Show Din charls washington digest theory of spending ourselves out of depression seen unwise course evidence in congress of Do definite finite determination nto to cut down on appropriations sound seme of american andrican people always finds answers to our 00 problems by WILLIAM BRUCKART service national press Washl ton D I 1 0 1 1 I washington it always has been my conviction that the american people will find a sound answer to every national problem it if the they are given the the time to figure out what those facts mean they may be swayed temporarily they may be led or herded or threatened and these conditions ma may v put them in a wrong spot temper temporarily airily but I 1 repeat that it if they ore are given time the national conclusion the collective thinking will be along sound lines they are demonstrating these things as a fact again there is no doubt about it for five or six years a considerable majority of the nations citizenry was following the theory of spending ourselves out of the depress depression fori it was an unsound course obviously put money was made to do a lot of talking as money in billions of dollars will talk lately however hardy american can thinking has been carrying the majority back to normal understanding and the influence of spending by the federal government is tagging sagging distinctly notwithstanding the tha statements frequently heard from republican e ah sources that you cant beat santa claus or the variation that you cant beat 11 there Is plenty of evide evidence rice to show that there Is quite n definite determination to quit that sort of thing that Is there Is a determination in most places outside of the so called inner circle of new dealers especially Is 19 this true in the halls balls of congress where unless there is an earthquake many important steps will be taken by senators and representatives senta tives in the direction of sounder government finance the old and familiar american traits of initiative of saving of living within ones income ore corning coming to the surface very rapidly and tho restoration of these traits to places of respectability in american life Is being re fleeced fleeted on oh capitol hill in washington opposition to ap philosophy hil of spending breaks loose it will be recalled how ifie opponents bents s of president Roosevel ts phi of spending showed their nettle mettle i in the house of re presenta tive when that body voted to cut of off of the deficiency relief appropriation mr roosevelt asked for the cut was accomplished despite some soma hair raising stories from official sources in the administration that elaml ell elimination ml of any of the requested funds would mean suffering maybo maybe starvation maybo quick death to tor many thousands of persons well the house members or a 0 majority of them did not believe those and thus they made n start at cutt cutting fing governmental spending they gave an indica indication tion at tho the same time that there must mast be t general revision of the federal governments machinery for relief ot of tile the un unemployed employed during the del debate and in tho the cor corridors riders one hoard heard frequent expressions that congress had appropriated last year year the funds tho the administration thought necessary to maintain relief until the end of next june but profligate spending had used up the money and the professional relievers rol lovers had returned tor for more some of the debate was wai quite acrimonious and varlo various s charges were hurled that the relle officials had tried again to buy the election that being why the funds ran short immediately after the house hous e was through with the relief relict bill the opponents of spending in the senate started after tho the appropriation there wore were tanny many in that body who wanted to appropriate only for two months proposing that in tho the meantime there should shoula be a brand now new relief relict setup devised dut but the majority sentiment was sw swayed ayed by the general argument that whatever the shortcomings of 0 tho the harry hopkins relief methods poor people should not be made the goats it was no fault of the unemployed who needed help that mr II now tho the secretary of commerce had made a mess of the relief program beat i nning only foretaste of what Is coming while it seems that a butof cut of ISO which Is about one luth the amount asked represents something substantial this beginning is only a foretaste of 0 what Is coming the spenders have had their innings for five or six years or sanca mr Roosevel ts economy net act of 1933 was abandoned as a 0 pattern of government they have used various names and descriptions such as pump priming and restore prosperity etc cle it tippa ar now however that their days daya die a I 1 do not mean meal that rah ang mg in tile the way of gov erdmer eram en lah sop Is going to be the lie window at once I 1 aab see cc however that tha curtailment of federal waste has begun that the national belt Is going to be pulled tighter by a couple of notches and that soon eror later even the beneficiaries of the federal cash will note the stigma and slacken their demands one of the leaders in this direction has been sen harry byrd we the virginia democrat who Is just as hard boiled in preserving a sound national government as his schlor the redoubtable carter glass through thick and thin senator byrd has been attacking the spending policies calling attention to the dangers of an increasing national debt and the certainty that the country as a whole must bear the burden of added taxation lie he did this the while administration sharpshooters were firing ono one broadside after another at his head or hide the other night senator byrd got on the radio and told the country again what was happening he had some new facts and figures about the situation the virginian asked some rathar pertinent questions too about the situation in england he pointed out that england has not been running deficit after deficit and that as a matter of cold fact while tho the united states was adding more than to its national debt eing england land was balancing its ita budget and making some headway in reducing its national debt states take heeland heed Hee dand and start cutting expenses due largely the senator thought to the fact that england had tried to live within its income as a rn an individual would do that n had a national income in 1937 tulaf was per cent of its income in 1929 which Is to say that it wits was more prosperous than in 1929 senator Byrd pointed out that this had happened while ou our government was running from a billion or so to five or six billions into debt each year lie ho suggested moreover that if the united states had done as s well tills this count rys national income would now now be instead of bf the which was estimated fo for r 1038 the thought was then advanced that england had not tried trIM to harry and frighten busin business ess which was employing people who wanted wante dwork work not charity there ar are other thing happening besides the byrd attacks and the congressional action on relief appropriations to indicate the growing strength of those who believe spending borrowed money has been and ls Is unwise word has comet come through brough to washington of the action of several eral governors who are insisting that their states stages avola avoid getting into tile tho holet hole governor cochran of ne braska a democrat and governor bricker of ohio a ca neach each hassut has put their respective state legislatures on notice that expenditures are to be pared to the bone there are others who could be named but from the information we have here in washington governors cochran and bricker are the outstanding examples it might be said that these r refer fer only to states and not to national national policies very well no state executive could get gei away with such a program unless he had the backing of a majority of his own people it they believe that way about state skate affairs there is no reason to think they will tako take a contrary view concerning the national treasury and funds which it must borrow to spend pump pomp Prin priming tink gifts to td states force them to borrow further nearly nearl all of the federal appropriations for pump priming when granted to states or lesser jurisdictions are on condition that the state stale or city or county must put up tip an equal amount in hundreds ot cases in the last six years this policy has resulted in states or lesser subdivisions of government being forced to borro won its own bonds in an order to got get hold of the federal cash the result new debt if it becomes clear therefore that if 11 the state executives insist on reduced expenditures they are un likely to accept these federal gifts because of the probable added debt burden another thing likely to 0 happen in some of the states is added taxes the state slate legislatures are due for an awakening as to the actual condition of their state finances some may dodge it J this year but facts will have to be faced when now new taxes come coic what a howl there will bet bel that howl will be heard in congress too both concerning state and county and city taxes on the one hand and national taxes orf oft the other hand it appears appear sto 40 me that hat taxes will prove to be the best antidote tor for tile the poison 0 of borrowing to spend that can be found ci newspaper union |