Evening star., 1934-04-25
Evolution and Panaceas.


dent Roosevelt as evolution" not
revolution. Whatever it may be, 1t
is different from what went before
1t represents a change. There are
those who believe. as does President
Roosevelt, that the change is vastly
for the better; there are others who
are not quite so sure. and still an
other group which looks with aversion
upon the new deal. To some the new
deal is religion; to others 1t is
deal may be it has been more on the
defensive in recent weeks than at any
time since it was launched by the
President more than a year ago.
The new deal itself has been
mixture, designed partly for recovery
and partly for reform. Emergency
measures designed to bring back en-
ployment and business have been
mingled with plans of social reform.
No one will deny that society should
be reformed or that 1t cannot be
changed for the better. The great
difficulty is to change society for the
better by law. What works well in
one direction, seemingly. works i'll in
another. The N R. A. the P. w A,
the T. V. A and the c. w. A. have
had their good points. some Of them
very good They have not entirely
escaped bad points. The N. r. A.
has brought about the jailing and
fning of little tailor in Jersey City
because he charged thirty-f1ve cents
for pressing a suit of clothes when
code" provided that forty cents must
be the price. Certainly nothing could
more fully demonstrate to the Amer
lean people the change that has been
brought about by the new deal than
this very case of the little tailor in
Jersey City.
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the lives of the people in the new
deal to an extent which the people
well as industry, is having its taste
of Government control. Cotton pro-
duction has been restricted. COM
pulsorily. Other crops may be dealt
with in the same way. The people
have been told they are on their way.
What they want to know is how far
are they going along this road of
Government control.
The President, the Secretary of
State and the Assistant Secretary of
Agriculture. Rexford G. Tugwell. who
has Just been promoted by the
President to be Undersecretary OF
Agriculture, have, in the last few
DAYS, made public addresses declaring
that no RECOMMENDATION" of the people
is intended in the new deal.
These defenses of the new deal by
heads of the administration are some
thing new. Heretofore it has not been
considered necessary to defend the
new deal. More recently, however.
criticisms and murmurings against
some of the steps taken by the Gov
eminent have grown in volume. The
charge has been made that those back
of the new deal were seeking to bring
about very great change in American
ideals, traditions and government. And
such changes, whether they be called
evolution or revolution, should be fully
understood by the people before they
are put into effect.
The President has declared himself
for evolution. not panaceas. 1t NAV
be difficult for some to distinguish be-
tween the two. His remark was in
terpreted as an attack on the silver
bloc. which is demanding the re-
monetization of the white metal. How
times have changed! 1t was only a
few short years ago that the then
great leader of the Democratic party
was demanding the free coinage OF
silver at ratio of Is to l, and later
was defending in court the proposition
that there is no such thing as evolu-
ton. Perhaps this is merely another
case of evolution