Askov American. [volume] (Askov, Pine County, Minn.) 1914-current, 1930-12-11
A CONSTRUCTIVE PROGRAM

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Speaking over the radio recently, U.
S. Senator Henrik Shipstead did not
mince words at all, and yet he was
not harsh, but presented construc-
tive program. He chided and repri-
manded both Republicans and Demo-
Gratis and showed where they have
been weak, and that there is a need
for leadership and action. Senator
Shipstead not only tells us what
should be done, but he points out how
it should be done and what Legislation
sponsored by others is good and
should be passed.
Speaking of the recent election and
its victory for the Democratic party to
a great extent, and that party's offer
of cooperation with the Republicans,
the Senator says: Surely there must
be somewhere some idea more con-
structive', more positive than the
ideal of cooperation with ideas
which the country has found unsatis-
flying"
The country does not want any more
cooperating with Hawley-Smoot
tariff bill, nor does it want any more
cooperating with federal income tax
reductions in year like 1929 when
$160,OOO,000 was Topped off to people
who could well afford to pay the taxes,
and this in time of stress and when
the S16O,000,000 could have given
some needed employment and helped
toward little more prosperity. NO,
cooperation for more of that sort OF
legislation is not needed one bit, and
the senator makes it plain in his
speech.
Senator Shipstead says that there
are many things which, in his judg-
ment, we might properly long ago
have done to strengthen the boat in
which we are sailing in our national
course, and he advocates in his judg-
ment, under correction, a program of
action conducive to increased pros
perity at all times and calculated,
therefore, not to impede, but to pro-
mote prosperity now. In this cate
CORY he includes:
First. The Wagner bills for the
relief of unemployment.
Second. Public work, including
inland waterways and a public build
ing program.
Third Conservation and control of
natural resources.
Fourth. Restriction of the juris-
diction of courts of equity in certain
cases.
Fifth. Prevention of the initiation
and deflation of credit.
Sixth. A better balanced distribu-
tion of national income.
Seventh. The tariff.
"A primary problem to which a
large constructive contribution can be
made by federal legislative enact
ments is the problem of involuntary
unemployment" says the senator,
The routes toward that contribution
are three in number. proposed by Sen
ator Wagner of New York.
THE first is that there should be
throughout the country a genuinely
interconnected system of permanent
employment-findi public agencies
municipal and state and federal, held
together for comprehensive effort by
federal leadership and by some con,
siderable appropriations of federal
money" said Senator ShipStead.
The second is that the federal gov
eminent should furnish to state gov
ernments and to local governments
compelling example in the accumula
ton of a reservoir of plans and o
funds for the execution on larg,
scale of public works, such as build
ings and waterways and roads an,
harbor improvements and the like
in times of unemployment emergency
THE third is that the federal gov
eminent should blaze the way towar,
survey of all the existing and pros
pective possibilities in the direction
of the establishment. whether by pri
vate effort or by public effort or b.
both of a system of scientifically cal
culated insurance against the mis-
cries caused to our working popula
tion and the losses caused to our bust
ness community by unemployment
crises.
It'll these three detectives hav
been reached the federal government
cannot be regarded as having FUTILE
its legislative duty in the emergenc
now existing" said the senator.