Show The Professors Professor's Turn INCE NCE in a lifetime a smart chap coins a a av ONCE v phrase at once as apt and devastating as the appellation given to the administrations administration's scholarly scholarly schol schol- arly any advisers at the beginning of the new deal The brain trust will remain in the language and in the annals of politics long after the last of the original erudite coterie has shuffled off this mortal coil Of Ol course course it was no novelty that highly trained minds were called to advise in government government government govern govern- ment councils The thing that made the brain trust newsworthy was that it was the first time so many distinguished gentlemen had been brought together for mass cerebration under Hunder one tent so to say Cartoonists and para- para enjoyed a rare opportunity to be smart in line and word If the flood of jibe and jest has stirred choler among capped and gowned savants in m general they have kept their feelings pretty much to themselves But inwardly at least right now they must be having themselves a good Um time It is the professors' professors time tune to laugh if only in a capacious academic sleeve That the G. G O. O P. P should have found it desirable to organize a brain trust of its own must in the minds of professors bring a certain tion Who can gainsay now that both major parties recognize the need for specialized knowledge knowledge knowl knowl- edge in charting government policies The only thing stirring fear and dread in inthe inthe the whole business is that these learned groups ma may take to the hustings to debate campaign issues If they contend against each other on their own intellectual levels how will vili the common common cornmon com corn mon run of men know what they are talking about To be set right righton on the burning issues the voters' voters main reliance will still have to be bethe bethe bethe the lunged leather-lunged spellbinder viewing with alarm and pointing with pride to Old Glory and his party's achievements In practical politics theres there's no substitute for the old-fashioned old tub- tub thumping emotionalist with or without benefit of a drum corps |