Evening star., 1939-05-19
Spending Policies of
New Dealers DepIored
Nations Business Troubles
Blamed on Abandonment
Of Thrift
To the Editor Of The Star:


Congress is now in session in Wash
ington trying to correct the blunders Of
It's previous session. At the same time
some of its members are proposing legis-
lation which, If enacted, would require
the time of the next session to correct.
amend or annul. 1t requires the time of
one session of this Congress to correct
the blunders of the previous one, conse-
quently there is little time for wise, con-
structive legislation that the country
needs in its present crisis. Under such
management there can be no progress
and there will be none until wiser men
direct the affairs of state.
The national administration early
set the example of prodigality, loose
Government and thoughtless experiment
tation with other peoples money. 1t
spread to the States, counties and cities
like a contagious disease. The absurd
slogan was, spend to restore prosperity.
Well, the day of reckoning has come,
the dream is over, it is the drab daWning
OF the day after-a rude awakening.
Like the wall of the prodigal son, there
is now heard throughout the land the
cry for help from the President and the
municipal officers who followed him. A.
plea for more and more money for relief.
Help us out of the jam we are in. thev
wall, we cannot get out unaided. 1t is
always that way; the pity of it is that
those who know better must stand aside
and see their warnings unheeded while
the spendthrifts nonchalantly go their
way to ruin. Their sorry plight is the
result of six years of running things
according to their own ideas. They
planned 1t that way. They brought it on
themselves. Now those who know better
and warned them are called upon for
help. The European war scare has been
boon for them because it has diverted
attention for the time being from the
mess and confusion they have inflicted
upon their own country
NO nation can prosper with admins
traitors of the Cochran, Cohan, TugWell
type, smart men with much KNOWLEDGE
but lacking in wisdom, common sense
ana ABILITY IN sound administrative af-
fairs The brain may be full of knowl-
edge but devoid of wisdom. OF what
avail is an ideal if it will not work? What
good is reform if it retards constructive
progress and adds to the burdens of the
poor? What does it avail a wisely man.
aged corporation if its increased earnings
are wiped out by increased taxes?
The Roosevelt administration has
struck stunning blow to every endowed
charity, university and college in the
land by causing rising tide of taxation
that has reduced the income from their
securities to dangerous and distress
ing degree. Every owner of stocks sees
the dividends that should be his taken
away by the Government in taxes re-
suitlng from extravaganza and malad-
mlnlStraton. The poor have been made
poorer, the unemployed have not been
put back to work; care, worry and un-
happiness have been increased.
At the very time the administration
was taxing the people millions of dollars
TO pay the farmers for letting their fer
Tile acres go fallow because there was
crop oVerproduction it was spending
other millions on the Grand Coulee Dam
Tor the purpose of irrigating thousands
OF arid acres for greater crop production!
Is that common sense? Better have used
these millions towards reducing the ma
tlonal debt. We can get along without
the Florida canal; save the money. The
country can get along well without the
great system of highways the President
proposes; save the money to reduce taxes.
we 90 not need these things, we do need
10 pay our debts. Stop experimenting on
silly projects with the peoples money.
What grand and glorious feeling it
would be to awake some morning and
1nd the President actually scheming
for thrift and economy instead of
consuming his energy in devising new
means for spending and taxation.
Inc difference between an expert
mentlng spendthrift and wise and
thrifty man may be appreciated by
remembering the words of Calvin
Coolidge who said, Il favor the policy
OF economy, not because I wish to save
money, but because wish to save peonle
Inc men and women of this country
who toll are the ones who bear the
coSC OF Government. Every dollar that
we carelessly waste means that their
lives will be so much the more meager.
Every dollar that we prudently save
means that their lives will be so much
the more abundant. Economy is ideal
Ism in its most practical form" How
does the Roosevelt administration check
up with that?
The annual interest on the national
debt created by futile experiments and
waste, is now greater than the total
national debt was in 1914 When we for
sake simple, common sense, old time
tried and true business principles we
invite impoverishment, hard times and
bankruptcy. The wall of the prodigals
is heard in the land.
DANIEL c. BENNETT,
Winchester, Mass.
Nov