The Butler County press. [volume] (Hamilton, Ohio) 1900-1946, 1932-11-04

sor, who is supposed to know what
the American government stands for
and upon what principles it operates,
advocates game Of ring around the
rosy with Stain and his butchers,
some explanation is required.
Either those professors are more
ignorant than they have any right
to be, or else something worse than
that must be said about them. If
they plead ignorance then they have
no business being profe ssors. If it
is anything else, then we have no
business letting them remain in class
rooms.
The situation is one that demands
something more than arched eye-
brows!
The situation can be called nothing
less than a scandal.
Perhaps the whole trouble is that
professors are SO far away from the
facts of life, so shut away from reali-
ties, and so unused to thinking in
terms of concrete things that they
lose their grip on public questions.
But American colleges are no place
for that kind of dopey conduct.
When college professors can be as
&c 10 y a
ed they are equally unbalanced on
other subjects.
More and more the PROFESSIONAL
tribe has been attempting to play a
hand in settling grave issues. They
demand this and they petition for
that. They strut, as though possess
ed of true Importance.
They should be important. They
should contribute real knowledge to
cropping public. They should be
worth their keep.
But they merely make themselves
ridiculous. They wear the robes of
learning and tinkle the bells Of fools.
1t is ali shame. 1t is all too bad.
But it is something about which we
need to do much more than merely
laugh The situation is filled with
grave implications. What to do about
it?
Some few have been fired. A lot
more ought to be!
Spell binders to the contrary not
withstanding, the United States Of
America will remain conspicuously on
the map after the first Tuesday after
the first Monday in November, re-
gardless.
Regardless, Franklyn, regardless.
Out where the vest begins to dis
appear, and down East where the
overcoat shows up early, there will be
much the same activities, much the
same hopes and despairs, and just
about the same form Of government
There are enormous issues in this
campaign, but the stability Of the
United States government is not one
Of them.
Two candidates go rampaging up
and down the country telling US we
are headed for kingdom come, or
worse. Mr.. Norman Thomas and Mr..
William 2. Foster, both imbibing
their inspiration from the same
source, join the fray with the direst
predictions Of all. They are out to
catch the votes of every anti-demo-
cratic person in America.
One of the features not so good
and this hits right among us-is the
great amount of publicity Mr.. Nor
man Thomas has had for his speaking
dates in our own labor press.
Perhaps Mr.. Norman Thomab is
regarded as reformer whose pre-
scription can't be any worse than what
is offered by others aud might be
better.
Why not clear that up? Either Mr..
Norman Thomas is not true to his
socialist philosophy, in which event
he is kidding his own party, or else
he stands for removing from our
midst our present representative
form of government and erecting in
it's place a socialist form-the more
or less we'll known cooperative COM
monwealth fathered by the late Mr..
Karl Marx, who is likewise recogniz-
ed by Mr.. Stain in Moscow as the
father of communism.
There is a good deal of misconcep-
ton as to what Mr.. Thomas and his
party stand for in politics, There is
no reason for that. But there it is,
none the less.
The cooperative commonwealth
could not be established without wip-
ing out all private ownership of
everything publicly used, and in prac-
tice the definition probably would be
good deal broader, as it has been
in Russia.