Evening star., 1934-08-12
RECOVERY, FORCING UP,
HINDERED BY THEORISTS
Writer Believes Roosevelt Has Slowed
the Course by Following Advice
of Radical Intellectuals.

ished the plenty"
The third mistake was similar in
spirit to the second. II consisted Of
putting limitation on enterprise. pre-
venting expansion. have never looked
through all the N. r. A. codes, but
am told that upward Of a hundred 81
them make expansion a crime unless
the proposed expansion is first ap@
proved by the Government in the
form Of a code authority. without
this Government permission II is a
crime for q man to add a machine
to his plant or for a new enterprise
TO set up In an industry. This, like
the destruction OF abundance. Is O
denial of the law OF growth.
Just now a considerable literature
is emerging which exposes this fall
lacy. One vivid. partial Illustration
Is this Al the present moment every
dwelling house In the United States
except one Is obsolete I say "ex-
cept one" because / understand there
Is one conditioned house at the
Chicago Exposition. Within q year.
OF as soon as the restrictive spirit OF
government let's us free-it will be
as common for a family to turn on
artificial coolness in Summer as
artificial heat in Winter.
A Pungent PamphIeteer.
Have We progressed in our national
psychology to the point where we
are able to see and practice q little
humor about the new dealP
A few have. One Is Z. NJ. Hughes
Of Harrison, N. J. First and last 1
receive many pamphlets dealing with
Mr.. Roosevelt'S great experiment tand,
OF course, very many letters and ac-
counts Of budding organizations).
Quite literature of pamphleteering
has grown up. Most of II is--as I
fear my own is--very serious. OF
all that comes TO my desk. Mr.. Hughes
is the one that outstandingly and
joyously stimulates a laugh-and a
laugh Is much-to- be- -prized COM
modify these days
| Mr.. Hughes calls his periodical
Dead Cats"-because it is directed
mainly against N. r. A., which, AS
Gen. johnson correctly prophesied.
was bound to be the target of such
missiles. Following the tradition OF
older American newspapers, Mr..
Hughes periodical bears picture
symbol. He takes for his emblem
an eagle-not a blue one, but the
one which. up TO July, 1893, every
body understood TO be the American
eagle, the familiar bald eagle Of our
coins and OF the great seal Of the
! United States. (That's a good point
why did 1t not occur to any one
to point out that there came a time.
in 1888 and 1884, when our Fourth
OF July oratory contained many
illusions TO the Blue Eagle-and prac-
tically none to the American one7)
Mr.. Hughes takes the American
eagle as his emblem, ard lest anybody
should fail TO see the point, he calls
attention to IT,:
Look at the Bald-headed Son Of a
Gunl
He's no Synthetic Blue Buzzard."
For his battlecry MFR. Hughes takes
"liberty"-because the principal point
he makes Is that N. r. a. Is q denial
OF liberty. And for a more colloquial
battlecry Mr.. Hughes quotes q de-
| AdnCC NnlCn dh EATiY 1}ELlfACTaL,
kDapy- Crockett, hurled at an earlier
Gen. johnson.
Look at my neck, you won't find
any collar engraved: My Dog-Andy
Johnson"
\ sIMr. Hughes little periodical is
against all Of N. r. A. and every part
of It. He is as much against the
privileges N. r. A. confers on capital
as those it confers on organized labor.
Mr.. Hughes is ag'in 'em both. He is
for the consumer and for the little
man. In a passage of penetrating
realism he describes the making OF
an N. r. A. code:
In collusion with government. capi-
tai and organized labor got together
and formed these codes. Each spared
for every vantage point and devil take
the consumer. Each figured that he
couldn't lose-that role was for the
consumer. They divided up the spoils.
Then the scrap began. Labor woke
up to realize capital was still In the
drivers seat. Naturally Don't It
seem logical, human nature being what
it Is, that leaders with real ability
would be where the profits are great
est? There amt enough unselfsh
idealists in Christendom to fill all the
posts Of walking delegates. Nor was
capital satisfied. Both wanted the
hogs share and they've been snarling
at each other ever since"
Has Gift Of Argument.
It will be observed that Dead Cats"
pungency of phrase is accompanied
by penetration Of thought The little
periodical really has a gift for strik-
ing argument. Mr.. Hughes describes
that aspect Of the N. r.. A. codes
which gives the leading members Of
an industry the power to control and
make rules for the whole OF the in
dustry-including in some codes, the
right to prevent any new man from
setting up in the industry. Then
Mr.. Hughes says, suppose there had
been an aviation code at the time,
in 1927. when a youth named Lind
bergh wanted to sit in on an enter
prise of flight to Europe The avia-
ton code authority would have In
quired into the young mans expert
! ence, would have inspected his un-
pretenttous equipment and the two
sandwiches he was taking as q food
supply, and would have cracked
down" in the approved Gen. johnson
manner:
mo: positively mol We refuse TO
acquiesce In any such hair Drained
adventure Go out and get repu-
tation. Also. it is against the code
for swivel chair aeronautics. Unless
you take snooper along, how can we
check up o. YOU and the eight-hour
day. No, get digger ship with room
for a snooper and 200 sandwiches and
an icebox Good night"
As for the brain trust, Dead Cats"
puts 1t thus:
IF the smart alexis had brainsl
But, unfortunately. instead OF
brains they just have education. It
amt the same thing. though some
folks think so. Educate q shallowpate
and he acquires patter Of second
hand slogans and an alphabet. These
and a rocker-arm tongue qualify him