Evening star., 1935-12-03
RECOVERY CREDIT
DENIED NEW DEAL
Knox Says Supreme Court
and Business Alone
Brought Change.
ny the Associated Press.

By the Associated Press.
NEW YORK, December 3-Credit
for the country's recovery trend, In
the opinion of Col Frank Knox, men
toned as a Republican presidential
possibility, belongs probably in en-
tirety to the Nations business men
and to the Supreme Court.
Col, Knox publisher of the Chicago
Daily News, told the Associated Busl-
ness Papers, Inc, last night:
"As a matter of fact. business began
TO improve with the voiding by the Su-
preme Court of the United States OF
that New Deal cure-all for business,
the N. r. A."
Col. Knox said that rather than
have $4,000,000 900 of Federal relief
funds be expended for that purpose, he
favors using it as a war veterans
bonus.
He predicted that the Roosevelt ad-
ministration will authorize payment
of the bonus, but said:
What should like to see done, and
what ought to be done, is that such
part of the remaining $4.OO0,oOO,oou
as is not necessary for relief should be
Cancelled and not spent at all.
"I would rather see the veterans
nrepaid such sums as are justly due
them out Of the $4,000 100000 than see
It wasted or used for partisan pur-
poses"
New Deal Held Socialistic.
He asserted that President Roosevelt,
the New Deal and socialism are IN
separable.
I'm a democracy such as ours" he
said "dictators can gain power by lur-
ing the people with unfulf1llable prom
tses-and they can retain it by doing
two things:
al. BY stealing the peoples money
and being generous with it.
"2. BY encouraging dissension among
the people and preaching that private
ownership is capitaliStic theory
when, as a matter of fact, it is no such
thing, Private ownership Is teach
Ing Of the Bible"
The recommendation of TugWell IN
Los Angeles October % at a meetng
sponsored by Upton Sinclair's group.
for a farmer-labor alliance. was clteo
nv Knox as a recommendation for
Soviet alliance" .
For whom did Undersecretary OF
Agriculture Tugwel speak in Los An
eeles?' asked Knox.
Sees Roosevelt's Aid.
He then quoted from President
Roosevelt's address, also in Los An
eeles. which Knox interpreted as one
which "coaxed an alliance OF New
Dealers and Socialists"
What clearer expression OF pact
between Socialists and Roosevelt New
Dealers do the American people need
before understanding the purposes OF
Mr.. ROOSEVELT" he asked again. The
words are plain enough-'common
ground -. common road each
making some concession as to form
and method"
1T is not a pleasant thing to say"
he continued. but it seems to me
that by now it would be apparent to
every one that President Roosevelt is
determined to make over this Nation
of ours to suit himself -.
IT, for one, do not believe Mr.. RooSe-
welt Is a straw man. thoroughly be-
lieve he knows what he wants done
but straw man, or strong man.
the policies Of this administration are
his policies -.
THE New Deal he gave the Ameri-
can people was not the 1882 platform
OF the Democratic party-a platform
which, to use his own words, he &C
cepted 100 per cent and proceeded to
wreck after being sworn into office.
1.-THE New Deal he substituted Is his
deal. The words New Deal are his
words. The Tugwells of his admins
tration are his appointees -.
II say to you in all earnestness that
It Is my belief that the only body
which has kept this Nation from be-
coming bureaucratic autocracy dur
ing the present term of President
Roosevelt has been the Supreme Court
OF the United States.
"Chafing under the checks imposed
upon them in their grasp for power,
New Dealers have been conducting for
many months vicious, persistent and
insidious campaign against the
court ""*.
These radicals know that If they
can discredit 1t they will bring down
the keystone of the arch Of demo-
cratic form Of government-and by 50
doing undermine which cannot be di-
yectly overthrown,' to use popular