The times-news. [volume] (Hendersonville, N.C.) 1927-current, 1938-09-22
NEWSPAPERS OPINIONS
COMPETITION IN PROMISING

In other words, all over the country the millions
to whom the New Deal has been distributing Fed
eral funds in the last five years, dissatisfied as
was inevitable, are demanding INCORPORATING to
get more This, of course is irresistible tempta-
ton to asprants for office and in various parts of
the country crackpot schemes for giving them
more-particularly the "Old People have been
making their appearance. In a startling number
Of cases thew have swept the most blatant dema-
gogues into primary nominations for House and
Senate No one can tell, of course, how many OF
these will be elected, but it is even plain that
the number of men in the next Congress pledged
to one or more of these schemes will be consider
ably increased. The number in the last Congress
was greater than most people realized 1t is cruel
game that is being played with these "Od People"
because the promises made cannot be carried out
and few of those who make them have any notion
they will be- The present silly and feverish ex-
pectations are the natural fruit of the New Deal
seed Once giving in this way is started there is
no stopping until the pendulum swings and the
people make the painful discovery that the men
they thought MeSsahs were merely phoneys.
Early in his first administration Mr. Roosevelt,
noting the tremendous vogue of the Huey Long
"share- the-wealth" idea, deliberately stole his stuff
as Huey often said-and began to preach his
redistr Income doctrine, which was eX-
actly the same thing. When the Townsend move
ment threatened to sweep the country ne blanket
ed it-or thought he had-with the hastily thrown
together Corcoran-Cohen drawn Social Security
Act, probably the worst legislative monstrosity
that ever got through Congress, practically I'M
workable and thoroughly unsatisfactory. 1t has
merely whetted the appetites of the millions OF
beneficiaries who now turn hopefully, enthusiast
ticalv and nearly unanimously toward the blatant
boys who hold out promises for bigger and better
pensions" Grasping these facts, the Roosevelt adj
visers are convinced the time has come for the
President to make speech that will keep the "old
People, in line for him and induce them to vote
for Roosevelt New Dealers in the November cleo
lions.
He will, it is understood, propose an expansion,
extension and enlargement of the Social security
Act to take in many more people and place the
compensation upon far higher level Thus 1t Is
argued the INSCRIPTIONS fellows who are now out
promising Mr.. Roosevelt and alternating the cred
ulous will be swamped; the "Old People" will again
be persuaded that he is their only real friend and
the great army of crackpots all over the country
piven to understand that their only real leader Is
in the White House-that all others are spurious
and not to be trusted. One publication minated
the Other day that this historic utterance' would
be his next "firesde chat that it would be de-
livered early in October The Messrs. Corcoran
and Cohen it is said, even now working on
the draft What lovely time those two boys do
have,-Frank Kent in Charleston News and Cour-
Ter.