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Southland Times, Issue 23336, 21 October 1937, Page 16

A drift toward “too much Government” was advanced by Mr J. R. Finlay, an American tourist visiting Christchurch, as the main ractor in the appearance of a certain amount of internal dissension in the United States of America, during recent months. Mr Finlay said that when he left America some months ago the country was in the midst of a boom, and the natural reaction had apparently materialized since. Many of the more conservative did not approve of the President’s ‘ new deal”; but the trouble, in a nutshell, was that the expense of Government had been multiplied by 12 in the last 20 years—enough to have made many people uneasy. The drift was, like the position in other countries, toward too much government regulation—toward the development of a bureaucracy, and everyone was more or less mystified about what was to happen next.