Evening star., 1933-06-19

Americans accept as the goal of the
industrial recovery law form of ma
tional production which will create pur-
chasing power among the people, with
increased employment and regulation Of
competitive fields. Largely viewed as
unprecedented and an experiment, it is
received with hopeful comments. SINH
larity to the Facist policies is recog-
n1zed, with greater freedom, however,
for individual producers.
Business must travel an entirely new
road" says the Butte Montana Stand
ard, declaring that I'VE can only try to
make the grade, having confidence in
our own strength and the rectitude of
our purposes as a people" The Stand
ard recognizes the requirement that 'in-
dustries must proceed as a whole, with
production allocated, surpluses elini-
mated, and all practices to be scruti-
nized." The Charleston IS. c. Evening
Post finds "a feeling that both the in
dustrialist and the Nation will be better
off for some measure of Government
control" and that the manufacturers
will not be long in forgetting the fea-
lures that they do not like and in try
ing to derive benefit" The Roanoke
Times holds that there is every reason
to believe that, through planning.
America will eventually learn to keep
her industrial ship on an even keel"
and the Topeka Daily Capital states
that 'the country welcomes the expert
ment, hopeful of success through the
process of trial and error if not by
any means assured that it will succeed"
The Capital calls it "a gigantic under
taking, but proof of American viriity,
courage and initiative"
THE act has already been termed the
Magma Charta Of American industry"
according to the Asbury Park Evening
Press which sees in it the purpose to
restore the purchasing power Of the
American people" based upon abolition
of widespread unemployment and re-
vival of living wages" The Fort Worth
Star-Telegram agrees that the program
stands on the proposal to increase val
ues, promote productivity and add to
the potential consumer list Of the coun-
try" The Hartford Times explains that
mo planned society is visioned, but
what is aimed at is industry which
shall have some vestige of co-ordina-
ton and system" and the Charlotte
Observer points out that existing eco
nomic principles 'are not to be dumped
out as obsolete and unavoidable, but are
to be made to work toward prevention
of the periodic disasters into which
American business and industry have
been tumbling." The Akron Beacon
Journal suggests: The circumstances
most promising Of success In this part
nership between Government and in
dustry is that industrial leadership itself
suggested such a unity This leader
ship is now given free hand to manage
its own business, subject only to the re-
Servo that If IN fails IN, fhiS cibffifyy
the Government will step in with its own
paternal measures and assert control"
While our experiment" according to
the Des Moines Register, "is explicitly
declared to be for the period of the
emergency and is limited as to time,
1t Is, nevertheless, an acceptance, in
considerable degree, of the Fascist view.
Nobody knows-nobody can know-how
much or how little of the new attitude,
the new philosophy of government, the
new social doctrine will remain after
the emergency. To recognize these
facts is merely to look without blinkers.
History is on the gallop everywhere in
the world. and nowhere more so than in
the United States
Greatly increased activities among
the trade associations, in creating the
required conditions, is seen by the
York Sun, while the meeting of the
requirements that able leaders must
be enlisted in the administrative work
Is attested by the Cleveland Plain
Dealer and the Columbia Is. c. State.
The Chicago Daily News, contending
that the new deal rests on manage
ment," offers the judgment: LAS war
time necessity called into the Federal
service from private life non political