Browning chief. [volume] (Browning, Mont.) 1941-1953, 1949-03-11

back to the 20'S, it would become
the "deadest pigeon in the coun-
try"
The burden of his theme was
that the party was split wide
apart and it had better get to-
gether, slough off one extreme
element which wants to turn
the clock back" and the other
extremists who want to tout
promise the Democrats" He de-
manded that the party stand for
"social progr under
fourishing system Of private en-
terprise where every human
right is expanded" Those op-
posed to "Iiberal and progress
sive policies" should get out Of
the party.
Here again we run into semantics
what is progressive" what is
''liberar'- that matter, what is
Sylvia? To one an owl, to another
a nightingale. To the pinks,
'liberar' is reactionary. To the
conservative a "liberal" is a red.
Dewey said that the Republican
party Cor the party as he sees it)
believes in unemployment insur-
ance, old age assistance on an in
creased basis, in broader social Sc
curity generally, in slum clearance,
in publ: development of our water
resources, in farm price supports,
in vigorous protection of the rights
of labor"
And he seems to recognize that
all of us, Republicans included. will
have to take certain things for
granted. Certain social and politi-
cal changes which we may not like
any more than our grandfathers
liked lot of "new-fangled" ideas
they met with, like the safety razor,
say.
The federal reserve board, the
income tax, women's suffrage-al
were once considered little less
than the instruments of the devil
himself by lot of people who never
think twice about them now. What
policy the federal reserve board
follows is debatable by either politi-
cal party, but nobody would be fool
enough to try to eliminate the board
as an institution. Both parties
claim they invented it.
The size of the income tax, and
how it's distributed is also
matter to be settled by the
party in power, but can't quite
see anybody trying to eliminate
income taxes entirely. Other.
matters like the principles of
government regulation of inter-
state commerce, of old age and
unemployment insurance and
dozens of other activities seem
to be here for good.
If am Red for saying that, you
can measure me for a suit of long
underwear to match, tuck me into
the one-hoss-shay and send me
home.
AS a matter of fact l am really
pretty much of a moss back AL
though I'd trade in my used air
plane for rocket, if anybody has
a surrey with the fringe on top and
I had place to park it, that's what
I'd really prefer.
Mention OF Taft
Evokes Criticism
One can't discuss the Republican
party without mentioning Mr.. Taft.
And whenever I say anything good
on the air about Sen. Robert A.
Taft, I get letters like the following
from a man in Lakewood, New
York Il had in the same broadcast
described a truck-driver who nearly
ran over me):
81 can see a picture of you" ne
writes, looking down your long
nose at that truck driver and be-
lieve me, l know just exactly how
you felt towards him. However,
I wonder which is the most dan
gerous, an idiot with truck or an
idiot with a vast radio audience.
'You see l look down my long
nose at you just as you did the
truck driver and l have the advan-
.age of having heard few thou
sand of your broadcasts. Through
this medium have explored your
brain and believe me find not
much there Your speaking OF the
truck driver as well as Taft's in
telligenoe is fair measure of your