Show Al AI Smiths Smith's Vie View In the midst o 0 enthusiasm for the New Ne D Deal al sponsored by President Roo Roosevelt there was late ly Iy lately appeared criticism of some of the measures s whereby his program is to be put into effect The most prominent critic of the law law- by which the government is empowered to exercise dictatorial powers over business and industry Actis known as the National Act is Alfred E Smith presidential candidate in 1928 In his magazine The New he said aid in part This act if the terms are carried car car- carried carried ried out will cripple initiative I I monI legalize and even encourage mon mon- monopoly monopoly raise prices and require higher tariffs to maintain the new structures The little tittle man will vill be i lost in the shuffle I do not want to see this landof land of opportunity sink to a dead level in which we shall all be civic servants servants working un- un un der under political control If that hap hap- happens happens happens pens American we shall shan have sold our Amer Amer- ican for a mess of Com Com- Com pottage A great reat many patriotic citizens agree O with Mr Smith that some of oC the legislation tion passed by the I recent Con Congress ress goes too far in inthe I the direction of placing everybody and everything under government control We can only await the result result re- re sult suit of these revolutionary meas meas- measures measures ures and jn in the tho meantime hope forthe the best |