The midland journal. (Rising Sun, Md.) 1885-1947, 1935-05-17

| In almost so many words, Mr.. Farley
declared that the business interests
had not been favorable to Mr.. Roose-
welt; that they were not now favor
| able to him and that there was no
reason to expect the support of bust
ness hereafter. Mr.. Farley, clever poll
tician that he is, recognizes that I'M
der present conditions there are more
votes on the side of the man who ap-
peals to those who have not than
there are on the side of the man who
appeals to those who have.
On the other hand, government sta
tistics show that something like 65,-
100000 persons hold life insurance
| policies; that something like 20,000,000
have saving accounts in banks; that
there are around 100000 home own
ers in the nation, and that even at the
| lowest point of the depression there
were more people working for salaries
and wages than there were unem-
ployed. Mr.. Farley's guess apparently
is that so many of these workers have
| had their incomes reduced that they
will support a candidate who prom
| Uses to improve their condition. In
their numbers lies the difference be-
tween victory and defeat.
In addition to these factors, there is
TO be considered the probability of de-
| fections caused by such demagogic
leadership as the Longs and the
Coughlns. Saner thinking people
know, of course, that the programs
which Senator Long and Father Cough
lin have been preaching far and wide
are as impossible of fulfillment as
was the EPIC program advanced by
| Upton Sinclair in his California cam
paign. But it may not be overlooked
that these men can and will pull to-
gether several million voters.
No discussion of the controversy be-
| tween business and President Roose-
welt would be COM
NKA the plete without consid-
Hot SPOT GRAFTON of the NRA.
1t Is the hottest spot
in congress right now. The situation
| is of such character as to be COM
| parable to carbuncle on your neck.
| Those who have had carbuncles will
| fully understand.
A few days ago, Mr.. Roosevelt called
the most obstreperous of opposition
senators to the White House for a
! conference on the question of what
| to do about extending the national in
| dustrial recovery act 1t is due to
expire by limitation of law on June 16.
He cleverly invited Miss Perkins, the
secretary of labor, and Donald Rich
berg, the guiding hand of the Recovery
| administration, TO sit in on that meet
ing. 1t was only natural that two
such avid New Dealers as Miss Per-
kins and Mr.. Richberg should hold out
for continuation of NRA for a two
year period. And it was only natural
for senators who do not believe whole
heartedly in all of the MIRA principles
to insist on q makeshift, or temporary
continuation. The President put them
into a cockpit to fight it out The
resulting disagreement was perfectly
logical but the President had put him
self in a position to trade with con-
gress.
Stree the MIRA opponents in con-
gress did not yield, they naturally went
back to the Capitol and framed their
own program. They propose to have
NRA continued, with some of its I'M
satisfactory features eliminated, to
April of next year. They probably will
be able to muster enough support to
| pass some such legislation. If they
do, the President will accept it. Actual
ly, he has no choice. He cannot allow
the policy represented by NRA to
crash completely. 1t would mean a
political defeat which the President,
strong as he is. probably could not
Withstand.
| II is a wiser and sadder Blue Eagle
that Is proposed in the senate resolu-
| ton continuing MIRA.
| WISER That resolution is
Blue EAGLE equipped with scis-
| sors to trim the tail
| feathers of the famed eagle so that 1t
cannot operate against businesses
whose traffic is wholly within a state
intrastate-nor will it permit price
| fixing.
The senate finance committee which
drafted this resolution reported it to
| the senate by the overwhelming vote
of sixteen to three. That shows better
| than any words of mine how thorough
| ~ determined that senate group was to
| override the Richberg- Perkins views on
| administration policy. Succinctly, the
continuing resolution provides for
changes in the current law as follows:
l. No price fixing shall be permitted
or sanctioned under any code except in
| codes covering mineral or natural re-
! sources industries that now embody
the price fixing principle.
2. No trade engaged wholly in in
trastate commerce shall be placed un-
| der code.
| 8. The President will have so days
in which to review present codes Of