The times-news. [volume] (Hendersonville, N.C.) 1927-current, 1938-07-12
"UNBALANCE" OF ROOSEVELT AND
RADICALISM

RADlCALISM
President Roosevelt left the governor
ship of New York with record of a deficit
OF more than ONE HUNDRED MILLION
dollars for the last year Of his administra-
ton This newspaper is informed that the
total deficits Of the State administration
while Roosevelt was governor amounted to
several hundred million dollars.
Under the administration of Governor
Lehman. New York's deficit has been
wiped out and the State finished the last
fiscal year in the black instead of the red.
This is conclusive proof that it can be
done and that = business administration,
under the direction of a real business man,
cap do it.
President Roosevelt's record since he
has been operating on nationwide scale
is much worse than his record as governor
bered that he did not have at his call
rubber stamp legislature, and that evident
ly acted as a weight and hindrance on his
spending activities in New York.
Now, Mr.. Roosevelt has expressed the
opinion that the nations No. i economic
or business problem is the South. There is
something badly wrong in the South, says
Franklin. There is something wrong
radically wrong, this newspaper would
Say-and it is chiefly the radical national
administration under Roosevet's alleged
new deal. But for the policies of this same
radical deal, as they have been applied in
the South and in the other sections of the
nation. conditions would be much better in
the South today than they are.
What the South has accomplished under
the handicap of radical dealism was stated
in a summary by the Manufacturers Rec
ord, reprinted in The Times-News yeSter-
day. Read it again, and decide for your
self whether the South has been keeping
up with other sections of the country; and
then ask yourself the question, What
would the South have been able to accom-
pliSh in the past six years If it had been
relieved of the incubus Of the Roosevelt
deal?
Public opinion, 50 far as followed by
deciding that what the President had in
view when ne made reference to the South,
and let out the hint that all-wise and all
powerful as he claims to be, he would do
something about it, is merely notification
of some sort Of political move.
1t could not be wise and conservative
business move, that could be relied on to
aid the South in solving its problems. The
President is not business man. He has no
record as a business man-but entirely the
reverse. If he had to go out into the bust
ness world with little or no capital, he
probably would make failure of running
not dog stand. Of course, with the treas
ury of the United States in his control, he
possibly could keep it going. He was a
failure as business governor of New York
and has been failure, magniied many
times, as a business president of the United
States.
Regardless of what is wrong in the South
this newspaper is confident the people OF
this section are not willing to let Roosevelt
take it over and remake it according to his
radical plans and Speclhcauons. In TACT
we are confident that majority of the
inhabitants of these States will resist as
best they can all efforts of the chief new
dealer to proceed in that direction.
All the South asks of Roosevelt and his
crowd is to be left alone. Of course, intel
Ggent southerners fully realize that in or