The producers news., 1927-12-23
What Other Editors Say
THE MESSAGE
Clipped From Our Exchanges
Milwaukee Teadar)

The presidents message is standpat in spots and
reactlonary IN other spots. 1t abounds IN errors
of logic and even contains errors of fact.
He says, for instance, that employment is plen-
tiful. Ask the unemployed if that is true.
He proves that the surplus income should bel
applied to the reduction of the national debt-and
then approves the bill for reduction of the taxes Of
the rich
He says tax bills should not be influenced by
special interests, but he indorses the Mellon plan
of tax reduction, although that official probably
stands to gain as much by tax reduction as any
other
He says we will not engage in competitive arm
ament-and he advises increased armaments
He says wherever our flag goes, the rights Gf 81
humanity increase. Ask the dead Nicaraguans II
it isn't the truth-they freed from life itself
by ammunition.
He says public operation of the merchant ma
rine is not a success-but ne does not explain that
its lack of success is due to the constant knocking
from him and others like him. the constant threats
to turn it back to private ownership. No puohc
industry could succeed in the hands Of its enemies
He says contentment prevails in the PnlnpplneS
but Philippine commission is in this coun-
try to express the discomfort of the Filipnos
He advises that the Muscle Shoals plant be dis
posed of-which is directly against the interests
of the people, utterly and flagrantly
/ He says the 100000 people in the flooded area
of the Mississippi have been adequately cared for.
Ask them if this is Adequate support would
include rehabilitation, and he says that is no con-
cern of the government.
I He says we should continue to promote peace
by our example--and then tries to excuse our war
upon little defenseless Nicaragua.
H He speaks approvingly of the fact that out of
1150 100000 people only 100000 make individual
income tax returns-as if that did not conclusively
prove the glaring injustice in the distribution OF
wealth.
He favors the expansion of the bureau of edu
cation into department, with a cabinet officer il
charge. The bureau is an underling of the depart
ment Of the interior and is itself superfuous. 1
: spends q lot of public money in surveys and in
vestigations and the publication of reports AM
their dissemination to oodes of people who do no
read them. Education as such is far more i'm
Y portant than some things that are dignifed wit
cabinet positions-but education is not a nations
matter; it is a state and local matter If ther
were secretary of education in the cabinet h
would, of course, want to make record by doin
s somethng-and he could make such a record onl
by butting into and interfering with state and Il
cal educational policies and methods. We don
4 want any cabinet officer meddling with educatio
= in Wisconsin and Milwaukee. The war depar
ment does enough of such meddling with educ;
% ton in schools throughout the country as it is
very much, too much indeed.
! He thinks perhaps something ought to be dor
II about lynching, which is true, but he does M
y suggest doing anything about the disfranchisemeI
II of the Negroes throughout the south.
He favors enforcing the 18th amendment bl
says nothing about enforcing the first, 14th al
y 18th amendments.
to Of course the message is just what was to
10 expected from unprogressive man. The va
- progress which must and will be made by tn
" country in the future gets no impetus from hir
S He has few ideas and no ideals.