The Waterbury Democrat., 1935-05-31
Biggest New Deal Need
 Is Live c. O. P. Party
CIear-SpeaIing, WeIl-Led Opposition Is COuntrys
 Greatest Lack Says H. G. Wells in Final Blast

well-led opposition of honorable men, a republican opposition as resolutely creative as the president himself, neither obstructive nor malignant, but critically helpful. The true task of an opposition in a democratic state is not the frustra- tion of government, but it's criti- cism and the preparation of alter native methods.
 Needs Constructive Aim
 "She will develop enormous i'm ternal stresses unless she rouses herself to a sustained far-reaching constructive aim. She may pres ently see one boss ruling here and another there, and aimless bicker- ings and social and civil war breaking out between region and region The only way out is up"
 Mir. Wells final judgment on the New Deal is critical and pessimis- tic. As far as they have gone in Washington, he finds the New Deal policies "the sketchiest and most incomplete anticipations of the real planning that is demanded" None of them, he says, covers more than a part of the field. He continues:
 "All these schemes for new hu- man relationships, all the endless plans and devices, are the projects of individuals or small groups of associates. They have none of the breadth of science to which mill lions of minds have contributed They arc tentatives or dogmas, or magic formulae. They are found, to be void of any constructive quality as soon as they arc put to the test.
 Social Revolution
 Plainly America is undergoing a social if not a political revolu- ton. It is changing it's administra- tive methods. its economic organi- zation. its working conceptions of private and public property it's methods of pay, maintenance and distribution. upon the most drastic and extensive scale. Every radical theory is out of breath. Immense and irreversible changes are hap pening.
 Unless these changes are drawn together into q greater unity than they now possess, these changes will end in downfall and disaster. Deliberate readjustment of the so- cial mechanism so as to realize the possibilities of human expansion that are now running to waste and disaster. is the only way out from catastrophe.
 If that effort is to be made at all, the main part of it should come from America. No other country has the necessary freedom of speech and mind. Europe and Asia stagger toward war. No other this huge and difficult task.
 But if America pulled her back and reassured Britain. the latter might be able to keep out of the impending old world conflagration Her mental strength could be com bined into the American effort. The stronger the links between Britain and America, the weaker the links between Britain and the continent. Liberty of speech and of political organization may possibly keep on in the British empire for 20 years yet, and in America they may last
 
 Years of Opportunity
 These are the years of oppor- tunity. During these years the vague exciting promise of a New Deal may be converted into clear firm intention, planning definitely, experimenting boldly, explaining loudly.
 q have already hailed the presi- dent as very strange and great man. recipient and resonator of all that is most soundly progressive in Anglo-SaXon thought. But in his position and with his character, he cannot originate, If the New Deal is still inchoate, it is because there are no strong clear leaders to SUD- port him.
 'It is preposterous to think of this as a one-man job. to set up the president as something between a divinity and a cockshy, and hold him responsible for the whole bus mess"