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Show When Brain Truster Meets Brain Duster ldent of the American By WILLIAM C. UTLEY no two persons PROBABLY upon Just what Washington. Now that the President has laid before congress his . request for the National Debt new tlons, appropria- - financial ciples, the Interesting thing is who brought about the revision of views on the part of the President. Soma of the President's virulent critics have asserted in the opening days of congress that Mr. Rooesvelt was wholly uninformed as to the needs with which he was confronted when he was making his campaign speeches. They say he found his original promise to be all wet and be took the only alternative to stave off a hitter row in his own party, offering much money for congress to spend. Among the Presidents friends, I have heard private expressions that Mr. Roosevelt had been misled by some of the group who held his ear at the start of the administration. These men referred to a number of the Progressive Republicans like the LaFollettes, Norris, Hiram Johnson of California, and Bronson Cutting of New Mexico. Several of these were so well liked by the President that they were Invited to enter his cabinet Consequently, there are those who believe that Mr. Roosevelt followed the advice of the Progressive Republican group much more closely than leaders among the Democrats. Most of the Progressive Republicans are spenders at heart, according to the general view here. And they are also men who regard a balanced budget as not very Important So. while no one can say definitely what influences altered the Presidents stand, it certainly is regarded among observers here os being a situation In which the wind makes the straws point toward the progressives as having Joined hands with the President in Initiating what has come to be the greatest outpouring of taxpayers money, except In war time, since our government was established. students are wondering more and more when the end of this government spending Is to come. It will be remembered that Mr. Roosevelt said a year ago that the total public debt should not exceed $31,834,000,000, and that figure should be reached around June 30, When It Is considered that 1035, the present public debt exceeds $23,500,000,000, It becomes difficult how the President will succeed In sticking to his original assertion to hold the national debt at the figure named. The Treasury department has Just released Its annual report and this reveals an Increase In the public debt of approximately six billion dollars since June 30, 1933, an eighteen months record. It has made the total cost of the recovery spending program aggregate something over twelve billion dollars since January 1, 1933, when the spending spree really began. To make the vast amount more readily comprehensible, if you take the time to figure it out you will find that the government has been spending borrowed money at' the rate of almost twenty-thre- e thousand dollars a minute In the last four years. To Illustrate further the magnitude of this sum a figure expert here has calculated that there has been about one billion minutes since the birth of Christ and, therefore, the federal government in the last four years has added about twelve dollars to the public debt for each of the minutes since Christ came on earth. But to get back to the present plan, presentation of the budget with Its maximum outlay of around seven billion dollars recalled to some leaders the assertion by the Organization of the new congress President respecting the topmost has resulted In a new cry, in reality a very old limit for the public debt. In the South in cry, but It Is new, budget message which he presented Just a year ago Mr. Roosevcdt the Saddle since we have not heard it In fifteen stated his belief boldly that the government should seek to hold the years. The cry we are hearing now from Republicans and from northpublic debt to the figure of ern Democrats is the wail that the South is In the saddle." "Furthermore," he added, the While there certainly can be government during the balance of this calendar year should plan to nothing crimlnnl about the South ' in the saddle, it provides a bring Its 1930 expenditures ln-- - being issue both within the political grand and relief within eluding recovery ranks Democratic and between the the revenues expected in the fiscal The fiscal year 1930 Democratic party and what Is left year 1930. of the Republicans in congress. It begins next July 1. And frequent also toadies a question that has pronouncements from the White been discussed many times, namely, House have made It clear that a of the seniority rule in wisdom the balanced budget In that time Is The seniority rule procongress. treasIn addition the quite unlikely. vides that the oldest members in ury s.'rfd in Its annual report that the poll. I of service shall inherit taxes always lagged behind In re- committee chairmanships and shall of the flecting recovery country. have other positions of honor In For example. Income taxes to be house and senate. the paid on March 15, 1930, and in the Out of the 09 Democratic senasubsequent Installments of that tors only 21 come from what Is year will be the result of levies on known as the solid South. Of the earnings of the current calendar 317 Democratic members of the year. No one expects earnings In house, only about 100 are thorough1935 to be normal. It Is obvious, ly acquainted with the yel! of the therefore, that the balancing of the Confederacy. Yet In the face of budget In the fiscal year beginning tills tremendous growth of Demobecomes a 1935, almost phyJuly 1, cratic membership coming out of sical Impossibility unless the Presthe North and the West, the South ident should do the unexpected by is in the saddle more solidly than e cutting off every one of the sixty-fivever. or more recovery and relief The speakership of the house agencies and should out ofT all federal went to Representative Byrns of funds for relief of the destitute. Tennessee, who succeeded to the If that were done, it is estimated place made vacant by the late Henby fiscal experts that ordinary rery T. Rainey of Illinois. ceipts by the treasury would come In the senate we see Vice Presiclose to meeting the ordinary cost dent Garner, the presiding officer, a of the regularly established govern-tnentTexan. The majority leader is Senagencies. ator Robinson of Arkansas. old-tim- e , There had been frequent contentions by avid New Dealers that Mr. see- Roosevelt's President t s ond budget mendattons would provide a clear picture of his general fiscal policies. If their statements remain true, they resulted In setting np one of the most paradoxical conditions In the history of this nation. Looking back over the whole Roosevelt period, the thing which observers have never been able adequately to explain is who or what effected the change In the Presidents views on fundamental financial questions. It Is too obvious to preclpltale an argument that the President's views have chanced. When one goes back to his first message to congress or beyond that to his campaign speeches and to the platform upon which he made the race for the Presidency, it Is futile to try to reconcile those utterances with the subsequent spending and borrowing program In which his administration has Indulged. It will be recalled that Mr. Roosevelt do dared In Ms Inaugural speech an Intention to balance the budget and wipe out the deficit left on his lap lie by the Hoover administration. went on to say that If congress In Its generosity voted sums that placed the budget out of balance R was under the necessity nt the same time to provide taxes to raise the excess expenditures. Since there can be no dispute that Mr. Roosevelts views have changed and he has acted In accordance with his new found prin e Democratic leaders in the house have made certain that they will not he e m b a rassed this year na were ln Radicals the first New Deal congress. In that session they were constantly harassed by the radicals who sought to force votes on legislation which the President and his advisers did not want and which for the same reason the Democratic loaders did not want The radicals accomplished their purposes by use of what Is called the rule of discharge of committees. But that rule has been amended so that to Invoke It now, actually a majority of the house w 111 have to sign a petition. Under the previous rule, the signature of 115 members of the house was sufficient to compel the discharge of a committee from consideration of any piece of legislation referred to It for action. The necessary number of signatures wns obtained ln three embarrassing The soldiers eases last year. bonus bill wns brought out by that I.emke farm method; thp mortgage Inflation bill was released for a vote In the same manner. The new house organization, however, is determined not to be embarrassed In that manner. It succeeded In Democratic eaueus binding on all Democrats ln having the original rule amended so that now there must be a majority of all house members affixing their signs tures to the discharge petition before It becomes operative, , WMtra KewniMiptr I'd lorn. recovery, negative numbers ought to be used. t Sociological society. Far more important than the tide of public criticism from North Caro- rising alleged waste and mismanagainst lina actually said to the senator of relief administration agement from South Carolina. Perhaps none the relief giving, as fact is the of the thousands of physics examan more emergency program, than ination papers turned in by stuto the basic concepts counter runs dents has ever settled indisputably of individualism and democracy. A just what happens when the irre- solution is demanded that provides sistible force meets the Immovable for work and for freebody. But with two great meetings opportunity from Investigation and from dom of scientists recently come to a said Professor Burclose, we now have some light on regimentation," gess. what happens when a Brain TrustThe program of the Tennessee er meets a Brain Duster and a authority may be taken as Valley host of other information new about crucial case in long time social a us and what goes on around ns. Its success or failure The two meetings were at Chi- planning. a exert profound Influence on may cago and Pittsburgh. The Chicago the future course of social planning meeting, a gathering of the in the United States. of twelve learned It Is only too apparent that If was a of Brain conclave bodies, customs, attitudes and reactions the Dusters of economics and sociology not outside the pale of governmental of the people of the valley are as the studied geographic as fully diswho affairs met principally to cuss the antics and the eventual and economic situation, the project If not a destinations of their brother profes- is likely to be a partial. failure." complete, sors at the nation's helm ln WashThe United States must solve its ington. The Pittsburgh affair, the alone. Professor Burgess problem convention of the American Assohas ciation for the Advancement of Sci- said. It must forget about what ence was more concerned with the happened to other countries ln the He desearch for true recovery. lighter things which are not quite Italian current clared the German, so noticeable in the American limeand not are Soviet and experiments light as the moment, such as Eincannot be understood by Ameristeins equation for for of mass and energy, the true cans, adding that any proposals at or controlled society collective secrets of cosmic rays, and whethIn the near future are er or not fish have But any time even this meeting eventually got completely hopeless. around to talking about the Brain New Deal Policies. Trust and the New Deal, so maybe Others of the scientists at Chicaeverybodys doing it. go were vexed at the New Deal Prof. Walter J, Shepard of Ohio policies. Frederick Cecil Mills of State university, president of the Columbia, president of the AmeriAmerican Political Science asso- can Statistical association, called ciation, burned the brightest torch it a form of social suicide. of the Chicago meeting. In typical James Waterhouse Angell, another said: The professional rhetoric he declared : Columbia economist, The ideology of the New Deal Is rising public debt and governmental I dont see how the administration can get out," said Professor There is too much politMaon. Each code ical prestige involved. constitutes a large and powerful bureaucracy. Economic security was discussed a member of by Edwin E. White, the National Committee on Econom Economic recovery, ic Security. main he said, must continue as the government. of objective to The essential legislation achieve security he outlines as mothers pension extensions; nationcost wide health service to cut the of medical care; vocational training for the physically handicapped, and further specialized training for the unemployed youth. "There are nearly 3.000,000 peowho are Ue- ple over sixty-five member-s- . - rV" . - ; ''v ih. ' " 'vv v Left: The Van de Graaf Generator. Right: Manipulating the Solar Heat Collector. inconsistent and turbid. illogical For Improvement he advocated a progressive centralization of government with the desirable elements of Fascism. Of the New Deal he said: Its program is a mass of undigested and contradictory experiments. It veers first to the right and then to the left It embodies In its personnel men of the most divergent views. And yet at the polls It receives unprecedented majorities. But the support is not all enthusiastic. If there is any leadership In the New Deal, it is the leadership of mounting every ones horse and dashing off In every direction at once. Trend to Centralization. The definite and increasing trend of centralization of governmental authority and responsibility demonstrates the countrys Fascistlc tendencies, said Professor Shepard. lie indicated that the President must retain his authority and responsibility, but nn advisory staff agency must become a central feature in governmental reorganization." As an evil phase of Fascism, Professor Shepard cited Louisiana, referring unmistakably to Huey Long, although not speaking the senator's name, and declaring that there the people have surrendered themselves completely to a political adventure. Going further, he said: "In Louisiana we see a frank denial of democratic ideology and democratic Institutions. Dictatorship stalks across the state naked and unashamed. He the possibility of national dictatorship so long as the people kept their wits about them, We need not fear dictatorship as long ns we preserve the guarantees of freedom of speech, freedom of the press, and freedom of association, ami ns long ns we make education, untrammeied by propaganda and unfettered by subservience to any end or purpose, the central goal, the supreme value of our civilization." America's outstanding characteristics are individualism, democracy and humanltnrlanlsm, and there are for that reason no lessons for us to pain from the experiences of other countries, according to Prof. Ernest W. Burgess f tho University of Chicago, pros- pooh-poohe- d which the process of almost invariably carries with It, are precisely the factors best calculated to destroy public confidence and to discourage John private business recovery. Rogers Commons of the University of Wisconsin refused to become ruffled over the New Deal at all because most of the New Deal legislation will be declared unconstitutional In the next few months, Inflation, pump-primin- g anyway. The Brain Trusters took a neat flaying about the ears in the second exhibition bout with the Brain Dusters, this one at Pittsburgh. Administration leaders spnrred from the speakers platform in an attempt to Jab the charted and graphed defense of the convened scientists with charges that new , Prof. Albert E. w Einstein. pendent, 700,000 of them on federal relief, he said. "Ry 19G0 we will have twice that many over sixty-fivfacing a burden that cannot be escaped, regardless of legislation. . . . Unemployment insurance is only a first line of defense. There Is some danger that it will be launched with too high hopes. It will do nothing for those now unemployed. Einstein ! Expounds. However, as far as the meeting of the Association for the Advancement of Science was concerned, of far more importance than the discussion of New Deal policies was the visit of the distinguished Prof. Albert E. Einstein to furnish elementary mathematical proof that matter is just a form of energy, then pass the whole thing off as too Impractical to be of any use to man in his search for power, anyway. Herr Professor said that energy, although It Is the basis of everything, even life, is locked away in the infinitesimal nucleus of the atom, and trying to get it out is an almost hopeless task. It is like hunting birds In a country where there are very few birds, and in pitch darkness, he said. Demonstrated at the Pittsburgh conference was a model of Van de Graaff thq 10, W0, generator, with which scientific marksmen hope to boffibard the atom. The generator releases bullets of electricity at a speed 100,000 times as fast as a rifle bullet Some 1,200 papers, totaling more than 1,500,000 words, were read and discussed at the meeting, their revelations including sundry startling, Informative titbits ranging from the fact that snowshoes and skis originated ln prehistoric Asia to the undeniable actuality that fish blush and that doesnt mean the poor fish who is made the goat of the party, either but there, the animal life is getting all ftiixed up. Of more than passing interest to all economical housewives and husbands who pay the bills was the sun cooker demonstrated to the 3, W0 scientists by Charles Greelev Abbott of the Smithsonian institute, a great authority on the rays of the sun. The present Abbott cooker will absorb enough solar rays to reach a temperature of 4W degrees Fahrenheit. A former one, 000-vo- lt upon which Dr. and Mrs. Abbott cooked all their meals for three months, heated up to 3G5 degrees. One of Mae Wests ancestors in the days of the dim, shady, prehistoric past may have been a mermaid, for all Mae or science knows, ac- ' x-AVn. f 'll A M - Dr. E. W, Burgess. conditions and new psychology warranted the New Deal methods but the veterans were undismayed. ' Prof. Edward S. Mason of Harvard gave the New Deal a stinging right Just above the henrL It is said that the NRA is on the toboggan and I might add that It Is too bad that the slope Is not steep enough." lie referred specifically to the fixing of prices, which he described as appearing ln some 700 codes, and onlled the codes themselves and Inadequately enneglected forced. He said that If control were to be evaluated In terms of sohe- cording to information presented by Prof. William King Gregory of Columbia university; lie showed that even fish have hips. This was discovered when he traced the evolution of the pelvis from fish to man. The s are little rods attached to the backbone, but help-In- g to support the rear fins. It was tne development of the pelvis through the ages which made amphibians capable of crawling, animals to walk on nil fours and filially man to crawl Many of the findings of the Pittsburgh meeting were of thy most n nature, close to our dally lives. For Instance, Prof. A. I. WInsor and E. L. Strongin of Cornell university came forth with the scientific proof that the best time to enjoy a smoke of tobacco is the most popular time of nil Just after a couple of cups of hlnck coffee. They hnve opposite effects on the human body, if you Inhale, the coffee soothing the effect of the cigarette The two together do much to avoid the Increased shnklncss of tho hands and quickening of tlip pulse which follow ordinary smoking. Western Newsiar X nioti. - Ityjo Subsidizing Vorlliy Among Them? Mien The responsibility for a girls happy marriage at the normal time rests today with her father, not her fiance, according to Good Housekeeping Magazine. William McDermott, Chicago religious editor, discussing frankly the marriage prospects of his own daughters, in the publication, proposes a dowry to help depression-struc- k men to establish homes, rather than delay marriage past the age which nature dictates. Ile'says he is willing to subsidize his for the first years of marriage, for the sake of his daughters happiness. Why," he asks, should I consider my obligation to my daughters completed when they have finished college, any more than when they have finished high school? I believe It is fully as good an investment and almost, if not fully, as Important to spend two or three thousand dollars, or more. If necessary, ln helping my daughters, If they need it, to marry happily during their mating time, and in assisting their k husbands to complete their no have other If they preparation, source of support, as it is to see them through their earlier education." Mr. McDermott says that the hosts of young men today depress him more than the financial crash. He believes undergraduates in college are too young to marry, but that the average graduate student is better off married, living In his own home, with a wife who is interested in his career, than In a boarding home or fraternity house. If either of my daughters should marry a man in training for a profession or business, I would urge her to study along with him, to act as his secretary and assistant as well as his encourager, and to aid him in every way to succeed, he continues. She would he gleaning much of that which will occupy him for a lifetime and which interests him most They will have a unity or compatability of education which can only enhance the completeness of their marriage and add to their companionship. 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