The Waterbury Democrat., 1937-09-03
There Was No Failure

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 There Was No Failure
 That first step was attempted, and when the shouting and tumult dies away 1t becomes evident that there was no failure. The presi- dent did obtain a more liberal in- depreciation of the Constitution. The supreme court did take note of the national will. During the past session the supreme court gave . new deal to the due process clause to the commerce clause and to the general welfare clause. Near ly oil of the spurious constitutional obstructions to the New Deal pro- gram have been removed.
 If these Instructions had not been removed there Is not the slightest doubt that the demo- cratic party wuold have taken the necessary legislative steps to re- move them. If further obstruc- tons appear in the next or suc- ceeding sessions of the court, there is little question that the country, with all It's new understanding of the realities of the judicial pro- cess, will not lightly condone ju- dicial usurpation of the legislative function.
 AS for the rest of the New Deal program 1t Is not accurate to say that this session of the congress has been c failure. The housing leRislation and the tax.loophole legislation have been passed. Fur thermore, the congress has the rest of the program in well-ad- vanced stages and would have been able to pass 1t at this ses- sion except for the abnormal ab- sorption of time and attention by the supreme court issue.
 Curb Party Split
 The wages and hours bill has been passed by the senate and has been delayed in the house only through c usurpation of authority that Is generally deplored and can- not possibly be persisted in when the congress reconvenes. The reor- ganization plan has been reported out of committee in bC ....T houses. The farm program and the regional de- velopment program have undergone discussion that will vastly simplify next sessions work by the commit- tees to which they have been re- ferred.
 But over and above these spe- cific measures the democratic party has succeeded in the even broader task of beating of at- tempts to divide the party against itself by those who went down to defeat in 1936 and hope by this means to regain their old powers and their old privileges. Any party with the enormous majorities of the democratic party in both the senate and the house has to ex- pect that kind of attack. It Is al- ways subject to an attempt to turn the cities against the farms and the farms against the cities, the north against the south and the south against the north. No one can better understand these at- temptS than man from Ken- lucky where the farm and the city, the north and the south, the old east and the new west all meet.
 New Deal Marches On
 But the democratic party of to- day has had too much experience with these attempts of its enemies tn divide and rule, to fall victim to them. It has learned from e half century of experience that no sec- tional party can demand the con. fidence of the American people. Un- der the leadership of President Roosevelt, therefore, 1t has insisted upon the paramount importance of the general welfare.
 The democratic party realizes that politically and economically the welfare of north and south, east and west city and country, gre inextricably bound together, are inter-dependent, each upon all. And its supporterSand leaders are both aware that today the demo- cratic party expresses the essen- ttaI unity everywhere of the plain people, willing to live and to let live, ag they use government to fight of the exploiters who would destroy the hurnaneand honorable kind of . world in which all hon. est and tolerant people want to live.
 The advance of the New Deal has not been halted. There may D some who have not the Cour- 10 Of their faith. But honest dif-
 nnee Of opinion as ,o the most @ective ways and means of ac- Complaining New Deal Objectives must not be mistaken for oppoSi-