Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1934-04-03

The Choice.

Representatives James w. Wads-
worth of New York, speaking in the
National Radio Forum, has warned
the American people that they must
choose between the freedom which
they have had under the constitu-
tional form of government during the
past one hundred and forty years and
RECOMMENDATION of the people under a
bureaucracy at Washington. In the
opinion of Mr.. Wadsworth. if the al
tentative is chosen, we shall have in
effect an imperial government centered
here in Washington, with its tentacles
reaching out into the smallest COM
munity and creeping into the very
homes of the people" The choice
must be made by the American peo-
pie now, in the coming congressional
campaign and in the Congress which
meets next January. For the So
called emergency measures, enacted at
the behest of President Roosevelt.
under which the N. r. A., the A. A. A.
and other administrations" have been
set up, are to expire June 80, 1895,
unless they are further extended by
act Of Congress.
Mr.. Wadsworth declared that if
these so-called emergency measures
are continued, if they are added to,
as is now the tendency, the regimen
ment will be complete. The people no
longer will be able to decide what
they will produce. whether it be corn
or shoes, pig iron or hogs, cotton or
cloth. That will be decided for them
in Washington. These so-called emer-
gency laws have today back of them
the strong arm of the Government.
Jail sentences and heavy fines may
be imposed for violations of the codes
set up by agreement between industry
and the Government, but really die
tated in the main by the Government.
Mr.. Wadsworth called particular at
tention to the cotton restriction bill,
the Bankhead BILL which makes every
cotton farmer in the land, no matter
how small his acreage or how large,
subject to orders from the Govern
ment. Other measures, designed to
limit production, to fix prices are to
follow.
When there is talk of economic
planning" according to Mr.. Wads-
worth, We might as we'll understand
that the Government is going to do
the planning. Mr.. Wadsworth said
that the decision by the American
people must be made without delay,
for President Roosevelt and many of
his advisers have said that the new
order is here to stay. He pictured the
extreme pressure that will be exerted
to continue in force the so-called
emergency recovery laws and to add to
them.
The Wadsworth address was tenn
perate in nature. He made no violent
attack upon the Roosevelt adnsdnis-
tration. There was no invective
against the recovery program. The
New Yorker merely stated the prob
lem which the people OF the United
States may well ponder. Their de-
cision, however, should not be delayed.
Indeed, it cannot be delayed.
The recovery measures we're adopt
ed as an emergency program. The
army which the United States called
into being when it entered the World
War was an emergency force. If
any one had suggested that a stand
ing army Of 1000 900 men be main
tanned after the war had ended he
would have been accused of militar-
ism. He would have been looked upon
as un-American and perhaps slightly
insane The country learned some
things during its war experience,
things which have been inculcated
into the military training of the nor
NAL forces. 1t has learned some
things during the depression and
those things will be incorporated In
the business and agricultural life OF
the country. But there Is no reason
for the people permanently to lay
aside their system of government or
their freedom.