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THURSDAY, MAY 30, 1935.
ROOSEVELT FACES CRISIS
The Roosevelt Administration
TELEGRAPH. THURSDAY,
NOTES OF THE DAY
THE ARTIST'S. VISION ..
new
MAY 30,
1935.
ENGLAND LOOKS AT
U.S. NEW DEAL
By WINSTON CHURCHILL How fures the United Sintes At first, night the popularity of under the bold schemes of Pre- the President and the power of the sideht Roosevelt? This is a ques Federai Administration would |tion which we in this island nak ourselves from time to time with a curiosity born both of sympathy
the nation.
not
seem everwhelming. The Demo-
most
The Very Idea!
DUMB BELLES LETTRES
Compiled by Juliet Lowell PUT ON YOUR BRAKES Liberty Magazine Gentlemen:
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SING A SONG OF SIXPENCE Party. "the Miss Lee Wiley' outside the Station WEAF not only in New York City. every street
Grand Old Party," South has its roots every State but in from tho Atlantic to the Pacific. It has as yet no leader. Strange forces and figures are afoot who fill the air with raucous erles either hostile or indifferent to the President's Administration.
He
Under separate cover i am sending you 200 songs which my pupils have written. Please write "sung dramas" of them and return by express, Alsu please send me your written promise to sing every one of them on future programmes so I can collect from the authors..
Mrs. Stanley-
(signed)
YOU SAID IT!
At its banquet recently the Royal Academy discovered a critic of modern art in the Forelyn Secretary, says the London Daily Telegraph. Sir John Simon may not have pressed his thrusts deep, but he had the daring to challenge some of the tendencies of the newer painters and to speculate, as others have done, whether if every artist
cratic party machine with its solid asking why I cancelled my subs- paints what he sees there is not and interest. Our economic life core of ex-Confederate States makes cription. The reason is because I com-Its broad appeal to the proletarian am stepping out with. Alice and certain instances something as a world-wide trading In nmies with eyesight. That is not munity is profoundly affected by masses to rise against wealth and that girl sure A Burprising question from one
the fortunes of the other great corruption, and to break into a busy.
The Republican Party English-speaking now world. who adopts the saying of Leonardo branch of the that "the moat praiseworthy paint-peoples. Their prosperity is our lies prostrate in the dust of 1932. ing is that which has most con- refreshment. Their joys feed our "The New Deal," "Fair play for formity to the thing represented" hopes. The Roosevelt campaign for the Common People," "Clean up a doctrine that successive schools the "New Deal" to set Uncle Sam's and clean out the international of the moderns have defied in the house in order; the audacious on-financiers"-and at the summit of bellef that great art must always slaught upon the accepted canons all the inspiring personality of the be something more than representa- of the monetary system; the note President, seem to present an irre- tional. In discussing the value of of compassion for the wonk and sistible combination. But, on the art in international relations, Sir poor: coupled an these plans are other hand, lie the misgivings of John evinced a desire to have per- with the freeing of a mighty na-dunched hopes, the vexations of manent collections of British paint-tion from the disease of Prohibi Stato interference with business, inevitable administrative ings in our embassies abroad. It. tion--all constitute a movement of the
not breakdowns, and the consequen- is a fascinating suggestion, but if thought and of action which the pictures are to be those of our only compels attention but stiratial charges of graft and favour- own day, diplomatists will discover enthusiasms in the Old Country.lsm. The attempt in a store that they have been thrust into a The daring, generous experiment of months to build up in the total
the world in which differences of view scoma at the moment not to bely different conditiona of may be as embittered as in the yielding the longed-for results. United States, something like the sphere with which they are more Nearly two thousand millions ster-British trade anion and industrial famillar. The Duke of York chose Hing have been poured out to prime system-the products of a century. safer ground in claiming that art the pump of prosperity; but pro- of evolution was bound to con- should be given a fuller place in sperity has not begun to flow. The front the American people, eape- our daily life and should be devier of unbalancing the Budget cially their strongest, and utilised in rescuing our big cities on a gigantic scale, so often urged active elements, with innumerable from agliness and saving the coun- by British inflationists, is in full personal experiences of a sense. tryside from defacement. These swing in the United States. The less and irritating character.
re directions in which public strong regulation of Industry by The Republican opinion is now moving strongly, as the State has been backed
of the Is plain from the revolt against only with the authority ribbon development and the greater Government but by the ardour of
TOSH in the regard for Architecture of our cities. Past blunders are not to be quickly re- Rigorous social discipline and paired where building is concerned,oyalties have reinforced the ma- voluminous endus. and in the search for something chinery of better mistakes will not be avoided. Wages, prices, and labour condi- Yet the recent exhibition of designtions have been grasped in mus- in manufacture the Royal cular hands and nailed to an ar- Academy showed how, in an age of bitrary framework. Agricultural
production has not merely been re- Senator Huey Long, the boss of machine production, beauty can still be given its place. It would
strained; it has been amputated. Louisiana, is already in the field Wide areas have been deliberate with his "Share the wealth cam- ben cause of permanent regret if
Democratic with the fever for change run-y surrendered to the desert sand.paign, splitting the ning high there were repeated that Glut has been assaulted with vio-vote and helping, however unwil has experienced a nasty set-back forgetfulness of the sweeter things lence. An amazing non-hog in-lingly, the Republican aide. by the decision of the Supreme of life that in an earlier industrial dustry has been reared upon lavish has uttered two slogans against Swift Canadian Co.
subsidies.
the President's policy which have
Regina, Sask. Court declaring the N.R.A. age blighted so much loveliness.
run like wildfire through the Unit Dear Sir: Codes to be unconstitutional and
Insulted Nature has ironically ed States. The whole vast process therefore null and void. The POETRY UNAWARES
co-operated by providing excep of the National Recovery Act and
Would please you find here- ruling comes, strangely enough,
Life is full of pleasant surprises, tional droughts, and the frontiere the relief of famine and destitu- with my cheque in amount of shortly after a Senate vote which Consider poetry, for example, about of cultivable and habitable land tion which constitute the New ($43.75) for it pay our count debt.
sensibly have favoured extending the N.R.A. which a most cheering discovery
receded. Publici
He then to Liquidate was cause the cruel phrase, “Scab wages.' for a further period of ten has just been made. Poetry is credit and currency manipulation Deal, has been smirched by his I would say it is why so long delay months, instead of the two years generally considered to be a pretty have been applied to mitigate the has stigmatised the results of the business in lutely tou slowly wo are asked by President Roosevelt. good thing in its way, but is usually process on the one hand or stimu-
necessary well-directed recon-ceedingly trust toward us we hope It is of interest also to note that thought to be very difficult to write. late it upon the other. A debt immense, noble-minded, but not feeling is much obliged you in ex- has been piled up in time of peace struction policy of the White future You and Me the business Poets themselves have rather en- the Senate, by its resolution on the subject, favoured the elimi-couraged this idea. The great which rivals the debts contractedHouse as "The Roosevelt Depres-, more be better coming.
Virgil used to write only ten lines by nations fighting for dear life a day, and there was a famous in modern wer English poet who declared that he
Up till a few years ago no peo-when backed from quite a different had done a hard day's work, hav-pie were more self-reliant and in- angle by the cold logic of facts ing in the morning put in a comma dividualist than the dwellers in and figures assembled by wealth in his new poem, and in the after-the United States. Now-not in and learning, and confirmed
AND THEN WHAT? noon having taken it out again. the frugal days of thrifty repay-the personal experience of tens of But, although poetry writing mayment or in a sour aftermath of re-millions of American citizens. For
course Secretariat General present difficulties, ardent literary pudiation, but at the height-peak-President Roosevelt the
prove Lengue of Nations researchers in England have just boom of borrowed expenditure-seems simple. He should
Geneva discovered that these difficulties are overcome by many.
very large part of the whole popu-himself the chief and, if neces
Now that the nations are more people lation have become dependent in sary, the only man in the continent than is generally supposed. Just one form or another upon State who is uplifted above electioneer exchanging pork and fruit-for
should as Moliere's Monsieur Jourdain
relief. Over twenty millions of ing considerations. Hic spoke prose all his life without
persons are supported in various show himself resolved to act with whisky and wine, perhaps it will knowing it, so, apparently, in-
forms by Government agency in out a thought for self or party, not be so hard to get them around
Louis F numerable unexpected
the land which of all others was but only for the nation as a whole, table."
(signed) women write poetry unawares. Dickens's novels, notably. "The Old only yesterday austerely censuring He should wield the mighty au- the carefully organised system ofthority which he still holds with- out the slightest regard to parti- Curiosity Shop," especially in the
the British dole. pathetic passages, are positively
sanship or passion, in accordance splashed about with blank verse,
with what he sincerely believes to while even sober, erudite and
Already the distant but advane-be the true interests of his coun academic works on natural science. stitutional law, but for President burst into cestatic poetry withouting drum-beats of a Presidential try. In this spirit he will be able election can be heard. Already to avow mistakes with candour Roosevelt and his followers it is their writers guessing it. Whewell, politicians turn their gaze to this and correct them with composure. the practical upshot of the de- in his famous "Elementary Trea-familiar quarter of the horizon. If he falls he will fall with dig- cision that is most important. tise on Mechanics,"
Everyone must soon take his sta-nity. If he rises again he will be
able to preservere, passage: "Hence no force, how-tion for the coming contest. Overnight, the really vital fea-
ever great, can stretch a cord, how- tures of the N.R.A. structure
ever fine, into a horizontal line have been wiped out, with the
which is accurately straight." He result that the whole industrial
was much surprised when it was sphere has been suddenly plung-pointed out to him that this was ed into confusion. At the mo- poetry-not very unlike Tenny- ment of writing, the Government son's "In Memoriam" in meter. is considering the whole problem Similar remarks apply to parts of Smith's "Optics" and several of appropriate action, and we may be certain that President other learned works. Thus, there may be verse-especially blank Roosevelt will not be content to
verse-fall around us, without our leave the situation where it is.
even guessing it. It may be in the The danger of a policy of in-
letters of our friend; perchance action is too great to need em- right here beneath one's very nose, the deft iambie may be tucked away phasis. One report states that
in this discussion of poetic prose. the President is determined to re-establish in some legal way
nation of price-fixing except in mineral and natural resource in- dustries, and also the exemption of inter-State business from the structure of the fair competition Codes. On this latter point, it should be explained that the Roosevelt Administration had some weeks earlier consented to confining the Codes to inter- State business and industry. Now, however, all these points have been thrown completely into the background by the Court decision that the Codes are all irregular and and have been instituted without thority. The purely legal as- pect of the question is no doubt of peculiar and special interest to those who have studied con-
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wrote this
CHANGING-UP
Few owner-drivers get the best acceleration but of their cara. Some change up too quickly; others run until the maximum speed for the gear engaged is reached before engaging a higher one.
the principles of collective bar--TO-DAY'S MOTORING HINT- gaining, minimum wages and maximum working hours, as well as the abolition of child labour. Obviously, believing what he does as to the necessity of mea- sures of ensuring fair conditions of work and labour, Mr. Roose- velt could not be expected to sit back and let matters take their own course. His policies may not have commande universal approval, but that they have been appreciated by small busi- ness and by the worker is beyond dispute. It is inconceivable that the President will now permit the situation to degenerate. There are big dangers in the present position, and provocative action either by capital or la bour just now might easily pro- duce a crisis of the first mag- nitude.Reassurance can, how- ever, be found in the fact that statesmanlike-munner, he may: President Roosevelt is handling be trusted to do the fair thing
situation in a calm and for the nation as a whole.
Both waste time. Find out the maximum speed for the second und- third gears. Get Into second gear almost as soon as the car begins to move. Accelerate on second gear until a speed of seven-eighths of maximum has been attained, then change into third. Do the same on this gour. If 28 m.p.h. is the maximum for accond genr change into third when the car is travelling at approximately 24 m.p.h.; if 40 m.p.h. is the maximum for third. change into top at 35 m.p.h.
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"It does give you an independent foding, doesn't I?"
by
Yours truly, Carson W-
(signed)
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EASY PICKINGS.
Hon. Frank D. Abell: Dear Senator:
I am interested In your in- vestigation of the Port of New York Authority,
It has been noised about town for a long time that "pickings" on the bridge was great,
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