Evening star., 1938-08-15

For long Tune,
this correspondent has held the
President personally in the highest
esteem and has had for him an affec-
tionate regard dating back to the days
when. as a young Assistant Secretary
of the Navy, he came TO Washington
and charmed all who met him. Thou
sands of letters from readers OF these
dispatches have been written to me
during the last five years, arguing
that one must necessarily hate a
public official if one directs criticism
toward him. This is a fallacious idea
and the words Of the President him
self, in his speech in Georgia last
week, present the most eloquent refu-
tation of it that could be written.
Here is exactly what the President
said in prefacing his vigorous opposi-
ton to Senator George:
Let me make it clear that he is.
and hope always will be, my personal
friend. He is beyond question a
gentleman and a scholar-but so also
are other gentlemen for whom I have
an affectionate regard, but with whom
I differ heartily and sincerely on the
principles and policies of how the
Government of the United States
should be directed.
Opposed 9 Measures.
therefore, I repeat that I trust
that Senator George and will always
be good friends even though I am
impelled to make it clear that on
most public questions he and do not
speak the same language"
But what Language" it will be asked
by many people, does Mr.. Roose-
welt want Mr. George to speak?
Language" spoken by Senator George
has just been presented year by year
since 1888 by the New York Times,
which finds that Mr.. George supported
"a of the Presidents policies and op-
posed only 9.
Some of the measures sought by
the President and voted for by Sem
etor George were National Industrial
Recovery Act On. r. AZ. the Agricul-
tural Adjustment Act GA. A. Al, the
Tennessee Valley Authority Act, the
Securities and Exchange Act, the
Wagner Labor Act, abrogation of the
gold clause, the Reciprocal Tariff
Act, the silver bill, the airmail bill,
the Soil Conservation Act, pump
printing" Bankhead Cotton Control
Act, Commodity Exchange Act. World
Court, and all the important relief
bills, including the concentration Of
powers in the executives hands.
OF the measures wanted by the
President which Senator George op-
posed were the Supreme Court pack
ing" plan, the executive reorganiza-
ton bill. the Guffey Coal Act, the
St. Lawrence waterway treaty, the
wage and hour bill. the Housing
Act and certain aspects of the public
utilities holding company bill.
Hitler Cited
On measures specifically affecting
the State of Georgia, Mr.. George
went along 100 per cent with the
President. He differed on measures
in which the President was attempt
ing, as he thought, to go beyond his
constitutional powers. Mr.. George is
one of the ablest constitutional law
yers in the country and his oath as
Senator required him to protect
and preserve the Constitution. For
this independence of judgment, Sen
ator George is now to be punished
through the mobilization of all Fed
eral officeholders and Federal agen-
cies and by the lending of the prestige
of the presidential Office itself to the
man who has been selected by the
White House to represent the people
of Georgia. Millions of Americans
like President Roosevelt and believe
that he has handled difficult crises
in an able manner and that he sin
cerely believes his own remedies and
programs will benefit the American
people. But there will be millions
of others who will regard the Ian
guage which Mr., Roosevelt is speak
ing as the language of present-day
European governments which have
destroyed democracy and substituted
"one-man" government. Mr.. Roose-
welt feels. no doubt, that nothing he
Is saying or doing will destroy democ-
racy in America Neither did the Ger
man chancellors feel that way when
they gathered unto themselves ex-
traordinary powers in the pre-Hitler
era, only to have their DEGREES mis-
handled by a dictator who rose on the
chaos created by the socialism of the
German republic.
George Held Liberal.
Mr.. Roosevelt has rightly made the
Issue liberalism" and anti-liberalism,"
but the record of Senator George of
Georgia is so liberal that not Repub-
1ican candidate for the Senate in the
North this autumn would care to
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