Coulee City dispatch. [volume] (Coulee City, Wash.) 19??-19??, 1938-05-19


who hash It any program, is the unan.
unity with which they fail to suggest
any alternative to the 'fpump-prm.
ing" process. Obviously, the only pos.
sibie method of bringing about re-em
pioyment to create more jobs. Hence
the plan of more public buildings,
highways, bridges and other works
in which the government must engage
rs an alternative to carrying all the
unemployed on relief rolls.
Morning and Evening
The problem was dispassionately re-
viewed by the columnist Of the Balti.
more Sun the other day. The Sun pap
FRS can hardly be accused of Partially
in the President 8 direction. The great
performer on the harp of u single
string, Frank Kent, has bis habitat
on the morning issue of these publica-
tions. However, Gerald W. johnson, his
vening paper colleague, summed up
he relief bin in this paragraph:
Considering the President 3 pro-
posal, the country really has three
propositions before it. One is to spend
~ Roosevelt has been spending. An
cther is to spend as Hitler has been
spending' Chat is to have standing
'rmv huge enough o absorb the sur.
17ns workers.) "And the third it to
stop spending altogether"
Then he points out that nobody
would seriously consider the raising
md maintaining of such an army in
peace times, that to let unemployment
continue to increase would mean an
era of food riots and that sort of
hing; and he concludes that "we
ave to 60 with Roosevelt for the sim
PIE, but sufficient, reason that there
1T anywhere else to go.'
AS the outcome of It all, this writ
er's philosophy is that the borrowing
may be expected to end "for it the
country really became prosperous ag-
ain the present taxes would supply the
spending money"
With such a bare, cold chart before
them, it is not surprising that Messrs
Hamilton, Landon and Frank should
oonfine their attack on the relief pro-
ram to generalities and should not
venture to suggest an alternative.
Liberty League Philosophy
AS was to be expected, following
out the Liberty League plan of cam.
paign, which is to oppose anything the
President is for and to advocate every
thing the President is against, the
propaganda campaign against the re-
lief program got underway promptly
The canned editorial appeared in iden-
teal language in the anti-administra-
ton papers from Florida to the State
Of Observation-Disclosures in theme,
and even identical in words. Some Of
the newspapers try to reinforce their
position by proclaiming that once up
on time they were for Roosevelt OF
course they were. When he came to
the White House, big business, gasp
ing for breath and almost in the throes
of dissolution, hailed the New Deal
measures as a miracle of courage and
| performance of the President, for
they represented the one hope-and a
hope that was realized--for checking
the tailspin and getting into going
again. And the newspapers controlled
by big business naturally expressed
the same sentiment.
The economists tell US that the rea.
son for the great depression was the
monopoly Of profits. In other words,
corporations and individual employers
absorbed SO much of the gain that lit
tie or nothing was left to furnish pur-
chasing power for the mass of people,
This was the result of prices too high
and wages too low. The present re-
ccssion in business is just REPETITION
of that process.
The Liberty League philosophy will
not, OF course, accept this explanation
so they are blaming the whole thing
on the government, and are campaign
ing accordingly. The inspired telegram
machinery, SO hugely put in operation
when the Reorganization bill was up
was put to working again Incidental
ly, there was funny little manifesto.
ton of newspaper policies during the
Reorganization bill controversy. The
theory-or some call it the myth-of the
free expression Of opinion by the syn.
djcated columnists received rather
bad jolt when the New York member
of big newspaper chain deleted from
Mr.. Raymond Clapper's column all re-
ferences critical to the assaults on the
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