New Deal Policies Face Close Scrutiny in Next Four Years C. 0. P. campaign tactics, if they have been futile as regards elec tion, have stirred suspicions of many and any new moves by Roosevelt will be subjected to microscopic examination; Lin coln's words at second inaugural recalled. By RAYMOND CLAPPER Victory for President Roosevelt appears to be just around the corner. Even before the votes are cast and counted, destiny teems poised to place new laurel upon his head. How will he receive this triumph? Obviously, the President looks forward to his re-election as mandate to carry on the New Deal. He said so in his final major speech at Madison Square Garden. He said the issues was the preservation of the victory of 1932. He listed objec tives of his first four years. Those, he said, will continue to be his objectives. But in what spirit does he intend to carry on? Again we listen at Madison Square Garden: I assure you we cannot go further without a struggle. The old enemies are unanimous in their hatred for me -and I welcome their hatred I should like to have it said of my second Administration that in it these forces have met their master. Let them emi- Experts Appear Agreed That Roosevelt Will Win New Deal Has Shown Greater Strength in Polls Recently Digest Is Only Survey Which Sees Landon Victorious; G. 0. P. Papers in Dilemma By RUTH FINNEY All major polls except the Literary Digest, predicts Presi dent Roosevelt's re-election. Their estimates of his electoral vote have increased steadily in the last two weeks. All prominent Washington column ists think Roosevelt's election either inevitable or probable. The country's large newspapers, in their final political summaries, give Roosevelt the edge. Papers friendly to Landon content themselves, for the most part, with asserting that he still has a chance, altho William Randolph Hearst in his papers states his personal belief that Landon will •■positively" be elected. SOME STILL DOUBTFUL Under these circumstances the suspense centered today on a few doubtful states and on the accuracy of various straw votes. The Literary Digest says Landon will get 370 electoral votes, Roosevelt 161 It gives Roosevelt only 16 states: Alabama. Arkansas, the Carolinas. Florida, Geoigia. Kentucky, Louisiana, Maryland. Mississippi. New Mexico, Oklahoma. Tennessee, Texas, Virginia, and Utah. The American Institute of Public Opinion poll conducted by George Gallup gives Landon only three sure states. Maine, Vermont and New Hampshire, with 12 electoral votes. 31 STATES FOR F. D. It gives Roosevelt 31 certain states With 315 electoral votes, as follows on the order of their Roosevelt strength) t Mississippi. South Carolina. Georgia, Alabama. Louisiana. Texas. Arkansas, North Carolina Tennessee. Florida, Virginia, Nevada. Utah, North Da kota. Oklahoma. Montana. Oregon. Washington Idaho Kentucky Mary land. New Mexico California. Arizona, Missouri, Wisconsin. Colorado. Minne- sota. New York. Delaware Nebraska, j Fourteen states, with 204 electoral votes, are too close for accurate pre diction. says this poll, but it gives Landon the edge in South Dakota. Massachusetts and Kansas; puts Connecticut and Rhode Island down as evenly split; and gives Roosevelt the edge in Illinois, lowa. Michigan, i New Jersey. Pennsylvania. West Vir ginia, Wyoming. Indiana and Ohio. The Crossley poll gives Roosevelt 247 sure votes and 159 probable votes, total 406 Landon gets 73 sure votes and possibly 52 more, total 125. The states counted in the Landon column are Kansas. New Hampshire. Ver mont. Connecticut. Delaware. Maine. Ohio lowa. Massachusetts and Penn sylvania. Ohio, lowa and Kansas seem to be the most doubtful in this poll. A cross-section of these three polls gives Roosevelt 398 votes and Landon 136. with 7 votes in doubt. (Last week a cross-section of the three gave Roosevelt 375, Landon 148, with THE WASHINGTON DAILY NEWS, MONDAY, NOVEMBER 2, 1936 grate and try their lot under some foreign flag in which tliey have more confidence. We have only just begun to fight."
Fighting words. Yet be says the American people, above all other things, want peace--peace of mind for the individual, peace tor the community, peace for the nation and peace with the world. Hatred in one breath, peace in the next. Possibly President Roosevelt was overcome by the heat of a bitter campaign. For months he has been subjected to un believable abuse, misrepresentation and hatred. It has been a dirty campaign. He is incensed at the distortion of the social security pro gram by the Republicans. It was under this hot temper, ap parently, that he swung with such heavy impact. Politicians, intent on the knockout blow, are not concerned with pulling their punches. But tomorrow night after it Is all over the situation will be something else again. It begins to look as if the first task of the new Administra tion will be to repair the damage done by this campaign. It has been considerable. Deep suspicions and hatreds have been stirred by both sides. Roosevelt has been accused by the Re publicans of using the emergency as an excuse to make him self dictator. He has been accused of perpetrating a fraud upon the people in the guise of social security. Republicans are picturing this program as meaning that American citizens will be finger-printed, regimented and mauled around like subjects of a European tyrant. The whole New Deal, Republicans charge, is a menace to the American form of government Landon, reduced in the last days of the campaign to a mere mouthpiece of this hate-Roosevelt hysteria. 8 doubtful. The week before that the showing was Roosevelt 273, Lan don 148, with 110 doubtful.) A digest of expert opinion made for The New York Times shows Roosevelt with 236 certain votes and 170 probable ones in addition --total, 406. For Landon it finds 12 sure votes and 91 probable ones--total 103 That leaves 32 votes in doubt. The Times thinks Maine, New Hampshire and Vermont are certain for Landon, and Connecticut, Kansas, New Jersey, Pennsylvania, South Dakota and Washington are probably his. It finds lowa, Massachusetts and Rhode Lsland evenly divided. The rest go to Roosevelt. The Washington Star sees 301 elec toral votes for Roosevelt, 139 for Landon, 91 in doubt. It gives Lan don Connecticut, lowa, Kansas, Maine, Massachusetts, Michigan, New Hampshire, New Jersey, Pennsyl vania, Rhode Island. South Dakota. Vermont and Wyoming, and puts Illi nois. Indiana, Minnesota. New Mex ico, Ohio and Washington in its doubtful column. Following are predictions made for leading newspapers by their Washing ton correspondents. Baltimore Sun: Roosevelt with about 400 electoral votes. Chicago Daily News: Odds favor Roosevelt. Landon can win. New York Herald-Tribune: Lan don has a chance of getting a com fortable margin. Roosevelt has a chance of winning by a landslide. Philadelphia Inquirer: Roosevelt, with the popular vote close. BETTER THAN 1932 Philadelphia Record: Roosevelt with majorities as large or larger than in 1932. Birmingham News: Roosevelt toy a substantial majority. Boston Evening Transcript: Roose velt probably will win, Landon could win. Springfield (Mass.) Union: Roose velt by a good majority or a land slide. Louisville Times: Democratic land slide. Booth newspapers in Michigan: Probably Roosevelt; if Landon winsit will be by a small majority. Roose velt might win by a landslide. Scripps-Howard Newspapers: Roosevelt by 360 to 400 electoral votes. Washington Post: Roosevelt, but not so big a majority as 1932. These are the guesses of prominent columnists: David Lawrence: Roosevelt seems to have an irreducible minimum of I 270 electoral votes. (266 are neces sary to win Hugh Johnson: Landon may get four states, no more. Drew Pearson and Robert A. Allen: Roosevelt will get all but three states. Raymond Clapper: Roosevelt will get 350 to 400 votes. Frank Kent: Roosevelt apparen-y has the edge but it is still a race. i Ray Tucker: Roosevelt by a land slide. Mark Sullivan: Has suggested that Maryland, which favors Roosevelt in al! polls, is usually a barometer of the nation. doodles By RUSSELL M. ARUNDEL Today's Doodler: Senator ROBERT D. CAREY Sen. Robert D. Carev, tall, silvery-haired legislator from Wyoming, is a line doodler. He never deviates from his habit of criss-crossing lines, always Starting a new line where the last one met another. He starts his doodle by placing a number of dots on apiece of paper and then tracing a line thru each of the dots. The Senator, while apparently listening with rapt attention to his conferee, hardly lets his pencil stop for an instant, even while talking. Under these circumstances, Sen. Carey s doodle may be interpreted to mean he is a man of much nervous energy, which flows evenly and precisely. 277 Electoral Votes Given Landon by Poll of 164,000 Farmers NEW YORK-Gov. Alf M. Lan don led President Roosevelt, 83.611 votes to 69.039, in the straw vote concluded yesterday by The Farm Journal. Returns from the 34 states in in which The Journal conducted 164,000 personal interviews with farmers, would give Landon 277 electoral votes to 160 for Roosevelt. William Lemke ran third with 8705 votes. The editors said the poll included "practically no town or city ballots." The Journal pointed out, however, that the method used was "uniformly correct in the elections of 1932, 1928 and 1924." says the basis of the New Deal is that the American Consti tution must go. Even tho they lose the election. Republicans have succeeded by these tactics in planting many seeds of popular distrust of the New Deal. Everything Roosevelt does or proposes will be, in the present temper of the country, subject to suspicion on the part of an important--if minority--section of the popula tion, extending far beyond the ring of economic royalists. With this state of mind, it will be difficult for Roosevelt, even if backed by a popular mandate, to move ahead with his pro gram. It will be subject to incessant suspicion, sabotage and the distortion of inflamed prejudices. Popular government cannot function by riding alone on the will of the majority. It must have a reasonable degree of acquiescence by the minority, once a decision has been reached. Remember prohibition. Popular government cannot operate in an atmosphere of perpetual hate.
A degree of co-operation between majority and minority is the first thing that the new Administration will have to establish if it intends to be practical. This does not call for surrender nor exile of the minority. It calls for sturdy crit icism, hard-hitting opposition, for an opposition which gets its day in court, and which is answered, not abused. In politics, this sort of thing is not arranged by rules. It grows out of a give-and-take atmosphere which you don't create by telling people that if they don't like it they can leave the country. It is difficult to create. It is easily killed. A President has a good deal to do with determining that atmosphere. We are passing thru an upheaval of opinion which some say is second only to that which provoked the Civil War. That suggests another timely parallel. It was with the end of the Civil War in sight that Lincoln, in his second inaugural, spoke "with'malice toward none, with charity for all." 7000 Dealers to Present Windmill to Henry Ford A windmill built by the Pilgrims at West Yarmouth, Mass., in 1633, will i be presented to Henry Ford Friday I by 7000 dealers of the United States I and Canada, gathered at Dearborn. Mich for the unveiling of the 1937 Ford V-8 j The Cape Cod windmill, bought by a dealers' committee more than a I year ago, lias been moved, timber by timber, to Ford's Greenfield Vil lage at Dearborn, and has been re- I constructed faithfully. Edsel Ford, coompany president, will open the first Ford dealer meet ing with an address of welcome. Pick-Up Delivery Service Inaugurated by U. S. Railroads I. C. C. Gives Permission Over Opposition of Trucking Con cerns; Begun Back in 1933 American railroads today were in augurating a new and expanded "pick up-and-delivery" service design, d to help them in their fight to hold a major share of the freight traffic. Under the new arrangement, ship pers everywhere can have their freight, in limited quantities, delivered from door to door without extra charge. The I. C. C. said, in issuing per mission for the new service, that the move was necessary to prevent the nation's carriers from losing the im portant small freight business. It was vigorously opposed by truck ing concerns. For the present, the railroads will be allowed to use the service for all freight in quantities of less-than-car load lots for which a minimum of 30 cents per 100 pounds is charged. Starting Dec. 21, the rate will be boosted to a minimum of 45 cents. This change will be made few the benefit of motor carrier services who objected to the threat of a large loss of business. Pick-up-and-delivery service has been operated by railroads to a lim ited extent since 1933 at some large terminals. Georgia Ladies Meet The Georgia Ladies' Lunch Club here will meet Wednesday at 12 30 for lunch at Nunnally's. Save This Dickens Certificate It Is Valuable! 25 _ jfi 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 tar this offer, you must reserve your library. In the meantime, START COLLECTING THESE DICKENS I CERTIFICATES NOWI 4