The Washington times., 1935-11-21
s PROSPERITY REAL?
THIS IS INITIATION,
PROFESSOR FEELS
By LEWIS HANEY
Professor of Economics New York University

If you really know whether our present increase IN
PROSPERITY real nfaonary just look into the relief
situation yourself why all this squabbng and dealing
out of billions of dollars, if real prosperity is here'
If we are getting and prosperous, why is the
Roosevelt Administration in such jam Ill giving relief to mil
= can see only one answer Our prosperity paper So
Mr. Roosevelt is putting down figures on paper and Is dealing
out paper to millions of dependent persons.
q This is initiation
Some time ago Mr. Roosevelt said the Federal Government
must and shall quit this business of relief Day before yester
day Mr. Roosevelt told the of numerous cities I'VE do
not propose people sarve He said that the question as
to discontinuing Federal relief is silly question
The plain fact that the New Dealers face relief
crisis Instead of CWA this winter they have up WPA
and the new setup bigger than the old 1t is slow
and far behind schedule wastefu and boondoggly
than 1t is trying to employ only people Gn relief so
people 90 on relief in order to get on the WPA rolls.
The plain fact that RELIEF smells as bad under the name
of wPA it did under the name Of CWA-and costs more
Mr. HOPKINS who is closer Mr. Roosevelt than anybody,
explains the thing with his usual violence He says: Call 1t
boondoggng, Call it anything that you like But I'm mere
to tell you that that type of work going to be done The
man at the of the heap always going to be helped
Relief will continue"-it will not stop in July, 1886.
He recently stated that the fight is between the haves and
the have nos that the New Dealers the side of the
have nOs
But all thoughtful people favor of helping the have
nots" The sad thing bunk and demagogery of the New
Deal politicians who insist attacking the haves instead of
really helping the have nots.
The only way really to help the unemployed is help
poye employ 1t hurts hem and everybody ese to
money and pile up debt.
example, told that it is useful" to kill
qutoes 1t may be- But who heard of anyone getting
living that way 1t doesn't increase the supply of bread and
butter 1t brings in money.
Our " job should be to restore business that the needy
unemployed living by producing goods.
The time to kill mosquitoes will when the i'm
portant things have been attended Why should starving
in New York State worry about malaria?
Nobody would do these boondoggng NOW if left
his common He would say doesn't pay! And it
doesn't
&c. you the whole thing JUST relief and the relief is
made vastly costly by trying to disguise it works
progress"
More than that it builds up bureaucracy at Washington
and fattens New Deal politicians Tugwes department has
saff" of 10000 New Dealers Washington and gives
work to 5O0O-and such work!
All this continued Federal Government spending and
hope of balancing the budget There can be no currency
stabilzatiOn
In all history increased government activity has meant
increased government spending and growing debt Then
more debt has meant demand for money" That
always means more paper currency-more "credit' The
bigger the debt the more credit currency the
politicians say they need.
So initiation always comes.
In this connection. note that few months ago Mr. Roose
welt seny rejected the bonus The other day at press
conference asked him if the bonus was included in
his budget. In answer, "the President laughed"
Then he told the mayors that tax system too COM
pex, but that he does expect final action on it until
after the next electon.'
The moral is: Spend Tax later. Disguised doles for
the have notsa breathing spell for haves-ti after
election Such IS craftsmanship under the New Deal
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