The times-news. [volume] (Hendersonville, N.C.) 1927-current, 1934-09-28
HOOVER Sees
TREND TOWARD
DICTATORSHIP
Book Now Out Asks PeO-
pie to Rally to "Old and
Tried Principles"
By HENRY F. MISSELWITZ
limited Press Staff Correspondent


United Press Staff Correspondent
NEW YORK, Sept. 2S.-(UP).
Herbert Hoover is out in book
form today with his sweeping de-
nunciation of the alleged "Willo-
the-Wisp' political theories of
the new deal and a fervent warn
ing that the program of the
Roosevelt administration is lead
ing the people of the United
States rapidly toward an open
dictatorship and denial of their
traditional liberty.
His treatiSe-it reads more like
a thesis for a doctors degree IN
political philosophy than a human
document appealing to the man
in the street-was published in
part some weeks ago, and the
book, "The Challenge to Liberty"
does little further in the path of
aligning information from the
sold and tried" point Of view
against the experiments of the
present era.
As | see il, the brief volume,
in precise, almost professional
language rather than the warmly
sympathetic idiom of the men the
former president apparently
sought to reach, seeks two major
aims:
First. A denunciation Of the
new deal as a step toward dicta-
tOrShIp.
Second. An appeal to the peO-
pie not to discredit the expert
ence of the past, but to support
the principles of the Hoover ad-
miniStratiOn.
was early impressed in this
volume by the appeal to the peO-
pie for a clearer understanding
of those principles - the "old
deal" as some of Mr.. HoOver's
critics call his regime. Even prior
to attacking the national regi-
emntation" program of Mr..
Roosevelt, he gives a lengthy def
milton of liberty, with a capital
g." and seeks to show that his
administration did not leave the
country in ruins" as claimed by
the new deal proponents. For
example, he comments in this de-
fensive attitude:
q. Manfully the nation was
adjusting the strains of the de-
preston and was accomplishing it
without strikes and without social
clash.
"And it might be observed
through it all that the structure
which was builded over these
years was not so much in ruins
that it did not produce more
goods than bureaucracy could toll
crate, that some 3O,000,00O chill
dren continued to attend school
in the ruins that millions of
people continued to find spiritual
inspiration in churches still stand
ing in the ruins that other mil
lions daily attended games, thea
tres and recreations in the
ruins and that 23,000,0OO au-
tomObiles were running about in
our ruins at ever increasing
speeds"
Mr.. Hoover in his chapter on
"The Accomplishments of Lib
erty," is frank to admit that "the
depression brought wildly to the
surface many failures in Ameri-
can life, many weaknesses latent
in the organizatio nof the sys-
TEN, many weaknesses and
abuses of liberty" But he feels
that the American people have
been greatly discouraged these
last four years and in the pres
ence of immediate difficulties
have sometimes forgotten the
grandeur of our accomplishments,
the genius of our people, and the
future promise of our national
life"
He admits the present Difficult
ties, but insists that even thel
"do not justify the assumption
that a system of life builded OF
such sacrifice over a century ant