It may be that the old veteran is still just a
little gloomy as a result of the 1932 landslide but
the chances are a hundred to one that he hasn't
lost his political touch. Fess was a name to be
reckoned with in the heyday of Republican rule
and the old master probably still knows of what
he speaks, it may be a little hard fbr the ovtr
enthusiastic and bleating uninformed minority party
followers to take but one of their own wise men
has apparently spoken words of wisdom. The Rhode
Island vote, in rock-ribbed Republican New England,
means not a thing except that a man got elected
to Congress because despite his party label, he stood
firmly for a social security program such as Presi
dent Ropsevelt has advocated and is pushing to
reality. It may be as a whole people we some
times appear to be a little confused in our ideas
•but there is no indication that we are so short
-k
j sighted as to wish for the return of an era of
RrpiiblicAn "prosperity' that left millions of people
starving for the Democratic Administration to feed.
It probably isn't a question of whether Borah
i,s willing to run but whether the boys in the back
room think somebody else can run faster.
Hitler still calls them Free Masons but it's hard
! to see the need of that word free any more in
1 Germany.
Juneau fairy story: Once upon a time, dear
children, there was a basebs" season without a
i postponed game.
Kingf sh Licvinskv like that other Kingfish down
Louisiana way seems to take a great many on the
chin.
War and Atrocities.
