The times-news. [volume] (Hendersonville, N.C.) 1927-current, 1937-05-20
EXPOSING THE THREE C'S

The CCC experiment is one which has
from time to time been praised by citizens
not particularly enamored of the new
deal Intelligent citizens have suspected
all along that high pressure ballyhoo was
being applied by the administration in UNI
usual quantities in the effort to build up
public approval of CCC; but this and other
legitimate criticism was pushed aside and
the attitude of the public has been that OF
giving this new deal scheme credit for
everything that it was honestly entitled to,
while its defects and mistakes We're con-
yeniently overlooked.
In view of the record, the country prob
ably was somewhat surprised last week
when the House rejected President Roose-
velt's recommendation that CCC be made
a permanent government enterprise and
approved its continuation for only two
years. The surprise, however, was not linn
tied to this House action, but included the
developments of the brief contest waged
before action was taken. Assaults made
on CCC, not by Republicans or anti-new
dealers but by friends of the administra-
Here are some extracts from speeches
made by new deal opponents of the plan
to fasten CCC on the country forever:
Mr. Moser Democrat of Pennsylvania: al have
particular reference to some OF those connected
with the administration of the affairs of these
camps | doubt very much indeed whether the
good that has been claimed win counterbaance
the evil, with respect to the knavery and THEY
cry which is being carried on in connection with
the operation of some of these camps where
goods and chattels which belong to the Govern
ment of the United States are being peddled
the highways and streets, to secondhand cloth
ing stores, traded for liquor, and so forth, to
point where the complaints which come to my
office arouse in every bit of Indignation
which l possess. That the President and the
Government of the United States should be de-
frauded in the manner they are being defrauded
is an obligation of equal weight each member
of Congress under oaths. We cannot indorse
its administration by making permanent this
agency with such loose, inefficient and neglect
full practices"
Mr.. Gray, Democrat, of Pennsylvania, in op-
posing the permanency of the CCC, made gen
eral assault on the whole federal relief business.
Said he:
"At previous times have tried to do some
thing about this ridiculous and sorry phase of
New Dealism. l introduced bill that would pro-
hibit by fine imprisonment any federal gov
eminent official who required enrolment on the
relief as condition precedent to employment
on public-6nanced work. 1t got nowhere, pos
sibly because there is political method in this
particular form of madness. The system is vi
cious; it is abominable; it is un-American; it
bears down on and breaks up the morale of our
Il nd no
and thrifty. 1t fayors, approves, commends, pre-
miumizes and pays thriftlessness lazness and
extravaganza"
DIR. Griswold, Democrat, of Indiana, in oppO-
sition to CCC permanency, said:
cit has been stated that as a permanent propo-
sition this may cost S345 100000 a year. At
best that is guess-somebody's estimate. The
President gives no amount in his message. Mr..
Fechner under examination, did not estimate
the annual 'csot. The salaries of all the officials
are not fixed by law, but at the will and discre-
ton Of the administrator. Under these conditions
it may be SS45, oo0, 900 you are saddling pernna-
nently on the country or it may be some amount
vastly greater" -,
Commenting on the foregoing, Frank r
Kent, in the Charlotte Observer, says:
Other Democrats in the House commented in
similar vein and from various districts came tes-
timony from congressman as to waste and ex-
trasagance, doubt as to advantages, shock at the
cost.
The really startling thing about all this is not
so much that the Presidents recommendation
should be rejected by the House as the evidence
presented that so far from feeling that the CCC
was at least one New Deal activity which had
funstiOued well and was above criticism, in the
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