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Show posits? Would you destroy the Holding Company act designed to control corporation pyramids of the Insull variety? Would you destroy the Securities and Exchange commission to protect pro-tect investors? Do you remember being bitten by fraudulent sugar company stock, irubber stock, banana ba-nana stock, glass casket stock, or fake mining stock? Would you destroy de-stroy the Public Works Adminis, tration which 'advances money tc states and cities for schools, hos pitals, highways and other public improvements. Because it is WPA should we tear down our new court house and new high school? Would you destroy the CCC camps for three hundred thousand young men who have never had their rightful chance in the world? Would you destroy the flood con trol projects? The Rural Electrification Electrifi-cation administration which gives cheap light and power to farmers? Would you destroy the Housing Administration program that makes possible for thousands in the low income group to have and own a home? Or the youth pro-gram, pro-gram, making it possible for them to find work or schools for unemployment unem-ployment insurance? Now Mr. Citizen which of the above "New Deal projects do you want destroyed? Basic Things By G. W. States (Editor's note For the past few weeks and from time to time in the future, Dr. G. W. States will comment com-ment on current events and his-torical his-torical backgrounds. All views expressed ex-pressed in this column will be opinions opin-ions of the writar and not necessarily neces-sarily of the newspaper). THE MEW DEAL In every age and period of American Amer-ican history we have had what we may very well term "A New Deal." When the American colonists kicked off the yoke of the dukes and Icyrds of the old would they set up what could be termed in that day, "The New Deal." In fact they did in almost those words. When the first great seal of authority au-thority was engraved it had on it a latin inscription which when translated into our English lang uage says, "A New Order of Things." Isn't that the same as saying in our day, 'The New Deal?' It was the new deal of the founding fathers. A quarter of a century later Thomas Jefferson gave to the growing and expanding country another interpretation of the "New Order of Things" we may very well call a "New Deal" in the form of (he Louisiana Purchase. With the stroke of a pen and fifteen million dollars Jefferson doubled the size of the landed territory of the United Uni-ted States on April 30, 1803. At that time Jefferson's foes accused him of wrecking the constitution. They said the purchase of this vast territory ter-ritory was unconstitutional. It was Jefferson's "New Deal." Two decades later Monroe, with the help of Jefferson, inaugurated another New Deal known as the Monroe Doctrine, Ihe avowed pur pose of which was to establish on the Western hemisphere A New-Order New-Order of Things and make the western half of the world free for democratic peoples. Lincoln, by emancipating ten-million ten-million slaves, gave a New Deal to a subject race and by Ihe stroke of a pen changed their status of chattels and property to ho bouglii and sold, to people. Up to (his time (he negro was a servant, an article of luxury for the privileged classes. Iu telling what negro slavery sla-very meant in the history of the world Emerson used these words "Language must be raked, the secrets se-crets of slaughter-houses and infa mous holes that jcannot front the day must be ransacked, to tell what negroslavery has been." Lincoln is honored and his name will be lion, orcd throughout all time for instituting in-stituting this "New Deal." The entire hislory of our country coun-try is replete with some far reaching reach-ing humanitarian project that at the time could be termed "The New Deal." All these past new-deal new-deal projects of past history were fought by reactionery enemies. Let us look now: at this present hour. Let us hurdle the years and come down to the present ''New-Deal." ''New-Deal." Let me ask you which ot the following new- deal agencies would you destroy Would you destroy the various banking laws which insure de- |