Salt Lake Telegram | 1939-08-28 | Page 6 | Merry-Go-Round

Round Merry By DREW PE PEARSON and ROBERT S. S ALLEN What WASHINGTON What Roosevelt thinks of war and its its rel relation tion to domestic economics was grap graphically cally d described s r bed b in h in a recent recent talk with wilh an old friend This friend a of road he road middle road he-road Democrat i who helped nominate and el l ct the president I went in to see him to voice what many conservative conservative conserva conserva- tive Democrats have felt the that country needs a moratorium on reform Ina heart to talk he counseled io ease up on congress and let things ride quietly for a while People are tired of chang change the friend ar ar- ar gued They want to be let alone r 7 Roosevelt's reply briefly brient summarized follows fol fol- fol- fol lows I agree with you on the desirability of peace an and quiet No one wants that more than r. r 11 I have been fighting this battle batlle for a long time and I r Ican Ican can assure you I would like nothing better than to sit back fold my hands and take it easy But you dont don't seem t to realize that with world conditions as they are we cant can't stand standstill standstill still and do nothing We have got to keep moving moving ing forward if we arc are to sav if democracy if if we weare weare weare are going coing to save economic and political liberty You must understand that war in Europe will mean the complete collapse of private economic economic eco ceo nomie enterprise there As a matter of fact private private vate enterprise has almost gone already in Germany Germany Germany Ger Ger- many and Italy and entirely in in Russia Private economic enterprise is a luxury in this age of super nationalistic powers Soviet Revolution The Russian revolution set in motion molion forces and influences that are arc sweeping the world In the Italy went fascist in the Germany went nazi Suppose all of Europe shifts from a system of free private enterprise to these other systems This is certain if there is a war var and it may happen an anyway vay The United States could not escape the ef effects effects ef- ef of such a change e either ther politically socially or economically We would with witha a titanic war of ideas W V We S have millions of dispossessed dispossessed dis dis- dis- dis possessed jobless and h t eople They be be easy prey to t th the illusions and prom- prom its fes s OZ these Look what jn Italy and Germany s f We have to put outhouse in order to meet the attack of these We have got zot to give our people a ast st stake tWe Ke in our system of free economic enterprise will be willing to defend it and fight for tWe We must prepare to meet the great test that That is why we cant can't Si nt down and fold our hands and take things easy To do that Isto is isto t to invite certain destruction pt pf the liberties we cherish If Jf we want to preserve Americanism as we we- know it and want it we h have ve got to take protective measures now Standing still or back the clock clode wont won't An nn n New Dealers in Crisis The Roosevelt administration is all hustle and bustle about Europe now but here is where those most concerned in high official places were when the crisis first broke A The president was sunning himself on a cruiser of off Canada Cordell CordeR Hull secretary of ot state was golfing at White Sulphur Springs Spring Postmaster General Jim Farley Fancy was receiving the benediction of the pope in Rome Frank Murphy Murphy Mur Mur- phy attorney general genera was rec receiving iving the smiles of dowagers and debutantes at Swank Bailey beach Newport R R. L I. LHarry LHarry Harry Hopkins secretary of commerce was in Annapolis sitting silting in the sun by Chesapeake bay Henry secretary of the treasury treas treas- ury was enjoying the blue waters of the French Riviera Henry Wallace secretary of agriculture was at his old home in Iowa Frances Perkins secretary of labor was motoring in New York and New England Only Harold Ickes Icke secretary of If the interior Harry Woodring Woodrin secretary of ol war and A Assistant Secretary of the Navy Charles Edison were la laboring laboring la- la boring in iri the vineyard of the government Distributed 1939 by United Feature Syndicate