Henderson daily dispatch., 1938-04-16
More Money From Washington

Washington, April 15-Several hun
dred thousand kilograms and congress
sional circumstances seem to have
forced the administration to abandon
its program for governmental reform.
and turn again to it's first love
measures for recovery by heavy spend
ing and lending.
In the lap of what is to come-and
go-from the governments new great
spending-lending program we have,
on the giving end, the RF'C getting
ready with billion and a half dollars
for industries and railroads offering
good collateral-as well as those Of
fering no collateral -. the PWA ask
ing for approximately one and one
half billion for making loans to NUM-
cipalities and public-works projects,
without interest the first fifty years
land the WPA planning to spend
another billion or so on an intensive
work-relief program.
AS prospective customers on the re-
ceiving end of this new pump-priming
drive, even before the ink gets dry on
tentative plans, leaders from several
great American money-hungry cities
Cleveland, Boston, St. Louis and
Milwaukee, led by the Honorable
Fiorello H. LaGuardia, mayor of New
York. the Western Hemisphere S
largest and richest city-met in Wash
irgton last week and marched on the
White House, clamoring for great
| speed in great spending, and laying
plans for going after the big money.
Even in the midst of situations
loaded with economic or political dy-
! Mantle, the demand for government
| money remains brisk and it never
fluctuates downward. That may not
be q very buoyant summation, but It
is nevertheless accurate. Another
accurate summation is that Congress
will likely view favorably any pro
| gram for heavy governmental spend
ing, or relief, because their constitu-
ents demand more and more Federal
money. However, since the advent
of the new era of government by tele-
| graph, prenatal estimates of match
cry turnover cannot be accepted as
, final. 1t is safe to guess, too, that in
order to carry Congressional support
at this particular time, with primal
r-Hs and elections just around the cor
ner, plans and specifications for addi
tional government spending money
must not openly call for new taxes
While money from Washington NAV
still be our favorite and largest sell.
ing commodity, prediction tax levies
IN 1888 (of all years. and congress
men seeking reelection are what Coo
has forever put asunder.
Uncle Sam, in his paternalistic role
OF easy money, becomes a god OF
fond expectancy to millions of needy
deserving persons-and to other mil
lions who are neither needy or de.
serving. 1t is like casting bread tc
a cripple bird. Invariably, a flock al
able-bodied and full-cropped starlings
or blue jays swoop down and gobbIe
the food. We still have the wounded
bird, and it is still hungry, but the
greedy robbers, having now abandon
ed all legitimate occupations, are
perched in the offing- waiting for
another outpouring of crumbs. Eff
forts at shooting them off illustrate
the futility of trying to induce hui
mans to cheerfully renounce free bed
and board and easy pickings, once
| they get the habit Folks learn to
HONO SACS11 PdoCulCS, dIU II is easy &c
break them in for living on public
bounty-but devilish hard to break
! them out.
Speaking of the proposals involv-
| ing additional billions for business
and relief, and perhaps reflecting the
| probable general attitude of Congress
toward another heavy spending pro-
! gram, Senator Borah said, ut makes
| me dizzy. But, of course, something
| must be done"
| TurnipS or Cotton
Interests Are Mutual
| To enact real lifesaving legislation
for farmers is not to legislate against
| labor, but for labor-not against in
dustry but for industry. These IN
terests are mutually dependent On
what and how much the farmer is
able to buy
Until agriculture is prosperous, I'M
til Farmer Jones is able to spend
money for things needed by farmers
families, and is given reasonable
guarantee of economic freedom, the
country will suffer with him, and
loans to railroads and industry will
not DO much good. Unless and until
the farmer is prosperous, Congress
may as well tell labor, business and