SISTERS UNDER THE SKIN

Wairarapa Times-Age, 3 April 1939, Page 6

SISTERS UNDER THE SKIN

ROOSEVELT’S NEW DEAL. An American economist, Dr Virgil Jordan, speaks of the Roosevelt new deal in a style not wholly inapplicable to policies nearer home. He says: — “We do not call it a revolution, a putsch, a liquidation or a purge. We call it. national planning, economic mobilisation, stabilisation, redistribution of income, or a new deal. We have no Storm Troopers, secret police or concentration camjas, but we have our Congressional committees, our economic experts, and our labour union flying squads. We don’t smash and loot Jewish shop windows and assess our Semitic minority billion mark fines; we only sit down in employers’ plants, sabotage production and levy billions of dollars of taxes on the productive capital of the country every year. We don't need to use printing presses to dilute and destroy the savings of small .property-owners; we have Treasury bonds, devalued dollars and streamlined methods of Government book-, keeping.”