Imperial Valley press., 1935-08-01
IMPERIAL VALLEY PRESS
HR. FARLEY TALKS


erIl Of the United States, acknowledged
practical head of the Democratic
party. made two statements on his arriv-
al in San Francisco yesterday which are
open to challenge
First, Mr. Farley said he is on va
cation and IS trying to keep away from
politics Mr. Farley might as we'll have
said he Is trying to keep away from his
head or 60 without his trousers. Politics
and Mr.. Farley are "one and INSOFAR
able. like ham and eggs, bread and but
ter or hot and tamale.
If Mr.. Farley wanted to be frank he
would have said, Sure, I'm cut to line
things up for next year, strengthen a few
of the boys who are slipping here and
there, and seeing that every Democrat
gets an office from which we can remove
a Republican,
Mr.. Farley's second statement was:
Big business never was for President
Roosevelt"
That may be true in measure but
business, big and little, rallied round the
President when he assumed office and
gave him the support he asked and
which the country needed. No Presi-
dent ever went into office with more sin
cere whole-hearted and widespread sup
port from business and from individuals
The hearty response to the NRA is an
example of the support given the Pres
ident Overnight, almost, the blue eagle
appeared throughout the country, on
stationery, letterheads, business adver-
tisements of all kinds, and at consider
able expense to business. Business want
ed to help the President, possibly from a
selfish viewpoint, for it may have wanted
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it helped, and it is quite within the realm
of possibility that businessmen were
gpd enough Americans to answer the
call of their President
Mr. Roosevelt told the country he was
experimenting and as soon as he be-
came convinced that any experiment was
not success. it would be discarded. In
stead, he has continued to carry along
his experiments and even now is trying
to keep alive the blue eagle and the NRA.
If Mr. Farley thinks business has now
fallen away from supporting the Presi-
dent, he is probably correct Much of it
has become disgusted and frankly given
up trying to find out Just what the Pres
ident wishes to do. Nor is business the
only part of the nation to do so. If Mr.
Farley thinks different he should consult
the record in congress. where on several
occasions recently, Democratic congress
has resented its rubber stamp" status
and has gone contrary to the wishes of
its Democratic President
We even dispute Mr. Farley's state
ment that the man in the street" is still
as strong if not stronger than ever for
the President The detection is not as
great as Republicans would wish, and
does not indicate any danger Just now to
a Roosevelt reelection, but there are a
great many Democrats and Independents
who are as fed up on the new deal as
any Republican could be.
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The man walking on eggs had. nothing
on the administration trying to satisfy
Hitler and the Jews and the Catholics.
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The secretary has ordered special
inquiry" into the Macon crash. The ma
ton certainly is entitled to the truth
about it no matter whose toes are
squashed
The Thermometer recorded 126 yester-
day in southern Spain. A little Spanish
town can be hot
Well, we're starting on the last lap Of
that period known as summer.