Coulee City dispatch. [volume] (Coulee City, Wash.) 19??-19??, 1935-05-24

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| III 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 u.s. recognizes that un-
| 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 20,0OO,OOO
| 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 candidate who prom
| ises 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
| Coughlins. 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
senator's 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 49,
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 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 makeshift, or temporary
continuation. The President put them
into 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.
Since the NRA opponents in con-
gress did not yield, they naturally went
back to the Capitol and framed their
own program. They propose to have
MIRA continued with some of it's un-
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 MIRA to
crash completely. 1t would mean
political defeat which the President,
strong as he is, probably could not
| withstand.
1t is 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 it
cannot operate against businesses
whose traffic is wholly within 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
! ly determined that senate group was to
override the Richberg-P Perkins views on
administration policy. Succinctly, the
continuing resolution provides for
changes in the current law as follows:
| 1. 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
3. The President will have 30 days