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Show i National Topics Interpreted Li YMgL 1 by William Bruckart feoS 'ashington There is a rising of belief here In Washington that President Turning Roosevelt's pol- nservative Icles are len,ni,lg more away from things that marked them as ; "New Deal," a year ago. It he doubted no longer that he Bering away to some extent from experimentation that constl- 1 the program advanced by the ads of professors with whom urrounded himself at the start lis administration. Professors 'not carrying the water on their Iders that they did awhile ago, : it has been noted that Mr. ;evelt Is less and less willing . ?ap before he looks. irion the cut of the fabric at this t, I believe the consensus to be s Mr. Roosevelt Is turning to a ; stable, as distinguished from jeoretical, foundation for the e. The developments have been H.cated apparently on a swing hpubllc sentiment. Obviously, out public sentiment behind ; plan, there will be a dearth of tdence. By all and sundry, it t id the President Is seeking to :. dish confidence. Most of all, finally, It seems he has arrived t:e necessity for winning confl- ,,.s of business people, big and ., so that distinct changes can xpected through the summer . congress Is not here to worry L v;ubtless, the trend towards the prvatlve Instead of the more ,.al course he followed earlier, e to the fact that the bulk of people now feel they have a to state objections. Surely, ? tions are being stated to a 'er extent than at any time he took office. In other words, heories of the professors have 'Sd bad In spots, and any nation nhitious people eventually will 1 :of preachments. The danger 'at the pendulum will swing e lr, and that the good and prac-r"le prac-r"le things of the New Deal may ashed out by a wave of con- tism and reaction. Aere are numerous things to ti attention may be called in t nstrating that Mr. Roosevelt I E; going to experiment too much io;he future. His flat-footed te against nationalization of sil-ot'3 sil-ot'3 one. His determination to ji.r no further with the enrol enr-ol Is another. A third lndica-cf'is lndica-cf'is the President's decision to mlm t the capital goods or dur-be dur-be ;oods industry can have some wl and another Intimation is the Congress has acted about legis-5 legis-5 t to control the security ex-Idiics. ex-Idiics. The President could have it. congress put teeth In the exchange bill If he wanted , so. But he has held off. ".(1t'ise, he has taken a position il( it payment of deposits in (, hanks by use of Inflationary J' cs. All of these things are . chicles of those who would .r on the radical courses. Roosevelt has not stressed 1 expansion as his radical fol- iP F . i thought he was going to c"j.it. Those who conceived NRA ?I lo not admit that NRA has '"l down the little businesses x Interest of the big ones, but a,1tooscvelt apparently sees It. rl1'" represented In high places as Snt that the NRA board of re-1 re-1 '"ivill show up the weaknesses I codes so that modifications ; '"'i made whore necessary. Many mif' "Nit A crowd," as they have 'r to he known here, ore dis-cil'cd dis-cil'cd about It. They think that ; ' like the king, can do no t of lieing a keen student and iter psychologist, Mr. Rooso-.!;. Rooso-.!;. ces those things and he has ri' hold of them apparently be-jbey be-jbey hae become so bad as i-flroy whatever benefits that iligccriie. S ga-Lt 's the cause for the change ;! scenery? There are two ren-sons ren-sons of which I S kToo hear discussion "pallstlc most i'l'H'utly. f Many of the plans :oo idealistic for use univer-wffniong univer-wffniong practical people, and, cond. there is a tendency to j, "Tho" slalt not" into ' too ! p, legislation nnd regulation j,vn-ying out the recovery pro-prif pro-prif fro"1 American people, as I judge in-wlll obey orders that change ;rni(.lves around for Just so long. 0,11 tlicy blow up In a big wav. ,!?'' "ample of what I mean. Jjigress recently passed the so- j.. I'.ankhead bill that will limit eduction of cotton In the t"1',' States to ten million bales p s';"l.v. It Is compulsory, t'n III'1' cotton farmer agrees to re in:- is acreage and comply with ,-ell'ier terms of the law, "thou J tot" market what Is grown oj f t the payment of a heavy lie 'aX so mir,'1M'sme as to wpt ""' possibility of profit. Mr. l35(:elt signed the bill and gave ' T(: blessing, but I hoard any jtf" of "ewspaper correspond-'t correspond-'t Jl observers remark when II 'ad his shtement that ha vas saying merely that he "hoped" it would be of some value. Surely, he did not predict success. Ail through the various recovery laws and regulations, one finds so many "Thou Shalt nots" that one of the eastern metropolitan newspapers news-papers printed a cartoon, captioned "Dreams of Forgotten Age." The chief character in the cartoon was that figure so famous as representing represent-ing "Prohibition." The thought behind the cartoon was deeper in the minds of some than just the humor and lesson that it portrayed. Therein was a story of "too much Washington." Sooner or later, unless I have misread my history, there Is to be a broadside of reaction rise up against "too much Washington" in the way lives are lived. The current period seems to be the high point, but it had its beginning, in my opinion, when the Constitutional amendment was adopted providing for direct election of senators. There was, if you pause to remember, re-member, a general disgust with the steady procession Causes of indictments, ar-Irritation ar-Irritation rests and trials of minor liquor law violators. Even consistent and conscientious supporters of prohibition prohi-bition now and then burst forth against the administration of It when men and women, otherwise respectable in their communities, were convicted as criminals because they dared to take a drink. The Department of Agriculture supplied the newspaper correspondents correspond-ents with an announcement a few days ago that two men in South Dakota had been arrested and had pleaded guilty to a charge of conspiracy con-spiracy to defraud the United States in connection with the 1933 emergency hog buying program. The announcement described the case as "of national Importance and Interest as similar fraud cases are pending In other federal courts." It will be recalled that there was quite a bit of cheating In the administration ad-ministration of CWA job planning. There was some stench, too, in the handling of seed loans In two or three parts of the country, and there Is plenty of complaint about some window-box farmers who have been drafting regulations in AAA. NItA has been under fire from time to time because, In some Instances, vast Industries were compelled to sit across a table In drafting a code with a man who had had no experience experi-ence whatsoever In that industry. So what wonder is It that a man will do as one about whom I heard. He boasted about being a cliiseler. That Is, among friends, he said : "Of course, I am a cliiseler. Of course, I am making money out of this code. But the reason I am doing it Is because I am thinking of the next few years when the tax collector Is going to take virtually all of the profits I make to pay up for this waste." In my roaming around in Washington, Wash-ington, I find more and more people who are asking which of the two major political parties, the Democrats Demo-crats or the Republicans, Is going to have courage enough to pull the government back to Washington as a government, and allow the people to run their own business? It Is Important to record, In this connection, that the Department of Agriculture al-Looks al-Looks Like ready has taken Backtracking n stpr In Hio dl-rection dl-rection of allowing allow-ing private business to run its own affairs by its announcement that government control of dairy production pro-duction Is not to be attempted at this time. From the Information I have been able to pick up here and there In high places, I suspect that dairy production control Is never going to be attempted, but Secretary Secre-tary Wallace's announcement said only that control would not be attempted at-tempted "for (lie present." One can only guess whether this Is the beginning of a trend, a backtracking, back-tracking, from the governmental control extreme to which some of the professors would like to have gone. They advanced the control Idea to the ultimate In the i'.ankhead i'.ank-head compulsory cotton production control law and they have pushed the control principle almost as f:it in wheat, tobacco, corn and hog Industries. In-dustries. With regard to the dairy business, however, they ran Intj difficulties. The stumbling blocks and obstacles met In that attempt Illustrate better than anything that I know that Industries In the United Unit-ed States have interests too divergent diver-gent to permit of a universal regulation. regu-lation. I mean by this: practices and problems vary in every locality and there are few industries which can he lined up under the samp rules of operation without some of them being handicapped and others profiting unduly. The dairy Industry gave proof of this fact, according to the announcement announce-ment by Mr. Wallace which said there would be no attempt to ui dertake a production control program pro-gram without the support of a substantial sub-stantial majority of the Industry. : by Western New3taccr Ur.'.en. |