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Personal Glimpse
Of Jack Garner
By Old Friend
A rare. Intimate glimpse of John
fiance Garner, the man. Is contained in
column entitled "Perspective," written
«n News Week magazine by Editor Ray
mond Moley, former assistant secretary
of Stale under President Roosevelt.
“It's true that Mr Garner is pictur
esque." he says. "But he’s picturesque
because his method of life, which
is simple and natural, contrasts so weird
ly «rstb the sham living that goes on in
So far as 1 can see, he's
at man who lives his life as he wants to
It. If he were the manager of a
carirb or the president of a bank or the
SBfolishet of a newspaper with no pos
vhte political ends to serve by 'quaint-
Buess. he would still do Just about as he
Abes.
*THe doesn't live simply because he |
sHants to gel votes He lives that way
toacause he Is a simple man. He refuses
Sa go out to dinners because he wants
to to bed early and get up early He
smokes cigars because he likes cigars.
He goes hunting because he likes to hunt.
"The Garner scheme of things shouts
lUvfhe world Here 1 am—no mystery, no
deception, just a man trying to do his
fob. Speaking politically, if that’s what
you want, O K If it isn't what you want. |
jgforrd-by and no hard feelings
“There’s nothing cheap or unreal
about all this No man who’s putting on
an act can serve in the Congress of the
Stalled States for 35 years and still keep
affection and respect of his discern
actg colleagues.
*Mr Garner doesn’t read an awful
lot. except the newspapers He learns
a (ot from talking to people The gar-
A'n of his mind is carefully pruned.
“Now that it’s become fashionable
again to salute the flag and stand up
when The Star-Spangled Banner’ is
played. it can be said with impunity ,
that no man loves his country with more
smabashed fervor than Mr. Garner. If
fee seems to be less concerned about re
waumding phrases like ‘America’s destiny
in the world’ than some others are. that’s
because he’s so passionately anxious to i
aw. America believe in itself. He’s con
tpxnced of the durability of democracy
sr * way of life for the American people, j
B* ifcnows that any danger democracy i
sBucr« In the United States comes not
Tnmti without but from within when
grow careless. Indifferent, tired.
“WEr. Garner Is no nineteenth-century
free trader. He believes in protection for
/•bmexican farmers, for American Indus- j
Cry. He believes that the concentration j
Kmancial power witnessed In the last i
agemnration was bad for the country. But,
■vinHtae Borah and Brandels, he doesn't
’IwA with horror on big business. He
ata.JopE the view that probably some busi
anesare-s are more efficient when they're
big: .end some businesses are better for
S#r», tpbbiic when they're little, and that
j£:« Che government's Job to try and find
mat vwiiich are which. He profoundly be-
JSnws that much of the early New Deal
SesJiktation was sound, but he shrewdly
-point* to a lack of coherence In its later
gpha.se.«.
“He’s for organized labor, but made
«*» secret of his alarm over such excesses
an the sit-down strikes: to him, the sit
iflaww strikes were nothing more or less
tbo.n a forcible seizure of private prop
erty. 44e's against the continuous growth
waf sending in the government—not only
hrrawise he sees financial chaos at the
end of such a course, but because spend
srX has been accompanied by increasing
executive Indiscretion.
“Ufa man has exercised more power
in Congress over the years than Mr
Gamer. 11 is a power that does not rest
sum patronage. The vitality of his mind
the ripeness of his political judgment.
warmth of his affection, his unfailing
nmmitigated honesty have compelled tire
admiration of Republicans as well as
SDeeisocrats, of radicals and conserva
tfnnes. Easterners and Westerners. All
■clmh: despite the tradition that the Vice
Piwsideney is a role of impotence.
“Mr Garner has made a throne out
<rf a political sarcophagus.”
No Cobwebs in His Brain
“John Nance Garner was born on
Nov. 22, as near Thanksgiving as so
modest and wise a person would
erhoose to be. His countrymen can't
jMp numbering him among their j
Messings this week,” said an editorial '
acs the New York Times a year or so
in commenting upon the vice- .
president’s birthday. “He holds play- j
euSSy,” said the editorial, “that the j
ibaoks have got the year of his birth |
among. They say it was 1068 He pre
jjfcrs ’ll9. For us it is ’69 until he selects
■some other date. Commemoration of
birthday should be a movable
feast. Early to bed and early to rise
■ins had its proverbial effects. On his
anniversary Monday he was out of
tficd at 7:45 a. m.; into it again at9p. m.
“He has been at Washington for
nearly 35 years. There he is an insti-
CoCtaon. Young folks a little careless
with their geography yet with an in
stinctive sense of the higher pro
prieties are apt to think of Uvalde as
the capital of Texas. He has minded
own business perfectly. He has
minded the nation’s affairs carefully
and competently.
“He can be patient with policies
that he disapproves. A sort of Ben
Franklin, he has no cobwebs in his
Ibrain. He can be exposed freely to
Fantasists and fanatics and keep the
peace. It is lucky for his own that he
u a philosopher. The felicitations of
fiiss colleagues drove him from the
chamber. Politicians who habitually
spread their ears upon the ground
can admire a man given to forming
loss own opinions.
“He is wise by nature and long ex
perience, without pretense, pedantry
or solemnity. He is. a good man, an
able man, full of humor and a good
fellow. If he doesn’t make his years
aeround hundred, that will be the first
tfiaaa that he has disappointed the
public hope.”
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Mortgage Moratorium Not New
The mortgage moratorium, which
is more or less generally regarded
as a new device for the relief of the
oppressed in time of widespread
economic disturbance, is not new at
all. The ancients knew about it.
It was employed about 4,189 years
ago, to bring economic protection to
a people who, because of conditions
over which they had no control,
could not meet their obligations. The
following quotation, which is found
in the Code of Hammurabi (Harp
er’s Second Edition—l9o4), is offered
as proof the moratorium is not new:
“If a man owe a debt and Adad
(the storm god) inundates his field
and carry away the produce, or,
through lack of water, grain have
not grown in the field, in that year
he shall not make any return to
i the creditor, he shall alter his con
tract-tablet and he shall not pay the
interest for that year,’’
Known as 'Crusaders Hymn’
Regarding the origin of the hymn
“Fairest Lord Jesus,’’ Cynthia
Pearl Maus says: “Although this
hymn is known as the ‘Crusaders
Hymn,’ it is doubtful that the Cru
saders ever sang it. The words
were written in 1G77, and Richard
Storrs Willis (1819-1900) translated
the original German in which it '
J was written and published the hymn I
| in America in 1850. The tune ‘Cru-
J saders Hymn’ was arranged by Pro
fessor Willis from a Silesian folk
song which appeared in a collection
of folk songs in 1842. Richard Wil
lis was a musician and a newspa
per man.”
Robert Louis Stevenson’s Prayer
A prayer by Robert Louis Steven
son was as follows: “The day re
! turns and brings us the petty round
; of irritating concerns and duties.
Help us to play the man, help us to
perform them with laughter and
kind faces. Let cheerfulness abound
with industry. Give us to go blithely
on our business all this day. Bring
us to our resting beds weary and
1 content and undishonored and grant
us in the end the gift of sleep.”
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