Evening star., 1933-11-26
Gen. Johnson's Menagerie.


administrator, is not slipping. On the
contrary, he is constantly improving.
Count that day lost when he has not
added some new creature to the
strange menagerie that his homely
eloquence has been assembling since he
began his efforts to make the Presi-
dents recovery program "the seventh
wonder of the world"
The General started out by dividing
the country into two classes. One class.
composed Of patriots, supported the
N R. A. Those in the other class were
"chiselers," and the chiselers not only
found themselves picked up by the
President of the United States and
broadcast from the White House but
have been assured by photographers of
a lasting place in the dictionary.
But when the General went to
Chicago this month to discuss the
freedom of the press, he collected new
batch of creatures to be added to the
chiselers. On November IL, in Kansas
City, he had said, in spirit OF
disappointed resignation, that he had
come West to find critics of the PreSi-
dents program, but could find none.
When he got to Chicago, however
The fact is. he did it pulled the
country out of the depression) and let
the heather rage Their raging now
Toly Of hnhonhlinc
cats. Now we do not really mind
honest and substantial dead cats.
My only complaint is that these dead
cats are synthetic. The biggest lmita-
ton dead cat is the one about the free
dom of the press. They are see
ing things under the bed. Ger
tain sections of the press are melting Jit-
ters by headlines. My only re-
quest is that the gentlemen of the press
give US a chance and not lend them
selves to primitive witch dancing.
When the General got back from his
Western tour he had assembled
|. ChiSelers. 2. Raging heather. 8.
Hobgoblins 4 One imitation dead cat.
5. Primitive witch dancers. 6. Utter
manufacturers.
With these in the bag, the General
went South. In Atlanta Friday he
collected a number of Tom tom
beaters." few "Corporals of disaster" ;"
some social NeanderthalerS," batch
of "discredited leaders of an old eco
nomic system" and "a few little men
with loud voices frantically waving puny
red flags of false and futile warning in
the path of a resistless advance of a
great people" The eminent economist,
DR.. Sprague, was by inference placed
m the bag along with the others, but
in the shape of "a hitherto obscure
professor" who obtained "his little hour
or two to strut across the stage" and
who, incidentally, was likened to the
rabbit that slapped the lion-the iden-
tity of the lion, however, remaining a
little obscure
OF course, every one is entitled to
choice Tastes differ. One man may
like the Generals hobgoblins, while
another may prefer his dead cats. But
when the General finally assemblies his
complete collection, it is to be doubted
that any will find greater favor than
his Slight men" This is how the
General shooed them away and into
his cage of curiosities-
Away, slight men! You may have
been leaders once. You are Corporals
of disaster now!
Slight men, denoted by the General
into corporalS of disaster from their
former eminence as leaders once" are
better than dead cats any day. One
watches the Generals peripatetics with
increasing interest. May he never. like
Alexander, find no new worlds to
conquer, no new critters for his ZOO.