Evening Star Newspaper, March 28, 1940, Page 6

New Deal Policies Lack Infegrity, Dewey Charges Says Leader Is Needed Who Can Be Trusted to Keep U. S. Out of War B7 the Associated Press, BT. LOUIS, March 28—Thomas E. Dewey declared last night the first need of the country is an ad- ministration which can be trusted “to keep this Nation out of war.” The youthful New York County district attorney, who seeks the Re- publican presidential nomination, charged in a speech that “failure has followed every step” of the New Deal, “because underlying all fits policles there has been a funda- mental lack of integrity—a cynical disregard for the principles of com- mon honesty.” “This lack of integrity is shown in three principal ways—broken promises, contempt for the Constitu- tion and flagrant abuse of power,” he said. Speaks in Chicago Tonight. “So what faith can we place in | any promise by this administration to keep this Nation out of war?” Mr. Dewey's address was the first in a series on “The Moral Issues” of the campaign. which he will con- tinue in Chicago tonight. It was| given before a meeting sponsored by the Misseuri State Republican | Committee and was broadcast over & Nation-wide hookup. “I do not need to tell you that the spoken word and the public pledge of this adminisrtation are worthless,” he declared. “The erosion of character * * * began within six weeks after it took office. It has continued ever since, wearing away the foundations of governmental integrity.” Retarded Recovery Charged. Claiming the New Deal's “record of incompetence and bad faith” had retarded recovery, Mr. Dewey as- serted: “The New Deal attempts to elevate | its failure into the realm of high Reapportionment, Struggle Is as Old As the Nation (Second of a series.) By MORGAN M. BEATTY. Associatea Press Staft Writer Political heads will roll in the 1940 battle of the census! How many heads is problematical. It depends on: How fast Southern mothers pro- duced children during the last 10 years. 2 How many Joad families swapped misery in Oklahoma for misery in California. How many Southern lads and lassies chose the old homestead for their port in the storm of the de- pression, instead of the big cities in the North. Moreover, Congressmen must decide what to do about the decen- nial man-under-the-bed — reappor- tionment! At Least Six to Lose Jobs. If you takr (1) the latest mathe- matical doodles of the Census Bu- reau, put 'em on a slide rule, and | (2) assumc the automatic reappor- | tionment law of 1920 will survive | the battle of the census, then you | find at the end of your trail a gibbet for six Congressmen. | At least six Legislators from the | Northeastern and Midwestern States | will lose their $10,000-a-vear jobs. ! And six Congressmen from the South and Far West will grow where no| Congressmen have sprouted since 1910. . | That means a gain of at least 12 votes in the House of Representa- tives for the South and Far West | by 1942. They’ll pick up six ncLuaX‘ votes, and benefit also by the death | of six Northern votes. | You can find plenty of statisti- | clans who figure the Northeastern States may lose more seats than that. Some say 10 or even 12 seats, instead of 6. But the mathematical wizards who figured out reappor-l tionment for me took the conserva- tive side of the street. Always a Struggle. economic policy.” He accused the administration of trying to “excuse reckless spending by claiming it is necessary for re- lief and recovery. “But even the alibi is false. It is | false, because, after eliminating | every relief and recovery item, the | cost of the national Government | under the New Deal has gone up two | and one-quarter billion dollars, or | 66 per cent.” §7,138,297 Payment The decennial battle of the census | s as old as the Nation. | As regular as death and taxes,| |one of these struggles has rolled | around every 10 years for 150 years | running. Most of the fights have | been settled behind the locked doors | of congressional committee rooms, | without the public shedding of polit- | ical blood. | But the last two! Whew! And | right out in the open, where any- | body could get a ringside seat. | Roughly speaking. these battles | were miniature civil wars—the South THE EVENING STAR, WASHINGTON, D. C., THURSDAY,. MARCH '28," 1940. South and West Will Pick Up at Least Six House Seats Lost by North, if Census Count Goes as Predicted 1930 CONGRESSIONAL REAPPORTIONMENT N / N AN GAINS LOSSES NO CHANGE 1940 ONAL REAPPORTIONMENT (estimated) NEW. CONGRESSI s h’ 7 : \ \% p 7 Y NG 7 o b % N LOSSES NO CHANGE * WILL THE PENDULUM SWING BACK?—These maps show how the congressional representa- Figures on the forthcoming reapportionment are based on the 1929 law and an estimate of what the 1940 census tion changed after the 1930 census and how it may change after this year’s. will show. Note that some sections that lost 10 years ago will probably gain this time. MIDDLE ATLANTIC Coal Town's Sinking - Is Laid to Failure 0f Mine Pillars Supreme Court Gets Some Blame; Governor Asks W. P. A. Help By the Associated Press. HARRISBURG, Pa, March 28.—A plea for W. P. A. funds to help repair damage caused by the recent sub- sidence of a 16-block area of Shen- andoah was made by Gov. James to- drop was due to “the faflure of (mine) pillars.” Three mine inspectors informed the Governor the sinking may con- tinue for several years. Despite the absence of laws to guard against such occurrences, they commented: “It does seem there is & reasonable point at which an oper- ator should cease mining beneath improved surface lands, .having in mind the highest percentage of re- covery of mineable coal and the communities, without which the mines could not operate.” The investigators noted that the United States Supreme Court’s in- validation, 20 years ago, of State legisiation designed to control an- thracite mining restricted the De- partment of Mines to looking after “the health and safety of persons employed in and about the an- day after investigators reported the Better flavor from a large amount of fine coffee beans Jfrom THE MELLOW FLAVOR BELT The better flavor of Beech-Nut Coffee is due to a generous amount of top-grade coffee beans from the Mellow Flavor Belt. .. where on mile-high d the protection and preservation of property connected therewith.” In a letter to W. P. A. 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The men from down | ¢ ths regular census is going to be | under defied the Constitution and desttrovvd!g'\" S Ends Elk HI"s 0" Flgh' | the Founding Fathers in 1920. They | The Representative By the Associated Press. | blocked any reapportionment at all, | eould block automatic reapportion- would find themselves out in the ment based on the 1940 census, Capitol corridors, competing against from New 6 Scnator Vandenberg and Presi- | historical art for the tourist trade. But | dent LOS ANGELES, March 28.—Pay- |and thereby saved themselves from ment of $7.138.297 dy Standard Oil losing seats to the growing North. Co. of California to the United | In 1929, the struggle was even | York dia not go into details. | suppose the Representatives who hail from all the sections liable to lose members in the 1940 census Roosevelt and the Census Committee are trying to House | No. That's not practical either, 80 the whole thing adds up to the keep this technicality from mud- | census battle of ®he century either Earth’s riches captured in glass. . .for your baby | dying the reapportionment waters | States Government has ended the | harder, and dirtier. The South tried | latter’s 16-year fight over the Elk | Hills naval oil reserve. | Federal District Judge Leon Yank- wich's ruling in favor of the Govern- | ment was affirmed last Monday by the United States Supreme Court. The Government also regains con- trol of 1232 acres of land in two tracts, valued at $20,000,000 to $30,- 000.000. and recovers $100,000 in cash | and 30 acres from the late E. L.| Doheny estate. The $7,138.297 was paid yesterday | in five checks. Judge Yankwich said “at no time was the Standard Oil Co. guilty of any fraudulent act, but the company | acquired property that had never left the possession of the United States.” Comedian Billy House, Divorced Wife Rewed BY the Associated Press. BELLOWS FALLS, Vt., March 28. | —Comedian Billy House and his di- | vorced wife Harriet were man and | wife again today. Terming their recent separation & mistake, the rotund funnyman and his wife motored here yesterday | from their home at Mattapoisett, Mass., obtained a waiver of Ver- mont’s five-day marriage law and were rewed by the Rev. Addison B. Lorimer, Baptist minister, at the clergyman’s home. Law Holding House Membership to 435 Complicates Census Complicating the 1940 battle of the census is the reappor- tionment law of 1929, which fixes the membership of the House of Representatives at 435 members. Proceeding by a method known as the “method of major fractions,” the 1929 law allots each State its share of 435 Rep- ives for each 280,000 or major fraction If the same law is on the books when the 1940 census is reported, the average number of constituents of each Repre- sentative will increase to about 300,000. That's because the population is still going up, but not the size of the House. Each State can district itself as it pleases—a fact that gives to “rotten borough” troubles in several States. | depression-dammed emigrants and to bar aliens from the reapportion- | ment count given to Congress by the Census Bureau. The East has several million aliens. The North retaliated | by trying to bar Negroes. Both | amendments to the reapportionment law passed. It took three days of sizzling conferences to kill both. Today, the same old struggle is brewing, only the shoe’s on the other foot most of the time. The South’s high birth rate, and the West's mi~ grations. should give the Southern- ers and Westerners six more seats— if everything goes according to Hoyle. Enter Senator Tobey. But that's where Senator Charles | William Tobey's sideshow on the in- come questions comes in. For if enough citizens respond to the Sena- tor's excitement--and excitement over one's private affairs is a pretty contagious kind—then the regular | census might conceivably suffer from | errors and slammed doors. 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