The people's voice. [volume] (Helena, Mont.) 1939-1969, 1942-05-08
FROM EDITORIAL COLUMNS
Is The New Deal Dead?

From the fall of the banks in 1888 to the fall of France
in 194 the conservative kept up steady fire agans
the depravy putting reform ahead of recovery The
went something like this The Administration
ranted in taking few unorthodox steps stimulate business
and salvage creditors from the depression lows
however let this become the opening wedge crackpo
cries promulgated by crewba brain rusers and designed
overthrow the free enterprise system.
In brief baling out the banks all right but any
tempt to remedy the economic conditions which permitted the
banks to down for the third time wrong sys
tenn could be patched but must not be rebuilt This cher
shed line of thought still issuing from the quarters
hard pick and not find the thought
imbedded in editorial in columnists daily prayer
the report of political speech
The party line has had it's phrasing changed little but
it is the same old line: We must win the by whatever
means necessary but must allow the used
for crackpo New Deal theories depression
temporary headache and the another but
plant banner the sound finance and economic laws
William Mckinley. There she waves!
Tidal Waves Are Rolling Up
One applaud such granitewaled determination to get
back to 1900 but is little like appauding the charge Of
the light brigadepenty of courage with
and military detectives anywhere in the picture During
the depression the outcre against reform exceedingly
confused, because reform and recovery" two verbal
monsters not to be found in the real world But today the
protests almost unntelligibe
Don't the gentlemen read the papers they for?
Don't they realize that instead of the gentle rppe
ment action under the New Deal this total rolling up
tidal waves Apparently they do not realize and strange
W enough liberals do not to realize either The
latter doing pretty loud wang their side of the
fence about dollarayear men srangling the New Deal
No student of semantcs talk about the New Deal as
The phrase DEAF just noise one makes with
ones mouth is defined What the federal gov
eminent from 1888 to 1910 are we talking abouthe bank
ing acts the FDIC, AAA NRA, IVA, HOLC, FSA? Grand
Coulee DAM Social Security legislation the RFC labor lega
on wages and hours? Or WPA PWA federal housing the
To what the gentlemen referring? These acts with
dozens more have not mentioned make it impossible to dis
the New DeaP ntellgently entity The is
useful only to period in American political history
and to grow emotional about.
What Total War Means
possible generalization purpose of most
nd
thus underwre community survival None of the specific laws
administrative from 1888 to 1910 revolutionary
indeed novel, Other nations such Sweden Australia
Britain had been experimenting with similar for
many years.
The only revolutionary aspect of the New period
the assumption foreign to American frontier philosophy that
the unemployed victims of forces beyond their control
frontier philosophy held that worthy who wanted
job could find With eight of every 10 the
industry unemployed 1892 this theory
ploded for all time.
In an eight-year "orgy of spending" the New Deal ad-
nnistraon got rid of about rs billion dollars. Our
preparations are times that figure Congress
already voted 1913 billion for the be spent the
three years. This full employment the
Utilization of of manpowerand probably wom
we get through. +
1t rationng unbelievable taxes forced savings
control of the whole internal flow of goods and
# every pound of exports and imports 1t tying the
of Canada close that of the United States that
can't get thin knife between them. telling
lie where they shall work. how they shall work. what they
hall buy what they shall how they shall travel 1t
economic planning scale to make the New Deal
planned economy pracucally Invisible ~
rec Enterprise in the Doghouse
Friends in a total war, though we not yet
cit it's full impact In such everybody employed in
eed painfully overemployed everybody is fed sheltered
lothedby the state if Look Britain look at
ermany Our free enterprise system ahed to the mast of
ORDERS credit standards
and if business gets attack of rugged Individual
m-government requstion of his property. ~
The United States government buying half of every
hing produced in the country AS result by d
of thousands losing their jobs they will find
ut not salesmen and advertising becomes practically
ointless ,.
From the beginning of the to Pearl Harbor the
had financed six billion dollars worth of
sta enterprises while private capital only
on dollars worth of munitions plants Are the peo-
of the United States going to make present all these
factories power DAMS shpbudng yards private u
after the is over? The forcing the gov
nment into business scale undreamed in days
e New Deal. di
Meanwhile Mr. Eccles, Mr.. Morgenthau and Mr. Leon M
anderson steadily toward complete control
nk the supply OF credit the interest rate the whole price to
rucure including rents and Free competition WI
the free enterprise SYSTEM doghouse the