| Show NEWS THIS WEEK by lemuel F parton ironmonger statesman NEW EW YORK posterity has been pretty much left to shift for itself in the scramble out of the depression it may be just around the corner as kaufman and connelly had it but neville chamberlain is the only top bracket statesman who has given it even a wigwag wig wag lately emphatically even he tells the house of commons that england must pay as she goes that future generations must not be crippled with debt that we cannot put the cost of rearmament on posterity he presses his excess profits tax like other countries england is at the crossroads of tax or borrow chamberlain says tax the house is gloomily acquiescent with some opposition forming britaina Brit ains ironmonger statesmen of birmingham old joseph of the orchid boutonniere and his sons sir austen auslen and neville all practiced easy conformity in non essentials and stubborn dissent when it seemed important to disagree and neville chamberlain chancellor of the exchequer took over his fathers orchid and eyeglass and some of his ideas but not all of them chamberlain pere probably would have accorded managed economy no more than an angry growl but there is more than a dash of maynard keynes in neville chamberlains procedure as he pilots england out of the depression it was thirty one years ago that joseph chamberlain was politically sidetracked by the tariff issue he fought throughout his life tor for high tariffs it was in 1932 that his son shoved through his tariff policies they are a persistent breed with no galsworthy at hand to write their family saga they are the forsythe Forsyt tes hs of upper middle class england none of the chamberlains made any genuflections genuflect ions to court and society and none accepted a peerage in off hours the bird talk in the old court at 11 downing street interests neville chamberlain more than the prevailing london chatter of money and war and abid politics he eavesdrops for hours on the bird salons noting their cadences and writing sedate articles about them lor stodgy periodicals like black woods he is tall slender sharp featured concise and precise hard boiled and apparently cold but typically british with both sentiment and power in reserve new liberal leader C CHARLES HARLES P TAFT son of the late president has made several speeches in recent months which have pegged him quite ded definitely over in the liberal zone as talk of republican party reconstruction warms up this writer happened to be talking a few days ago with sev several eral wormed informed republican partisans one of whom is a new york state leader and they were agreed that it if there should be a liberal consert active schism in the party mr tatt taft would be a natural for the liberal leadership dont point is possibly a maxim of good reporting as well as behavior but just lance glance over there toward cincinnati and notice that tall slender personable lawyer and boll be able to identify him in 1940 R recent e c e n t ultraconservative ultra conservative trends rends of party leadership have stirred more and more talk about mr taft at least one hears bears a lot of it hereabouts his latest clout into the left bleachers was when at washington lie told the daughters of the american revolution what he thought about trying to smother ideas with an opprobrious rious name suggesting the futility of painting red networks of communism across every evening sky 0 sons of presidents have never carried down any dynastic lineage there was the adams family and the sons of lincoln and garfield gained cabinet posts but most of them have gone their own way in in business and professions in yale charles P taft was awarded the gordon brown prize as the student disclosing the greatest capacity for leadership he won colle college collee e honors on his merits not as a presidents presidents son ile he earned his varsity letter on the football team and returned after the war as an assistant coach he entered the war as a private advancing to the rank of captain captain he was prosecuting attorney of hamilton county in 1927 and 1928 and was one of the most progressive trail blazers for the commission government govern ern ment pertinent just now is his status as an informed and effective labor negotiator 0 Consol ld ted news newa features feature service |
