The times-news. [volume] (Hendersonville, N.C.) 1927-current, 1938-07-04
WPA BOSS SPILLS THE BEANS"

WPA BOSS SPILLS THE BEANS"
Senator Sheppard Of the Senate Cam
paign Committee characterizes as "untor-
tunate" the speech Of WPA Administrator
Aubrey Williams to gathering composed
of members of radical organization OF
'reliefers" However, the Senator indl-
Gates that nothing will come of it. That
vas expected Why should any action be
taken TO discipline or punish Williams?
Williams advised Il crowd Of WPA radi-
Gals that they must get out and become
active in politics for the purpose of keep
ing their new deal friends in power in the
land. He was bold enough or brash enough
to come right out into the open with in
StructiOnS which others have been giving
under cover and on the quiet. Why should
Williams be punished and the others es-
cape? Of course the answer might be that
Williams proved himself the pOssessor Of
somewhat bad judgment by "spiling the
beans" in such blunt fashion; but he will
not be punished for that. The incident will
be whitewaShed by new deal prOpagan-
dists and steps taken to cause the public
to forget it.
Let it be remembered however that
Williams was speaking TO a crowd OF peo-
pie who are. living on the charity OF the
federal government, which means the con-
tributiOnS of the tax payers OF the nation.
This is money wreSted from the tax payers
BY raiding the public treasury by strong
Il .,,1,. i ri
under the flImsy pretext of legality.
Williams urges these people to band to-
gethef, organize, prepare to fight, to con-
tinue in, federal offices and positions OF
power the men who are responsible for
present conditions, for the largest public
debt in the history of this or any other
country, for condition in which the ma
ton will in the next fiscal year incur a
deficit of probably five billion dollars,
which will be added to the public debt al
ready standing at figures somewhere be-
tween 35 and 40 billion dollars.
And borrowing, spending and relief
scattering is daily growing larger and more
appalling in magnitude and portent. Con-
tinuatiOn of these conditions and their ag-
gravatiOn is what Aubrey Williams was
advocating. He was trying to whip his
radical hearers into frenzy that would
send them out to fight in elections, and
perhaps in more direct ways, to maintain
the strangle-hold which the new dealers
have on the nation and, particularly, on
the United States treasury.
Something else which must be remem-
bered, too, is that this development is the
rich, ripe fruit of what has been doing
in the nation for the past four or five
years 1t is nationwide knowledge that
public money was being used to corrupt
the people and that all possible new deal
pressure was being applied in using money
wrung from the tax payers to Influence
votes and keep the new dealers in power.
All of which.is a natural result of the sys-
tenn and the conditions it has brought
about. 1t was to be expected. Only fools
would reason that such consequences could
be escaped.
How long will the people who keep this
country from utter collapse and ruin, by
carrying OH 'lIS industry anu DuSlHesS, NY
doing its work, by carrying its intolerable
tax burdens-the people who furnish the
money for Aubrey Williams and his kind
to scatter. with lavish hand to bride and
influence public sentiment for the new
deal-how long will these millions submit
to existing conditions? Will they go down,
meekly and paSsively, in the ultimate ruins
of their government, or will they, too, fight
at the ballot. box before it is everlastingly