AMERICA'S “NEW DEAL”

Otago Daily Times, Issue 22659, 26 August 1935, Page 9

AMERICA'S “NEW DEAL”

MR HOOVER’S CRITICISM REPLY BY THE PRESIDENT WASHINGTON, August 25. (Received August 25, at 10 p.m.) The expected adjournment of the first session of the seventy-fourth Congress failed to materialise when legislators unexpectedly engaged in a lastminute inter-House dispute over the 400,000,000 dollars Appropriation BillPreviously both Houses cleared the major pending measures, including social security, embracing old age pensions and unemployment insurance, and the Neutrality Bill, designed to keep the United States out of war. They were unable to agree on the Appropriation Bill, and at midnight both Houses went into recess and will probably be reconvened on Monday for a few hours. Before the adjournment President Roosevelt, in a radio speech, summoned the youth of the nation to "unite and challenge the old order on behalf of the new.” He also defended the "Brain Trust,” declaring: “The Government today requires higher standards from those who would serve it. Let me emphasise that serious as have been the errors of unrestrained individual enterprise,' the freedom and opportunity that have characterised American development in the past can be maintained if we recognise the fact that the individual system of our day calls for the collaboration of all of us to provide at least security for all of us.” Political observers interpreted the address as a direct reply to Mr Hoover’s recent criticism that the “ New Deal ” was suppressing individual endeavour.