Detroit evening times. (Detroit, Mich) 1921-1958, 1942-08-24
New DeaIism
Regulated
In New York
Naming Farley Man
Seen as Protest
By WESTBROOK PEGLER


WHAT, then, is this New Deal
w ism which is being repudi-
ated in the State of New York
this year in the nomination by
the Democratic Party of John
Bennett, the state attorney gen.
eral, and the defeat of President
Roosevelt's man, Senator Jim
Mead?
1t is not a philosophy, a pro-
gram or policy.
1t is something of itself. COM
pounded of flippancy in the
treatment of issues deeply af-
fecting the rights and principles
of old-style Americans. of the
impudence person led by
Tommy Corcoran, OF Joseph
Lash supping at the White
House, Of cynicism, nepotism
and contempt.
1t is such campaign phrases as
keep your friends in power"
and tax, spend and elect"
TT IS Charlie Nicholson as a
L latchstring familiar of the
White House while drawing a
large salary from n radio cou.-
pany and Senator Joe Guffey OF
Pennsylvania drawing $4,000 a
year from the public purse. plus
the usual allowances, but owing
an income tax until publicity and
political pressure, after many
years. forced him TO pay. al
though not, as far as the public
is allowed 10 Know, with the
compound interest that other
men must pay on their arrears.
1t is Harold Ickes. the pure in
heart. trafficking with Frank
Hague of humanity and a singer
from a cabaret believing God
Bless America at a political
convention.
TT IS the National Youth Ad-
. ministration and the proviso
in the Revenue Act that the son
or daughter of a self-supporting
American family is no longer
dependent at the age of 18,
when the college years begin.
although the clients of the youth
administration deserve public
assistance for their education to
the age Of 25.
New Dealism is little confer
ences and interesting discussions
by talky and precocious Adde'S
cents and silky old philosophers
at Vassar and Campobello and
gratuitous ballyhoo for a COM
munistic film arguing the failure
Of the American system OF gov
eminent to feed and house a
people accustomed TO feed and
house themselves.
II is the labor relations board
wigging an American citizen as
an oppressor of labor if he dares
declare 10 his employees his con-
Victlon that union is a trans
mission belt Of the Communist
party.
1t is Mrs. Mary Norton, a
congresswoman from Hagues
home district in New Jersey,
serving as chairman Of the
House committee on labor. al
though her district is the home
grounds Of Joe Fay.
IT IS the spectacle of other
L congressman routing past
Mrs. Norton's committee all
legislation intended TO put down
racketeering and other forms OF
brlgandage and fascism. perpe-
trated on the people by union
GERS IN the confirmed belief that
she would stop them cold If they
came to her.
New Dealism is special privi-
lege and the exploitation OF the
great national emergency Of pow
erty and idleness for personal
profit and political power and
w bf'I vi JIOb1 iilOIlty 10 DllL
the poor in a grateful mood at
election time.
II is also, on its outer circles,
form of journalism which Will
fies all opposition, however con-
SclentiouS and patriotic, and
cries "Quisling" and "Nazi" and
Hitler stooge" in an attempt to
silence and extinguish the two
party system through intimida-
ton.
IT Is the condoning Of violent
L instruction against govern
ment in the name of labor, with
the result that in Michigan gov
eminent has lost some degree Of
the public's old confidence in
authority and government: and
in New York, ii is La Guardia,
lndorsing the candidacy of a
congressman who has faithfully
followed he Communist Party
line and who is the Communists
favorite in Congress.
All this is New Dealism and
this is what the Democratic con-
vention repudiated when John
Bennett was nominated.