The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1933-10-20
new DEAL HAS
CAPITAL NUMB
AND ON ROPES
Roosevelt Keeps on Moving
and Puts to Shame
Old Statesmen.
BY RAYMOND CLAPPER
United Press STAFF Correspondent

infteu BresH stan Correspondent
WASHINGTON, Oct. 2O.-The ex-
tent Of the revolutionary Roosevelt
program becomes more impressive
daily as it continues to unfold in
terms Of millions and billions. OF
Jail sentences hanging over blue
eagle viOlators, and serious con-
sidsration at the White House to a
retail code which would restrict the
discretion Of perhaps a million and
a half merchants In fixing their
price tags.
Recently, the impression grew that
Mr.. Roosevelt was pulling away
from the experiment of the brain
trust and was shifting emphasis TO
more orthodox credit expansion as
an aid to recovery.
The story went around that Cen
eral Hugh S. johnson and MIRA
were to be left to shift for them
selves. But the Presidents action
in issuing an executive order which
provided fines and Jail sentences for
violators of the blue eagle presi-
dental agreements is viewed now in
Washington as a tip that the White
House is strongly behind the re-
covery administration
Capital Is Numbed
Washington has been so numbed
by unprecedented experiments that
the magnitude Of what is going on
comes to be taken for granted until
some little incident recalls contrasts
in the dead days of the past.
One small item about Admiral
Dewey appeared this week when the
mausoleum which marked his orig
inal burial place was ordered re-
moved from Arlington cemetery
When he came home from the
battle of Manila bay, the most pop
ular hero before Lindbergh. Admiral
Dewey decided to run for President.
He said:
Since studying this subject, I am
convinced that the office of the
President is not such a very diff
ficult one to fill, his duties being
mainly to execute the laws of con-
gress."
A thumbnail record of TWENTY
four hours in the life of President
Roosevelt would make puzzling
reading for the old sea dog if he
came back from the ninetieS.
What a Life! What a Life.
Bryan then was talking free
silver. But now owners of gold are
subject to prosecution. The Pres
ident has power to use his own
judgment as to whether to issue
greenbacks. He may, any afternoon
he chooses, cut the gold content
of the dollar in half.
Under NRA powers the President
can virtually fix terms under
which industry must conduct itself
His agriculture secretary has DOW
ers to fix taxes on professors of
farm commodities The law has
given workers the right to organize
and bargain collectively with their
employers. A national board APP
pointed by the President is active
in adjusting labor disputes.
The government is distributing
$4,000, 100000 to build public works.
Farmers have been paid APP
proximatey S12O,OOO0OO out of the
treasury for reducing crops in an
effort to raise prices.
Really a New Deal
Plans for releasing a billion dol
lars in closed banks are announced.
The government is settling up a
deposit insurance corporation to pro-
tect depositors. Stock and BOND
promoters have been brought under
drastic regulation.
Admiral Dewey would find in this
new world only a few familiar sights.
Women again are wearing the big
sleeves of the nineties. Bicycles are
back Familiar whisky names have
reappeared in newspaper advertise
ments. Sporty young man are TAX
ing up boards. The Bowery is be-
ing revived in movies.
But down on the south side of
Pennsylvania avenue where saloons
and bright-eyed girls once ruled,
agents of the New Deal, housed in
new marble palaces. are talking an
other language-one that Admiral
Dewey might not understand.