| Show national topics interpreted by william bruckart washington president roose bells br broad oad conception of reform in ID the count rys so Social Reform cial structure has now teen been given ahm program M the country in it it ho he has presented the embryonic propositions which he intends to submit to the congress that convenes in january 1935 everywhere around the capital city I 1 believe it is accepted as a statement upon which lie he expects that democratic representatives and senators will seek to be elected reelected re in the november elections disregarding for a moment the views obtainable as to the merits of the projects which he laid down in his message to congress outlining his social reform program I 1 find and that most leaders look upon the roosevelt statement as one from which he can determine his future policy it will work out this way I 1 am informed if tile voters elect a preponderance of roosevelt supporters for the house and senate again this fall the president will consider that the country lip proves of his plans if on the alie other hand there should tie be a sharp loss of democrats in the house I 1 am told that mr roosevelt would be likely to consider that as a mandate to slow up somewhat on the program upon which he has embarked As I 1 reported to you several weeks n ago mr roosevelt has now rounded out the picture of recovery and reform as he conceives it to be necessary cesary ne or rather as he be and his advisers think the course should be at that time I 1 predicted lie he would find it opportune just before congress quit for the session to toss his ideas into the hopper for m mas as tl ti cation during the summer months it can now nov be said that he has elected to go into battle with the opposition without quarter for his message made it clear he be felt the critics had offered nothing as an alternative lie ile declared they were unable to present any plans for human happiness and that they proposed to go back to the old order which had brohen down completely in the past the president asserted that lie he proposed to make tile the security of the citizen and his family the first consideration of government and to accomplish that lie he explained it was necessary to toss aside many of the traditions and practices to which vie ve long have adhered leopie re people opie lie he said sald want decent homes to live lire in they want to locate them where they aliey can eng engage gage in product he work and they want some safeguard against misfortunes which cannot be wholly eliminated in this man made world of ours mr Roosevel ts message was decidedly general in tone lie he avoided specifications but the g general thoughts were certainly clear to all bad and sundry and it Is upon these gener general al thoughts that the issues fire are to be drawn indeed they have already been drawn so it cannot be doubted that throughout the coming campaigns we will he hear ar much of the ne new w deals new dew social structure as presented by mr roosevelt the roosevelt supporters will sear scar by all that Is holy that it Is the only road to happiness republicans and antl roosevelt spellbinders spell binders will shout all of the invectives that may be used to inform the country that it Is headed for government ownership of everything government management destruction of property rights etc some observers here thought there might be some link between the dell delivery very of the presidents mes dies labor disputes sage sa at the bartic ul ular artime time selected and the threats of strikes they professed to see a clever move by the chief Exec executive uthe to satisfy many citizens as to ills his intention to guarantee work and food throughout the future I 1 rm am in a position to say however that there was no connection between the unsettled situation and th the e time at which the message was delivered to congress it was ready at that time and was wag sent along in regular course it if it has had bad or Is a to have any effect on the threats of E and the leaders in those movements it will be wholly a coincidence ci the strikes have been bred of diff different erint causes than the thin things ge about which mr roosebelt Roo talked in his bis message lie ile Is proposing such each things as old age insurance additional government money tor for loans to persons who want nant to buy homes the transfer of those living in barren spots insofar as jobs are concerned to sections and communities muni ties where work Is obtainable and a general paternalism on the part of the national government in other words mr Roosevel ts plans contemplate a long range development and have no reference to schemes its codes or what have hava you it does relate e directly to the elements ments undertaken by the agricultural adjustment administration which have gone a lon langvay longvay gvay and it vatie to go much farther in regulating the production of 0 farms and in controlling what farmers do with their land with reference to tills this phase it can be said that mr roosvelt Roos celt Is willing to abandon millions of acres of land and to have the people who own and live upon land that Is worn out transferred to good land it Is a proposition that will involve the use of untold millions of dollars and it Is to be assumed that it will be money paid into the treasury by taxpayers supplied the transferred peoples on longtime long time credit I 1 have not learned yet how the added production resulting from these transfers will be handled but it certainly will add to the surplus about which the agricultural adjustment administration has been complaining now that we have a new law that provides the federal government with author wian adinor touches all ity to control the our lives live exchanges where stocks and bonds are sold as well as a law by which the government controls the issuance and sale of such securities it seems to be a good time for or examination of the new agency that Is going to run that show it may seem a far cry from the stock exchange of wall street to the little country school house but this new law Is so far reaching in its effect and in its scope of jurisdiction that it touches that little country school and the lives of all of us I 1 judge from the expressions I 1 have picked up that passage of the exchange control law has brought us to a turning point in the matter of what ine e do with the extra few dollars that we can save and invest with expectation of getting a return deturi of interest the consensus seems to be that whether anything Is accomplished under the combination control of security issues and stock exchange will depond entirely on administration of the laws that Is to say it if good is to come there must be reasonable interpretation of the provision of those laws according to the general view of those directly affected the stock exchange control law underwent a major operation in congress from the manner in which the professors of the brain trust had drawn it originally until til those objectionable features a e s were eliminated there was a battle royal in house and senate since the features omitted were deemed too radical by congress it Is to be assumed there was vias merit in the claims of brokers and investors in stocks that the bill would have hae dammed up money that oth otherwise erwis e could have been put to work and used by commerce and industry which necessarily has to operate to a great extent on borrowed funds credit cut but I 1 hear bear ninny many expressions around here that there Is still a serious problem ahead in the matter of keeping the channels open for investment funds it Is asserted by many that the professorial type of mind should not bo be chosen to serve as members of the fireman commission that Is set up to rule this phase of commerce numerous democrats continued right up to the dying gasp of the seventy third con still pie gross gress to seek po hungry tacal pie pic for their constituents they are still pie hungry now insofar as one attempted raid on government jobs Is concerned A broad jump was attempted ln in the house to place several hundred extra workers in the general accounting office for the purpose of auditing the expenditures of tile the several dozen roosevelt agencies that are denominated by their critics as the alphabetical soup up to tills time J it II mccarl the comptroller general of the united states 1 has as had little cliance chance to flud find out wh what a t the alphabetical agencies have been doing with the vast sums appropriated them by the president from the various huge ile he lins has to and does pass on the he expenditures of the regularly established government agencies but none of the new ones were put under ills his watchful eye mr roosevelt noo sevelt ordered the audit to do the job however required additional help for mr SI mccarl cCarl and about was included in a deficiency appropriation bill the pie hunters saw a fine chance and they never overlook any chance so they slipped d a n line into the appropriation bill thit that said the extra workers were to he ha chosen without regard for the civil service what a huge piece of pie in anci fact many lauy pieces of pie but something nap pined to the ine atell ell laid plan somewhere the language got changed abang ged to read that the comptroller general may appoint the extra workers without re gard for the civil service in instead te ad of the command that mot he e shall appoint and lu in alili case the change ell ange Is of vast importance to maintenance of tile the civil service is as a government method of employment by western union |
