Evening Star Newspaper, October 20, 1937, Page 4

A—4 K GEN. JORNSON HITS LANDON'S SPEECH No More Convincing Than in | '36, He Says, Urging “New Deal of ’32.” By the Associated Press. Gen. Hugh S. Johnson, replying by | radio to former Gov. Alf M. Landon’s | speech last night, declared the | Kansan's diagnosis of the national £cene was “no more convincing than THE EVENING STAR, WASHINGTON, B ., WEDNESDAY, OCTOBER 20, 1937. By the Associated Press. TOPEKA, Kans, Octobe: 20.—Fol- lowing is the text of an address last night by Alf M. Landon, 1936 Repub- lican presidential nominee: I have called a meeting of the 17,~ 000,000 men and women who voted for the Republican ticket last Fall. I have taken it upon myself to call this meeting because I held the honor of being the standard bearer of the cause for which your votes were cast. I wish to suggest ways and means by which we, the minority party, can b of outstanding service to our coun- tr. This demands unity in our party, | the laying aside of all petty differences | in 1936." In a characteristic utterance, bris- | tliing with picturesque phrases, the | former N. R. A. head pleaded for “the | middle way" and the restoration of | “the New Deal of '32.” | Criticizing both “red radicals” and “rabid reactioggires.” he said: | “This great middle class country is | & Nation of the middle way, it is| neither red radical nor tory conserva- tive, neither Communist nor Fascist. | “It is a business country, humane, | democratic, and abreast of the progress | of the world. It is a middle way | country and through one great party | or the other that way will prevail, not | because any politfian planned it that | way, but because we are still a democ- racy and both political parties and political leaders must still follow and can never in the end either fool or force public opinion. | “They merely reflect it, and popular opiion in this country will not long | permit any force to lead it either into | any red morass of destruction on the | ultimate left, or any tory ice floe and death by freezing on the extreme | BACKING DELAYED FOR G. 0. P. SESSION National Republican Club Acts After Hearing Denunciation of Committee. Br the Assortated Press. NEW YORK, October 20.—The Na- | tional Republican Club postponed im- mediate action last night on a proposal for unreserved indorsement of the midterm party convention projected by Herbert Hoover and others, after hear- ing & denunciation of the Republican National Committee’s “miserable cam- | paign” of 1936, | A resolution to commit the club to the midterm proposal was offered by | former Representative William S. Ben- | net by proxy, but Andrew J. Humphrey, 8 white-haired charter member, ob- | jected to “hasty action,” and his ob- | jection had the effect of sending the | matter to the club’s National Affairs Committee. There wWas no vote, [ The Republican National Commit- | tee, which under the Bennet move | would have been petitioned to call & convention of the party before the | 1938 congressional elections, had no | guch authority, said Humphrey. { And, he added, ““for a committee that made such a miserable campaign in | 1236, such action “would be rather | presumptuous.” “Mr. Hoover and Mr. Landon,” he | eaid, “are on opposite sides of this| question and there is rivalry for con- | trol of the next regular convention. We sheuld steer clear at this time of | any unreserved action.” WOMAN IS SENTENCED ON TWO ARSON CHARGES Pleading guilty to two echarges of arson, Mrs. Mary Williams, 42, of the | BO0 blork Third street northwest, yes- | terday was sentenced in Alexandria | Corporation Court to two years in prison on each count. Mrs. Williams, proprietor of a room- ine house at the Third street address, admitted that she twice attempted to | iestroy & residence in which she is | part owner so that she might collect | Insurance., The first eftort was made May 18 | and the second on May 27, she said. On both occasions the building, located on Mount Vernon avenue, in Alexandria, was saved by the Alexan- dria Pire Department. Judge William P. Woolls sentenced Mrs. Williams to two years on each | count, the sentences to run concur- rently. Mrs. Williams said she was aided bv Robert Kimes, alias Robert De Haven of near Baltimore, who pleaded guilty to arson at the last term of court and received a similar sentence | I the Virginia State Penitentiary. FORMER U. S. GIRL DIVORCES NOBLEMAN By the Associated Press, RENO. Nev, October 20.-—-Th¢ | former Natalie Fisher of Redlands, | Calif, was granted a divorce decree by District Judge B. F. Curler yvester- | day from her nobleman husband, the | Marchez Clemente Catalano Gonzaga | of Florence, Italy. 1 Marchesa Gonzaga charged non- gupport and cruelty. She gained cu: tody of their two children, Henry. 1 and Luigi, 10, and $50 monthly sup- | port for each. | The Marchez did not appear in court. The couple martied January 3, | 1923, in Florence, an all personal feeling. Of course, in every great party there are those who differ on details, plans and procedure, but these fade to insignificance under the shadow of the growing threat to our Republic. This major issue is so great that it dwafs all minor differ- ences and transcends party labels. | ‘The challenge to our country today is | that citizens lay aside all personal, factional and party prejudices and | join in the fight to preserve the Republic. | Threugh the modern miraclé of | radio it is possible for us to assemble in one great gathering, even though we be spread from one end of the Na- | tion to the other. And so I am using this vehicle to discuss informally with you two events of great importance. But first, let me digress for & mo- ment to review some of the circum- | Alf M. Landon, 1936 Republican nominee, as he spoke at Topeka, Kans., last night, asking that his 17,000,000 supporters insist on shutting off “too much power” for the Roosevelt ad- ministration. Text of Alf M. Landon's Speech —Copyright, A. P. Wirephoto. stances leading up to these events which so vitally affect the lives of all | of us. Makes Answer to Letters Inquiring Into Long Silence. During the past months I have re- | ceived hundreds and thousands of | letters, earnestly inquiring why I have remained silent so long. I would lik to take a moment to tell you why. First, 1 believe that under normal conditions, when a man has been elected to public office, good taste and the | tion of doubt. last fou. try today is “why do we lag in social progress?"” Social Progress Failure Laid to Roosevelt Methods. I am going to tell you why I be- lieve social progress lags, and I believe I can prove it to you beyond all ques- The real reason why progress has lagged in America during and one-half years is | the failure of the President of the | United States to follow our constitu- good government demand that we give | him free rein to establish those poli- | cies which he promised the voters in order to secure their votes. Frankly, 1 had hoped that after the election we might consolidate the gains this coun- try had made in & new vision of civic righteousness. Last December, after election, I called on the President in Washington and told him that I wished to do my part to create a spirit of harmony and solidarity among us as a people. Then suddenly last February, with- out warning, the President made an attempt to ‘control the decisions of the Supreme Court of the United States. Just at the time when we were trying to heal the scars of class consciousness, just at the time when we hoped a world torn by war and threats of war would feel that we were & country at peace at home. he instituted a bitter controversv that shook this Nation to its foundations. | But once more I remained silent. I felt it my patriotic duty to do nothing which would give any one an oppor- tunity to make a partisan issue out of this great crisis. But now the time has come to act. tional method of government and his failure as an administrator. The President says that constitu- | tional methods are too slow—it takes too long to do things in the way the Constitution prescribes. But I submit methods we would hav. m:de many times as much progress as we have made during Mr. Roosevelt'. adminis- tration. | I would like to point oui that Mr. of his career deals with the first few months | March, 1933, to July, 1932 During | those few months he performed com- | the | mendable service. He rose to emergency with emergency action. He fed the hungry—he sheltered homeless—he replaced fear with con- fidence and hope. Second Period tequired Quiet, Painstaking Work. | Then came the second period. the period of working out a far-seeing, long-range program of social reform. This was & different situation. This required & different type of ability. This was a job which required quiet, that if we had followed constitutional | hen he was in office, from | the | first important piece of supposedly temporary social legislation, namely the N. R. A. What happened? Progress stopped. We began to slide back. We lost most of what we had gained. And this has been repeated many times. Now, as I have said, the lag in | social progress is due to Mr. Roose- velt’s failure to foll w .onstitutional methods. Let me dwell on this point for just & moment because it may | clarify our entire present situation. Under our constitutional method Lhe: President makes recommendations to Congress. He turns over the drafting | of legislation to the legislators. Mem- | bers of Congress investigate all phases thoroughly. They hold p.blic hear- | ings. They allow almost every one who is interested to come in and have his say. They discuss the pitfalls, | the loopholes, all the things that may | go «rong. They listen particularly 1o the opposition—to the people wh | Roosevelt's career as President divides | ot obre® (o Lecple who | itself into two parts: The first phase | don't want the legislation. Inci- dentally, this is & phase that Mr. Roosevelt does not seem to under- stand. He does not want to let the opposition talk. But if you’ask any man who understands drafting legisia- | tion he will tell you that the opposition | is yo r biggest help. They tell you all the things that are wrong. They | tell you all the reasons why it won't | work. They give you the information | = Why Does Progress Lag Is Today’s Important Question. In & recent speech Mr. Rooseveit stated that progress lags in this coun- | try. He said that the lawvers of our | country and the Constitution have kept us 20 years behind the times. | Now, I agree with Mr. Roosevelt that | progress lags. I think all of you agree | that progress lags. That makes it unanimous. So one of the Qutstand- ing questions in America today #s “why does progress lag?” | The President has said that we | must accept one of two alternatives. | We must take his personal form eof government—we must give him more and more power. We must eoerce Congress. We must submerge the Supreme Court. We must strike down any one who raises a voice of objec- tion to the way he does things. We | must do all of these things or else go back to the old order of things—back ! to manipulation by “malefactors of great wealth,” back to sweat shops, back to sturvation wages. Of course, if people believe that we must either have & one-man Government or so- cial and :conomic chaos, there is no question a&s to what their choice s going to be. The manner in which Mr. Roosevelt puts the question re- minds me of the lawyer who said to & witness, “Have you stopped beating your wife? Answer yes or no.” The real question facing this coun- | Rooc . velt's | production rose 37 per cent. began to hum. J. C hard, painstaking work. During the first four months of Mr. industrial Things Industry was picking up. People were regaining their con- fidence. Then came Mr. Roosevelt's administration handle the best grades of Pennsylvania ANTHRACITE | ond ' The Famous BLUE 0AL EDW. CHAPMAN ool Fuel Oil 37 N St. N.W, North 3609 Axent Wayne Oil Burner AFTER ALL... INT'S ONLY PAINT, CISNTIT? YES...in the same way that a thorough- . bred and a hybrid are both horses! NE paint may cost a lot less than others . . . but will it cover as much surface? 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Now this may seem a slow, tiresome method, in terms of weeks or months, but if you look back over a period of four and one-half years, it would have been very rapid indeed, if through that method we had obtained some legisla- tion that was workable, But what did Mr. Roosevelt do? He refused to call in able legislators with years of experience. He turned draft- ing of the legislation over to some college sophomores. He handed it to Congress in a package and said in effect: “Pass it this way without crossing & ‘t’ or dotting an ‘i’ For example: When the N. R. A. was passed, his avowed purposes met with approval. But the N. R. A. did not work. As every one knows, it was a miserable failure. Don't take my word alone for this. Ask Mr. Roose- | velt himself. He admits that it failed, but excuses it all on the basis that it was well-intended. Yet, despite the fact that N. R. A. did not work in practice, Mr. Roosevelt continues to insist upon adoption of its theory in one form or another, thus, making the same mistake over and over again. The social security act is another | example of the same policy. It is well-intended. It s something that is necessary in our country, Practi- cally every one of them disagreed, not | with the idea, but with the form Mr. Roosevelt was jamming through. For social security is at least the one thing in which all citizens should be treated equally. The present law does not do so. It will be changed to correct its errors when it is dealt with intelli- gently. This is necessary because Mr. Roosevelt failed to follow constitutional procedure in drafting it. Unemployment Remains Biggest National Problem. Let us next consider the question of relief. I do not need to tell you that relief has been made a political foot ball. You have seen examples all around you. Unemployment was our biggest problem when Mr. Roosevelt came into office in 1933. It is still our biggest problem. I believe we are morally worse off now than we were then, because at that time every one at least wanted to work if he could find & job. The present policy of relief may be all right for those who want to stay on relief, but to the self-respect- ing man there question: When do we go back work? to can be only one | There is another situation in Amer- | ica today which is holding back in- | dustrial recovery perhaps more than any one single thing, and that is texes. Not just the amount of taxes,. but the confusion over taxes. No one knows from one year 1o the next what is goinz to happen. How can the country go ahead under such condi- Special Value KNOTTY PINE PANELING 17x12" (4 5 15€ ft, This is select quality knotty pine paneling ideal for recrea- tion rooms, library, den, offices, stores, etc. Makes a beautiful finish, We also carry in stock 6, 8 ond 10 in. widths. Ask about our mew finance plan for home improvements. J. FRANK ELLY" 2121 Go. Ave. NO. 1341 ) Service ing across the country, that some one stayed home long enough to work out a program of tax legislation that would not have to be changed every year? 2 Ladies and gentlemen: I think we are all glad to find a growing senti- ment that the Constitution works when you give it a chance to work. I believe you must be realizing by now that our good old Constitution, in- stead of being & horse and buggy, is & roaring motor car, compared to the’ progress we have been making. Now, I would like 1> make » predic- tion—prediction about the Wagner labor act. Again, “his heart may be in the right place.” Again, his inten- tions were the best in the world. But again constitutional procedure was not followed. Unworkable Legisiation Must Be Done Over Again. And I want to make this prediction: That once more you will find an un- workable, messed-up plece of legisla- | tion that will have to be done all over | again, True, it is & step ir the right | direction. It is a move in the direc- tion of collective bargaining. Despite its present weaknesses and failings, we should place our feet squarely upon this act. The wisdom and fairness of the people will eventually bring about a modification so that the justice and equality of all rights, including that of | the public, will be recognized. But at the present time there are many law- | yers in this country (not corporation Jawyers, but labor lawyers) who will | tell you that they heve already found | 50 many holes in it that it looks like a | sieve. Here, again, & worthy cause | D1.2775 YOU CAN PAY MORE BUT YOU CANT BUY BETTER Uhe FAMOUS Gl . 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He aaid, “A plague on both their houses,” and went on another vacation I have given you the basic reason for the lag of social progress in our country—I have given you numerous examples of legislation, each of whirh had its heart in the right place, bt all of which will have to be done aver again because constitutional procedurs was not followed. Now I want to give you sn examp'e of what happens when s plece ot social legislation is drafted sceording to constitutional procedure by men who really understand the art of drafting legislation. About the year 1905 New York State fook up the question of revising in- " (Continted on Page 6 Bedroom Furniture Studio Couches o IT doesn’t take us but one day to put X your old mattress through a sterilizing, cleaning, re- juvenating process that literally makes it new. Costs $5 and up. Phone for our representative to ZABAN’S 1215 22nd St. N.-W. 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