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With a liberal sprinkling of President Hoover's rosiest 1928 quotations. Speaker Garner's argument took this tack: The 1929 crash and subsequent Depression hit the U. S. first, did not. as Republicans claim, come from abroad. The economic collapse developed from domestic folly and the notion that prosperity was about to "abolish poverty." For two years President Hoover minimized Federal deficits, missed his guess as to their total size by about four billion dollars. Public distrust of Treasury policy was at the root of last winter's panic. The President was two years late getting around...
American business experience includes many panics and crises as well as booms and periods of prosperity, and it is a matter of common knowledge that business prospects are apt to look rosiest just before the storm. Hence, many far-sighted business men have for some time been trying to find the secret worm in the present beautiful apple. Even the always optimistic motor makers underestimated just how well cars would sell this year. Many less enthusiastic lines of business have felt for some time that business is "too good"-a practically new complaint...
...army has a way of coloring enlistment in its rosiest hue for the young men who are eager to learn. Its latest scheme makes it clear that there is a "chance for enlisted men of the army to get a thorough college education" after the period of their enlistments. Some thirty-nine colleges have signified their co-operation by offering free tuition, and fifty-two offer aid in one way or another. Unless the men are distinctly eligible the colleges will suffer. Just where this plan is of value to the individual and to the colleges is not clear...