The Waterbury Democrat., 1938-11-18

definite decisions by the F advisers:
 l. No more reform or exper-
 mental proposals.
 2. Militant resistance against
 attacks on major New Deal
 agencies, such as WPA, National
 Labor Relations Board, IVA.
 3. A 1899 legislative program
 confined solely to national de-
 fense and to social and economic
 security measures.
 What No. l and No. 2 mean is abandonment of secret plans to revive the government reorganiza- tion bill and to begin new assaults on the Supreme Court. Until the unexpected Republican sweep hit them like a blow between the eyes, White House strategists were all set to rekindle the reorganization battle and other reform moves. But these measures they had so confidently prepared are now deader than last years snows.
 Although it's a bitter dose for them to swallow, the New Deal- CTS have made up their minds that not only are new experi- nlents out from now on, but they will have to fight desperately to hold what they have already put on the law books.
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 To offset the expected attack they will plunk broad-scale de- ferse and social program in the lap of the new Congress. With this strategy they hope to draw the op- position's teeth by forcing it to show its hand, and by putting it in the position of holding up pop ular legislation in order to play partisan politics. Also they hope to put through a big spending program in disguised form. Militant Roosevelt
 Whatever the Presidents private misgivings may be, in his chats with advisers and friends he still displays militant temper. A re- mark to Governor Frank Murphy, defeated Michigan Democrat, summed up his attitude:
 wen have to trim our sails to meet the new set-up, but we are. not retreating 8 fraction of an> inch on fundamentals. Wen hew straight to the line on them and I have implicit confidence that the country will be with us." White House Program
 Chief features of the legislative program that is being worked out in the White House are as fol- lows:
 l. A national defense plan cost ing from one and 8 half to two billion dollars.
 2. A new sluIn clearance and low-costing housing program, spending 800 to 750 millions.
 3. A medical plan, for which the groundwork has already been laid in the Justice Departments monopoly suit against the Amer ican Medical Association. This would also cost between 500 and 750 million dollars.
 4. Broadening of the old-age pension system by an increase in payments, lowering the age limit from 65 to 60 years, and adding benefits for widows and dependent children.
 5. A new farm bill that discards Secretary Wallace's cherished but unpopular crop control theories, and substitutes a 'cost-of-produc- tion" formula still to be worked out.
 (. A railroad rescue bill forcing consultations and drastic finan- cial house -cleanings, with govern ment loans for new equipment and Improvements.
 Two purposes are apparent in this program. First, 1t has wide popular appeal and second, it cuts squarely across party lines. Whe- ther they favor the administra- tion or not, Democrats and Re- publicans will be hard put to buck these proposals-at least in prin- ciple.
 It is Roosevelt's aim to maneu- yer his opponents into the same position they were in back in 1888, when he was carrying the popular ball and they had either to go along with him or be put in the class of obstructionists.
 Capital Chaff
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