Imperial Valley press., 1937-03-04
Before Another Blue
Eagle is Hafehed

1dealsts long have sought the path
TO Utopia in which there is no strife
between classes: where industry does
not partake of the nature of robber
baron, and labor is not a downtrodden
replica of Markham's MAN with the
Hoe" Only the man with armor plat
ing on his heart can disagree with the
ideals as such; only the definitely anti
social individual can oppose develop
ment of society to point where every
man, woman and child enjoys the great
est number of benefits made available
by civilization.
The fairest, most impartial observers
of the present day agree that President
Franklin D. Roosevelt and his New Deal
are seeking the way to make facts out
of ideals. No man with a spark of hui
manity in his breast can disagree with
the ideals themselves; nor can any calm
observer rightly accuse the President,
as some persons have, of yearning
toward dictatorship. The very nature
of the man himself is opposed to die
tatorShip.
If President Roosevelt has listened to
unwise counsel, if he has grounded his
ideals on the shaky framework of false
theories, that is no indictment of the
bright and shining in national picture
which yet retains its touches of squalor.
Practical application of these high
theories might do much to remove the
drabness where it exists.
From the time we leave school, each
of us finds that some theories are sue
cessful some are not. We find, fur
ther, that to be successful, a theory
must be based on practical knowledge,
not on a distorted conception of half
facts The failure of so many New Deal
theories can be traced to their imprac-
ticality, or the impractical way used to
put them into effect
If Sir Isaac Newton has tried to work
out his theory of gravity by tying a steel
spring to the apple which dropped to
the ground, the apple would have re-
bounded-and Sir Isaac Newton's theo-
ry might have waited lot longer to be
perfected. The theory was good, but
the method of working it out would have
been wrong. So it is with ideals. They
may be good, but without the proper
application, they are worthless.
The New Deal is proposing currently
to launch new set of laws to substitute
for defunct NRA legislation, killed by
the United States Supreme Court. If
the court had not declared NRA uncon-
stitutional, popular clamor might have
resulted in its death, anyway, in a few
months. 1t was not working out. 1t
was imposing too great burden on the
small business man, even while it at
tempted principally to regulate the big
business man. 1t had its good points
many of them-but they were over
shadowed by the bad ones.
President Roosevelt says that the mis-
takes uncovered during the first NRA
regime will be corrected in the proposed
set of laws. Regulation of capital, where
it is regulated, will be entirely separate
from regulation of labor, for one thing.
Hour and wage provisions, for another,
will have no direct relationship to price
fixing regulations That may be we'll
and good, but it does not reach the
heart of the matter
Business has been on the upgrade for
many months. 1t had started the up
ward climb before NRA, continued it
during NRA, and went still higher after
NRA. The improvement came in spite
of increased federal taxes, new laws
that must be complied with daily, har-
assment from labor groups inspired by
federal legislation, and distinctly hos