The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1933-03-23
NEW DEAL? IT
is NEW GAME
IN WASHINCT
Even Congress Is Content
With Changed RueS
of Procedure.
BY RODNEY BUTCHER
MA Service Writer

Washington, March 23.-The new
deal" is more than that. It's an en-
tirely new game.
The way you play it is merely to
deal all the cards to Franklin D.
Roosevelt. He has changed the
faces Of the cards in advance and
may play them as he likes.
The most astonishing thing about
this game is that those who have
participated in previous games with
equal rightS-meaning congreSs-are
quite content with the new rules
which give them little to do except
deal the cards, while 10000 900
kibitzerS lean forward and demon
strate strong majority enthusiasm.
Not Dictatorship
But the new deal" is not die
tatorShip. What happens is that
congress is giving Roosevelt and his
cabinet members certain wide DOW
erS over certain fields in a national
emergency - banking. federal eccn-
omy, and reorganization. agricul-
ture and unemployment relief.
No man on horseback" has APP
peared to seize power and hold it
by force. Roosevelt and the over
Whelmingly Democratic congress
were elected by an mprecedentedly
huge majority of the American
voters through an old-fashioned
process Of popular government.
The congress which grants hIrl
these enormous powers is directly
responsible to the people and has
every reason to believe that t is
acting in accordance with the wishes
OF its constituents.
Different from Mussolini
If it isn't carrying out their de-
sireS its members can be booted out
OF office next year. And meanwhile
II congress isn't satisfied with the
way Roosevelt carries out its man.
dates it can revoke them at will.
Obviously, that's a lot different
from the regimes imposed by
Benito Mussolini and various other
European and Latin American die
tators who depend on their armies
to hold them in power.
Congress is giving up many of
the prerogatives which it hereto
fore jealousy has reserved, but the
principle of popular, parliamentary
government is retained and may
even be strengthened in the pro-
cess.
one result may be the rehabilita-
uOn OF congress in the public es-
TEEN. It needed that.
May Regain Esteem
Partly because of ignorance on
the part of the kibitzers and partly
because of its inefficiency under the
handicaps of its unWieldiness. a.
lack Of leadership, the absence of
party control and the customary
subservience Of its members to local
or sectional interests, congress had
become more than ever a target for
contempt
congress now presents the picture
of a noble and patriotic response to
the public need Hardly any one
can quarrel with its parade behind
the Roosevelt leadership.
Against every Roosevelt measure
there is some sort of a minority,
usually small. But there is no sup
preston Of the minority beyond the
parliamentary restrictions which
can always be exerted by a strong
legislative majority.
Speech still is free in congress.
The fact that strong men are still
found protesting against strong
measures -Borah and La Toilette,
for instance, on occasion-shouldn't
worry any one unduly.
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