Evening star., 1937-08-20

E&y5s;t lakE& So COuIQ remotely be
David d1,ursoa construed as as
SlSting economic
recovery.
In TACT, the Congress has wasted
valuable time which should have been
used to make real start on the
problems OF recovery as we'll as on the
prevention of worse panic than 1929
due to excessive Government borrow
Ing. Here are the sins of omission of
the present Congress:
/. Nothing has been done to get
Joos-permanent jobs for the poor
people now on w. P. A. rolls. Their
march on Washington is justified to
extent that it proves the admins
Natlon wants to cut the w P. A.
workers loose without providing con-
dttlonS that Will permit private busi-
ness to employ them
2. Nothing has been done to cut
down the public debt. 1t is close to
$4,000, 600, ,000-a record high of all
times.
Indictments Listed.
8. Nothing has been done to cut
down expenses. Though this is sup
posed to be recovery wear the
Government already in the first six
weeks OF the new fiscal year, which
began on July / last, has spent more
than $1,000, 100000, which compares
with S770000,000 for the same six
weeks last year.
4 Nothing has been done to over
haul the tax structure and make the
tax rates more productive and
equitable.
5. Nothing has been done to make
the securities and exchange act work.
able so that capital markets can really
be operated to stimulate production
6. Nothing has been done to count
the unemployed or to classify them
properly so real start could be made
on job placement.
7. Nothing has been done to set up
an efficient, incorruptible, honest and
non political system of distributing
relief payments.
8. Nothing has been done to regain
TOR the cotton farmer of the South the
Dedl
short-slghtedness
9. Nothing has been done to amend
the one-sided Wagner act so freedom
to work might again be protected bv the
arm OF Government against the law
lessness of irresponsible groups and
the arbitrariness of Government tri-
bunals.
10. Nothing has been done to keep
down the cost of articles which the
farmer buys.
II. Nothing has been done to bring
down the cost of living for the city
family.
Lip Service to Housing.
u. Nothing has been done to re-
lleve small businesses of the strait
jacket imposed on them by the So
called undiStributed surplus tax which
has proved 'dud" so far as producing
revenue is concerned.
Is. Nothing has been done to help
the cause of the Negro whose votes
were so blatantly gathered in by the
Democrats last Fall and while Cong.
ress could at least have adopted a
resolution condemnatory of lynching
and could have strengthened the
statutes calling for Federal interven-
tion when local processes of law and
order break down, as they did in
Michigan in the Slt-doWn strikes. the
Congress chose instead to ignore the
fact that the Federal Constitution
guarantees the citizen the right to life,
liberty, and the pursuit of happiness.
IA. Nothing has been done to bring
about the much needed coordination
OF Federal, State and local tax collect
ing agencies.
Is. Nothing has been done to use
the vast hoard of gold buried in Ken
lucky as a basis for a revived world
system OF credits SO as to start the
dow of international trade in earnest.
is. Nothing has been done to get
the legislative powers of appropriation
out Of the hands of the executive and
back into the hands of the Congress
where they belong
II. Nothing has been done to render
unnecessary the artificial pump
printing use Of public funds so that
eSSiipIliiS iSSoNcly CUulu DS put on a
sound and permanent basis.
l8. Nothing, indeed, has been done
10 improve the condition of the one
third OF our population who, the Presi-
dent keeps saying are, "ill-clad, ILL
nourished and ill-housed," that is,
nothing has been done except to talk
about it.
Congress Had Ample Chance.
This is the record. What did Con-
gress do? 1t passed few minor bills,
providing for some new experiments
In money spending, and the rest of
the time the whole session was mo-
hopolised by Mr.. Roosevelt's ill-timed,
GEconoeived, and iu-considered pro-
poeals to do away with the process of
amending the Constitution in the
regular way.
Congress had a chance to improve