Evening star., 1938-10-30

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lid OF the New Deals Pandora's box
and saying as little as possible seems
to be the 1898 New Deal strategy.
Admit nothing: answer nothing! That
is the technique. Evidence Of the
use Of relief funds for political pur-
poses accumulates: grand juries in
dict; q Senate committee proclaims
the Federal Corrupt Practices Act is
being violated; unemployment be-
comes greater than In 1888; farm
prices dip below their 1888 levels:
social progress decays as 4 result Of
ineptness and maladministration; the
deficit has been II billion dollars
with nothing to show for 1t.
How New Dealers Talk.
So what? Ignore 1t all! Stop
worrying about this election! Harry
Hopkins will take care of its TAX
Ing care OF it! Isn't he shoveling
out the money. at . faster rate than
ever before In the country's his
tory? He's up At Hyde Park now.
He and F. d. r. will work 1t out!
Good old Harry! There's boy who
knows how to spend money-and
where 1t will do the most good for
the party! And he's not squeamish,
either. He explains nothing! Just
stares the Republicans down-tells
'em they are too dumb to under
stand" Good old Harry!
Thus the New Dealers in Wash
ington falkland it is not all an imag-
mary conversation either. The Presi-
dent has gone into partial retirement.
He will make only one speech during
the campaign and In that, 1t is whis-
pered, he may confine himself to
the New York situation Harold Ickes
Is still trying to lay down 4 smoke
screen by talking about the mythical
80 families" whom he says run
America. Henry Wallace is trying to
be the ADMINISTRATORS funny man,
apparently in the belief that he can
laugh 1t OF. Or perhaps it Is nerv-
business.
Harry Woodring-well, he has been
about his masters business. He went
up to Jersey City to give the New
Deal blessing to the senatorial candi-
date Of the unsavory Mayor Frank
Hague. He told the Hague hench-
men the President would be thrilled"
when he heard about the meeting.
New Dealers Hail Hague.
Yeah! A great fellow, Hague! He's
not squeamish. either! And a great
liberal. too. Sure the President would
be thrilled" Why not? Isn't Hague
the vice-chairman Of the Democratic
party-yeah. a great liberal party, too!
All the others are just sitting on the
lid-holding 1t down until November
6-waiting for something to turn up.
You know. another white rabbit out of
a hat! Hasn't F. D. r. a rabbits foot
in his pocket? Yeah! He's lucky!
Something will turn up. OF course,
you can't argue about this unemploy-
ment and those farm prices Why
didn't Wallace keep EN- up-until
after the election, anyway?
Look what happened out in Ohio to
Bob Bulkley when he started aruging
about the New Deal! He spent most
Of his time denying he was a New
Dealer! Yeah! He kept repeating he
did not vote for this or that. That's
a heck Of a way to defend the New
Deal. Gee, Nicholson should have put
Bulkley wise-told him this was no
time to debate the New Deal! Yeah!
Charles doing a great job-saying
nothing!
What can you expect? Look at
Lehman! Eats the boss lunch and
then tells him he won't defend the
New Deal. Yeah! That's gratitude
for you! Funny fellow Lehman! Yeah!
Jim always said you couldn't count on
Lehman? Yeah!
White Rabbit Wanted.
What kind of white rabbit do you
think the boss will pull out of the hat?
Dunno yet. Thought he had it on
that peace business! Yeah! That was
a great trick-getting that statement
out late at night for the morning
papers. Kind of beat Mussolini to
it! Yeah! But 1t boomeranged! That
European peace doesn't look so good
now as 1t did that night. Yeah! Can't
talk about that!
How about that British American
trade agreement? Isn't that gonna be
the good old white rabbit? We could
tell those Iowa farmers how we are
gonna sell lard and pork and bacon
to the limies? Yeah! But the boss is
afraid Of It'll You know we have to
reduce some Of our tariffs, too. The
fellows In the mill towns might not like
1t! Yeah! And there's that Canadian
agreement-there's where the farmers
will get it in the neck! Better keep
that in a hitch until after the election!
Yeah! Then let 'em yell! Lot Of good
it'll do EN- then. Yeah!
On we'll! Harry'n take care of Us
good old Harryl