Show 0 Changing Times Call for Creation of U. U S. S Bureaus i Various Vario s Interests Favor Special Agencies for Own Problems Patronage Plums Sought Cy Jy Political Parties i 0 By News New Analyst and Commentator I Service Union Trust Building Washington D. D C. C The much-mooted much question of states rights as against the over- over centralization of government in Wasl Washington which Washington which which is lumped neatly bureaucracy into the one word is due for a thorough airing in the coming political campaign The recent debate in the senate over especially in the contest over whether the federal government should administer the unemployment payments during the over change-over from war production to civilian production is a good ex ex- ex- ex ample There will be much sound and fury much thundering in the index on this subject Little will ill be found to have been accomplished when the dust settles For in this question we behold an interesting paradox New Dealers as well as Republicans left left- wingers as well as wingers right-wingers deplore deplore deplore de de- de- de the growing centralization of power in the federal government as asa a threat to democracy And yet all of them when they sit down to look at t the facts admit privately that there is little or no chance of checking checking check check- ing mg this trend The very groups which oppose the tendency toward the creation of more federal machinery and denounce denounce denounce de de- de- de the bureaucrats the loudest are ire insistent that enough of the bureaucrats who handle their special ial cial interests be spared whenever the fhe axe threatens to fall I It is upon this little inconsistency that President Roosevelt always fangs his rebuttal whenever Sena- Sena or Byrd and other critics of his lav- lav sh government spending call for fora a of the government pay- pay oll Of course the war badly dis- dis the traditional democratic institution in in- of checks and balances and private enterprise right out by he hair and sat down in its place the brutal indifference which is associated with Mars l The federal today finds itself doing Business on a scale larger than all enterprise put together Tome Some ome of these activities are bound boundo o 0 stick when normal times finally but the trend toward started even before hat According to Alfred Bingham who las written a book called The of Idealism which you aught to read whether you can agree it or not the trend toward Bureaucracy is due largely to two of If f five revolutions which he says ire going on now Bingham says that revolution results re- re from the up pent-up pressure of social change He believes hat like water-power water it can either sweep in a destructive flood ever ver peaceful cities and farms or ort ort ort t can be controlled and turned to Beneficial use Revolt of Common Man Encourages Bureaucracy The first of the revolutions he lames and one of those which las las gas encouraged bureaucracy and increased in in- creased the demands on the fedral federal fedral fed fed- ral eral governments government's manpower is the revolt of the common cornmon man Of ourse course that revolt has been going jn m lustily with the start it got at the barricades in Paris and the events which occurred between Lexington md and Yorktown but the depression of 1929 moved it ahead quite a peg in inthis inthis this his country to say nothing of what happened after alter World War I all over the he world including the birth of comm communism fascism and all their freak reak off Bingham says it was the call of the he common for man social and economic economic economic eco eco- security which was one of the two wo chief causes of the growing centralization centralization cen- cen of government He cites as s two examples the labor group which demanded that their interests s be e looked after and the farmers The labor department which had hadeen been een a part of the department of commerce since 1903 was crea created ted teda a separate unit in 1913 Bingham says ays that the vast organization under under uner un- un der er the department of agriculture was vas the result of the insistence b by farmers that agriculture be recoe- recoe recognized recognized and assisted The second revolution the demands demands demands de de- de- de mands of which brought about additional addi- addi I lonal Honal federal activity according to I Bingham was the technical revo- revo revolution revolution lution another name for the industrial industrial industrial indus indus- j trial revolution which has made I mass production and all the wonders won won- j 1 ders of the machine age possible 1 dollar Billion-dollar corporations required some government control various industries notably those producing and using the automobile and the airplane called for highway and skyway sky sky- way encouragement regulation and guidance The huge department of commerce with its many activities conducted to aid business became a separate entity in 1903 and has grown steadily since And right here we might assert that the common man and if you j will the less common man worker farmer artisan executive or entrepreneur entrepreneur entre entre- although he joins merrily in the chorus denouncing the bureaucrats in hi general doesn't want the particular bureaucrat who is ready to help his particular interest interest inter inter- est disturbed If he does not actually demand the services of such a bureaucrat he may create a situation which his competitor or those who may become his victim insist must be controlled by the gov gov- Of course Mr Bingham's answer to all this is that a growing expansion expansion expansion ex ex- of governmental powers is 3 all right so long as it is self-govern- self j ment Without debating that question question ques- ques quest t I tion lets let's see exactly how badly the bureaucrat is really hated I But you will find that there are j bureaucrats and bureaucrats You will find no complaint about the civil servant who carries out the decrees of the peoples people's duly elected representatives provided those decrees decrees decrees de de- crees have been sponsored not to say lobbied through congress at said complainants complainant's request Let us consider the following statement statement statement state state- ment concerning one bureau bureau presumably presumably presumably pre pre- pre pre- administered if I read my Webster aright by bureaucrats Federal aid in building and maintaining highways as carried out under Republican administrations administrations administrations and since continued is a sound and comparatively harmonious pro pro- gram GOP Has Some Kind I 1 Words for Bureaus Federal responsibility regarding regard ing lug agriculture should be directed to such economic stabilization through disposition of surpluses surpluses' assurance assurance assurance as as- of fair market prices Who Vho says this The 26 Republican governors assembled in St. St Louis early this month to back Mr Deweys Dewey's presidential campaign They represented we opine both the common man and likewise the uncommon man And if you want further support for Mr Bingham's thesis that the leaders in the world of technology the men who own the machines and supervise their operation like some of the bureaucrats note the statement statement statement state state- ment from authentic sources that after the war industry is going to encourage the perpetuation of some of the functions of the OP OPA A and the because it is thought they can canI I help stabilize industry On the other side of the medal again just to preserve a nice balance balance balance bal bal- bal bal- ance what about the GI Bill of Rights That law puts into the hands of the federal government the administration of the greatest welfare program ev ever r framed I take it that high low and middle are willing to pay for the bureaucrats bureaucrats bureaucrats bureau bureau- to run this program out atthe of at the federal treasury It was passed unanimously by congress So it goes We can boil down the debate in congress over unemployment insurance insurance insurance ance and the effort to put the administration administration administration ad ad- ministration of the payments into the hands of the states into a much more immediate and practical question question question ques ques- tion than the broad principle of states rights centralization of government gov 1 or the growth of bureaus bureau j I racy It is a simple matter here of j whether the administration any administration handing out the benefits benefits benefits ben ben- directly sets up the officeholders office officeholders holders who do the handing out or whether the state governments state political machines assume these gracious functions In other words who gets the political support support support sup sup- port in return Im I'm sorry but that's the way it is is |