Show real struggle of the campaign its age old fight between Pro progress tyress and reaction all mourn for curtis by EARL GODWIN the noise ot of W washington the politicians clamoring for election of 0 parties and individuals conceals the tact fact that there la 19 a great subsurface sub surface movement leading to an upheaval it Is not alone an administration to be chosen in november en iber the election Is merely a preliminary the real struggle Is between those two old enemies reaction and progress which have been working against each other since the dawn of time I 1 look to an eventual liberalization of legal social and economic thought which will make it possible in this country to use the whole power of the nation to solve the problems which today apparently are insoluble because of legal technicalities and so called state rights progress I 1 think roosevelt will make this clear sometime during the coming political campaign after he Is at philadelphia in the latter days of june parenthetically also I 1 look tor for the sudden development of crises here and abroad which may change the aspect of affairs to an extent that may project new and unsuspected issues into the campaign for instance in event of a european war or a widespread labor strike here there would be instant need of new policies 0 0 NEW DEAL achievements let us reason out this social movement which will soon sharply define itself against the skyline ot of current events F first arst came the new deal with its fresh clear breeze its helpful suggestions gest ions lons as to the rights of the employed class the help for farmers the aid to home owners the public work with its program of employment the great mobilization of credit for business and its warm heart for the hungry then as the new deal took hold on the affections of the nation there came the counter move of the reaction the attacks of the liberty league arid and the power trust the attitude of the majority of the supreme court upholds the social and economic views of the liberty league and power trust while millions ot of other americans seem to feel that the courts action means there Is no room for a fresh idea la in american government new dealers believe that the courts limitations on new deal programs will bind the old order tighter like staves on a barrel strained to the bursting point the old order thinks the staves will prevent the explosion the new deal knows that the tighter the staves the sharper the eventual explosion roosevelt would it if given opportunity loosen up tile the barrel and throw out a little of its content to prevent too violent a crisis the way these things shape up in politics makes it appear that the new deal Is on the defensive there Is no more NIIA no more AAA and the president asks for repeal of all other agricultural control acts there Is slow speed in the adminis administrations trat ions housing program and the public works schedule Is not what it ought to be the boys who like to ride the band wagon are trying to climb on the republican vehicle and the G 0 P despite the fact that it has no party and no program for the unparalleled difficulties of government seems to think it Is all over but the shouting Is 0 0 NEW DEAL MUCH ALIVE but the new deal Is not dead n not ot by a long shot roosevelt Is merely playing possum ile he Is sending out his scouts to find out what the mass of people are thinking you cant get the truth from city paper headlines for instance let us say that two hundred mine owners hall with delight the death of that gets into the headlines from one to three inches deep and dominates the newspaper first page but the resentment of soft coal mine workers which Is much more valuable politically does riot cot get the attention of the washington correspondents until the united mine workers convene here and go on a rampage for roosevelt the new deal and all that NIIA and its brother the guffey act has granted to workers labor will probably support roosevelt but will eventually turn on him when he be tries to regulate their wages in a forthcoming program Is 0 WILL SIT TIGHT roosevelt will sit tight run the government ern ment and if reelected elected re will go down the line with sin an improved new deal administration to accomplish the objectives jec tives he has outlined many times summed up in the one line to make america a better place to live in ile he will not scrap the betterments to industry to labor to the banks to business to agriculture simply because of the irritating delays by courts and politicians instead he is now engaged in getting the sand out of the carburetor and Is going to show a burst of streamlined speed in his second administration that will give the laugh to the florae dorse and buggy crowd incidentally der stally lie he will have with him a great company of busl business ness men who know that he has saved business through the loans of the millions of people whose homes were saved through thy the home owners loan corporation all ile liona who he would wid bar have had no money had it not been for the relief program watch out for a nationwide program which will clean up the city slums and come close to settling the unemployment problem we have been stalled in our bous housing irig program so far because of pin pricks I 1 in n the courts cut but england drove a program through the courts and everything else En glands recovery 19 due 50 per cent to house building I 1 understand roosevelt Is about ready to spring one like it on us Is ALL MOURN CURTIS washington sincerely mourned the death of former vice president charles curtis here bete we all called him charlie curtis and recognized in him a great quality of manly virtue ills passing suddenly and the widespread note of genuine regret reminds me that if we could only wipe out the bitterness and fury of politics we could pay more attention to the human element in public life now for instance if charlie curtis had been running for office instead of living in a house by the side of the road and bein being a friend of all men we would have been in the midst of a dally daily clamor over charlie that would leave us unsatisfied as to whether or not he be was all there ills political friends would have put a halo around hini him his opponents would have dressed him up sip in prison garb but charlie curtis was out of politics long enough to have every one realize that he be was a great american and a groat great human being ile he typified in a way the fact that america is slowly paying the white mans debt to the indians charlie curtis was legally an indian being one eighth kaw and his grandmother had been a real redskin ne ile was the one indian to get up to the heights of the vice presidency there have been one or two in the national legislature but curtis curels was in a spot from which he could have stepped to the white house 0 0 BORAH STARTS BALL borah by formally entering the ohio primaries as a candidate for the republican nomination lor for the presidency starts the ball rol rolling lingI borah Is the first republican to take the legal steps necessary to become an aspirant for the presidency and thus Is the first republican formally to get into the race against roosevelt up to the time borah chucked ills his hat in the ring in ohio republican politics was all hot sir air now borah smears up the buckeye states hope to hand band the ohio influence to chester bolton ohio republican congressman and a favorite son of that state borah Is no favorite with nith eastern republican managers and he be is out to skin them alive it he cart can borah would like to break up the eastern and wall street control of his own party and they are so afraid of him in the east that I 1 feel charlie hilles billes and his new york crowd would rather lose the elec tion than see borah dominate it because the eastern financiers would be as much out of the picture with borah in the white house bouse as they are with roosevelt 0 Is LITERARY DIGEST POLL when you analyze the famous literary digest poll which apparently shows that more than halt half the country Is opposed to the new deal you will find that the wording of the questionnaire sent out had much to do with an unfavorable showing it would be impossible to find many persons with a hundred per cent 0 K on the roosevelt administration in fact I 1 doubt that roosevelt himself approves of every last detail of it tile the way it has worked out in the face of human frailties and reactionary judges but the digest figures were reported in such a way that it appeared there was a continuing drift away from roosevelt the poll seemed to show that roosevelt fell further and further behind as the poll progressed this was accomplished by first presenting the west and south with roosevelt strong and later to publish the vote from large industrial or eastern states where the new deal Is weak the effect was to distort the poll by giving it the effect of a moving retreat actually the state figures show very little change as the poll proceeded other polls conducted by other experts range from a 70 per cent en endorsement dorsa of roosevelt to a 52 per cent endorsement dor der of course an election campaign between two individuals Is the only way to gauge strength you cant elect a republican not yet nominated by finding out that a sample poll gives a black eye to certain roosevelt policies LIBERTY LEAGUE the liberty league Is now engaged in a national solicitation for funds and members and gives folks the idea it Is fighting socialism and communism when it opposes the new deal in roy my opinion the liberty league should it be successful in its program would precipitate a revolution here worse than the french uprising because the leagues alms aims are purely purel for business their demand tor for budget balancing for instance means that they would cut OX off the emergency spending by which twenty million americans are now on relief the budget Is out of balance because of the emergency just as it was out of balance in the world war by reason of 0 war expenditures the liberty league leaders were during the world war largely engaged in selling munitions of war and never in all that era did they worry vorry over an unbalanced budget they started advocating a balance when i hen it became necessary for the federal treasury to be opened for the benefit of individuals in the breau breal lines I 1 0 western item newspaper paper union |