, 1934-12-13
The World
At Glance
BY LESLIE c
Central Press Staff writer

ouChb occo4On VI COhbACc8 udNC
aroused ~Progressives.
They viii try to prevent AZ.
They hear that the President viii
try 70 Sidetrack what they consider
basic reforms. in favor Of expansion
Of the New Deal on its present base.
There Is a new phase that has
come into being, a phrase believed
10 have been first spoken by Henry
Pratt Fairchild-a New Deck in
stead Of a New Deal.
But
But. OF course, the P~rogreSsives
may be overlooking the presidential
advisers. They are as Progressive
as the ~ProgreSsiveS.
The presidents chief adviserS-as
We pointed out the other day-are
Tugwell, Moley. IckeS. Perkins, wal
lace, Hopkins, Richberg.
Some have been termed too radi-
cal. hitherto, by large business in
terests.
Capacity To Consume"
One book is rising up to smite the
New Deal on its crop restriction pro-
gram.
That book IS Americas Capacity
TO Consume, by Leven. Moulton and
Warburton. IL contains interesting
assumptions.
In the peak prosperity" year Of
the United States - 1929 - three
fourths OF the non-Tural families did
not have enough income TO provide
an adequate diet at moderate cost"
Nine-tenths Of the non-rural pop
ulation lacked the income to pro-
vide themselves with a liberal diet.
The same applies 10 manufactured
articles as to food.
II would surprise Americans 70
know how many homes lack even
the mere sanitary appliances which
we associate with the American
standard Of living.
The P~rogreSsives hold that restric-
ton Is beginning NJ the hind end
first. They rank distribution OF in
come first.
OF course, the P-roRreSsives would
not have unbridled competition.
They would restrict competition, to
bring costs down. But they would
not pillow under crops 70 raise prices.
They would seek q wider distribu-
ton OF income. they would seek
freer interchange OF trade and bring
about q larger turnover. 70 insure
larger profits at lower costs.
Even with the higher prices and
higher wages OF today. how many
/ people are ahead (provided they
have any incomes az alb OF the time
when prices and wages were lower7
That Is another battling question
posed by the P-rogreSsives.
Long And CoughTin
Since we are 10 hear much OF the
respective programs Of Senator Huey
Long and the Rev. Father Charles
II. Coughlin this coming session OF
congress, let us compare those pro-
grams.
Huey Longs Share Our Wealth
organization advocates:
"A capital levy tax on property
owned by any one person, ! per cent
OF all over 81 .000. 900: 2 per cent OF
all over 50. 900 1000, etc, but outright
confiscation Of everything above loo
million dollars. The tax Is aimed 70
limit fortunes to so million dollars.
An inheritance tax prohibiting any
one person from receiving more thar
s5.O 1000 in a lifetime without
working for 1.-THE remainder 20 SO
70 the government.
An income tax limiting incomes 70
81. 1000 a year; anything beyond
that 70 accrue 70 the government.
The Rev. Coughlin's National Un-
ion OF Social Justice advocates:
Government limitation OF the pro-
fits acquired by industry.
Federal supervision OF industry SO
that labor will be supplied al need:
for IAN honest livelihood.
Government assurance that indus
trial goods will be secured unit
every person Is amply supplied.
Enforcement OF minimum annual
wages and maximum working SEIZED
ules, licensing OF factories and limit
ing Of output, II necessary.
Re-establishment of vocationa
groups, OF unionization OF all work.
ers. not the present-day IL per cent
Protection and guidance OF labor
IN rs negotiations with capital ,by
the federal department OF labor.
Elimination OF strikes and lock-
outs IN favor Of public authority.
Green's Words
Since the battle OF the Akron Tire
companies against the national labor
relations board Is looked upon MS
national issue both by industry and
labor. the words Of William Green
president on the American Fedora
ton OF Labor, are potent. Mr.
Green SAYS.
Such defiant action on the rsrt
of corporations 10 constituted au'
thority and orderly processes serves
10 breed social unrest and induStri
al discomfort.
Opening Guns Of War;
As predicted In this column Il
DAYS arO. large rubber companies ~