Evening star., 1936-06-22

frame new laws or interpret old laws
In such manner as to carry out the
theories he held They appeared
very anxious to extend govern
ment control as prelude to govern
ment ownership.
The Tugwell-Frank coterie, with
Felix Frankfurter on the sidelines,
represented the collectivist view
point One of my associates
affirmed that some of the bright
young men of the departments were
holding night meetings. and lot Of
those present were talking social
revolution =" They deeply admired
everything Russian The object
Of the collectivists was to Use the
Triple A to bring about planned
agriculture. There is no use in minc-
ing words. The A. A. A. became a
means Of buying the farmers BIRTH
right as q preliminary 20 breaking
down the individualistic system Of
the country The administration
has committed itself, by distortion
of the lately deceased agricultural ad-
justment act, to a policy Of socialistic
farming. ="
Confirmed by Johnson.
THAI is Mr.. Peek's description. He
is confirmed by Gen. johnson. The
parallel, indeed the identity, between
the two accounts, is startling. I quote
some sentences from Gen. johnson,
some from a daily column he writes
in a chain of newspapers, some from
an article in the same weekly maga-
zine for which Peek wrote.
Shortly after the election (of Mr..
Roosevelt) there began to occur one
of the cleverest infltrations in the
history OF our Government. There
was no noise about it = They have
had a guiding hand in the drafting
of nearly all legislation Their
idea is that government Is the nucleus
of vast collectiVism in which bust-
ness or any private enterprise are
just elements to be absorbed.
Their thought was that the Su-
preme Court and the Constitution
could be put on the spot as a scape-
goat in the public eye, and Govern
ment could thus move by short
cut to collectivism. Nor did they
ever put themselves in any exposed
position of personal responsibility.
They are borers from within
gravely protested an inf1ltration of
inexperienced young Socialists into
practical control Of an administra-
ton not elected as Socialist. :" Gen.
johnson went on to say OF Prof. Frank
furter: His comings and goings are
almost surreptitious. yet he Is the
most influential single individual In
the United States"
Will Write New Laws.
Here, then, is the source OF the
ideas in the New Deal and therefore
in the coming Democratic National
Convention. AS respects the New
Deal ideas, practically everything
comes from the group which Messrs.
johnson and Peek describe. Fully
nine-tenths of the New Deal legisls-
ton, which the Democratic platform
will indorse. was written by men in
liliS EIpup-il NhS NIINtVll bF tlIVhi
even when it bore the name of some
Democrat in Congress.
If Mr.. Roosevelt is reelected it is
these men who will write the further
steps of the New Deal legislation.
Profs. TugWell and Frankfurter are
still high as ever in power Many of
the Democrats in the Presidents per-
sonal circle and the holders of ordi-
nary American views. such as Gen.
johnson and Peck. have been dropped.
They are out. The source Of New
Deal innovations. Profs. Tugwell and
Frsnkfurter and their coterie, are
still in They are very close in. They
are the closest and most intimate ad-
visers the President has.
The two professors will not be at
this weeks convention in person.
They are not delegates. They have
never been elected to any Office in all
their lives. I think they have never
submitted themselves to any group of
voters. I doubt if they would be
willing to; and if they should, am
confident they would not be elected.
Yet in the coming convention these
two are the most important men. The
main business of the convention will,
be to confirm what they have done
and to give them a franchise to do
more.
tCopyright. 1850