Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1936-01-26


anced It's speaking program last night
with q political leader. Alfred E.
Smith; . turist. Judge Charles I. Daw-
son Of Kentucky. and an economist,
DR.. Neil Carothers. director Of the
College Of Business at Lehigh Uni
vers,ty.
DR.. Carothers, leaving to his COL
leagues the field of politics, courts and
the Constitution. turned his fire on
the Roosevelt administration because
of its errors In the field Of economics.
He pictured the New Deal admins
tration as . bar to recovery, willing
to try any kind of experiment in the
face Of emergency and guided alone
BY expectancy. He linked New Deal
policies with the Townsend plan for
old-age pensions and the share-the-
wealth program, asserting they are all
birds-of-a-feather. He predicted that
in the end the American people Will
discard the lot.
I'm common with all decent citizens
I want to see q better life for the
American people," said DR.. Carothers.
Il want to see q better living for the
ordinary citizen, a better opportunity
for the ordinary man.
Larger Production Needed.
IF thought that these detectives
would be promoted by debasing the
currency or sharing the wealth or
passing the Townsend lunacy, should
face you tonight and urge them upon
you with the fervor Of an Elmer
Thomas or q DR.. Townsend. But I
know that these precious detectives
of . better life in America can be
attained only by larger production
and increased investment and greater
saving and hard work and frugal liv-
ing and intelligent government.
They cannot be attained by waste
and debasement and destruction and
scarcity. They cannot be attained by
economic juggling and industrial ter
rorism and class legislation. They
cannot be promoted by policies that
discourage saving and stifie enterprise
and restrict production and waste
capital. They cannot be promoted
by policies that undermine indepen-
dence and self-reliance and self
respect in the people. Such policies
were old in history in the days of the
observation-disclosures rulers of Rome In
all history such policies have led to
decay, to revolution and to Dictator
ships. I do not believe the American
people will suffer q continuance OF
such policies"
Describes Leagues Birth.
Declaring that lit is not an easy
thing to oppose ones government. )"
DR.. Carothers outlined the birth OF
the American Liberty League which
has been under fire from President
Roosevelt and other New Dealers. He
described the New Deal administration
as an 'intrenched power" armed with
every instrument Of propaganda, ar
rogantly hostile to all criticism and
savagely determined to silence all OPP
position.
ANY opposition to entrenched pow
err" he continued. appears to be in
any language, Italian, German. Rus
sian or even English, gang" DR..
Carothers was referring to President
Roosevelt's Jackson day speech in
which the Chief Executive made ref
erence to the opposition to the New
Deal as a gang" The gang" DR..
Carothers said, was merely small
David at the start, but now has grown
to great proportions. 1T is" he said,
getting to be quite a gang"
1T has been charged" the economist
said, that the Liberty League is in
terested in property. 1t Is salutary
thing if this is so. Property and
human welfare are synonymous things.
It is we'll for the Nation that some
body should be concerned about prop
erty when we have a government
whose policies for three years have
been directed toward its destruction.
AS a student OF history I have OBJ
served that when people are con-
temptuous of property, it is always
the property of other people. And in
all history there are none so recklessly
contemptuous of property as those
who are supported by taxes on the
property OF others and contribute
nothing to its production"
High Time to End Attacks.
DR.. Carothers denied that the Lib
erty League was representative alone
of big business, though he insisted
that civilization depended upon the
success of business. 1T is high time"
he said, that men who live soft lives
from taxation on business cease their
attacks on institutions that make our
civilization possible"
The economist charged that re-
covery had been retarded by the N.
r. A., INSTRUCTED by the A. A. A., dis
couraged by the attacks on invest
ment, burdened by the weight Of taxa
ton, frightened by the debasement Of
the currency, and terrorized by the
squandering Of public money. Re-
covery, however, grows apace. despite
the action of the Government.
"For three years." he continued, I'VE
have had government by experiment.
the Nations economic life at the