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656 THE COMMONWEAL October 30, I929 to prove memorable. During years when party gov- ernment seemed the only possible way in which author- ity could be set up, various groups interested in...
...others are purely civic in outlook...
...If he wishes to break all precedent and veto the bill, the country will understand that he is vetoing the debenture plan...
...J. Henry Scattergood--to do the man-sized job of reconstructing the Indian Service...
...During years when party government seemed the only possible way in which authority could be set up, various groups interested in social problems, or in the whole matter of democratic life, came to have a very beneficent effectiveness...
...On his own statements he is committed to principles directly opposed to the Smoot-Hawley tariff...
...It may be that the Farm Board is not everything which might legitimately be desired, but at least "senile routine" has been side-stepped...
...Jewish opinion felt that it was extremely unwise to use the occasion of Prime Minister MacDonald's visit to the United States as a pretext for unleashing a good deal of heated oratory...
...This action is commendable, revealing as it does a readiness to envisage the manifest difficulties which beset the English...
...656 THE COMMONWEAL October 30, I929 to prove memorable...
...Hoover ma...
...The British government, declares the former minister, must respect all the rights aad aspirations of all the peoples in Palestine...
...Last fall he pledged that there would be no general upward revision of the tariff...
...He is even more definitely established in opposition to the debenture than to the high tariff rates...
...As between doing the conventional thing, and submitting to a measure which defeats him on two important points, the choice should not be hard...
...Hoover might disapprove of it, but it was pretty certain that he would not dare to veto it...
...Debentures For it provides him with a way of esand cape from a most embarrassing dilemMr...
...Today there are many such organizations, supported by funds voluntarily contributed, and often endowed with firstrate leaders...
...Meanwhile one cannot but think that the mere presence of this vitality is an effective proof of America's will to carry on...
...WEEK BY WEEK URING the past weeks, calm and frenzy have mingled rather thoroughly in the discussion of Palestine unrest...
...But the Jews have not interfered with any of the legitimate rights and aspirations of the Arabs, being really the harbingers of new wealth and beneficence to the country...
...Some are definitely affiliated with religion...
...Equally promising work has been started by the National Advisory Committee on Education, the members of which are experienced and prominent teachers...
...This organization had got into well-nigh scandalous doldrums, and the new administrators have already manifested vastly more than good-will...
...At any rate, the thought suggests itself: could not the government profitably invite men of the character insisted upon by such groups to take a share in the nation's administrative business...
...Apparently its object really is, as Secretary Wilbur says, "to bring clarity in a troubled field...
...In accord with the most vital currents of democratic thinking about problems of government, it is a less drastic and more practical remedy than a wholesale shifting of administrative burdens to the several states would be...
...No doubt many of them could well afford to utilize for their own tasks the same civic vitality which the President has so skilfully put to work...
...Several Jewish travelers, home from a tour of the near East, have criticized the Restless British administration with unreserved Palestine bitterness...
...Last spring, against the advice of the old guard, he called this special session for no purpose other than to aid the farmers and such industries as were in distress...
...Charles J. Rhoads and Mr...
...He has assembled commissions to deal with such varying issues as law enforcement and education...
...To them the turmoil was an outbreak of lawlessness, which a simple exercise of police power might have prevented...
...An article contributed by Winston Churchill to the American Hebrew is to the point here...
...The future, therefore, would seem to resolve itself into a business of teaching the sheik how to be affectionate...
...On the other hand, there is abundant opportunity for these states...
...In this case the appointees have triumphed over all purely political opposition and even a strong Senate protest...
...Hoover has faced that question optimistically, and his endeavor to answer it is earnest and significant...
...Hence the Arab ought to love the Jew...
...But proceeding on the theory that a Republican President cannot veto a protective tariff, the House and then the Senate prepared the highest tariff rates in history...
...On the other hand, the extent to which reasoned calm prevails among American Jews is evident from the fact that a congress, called with the approval of Rabbi Stephen Wise to discuss the Palestine situation, was countermanded...
...Called upon to study the function of the federal government in education, it has set out to gather facts as a substratum for theory rather than to impose a theory upon poorly understood and amateurishly correlated facts...
...Something similar might be said regarding less prominent appointments...
...The President has virtually drafted two Philadelphlans--Mr...
...In each instance men of unusual ability have not hesitated to respond, and usually the nation has enthusiastically approved the step...
...We believe that such executive action, if it can be continued over a period of years, will constitute the best possible answer to legitimate criticism of the federal bureaucracy...
...PRESIDENT HOOVER should be more pleased than displeased at the Senate's vote to attach the export debenture plan to the tariff bill...
...Now if the House allows the debenture plan to stay in the bill, as Senator Borah and others predict it will, the President's problem will be simplified...
...The most notable instance to date is probably the formation of the Federal Farm Board, which is virtually an additional cabinet appointed to study a particularly complex and baffling situation...
Vol. 10 • October 1929 • No. 26
