Plentywood herald. [volume] (Plentywood, Mont.) 1908-current, 1935-11-14
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WARRINGTON
THE NEW BUDGET
JOHNSON'S CRITICISM
ROOSEvELT'S STRATEGY
SOME TROUBLES EXIST
THE WORKS PROGRAM
CAMPAIGN TO BE INTENSE

The Federal government operates
on fiscal year which begins on July
LIST but /. is necessary for officials to
consider the budget many months
ahead. So II is not surprising that
President Roosevelt and his fiscal
aides are already studying n e
budget for the fiscal year which be
gins next summer. Tentatively, it is
understood that the expenditure of
SIS, 5OG,000,0c0 is in mind. This would
be a cut of about two billion dollars
under the figure sent to Congress
last January, but inasgnuch as ex-
penditures for this year are running
below estimates, IL will only be about
81. ESQ coo 900 less than the expendi-
lures of the current year.
While the figures gwen cannot be
set down as conclusive. ii is thought
that the cost of regular departments
and the expense of carrying the pub
lie debt will be about the same. For
relief, the present suggestion is that
three billion dollars be provided but
again it is estimated that onethird
Of this sun will be on hand as a car
ry-over from the huge appropriation
for the current year-almost five bill
lion dollars. Expenditures for regular
departments will require around 50,
200, C00,0 900 and servicing the public
debt will consume $1,000, 900, 900.
These figures will be knocked into
a cooked hat" if the Supreme Court
throws out the processing taxes
which the funds for the payment of
crop benefits to formers. Moreover,
they include no allowance for pay
ment of the bonus if, as seems likely
today, Congress passes the veterans
measure over the Presidents veto
next winter.
Considerable interest has been a.
reused by the open denunciation of
what General Hugh S. johnson calls
the amazing blunders and failures
Of the New Deal" The loquacious
general speaks as a sincere friend"
of the President and maintains HIS
conviction that the salvation of the
country will be found only under the
"do something" leadership of Frank
lin D. Roosevelt. However, Republi-
ans and enemies of the Adrninistra-
ton are delighted with the blunt
speech of the former soldier, who
frankly refers to the 'obvious and
fantastic flop" OF the combined WPA
and PWA program, the 'expedient
measures for the temporary and
artificial propping up of farm prices,
the failure to solve the unemploy-
ment problem, the inability of the
government to face continued def
cits and the threat of printing press
money"
The presidents campaign strategy
Is beginning to appear. 1t includes
championship Of the permanent AAA
and a claim TO credit for national
recovery. In the first speech upon
returning to the United States after
a three weeks cruise aboard the
Houstan, the President insisted, I'VE
are on our way back; not just by
pure chance, not by the turn of the
wheel in a cycle; we are coming back
solidly because we planned it that
way and don't let anybody tell you
differently"
This rather clearly sets forth the
Presidents attitude to what has been
accomplished by the nation in its
battle with the depression Shortly
after returning to Washington just
before the farmers of the country
voted overwhelmingly for the new
Corn-Hog program, Mr.. Roosevelt in
a surprise statement, took occasion
to stand sQuarely behind the AAA as
the basis for a permanent agricul-
tural program
or course, the Administration has
its troubles, including the annual
Treasury deficits, the question OF
constitutionality that assails some Of
it's measures, the troubles of the far
mers and the persistent problem OF
unemployment. AT the same time, it
is only fair to point out that the stu
alton this fall is much better than 1t
was in the summer Of 1884 when the
Chief Executive landed at Portland,
OTtROH, dlleI II tTlp W The I1dNdlldu
Islands, to face complications Of the
drought, the MIRA squabbles and the
n OF threatened labor strikes.
Undoubtedly the country as a
whole is in much better condition
than it was in 1888 when President
Roosevelt assumed office. There are
abundant statistical figures to dem
onstrate this with indisputable evil
dence. Whether this progress has re-
suited because of or in spite of what
the Administration has done, the pc.
litical effect is that, usually, blame
or credit will go to the party in pow
er.
Having pledged themselves public
ly to reemploy $500, 900 persons by
the end OF November. the President
and his administrators face the task
of shifting nearly two million men
from relief rolls to the p~ayrolls
through work relief, public works or
housing projects in less than five
weeks Administrator Hopkins is en-
thusiastic over the probable success