Show The Thing That Has Won Our Wars Vars Is IsNow Hop ope eNow 1 America Now Arr at Work to Bring Recovery to I By BURTON KLINE On the walls walIs of thousands of f Amerlean Amer lean ican homes hang r reproductions productions of ot a famous painting painting and and they do no not hang there for nothing The picture answers the Instinct of ot a n people It portrays a blindfolded woman bent over the last string left on her lyre Beneath her is an orb representing representing the world Behind her is Js the bottomless blue of the Void The picture consists of nothing but these and this desperately listening woman The reproductions capture little olits of ol its majesty and beauty b but t they hang where they do for the mean meaning in attached at at- ached to the original by its painter George Frederic rederic Watts He entitled it Hope There have been times when the country the country the world itself itself had had noth ing lag but that to live on During the centuries composing the Dark Age learning earning would have flickered out forever forever for for- ever but for bands of devoted monks monts who kept it burning So dark tark was their heir age that they had to labor and live ive in caves in peril of their lives We live in enlightenment now because because be be- cause they then lived on hope Hopfe Hopt Brings Victory The Revolution that tha found founded d this country was as fought on hope The country hoped itself through the Civil war and through this last one one and now has hoped itself through this little ittle dark age of th the past four years years' So hope is ii more than a painters painter's dream Humanity has ha always had a knack of turning its hopes into happenings That is 18 now going on Even the needed needed need need- ed instrumentality has been ered Theodore Roosevelt was shot into nto the presidency by a madman's pistol A national hope elected his mu namesake es ke That gentleman's performance as asan asan asan an Instrument of hope is on record But American institutions compel a president hi himself to work with an ani i implement and so congress becomes as much as the president a means for converting in into o realities the country's demand to get on For all the great progress made recovery Is 15 not yet clear of the hope stage tage and the demand for further realities will beat upon congress throughout the thc session session and and will lift this his s session sion also above the average leveL eveL Row How rae Coat Fe Feels Ia I. Hitherto the ordinary session has been a history of hoss hess trades for party or group advantage with general advantage advantage advantage ad ad- vantage to the country 1 largely an incident in in- Only in times of peril has congress forgotten its games and become become be be- come a a tool toot of the thc national will This is another of the times How congress will function it is Js early to predict except in the presidents president's presidents president's presidents president's dents dent's own general terms He had it his lis way at the special session For all aU all all' the he scattered discontent over N R Ahe A Ahe he ic still Is 90 per cent popular with the same people who elect the congress con con- gress and d and next November the entire house and a third of the senate must face these voters So this session also Is apt to feed from the prize honey honey- fugler of his time What will the session do Another too early question But the conversion conversion conver conver- sion sian of hopes hopes' into happenings turns after all an on practical matters and the country expects a lot of them Three issues that cannot be dodged jut out the out the deficit the budget and banking The first two are quickly dismissed People whose lives and businesses have been saved from starvation star star- are little likely to kick at the cost cost or or at a budget looking to mor more of the same Banking is in for tor a hammering ham ham- mering due ducts to make history The Banks B and Papa Note the presidents president's clever play on gener general distrust and resentment toward banks and bankers His own monetary policy is still sUil up his sleeve but sticking out of the sleeve is his right hand ex officio head of ot the federal federal- federal reserve For the import of this particular move think hink back The federal reserve was set up to ump pump government credit during financial It hasn't worked The 12 regional banks to the system got on n like 12 strange bulldogs bulldogs bull bull- dogs and private bankers kenneled them Meaning that credit the credit the water water wa wa- ter ter the air the oxygen of a nations nation's has business business has lain Jain in the hands of a few who meted it out to their favorites favor favor- ites to ites-to to the their r own wn enormous enormous gain gam in m money and power Now The government takes hold at last and the federal reserve reserve re re- reserve serve comes home to papa This is not all Even under stricter government management the federal reserve is 15 distrusted All over eves the country clamor arises that credit its Us very existence be wrested from private vate profiteering and placed with a central bank under government con con- in rol in simple English put in the hands of the people Jackson Jacksons Fight Recalled A century ago Andrew Jackson I fought much the same fight The I fight for it now cannot be ignored It may drag the session down for a time timeto timeo to o its regular level of partisan squa squab squab- bins all si as all to the good In the coming row the Republicans have lave their chance chance- chance and and how they need it The for its own safety needs a stiff stift opposition The safety of the country requires it Anything so vital as bank reform must be shaped by many councils But if it anything is certain it is that by the time Ime congress has adjourned American Ameri Amen can banking will be altered for the better And though the session accomplished accomplished accomplished ac ac- ac- ac not a thing else this alone would leave it historic Another hope turned into a happen happen- ing ng Copyright McClure Newspaper Syndicate |