Evening Star Newspaper, November 1, 1936, Page 5

BUREAUCRAGY' HIT ING. 0. P. REPORT Republicans Assert Over » 200 Agencies Set Up t {* Under New Deal. BY the Assoclated Press. Calling the administration “the most ®laborate bureaucracy” in American history, the Republican National Com- mittee last night made public a study which said more than 200 agencies had been set up since March 4, 1933. “Ninety-one New Deal bureaus are still functioning as originally created and nearly half of these have been established on a permanent basis,” the statement said. “President Roose~ welt issued 83 executive orders for the purpose of reorganizing these agencies, 69 to abolish or transfer govern- mental functions, 6 tc terminate them and 8 to consolidate Federal offices. These were supplemented by 17 acts of Congress, 11 for abolition or trans- fer, 5 for termination and 1 for con- wolidation of agencles and functions.” | The invesiigation was said to show} %hat at least 740 new executive posi- | tions were created, and that only 10| *useless commissions and offices” had Been abolished. “Even when court decisions on the eonstitutionality of New Deal activi- ties halted certain agencies,” the state- ment added, “their fumctions con-| tinued in some degree. Traces of N. R. A, dead as it is, can be found in the Committee of Industrial An- * alysis and Division of Industrial Eco- nomics, Department of Commerce. ® * ¢ New laws were passed so that| ,unconstitutional organizations could | “continue to operate. For example, the | (A A. A was carried on by the soil | ‘conservation act.” *Landon telephones to Topeka. Gov. Alf Landon chatting yesterday with John Cobb and Nancy Jo, his children, who.remained at home while the candidate ended his political campaign at St. Louis. Mrs. Landon and Peggy Anne are shown offering suggestions as the Governor THE SUNDAY STAR, WASHINGTON, “I'll Be Home Tomorrow” + —Copyright, A. P. Wirephoto. | thinking that the more we borrow, the easier it will be to get out of debt.” | “Now make no mistake about it the nominee continued, “we in this | country are going to get our train back on schedule. We are going to (Continued From First Page.) this confidence they dare not plan for the future. * * * “If we are to have full recovery and re-employment, confidence must be re- stored. There must be some assur- ance that money invested today wxll‘ not be destroyed tomorrow by an erratic administration. * * * | “We must restore confidence in the ' Government's credit. But that is not all. We must also open the way to individual initiative. We must restore the principles of free competition. We must strengthen and enforce the anti- trust laws which are designed for | the protection of the littie fellow. We must stamp out unfair trade prac- tices, which work to the disadvan- | tage of the little fellow. And we must do this without treating every man | who makes a profit as if he were a ' eriminal against society. “At the same time we must pro- vide real old age pensions for our people. We must repeal the present tax on pay envelopes and pay the cost of these pensions as we go along by a direct tax widely distributed.” On Inspiring Confidence. In his address Landon presented ‘what he called “a few of the reasons” why ‘“capital and initiative,” on which he said re-employment must rely, lacked confidence in the New Deal. He took up social security, econ- omy, agriculture, business and taxes, asking at the conclusion of each: “Is this the way to inspire confi- dence?” Among the “reasons” listed by the | Republican candidate: Social security—"The workers are only now beginning to find out the | real extent of this deception. * * * What they have been given is not the security of a pension for their old age, but the certainty of a tax bur- | den throughout their working lives. ® * * The administration so far has refused to reveal how it is going to | keep the life records of 26,000,000 of our working people. * * * Imagine the | boost for Federal bureaucracy. Are these 26,000,000 going to be finger- printed?” Economy—"“The present adminis- | tration was elected on a program of | economy. * * * It did an about-face. | It marched this country into the most | profligate course of spending we have ever seen.” Farm—"The administration com- | plained when it came into office about a condition where we had scarcity in | the midst of plenty. To remedy this | condition it did not do away "llhl scarcity, it did away with plenty. * * ¢ The A. A. A. * * * destroyed work opportunities for 1,000,000 men in the cotton fields alone.” | Business—"“The President started | the N. R. A, with the excuse that it would give business men an opportu- nity to co-operate with Government if they so desired. Within three months co-operation was gone and the N. R. A, had become an instrument of co- ercion.” Taxes—“This administration has | passed 14 laws involving Jew or in- creased tax levies * * * has doubled the proportion of consumers’ taxes which fall most heavily on the little fellow.” Landon said the New Deal boasted that its spending had brought re- covery. “Spendthrift Delusion.” “But it is not a solid recovery,” the | Governor said. “It is a spendthrift delusion, the delusion of & nation_that 13 running through its capital and mortgaging its future * * * it is finan- cial madness to delude ourselves into HEIL OlIL BURNERS DEPENDABLE ECONOMICAL GUARANTEED Wm. KING & SON Establizhed 1835 100 YEARS OF SERVICE 1151 16th Street District 8223 . Specialising in - Perfect. ‘DIAMONDS ' _Also comblete line of standard and all-American made watches Shop at the friendly store— youre alwavs greeied with o smile—with no obligation to buy, * | American form of government” was | election. |lines at Providence, R. I., but long- pick up the unemployed and get them back to work, | “And we are going to do this with- out breaking our backs and the backs | of our children with billions of debt. “And we are going to do this with- out abandoning the American system of free and popular government. We | are going to do it under the American | Constitution. “It's time we started to apply some | common sense in our problems. It's | time we stopped the ill-considered ex- | periments that are shackling Ameri- | can industry and American agricul- ture.” Landon was introduced to his Mis- souri listeners by Jesse W. Barrett, candidate for Governor, as a man who | “'possesses both common honesty and common sense.” | “Not since the days of Abraham Lincoln,” Barrett said, “has Missouri | had the opportunity to support for | President a man who is so familiar | with our State, our people, our prob- lems and cur desires.” | In two prelude luncheon talks, Lan- don stressed that “preservation of the the fundamental issue at stake in the ' g _Strike (Continued From First Page.) ships. Previously the unions have per- mitted the ships to keep engineering officers. Shipowners again refused to re-| sume peace conversations as long as| the 37,000 coast maritime and shore- | side workers remained on strike. | Sixteen ships were tied up by sym- | pathy strikes at Philadelphia and nine | were reported strike-bound at Bal- timore. New York already had exper- lenced a “sit down” strike of seamen of the American ship Munargo. Providence Wharves Picketed. Striking seamen picketed the wharves of two Long Island Sound | shoremen there were reported to have | rejected an appeal for a sympathy | strike. At Mobile, Ala, “sit-down” strikes | were staged by members of the crews | of two West Coast ships in sympathy | with the Pacific Coast walkout, and 46 pickets were arrested. The vessels | cost of your Spencer heater. years to pay. 907 NEW YORK involved were the Point Lobas and Point Montaro, operated by the Gulf Pacific Steamship Co. The International Longshoremen’s Union at San Francisco issued a strike bulletin asking its members to pre- serve discipline, and act like “union men” and said they were going to have peace “even if we have to Aght for it.” Food Warehouses Closed. San Francisco grocery and food stor- age warehouses remained closed be- cause of a strike of 1,000 warehouse- men seeking wage Increases. Warren | G. Denton, their leader, said no at-! tempt would be made to prevent de- livery of necessities. Coast shipowners indicated they might attempt to man refrigeration equipment aboard strike-bound ships to prevent spollage of perishables. Assistant Secretary of Labor Edward P. McGrady sought to bring unions and shipowners together on the re- frigeration problem, hoping it might lead to further negotiations. Perspiring officials of the Panama- Pacific Steamship Co. helped dock the big liner California at San Pedro after jongshoremen refused to aid. Spec- tators and strike pickets cheered as the “white collar” group made the ship fast, allowing 273 passengers to disembark. Four rallroad lines clamped em- bargoes on consignments destined be- yond the Pacific Coast through West- ern ports. This included shipments to Hawail, the Philippines and the Orient. The lines involved were: The Santa Fe, Southern Pacific, Northern Pacific and the Spokane, Portland and Seattle systems. It was said shipments could be di- verted through Canada to British Co- lumbia ports not affected by the mari- time strike. Northern rail lines an- nounced special export rates on ap- ple shipments from Washington and Oregon to Vancouver, British Colum- bia, for water transportation to Eu- rope. | Portland business felt the strike | when steamship companies laid off personnel. One firm reduced its staff to only a few key members. Interior Department officials ex- pressed concern that a prolonged tie- up might cause difficulties in Alaska and Hawaii. The islands, profiting from experience in the 1934 ,strike, were sald to have a three-month food supply, but the authorities said Alas- ka might not fare so well. They thought the situation might become acute in the Far North In five or six weeks. Coast Guard, postal, Geodetic Sur- vey and Indian Affairs Bureau au- thorities in Seattle met to work out & mail system to Alaska during the strike. 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