Evening star., 1934-10-21
BY JOHN SNURE

W ukAl WA1AN4l tllC
v tration will seek to carry
out after election. To
what extent the New Deal in the last
two years Of Mr.. Roosevelt's current
term will be identical with the New
Deal of the first part of the admins
tration is as much Of O mystery as
heretofore.
1t is a strange fact that in this year
OF congressional campaign, with the
election almost at hand, there Is but
little discussion in the National Capital
concerning the possible result. Alb
sence of such discussion Is noticed by
old-time politicians and political ex-
perts Of both parties. What talk there
is has relation chiefly to the outcome
in certain States and congressional
districts, and touches the question of
whether this veteran or that In Senate
or House will be reelected or de-
feated.
1t remains true, as it has for weeks,
that Democratic victory in a national
sense Is admittedly foregone conclu-
sion, and also that attention is being
more and more directed to the ques-
ton Of what the Democrats will do
with the victory when they get it.
Conservative Course Hinted.
Undoubtedly the impression has
been gaining ground through tke
country that President Roosevelt plans
to take more conservative course and
to work more in harmony and con-
sonance with the business, industrial
and financial interests. This idea has
been held out in numerous utterances
from Cabinet members and others who
are supposed to be spokesmen for the
administration or who assume to
speak for it. While Donald R. Rich
berg has decried the idea that it is
necessary to have an early balancing
Of the budget, and thus has tres
passed on the orthodox views, the
President has taken occasion to coun-
teract reports that he has in mind
a new devaluation of the dollar to
increase prices.
The President will speak next We'd
nesday to the American Bankers As
sociation, and it is generally expected
that the address will be pacific. As
described in some quarters, it will
seek cooperation Of the bankers with
the Government, rather than attack
them for failure to co-operate-which
has been more or less the fashion
in high Government circles.
Eugene r. Black, former governor
Of the Federal Reserve Board; George
Harrison, governor of the New York
Federal Reserve Bank, and other
prominent banking figures have Of
late been in close conference with
President Roosevelt. and out of such
conferences has come the tntimation
and impression that the administra-
ton Is headed for a more conservative
program than in the earlier months
Of the New Deal.
n. A. r. Cited as Example.
The N. r. A. reorganization, among
other things, is being held out as an
evidence that the administration is
moving in the conservative direction,
or, as it Is generally expressed, to the
right.
Even that able and cynical veteran
of Republican politics, George H.
Moses, former Senator of New Hamp-
shire, who was in Washington this
week, was able to see signs that after
the election the administration would
be inclined to take a more conserva-
tive course than before.
Nevertheless, though that impress
sion is going out and is cultivated in
high administration quarters, it is also
a fact that there Is little specific as
surance from the White House or
from the departments to back it I'D.
The President viii give definite
shape to his legislative program In
conferences with Democratic leaders
here after the election. The end Of
November and all December will TEEN
with informal discussions of the Win
ter program. Then things will be
wrought out in the knowledge that
the congressional campaign is over.
30-Hour Week Fight Looms.
1t would be difficult to point to any
thing which President Roosevelt has
said recently which binds him to a
more conservative course, and there
is a growing belief that his legisla-
tive recommendations will be disap-
pointing to conservatives of his party
and generally.
In some respects the most impor-
tant economic proposal that will be
forced on the new Congress will be
| the 30-hour week, which organized
| labor is demanding in earnest. The
President. 1t Is true, is opposed to the
2n- hour u,eek and will not uet behind