Montgomery County sentinel. [volume] (Rockville, Md.) 1855-1974, 1934-06-28
by William Bruckatt

anxious to gain a better understand
ing Of the New Deal objective. In that
effort, they failed to get to first base.
Mr.. Tugwen advocated planned ma
tional economy up to certain point,
but was told by senator's after the
hearing that they did not know what
that point was. Tugwell stressed the
necessity for having governmental
control of the various factors that af-
feet business-control Of crops being
one of them-because human happi-
ness required such action, but as far
as l was able to understand his state
ments, he did not clarity much of the
confusion and the mystery that sur
rounds the New Deal plans.
So, all that remains is hope that
Mr.. Roosevelt is on the right track
and that his policies will lead to that
human happiness about which his adj
visers speak.
Another trend, or some think 1t Is a
trend, that is evident in the manage
ment Of affairs by
Ignores President Roosevelt
Cr;s;c. is an apparent will
ingness on the part
Of the White House to pay less and
less attention to critics. That is, many
observers lately have called attention
to an indication that Mr.. Roosevelt is
willing to ignore more and more of
the attacks on his administration. He
is not the type, of course, who will
make a face at his critics. He is
master politician, and keen politicians
never do such things. But when one
examines the statements and informa-
ton that is passed out from the White
House in these days and those forth
coming, say, six months ago, the pres
ent-day grist is much more, If not en-
tirely, free from answers" to critics.
And this is happening in period when
there Is obviously very much more
cr,ti cism than In the earlier days of
the administration.
Let me supply a basis Of COMPARE
son: When the airmail contracts were
cancelled, Col. Charles Lindbergh sent
a telegram to the President, complain
ing about the act. The colonels air
transportation company made the mes
sage public before it was laid on the
Presidents desk, or so Stephen Early,
one of the Presidents secretaries, said.
After the message appeared in the
newspapers, Mr.. Early spoke at length
to the newspaper correspondents
about the coloneps "discourtesy" in
making the message public. Some six
months later. Clarence barrow, the Chi
cago attorney. and the board of review
of NRA affairs which he headed, let
loose a blast on NRA that constituted
a most vitriolic criticism of this phase
of the New Deal The President, him
self, has said almost nothing about
the barrow board criticism. True,
General Johnson replied In his usual
bombastic way, but that was General
Johnson and not the White House.
Criticism has been made in con-
gress of the Agricultural Adjustment
administration. Attacks on this have
come also from the outside. But there
has been no reply from the President,
the top of the administration. Money
policies have been under attack, as
have been some of the relief measures
which seem to some to hint of govern
ment-owned factories soon. These at
tacks have been allowed, however, to
spend themselves in the thin air.
The President is going to Hawai- for
vacation. That fact, of course, is gen.
orally known. But
Writer'S there is one feature
Left Out of the trip that has
not been generally
circulated. Arrangements for the trip
call for virtual elimination of news
correspondents from the picture Of the
Presidents vacation. That is almost
without precedent. Washington cor
respondents are wailing and crashing
teeth all over the place. because that
would be gorgeous trip for those as
signed to write news about the Presi-
dent. Usually, fifteen or twenty writ
ers accompany the President every
where he travels. It inks the CORE
spondents, personally, but 1t seems to
be irking some of the great newspa-
pers more because they are taking the
view that 1t constitutes censorship by
the President.
The arrangements for the Hawaiian
trip are a little hard to understand.
They appear to be right-about-face
on the part of the administration.
This writer has been in Washington
almost twenty years and never in that
time have the facilities made available
for the correspondents at the White
House been greater than under Mr.
Roosevelt's direction. He has courted
friendly press at all times. Every.
thing that was necessary for the news
paper writer's was theirs to com
mand.
Now, however, the President is trav
cling on a naval cruiser, and he does
not even have his own secretaries
with him. He has permitted only
three correspondents to accompany
him on the trip, and they must remain
on another naval boat which has beer
ordered to stay at least three mile:
away from his ship. Those three
writer's will have no contact except by