| Show U. U S. S Press Generally Cool Toward Spending Plans Representative comment of of the American press pres on President Roosevelt's recovery program and radio explanation follows New York Herald Tribune Tribune Tribune-It It was a changed president Here was indeed a defeated leader- leader defeated not by votes but by events by the inexorable consequences consequences consequences conse conse- of his own acts For real measures of recovery the country must look to congress for leadership Scripps-Howard Scripps newspapers We do not share the presidents president's hope that the country can borrow and spend its way to permanent perma-nent recovery But we s see e a great deal of hope in the new spirit of tolerance tolerance tolerance tol tol- tol- tol erance so apparent in in the presidents president's presidents president's presidents president's dents dent's message and speech New York The Times Times The Roosevelt Roosevelt Roosevelt Roose Roose- velt a administration ministration has once more confused c cause Wie and effect This confusion if persisted in promises to lead to toa a tragic end The country will grow no richer no matter how r many lany I I. I O. O Us U.'s the government signs Cleveland P Plain ain Dealer If If the Roosevelt program t given nf to 6 congress congress con gress in yest yesterdays yesterday's message were as convincing as Mr Roosevelt's expounding of f it in his radio speech last night there there- might well be unanimity of public opinion behind it His defense of the proposed large government expenditures expenditures expenditures however would be more convincing if one could forget that this same line of reasoning has been offered every time pump- pump priming was undertaken and that the present economic distress has come in spite of the priming and the reasoning Philadelphia Record Record Big Big as the figures in the presidents president's message may seem taken in proportion to the wealth and resources of this nation they embrace a program which is if anything very re- re A. strained and a far cry from the wild pictures of runaway inflation inflation tion already being hung on the front pages of the conservative press by those who are out to wreck Roosevelt even if it should mean wrecking the nation with him Philadelphia Inquirer Dumping Dumping Dumping Dump Dump- ing more billions into the pump of industry will not prime it It doesn't need priming It is ready to go if the president and his administration administration ad ad administration ministration will only cut loose the tax and other chains with which h they have been shackled Let congress stand against wasteful wasteful wasteful waste waste- ful pump It is not the presidents president's money that would be spent It is not his administrations administration's administrations administration's administrations administration's tion's money It is the peoples people's money which congress should protect Miami Hera Herald herald It Ill It It was a good kindly and impressive talk It solved nothing It got nowhere Washington Post The Post The proposal is to counter the present depression depressIon depression depres depres- sion by the methods which were instrumental in creating it Here is bankrupt statesmanship Th The program carries no promise of permanent Improvement His Mr Roosevelt's primary objective ob- ob ob objective b- b is ie to ride out the present term and let the future take care of itself A program which might so easily debauch the credit of the government must be de de- de- de San Francisco Chronicle The difficulty is as those of us know who remember the pump and handle days that only a leaky pump needed priming If you fixed the leak you primed no more If you did not fix it you had to prime every time For better and for worse we are in for another spending spree America expects expects expects ex ex- every congressman to do his damndest for his district |
