Show INSIDE STUFF j 1 r 1 Ii B By PAUL MALL MALLON N WASHINGTON March If 30 that brain truster were wh whispering per ng the i truth in Professor Wirt's ear car today f he be would say this The Roosevelt revolution Is jut juit bout about t over What is bringing it prematurely ly to toa tot t a conclusion is business recovery I IV V V There was wasa a time about a year age C When ht hen Mr Roosevelt could have done om Bens sensational left landed handed ing B Business wo would ld have stood for or Anything So would finance ThereWa There Was Wa no opposition nor any other kind of op Revolution position The presa preS I nan Danger tf Is U dent could have Long LOnZ Put Past done anything Since then things S have changed The opportunity has Clipped SUpped Slipped Business Busine and finance have found that they are not going to die Their death bed psychology V. V Is Kone They are re halfway back to lo V JJ health They Toey feel Ice their strength and andI I We reusing using it Each passing parsing day mak makes them themI I rouser and the prospects of a Stalin revolution dimmer l The only thing which can bring an anI f 1 I Continued ICon on Pwe Pue r Toi OI INSIDE STUFF Continued from Pate pue One economic revolution in the Europe European Euro Euro- pe n sense to this country no now is a anew anew anew new economic collapse T That at is hardly a n chance worth believing in A studious European with a disinterested disinterested dis dis- dis interested viewpoint recently looked looke at the situation in this novel way Your Democratic traditions make maket it t impossible for you to have a revolution revo revo- lution ution such as there has been in Russia Russia Rus Rus- sia and in Italy Your people are the second and third generations of the ambitious people of Europe those who wanted to o get ahead in iii the world and left leH Europe for or that purpose Nowadays they want to own a home for them them- selves They want to give their children children chil chil- dren b better opportunities for advancement advance ment than they had They are arc discontented discontented discon discon- tented with their lot They are looking look look- ing ng always alwa's for advancement for them them- sel selves veSt 0 In SIn Europe it is different The peon knows there is little chance for him himo to o better his lot and does not worry about it He lives his life in an entirely different way He contents himself with what beauty an and simple comfort he can get out of his surroundings His life is acceptable poetry Yours is ambitious business prose Personally I prefer the European European Euro Euro- way war but I 1 Opportunity doubt that your Still Abides people will In America You may make reforms but you cannot legislate that inherent feeling out of ot your people As I recollect you once put prohibition in your constitution constitution tion but you still drank So will it be with the reforms you are now en en- acting I think your revolution has been very mild Your constitution and your laws are re what your people want them to tobe tobe tobe be from time to time Your government government govern govern- ment can go no further than your people will let it Your people are ambitious and conservative e 9 eIn In proof of ot these points he I 1 notice that the popular tion lion of at labor in your country is the A. A F. F of L L. which is a in in- For your our veterans it is the American Legion also relatively a conservative outfit They typify the spirit of oC your peo pea pIe Radicalism is a great equalizer which would better the living JivIng condition condition condi condi- tion of ot your poorest but your our ambitious ambitious am lm people would never accept it it They are inherent gamblers with fortune fortune fortune for for- tune who will take a chance on poverty pov erty if they can also have a chance for success I will bet you that no matter what kind of stock market regulation bill billyou billyou billyou you pass your ingenious crowd up there will figure out a way to get around it and will have hav a boom market market mar mar- ket within six months 99 o e Half the insiders in Washington would probably agree acree with his analysis sis of the fundamental situation The brain would not Their obituary ary notice was published some time ago but probably Dr Wirt did not see it At any rate his dissertation is founded mostly on what one of them themis is supposed to have told him last sum sum- mer A lot of water Brain Trust has gone over the Boys Unable dam since last sum sum- To Face Jace Facts mer Also if it Dr Wirt could gel get any two brain to agree on any method of procedure about anything a medal is awaiting him at the White House Here is what happened happen Mr Roosevelt Roosevelt Roose Roose- velt called in the college professors to help him formulate his reform pro pro- gram He found that college professors sors sara are great on abstract logarithms but poor on political exigencies He found one or two who could soften their theories to practical necessities But by and large they would die for their principles So he suggested that the they suffer torture tor tar ture instead of death and invited them with some exceptions to join his government either officially or uno tidally That would have been all aU allright allright right for them except that he also Invited Invited In In- a few persons like Johnson Hull Roper Farley Fancy Cummings et ct al aI to sit lit litin in with him The result is these brain are far moro more moro moro- dismayed at the administration than you could possibly possibly pos pos- sibly be They have found Mr Roosevelt Roosevelt Roose velt was not alone a liberal but also a conservative 91 If you ou want to bet any money bet betit betit it ft this way 1 The revolution is not coming 2 Despite reform in 1936 or somewhere around there we will still be fundamentally wh what t we were In 1928 I I 9 I The best story of r the day is Ic the one about the representative o of the Teas Tans agency Russian who was saddled with Professor Wirt last summer ummer and told to give him a good time The story tory is to the effect that the doctor wanted to hC hear about and nothing short of that so the Tans fellow fellow fel fel- fel low filled him full of ot it liis is now denied denied de de- de nied but it is is' isa a good story anyway o e The Anthony advocates are startIng starting start start- Ing the story that only the can pull the wool over their eyes 01 oi do they mean A stock ket market critic sa says s 's What I like about the Wall street treet boys is that they've got rhythm That's what we ought to have I Copyright 1934 for tor The Telegram |