The Waterbury Democrat., 1937-12-23
Definite Goal Seen By Frank As the Country's Greatest Need Today
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 ChlcaRo. Dec. a3-ln choosing Glenn Frank as head Of Q Repub- llcAn committee to hoist Q party standard 10 which the wise and honest may repair" the Republicans select 0 man who is keenly aware of the partys need for such Q standard.
 Ffank, Q preacher, writer, editor, has spent much of hls time since 1880 attacking just that problem. m hls book, "Amerlcas Hour ot pe' clslon," he wrote:
 WTo know what we want ls the bee ginning of statesmanship. DO we know what wo want3 Here h the united Statesp Nowp Do we know what we want government to be and do In relation to the whole mech. Nnlsm and movement oe American life and enterprise over which, at its moment of highest potential pows or, the shadow of Q vast futlllty sellS DO we, in short, know what kind Of political order we wantS DO wo know what kind of social order w0 wantp Do we know what Kind ot economic order we wantY
 we cannot make the decisions de" mAnded of us at this juncture in American affairs unless we shake ourselves free from ths paralysing !ndecision of will"
 Known As . Liberal
 n h perhaps this clear recogni- tlon of Frank of the need Of the party for more clearly defined goals that led to his selection to head the committee that will try to deiine them,
 Frank has for years been known as Q "Nberaw among Repuelicans' That no longer means much, so was Nicholas Murray Butler. Franks Liberalism iS such that he believes much of what passes for liberalism today is really reRetlonAry, he thinks the road through the NlsA and AAA to centralized and do" tailed control over the economic SyS- tenn iS !n essence Q reaetionafy road, and not truly liberal at all. .
 Frank believes in expansion oi production aS against it's limitation, He admits that modern industrial conditions mako imperative an in" creating government activity in tho field of business and industry; no adda that "the problem of determin' Inn tho direction and degree os gov. 0rnmental activity in economic at. fairs" is "the major Issue of thn generation"
 Frank has advocated the maxl- mum freedom for individual enter" prisers eonSbtent with todays teeh' nology
 A snappy Phrase. ColneF :,
 Ee is an apt phrase-makef, ena hi1 characterization Of the leaders Of yesterday as "mushreom mon: archS of business, industry, and finanee," who "stFuttad for c day Whll0 the fantastic era of speeula. tlon came to 0 climax" shows no ionging for Q return to tho good old days" ,
 "Lubh kfoWtn Ok pOObAek Evhbtvno' "ApoStolAto of iaklrs," show that Frank can pay his respects to op. pon0nts h Just As juicy terms aS Franklin Roosevelt or General Rob. inson, Whatever the final report oi his committae reveals, it should make Snappier reading than most similar documents.
 The mark of the young Missouri nrOaahNr, who won Q bride from Among a congregation impressed by hIN eieauanoe and bFlllianee, is sun on Glenn Frank, He quotes tho Bible freely and aptly, and hN cons oNFn IA obvious at c world in which religion is c less active force than it might Do. ....
 Yet he can pay sardonie respee1 alike to "the psalm .slnging eaptalns. of industry whose piety aha praetieallty never quite mesh," and 10 "th0 parson turned lobbyist" Do' spite this background he was c sup' porter of repeal Of national prehl' bition.
 Politically Ambitious
 Though 6 prolific and constant writer of, national affairs, Prank has never been on active Republican ID tho Berso that Nicholas Murray But. Tor has been, Ho took no part i1 tho forming of tho Republican Com - H.Inel -