Evening Star Newspaper, October 1, 1932, Page 3

ROOSEVELT GIVEN MORTGAGE REPLY s Oharges New Yorker | Wisrepresented Position ‘}* of President Hoover. @mecial Dispatch to The Star. ST. LOUIS, Mo., October 1.—Direct yeference to Gov. Franklin Roosevelt, Sremecratic presidential nominee, was made by Ogden L. Mills, Secretary of the Treasury, in his address here last hight. Mr. Mills said, in part “I have and I shall continue to treat Gov. Roosevelt with all the courtesy to which he is entitled as a candidate for a great office, but as such he is expected to observe the proprieties. In practically every speech he has made he has cov- ertly and slyly misrepresented the posi- tion of the President of ihe United States. “Last night he did so openly and di- rectly. This will not do. The American people will not tolerate it. Last night at | Sioux City referring to the latest move to deal effectively with the farm mort- gage situation the Democratic candidate A “*Today I read in the papers that for the first’ time the administration of President Hoover has discovered the fact that there is such a thing as the farm mortgage.’ “Grossly Inaccurate.” “This is a statement which is grossly and demonstratably inaccurate "But, before giving the facts, let me remind my life-long friend and neigh- | bor, Gov. Roosevelt, whose country es- tate on the Hudson, which became his “farm’ overnight, is no more mortgaged | than is ‘my farm’ only six miles away, that Herbert Hoover knows the meaning | of ‘farm mortgage’ as few men in high | position do. For he was born on'an| Jowa farm, and the word mortgage must be among his earliest recollections. | To a boy of 10 it probably meant little, | but there is burned in the memory of the man the anxiety and care which these words brought to the fireside of an humble home. “He heard the term 50 years ago and sensed its meaning then.” He has not | forgotten it | “Indeed, throughout this depression | he has constantly reminded me that the | salvation of the borrower must be borne | in mind. He was the one that was being destroyed. His was the home., whether farm or urban, that must be saved. | Provided for Borrower. | “In the first conference held with | congressional leaders on October 6, 1931, | at which the President informed them of the great danger which threatened our people following the European col- lapse, the President emphasized the | position of the farm borrower | “Even then he included in his pro- | gram in increased capital to the Federal | land banks to permit greater leniency | to farm mortgagors and the creation | of an emergency finance corporation to provide for their further needs | “In the whole of the gigantic relief | program which he initiated and car- | ried through the needs of the borrower | were particularly provided for | “Who are the principal loaners on | farm mortgages? The banks. the in- | surance companies, the Farm Loan Banks and the Joint Stock Land Banks Al of these are authorized to borrow from the Reconstruction Finance Cor- poration. To save the credit machinery of the country? Yes. But also to lend strength and help to the users of the credit and borrowers who. through the terrible falling prices. are finding them- | 1 i | | | | selves in a more and more difficult sit- uvation. Called Emfity Promise. | “The resources are available. The | machinery is set up. The latest move | which causes the Governor so much concern is simply an organized effort to make the machinery function more | effectively before Winter comes. i “What of Gov. Roosevelt's offer? l} N “All he says is that ‘I will do every- thing in my power to bring relief.’ “Just one more empty promise added to the scores with which he has flooded the country, without once stat- ing specifically what he will do or how he proposes to make good.” ‘Gov. Roosevelt's speeches furnish a confused picture of where he stands on | the tariff question. He accepts the Democratic platform’s dec'aration in favor of a competitive tariff for revenue, and has been sharp in his criticism of | both the tariff act of 1922 and that cf | 1930. Yet. in his Topeka speech, he| definitely promises the farmer a full measure of tariff protection. | “He says he will attempt to broaden | our export market by sacrificing part Dli the home market to foreign goods.| though he has failed to specify whether | the increased purchasing power abroad | will be acequate to replace the less nf‘ the home market to American bro- ducers. He would accomplish this result by a series of bargaining tariffs with foreign countries. Which contries? What American goods. produced by American labor, are to be sacrificed in the hope of obtaining a foreign market for other American goods? What sec- tion of the country is to be sacrificed? | ~ SPECIAL NOTICES. 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GILL ANNOUNCES that he has retired from the firm of He:i- be-: A Gill & Son. and that the business will Pe continued under the same firm name by | M [ERBERT A GILL. | THEO. N. GILL. Jr. y September 28, 1932. _ CHAIRS FOR _RENT., SUITABLE FGR PRIDGE PARTIES banguets. weadings and | n ngs. 10c up per day each: ew chai's | Ko Tavauid rolling chairs for rent or sale TNTTED STATES STORAGE CO 418 10th & nw. Meiropoliar 1841 i GRAPE JUIC Terminal Refrigerating.” 11th and E SW__2* 5% TREASURY DEPARTMENT. Office of the Comptrolier of the Currency. ‘Washington, D. C September 22, 1932. e 1s hereby given lo all persons who ve claims azainst “The Departmental Bank.”” Washington, D. C.. that the same must be presented to W. B. Allman. Re-| ceiver, with the legal proof thereof, within three monihs from this date or they may llowed. o (Signed) P. G. AWALT, Acting Comptrolier of the Currency. SWEET CIDER—APPLES; at QUAINT ACRES Silver Spring. Colesville pike (Route 27). only 4 miles out. Cider made fresh on the farm C._JUBB_817 Not ma Apples—Sweet Cider | Rockville Fruit Farm | ve to Rockville Md.. Then One Mile prive t0 ROGAY Potomac Rd. _'HIR"}’IACE VACUUM CLEANED, | (250, Pauis forevery, Turnace: gas and oil heat installe obe: Heating Co., 1395 Fla. ave. Lin. 000, A LEAKY ROOF! Don't wait for this tragedy to happen. 8end for us before big rains come and et our free report on the condition of vour roof. No obligation. —Feel safe. KOON !é:::\n o 933V St. N-W, North 4423 | the situation | with that of President Hoover, | with all Democratic Primary Board Will Defend G.O.P. of Tennessee| Success of Plan Would Make Candidates Run at ’Large, Aiding Democrats. By the Associated Prees. KNOXVILLE, Tenn., October 1.—The right ot East Tennessee Republicans to representation in Congress will be de- fended by the State Democratic primary board in Federal Court here today. J. J. Lynch of counsel for the primary board announced that as one of his principal points to be argued in oppo- sition to an effort by Dr. John R. Neal of Knoxville to invalidate the Tennes- see congressional redistricting law. Dr. Neal is asking from District Judge George Taylor an interlocutory injunc- tion to prevent the State Demoeratic and Republican primary boards from certifying the names of congressional candidates to county election commis- sions. Fhe effect of such an injunc- tion, if granted. would be to force the | nine Representatives to run from the State at large. The first and second districts nor- mally send Republicans to Congress. Lynch took the position that a prepon- derance of Democrats in the remainder of the State would prevent election of | Republicans to any of the congressional seats in a State-wide race and rob the Republicans of those districts of their Representatives. B. Carroll Reece of Johnson City and | J. Will Taylor of Knoxville are the Re- publiean nominees in those districts. Which one is to gain? These are facts | that we ought to know. Bargaining Policy Analyzed. “I wonder whether Gov. Roosevell has taken into consideration the fact that we have forcgone a policy of bar- | gaining with separate countries and re- lied on uniform treatment to all. be- cause, unlike some countries which have only one or two industries of national importance, which can be benefited by ! such trade agreements, our country is | so great, its resources are so diversified | and ample and its industries so varied and complete that bargaining tariffs | must in our case inevitabiy result in favoring some industries at the expense | of others in favoring one section of | the country to the disadvantage of other sections, probably resulting in a net loss to all ‘We know that Gov. Roosevelt favors | the independence of the Philippines: | that he is opposed to the technical cancellation of foreign debts. though his solution of the foreign debt prob- | [lem involves their actual payment by | our own people; but we have vet to| hear a word as to his views on foreign ; relations and world problems. which | is strange when we consider that the last time he ran for Nation-wide o¥ice he based his entire campaign on a| plea to the American people to join ! the League of Nations. In fairness o | him it must be stated that what was | then to him a sacred cause has re- | cently been dropped as a lost one. Speeches “Series of Lectures.” ! “Gov. Roosevelt simply ignores the issues, unless we are to assume that he accepts the administration program | and policies. Except for his railroad | speech. he has delivered a series of lectures, which are almost academic | in their relation to the realities of He has shown no dence of having come to grips with | the real economic problems, or of hav- | ing developed any program for deai- ing with the depression. s “Compare Gov. Roosevelt's position as out- Lned in latter's specch of ac- ceptaiice. 5 “I would like to spend a few minutes in calling your attention to the philo ophy of government and to the under- Iving principles which give coherence, unity and dircction to the President’s actions and policies. the ernment in these times is to use its re- serve powers and its strength for the protection of citizens and local govern- | ments by support to our msmutmx;<i € he function of the Government | against forces beyond their control ve individuals of their respon- sibilities to their neighbors, or to re- lieve private institutions of their re- sponsibilities to the public, or of local | government to the States. or of State governments to the Federal Govern-| ment. In giving that protection and that aid the Federal Government must | insist_that all of them exert their re-| sponsibilities in full. It is vital that the programs of the Government shall | not compete with or replace any of | them, but shall add to their initiative and their sieength **The solution of our many problems which arise from the shifting scene of national life is not to be found in hap- hazard experimentation or by revolu- tion It must be through organic de- velopment of our national life under these ideals. It must secure that co- operative action which builds initiative and strength outside of government. It does not follow, because our difficulties are stupendous, because there are some souls timorous enough to doubt the validity and effectiveness of our ideals and our system, that we must turn to a State-controlled or State-directed so- cial or economic system in order to cure our troubles. That is not liberalism: it is tyranny. It is the regimentation of mer under autocratic bureaucracy its extinction of liberty, of hope. and of opportunity. Of course, no men of understanding says that our system works perfectly. It does not. The human race is not perfect. Never- theless, the movement of a true civili- zation is toward freedom rather than regimentation.’ Three Thoughts Uppermost. “Throughout his conception of the part Government has to play in these critical times, you will find three thoughts: First, that though the Gov- ernment must furnish the leadership and assure the co-brdination and co- operation of existing agencies, institu- tions and groups, vet success must ultimately depend on the initiative, the courage and the fortitude of the peo- ple themselves: secondly, that when it becomes neces because of the mag- nitude of an emergency, for the Gov- ernment itself directly to enter the field through the creation of emergency in- strumentalities, they should be of such character as to supplement rather than to supplant or weaken existing intitu- tions and organizations, and should be | set up in such form that, once the emergency is passed, they can be de- mobilized. leaving our economic and governmental structure unweakened ana | unimpeired, and, third, as he himelt said: We have resolutely rejected the temptation. under bressure of imme- diate events, to resort to those panaceas and short cuts which, even if tempo- rarily successful, would ultimately un- dermine and weaken what has slowly cen built and molded by experience and effort throughout these hundred and fifty years “Let me give a few illustratior It was in accordance with these prin- ciples that, in the earlier stages of the depression. the President called the leaders of business and labor together and induced them by voluntary action . to take those steps which would { cushion the initial eflects of the col- lapse. i P‘slt was in accordance with these; principles that he assumed the leader- | ship in mobilizing all of the local relief | organizations and agencies throughout] the country to assist destitution. “It was in accordance with these principles that the Reconstruction Fi- nance Corgyaticn fame into being, not to supplant existing institutions and functions, bu structure of th: United States and to raise the shield of Government credit to protect our g tat credit and other agencies, and, act.\g thgough them, to | to bring relief, among which was the ! the State next week | Mr. Curtis speaks at a political meet- { proaching 1,000,000, will be included in ! and whose means of obtaining credit {late industry !expansion of capital expenditures, de- |lic_constuction projects, advising it in | to uphold the credit | THE EVENING ¥ CURTIS REASSURES OIL MEN AT DINNER :Oklahoma Tour to End With Indian Fetes — Dakota Demonstration Planned. 1By the Associated Press. | PONCA CITY, Okla, October 1.— ! Nearing the end of his three-day Okla- homa campaign tour, Vice President Charles Curtis travels today into the Osage Indian country and to the State Free Fair at Muskogee. At Pawhuska, the Osage capital, he was to be greeted by a delegation of In- | dian friends, including a group from the | {Kaw tribe, of which the Vice President | is a regularly enrolled member. A pa- rade, barbecue and Indian dance have | been arranged by the Red men in honor i of the distinguished Kaw. The Vice President told an audienge here last night the Hoover administra- tion has placed the Nation in a position to go forward to a new and lasting | prosperity. | Preceding the address, he attended a | dinner of the petroleum division of the | American Institute of Mining and Met- | allurgical Engineers. Oil Problem Known. Discussing the ofl industry in & brief speech, he said: “I know how serious is your problem and so does. the President in Washing- | on The Vice President said last night: | “After every great war and after periods of wild speculation hard times have followed. We have gone through many | such periods and each time the Nation has become stronger and more powerful until today it is the leading nation | of the world.” ! Curtis traced former times of eco- nomic stress through the history of the United States, starting with 1837, “when | labor was out of employment, firms went out of business, half the factories in the East were closed and it was said | 5008 men attacked the City Hall in| Boston. | | Winter of 1857 Recalled. ! He referred to the Winter of 1857.| “when mobs paraded the streets of New | York demanding bread and the Sub-! treasury = was guarded by Federal' troops™. to 1893, when Coxey's army | marched to Washington: to 1914, when | he said the Vreeland-Aldrich act was | used to prevent a panic. and to 1919, | when “industrial production was at its bottom because of depression. In the latest instance of depression. Curtis said, President Hoover at the outset took every step within govern- mental scope of power. He spoke of the President’s conference of industrial leaders and of public work programs to | provide employment “Upon the President’s recommenda- tion.”" Curtis said. “the Congress en- acted a number of measures intended Reconstruction’ Finance Corporation.” DEMONSTRATION PLANNED. North Dakota Farmers to “Impress” | Curtis With Needs. By the Associated Press VALLEY CITY. N. Dak. October 1 I J. Moe. local newspaper editor, yesterday said he had launched a move- ment for farmers' demonstrations when Vice President Chames E. Curtis visits ing in Fargo October 7 and at corner- stone laying ceremonies at the new State Capitol is Bismarck the next day. Moe said he had called on the North | Dakota Farmers’ Holiday Association {to lead the demonstration “to impress jon Mr. Curtis the serousness of the | agriculture condition and also the fact | that farmers of the Northwest are de- | termined 'in their effort for a small | profit on their product.” RAILROAD EMPLOYES FORM NATIONAL ORDER| to Place in Better Financial | Association Organized Lines Positions. By the Associated Press CHICAGO. October 1.—Two hundred men, purporting to represent railroad employes and stockholders, yesterday | formed a national organization intended | to work toward placing the railroads in better financial positions. The organization will seek to stimu- late shipping by rail and will urge pas- sage by Congress of laws regulating | motor buses and truck and traffic on inland wateryays Thirty-seven State groups formed two vears ago, with a_total membership ap- the national organization. Natonal | headquarters are_expected to be set up | in_ Washington, D. C W. L. Hullinger of St. Paul called to- day’s meeting and acted as tem- porary chairman. He said railroad executives, owners or brokers will not be included in the organization. reach and save the millions of fami- lies whose life savings were threatened. were cut off. Work of Reconstruction. “It was in accordance with these principles that when it became advi: able to appropriate Federal funds for relief, the President insisted that the Federal Government should deal di- rectly with the State governments rather than to ignore State sovereignty and invaderthe field of State, local and private responsibility. “It was in accordance Wwith these principles that the banking and in- dustrial committees came into being. voluntary organizations composed of business men, to co-cperate and assist in the working of reconstruction. “The work of these committees has more recently been co-ordinated througi a central committee. They are tod: actively engaged thrcughout the coun- try seeking to maXke available credit af- firmatively useful to business, to stimu- in business through the veloping the ’sharing work’ movement on a Nation-wide scale, endeavoring fo assist home owners and cthers with maturing mortgages, giving active co- operation to the Reconstruction Finance Corporation in connection with its pro- | gram of loans for public and semi-pub- the matter of live stock loans, assisting in the establishment of agricultural credit corporations and facilitating the adequate functioning of the new Homs Loan Banks. “I haven't attempted to present the | complete picture this evening, but I have attempted by illustration to pre- sent the sharp contrast which exists between those who are urging you to entrust them with the conduct of gov- | ernment in this grave emergency and | our President. On the one hand vou| have inexperience: on the other. a tried ana seasoned veteran. On the one hand | you have a record which cven the op- position party isn't attempting to de- fend, and a lack of principles, coherence and secse of direction; on the other you have well defined principles and a defi- nite philosophy of government. And, finally, on the one hand, you have mere vague promises and pronouncements and an utter failure to come to grips with the real problems of the hou and, on the other, you have a magnifi- cent record of accomplishment and a program of constructive efforts that have already amply justified themselves and that, day by day, stone by stone,, are laying the foundation for economic m\",ery and the salvation of the Nae | AR, WASHINGTON. D. C. SATURDAY, O( In New York Race FOUR WHO SEEK NOMINATION FOR GOVERNOR. Democratic and Republican candidates for the New York gubernatorial Mayor John Boyd Thacher, Lehman Republican candidates. shown below of Buffalo and F. Trubee Davison, Assistant Secretary of War. nomination are shown above. Albany, and Lieut. Gov. Herbert H candidates. AF.LWILL FIGHT FORHIGHER WAGES Declared Paramount Cam- paign Issue, Together With Short Week. The American Federation of Labor today called on its membership to im- press on every candidate of every polit ical party that the high wages and the short werk week problem “is the para- mount issue of the hour.” Nothing else is 50 important at this critical time in the history of the Na- tion.” the federation said editorially in its weekly clipsheet. “and individuals. newspapers and organizations that stress it before everything else are do- ing their country a constructive service of the utmost value The editorial was based on the rais- ing of consuming power plea made re- cently by Labor in its monthly survey of business in which it was set out that “our object from now on should be to raise wages, not reduce them. Only thus can we build up buying power and keep business rising.” Unemployment Checked. Labor's survey showed unemployment conditions had been checked, but, based on Government statistics, it noted wages were being reduced by industry in_all sections. “It_cannot bo too strongly empha- sized.” the editorial said. “that there can be no teal recovery as long as wages go down. But it will not be enough merely to stop the downward trend “Wages must come up and up and with higher wages hours cf Jabor must be sharply reduced. If wages make substantial gains and the hours of labor are reduced the purchasing power of the masses will be greatly strengthened and the Nation will be well on the road to recovery.” Green Ultimatum. The editorial also follows an ulti- matum by Presicent William Green of the federation, that labor “will fight wage cuts to the bitler end and will refuse to accept as final any reduction imposed through force of economic might.” Meantime, the federation issued a call for its fifty-second annual conven- tion at Cincinnati on November 21, in which it was stated that “the hopes and aspirations of millions of workers will be centered upon the convention and widespread interest will be mani- fested in its actions and its delibera- tions.” 'G. 0. P. OF NEW YORK NOMINATES MONDAY W. Kingsland Macy Expected in Buffalo to Complete Plans Today. By the Associated Press. BUFFALO. N. Y.. October 1.—State Chairman W. Kingsland Macy is ex- rected in Buffalo some time today to marshal his State Republican organiza- tion for the convention Monday and Tuesday. ‘Three candidates seek the guberna- torial nomination. They are Col. Wil- liam J. Donovan of Buffalo, former As- sistant Attorncy General; F. Tiubee Davison, Assistant Secretary of War, and Mayor Rolland B. Marvin of Syra- cuse. Mayor Marvin, who has the support of Majority Leader George R. Fearon of the State Senate, has done little to urge his nomination, but is described as receptive. Donovan and Davison have conducted Statewide campaigns. Balloonists Visit Warsaw. ‘WARSAW, Poland, October 1 (#).— W. T. Van Orman and R. J. Blair, pilots of the American_balloon Good- year 8, which took sccond place in the | James Gordon Bennett race this weck, pasced through here yesterday on their | way from Kaunas. | They were guests at a reception given by Clayton Biane, American commercial attache, after visits at th. embassy and Polish Air Club. g RLD WAfy S WO R QE P | PANORAMAg Bi barih g R e s iR TN T, 2d (upper left), of (upper right) are Democratic are William J. Donovan_ (left) —A. P. Photos District’s Heroes | | in the World War Compiled by Srrflj:E. Jaeckel. S recorded in the official citation, Lindsay McD. Silvester. major. 30th Infantry. 3d Division, American Expeditionary Force. was awarded the Distinguished Service Cross for extraordinary heroism in action with the enemwy in the Boie d'Aigremont. France. July 15, 1918. During the intense bombardment pre- ceding the German drive of July 15, when the wounded were S0 numerous that it was impos- sible to care for them in the dress- ing station. Maj Silvester voluntar- ily gave up his dug- out for the use of the wounded and exposed_himself to heavy fire during s the 10 hours’ ter- rific_bombardment After leading his command across the Marne. this officer directed the reduction of a num- ber of machine-gun nests and advanced his lines four kilometers despite the de- termined resistance. Residence at ap- pointment, Washington, D. C. He is ai present in command of the National Guard Army with the rank of major and resides at 3907 Harrison street northwest (Co ~— &ht, 1932) | CTOBER 1, 1932. MAYORALTY TIE-UP HURTS ROOSEVELT Stirring Up of Walker Contro- versy Bound to Result in Loss of Votes. By DAVID LAWRENCE. NEW YORK, October 1.—The may- oralty situation here is rapidly taking on a national significance in that New York State's electoral vote may be af- fected by the controversy. While the nighest court has yet to pass on the legal question of whether there will be an election, all the politi- cal leaders are proceeding on the as- sumption that an election will be held. Former Mayor Walker is assuming the same thing, and is calling for vindica tion. Tammany is in a quandary, but there is such pressure from Walker's friends that it is unlikely he would be deprived of a chance to appeal to the people. If Walker is the Tammany nominee, Mayor McKee, who is a Roosevelt man, may win considerable sugport from Re- publican sources should he decide to run independently. There has been talk of a fusion, with the Republicans and Independent Democrats supporting Mayor McKee. The Republican lead- ers, however, are not anxious to pull the Roosevelt chestnuts out of the fire | nor are they overlooking the possibility | that a Republican mayor mignt be elected if the Democratic vote is di- vided between Walker and McKee. As fo rthe national ticket, the Roose- velt men would have to break with Walker and support McKee if he ran independently, and this would cause no | small number of Democrats who are i friendly to Walker to scratch Roosevelt and vote for Hoover. The resentment against Roosevelt among the Tammany | men who don't like what McKee has done thus far is growing. so that if there is an election for mayor this Au- tumn it is impossible to discard the no- tion of large losses to Roosevelt in the | New York City vote. Here is where the biggest part of the Democratic vote of the State is to be found. Roosevelt cannot carry New York State without a large percentage of the normal Demo- cratic vote here. Within the last 48 hours the local Republicans in a deal with Tammany tlouted Gov. Roasevelt by turning down his recommendation for a local judgeship and nominating instead the | Republican who headed the legislative | investigating committee, namely Sen- ator Hofstadter. While the press talks of a judgeship deal. the fact remains that Tammany did not bow to Roose- | velt. The situation will grow more complicated when Mr. Walker returns | and insists upon the nomination. The stirring up of the Walker controversy in the midst of the presidential race | cannot but hurt the Roosevelt cause. ROOSEVELT SCORED | ON EXPENSE TALK. Governor ““Shut His Eyes to Facts" in Attacking U. S. Finances, Wood Declares. Gov. Franklin D. Roosevelt “shut his eves to the facts” when he attacked Federal expenditures under the present | administration in a recent speech at | Sioux City. Representative Will R Wood. Republican. of Indiana asserted in a statement issued yvesterday through | the Republican National Committee. “On finances, he said that the pres- ent administration had been the great- est spending administration in peace times in all history said the state- | {ment. “The only increase in expendi- { tures by this administration has been to put men to work on public construc- tion.” o'+ * “He thut his eves to the economies | which the Hoover administration has | been able to wring from a hostile Dem- | { ocratic House of Representatives. He ' | shut his eves to the fact that this ad- ministration prevented the Democratic House from saddling nearly $4.000.000.- 000 of additional debt on the American taxpayers. * * * H “He shut his eyes to the fact that! i Mr. Hoover has been urging Govern- | | ment reorganization since he first be- | | came connected with the Federal ad- ministration in 1931 MRS. GANN APPEALS FOR HOOVER VOTES President’s Defeat Would Be Ca- lamity for U. S. and World. She Says in Iowa Address. By the Associated Press. OTTUMWA, Iowa, October 1.—Ad- dressing a Republican rally last night, Mrs. Dolly Gann, sister of Vice Presi- | dent Curtis, praised Precident Hoover's | cconomic_program and declared that to displace him now would be “a real ca- lamity, not only to our country, but to the whole world.” Mrs. Gann said the President should be given credit for positive measures of reconstruction and recovery which he originated and was entitled equally to the gratitude of the country for block- ing “the destructive proposals sponsored by Speaker Garner and the Democratic majority in the House.” “The country is now waiting for the Demccratic nominee to say what sub- stitutes he has for the Hoover measures and the country has a right to know, she declared. HOLfi-UP MAN POLITE Helps Self to Drug Store Cash Aft- er Holding Four at Bay. PITTSBURGH. October 1 (#).—A “gentleman” bandit sauntered into the drug store of J. C. McNulty and com- manded three persons to elevate their hands at pistol point. “I hate to do this, but I need the money worse than you do.” he apolo- gized to McNulty after helping himself to the contents of a cash register. NAME TRACED TO HOGS Arkansas Town Has ;flany Rocks Where Animals Were Scalded. Hog Scald, Ark. it is said. got its name as follows: Large bowl-shaped holes are in the rocks surrounding the town. In the old days these holes were filled with water. Then hot rocks were dropped in them until the water was scalding.” Hogs then would be low- ered in the water to scald. |SWANSON ATTACKS TALKS | tration has passed since its advent into | “Gov. Roosevelt also said that Presi- | | dent Hoover had added bureau upon | | bureau to the Federal establishment. ! | That. of course, is a deliberate misstate- ment.” 1 OF MILLS ON DEPRESSION Enr Virginia Senator Holds Existing, Conditions Are Caused by Tariff. Senator Swanson of Virginia, in a, statement iscued through the Demo- | cratic National Committee yesterday, ! declared Secretary Mills in his ecam-| paign speeches “endeavors to show that the world and not the United States was responsible for existing conditions.” “The facts.” said Swanson. “are the reverse of this. The only clear positive act of construction that this adminis- | power is the infamous Grundy-Smoot- Hawley tariff bill. the highest and most exclusive ever enacted in the history | jof our country. This was followed by | equally and in some cases greater tar-| iffs than we imposed. which prevented exchange of commodities in all parts of | the world and not only brought dis- | tress and depression in trade and com- | merce but affected the financial struc- ture of the world. * * * “Prosperity will never return until trade and commerce among the nations are resumed. It can only be resumed yby fair, reasonable reduction of tariffs the world over.” WIRE FLOWERS TO DISTANT FRIENDS 1407 H St. N.W. Nat'l 4905 IL BURNERS SAVE MONEY 1719 Cona. Ave. North 0627 )Y 419503 733 11th St.19¢h St.|14th St. 'Hams, Shoulders From Garner’s Pork Barrel” Published G. O. P. Issues Pamphlet Containing Speaker’s Pro- posed Appropriations. By the Associated Press. CHICAGO, October 1.—Republican national campaign_ headquarters issued | yesterday a pamphlet entitled “Hams and Shoulders From John N. Garner's Pork Barrel.” ‘The booklet contains a list, in part, of Ppost office appropriations for four Mid- west States, Illinois, Indiana, Iowa and Missouri, as proposed in the bill which failed of passage in the last Congress. Por the four States, the pamphlet said, the Garner bill suggested bulfdlnn 168 post offices at a cost of $70,000 each and 65 at $55000 each. Overhead. maintenance and upkeep for a $70,000 building would be about $6.300 a year, the booklet states, and about $5,500 for a $55.000 post office. “The town of Coal City, IIL." the pamphlet states, “has a population of 1,637 and the post office quarters now used cost the Government $480 a year. Under the Garner bill, Coal City was to have a $70,000 ham out of the Garner pork barrel at a future annual cost of $6.300 instead of $480. “Rockville, Ind., where annual postal receipts total $11475, was another of the towns scheduled under the Garner bill to get a $70,000 post office. The present buil costs $900 a year. “Incidentally, Garner got only a $55.- | 000 post office $ his home town of Uvalde. Tex., a metropolis of 5,200. “Study of the individual items in the ‘billion-dollar pork barrel bill' proves President Hoover was more than justi- fied when he said of the bill: “This is not unemployment relief. It is the most gigantic pork barrel ever proposed to the American Congress. It is an un- exampled raid on the public treasury. NEW YORK LIQUOR CONTROL PROPOSED Mrs. John S. Shepard for Commission With Exclu- sive Power in State. Br the Associated Press NEW YORK, October 1.—A liquor control em’ for New York State, which would be regulated by a commis- sfon of seven salaried members, was pro- posed yesterday by Mrs. John'S. Shep- pard. State chairman of the Women's Organization for National Prohibition Reform Mrs. Sheppard formulated the plan in collaboration with a group of leaders in | education, religion, medicine and social welfare after two years of investigation, which took her to Rusisa. Norway, Swe- den and Denmark to find out how their | systems worked Forming of Commission. Three members of the commission. accoramng to the svstem outlined, would be appointed by the Governor with the advice and consent of the State Senate. and the other four would be appointed on the recommendations of the New York State Chamber of Commerce. the State Bar Association, the State Med- ical Society and the State Board of Regents The commission would have exclusive power 1o import or manufacture and to buy and sell wholesale alcoholic bev- erages. The entire profit would be turned back to the State except where the commission licensed distilleries and breweries, which would be allowed a 6 per cent profit. Retail Under Charter. ‘The retail distribution of spirits would be handled by a private company oper- ating under State charter and answer- able to the commisison. It. too. would e permitted a profit of 6 per cent, any- thing above that to be turned over to the State. The liquor distributing company would establish shops for the sale of its products and none other would be al- lowed. Hotels, restaurants and clubs would be given the privilege of selling liquor with meals. “Refreshment rooms” would be set up in communities to sat- isfy “man’s social needs” and liquor would be sold on the premises with safe- guards to avoid the conditions in the saloon and speakeasy. ASKV‘RETUR.N TO REICH KREFELD, Germany. October 1 (#) —The former German Citizens' Society Eupen and Maimedy. Belgium. in district which the treaty of Ver- sailles assigred to Belgium. held its an- nual meeting here today amid demon- strations of public sympathy Several speakers said Belgium an- nexed the district at the behest of France and not of its own volition They demanded a plebiscite for re- union with the Fatherland Gen. Kurt von Schleicher, German minister of defense. and Baron Von Gayl, interior minister. sent a message of greeting and expressed the hope the aims of the society would be realized. the %% A—3 SMITH FOR TICKET; IGNORES NOMINEE Ex-Governor, as Editor, Says Democratic Victory Wll Serve Nation. | Special Dispatch to The Star. NEW YORK, October 1.—Alfred E. Smith, making his bow as editor of The New Outlook, which appeared today, ~ says he believes “the best interests of the country will be served by the suc- cess of the Democratic party and the | election of its ticket.” The former Gov- | ernor and Democratic leader expresses the conviction that defeat for the Re- | publican regime at Washington is a | certainty and that the only question | now is what the Democratic party will | ¢o with its victory. | Not once in the course of his article, | which touches on various aspects of the ‘numnal life, does Mr. Smith mention the name of Gov. Franklin D. Roosevelt, ‘th nomination as Democratic presi- dential candidate he opposed. He does, | however, devote three pungent para- graphs to a denunciation of talk about “The Forgotten Man,” whom he de- scribes as a myth Says Party Not United. “The sooner he (the Forgotten Man) disappears from the campaign the bet- ter. it will be for the country,” the Smith cditorial says Of the Democratic fold Mr. Smith confesses that it is not united. He de- scribes himself as being out of sympathy “with some of the elements and forces in the party.” but he does not cite them by name, or indicate wherein he differs from them. He expresses the opinion that the party must rid itself of these { “influences,” which he does not specify, if it is to serve the Nation in the Nas | tion’s present predicament |~ Dealing with the Republican admin- stration, Mr. Smith is but slightly more specific than he is in his appraisal of his own party. He tells of opportunities he thinks President Hoover “muffed.” and of mistakes and delays in various places. He compares the labors of the Reconstruction Finance Corporation to a 20-mule team in whici 19 mules are snoozing on the ground and only one is tugging half-heartedly at the harness. Claims Republicans Biundered. Mr. Smith takes the position that the Republican party must accept re- ponsibility for mistakes. delays and lunders which served to make bad times worse. He recalls that the Hoover administration refused to admit a de- pression had set in and tnen put off the task of organizing to deal with it Finally, he says. when it was impera- tive to do something. the measures that were taken were half-way measures and the administration spurned the co- operation of those wio suggested drastic and effective action.” Mr Smith accuses the administration of stupidity in Tesisting new ideas and of weakness and ineptituce in action. As & result, he belleves the Republican regime has disappointed tne hopes and lost the allegiance of one group after another, until now its own end appears to him to be just around the corner. “T believe.” he writes, “that the pres- ent administration in Washington, if continued. cannot begin to so] our present problems. It has had a chance o do it and has failed utterly. The hope of the country lies in Democratic success. The one great chance that the Democratic party has had durir my lifetime is presented to it now believe it is able to meet it. I be it can go as far as government can £0 o solve the problems which are as far away from solution today <= they were when the depression started. I believe that the success of the Demo- cratic party in the coming election 1s essential to the upbuilding of our na- tional prosperity and our national well- being.” Says Opportunity “Muffed.” In his discussion of public works and the Reconstruction Finance Corpora- tion Mr. Smith reminds his readers that long before Congress took any such_action he had recommended that the Government appoint a public works | administrator and endow him with powers to make loans and get a pro- gram started without red tape dela Such suggestions, he says. were op- posed by President Hoover at the time. Mr. Smith asserts that when Charles G. Davwes resigned as president of the R. F. C. the President had an oppor- tunity to appoint “the best brains and driving force in the country to the post. But the President.” he continues, “muffed” the opportunity and picked a man of “mediocre ability The slowness with which R. F. C. fu have been distributed and the manner in which they have been put to work are both targets for Mr. Smith's pen What with wrangling over details Mr Smith asserts that no unemployed man has vet got a job through the avail- ability of the $1.500.000.000 credit for self-liquidating projects. Besides, he writes. less than a tenth of the $300.- 000,000 funds for direct relief has been allocated and not a penny has been put into post offices, buildings and other public works out of the $186,000.000 provided for such purposes. The fund for highway aid is the only thing au- thorized in the bill. Mr. Smith charges that has created any considerable amount of employment Next month. he promises his readers, he will give his version of what he be- lieves are the great issues which the next administration must face AFTER A DAY'S WORK IN THE HOT, GASSY CITY WHAT? 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