Evening star., 1934-08-03
NEW DEAL SCORED
At COOLIDGE RITES
Beck and Austin ASSaiI
Administration in ver-
mont Exercises.
sy the Associated Press.

6y the Associated Press.
PLYMOUTH, VT, August g.
United States Representative James
M. Beck Republican, of Pennsyl-
vania. speaking today at exercises IN
honor of the late Calvin Coolidge,
charged that the new deal had sub
jugated 'individualism" and said that
''dictatorial powers are not less dicta-
torial because they might be politely
and apologeticaIly exercised"
The Representative attacked those
who criticized the administration OF
President Coolidge saying:
@It Is the fashion Of some Of the
academic apprentices, who now con-
stitute an overgrown Federal bureau-
cracv, to sneer ut the administration
Of Calvin Coolidge. Let me remind
them that If they, in their varied
schemes to redistribute wealth, are
now able to command the lavish and
too often wanton expenditure of bill
lions of dollars, their opportunity thus
to scatter billions Is partly due to the
wise administration Of Calvin Cool
idge. which In few short years had
not only paid all the expenses Of the
Government out of current receipts,
but had reduced the national debt by
the enormous sum Of $4,000. .000, ,00o.
Debt Curse for Century Seen.
"Those who have in a short IL
months now added IL billions to the
national debt, ought not to critictse
President who reduced 1t by almost
the same sum. He reduced the bur-
dens Of the people. They have I'M
posed intolerable burdens OF debt
uuon the American people which will
curse our people for q century TO
come"
Contending that under the new
deal. "individualism" was smothered,
he said: IF Calvin Coolidge were
alive today he would prefer that
square deal Of individualism to the
new deal of bureaucratic regimenta-
ton which has changed the American
from a citizen to subject.
THE Constitution never intendeo
to vest all powers over trade and IN
dustry in the Federal Government
II prescribed q much narrower chan
mel of power. Each State was 70
regulate in its own discretion the
trade and industry that was IN It's
horders. Today the Federal bureau
cracy controls all trade and
industry within the United States.
Never in the history OF our Nation
has there been such an usurpation
of power by the Federal Govern
ment. It cannot be reconciled with
the plain provisions Of the Consti-
tuition and it cannot be justified on
the theory of an emergency, for II a
so-caIled emergency can temporarily
suspend the Constitution, then we
are living under Government OF
unlimited powers. for the Federal
Government can, at any time, when
inspired by the lust of power, create
the emergency, then declare its exist
ence and then arbitrarily suspend
the Constitution. That great COM
pact never authorized the creation
of a dictator or a suspension OF its
mandates
Iron Hand in Velvet Glove.
Speaking of the power behind the
new deal, Representative Beck said:
"I appreciate that the dictatorial
powers of the N. R. A. and the A.
A. A. have been exercised by an iron
hand veiled in a velvet glove. A
pretended spirit Of moderation has
been one concession to the American
spirit, but dictatorial powers are not
less dictatorial because they might
be politely and apologetically ex-
ercised."