Show buck Is passed on to congress president tires of false criticism responsibility now lawmakers Lav makers by EARL GODWIN pr e s I 1 d e n t washington W roosevelt hat has stood enough false criticism about his fallore failure to carry out his economies us as promised and Is placing the responsibility where it belongs at tile the door of congress readers of tills this column recall that on several occasions I 1 have defended the president on his economy program and pointed out that congress alone Is responsible for economy or lack of 0 it A president can propose a program of tax raising or money spending but only the congress can enact either one the first roosevelt congress enacted nn an economy bill which reduced the running expenses of tile the established government 25 per cent that was in 1033 1933 in the next nest year the lie same congress wiped out the economy act over Roosevel ts veto that congress then went home and most of the members were reelected elected re the people approved what they did although I 1 imagine the average to voter ter had no idea what had happened this elected reelected re congress listened to the american legion rather than roosevelt and passed the bill to pay the bonus now instead of when it Is due in 1945 furthermore congress has fired a succession of bills at the white house calling for money outside the budget and when roosevelt refuses to sign congress sulks this administration planned to run the regular government goern ment with a 25 per cent cash reduction and to meet the emergency of the depression and its hunger stricken millions by borrowed money the presidents message of january C G balanced the budget the bonus payment and the supreme courts AAA knockout unbalanced it N lyv comes the president with a tax plan that will balance it again for it must be plain to all that there are but two ways of balancing a budget elther either less outgo or more income congress refuses to pinch the outgo so unless it raises the income the treasury will have to borrow more money 4 0 PROTECTS NATIONAL CREDIT roosevelt knew that the credit of the nation could be elpa expanded to si a point where we could carry a debt and not be in danger but he stops far short of that people thought roosevelt wils was a spendthrift but he is going to show them that he be knew how bow and when to borrow how bow and when to pay cash by adopting a cash and carry policy he is now carefully protecting the nations credit sponsoring policies to revive industry while bite considering the moral obligation to care for the unemployed now getting scant attention from the state governments and from industry itself pseudo economic sources comes the demand that government expenses for relief be now cut or wiped out some of this comes from the american liberty league which has in it members of congress who yell for economy but voted to override the presidents economy act cries for economy come from thrifty new englanders who would be the first to protest a real cut which would knock millions from the ship building program of the navy for new england shipyards are getting much of that business and feeling the prosperity of the navy payroll twenty million dollars of public works money outside the regular naval appropriations pir lations have love been spent in the shipyards of massachusetts nione alone and every one of these projects has been endorsed and received with joyous cries of welcome by the same flinty hearted politicians w who bo yell for economy it does not make sense A great middle class of merchants are demanding less spending and most of them are continuing in business are out of the red and are experiencing what II arding called normalcy all because of the public works and relief expenditures plus tile he tremendous impetus to reco recovery ery by the lie reconstruction finance corporation government aid discontinued now DOW would mean nationwide ruin one delicious bit of eldrence el dence of prosperity is that pointed out by roosevelt evelt that there Is more than in undistributed profits in corporation treasuries money earned but never dever ghen to el eis s such things do not occur in financially busted countries that pool poo of money Is in a protected spot taxes cant reach it unless onless congress takes Roosevel ts tip and levies a tux tax on that particular pile such a tax ax would drive tills this money out of hiding into dividends and nd there would be more money lit in circulation which means more purchasing ng more business more wages to workers ers 0 0 0 G 0 P IN BAD AD WAY the republicans must indeed be in a bad way to talk about running a democrat for vice president along with some good 0 0 P wheel florse for president this to la an evidence of dry rot it Is being diu discussed cussed along with the advice from eminent republicans that it republican candidate must promise a nonpartisan non partisan cabinet that Is a sug sugar jar coated way of saying laying that it if the country elects a republican lie he will choose some democrats to run a few departments of gov now a are s r efi victory ahead for the republicans vad never produce such weak ideas ns its t lint if republicans believe they are sure to win they will never be can caught lit promising fl a good job to a democrat for it a president to appoint members of a nother another party t to 0 hla his cabinet sounds like a coalition government with a strain of compromise running through it all but in this country coalition governments exist only in theory the president Is the whole thing at the executive end of the setup cabinet officers are administrative heads beads and cannot effect a change VL of policy without the presidents 0 k A republican president makes a republican administration a democratic president makes a democratic admin adain no mater who Is in the cabinet the current talk about the republicans public ans electing a president from their party a vice president from the democrats and having a piebald pie bald cabinet from both parties Is plain bunk but it indicates that the old G 0 P has lost its pep and Is on its w way ay to the old ladles ladies home 0 0 STIRS UP HORNETS NEST congress picks up a rock and fires it straight into a horri hornets ets nest when it starts investigating the townsend old age pension plan to pay oldsters at sixty a monthly pension that plan has between eight and ten million voters behind it and they have at times seared scared to death nearly every congressman I 1 have talked to about it in some districts they controlled enough votes to guarantee victory to any candidate they supported and in several districts they apparently had a clean majority now any time that a congress made out of poll politicians goes out to monkey with a crowd like that you may know that someone has put backbone into the entire aggregation A gallant little band of senators and representatives has contended from the start that the townsend plan Is 13 weak impossible fanatical insane and what nat they are now going further with their charge and assail the whole movement as a racket which enriches the managers and will never help a single human being outside the circle of doctor townsends Town sends campaign organization senator austin of vermont Is one of the chief opponents of the plan ills latest contribution to the antl Is to have printed as a part of the congressional record no an article severely attacking the plan written by donald who was until recently the head of the old and its blue eagle jumps on the plan from first to last declaring it a complete fake impossible of execution it is a dangerous delusion he says promis ing impossible relief to millions of de serving people who are in sore dis tress 11 cut but there are others who warmly support the idea recent defender Is representative martin F smith of washington ehg speaks of the plan as the strongest most dynamic social economic and political reform movement no in the history of america the basis of the plat alar Is a 2 per cent tax on every transact tion every sale and the month must be spent within the month thus thui insuring says doctor townsend a perfect avalanche of money for all but the avalanche Is all in your mind say still other members of congress you would have to cross the dallai collat with a guinea pig says representative engel of iJichi Ui chlan gan CHEAP ELECTRIC POWER congress now pushes definite plant plans to spread cheap rural electric power the rural location adminis tra tion has been dealing with small ex peri ments but now with senator nor ris of nebraska behind the proper to leg Islat lon the government will start tc finance concerns in rural communities hitherto denied electric power the th purpose of the norris bill which is an administrative measure Is to lend money to rural communities farm co operatives and to farmers for generating and distributing plants and elec electric trl equipment it Is straight out and out government financing of power fox foi folks who have not been able to get it 11 else elsewhere the bill will I 1 believe become a law at an early date and will be widely and fully explained when the president signs the measure the widely organized power indus try representing many billions of in vestment and receiving hundreds ol 01 millions in profits yearly will fight with every ounce of its strength to pre ent a spread of federally owned ot 01 financed electric power this fight of the power inhere interests ats fo foi a candidate of its own Is responsible for the quiet candidacy of of michigan where according to TVA standards the electric light and power users are over overcharge charged il a year nor does favorite l sou ou landon of kansas have much to say about the fact that the people ol of ills his state pay nearly a yeat more for electricity than if they were charged TVA rates frank knox illinois favorite son seems so far to bt be content with the fact that illinois la 13 charged nearly more tot power that Is the state of sam insull than TVA rates ratel senator dick inson of iowa ioa republican another favorite son sol will have to answer the fact that his constituents are arc paying I 1 almost more a year yea r than bill TVA rates in fact every state slate I 1 in tit union Is paying a tremendous toll to the power trust are many members of congress who would like to go to the mat on the power trust issue w bleb neachea reache ii far town down into the vitals of aie ui liberty league and the eastern wip wing of the republican party the politicians figure it Is an issue reaching into 00 homes and business houses it could be macie if handled right into one of the lie surest fire new deal issues 0 western union bolda |