Plentywood herald. [volume] (Plentywood, Mont.) 1908-current, 1934-09-27

HERE AND &

al administration in a Constitutions
Day address at the Worlds Fair ii
Chicago. Anyone who has folIowes
the career of this turbulent warrior
would expect him to do anything
else The time when he was refus
ed participation In the Democratic
national convention In San Francisco
for his w~recking crew tactics is still
fresh in the memory of political
leaders who realize hat his support
is of little consequence and that any
attacks he may make on the Presid-
ent and his policies will carry little
weight.
Some of the charges made by
Reed in his Chicago address were
ridiculous, especially coming from a
man who has been in public life as
long as he has For instance. he
charged the Administration, through
the National Recovery Act TO have
vate business until through the Cod
es men in business no longer had
anything to say about the operation
of their own institutions. The fed
eral government. Reed said, had
through the codes told business men
what they could pay their employees.
what they must charge for their
products. and. without giving them
any voice in their construction" had
set up through Codes. regulations
that would in time strange every
business into starvation and ruin.
Anyone who has had much TO do
with the formation of codes knows
how far from the facts this really is.
Practically every industry wrote its
own code. The NRA called In the
best minds of every branch of bust
ness 70 assist in their formulation.
Business. already on the rocks of
dispair. wanted codes. it wanted
anything that might help lift it out
of the ruinous depression that had
fhrottled the nation Labor wanted
the codes TO bring the assurance of
a decent living wage Both gave TO
the NRA and its administrators the
fullest cooperation in constructing
these regulatory measures for In
IL they fail to accomplish
they were intended ii will be
because Business itself fails
to make use OF the legislation work
ed out for its own salvation 1t is
one thing to provide the medicine
for a sick industry. it is quite an
other thing to take IT according to
directions"
Opponents Of President Roosevelt
and the national administration OBJ
find little comfort in the re
of state elections OF the last
Maine especially proved
such a bitter disappointment that
leaders of the reactionary Republi-
group openly admitted grave
concern over the results and pointed
10 the necessity of more Intensified !
action ii any substantial gains were
be made In Congress this fall
~forceful Is the verdict writ
en- in other states In spite Of dis
.urbances characterized by strikes
md other disorders In different Sec
ions of the country. there lis little
for the person who had
PREDICTED the popularity OF Franklin
}. Roosevelt was on the decline
People have confidence in ROose
-elt they know him as a man OF
extremely simple and human under
landing who, whether on not he
makes every turn in the right direc-
ion towards the ultimate goal of
recovery. at least Is continually
in some definite direction In
determined effort to accomplish
omething to relieve a sick and dis
nation
To me one of the biggest and most
ig~nificant qualities of Roosevelt is
hat he lays no claim to providing a
4erfect antidote for recovery. But
e is a man OF action That. coupled
nth his sincerity of purpose and his
cen desire to make his administra-
count for good, has made him
ne of the most popular leaders the
Fnlted States has ever had God
nOws, no system of recovery will
G found that il perfect-because
nature Is not perfect But
I'll AdlAHf ilS idlh vi RE&AEI18bu viii
OF be due to lack OF effort, lack of
onesty, or lack OF appreciation of
needs. Sometimes we grow
over the @red tape" con-
ected with the New Deal activities
'ut it will be well to remember thatl
Re would cry to the high heavens IL,
y eason OF undue haste, graft and
eruption crept in The closer we :
tight come to the speed we desire {
he closer also would we approach
ne spirit of Fascism that we as Am I
despise- !
Upton Sinclair is not the same Up
IN Sinclair he was before he GAIN
d the Democratic nomination for
-overn0r of California Although .
9 chose the Democratic label to !
under, he gained the nomination !
lore on his personal promises to a J
istracted electorate than through
ny organized party support The
ft-defeated leader OF a hopeless |
minority, he had on many occasions I
enounced the principles OF the very
arty whose banner he has now I
hosen to adopt Having gained
nomination on a platform SO rad /
al and so alarming 10 c~0nservatists /
I all parties, and inspired by a crav- /
for office, Sinclair now seeks Ell {
ction by greatly modifying his plat G
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