Show EX GOY PINCHOT ASSAILS ROOSEVELT when an ex governor of 0 pennsylvania Penn syi speaks that message la is well worth listening to ex governor gifford pinchot said in a broadcast over the columbia system on feba today tor for the first time in my experience people are really taking an interest in how their government affairs ae managed they and you are getting convinced that whether or not your government gives you a dollars worth of service tor for every dollar spent makes a difference a difference you can feel when theodore roosevelt waa was in washington ashington M the government of the united states was like a well oiled machine like an automobile in its first ten thousand miles it gave the biggest mileage ever known for ev ery gallon of gas that went into the tank today when franklin D roose velt la Is at the head of the government every nut la is loose and that goes dou ble every point squeaks the steer ing wheel is out of kilter the brakes are on the bum the front wheels are wobbly the whole machine ra tie like a truckload of milk wagons and the mileage per dollar is simply dis graceful because that man in charge Is 4 a poor mechanic the government at washington Is a mess that tact fact makes a difference to you because you and I 1 and the rest of us have to pay for the mess we have to put up too much money to make the th wheels g go 0 round there was a time when the fed eral government didn dian t have so much to do with all of us but that time has gone by relief for the unemployed must be given whether r you like it or whether you don t instead of the twenty five per cent reduction which was promised the federal de apartments part ments cost more than ever the financial policy of the government Is about as stable as a feather in a gale how can business men plan tor for the future when they can cant t tell what la Is ahead the government at washington is a mess instead of practical men who know their way around young men with plenty of theory but no practice are put in charge of lm public enterprises when where ex per lence fence counts for more than book learning I 1 don t know how you feel about it but I 1 have a definite opinion as to spending your money and mine to send tan fan dancers to C C C camps I 1 have a definite opinion about boon boggling dog gling and about the loafing on public works so many of us have no instead of one clear plan wash ington has a sort of blizzard of plans the air of washington is cloudy with commissions each buzzing in its own vacuum you pay for every one of them relief workers are assessed for po lotical contributions the executive Is a wonder wonderful tuf ra dio speaker parley farley has tilled filled washington with democrats of whom not one in ten was required to prove his ability un der the civil service law franklin roosevelt has reduced the number of tested public servants from eighty to sixty per cent A hundred thousand new government employees were appointed in six months nearly all of them on a far ley spoils basis personally franklin roosevelt Is a gentleman and a scholar and a very able politician and as an in I 1 like him very much but as the manager of the greatest bust aneses on earth the government of the united states I 1 don t like him at all As a radio speaker he Is a won der As a business executive he Is a flop under franklin roosevelt the government at washington Is a mess everybody knows it and that calmly and sanely from the ex governor of la ia A less worthy source and it would fall fail of conviction |