Evening star., 1934-04-22
of recovery come uppermost. They
are doing it extraordinarily we'll"
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of recovery come uppermost. They
are doing it extraordinarily we'll"
In concluding. Tugwell said:
This battle for a new deal Is moi
yet over; indeed. suspect it has just
begun. You realize, you must realize
that only a beginning has been made
At the most optimistic estimate, we
shall end the year We are In with MIL
lions of unemployed
There will be millions, even, who
will not have had a steady job fol
three years or perhaps more. And
this in spite of all our work and in
genuity. How do you suppose these
men and their families feel about
the academic question whether it is
recovery We want, or whether 1t is
reform?
Better Paths Sought.
I'VE have set our faces not toward
theories or labels. but toward the
necessary actions. The facts are
stubborn and ugly. We are driven by
them to find better way of life than
we have had.
For myself, I propose to go on
laboring for it; and hope to go on
working with you gentlemen for a
cause which, fundamentally, 1 believe
We share"
Mr.. Meyer was sharp in his refer
ence to the brain trust"
1T is no wonder" he said. that
lou
that is necessary for sound govern
ment, but they forget that no battery
of fine phrases can ever take the place
of fact and that no law is ever better
than its administration.
Prohibition has only lately proved
that, and large part of the new deal
legislation will prove it again Ex-
perimentation is after all nothing but
method, yet it is being used by the
brain trust as the worlds greatest
alibi in all history.
1T implies and accepts in advance
a large measure of failure, but the
masses of people who become the VIC
tins of that failure will scarcely be ir
a mood to accept the alibi of expert
mentalism as an excuse for its conse-
quences.
Experience Upheld.
Nobody can plan with complete
success, but if we must have planning
let it at least be in accord with the
experience of people who have some
knowledge of administration and who
know what can and what cannot be
done by government"
At another point in the speech
Mr.. Myer said:
The impression of widespread Local
favoritism and graft in the C. w. A
and the fact that criminal prosecution
of local officials are already reported
to be under way in the Home Owners
Loan Corporation, indicate that CEN
traliZed planning and administration
for l30,000,000 people scattered over
vast continent is not as simple as
at first it may have seemed to the
young theorists of the brain trust.
Another danger which see in the
attitude Of the brain trust is that they
clothe themselves in an atmosphere
of Righteousness, which makes it ap-
pear doubtful whether any honest
Government effort on behalf Of the
farmer and workingman has ever been
made before.
Others Loyal, Too.
MAY I, in all humility, remind them
that the Farm Loan System and the
Federal Reserve System, of which they
think so little, were once the care
fully thought-out plans of Govern
ment officials no less devoted to the
public good than are they. These
carefully planned organizations have
been largely set aside in a world OF
constantly shifting forces.
1T is their sense of righteousness
which has caused the new dealers to
resent criticism, more than any de-
sire on their part to be autocratic
Nor can they deny that they have
resented critisicm for We need only
advance as proof the ruthless way in
which they have treated their critics.