Show national topics inter prated by william bruckart washington As the political pot begins to reach the bollI boiling fig stage through out the country it la Is red hot hoi apparent t that 11 a t in 1 r campaign stead 0 of a dearth of 0 baues over which candidates cah caa harangue there will actually be many of 0 them A few short week sq ago political ital leaders here either hoisted boasted or moaned about the lack of issues issue for the campaign according as the boaster or the moaner was a democrat or a republican the democrats felt president roosevelt had bad been such a huge success that republicans public ans could not find a vital or vulnerable spot to attack republicans whether they said so out loud or not felt much the same way in the interim however all of this has been changed and there surely will be a red hot campaign during the coming summer and fall months looking over tile the situation one sees an ag probable points of controversy such things as the air mall mail contract cancellation cel lation the charges that the new deal has overridden the ithe constitution of the United States the devaluation of the dollar and the profit taking in which the treasury thereafter engaged through seizure of all gold the en roach ment of the federal government upon business itself through and the scores of administrations and commissions that have been set uil up the proposal to revise the method of electing the president and the use of taxpayers money mone yin in development of such plans as a the tennessee valley authority to mention a few of them but it seems jt to we me that the most important issue of alt all Is I 1 only now coming to thi the surface succinctly it to Is whether the voters desire to have the various new deal items made it a permanent part of stir our national governmental ern rn structure rt it Is ii to be recalled that virtually all vf of the items of the now new deal have been put through con congress greis as emergency legislation some of them have hav ben been tested in 6 courts on a constitutional I 1 basis and and hi hare re been upheld as emergency mer gency laws iowa but it Is necessary to think of the pronouncements by president roosevelt almost directly asserting his Intention to make them permanent man ezit otherwise they would expire in june 1935 a little more than a year from now the expiration date furnishes the basis foy or the issue that appears to be so important the members ot 0 the house of and the aho 35 senators who acre are lipfor election this fall will have been are relec e i tedi or li ae tented I 1 eight months Int avance ce when tile the decision t oh continuation tot iba filli KW trail items that yere iero evicted aselt agency y taws con gres ire s s anade up df tile elected reelected re or new members 4 in the first week eek of january Jd quary 4 1635 35 that will be ta tiie pe coing coir gress j ta to alitt the ther course be it the tie question if the te mpr Tresi e derit requests th atthe emergency la in W w s be made made permanent andee says he will the new com congress Iress rither will do his biddings adare anare enact the laws h e ae astrea or it will kill kid them off by its refusal i 4 I 1 so ibe hie caladi candidates this tit a I 1 su kummen amer and tail must be bd prepared rep ired to answer cheth arthey will support a continuation of the new lael deal kir or will work lierk against it that up lip to the i voters eis it Is closely akin to a referendum forthe farmers tor for example it will ivill require a decision whether they want to go 0 on n into the future with ft i centralized I 1 functionary la in washington like AXA AAA telling them how much corn or wheat or cotton they can grow how much milk or eggs or fruit or cows or sheep or hogs they can produce for the manufacturer the issue will require a decision whether he wishes to go bonwith on with production under the codes likewise directed from washington for all taxpayers it will require a decision on the question ot of tile the type of expenditures that have been and are now going on out of the federal treasury it strikes me as about the most important set of questions presented to american voters in many years upon their decision rests the future policy of this nation I 1 have frequently expressed the opinion in these columns that things have happened so pace it Is rapidly under the too swift suit new deal that most otus ofus here cannot keep up with them frankly as an unbiased observer without political aff affiliation illation of any kind I 1 have been unable sometimes to reach a conclusion for myself regarding many of the new deal projects they have been thrust upon us at such speed that it has been utterly impossible to study all of them and that Is the unfortunate part of the forthcoming campaign it if we who are la in the front rows of the theater are puzzled what then roust must be the state of mind of those who are far removed from the stage and can judge only by the few favorable or adverse effects that reach them as individual C citizens J 9 7 I 1 r there will be quite a bit of water go aver over thedius the diun bero rehe votes are cast ln november Noi ember amay li may be thea ther e foret ore lAt a better un adopt of bf the plat of the play can be disseminated to the country at targe large rifi ope 1 p e so because tile decision to be made Is monre hola too thattie th atthe dam cam pal palan n will be the hottest we have had in generations otherwise the ques 1 lions the issues will not be thoroughly dily debated if they are not thoroughly de bated thousands upon thousands of voters are going to cast their ballots as democrats or republicans just because they have always been derno crata or republicans the coming campaign Is not of that structure the best indication I 1 have seen of a probability that all phases ot of the economic policies evolved from the new deal will be thoroughly discussed Is the greater freedom of debate in congress all of us remember how bills were sent to the capitol a year ago and earlier in tile the present session of congress and passed without debate or with very little there Is still too little debate on much of the legislation but that which Is going on serves to enlighten the public on the subject matter proposed this ought to be after all congress and the administration are only representatives of the people who pay the bill and whose citizenship make up our nation figures atte just been released here showing allowing that the federal government has h as approximately V US S payroll officials official and employees on its if ct at peak ff f payrolls that Is I 1 the highest point reached react igil since the post of 1930 it represents it a goodmann good many hundred ot of millions in dollars dollar tor for salaries si larlas of wages and d the alti increase resse has abeen beer brought about despite the economy laws law that ht were forced th through congress cong reja baat year some lome of the increase having occurred since january 1 1934 the figures figure I 1 have given do riot not include the members member of the house houie and senate nor their employees employee nor do they include the scores score of workers worker that make up the aff staff of the house and the employees employee of the capitol the count country rys federal judges judge nail and their staffs taff are counted in the totals but the army navy and marine officers officer and enlisted men inen are not included almost men who are enlisted in the CI conservation corps also are omitted if one figures tile the average family as tour four persons the federal payroll provides a livelihood for at least persons although I 1 am assured by the civil service commission that five persons Is a better average than four in which event government pay checks sustain about OW I 1 udo do not make these statements in criticism ours fours p Is a vast country find and a population of perhaps but it seems important to me that there should be such a vast number of persons living on government PF pay checks t 0 0 0 I 1 mentioned in fal an earlier paragraph ii to in till thu letter that oie oil of the issues about norris meat we lit Is likely to j be I 1 e elect election to n plan ln in evera state slate this xau fall is isi I 1 the proposal I 1 to revise the method pt electing the president it Is iq feete fact to amend the constitution cops titu iton of the te united states stales so that ahat the method of electing it a president io unnoted 1 states would beacco I 1 d by a electoral elect vote yip te in ghate proportionately with the ou of political party as shown by individuals individual ballots for example and as a better way oi of explaining what Is proposed a state way may ill be allowed twenty votes in the electoral college at present all of those electoral votes the presidential candidate who receives the majority maj of the individual ballots it Is a a unit rule now the constitutional amendment that Is projected would force a division of those electoral votes so that assuming the party votes were so divided eight of the electoral votes would be cast tor for one candidate and twelve for the other the authors of the proposed amendment are senator norris of nebraska and representative lea of ca california Il fornIa it Is the charge of the republicans that the move Is designed to give the democrats perpetual control of the presidency they are not making that charge out loud yet they want congress to pass the resolution proposing the amendment to the states so the republican speakers can argue about it all over the country this summer slimmer the point the republicans are making Is that the so go called solid south will continue to vote nearly all ot of its electoral ballots for or the democratic i candidate the case of mississippi Is cited it has nine electoral votes the republican party la Is virtually nonexistent there the result would be that certainly eight and maybe all of the nine votes would be cast tor for tile dem just as they are each four years under the present system add to the electoral votes of the south the gains that would come from such normally two party states as new york and the republicans assert the result would be permanent control of the government machinery bythe dem dein oc rats representative lea Leao says however that he a virulent two party ft fight lit would develop iri ayery y state in uie the union aalon representative martin tn a achu republican ar argues guei that the republicans wont have h a chance and there Is your issue ventoro Vea toro 8 7 nr |