Show Between You and nd Me Mex MeI y I x I Violence of N New f w Deal Cr Down Crack Rebounds o on Roosevelt Cash for tor Arms Embargo Shy I I e By Raymond Clapper Senator Huey Hucy Long had been waiting a long time for the bullet that finally hit him He knew as ns everyone knew that his methods methods meth meth- I of ot government depending ng themselves so much on violence Incite violent retaliation We are getting a dose of ot another another another an an- other kind of ot violence in national affairs and for much the same same ame reason The Th Roosevelt administration for all of its personal charm has been violent in its attacks on on the business community Long and loudly it has hns whipped up sentiment senti ment making little effort to sIngle single single sin sIn- gle out the tho malefactors broad broad- siding the money changers torIes lories financial racketeers and sinister f forces these these being usually anybody opposed to to the administration program Until the Roy Howard letter ora ofa of or ofa a few days ago practically no attempt attempt attempt at at- tempt had lad been made by the administration administration ad ad- ministration to Isolate its targets If you owned a cash register you were one of ot the old tooth and claw gang Administration in indictments indictments in- in were allowed to lodge against the whole business com community corn com and the fellow who h had d no other Interest in life liCe except to go ahead getting more business business business busi busi- ness and meeting his pay roll found himself roped off oft in the concentration camp reserved for forthe forthe forthe the sinister for forces es Such perSons perso persons per per- so sons s smarting under the feeling that the Roosevelt administration was hostile to them are are providing a receptive audience for the most violent critics of Mr Roosevelt It is a violent reaction Whereas Where Where- as only a few months ago Republicans Republicans Republicans were privately debating the advisability of attacking Mr Roosevelt by name or confining their campaign to the and the Farleys Parleys they are out now with full artillery pounding at Roosevelt himself His promises are publicly scoffed at The public public pub pub- lic lie is told that his word cannot be relied upon Practically anybody anybody anybody any any- body we are arc told would be better betterin in the White House than Mr Roosevelt The violence of the new deal down crack has bounced back in the presidents president's face And the harder you hit them the harder they bounce As for the cash customers the worst of or it is that the election is ismore more than a year away and we already have reached the hysterical cal stage s Oratorical violence is seldom if ever as fatal as a submachine submachine submachine sub sub- machine gun but it can last longer and and unfortunate it probably probably probably ably will Usually the political hysterics are arc reserved for the last week before 1 election when everybody by cO common tn consent o sen goes goc a little crazy and strong men break down and scream about rum rum RomanIsm Romanism Roman Roman- ism and rebellion and see grass growing in the city streets Such Such- conduct in the final week is consIdered considered con con- normal in American politics poli poll tics But when the pink elephants begin dancing on the c ceiling this early early well well such are the wages of ot the more abundant life When Mr Roosevelt went over overt over overto t to talk to some of his g Hyde de P Park rk neighbors n ig bors t the theother other day a curious thing happened He dropped l in with nothing particular on his his' mind but AS ashe he glanced around ho he noticed a mote in his neighbors neighbors' rs' rs eyes It set him to talking He told his neighbors that the cost of ot local government was excessive that there was too much overlappIng overlapping overlapping over over- lapping and waste Town and county highway departments duplicated du dl work of ot the state highway highway high high- way vay department The state was cl cluttered up with a 8 lot of surrogates gates gatesy more than were needed adding unnecessarily to the cost of ot government As a 8 taxpayer he said he would like to see polItIcal political po po- po- po candidates in Dutchess county b be he required to give specIfic specific pledges gc's as to how much they will do with the money Having thus given a ft bit of friendly advice e to his neighbors about bout the mote Mr Roosevelt with beaming eyes returned to to his estate to resume his conference conference conference confer confer- ence with house guest Harry Hopkins who had gone up from Washington to talk over the relief fund and how howit it should sho be spent State department officials now have before them the mandatory neutrality embargo law recently passed by congress But Ho no funds were sent along Iong with it The Tho new law requires that within 90 DO days or about the end of ot November November November No No- vember all munitions makers be under license Should war break breakout breakout breakout out across the Atlantic the government government gov gov- would be required to forbid export of munitions and implements of oC war The state department department department de de- de- de Is shifting personnel and scraping up loose pieces of ch change to do the work required The whole state department runs for a year on about or third one of what has been set aside in the works program to provide jobs for writers musicians musicians musi musi- clans actors and artists who are waiting wailing for culture to get back on ona ona ona a time full basis Relatives of ot the 14 high school students k killed last April when a bus was hit by a train at Rockville Md grade crossing have just filed suit for damages Which reminds us that the great grade crossing elimination elimination elimination elimina elimina- tion campaign which Mr Roosevelt Roosevelt Roosevelt Roose Roose- velt announced as a result of this tragedy is under unde way Out of the works fund they have managed to get enough money to eliminate one erie little crossing in Alabama Alabam But you have no idea how much more trouble it is to do a grade crossing separation than it is to turn a crew of relief workers loose bringing up to date the records of the Staten Island Zoo society Now N R It A is really dead Donald Donald Don Don- ald aid R. R late keeper of the tho blue eagle reverted fo type and opened a law office on Jackson place All that rem remains ins of ot the gre great t recovery exp experiment ft s. s Conservative Swiss voters have voted down a proposed revision of their constitution No one had suspected that the reaction against Mr Roosevelt had gone that far Copyright 1935 Washington Post |