The Times News

"He selected from the immediately past the proposals that seemed most applicable not only to relieve distress, but to lay the foundation for an evolutionary process of social reconstruction. Here, a bit of the guidance of the national planners, there a bit from those who would regulate business, with some of the tonic of the inflationist school of thought-and mixed together they constitute a household remedy. If one judges by the present condition of the patient as compared with that of a year ago, the household remedies are quite adequate, provided, of course, there is plenty of fresh air, sunshine and common sense."

Editor White of Emporia, as in the case of Thomas, believes that Mr. Roosevelt may be slightly fuddled as concerns the future.

"But exactly what it is all about," he declares, "where we are headed, when we shall get there, and what we shall be when we arrive, the book does not reveal-denouement saveth not!

"What it does reveal, however, is that we are groping across some narrow isthmus in the new world between the precipices of fascism and communism, feeling our way, not knowing how far it is safe ahead, realizing that we must not turn back. The thing of which we may be sure at this time, after reading the president's book, is that we are under the leadership of a brave man, sure of himself, but not cocksure, generous, kind-hearted, and morally honest. He reveals no genius of intellectual leadership, his eye apparently does not penetrate the future. No seer is he: only 'a gentleman unafraid' leading a people out of the wilderness of the past, parting the waters of the present into a new, strange promised land, of which he knows as little as we do. He is only certain that we are on our way."