Show Pre V a i I i n 9 Opinions 0 pin j 0 n 5 I I Comment of the tho American Press 1915 and 1935 There is an Interesting political parallel b bet between e t wee v e e n the United States in the third year of at the Roosevelt administration and Inthe Inthe in inthe the third year of the thc first Wilson administration Just as the election of ot Woodrow Wilson was due to th the disgust of ot the country with the mistakes of ot the tho Taft administration and a split in the Republican ranks so the election of Franklin Roos Roosevelt velt was due duc to national soreness created created cre cre- by the depression and the th-e apparent apparent ap ap- parent inability of ot the Hoover administration administration administration ad ad- ministration to end it and a tremendous tremendous tremendous tre tre- tre- tre desertion of the Republican can an party by voters normally Re Re- publican The first Wilson congress put through a number of ot important measures of ot reform the reform the Un Underwood Underwood Under Under- erwood er- er wood tariff brItt the so-called so Glass banking bill the La Follette seamen's seamen's seamen's sea sea- mens men's act the Income tax and others The first Roosevelt congress congress congress con con- gress was also conspicuous for Ifor reform measures dealing with the depression B By this time in 1915 the shattered shattered shat that Republican forces had been fairly well pulled together the administration was under heavy attack from Theod Theodore rc the Great and the Bull Moosers were running running running run run- ning ba back k to c cover ver Just so today the tho Republicans so heavily heavily- de defeated defeated defeated de- de in 1932 that there was some wonder whether the party could recover are renewed in hope and faith and are busy with with- plans for capturing next years year's election A great deal of the Wilson popularity popular- popular ity Sty had been dissipated by August 1915 just as President Roosevelt's has has' gone do down n under criticism and attack The parallel holds even to the Republican difficulty In finding a lL standard In 1910 1916 Taft TaCt was out of the question and it appears that Hoover is today No Noless Noless Noless less than 17 favorite sons were put in nomination for the first ballot of oC the conven canyon tion On the third ballot Charles E. E Hughes Huhes was WM nominated d a ic a victory vic vic victory tory of the progressive element And today today-it it looks looka a as if oi a pro pro- can logically be chosen by the Republicans in 1936 1925 If It the similarity is carried still will be further the 1936 election extremely close and it may be that the R Republican candidate will not make the mistake of neglecting ne no- to sake hands with Hiram Hiram Hiram Hi Hi- ram Johhson Detroit News Youthful y Enthusiasm A police judge in Chicago hearIng hearing hear hear- ing lug the cases of ot two girls charged with picketing a relief station and finding that the pair are students at the University of at Chicago threatens to President Hutchins to find out what whet they've been teaching these girls out there Political jurists are swift to learn that the uses of ot publicity are arc sweet particularly in fields as available as the suspected nursing nursing nurs nurs- ing ng of the red viper in our schools schools schools-an an Issue lately aired in Chicago to no very clear sion zion The assumption on which these hunts proceeds proceeds' is that a school subscribes to every political political poUt poUt- cal p philosophy it attempts to todeal todeal todeal deal with It is never suggested that the impressionable student may adopt the new gospel wi without hout persuasion on the faculty's part It comes to us that in our own time many an under undergraduate w was s sold on socialism for the thc thc- period of his college term and preached It in dormitory and dining room and from rom the front steps social steps social socialism ism being the nearest equivalent to communism then at at hand io to capture the rebellious fancy As a arule rule the compromise early convictions with the existing order order order or or- der was complete in 10 years and at the age of ot 32 82 he ho had cither gone to Russia which Russia which happened now and then then then-or or joined tho the ruling classes It is Important to know what the schools are arc teaching but there is a difference between DEscribing a political creed and PREscribing it In the tho latter in instance instance instance in- in stance s some me students will still succumb to its its' charm as some do to measles By 1945 it is safe to predict the majority of or this years year's crop of ot patients will have been cured of both Detroit News New i One Ono Good Effect Some critics of the Roosevelt the tax bill ourselves in included in- in eluded charged it was motivated ted by politics Certainly it has been proved to be neither a revenue- revenue producer nor a real tax revision Yet it Is interesting to note that if it as charged the primary purpose was to deflate the Huey Long wealth the tho the p presidents president's gesture has not been in vain aln Three months ago Hucy Huey Longs Long wealth the clubs clubs were mushrooming all aU over over the coun coun- try The Kingfish had the answer answer answer an an- to our economic troubles Every man a king Five thousand thousand thou thou- sand dollars and a home for every every family Take it away from Crom the billionaires Then alan along came aine the presidents president's bill to tax the rich at rates more drastic than Huey Buey Long had pro pro- posed And what was the estimated estimated esti esti- mated yield Enough to give 2 apiece to every man woman and child in th the country An average of ot about 8 3 or 10 per family Presumably the Kingfish could not think up any amendments to sweeten sv its promise Anyway he didn't The Record covering the two days of debate preceding senate passage of ot the tax bill fails to disclose a single suggestion or a single speech bythe bythe by bythe the Kingfish He was absent as asa asa asa a matter of ot fact tact and did not re return return return re- re turn until the tax job was out orthe of or the way Meanwhile pubIc and congressional congressional congressional debate on on wealth taxation has punctured Huey Hucy Longs Long's extravagant ex ex- tra pounding the share wealth talkA talk A says Webster Isone isone is isone one who wh plays an Insincere rol rolin role in public life for the sake of or gainIng gainIng gaining gain gain- ing political influence Demagoguery in politics like bluffing In stud po poker cr works allrIght allright all allright right until you get San caught caught San I Francisco News New |