| Show dispelling THE FOG by charles michelson it had been generally s supposed that the visit of the king and queen of england to the united states had boon been a successful stul and s satisfactory a to r y a affair it seemed to be w well e 1 boen understood d e 0 feair d t that their british majesties had e enjoyed n i loyed their visit and that the pleasant duties of hospitality pita lity had been handled without a hitch or any untoward incident it remained for the honorable hamilton fish ranking minority member of the house foreign affairs committee and the jeremiah in chief of the republican party to wake us from this happy dream his complaint is that thai the G 0 P was practically ignored in the social doings the republican members of the house of represent Re presen natives and the 23 republican senators were all there at the congressional reception of course and a republican ex secretary of state stale and an ambassador or two of tho same complexion were noted a niong mong the guests at some or of the or functions nevertheless mr fish sees in the events of the great occasion a clar darkling kling political purpose of the president in making out th the guest lists overlooking 1936 it so happens of course that in the 1936 elections the people of the united states disregarding the advice and lamentations of the ranking republican on the foreign affairs committee elected a democratic administration and as a natural consequence of this the cabinet officers and other high officials of the government are at tilis this time of the democratic persuasion As the formal affairs were almost exclusively severely official the political quality of those who attended seems logical enough mr fish in his objections to the matter does not go into detail as to what partisan subtlety the president had in in mind he apparently knows that there was some hidden purpose on his general theory that some furtive impulse lurks in everything the president does president always wrong the G 0 P has varied the old world saw that the king can do no wrong with the slogan that the president is always dorng according to their doctrine doctrin he is wrong in his relief spending spendin 9 p program r 0 likewise he is wrong when he tries to hold down the budget to which the senate added four hundred million dollars or so for farm subsidies while all the time the republican high command was wa s I 1 filling the mails with p pamphlets be wailing the administrations extravagance and insisting that it was plunging the nation into bankruptcy somehow the minority party never refers to the circumstances that the united states treasury bonds are selling at higher prices than bonds anywhere nor do the they y refer to the circumstance that the american dollar is the most stable currency in the world woric I 1 there might be some sub substance stance to the ghost of national bankruptcy if for example the townsend plan fo for r which fifty five republicans in the house voted the other day was ever put into effect inasmuch as the fiscal experts tell us that that would involve a government expenditure pend iture beside which the treasury deficit sounds like peanut moi ney yi I 1 A recent article published in a financial magazine estimated the net cost to the government at 24 a year hoaxing the old folks folk S this silence is of course merely another vote getting device it is a cruel hoax on the old folks whose natural desire is security in their declining years and leads them to believe the unbelievable and to accept capt as a S practical the most visionary proposal that has been heard since this country turned its attention to the problem of old age pensions it 1 ij doubly a hoax for in the first place no nation could endure the strain of such a policy and second because even in the event of the republicans regal regaining ning control oe 01 I 1 the government govern men othey they would not dare attempt t to fix such a burden upon us I 1 how much money do you suppose the plethoric 0 liberty league under it its i various biases Ui ases would con ler tribute to elect a Re republican candidate d ate if they had the slightest idia id sa that the batters lat election would give us the townsend plan |
