The midland journal. (Rising Sun, Md.) 1885-1947, 1933-12-01

| ity: the new deal has set out upon a
policy that cannot avoid revision Of
our entire economic structure and, 1t
now appears, it may lead even to q
re-settlement of the United States.
That means, of course, that folks who
devote their lives to live stock raising
will have to move to the areas where
they can do that, and the corn grow
ers will have to get into that bailiwick,
or some such new alignment. I con-
fess l do not know what drastic
changes can be accomplished without
dislocating the lives and the hopes Of
farmers, but to me it is a decidedly
interesting question over which to pom
der as the long winter nights wear on.
The country still seems to be trying
to figure out what was the cause of
=. the recent drastic
Inc Dig treasury reorganiza-
Puzzle ton. The changes
came so quickly and
without any warning note that it was
a move amounting to lightning from a
clear sky. And now the observers
here are trying to figure out its mean
ing In the fullest sense.
] watched the country's leading
newspapers closely for several days
after the President announced that
Secretary Woodin was going on long
leave of absence in search of health,
that Dean Acheson was resigning as
undersecretary, and that Henry Nor
genthau, Jr., was being moved over
as undersecretary of the treasury,
from the post of governor of the farm
credit administration. Being under
secretary, he Immediately became act
ing secretary when Mr.. Woodin left
for Arizona in his search for health.
The newspapers were at wide vari-
ance on their views. Some of them
held, editorially and In their news COL
umns, that inflationists had taken the
treasury under their wing and that we
were headed straight into the grievous
mistake that Germany made on her
currency. Others took the position that
Mr.. Woodin was not ''yes" man and
that Mr.. Acheson was not In sympathy
with the various maneuvers to which
Mr.. Roosevelt was lending his support,
and that the President simply cleaned
house.
Whatever the reason was, It remains
as much Of secret as ever. The one
thing upon which Washington observ-
ovc eaavo IN o~aa ond tho fao1fpr vr,o
reflected in many large newspapers,
was that Mr.. Acheson was the goat"
Mr.. Roosevelt wanted Mr.. Morgenthau
In the treasury and wanted him to run
the place while Mr.. Woodin was away.
and the only way to accomplish it was
to get rid of Mr.. Acheson. That GER
tainly happened.
The President, in announcing the
changes, said it was necessary to have
a man of more experience in the treas
ury than Mr.. Acheson since Mr.. Wood
in was going to be absent.
The President Is seeking to develop
the governments work relief program
Make Millionserating on its most
of Jobs extensive scale coin
cident with what is
logically expected to be the peak of
unemployment this winter. His pro-
gram to add $400,O00,O0O to the public
works funds and take idle persons off
the relief rolls for those jobs is well
under way. 1t no doubt will make
several million jobs available for a
short time at least.
It is the Presidents thought that
where persons have been on relief
rolls, they will gladly take job and
work regularly If they are paid lit
tie more than the relief doles they
were receiving. He contends that peo-
pie prefer work generally to being fed
on charity basis. And as far as I
can learn, no one disputes the idea.
Certainly, the person who is working
and is being paid for 1t regains self
respect which so many times is lost
when charitable organizations have to
care for him and his family.
There is one aspect of the program
for making work, however, that seems
to have been generally overlooked.
The proposition contemplates wide de-
velopment of roads and highways in
all parts of the nation. State road
supervisors are going to make and, in
deed. are now making, plans and list
ing projects in the numerous counties
where work of worthwhile nature
can be done. This plan places the
jobs close to the source of need, right
in the locality where men are out Of
jobs.
While we are discussing the prob
lens Of the new deal, 1t seems peril
nent to call attention to how advance
ment of science in commerce and in
dustry add problems with which the
professors must cope. For example,
the bureau of fisheries of the Depart
ment Of Commerce has just dIscov-
cred a way to make oysters shuck
themselves There are thousands nf