-ting at each other. Instances are on record where two rabid liberals, actually ac-tually have sought to get eacS ejher discredited In the eyes of the president presi-dent because of their differences over what liberalism means. .V". The only thing about which they seem to agree is that anyone who insists on sanity in governmental thinking anjrone who takes heed of lessons ot experiences and traditions tradi-tions of the past must of necessity neces-sity be a tory, a bloodsucker, a trampler of the poor, an obstructionist obstruc-tionist , a "republicrat," or some other animal In human form who is overcome with personal greed. On that point the liberals that we see in the government these days present pre-sent a united front - Time May Prove Fallacy Of Today's Liberal Ideae That is the story of the self-appointed liberals. To them has been given the right in their own minds, at least to guide the destinies of the nation. I assume that if they regard me at all they classify me a coming from across the railroad tracks, question my mental balance. But I shall continue to study their methods, commend what is good, criticize that which is obviously un-;sound. un-;sound. More important I shall continue to cling to the doctrine of the ses that human, nature la goto? go-to? to be chscea by some Power lthat is considerably above th WM of human intelllsrence! I shall fcnM to a conviction that real progress comes by that method and not from the crackpots who look upon the hu man Tjce ar a fresh litter of guinea-' pigs,- , But, anyway, we have liberalism defined at last by a man who is qualified to define It and we find that It differs from what liberalism formerly meant It was only a few generations , ago that liberalism meant restricting, not Increasing, the powers of government Neither Mr. Roosevelt's definition nor bis record in office coincides with the former understanding ot the word. It seems to me likely, therefore., that we will go on for quite some years with- this quarrel, and that 7Zr&i 75 may be and this is Just a hunch of the so-called liberal doctrines ot this day.i . Wtrn Nowspspw Voir a. -Weekly News Four-Power European Treaty Mar Avert General Warfare ly Joseph W. La Bine Foreign Until he spoke at Nuremburg fortnight ago. Adolf Hitler had never nev-er given open, out-and-out promts of assistance to Czechoslovakia' Sudeten Germans. If his purpose was to brew trouble, it was not long In coming. By promising his exiled fellow Germans the right of "self determination," Der Fuehrer gave overnight rise to demands for a plebiscite, demands which were not long in bringing bloodshed. Confident that frightened Prague would tolerate anything, the bench-men bench-men of little Fuehrer Konrad Hen-leln Hen-leln organized demonstrations that ended in riots which took six lives. By this time the Czech government was forced to show its hand. Tight martial law was clamped on five Sudeten towns, then on three more. While a Jittery world held its breath. Fuehrer Henlein shot back an ultimatum ulti-matum that martial law be lifted in six hours or his party would "decline "de-cline responsibility for all further developments." In the next 24 hours Prague rejected re-jected the ultimatum, rushed troops NEVILLE CHAMBERLAIN In a crisis, he took to tht air. to the frontier and won a brief series se-ries of skirmishes that took on the temporary aspect of a citil war. Since further trouble would certainly cer-tainly bring Germany to th rescue, since France and Russia art), bound by treaty to aid , Czechoslovakia, since Great Britain must aid France,' this overnight turn of events assumed International importance. impor-tance. In Berlin, the 'press crid out at "terrors of the Czech police. ' France maintained her high-pitched i military machine and looked, as usual, to London. Next afternoon came the most precedent-setting move yet made. A thoroughly frightened Prime Minister Minis-ter Neville Chamberlain announced he would take his first airplane ride, crossing the channel to Berchtes-gaden Berchtes-gaden for a conference with Adolf Hitler. Said he: "I am going to see the German chancellor because . . . discussions between him and me may have useful consequences." Later the same day he landed at Munich, sped to Berchtcsgaden, where Der Fuehrer was waiting. For three hours Britain's strong man talked to Germany's strong man, then Neville Chamberlain emerged to tell the world he was returning to London, would come back to see Hitler in a few days. What happened at Berchtesgaden was mere conjecture. Best guesses said London and Paris seek a four-power four-power pact with Germany and Italy, since Prime Minister Chamberlain's visit was suggested by French Premier Pre-mier Edouard Daladier. No one could figure how the source of this trouble, Czechoslovakia, fit Into the picture, but it was clear Der Fuehrer would accept little short of outright autonomy for his Sudeten friends. The Chamberlain flight brought little but gloom in Prague, where resistance stiffened and an angry cabinet ordered Konrad Henlein's arrest But Fuehrer Henlein. who had just broadcast a proclamation demanding Sudeten union with Germany, Ger-many, was already fleelnff to Munich. Mu-nich. , In the rnK' ne was -in, CzechoslT-a was ripe for loud broadcasts that came from Moscow that night assailing Neville Chamberlain's Cham-berlain's "sellout" to Fascism, urging urg-ing Prague to "fight to the last" against Germany. While House Like any other hospital visitor with time on his hands, Franklin : Roosevelt wafted" Impatrehlly all Rochester, Minn., watching Son I James on the mend from his gastric gas-tric ulcer operation. Finally e went riding on Minnesota's rtfln-soaked rtfln-soaked roads, found his car mired, stopped to chat 20 minutes with a farmer about crop prices. Outcome: Out-come: The President promised he would try to raise them. From his special train, which served as hotel, the President watched the outcome ot his "purge" pe POLITICS, also watched nervous Europe See FOR-EIGMK FOR-EIGMK - Finally. .-. interview-hungTy correspondents were told: "At this time, Minnesota is not a news source for events in Europe, Mary land and Maine." . Mr. - Roosevelt's) worries about : :-. 4 nbvlow Europe were obvious. To nlne year-old visitor who found him studying Czechoslovakia's map, he-advised: he-advised: "Just now, more than ever, it Is necessary to remember my geography lessons. So keepui your Interest in geography. , ' That night the presidential special left for Washington where Secretary Secre-tary of Stats Cordell Hufl waited to talk diplomacy, where Secretary of the Treasury Henry Morgenthau Jr. waited to discuss U. S. money and stock market action in the event of war. Politics Until August 11, the word "purge" had little application in American politics. On that date Franklin Roosevelt fesked Georgians to defeat de-feat their Sen. Walter F. George because: be-cause: "He Is out of touch with the broad objectives of the party . . . On most questions we ddn't speak the same language." Subsequently, "purge" went after South Carolina's Sen. Ellison D. Smith and Maryland's Sen. Millard E. Tydings. Both won anyway. Adding Add-ing to the President's consternation was Maine's historically prophetic election in which all Republicans won, all Democrats lost Only two days later, Georgians voted to give "purge" final shellacking, to bury with vengeance the gravest political politi-cal error Franklin Roosevelt has ever made. i Day before Georgia's election, Manager Edgar B. Dunlap of the George machine could confidently predict victory. Major reason was the President's speech, but Manager Dunlap himself was another reason. One-time Georgia chairman of the Birthday balls, once an RFC attorney, at-torney, he was fired from the latter Job for political activity. Few Georgia Geor-gia Democrats carry more weight Against red-suspendered ex-Gov. Eugene Talmadge, against New Dealer Lawrence S. Camp, against Townsend Planner William G. Mc-Rae, Mc-Rae, Manager Dunlap drove a campaign cam-paign that won handily. But while anti-New Deal Senator George was renominated, so was Gov. E. D. Rivers with his Jsfcittle New Deal" platform. Among other results In a week filled with primaries: In Michigan, Gov. Frank Murphy and ex-Gov. Frank Fitzgerald became be-came Democrat, G..O. P. gubernatorial guberna-torial nominees, respectively. In Utah, Dr. Franklin S. Harris, president of Brtgh'am Young uni-,versity-won Republican senatorial nomination, 'will face Democratic Sea Elbert D. Thomas in Novem- Business ' No target of New Deal dislike has been U. S. small business, though a leading small town business man is often regardejd by his fellow townsmen towns-men as the counterpart of big business. busi-ness. Last spring. Franklin Roosevelt Roose-velt called a meeting of little business busi-ness men' at Washington, was later shocked to see his conference turn into a near riot Not the outgrowth, rather a reaction re-action from this meeting is the National Na-tional Small Business Men's association, asso-ciation, founded by a letter-writing letterhead Ananufacturer from Akron, Ohio, Dewltt M. Emery. Jokingly called "little in everything but stature," 6-foot President Emery Em-ery solicited I members by mail from business' firms not employing more than 900 persons, not capitalized capi-talized at mors; than $1,000,000. Presumably Pre-sumably too' inarticulate for membership mem-bership are the butcher, baker and n'' t2 LITTLE MAN EMERT I low UuU UlittU husbussf grocer who fit into Franklin Roosevelt's Roose-velt's more logical definition of a small business man.', To Pittsburgh ast week for their first convention ,went Dewitt Emery's Em-ery's little business men. Though Pittsburgh's CW. Elton hopefully predicted 2,500 delegates, the first day found a scant 200 whose restraint re-straint held discussion to a minimum. mini-mum. Next day, with their num-. bef increased to 800, little business men talked more freely. Drawn up were resolutions which lashed fiercely at administration policies in relation to business. " Their demands;, Fret, enterprise, less waste, removal of excess bureaus bu-reaus and employees, '-. balanced budget lower taxes,' sound money. ADVENTURERS' CLUB 7 . .,,,- at . . HEADimt rRww ins OF FIOPIEHIKE YOURS ELFI "The Fall Into the Bottomless Well? HELLO EVERYBODY: ;., v ; Can you imagine falling into a well and never reaching reach-ing bottom? That's what happened to William J. Sternberg of Long Island City, N. Y., who" tells today's yarn.' X' la the spring of 1883, Bill Sternberg, then a lad of If. was putting in panes of glass along the side of a bulldmg in Long Island city,- N. Y since burned down. A steep slope fell away almost vertically from tha building, and below this slope was an old well, whose rotting timbers had been removed preparatory .to making a mv cover. Now watch and see what happened. 'vvV'.74'iV'ii'' Bill Sails Off Interspaced , V - Along the far end of tha building, tha ground tell away so steeply that BiU had to go look for the ladder hV had left against tha ene-story extension. Tojnake surf tha ladder was still' where he bad left it he took a step backward to look over the edge of tha roof. Suddenly bis left foot went completely into spaeel Ji V BIO says, "I knew la a flash rhera I was about ta ga. ; It was tea late to scramble forward, sa I braced my feat, and with all my might I threw ray body back . . And right below lay yea Bill's quick thinking may bava saved his life, but it didn't keep him from going through a bad experience. His shoulders struck tha tar edge ot (ha well and his feet scraped the near edge so that ba lay across tha top opening like a stiff stick. Only he wasn't so stiff, worse hick. Bit by bit ha started to slip down the sides of tha well, tha weight ot his body held in space only by the fierce pressure of his braced feet and. shoulders against the rough brick And Then He .Had that well been an Inch wider in diameter, boys and girls, BiU Wouldn't be telling this story. As it was, be had" all he could do, press ing with all his strength, to keep on his toes and his shoulders and neck. AND THEN HE STARTED TO SLIPl - ' Picture for yourself what be Was ap against. If either his bead er bis feet started slipping faster thaa tha ether end, ba might drop sa much ea ana end that bis body weald ne. longer meet the wall aa both side. The minute his legs ar his shoulders shoul-ders slipped enough to fall away from the wall BE WOULD PLUNGE TO THE DEPTHS BELOW! But worse was still to come. Working with Bill on tha Job wai a man by the name of Franz. When the first terror at his predicament And right below lifted, BUI thought of Franx and yelled for help. Picture his horror when ho got no answer. All along he had been hoping would arrive. Now his voice rang Franz did not answer. ' Bill Sees a Dim Ray of Hope Lower, lower slipped BUI. The rough bricks scraped his shoulders raw. Blood ran from his tortured flesh, soaked his shirt The pressure was agony, yet he dara not ease up. To let up meant dropping. Bill wormed around till his eyes could examine tha depths' of the weO belew. And for a moment hope returned to him. Directly below, about seven and a half feet dawn, ha saw tha rfba af tha : farm far the brickwerk prejecting ea the inside, sheet two ar Urea Inched beyond tha brickwerk. The masons had left the form with the ribs and built around them. , "Now," Bill told himself, "if those ribs will hold my weight Tm safe!" But could be reach them? Seven and a half feetl Seven and a half feet of creeping, of tortured shoulders, of risky probing with one foot when an insWnfs letup in that pressure meant T5U1 Sternberg tried not to think what it meant while ha groped with one foot for a hold, the bricks that were like sandpaper on his raw shoulders. New Danger Worse Than the Old. iu : Just as he reached the ribs a saw danger presented Itself. His shoul ders started to go lower than his feet) Bad enough to plunge feet first But head first I . And backward, ai man It took all the flagging nerve raw shoulders into that wall and rib. BIO made It And wears and shoulders. But how long was he to remain his voice in a hoarse shout And sound of Franz's hammer. Franz, work, had perhaps not hearf.- -RAJ This time Franz came, and with companion. Bill landed hard on inan nis snouiaers. tsut worst ox nimseu wim nis momer xor ripping nis shirt, when he got hornet ' Coprrlght-WNV Service. , Kettle Moraine tn Wisconsin Between Fond du Lac and Sheboygan, She-boygan, Wis., is sn area known to geologists as the kettle moraine, says a survey of Wisconsin's natural nat-ural wonders by the American Chemical society. The region resembles re-sembles the deserted kettle holes of Paul Bunyan's lumberjacks. The kettles appear- like-the interior of volcanic cones, except that they are only a few hundred feet across, are from 50 to 200 feet deep, and have flielr steep slopes covered with trees. Leading Producer of 6Uver Mexico Is the leading world producer pro-ducer of silver and in the last five centuries has yielded about 5,500,-000,000 5,500,-000,000 ounces of silver, more than 33 per cent of world production dur ing that period. . i ' ". T:. ' Florida Talk Pity the poor trainman who calls stations out of Orlando, Fla. Soma of the line's tongue twisters are Ko-lopee,. Ko-lopee,. Chuluota, Blthlo, Pocotaw, Salofka, Tohope Holopaw, Illahaw and Apoxsee. ' III guessed it the apea well! sides of the well. Started to Slip! his body out straight to keep pressure lay the open wett. ."'y--.- - ' that before he lost control, rescua mockingly in the dark depths below. wormed his raw shoulder! lower on of Bill Sternberg to grind those work his feet lewa to yes, the more, the ribs held him. Feet here like this? Frantically ha lifted now to his ears came a sound the hammering and whlstllnc at his summoned all his strength, fairly one unconcerned tug yanked uo his tha safe ground. , It felt good--better au, he says, was trying to square Makhur Wannaae hi BaHo Paper in continuous rolls was in- veniea by Nicholas Louis .Robert ot Essones in 1788, and the" English patents "to make paper Without seam or join" were obtained la London Lon-don in 1801 r John Gambia and Didot St Leger, The use of paper w continuous lengths was not, bow-ever, bow-ever, permitted tar England before 1830. because of the Important revenue rev-enue derived from the tax itompi on the small sheets. Franca, meanwhile, mean-while, made use of the new Invention after 1810. . . Be Good. 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