Evening star., 1938-07-12

Of himself as he did of Senator
Barkley:
Il am not interested in any shape,
manner or form in personal ambition.
You have the absolute right to vote
Tor any candidate in accordance with
the dictates of your conscience. No
outside source ought to drag on you.
Nevertheless, have clear right
TO tell you certain facts The job of
the presidency IS very exacting one
ana 1t includes study Of many,
many aspects of national problems in
which a mans experience in Office
naturally counts great deal It
would take a new man many, many
years to match the national knowl-
edge, the experience and familiarity
with the affairs Of the Nation which
comes to one who has been, as I
have been, so intimately related to
these problems for the last eight
years."
Can "Nevertheless" Again.
It is true the third-term tradition
has been against third-term Pres
s>SSAAooS bdG XVAA 4tOOSCNClI, dIUST IGClLs
ing all the traditions, can say:
nevertheless. experience is the i'm
portant thing, and if third terms are
desirable for members of Congress
why are they undesirable for Pres
idents?"
To all this it may again be objected
that, II experience in Office makes a
better President, then Herbert Hoover,
who went through the worst years
OF the depression, might have been
given another chance. To such an
argument Mr.. Roosevelt might an
swer:
1T Is true that other Presidents
with four and even eight years of
experience have not been able to
persuade the people that new man
would take long time to get familiar
with the details of the presidential
Job.
Nevertheless these are exceptional
times. and one who has been through
the mill. as have been, has had a
new set Of problems to meet. The
problems OF other Presidents were
different. AS said in my speech at
Covington. KY. on July 8, 1898: AT
this stage of world and domestic issues
leadership Is important to the people
OF the whole country as well as to
the people Of each State"
Already Explains Debt.
1t Is easy to see how handy the
word nevertheless" is going to be in
Mr.. Roosevelt's political vocabulary.
He has, of course. applied it to ex-
plain away the huge debt. He always
refers to the debt and deficits by
something substantially as follows:
nevertheless the values should not
be measured in dollars and cents but
In human terms. It's the human
balance sheet that counts"
Some day Mr.. Average Citizen, who
has piled up debt in his business,
may try out the device on his creditors,
saying something like this:
Its true I owe you a lot of money,
and it's true am not altogether sure
when I can begin to pay you back
It's true that there has been some
waste and inefficiency, but, on the
whole lot of good persons have re-
ceived the money in the form of pay
roll or in purchases of their goods
This business has been a benefit to
the community. I know it is in
solvent and does not make ends meet
Nevertheless I think you should
keep on lending money to this busi-
ness. and you should not be con-
cerned over the money already bor-
rowed, which we have to earn some
day to pay you back. You should
consider the human value. and, as
for your bank depositors, whose money
has been loaned-why, tell them to
look at the human balance Sheet
That ought to satisfy them"
There's another possible use of the