| Show E ECONOMIC CON 0 1 I C HIGHLIGHTS Happenings that affect the dinner palls pails dividend checks and ta tax bills ta bills of every individual l Nit Nat on onal onal onal al and international problems iii separable sep from local ocal welfare Many 1 of the Washington corre correspondent of late have been belli corn com meriting on a n strange phenomena which is furrowing the brows of senators and Thel There C is i a gron growing volume of pub lie criticism of Administration lEg legislation unaccompanied unaccompanied by crit- crit cism cism of the man who is responsible for it Franklin D Roosevelt All the Con Congressmen have been finding their mails malls flood flooded d with Ith letters reading leading in m effect You Yon should vote and work stock exchange change billor bill or some other othel White House e backed bill which holds the the- limelight at the time because it will delay deby reco recovery er Support the President That Isn t at all far fetched Thousands perhaps tens of thou thousands thousands thousands sands of such letters ave l-ave 1 rave ave reached the capital l and ind the more prominent ent the legislator the more he gets getsIn In spite of their obvious inconsistencies inconsistencies such letters are Important They show sho something that is of vItal interest est and will be a vital influence in 10 coming political cam campaigns campaigns That the voting public IS to fear that the New Deal DealIS is more revolutionary both In principle and practice thin than it had bargained gained for but for but that its faIth ItS h trust and its affection for the President is 10 as strong pel perhaps haps I stronger than ever evel Mr Roosevelt I in m Its us view cm n maKe maxe mistakes but he cm n do no wrong The Wirt inquiry brought blought the criticism Jm to a held he Mr Ir startling that charge charge that e-that that members of the brain trust were conspiring to overthrow the government andre and re- re regarded rc Mr l Roose Roosevelt elt as the ra I he of the American revolution eventually lIy to be replaced by Its Lemn t taken very seriously m Agin thereas there was as nothing thrilling m in his statement that men such as Dr well Tug want ant chan changes es made Inthe inthe in the American government Mr government Tugwell his has written many books made many miny speeches given Iven many interviews and his ideas arc are hard hard- hardly hardly hard hardly ly i n secret But i wake of Ir 1 Wirt came other more moderate te and better bc be r known critics who offered offer offer- offered offered ed the opinion that weere we were ere drift drift- ing mg toward fascism that that the public hadn much idea of t what was go gorng going on that the shoals t far ahead The They were ere backed up by a substantial volume of newspaper comment And everyone every one of these crItics as well as ae Dr Wirt was as careful to avoid anything that might be construed as a knock at the Pre President President Jl- Jl dent All of this indicates that Mr Roosevelt is liable to find it tough getting some come of his more unusual legislatIon through h future sessions of Congress but Congress but that thit his personal hold on the American electorate will III continue to be firm There are plenty of potentialities for political political cal excitement in m that unique sit sit- situation sit situation The federal government is send s b ending nd mg money in a big way but way but not m in so big a way wiy as was anticipated three months ago On January 15 the President estimated that the government would spend pend in fiscal 1934 1934 1934 of that was as classed as emer- emer emelI emergency gency enc expense Nine months of the I fiscal year are arc gone now no and cx have only come to 2 2 well vell well under half This IS only about one third more than the Hoover administration spent m in the same period of its last fiscal y ear earI I Principal l reason for the drop IS found in the fact that emergency payments have totaled only 2 2 And that in turn is largely due to the happy exper exper- ex experience experience per per- of the The budget In eluded almost for that however bureau bureau however since Jan Jan- January Jan uary 1 a quitter quarter of a billion doll dolI dol- dol I dol-I l I lars has been mid Id back bach on loans made Head man Jesse Jones be beI I he hees es that repayments will ti he t ke kei care of all an loans to be made until I July |
