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America forced along the road to Caesarism by the NRA was the picture which emerged from the meeting of the Politics Club held last evening in the Common Room of Lowell House. Attended by many members of the faculty of the Departments of Government and Economics and the Law School, the heated discussion sketched out some of the likely developments in the American scene...
Declaring that there can be no return to normalcy William Y. Elliott, Professor of Government, declared that the Roosevelt Administration "cannot turn back from paternalism and must undertake further state supervision," and that the United States is heading for a condition which "will closely aproach state capitalism. The NRA envisions a state which must coerce its economic life." Edward S. Mason, Associate Professor of Economics, agreed that in order to carry out the economic program of the present administration "the government must set up an elaborate policing machine to enforce its policies...
...whole thing is hopelessly unconstitutional," was the legal opinion as voiced by James A. McLaughlin, Professor of Law. It might be highly inadvisable, he argued, to scrap the Constitution completely and so suddenly, since the courts will uphold the NRA as only an emergency measure...
...government does not enter in, since the ruling on college exemption frees Harvard from any definite obligation. The theory of this exemption is simply that the more youths are absorbed by educational institutions, the fewer there are to swell the still formidable ranks of the unemployed. Adherence to NRA dictates, in the vast majority of colleges, would immediately result in stepping up tuition, board, and room rents, thereby forcing some students to drop out and preventing others from entering...
Mayor Russell told the CRIMSON that Harvard would be unjustified in opening a free parking space to students and thereby taking business away from the Harvard Square garages. "Harvard should support the NRA and not damage the garage business," he said...