The times-news. [volume] (Hendersonville, N.C.) 1927-current, 1936-01-23
AN OUTSTANDING DANGER OF
RADICAL GOVERNMENT


The resignation of Thomas Jefferson
Coolidge as undersecretary of the national
treasury emphasizes a distressingly PLAIN
fact. according to the estimate of Frank X.
Kent, Washington commentator. This fact
is that first class men do not last in the
present administration. Mr.. Kent says
there were none too many at any time and
the number has been growing smaller and
smaller until their absence is something
that cannot be ignored.
As q reason for this state of affairs Mr..
Kent offers the suggestion of the obvious
difficulty in finding first class man who
is in accord with the Roosevelt policies
The two do not go together, is his conclu-
sion. Kent then calls the roll of some OF
the country'S ablest men who have been
connected from time to time with the pres
ent administration, but who have been
forced to get out because they could not
and would not accept Roosevelt's policies
and aid him in doing things that are I'M
American and unconstitutional, to put it
mildly.
Among the number of citizens named by
Kent are Lewis w. Douglas, Dean Ache
son, James Warburg, Jr., George Peek and
others. These and other able men, after
trying to serve the country in the admins
tration, were forced to quit because they
could not believe in the wisdom of Roose-
welt policies and because of their fears for
the future Of the country if the Socialist
dictatorship of Roosevelt maintains its
strangle-hold on the United States.
Frank Kent says that Thomas Jefferson
Coolidge arrived at the decision that he
would not even be able to support Roose-
welt for reelection, so severed his cOnnec-
ton with the administration. Losing the
services of Mr. Coolidge was not as bad
for the country as it seems to be, however,
as norman of his sanity and ability would
be allowed to have any influence in shap-
ing t4e policies of this radical administra-
ton, Either from the inside or the outside.
Waiter Lippman, another of the Wash
ingtop correspondents, one of the most
conservative of these men and one friendly
to ths Roosevelt administration, writes UNI
der the caption, ''The Fundamental Dan
ger il the Budget" that one of the chief
dangers to the country in the policies OF
the administration of Roosevelt is in the
building up of certain vast classes, CON-
posed of millions of citizens, who will con-
fidenty expect in the future to live off the
government. At least, living off the gov
eminent is their way of expressing the
idea that they propose to live off of their
fellow citizens who are tax payers.
He cites the fact that war veterans will
get approximately eight hundred million
dollars in 1937-not to mention the more
than two billions they will get through the
payment of the bonus-the farmers as a
class are put into the new budget for
around five hundred million dollars; the
civilian conservation corps will get 250
millions; relief will cost billions and the
social, security act will begin its career of
siphoning out of the pockets of the tax
payers and afterward out of federal and
state treasures sum that will finally be
as large as the combined costs of all the
other expense accounts named.
The thing for the people of the country
to become alarmed about according to Mr.
Lippman, is not the enormous, amount Of
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