Nogales international., 1937-12-04
Do You Remember?

lstraton was attacked for bringing in = oroun of
Gcononc experts from the colleges to advise on New
Ia pocles! 10 you recall the innumerable cartoons
presenting youthful persons in can and GOWN &c tho
real government of the United States engaged in tho
desperate office of substituting Soviet doctrines for
American Institutions?
IL IL nadnt been for their conception of The "brain
Crust tnat was presented as furnishing Socialist;c
G,eahS ana Bolshevlstic processes which President
hooseVelt mnocently signed because ho did NOT I,1
Wnat It was all about the Republican National CON,
mdCCee would have run out of ammunition durino tho
90 campaign The starry-eyed amateurs furnished
tne background for nearly all of the Liberty Leage
proclamatlons and speeches. Latterv, as the Roosn
W.. PoilcleS WORKED out successfully and dividends
reappeared on the stock exchange horizon tho ton
uency to attribute all New Deal legislation IN tho
nfaln trust leSsened and there was less ass11mn+io
that everything the Administration was dono or had
uone was the product Of the minds of theorists and
academic dreamers.
1t must come with shock to the silurian n D
spoAesmen TO read IN a newspaper that specia1ized
LII attrlOutlng the New Deal policies to imnractica1
ana radical academicians that their own party was
going the college route
On the day that this is written the New York
nneralo-l11Oune II announces that President Dodds of
f11nceton and President Conant of Harvard have
Deen invited to accept the post of chairman of the Re-
puO1can Committee of One Hundred that is TO form
the policies and platform Of the next Republican Ma
uonal convention Moreover we are advised from
tne same SO rec that exPresident Angel of Yale and
IreSluent Oproul OF the University of California are
also on the tentative list and the onlv reason that
Glenn Frank former President of Wisconsin TJnvor-
Sty mas not been invited is that some of his friends
nave advanced him possible Presidential candi
date. 0'--~
Free Hand for Professors
mght be urged that to get college president as
the head OF this extraordinary committee might he
Tor the purpose of window dressing or to avert the
CT1Qnf Of oh ho4r7
Herbert Hoover or Alfred NJ Landon However the
New York Herald Tribune indicates that this is to be
real brain trust for not only is the leadership of the
polcy-forming committee to be entrusted to one of
those named but 1T is promised that free hand
would be extended to the program committee and
that the chairman would take part with the Republ-
can executive committee in choosing the hundred or
more members to make up his committee"
In other words, members of the same group for the
employment of which the Roosevelt administration
was so bitterly rragned are to be called ON to do the
star-gazng for the G. O. P
Our course the theory of domination of the Roose-
velt administration by the brain trust of it's early days
was simply of those pleasant fctons begotten of
campaign necessities. These men were brought in as
statstlcans and as students Of political economy,
whose life work it had been to learn all that had been
learned in the progress of civilization of means and
methods by which other peoples and other countries
had through the ages handled tie problems that had
to do with government finances, production mass re-
LEI, and such things They were of different minds
with different theories. The President listened to
them all and made his decisions and the admin
istration formulated it's policies in the light of
all the information he could gather from any source
When it came to writing PLATFORM which is de-
claration of policies the job handed over to such
veterans at this business as Cardell Hull, Senator
Wagner and others in their class The other fellows
apparently intend to go the whole way for if the col
ege presidents have an equal part with the Old GuarC
and the radical wing of Republicans in forming the
committee it means that they VIII do most Of the