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a third, but they are equally certain
not to have a majority.
The Democrats in their private
estimates concede that the Repub-
licans should gain not less than 80
seats. Republican managers in their
private estimates place their mini
mum gain at 40 and their possible
gain at as many as go. Assuming
that the Republicans gain 40, their
total would be 157, as against a DEM
ocratic total of 270. Some such ratio
as that Is what the next House
promises to be.
Democrats to Gain in Senate.
The sum of all is that the Demo-
Gratis will probably make some gains
in the Senate and will probably con-
troll the next Senate by a ratio of
to l. In the House the Republicans
may gain anywhere from 80 to SO
seats-but the Democrats will con-
tinue to have q large majority, what
can fairly be called an overwhelming
majority.
The Democrats are likely to make
small gain in the Senate; and in
the House the Democrats are likely
to lose some seats but will still have
what may fairly be called an over
whelming majority-the sum of which
means that the Democrats will control
the next Congress easily, very easily
indeed. This is the situation in terms
Of Democrats and Republicans-but
what does it mean in terms of the
New Deal?
I cannot think of any Democrat
running for the House and Senate
who says he is not New Dealer, and
| I think there are none. ! cannot
think Of any Democrat running for
House or Senate who says that he is
anything other than 100 per cent
for President Roosevelt. But while
they are for the New Deal in so far
as the New Deal is a symbol, many
OF them are not New Dealers in fact.
I should say that fully two-thirds
of the rank and file of the Democrats
in Congress, and rather more than
two-thirds Of their leaders, are not,
in their conSciences and In their
habits Of thinking, New Dealers. It
is true that in the last Congress
the Congress that came into Office
along with President Roosevelt and
continued until last June-the Demo-
Gratis voted overwhelmingly for nearly
all the measures that were written
by the young intellectualS in the
Roosevelt administration. (These in
tellectuals are the true New Dealers.)
But the Democrats in the last Con-
gress did this only because of the
spirit Of urgency which accompanied
the condition Of panic which existed
throughout the country when they
took Office in March of last year.
They did not pretend to understand
the measures they enacted-at least
they did not until the closing months
of the session, by which time they
had become little suspicious Of the
young intellectuaB.
New Deal Measure Rejected.
On the one occasion in the last
Congress wilen there was a simple
and easily understood measure, which
presented the spirit of the New Deal
clearly, which laid before Congress
the contrast between the underlying
principle of the New Deal and the
principle Of individual ownership for
private proflt-on that occasion Con-
gress rejected the New Deal
Last February, as a detail Of the
Public Works Administration program
Harold I. Ickes, Secretary of the In
terror, allotted $525,ooo to build q
furniture factory in West Virginia
The factory was to be located at q
point where the administration was
setting up colony of subsistence
homesteads" upon which unemployed
families are to be settled. The pur-
pose of the factory was to supply en-
ployment for those occupying the SUBJ
sistence homesteads. It was under
stood throughout Congress that this
project for Government owned fac