Evening Star Newspaper, July 24, 1936, Page 6

By the Associated Press. OPEKA, Kans, July 24— Following is the text of the address of Gov. Alf M. Lan- don last night, accepting the Republican nomination for President of the United States: Mr. Chairman, members of the Notification Committee, Jadies and gentlemen: I accept the nomination of the Republican party for the presi- dency of the United States. In ac- cepting this leadership I pray for divine guidance to make me worthy of the faith and the confidence which you have shown in me. This call, coming to one whose life has been that of the everyday American, is proof of that freedom of opportunity which belongs to the people under our Government. It carries with it both an honor and a responsibility. In a republic these cannot be separated. Tonight, facing this honor and responsibility, I hope for the gift of simple and straightforward speech. I want every man and woman in this Nation to under- stand my every word, for I speak of iscues deeply concerning us all. Oath of Presidency Carries Obligation. The citizen who assumes the direction of the executive branch of our Government takes an oath that he will “faithfully execute the office of President of the United States, and will,” to the best of his ability, “preserve, protect and de- fend the Constitution of the United States.” This oath carries the obligation so to use executive power that it will fulfill the purposes for which it was delegated. No man, in common good faith to his fellow citizens, may right- fully assume the duties of the high office of Chief Executive and take the oath that goes with the office unless he shall intend to keep and shall keep his oath inviolate. It is with a full understanding of the meaning of this oath that I ac- cept this nomination. The 1936 platform of the Re- publican party has my complete adherence. It sets out the prin- ciples by which we can achieve the full national life that our re- sources entitle us to enjoy. Titie Has Come To Pull Together. There is not time to lay our whole program before you tonight; I can touch only upon a few phases of it. The others I hope to discuss with you in detail as the campaign progresses. I intend to approach the issues fairly, as I see them, without 1ancor or passion. If we are fo go for- ward permanently, it must be with a united Nation—not with a people torn by appeals to prejudic> and divided by class feeling. The time has come tc pull to- - gether. No people can make headway where great numbers are sup- ported in idleness. There is no future on the relief rolls. The law of this world is that man shall eat bread by the sweat of his brow. The whole American people want to work at full time and at full pay. They want homes and a chance for their children, reason- able security, and the right to live according to American standards. They want to share in a steady progress. We bind ourselves with a pledge we shall not ignore, thrust aside, or forget, to devote our whole energy to bringing these things about. Country Has Tried Varied Theories. The world has tried to conguer this depression by different meth- ods. None of them has been fully successful. Too frequently recov- ery has been hindered, if not de- feated, by political considerations. Our own country has tried one economic theory after another, The present administration asked for, and received, extraordinary pcwers upon the assurance that these were to be temporary. Most of its pro- posals did not follow familiar paths to recovery. We knew they were being undertaken hastily and with little deliberation. But because the measures were supposed to be temporary, because everybody hoped they would prove successful, and because the people wanted the administration to have a fair trial, Congress and the coun- try united in support of its efforts at the outset. Now it becomes our duty to ex- amine the record as it stands. The Tecord shows that these measures did rot fit together into any defi- nite program of recovery. Many of them worked at cross-purposes and defeated themselves. Some de~ veloped into definite hindrances to recovery. They had the effect gen- erally of extending control by ‘Washington into the remotest cor- ners of the country. The frequent and sudden changes in the admin- istration’s policy caused a contin- ‘ual uneasiness. Recovery Set Back Again and Again. As a result, recovery has been set back again and again. This was not all of the failure. Practical progressives have suffered the dis- heartening experience of seeing many liberal objectives discredited during the past three years by care- less thinking, unworkable laws and incompetent administration. The Nation has not made the durable progress, either in reform or recovery, that we had the right to expect. For it must be remembered that the welfare of our people is not re- corded on the financial pages of the newspapers. It cannot be meas- ured in stock market prices. The real test is to be found in the abil- ity of the American to engage In business, to obtain a job, to be self- supporting and a self-respecting member of his community. Judged by the things that make us a Nation of happy families, the New Deal has fallen far short of success. The proof of this is in the record. . The record shows that in 1933 the primary need was jobs for the unemployed. The record shows that in 1936 the primary need still is jobs for the unemployed. Backlog of Demand Only Awaits Release. The time_has come to stop this fumbling with recovery. American initiative is not & eommodity to be delivered in pound packages through a governmental bureau. It is a vital force in the life of our Nation and it must be freed! The country is ripe for recovery. We are far bshind in expenditurcs for upkeep and improvements and for expansion. The total of this . demand—in industry, in new enter- prises, in our homes and on our farms—emounts to billions of dol- lars, Once all this consumer de- g has hesitated to start out for him- self. He lacks confidence in the soundness of Federal policy; he is afraid of what may come mext. ‘We must dispel his fear, restore ‘That is why I say, in all earnest- ness, that the time has come to unshackle initiative and free the spirit of American enterprise. Relief ¥s Matter Of Plain Duty. We must be freed from incessant governmental intimidation and hostility. We must be freed from the effects of an arbitrary and uncertain monetary policy. And, through a vigorous enforcement of the anti-trust laws, we must be freed from private monopolistic control. Once these things are done the energies of the American economic system will remedy the ravages of depression and restore full activity and full employment. Out of this depression has come not only the problem of recovery, but also the equally grave problem of caring for the umemployed until recovery is attained. Their relief at all times is a matter of plain duty. We of our party pledge that this obligation will never be neglected. In extending help, how- ever, we will handle the publie funds as a public trust. We will recognize that all citizens, irre- spective of color, race, creed or party affiliation, have an equal right to this protection. We would consider it base beyond words to make loyalty or service to party a condition upon which the needy unemployed might obtain help. Those who use public funds to build their political machines for- feit all right to political consid- eration from true Americans. All Who Need Relief To Continue to Get It. Let me emphasize that, while we propose to follow a policy of econ- omy in Government expenditures, those who need relief will get it. We will not take our economies out of the allotments to the unem- ployed. We will take them out of the hides of the political exploiters. The question is not as stated by the administration—how much money the American people are willing to spend for relief. The question is how much waste the American peo- ple are willing to stand for in the administration of relief. The destruction of human values by this depression has been far greater than the American people suffered during the World War. ‘When the depression began millions of dependable men and women had employment. They were the solid citizenry of America; they had lived honestly and had worked hard. They had dealt fairly with the Government, which, in turn, had depended upon their support. Then they found themselves de- prived of employment by economic forces over which they had no con- trol. Little by little they spent their life savings, while vainly seeking new jobs. We shall undertake to aid these innocent victims of the depression. In addition, we shall amend the social security act to make it workable. We recognize that so- ciety, acting through government, must afford as large a measure of protection as it can against invol untary unemployment and de- pendency in old age. We pledge that the Federal Government will do its proper share in that task. Debts and Taxes Impede Individual. But it must be kept in mind that the security of all of us depends on the good management of our com- mon affairs. We must be able to produce and accumulate enough to finance our normal progress, as well as to take care of ourselves and of those entitled to protection. Mounting debts and increasing taxes constitute a threat to all of these aims. They absorb the funds that might be used to create new things or to reduce the eost of present goods. Taxes, both visible and invisible, add to the price of everything. By taking more and more out of the family purse they leave less for the family security. Let us not be misled by those who tell us that others will be made to carry the burden for us. A simple inquiry into the facts and figures will show that our growing debts and taxes are so enormous that, even if we tax to the utmost limits those who are best able to pay the average taxpayer will still have to bear the major part. While spend- ing billions of borrowed money may create a temporary appearance of prosperity we and our children, as taxpayers, have yet to pay the gl pendn g KEEP COO take advantage of the new low rates on out-of-town calls daily after 7p.m.and all day on Sundays. UST TRY IT! A THE EVENING The present administration's ef- forts to produce this resuit have not been successful. Payments under the triple A did help to tide farmers over a difficult period. But, even before it was ruled out by the Supreme Court, the triple A was rapidly disor- ganizing American agriculture. Some of its worst effects continue. By its policies the administration has taken the American farmer out of foreign markets and put the foreign farmer into the Amer- ican market. The loss of markets, both at home and abroad, far out- weighs the value of all the bene- fits paid to farmers. Worse than this, from the stand- point of the public, is the fact that the administration, through its pregram of scarcity, has gam- bled with the needed food and feed supplies of the country. It overlooked the fact that Mother Nature cannot be regimented. All Policies to Be Free of Politics. ‘The time has now come when we must replace this futile pro- gram with one that is economically and socially right. The wealth of our soil must be preserved. We shall establish ef- fective sofl conservation and ero- sion-control policies in connec- tion with a national land-use and flood - prevention program — and keep it out of politics. Our farmers are entitled to all of the home market they can sup- ply without injustice to the con- sumer. We propose a policy that protects them in this right. Some of our farmers, dependent in part upon foreign markets, suf- fer from disadvantages arising from world disorder. Until these disadvantages are eliminated we propose to pay cash benefits in order to cushion our farm fam= ilies against the disastrous effects STAR, WASHINGTON, D. of price fluctuations and to pro- tect their standard of living. The American people, now, as always, are responsive to distress caused by disasters, such as the present drought. Our platform re- flects that spirit. We shall fulfill its pledge to give every reasonable assistance to producers in areas suffering from such temporary af- flictions, so that they may again get on a self-supporting basis. Farm Pregram to Serve National Purpese. Our farm program as a Whole will be made to serve a vital na- tional purpese. The family type of farm has long constituted ome of the cher- ished foundations of our social strength. It represents human values that we must not lose. ‘Widespread ownership of moderate- sized tracts of land was the aim of the Republican homestead act. ‘This conception of agriculture is one phase of the general principle that we stand for—preserving free- ldnmuloppommny in all walks of life. ‘The benefits which will be paid under our program will go no higher than the preduction level of the family type of farm. Another matter of deep concern is the welfare of American labor. ‘The general well-being of our country requires that labor shall have the position and rewards of prosperity to which it is entitled. I firmly believe that labor has the right to protect this position and to achieve those rewards by organiz- ing in labor unions. Surely the history of labor in the United States has demonstrated that working conditions, wages and hours have been improved through self-organization. The right of labor to organize means to me the right of employes to join any type of union they pre- fer, whether it covers their plant, their craft or their industry. It means that, in the absence of a union contract, an employe has an equal right to jein a union or to refuse to join a union. Freedom Is Guaranteed Each Employe. Under all eircumstances, so states the Republican platform, employes are to be free from inter- ference from any source, which means, as I read it, entire freedom from coercion or intimidation by the employer, any fellow employe or any other person. The Government must maintain itself in the position of an um- pire: Pirst, to protect the public interest, and, second, to act as a mediator between conflicting groups. One of the greatest prob- lems of this country is to develop effective methods of conciliation. Taking a dispute, after it gets into a tangle, and rushing it to the doorstep of the President is a bad way to handle a labor situation or any other situation. In international affairs, also, the Republican party has always worked for the advancement of justice and peace. Following the early tradition of our country, it has consistently urged the adjust- ment of international disputes in accordance with law, equity and justice. We have now again de- clared our continual loyalty to this Pprineiple. Republican Presidents sent dele- gates to The Hague conferences ON A LONG WEEK-END TRIP « « « in the Open Country as Well as in Small and Large Towns, It Was Slow Going All the Way for This Motorist. He Often Crawled Along Behind Cars, Even in the Country. TRAFFIC CUT DOWN HIS AVERAGE SPEED o « Going Through Cities, He Sometimes Had to Creep for Minutes, Tied Up in Traffic, Wasting Gas in Second Gear. (“Stepping On I¥”’ to Get Going Again Can Use 60% More Gasoline Than Steady Moving.) Q. and one of them took the leading part in the termination of the Russo - Japanese War. Another Republican President ealled a con- ference which, for the first time, produced a reduction and limita- tion of arms on & wide scale. Still another led in securing the treaty outlawing wars. In purpose and achievement our y has a record which points §8-Fgk b § i | f i i ik i : : § H ggeg : 8 I : | g i ! i i i | i g T H i H 8 i § £ 14 L 3 q g 8 ig P H 2 great safeguards lpmn ) and oppression must net be cast away and lost. They must be saved that men may live free to pursue their happiness, safe from any kind of exploitation. One cannot face this occasion i certain vital principles. The pee- ple embodied these basic principles of human rights in the Federal and State Constitutions. Thus, the people themselves, of their own free will, set up this Government. And it is still the Government of the people. Any change which the people want they can have by fol- Jowing the procedure they them- selves laid down. Authority for Change Can Be Obtained. Bus for any efficial or branch of Government #o attempt such a change, without authority from the people, is to do an unwarranted and illegal act. It is a substitution of personal for censtitutional gov- ernment. If added power is need- ed, the people have set out how that authority may be had from them if they wish to give it. This, in its broad essentials, is the basic structure of our Govern- ment. As our economic life has become more complex and specialised some need, real or apparent, has often been urged as an exeuse for a fur ther grant of power from the pee- ple. They have sometimes given, sometimes withheld, the desired power. There has now appeared in high places, however, a new and danger- ous impulse. This ir the impulse to take away and lodge in the Chief Executive, without the people’s con- sent, the powers which they have kept in their State governments or which they have reserved in them- selves. In its ultimate effect upon the welfare of the whole people, this, then, is the most important gques- FRIDAY, JULY + 24, 1936. Legislatures in their flel the Pederal Government in m neld of interstate commerce. More recently, as a small inde- cer, 1 saw my industry ask for Federal regula- tion because of a selfish ex- ploitation of a natural resouree which, once wasted, cannot be re- placed. When Federal regulation failed, the industry made progress in the solution of the problem by turning to State action, supple- mented with interstate compacts as provided by the amazing fore- sight of the mekers of the Consti- It is not my belief that the Constitution is above change. The people have the right, by the means they have prescribed, to change their form of government to fit their wishes. If they could not do this they would not be free. But change must come by and through the people and not by usurpation. Changes should come openly, after full and free discus- sion, and after full opportunity for the people to express their will. The Republican party, however, does not believe that the people wish to abandon the American form of government. We propose to maintain the con- stitutional balance of power be- tween the States and the Federal Government. ‘We propose to use the full power of the federal Government to break up private monopolies and to eliminate private monopolistic practices, In other words, the Republican party proposes to restore and to maintian a free competitive sys- tem—a system under which, and only under which, can there be independence, equality of oppor- tunity and work for all. A free competitive system is nec- essary to a free government. Neither political nor civil liberty long survives the loss of economic liberty. Each and all of these liberties, with the precious human rights which they involve, must be preserved intact and inviolate. To Call Men to Office ‘Whe Are Best Qualified. If I am elected Chief Executive of this Nation I propose to restore STOPPED BY OFFICERS 34 TIMES « « « in One City Alone He Was Stopped by 3 Different Policemen at Intersections. (One Stop Can Use %3 “Mile” of Gasoline.) ‘4 OUT OF EVERY 5 MILES YOU DRIVE ARE “STOP-ano-GO.”’ Costly—unless your gas has these 3 kinds of power—in perfect balance for STEADY ECONOMICAL RUNNING. VEN when driving near home, you average 30 stops a day. Going to the stores, mak- ing business calls, visiting your friends. That’s what runs up gas bills. For economy in today’s driving, your gasoline needs 3 different kinds of power—just as your car needs 3 shifts of gears. ‘You need one kind of power for quick STARTS, anotherforfast PICKUPand hill climbing, another o our Government to an efficient as well as constitutional basis. I shall call to my aid those men best qualified to conduct the pub- Hc business—and I mean just that. I shall stand back of them. I shall hold them responsible for doing their jobs. I shall co-operate whole-heart- edly with Congress in an effective reorganization of the numerous Government agencies, to get rid of those who are not necessary, to eliminate duplication, to insure better administration, and to save the taxpayers’ money. I hold that it is the right of our people to have their greatest pub- lic service enterprise—their Gov- ernment—well administered. ‘These are some of the aims and ¥roposals of a Republican admin- istration that would enter office under a pledge to conduct the pub- Ne business with honesty, frugal- ity, courage and common sense. In common with all my country- men, I look forward to the Amer- fca that is to be. It should be a Nation in which the old wrong things are going out and the new right things are coming in. It should be a country which produces more and more until there is plenty for all, with a fair chance for all to earn their share. * It should be a land in which equal opportunity shall prevail and special privilege shall have no place. It should be an America that shall bring to bear the whole of her great spiritual force in a com- mon effort to drive the curse of war from the earth; an America that, for the sake of all mankind as well as ourselves, shall never lose the faith that human freedom is a practical ideal. It is in these aims and in these works that I vision the manifest FRESH destiny of America. Everything we need for their realization we can find, I firmly believe, within the principles under which this Nation has grown to greatness. God grant us, one and all, the strength and the wisdom to do our part in bringing these things to pass. —_— Yor » Complete Renoviz- ing Service and AlNTlNG sk i X FERGUSON ¥ 3831 Ga. A COl. o056 Try This New “CREAMED” RUBBING ALCOHOL SPRY soothes tired, aching feet. Can’t spill, yet liquefies as you rub it in. Doesn’t “dry out” the skin. Usealsoforsoremuscles, cuts, bruises. 707, absolute alcohol. Large jar, 29¢—double size, 49¢. 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