The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1936-04-17
Roosevelt IdeaIism
Dep|ored by Critics
nv RAYMOND CLAPPER

-yAsH1NCTON. April 17-From the hostile
w newspaper comment upon President Roose-
velt's Baltimore speech, 1t appears tnere Is Sone
thing deporable in the spectacle of the President Oh
The Inited States giving voice to the high ideals OF
social Justice which he thinks should guide the
policies of this country.
This address, frankly inspirational appeal to
Youth is received with much the same cynical sheer
Inv reaction that buried the idealsm OF WOODROW
Wilson under deluge of postwar disillusionment'
and ushered in its Pandora's Box, loaded with the
Ohio gang.
work before they are Is after they are 90, ms
critics throw an economic fit. Roosevelt woulo oe-
vote less effort to the production OF wealth. why
not, they ASK go farther and make the nmts q ana
20 wears or not work at all? From which 1t seems
that what we ought to do if we want prosperity IS
to put children to work at 10 and keep them at the
grindstone until they drop in their graves Such Is
the noble alternative tossed back at Roosevelt
IT. we need to do it Is said, Is to stop this
N Tightly experimentation and get back to 1929.
All right get back to 1929 and what DO you nave !
Let the Brookings Institution TESTIFY. twenty -one
per cent of our families living on less than $looo
wear AZ per cent living below $500 and II per cent
below $780, which is regarded as the deadne oeiow
which family can not live decently ana IN aooi-
tion-a headache just around the corner mat Is
the promised land to which the practical opponents
of Roosevelt would lead us.
MO, the practical men" who form the pacKpons
IN of the Roosevelt opposition and VINO set the
pitch for most of the press comment. have no pa
thence for such visionary trash and fine phrases as
were found in the Baltimore speech Why waste
time on idealsP They must get direct to the
point
And how do they get to the point9 1t just hap
pens that disclosures of the Black Senate Committee
in the last few days have shown how the most vocal
OF the AMI Roosevelt forces get to the point Inc
point is to beat Roosevelt by any means that turn
up-even the lowest.
You probably didn't read much about it because
some newspapers. whose editors are assembled here
in convention all hot and bothered about the free
dom of the press-as if any editor with typewriter
and CUTS had to worry about being shackled by any
politician big lttle-buried the facts on inside
pages.
Dig out those facts and you will find that John
j. Raskob and Pierre S. du Pont put up $4,000
between them to finance the recent Southern Grass
Roots convention of "Jeffersonian Democrats" for
the purpose of building up the demagogue Tamadge
as an opponent of Roosevelt The money So
licited by Of the men who distributed through
the South posters showing Mrs. Roosevelt photo
graphed with Negroes
The organization which promoted the back-hring
Talmadge meeting collected mamma from long
list of business executives utility officials like
Alfred p. Sloan. Lammot du Pont and Ogden Mills.
and others the American Liberty Leagues white
list The sickening posters about Mrs. Roosevelt
were distributed at the Talmadge convention and
widely written about.