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MR. ROOSEVELT
AS A PROPHET
From the Chicago Daily News
No man, in 1932, was more ve
hement than Franklin D. Roosevelt
in his warnings against the en
coachments of bureaucracy. No
man was more opposed to the ex
cessive interference of government
in business. No man preceived
more clearly the perils of an un
stable currency and an unbalanced
budget due to administrative ex
travagance.
Government was attempting too
many things, he said in Sioux City,
in 1932. It ‘‘has piled bureau on
bureau, comission on commission
. . . Bureaus and bureaucrats have
been retained at the expense of the
taxpayer . . . That burden is a
brake on any return to normal,
business activity.” Mr. Roosevelt
thought at the time that he was at
tacking Mr. Hoover. Actually, as
it turned out, he was attacking his
future self.
A nation which did not carefully
safeguard its credit, he said in
Pittsburgh in 1932, was headed for
bankruptcy. “The credit of the
family depends chiefly on whether
the family is living within its in
come. And this is so of the nation
... If, life a spendthrift, it throws
discretion to the winds, is willing
to make no sacrifice at all in spend
ing, extends its taxing to the limit
of the people’s power to pay and
continues to pile up deficits, it is
on tha road to bankruptcy.” Viewed
in the light of today, were not
those words prophetic?
“At the very top of the credit
structure of the country,” Mr.
Roosevelt explained in 1932, “stand
the obligations of the federal gov
ernment. . . . They suffer if the
federal budget is not balanced, and
particularly where the deficit on
one year is not cleared up in the
succeeding year.” If this thought
was true then, is it not doubly true
today?”
It is the banks, he pointed out
in 1932, “which are financing these
stupendous defiecits, and that burd
en is absorbing their resources. All
this .. . arises from one cause only,
and that is the unbalanced budget
and the continued failure ... to
take effective steps to balance it.”
But since then the banks have been
crammed literally full of govern
ment paper, the national debt has
been increased from $22,000,000,000
to nearly $33,000,000,000, and the
budget is more heavily out of bal
ance than ever.
“Let us have the courage to stop
borrowing to meet continued defi
cits,"pleaded Mr. Roosevelt in 1932.
“Let us also . . . insist on a sound,
currency. Muddled government
finance creates a general uncer
tainty concerning the value of na
tional currencies. This uncertainty
has a way of spreading from coun
try to country. The world is tor
mented with it now'.” If the world
was tormented with currency un
certainties in 1932, is it not even
more tormented in 1935?
“It is my pledge and promise,”
said Mr. Roosevelt in St. Louis in
1932, “that this dangerous kind of
financing shall be stopped and that
rigid govermental economy shall
be forced by a stern and unremit
ting administration policy of living
within our income.” Admirable
pledge! Admirable promise! Would
it had been kept!
The Mr. Roosevelt of 1933 evid
ently did not think much of the Mr.
Roosevelt of 1932. To the one the
other must have seemed indeed a
lory. The Mr. Roosevelt of 1933
proceeded promptly to depreciate
the dollar, build up an unparralled.
bureaucracy, extend the govern
ment into business on an unpreced
ented scale, spend billions of bor
rowed money and plunge headlong
into a series of recklessly unbal
anced budgets.
“Well, old man, and what do
you suggest?” smiled the president
to his critics in a radio talk last
year.
We suggest, Mr. Roosevelt, that
the Franklin D. Roosevelt of 1935,
whose plans and experiments for
recovery and reform are generally
admitted to have failed, should now
hark back to the wisdom of 1932.
We suggest that you stabilize the
dollar,abolish the new bureaucracy,
take the government out of busi
ness, stop borrowing and begin to
balance the budget. If these were
sound measures in 1932, and would
have brought recovery, as we be
lieve, they are still sound in 1935.
We suggest, Mr. President, that
you keep your own promises, that
you remain true to your own ideas.
It is not yet too late.
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WHAT’S DOING IN
THE LEGISLATURE
By James R. Lowell
The primary law bogey promises
to get the legislature into more
hot water in the near future, what
with a bill up for consideration to
change the method of selecting
candidates for political office and
to make the party convention have
some significance.
Under the present system a man
chooses his own label and may be
a democrat one year and u repub
lican the next. If he is luckey, and
the party has no power to prevent
it, he may achieve the nomination
of a party with which he has noth
ing in common. After the primary,
in which almost anyone who pays
the filing fee may participate, the
party platform is drafted and the
nominees are usually endorsed.
The new proposal calls for pre
cinct caucuses of party members.
Those caucuses would elect county
delegates who, in convention, would
nominate two candidates for each
office as well as select delegates for
the state convention which in turn
nominate two candidates for each
state and national office, along the
same line as the present Colorado
setup.
The names thus chosen would go
on the ballot followed by the state
ment, “nominated by party conven
tion." Other names could be ad
ded where independent candidates
filed their names and a petition
containing a certain number of
names.
A revision along the lines sug
gested hus the merits of keeping
the advantages of the primary and
eliminating some of its drawbacks,
nor would the old convention sys
tem be brought back in toto. Most
legislators consider the present
primary law superior to the old
convention system where lobbyists
named candidates of both parties.
No one expected anything like
the Grocer Norris case to bob up
in Nebraska within the memory
span of those conversant with polit
ical conditions in recent years.
Nevertheless in the last election we
had a case somewhat resembling
the Grocer Norris case.
Charles Bryan Morearty, of Om
aha was a candidate for the dem
ocratic nomination for United
States senator. Charles Wayland
Bryan had announced candidacy
for this office long before Morearty
filed. Such incidents as the Norris
I case and the Morearty case have
not added in any degree to the pop
: ularity of the primary law. Nat
1 urally every man has a right to the
j use of his own name. The genuin
1 ess of his candidacy, however,
j ought to be subject to investigation
i where facts seem to warrant such
inquiry, Nebraska legislators agree,
A word of cheer for the de
feated candidate is expressed in
H. R. 221, providing that the man
counted out at the primaries may
become the candidate of l.is party
for. the same office at the general
election if selected by his county
central committee to fill vacaficy.
| It is intended to meet the situation
where a nominee at the primaries
dies before the general election.
Under the proposed primary
change, the state convention would
meet six weeks before a primary
election in October.
The question of whether the
state should go into the liquor dis
tilling business has been a stickler
for the legislature during the past
week. The house liquor committee
finally indorsed a state wholesal
ing plan but the state distillery
fund was limited to $100,000 and
trading profit.
Legislators backing the entrance
of the state into the liquor busi
ness say that the idea is to cont"ol
the liquor traffic better than could
be done if it were all left to priv
ate enterprise. Opponents of the
plan are accused of being influ
enced by Omaha men interested in
going into the wholesale liquor
business.
L. C. Nuernberger, of Wakefield,
says he isn’t in favor of either the
Wright bill, which does not put the
state into the liquor business, or
the Havekost-Cone bill which does.
“I am opposed to starting the state
in a business which eventually
might result in an investment of
several million dollars,” he de
clared. “I want liquor to be kept
as a moral question, and. when and
if prohibition is resubmitted, I
want the people to vote on the mor
al issues and not on property is
sues. On that day I don’t want
the stute to be interested in saving
a large investment.”
Cromer, of Scottsbluff, suggests
that the state should build a dis
tillery in view of making commer
cial alcohol from corn after the
present liquor law is repealed.
The principal contest in the house
is over state versus private whole
saling of liquor and the demands
of drys for immediate local option.
The argument has been advanced
that state wholesaling would help
put the bootlegger out of business
by holding down the prices.
The most important law yet
passed by the 1935 legislature, with
the possible exception of the $4,
000,000 relief bill, is S. F. 14, the
pari-mutuel betting bill. While this
measure carried the emergency
clause and is now in force, mem
bers of the state racing commission
are not expected to be appointed
by Governor Cochran until late this
week or next.
Officers of the Ak-Sar-Ben ex
position which sponsored the bill
hope to have a 30-day racing meet
in June.
Another proposition which
smacks of gambling has been put
up to the senate in the shape of
proposed legalization of slot mach
ines such as have been taking the
country by storm during the past
THE person who cannot
afford to save is spending
for things lu* cannot afford
to have.
(LVItcill National
iOtanlt
Capital, Surplus and Undivided Profits,
$125,000.00
This bank carries no indebted
ness of officers or stockholders.
j nine months. This bill would place
a license fee on the machines.
These machines are ingenious
contrivances and if located in a
beer parlor or pool hall where
“sports”hang out, have been ^own
to take in as high as $75 per mach
ine each week. The nickles roll in
the fastest when a number of per
sons are gambling, each putting up
a dime or twobits with the high
score winner taking all.
Return of approximately S130,
000 excess corn inspection fees to
Nebraska farmers is provided in a
bill signed recently by the govern
or. Farmers will receive any a
mount paid over S3.80 for inspec
tions of cribs under the corn-loan
deal.
Both houses last week adopted
resolutions calling on the president
to halt further importations of
wheat, corn and oats from foreign
countries. Higher tariff barriers
were recommended to protect the
domestic level.
Another new law' is one extend
ing the retirement age for the ad
jutant general from 64 to 70 years.
This gives Adjutant General Paul
seven more years to serve.
Additional bills signed recently
by the governor include a law
authorizing the state board of con
trol to accept from the federal
government and, operate the form
er Genoa Indian school, and an act
providing for state inspection and
registration of jacks and stallions.
The former bill is now in force
while the latter will not become ef
i fective until 90 days after the leg
| islature adjourns.
A day after the senate voted to
appropriate $20,000 to investigate
the state banking department, the
same body turned down a measure
to appropriate $10,000 for a legis
lative audit of the state treasury.
“‘Let the bonding companies pay
for the audit if they want it,” the
solons said.
After a bitterly fought contest
the legislature again turned, thumbs
down on the federal child labor
amendment. The bill was defeated
by a vote of 08 to 27 in the house,
making the fourth time that this
proposal has been turned down in
Nebraska in the past 10 years.
A resolution for ratification re
poses in a senate committee, but
in view of the overwhelming del
feat administered by the house,
there is little prospect that ratif
icationists will seek to press the
issue in the upper chamber.
Judging from remarks made by
members of the house, the defeat
of the measure was based on the
theory that “control of child labor
is particularly a state fifnction in
asmuch as the legislature of any
state is more apt to adapt those
laws and regulations that are pe
culiarly applicable to the state.”
It was felt that this amendment
is an undue interference on the
part of the federal government,
with domestic matters of the state.
Harsh words and physical com
(Continued on page 8, column 3.)
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