The Waterbury Democrat., 1938-02-23

 enterprise" last night by Dr. Glenn Frank, chairman of the policy com- mittee of the National Republican committee, speaking before mem bers of the Mckinley Association of Connecticut at Hotel Elton. And the former head of the University of Wisconsin whose committee meets shortly to outline the next Republican political program, scored planned economy as 8 defeatist theme, saying, rather, that the country must be operated on an economy of plenty instead of an economy of scarcity.
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 While almost 800 of Connecticut's most eminent Republicans applaud ed, Dr. Frank traced the evils of our national picture, as he sees them. But not once during speech which lasted about half hour did the chief of Republican policy advance an inkling as to what will occur when his committee meets in Chi cago Sunday. Nor did he take up the cudgel of the Republican com- mand to reply to attack of Gov. George D. Aiken, of Vermont, who predicted the death" of the party unless the "old guard" steps aside, yields in all particulars to the Pro- gressives" of the Young Republican element.
 Thus, an expectant portion of the l states electorate, waiting sign from the national organization as to how the wind of policy will sweep, nti-administration, soliciting Dem- ocratic votes with promise of con- tinuance of some of the social pro- gram, or agreement that the "old guard" is finished, failed to get the bone" of program into which the local leaders presently could set their teeth for the fall campaign, the national campaign two years hence. While Dr. Frank summar- ized the evils of the present, threats of war, of further centraliZation of government in the form known as dictatorship, he did not mention the immediate concerns of the Re- publicans as relate to diSgruntle- ment over certain leaders, the po- tential splits between East and Midwest over control. Not Ready" l Questioned after his public ad- dress, Dr. Frank said that he could not speak for the committee as yet, that the so-called policy committee he heads, "is not yet completed" He did not care to discuss the person. mel as regards the four labor lead- CTS, including John J. Egan, of Con- necticut. Apparently, Dr. Frank felt that it was too early to predict what his committee will determine, the moot problem of all at the din- ner last evening: Which way are we going? Old guard or progress sive?"
 (Another story on the Mckinley association dinner and it's import ance to Republican plans in the state will be found in another sec tion of The Democrat). Dr. Frank spoke, in part, as fol- | lows:
 The fear that now chills the hearts of parents throughout the United States is the fear that the children of this generation will fall victim to the disease that in | feet our political and economic life. The more threatening of these social ills are obvious. Threatening Ills CD War that may come upon us like a thief in the night, waste our substance, again disrupt all the | patterns of our enterprise, wipe out in a few swift months the slow gains of generations civ- ilized effort, and thrust our chil- dren or theirs back to the pre- carious existence of our primitive | ancestors.
 CD Unemployment that leaves youth workless in a world of closed doors and rusts out with idleness the patiently achieved skill of mature men.
 (3) A smothering blanket of debt that sells the future into slavery, dampens initiative, takes hope from the hearts of men, and leaves despair in its place.
 (4 A back-breaking taxation that makes men the bond-slaves of government.
 (5) Poverty in the midst of plenty.
 (6) A pitiful old age without security.
 CD The flashing of class hatred to a new fury.
 (8) The subtle disintegration of self-government.
 (9) The subordination of the in- dividual.
 (10) The exaltation of the state.
 Dictatorship
 GID The black sceptre of dicta- torship that has already darkened the life of so much of mankind. (12) The loss of all those basic liberties of thought and of the ex- presSion of thought, of life, and of enterprise which gre essential to the safety. the success, and the self-respect of a mature people. (13) And, even more insidious than all these, the spread of a spirit of defeatism among many Americans, in high position and low, defeatism that seems to assume that progress has come to dead end, that science and tech- nology have been too efficient in producing a limitless output at low prices, and that the thing to do. therefore, is to plan lesser output at higher prices, despite the human need that still stalks our streets.
 These are mong the diseases that have infected the political and economic life of one European nation after another in the last decade and a half. We are part of the western civilization to which these European nations be- long. And, despite the distinctive ness we rightly seek to maintain, we are not of necessity immune | t0 thesa dicteY,nArs that have