| Show I Between You and a nd Me M I Ro Roosevelt Assurance ce to Business L Late fe but Good Mere G Gesture sture Though Unless C Costs Are Cut f By Raymond Clapper pp r Most Moat commonsense commonsense persons will regard President Roosevelt's letter to Roy W. W H Howard ward promisIng promising promis promis- ing lag a breathing g spell for tor busness' busness business bus busi ness ness' was was slightly l tc but a good start It was was slightly late ate because i if Mr Roosevelt had given that as assurance assurance as- as some U tine tim e back the hc exaggerated ex ex- attacks s of f his extreme critics would not have been so effective in hi undermining him and most of his w works By his si silence silence silence si- si lence on this thi matter sections of the public w were re led by the more bitter critics of the administration tion to believe that Mr Roosevelt Roosevelt Roosevelt Roose Roose- velt was but a smiling Stalin a Hitler In velvet gloves working deviously sly not merely meely to bring ab about out a more perfect union but butto butto butto to revolutionize our system of 04 government Large numbers who th hesitated to accept that extreme indictment nevertheless lost some confidence ce in the new new deal Business men who should have been con concentrating thought and arid energy uP upon 1 increasing their volume yol- yol vol vol- ume umi were distraught and worried worried wor wor- ried ned about what Washington might do to them The blessings of social J security which the administration administration administration ad ad- ministration had given to their were denied to them They worried under a clo cloud d of insecurity at the very moment when fl fundamental 1 business conditions conditions conditions con con- seemed brighter than at any ti time e since 1929 Now that the gesture has been een made it is received generally as asa asa asa a good start Three days ago it was stated in this column Expanded Expanded Expanded Ex business activity offers the best bet now Instead of strikIng strikIng striking ing a menacing pose which enables enables enables en en- ables his political opponents to say that he is retarding rather than facilitating recovery Mr Roosevelt could adopt a friendly attitude place less emphasis on the doctors doctor's prescription from Washington and more on encouraging encouraging encouraging aging natural recuperative forces and if this guess is worth anything anything any any- thing at all there would be a quick easing of the tension which keeps the ad administration and the business life of the country pullIng pulling pulling pull pull- ing at cross purposes ses Once this situation were cleared cleared and and so much of it is temperamental on both sides and so readily amenable amenable amenable amen amen- able to a touch of mutual friendliness ness that it is a tragic loss for such tension to continue the continue the chances are arc all in favor of our going over the top quite soon But flut this is only a start While bus business ness is demonstrating what it itcan itcan itcan can do under the reassurance which it has just received from the president the administration itself has a large task of ot- performance performance per per- ahead of it it and one in which little progress progress' will be benade made nade except by steady pressure from Mr Roosevelt personally That is the j job b of pulling d down expenses The object is t to check the bit bil billions billions bil- bil lions of dollars which are being stacked up on the debt annually to to head back to toward tord rd a balanced b budget Increased business activity activity ac ac- ac- ac will produce greater revenues revenues reve reve- flues and thus attack the deficit from one side Increased econOmizing econ economizing mizing by hy the government will curtail the expenditure and at attack attack at j tack tack- tackit it from the other side Both approaches art arb a necessary Already Secretary of the Treas Treasury ury and the budget bureau are preparing to cut expenditures expenditures ex ex- next year But cutting cutting cutting cut cut- ting could begin right no v. no N R A dead more than three months still has persons on the payroll payroll pay pay- roll roIl most of them doing nothing You can go through one agency after another and find two people peo peo- one plc-one one e and nd the other dallying as Howard Brubaker says on says on a job that ought not to keep one one person busy What is being done don to get unemployed unemployed unemployed un un- un- un employed back into private industry industry industry indus indus- try The government is spending spending spend spend- ing in a year to sustain sustain sus sus- tam tain the unemployed at work It Itis Itis is is spending less than on the state federal-state reemployment agencies charged with finding private privat private vate vat employment for the idle That ThatIs Is less than a d dollar a head a year for the estimated number of idle lidle workers Work relief is costIng cost cost- ling lag upwards upwards' of per man per per year And the troubles with work relief is that when the money Is spent on n July 1 next year those still unemployed in inS private Industry indusI industry Indus indus- I try must be carried on With industry expanding what better time could there be for throwing strong administration support behind the government employment service in the thc hope of fitting demoralized discouraged discouraged aged recipients of relief back into private jobs While there are countless rat- rat holes which the administration can plug to stop leakage of fedI federal federal fed fed- I eral cral money the item primarily responsible for the heavy dei deficit is the cost of relief relict Placing of ot these unemployed back in private industry is the tho only way th that t deficit making expense can can be bem m materially le reduced Foreign governments are makIng mak making mak mak- ing lug heavy use of radio to get their propaganda into the tho homes of the outside world A radio radi listener in Washington heard London broadcast broadcast broad brond- cast the archbishop of Yorks York's defense defense de defense de- de of the British attitude in inthe inthe the Ethiopian crisis five live times Italy is putting on impartial news reports taken from Italian newspapers Thus modern war brings new horrors One of th the objectionable features tea lea tures about the grazing act amendment just vetoed by President President President dent Roosevelt was that civil service service ser ser- ser ser- vice vic provisions had not been in in- in These were dropped out by a senate committee after one of the senators read a bit of doggerel doggerel doggerel dog dog- gerel from a western cattleman who objected to being bossed by educated tenderfeet fresh from their examinations The doggerel was this I am a gallant grazier Ive I've- been out of college a year I und understand mathematics Fren French h hand and dramatics But what in the hell Is a steer Advice to from from Senator Senator Senator Sen Sen- ator Ashurst of Arizona I have been in office since I was 18 y years ars of oC age and I give this advice ad ad- vice vice never never make an explanation tion Let your actions speak Never explain If you do the next day you will be explaining I your explanation |
