The times-news. [volume] (Hendersonville, N.C.) 1927-current, 1935-08-28
TIMES-NEWS is ONE OF THE
MAJORITY

The Times-News is in reasonably good
company in it's opposition to the majority
of the policies of the national admlnlstrd-
ton. We find, according to newspaper
poll made by Newsdom, a non-partlsan
weekly published in New York, that more
than half of the newspapers of the United
States are emphatically opposed to the So
scalled New Deal in its entirety; that less
than a third of the country's newspapers
are giving full support, and the remainder
are critical of much of it while they APP
prove of some of these policies.
The newspapers of the country are Of
all shades of political opinion and in the
lineup against the policies of the admins
tration are many Democratic newspapers,
in the North and the South, the East and
the West
The Newsdom poll discloses greatly in
creased sentiment against the New Deal,
in comparison with the sentiment regis
tered by the newspapers year ago, and
a rising tide of opposition to the policies
of the administration. This opposition is
registered in the South, as it is in other
sections of the country. One of the most
striking disclosures of the poll is the al
most solid opposition arrayed against the
administration in the Presidents home
State, New York, where the newspapers
responding in the poll were around ten to
one against the New Deal.
Newsdom concludes comment on the poll
with these statements:
The uhdercurrent through the host of letters
received in this poll seems to attack the social
ization of government attempted through prof.
ects and reforms. Most of the newspaper leaders
insist that lack of confidence in congress and a
lack of decision on questions of import have
slowed recovery, halted business, kept industry
from employment expansion and otherwise done
more harm than the huge expenditures and I'M
balanced budget
Protests against burden of taxes growing so
heavy as to instill fears of bankruptcy if not
complete disaster have been made by enough
leading newspaper executives to at least call at
tentiOn to this phase of the New Deal situation.
Newsdom also comments that Support
ers of the New Deal are mostly in agricui-
tural sections" where AAA checks are be-
ing distributed. This confirms The Times
News estimate that the people of the cot
ton and tobacco South are exchanging their
birthright for mess of New Deal pottage
and in this connection it may be said that
there are thousands of intelligent southern
ers who believe that in so doing they are
wrecking the business of growing cotton as
well as the business of manufacturing cot
ton in the South
The foregoing is the record, published
for the purpose of keeping the readers of
this newspaper informed. This newspaper
did not make the record and is in no way
responsible for it; but the fact that The
Times-News sees eye to eye with major
ity of the newspapers of the country
large and small-refutes the charge that
this newspaper is behind the times, lacks
information or is tagging behind the pa
rade. The fact is The Times-News is right
out in front with the majority of American
voters that is proposing to turn the New
Deal inside out and turn the country back
to political and economic sanity.