Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1936-07-25

i'm THE CURRENT MAGAZINES
Former Radical Ceeps Back Under the Banner of Capitalism
and Finds Comforting Boondogger Tells His Story.
Shaw, at go Answers an Interviewer

complimentary TO Harris, 1t closes
with q picture of Shaw that seems a
high In cheerful irreverence. Scully
had calleu on the master, he relates,
only to have Mrs. Shaw slam the door
in his face. Later he watched them
walk away. He records the scene as
follows:
Mrs. Shaw hobbled behind him, a
good so feet" he says, "she spawned
old lady, he with the spring in his
heel of youth Of 20.
land what a heell What a heel!'
I said to myself, smiling sadly, as
watched the worlds best piece Of copy
head for the tideless blue sea-"
1t is impossible not to agree with
him, on a certain number Of counts,
at any rate.
Two periodicals deal with Ireland's
De Valera this month-Harpers, with
an article by John Gunther, called
Inside De Valera" and Esquire, with
one by Frank C. Hanighen. called
"Ireland's Unhappy Warrior" The
Esquire piece is the better, though
both are trifie disappointing in that,
while they deal with an Irishman and
Irish politics, they contain no really
good stories. Mr.. Gunther does con-
tribute this:
His de Valera's) sense of humor
Is hardly robust, but 1t exists.
Once he was arrested at Ennis in 1923,
in the middle of speech. A year
later he was released. He went forth
with to Ennis, and began to speak
again with the words, AS I was say
ing when was interrupted. -"
But, somehow, the Irish statesman
just cannot be handled with the light
touch. He seems to be a sort of Cath
Ole Calvin Coolidge.
n
An answer to Marquis Childs' "They
Hate Roosevelt" which came out in
the May Harper's Magazine and was
mentioned in these columns, appears
in the same magazine for August. It
| Is called But I, Too, Hate Roosevelt"
and its author is Robert Hale. MI
Hale was for number of years a
member Of the Maine House of Rep
resentatives. Mr. Childs is Washing
ton correspondent for the st. Louis
PoSt-Dispatch.
Mr.. Childs' piece, it should be said,
aroused an astonishing amount of at
tention. 1t was issued in pamphlet
form and sold into the thousands.
Its thesis is simply that there Is a
tremendous hatred for the President
among the rich of the country. Mr..
| Childs considers this hatred inexpli-
cable, for, in his opinion. the rich have
benefited under Roosevelt, chiefly be-
cause Of improved market conditions.
The attention that his piece has
received is surprising because one al
ready knows that the hatred is there
as he says, and also because he was
neither very entertaining nor very
clever in presenting the obvious fact,
One would have expected his effort to
be just another magazine article.
But not has seemingly fingered in
readers minds.
And now Mr.. Hale writes his reply.
1t Is distinctly in the same vein as
George Sokolsky's Atlantic Monthly
article, quoted above. Like Mr.. So
kolsky, Mr.. Hale announces himself
as not member of the capitalist class.
1T is true" he writes, that I am
always sure where my next meal is
coming from, but have never been
and am not now sure about next
years meals" Yet, he says. II hate
Roosevelt. Definitely. articutately,
vociferously, hate Roosevelt. My
hatred is no 'crum of emotion dropped
from the tables Of the rich On the
contrary, it is the spontaneous dictate
Of my own reason"
Well, why? Mr.. Hale thinks the
reasons are obvious. IF any social
historian of the future" he says, sis
perpleXed or astonished at anybody's
hating Franklin Roosevelt he will be
perplexed or astonished because
Gen. Sherman was not popular in
Georgia and because Mussolini has not
gone over big in Adds Ababa. He
certainly will never understand why
Germany has never taken to the
treaty of Versailles, or why Jews feel
antipathy toward their Fuehrer."
He feels, in sum, that the Presidents
avowed program of wedding out the
overprivileged land lifting up the
underprivileged" places every one who
occupies position between those eco
nomic extremes in jeopardy. Am l."
he inquiries plaintively, with my in
duStry and my debts, destined for the
lifting-up process, or am I, because I
have earned more than the minimum
necessary for my survival, on the
weeding-out list?" How are we to
know, he asks.
His is a more readable piece than
Mr.. Childs', judged simply by stand
ards Of reliability. 1t will be inter.
esting to see what reception it has
from the public.