The times-news. [volume] (Hendersonville, N.C.) 1927-current, 1934-03-26
WOULD PROBE
GOVERNMENT
PLOT CHARGES
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men will have in investigating the
brain trust will lie in finding out
Just what the term means and
who belongs. Originally it was
applied to a small group of pro
fessors, then headed by Raymond
Moley, who helped plan the re-
covery program. Drs. James Har'
vey Rogers and George Warren
belong. of course. Rexford Tug
well assistant secretary of agrl-
culture, probably will draw the
heaviest fire when and if the III
vestigations start.
The most curious member of
the brain trust-curious, that is,
from the standpoint of being as
ISOLATED with it in the public
minds Charles William Taus-
sig, one of the presidents gen.
eral economic advisers.
Taussig is head of the Amerl-
can Molasses Co., and doesn't fit
very we'll with the professional
contingent. But when he first be-
came prominent in the Roosevelt
circle. most newspapermen. re-
Numbering that there was chap
named Taussig who wrote a book
on tariffs that they studied IN
Economics I, decided that the
campus had contributed another
brain truster. The tariff expert,
Frank q William Taussig of Har-
ward. has not been close to the
administration.
Few informed persons in Wash
ington take the CO m m u n m
charges very seriously, unless the
definition of brain trust is en-
larged to include a group of radi-
Gals, mostly youngsters, who &C.
cupy relatively minor positions ir
the agricultural adjustment ad.
ministration and the national re.
covery administration. There are
a few real communists among
them, and others more or les
sympathetic to the communis-
ideal. They talk lot about com
munist "cells" in the government
But they don't seem to be in
position to do any damage, and
good many of them are gooi
workmen making real contribu
tions in their minor jobs.
Most of the communists seen
to consider Tugwell as on the
other side of the fnnce-a person
of more fascist than communist
tendencies.
There are some processing fas
cists here. in positions much like
those occupied by the communist.
and about as unimportant. They
don't care so much for Tugwell
certainly do not regard him as
! one of them.
In these days when good
many "intellectuals" lean toward
communism, in theory and some
times as actual party leaders, a
few of the persons who used to
be called "reds" are likely to be
found in almost any group like
AAA or NRA where college.
trained men with certain tyye
of experience are needed. 1t isn't
confined to the government by
any means, and the more the
radicals" express their views
around comfortable tables outside
of office hours, the less seriously
an observer is likely to take
them. 80 dHBI
Nevertheless, if congressional
committees want to go down into
among the secondary employees of
the government they will be able
to find almost anything they want
to look for in the line of extreme
political opinions, right or left.
But few in Washington are in
clined to believe that any promi-
nent official, or any in position
to make his views felt in the ad-
ministration, expressed the Ker-
ensky-Stalin viewpoint. quoted by
DR.. Writ. A very minor official