Show Editors' Editors Views Views' on Tax Plan Range From ROpe Hope to Alarm NEW V YORK Tunc Tune 21 UP UP- UP Cheer alarm and understanding marked editorial reception of oC President Roosevelt's tax lax message message message mes mes- sage to congress Is it revolution No No evolution tion said the New York Dally Daily News It said toward what most people nowadays nowadays nowadays nowa nowa- days regard as as' as the best possible kind of ot country to live In That Thatis is a country where nobody is ver very poor and nobody too rich where th the young and the old dont don't work but are provided for and where those In their active years dont don't overwork and do have plenty of ot leisure and high standards of liv liv- ing If we do evolve a n country country country coun coun- try where plenty is equitably distributed distributed dis dis- dis- dis we must live unto ourselves ourselves ourselves our our- selves otherwise cheap cheap- labor goods from Japan and elsewhere elsewhere elsewhere else else- where will come conic in to dynamite our high wage scales and outsiders outsiders out out- siders alders will grow jealous of our happy hermit nation nallon and cut themselves in on our plenty with ships and guns The new deal at its maddest the New York Tribune Herald-Tribune branded the proposal The tiThe latest essay In rashness by Mr Roosevelt Roosevelt Roosevelt Roose Roose- velt it said will hardly cause surprise It will however renew dismay at the spectacle of a president who can so lightheartedly light heart edly disregard his burdens at a critical moment in the nations nation's upward struggle toward e ery ry A political move is all the New NewYork NewYork NewYork York Times could see in the tax message He uses language which seem to show how he is writing an essay on a drastic reorganization of our social system rather than submitting a u plan of taxation But ut though this may please them and retain the support of western progressives the substance substance substance sub sub- stance of his scheme must seem to them on close examination to come far short of oC their perfect model There can be little HUle doubt moreover that the levying of any very high estate tax would in a afew afew afew few years exhaust the source it seems evident that this part of the presidents president's plan as a permanent form of oC taxation has not been studied if it it itis itis itis is to be bo made a practicable measure measure meas meas- ure Kansas Cil City Journal Post Ind md President Roosevelt seems to be under some strange compulsion to keep himself on the front page in a manner th that t twill will paint him as the friend of the masses v masses even though the scheme he announces at intervals ls for lor helping the Ifor forgotten otten man arc unworkable and crack crack- brained Only this mania of oC his can account for Ills his adoption at this late date dale of oC the Huey Hucy Long Longs Father Coughlin soak the ri rich h program We Ve find ourselves asking asking asking ask ask- ing the question What next Kansas City Star Ind md In his tax ta me message President Roose- Roose has made a master political stroke even though its immediate immedi ate effect may be to slow down recovery With the failure and disintegration of oC the N R A the tho new deal had sunk to a low point Now the pre president l dent has rehabilitated ed it and regained more ground than had been lost At the same time lime he vastly diminished dan danger er to the administration of ofa ofa ofa a third party |