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Show ! BRUCE BARTON SEES RETURN TO "MIDDLE ROAD" ,,Writer, Now Congressman, Says "Business Must Learn to Get Along with Government." FEELING that conditions have reached the lowest possible point when youngsters converge on Washington and unashamedly demand three-and-one-half bil-'Jions bil-'Jions of dollars to keep them In comforts and provide them with i educations, and openly threaten governmental representatives with : "the consequences" if they don't hand over the money. Bruce Bar-iton, Bar-iton, prominent business man and ! writer who last year launched a career in politics, has declared that the time has come for America Amer-ica to take a middle road back to economic sanity. "With business and government jboth doubting their own infallibility," infalli-bility," said Barton in a Cosmopolitan Cosmo-politan Magazine article published today, "what is the next step? People obviously are getting tired 'of undigested legislation, .name ; calling and hullaballoo. Tbey are i impatient with Big Business and Big Government alike. The lett wingers are losing their lure, and . Ithe tough nuts on the right are be-ling be-ling cracked. Tbe country is about 'ready to swing back to the middle mid-dle of the road." . In his article, Mr. Barton severely severe-ly criticizes both Big Business and the New Deal. . "Big Business," be said, "took more than bis share; and when the people began to criticize him for it. he clung to tradition and his "rights' until the slow process of law actually threw hurdles in bis way." "Business," "Busi-ness," says Barton, "so capable and Ingenious in improving and selling sell-ing its product, "was far less progressive pro-gressive in its human relations. , Much of the time it was behind public opinion when it should bave jbeen ahead." Concerning tbe New Deal., he ""' Myi, "We may . fairly say that . ... Congressman Bruce Barton the major problems which the New Dealers promised to settle are still far from settlement. There were at least ten million persons out of work in 1933. , .More than forty billion dollars iave been spent, and tbe public debt has reached a terrifying total. -. But some ten millions of willing workers are still out of work." Now let business busi-ness neither sulk nor exult. Now let it humble itself and step into government and say:,-VTogethet: we shall serve you with tbe pow. er that must be supreme, and I with all the science, skill and rei . sources which I have learned to use so well.'". ..tUe Mr. ..Barton is resigned to the fact of unemployment. He ."says: "Unemployment -Is world wide. Unemployment is the biggest' business 'In the United States. , Government and Tndustry merely addUo their -burdens and expense by trying t blame it on each other." Although Mr.- Barton has long ' been a regular contributor to many national' magazines, tbe story appearing-in the June issue of th Cosmopolitan is bis first-political article -since assuming bia dutiei last January as Congressman from the'lYth Congressional (silk stocking) stock-ing) District in New York. ; '- x : i ' - |