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Show UTAH LABOR Page 8 NEWS, SALT LAKE CITY, UTAH, MARCH 3. 1939 I VOTED FOR ROOSEVELT his opposition. Invariably you will find that President Roose-- 1 velt is on the side of the people, on the side favoring decency FOR PRESIDENT and good government. Only recently his proposal for emergency relief appropriations was cut. The slash taken by Con(Continued from Fage 1) gress will affect some three million people. The meager bread likes. that had earned on WPA jobs will be taken from them. In Who cares? Since when have vice presidents become the whosethey interest was it, do you think, to cut the appropriation and censors of the Presidents of the United States? If tradition is reduce these people to beggary? It was in the interest of the NEWS AND COMMFNT to be followed and all our strict constructionists are sticklers for money bags who fear increased taxation because of the help tradition, then the vice presidents opinions should matter very the unemployed. little indeed one way or the other. As a matter of fact, the given President Roosevelts nomination of Judge Roberts was vice president is not even a member of the Cabinet. If he is perWhy? Everybody, even the opposition, admitted mitted to sit at Cabinet meetings, it is only by courtesy of the rejected. that Judge Rogers was eminently fitted for the office. He was President. The vice presidents only active function, if I have rejected to favor the whim of politicians who are open enemies read the Constitution correctly, is to preside at sessions of the of the New Deal and progressive legislation. Similarly former Senate. His passive function is to sit and wait and hope for the Amlies appointment to the Interstate Commerce best or the worst and fill the President's office if, by some Congressman Commission is being opposed because of his progressive views misfortune, it becomes vacant before the full term has expired. on railroad administration. It is a revealing commentary on the ghoulish malice of President loses power during his second administraPresident Roosevelts opposition that they are always looking tion. Every The practical politicians who sit in the halls of Congress toward the vice presidents office with such undisguised wishful feel that they have? gotten all the patronage they can expect hope. Only by grace of Roosevelts opposition have the vice from the White House and so they can revert to their natural But at a critical juncture of president and his opinions become matters of public interest. color and their usual affiliations. Tney feel they can therefore American history, when the fate of No one knew about Coolidge in Hardings administration, or discount the President's desires and serve their real masters, the young Republic hung in the about Dawes, except for his underslung pipe, in Coolidges ad- those who finance them and finance their campaigns. But there , i , " i ministration. ' been .uch ha, .v of the E Pteriden, hectoring .nipingand Dolly Ganns Brother y is indulged m right now, 1 he 1 flount-are the of politicians generally representative And who indeed remembers the vice president of Hoovers the people and disrupting their own party in order to break people and responsive to their ing administration? This ought to be a good question for radio's the re limitd sease thaa President, break his spirit and destroy all the benefits of his needs n a Information Please program. The women will recall the an- administration. some should have preferred, would swer better than the men. It was Dolly Gann's brother. Yes, perish, he used his influence to Labors Support save the democracy that had been it was Charles Curtis. Remember? Indian Charlie Curtis it This would never happen if the mass of people were articu- established. was, and the vice presidential question that rocked the country Washingtons Opponents at the time 'was whether his sister, Dolly Gann, should precede late or had a movement to protect their interests. The one moveas there are some radicals Just Alice Roosevelt-Longwort- h at formal receptions or whether ment that used to do that was the labor movement. When we and extremists who today dwell on Alice should precede Dolly. It was a terrifically important of labor were united, the politicians had to reckon with our will the shortcomings of Franklin D. and our desires. Now, however, when the labor movement it- - Roosevelt because they feel more question, as you can recognize. should have been done or sponsored to flout it or ignore it.,by The Also-Ran- s Tlllv ,ivid'd the PJjl!cian ca" and wh refusc io admit Even less important is anything the they favor labor, but do not know that whatever those shortcomings s and the have to say about administration policies. There is sar- what labor wants because one faction opposes the proposals of may be Roosevelt is still the finest champion of human rights and lib- donic amusement in the fact that the newspapers play up as the other. aa I A, said, I am page one news a statement by Hoover that the country is going ... impatient and resentful at the tactics of generations, so there were then to the dogs because of Roosevelts fiscal policies. Hoover was Koosevelt a opposition that has ganged up to destroy him. Even radicals and extremists who would so eminently successful in his own fiscal policies that by the time more impatient and resentful am I at a condition in the labor have destroyed the effort which ,h''S ' y aU had Xlt'hiLdmrce s to shut down for a while m order to start from scratch. He was embodied in the How long must we continue to divide our. forces? How their ideas were had so very successful with problems of unemployment and relief been drafted. Constitution that It should be remembered that the that he had to call the army to disperse destitute hunger march long before ,we will all be delivered to the enemy at this rate? opposition came from those who ers in Washington. And yet he will not hesitate to issue pro- When will we come to our senses and unite? were LET I insisting that the less governUS HAVE PEACE nouncements and to tender advice how much better he would ment the better; that the governhave done had he been President. And the newspapers pick it ment governs best which governs and it with a straight face, and bemoan the fact that least; that any attempt to make up, print the government capable of disRoosevelt will not abide by Hoover's advice. Roosevelt is its obligationsa nd funccharging wrong, not Hoover, they would have you believe. as a nation that would tioning The very day that the newspapers played up Hoovers hort command the respect of other naBy CHARLES STELZLE rendous warning about Roosevelts fiscal policies, they also tions would be a betrayal of the Executive revolution. Good Director, Neighbor League printed news of a bank crash in Jersey City." The headlines Thew were, for the most part, the were quite cheerful about it. They told that practically all the Theres a great difference of opinion as to whether the rugged individualists of 1787; depositors would get all their money back because it was in- - .character of parents or the living conditions, is the determining those who believed that the states would set sured by the government. The Federal Deposit Insurance Cor- - factor in the future life of children. The tariff barriers against arguments on either each othersup products; who believed would poration pay back all deposits up to five thousand dollars side are equally convincing. The workers of America have that the the with settler, log cabin each, the stories related. As a result there was no run on the come a long way in spite of their humble beginnings. Even , that he build in the wilderness, and bank even after the news of its shut down was announced, and those born in the tenements have risen to places of power and the gun which he kept by his side thousands of depositors have been spared worry and heartache influence. protect him against the Indian well as lest their savings be destroyed or dissipated in liquidation. But it is quite likely that most of these had back of them ment as against the law enforceofficer, was the highest type Do you readers remember what happened under similar the strong character inherited from their On the other of citizen, the perfect example of parents. circumstances in 1930, 1931 and 1932? Do they remember hand, many of the sons and daughters of the rich have failed what the Revolution had produced. the I168 Rugged Individualists desperate depositors before shaky banks in those because of a weak strain in their parents. When a child has to Had these rugged individualists years? Were not they themselves perhaps the victims of bank-- ' contend with both bad surroundings and weak parents, he is prevailed they might have done j sure to mg mampulations at the time? have a pretty tough time, but even many such have more to put an end to the democI he law was then being bom than creating the FDIC is a New Deal law. The deter- - finally won out. that racy mination to save small depositors from evil banking administra- The famous Jukes family consisted of a lazy, irresponsible even Alexander Hamilton, with all of his conservatism. and love for tion was Roosevelt s. It is but one of the many laws that Roose fisherman and five daughters. In five generations the known monarchial institutions, or George velt sponsored to restore confidence among the people in the descendants numbered about 1200 persons, of whom 310 were Washington, with his aristocratic banks and the financial set-u- p of this country. And yet the paupers, living in almshouses; 440 were leanings and interest, could have physically wrecked by done. bankers and brokers will malign and vilify President Roosevelt their own wickedness, more than one-haof the women were At- that time, under those condiin the most outrageous terms. Perhaps they are right from their immoral; 130 wjere convicted criminals; 60 were, habitual when government was so intions, point of view. Perhaps they have cause to hate Roosevelt. He thieves; 7 were murderers; and 200 died in infancy. Not one to the salvation of the dispensable has certainly put a crimp in their racket. of them had even a common school education. Only 20 of Republic, it was not the extreme them learned a trade, and 10 of them learned it in the State individualist that was opposed to People Are With Roosevelt President has to reckon with public opinion and with prison. This family has cost the state of New York millions all government who was necessaEvery rily the best friend of the exploited Congress and Roosevelt is no exception. The opposition to of dollars and the cost is still on. men and women in whose behalf he going Roosevelt is not one, however, that is formed At about the time that Jukes, the fisheman, died, Jonathan professed to speak. by public opinion. a masses f our people are concerned, Roosevelt is Edwards a humble New George Washington, therefore, England preacher left a large famstill the most beloved man in the country. The great bulk of the ily In 1900, as many as 1394 of his descendants were iden- can not be said to have been primarily a labor man. No one could people trust him implicitly. He not only speaks their language, tified. Of these 3 were 3 were United have teen in an age when there college presidents; aso expresses their unspoken hopes and aspirations. Now State senators; 65 were college professors; 30 were . judges; 100 was no modem labor movement m February, when we speak with reverence of and were Washington of them distinguished; 60 were physicians; and actually no basis for such a lawyers Lincoln, we can say that Roosevelt will be written down among 75 were officersmany in army and navy; 100 were clergymen, mis- movement. But it can be said that he helped the immortals of our country. And in these sionaries', etc.; 60 were prominent authors and writers; 295 to days of lay the foundation for a society and barbarism in other countries his leadership becomesbrutality a bea- were college graduates; 90 held public office. in which labor, though frequently con light to world civilization and the nobler instincts of manOne was a vice president of the United States; several were beaten down, always exploited, opkind. It is not the! people, but the enemies of the who economically and politicalpeople governors of states, members of congress, mayors of cities, min- pressed had the means of bringing ly, oppose Roosevelt. isters to foreign courts. Fifteen railroads, banks, insur- about, without bloodshed, those many The enemies of the , people, those who would gain booty ance companies and large industrial enterprises have been inthat enable us to point and power at the expense of the people, are ganging with pride in these critical days to up on debted to their management. Roosevelt again They have tried it before and they are a Republic that is a beacon of hope trying Every man owes it to his children to give them a better to mankind everywhere. it again. They are ganging up in Congress and outside of Con- chance than he He may not be rich enough to afford enjoyed. For that reason labor need yield gress. x college training for his children; he may not even give them a to no other group in our social Take Your Stand setter home so far as luxuries are concerned; but he can help structure in paving tribute to the Mark the issues on which the President is opposed these immensely in giving them healthy bodies and strong characters. Father of our Republic "First in Notice which War, First in Peace, and First in on side the President stands and on which, This is the least but it is also the best days. that he can give them. the hearts of his countrymen. i I . I . ' 1 1 o two-penn- I also-ran- I near-ly-ra- ns I I I " Start Them Right I . I lf - i 1 i . -- |