Nogales international., 1940-02-17
The Glenn Frank Report

WE learn from the WaSnlngtO MerTy-GO-R Round
" that the famous Glenn Frank Platform Commit
tee after three years of ponderng, is making re-
port No, it is not Republican platform-just SUR
vey Of conditions for the use of the Republican Ma
tional Convention.
It's first great discovery is that it was not the New
Deal that halted the depression but Herbert Hoover
He had the depression licked in 1892 It was the wick
ed Democrats who disrupted his program by electng
Franklin D. Roosevelt.
1t should be noted that during the eight months fol-
lowing after Mr. Hoover had the panic down for the
count and before his successor took office there
among the evidences OF returning prosperity these
happenings:
A thousand banks closed their doors.
There were 10000 business failures.
Unemployment went to fifteen million-the all
time high.
The National income dropped to forty billion
dollars for the year.
In the first eight months of Roosevelt after the
banking moratorium:
There were 154 bank failures all or nearly all
those that were not deemed sound enough to re-
Open
in the Hoover period.
Two and half million Of the unemployed were
back at work.
The National income had jumped two and
half billion dOllars-it reached nearly seventy bill
lions last year.
Twenty eight Million Who Did Not Know
Likewise it was Mr.. Hoover who first acknowledged
the obligation of Government to relieve those in need
knew anything about this We are forced to the
clusion that there were nearly 100000 chuckeheads
in the United States in 1882 who did not realize that
the depression was licked and that they were con-
demning themselves to diabolical ruin-and fewer
than sixteen million wise enough to understand that
their salvation lay in -electing Mr.. Hoover.
For the rest of it. the suggested platform which is
not platform-is as straddley as anything Senator
Vandenberg could think of in his highest moments.
New Deals relief measures are "eXtravagant, pol
itics-ridden unsound and discriminatory" They
not even new-being based on obsolete theories Of
the "feast enlightened leadership of Big Business
forty years ago.
However, agriculture must be protected In the
crystal clear language of the alleged report, though
the A. A. A. is bitterly bureaucratic, until the basic
policies here suggested (only they failed to suggest
the basic pocies) begin to register their effect the
necessity of some form of direct subsidy to agricu
tre to effective parity and control the impact
of surpluses on farm prices must be recognized"
And so it goes Business must be regulated, Sc
curity issues must be carfully guarded but business
should be given ample freedom to take risks Every
body ought to be happy about the question of Secre
tary MulPs reciprocity treaties because nobody can
tell whether the Glenn Frankers are for them or
against them.
Well What Could They Say?
On taxes they are quite clear. They want to reduce
the higher individual surtaxes, and put them peo-
pie in the middle brackets. Everybody must sympa-
thze with the distressed mult-millionaires A pa
thetc case was recited recently when one of these
panCng refugees cOapldneQ CfdC dIter the Govern
ment had taken it's toll he had bare 100000 year
to live on.
The columnsts credit many of the ideas of the sur
vey to the advice and influence of ex-President
Hoover To that extent, the survey is rather fitting,
for what the COP. would like to is return to
the good old days. before any of this Of pub
lie service and consideration to the underpriviledged
along to clutter up the convenient processes
der which the great fortunes of America directed the
Government, and pretty much everything else
However, it is perhaps not quite fair to jeer too
much at the bombastic side-stepping of this extra
ordinary group
Their output cannot be frankly Conservative, with