The Bismarck tribune. [volume] (Bismarck, N.D.) 1916-current, 1934-05-01

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Are the Radicals Slipping?
Demand for initiation is becoming
more and more insistent as the prices
OF all commodities fail to respond to
the various currency stimulants adj
ministered by the New Deal policy.
President Roosevelt seems to fear
open and unbridled initiation.
He has admitted more or less pub
licly that devaluation Of the dollar
through manipulative gold purchases
has not been bowling success. Its
operation has not affected the price
situation materially as the sponsors
of the gold buying theory promised.
In other words there are very de-
finite signs that President Roosevelt
is moving away from the leftists or
radicals and getting back either to
the centrists or those on the right
who feel that the present emergency
does not warrant scrapping the con-
stitution and discarding all tradi-
tional checks and balances in the
administration OF the federal govern
ment.
Significant signs are apparent to
the close reader Of public events.
Previous to Roosevelt's new Tug
well assignment, the brain truster
supreme and former Columbia pro-
fessor appeared before the editors Of
the nation In New York and denied
that he favored RECOMMENDATION, scrap
ping the constitution or moving to-
ward economic utopianism by meth
DDS un-American or in violent opposi-
ton to the best traditions Of the
republic.
Following this address. in which
Mr.. Tugwell had some nice things to
SAY about the press and its freedom,
the President nicely timed his an
nouncement that Mr.. Tugwell would
be under-secretary OF agriculture, q
new position, paying $4,000 a year.
DR.. Writ had singled Tugwell out
as the motivating force behind the
red revolution which he said was be-
ing Matched and nourished by a
group OF Communists and Reds on
the federal payroll.
This was significant. too, OF .
change Of heart on the part Of the
President because General Hugh s.
Johnson, the rather bombastic boss
Of the MIRA, has been cracking down
on the press In his colorful bar-room
vocabulary. Mr.. Tugwell. in well
chosen language and choice diction,
gave q speech that could not bring
any cold chills to the spines Of the
Wall Street barons-if they have any
spines left since the various admin
tstration ollslaughts.
Another straw in the wind to pla-
cate the press, which has resented
the Presidents recent references In
approving the newspaper code to
sweat shops and lewdness. was his
choice Of Secretary Cordell Hull, the
one man responsible for getting Pro-
fessor Motley, another brain truster.
separated from the federal payroll
to appear for him before The Asso-
riated Press.
In his suave, dignified manner Of
speech, Hull gave . most graceful ad-
dress and, while making it plain he
spoke only for himself, he suggested
In broad terms that many undesir-
able features Of the NRA would go
into oblivion as soon as the most
pressing emergencies passed.
Secretary Hull belongs to the same
school Of Democracy as the fighting,
fiery Senator Glass. They both dis
like the Nominations Of the profess
serial clique now running the New
Deal laboratory Of advanced govern
ment at washington. Hull and Glass
still, believe there is some good in
the Constitution and all is not passe
that has the tinge OF age or is the
product Of ripened experience. In
other words the brain trust, in their
opinion, has brought . lot Of new
ideas into the Jeffersonian sacred
precincts which give the stalwart
Democrats decided headache and
also probably . definite pain in the
neck, to use . common but express
sive term.
The nation will rejoice II such men
Is Glass and Hull can recapture the
Democrtic party from the brain
trusters Or busters"
A State Capital Week
BY III means . State Capital
Week.
The Greater North Dakota Aaso.
fiation has suggested that some such
event should take place q soou -
the new gtatfhoQee i finished.