Evening star., 1934-06-17
TugwelFs Views Contribute to the Issue
To Be Met in Congressional Campaign

, ton itself. We shall all of us be made
unhappy in one way or another; for
the things we love. as well as the
things that are only privileges, will
have to go.
The first series of changes will
have to do with statutes. with conSti-
Intention Of eighteenth and nine
teenth century law was to intsan and
protect the principle of conflict; this,
if We begin to plan, We shall be
changing once for all. and it will re-
quire laying Of rough, unholy hands
on many a sacred precedent. doubt
less calling on an enlarged and ma
tionalized police power for enforce
ment."
Then DR.. Tugwen looked into the
future. He observed:
1T has already been suggested that
business will logically be required to
disappear. This is not an over-state-
ment for the sake of emphasis; it is
literally meant. The essence of buSi-
ness is its free venture for profits in
an unregulated economy. Planning
implies guidance of capital uses. To
take away from business its freedom
of venture and expansion, and to limit
the profits it may require, is to de-
Stroy it as business and to make of
it something else.
THAT something else has no name;
we can only wonder what it may be
like and whether all the tearsome
nrodiPtiOOc cnnroryoipn will n0r,a
true. New industries will not Just
happen, as the automobile industry
did; they will have to be foreseen, to
be argued for, to seem probably desir-
able features of the whole economy
before they can be entered upon"
But 1t was in a footnote that Tug
well made the assertion that caused
the arching Of many a Senatorial
neck. People may have wondered why
there frequently has been corruption
in government They now have the
conclusion Of DR.. Tugwell. He said,
explaining the cause:
The reason was that business kept
any government corrupt that touched
1t anywhere. This seemed to be part
OF the business system, no more con-
sidered wrong by business men than
ordinary buying and selling And
wise observers who had seen it going
on always and everywhere had con-
eluded that 1t was in the nature of
government to be corrupt and inefi-
cient and that no really important
matters, such as economic functions,
ought ever to be trusted to it."
But the new Under Secretary of
Agriculture did not agree with them.
He said:
From what I know of human ma
ture, believe that the world awaits
a great outpouring Of energy as soon
as we shall have removed the dead
hand of competitive enterprise that
stiles public impulses and finds use
only for the less effective and less
beneficial impulses of men. When in
dustry is government and government
Is industry the dual conflict deepest
IN our modern institutions will be
abated."
When DR.. Tugwell wrote those lines
he had no idea that he one day would
be caught in the center of the forces
that appear to be driving the Coun-
try to a new stage of economic de-
velopment in which planning is to
play a part. 1t may also be said that
experience with actual participation
in the New Deal developments has
caused him to change his mind about
some of the predictions he made.
Like Secretary Wallace and PreSi-
dent Roosevelt, DR.. Tugwell now is
described as convinced that the Coun-
try is going to work out of its pres
ent troubles by adjustments such as
now are being made through N. r. A.
and A. A. A.
The explanation is made that his
address in 1881 was given as a scien-
tist and he was encompassing a long
period Of time, not just a brief period
of quick change.
The whole New Deal idea, as out
lined by the President, by Mr., Wal
lace and by Donald Richberg, general
counsel OF the N. r. A., Is that gov
ernment is only to guide and assist
industry and agriculture in working
out its problems, not to supplant
either.
Copyright, 1934)