Detroit evening times. (Detroit, Mich) 1921-1958, 1943-04-13
DispensabIe Now

= FORGE F. SOkOLSNN, writing III the Ne" ioiN
i Sun has used the War Marpowcr Commission esti-
49,. &c y7ili,sr,.aec civilians in federal employment as
a background for pertinent comment on New Deai
bureaucracy.
The record before the commission is that there are
one million men between the ages OF II ana - on Ieueia
paw rolls and that more than 2louo government 'PoS'S
The in5.arc5 policy is that scIe,yc service will
make inroads ths group which leads MI SoKoSNy
TO remark
"ApparpntIy the smart boys of the New Deal have
become liability MIR. Roosevelt Hitherto theA nave
been a liability only the American people
so the hep-cats of the New Deal are no longer
INDISPENSABLE They are drafted into the army They
are TO he allowed to do k.P. so that they might know
that Spud cooked connection that goes along
with sroin hut something that grows in the ground
and require, the attention of some ore who knows how
Ga LONG they enjoyed preferred position in the
y New Deal" continues Mr.. Sokolsky 1.-The little
lawyers Harvard free to make the government
of the United States their playground
They were projected into positions OF tremendous
Importance All the pet ideas and ancient foibes re-
peaed endessy by professors, who often read so much
that they can only think little the things with
which these young voaes of perfection played as though
with toys-and short of the essentials OF life
If the war has compelled the New Deal to revise ITS
appraisal of these political Indispensable" it is to be
regretted that the administration failed to understand the
impairment Of national interests and resources for which
they were responsible in time Of peace.
A S MR. SOKOLSKY says:
"A For 10 long years the American people have seen
these boys take apart what they could not learn to put
together again
"They nearly wrecked industry to see how ii works
and they might have succeeded-not in learning but in
wrecking-bu for the natural resistance of those who,
having buded great structures of production fought to
save them
They impaired industrial relations almost beyond
repair They wrecked agriculture that are short
of food They have piled upon us staggering debt and
a burdensOme tax"
THE country could and should have been much better
i governed and prohtably directed in the years
before the war-and thus have been in much better
position to fight and win the war
There has always been capable AMERICAN leader
ship available but not utilized by the New Deal
Who is to blame that taken instead, as
Mr. Sokolsky says ito the nice little boys who got jobs
in Washington through the employment committees of
Harvard and Yale and whose ambition "to nipple
ment the alterations of John Maynard Keynes and his
followers which may be summarized in the single phrase
that the government spends the better off
people is ?'
THE Keynes economic and financial ideoogy is not
i American, but English.
And the New Deal leadership deprived from it is of
the character.
Who is to blame that the country has not had
AMERICAN leadership instead Of the imported variety
reflected by the smart boys and the little lawyers
of the New Deal?
Blame those who EMPLOYED these little fellows"
suggests Mr. Sokosky.
Blame HIM who lets such men Bernard Baruch
and Herbert Hoover sit about and occasionally point the
way while David Gnsburg and Stacy May rule nation.
Blame HIM who conSttutionay is RESPONSIBLE
for all that has happened in his administration"
President Roosevelt has been grievously slow to
recognize the "ndspensabes liabilities. They have
always been liabilities to the nation They bound
to become POLITICAL liabilities in time-and NOW is
THE TIME.
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