The Waterbury Democrat., 1935-05-02
y RODNEY BUTCHER Democrat Washington
 C0rrespondcnt

OuO Aat40oG NLNtAAs4o VI WuACAA stAto community seems never to tire.
 First, you have to have a book.
 Then you open 1t up, lick your chops, and start reading passages which tend to indicate that the problems of the New Deal are really only the same old problems of hundred or a thousand years ago and that there really isn't any- thing new under the political-econ. omic sun.
 Thus a bureau chief recently pulled out from library shelf Mark I'wain's "A Connecticut Yan- kee in King Arthur's Court" and read therefrom certain comments of the central character, Sir Boss.
 One assumes MT Roosevelt read them at one time or another and although it isn't on record that he seized the expression "New Deaf' from Twain, the comments have q rather familiar ring in these days of worry over concentrated wealth and corporate power. Here's the passage:
 K "And now here I was, in a coun- try where a right to say how the country should be goverened was restricted to six persons in each thousand of its population.
 "For the 994 to express dissatis- faction with the regnant system and propose to change 1t would have made tho whole six shudder as one man, it would have been so disloyal, so dishonorable, such pu- trid black treason.
 ssSo to speak, I was to become
 a stockhoIder in q corporation
 where 004 of the members fuED
 nlshcd all the money and did all
 tho work, and the other six
 elected themselves . permanent
 board of direction and took all
 the dividends.
 ''It seemed to me that what the 994 dupes needed was new deal" Same View in 1883
 A senator who has been an im- portant manufactures in his time says he was startled to find in Hen. ry Georges "Social Problems" (1sS3) a paragraph dealing with the machine age and technological unemployment which, if 1t were outside its context, you might sup- pose was issuing from a brain truster 50 years later:
 aIt seems to me impossible to consider the present tendencies Of our industrial development without a feeling that if there be no escape from them, the Chinese pholoso- phers were right, and that the powers we have called into our service must ultimately destroy us.
 "Wc arc reducing the cost or
 production; but i'm doing so, are
 stuntine children, and uniting
 women for the duties of Mater- nifty and degrading men into the
 positions of merc feeders Of ma. chimes. We are not lesscning the
 ficrccncss of the struggle for ex. i. istcncc.
 .aThough we work with an inten- sity and application that with the vast majority of us leaves time and power for little else, we have in- creased, not decreased, the anxi- cites of life. Insanity Is increasing, suicide is increasing, the disposi- tion to shun marriage is increas- ing" ..
 eve are developing, on the one side, enormous fortunes, but on the other side. utter pariahs. These are symptoms of disease for which no gains can compensate"
 
 Even Chinese Tried It
 No end. of forerunners to the New Deal have been unearthed from hlstory's pages, but the oldest Is claimed by an NRA economist who has typewriter and carboned for distribution among friends translation from the Chinese states man Kwantze Cor Kuan.TzuD, pre- mier of the state of Chi In the per- iod GS4 B. C. to 644 B. c.
 Kwantse. seeking to defeat a serious depression, promulgated the following principles for recov- cry which seem to have anticipated PWA, CCC, EZRA. REC, FCA, HoLC, NRA, FILA, AAA, and others:
 "First of all, facilities for nd.
 vanccment of productive activi.
 ties should he considered; af. forcstation should be carried on
 in the country moral cn. couragement and stimulus should
 be given by the state in order
 to improve productive undertak.
 ings.
 Agriculture should he ad- vanced by the constructive co.op- eration of the state with the peU- pie; and the residences of the peo- pie should be well. constructed so they can enjoy a high degree "f comfort.
 "Conditions for the flow of goods should be facilitated. Accu- mutations of commodities fin the market which are not easily dfs- posed of shall not be tolerated and steps should be taken to asslst their distribution. Roads should be improved marshes should be reclaimed and swamps shoul1 be drained.
 "Dams should he built and bridges. Immediate as- slstancc and sympathy may bc extended to people when they are in a state of extreme cmcr. gency.
 "Financiai aid may be accorded those who need 1t those who are without capital to carry on business will have the privilege of borrowing from the government
 Kwantze's policies produced an 'astounding economic recovery" On the other hand, look at China to-day!
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