Evening star., 1933-06-06
BY GRACE HENDRICK EUsTIs.

BY GRACE HENDRICK EUSTIS.
The man who was mentioned second
in the group of three Columbia pro-
fessors who composed part Of Presi-
dent Roosevelt's campaign brain trust
is Dr. Rexford Guy Tugwell, now As
sistant Secretary of Agriculture.
He is Al, quiet in manner. He is far
more attractive looking than his photo
graphs would indicate, not having the
goldfish eye which seems SO prominent
in pictures of him. His mind is smooth
and fluid. It encompasses objections
and flows on regardless.
DR.. Tugwell and his chief, Henry
Wallace, Secretary Of Agriculture, work
together harmoniously. Their object Is
to apply practical economics to the
agricultural world and raise it from its
present disconnected and chaotic state.
On account of his books and the fact
that in 1927 he went to Russia with
a delegation of American trade union
lists he has been called radical. Rep
resentative Hart of Michigan even
accused him of being a red"
Answers Criticism.
His answer to this is the much
quoted paragraph in his latest book,
1.-THE Industrial Discipline and the
Governmental Arts" 1.-THE es-
sential contrast between the liberal and
the radical view of the tasks which lie
before us is that liberalism requires
this experimenting and that radicalism
rejects 1t for immediate entry on the
revolutionary tactics. Liberals would
like to rebuild the station while the
trains are running; radicals prefer to
blow up the station and forego service
until the new structure Is built.
Any social theorist now must talk and
write with the sense of tremendous
forces at work; we talk and write
pressures of stubborn privilege on one
side and dark, destructive intention on
the other"
While Prof. Moley claims to be a
practical politician, Prof. Tugwell would
attack the question from a different
angle. He believes a politician to be
primarily an arranger-a term with
very broad scope A professor, he
says, may teach economics and draw on
history for his conclusions, but an ad-
ministrator must include In his de-
ciSionS the time element.
Likes "Quarterback" Smile.
ct believe" he said, that the Presi-
dents comparison of himself to a quar-
terback on a foot ball team Is as good
back knows the original signal, but his
subsequent signals depend upon the
results of his first" "It is a mistaken
notion" he continued, that professors
just teach They take as active q part
as they are able In the administration
of government"
Since he has been In ofice DR.. Tug
well has concentrated on the regu-
latory acts which have been promul-
gated through the Department Of Agri-
culture and the vast reductions In ap-
propriations that have been made for Il.
Among the 43 or so regulatory acts here
tofore enacted he has picked out for
first consumption the food and drugs
act, which was passed In 1906 and
has been changed very little since.
He has completed draft of the ex-
pansion Of this act to include cos
metics and to regulate the advertising
OF food, drugs and cosmetics, so that
false advertising may be penalized by
prosecution in the Federal Courts" The
object Of this is to protect the modern
buyer from the pounds Of injurious
creams and salves, the bushels of
harmful powders and the quarts of
damaging tonics and lotions that have
fourished like alfalfa from assiduous
and uncontrolled advertising cam
paigns.
Considerate to Offenders.
Prof. Tugwell, however. does not
leap into the ring with grinding teeth