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I Comment of the American Press I The Invitation to Business The president has reached the stage when progress in iii business has become of vital importance to his political success during the remainder of his t term rm of office office of oC- of- of fice and his letter Is virtually a public public- recognition of the fact In effect he invites business forces to release themselves without fear While thus far his administration administration admin admin- has sought to establish certain reforms that he felt bound to undertake even if re recovery recovery re- re covery were thereby retarded he now proclaims that hereafter re recovery recovery recovery re- re 1 covery will have the right of way The outcome will show whether his planning has been based on false premises At the moment business activities indicate a forward forward forward for for- ward movement The president gives it his blessing He hops aboard Springfield Springfield Republican A Case for Satire Dean Swift would have found ample scope for satire in the spectacle of President Roosevelt on the role of town counselor advising advising advising ad ad- his Hyde Park neighbors to reduce the costs of oC local government government gov- gov 1 and insist upon balanced balanced bal hal budgets The president has shown a matchless ability to ignore awkward awkward awk awl ward facts in advocating a course of oC conduct so 50 radically at odds with the policies of his own ad ad- ministration Not only has the federal government set an example example exam exam- plc of extravagance that has Invited in invited In- In emulation by S state and local governments but it has actually assisted and at times persuaded the latter to apply for for- federal loans loans Washington Post Mussolini's Protest Cited In 1920 the League of Nations was founded and a system of world law developed the very cry purpose of which was to prevent all wars wars great great hi historic wars and little wars alike aUke Upon the integrity of this system system tem tern of law everything depends When Germany committed a breach of it by denouncing the arms clauses of the treaty of Versailles the duce was quick to join in a firmly worded protest Can he now seriously believe that an incomparably more serious serious se sc se- se rious breach the breach the deliberate re recourse recourse recourse re- re course to war var as an instrument of or national policy would policy would not noU have results so IiO destructive as to to imperil the worlds world's whole future London Dail Daily Herald Ford as Candidate The University of Pennsylvania Pennsylva Pennsylva- nia professors who nominated Henry Ford as the Republican candidate for pre president i ent ent in 1936 1930 may be gifted with a strong sense of humor That would explain why the they suggested a man who has never taken an active part partin in partisan politics who runs his business without regard to the party in power and who in some respects is more radical than Franklin Roosevelt himself The professors proCessors pointed out that new leaders and new ideals are arc needed They are right and Henry Ford could fill the bill But with him as the leader and his ideals as the platform the Republican party would not recognize recognize rec rec- recognize rec- rec itself Detroit Detroit News Flaws in Borah Borab Even if iC Mr Borah's Borab's age were not against him him him-he he was 70 last June the June the inconsistencies that abound in his political record seem sufficient to disqualify him hini himas hinias as a serious contender for the nomination The Republican party will get nowhere with a candidate that neither the conservatives conservatives conservatives con con- nor the liberals can regard as offering a fair compromise com corn promise promise- promise between between their respective points of oC view Expediency may have a great deal to lo do with dictating dictating dic dic- dictating dic- dic tating the nomination nomination-it it usually docs but does but the more Mr Borah's career is studied th the more likely Is it to appear that it would be highly inexpedient to nominate l him Hartford Hartford Courant Reunion at Gettysburg Gettysburg is said to be the marked best d battlefield in the world with its many hundreds of oC memories tablets and statues If It there shall shaU survive even a few hundred of ot the soldiers of the sixties strong enough to go to that reunion the demonstration should be worthwhile Their fellow fellow fellow fel fel- fel- fel low citizens long ago decided the Civil war was over Most Mon Americans Americans Americans Amer Amer- hold in equal admiration the valor of those who fought on either cither side If It the requirement that the Confederate veterans should carry their flags folded was all that stood in the way of an earlier acceptance of ot an invitation in invitation in- in Invitation for a joint encampment few there are today who will not approve the concession that they may carr carry their banners anyway any anyway anyway way they Boston Boston Herald Finding the Criminal I see right away it is no kind of ot a house It is drink drink drink all aU the the time Im I'm In Inthe Inthe Inthe the kitchen c cooking oking I 1 hear people yell eU yell yell eU I run in They say lady is shot I see gee her lying there I know nothing This is the version the Associated Associated Asso Asso- Associated Press gives of George Yamada's Yamada's Yamada's Ya- Ya madas mada's story of of the shooting of Evelyn Hoe Hoey at the Rogers farm farmin in Pa Not ot so long ago certain newspapers newspapers newspapers news news- papers would have hastened to headline Prohibition claims another another another an an- other victim But the Japanese cook spotted the actual murderer murder murder- er more unerringly He pointed no accusing finger at any man or man-made man system It was drink drink drink all aU the time said he Yes the murderers murderer's name was Drink but False Appetite in invited invited invited in- in drink in and furnished the weapons for or the crime Christian Christinn Christian Science Monitor The Wrong Verdict Judge John A. A Boyne was taken off ore his guard when after he had told a jur jury of ot women that the prosecution hadn't made out a good case against a man accused of ot buying a stolen car knowing that it had been stolen the 12 ladles ladies found lound the defendant guilty You cant can't do that he told lold them and sent them back to reconsider their verdict Then they acquitted acquit acquit- ted the accused The question has arisen whether the judge exceeded exceeded ex ex- his rights There was a similar case not long ago in England The jury told by the judge that the de defendant de- de defendant certainly was not guilty convicted him nevertheless The judge was surprised but resource resource- ful UI He winked at the attorney for lor the defense who immediately moved for tor a new trial Gran Granted led said the judge Then he winked at the attorney for the crown who withdrew the charge and the defendant was released It merely goes to show that there are several different legal ways of ot skinning a 1 cat some Mme of which are quite constitutional Detroit News |
