Show hugh johnson vr slaps new deal za then asks you to support roosevelt more alore fury than fact in attacks by EARL GODWIN N AN odd season when the oldest olde 1 I inhabitants weather signs are falling fal we also have with Us ua the un u explained antics of gen hugh bius johnson the man who nho turned the na dional recovery administration into a I 1 three ring circus hugh Is rampaging rampa gln up and down tile the country ru rushing bushill shill in ii and out of magazine and newspaper 0 offices and up op onto find off of speak ers platforms or wherever lie car can vocalize an attack on oil tile the new deal the queer thing about general genera johnsons blast Is that lie he smears the th new deal from top to bottom and then asks you to support roosevelt johnson explains lie he Is nut not trying to tc hurt the president but he Is furnish ing ammunition to tile the republican national committee I 1 aich is gleefully lising general johnsons mud blinding for its own purpose johnson wrote a scathing attack on the new deal for a well N ell know kno 13 weekly A magazine of national circulation the article was entitled Capt captain aln watch your step it wits was a stab lit in it llie back extremely valuable alu able in new york and new jersey republican politics just at that in moment and tile the understanding here bere Is that johnson received for the article then having delivered del hered roosevelt to the enemy i johnson Jo linson was next heard of in a paid for or speech in a western city in which be took Roosevel ts side Fol following lolling tills this flip flop lie he started a lally dally newspaper nes paper syndicated attack on cabinet members one by one yet from time to time hugh johnson stops beating the opposition tom tom to cry out jils his friendship for roosevelt advising all to stand by the president certainly the president stood by hu dough h johnson a feat about as easy as standing by a whirling dervish if there Is anything to criticize in roose belts appointments do not by any chance overlook his choice of hugh johnson you will remember that when johnson took over the he had the country in an uproar from the start ills administration of that effort to give ghe workers fair wages and hours was a constant succession of blasts explosions and personal attacks they picked a blue eagle for the emblem but a cull U ll 11 in a china shop would have more inore symbolized the generals progress pro giess toward obscurity 0 BACK OF IT those who know hugh johnson analyze his present war dance as haying baving three separate origins first hugh Jo linson likes money and lie has just learned that he can make it right now by assaulting the administration new york city has gone almost insane against roosevelt roosevell new york has a species of rabies abich has afflicted its editors and its bankers new york like a huge beast Is snapping growling and frothing at Roo roosevelt as if lie were a forel foreign foe any man with a gift of unlimited abuse like hugh johnson can be paid big money for literary or journalistic mudslinging mud slinging against the administration A second reason advanced here by men who ulio worked with him in nita Is that in addition to suffering from the wall street rabies lie has also been bitten by that queer insect known as the presidential bee the general disclaims any political ambition but he could prove proe his bis words by keeping quiet quiel actually you will find that hugh johnson Is smearing every possible candidate for high office except himself lie he Is setting up in his own mind johnson versus roosevelt elt I 1 A third reason Is in the roots of the money market hugh johnson Jo linson Is dernard bernard Ila friend bernard baruh r Is harney barney baruch long sighted street trader one of 0 those po powerful erful men who pull the strings of government who have a hand in the pie of every adin administration kistra baruch in common with every other pew holder in the money temple hates the new dea for the power it has shorn from the sharpshooters sharp shooters of wall street and I 1 think that la Is the real reason for the bloodcurdling blood curdling hatreds now seething against the new Y deal in the eastern seaboard cities wherever brokers wires carry their venom johnsons John song attacks on cabinet members are more celebrated tor for their fury than for their accuracy ue ile criticized secretary of state cordell hull for being a sort of weak minded sap and yet hull Is rebuilding our wrecked foreign commerce lie he Is engineering trade treaties which will go a ion long w way to make up for the damage do done ne by former unintelligent tariff policies our foreign commerce Is increasing by the 4 millions each month th for example in I 1 J eleven months month 3 of a trade treaty with i I 1 cuba we sold gold cuba 98 08 per cent more lard per cent more potatoes i per cent more radios per cent II 11 more antomo automobiles blieR nil all the result of intelligent wool at ai flit lie state depart f ment in the face of fierce japanese j competition johnsons emearld sm smearing earlD arlt falls fads because of lack of fact johnson charged Seve secretary tary of the treasury with ruining the government credit but can point to the largest federal income in history dold and Is handling the public debt at the lowest rate of interest there Is certainly nothing the matter with the public credit under moreen thau johnsons at attack Is filled with inaccuracies such us as tills this ile he criticized roosevelt for not picking a man for the treasury like senator carter glass class when the fact Is roosevelt offered glass the post not only once but several times HOG HOC CORN referendum the walls of jericho tell fell when mark sullivan outstanding republican journalist opponent of the AAA wrote frankly for the new york herald tribune that the hog bog corn referendum result clearly shows tile the farming sections of the country are tor for roosevelt and his administration I 1 dont know anyone more courageous in writing than mark sullivan and few who nho approach him in distinction ile he Is it a sturdy pro and anti new nen dealer who ibo has been arousing new yorkers to fury over the administrations farm policies but I 1 will say for mark that he Is open and aboveboard above board hoard about it goes to all the presidents press conferences and looks film square in the ee tills this Is in ili contrast to most of the presidents journalistic detractors they keep away front from him corn hoi ho farmers tote ote six to one for a continuance of the ad administrations nil rations farni farm control to keep keel down production at the proper point so that flint prices represent a pi sullivan deplores dep lorns AAA but blit admits the hie political strength in the farmers attitude altitude Ble meantime antime henry wallace secretary of agrio agriculture sounds a note of warning against the folant sectionalism which Iii ell has crept into crop control discussion the national agricultural polley policy Is designed for universal benefit to give the producer a reasonable profit broj which in turn raises national purchasing power so that agriculture and industry benefit alike republican managers have ridden mrs george simmons from the national view she Is the remarkable farm woman who nho aroused the grass rooters at springfield ill to frenzy over her attack on AAA she being right oft off a missouri farm of about one hundred and forty two acres and gifted with blistering oratorical ability F rank frank knox and ills his gang thought they had in her something big in the way of 0 a farm bred grassroots grass roots exhibit against AAA cut but while mrs simmons made the front pages of city papers she fell flat in the farm sections now it appears that the republicans have mrs ions la in the de farm areas of long island where millionaires lion aires play at agriculture M mrs rs simmons was lately reported to be resting on the farm estate of mrs ruth pratt society woman republican congresswoman from a district where a real farm farin Is unknown mrs simmons is carrying the message of her missouri acres to these blue stock ing farms of 0 the green velvet lawn sections of new york arousing them hem to heights of indignation over the first american plan to ensure a proper price for americas crops meanwhile aliat liat is happening in her immediate neighborhood MIsso missouri url goes 6 to I 1 for the AAA while the neighbors around mrs simmons home farm ote lote 34 to 1 for the thin thing mrs Sli sammons amons is trying to destroy in the name of the great republican party RELIEF PROBLEM As roosevelt and daniel bell the dapper little man who handles the notional national budget start their annual powwow on the budget of government expenses for the coming fiscal year the apparent interminable problem of relief comes to complicate their deliberations erat ions the old established governmental departments may be easily calculated cu one knows exactly what the army the navy the department of agriculture etc will cost in twelve months months we know what we have to pay out for interest on money borrowed to carry on the world war we have though only a vague idea of what ft ii will cost tills this country for anent next ear harry hopkins and his crew come in and promise to change the dole army to a work battalion by the end of tills year it sounds line fine until we look lok at the chart showing the nations 3 business payrolls and the factory workers out of jobs it shows that nations business Is at a well sustained high level business Is good taking tin the postwar post war boom as a goal we ae are within ten points of that good time but figures have not kept pace with the increase in business employment lias has not kept pace with industry that means but one thing industry Is now so efficient with alth laborsaving labor saving machinery and shortcuts short cuts that full national output in everything our factories now make will apier give employment so the president must give attention to botha the apparent indications we must make provision for the army of men tor for whom industry provides no jobs also the president Is having constant consultation with industrial leaders and labor leaders ile he wants to solve this problem of course one reason Is found in those industries which lengthened their work hours after NIIA collapsed some employers met tile the increase of business by making their employees work louger longer for the same money instead of e employing more people but as a national problem it will be settled only by the presidents longtime plan for the development and conservation of natural resources shorter hours of labor strictly enforced or the development of new industries dus tries like the radio business which sprang up over night or a deadly palliative like the dole or work relief it will not be the dole 0 weiters union |