The Washington times., 1934-09-27
SPEECH DRAWS
WIDESPREAD
INTEREST
Executive to Carefully Avoid
PartiSanship in Outlining
Plans For Future
BY GEORGE r. HOLMES
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President Roosevelt is going to
tell the country Sunday night that
the New Deal is working, that 1.-The
team is still scoring"
Specifically, Mr.. Roosevelt Is
not going to reply to his critics,
who have grown more numerous
in recent weeks, especially in the
ranks of organized business. Broad.
~, he is going to reply to all OF
them.
No speech the President has
made in months is awaited with
keener interest than the "fireside
chat" with millions of radio
listeners Sunday night. Circum-
stances have combined to make it
so.
It comes at a time when Or
ganized business is in open revolt
against many New Deal policies,
and insistently demanding to
know where we are headed; when
labor and industry are squaring
away belllgerently for a knock
down fight this winter; when
acute distress in the drought
striker middle West is being re-
lieved only by treasury cash:
when the MIRA is in the doldrums,
and the AAA facing an uncertain
future.
Moreover, it comes at a time
when the campaign for the elect
ion of the 74th Congress is just
getting to the warm stage. The
election is only six weeks distant.
No PartisanShip
No one expects Mr.. Roosevelt to
make partisan speech. These
are hardly considered partisan
times, and even if he were
tempted, which he is not, Mr..
Roosevelt still has lively recollec-
ton Of the disaster which over.
took Woodrow Wilson when he ap-
pealed to the country to reflect a
Democratic Congress in a time Of
national emergency.
Mr.. Roosevelt will aviod par
tisanship as he would the plague
except in so far as the New Deal
and what it stands for can be
called partisan.
Just how far the President will
go toward appeasing the demand
of the United States Chamber Of
Commerce and other business or
ganization critics for precise de-
tails of his future policies is con-
jectural, but the belief is that he
will not go very far.
One of Mr.. Roosevelt'S favorite
SMILES is to refer to his Admin
istration in these critical times
as a football team, upon which
he plays quarterback and calls
the plays.
He still considers it good. And
he has no intention of broadcast
ing 10 plays ahead. In the first
place he considers such a course
bad strategy: in the second place,
he doesn't believe it possible to
do so, with new conditions and
new circumstances arising con-
stantly, necessitating different
tactics.
To Cite Old Speech
While the subject matter of
Mr.. Roosevelt's Sunday night talk
has not been divuiged, the expec-
tation generally prevails among
his close advisers that it will be
an elaboration of his speech at
Green Bay early in August.
In that speech, the President
declared that honest business"
had nothing to fear from his Ad-
ministration; that all he asked
of business was cooperation with
the Government toward national
recovery, and measurable degree
of confidence in its sincerity.
At the same time, he served
notice that bad business" is in
for a housekeeping. He referred
in that speech to the old order
of unrestricted, unrestrained bust
ness and banking practices as a
return to "the old law of the
tooth and the fang"