The times-news. [volume] (Hendersonville, N.C.) 1927-current, 1933-06-24
HURLEY FINDS CONDITIONS
IMPROVED BUT WARNS u. S.
AGAINST HEAD-ON CRASH
Former War Secretary Declares Roosevelfs Domestic
And Foreign Policies Are In Direct Conflict
Hits Back AT Senator Glass
By HARRY FERGUSON

By HARRY FERGUSON
United Press Staff Correspondent
Copyright, 1888, United Press)
WASHINGTON. June % (UP)
The Roosevelt administration is
nearing a head-on collision be-
tween its domestic and foreign
policies. in the opinion of Patrick
J. Hurley, secretary of war in the
Hoover cabinet and one of the
nations outstanding Republicans.
Danger signals are flying, he
told the United Press.
81 want to be perfectly honest
and frank" he said, $50 | will say
that, in general conditions in the
country are improved. Pve done
considerable travelling in the last
three months through Missouri,
Arkansas, Oklahoma, Illinois, Ohio
and New York. Tie temper Of
the people is good. Everyone
wants to cooperate in the indus
trial recovery program as far as
that may be done without violat-
ing the constitution.
"But the thing to remember is
that this is a temporary condition
brought about because the federal
government is putting its own
money into circulation. 1t is
palliative, not a cure.
"The Roosevelt national recov-
cry program is in vital confiicT
with the Roosevelt international
program which is intended to low
err tariffs.
"Now it happens that none of
the European governments has
proposed the reduction of the
hours of labor at the same time
sustaining the wage scale. If
American tariffs are lowered 1t
would bring the unregulated wage
scale of Europe-with its 6O-hour
week-in competition with the
wage scale in the Uni
ted States and a 30-hour week.
The results are obvious.
eve hear a lot about economy
in government at a time when the
appropriation bills carry a thou
sand times as much for govern
mental expenditures as the
amount saved by economy. The
sort of employment that is being
created by these great expend'-
lures is non-continuing. 1t may
be helpful temporarily, but it S
not attacking the roots of the
problem.
"No one yet has conceived d
plan of getting money into the
treasury except by putting more
taxes on the people. That Is \
point to remember when you talk
about these great expenditures OF
government money.
"This is a government by ma
jority. We must assume that
these new laws were enacted by
the majority in the interest OF
the welfare of the country. 1t Is
only by honest trial, honest errors
and honest correction of the e.
rors that progress is achieved. We
must assume that # these new
laws are not found to be condn-
Give to the welfare of the people
the majority will be as anxious to
repeal them as it was to enact
them.
"This whole domestic program
is temporary. Good sportsman
ship as we'll as good Americanism,
requires that we should give it a
fair trial"
Hurley hardened back to the
presidential campaign last fall
when he made the prediction that
the United States would go OFT the
gold standard within six months II
the Democrats were victorious.
Senator Carter Glass replied in
a speech in which he said:
of the secretary of war said
that, he is totally unfit for official
responsibility and the president
should have booted him out of OF
flee before breakfast time of the
following day. Indecency, even in
a political campaign, has its linn
tations. This alleged declaration,
if made by this strutting trum-
peter of the president, was not
far short of treason to the coun-
try" a
"Well," Hurley said today, "the
Democrats did succeed. The Uni
ted States is off the gold standard.
All that remains to make the PIC
ture complete is to add to 1t Sem
ator Glass definitions of "decen-
cy' and treason "
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