| Show 0 national topics interpreted by william bruckart Bruc katt washington prior to and since adjournment journ ment of the second session of the roosevelt con where Is new gress eress I 1 have tried deal headed to collect for these columns a composite picture of opinion among our lawmakers as aa to where this nw new deal in government is headed ottames I 1 have reported here that I 1 was unable to comprehend many phases of the new deal because there has been so much confusion it has been kaleidoscopic irk in its character from the start but there had been indications that a second session of congress and presidential messages would serve to clarify the situation such however lias has not been the case insofar as my humble ability to understand it Is 19 concerned to demonstrate more clearly what I 1 mean let me relate thai I 1 have sought the views of a great many members of congress and with one or two exceptions the replies to my questions were divided into two classes if the representative or senator was was a devout administration supporter the answer was that we are headed for greater human happiness on the basis of a planned national life if the one to whom the questions were directed were a republican or a democrat who Is unwilling to swallow academic theories orl in accordance with the doctors prescription the answer almost invariably was 1 I dont know many of them expressed the belief that there was merit in much of the new deal program but its ultimate end was a matter which they aliey declared they hey could not now foresee I 1 also have havel examined again many of tile the letters that I 1 have received fron from readers of these columns since the new deal came into operation but they fall to provide a consensus as aa to whether the writers of them have formed conclusions as to direction it Is to be recalled further that mr ir roosevelt in submitting legislative proposals to either of the two sessions of congress has said with absolute frankness that his program then being offered contained experimental features with equal frankness and courage he stated in each instance that if the experiments failed he would be among the first to admit tile the fact such was his attitude regarding the gigantic agricultural adjustment program with all of his various policies for limitation of production and enforced control of surplus but since the president has not said yet that any of these have failed it can only be concluded that he fie Is satisfied with the progress being made opponents of the new deal and doubting are pointing the finger of scorn more and more to these experiments and I 1 am informed by observers who have been visiting various sections of tile the country that there Is dissatisfaction in considerable volume concerning the results thus far accomplished from indu 1 communities and the areas where the bulk of the income taxes are collected by the government ern ment I 1 hear the question who Is going to pay for all of this there can be no doubt that this question of who Is going to pay will become paramount at a later date than it Is now but the leaders of the new deal have gone no further to this date than to say that a restored prosperity will make the payments easy and the truth of their statements of course cannot be disputed 0 many observers in washington had thought when the president insisted on senate confirma fall fail to pin tion of his nomona tion of professor tugwell tuga tugwell ell to be under secretary of agriculture there would be an exposition of the new deal objectives jec tives such however was not the I 1 case of course the senate committee hearing where professor tugwell was questioned turned out to be tin nn abortive thing but still it had bad been expected there would be something that would add to the sum of public understanding of the destination sought ought s senator smith of south carolina democratic chairman of the committee and a staunch opponent of professor tugwell tried to pin the professor down to statements that would indicate what the so called head of the brain trust thought the government Is doing respecting agriculture so did senator byca a virginia democrat neither succeeded professor tugwell was surprised at the questions asked him ue he t nm lit the committee ought to is word without reservation j the senators of his i illtred support of the Cons constitution titu tion of the united states but afterward observers here voiced their inability to reconcile that assertion with the professors earlier writings to the effect that he could not u understand the unreasoning almost hysterical attachment of some americans for the constitution notwithstanding this the committee went right ahead and voted a favorable report to the senate on the professors several washington fes fas sors nomination correspondents asserted in dispatches to their newspapers however that administration whips had been cracking close to the backs of numerous senators it was ivas quite apparent throughout the hearing 0 on n the professors nomina tion that many of the democrats and ot ol dour aniese lit all of the republicans were anxious to gain a better under understanding stan of the new deal objective in that effort they failed to got get to first base mr tugwell advocated a planned national economy up to a certain point but I 1 was told by senators after the hearing that they did not know what that point was tugwell stressed the necessity for having a governmental control of the various factors that affect business control of crops being one of them because human happiness required such action but as far as I 1 was able to understand his statements he did not clarify much of the confusion and the mystery that surrounds rounds the new deal plans so all that remains Is a hope that mr air roosevelt Is on the right track and that his policies will lead to that human happiness about which his advisers speak 4 0 another trend or some think it Is a trend that Is evident in the manago manage ment of affairs by ignores ignored president roosevelt critics Is 9 an apparent willingness on the part of the white house alouse to pay less and less attention to critics that Is many observers lately have called attention to an indication that mr roosevelt Is willing to ignore more and more of the attacks on his administration he Is not the type of course who will make a face at his critics he Is a master politician and keen politicians never do such things but when one examines the statements and information that Is passed out from the white house in these days and those forthcoming say six months ago the pres ent day grist Is much more if not entirely free fro from m ans answers vers to critics and this Is happ happening de ni I 1 ng in in a period when there Is obviously very much more criticism than in tile the earlier days of the administration let lef me supply it a basis of comparison when the airmail contracts were cancelled col charles lindbergh sent a telegram t to the president complaining about th the act the colonels air transportation company made the message public before it was laid on the presidents desk or so stephen early one of the presidents secretaries said after the message appeared in the newspapers mr early spoke at length to the newspaper correspondents about the colonels discourtesy ll in making the message public some six months later clarence darrow the chicago attorney and the board of review of affairs which he headed let loose a blast on that constituted a most vitriolic criticism of tills this phase of the new deal the president himself has said almost nothing about the darrow board criticism true general genera johnson replied in his usual bombastic way but that was general fineral johnson and not the white house criticism has been made in congress of the agricultural adjustment administration attacks on this have come also from the outside but there has been no reply from the president the top of the administration money aloney policies have been under attack as have been some of the relief measures which seem to some to hint of govern ment owned factories soon these attacks have been allowed however to spend themselves in the thin air the president ident Is going to hawal for vacation cation that tact fact of course Is generally known but writers there Is one feature ot f the trip that has left out not been generally circulated arrangements for the trip call for virtual elimination of news correspondents from the picture of the presidents vacation that Is almost without precedent washington correspondents are walling wailing and gnashing teeth all over the place because that would be a gorgeous trip for those assigned to write news about the president usually fifteen or twenty writers accompany the president everywhere lie he travels it irks the corre spon dents personally but it seems seems to be irking some of the great newspapers more because they are taking the view that it constitutes censor censorship sl p by the president the arrangements for the ri hawaiian la wallan trip are a little hard to understand they appear to be a right about free face on the part of the administration this writer has been in NV washington ashington almost twenty years and never in that time have havethe the facilities made available for the correspondents at the white hause been greater than under mr aft Roosevel ts direction ile he has courted a friendly press at all times everything that was necessary for the newspaper writers was theirs to command now however the president Is traveling and he does on a naval cruiser not even have his own secretaries with him m le he has p permitted permitted ermit ted only three correspondents correspondent 5 to accompany him on the trip and they must remain on another naval boat which has been ordered to stay at least three miles away from his ship those three writers will have no contact except by radio and their press services ser vices must supply the news therefore there foie to the whole country and the world in defense of the action it can be said officially ally that mr roosevelt would not obtain complete rest in any other manner ue he has been through a grind this past winter but that fact has not satisfied the writers 0 by western newspaper paper unions |
