Evening star., 1932-06-01
Public Hopes for Harmony
In National Relief Efforts

needed Federal improvements and on
carefully planned and needed state
and municipal improvements which
will be self -liquidating The Sun
concludes that "Mr Ritchie would
keep the Government out of business"
and that the self f-hquidators seem to
have il"
Ire Spokane Spokesman-Rev (Re-
publican) upholds the Presidents
sound constructive policies. and as
sails pursuit of a course which brought
ruin upon most Of the countries of
Europe" The Rochester Times-Unlon
tindependent contends that the ad-
vantage of working through the Re
construction Finance Corporation Is that
it gives more fieXibility, the set-up OF
the corporation already providing for
wide exercise CT discretion by its re-
sponsible officers" The Newark Evening
News independent argues: In ques-
tioning the success of the Federal ex-
pertinent Mr.. Smith ignores the example
of the War Finance Corporation, on
which it was modelled. That body col
lected its loans and paid the Treasury
S5OO,000 profit on the capital advanced
by it. Men must and will differ. But
they can wcrk together meanwhile for
a common aim That we must all do
that. in this need. is the real essence
of Mr.. Smiths latest utterance. The
rest is by the way
1T would appear to be high time
AYERS the Harrisburg Telegraph (Repub-
licanl. for the country to assert itself
and pace its mark Of approval upon the
efforts of the President to bring order
cut of chaos The Lexington Leader
Republican, helds that lit is amazing
that the members. Of the House and
Senate have been SO slow about Selzing
upon the salient points whish the Presi-
dent sets out so clearly and forcefully."
The Uniontown Herald Republican,
declares that the Chief Executive has
reached the point where he is swinging
wla1 for want of better words may be
called the Hoover big stick"
"The imperative necessity" asserts
the Baltimore Sun independent Demo-
cratic) lis to shift the whole official
mind at Washington back to concen-
tration on the budget" and that paper
urges: Interesting and stimulating as
is. for example, the debate between
President Hoover and Speaker Garner
over the latter'S relief program and re-
lief programs in general; sound as is the
Presidents indictment of the Speakers
own Federal construction proposal as a
pork-barrel expenditure; necessary as
was the joining of issue on that sub
ject, it remains true that this and all
similar debates are but core llarieS of
the main question"
For Speaker Gamer to intimate"
says the New York Times (inde-
pendent), that the President is secretly
hostile to measures that vii! benefit the
great mass of Americans is political
OiI p tya hot H1Yy re
its intended victim. The plans and
hopes CT the administration in all this
matter have been made perfectly clear.
First the Federal budget must be bal
anced and Federal economies effected.
After that will come the consideration
of bills for future relief"
1T is bills like the Garner relief
measure" advises the New York Herald
Tribune Republican). ION top of the
long fumbling by Congress of its pri-
mary duty to balance the budget that
prclong and eccentuate the economic
paralysis of the country. Mr.. Garner
complains that the establishment of the
Reconstruction Finance Corporation has
neither reduced unemployment nor re-
lieved distress; that its benefits have
not filtered down to the small business
men or the smaller industries Yet the
fault is his as much as it can be said
to belong to any given individual. If
the banks and other financial institu-
tions it has undoubtedly aided have
not. as result. adopted a mc~e liberal
credit policy; If they are still 1iquidity
crazy, as the saying goes, the explana-
t1on must lie in the discourag ging spec
tacle Of tneptitude at the Capitol, of
which this new relief bill no = becomes
Ia matpg feature"