Evening star., 1934-09-05
BOOK BY WALLACE
ANSWERS HOOVER
Farm Chief and Former
President Debate New
Deal in Volumes.
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, cred an answer to the views expressed
by Mr.. Hoover. This is mere COIN
| cidence, however.
Son of the Secretary of Agriculture
under President Coolidge, Wallace
bolted the Republican party in 1928
to support the Democratic presidential
nominee, Alfred E. Smith, and re-
manned to back President Roosevelt
and be named to his fathers old post.
1t was because of the Republican
farm policy expressed by MIR. Hoover
as a candidate in 1928 that Wallace
left the fold and became a caustic foe
of the Federal Farm Board in its mar
ket stabilization operations.
Economy of Labor Theme.
New Frontiers" was described as an
exposition of the necessity for giving
the ultimate satisfaction to the indi-
vidual citizen for the minimum ex-
penditure of labor.
In former depressions and the
years Immediately following, it be-
came normal for those workers crowd
ed out of the cities to move to new
ldIlQS III WCob, OIlC OA4ANAoA WAN
has read the manuscript said in ex-
planning the nature of the book.
However, we long ago passed the
point where productive land could be
homeSteaded and We have even come
to a time when hundreds of thousands
of acres of farm land, definitely In
the sub-marginal class, must be retired
from production.
THE Secretary's book is an ex-
planation of the necessity for an in
tensive, rather than an extensive, de-
velopment of the United States and
its resources.
THE new frontiers Of which ne
speaks are the mental rather than
physical areas which must be de-
vedoped if this country is to use its
full possibilities for the good of all
people rather than privileged few."
G. o. p. Keynotes Hunted.
Hoover's criticism of the New Deal
still was being studied here for sign
posts pointing toward 1886. Quickly
the searchers came to the conclusion
that the former President had so
timed his utterance as to furnish the
keynote for Republican efforts to re-
gain lost seats in Congress this Fall
and, at the very least, was keeping his
name before the public in connection
with things political.
Beyond that, it was the general
belief that much depends upon the
future, and the immediate future, at
that. If his article summarizing the
New Deal as a colossal invasion OF
human liberties, and his forthcoming
book, are followed by other activities
as the campaign progresses, the con-
census was that a further conclusion
is inescapable.
This would be that Mr.. Hoover is
assuming actively his post as titular
head of the Republican party, and
that despite his overwhelming defeat
in 1882 he still reckons himself a
political force that must be dealt with
when the Republicans select their
presidential nominee two years hence.
Hoover Always Possibility.
If this is the case, no direct an
nouncement of his candidacy could be
expected until the Spring Of 1886 No
one would expect such statement
until then. 1t is politically automatic,
however, that former President is
always a possible contender, especially
if his stay in the White House ended
after single term.
Secretary Ickes, once Republican
himself, but now an ardent New
Dealer, asked first of all in comment
on the article that Mr.. Hoover be
more explicit in stating his concep-
tion and definition of the word lib
erty."
He doesn't seem-and those who
think with him-to be concerned
about liberty of the average man and
woman, that they have fair chance,
a decent living, and jobs at fair
wages" said Ickes.
Representative Byrns, majority leader
and chairman of the Democratic Con-
gressional Committee, voiced a reply
similar to that of Ickes, saying:
Whose liberty is he talking about?
The liberty of the people who have
been gouging the public or the liberty
of those who have been gouged?"
Says Relations Bettered.
R. Walton Moore, Acting Secretary
of State. addressed himself to the
Hoover criticism of foreign policies.
so far as this Department is con-
cerned," Moore said, I'VE challenge
consideration of the question whether
we have not placed our relations with
Latin America on a better footing
than heretofore, and the further ques-
ton of whether the activities of the
State Department under the inspira-
ton of President Roosevelt have not
! quickened the efforts to preserve in
ternational peace.
II would say among other thtrgs
that we have restored the operation ot
treaty with Latin American coun-
: try Dominican Republic), that was
disregarded in the last administration,
and have modified treaty with an
other Latin American country (Cuba)
so as to remove an old cause of ;ric-
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