Evening star., 1932-04-21
HYDE DENOUNCES
ROOSEVELT ATTACK
Cites Hoover's Aid to Little
Fellow in Address for
Radio Forum.

The recent criticism by Gov Roose-
welt of New York that President Hoo
vers relief program did not take the
little fellow into account, last night
was the target of Secretary of Agricul-
ture Hyde.
Speaking in the National Radio
Forum, arranged by The Star land
broadcast over coast-to-coast network
of the National Broadcasting Co., Hyde
specifically aligned himself with Alfred
E. Smith in criticism of Roosevelt,
though. like Smith, he did not men
ton the New York Governor by name.
Cites Smith Criticism.
'I am not in the habit of taking
marching orders from Democratic
sources, but here, at last, is a point
upon which I can line up with Al
Smith" said Hyde, after quoting the
latter's promise to take of his coat and
vest against the candidate for the pres
idency who persists in making dema-
gogic appeals, a quotation universally
accepted as directed at Roosevelt.
Hyde early in his address picked up
the words little fellow" from the
Roosevelt address and stressed them
again and again in laying down the
case for his assertion that President
Hoover's program of aid to banks, rail-
roads and big corporations had as its
primary purpose ito release the strange
hold which fear and panic have had
upon the credit and the job of the
little fellow"
ALREADY (as a result of the Recon-
struction Finance Corporations fuInc-
tioning) the failure of banks has largely
ceased" said Secretary Hyde, "and this
for alarm hoe hppyo Writ thdro
If the flow of credit to business is
resumed, the little fellow will regain
on the way up that which he lost on
the way down"
Shows Close Relations
The Secretary explained in detail the
1nterlocking effect of financial distress
of banks, railroads and corporations and
pointed out how it strikes directly at
the income and savings of the small
man and how in turn the latter should
benefit by the salvation of the big
economic units above.
IF we permit our banks to fail, credit
will dry up and business will stop. If
we permit our railroads to fail, farms
will also fail. This is so perfectly
obvious that even slight reflection will
demonstrate the Presidents program to
be primarily for the little fellow and
an answer to his needs" he said.
Secretary Quotes Burns.
Secretary Hyde spoke as follows:
40 wad some power the giftie gle us
To see oursels as ithers see us.
1t wad frae many blunder free us
And foolish notion
Ever since Bobbie Burns penned
those lines it has been good medicine
-IW ~&lz
is usually bitter stuff, but most medi-
cines are beneficial in direct ratio to
their bitterness. Mere introSpection is
valuable, but usually biased. Looking
into a mirror held by the other fellow
is free from any favorable bias and
reduces bumptiousness. All of which
leads to the observation that most of
us in Washington have been looking
with mingled pain and profit into mir
rors held before us by lot of people.
Sometimes, however, we suspect
that the mirror is twisted. For ex-
ample: Not long ago, a distinguished
Senator, his appetite keen for econ
on1y in all States except his own, leaped
greedily upon the efforts of the De-
partment of Agriculture to eradicate
white pine blister rust, disease which
threatens to destroy $420 100000 worth
of white pine timber and to eradicate
which the department is spending
about one-tenth of l per cent of that
amount annually.
THE Senator was attempting to ex-
plain what white pine blister rust is.
He said: White pine blister rust is
a little insect that first forms on the
bark of the white pine tree as a
little worm, develops into a moth or
fly and then flies to currant BUSH
Here the Senator became somewhat
muddy, but he seemed to feel, rather
than think, that this determined moth
next lays eggs on the currant bush,
the eggs become worms, then change
to flies or moths G wish he'd make