The Washington times., 1933-04-07

this bv the hard practical road of relationships kindly
Caesarian dictatorship rather than Hterlan one put
dictatorship the less. In both Your Houses the
young deast tries only to prevent graft IN Congress
and is defeated by the ageod ambition OF every man to
get hold of other peoples money especially the Govern
ments money.
Is 1t Timely?
When "Both Your Houses" was produced the critics in
Pittsburgh hailed it as most timely; before the play
reached New York Mr. Roosevelt had been inaugurated
and some of the local judges pitied it because it had
ceased to be timely The implication that all dishon
esty had fled from Government with the arrival of
Franklin D. Roosevelt The New York critics not
alone in their surmse: have received dozens of letters
all saying the thing: that spirit is abroad in
the land that the scoundre and the CRATER have
ished admire the pious wish; with dsrespect either
to the President to his Congress- have my doubts.
"A few days ago took part in fairly public discus
sion of the play at which it became clear that large
number of people still slaves to the old American
dentally that the automobile and the flying machine
without long experiment and many failures that Amer
lea discovered by accident and that the whole world
change it's morals overnight While they read of po
itica Juggling in Albany and financial scutting here and
there they stick to their conviction that national Gov
ernment s if not 100 per cent American, at least 100
per cent pure
Passing Miracles
The discussion made think that Americans are
fundamentaiss they believe in the ancient deity of The
Green Pastures who passed a miracle whenever any
thing needed to be done In effect we have lived on
Middle West the miracle of god the miracle of the rail-
road tran and later the miracles of largescae produc
toneach of which saved from the kind of disaster
under which Europe periodically sinks. But I afraid
that the day of economic miracles has passed.
Particularly think have to stop being haters of
history When declared independence of England
also declared ourselves outside the influence of the
past History meant to the history of bad old Europe
with its dynastles and its and it's poverty and
cruelty; wanted part of that History against
the American experiment. and set ourselves to teach
history lesson. We succeeded for long time Per-
haps history is now about to have its revenge.
Bound Over
We have certainly delivered ourselves into the hand of
our enemy. When entangled in the European
we lost part of our freedom That also didn't happen by
accldent we had been preparing for European entang
ment ever since we became great industrial exporting
naon Today suffering the consequences of being
tainy do not understand It isn't probable that we will
get out of it until understand the hold it has on u.s.
Our great defect lies in believing that what happened
yesterday will have effect what will happen tomor-
row. That is for looking with sympathetic
Houses while we look with excitement the success of
a practical dictator in Gabriel. There is great old
character in Both Your Houses"-a heavy drinking
KIND thoroughly unscrupuous old Congressman who says
at the end that the whole business of is to
make profit for the governors-and that order-which
means comfort and security for all of us-s just by
product IT you think that every Congressman and every
AssemDyman and every Alderman in America has aban-
doned this idea you needn't go to see the play If you
still retain your of proportion you had better see
IT, 1t Will save you from many nasty shock in the
pohtlcs we still to this year and next-and per-
maps for generation.
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