Henderson daily dispatch., 1938-02-21
BY
DR. JAMES E PoP4

F0U. Zl."1u lie COuS0n-
sus in Washington and all over is that,
while we should be we'll prepared for
national defense and invasion by any
hostile nation would be resisted to
the last drop of American blood, we
are not facing immediate or impend-
ing invasion. Some who are rated as
statesmen hold the world crater of
melodramatic misrule is not a thing
poignantly present and, therefore, not
nearly so urgent, for the purpose of
heavy spending, as the instant and
acute needs of our own jobless cit
liens: that there is with us now a
state of economic disintegration of
such magnitude and growing inten-
sity that millions of honest people may
not earn the bread they must eat
if indeed all are even privileged to
eat regularly; that poverty and un-
employment have passed beyond mere
imminence and have now acquired the
status of actual concrete and burning
realities of the moment and you can
not extemporize in nor arbitrate hun
ger.
Unemployment anG relief are pro-
blems for both head and heart. We
recently marked the anniversary Of
Lincoln's birth. President Lincoln
fought to save the Union from dis
ruption, but threescore and seven
years later we are fighting to feed the
Union Lincoln saved, and for rescu-
ing it from economic slavery. Our
burden continues to be more and more
taxes, and our job the saving of the
idle from desperation For the minds
of jobless men grown desperate are
nesting grounds for perversive pro-
paganda and provide fertile yolks for
Fascist hatcheries of anarchy.
Washington To Roosevelt
All "Unpredictable."
Gen. Hugh S. Johnson says Fresi-
dent Roosevelt is "unpredictable.' The
General should have added that nc
pilot can navigate a practicable course
on stormy sea, nor can an explorer
make a straight or practicable path
across an uncharted wilderness of
crags and quagmires. In travelling a
strange meanlering road river must
take the curves and grades as they
come-or land in the ditch. F. D. r.
does not know what lies ahead, Meth
err does Gen. Johnson. Strategy for
treating chaotic headaches, and for
meeting and handling unexpected
emergencies cannot be blueprinted. OF
course Mr.. Roosevelt is unpredictable
all Presidents from George Washing
ton down were unpredictable-and
lucky we are that they were.
Trend Is Upward-And Outward.
Nobody can be found who heard Mr..
Roosevelt say that a period of watch
full waiting until perhaps midsummer
will ensue, but prophets of radio and
the columns declare that we may ex-
pect no Sensational moves from 1890
PENNSYLVANIA Avenue until present
measures for beating the repression
have been given a fair tryout. Large
scale printing of the economic pump
;c honefully looked to as an aid for
lifting ourselves by our own boot
straps and keeping our heads above
the swirling turgid waste waters OF
business deflation-untll the tloe re-
cedes.
For reversing downward trends tho
Administration is, in all earnesthesS'
pinning it's hopes to such constructive
measures as the new Federal housing
Act, the new farm or crop control la"
and wholesale governmental spendlng.
1t is planned to rush the writing Oh
soil conservation checks, and thls
alone is expected to enrich farmers to
The extent of $4O0,OOO,OOO within the
next ninety days. With the new $25O:-
100000 appropriation just voted Tor
emergency relief there will be a total
over $7OO,O0O,OOO available, and it is