Show 0 national topics interpreted by william bruckart Was washington liln ton increasingly sance the end of the world war cabled dispatches f from r 0 ra eu right or rope have told of left leff wing activities a c 11 v c s of the right wing political parties and of blocs and other divisions of political opinion the expressions pres have hare become so common that newspapers and other periodicals no DO longer enclose the words right or left in quotation marks in other words those two terms have come to be understood as meaning conservative or radical thought respectively and with this change has come an application for them to our own political set setup up lately I 1 have been inquiring of many political leaders for their opinions as to the direction president roosevelt may be expected to head bead in his nd administration ministration ot of affairs of our nation the real way to judge it appears la Is by classification of his advisers it if they are of the left wing it Is to be assumed that he Is all aligned ned with the radical group and if his advisers are to be catalogued cataloguer catalo gued as leaning to the right tle conservative element must be considered as dominant in the affairs of the nation all of us recognize that there are certain of the presidents policies thus far developed that are decidedly radical as measured by the course of the nation in previous years yet the men and women with whom I 1 have consulted point out that among his bis policies are those that have been fostered traditionally by those hose who call themselves conservative I 1 found the same came results in inquiries about his advisers some of them long on have been known as radicals some of them have bore stood with the conservatives and with it all some of his advisers heretofore have been known as republicans some have been found in the two major political par ties at different times and some are old time democrats it Is apparently a new political party but still under the democratic label 0 4 when one takes a look at the presidents policies the things he be has done under the guise of let business leading the country manage itself Itsel fout out of the depression an attempt to analyze his leanings to tile the right or the left becomes more difficult for ex example ample the democratic party long has fought against trusts big combinations big business generally yet it was president Ident roosevelt who projected the NIRA into our economic structure with art an appended statutory proTis provision loD that antitrust anti trust laws shall not operate against corporations and businesses that agree to operate under the codes of KRA the democratic party always has talked about protecting the little man a small business but the KRA has been attacked by such liberals or radicals radl cals as senators nye of north dakota norris of nebraska and borah of idaho as being a death sen tence for the man with a small business on the other hand I 1 asked in a good many places whether the principle of was revolutionary in tha the sense of a general change in our economic life and everywhere the answer was that actually proposes to give busIn business esq more power to manage itself this Is the attitude of general johnson boss the codes he says are for the purpose of having business manage itself by men of its own choosing with only a little go government supervision with the agricultural adjustment administration the AAA answers to my queries were different most everyone views the AAA as being wholly revolutionary is as compared with our traditional methods of dealing with euc 11 problems it Is indeed sin nn outright overturning of our established principles under the principle of AAA the he federal government Is lay ing special taxes on special classes for the benefit of a special class whether you agree that the nations agriculture must be saved by that manner or whether your conclusions hold such methods of taxation to be discriminatory tile the fact remains that the AAA Is based on class taxation in supporting that legislation and in giving secretary wallace and administrator davis a free hand to develop the new scheme mr roosevelt Is regarded by b v the political students as having gone as far to the left as the most radical could desire short only of actual government management of tile the industry it Is only necessary to think of crop control government purchase of pigs to prevent surpluses on the markets and the payment of benefits to farmers for signing crop reduction agreements to realize the extent to which the president has bils gone the tennessee valley authority Is another agency that might be held beld to be a long step to A step to the lie left by the pres the left ident dent that Is purely government ownership and participation in business it Is to be remembered that the TVA not only Is going to produce nitrates for the farmers bat it Is going to produce electricity for the farmers and tho the residents of towns and cities further it Is going to engage in selling equipment that uses electricity such things as washing ma chines electric irons and other equipment for the household attention also might be called in conne tIon with the TVA to the fart fact that it will permit little or no competition in the areas where it operates and it if it falls 0 to o make expenses the taxpayers of the whole country share the burden mr Rooseve Roosevel ws ts monetary plans his projected devaluation of the dollar are radical and yet they have had bad the support of some of the conservatives with sharp criticism coming at the same game time from the ranks of radicals for example senator mcadoo of california one of the chief supporters of the roosevelt candidacy and a man of recognized radical leanings was one of the main critics against the presidents program of seizing the gold held by th the federal reserve banks senator mcadoo Is a former secretary of the treasury and stood solidly with senator glass glas a virginia democrat and also former secretary of the treasury in ID fighting that provision ision of the bill then we have seen the spectacle of senator arthur robinson an indiana republican who cannot be called conservative serva tive by anybody in the role of broadcasting a warning that mr roosevelt wants to be a dictator like mussolini of italy and miter hitler of germany the indiana robinson has assailed president roosevelt in vicious fashion during these same days when the indiana robinson was pointing out how he could see the president moving towards a dictatorship there was senator joe T robinson of arkansas an old time conservative democrat serving valiantly as the presidents leader in the senate the arkansas robinson n has managed all Roosevelt lan maneuvers in tile the senate whether they led to the right or the left ile he has jumped on the indiana robinson for his attacks on the pr presidents plans that were held by the indianan to be leading directly to dictatorship ship and in tile the same breath b has avowed his conservatism and so it is in the house of representatives senta tives there Is speaker rainey of illinois always known as a democrat of radical leanings along side him is working of tennessee as democratic leader in the house mr byrns has been rate cata loguen as conservative through his long term of service among the house and senate committee chairmen the same mixture may be seen one may carry the analysis into the cabinet and ond find much the same circumstance cum stance S e c r e A As to the tary wallace of ag cabinet culture rl ri a son of a former republican secretary of agriculture Is of the left wing ing but he be cannot go along with the radical ideas of inflation ile fie says that wont solve the problems of the former farmer there Is rig big jim parley farley the postmaster general a conservative in training ining and in belief and cordell hull secretary of state who was never inclined to any of the new untried schemes or dreams of the left win wing of his party secretary ickes of the interior department part ment was a campaigner for theodore roosebelt Roos Roose eielt Nelt as a bull moose candidate ills wife is a republican member of the illinois legislature but despite his previously accepted lert left lean ing secretary ickes Is regarded in was washington il ington as conservative in most respects so Is secretary perkins ns head of the labor department and the only woman in the cabinet although on labor questions she tins has been more to the left than to the right secretary now in the treasury cannot be catalogued cataloguer catalo gued otherwise than a left winger mr Morgen thaus own philosophy however Is quite subordinated since the presidents Preside lits chief interest in recent months tins been he en on lines of monetary revision and the treasury secretary simply carries out orders going further among the presidents advisers we find lewis douglas director of the budget an arizona copper magnate almost directly tied in with wall street ns as new yorks financial interests tire are termed and jesse jones of texas chairman of the gigantic reconstruction finance corporation a banker a big business man a conservative in almost every sense then when you get into anto the list of professors who have been influential in administration affairs alt airs you face a flock of left wing adherents professor tugwell an assistant secretary of agriculture actually would remake our economic structure along his own professorial fessor fes lal lines professor warren who has stood closer to the presided Preside ct than any other although not in an official post Is credited with being responsible nsf for the monetary revision policy the go CO cent dollar which is now upon us and dr william 1 I meyers of cornell cordell 1 now head of farm credit administration tra tion has been of the left wing for years balancing ot off these there are distinctly conservative meo men in the cabinet like secretary swanson of the navy secretary dern of war and some of their subordinates who nevertheless exercise important executive functions all of which leads certainly to one conclusion that there Is in this new deal an adventure into now new realms 01 ol administration where it will 1 lead d only history can record 0 by willera |