The Kennewick courier-reporter. [volume] (Kennewick, Wash.) 1914-1938, 1938-03-24

cation In Russia are being carried
on at this time because, it is
charged, there are elements in Rus
STA that are seeking to bring back
Leon Trotsky. Trotsky has a diff
ferent type of dictatorship by the
proletariat in mind. He has to hide
out in Mexico, or get shot himself.
Anyway, the Stain group announces
boldly that Russia is going forward
(whatever that means) and will
brook no interference with it's plans
even If it has to shoot off all of
its army officers and most Of its
government officials.
So much for the Russian system.
And in the United States
Now, calling attention to the
similarity of conditions here, I have
no notions of comparing them on
the basis Of the actual results. I
want to deal with fundamentals,
with principles. It seems to me this
can be done without animosity. We
will start. therefore, with one small
and rather Insignificant matter.
A few weeks ago. President Roose-
welt named Stanley Reed to be an
associate justice of the Supreme
court of the United States. Mr.. Reed
had been solicitor general Of the
United States. The appointment
can not be criticized in any way, be-
cause Mr.. Reed will end dignity to
any job he undertakes. think the
country is fortunate in that ap-
pointment.
But when Mr.. Reed was promoted
the President named Robert II.
Jackson to fill the vacant place.
Well, most people were rather
glad to see Mr.. Jackson placed in
q job where he has to do legal work
instead Of being q political mouth
piece. Their satisfaction was short
lived, however, because who should
be named to succeed Mr.. Jackson
but Professor Thurman Arnold Of
Yale University. It Is an appoint
ment that is worse, IL that IS pos
sible, than that which placed Mr..
jackson in the job originally. For
Professor Arnold is not man to
breed confidence at any time. Par
ticularly is this true when it Is con-
sidered that he manages q job that
has to do with governmental rela-
lions with business. Which Is to
say that If business could have no
certainty or assurance or guidance
from Mr.. Jackson, it win be like
looking for needles In haystacks to
learn what Mr.. Arnold's ideas are
on business practices. Maybe I
sholld say, it will be like chasing
q very small insect that has habit
q biting and is equipped with q
voracious appetite.
Thus we are come to the point Of
comparison. What does 1t mean
that Messrs. Jackson and Arnold
should be given those posts? The
answer is comparatively simple,
albeit quite significant. It means
that President Roosevelt has taken
control of the Department Of JUS
tice out Of the. hands Of Attorney
General Cummings. It means that
he has yielded again to the left
wing, the radical, advisors who have
manager time after time to get the
presidential ear and whisper con-
vincingly into it. It means, as well,
that Attorney General Cummings.
who was at first one Of the great
admirers of President Roosevelt Is
no longer among the presidential in
siders and that he must be classed
again as a Democrat as distinguish
ed from the New Dealers.
But, you ask, what has that got
to do with Russia, with Stain, with
liquidation of counter revolution
aries" etc? Again, it seems to me
that the analogy is plain. PreSt-
dent Roosevelt has been convinced
by the radicals and long-hairs that
he has no great need any longer
for the breed of simple. sound. sane
thinkers, or the practical politi-
clans. The advisors who are cling
ing to him like ivy to a wall have
seen their plans go down in the
crash Of the depression and have to
blame somebody. They argue that
if their plans had not had interior
ence from such as Mr.. Cummings,
or Secretary Roper or the Depart
ment of Commerce, or Jim" Far
ley,s political politics, surely, the
wishful thinkers would have sue
ceeded. They could not line up the
counter revolutionaries" to be shot
in this country, but they can destroy
their political influence.
To carry the fundamental thought
to its ultimate and logical conclu-
sion, therefore, it is necessary only
to explain that the great liberal
group (Which boasts by mouth or by
print) has yet ever to agree among
its own members. They seldom agree
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