Conrad Cartoon

Judging from Conrad’s pasquinade of Jan. 14, it is apparent that he is not just afflicted with an askew and aberrant mind, quite evident in his animadversive and contumelious delineations of any subjects antithetical to his adamantine persuasions, but is also suffering from aggravated senescence and lapsus memoriae.

This is confirmed by his insinuative imputation of supposititious semicentennial depressions to Republicans.

If he will retrospect 50 years he will objectify the depth of our fetter into the Roosevelt Depression. President Hoover had the depression only four years, President Roosevelt had it eight. It has erroneously been attributed to President Hoover, a fatuous arrogation; but it was incipient when he came into office. He had lenitive proposals for its mitigation, but had a contumaciously intransigent Democrat House and Senate, whose members were not tractable until they approved virtually the same bills for his successor, President F.D. Roosevelt.

In spite of the fact the latter had whelming Democrat support from both the accordantly lopsided House and Senate, it was not he and the Democrats, but the ineluctable exigency of World War II, which curbed the Roosevelt Depression. Notwithstanding the almost unbridled liberty for spending and pump-priming which he was granted, unemployment was as high as 10% eight years after he took office. Conrad’s calumniatory allusion to the current Administration is incongruent and sophistical.

JOHN GRANT

Huntington Beach