Show 0 0 I 1 national topics interpreted by william Birtic kart national press washington D C washington five important stones in the new deal recovery arch have been new neu farm torn from froia their legislation moorings now and from all of the comments I 1 have been abla to pick up it appears that the general altu situation ailon has been clarified thereby two of the major new deal items the and the AAA leave been tossed overboard by the supreme court of the united states and congress tit at the request of the president now line has thrown three others into the limbo of unnecessary things by repealing the legislation for control of cotton tobacco co and potatoes these three with their parent the agricultural adjustment act represented till ill thant was wag basic in the now new deal farm program the importance of the presidents act in requesting repeal of the three compulsory crop control laws cannot be minimized mr air roosevelt recognized when the AAA was invalidated that thai the other three oliree crop control laws would be of no further use because they were predicated upon the national law he lecog further that to remain adamant would be only to permit de lay in invalidation of those three laws because ahey ayere were till all headed foran for an adverse decision by the supreme court anyway in spelling their repeal therefore mr roos roode velt simply tool took time by the fore lock lack and girded his armor for a fresh starts start on farm relief legislation where or in what form the new farm legislation will finally anally emerge none can foretell the house and senate will pass some kind of legs legh to io supplant the liwa laws invalidated by the court or repealed by congress necessarily tills this new farm legislation hii will lie be of a stop gap p character and I 1 dont believe that any of its ardent pip supporters porters can tell you exactly what the result will be in so far As its effect up upon 0 n agriculture Is concerned As far as the have been worked out oui it if appears that some borne of the leaders ar are I 1 willing again to enact legi legislation sladon directed at crop control in a compulsory manner if that ls Is forthcoming the new law actually will be nothing more than n thinly disguised ati at temotio temp tio the afie prohibitions i laid down in the coti court opinion holding the lie AAA unconstitutional tut ional lonal in any event the ahe tragedy in the situation appears to hiie me to be the absence of clear thinking or else the circumstances we see represent political cowardice of the worst type it la Is to bo bb remembered that in n tills this session of murp than lhnn any other since noose velt took office ehrp there eif a greater num number berof of blocs cross currents of opinion partisan jealousy A great deal of it Is in opposition to brain sponsored by the new deal hilt but for political reasons the individuals who oppose these things dare not openly show how their disapproval of presidential policies ps as such TIM thus a consensus has arisen among washington observers that representatives and senators concerned with directing enactment of now new fa farm rm legislation are likely comess up the situation rather berthan than come forth with a definite and workable proposition 0 0 the situation at the white house and in con congress kress in connection with agricultural grI cultural poll partisan partisan e les cles probably Is politics rule the best illustration in a definite nite tang tangible form of how ninny many important federal policies ore are being dealt with in a partisan political way ar rather than as they should be in A a scientific manner with partisan politics in the background I 1 need not recall how many pieces of legislation have been pat put through cn j gross gress bearing it a new deal tw tag of dinst of f course mr aft roosevelt Hoos uvelt cannot be blamed entirely for issuing orders when congress Is willing to obey it Is a fact nevertheless that time after time and with ft arence to the major new peal deal experiments peri ments the legislation tins liaa been drafted by men serving under a presidential appointment in executive de ts the coples copies forwarded to given representatives or senators and instructions passed along that the administration will tale take no substitute it wants the specific measure and in that form the result of nil all of this tins been that la in numerous cases legislation was passed without more than a few members of the house bouse and senate having even read the bills billi before they were asked to cast a favorable yotson vote on their passage now representatives and senators are seeking to dodge the responsibility for their nets acts this was shown definitely in the celerity with which congress acted pa on the presidential request for repeal of the three crop control acts named heretofore I 1 know now personally ot 0 a considerable number ot of representatives and ana senators who were delighted M it the opportunity port unity to vote repeal of those 1 laws a we they never did like them after they found out what h had ad cassed president roosevelt likely villre alli receive some credit for seeking repeal of the discredited admits laws lie he said if his Mi mistake stale he made ide ft n mistake he would be the first to adroit it so now lie ho has hag in a way admitted that ho lie mado madea a mi mistake stalie in approving these those laws t although his statement concerning the repeal request was waa that these were useless s without 11 t AAA it la Is to be noted however that long before the supreme courtoux cour court tout outlawed AAA there was a growing volume of discontent with the prin idyles that law sought to apply it cannot be that mr roosevelt was not aware of this growing faction and that thae his political tid id smelled a rat b because e cirii r ca n good many plans for modification fica tio n had been under tinder discussion privately among AAA advisers long beiro before a supreme court decision was in prospect practical men working with secretary wallace and administrator dails were steadily trying to accomplish changes in administration of the AAA law and the three as well to make it workable they were confronted however with a superabundance of brain tr usters who could make i a beautiful case in print for their views and during that time the brain tr usters tru stera had the ear odthe of the president while the practical administrators were left out in the cold it 19 a thus that delsee we see a development under U the N new CW D deal on I 1 wh whereby e reby most of i the responsible people are attempting ang io to dodge the responsibility that belongs to them some of then them are attempting to clean their own skirts or make their skirts appear clean by damning the su supreme preme court others are arc blaming our system for failure of the th theories e to 1 in practical application x and still other groups point the finger of scorn at th those ose charged with administration of the agricultural policy blaming them for the ft failure things thing like this have ave developed be fore in washington and have atil down in due time but I 1 believe that seldom if ever has i occurred a BU alt in which the responsibility was so general and the blame so generally dinten dinted by those responsible Washington observers a are re W watching ih the presidents latest infest maneuvers on govern government mInt nuit must cut finance with con borrowing Infer In ferest esL the president f you yon know already lias has told apen agen cleg cies of the government that are equipped with borrowing power th that at they must reduce this borrowing I 1 lie has in effee effect t withdrawn from them authorization that would would have permitted ahe he borrowing of about during tho the next neit year during the last iasi few weeks the chief executive has bas been een concerned also with reduction in governmental nd at the same ame plans to raise additional money he has presented a tax bill to congress an obstinate congress representatives senta tives and seno senators tore donot like to campaign after passing a new tax tat bill bellr so they frankly do not like theader the idea of rew pew taxes al ai this time it Is too early to forecast the full importance of the presidents ts latest moves there are those who vrho insist that mr roosevelt evelt Is malting making a sincere effort diffort io hocut I 1 clit down government govi spending and to convince the nation that lie he Is seeking to reduce the waste that la Is naturally attendant upon such a volume of disbursements of money a as 4 has taken place in tho te last three years there are others othera who take th the 0 position th atthe president to Is simply building up a picture which can be shown to the voters when election time comes an unbiased conclusion la Is that mai a little of ench each claim to la true if expenditures tures turps actually are reduced obviously the action will be we welcomed by the he taxpayers on the he other hand band the ballyhoo that went out from the white house and execl alye departments concerning the withdrawal of borrowing power was rather unjustified it was unjustified for the reason abit hat the move was simply a bookkeeping proposition and further there was even a hint I 1 that such agene agencies les as the recon finance corporation and home owners loan corporation had no plans for borrowing extensively during the forthcoming summer and fall it if one looks into the fatute in connection conn with the presidential program of curtailing borrowing anil and cutting expenditures it to Is rather difficult to escape the thought that a continuation of policies such n as have been sponsored ili by the new deal in till the last three thre years yeara will ivill twee force a renewal of these expend tures in due course in other words the administration course respecting these expenditures Is got going ng to depend upon the results of the november election if ur air roosevelt Is returned to the white bious and lie he continues with a substantial tuest democratic majority majori tp in cong congress reFA there Is ia no an reason to believe that present sent spending policies will bt be enIl entirely rely abandoned 0 western no union |