The Wilmington morning star., 1941-01-20
Fair ENOUGH
By PEGIrp

70 hno" mat views and opin.
ions expressed in this ariel.
are those of the author and
may not always HARMONIC
with its position.-The Editor
NEW YORK, Jan. 19.-It must \.
perfectly clear to most America.
now that, although the enemy is
in a word, H~itlerism, some phase.
of Hitlerism are abhorrent. bu,
others are either in operation her.
or in process of adoption. We nav
call them new dealism or demo.
cracy, but there are points of W.
semblance.
For n thing, our government
which has had the Endorsement u
two reflections, believes in =.
strong national and nationalistic an.
thorlty at the top, supported down
through the political and social
grades by groups and individuaIs
dependent on the favor of the NJ.
tional government.
Tin Cup Congressman
We have had our local and stats
political organizations drawing sus,
tenance from the national capitaI
in the form of relief and grants
which enabled the minor leaders IN
hold their people in line. Congress,
men were given to understand that
favors for their respective commu.
mites would be weighed in thu
scales against their cooperation
a practice which was intended IA
and did make tin cup mendicants
of many of them.
Appointees selected for admins.
trative jobs have been picked NOT
for their ability alone, although
some have been, incidentally, able
men, but for their theological regl.
larity. 1t was not enough that a
man be a good citizen. He has ako
to sympathize with the New Deal,
which is a philosophy that never
has been formulated and therefore
may be anything that the admins.
tration happens to favor at a given
time.
1t is not enough that a man ad.
minister a law, such as the Wag.
ner act, as written, and with a con.
scientious regard for the rights Of
the citizen who is an employer and
stockholder. He must give his in.
depreciation of the law a twist to
the left, possibly with an honest
intention to help the worker but
with the probable political effect
of tying into the New Deal the two
big organizations which claim the
status Of a sub-government and
have their own courts and punish.
ing powers and the power to tax
the workers.
Resemblance Appears
In the attitude of the national
government toward private indus.
try the resemblance appears again.
It is not exactly a parallel, but the
resemblance is there, and it must
be remembered that our govern.
ment has not yet gone as far as
it intends to 60. Otherwise Presi.
dent Roosevelt would have b e
content to retire after his second
term, satisfied that his New Deal
had been completed at last a n d
leave the operation of it to other
hands.
Now the emergency of war in.
tervenes to hasten the program or
trend of the New Deal, but ever
had there been on war the inten-
ton plainly was to bring industry
more and more under government
control and bring government more
openly into the role # labor's boss,
with the power to give orders. In
the war emergency, now, industry
will be Communicated, with the
ownership and management b 9th
subdued, and labor will be EN-.
ployed in fact by the government,
although nominally by private in.
terestS.
Hitlerism is all these things, plus
the personal denunciation of reluc.
tant individuals from en- high, and
the evasion of laws by twisted and
cunning argument, with which we
are familiar and which is less by.
gienic from the moral standpoint
than open violation, because it sets
the people an example of shyster.
ism and confuses them in their
everyday problems of right and
wrong.
It is not a happy thought, but if
Uncle Sam should take an honest
look in the mirror he would dis.
cover on his upper lip faint sprigs
of a Chaplin mustache. And his
best friends won't tell him, but to
leeward he gives off unmistakable
whiffs on the Muscovite's B. O.