The times-news. [volume] (Hendersonville, N.C.) 1927-current, 1938-03-03
THURSDAY, MARCH 3, 1888
GOVERNMENT REORGANIZATION

prowths of bureaucracy are W NC i"PPN
off?
Senator Byrd All other Senators and
congressman who are opposing the ereSi-
dents reorganization bill, now up for pass
age by the Congress, are asking TINS queS-
ton. They have shown concluslVely tnat
by the terms of the measure 1t fElll perilAl'
a shifting and Encouragement OF govern
ment departments, commissions ana ou-
reaus, all at the direction and under con-
troll of the President Thee IS no reason 10
believe that efficiency IN administration
will be improved in the slightest degree
for the very simple reason that there IS no
intention on the part of Roosevelt, as lar
as has been disclosed, to adopt on economy
policy or make any attempt whatever to
reduce expenses. .....-
The fact is that the bill proposed unques-
tionably will increase expenses. 1t will pro-
vide for the creation OF two new govern
ment department.: and in al the shifting
and changing that may be permitted there
is no thought of making serious and hon
est effort to reduce the costs o. govern
ment. That government expenses will be
increased if this bill becomes Law is rs GER
tain as that the sun will rise tomorrow.
Then, what is the real purpose of the
bill?
The answer is that by the terms of the
proposed bill, in so far as some of the best
trained lawyers of the country Tin addition
to members of the Congress- have been
able. to interpret it as it now stands, the
purpose is to give Roosevelt as much or
more uncontrolled power in this country
as Hitler Yields in Germany er Mussolini
exercises in Italy.
The enactment of this bill will assuredly
result in depriving the Congress OF prac-
ticaly all of its powers and the lodging OF
these powers in the executive department,
where they will be exercised by the Presl-
dent. This law, in connection with other
new deal laws already enacted, will make
Roosevelt the most absolute dictator in the
world.
That this is the end and aim of the
President and his new deal supporters is
not difficult to believe, in view of the plain
terms and implications of his record since
1888. The public has only the record on
which to base conclusions. That is open to
any intelligent and honest citizen.
The opinions expressed here are shared
by Senators Glass and Byrd of Virginia
and by number of the foremost members
of the Senate and House. The inevitable
results Of the passage Of this law have been
pointed out by Amos Pinehot, one of the
able lawyers of the nation, in an argument
which is unanswerable and which no sup
porter of this bill has made an effort to
answer.
If the purpose of this proposed law is
not to promote efficiency and economy in
government, what is its purpose?
That no thought of economy is in the
minds of the President and his new deal
friends is freely admitted. If it will not
promote economy it will certainly not pro-
mote efficiency, as mere shifting of depart
ments, bureaus, commissions and the more
than million employees of the admins
tration, will certainly not increase eff
cheney. To do that it will be necessary to
fire at least two-thirds to three ourths OF
the million persons now employed.
To make this vast bureaucracy absolute.
ly subject to the whims Of Franklin D.
Roosevelt viii aSsurediy not increase eff.
cheney of government administration. AS
far as his record shows, there IS no more
inefficient person connected with the gov
eminent than the President That die,
tatorship by Roosevelt would promote eff
fciency of government administration is {
suggestion that is nonsensieal on it's face.
Then, what is the purpose of this alleged
government reorganization bill?
The country will do we'll to study it from
the viewpoint of members of the Congress
who, are opposing it and from the stand
point of the dissection of the bill by And
Pinchot and other competent lawyers. -