Evening star., 1938-04-18
RECOVERY PLAN
DEBATED ON AIR
Repetition of Failure, Says
Vandenberg-Hi|| Calls It
Saving Capitalism.
BY tte Associated Press.

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Senator Vandenberg, Republican. OF
Michigan criticized the administra-
tion's recovery program in a radio
address last night, calling it pump
printing adventure" of a type which
"has failed, despite fabulous doses"
1T helps the next election. but it
hurts this and the next generation, ,"
Mr.. Vandenberg said
He spoke over national network
In debate with Senator Hill, Demo-
crat, of Alabama. Mr.. Hill said he
was convinced that the great mass
Of the people approved President
Roosevelt's program
MIR. Vandenberg said he believed
that a united effort along heal
Ing, constructive lines" would turn
the business tide, but that the ad-
minlstrat!on's plan would no do so.
He expressed the view spending for
direct relief could not be avoided, but
added more relief for less money
= could be obtained" if Federal relief
management were abandoned in favor
OF State responsibility and control on
a reasonable matching basis.
deterrent. Not Tonic"
He described pump printing as "a
deterrent rather than a tonic to that
confidence which we need in the blood
stream of our commerce"
No matter how adroitly camou-
faged, it defeats any remote prospect
of balanced budget and GONZALES
cent public credit" he added. 1T is
at war with recovery, therefore it is a
menace and curse Five wears
OF pump printing on just as gigantic
a plan as anything now proposed;
yet We are back again in a new de-
preston which, in the swiftness Of
Its Intensity. is worse than its predeces-
sor. And we are back again to the
same patent medicine which failed
before"
Hill Defends Plan.
Senator Hill supported the admin
istration's recovery program as a
measure to preserve the capitalist
system
Now that private business has
shown its inability to function with
out Government assistance, there is
no way to save the capitalist system
except by resuming the Government
notwithstanding program" he said.
Il DO not propose" he continued
that the people of my State, or of
any State, rot N uselessness as 50
many people did during the Hoover
depression. The people of Alabama
as late as January of this year ex-
pressed themselves as definitely IN
favor of the Presidents program.
When tie rest of the country goes to
the ballot this fall, I am convinced
that the results will be equally clear. -
Mr.. Hill said he recalled the weak
ness and timidity of the Hoover ad-
ministration when the Senator Wan
denberg) was White House ad-
wiser
Mute as Dummy.
During the grave crisis, Senator
Vandenberg occupied his customary
chair on the Republican side of the
Senate" Mr. Hill said. sitting there.
mute as dummy, while our whole
financial and economic structure was
tottering on the brink of chaos.
Senator Vandenberg then had
nothing to offer, or if he did no one
recalls what it was"
He added that business had all
the freedom and encouragement that
1t could ask for during the Hoover
administration and that only Gus
toners were lacking and neither
Hoover nor his advisers knew how to
give business confidence without Gus
toners, nor how to make people Gus
toners without cash"