Montgomery County sentinel. [volume] (Rockville, Md.) 1855-1974, 1935-06-20

up WITH craDDy CeacnerS and t1rcSOme
studies. But the Mater kept me out Of
much mischief by assigning duties
with plenty of time to fish and play
ball) for July and August.
| JUDGE Lands AGAIN displayed
his commonsense by solving the Ala
bama Pitts case to the satisfaction of
the majority of right-thinking men
and women. Here is young man,
finishing course at Sing Sing and
graduating with the praises of Ward
en- Lawes and other people interested
in the making over of human lives.
There is no reason why reformed
criminals should not be helped make a
comeback. There is every reason why
they should not be ridiculed and barr
ed from honest employment. When a
man or woman comes out from prison
then and there is the turning point.
Either he or she reforms or else goes
back again much more dangerous to
society than ever before.
HUEY LONG MEETS with little
encouragement from the Senate when
he wakes earnest. Senators big, SEN
ators small and Senators unclassifed
shout with glee and beam appreciation
when Huey is entertaining and merely
putting on a show. But when he starts
serious tank about his "Share-the-
Wealth" program he gets the cold
shoulder. It was a great mistake to
ever have purchased Louisiana if the
citizens of that parish-infested domain
content themselves with electing to
Office such demagogues. 1t wasn't so
bad when they kept him down there
but to send him to Capitol Hill to
make one more jackass-there's the
straw that dislocated the spinal verte-
brae of the famed dromedary.
! - s4se
"IT is ESSENTIALLY an appeal
of pre-depression leaders to pre-de-
preston psychology" is the .descrip-
ton of the freed" adopted at the G.
o. P. grass roots gathering in Spring
field, ILL.,, telegraphed to the Washing
ton Post Republican, by Raymond
Clapper, it's political editor.
"The appeal is to those opposed to
the New Deal and everything associ-
ated with it," he continued. "They
are counting on back-swing of for
mer Republicans and some dissatisfied
Democrats. But voters die and some
million a year come in and the old
sters never realize that new genera
ton is moving in behind them.
"Men and women will vote in the
next election who were born after the
World War broke out; who can't re-
member Harding and don't know what
Back to normally meant; to whom
Keep cool with Coolidge conjures up
no recollection. Rather their first
sharp recollections about public af-
fairs are most apt to begin about the
time the stock market crashed, when
they heard around the family dinner
table that something pretty terrible
had happened to father. These young
men and women of next year were
children when the world went sud
denly askew.
almost 3O,OOO,OOO persons of vot-
ing age were born after the turn OF
the century. Many were just entering
high school when the World War
began. They were marrying and start
ing homes and families when the
depression got under way. This vast
group in the population has, with very
few exceptions, felt its effects keenly,
through loss of jobs and failure to
find them on leaving school and hav-
ing to support relatives.
"This is the class to which the po-
Ilitical party of the future will have to
appeal to win. Does it think Roose-
welt is seeking to introduce European
forms of government into the United
States? Does it think he is Gripping
individual initiative? Is it fearful of
Recommendation Of the farmers ? Does
1t believe that If the New Deal were
wiped out the country would 60 back
to the prosperity Of the twenties?