The times-news. [volume] (Hendersonville, N.C.) 1927-current, 1938-06-06
NEWSPAPERS OPINIONS
YES, 1T REALLY is

Urging in letter to Senator Adams that con,
gress hurry along with its relief appropriations oi
between three and four billion, the president MAKES
an observation with which there can be no dissent
He says:
"Since my relief message to the congress SIX
weeks ago. the unemployment situation mas
grown worse"
There is no intelligent way to get around tha'
tragic circumstance. The president is dead right
the situation is growing worse 1t has long been
urgent 1t is now becoming increasingly crlticai.
But the unhappy fact of the case is that no mat"
ter how quickly the congress may respond to the
presidents insstence for speed with the money TO
spend, that is not going to remedy the sltuatioh
except, temporarily and that, only perhaps!
The condition is very much like that OF doctor
coming to patient critically i'll with some
serious internal disease, and putting IN hurry
call by telephone to the drug store &c send down
some rubbing alcohol post-haste.
When, of course, it is not merely bit of saiVe
rub with some skin lubricant or alternating
drug that is needed--t is medicine, instead, that
will strike at the roots of the maady affecting the
patient. ... -..
And the expenditure of three or -four billion
dollars to rub on the body of the president I'M
paired, stagnated and disrupted economic body Is
not going to hit at the basis of Americas internal
malady.
To be sure, it will momentarily help.
Along toward the fall of the year or perhaps
next spring, the results of such colossal intake
of money into the markets will begin to show some
temporary results ..
You can't spend that much money without Wis
IDLY witnessing the results.
1t is. like injecting morphine in the arms of
human body writhing in pain. The morphine Will
put you to sleep and in sleep you forget the pam
But unless the source Of the agony is reached
the pain will return and make you write some
more
This country will never get out of its present
mess by taking money from the. pockets OF the
wealth-earners of America and scattering it to the
winds in the name of relief and resuscitaton of
the economic machine. ...
Unless policies are made effective which will
reach to the of the misery, the misery may
be for the moment eased, but it will come back
just as soon as the :ects of temporzing programs
have died down.
1t is private enterprise that is going to bring
prosperity to America if America is ever going to
have any more prosperity-and not federal spend
ing!
And what is the administration doing to encour-
age private enterprise to shuek its coat and get
down to the grim business of pulling this nation up
out of the bowwows?
NOTHING!
Instead the same old experiment of trying to.
lift the country out of its weller of woes by its
own bootstraps is being continued.
The Observer is not opposed to the policy OF
spending for relief purposes SO long as this spend
ing is so obviouly imperative and so long as it is
carried out honestly wisely and in keeping with
the actual needs, instead of using such funds for
feathering political nests.
But The Observer is opposed to this continuous
policy of spending this country into ruin in the
name of keeping it from going to pot. when, at the
same time, no encouragement is offered private
capital, private management and to private enter
prise to face their inevitable task of pitching IN
and rescuing social and economical civilization
Charlotte Observer.