Show 0 fa if 0 national topics interpreted by william bruckart washington wash 0 n to 1 ilea of general dla dis lit in washington obviously range tile whole category more critics of subjects that go BO more afore none noise to tn make up 1 I the new deal but bat I 1 liate hate been impressed ased lately with the predominant place now held field by two questions lit in the conversations one hears about tile the streets offices clubs end and other oilier places where men mcd meet largely large to the exclusion of other matters one hears people trying to ligure out whether a turn his come tn in tile roosevelt political luck hick ns as one topic and growing comment on the prevalent confusion within alio llio lie administration as the other subject of 0 cona comment anent true they constitute questions to which the final answer Is not yet let apparent but tho the thought I 1 nin am trying to advance Is that possibly the new deal Is undergoing der going some sort of a transition after one year attention should be 10 called again to the all embracing control which president roosevelt hitherto tins has exercised almost without effort anything an thing he mid eald anything lie he lid did or anything lie he proposed was accepted there were few critics and those who did caiti cize cannot be described as highly vo 0 o cal now kow however it la Is a tact fact that there are more critics and they are milking inal cing noise that Is not hushed hus lied there fire are open opponents of the administration policies not only in tile alio republican ranks where it Is natural they would be found but among the democrats its as well As nearly is as I 1 can ascertain the wine wave of that li ailts lilts is come collie forth into bloom Is traceable ceable to one of sir mr acts directly the hie con fusion that has followed seems nl at tile some same time to have been given birth ns fis a result of the unexpected criticism or to tn state the proposition in another ii antior the administration efforts to fetid fend off tile the criticism are viewed by howe boine observers as having fornies the basis of tha confusion I 1 can report only thit that which I 1 crit to be fact and on appearance alone it seems mr roosevelt acted hasbit ha hastily on oil we the air malf mail contract conti acl cancellation and ills action unlooked unloosed ua un loosed till an issue over which individuals can take sides bides it lg Is really the first time lie tills has provided the opposition with a peg on which they can hang filing their lints hats while tho the official spokesmen of the administration say fay there Is no connection between the backfire back hack fire lire resulting from tile alie contract cancellation and the several beveryl moves made by the president since in his far lung efforts to get us out of the depression I 1 hill am told that these declarations are having no effect on those who want to t criticism criticise critic ise the new deal schemes the revision program tile of at a new billion dollar proem of it a relief character for the OWA which administrator llop klus now concedes ton cedea tills lus been something of a lop flop arid and tile the battles for legislation in congress all are accepted its as showing allowing the desire of tile he president to accomplish a change in tile the attitude of the critics it Is axiomatic that if people can be made to talk or think about other things lings ti they will forget to voice opinions about bilings which they oppose so some I 1 I 1 I 1 e siy say it la Is another exposition of tile the psychology of keeping peoples minds mind oft off tile the depression pres slon hut but it lias has not succeed od d yet iet whether it will to bo be been it Is to bo be observed that for the first time criticism ot of the new deal plaits includes a alz hit at alile able attack on the expenditures heing being lande mr velt lias has been spending money as fast if not faster than wits was spent during the world war and many persons fire are now cow coming forward with tile the assertion that spending our wily wai out of tile the depression depies slon may leive leave the government go eminent with such a debt that our childrens children still will be piling paying on it but right lit in the face of these attacks mr roosevelt Boo lias has brought forth the CIVA substitute and a request that congress appropriate to pay for it 11 in vie meantime and while alle the confusion lus has become worse confounded it Is to be noted that orders have gone from froin the alie executive odicon to the democratic leaders in congress con giess to get new air lr mull mall contract con legislation log Nulon through in a hurry this legislation Is pred tented on the theory that hut private air lines shall carry the air imily furth or cr there Is every reason to believe now that tile the whose contracts wern were cancelled so hastily will be allowed nilow nl to bid again for the jobs postmaster general parley maintains the president was acting in accordance cor dance with law when lie he ordered the mall mail coa contracts tracts canceled sir bir roosevelt has said so la in several different languages tho the tact fact remains how flow ever that it always has been tile the practice to accord an opportunity for 9 hearing whether tile the charge be one v vt fraud or whether it be some other allegation no hearing was granted the air mall mail contractors contractors Inde edl they were div en lewit lei t than it aa Q two wo weeks of time before they w q lt afy of f the tha jo job and io the army allta are arc doug the work At according cordIng to 0 that ide discussion to lo co it Is f thera ide hrc ninny brsus fier sons the country who feel eel the contractors iise ter c fate shake flione by alii allie president tho the conversations I 1 heur bear are to the general effect that if the urmy unity had find been equipped to do the mail currying carrying job as some dome of its ita general stuff staff mein hers publicly announced and annl if there had been no such deplorable loss of life among the youthful aridly pilots ns as occurred sir mr roosevelt in nil all like would have lind find few re percus alons to the draina tic cancellation of contracts lut but the irmy planes were not tilted for the job and there was a deplorable loss of life among the youthful army pilots and on oil top of that there was open criticism of the cancellation order among it good many of the 11 presidents resIdents own party in congress if the criticism of the air dinall contracts had come alone sir mr roosevelt in tile tho opinion of utility many competent ob servers would have weathered the storm probably he would have been the gainer because few people are willing to condone crookedness I 1 mentioned confusion as ono one 0 of tho the main topics of conversation in washington lit T tt la Is a much correct a state ta te confusion ment lent at no time in a long acquaintance with official affairs afra firs have I 1 seen clr cir cuni stances in tho nations capital in which the moves have been so swift tint that even trained observers have their in keeping up actually by alie tl time one gets a thorough thoro tigh knowl ie eige ede of changes resulting from fr ii lit one move another or several ins has taken place they have oine collie accurately niura tely speaking front from all over town for the numerous agencies administrators bureaus bure buie aus in I 1 departments and so forth are scattered that widely ikeie is an illustration of how things chango front from tile various sources sn of information which the administration lias has set up the correspondents were led to believe that the civil works administration plan of relief was going along all hunky dory then rather suddenly there came tile the happening which I 1 predicted some months ago namely a lot of petty graft next sir mr Il the administrator made a rather clean breast of the thing saying in effect that the OWA had lopped flopped but few of the correspondents were prepared for the sudden announcement from the president that a substitute plan had been evolved evolved ev olied the resident president I had aen teen planning to efi eliminate minate relief with tile the return of warmer weather something had happened however with which the correspondents were not made acquainted this was development of a conclusion that industry despite the and other new deal plans was riot not absorbing workers ns as rapidly as had been expected hence the president decided to continue tile the program but in a different form it ought to be said here that indus try tins has not been entirely to tn blame industry Is recovering of that there can be no doubt but the progress has been just as slow as progress pro giess tint flint takes place when a human being recovers from a long iong illness some of the economists in the government have been frank enough to tell vie me that they had been too optimistic they were justified ju stIlled in their belief that recovery was under way and it Is happening but their guess had been wrong as to speed mr roosevelt outlined in his announcement no a program of relief for fop first distressed tarn fam relief 11 illes lea in rural areas stranded stalled t f a to ni I 1 I 1 I 1 e a program and populations in communities where industries have died such as in worked out coal mine aroas areas and for unemployed populations in large cities from this outline it would appear that there had been a great change in tile method of dealing out relief relict compared with the present system As far as I 1 can get facts on tills this new program however there Is actually little difference it may serve to create a feeling of new progress and it troy may serve to get rid of some of the appointees whose work has not been satisfactory without causing cousin po lotical strife but I 1 believe the end sought will be no different than the plan while this has been worked out thera have been new rulings galore respecting the agricultural adjustment administration contracts with farmers fan ners relating to cotton wheat corn anti and hogs a new policy also re specking spec ting treatment of the dairy industry and a new setup for or handling foreign trade the treasury with its vast gold hoard tins hns had to work out details slowly but there are myrinda myriads of those hoso details and on top of these there tins has come a ruckus la in congress where representatives and 30 10 odd senators are up tor for reelection election re this fall there la is more than a sprinkling of who want to restore part of the veterans compensation that tha was taken taen B y last year by the economy act 11 i are the ad ja A henr ago afi fr loosevelt Hoo sevelt could havo have Bald sald it a whispered no on OD I 1 anhof thee and his have been A irrevocable ardef at a different now however hn never and the breach lie tween the and congress a no 0 by eastern newspaper antun |