The times-news. [volume] (Hendersonville, N.C.) 1927-current, 1935-04-09
MAKING RECOVERY IMPOSSIBLE


According to the information Inc HINES
News has, the people of the country are
inst about unanimous in the view that II
the country is saved American Business
must save it; if the depression IS ever
licked, American Business must lick II; II
normal conditions are restored, American
Business must restore them; if the unem-
ploved are re-employed, American Busl-
ness must supply the work-in short, the
sole hope for righting the country and saw
ing what is left of the American system
of government, economic and social order,
is dependent upon the restoration of nor
NAL conditions in business and industry.
This is certainly the view of intelligent,
conservative citizens, of industrialists and
business men, of intelligent and unpreJu-
diced workingmen, of farmers and profess
sional men; and even many of the polltl-
clans and radicals are compelled to admit
that this is the sole outlook that holds any
promise for the country. s'--
In view of this countrywide sentiment
and the basis of reason and common sense
upon which it rests, it is certainly difficult
to understand the attitude of Congress IN
reference to this matter No doubt, if ques-
toned, large majority of the members OF
the Congress would announce views SINH
lar to those held by the majority of the
country's citizens. This means that Con-
gress, also, thinks that business and indus
try must lift the country out of the hole IN
which the depression deposited it. And yet,
in the face of these well-established facts
and this countrywide sentiment, the Con-
greSS persists in holding over business q
number of clubs, any one of which if used
on business, would indefinitely postpone
recovery; and some of them II converted
into legal bludgeons by enactment into
law, would end all hopes OF recovery and
wreck the country, leaving very little to be
gathered up by the radicals and converted
into another Russia.
For example, there are such clubs as the
Wagner bill, the 30-hour-week bill, the
withholding company bill, the foods and
drugs and anti-advertising act, and the
whole program of so-called social or eco
nomic security legislation.
The 3O-hour-week bill is the limit of rad
ical legislation. 1t must have originated in
the brain of fanatic who was seeking q
way to wreck the country and make recov-
cry impossible. The Wagner bill would be
little less harmful to industry. The bill
aimed at the holding companies was prob
ably concocted by the radicals who are de-
termined to wreck the public utilities bust.
ness of the country and enable the politi
clans to force government ownership of the
power business. The foods and drugs bill
the pet of DIR. Tugwell, is designed to SCI
up a bureaucratic dictatorship over thl
manufacturing and marketing of foods AMI
drugs and is also designed to eliminate
in so far as possible, advertising in thes
es-advertising being DIR. -Tugwells pc
aversion.
The so-called social security program
probably has underlying it some meritori
GUS principles and policies, but as nov
sponsored by the radicals it would impos
ON the business and industry of the countr
burdens of taxation which would be lmpoS
sible to carry This tax burden would
certainly wreck recovery as would III
more Objectionable proposals.
How can business recover with Congres
taking the stand it has for the past tW