Milford chronicle., 1934-09-21
RELIEF FOR some
BOPPRESSIONFOR
MANY OTHERS
By JULIAN MASON
Vice President, National
Republican Builders

hundreds of miles from the western
area of drought:
The government, in one of those
great sweeping operations which
are so dear to the imagination OF
the President. suddenly decided ia
buy 100000 head of cattle from the
drought-stricken district and to ship
them east. There they were to BIZ
slaughtered and their meat packed
in cans for future consumption.
Into the stockyards of Buffalo, A.
900 of the 100000 head already
bought were suddenly unloaded. The
pens were not large enough to hold
them. So all partitions were broken
down and the herd crowded into one
large enclosure. This meant that
there were practically no feed
ing-troughs and the hay had to be
thrown in among the poor beasts, to
be trampled upon and soiled. And
the beasts themselves were a sorry
lot-old cows. thin bulls. dwarfed
calves. They were in large part the
offscourings of the herds. animals
that could not long have survived,
drought or no drought For them
the government paid SIS apiece.
The question of killing and cam
ming these cattle Immediately arose.
There were not enough killing
floors in Buffalo to take care OF
their slaughter. Even in Chicago,
the greatest of our packing centers,
it was impossible to take care OF
this sudden thrush and to handle
the usual run of business. too.
Nor, in. Chicago or Buffalo. were
the packing facilities equal to the
demand. There were not enough
canneries to go around. So. now,
near Buffalo the government is try
ing to rent pasturage at Sl.50 per
head per month.
Finally, the prospect of the pro-
cipitatiOn upon the market of 3,000.-
900 hides. has broken down hide
prices to something like half what
they were year ago. Which would
seem to mean that about every shoe
manufacturer would have to cut his
inventory values in two.
This situation is of course. an
emergency" one. But ii poItrays a
typical instance of the un-thOugh-Of
difficulties and disloCatiOns that
come up in the magnificent general
izatiOns of planned economy"
The do something" New Deal 2rs
have the happy thought of helping
the drought sufferers by buying and
canning their starving cattle: but,
when all is said and done, their ac-
tion strikes at the stability of
great manufacturing industry. adds
to the tremendous costs laid upon |
the nation at large and finds sud !
denly that the plan can not be car
ried out, anyway.
1t is an incident like this and
succession of them that is going to
educate the people as to the real
meaning of the Brain-Trust Regi-
mentatiOn. In just such fashion
were they educated on Repeal. At
first they thought that. whatever its
incOnveniences. the experiment no.
BILE in motive" might be all right
Then they saw the emergence of
bootlegging, hi-jacking. official cor
ruptiOn, gangstersm and well-finan-
ced crime and they suddenly said,
Why this whole thing has been
wrong from the start" So | be-
lieve, it will he with the New Deal.
When the facts of an unbus ness
like experiment. as exemplified in
Buffalo. come heapingly into the
consciousness of a business nation.
the turn will come sharply and
clearly. /,
1t is the essential hostility toward
business on the part of the admin
istration that is even now striking
at the imaginative web which tie ,
political adroitness of Franklin ,
Roosevelt has thrown around its ac-
tions. The huge money cost of thi;
unmandated experiment is also be- ;
ginning to undermine the faith in
1t once held by many thoughtful t
people Nor can they forget the i'm a
mense bureaucracy which Mr.. Far
ley is fast building into political f
machine along the best lines of I
Tammany Hall. Upon these three
issues the revolt against the New \
Deal is forming. Each one of them
is founded upon an instructive pop ,
ular grasp of the constitutional
principles of American Individual t
ism. p
The Associated Press reports:
THE government soon will start a !
huge land-buying program so that '
industrial workers can have pctter
and cheaper vacations The natiOna!
ra"k service said the project was an i
important phase of the plln to RI. b
tire poor land from asricu';ne. cal S
ling for large recreati0nal spots a
within easy reach of most of the S
major manufacturing cities"
Grand! But can we afford It? i
Each area will be turned over to e
state or city agencies. free of Il
charge, to operate" And can they I
afford It? Aren't about all our cities b
pretty well broke now? b
And where did this vast new il
'cheme originate, anyhow? by "ex- il
,cutive order?" f
What are we being governed by? I
Executive order rather than by L
aw? From March 4, 1888 to June r
s. 1884 the President has issued Il
IA Executive orders. aggregating Is
bout 400 pages. some of them in C
luding as many as Is other execu- P
i've orders. These are the figures of Ct
he American Bar Association spe- a