Imperial Valley press., 1937-01-08
News Behind the News
How About the Next Four Years? -.
Will They Go Left or Right? -.
The EXPERTS Consider -.

WASHINGToN-A host of writer's have voic-
ed their views on the familiar questions OF what
will happen under Roosevelt in the next four
wears and will the president turn right or left?'
Certain of these forecasts are much more
important than the others ana the cream Oh
the crop to date-n this writer's opinlon-are
recent articles by Dr. Stanley High in Liberty,
Ernest K Lindley in the Nation and DR.. Rex
ford c. Tugwell in the New Republic
All three writers are personal friends OF
Roosevelt; all three have discussed his policies
with him.
High was one of the dozen men closest to
Roosevelt in the campaign and one OF trio
which worked intimately with him on his
speeches.
baps the most intellectual of the Washington
correspondents was Roosevelts authorized 1882
biographer and has written probably the best
available eYaluation OF the New Deal III Hall
Way With Roosevelt.
Tugwen was once the presidents top BRAIN
trlster and is likely to be an influential adviser
in future months.
Roosevelt expects to be assailed from the
right for going too far and from the left for
not going far enough, according to High. He
indicates FDR. is ready to take to the radio
against certain newspapers If they repeat the
distortion and misrepresentation Of which the
president feels they were guilty in the cam
paign.
Roosevelt will go ahead with policies for the
regulation of business monopoly and economic
power High believes, but not until he first tries
to win voluntary cooperation from business
High predicts however, that prestige OF money
as a power in government will almost certainly
decline in the next four years-as it declined
in the last four.
Further predictions: The u S. Chamber
of Commerce and business lobbyists will have
less authority Roosevelt believes he can bal
ance the budget without new taxes, but If new
taxes are necessary they will be imposed as far
as possible on higher-incone brackets.
The president hopes the landslide election
endorsement will influence the U. S. Supreme
court to a much more liberal attitude toward
New Deal laws says High, but if there's no
change Roosevelt is likely to propose various
constitutional amendments.
Roosevelt, High suggests would most of all
like historians to be able to say that because OF
his New Deal freedom and free institutions
survived and were strengthened"
Lndley points out that future New Deal his
tory depends whether we have war or peace.
He's sure Roosevelt would resist "the economic
and emotional suction that would be applied to
European war
Tugwell doesn't predict Roosevelt's course,
but calls for economic craftsmanship" and
national planning. Industry, he complains con-
tinues its unplanned and directionlesS course
"The purchasing power of consumers must
be enlarged until it suffices TO take off the
market the goods that expanding industry
can supply. Otherwise employment will flag,
debts will again increase and the two-unem-
ployment and debt-Wil again bury us in diSaS-
ter" he says.
Tugwell depores unwillingness Of big busi-
ness men to cooperate in national planning,
attributing it partly to ignorance of economic
facts.