Evening star., 1938-06-10
Asks Readers Reactions
to Jay Franklin's Articles

WAC1 y wy IdA GO NY ldClcI WIN
what thought to be particularly
blAsphemous and sadistic sermon Of
Charles H. Spurseon. It said, In part,
~ at the day of judgment thy
Dody Will join thy soul and thou wilt
have twin hells, thy soul sweating drops
OF blood and thy body suf1used with
agony Thy body will be asbetos-like, for
ever consumed. All Of thy veins ="
DO intelligent people believe that
stuff7" ! asked.
mo; I don't think So"
do intelligent men 60 to hear
Spurgeon7"
Thousands Of them"
"Why7"
80 they can say to themselves T
40 not believe q word Of that drivel.
The others do. I am too clever The
number OF people who get thrill out
OF rejection like that is amazing"
~ occurs TO me today. that that may
be why some people read your Jay
Franklin" column. 1t does not operate
IN that way with me. My self -gratula-
tions would never compensate for the
nausea his writing induces.
A friend has brought to me jaw
Franklins articles in The Star for June
2 and June 4, and asked NV opinion
about them. Now 1t Is my turn to wonder
about the reactions of others to the
Franklin articles. What will the ordi-
nary, sane American make Of the state
ment In the first Of the two articles that
Senator who voted In accordance with
his oath Is traitor, If that vote was
cast in disobedience of a threat from
the White House to ruin the Senator's 8
political career?
The Franklin problem seems to be
one of mentality psychosis. 1t seems
that no merely political consideration
will make the ordinary American feel
anything but contempt for those good
doggies" who, wearing the livery of an
honorable elective office, lick boots, caper
about, wag their tails and beg for bones
from bag which they. themselves, filled
when they voted the President unre-
stricted power in the expenditure of
public money. One would look for a
tolerant attitude in him who uses the
plant congressman as a tool, but Mr..
Franklin is publicist who knows that
a purchasable electorate is inconsistent
with the preservation OF our existence
as . democracy. He gains nothing by
the venality Of Congress.
Mr.. Franklin's description of his visit to
the areas devastated by American Tory
ism In Ohio and Western PENNSYLVANIA"
when ne realizes that for the last six
years every office. county, State and
national in those devastated" areas has
been held by a member of the dominant
political party? Will he not regret an
apparent lack Of detail? For instance,
hnw AnAR q Tnrp AAuo efof.
areas being devastated during the Hard
mg-Coolidge eight years when every fac
tory was working overtime and every
mechanic was employed at good wages?
Then the workman's wage was paying
for his home and building a reserve to
tide him over at least a part of the
lean period of Roosevelt mismanaeement.
Your amazing correspondent tells us
that the Ohio strikes have resulted from
Tory manipulations. We have been led
to believe that the sit-down strikes in
Ohio and elsewhere with its associated
factory closing and unemployment re-
suited from an unholy alliance between
self-seeking demagogues, one an alien
from a Sydney slum, and a cabinet Off
Ger abetted by National Labor Rela-
tions Board, supported by the Govern
ity to John L. Lewis.
we were the richest people on earth.
bred In the traditions of generations of
freemen. taught like our fathers to seek
the greatest self-expression, the utmost
individual growth.
What have we done with our goodly
heritage?
All has been surrendered. The right
tn lohNr ic S,1hiorf IN
self-seeking dictator supported by a
mental defective in the pay Of the gov
ernment. The right of property is non-
existent. II We open factory today, it
may be wrecked tomorrow, by our own
servants, and If We are foolish enough
to reopen the plant, Charlie Nc
Carthy" government board will order us
to re-employe the very criminals who
outraged the law and invaded our prop
erty rights.
We strip ourself to the bone in self
imposed taxes and turn the proceeds over
to Frankenstein of our own creation
whose road through public life is strewn
with broken promises and violations Of
the laws he has sworn to obey, then.
forgetting our dignity, our decency and
our God. we pray to this monster for
our daily bread.
IT IN a moment Of ill-advised inde-
pendence, one of our legislative servants
dares to question the will of our dictator,
he must straightway be bounded out
of ONCE with the scourges we, a sup
posedly free people. have put in the
hands Of his prosecutor.
And how is this supreme will mott
waited?
BY mind incapable of understanding
the plainest legislative measures sent to
him by the Congress. When he seeks
to expound it to high school children
not handicapped by his incapacity, they
are moved to unseemly but uncontrol-
able laughter.
HOWARD PITCHER OKIE.