Colonel Theodore Roosevelt Warns Harvard Men They Will Have to Pay for New Deal Experiments

"Harvard men--and I say men advisedly--should awake to the dangers inherent in the so-called "New Deal" and get out and do something to check their advance, because they are the ones who will have to 'pay the piper'." Thus Colonel Theodore Roosevelt '09 yesterday afternoon expressed his opinion as to what Harvard men, and college students in general should do in the next few years.

"Men of my generation won't have to bear the taxes to pay for these staggering expenditures, but college students and their children will, and it's ridiculous that you who are going to pay for it all should tolerate, or encourage by indifference, the wasteful experiments which are going to cost you so much."

The famous son of T. R., tanned almost copper-brown by many years of hunting expeditions in Africa, flashed his well-known grin when questioned about possible candidates in 1936. "Oh, it's much too early to talk about men or personalities. What we have to do new is what the line has to do in a football game. We have to act as interference and clear away the opposition before we start to talk about who is going to carry the ball for us.

"There are plenty of good men in the country when we are ready to select one. But now we have to agree on a fundamental set of principles in opposition to the New Deal, and work actively against its dangerous tendencies."

"Grass Root" Meetings

Colonel Roosevelt approves heartily of the many "Grass Root" meetings to determine Republican policy, at which the delegates will be all the small-town and county leaders; the groups go to the very "grass roots" of the party to revitalize it. The meeting in Boston last night was the first of these, and it will be followed by others in the Midwest, Pacific Coast, and other sections.

"They are a splendid idea. It is always wise to go to the very bottom of the party and work up. In that way we get the views of all members, and every shade of opinion in the party."

"I'd like to urge Harvard men to get out and really become active in political and public affairs. Too many times the 'fate of the nation' is decided over a drink, and then the students forget all about it the next day. There has been too much indifference among young men. They're the ones we want, and they're the ones the country should have in public life.