The times-news. [volume] (Hendersonville, N.C.) 1927-current, 1935-05-08
JULIAN MILLER ON THE
WASHINGTON "PLAN"

DR.. Julian S. Miller of The Charlotte
Observer is one of the outstanding news
paper writers of the Carolinas. He IS not a
radical but certainly should be clasSed as q
progressive. DR.. Miller has been mildly
critical of the national administration Tor
some time, but has been careful to give the
powers that be in Washington all possible
credit for good intentions and for every
thing accomplished that could be approved
by an intelligent Carolinian. DR.. Miller has
been in Washington, has secured informa-
ton at the source, and has reached certain
conclusions which he has been presenting
to the readers OF The Observer. Here is
his summing up of the controversy between
the administration and the country's bust
ness men:
"a second factor contributing to its present at
attitude is that Big Business feels the government is
ruthlessly invasive of rights which it has been IN
the habit of claiming as personal and plenary.
''There is a solid reason for this feeling
when one picks down to the bone of some Ut
the major legislation that is either pending or IN
the minds of administration chieftains instant
ly comes to the easy conclusion that these laws If
passed. will notably if not seriously, interfere with
business doing even legitimately as it pleaseS.
"Some of these proposed enactments are going
far beyond the regulatory stage They are ap-
preaching dangerously near either the conhseatory,
in respect to ownership, and some of them threaten
virtually to deny private investors and private man
agement the common rights that we associate with
ownership"
DR.. Miller's deliberate conclusion IS that
pending national legislation and the adj
ministration's attitude drives an lnvestlga-
tor or observer to the certainty that these
laws, if enacted, will not only seriously in
terfere with business but will prevent le-
Ultimate business from carrying on legiti-
mately, as it has the right to do under the
Constitution of the United States.
Some of the proposed enactments will
90 far beyond the regulation of business
says DR.. Miller. They approach danger
ously near confscation and threaten viz
tually to deny private investors and private
management the common rights we associ-
ate withi ownership"
No stronger indictment of the radical
policies lof the administration has been
made than the foregoing; and yet there is
every reason to believe the statements are
true and that the criticism is mild and
friendly.
DR.. Miller'S statement of the case simply
calls attention to the headlong drive which
is being made by the radicals to transform
this country into Socialist State Wheth-
er the President is radical Socialist or a
milk-and-water Socialist is a matter of
small importance. He is driving in the
same general direction the radicals are 60
ing and many of them are driving with
him. He goes along with them and permits
them to accompany him; he endorses and
supports their program and policies, and
makes it possiblsafor them to accomplish
ten times as much for the advancement of
radicalism in two years as was done in the
previous $50 years of the history of this
country.
Business is loudly called on to save the
country in an emergency; and then The
federal government, the servant of bust
ness and all other classes of citizens, DELHI
.erately adopts and pursues policy which
will wreck private business What is the
plan behind the program? If it is not
to set up Socialist State, what is the pur-
pose Of this GrgyU Of "planning'' g..