The times-news. [volume] (Hendersonville, N.C.) 1927-current, 1937-11-16
THE SAME OLD NEW DEAL OR A
NEW DEAL?

NEW DEAL!
The reaction of the country to faint signs
of returning sanity in administration cir
clgs in Washington is such as to indicate
what would be the response of the country
TO the certainty that the federal govern
ment would hereafter be conducted &C
cordmg TO American ideals, principles and
fundamental law.
However at present there is no such
certainty or assurance, for reasons some
of which will be mentioned
We believe millions of citizens will agree
that the best action Congress could have
taken for the welfare of the country at
the extra session would have been to adj
iouyn and 60 home after hearing the read
ing of the Presidents message, unless 1t
was prepared to remain in Washington to
repeal ninety-nne per cent of the laws en-
acted in the past four years and many en-
acted in the previous twenty years.
We believe. also, the greatest and best
thing the regular session Of Congress can
do i'm January is to meet, adjourn and quit.
However. we are fully aware of the ut
ter futility of such views of mere citizens
and tax payers, who are disguised with
the political monkey business in Washing
ton. Congress. of course, will not take the
only course that would completely relieve
the country of apprehension, restore con-
Gdence and return normal and prosperous
conditions.
In this connection Frank Kent writes
about the attitude of President Roosevelt
in his bid for the manifestation Of some
sort of confidence on the part of business
men in his policy of the changed admin
iStration front. Kent says:
1T remains to be seen how firm is his determi-
nation and how great his strength. We have had
these White House reassuranceS to business be-
fore. both direct and inspired. More than once,
business men, called in conference by the Presi-
dent have been heavily buttered, gone away con-
WINGED that he in thorough accord and very
shortly afterward received kick in the pants.
Considering their experience, 1t IS not surprising
that. pleased as they were at the Morgenthau
speech and further gratifed as they probably will
be by the Roosevelt message, skepticism will not
wholly vanish until they can match Mr. Roosevelt's
words with his cast Too often these have been
wide apart
"The trouble is that time and again the Presi-
dent has meant what he said at the time he said
it, but has been unable TO resist pressure of the
radical element, among which he has his more ar
dent supporters and whose companionShp he pre-
fcrs Already there are coming from them panied
protests which viii grow in volume and fury. Sen
ator La Toilette, for example, voices strong oppo-
sition to curtang appropriations insists great
er expenditures and more taxes. New Deal sup
porting newspaper shrieks its denuncatiOn of the
Morgenthau suggestions. declares that This Is
Flight, Mr.. President, Not Fight From various
left-wing sources come loud outcries that the New
Deal has gone reactionary, that the cutting down
of relief funds will mean starvation for thou
sands; that the President has abandoned the i'm
poveriShed farmer, longer cares for the under
nourished third Again the Mayors Association,
which more than once has stopped in its tracks n
Roosevelt move toward economy, is about to meet.
Various congressman are reported determined to
see the President to offset various others who want
waste to stop.
at is not in Mr.. Roosevelt to De unaffected by
this sort of thing from this kind of people and it
is as certain as be that he will respond with
gestures designed to convince them he has aban-
doned none of his detectives that he proposes
to fight on that the move toward economy is es-
sential in order to avert disaster but that his
heart is still with them. The reason for feeling
that despite this pressure from the spenders the
President will go farther in the direction indicated
by Mr. Morgenthau than ever before is because
of his undoubted perturbation over conditions and
the fear among his ntimates that unless the bust
ness slump can be checked both economic disaster
for the country and political disaster for him will
ensue The danger is that in his effort to retain
the friendship of the radicals who want to initiate
and spend, he will lack the concentrated force
needed to achieve even approximate solvency.
Because, the job is very much harder than III
dieated by the Secretary of the Treasury The pic