Show picture long as threat to ue S stability leaders decide to get hues hide tribute to 0 W holmes by EARL GODWIN X X A large share washington W of the administrations supporters now realize that something definite must be done about huey long fantastic louisiana senator who has thrown more monkey wrenches into the new deal and its americanizing American izing processes than any one man with possibly the exception of his ally of the air the radio priest rev charles E coughlin for a long time it was the fashion here to ignore long but suddenly it become the open topic of the day in washington the situation was broken wide open by the merciless attack on the long coughlin propaganda by the virile and vitriolic gen hugh johnson former chief who took to the air to lash the pair with bitter truth and bring the whole political mess into the open general johnson administered to senator long a licking which left nuey huey whining huey long dictator of louisiana wielding a bludgeon over that state from his chair in the senate Is the closest thin thing we have to nerr herr hitler of germany theres no use in mincing words any longer senator joseph robinson of arkansas when he be referred to long as a madman voiced the thought thou glit of thousands who know the truth long has the madness which has led scores of ruthless egotists to bloody thrones of tyranny ile he Is following the path of reter peter the hermit of napoleon the mad mullah sitting bull lenin tie ile goes about washington with an armed guard ot of three men those who have the good of the republic at heart and who are at posts of grave responsibility here recognize in nuey huey long a serious threat to the stability of the republic ile he exercises a demagogue appeal to those forces of discontent which like the mobs of moscow would like to overturn this government they would bring about a reign of terror in his efforts to undermine the roosevelt administration he Is going much further than a mere political attack he Is arouson arousing blind passionate and murderous forces which bl could under certain circumstances seize the country wreck its freedom divide it up like so many pirate chieftains and then see the whole nation sink beneath the waves of ruin nothing much has been said about it but theres one little item in the long bag of tricks which Is positive proof prof of the mans innate antl anti amerl that Is his sneering attack on the most gloriously american thing that roosevelt has done namely the great concentration of american youth under the american flag in the C 0 C 0 camps to take hopeless youth from hopeless streets in the dark days of this depression to put them at joyous work at uplifting projects to give them money hope and faith as roosevelt did Is one of the high points in our history it makes americans communists hate it and so does huey long TO GET AFTER HUEY long is now sending out an army of organizers for his share our wealth society extending his baleful influence wherever there Is economic distress ile he promises immediate wealth tor for everybody ery body ills program includes for every family work for all vacations old age pensions and a limit on all large fortunes actually his economic theory Is blatant bunk but his persuasiveness attracts millions of people who cannot wait for the processes of nature and who believe that a forceful distribution of property ls Is the real thing actually his share our wealth program would ruin the country and distribute misery up to this time national leaders have refused to debate with nuey huey because sincere men hate an argument with a demagogue but the situation has changed and the best men in the country aie are now about to join in an effort to nall nail hueys hues hide to the barn door they will have trouble troubie in so doing because nuey huey Is prepared for them all it will be another battle of the century long Is a smart politician he has gained complete mastery over louisiana politics by combining all the forces of a lower order of intelligence whose members blindly and falsely believe that huey Is doing something big tor for the people he has dictated laws to athe the state legislature which that befuddled body has passed like so many shingles out of a milt mill ile he ha has S accomplished this partly by force of f arms a as s he calls out the state mi altia to stand guard to see that no one disobeys his autocratic will his ella laws have removed ordinary justice from louisiana it Is quite easy for an opponent of the long regime to be railroaded to jail without a chance there anything an thing quite like it on this side elde of the water and the only parallel I 1 can think of Is the medieval cruelties cruel ties of the berglas and the current methods of herr hitler when it com comes es to sharing tho the wealth of louisiana it Is obvious that the wealth la Is being banded over to the long machine as under his hi handling the state budget rose from a year to double that amount while the state indebtedness Is now the third highest burden in the country and louiel ina ana Is not a large state 0 0 0 TRIES SENATES PATIENCE long has stopped business in the senate for days while he smeared and befouled this administration with charges yet to be proved The patience of the senate is one of its remarkable qualities but it gave out finally and long heard what they thought of him which would stop an ordinary man and then long showed himself in the yellow light which will be his undoing alter after senator robinson of arkansas had called him a madman and a lot of other names suggesting it was time the manhood of the senate aroused itself long made a whining answer in which ile he appeared to athla think he was a much abused hero he claimed that he never hit a man when he was down politically there Is consider considerable able maneuvering neu vering to be done on account of huey long the new deal realizes that he Is a threat particularly in the south where the long machine Is now spreading out over the states ot of mississippi sis sippi jand and arkansas and other communities muni ties long says he can bring about the defeat of senator robinson of arkansas ite he will also spread big poison in mississippi against senator harrlson harrison lie ile may fill several seats in the house with his sort long will be nominated dominated for the senate again in january the month of the primaries in his state and he be will be reelected elected re I 1 think that he be has an eye on the white house for 1941 1041 long now typifies the most dangerous and numerous radical element that can be mustered at the polls it if the reactionaries of the old guard are strong enough to give roosevelt a tussle next nest year and the radicals under long are strong enough to attract ft a large number of votes from the roosevelt ticket there will be a dangerously close race it would seem aseem to be the american thing to do for all hands to combine in a united states party behind roosevelt and against long 0 0 V GREAT MAN gona the world lost one of its grevi test men when air justice oliver wendell holmes died the other day in washington within five days of his ninety fourth birthday lie he was indeed the grand old man of american jurisprudence and while he was known largely as a dissenter from the views of a majority of the supreme court which he graced with his presence he was a tremendous force in expanding the common view of the lawand lawan 1 making the law fit social conditions lie ile took the chains from legality when he died all washington mourned and I 1 think that the thing the president said about this great jurist should be repeated here he ha had a powerful and beneficent influence upon the nation imbued with a high sense of justice and right he believed in the peaceful evolution of the new from the old ile he had a fine perspective of history as a continuous living thing and with couri coun age and logic believed in the shaping of government to changing chan giD conditions now and then a man with this fine type of liberal expanding mind Is placed where he be can give the product of his thought to a nation judge holmes reminds me of the lawgivers of old wise kindly souls atho ho could see far beyond the letter of the law into the future and guide whole nations in the right way he had been a civil war soldier in the union army and was wounded three times in serious engagements the war lived vividly in his mind and once he said when the ghosts of dead fig fighters liters play in my mind the laws are silent lie he was a great rest hand band at making aphorisms and many of his legal decisions are classics of english for he used as little legal verbiage as he could for instance in one of the weightiest weight iest decisions he used this phrase A dog will fight for his bone heres another there Is in all men a demand for the superlative so much so that the poor devil who has no other way of reaching it attains it by getting drunk TELEPHONE PROBE the new deal Is about to investigate the telephone bu business giness of the entire country from the gl gigantic antic bell telephone system all the way down to the farmers line tills this Is going to to cost the taxpayers nt least three quarters of a million dollars which has been appropriated by congress and the newly organized federal communications commission has been entrusted with the investigation which will probably last for many months for a long time the bell system has been fighting off the inevitable day when uncle sam is going to step into the telephone offices and find out all about the business find out a whole lot more than state utility commissions have been able to learn and to arran arrange q for a tighter federal control of t the business of interstate communications congress wants to know part particularly the reasons generally for the failure to reduce rates and charges during the years of declining prices I 1 know many of the bell telephone officials they are among the smartest and finest business men in america smart enough to be called down here whenever the president needs certain business advice they are honest gentlemen and they are extra smart no congressional investigators are going to be able to rush them off their feet lets watch this investigation with Inte interest resL 0 W totem New |