Show senator haaf beld assails plan calling the a needless impediment which harms and hampers the return of prosperity senator hatfield today informed hugh S johnson that my idea of making a complete success would be to abandon it entirely senator hatfield assailed various phases phase s of the recovery program in his letter to the chief written in reply to a form letter sent by the recovery chief to members of congress asking for their support of the program and welcoming their suggestion and advice senator hatfield said that he had not announced his candidacy for reelection adding that 1 I would not want to continue in office on the condition that I 1 must bond the knee and render homage to dicta dictates teg so foreign to our traditional ideas of domo democracy mo cracy personal worth initiative and freedom of the individual man 1 I will patriotically cooperate with you in sending a respectful petition to jhc thc president to exercise his I 1 legislative e gis function of repeal and abandon this ghastly folly of industrial regimentation for such is our present state of ignominy that by a single stroke of his pen all this economic madness called the can be ended 1 I will eagerly cooperate with you toward resti restraining aliling the orgy of speculation now carried on under the absolutism of those who subscribed to and qualified under the and in curbing the paradise of pro fite ring that the makeshift make shift plan has perci pirated pita ted 1 11 I will zealously cooperate with you in expelling from high places in our government such intellectual theorists as professor raymond moley professor rexford tugwell and others who are characterized by representative hamilton F fiah ish jr as admirers oi of the red flags flag and principals of am communism alicc al sai you coif ma may j 1 loo or mylum MY lul uit cooperation in cutting off these thee wasteful bounties to farmers and for the abandonment of such disgraceful practices as plowing under ten million acres of cotton government purchase and slaughter of five million hogs and so I 1 am told government purchase of millions of pounds of butter for purposes of destruction so that prices may be raised for the m millions 11 i H ions of unemployed and other millions who are hard pressed to eke out a scarey scanty living in conclusion senator if hatfield a t f I 1 e I 1 d wrote 1 I really want to thank you most cordially for the acknowledge ment that there is in existence such a deliberative body as the U united cited states senate I 1 thank you also for deigning to seek the opinion of a mere senator salt lake tribune september 9 1938 |