Show 0 M ID national topics interpreted by william breckan washington there la is a rising tide of belief here in washington that president Roosevel ts turning policies are leaning conservative ConserVa five mote more and more boore away awa from froin the things that marked them as the new deal a year ago it can be doubted no longer that he Is veering away to some extent from the experimentation that constituted the program advanced by the myriads of professors with whom he surrounded himself at the start of his administration professors are not carrying the water on their shoulders that they did awhile ago and it has been noted that sir mr roosevelt Is less and less willing to leap before he looks upon the cut of the fabric at this time I 1 believe the consensus to be that mr roosevelt Is turning to a more stable as distinguished from a theoretical foundation for the future the developments have been predicated apparently on a swing in public sentiment obviously without public sentiment behind any plan there will be a dearth of confidence by all and sundry it Is said the president Is seeking to establish confidence most of all and finally it seems he has arrived at the necessity tor for winning confidence of business people big and little litile so that distinct changes can be expected through the summer when congress Is not here to worry him doubtless the trend towards the conservative instead of the more radical course he followed earlier Is due to the tact fact that the bulk of the people no now w feel they have a right to state objections surely objections are being stated to a greater extent than at any time since he took office in other words the theories of the professors have proved bad in spots and any nation of ambitious people eventually will tire of preachments preach ments the danger Is that the pendulum will swing too far and that the good and practicable things of the new deal may be washed out by a wave of conservatism and reaction there are numerous things to which attention may be called in demonstrating that mr roosevelt is not going to experiment too much in the future ills his flat footed stand against nationalization of sliver silver Is one his determination to tinker no further with the currency Is another A third indication tion Is the presidents decision to see that the capital goods or durable goods industry can have some relief and another intimation Is the way congress has acted about the legislation to control the security exchanges the president could have made congress put teeth in the stock exchange bill if be wanted to do so put cut he be has held oft off likewise he has taken a position against payment of deposits in closet closed banks by use of inflationary schemes all of these things are the vehicles of those who would go far on the radical courses coursed mr roosevelt has not stressed expansion as his radical followers thought he was going to press it those who conceived still do not admit that has ground down the little businesses in the interest of the big ones but mr Roos roosevelt eielt apparently sees it lie ile Is represented in high places as hoping that the NNA board of review will show up the weaknesses 0 of f the codes so that modifications can be made where necessary many of the NEA crowd as they have come to be known here are disgruntled about abou t it they think that like the king can do no wrong being a keen student and a master psychologist mr air roosevelt sees those things and he has taken hold of them apparently before they have become so bad as to destroy whatever benefits that may accrue 0 0 what Is the cause for the change in the scenery there are two reasons of which I 1 hear too discussion most tre fre idealistic quent antly ly many of the plans were too idealistic tor for use universally among a practical people and the second there Is a tendency to write thou shall not into too much legislation and regulation for carrying outtie out the recovery program the american people as I 1 judge them will obey orders that change their lives around tor for just so BO long then they blow up in a big way for an example of what I 1 mean the congress recently passed the so called bankhead backhand bill that will limit the production of cotton in the united states to ten million bales annually it Is compulsory unless a cotton farmer agrees to reduce his acreage and comply p ly with the other terms of the law thou not market what Is grown without the payment of a heavy tax a tax so burdensome as to remove any possibility of profit mr air roosevelt signed the bill and gave it his blessing but I 1 hear based d any number of newspaper correspondents and observers remark when they read his statement that he be was saying merely that he hoped it would be of some value surely he be did not predict its success all through the various recovery laws and regulations one finds so BO m many any thou shall nots bots that one of the eastern metropolitan newspapers printed a cartoon captioned dreams of forgotten age the chief character in the cartoon was that figure so BO famous as representing prohibition the thought behind the cartoon was waa deeper in the minds of some than lust just the humor and lesson that it portrayed therein was a story of too much washington sooner or later unless I 1 have misread my history there Is to be a broadside of 0 reaction rise up against too much washington in the way lives are lived the current period seems to be the high point but it had its beginning in my opinion when the constitutional amendment was adopted providing for direct election of senators that was followed some years later by enactment of the law creating the federal farm loan system and then during the last decade we saw other things of the same type put through by congress president hoover proposed the reconstruction finance corporation and president roosevelt expanded that and a lot of other things the result regulations red tape dictation orders countless agents inspectors investigators examiners and much amateurish administration of the decree thou shall not 0 0 0 there was if you pause to remember a general disgust with the steady prom procession sion of indict causes ments arrests and irritation trials of minor if 11 quor law violators even consistent and conscientious supporters of prohibition now and then burst forth against the administration of it when men and women otherwise respectable in their communities were convicted as criminals because they dared to take a drink the department of agriculture supplied the newspaper correspondents with an announcement a few days ago that two men in south dakota had been arrested and had pleaded guilty to a charge of conspiracy to defraud the united states in connection with the 1933 emergency hog bog buying program the announcement described the case as of national importance and interest as similar fraud cases are pending in other federal courts under this and other emergency programs handled by the agricultural adjustment administration it will be recalled that there was waa quite a bit of cheating la in the administration of job planning there was some come stench too in the handling of seed loans in two or three parts of the country and there Is plenty of complaint about some window box farmers who have been drafting regulations ions in AAA has been under fire from time to time because in some instances vast industries were compelled to sit across a table in drafting a code with a man who had had no experience whatsoever in that industry so what wonder Is it that a man will do as one about whom I 1 heard ile he boasted about being a chiseler that Is among friends he said of course I 1 am a chiseler of course I 1 am making money out 0 of this code but the reason I 1 am doing it Is because I 1 am thinking of the next few years when the tax collector Is going to take virtually all of the profits I 1 make to pay up tor for this waste in my roaming around in washington I 1 find more and more people who are asking which of the two major political parties the democrats or the republicans republica ns Is going to have courage enough to pull the government back to washington as a government and allow the people to run their own business it Is important to record in this connection that the department of agriculture already looks like has taken a step in the direction of backtracking agog allowing private business to run its own affairs by its announcement that government control of dairy production Is not to be attempted at this time from the information I 1 have been able to pick up here and there in high places I 1 suspect that dairy production control Is never going to be attempted but secretary wallaces wallace s an announcement no said only that control would not be attempted for the present one can only guess whether this Is the beginning of a trend a backtracking from the governmental control extreme to which some of the professors would like to have gone they advanced the control idea to the ultimate in the bankhead compulsory cotton production control law and they have pushed the control principle almost as far in wheat tobacco corn and hog bog industries with regard to the dairy business however they rau ran into difficulties the stumbling blocks block and obstacles met in that attempt illus ilius better than anything that I 1 know that industries in the united have interests too divergent to permit of a universal regul regulation atlon I 1 mean by that practices and problems vary in every locality and there are few industries dus tries which can be lined up under the same rules of operation without some of them being handicapped and others profiting unduly the dairy industry gave 9 ave proof of this fact according to th the e announcement by ur mr wallace which said there would be no DO attempt to undertake a production control program without the support of a substantial in majority ot of the 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