F. D. Can't Very Well Duck Landon's Query Concerning NRA President indicates he is not thru experimenting and Clapper holds it would be better for him to outline his plans now rather than wait and face another broken promise charge. By RAYMOND CLAPPER Picking up something that young James Roosevelt said in a political speech, Gov. Landon calls upon the President to say whether he "still intends to make NRA principles live and operate in the American Government by one device or another." Of course, the intent of this question is to put Roosevelt in a hole. Nevertheless, it deserves an answer. Principles underlying NRA were: 1. Abolition of child labor. 2. Limitation of hours of work. 3. Minimum wages. 4 Collective bargaining. 5 Co-operation of business to prevent unfair trade practices and cut-throat competition. The method was to obtain agreements carrying out these principles among competitors in various industries, subject to approval by the Government, which in turn waived the anti trust laws to make such agreements permissible. The objects were to stimulate re-employment, increase pur chasing power, insure fair treatment to labor and to protect decent business men against chiselers who would stop at nothing to undersell a competitor. NRA was the first experiment of the kind, undertaken hastily in a period of desperate unemployment and business bankruptcy. Many mistakes were made, resulting in the whole experiment getting out of hand and bringing down upon itself vast disapproval and finally the veto of the Su preme Court. experience. It probably was Roosevelt's most unhappy You can hardly blame Landon for taunting his opponent with this ghost of the Blue Eagle and pointing in admiration. as he did at Detroit recently, to Henry Ford, who defied NRA and got away with it. Still, Roosevelt cannot afford to dodge the painful subject. It would be better to face it now than to duck until after election and then, if he tries to return to the principles of NRA, be confronted with another broken-promise charge. For Roosevelt already has given pretty clear indication that he is not thru with trying to do what he tried thru NRA. At Detroit, he said: "I do not accept the conclusion of many Republican leaders that major depressions are inevitable in modern life. I believe it is the duty of government to bend every .effort to prevent another major catstrophe. There are still a thousand and one things to be done. The auto mobile industry and every other industry still need great im provement in their relationship to their employes. It is my belief that the manufacturers of automobiles and the manufacturers of many other necessary commodities must, by planning, do far more than they have done to date to increase the yearly earnings of those who work for them. "Your Administration has that kind of objective in mind. It is my belief that the people of Detroit, like the people of the rest of the country, are going to ask on Nov. 3 that the present type of government continue rather than the type of government which in its heart still believes in the policy of 'laissez faire' and the kind of individualism which up to only three and a half years ago frankly put dollars above human rights. History will record that the outstanding issue of the campaign was this: Shall the social and economic security and betterment of the masses of the American people be maintained or not?" But Roosevelt should be more specific. The issue isn't whether he is determined to repeat the mistakes of NRA. Only a fool would propose to do that. The question is whether the country wants its Federal Government to endeavor again to establish the five principles which NRA sought to serve. Does Roosevelt propose to re-establish them? Does Gov. Landon pledge himself that the Federal Government shall wash its hands of those principles? It would be a healthy thing for both candidates to declare themselves. If democratic government means anything it means putting such fundamental questions as this squarely before the voters. Straw Polls Indicate Overwhelming F. D. Victory Composite Check Shows 273 Votes for Administration Two of Three National Surveys Favor New Deal; Digest Gives Landon Lead See Gen Johnson's analysis of the Literary Digest poll in his column on Page 19. By RUTH FINNEY Two of the three nation-wide straw votes now in progress indicate overwhelming success for President Roosevelt two weeks from today. The American Institute of Public Opinion poll, conducted by George Gallup, indicates that Roosevelt would rereive 300 electoral votes if the elec tion were held today. It counts 141 votes for Landon. The Crossley poll in the Hearst newspapers, gives Roosevelt 273 elec toral votes and Landon 119, with seven large states listed as too close to put in either column. DIGEST SEES LANDON The Literary Digest forecasts a Landon victory, assigning him 370 electoral votes at this stage of its poll. against 161 for Roosevelt. Sixteen states are conceded to Roorevelt by all the polls--the solid South. plus Utah, Tennessee. Okla homa and New Mexico The 16 have 161 electoral votes. To Landon all three polls concede 10 states having 100 electoral votes. These are the six New England states. Kansas. Iowa, Wyoming and Penn sylvania. Thirteen other states go to Roose velt in two of the three polls. These have 112 votes, additional states. And Landon gets 3 with 48 electoral votes, in two of the three polls. SPLIT ON NEW YORK One poll gives New York to Roose velt. mother gives it to Landon and the third poll reports a 50-50 break in its vote. Five other states are put i the tie class by one or two of the polls. In the composite picture presented by these three polls. Roosevelt has 273 electoral votes and Landon 148. with New York, Ohio, Indiana, Min nesota. West Virginia and South Da kola not counted in either column. It takes 266 to win Landon could not win on this basis, even if he captured New York. MIX-UP ON ILLINOIS All three polls conceded Illinois to I andon a week ago, tho the Gallup poll showed him leading by only 51 per cent to 49 and slipping in the past week, but the Crossley poll now reports at 50-50 vote in that state. The Literary Digest reported Landon leading in Illinois by a little better than 2 to 1 but said no ballots had been counted from Chicago. Question marks are also being en tered beside Pennsylvania, with its 36 electoral votes. The Gallup poll rec ords at 52-48 division there in Lan dons favor, and the Crossly poll First for F. D. Banjamin Lloyd, dental tech nician with offices at 605 14th-st nw, a legal resident of Los Angeles, mails what he believes to be the first California vote for President Roosevelt to leave the Dis trict. makes it 56 to 44 for Landon. The Digest records 107.474 votes for Lan don and 71,764 for Roosevelt but points out that as soon as it included its first ballots from Philadelphia and Pittsburgh, and The Digest reports' that Roosevelt is leading in the first city 52.8 by 41.4, and in Pittsburgh by 53.5 to 38.5. THEY DON'T AGREE The Gallup poll puts New York in the Roosevelt column, 52 to 48. and The Digest gives it to Landon 116.491 to 63,720, pointing out at the same time that only 45,000 ballots from New York City have been counted and that there Roosevelt is leading 28.327 to 13.694. The Crossley poll finds the vot ing in New York even. Ohio is given to Landon in The Di gest poll, to Roosevelt by Gallup. Crossley gave it to Landon a week ago and now calls it a tie. On the other hand polls conducted by the Scripps-Howard newspapers in Ohio and by The Columbus Dispatch and The Cincinnati Enquirer all give sub stantial majorities to Roosevelt. The Youngstown Vindicator found a ma jority of its voters for Landon. Twenty political writers polled re cently by News-Week predicted 19 to l a Roosevelt victory. Their con solidated forecast gave 137.8 probable electoral votes to Roosevelt. Eight other writers questioned by News Week declined to express an opin ion. and seven of these are outspoken critics of Roosevelt. Recent betting odds favor Roose velt 3 to 1. Graf Faces Retirement BERLIN --The Graf Zeppelin, fa mous German airship, will be retired as soon as the Zeppelin Co. completes three ships for its transatlantic serv ice. it was learned today. It has had eight years of service. Rep. Johnson to Talk Rep. Luther A. Johnson (D.. Tex.) will speak at a tally tomorrow night at 8 in the Branchville, Md. fire hall, sponsored by the 21st District Demo cratic Club. Party Leaders Fear Last-Minute Jinx as Election Nears Famous Boners of Past Cam paigns Recalled, Including 'Grass in the Streets' From now until Nov. 3 party lead ers will keep their fingers crossed in dread of one of those fatal last minute mistakes that sometimes de cide elections. I Injudicious statements are often made in the ardor of the closing campaign days. Candidates and their supporters are usually under great physical and nervous tension. Emo tion is at a high pitch among the electorate also. Pour Republicans years ago thought Franklin D. Roosevelt had made a fatal mistake when he in ferred that partisan politics might have governed Supreme Court deci sions during the previous 12 years. Republican orators hammered at this point in all parts of the country. Hoover abused Roosevelt for the statement in his famous Madison Square Garden speech where he him self uttePed the "grass-will-grow-in the-streets" warning. SAW HOOVER ERROR Democrats thought Hoover made a 1 serious mistake when he put into his last major speech of the campaign an extemporaneous sentence thank ing God that the country still had a Government that knew how to deal! with mobs. Sentiment was still run ning high over Hoover's use of troops to evict the bonus army, and the President had narrowly escaped pub lic censure by the American Legion. Hoover, who early in the fall of 1932 planned only three campaign speeches, changed his mind and spoke almost daily in those last two weeks, after polls of public opinion showed his rival far ahead. But ap parently minds had been made up before then. COSTLY 1916 BLUNDER Al Smith also went into a final whirlwind of activity in the 1928 campaign, and he also found it futile. In the close election of 1916 Hughes and Wilson both closed their cam paigns with big New York ity rallies. Hughes, a New York i. an, carried the state. But his campaign blunder had been made months be fore in California, when he alienated the supporters of Hiram W. Johnson by a real or fancied slight. He lost that state by 4000 votes out of 925,000 cast and thus lost the presidency. PWA FIGURES AMOUNT OF WORK IT PROVIDED The Public Works Administration claimed today to have created 10. 736.700 man-months of employment since its creation in 1933 with a $3,300,000,000 fund for heavy con struction. The figure included both direct site employment and jobs made in behind-the-line industry thru $1,288,775,000 spent for building ma terials. Statisticians figured an other $692,928,000 had been paid out in pay rolls on the projects them selves. Marriage Rumored Mrs. F. Wilkinson Bunker, Washington socialite, will marry the former Italian ambassador, Augusto Rosso, now Italian ambassador in Moscow, according to re ports received here. The marriage, it is believed, will take place in Moscow within i a few weeks. BRAZIL TO U. S. HIGHWAY WILL BE DISCUSSED HERE SAN ANTONIO--Three Brazilian I engineers, headed by Leonida Borges de Oliveira, were en route to Wash ington today to confer with U. S. and Pan-American Union officials regarding plans for a 15,000-mile highway from Brazil to the United States. I It would extend thru 14 South and Central American countries and would cost an estimated $100,000,000. Save This Dickens Certificate It Is Valuable! DICKENS PRESENTATION OFFER The certificate above appears each day in this space. 12 of them (each differently numbered) en title the holder to receive a set of two volumes of the 20-Volume Library of "The Complete Works of Charles Dickens" at a special privilege price offered exclusively to News readers. It is not neces sary to begin with any specific numbered certificate. The only rule is that there must be 12 and they must each be differently numbered. However, to qualify for this offer, you must reserve your library. In the meantime, START COLLECTING THESE DICKENS .CERTIFICATES. NOW! Morgenthau Asserts Hoover Introduced Double Bookkeeping Treasury Secretary Replies Ahead of Schedule to Criti cism of Former President By United Press Treasury Secretary Morgenthau to day accused former President Hoover of "loose talk" in asserting the Ad ministration is concealing huge ex penditures by "juggling" its books. Hoover's charges of double book keeping and faking of fiscal accounts were made last Friday night at Phila delphia. He accused the Administra tion of "intellectual dishonesty." Morgenthau's reply was prepared for delivery in New York next Fri day. After a conference with Presi dent Roosevelt, the nine-page address was made public. CITES RISING BOND MARKET He said the Treasury decided to an swer Hoover because "if the public believed that the Treasury conducted its business in that manner, the peo ple would consider whether it were wise to hold Government bonds." Morgenthau cited the rising Gov ernment bond market Saturday and Monday as indicating "the people have complete confidence in what the fig ures show when the Treasury releases a statement." The Treasury Secretary was par ticularly irked by Hoover assertion that the Roosevelt Administration has introduced "an entirely new system of double bookkeeping," the motive of which "was intellectual dishonesty." REPLIES TO CHARGES He also took exception to Hoover's charge that the New Deal account ants are "faking" in such a way that the regular expenditures of the pre ceding Republican administration were "juggled up" and the New Deal's regular expenditures were "juggled down." Morgenthau asserted that the Treasury's books are kept according to law without regard to "political considerations." The facts, he said, "reveal that every change made by the present Administration has been in the direction of greater clarity and completeness in reporting receipts and expenditures of public funds." BEGUN UNDER HOOVER He asserted that the policy of segregating trust fund transactions from financial transactions was created under Hoovers Administra tion. He denied there had been any change in handling revolving funds in the Treasury daily statement since 1920. He denied that relief-recovery expenditures were being concealed, pointing out that they are given the same prominence in the printed daily statement as regular expenditures. "There is no such thing as a double budget nor is there any system of double bookkeeping," he concluded. Big Canadian Oil Fire QUEBEC, Que--Two explosions, followed by fire, destroyed the plant of the Canadian Oil Co., early today. One man was missing and feared dead. Six wooden warehouses and a number of oil storage tanks were de stroyed.