The Washington times. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1902-1939, 1936-07-11

| ed, ana on the Edwin u Hill
basis of these returns the conduc-
tors of the survey estimate that
not more than 100000 OF the 90.
100000 employables in the indus
trial and trade fields are out Of
work.
Miss Frances Perkins, Secretary
Of Labor, makes the comment that
this survey is not fair because it
includes mostly the large COM
panies and the successful ones.
In other words, she admits that
the large companies, big business"
as they are called in her circles,
have done to a great extent their
job Of reemploying the workers of
the depression era. The figures
prove it.
It is a belated and a grudging
admission that the New Deal ad-
ministration has been compelled
to make by the comparison of en-
ployment figures Of 1929 and 1885
among the large companies.
The admission hardly jibes with
the Presidents message to Con-
gress last March in which he
placed the responsibility for unem-
ployment on big business.
TRANSPORTING WORKERS
The New Deal philosophy plays
UP unemployment. If the people
may be led to believe that indus
try is not reabSorbing its workers,
then the New Dealers can con-
tinue to preach and practice regi-
mentation and Capitalization.
They can continue to penaliZe
business and blame it for all their
failures and shortcomings. They
can continue to preach their Cos
pei of despair, that gospel which
has it that America has passed
it's peak, that it is no longer the
land of opportunity.
Some three or four months ago
I wrote in these columns that I
sensed a change coming over the
American people. I said that they
were fed up on the constant ham
mering at business by the Admins
tration and that they were getting
real angry at the propaganda
from Washington which made it
appear that every man and woman
who had made a success in life
was crooked and was not entitled
to what his or her initiative and
work had brought in the way of
reward.
1t is pleasing to note that the
first of the brain-truSterS, Prof.
Moley of Columbia, has come
around to the same way of think
ing.
He was the chief adviser to
Franklin Roosevelt during the
1882 campaign. Later he became
associated with that other close
friend of the President, Vincent
Aston. in the publication Of a
topical magazine.
MOLEY'S ADVICE
Prof. Moley's advice to the theor-
lists, the professional humanita-
rianS and the Reds of the Admins
tration is the LAY off" business
before they are SWamped in tidal
wave on election day.
I am afraid the professors warn
ing comes too late-too late to do
any good and too late to be taken.
Jim Farley is rather groteSque
figure as he goes about condemn
ing the Liberty League du Points.
He is made so when such facts
Seep out as the one that the du
Points are employing about 10000
more workers than they did at the
height of the boom of 1928-29.
Jim used a lot of the du Pont
money in 1882. They gave it to
him because the candidate he rep
resented had promised an end to
bureaucracy and a curtailment OF
oppressive taxation and govern
ment spending.
When Jim'S candidate ran out
on his promises, the du Points took
a walk from the So-called Demo
cratic administration.
Whereup Jim, whose sole bust
ness success has been in politics
and its byproducts, goes about par
roting, on orders from 1900 Penn
sylvania Ave-, about the Liberty
League du Points.
The only sin of the du Points has
been that in 1882 they had the
courage of their convictions and
in 1885 they have the same thing.
THE QUESTION
It is my opinion that the Amer.
lean people are conquering a fear,
an inSidiouS one worked into them
by the New Deal. It is the fear
that they cannot take care Of
themselves; that the FarleyS, Tug
wells and RooseveltS must do it.
DR.. Moley might have said,
what his words implied, that four
fifths of the workers in the in
duStrial fields have jobs which
were made and provided for them
by the men whom Farley. Tug
we'll, ct al, call "crookS," EEK.
ploiters" and economic royalists.'
Little reflection should be re-
quired on the part of these work
ers to determine the choice they
must make. That choice is this:
Whence will come the full pay
envelope and the opportunity for
themselves and their children to
realize the fullest opportunity
working for American business
men, or working for the New Deal
politicians and theorists?
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