Show new deal faces busy opposition organized lobby bucks presidents plans promises being fulfilled by EARL GODWIN ASHINGTON there Is great WW washington swashing drama in the situation a at t washington ashing ton the new deal two years old bringing promise of a cleaner government and a better day now faces the growling opposition of 0 an organized lobby each man in that lobby wants to change the new deal for some selfish motive what will roosevelt do compromise and dishearten millions of men and women who hailed him as the harban harbinger of a new day or will he ie smash right straight through the opposition and carry his flag to victory the future depends on the direction roosevelt takes now that he Is at the crossroads of midterm mid term the new deal promised advances on two fronts a government for the people with a minimum of political graft and economic recovery with a better distribution of wealth both these promises are in process of fulfillment fill fili ment neither ideal has been attained but both movements are going coln forward bogged down right now to a certain extent by a concentration of confusion and small minded partisanship which marks a certain element in the congress better government and clean administration of relief funds ri right ht now are being obstructed by senators who have no other object in mind tharl than to put something over on franklin D roosevelt the new deal brought to washington men whose sole purpose has been to make a better government most mos t of Roosevel ts immediate associates are men wh who 0 have never been mired in politics which Is one reason why the politicians go to the white house week after week in an effort to smear the reputations of new dealers whose policy has been to appoint men to office for effi efficiency clency rather than political partisanship there are still tremendous areas in government where political filip appointments ointments do not rule the day these men under Roosevel ts leadership staged a recovery program which Is succeeding despite the critics who throw mud but have no sugg suggestions they declare that skies are gray and I 1 forget the black and blue of march two years ago from a material standpoint this country has gone fro from m the verge of destruction to the doorstep of victory in these two years the banks once closed are now DOW open with an easier flow of credit practically every industry has been stimulated with the of credit loaned by the reconstruction finance corporation the worlds greatest life saver several hundred thousand homes bomes have been saved for happy fa milies families by the new deal through the home owners loan corporation the mortgage law would have dispossessed fathers mothers aud and children had bad it not been for this peculiarly humanized bit of new deal finance and yet today a handful of small politicians in con gress Is after the scalp of john H U fahey the head of that branch of the new deal because he has refused to make appointments at the dictation of politicians despite the tremendous happiness brought to america by the home owners loan corporation a handful of disgruntled congressmen has been holding up the autho authorization riza tion of its further beneficial activities the organization of the relief administration here in washington ington Is one of the greatest stories not time to tell it today but harry hopkins who heads the federal emergency relief administration started with a chair a desk and a pencil building up a flawless and gra distribution overnight ills his Is the sort of quick decisive mind that makes great generals the sort needed in a war on depression no politics in his shop and what a beating the politicians are trying to give him I 1 the graft in relief has been 1 in state and local politics think what it would have been if the grafters drafters gr had been in washington in charge of it all the new deal deaun in these two years has lifted trade and commerce above the cutthroat cut throat level of unfair competition it has given organized labor more than it has reveled rec rece elied led in any previous two years in the history of the labor movement the new deal has banned child labor has lifted the purchasing power in the agricultural sections has put a restraining hand band on interests that would take over the public domain for dividend purposes this and much more but the best thing it has done Is to keep the flag bag flying high in the hearts of americans obstructionists BUSY this congress has been in session since january 3 has beard the president outline the second step in the new deal and because of selfish obstruction st largely in the senate has done little to lo help the man the country depends on the obstructionists balked roosevelt in his attempt to join the rest of the world in a court to settle I 1 disputes around a table instead of by war congress has failed ailed to appropriate the budgeted moneys and practically every dollar it has appropriated has been outside the budget limits which 1 Is something to remember when next you hear bear of the administrations tons ex tray acance As this Is written tho the senate mate Is playing politics with the pro Fess lonal paid lobby of the american federation of labor and la Is trying to sink the presidents vast one punch plan lan to end the depression by putting people eople to work at wages that can be spread through the whole army of relief and not compete with private in austry meantime the presidents job assur ance plan and his ideas for old age pensions and unemployment insurance are bogged down behind the logjam log jam of the politically minded senators if the president would break down and do things their way they would ease up on their opposition now the president Is not going to compromise with his ideals or his program or change the direction in which he Is going the people elec elected t ed him because they wanted high minded leadership and the clear atmosphere he be brought to office TALKS OF BIG PLANS do you know what roosevelt talks about when he Is upstairs in his stud study y with his cr cronies onles you think he would be deep down in some technical discussion of laws and international diplomacy but when he has his close friends and Is going strong on his own hook the things he talks about are great plans for big new splendid things for america and the people in america people with ith homes and families the young people who are being married and having children with struggles to pay tor for the house and the groceries and to send the youngsters to school and he tall talks S about them in terms that they themselves are us using and the heart of the secret of the new deal the concentration of young men in the conservation camps an outgrowth of this sort of thought I 1 believe roosevelt has a wider and deeper knowledge of human nature and human problems than any president of our time ATTACKING NEW DEAL it would be foolish to assume that all politics and expediency have been banished from government but so much of it has been squelched that the politicians are now attacking the new deal all there Is to it it Is the answer to most of the criticism now leveled against roosevelt and ills bis program politicians are criticizing the relief and public works expenditures and it if they had been allowed to cut in on this huge pork barrel they would now be supporting it the vast expenditures of new deal money to keep people from starving has been done with a minimum of dishonesty and I 1 bellev believe w with ith a maximum of efficiency taking everything into consideration tills this feat should be regarded as something creditable to the government not as something to be snarled at and turned into a political attack parties and people should be proud of the way america Is conquering the depression democrats now joining the old guard and the old gang in trying to trip roosevelt are digging a pitfall for themselves people should realize that franklin D roosevelt has no inferiority complex nothings nothing s too bl mg for him to tactile tackle and he does not know know the feeling of fear that something fine cue in a president therell be no moral shell shocking of this president NEW DEAL efficiency the new deal came in like a tidal wave it rushed a vast rast number of emergency measures through the congress stopped the decline and restored confidence the very speed with which the emergency measures were enacted Is responsible for the legal flaws daws now cow being located here and there by a handful of federal judges some of whom have ability to locate true defects others are the sort who revel in finding misplaced commas but whenever a judge makes a decision against a new deal law the howling in the opposition camp Is prolonged I 1 and enthusiastic actually to dare the new deal has been upheld in 80 per cent of the suits brought to determine the legality or constitutionality of one or more points but what Is important Is no major policy of the new deal emergency measures has been declared unconstitutional by the supreme court recent adverse decisions in lower courts have had a terrifying sound and have been exaggerated in their importance by black streaming headlines but they are neither final fundamental nor comprehensive at birmingham Ing liam ala a federal judge says the federal government cannot sell its surplus electric power through the ten bessee valley authority this looks at first like a setback set back in the governments fl fight on the power trust but watt wait for the supreme court to act I 1 at wilmington del where the dupont munitions trust has its headquarters a federal judge says the government cannot regulate through the the relations between employers and employees in a certain large steel plant sounds like a knockout against the new deal but actually it Is a local decision and the supreme court has yet to be heard from in louisville ky another judge holds as tl lional the code of fair practice established by the NIZA for the soft coal industry but you notice that in general the industries involved are all in favor of the and its codes of fair dealing these various adverse decisions where they are at all important do not put an end to the new deal efforts toward decency and fair dealing they are very useful in pointing out legal technicalities here and there so that it if a law or a section of one of these hastily constructed new deal measures needs rebuilding by congress tile the congress will have the advice of the courts 0 neppe Nep pr union |