The times-news. [volume] (Hendersonville, N.C.) 1927-current, 1938-12-28
NEWSPAPERS OPINIONS
CONSISTENT APPOINTMENT

The relegatiOn or uplifting, OF MI. nophihs "
the cabinet is consistent with President Roosevelt
policies insofar as they Veer to liberalism, raul
caIism, the socalized state AS long as the pfesi-
dent is turning in that direction, his compliment TO
Mn. Hopkins is, from his point of view, commend
able. ......
Mr.. HOPKINS is q good Samaritan who, seeing a
man wounded in ditch would pull him out, Dmd
his wounds and pay his hotel bill at the nearest
inn. If he sees million men wounded OF other
wise suffering he would bandage their wounds, feed
and shelter them.
If he have not himself the wherewithal to do
these things he is for electng, and electng, pow
or. force, that will send armed men and take what
other men have so that he may bind the wounds
and so forth.
In short, no man who has anything is safe from
Mr.. Hopkins as long as Mr.. Hopkins beholds wound
ed or suffering, because he is convinced that II
Dick, Tom and Harry, possessing citizens, Will not
of their own will be good Samaritans like himself,
they should be compelled to play that role by the
tax collectors.
How far Mr.. Hopkins will go in this direction no
one knows and he does not ask himself. he is con-
cerned only with the spectacle of the man in the
ditch and he would tax and tax long as the taxes
were collectible.
Forty millions and forty billions are all one to
Mr. Hopkins, and trillion if it were in existence
he would take from those who have it as long as
some men were in the ditch.
There are other men who know that there is no
trillion of dollars and that the billions rapidly
disappearing who believe that unless the confiscat-
ing and paralyzing methods now practced against
the dligent, Woodworking, thrifty, prudent, some
If them cry able and most of them honest-but
all of them scoundrey economic royalsts and pay
ers of grocery billsshall cease everybody will soon
De in the ditch.
In that Mr. Hopkins is not concerned. Only the
poor fellow that he sees writing and retching uli-
der his eyes interests him, and the CONSUMPTION
by draft law, of all persons solvent and worth
even a thousand dollars above their debts into com
panies and regiments of Good Samaritans seems to
him right and just. Presumably, obdurate or reluc-
tant Good Samartans should be court maEtialed.
Therefore, the ideal ideast to realize the presi-
dents realistic dealism is Mr.. Hopkins, and the
president is wise and consistent in honoring him
as long as his heart bleeds as Mr.. Hopkinss heart
does.
In 1882 President Roosevelt was for reducing
governments expenses by at least rs per cent
In 1888 he was New Dealing with an emergency.
A few years later he was adopting the emergency
as permanent institution
The only way to deal politically with perma-
nent emergency of poverty and unemployment is
to ravage the fields and factories of the working
class while the fields and the factories shall last
At this time President Roosevelt and Mr.. Harry
Hopkins are two hearts that beat as one.
The way to put all men in the ditch is to con-
script them in companies and regiments, by draft
law; then everyone viii be Good Samaritan as
in Russia and Germany, and the problem of unenl-
ployment will be confined to those who refuse to
work and who get shot in consequence Charles,
ton News and Courier.