Seward daily gateway., 1932-08-25
CURRENT COMMENT
WALKER AND ROOSEVELT

Roosevelt as between the devil ana the deep blue sea in the Mayor wal ker hearing. If he kicks Walker out' it is said that it will lose him the New York State vote. If he fails he will be charged with whitewashlng the New York Mayor to hold Tam many in line. All of which has interesting color ing. It is intimated that the office or President of the United States re- poses in the hands of one of the 4o States, and that ten and a quarter million people are committed to what on it's face appears to be pol itical graft, and are prepared to dis cipline the executive of the ma tion who seeks to eliminate 1t.
 Which naturally involves tn e question of the moral fabric of the people of New York as we'll as the remainder of the nation.
 In the forthcoming election, prln- ciples, not parties are in issue. Chief of these is whether or not the nation wishes dishonesty in polltl- cal affairs. If SO, and it should so happen that the charges agalnS1 Mayor Walker are acceptable to an intelligent jury as just, here is off, fered an opportunity to settle the question of national morals. Ii, on the other hand, Walker is given a clean bill by Governor Roosevelt merely in order to gain the Presl- dencv. then there is cause to believe that the successful candidate must appeal to the worst element ot the nation and serve it when in high office.
 But there is still faith that the nation can lift itself fro m the uuagmire of venality which appears to threaten. It would be un- fair to the honest people of New York to charge them with will ingness to allow the alleged con- ditions to continue in the light of what Walkers investigation dis closes.
 Judged by tn e fighting along that Bolivian river one might sup pose that it was the Detroit and prohis were actvie.
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 Coal miners ready to throw off re- straint and go berserk, Iowa farm CTS blocking the supply of food to wandering from point to point, men the cities, 5000 bonus marchers and wives beating freight trains and begging along the roads. Nero will have to do some fast fiddling to uuench the growing conflagration.
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 A statistician says food in 1881 coast 21 cents per dollar. He should go further and tell us how to live on what we have almost got.
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 Now that they have an automo- bile that will jump 30 feet it should suffice to warn the pedestrian that it's no use to try dodging.
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 Complaint is voiced by a Savant that America lacks some unifying substance. Well, give us back the foaming growler, and gross of wee nies and lots of dill pickles, to keep the gang together.
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 Possibly little red, mixed with tn e white and yellow corpuscles might go far to open up some of those safe deposit boxes.
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 One Georgia undertaken adver- tises: Its cheaper to die with one of low-priced caskets. Don't wait until after the depression ends.
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 It is claimed short automobile touring has increased 10 per cent. Yes, it's difficult to keep out ot sight of bill collectors.
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 When wall street wreckS thous- and banks it's business. When some ragged medicant hints that a bank is unsafe it's Communism.
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 Would it be correct to say that toll roads are the death knell of free travel?
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 The Smithsonian institute ciams Eskimos are suffering from tooth-