Show 0 national topics interpreted by william bruckart rational hat ional press building War washington hington ID D C washington five important stones in the new deal recovery arch have been torn from bleir tl air new farm moorings nov no v and legislation from all of the com corn ments I 1 have been able to pick up u it appears that the general situation has been clarified thereby two of the major new deal items t e in the NIZA and the AAA have hane atthe b been e en tossed as 0 d overboard by the supreme court of the united states and con congress at the request of the prest dent now has thrown three others into the limbo of unnecessary things by re beiling the legislation for control of cotton tob tobacco acco and tomatoes tota lota toes rhese three with their mirent if tie e agrical tural adjustment act rei rel resented all that was basic in the new ew deal farm program lie ie importance of the I 1 residents act in requesting repeal of the tl it ree compulsory crop control laws las canerot be mr air I 1 oo sevelt lecog nihed when the AAA was indal dated that the other three crop control laws would be of no further farther use because they were predicated upon the nation a al law he ile recognized further that to remain adamant would be only to per in t delay in invalidation of ohve thoe three laws because they were all held heid ed for an adverse decision I 1 ly y the su preme court anyway in their repeal therefore mr I 1 oo sevelt s in ply took time by tie tl e forelock and gird ed his armor for a fresh start on farm relief legislation where or in whit form the new farm legislation will finally emerge emere n ie r e can foretell the rhe house and senate will pass some kind of legislation to supplant the laws inval enval cited by the court or repealed by con congress res feces harily this new farm legislation will be of a stop gap character and I 1 don t the be aleve that any of its ardent supporters can tell you exactly blat wl at the result will be in so far as its effect upon arl culture Is concerned As far as 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 dis guised attempt to circumvent the pro hibit lons hid down in the supreme court opinion holding the AAA ancon 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 po urical coward ce of the worst type it Is to be ered that in this session of congress in re than any oth er s nee president I 1 oo sevelt took of fice there exist a greiter number of blocs cross currents of opinion par jealousy A great deal of it Is in opposition to brain trust policies sponsored by the new deil but f r political reasons the individuals who oppose these things dare not openly show their disapproval of presidential policies as sich s ich thus a consensus has arisen andru a nong washington observe ers that representatives representatives ald and senators concerned with directing enactment of new f firm irm legislation are III elv to mess up the situation rather thin come forth with a definite and workable alon 11 3 1 e situation at the white house and in congress in connection with agricultural policies partisan probably Is the best politics rule illustration in a deft nite tai tat gible form of how many important federal policies are being dealt with in to a p po litte liticia il way rati er thin as they should be in a scientific manner with p politics in tl if e bad ground around I 1 need not recall how bow many p p ecea aces of leg have been put gh congress bear ing a new deal tag of must of co ire mr air roosevelt annot c be blamed entirely entire lv for issuing when con gross is willing to oby it Is a fact eless that time after time and with reference to the major new deal experiments the legislation has been drafted by men servin under a pres Ident lal in executive de ts is the copies forwarded to g ven representatives or senators and instructions passed along that the ad will tal e no substitute it wants tie tl e specific leisure me asure and in thit form ahe result of all of this his has been that in namer us as legs leg was passed without a ore thin a few mem bers hers of the h i se and senate h hiving even reid the bills before they were ed to cast a div nl rit ie le vote on their passage now representatives and senators are seeking to d ige the responsibility for their acts tl TI is was sh wn deft bitely in the celerity with which con gress acted on the pres dentral request for rebeil of the three crop c atrol acts named I 1 heretofore I 1 know personally of a considerable nun I 1 I 1 er of represent atiles and senators who were delight ed at the opportunity to vote repeal of those 1 laws aws ahey never did III e them after they found out what they bad had passed but a politician Is the last person in the world to admit his PS es and tl it e representatives and senators who voted for repeal of the crop control laws with such e enthuse n thu S I 1 aam in were ere no 1 d I efferent than the others ibe the repeal request simply give them an ol 01 I 1 ort alt to feet let ot t from under a th r s g which if the legislation had one processes usual and nor mal for congress they would sever have taken in the first piece president roosevelt likely will receive sowe credit for seeking repeal of the d laws admits he ile said if be made his mistake a mistake he would be the first to admit it so now he I 1 las as in a way admitted that he made a mistake in approving those laws although his statement con berning the repeal request was as that these were useless without AAA it is to be noted however that long before the supreme court outlawed AAA there wis a growing volume of discontent with the principles that law soult t to apply it cannot be that mr air roosevelt was vias not aware of this growing dissatisfaction and that his pol adai ers smelled a rat because a good rainy plans for modI flea tion ha hal 1 been under discussion bately am ng AAA advisers long before a supreme cirt decision was in prospect il men working with secretory secret Secre tiry iry wallice and Al administrator A divis were ere I 1 ly trying to change chan eq in a it ministration of the AAA law and the others as well to mal male e it workable i ork ible tl TI ey were con fronted however with a supe rabun dance of brain tr it aisters who could make a beautiful be cise in print fora fo their views and durin during that time the brain tr usters hid the ear of the I 1 resi rest lent wl lie ile the practical administrators were left out in the cold it is thus that we see a development under the new deal whereby most of the responsible people are attempting to dodge the responsibility tint thit be longs to them some of them are at tempting to clean their own skirts or mike make their skirts shirts appear clean by damning the supreme court others are blaming bl lining our system for failure of the tl it corles to work in practical ap and still other groups point the finger of scorn at those charged with administration of the agricultural policy blaming them for the failure things III e this have hane developed before in washington and have died down in due time but I 1 believe that seldom if ever has occurred a situation in which the responsibility was so general ani ant the blame so generally denied by those responsible washington observers are watching the presidents president a latest ma maneuvers on government finance must cut with considerable in borrowing terest the I 1 resi rest dent you know al at ready has told agencies of the govern ment that are equipped with borrowing power that they must reduce this borrowing he ile has in effect with drawn from them authorization that would have hae permitted the borrowing of about 1000 burld during the next year darin during the last few weeks t the he chief executive has been concerned also with reduction in governmental spending and at the same time with lit plans to raise additional money he ile has presented a bill to congress an obstinate congress Re presenta tives and senators do not like to cam palan after passing a new tat 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 presidents late t moves there are thoe those tho e who insist that mr roosevelt 1 Is making a sincere effort to cut down government spend ing and to convince the nation that he Is seel ing to reduce the waste tha that 1 Is naturally attendant upon such a vol ume nine of dastur dist ure cements ments of money as has talen tal en place in the last three years tl TI ere are others who take the post tion that the president Is simply build ing up a I 1 lett re which can be shown to the voters when election time comes they say that mr Roose roosevelt Nelt wants to be in a position to point to an accod polished reduction in federal expends tures and to assure the voters that he had permitted only such expenditures as were necessary to the cou countey ritty out of the depression an unbiased conclusion Is that a lit tie of each claim Is true if expends tures actually are reduced obviously the action will be welcomed by the tax payers on the other hand the bally batty hoo that went vent out from the white house and executive departments con berning the withdrawal of borrowing I 1 lower oer was rather unjustified it was unjustified for the reason that tile move was simply a bookkeeping proposition and further there was even a faint that such agencies as the reconstruction finance corporation and home owners loan corporation had no plans for borrowing extensively dur ing the forthcoming summer and fall if one looks into the future in con lection with the presidential dei bial program of curtailing borrowing and rutting cutting ex tures it Is rather difficult to es cape the thought that a continuation of policies such as have been spon bored by the new deil deal in the last three years will force a renewal of these ex tures in due course in other words the administration course re specking spec ting these expenditures Is going to depend upon the results of the novem her election if sir mr roosevelt Is re turned to the white house and he con finues with a substantial democratic majority in congress there Is no rea son to believe bellene that present spending policies will be entirely aban abandoned donod a western newspaper union |