New Britain herald., 1927-12-07
A PRESIDENTIAL REVIEW OF NATIONAL NEEDS

when fTeSllcHJ SoOiluEG Nlot' the speech which he delivered 10 the opening session of Congress yester- day he was quoted as saying he would have liked to pare it down 10 a reasonable" length, but found himself unable to do so because of the multifarious topics he felt it necessary to discuss.
 There can be no question that he used up many words to tell his story. And one is stimulated to wonder as 10 how deeply it will enter into the public consciousness for this very reason. How many Of your friends, for instance. read even a resume Of the presidential message?
 Perhaps you did. It is taking no chances with credulity, however, to i say that the ma jority of citizens did not take the time to read the mes- sage.
 Long messages never are thor oughly read; never will be. Most of the citizcnry are too busy to devote sufficient time 10 such a procedure.
 Ii the message fails to reach more ! than a comparatively small portion Of the people, therefore, what is it's object? It is directed at Congress; l but that body cannot be said to be swayed greatly by what a President says in his message. The pro-Presi- dential Republicans will agree with everything the President says with out reading or hearing a message about it; the independent Republi. cans remain independent: the Demo. cratic contingent remains hostile.
 In the message under discussion in spite of it's goodly length, in, President said very little that he hao not said before. 1T one takes up sucl important issues as farm relief on,
 finds he goes but a very little way il the direction of relieving the agri
 cultural situation along the lines de
 sired by the farmers themselves
 preforring the creation of new fed
 cral bureau to administer a re
 yolving fund 10 aid co-operativ
 farming. On almost everything els
 he has stood pat, not going very ia in any direction; and where pei 7 chance something definite is suE rcstod Ii does not apply to COT
 trovorsial subject. Perhaps the Pres
 ident thus recognizes the futility (
 trying to fell the present Congre'
 what course to follow. On the sul
 feet of tax reduction, however, he , definitely placed on the Mellon sic a for a moderate reduction; but this
 reitcratiou of his former attitud
 What the President thinks of q
 relative importance of the Nario f topics and issues before the prese . Congress can be glimpsed effective
 hy a compilation Of the printed lin
 he devoted to each subject, the .. being calculated from the otlici copy Of the message. The compll Q lion brings forth the following [ n sulis:
 n Greeting to Congress, IS lln'
 economy, 20 lines; tax reductiC iii: national defense, 69; mercha is marine. I 6; commercial aviation, 1 P, air mail. 12; good roads, %; Cub ,- parcel post r.; insuIar possession l. 5i; Panama canal, :; agricuItu K S2; tariff. 37; farm loan system,
 Muscle Shoals, 13; flood control. ,y inland navigation, 30; prohlbitl' S. IS: the negro, 20: American 1ndi' rc l7: coal, &: petroleum, IS; alien pl jy pcrty, II: railroad consolidation. H. veterans. Is: education, 10; dcpa h. ment of labor 20: public buildln cs {: historical celebration. 19; | SC cign relations, B; American pr' mt ress, 2.
 or From this 1t is evident that