Salt Lake Telegram | 1936-04-15 | Page 6 | As Glenn Frank Sees It

I Wi As Glenn Fr Frank Sees It Ii GLENN LENN FRANK PRANK p president of the University U of Wisconsin contributes contribute a disturbing article to the Journal of the National Education asso asso- elation clation It makes interesting reading alongside President Roosevelt's Baltimore speech President dent Franks Frank's political philosophy runs counter to tp to essentially every thought and deed of the new new flew deal It is not the typical Republican brand either r r This educator cit cites s the results of a study of I Europe's mass moods preceding drastic overturns over ovex turns of political social and economic arrange arrange- ments The study was made by G. G D. D H. H Cole British writer I 1 list these twelve moods and ask you to ask yourselves whether each and all of these moods have not i in hi greater or less degree degree de de- de- de gree been present in hi the mass mind of the United States during the last six years President President dent Frank Fr-ank writes Then he quotes Cole i jI An uneasy feeling that alike in political t z and In economic organization the world i is tt getting nowhere A haunting suspicion that the existing J r forms both of political government and of economic organization arc are ill-adapted ill to tho the j effective guidance of ot this age of scale large-scale enterprise complex relationships and swift tempo of change j A growing ving sense that vast potential wealth t Is going to waste while millions go hungry i 12 and pro productive u genius Is held in chains to obsolete obsolete ob- ob solete lolete r economic policies Jj te 1 r. r A restless unwillingness to be content with the tho cynical assumption that nothing much Jt can be e expected from political action anyway any- any F way fJ i A chilling fear of at Insecurity among ml- ml lions who have In the past possessed some iVf tf measure of security V t. t A widespread conviction at least among 4 tf the young folk that all of th the old political j parties have gone stale and futile J j yV An epidemic insistence that something be r J rJ J done even where there Is no clear notion of J i 11 What should be done A A panic retreat from the terrifying com com- t v I. I f of modern world problems to tho the j delusive ov oversimplifications of at extreme na- na Y vj Jt r A vehement reassertion of the tho rights of ot private property by large and mall property i owners alike Kj j i An Increasing demand for tor state intervention tion to help any section of ot the community that feels the pinch of economic adversity 1 V I A nervous flight from representative institutions V i to personal leaderships t V r A growing tendency to think of ot politics v r 1 less Jess in terms of ot adjustment t through rough discus discus- slon sion and more in terms of coercion through force and If necessary through violence r ir 4 Without further q quotation from the article V T we submit this as important material f for r thoughtful thought- thought w y l ful readers Is it not a yardstick with w which cJ to measure the st stature ture of statesmen and d. d politicians who t will be making much ado during the next ff eight months