Imperial Valley press., 1943-12-30
IS DOCTOR NEW
DEAL REALLY DEAD?

president RoOSeVeltS pr0nO0ncemenlS
to the press last Tuesday have tongues
'wagging and minds thinking all over the
country. This is just as he knew would
be the case. His pronouncements, in
nutshell, add up to his conclusion that
the New Deal was doctor whose work
has been done, and that we now have Il
new doctor called "Dr. Win -The-War'.
In the column next to this reprinted
an editorial which appeared in this news
paper March 9th At the time. we COM
pared Mr.. Roosevelt to a physician who
had been retained to heal a very sick
patient, and were forced to conclude that
he had not made the patient we'll.
1t is interesting to note that while the
president uses the physician analogy,
he ostensibly applies it to the New Deal
while in reality, inasmuch as the New
Deal is and was the president the simile
still applies to him. And we still aver
that the comparison is quite pat.
Mr.. Roosevelt's statement that he (or
the New DeaD cured the nations intern
al ills, cannot be accepted by many peo-
pie Hardening back, we can recall the
seven or eight millions unemployed be-
fore the war preparations began, as
against the eleven million unemployed
when Roosevelt took over. We can re-
call woefully lop-sided labor legislation
which created more ills than it cured;
a mounting debt against the future; un
employment and old age tax plans which
were good of purpose, but of unknown
effectiveness; countless other character
istics of the New Deal which Mr. Roose-
Welt now says is dead.
By saying that we must now supplant
Dr. New Deal with Dr. Win-The-War Mr..
Roosevelt is resorting to the finest sort
4 naly, l,11c, Of
actual and purposeful trickery in the use
of words.
The New Deal stood for a theory of
social order certainly a political issue,
and certainly a political theory with
which everyone has a right to differ and
with which many did and still do differ.
in-The-War is not a theory. 1t is
fact, upon which the whole nation is
united. There is no room for disagree
ment with that objective Yet, by smart
use of words, Mr.. Roosevelt suggests we
replace debatable issue with a univer-
sally agreed upon national necessity.
Obviously, there is the implication that
we should forget politics and unite upon
the war. Yet, in the same pronouncement,
the President points with pride to the
alleged accomplishments of the New
Deal, thus throwing down the political
SduHtiSt Willie supposedly RECOMMENDING
political peace.
Lastly, if DR.. New Deal (Which was
Mr.. Roosevelt) is to be replaced by DR..
in-The-War, then the President appar-
emily seeks to place about his own shoul-
ders the cloak of that very parsonage.
No one knows whether this comprises his
bid for fourth term, or whether it is
merely gesture to keeping the present
party in power-There is one Of the big
issues which public and politicians alike
are trying to fathom.
If Mr. Roosevelt seeks to now term
himself Dr. Win-The-War, Ca shreWd
political move) we should all remember
that this country still would be heart
and soul united in winning the war no
matter who happens to be in the presi-
Dental chair. WHITTIER it be Roosevelt,
Willkie, or whonot. In fact, Mr.. Roose-
welt shouldn't try to take unto himself too
big share of honor over our war pro-
gram thus far; though there is no doubt
that the full responsibility for not being
awake to, in readiness for, the japanese
attack certainly MUST rest upon Mr..
Roosevelt directly.
: There is one definite set of cOnclu-
sions at which we must arrive. The New
Deal political theory is still alive. The
New Deal political record is still fact
and basis for public consideration. Mr..
Roosevelt was the doctor called in during
peace time, to put this country back on