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Show The New Deal Crazy Quilt By Representative Clifford R. Hope, of Kansas. While numerous large corporations corpora-tions and the brokers on the stock market are doing a flourishing business, busi-ness, and while the holders of Industrial In-dustrial stocks have profited greatly the farmer, the small businessman and the laboring man have been standing still and the situation of unemployed and those on relief has not appreciably Improved. What is the reason the Roosevelt program, after three years, has failed fail-ed so signally to bring recovery except ex-cept to the stock market and big business? Good intentions do not take the place of common sense or good Judgment. The present administration administra-tion has failed because it has not had the ability to meet our present day business and economic problems! prob-lems! The trouble Is that no one has been able to tell In what direction we ore going. There has been talk of planned economy on the part of some of the Presidents advisers, but to date there has been nothing that could be called constructive planning plan-ning and certainly nothing resembling resemb-ling economy, no matter in what sens!? you may use the word. The planners do not get together and the direction In which we have been headed at any particular moment mo-ment has depended entirely upon which group of planners had last gotten the ear of the president. The constant uncertainty in which the country is kept by the sudden moves of the president to the right and to the left, as seems dictated by political expediency, has a most unsettling effept upon business and industry. -It has prevented a normal natural expansion. As long as there is uncertainty, such as we have had for the past three years, there will be no incli-. nation to explore new fields, to experiment ex-periment and to develop. That is what the country needs more than anything else today. f The most serious criticism of the New Deal is that It assumes we must freeze production in business and in industry, but divide It up in a different way than In the past. Such a policy is not liberal and progressive, pro-gressive, as New Dealers would have you believe. It la essentially reactionary. |