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Show nal Topics Interpreted A, by William Bruckart J National Press Bulldlns . Washington. - Five Important gtones In the New Deal recovery arch have been New Farm torn from their Legislation m00TtlBS9JZ s agd, from all of the comments I have been abU to pick up, It appears that the general situation has been clarified thereby. Two of the major New Deal Items the NRA and the AAA have been tossed overboard by the Supreme Su-preme court of the United States and congress, at the request of the President, now has thrown three others Into the limbo of unnecessary things by repealing the legislation for control of cotton, tobacco and potatoes. These three with their parent, the Agricultural Adjustment act, represented all that was basic in the New Deal farm program. The Importance of the President's act In requesting repeal of the three compulsory crop-control laws cannot can-not be minimized. Mr. Roosevelt recognized, when the AAA was Invalidated, In-validated, that the other three crop-control crop-control laws would be of no further use because they were predicated upon the national law. He recognized recog-nized further that to remain adamant ada-mant would he only to permit delay de-lay In Invalidation of those three laws because they were all headed for an adverse decision by the Supreme Su-preme court anyway. In seeking their repeal, therefore, Mr. Roosevelt Roose-velt simply took time by the forelock fore-lock and girded his armor for a fresh start on farm relief legislation. legisla-tion. Where or In what form the new farm legislation will finally emerge, none can foretell. The house and senate will pass some kind of legislation legis-lation to supplant the laws Invalidated Invali-dated by the court or repealed by congress. Necessarily, this new farm legislation will be of a stopgap stop-gap character and I don't believe that any of Its ajdent supporters can tell you exactly what the result will be In so far as Its effect upon agriculture Is concerned. As far ns the compromises have been worked out, It appears that some of the leaders are willing again to enact legislation directed at crop-control In a semi-compulsory manner. If that Is forthcoming, the new law actually will be nothing more than a thinly disguised attempt at-tempt to circumvent he prohibitions laid flown In the Supreme court opinion holding the AAA unconstitutional. unconsti-tutional. In any event, the tragedy In the situation appears to me to be the absence of clear thinking, or else the circumstances we see represent rep-resent political cowardice of the worst type. It Is to be remembered that In this session of congress more than any other since President Roosevelt Roose-velt took office, there exist a greater great-er nnmher of blocs; cross currents of opinion; partisan jealousy. A great deal of It is In opposition to Jiraln trust policies sponsored by the New Deal but for political reasons the individuals who oppose these things dare not openly show their disapproval of Presidential policies as such. Thus, a consensus has arisen among Washington observers observ-ers that representatives and senators sena-tors concerned with directing enactment enact-ment of new farm legislation are likely to mess up the situation rather rath-er than come forth with a definite and workable proposition. The situation at the White House and in congress In connection with ' . agricultural poll- Fartisan Qe pr0bahly is Politics Rule the best Illustration Illustra-tion In a definite, tangible form, of how many Important Impor-tant federal policies are being dealt with in a partisan political way rather than, as they should be, In a scientific manner with partisan politics in the background. I need not recall how many pieces of leg islation have been put through congress con-gress bearing a New Deal tag of "must." Of course, Mr. Roosevelt cannot be blamed entirely for Issuing Issu-ing orders when congress is willing to obey. It is a fact, nevertheless, that time after time and with reference ref-erence to the major New Deal experiments, ex-periments, the legislation bas been drafted by men serving under a Presidential appointment In executive execu-tive departments, the copies forwarded for-warded to given representatives or senators and instructions passed along that the administration will take no substitute. It wants the specific measure and In that form. The result of all of this has been that in numerous cases legislation was passed without more than a few members of the house and senate sen-ate having even read the bills before be-fore they were asked to cast a favorable fav-orable vote on their passage. Now, representatives and senators are seeking to dodge the responsibility responsibil-ity for their acts. This was shown definitely In the celerity with which congress acted on the Presidential request for repeal of the three crop-control acts named heretofore I know personally of a considerable number of representatives and sen-ators sen-ators who were delighted at the opportunity op-portunity to vote repeal of those laws. They never did like them after they found out what thwr hud Dassed. President Roosevelt likely will receive re-ceive some credit for seeking repeal of the discredited Admits laws. He said if His Mistake a , take he would be the first to admit It. So, now he has in a way admitted that he made a mistake In approving those laws although his statement concerning the repeal request was that these were useless without AAA. It Is to be noted, however, that long before the Supreme court outlawed out-lawed AAA there was a growing volume of discontent with the principles prin-ciples that law sought to apply. It cannot be that Mr. Roosevelt was not aware of this growing dissatisfaction dissatis-faction and that his political advisers ad-visers smelled a rat because a good many plans for modification had been under discussion privately among AAA advisers long before a Supreme court decision was in prospect. pros-pect. Practical men working with Secretary Wallace and Administrator Administra-tor Davis were steadily trying to accomplish changes in administration administra-tion of the AAA law, and the three others as well, to make It workable. They were confronted, however, with a superabundance of brain trusters who could make a beautiful case in print for their views and during that time the brain trusters had the ear of the President while the practical prac-tical administrators were left out In the cold. It is thus that we see a development develop-ment under the New Deal whereby most of the responsible people are attempting to dodge the responsibility responsi-bility that belongs to them. Some of them are attempting to clean their own skirts, or make their skirts appear clean, by damning the Supreme court; others are blaming our "system" for failure of the theories the-ories to work In practical application applica-tion and still other groups point the finger of scorn at those charged with administration of the agricultural policy, blaming them for the failure. Things like this have developed before be-fore In Washington and have died down in due time but I believe that seldom, if ever, has occurred a situation sit-uation In which the responsibility was so general and the blame so generally denied by those responsible. responsi-ble. Washington observers are watching watch-ing the President's latest maneuvers on government Must Cut finance with con- Borrowing siderable Interest. The President, you know, already has told agencies agen-cies of the government that are equipped with borrowing power that they must reduce this borrowing. He has. In effect, withdrawn from them authorization that would have permitted the borrowing of about $1,000,000,000 during the next year. During the last few weeks, the Chief Executive has been concerned also with reduction In governmental spending and at the same time with plans to raise additional money. He has presented a tax bill to congress, con-gress, an obstinate congress. Representatives Repre-sentatives and senators do not like to campaign after passing a new tax bill, so they frankly do not like the idea of new taxes at this time. It Is too early to forecast the full importance of the President's latest lat-est moves. There are those who Insist In-sist that Mr. Roosevelt Is making a sincere effort to cut down gov-" ernment spenriit g and to convince the nation that he is seeking to reduce the waste that is naturally attendant upon such a volume of disbursements of money as has tak-1 en place In the last three years. There are others who take the posi- j tion that the President is simply, building up a picture which can be shown to the voters when election time comes. i An unbiased conclusion Is that a little of each claim Is true. If expenditures ex-penditures actually are reduced, obviously ob-viously the action will be welcomed by the taxpayers. On the other hand, the ballyhoo that went out from the White House and executive execu-tive departments concerning the withdrawal of borrowing power was rather unjustified. It was unjustified for the reason that the move was simply a bookkeeping proposition and, further, there was even a hint thut such agencies as the Reconstruction Recon-struction Finance corporation and Home Owners' Loan corporation had no plans for borrowing extensively during the forthcoming summer and' full. If one looks Into the future in connection with the Presidential program of curtailing borrowing1 and cutting expenditures, It Is rather, dilhcult to escape the thought thut a continuation of policies such a, have been sponsored by the New! Peal In the last three years will force a renewal of these expend! ! ires In due course. other words : he administration course respect'1 1K these expenditures Is going to' depend upon" the results of the No-! vember election: If Mr. Uoosevell s returned to the White House and he continues with a substantial emocrntic majority i congress i there Is no reason to believe that present spending policies will be' entirely abandoned. 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