The Washington times., 1932-09-29

perhaps what this country needs" said the Presi-
dent not thinking of fve-cen cigar, sis great pOem
Something to lift people out of fear and seshness.
Markhams."
BY "that poem of Markhams" he must have meant
THE Man With the Hoe" who stands bowed under the
weight Of centuries of depression under the burden of
poverty and njustice-the forgotten man, in short,
he understood two generations ago. when this
try was going through it's last fight for social Justice
Nothing could have been less apt than this CHOICE poem
like THE Man With the Hoe having the terrific impact
which that poem had, would sweep Mr. Hoover out of
the White House even before election
The reference to Kpng is not only Inaccurate as has
been noted, since his "Recessiona" at time of in
sferabe pride and sesufficency regular 1929 boom
which had something of the effect in England that The
Man With the Hoe" had here: "The Absent Minded
Beggar. 1t about the men going off to the Boer
war, the dukes son, cooks son. of hundred kings
each one doing their counrys work. and who's to look
after their Things? Another forgotten man, in Short
especially when he returns-whch is not a dirty dig
about paying bonuses, but mild ausion to the fact
that when has been obess for three years. after
ne has done the countrys work in the army in the
factory can't very we'll say let your subordnates
say, that ne must shift for himself.
"Three hundred words is about the limit" said the
President He is right and they need not be in
In 267 words of prose Abraham Lincoln made ad-
dress at Gettysburg in the middle of which was
not going WELL and told his people something about them
selves which they hardly knew, making them under
stand their sufferings, making them why it was
for them to suffer and endure He said what
the people believed but did not know they believed he
made visible the picture in the back of mems minds. He
had not only the right and eloquent words but the true
emotion.
Mr. Hoover has seldom uttered the unspoken thoughts
of the people, he has seldom stepped ahead of them and
showed them promised land He has looked Backward
to assure that the old ways the best ways and
that in this unparalleled crisis of human affairs must
cling every ouworn principle He has spoken of get
ting back the good old job in which heaven knows he
spoke the mind of the obess who have been beaten by
despair into wanting nothing But beyond that
he has had snguarly little to to the people Even
when he appealed to us to open pursestrings for
sweet charity he could not make open hearts, be-
every appeal spoiled by his insistence upon
the political argument that nation must let ten
million starve, and only individuals to be al
lowed to save few thousand.
Our President who began his term of office with
nromses to lead farther and farther along the
we were already going-the way of comfort and pros
perity with chickens in pots and many, many in
every garage-has left far behind, going off into
world not ours, distant dream world in which charts
and graphs take the place of human feelings At moments
it appears he has his doubts He wonders whether
sort of spiritual leadership isn't necessary whether the
heart may not be moved we'll the head. He must
think at times that the hundred commissions and
porations and agencies and laws he has fOstered
pretty sad result when no has faith in them
In those moments he does characteristic thing he
turns away from himself. The great confession of his
defeat is that he imagnes jokesmith a crooner, or
poet to order, supply what it his duty give
to the American people, sense of their destiny
strengt hto fulfill it.
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