Show THESE TOPSY DAYS is a different alignment among human hu- hu 1 man beings Everything Every thing has gone topsy topsy- There is a loosening of party of-party party lines Either we are arc going through with this program program pro pro- gram grain or we are are going to hell economically The words are those of Senator Hiram Johnson of California spoken in the capitol Wednesday They are full of meaning There is nothing intemperate in them They are arc merely the reasoned conclusions of ofa a veteran in national politics When you take them apart and put them together again they stand up A decade ago he would not perhaps have said them Certainly he lie would not twenty years ago But the world scene and the national scene have undergone some changes Economic social political and even geographical styles of then and now are as different as the clothes of the two periods If you think that is not nota a material change try to induce a woman to wear a 1913 or even a 1923 hat These are topsy days days and and altogether er too many people let them drive them into hysteria They are days for daring and cour age We new pioneering to do We must try many experiments It should be plain that we cannot solve sol very many of to today's days problems with old formulas Things are happening happening happening hap hap- pening fast and many watchers cant can't keep track of the score That is one of the causes for fears and misgivings Unless a man has bas kept his thinking up to date he lie is just about as bad off as a spectator at a football game trying to follow the pla plays B with an out-of-date out book of rules I A fairly safe course to follow while we are going through this amazing period of national reconstruction is to withhold carping criticism at least until one can a map of a route safer to follow than the one that we are now asked to travel |