The times-news. [volume] (Hendersonville, N.C.) 1927-current, 1937-11-19

them ort. as the"1iew dealers 2" Haven't
they been promising for around five years
to do exactly that? And haven't they spent
more than twenty billion dollars of the
country's money in the guide business?
In spite of all this Mr.. Ewbank puts up.
to nitwit according to his estimate)
country newspaper the job of answering
questions which ought to be as easy as
eating pie for him TO answer; and which,
if they are answerable, ought to have been
answered long ago by his new deal friends
and patrons up in Washington.
What The Times-News and the public,
no doubt, would like to know is why Mr..
Ewbank does not answer some of his own
questions. What is his medicine for the
illness of the country according to his dl-
agnosis and prescription? That is what
this newspaper is interested in knowing
In addition to that we would be mildly
interested in knowing why his oft-Quotcd
literary wise men have answered no ques-
ton and proposed no solutions for the
worlds problems. If they have Mr. Ew-
bank has failed to quote them on that
point He fails to do so in his present COM
munication and has never done so III any
communication.
To get on a more practical basis and
discuss something that is of much more
interest to the average man than abstract
theories OF democracy, we take up the
thing which evidently, more than any
thing else pains him in connection with
the present argument. That is what this
newspaper said as to the slick trick put
over on the country by the national admin
istration when the So-called social security
law was enacted.
Mr.. Ewbank yellS treason" and thinks
it terrible that this newspaper should voice
any lack of confidence in the Washington
new deal and new dealers. The position
of this newspaper in this particular is eX-
actly similar to the position of a large ma
jority of the nations newspapers and mil
hons of its citizens. These newspapers and
citizens believe that the administration
record, in major part, is clearly such as
to cause public lack of confidence and that
the new dealers have played so many
tricks on the country that it is wise to SuS-
pect them in all cases until they have been
proven not guilty.
To claim that the administration is above
suspicion in this connection is nonsense.
Only few days ago, speaking to a
large audience in New York the speech
was broadcasD Senator Byrd Of Virginia,
speaking in the presence of Secretary Nor
genthau (who followed him with an adj
dress, made the unqualified charge that
the bookkeeping system Of the u. S. treas
ury is crooked,
Secretary Morgenthau made no attempt
whatever to answer the charge.
Senator Byrd charged that by this syS-I
tenn of bookkeeping billions of assets are
credited to RFC, which assets are non-eX-
istent, because the two and one-half bill
lions named by him as the sum involved,
has been loaned to various government
agencies and by them chucked into rat
holes. These agencies are not expected to
repay the sum. Yet this two and a half
OlluOnS Is carried OIL the government rec
ords as RFC assets.
Senator Byrd also named the treasury'S
system of double budget bookkeeping as
another slick trick.
Now, if this is not government trickery,
what would constitute trickery? Mr. Ew
bank can answer that question and another
question he may answer is this:
If the administration tolerateS such prac-
tees in the financial citadel of the govern
ment-the treasury-would the new deal
ers be hesitant at all to adopt slick trick
in taxation which promises to skin the tax
payers out of the largest sums of money
ever dreamed of?
hnn lana