V.gabond Editorials

Bv Jock Dionne

I'd really like to know whether or not men get the same kick-back from the printed word that they do from the spoken word. If I thought they DID I would quit mentioning the New Deal in this column entirely. 'f{.*

It's getting so the men I talk to on the subject almost have spasms, conniption fits, or whatever the worst thing is a man can have, just at the mention of it. Looks to me like most business men are going to have to cut that topic from their oral diet, just to protect their own health.

If you pass a couple ", O*tr"* men who are engaged in conversation, and their fists are doubled up, their eyes popping out, their faces red, and they look like apoplexy is about to mow them down; you don't need to ask what they are talking about. It's a cinch. ti,F*

The news is being heralded from Washingt_on continually of late that "organized business" is bitterly opposing the New Deal. I don't know so much about what ..organized" business thinks, but what INDMDUAL business men say just cannot be printed.

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Now just between us girls, isn't that a Hell of a condition to be prevalent just at this time? Business slugging away at the New Deal. The New Deal apparently slugging just as hard at business. And, this in the name of ,,Recovery." ***

Were Madam de Stael here now, well she might change her famous remark to say: "Oh, Recovery! What crimes are committed in thy name !" {.*!k rl. rl. ,1. r shudder to think "f t; ;";r.

Four billion dollars is starting to flow for the declared purpose of putting 3,500,000 men to work for a year. The intent is that at the end of the year those men rnust have been absorbed into private industry.

Just how is that going to be accomplished with business and the New Deal at swords points? And, if it DOESN'T lvork out, and at the end of the year the four billion is gone and those men HAVE NOT been drafted into private employment - - then what?

My personal opinion is that a large majority of those men WILL be employed by private industry in the next year, in spite of the battle that rages. Men are going to work every day now in gainful and useful jobs. And, that progress will accelerate. Ending NRA put lots of men to work. Ending AAA would do the same. And THAT looks doomed. ***

But what makes me cry is that the progress COULD be so much more rapid, so v€r/r very easily. If we would just quit thinking of new schemes, new laws, new reforms, new experiments, and let this blessed land alone for a little while, it would get well so fast it would scare you.

We wouldn't simply GET well. We would simply wake up and discover that we ARE well. Fear is the thing that holds us back. Fear of new rules, new laws, new experiments, new ways of wasting money, new taxes, new bureaus, new invasion of private business and private affairs.

Take care of the worthy on relief rolls. Purge those rolls of the army that doesn't belong there. Start reducing rather than increasing Government fingers in business. Start acting just like people and Government used to act. This country is O. K. All it needs is a chance to prove it. The cripple will never know whether he has recovered or not if they never take the braces off. Business would employ all the employable people in less than no time. * rt rl

'We're ready for a boom in this country. *,f*

Surely the Saturday Evening Post remark quoted in this column the other day to the effect that "this country is divided into two classes, those who want something for nothing and those who don't $'ant to give it to them," is gospel true. The other day there was a meeting of cotton people in New Orleans. The GROWERS WHO GET PAID FOR NOT GROWING cotton, praised AAA. The rest of the industry denounced it. Those on the payroll are for it. Those who have to pay the bill, whose businesses they say are being wiped out, whose jobs are at stake-they denounce it. And, so it goes.

I don't want anyone to get the idea that I have the least objection to taxing over-sized incomes with over-sized

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