Evening star., 1935-04-05

Former President Herbert Hoover
attracted the attention Of the entire
country in his message to young Re
publicans in California, devoted
largely to an attack on the New Deal.
His plea for return to older policies
arouses both friends and foes of the
present administration, leading to in
evitable comparisons between the
Hoover and Roosevelt periods. His
purpose to rally his own party for the
campaign Of next year is widely recog-
nized 1t Is not, as q rule, conceded
that he would be an available cand1-
date for 1896.
Mr.. Hoover has drawn q strong
indictment Of Mr.. Roosevelt's admin
istration," says the New York Sun,
which summarizes several counts in
the condemnation of the present
leadership: THE reputation of Gov
ernment obligations, the rise Of the
public debt, the devaluation and un-
certainty of the dollar, the central
ization of Government under a huge
aud confused bureaucracy. the COM
petition of Government in the fields
of private business, the violations of
the Constitution, the artificial in
crease of prices, with q corresponding
decrease in consumption Of goods, and,
above all, the failure Of all the
nostrums. Perhaps delicacy kept Mr..
Hoover from calling attention to the
fact that Mr.. Roosevelt defeated him
on a platform the planks of which,
like the promises of Mr.. Roosevelt
himself, have been in nearly every
case neglected or reversed" The Sun
remarks, however, that "Mr. Hoover,
condemning bureaucracy, may be ad-
versely criticized as pot who calls
the kettle black, for he had fond
ness for bureaus and commissions"
Drawing another parallel, the Buf-
falo Evening News remarks that while
Mr.. Hoover lamented the fact that
"'the Nation is faced with the greatest
public debt ever known to our country,
his party associates in the House OF
Representatives at Washington were
supporting the "greenback" Patman
bonus bill, adding two billions to the
tremendous burden which the tax
payers Of the future will have to earn
for their Government"
One Of the most outspoken OF the
defenders of the administration Is
the Charlotte IN. c. Observer, which
charges that the former administra-
tion ran the country into heap OF
wreckage," while the Columbus (Ohio)
Citizen, stating that Mr.. Hoover
offered mo definite program" argues
in reply to the Hoover message: Gov
ernment is taking hand increasingly
in economic affairs not because 1t
wants to, but because it must. 1t
stepped In after so-called individual
ism broke the farmer, wrecked the
banks, destroyed the industrial market
and profits, and drove the workers
out Of the factories into the bread
lines"
Endorsement of the Hoover criticism
of the New Deal is voiced by the DAN
Vile Ill.) Commercial-News, the Jer-
sey City Journal, the jamestown IN.
" Post, the Cincinnati Tfmes-Star,
the Charleston (W. va.) Daily Mail,
the Marshalltown Qowa) Times-Re-
publican, the Indianapolis News, the
Seattle Cwash.) Star, the Alton In)
Evening Telegraph, the Reno (Nev.)
Evening Gazette and the Philadelphia
Inquirer.
Mr.. Hoover is assailed by the
Charleston Is. c. Evening Post, with
the statement that he "synboliSes to
the present generation the blow-up Of
prosperity" while the Birmingham