Coulee City dispatch. [volume] (Coulee City, Wash.) 19??-19??, 1938-10-27
DIsPELINa THE FOO

I lust want to say a word in praise
of at least one of them. I received
letter from a college professor IN
whicl h. had something to <aJ about
pejorists. I looked it mp in the die
tionary and found, according to our
old friend Webster, that it means one
who thinks that everything is going
to smash. The exact definition is sne
who believes that everything in ma
ture is growing worse"
A lot of people have been looking
for a name to describe the hetero-
genous mixture that makes up the
minority party, composed of old-hne
r e u bl cans, middle of-the readers,
those who think the the New Deal
does not go far enough, an a Few
disgruntled ex-Democrats. Pejorists
Party sounds little too long. SO may
I suggest that we curtail it a little
and that henceforth we can speak OF
the Pejo Party. This will save lot
OF words to describe an aggregation |
that has no definite policy but is I'M
tied in the creed that whatever Frank |
lin d. Roosevelt does, or whatever
the New Deal offers, must be wrong. |
A party has to have leader, so
1 nominate for that post ex-Pres1dent
Hoover. His most famous declaration |
during his last candidacy for the
Presidency was something &C the eff
feet that if there was any tampering
with the Smoot- Hawley tariff, grass
would grow in the streets of our cities
etc
Hoover Suggests Bedlam, Not Grass
The New Deal is now more than
five years old, and our great cities
are dust bowl so far as the grass
crop is concerned Secretary of State
Hull's reciprocal trade agreements
have knocked the all-time high tariff |
bill into a. cooked hat. When Mr..
Hoover relinquished the Presidency
Jul lupoTCS dHlOuAGeu W PA'oHo'VVV, |
900 and our exports to $1,611,0OO,- !!
600. That was for the year 1882. Our
imports for 1897 amounted to 49, |
084,000,0O0, and our exports last |
year had amounted to $3,345, 100000.
The customary last word Of every |
Republican, mean every Pejo-
speech has told Of the dire consequence |
es that will follow if the New Deal
continues. We will have industrial
BANKRUPTCY and political choas, and
we are threatened with the Hitler
dictatorship, sometimes with Stain
Communism. Mr.. Hoover is back on
the air insisting that the administra-
ton g policies suggest bedlam rather
than liberalism. Some others point out
that our fiscal policy is leading
straight to the collapse of the United
States Treasury, and an absolute end |
to the peoples faith in their govern
ment' solidity. The same papers that
carried the news of Mr.. Hoover's
speeches under Pejo Party sponsorship |
announced casually, as mere matter
of news, that the governments lat
est issue of bonds and notes, though |
the interest rate was only 21a and |
l Is per cent, was over-subscribed |
more than ten times for the bonds
and more than 9 times for the notes.
According to the Journal of Com
nlerce, which is something of Wall
Street Bible, bank deposits have
reached almost an all-time high. Per- |
haps there is some connection between /
the avidity with which the low inter
est government bonds we're snapped
up and the money in the banks, but
neither incident seems to jibe with all
the prophecies of evil that have been
showered on the country ever since
the reactionaries started in on their
claim that not money but Roosevelt |
was the root of all evil.
Yet Business Insists on Improving
AmUuR tHc UlHtT lHtOlCSIihS ltCAo
in the Journal of Commerce was that
August sales reports indicate increas-
ed retail trade-a circumstance that
is typical of the earliest stages of
business upturn. Likewise it was re-
corded in this solemn journal of facts,
and figures, and corporation sentiment !,
that steel ingot production in August
was the largest in ten months and that
carloadings-which is the technical
measure Of railroad activities-had |
jumped, to the extent Of 10000 car
loads in week. 1t is also mentioned |
in the same journal that New York |
department store sales had hoped up |
over last years trade, and another |
fugitive item was to the effect that
the steel companies were Smelling ont