Evening Star Newspaper, June 26, 1936, Page 9

THE EVENING STAR, WASHINGTON, D. C, FRIDAY, JUNE 26, 1936. A--9 U. S. AID FOR CITIZENS BASIS OF DEMOCRATIC PLATFORM SUPPORT PLEDGED FOR CONSTITUTION Amendment Is Planned for Social Legislation Only if Necessary. (conunuedvl-"romimru:jnxe.) to seek to meet these problems through legislation within the Constitution.” Then follows the suggestion that they will proceed to a constitutional amendment. Raises Issue for Campaign. The constitutional issue is clearly raised and for the coming campaign, by this campaign declaration. And the issue is seemingly whether the control of the Federal Government in the af- fairs of the people shall be extended and supplant that of the States in cer- tain particulars. ‘The issue, however, as declared by the Democrats in their platform, is whether the American people are willing to return to a “Repblican ad- ministration that has and would again regiment them in the service of priv- ileged groups,” or whether they will choose to retain a “Democratic ad- ministration dedicated to the estab- lishment of equal opportunity for all our people.” The Democrats, in their final para- graph, return to the founding fathers | of the Nation. For they say: “We hold this final truth to be self- evident—that the interests, the secur- ity and the happiness of the people of the United States of America can be perpetuated only under Democratic government as conceived by the Zfounders of our Nation.” Three Parts in Platform. The new platform is an easy docu- ment to read. It is filled with hu- manitarian promises. It may be di- vided into three major topics: First, what the New Deal administration has done for the American people; second, what are the obligations of the Gov- ernment to the American people, and third, how these obligations must be met. In a modern civilization, the plat- form holds, Government has three “inescapable obligations” to its peo- ple, which are: 1. Protection of the family and the home. 2. Establishment of a democracy of opportunity for all the people. 3. Aid to those overtaken by dis- aster. 5 “These obligations,” the platform says, “neglected through 12 years of the old leadership, have once more been recognized by American Govern- ment. Under the new leadership they will never be neglected.” One of the promises contained in the platform is that “we will act to secure to the consumer fair value, honest sales and a decreased spread between the price he pays and the price the producer receives.” May Be Elaborated. “It is not clear exactly what this meahs or what laws must be passed to put it into'effeet. During the coming campaign the presidential candidate may elaborate on this theme. Pive of the planks in which there will be major interest are those deal- ing with agriculture, labor, the cur- rency, foreign relations and Govern- ment finances. For agriculture, the Democrats pro- pose “to continue to improve the soil conservation and domestic allotment program with payments to farmers.” ‘This means a continuance of Govern- ment checks to the farmers. They propose also “the full co-operation of the Government in the refinancing of farm indebtedness at the lowest possible rates of interest and over a long term of years.” This is to hit at the evils of farm tenancy. There is no retreat in the platform from the New Deal policy of crop re- striction, although it is put in differ- ent language. The Democrats “favor the production of all the market will absorb, plus a reserve supply sufficient to insure fair prices to consumers.” ‘The corollary is, of course, that they will oppose production that goes be- yongd these limits. “We favor assistance within Federal authority to enable farmers to ad- Just and balance production with de- mand, at a fair profit to the farmers,” they continue. The currency plank makes no men- tion of the gold standard. It leaves no doubt, however, that the Demo- erats are planning to continue a policy of “managed currency.” They say in this connection: “We approve the objective of a permanently sound currency so sta- bilized as to prevent the former wide fluctuations in value which injured in turn producers, debtors, and prop- erty owners on the one hand, and ‘wage earners and creditors on the other, a currency which will permit full utilization of the country’s re- sources. We assert that today we have the soundest currency in the world.” This plank may or may not satisty some of the followers of the Lemke- Coughlin third party ticket. It is couched in language that seems flex- ible enough. The plank makes no mention of the silver question, and in this it differs from the currency plank of the 1932 Democratic platform, Former Plank Recalled. The platform four years ago said: “We advocate a sound currency, to be preserved at all hazards, and an international monetary conference ealled on the invitation of our Gov- ernment to consider the rehabilitation of silver and related questions.” Dealing with Government finances, the platform declares: “We_are determined to reduce the expenses of government. We are being aided therein by the recession in un- employment. As the requirements of rellef decline and national income advances, an increasing percentage of Federal expenditures can and will be met from current revenues, secured from taxes levied in accordance with ability to pay. Our retrenchment, tax and recovery programs thus reflect our firm determination to achieve a bal- snced budget and the reduction of the national debt at the earliest possil moment.” . 1932 Promises on Budget. Here is-what the Democratic plat- form of 1932 had to say with reference to Government expenditures and the budget: “We advocate an immediate and drastic reduction of governmental ex- penditures by abolishing useless com- missions and offices, consolidating de- partments and bureaus, and eliminat- ing extravagance, to accomplish a sav- ing of not less than 25 per cemt in ) the cost of Federal Government, and ‘we call upon the Democratic party in the States to make a zealous effort to achieve a proportionate result. “We favor maintenance of the na- tional credit by a Federal budget an- nually balanced on the basis of accu- rate executive.estimates within reve- nues, raised by a system of taxation levied on the principle of ability to Pay.” In the new platform the promise to curtail governmental expenditures is made conditional upon recovery of the Nation, and the pledge to balance the budget is a matter of the future. Prevailing Wage Change. ‘The labor plank of the new plat- form is said to be satisfactory to organized labor. It should be read in conjunction with the plank deal- ing with unemployment. And the latter declares that where business fails to supply employment “we believe that work at prevailing wages should be provided in co-operation with State and local governments on useful pub- lic projects.” There is no mention whatever of the so-called “prevailing wage” for which the Roosevelt admin- istration fought so hard in the relief bill of 1935. The labor plank asserts that “we have given the army of America’s industrial workers some- thing more substantial than the Re- publicans’ dinner pail full of promises,” including increased pay and shortened working hours. It asserts also that the Roosevelt administration has undertaken to end sweat shop labor and to write into the law of the land the laborer's right to collective bargaining and self organization. It makes a further promise: “We will continue to protect the worker and we will guard his rights, both as a wage earner and consumer, in the production and consumption of all commodities, including coal and water power and other natural re- source products.” Lewis Approval Claimed. ‘This is the language in the platform which is understood to have been approved by John L. Lewis, president of the United Mine Workers of Amer- ica. The foreign policy plank of the platform declares the intention of the Democrats “to extend the policy of the good neighbor.” It reaffirms op- position to war as an instrument of national policy and declares that disputes between the nations should be settled by peaceful means and that America should continue to observe a true neutrality in the disputes of others. It makes no mention, however, of American adherence to the World Court, which was promised in the Democratic platform of 1932. The Republican platform recently adopted | in Cleveland affirmatively declares | against American membership in the | World Court. The supporters of the World Court made strenuous efforts to have the Democrats, in their new platform, again demand adherence to that tribunal. Promises to Avoid Wars. The Democrats promised to take the profits out of war and to guard against being drawn by political commitments, international banking or private trad- ing, into any war anywhere. ‘The Democratic platform does not meke mention of “reciprocal trade agreements” as such. It says, how- ever, that the Democrats will continue to seek by mutual agreement the low- ering of tariff barriers, quotas and embargoes which have besn raised against exports of American agricul- tural and industrial products. Then it continues that they will give, “as in the past, adequate protection to our farmers and manufacturers against unfair competition or the dumping on our shores of commodities and gcods produced abrcad by cheap labor or subsidized by foreign governments.” Here indeed is a promise to the industrial East, as well as to the farm- ers, different from earlier Democratic platforms. Reciprocal trade agree- ments have been bitterly criticized by certain sections of the country. The administration, however, appears to be | pledged by the new platform to a con- | tinuance of these agreements, $25,000 Fraud Revealed. Edward Cavendish, alias O'Reilly, & native of Melbourne, Australia, was at Nice, France, sentenced to four years' imprisonment for defrauding Thomas Belcher, aged 60, of $25,000. Caven- dish was also fined 1,000 francs and expelled for 10 years after the com- pletion of his sentence. An accom- plice, stated to be Willlam Bradley, was sentenced in his absence to five years’ imprisonment. Police have re- covered $12,500, which was returned to Belcher. Sponge Crab Ban Urged to Protect Fishing in Future Maryland and Virginia Conference Also Asks Crustacean Study. By the Assoctated Press. BALTIMORE, June 26.—Gov. Harry W. Nice formally made public yester- day a report made to him by Mary- land's delegates to the recent crab- conservation conference at Old Point Comfort, Va. ‘The report made two specific rec- ommendations. One was that both States should ban the taking of sponge crabs, and that Maryland should forbid crabbing during No- vember. The other was that each State appoint a permanent committee to restore and preserve the supply of crabs, ‘The report also advised that Dr. R. V. Truitt of the Maryland Biological Laboratory be consulted on the habits and biology of crabs. The report commended assistance given the crab study by Robert F. Duer, chairman of the Maryland Conservation Com- mission. Maryland delegates included Duer, P, George W. Layman and Dr. Will P. Kellam of the Virginia Commission of Fisheries, Senator Saxon W. Holt of Newport News, Senator E. E. Holland of Suffolk, Scnator V. L. Page of Norfolk, Richard Messer of the State Health Department, Maj. Charles Cal- row of the State Planning Floyd Moore and John A. Lesner. ¥ Text of Platform Adopted by Democratic Convention By the Associated Press. CONVENTION HALL, Philadelphia, June 25.—The text of the Democratic platform follows: ‘We hold this truth to be self- evident—that the test of a repre- sentative Government is its ability to promote the safety and happi- ness of the people. We hold this tyuth to be self- evident—that 12 years of Repub- lican leadership left our Nation sorely stricken in body, mind and spirit and that three years of Dem- ocratic leadership have put it back on the road to restored health and prosperity. We hold this truth to be self-evi- dent—that 12 years of Republican surrender to the dictatorship of & privileged few have been supplant- ed by a Democratic leadership which has returned the people themselves to the places of author- ity and has revived in them new faith and restored the hope which they had almost lost. Government Humanized In Factors Affecting Well-Being. ‘We hold this truth to be self-evi- dent—that this three-year recovery in all the basic values of life and the re-establishment of the Ameri- can way of living has beenr brought about by humanizing the policies of the Federal Government as they affect the personal, financial, in- dustrial and agricultural well-being of the American people. We hold this truth to be self-evi- dent—that Government in a mod- ern civilizatior has certain ines- capable obligations to its citizens, among which are: 1. Protection of the family and the home. 2. Establishment of a democracy of opportunity for all the people. 3. Aid to those overtaken by dis- aster. These obligations, neglected through 12 years of the old leader- ship, have once more been recog- nized by American Government. Under the new leadership they will never be neglected. Family and Home. 1. We have begun and shall con- tinue the successful drive to rid our land of kidnapers and bandits. We shall continue to use the powers of Government to end the activities of the malefactors of great wealth who defraud and exploit the people. Savings, Investmen 2. We have safeguarded the thrift of our citizens by restraining those who would gamble with other people’s savings, by requiring truth in the sale of securities, by putting the brakes upon the use of credit for speculation, by outlawing the manipulation of prices in stock and commodity markets, by curb- ing the overweening power and unholy practices of utility holding companies, by insuring 50 million bank accounts, 3. We have built foundations for the security of those who are faced with the hazards of unemployment and old age, for the orphaned, the crippled and the blind. On the foundation of the social security act we are determined to erect a structure of economic security for all our people, making sure that this benefit shall keep step with the ever-increasing capacity of America to provide a high standard of living for all its citizens. | Consumer. 4. We will act to secure to the consumer fair value, honest sales and a decreased spread between the price he pays and the price the producer receives. Rural Electrification. 8. This administration has fos- tered power rate yardsticks in the Tennessee Valley and in several other parts of the Nation. As a result electricity has been made available to the people at a lower rate. We will continue to promote plans for rural electrification and for cheap power by means of the yardstick method. 6. We maintain that our people are entitled to decent, adequate housing at a price which they can afford. In the last three years the Federal Government, having saved more than 2,000,000 homes from foreclosure, has taken the first steps in our history to provide de- cent housing for people of meagre incomes. We believe every encour- agement should be given to the building of new homes by private enterprise, and that the Govern- ment should steadily extend its housing program toward the goal of adequate housing for those forced through economic necessi- tieg to live in unhealthy and slum conditions. 7. We shall continue just treat- ment to our war veterans and their dependents. For the establishment of a democ- racy of opportunity. ‘We have taken the farmers off the road to ruin. We have kept our pledge to agriculture to use all available means to raise farm income toward its pre-war purchasing power. The farmer is no longer suffering from 15-cent corn, 3-cent hogs, 2%-cent beef at the farm, S-cent wool, 30-cent wheat, 5-cent cotton and 3-cent sugar. By Federal legislation we have reduced the farmer’s indebtedness and doubled his net income. In co-operation with the States and through the farmer’s own come mittees, we are restoring the fertility of his land and checking Comparison of Planks Democrats Favor Federal and State Labor Legisla- tion, But G. O. P. Limited to By the Associated Press. PHILADELPHIA, June 26.—Here is a comparison of some major fea- tures of the Democratic and Repub- lican platforms of 1936 and the Demo- cratic platform of 1932: Labor and the Constitution. Democratic, 1936—Called for Fed- eral and State authority to deal with problems of monopoly, maximum hours, minimum wages, child labor and working conditions in industry. Promised to seek these ends within the Constitution, or, if necessary, through constitutional amendment. Republican, 1936—Promised to abol- ish sweatshops, child labor, protect women and children with respect to maximum hours, minimum wages and working conditions, expressing belief this could be done “within the Constitution as it now stands.” (Gov. Landon said: Constitutional amend- ment, if necessary, to give States such power.) Democratic, 1932—No constitutional labor issue, Money. Democratic, 1936—Pledged sound, unfluctuating currency, asserting “we have the soundest currency in the world.” Republican, 1936—Pledged sound currency, restorationsto Congress of authority to regulate its value. (Lan- don said sound currency to him meant uitimate restoration of gold standard.) Unemployment. Democratic, 1936—Pledged national handling of unemployment problem, public works at prevailing wages, with State and local co-operation. Republican, 1936—Pledged to re- move ‘“restrictions on production” blamed for hindering absorption of unemployed in private industry. Pledged grants to the States “while the need exists.” Democratic, 1932—Pledged Federal aid for public works program and advocated shorter hours to spread employment. Agriculture. Democratic, 1936—7Po continue soil conservation, benefit payments and domestic allotment production con- trol, Government aid in debt refinanc- ing, crop adjustment, commodity loans. Republican, 1936—Removal of mar- ginal lands from production, credit assistance, an export bounty on crops with production beyond domestic con- sumption, soil conservation with ben- efit payments to “family type” m;ns. Democratic. 1932—Pledged contr# of Want Such Action the Latter. crop surpluses, aid in debt financing and “every constitutional measure that will aid the farmers to receive for their basic farm commodities prices in ex- cess of cost.” Monopely. Democratic, 1936—Enforcement of criminal and civil provisions of anti- trust laws, with amendments where necessary to stamp out monopolistic practices. Republican—Essentially the same. Democrats, 1932—Essentially the same. Tariff. Democratic, 1936—Continuation of reciprocal trade agreements to elim- inate tariff, quota and embargo barriers | against American exports; but protec- | tion against cheap labor or subsidized foreign production. Republican, 1936—Pledged repeal of | the reciprocal trad- act, restoration of the flexible tariti, use of tariff to bal- | ance agriculture against other indus- | tries. Democratic, 1932 — A competitive | tariff for revenue and reciprocal tarift | agreements with other nations. | Foreign Affairs. | Democratic, 1936—Opposition to war | as “an instrument of national policy,” | to preserve true neutrality, to prepare | %o resist aggression. | Republican, 1936—Pledged promo- tion of peace “by all honorable means,” but expressed opposition to “foreign alliances”; against World Court or League adherence. To promote inter- | national arbitration. | Democratic, 1932—Advocated “set- tlement of international disputes by ar- | bitration:” adherence to the World | Court and to outlawry-of-war pact. | Government Finance. Democratic, 1936—Claimed deflation stopped and next step is to reduce ex- | penses of government, “being aided | therein by the recession in unemploy- | ment” Promised retrenchment, with | tax and recovery program directed to- | ward “a balanced budget and the re- | duction of the national debt at the | earliest possible moment.” Republican, 1936—Promised to “stop the folly of uncontrolled spending,” to balance the budget by cutting expendi- | tures, to revise the Federal tax system | “for raising revenue and not for puni- iive or political purposes.” Democratic, 1932—Pledged abolition | of offices and other economies to r | duce government costs “not less than" |25 per cent; balanced budget, with | revenues from taxation “levied on the principle of ability to pay.” the erosin of his soil. We are bringing electricity and good roads to his home. We will continue to improve the soil conservation and domestic al- lotment program with payments to farmers. s We will continue a fair-minded administration of agricultural laws, quick to recognize and meet new problems and conditions. We recognize the gravity of the evils of farm tenancy, and we pledge the full co-operation of the Govern- ment in the refinancing of farm indebtedness at the lowest pos- sible rates of interest and over a long term of years. We favor the production of all the market will absorb, both at home and abroad, plus a reserve supply sufficient to insure fair prices to consumers; we favor Jjudcious commodity loans of seasonal surpluses; and we favor assistance within Federal authority to enable farmers to adjust and balance production with demand, at a fair profit to the farmers. We favor encouragement of sound, practical farm co-opera- tives. By the purchase and retirement of 10,000,000 acres of submarginal land and assistance to those at- tempting to eke out an existence upon it, we have made a good beginning toward proper land use and rural rehabilitation. The farmer has been returned to the road to freedom and pros- perity. We will keep him on that road. 5 Labo We have given the army of America’s industrial workers some- thing more substantial than the Republicans’ dinner pail full of promises. We have increased the worker's pay and shortened his hours; we have undertaken to put an end to the sweated labor of his wide and children; we have written into the law of the land his right to collective bargaining and self- organization free from the inter- ference of employers; we have pro- vided Federal machinery for the peaceful settlement of labor dis- putes. ‘We will continue to protect the worker and we will guard his rights, both as wage earner and cone sumer, in the production and con= sumption of all commodities, in- cluding coal and water power and other natural-resource products. The worker has been returned to the road to freedom and prosperity. ‘We will keep him on that road. Busines: We have taken the American busines man out of the red. We have saved his bank and given it & sounder foundation; we have ex- tended credit; we have lowered in- terest rates; we have undertaken to free him frpm the ravages of cut- throat competition. ‘The American busines man has been returned to the road to free- dom and prosperity. We will keep him on that road. ‘We have aided youth to stay in school; given them constructive oc- cupation; opened the door to oppor- tunity which, 12 years of Republican neglect had :closed. Our youth have been returned to the road to freedom and prosperity. ‘We will keep them on that road. Monopolies and the concentrae tion of economic power, the crea tion of Republican rule and privi- lege, continue to be the master of the producer, the exploiter of the consumer, and the enemy of the independent operator. This is a problem challenging the unceas- ing effort of untrammeled public officials in every branch of the Government. We pledge vigorously and fearlessly to enforce the crimi- nal and civil provisions of the ex- isting anti-trust laws and to the extent that their effectiveness has been weakened by new corporate devices or judicial construction, we propose by law to restore their efficacy in stamping out monopolis- tic practices and the concentration of economic power. ‘We have aided and will continue to to aid those who have been visited by widespread drought and floods and have adopted a Nation-wide flood-control policy. Unemployment. * ‘We believe that unemployment is & national problem, and that it is an inescapable obligation of our Government to meet it in a na- tional way. Due to our stimulation of private business, more than five million people have been re-em- ployed; and we shall continue to maintain that the first objective of a program of economic security is maximum employment in prive ate industry at adequate wages. ‘Where business fails to supply such employment, we believe that work at prevailing wages should be pro- vided in co-operation with State and local governments on useful public projects, to the end that the national wealth may be in- creased, the skill and energy of the worker may be utilized, his morale maintained, and the unemployed assured the opportunity to earn the necessities of life. ‘The Republican platform proposes to meet many pressing national problems solely by action of the separate States. We know that drought, dust storms, floods, min- imum wages, maximum hours, child labor and working conditions in industry, monopolistic and unfair business practices cannot be ad- equately handled exclusively by 48 separate States Legislatures, 48 separate State administrations and 48 separate State courts. Trans- actions and activities which inevit- ably overflow State boundaries call for both State and Federal treat- ment. ‘We have sought and will con- tinue to seek to meet these prob- lems through legislation within the Constitution. If those problems cannot be effectively solved by legislation within the Constitution, we shall seek such clarifying amendment as will assure to the legislatures of the several States and to the Congress of the United States, each: ‘within its proper jurisdiction, the power to enact those laws which the State and Federal Legislatures, within their respective spheres, shall find necessary, in order ade equately to regulate ecommerce, protect public health and safety, and safeguard economic security. Thus we propose to maintain the letter and spirit of the Constitution. For the protection of Governe ment itself and promotion of its efficiency, we pledge the immediate extension of the merit system through the classified civil serv- ice—which was first established and fostered under Democratic auspices—to all non-poliey-mak- ing positions in the Federal service. ‘We 'shall subject to the civil service law all continuing positions which, because of the emergency, have been exempt from its operation. ‘We shall continue to guard the freedom of speech, press, radio, religion and assembly which our Constitution guarantees; with equal rights to all and special privileges to none. The administration has stopped deflation, restored values and en- abled business to .go ahead with confidence. When national income shrinks, Government income is imperilled. In reviving national income, we have fortified Government finance. We have raised the public credit to a position of unsurpassed se- curity. The interest rate on Gov- ernment bonds has been reduced to the lowest point in 28 years. ‘The same Government bonds which in 1932 sold under 83 are now sell- ing over 104. We approve the objective of a permanently sound currency so stabilized as to prevent the former wide fluctuations in value which injured in turn producers, debtors and property owners on one hand, and wage earners and creditol on the other, a currency which will permit full utilization of the country’s resources. We assert that today we have the soundest cur- rency in the world. We are determined to reduce the expenses of Government. We are being aided thereir by the recession of unemployment. As the requirements of relief decline and national income advances, an in- creasing percentage of Federal ex- penditures can and will be met from current revenues, secured from taxes levied in accordance with ability to pay. Our retrench- ment, tax and recovery programs thus refiect our firm determination to achieve a balanced budget and the reduction of the national debt at the earliest possible moment. In our relationship with other nations, this Government will con- tinue to extend the policy of good neighbor, We reaffirm our opposi- tion to war as an instrument of national policy and declare that disputes between nations should be settled by peaceful means. We shall continue to observe a true neutrality in the disputes of oth- ers; to be prepared resolutely to resist aggression against ourselves; to work for peace and to take the profits out of war; to guard against being drawn, by political commit- ments, international banking or private trading, into any war which may develop anywhere. We shall continue to foster the increase of four foreign trade which has been achieved by this admin- istration; to seek by mutual agree- ment the lowering of those tariff barriers, quotas and embargoes which have been raised against our exports of agricultural and indus- trial products; but continue, as in the past, to give adequate protec- tion to our farmers and manufac- turers against unfair competitién or the dumping on our shores of commodities and goods produced abroad by cheap labor or subsi- dized by foreign governments. ‘The issue in this election is plain. ‘The American people are called upon to choose between a Repub- lican administration that has and would again regiment them in the service of privileged groups—and a Democratic administration dedi- cated to the establishment of equal economic opportunity for all our people. We have faith in the destiny of our Nation. 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