Evening star., 1934-08-03
NEW DEAL SCORED
AT COOLIDGE RITES
Beck and Austin kSsail
Administration in Ver-
mont Exercises.
Continued From First Page)

OF Henry Ford. whom he termed
Americas greatest fndustrialist -
No one questions, he said. that
Mr.. Ford was under no obligation to
sign the automobile code. As an
individuaiist. he preferred to conduct
his business without the protection OF
the Blue Eagle. which he regarded
as an emblem Of governmental tyranny.
To the administrator of the N r. A.
this Was high treason Although
Henry Ford was under no legal obli-
cation to sign the code and volun-
tarily complied with its provisions.
the N. r. A proceeded to injure him
in every way that bureaucratic In
genuity could devise
50" When a bureaucracy, as at
present, tells the American how much
he can plow and what cattle he should
kill and what hours the factory man
should work and what tools he can
use and what methods OF production
he can adopt and how much he can
produce and what price he shall OBJ
tain for his labor, then collectivism
has not only exceeded any just bound
aries Of political power but it has
gone mad with its own lust OF power.
When. moreover. a bureaucracy de-
liberately attempts. through proc
eSSing tax. to pillsge one class Of the
community for the benefit of an
other, then the Government of our
fathers has perished In spirit, even
though 1t survives in form. 1t is not
Aow
suspended. 1t Is the basic principles
Of American freedom that have been
destroyed"
Austin Also Attacks.
Senator Warren r. Austin, Repub-
hcan, Of Vermont, after briefly eulogiz-
ing Coolidge, launched into a vigorous
denunciation Of the present admin
istration.
He interspersed his criticisms with
quotations from various political pro-
nouncements Of Coolidge, showing by
implication that the Vermonter's
credo was hostile to the ideals of those
now in power.
The right of local self-regulation
by a republican form Of government
in the several States, guaranteed by
the Constitution, has been suspended
by Congress" Senator Austin declared.
The farmer" he said, $50 richly de-
serving a fair return for his labor
an dinvestment now finds him
self too strongly fettered in the yoke
of officialdom and subject to the lash
of criminal prosecution unless he sub
mits to the planning, control and ex-
actions of the Federal Government"
Senator Austin charged "usurpation
of States rights by the Federal author
ity" in the case Of the farmer.
Private Rights Destroyed.
The business man, he continued, "is
policed by a Federal bureaucracy"
adding:
1.-The common rights Of free men
are subject to Federal regulation. The
right to be free from competition by
government is threatened. The
tendency Is to put the Government
more and more into business and to
substitute it for private enterprise, by
destroying private incentive and
rights"
/ Senator Austin said that Coolidge
had strongly fought entrance of the
Government into business, and had
pointed out the necessity for preserv-
ing human rights through local self
regulation by the States.
THE right Of the people to security
from concentration of all functions Of
government in one person has been
violated" the Senator asserted. His
tory demonstrates that this leads to
tyranny"
Senator Austin then charged that
the exclusive duty of Congress to leg
islate for the people and the ex-
elusive duty of the courts to admin
lister justice had, "in important in
stances" been concentrated in the
executive branch Of the Government
''New Deal Discourages Work"
Referring to the effect upon the
social system by the administrators
economic policies, Senator Austin
said: The new deal tends to restrict
that freedom excessively, to discour-
age work, to destroy the profit in
centive, to regiment industry and
agriculture, to curtail production. to
interfere with the free flow of private
capital into normal channels, to sub
Stitute for private enterprise public
relief through agencies of the Govern
ment. to limit the accomplishment of
the people as whole. to reduce the
wealth of the whole which Is depend
ent upon creative. constructive work;
to reduce individual thrift and pri-
yate investment, and to impose an
extraordinary burden of taxation on
every person and every economic
undertaking.
Senator Austin concluded with the
plea that the doctrines of Coolidge be
reafhrmed.
Let us abandon nostrums which
have proved to be injurious" he said.
Let us go forward, not backward
Let us have progress according to
some general plan. We have none
now"
Mrs. Grace Coolidge, widow Of the
former President, drove to Plymouth
from her home at Northampton, Mass,
TO attend the exercises. She was ac-
companied by Mrs r. B. Hills, q
friend of many years.
A grandStand, bedecked with the
national colorS. was erected on the
slope that faces the terraced burying
ground where the thirtieth President
of the United States lies beneath a
simple slab. Besides Beck and
Austin, two United States Sem
ators, a former Attorney General,
two members of the National House
of Representatives and others came
to pay tribute to the former President