Evening Star Newspaper, October 28, 1928, Page 4

e N THE SUNDAY STAR, WASHINGTON, D. HECKLER HALTS CANNON'S SPEECH Fight ~ Threatens = When Charge of “Liar” Is Hurled in Auditorium. One lone supporter of the Democratic nominee for President, siiting amidst hundreds of cheering “Hoover Demo- crats,” who last night packed the Presi- dent Theater to hear Bishop James Cannon, jr., of the Southern Methodist | Church, aftack Tammany and Gov. Smith, . threatened for a moment to precipitate a fight when he hurled the charge of “liar” at the speaker for denying he was campaigning against Smith because of his religion. ‘When the heckler angrily voiced his | sentiments during the climax of the vigorous attack by Bishop Cannen on the Democratic standard bearer, a score of men rose in their seats searching for the disturber while many others | shouted and hissed their objections to the interruption. Bishop Cannon, however, disregarded | the discordant note and quiet was re- stored. The speaker was given ovation after ovation as he predicied defeat of Smith, accused him of repudiating the Democratic platform by his decision to “point the way” in reference to pro- hibition enforcement and immigration, and attacked Smith and John J. Ras- kob, chairman of the Democratic com- mittee, for their plans for “nullifica- tion” of prohibition and their leadership of the “Tammany crowd.” Challenges Glass. “Tammany,” Bishop Cannon charged, “is ‘a soclety held together by the co- | hesive force of public plunder.” Assertions by Senator Carter Glass of Virginia to the contrary, the speaker said, the oustanding issue of the pre: dential campaign now ‘drawing to a close is prohibition enforcement and the hopes of Tammany Democrats to repudiate the law, either through nul- lification or establishing of State liquor law control, which he held to be & “back-numbér” method already proved an utter faflure. Speaking as one “who had been a Democratic voter in Virginia for 43 years,” Bishop Cannon said his party owed. thanks to the Republicans for nominating a man of the character of Herbert Hoover, when the Democratic party for the first time had fallen into the control of Tammany Hall and had “disgraced” itself by naming Gov. Smith as the Nation's chieftain. Cites Political Duty. Apparently stung by the charges of being a “political parson,” Bishop Can- non frankly agreed he was a parson in- terested in politics and declared he had a right to be. “We.would be utterly unworthy of the trust imposed on a minisf f church,” he said, “if we skulked in this moral crisis. Here a member of the audience shouted: “I am a Hoover Democrat” and the gathering broke into prolonged applause. ishop Cannon was introduced by George H. Lamar, Montgomery County Democrat. James A. Edgerton, Prohi- bition .party presidential candate, who recently withdrew from the campaign |15 delivered a brief introductory speech, in which he said he had been a Democrat and turned a prohibitionist as a protest against Smith and his “repudiation” of the high ideals of the Democratic party. The meeting was held under auspices of the Anti-Smith Democratic nr‘“nxgln- tion of the cighth Virginia Congres- By the Associated Press. PHILADELPHIA, October 27.—Gov. Smith's speech, as prepared for de livery, was as follows: 1 shall begin tonight by disposing of lican candidate and some of his promi- nent supporters which, in my opinion, are beclouding the issues and are in- In his speech in Missouri last Mon- day night former Gov. Hughes, in dis- cussing the prohibition issue, said: o “We have a sham battie over prohibi- ion.” A sham battle? What does Gov. Hughes mean by that? Does he take the position that the American people are not concerned about prohibition? Does he mean to indicate that they are satisfied with conditions as they exist today? Further on in the same speech he said: “I 7o not say that the election of Gov. & nith would not greatly intensify the demand for a change.” “Nothing Sham About Issue.” Now, if my election will in fact in- tensify throughout the country a de- mand for a change in the prohibition law, by what process of reasoning does Gov. Hughes believe it to be a sham battle? If I understand the public sentiment in this country aright, there is nothing sham about this issue. It is a real one and comes very close to the heart and to the conscience of the American people. It involves bribery, corruption, lawlessness, intemperance and violation of and distespect for all law. Leading men in the business world, presidents of colleges and uni- versities, clergymen of various denomi- nations, men and women in all walks of life, are openly and fearlessly on record, irrespective of their political affiliations, in opposition to the condi- tion in which the country finds itself today as the result of the eighteenth amendment and the Volstead act. On this subject former President Hadley of Yale Univehsity in the fewest possible words voiced the feeling of millions of right-thinking men and women when he said: “The object of the eighteenth amend- ment was to stop drunkenness and promote public order. _This object has not been attained. The amendment and its enforcing statute, the Volstead act, have not only failed to secure either of these results, but have failed so conspicuously as to produce dis- respect for law among private citizens and public officials alike. For the last five years it has been the paramount duty of the party in power to recognize this situation and deal with it intelli- gently. This obligation it has failed to meet.” Quotes Taft Statement. Leaders of the American people who had vision and knowledge of human nature predicted what would result from the attempt to write a police statute into the fundamental law of the land. Pxormer Pr&lmdde'nt 'l;l‘z!n‘l.;l m;x?huld: “I am op to naf prohibition. I am o] to it because I think it is a mixing of the national Government in a matter that should be one of local settlement. “I am opposed to the presence of laws on the statute books that cannot be enforced and as such demoralize the enforcement of all laws * * * “I am not in favor of a national amendment which should force 12 or great States into a sumptuary system which the 'publlc opinion and the real practices of the people of those States would not support.” To my way of thinking, he seems to have hit the nail exactly on the head when he said: “The regulation of the sale and use of intoxicating liquors should be re- tained by the States. They can ex- - slonal district, of which Frank Fairfax is head. el ADMIRAL GRAYSON ORDERED RETIRED Capt. Charles M. Oman to Succeed Him as Head of Naval Dispensary. Rear Admiral Cary T. Grayson, who has commanded the naval dispensary at the Navy Department, is spending his last days in the service, for he will ve detached from duty Wednesday and be on leave until his formal retirement December 20. This announcement came yesterday from the Navy De t, Which' said his sucdessor at the naval dispensary will be Capt. Charles M. | Oman, who is being detached from the Naval Medical School here. + _The retirement of Admiral Grayson, ghyxizhn and close personal friend of vesident Wilson, will leave a vacancy under the Bureau of Medicine and Surgery for a rear admiral. Under present law, four doctors in the Navy are entitled to the rank of rear admiral and Rear Admiral E. R. Stitt, chief cf the Bureau of Medicine and Surgery, is due to retire in a few weeks and it is expected his successor will be named shortly after November 1. Since 1907, Admiral Grayson's duty has been practically all in and around ‘Washington. Capt. Oman, his successor, was born at Light Street, Columbia County, Pa., October 23, 1878, and was appointed an assistant surgeon December 8, 1901. He was made a captain December 28, 1921, and has had a wide service in the Navy, having done duty on the Asiatic station and’ on-numerous types of vessels. He was in_command of Base Hospital No. 1, in France during the World War. Until recently he was stationed with the Marine detachment at the legation at Peking, China. Capt. ©Oman was ordered to Washington as president of examining boards at the Naval Medical School. TRAINING PLANNED FOR SCOUTMASTERS Conferences Will Be Held Today and Tomorrow Under D. C. Council’'s Auspices. . A scoutmasters’ training conference | will be held here today and tomorrow under auspices of the leadership train- ing committee of the D. C. Council of | the Boy Scouts of America. Dr. H. W. Hurt, editor of the Boy | Scout Handbook, will address the con- ference tonight in the Y. M. C. A. ‘auditorium at 1736 G street. His sub- gxe‘ct will be “Character Values in Scout~ g and How Obtained.” The conference will begin this after- noon at 3 o'clock in the auditorium and will conclude tomorrow night with a session at the National Memorial Baptist Church, Sixteenth street and Columbia road. Commodore Thomas J. Keene, sea scout director of the Boy Scouts, will be the guest at the closing session. Training certificates will be awarded & group of scoutmasters tomorrow aft- ernoon, in the presence of Dick Douglas, a scout who accompanied Martin Johnson on his hunting expedi- tion to Africa recently. Douglas is a freshman at Georgetown University. Assigned to Monuments Group. Three officers of the Army have been ordered to this city for duty in the office of the American Battle Monu- ments Commission, War Department. They are Maj. Wilhelm D. Styer, Corps periment and improve. have the full power and the Federal has helped them by making it a Fed- eral offense to import liquor into their borders if they forbid it. If the power of ation is irrevocably committed to the General Government, the next ‘g'e'r_nenmn will live deeply to regret President Wilson, referring to pro- hibition, said: “You cannot regulate the morals and habits of a great cosmogollhn people by placing unreasonable restrictions upon their liberty and freedom. All such attempts can only end in failure and disappointment. In the last analysis, in these matters that seek to regxllu nal habits and customs, public opinion is the great regulator.” Refers to Hoover Statement. Al this must be known to Mr. Hughes, and I am unable to say by what process of reaséning he believes that constructive. policy put forward by me to meet the situation which these great leaders foresaw is a sham battle. It is a fair question to ask whether Mr. Hughes himself is satis- fied with the results of prohibition in this country. 5 Let us see if Mr. Hoover knows any- thing about it. As far back as 1918, when food administrator, he said: “If we stop brewing, the saloons of the country will still be open, but con- fined practically to a whisky and gin basis. Any true advocate of temper- ance and of national efficiency in these times will shrink from this situation, for the national danger in it is greater than the use of some four million bushels of grain monthly in the breweries.” He further said: “It is mighty difficult to get drunk on two and three quarters per cent beer. It will be easy enough if we force a substitution of distilled drinks for it.” ‘That is exactly what prohibition has brought about. ‘While there are no public saloons to- day, no person of any common sense will deny the fact that hard liquor can be procured in any part of this coun- try and is being illegally transported and illegally sold. Says Senate Made Study. ‘We have the sworn testimony of *he officials of the Government to make good this statement. Exactly what Mr. Hoover warned about 10 years ago is taking place in the United States today. Still he says it is “a noble experiment,” and Mr. Hughes says that the man who offers a suggestion to cure these evils is carrying on a sham battle. Mr. Hoover speaks about appointing a commission to find out what abuses there are in.the administration of the prohibition laws. The Senate studied this whole matter only a short time ago and they have before them the sworn testimony of the head of the prohibition enforcement agency in the whole country; and I quoted from it at great length in a spgech that I delivered in Milwaukee, Mr. Hoover shows from his own lips that he knows about it. He appeared before a committee appointed to bring in a plan for the reorganization of the executive departments of the Federal Government. The chairman of the com- mission asked him this question: “Mr. Secretary, was your attention called to the fact that the Secretary of the Treasury stated that in the judgment the Coast Guard and the Life-Saving Service were necessary now in the enforcement of prohibition?” What reply did Secretary Hoover make to that question? Here is what he safd: “That I would agree with, in the matter of the Coast Guard but not the Life-saving Service. I think it would be a great misfortune if the life-saving men were brought into prohibition en- forcement. The same thing has been suggested with regard to the Lighthouse Service. I cannot conceive anything that would corrupt the fine traditions and personnel of those groups of men than by having them plunge into police duty of that character.” Cites “Republican Gossip.” of Engineers, now stationed in New York City; Capt. Hubert W. Beyette, Quartermaster Corps, at Philadeiphia, lend Warrant Officer Charles B. Shaw, mporarky on duty at the Army War follege, Washington Barracks, ‘What did he have in his mind? The lighthouse and the life-saving men were under his, and and under Ws control. He, telling the chair- man of the col that he did not some statements made by the Repub- | tended to mislead the American public. | Gov. Smith Greeted in Philadelphia. TEXT OF GOV. SMITH’S PHILADELPHIA SPEECH —Associated Press Photo. want them corrupted by the blithing influence of prohibition enforcement. However, he was entirely satisfled and willing that the Coast Guard under the Secretary of Treasury and for which ke had no responsibility be put in a position where t.he*rI might be cor- rupted. This is what he refers to as “a noble experiment.” But he did not want any of his men to have anything to do with it. Lately I have heard a great deal of Republican gossip to the effect that “Smith could do nothing about the prohibition laws if he were elected.” Gov. Hughes voices that thought. Where did I hear that before? That was the stock argument made against me in the State of New York for years in the attempt to draw Republican sup- port away from my candidacy for the governorship when I advocated drastic changes in the structure and form of the government in the interest of econ- omy and efficiency. Under our New York State constitu- tion it is practically impossible to elect a Democratic Assemblv. Tn 1832 when 1 carried the State by 387,000 plurality I was_confromted with a Renubiican As- sembly. The word had been spread around by the Republican organization workers and leaders that “there is no use in voting for Smith. He can't do anything to benefit the government of New York State beacaus: the Legis- latnre won't be with him.” ‘The Republican platform itself openly declared against a constitutional execu- tive budget. They were bound by a solemn party promise not to do any- thing about it, and that lent force to the argument that Smith would not be able to accomplish his constructive reforms. . All Are Accomplished. They have all been accomplished: Reorganization of the ernment, shortening of the ballot, executive bud= get by constitutional law, bond issties for the elimination of dangerous rail- road crossings at grade, bond issues for parks and parkways looking to the health and comfort of future genera- tions, bond issues for the rehabilitation of the State’s hospitals, plants and structures, After a quarter of a century of Republican neglect these have all been accomplished in the State of New York in spite of the argument that “Smith couldn’t do anything with a hostile Legislature.” And how were they accomplished? By direct appeal to the peanle, by th» marshe'ing of orh- lic sentiment, by the focusing of public demand for these things directly upon the legislative bodies. It is a matter of history that these reforms were taken by the Revublican partv relnctantlv, al- though after once having been accom- plished they souflmc the credit for them. Suppose the kind of argument now made by Gov. Hughes had prevailed in the minds of the people of New York, we would have had no_ reorganization, we would have had no improvement. in the Government, things would have stood still. Nevertheless that is a part of the argument that Mr. Hughes now offers and it is a part of the whisper- ing campaigh to the effect that “Smith can accomplish nothing so far as pro- ition is concerned.” What did Mr. Hughes do himself when he was Governor of New York? When he suggested something to the Legislature of his own party which they rejected, using his own words, he ap- Yelled to the people. He did not be- ieve that he was carrying on any sham battle. He stated that he was in a real fight and he carried it directly to the rank and file of the people of the State of New York, and they backed him up. Promises Enforcement. He knows what I say is true. because he admits that my election will inten- sify the demand for a change in the prohibition laws. Gov. Hughes says that he feels that my election would Impede the efforts at enforcement. What efforts? The situation could not be worse than it is today all over the country. Is he sat- isfled with it? Is he willing to take his place alongside Mr. Hoover and do nothing about it, except to call it a noble experiment? If I had to admit that the American people were helpless to change the in- tolerable conditions which exist today, I would be forced in the next breath to deny the efficiency of Democratic rep- resentative government. I believ that with the facts clearly before them the American people will express their dissatisfaction with the present condition. I believe they are ready to remedy it. If elected, I shall discharge my con- stitutional duty and enforce the exist- ing law to the very best of my ability. At the same time, I shall carry this matter straight to the American people and lay it before them frankly and clearly. I have suggested a remedy which, in my opinion, will wipe out the evils of corruption and bootlegging, promote real temperance and restore respect fur law. It rests upon the fundamental doctrine of State’s rights. It would give to the people of each State the power | under the conditions set forth in my acceptance speech to determine for themselves the position they wish their State to take with respect to prohibi- tion. It would make the law sgain re- sponsive to the will of the peoplz them- selves, and I am satisfied that the jeo- ple themselves under constructive and intelligent leadership can be relied upon to effect this reform. Gov. Hughrsneed not worry—this is no sham battle. Refers to Tariff Issue. While we are correcting statements calculated to becloud the issues of tae campaign, let me correct a statement by Mr. Hoover nimself made in his speech at Boston. After referring to the fact that “the Tarilf Commission is a most valuable arm of the Govern- ment,” and that “it can be strength- ened and made more useful in several ways,” he said: “But the” Americon uopleho&never consent to delegating aut] over the tari to any commission, whether non-partisan of bi-partisan, Our pco- ple have a right to express themselves at the ballot box upon so vital a ques- tion as this. There is only one com- mission to which delegation of that authority can be made. That is the great commission of their own choos- ing, the Congress of the United States and the President.” Mr. Hoover could only have used these words for the purpose of be- | clouding the issue. No suggestion was | made by me that the tariff commission | should take the place of Congress, nor | s there a single line in the Democratic | platform to that effect. I definitely referred to the tariff commission as & fact-finding body to lay before the Congress of the United States the facts in detail so that Congress may inteli- gently exercise its power to make tarift bills.” I quoted former President Taft, who sald that the members of Con- gress themselves did not understand the tariff bills. He challenged anybody to tell what they meant after a read- ing of them. The only proposal that came from me with regard to the tariff commission was that it ought to be rehabilitated, it ought to be strength- ened, it ought to be put into the hands of the most capable persons that can be procured in this country. Mr. Hoover well knows that the proposal he seeks to inject into the controversy would require an amendment to the Constitution of the United States. Nobody ever even remotely suggested any such thing. He knows what a tariff commission is. He says it is a most_valuable arm of the Government; but he neglects to say that his own party palsied that valuable arm and rendered it useless, He knows that. And he further knows that when he intimated that I proposed to limit the power of Congress. he was doing it to muddy up the water. Refers to Business Attitude. Former Gov. Hughes, speaking of me in Missouri, commented on my state- ment that I want to take the tariff out of politics. He sald: “If history is clear about anything, it is that you can’t take the tariff out of politics.” Does Gov. Hughes really want to con- tinue to have the tariff treated as the foot ball of politics? Is he in accord with the present system of tariff-making by compromise and log-rolling? The American people themselves will take the tariff out of politics when they get the facts. The trouble today is that they have not got them and, as Presi- dent Taft. said, not even the members of Congress know what is in the tariff bill. Gov. Hughes did not make a very good point when he challenged my declaration that the tariff should be ‘taken out of polities. If Charles E. Hughes thinks that the present system of tariff-making has any widespread approval in this country. he does not keep track of the proceedings among business groups as outlined in the Jour- nal of Commerce only two days ago. The National Manufacturers’ Associa- tion, according to the Journal of Com- merce, in session here, passed resolu- tions declaring against the old-fash- foned log-rolling method of drawing up the tariff bill. .And I read from the headline: “They recommend that the commis- slon be taken entirely out of politics.” His party won't try it. I will. ‘Gov. Hughes argues, “Nothing can be done.” He found fault with me because I referred to the reactionary Repub- lican leaders as Bourbons, who learn m:thln?l and forget nothing. It seems to me he is making good my statement for me. I do not have to offer any evi- dence. I will take his—"“You cannot do anything about it.” A man with con- structive ideas. for the betterment of conditions is either fighting a sham battle or he is trying to do_something which cannot be done or, as Mr. Hoover sald, he is a Socialist. Defends Change in Position. In his Chicago speech Gov. Hughes sald that the Democratic party would have to eat crow to modify its tariff policy to meet the changed conditions of today. I do not see what license he has to make a statement of that kind. Why, even the Republican party some- times changes its position. It changed its position on the Federal reserve law. When that bill was pending be- fore Congress, during the administra- tion of President Wilson, only three Re- publican Senators voted for it. Senator Borah, the great Republican progressive, as he likes to hear himself called, voted in the negative. The speeches in the Senate indicate that the Republican party then feared that the Government was being gut into business, and that it | was probably a little journey into so- coalistic territory. In fact, Senator Borah, speaking against the Federal reserve act, said the following: “The wisdom of the matter I do not discuss, but is just as socialistic to as- semble the banking powers and then turn them over to the Government as it would be the railroads.” ‘Where did we hear that theory be- fore? That was the theory put forth in Madison Square Garden by the Re- publican candidats only last Monday, .speaking with reference to the Demo- cratic solution of the farm, water pow- er and prohibition questions, but read what they say about it today. Observe their change of attitude. Mellon today says about the Federal Reserve system: “In a few years of their existence, the Federal Reserve banks have demon- strated beyond any doubt their value to the country. During these years the country has come safely through & great war not only without a panic but with a minimum of strain upon its financial structure. Tha credit for this achievement is due in large measure to . the steadying influence exarted by the | Federal Reserve system.” “Meets Popular Will.” e Democratic b?l!‘ty all during its history has been able to.meet the pop- ular need and the popular will. Un- der the administration of President program, and that on! Wilson there was set a new standard of American living and of American wages, and the Democratic party is only living up to its history and to its tra- dition when . it declares that it will maintain that standard. Gov. Hughes attempts to make the int that the members of Congress will hold to tariff ideas that prevailed before the war and would be unwilling to follow my leader- ship in the declaration that I made at Louisville. ‘Tonight I will ease his mind on that subject and set to rest the fears generally of the Republican leaders as to what will happen in the event of Democratic success. A telegram has been sent to every Democratic member of Congress and every Democratic candidate for Con- gress, for the House and the Senate, asking their attitude with respect to my tariff declaration at Louisville. Ei~hty per cent of them have replied thus far. A few have not yet replied because of absence from home in cam- paign work. Every one who has replied has authorized his signature to the fol- lowing declaration: “We, the undersigned Democratic candidates for the House and Senate, reafirm the allegiance of our party to a non-partisan tariff commission as enunciated in the Democratic platform adopted at Houston, and declare our approval of the constructive interpreta- tion placed on the tariff plank by our standard bearer, Gov. Smith, in his Louisville sp2ech, when he said: ‘I defi- nitely pledge that the only change I will consider in the tariff will be spe- cific revisions in specific schedules, each, considered on its own merits on the basis of investigation by an impar- tial tariff commission and a careful hearing before Congress of all con- cerned. That no revision of any spe- cific schedule will have approval of Democratic party which in any way in- terferes with American standard of liv- ing and level of wages. In other words, I say to the American working man that the Democratic party will nof do a single thing that will take from his weekly pay efivelope a 5-cent plece. To the American farmer I say that the Democratic party will do everything in its power to put back into his pocket all that belongs there. And we further say that nothing will be done that will emparrass or interfere in any way with the legitimate progress of business, big or small. With this prescription hon- estly put forth with a clear-cut and definite promise to make it effective, I assert with confidence that neither labor nor industry, nor agriculture nor business has anything to fear from Democratic success at the polls in No- vember.' And we hereby pledge our co-operation in carrying out the prin- ciples and policies therein set forth.” Charges False Colors. ‘That puts an end to the effort of Gov. Hughes and his Republican col- leagues to disturb the business of this country by predictions of business up- heaval in the event of my election be- z:ulx; of the Democratic attitude to the riff. Week before last in the State of Mis- sourl I spoke on Federal finances and I clearly showed that the Republican administration at Washington was paint- ing for the people of the country a false picture, calculated to make them belleve that the present administration had reduced the cost of operating the Government. I clearly showed from figures taken from the public record that in 1927 and 1928 the Government cost more to operate than it did in the first year of the Coolidge administration. Secretary Mellon immediately came to the rescue of the administration and made the statement that I had dis- torted the figures. Let us see what he _offered to back up this statement. In the first place, he admitted that there was an increase in the cost of Government in the Coolidge administra- tion, although in a radio speech de- livered several weeks ago he claimed 1t had been decreasd. H says, however, that the figures which I gave showing an increase of $200,000,000 between 1924 and 1927 were wrong, and he says the increase is only $29,000,000. In order to get this figure, for some reason know only to himself, he left out of consid- eration the Post Office Department. Since when did that cease to be a part of the Federal Government? It is true it earns a revenue. The fact that postal revenue is earmarked for the use of the postal service no more justifies leaving post office expenditures out of a statement of Federal finances than I would be justlfied in leaving out the expenditures of the New York State Motor Vehicle Bureau because the 30- odd million dollars received from motor licenses are earmarked for highway pur- poses. This is a little more of the trick bookeeping that I spoke about, designed to withhold the truth about the increase in the cost of government under the present Republican administration. I said in Missouri, and I say again to- night in Pennsylvania, that the cost of government, between 1924 and 1927 in- crased $200,000,000. Cites Mellon’s Reports. Secretary Mellon in his own reports shows that expenditures were higher in 1925 than in 1924, and in 1926 they were still higher, -and that in the two years the increas® amounted to almost $80,000,000. In my speech in Missouri I spoke about the fallure of the Republican ad- ministration to make adequate appro- priations for the housing of our sol- dlers. Secretary Davis said that the complaint I made about inadequate housing had been taken-care of and, as a matter of protection, added what was not already attended to would be taken care of by the next Congress. | He knows nothing about what the next Congress will do, and it is not an answer to a statement of fact with re- gard to neglect to say that in the next Congress, or some following one, some- thing is going to done about it. Only # year ago, before the House commit- tee on appropriatiops, Secretary Davis testifled t it 1d require $100,- 000,000 to finance ghe Army housing a small amount ‘| ing sites. He further said: '| cessive cost of maintenance. could be obtained from the sale of exist- “I have not hssitated to ud quite frequently ‘that I think the condition of our housing is a very serious matter and almost amounts to a national scandal, and if money was available certainly an additional amount could and should be_expended on that item.” Was ths $100,000,000 appropriated? Secretary Davis knows that it was not, and he further knows that he rusned to the rescue of the Republcan admin- istration with a misleading statement. Ths same situation obtained in the Navy. Everybody remembers that Ad- miral Magruder wrote an article for the Saturday Evening Post entitled “The Navy and Economy,” in which he charged that the Navy had. failed to demobilize after the World War, that it was over-organized and overstaffed and still on a war-time basis. He sald there were too many navy yards and that they were being. maintained for political purposes, that.in one fiscal year the cost of maintenance of the yards was . $61,000,000, although only $16,000,000 worth of repairs was done. Refers to Magruder Case. Immediately after making these charges Admiral Magruder was called to the Navy Department to justify his claim. He was then called before the House committee on naval affairs and questioned about this article. He re- iterated all of his charges of extrav- egance, failure to demobilize and ex- The re- sult was that he was relieved of his pest as _commandant of the Phila- delphia Navy Yard by the secret«rg of the Navy. He appealed to President Coolidge. The President rejected his appeal. He is still on the waiting list. This is what happens to a man who ventures a suggestion for real economy when it interferes with political patronage. Gov. Hughes at Chicago distorted by Missouri speech into a criticism of econ- omy. I carefully said in the State of Missouri that I gave the Federal Gov- ernment full credit for every economy in government 1t effected, and I went so far as to say that I not only ap- proved that, but that I insisted on it in the government of New York State. What I criticized was the attempt to ROBINSON PLEDGES CURE OF FARM ILLS Tells lowa G. 0. P. Has “Tri- | fled Eight Years” With Relief Problem. By the Associated Press. DES MOINES, October 27.—Here in the center of the State where the tall corn grows and where a large share of the McNary-Haugen enthusiasm grew to full vigor, Senator Joe T. Robinson tonight pledged the Democratic. na- tional ticket to a speedy solution of the farmers’ ills. The address, which was broadcast over a radio hook-up, was calculated by Democratic leaders to be the climax’ of Senator Robinson's tour of the Mid- dle West, during which™ he has de- nounced in upward of a score of speech- es what he termed “the broken prom- ises of the Republican party in the last eight years ™ Declaring that the position of the two major parties on farm relief has been cleagly defined, the nominee told his audience that the time was at hand | when the farmers might “express them< selves effectively” by voting the Demo- cratic ticket. “If the farmers neglect this oppor- tunity,” he sald, “they are doomed to disappointment and despalr. “The Republicans have trifled for eight years with the farm relief prob- lem. If the Democrats are afforded the opportunity, we will accomplish within a few months what the Republicans have failed to do in eight years—that which will never be done if Mr. Hoover becomes President.” The Senator charged Hoover with being “largely responsible for the failure of farm relief legislation” and renewed in considerable detail his declaration that the Republican. candi- use a few petty economies to lead the American people to believe that there has been a reduction in the cost of government under Mr. Coolidge. This brings me to something which, if put into effect, would have resulted in a real economy. A real economy-| means a benefit not only to every tax- payer but to every citizen, because the burden of the cost of government rests not only on those who pay taxes directly. but on all the citizens of the country. The tax burden has a way of being passed along and being borne finally by the people. who pay the rent and buy the necessaries of life. Economical administration of the government is, therefore, a matter of vital importance to every one of us. Quotes 1920 Program. Let us take a look at the Republican platform for 1920: “We advocate a thorough investiga- tion of the present organization of the Federal departments and bureaus with a view to securing consolidation, a more businesslike distribution of functions, the eliminaton of dublication, delays and overlapping of work and the estab- lishment of an up-to-date and efficient administrative organization.” The_present make-up of Federal de- partments in Washington comorises at least 200 units. Not all of these fall within the 10 departments whose heads sit in the President's Cabinet. Forty or more of the urits, involving upward of 50,000 employes, are independent in the sense tha% they report to no mem- ber of the Cabinet. 3 T could give no better explanation | of the present disorganized and dis-, jointed governmental svstem at Wash- ington than that given by former Post- master General Hays In a speech that he delivered to the Fifth Avenue Asso- ciation of New York as far back as November, 1921. when he said: “When President Harding began his administration he found deplorable con- ditions in what I may term the house- keeping part of the business manage- ment part. of the Government, every- where throughout Washington, aggra- vated of course by the war situation; yet the inefficlency was not the result of the last few years. It goes to the heart of the Government. The Gov- ernment has been growing for 132 years, ‘but its growth has not been symmetri- cal, like the growth of a tree, nor has it been built up like your own great busi- ness institutions. It hds been a growth of adding a bureau here and a department there, without any fegard for relevancy, appropriateness, efliciency or economy. The result is that if you could visualize the Government as a business or ad- ministrative unit, you would see some- thing much like one of those grotesque spectacles of a big oyster shell, to which in the course of years big and irregular masses of barnacles have attached themselves, without symmetry or relev- ancy.” Recalls “Lack of System.” Mr. Hays recalled what he called a laughable lack of system, and he sald that Mr. Hoover himself had called it to his attention. He talked about con- servation of wild life in so far as it applies to bears. Arctic bears come un- der the Secretary of Commerce; grizzly bears are cared for by the Secretary of the Interior, and brown bears are looked after by the Department of Agri- culture. He also referred to the business man who came to Washington to sell road dressing to_the Government only to find out he had to see eight dif- ferent department heads because the buiiding of roads was under the juris- diction of eight ple. He told the story of the 300 life-saving stations un- der the Coast Guard Service, which, by the way, 1s in_the Treasury Depart- ment, while the Lighthouse Service, with many of the lighthouses located within a few steps of the life-savings stations, is in the Department of Commerce. A half dozen separate agencies of the Government disseminate intelligence -to the navigation interests of the country. Charts of the American sections of the Great Lakes are pre] and fur- nished by the lake survey water de- partment. Charts of the Canada sec- tions of the Great Lakes and of foreign waters are furnished by the Navy De- partment. Charts of our Atlantic and Pacific coasts and of territorial waters are prepared and furnished by the De- partment of Commerce. Storm warn- ings are sent out by the Weather Bu- reau of the Department of Agriculture. Nautical almanacs are provided by the Naval Observatory. »Mr. Hays further said: “It is not necessary to point out the numerous duplications of overhead, of plant, equipment and of personnel which unavoidably accompany this scattering of similar work among dif- ferent departments. To all intents and purposes the 10 great executive depart- mens have been functioning independ- ently of each other, and forty-odd es- tablishments not under any cabinet officer conduct their business practi- cally without any co-ordinating influ- ence whatever.” “Promise Renewed.” ‘This speech by tHe Postmaster Gene eral, made as early as 1921, and the definite platform pledge of 1920, held a hope out to the people of the coun- try that they could look forward at an early date to a reorganization of: the machinery of the Federal Government in the interest of a greater efficiency and economy. Dupring the Harding administration nothing happened. The platform plank and the eloquent speech were entirely forgotten. In 1924, following its old-time trick, we find the Republican party back again with a renewal of the promise. Their platform said: “We favor a comprehensive reorgan- ization of the executive departments and bureaus along the lines of the plan recently submitted by a joint commit- tee of the Congress which has the un- qualified support of President Coolidge.” What happened in the last - four years? The plan approved by that plat- date “sought to keep down the prices of agricultural products in the interest of consumers.” Senator Robinson spent the night in Des. Moines. Tomorrow he will re- sume his campaign by traveling into Ilinois, where he will make a series of speeches next week. Persian Highway Opened. Accompanied by members of his cab- inet, the Shah of Persia attended the opening of a new commercial highway in that country last week, according to advices received at the Persian lega- tion here. The highway runs between Khoromabad and Louristan and is ex- pected to do much for trade. form declaration was thrown inh the waste basket, and in its place just two consolidations were effected. The Bu- reau of Mines and the Patent Office were transferred fro mthe Department of the Interior to the- Department of Com- merce. That is the sum total of the re- organization . in pursuance of that Biedga. And the United States Cham- r of Commerce at its sixteenth an- nual meeting in May of this year said: “No ’pmxress has been made on the plan of reorganization of the Govern- ment departments, as advocated by the chamber.” That brings us down to date. I have searched through the Repub- lican platform of 1928, and it does not even mention reorganization. As far as the Republican party is concerned, they not only broke their- word from 1921 to 1928, but they hold out not even a future promise. And in the face of this, in the platform of 1928, they say to the people of America: “Our words We offer no promise, but accomplish- ments.” So far as reorganization of the Gov- ernment is concerned, they can point to no accomplishment, and they don't PLAYS 10/ BE PRE 1 SENTED BY C MMUNITY GOILD . j Four Major Events ‘Are Projected for Centérs With Opening Pro- gram in November. The Community Drama Guild, spon- sored by the Community Center De- partment of the ptblic schools, has planned to present a limited number or dramatic offerings during the Winter. The scason will open with a special program in November. Four major events are planned for the season, one of which will be the ons-act play tournament in late February. This will consist of a number of regional elimination contests. Several citizens interested in the de- velopment of amateur drama here have already made guaranties to the extent of 8500 toward the desired fund of $3,000 which will be needed this sea- son. Among those who will serve on the advisory committee for the first season of the Community Drama Guild are Mrs. Minnigerode Andrews, Mrs. Carey H. Brown, Robert J. Cottrell, Dr. De- ‘Witt C. Croissant, Mrs. Frederic E. Far- rington, J. P, S, Neligh, Miss Ethel T, Prince, Mrs. Maude Howell Smith and Rev. Earle Wilfley. Philippine Scout Resigns. ‘The President has accepted the resig- nation of First Lieut. Guy McK. Over- man, Philippine Scouts, of Iowa, who entered the military service at the out= break of the World War. THE WEATHER District of Columbia—Cloudy, pre- ceded by showers today; tomorrow fair, not much change in temperature; gentle to moderate southwest, shifting to west and northwest winds. Virgirila—Cloudy, preceded by rain today; tomorrow partly cloudy and con- tinued cool; moderate southwest, shift- to west and northwest winds. Maryland—Cloudy, possibly. preceded by rain today; tomorrow partly cloudy; continued cool; ~moderate southwest, shifting to northwest winds. . West Virginia—Cloudy, preceded by showers in south’ and extreme east por- tions today; tomotrow cloudy; not much change in temperature. Records for 24 Hours. Temperature—Midnight, 41; 2 am, 41; 4 am,.38; 6 am. 37; 8 am., 3 10 am., 39;°12 noon, 46; 2 p.m., 50; pm., 50; 6 pm., 49; 8 pm, 47; pm., 49. Highest, 51; lowest, 24. 5; 4 Highest, 74; lowest, 40. - Tide Tables. (Furnished by the United States Coast and Geodetic ‘Survey.) ‘Today—Low tide, 1:26 a.m. and 1:38 p.m.; high tide, 7:09 a.m. and 7:32 p.m. ‘Tomorrow—Low tide, 2:15 a.m. and 2:23 p.m.; high tide, 7:58 am. and 8:20 pm. The Sun and Moon. ‘Today—Sun rose 6:31 a.m.; sun sets 5:13 pm. ‘Tomorrow—Sun rises 6:32 a.m.; sun sets 5:12 p.m. Moon risés 5:18 a.m.; sets 5:55 pm. . Automobile lamps be lighted one- half hour after sunset. Condition of the water—Great Falls, clear. . Harpers Ferry—Potomac, clean; Shen- andoah, clear. Weather in Various Cities. ~Temper: Max. Min. Fri. Asheville, N. C. Atlanta, Ga.. Atlantic City. N. Bal Ittmore, Birmingham. marck. N. have been made deals. | Bis even make another pi On the g:flh::nl;lnfl, the D;llxl:;:iuc party spe- | Des - Mo! pledges a esslike reorgan- all the departments of the B Government, the elimination of dupli- cation, waste and overlapping and the substitution of modern, businesslike a, Mon Indianapolis, Tnd. Jacksonville, Fla. methods for existing obsolete and anti- X quated conditions. In all that night, I believe that I have made out T have stated here to- |1 a case for a just statement on my part |y, that the Republican party is seeking to contintie control of this uounu’ydundef Now Oniea false pretenses. It misstates an represents the Democratic attitude, mis- | Omah: states and m!.ure?menq its own atti- tude and boasts of accomplishments that in fact never took place. It is for the American electorate on the hst}x of N&veember to decide hovg much longer they are ready to stan for broken promises and misstatements. To bring the Government into har- | s, mony with modern progress and effi- ciency, it will be necessary to restore |33 the Democratic party to power, and to- n_ Fri Santa Fe. Savannah. night in Philadelphia I confidently as- | T: sert that that will be the decision of the Americam people on election day. Miss WASHINGTGN. D. Will cash help your business progress? 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