The Waterbury Democrat., 1939-01-20
PRESIDENT HAS
 NEW BIRTHDAY
Two Years of Second Term Expires Today;
 SIedding Not So Good
BY LYLE c. WILSON 'Inltad Press Staff COrrespOndent)

Limited Press Staff Correspondent Washington, Jan. 20.-(UP)-Pres- ident Roosevelt's second admins tration, marked by explosive break of the New Deal-Democratic nreaK' Is two years old today.
 MT. Roosevelt winner in 46 or 46 gtates-assumed office for a second term at a rainswept inaugural m January, 1887.
 Within three weeks MT. Roose- welt proposed reorganization of the Judiciary and began the battle wnlch vplit his party wide open.
 This second anniversary Is pemg commemorated in Congress by a sub- Rtantial Democratic bolt on issues involving spending, labor policies, relief administration and New Deal Rppointees. Party troubles were ag- Rravated by the 1937-3S depression which wiped out most Of the frst administration economic recovery and only now Is being reversed by n tremendous shot-in- -the-arm or renewed federal spending.
 New Deal Achievements
 Outstanding among New Deal achievements has been a continuing improvement of relations with South and Central American countries, de- spite problems arising in Mexico from seizure of American agricul- tural and industrial property. Secre- tary of State Cordell Hull has just returned from the Lima conference with commitments from all Amer ican republics which the adminis- tration believes establishes a sub stantially solid front against Euro pean totalitarianism.
 The president now has abandoned all phases of the disarmament pro- gram developed by his three Re- publican predecessors and is build- ing for land, sea and air defense.
 Front rank problems at home in- clude farm relief and memploy- ment.
 Suffer First Reverses
 In last November's general elec- ton MT. Roosevelt and the New Deal suffered their first reverses at the polls when Republicans gained eight Senate seats and 8l seats in the House, but without overcoming Democratic majorities in Congress Nominal Democratic majorities however, do not fairly represent the division of allegiance among con- Rressmen. The president will not be able to carry all of his party mem bers in Congress with him on major issues which will arise in this new Congress,
 That already has been demon- strNted in the House vote to reduce MT. Roosevelt's $875 100000 unem- ployment relief appropriation for the remainder of this fiscal year to e725, 100000.
 Republican and conservative Dem- ocrptic leaders believe, but cannot vet demonstrate, that there is a Senate majority for fundamental revision of the National Labor Rela- tions Act to impose upon unions re- spansibilities parallel with those nov imposed upon employers
 UnempiOyment heHet
 similarly, there is a good chance that Congress will impose upon MT Roosevelt a new unemployment re- lief system and come close, at least to taking out of his hands the au- thority 10 allot relief funds to states in accordance with his estimate of local needs.
 The two year period of the second administration covered fundamen- tai reversal of Roosevelt policy. The president and the budget balancing group among his aides decided in the summer of 1897 to cut down on pump priring expenditures The president made a trans-continental Journey in which he told trainside crowds throughout the northwest that the era of big emergency fed- eral expenditures had ended.
 The nation was falling at that time into the most precipitate bus mess decline in American history and as reveue fell of. unemploy- ment increased and economic activ- 1ty diminished, the president gradu- ally swung away from his economy {, objective.
 Tn April of last year he revived pump -priming with spend-lend program now well under way. His critics contend that the spending program is establishing a false re- covery which unnecessarily expands the national debt without putting a solid foundation under business.
 Tn almost six years of Roosevelt administration of fiscal affairs the national debt was increased from s22 2,000 100000 to more than $39,- 800 1000. 900. It is generally recognized now that the second administration will end with an uninterrupted se- riaa af dancitq