Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1944-10-08

| Department Of Labor and in the adj
ministration, generally. OF our labor
relations, which fright down the line
have been smothered under a welter Of
agencies, boards, commissions and
| bureaus"
Dewey says he would promote domestic
reconstruction and economic security
the primary goals of all Of his domestic
policies and all Of Mr.. Roosevelts-by
kicking cat the 'incompetents" and the
political satellites" and the whole OF
shat crew to whom my opponent is
so Indispensable.
Promises New Direction.
Dewey's charges of incompetent ad-
ministration form but one part of his
attack en- the New Deal, and the less
significant part for the voter to con-
slider. The other, while likewise an
attack on methods and atmosphere.
has to do with New Deal intentions
with overall New Deal philosophy In
this phase of his criticism is the core and
center of the Dewey campaign.
Dewey is saying not only that he
will administer the New Deal laws in a
more orderly and businesslike way, but
that he will give them new direction
The gravamen of his charge is this:
Saturated as it is with the defeatist
theory that America is past its prime,
the New Deal can see only two pos
sibilities for America-ever-i increasing
RECOMMENDATION as one alternative and re-
action as the other It belieevs that
economic security can only be purchased
at the price of freedom. The argument
is false. Our people do not want to see
this country dragged further and
further toward complete Government
control over every aspect of our lives.
Neither do we want to go back to the
reactionary philosophy of dog -eat-dog"
Dewey says that the New Deal is
guilty Of studied hostility toward our
job-producing machinery" He says that
I'VE will achieve our objective jobs for
alb only If we create an economic
climate in which business, industry and
agriculture can grow and flourish"
Denies Defeatism.
this? First, 1t denies that 1t is saturated
with defeatism. The President hooted at
the charge in press conference the
other day. New Dealers, it is true
along with others-have pointed to the
possibility of widespread unemployment
in the period of transition from war
to peace economy, and have urged
public works to take up the slack, but
they have said also that the miracles
of war production prove the ability of
this country to create such q condition
of prosperity as we have never before
seen. I'VE must set targets and OBJ
jectives for the future, !" said President
Roosevelt in campaign speech be-
fore the teamsters' union, which will
seem impossible to those who live In
and are weighted down by the dead
past" Dewey will find it hard to sustain
his "defeatisn' charge from the
record.
The New Deal denies Dewey's
premise that it can see only "ever-
increasing RECOMMENDATION" or, as an
alternative, reaction It denies that
there has ever been RECOMMENDATION In
the sense implied by Dewey The alter
native, say administration spokesman, is
really between continuation of pro-
gressive masures, sympathetically ad-
ministered, and reaction.
The New Deal denies that it believes
economic security can only be pur-
chased at the price of freedom" 1t
says the same thing that Dewey is
saying-that we can have both economic
security and freedom.
The New Deal denies that 1t is
obsessed with studied hostility toward
our job-producing machinery" It says
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