Plentywood herald. [volume] (Plentywood, Mont.) 1908-current, 1934-12-20

cannot enforce order. alone. the Pres
ident urged that home, school,
church, community and social agen-
cies work in common with law en-.
forcement agencies to substitute
order for disorder" Other speakers
included the Acknowledgement and
Henry L. Stimson, Secretary of War
In the Hoover cabinet.
The Subsistence Homestead Divis-
ion would like TO get a half billion
dollars to expand its activity and, In
Its annual report, declared that a ma
tional survey would be undertaken
to locate protests which will here
after be originated by the division
itself. Up to June 80, COL proposed
homestead projects, seeking loans of
approximately $500, 000. 900. had been
approved as lin some degree wor-
thy" One of the chief aims OF the
projects Is TO decentralize industrial
areas and rehabilitate unemployed
groups by combining part-time wage
work with part-time work on small
farms and gardens.
The general expectation Is that the
President will submit an indefinite
budget message to Congress and.
while authorization for the expendl-
ture OF large sums will be requested,
there Is no certainty that the funds
Will be actually used. This means
that the Administration will give
business a chance TO increase EN-
ployment and to demonstrate what
it can do in the way of cooperation
during the economic emergency. Evil
dence is not lacking that business
men realize that they are ION the
spot and that the best chance OF
reducing the emergency expendi-
lures of the government Is for pri-
vate initiative to do something which
will relieve the Federal Government
of its excessive burden for general
| relief.
Something of an outline OF what
the President Is apt to propose to
Congress regarding the MIRA indicat-
es that he will ask that the recovery
legislation be extended, with some
notifications of MIRA procedure.
This will probably include abolition
Of price-fixing and production CON
troll beyond those now In effect, con
tinuation OF provisions to prevent I'M
fair ~pricecutting and the divorce
ment OF labor relations administra-
ton, already accomplished through
the National Labor Relations Board.
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It Is understood that considerable
progress has been made along the
lines listed and that the President
will probably be able to inform Cong
ress that the MIRA Is already on a
peace-time basis. The general at
titude Is that the flambouyant tactics
which introduced the MIRA should be
supplanted by a dignified administra=
ton, backed by vigorous and indis-
| criminate enforcement.
With the bankers, manufacturers
and other business interests pledged
to cooperate with the Administra-
ton and to present a unified front
for the new recovery drive, there
naturally ensue something of a
pause in all activities to await the
results Of such general participation
IN the present efforts. Leaders of
private industry believe that much
improvement can be shown by March
and they look to the President to
hold congressional radicals In check.
incidentally, the much publicized
necessity for balancing the budget
Is being soft-pedaled, with emphasis
on the idea that when business re-
covers, the necessity for government
expenditures will be lessened More
over, there Is quite a general belief
that the President will automatically
lessen governmental activity once
business shows that its pledge OF
cooperation Is being translated into
accomplishment.
Secretary of Agriculture Wallace
calls attention to the fact that in
1929 the $4,000 families In the United
States having the greatest income
received as much as the 1000, 900
families with the least income.
While not advocating any absolute
uniform distribution OF wealth, Mr..
Wallace questions this as equitable
and advantages, and suggests that
the economic rules of the game
have been loaded to produce differ.
ences far greater than would be ex
pected In a reasonable society"
r.Wallace insisted that the $4,000
American families In the highest In
come brackets must assume respon
sIbilities commensurate with theil
power by supplying leadership for 8
broad social program, and warned
that unless they avoided the errors
!, OF the Bourbons of France, the socia
| pyramid would be inverted with &C
complaining woe and anguish"
! "A sudden move by the Presiden
last week set up a group to plan leg
: islation which will take the prof.
out Of war. Bernard M. Baruch
chairman OF the old War Industrie
= Board, and Hugh S. Johnson, forme
MIRA chief, are active In the program
which will be based upon a repor
submitted two years ago by the Wa
Policies Commission, which wa
made up OF Cabinet members an
congressman.