Evening star., 1938-07-06
PRED|CTSLIbERAL
RULE WILL GO ON
Woodrum Tells Institute
Preservation of Humanity
Comes First.
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CHARLOTTESVILLE, Va. July g.
Representative Clifton A. Woodrum Of
the sixth Virginia district asserted to-
day America : rs going forward to
liberal thought and liberal govern
ment, and Is not going to retrace her
steps.
"Henceforward government Is going
to concern itself more about preserva-
ton Of humanity than Of property"
Representative Woodrum said in an
address prepared for delivery before
the Institute Of Public Affairs at the
University of Virginia.
mo leader. no party, no school Of
thought can ever be able to retreat
or to abandon some Of these great
humanitarian concepts Of government
which have come into being in these
last few fateful years." he said,
adding:
Prom now on the rights, the duties,
the happiness, the peace. the tran
quillity Of the average. ordinary Amer
ican man and woman are going to be
the objects of the serious thought and
concern of his government"
Praises Roosevelt.
Speaking on recent economic
trends" he said upon occasion" he
had not agreed with President Roose-
welt and have exercised my right to
have opinions of my own" The Pres
ident, he added, would be the last
to challenge such right"
The speaker asserted "the President
is the greatest liberal-thinking Demo-
crat produced In America in the last
half century; and his dauntless cour-
age and sincerity of purpose have
endeared him to the hearts Of the
American people, even though some
may not agree with various things he
has proposed.
Yet with all that. he is decidedly a
human being, and human beings err.
The President and his advisers are no
exception. But he has relentlessly
waged war upon this economic collapse
on all fronts and at all, times, and any
fair appraiser of his efforts who will
put down in one column the successes,
and in another the failures, will find
at the end a comfortable balance in
favor Of the President"
Representative Woodrum assured his
audience that representative democ-
racy was never more secure, or more
superbly exemplified, than in America
today"
Three Point Formula.
The speaker gave a three-point for
mula Ito assist us in our quest" for
solution to the problems of unemploy-
ment and agricultural stability:
Il. Our political leaders must be
willing to call truce on playing parti-
san politics at the expense OF our eco
nomic structure.
2. Business. industry, commerce
ard those who control the finances of
our country must be willing to recog-
nize the rights of others, and to bear
equitably their proportionate cost of
Government in providing for these
emergencies.
g. Leaders in commerce and in la
Dor must be willing to acknowledge
and assume their respective RESPONSE
bilities to the remainder Of our citizen
ship"
Carson and Frank Speak.
An international financier and q
New Deal economist Joined in warm
ing the institute last night that Amer
lea must not follow the ways of the
totalitarian States of Europe or else
where.
James s. Carson, vice president Of
the American l. Foreign Power Co.,
asserted Germany, Italy and Japan
were trying to convince the nations
OF the Americas that might makes
right. that war is noble and that only
through armed strife will nations at
tain an important place in the world.
He called on the nations of the Amer
icas to save the rest of the world by
giving an unequivocal answer In op-
position.
Jerome N. Frank. a member of the
Securities and Exchange Commission
said America needs saving first and
argued that satisfactory solution to
national problems could be found II
I'VE use creative intelligence and If
we attack our problem with American
thinking instead Of in terms Of Eu-
ropean-made solutions"
American big business will not turn
to Fascism, Mr.. Frank said, because
it Is possible to increasingly enlarge
the national income under the profits
system.
Vicente villamin, Filipino attorney
and publisher, told the institute that
under the American flag the Filipino
people have freedom, prosperity and
security from foreign aggression, "but
when it IS hauled down we shall be
thrown into . political confusion"