The Wilmington morning star. [volume] (Wilmington, N.C.) 1909-1990, 1943-12-29
BY WESTBROOK PEGLER

NEW YORK.-President Roosevelt's desire
to be rid of the new deal political label is
understandable inasmuch as it las come to
stand for nepotism, the persecution of ind-
viduals giving political offense, open condona-
ton of the default of debts, corruption and
communism in the labor movement, cynicism
in the administration of justice and govern
ment by chicanery. His feeling that the term
is out of date is not based on fact, however,
for all the evils which it represents still exist,
the latest fragrant manifestation being another
opinion by Justice Felix Frankfurter reaffirm-
ing a previous dictum from th1 same source
that one privileged element of the population
has a special right to bear false witness
against the rest.
If this be strong language the tragedy is
that it is not overstrong and that disunity on
the home front is due almost entirely to the
ranking resentment of good Americans who
themselves were abused and pllloried or who
resented such treatment of others and who
never will be reconciled to those things which
the term new deal has come to mean to Them
Such Americans, and they number millions,
are in a sad position for their desire to win
the war and their detestaton of Hitlerism and
the very bodies of the savage Japanese are
no less ardent than the Presidents own and
yet they are precluded by the record and
character of the neW deal from giving to
the Chief Executive of the country that they
love no less than he, that unreserved devotion
which they would like to give President in
time of horrible war.
Yet, what alternative have they? What sign
has President Roosevelt given that the new
deal has been scrappec? The same man still
sits in the Senate who, at the bidding of the
White House prevented the passage of laws
which would have dissolved the corrupt al
lance of the new deal with the underworld
of unionism The same communists who could
have killed millions OF Americans and the
very nation itself by sabotaeing the first fun
bling efforts of clumsy and peaceful nation
to prepare for inevitable wa still hold office
in unions which are satellites CT Mr.. Roose-
velt's party And even now his new deal is
still driving men ard women employed in the
industries into these and other political
subsidiaries of his party with the alternative
of ideness if they refuse
The new deal recalls violent insurrection in
Michigan, Ohio and Pennsylvania, the ANAL
gamation of the individual into an element
called the masses in which the best is like
the worst, a new class enjoying special priv
ileges and the wanton application of such
horrid terms as "copper-head' and tory"
both IN public address and in BLACKBOARD pub
locations to patriotic Americans whose sons
are fighting in this war.
Was all this or any of this necessary for
the enactment of social security, collective
bargaining, bank insurance and supervision
OF the handling of the peoples investments?
Could these not have been accomplished with
dignity and without resort to such violent
abuse of all dissenters as to create class
hatred among the people whost aristocracy
tradltonally and almost literally returns to
shirtsleeves in two or three generations and
always IN Its turn, takes nanful part against
foreign enemies?
One sign, more convincing than any other,
that the new deal is net merely embarrassing
but outmoded and repudiated would be the
withdrawal of The administrations opposition
to amendments which would, in actual fact,
permit workers to bargain through agents of
their own free selection, according to the pres.
ent fraudulent statement of purposes in the
wagner act. Such amendment mas been reso-
lutely prevented and this law uglist monu-
ment 10 the new deal. remains today as it
was In the beginning, a hooking lie and
grleVous denial of the rights of ostensibly
free men,