Home market for farmers, Landon pledge at Minneapolis (Springfield Weekly Republican, Oct. 1, 1936, p. 7)

HOME MARKET FOR FARMERS, LANDON PLEDGE Q. 0. P. Candidate Tells Minneapolis Crowd of 10,- 000 Trade Pacts Have Hurt Agriculture Minneapolis, Sept. 24-- (AP) Protection of "the American market for the American fanner" was pledged by Gov Alf M. Landon to night in a farm address demanding a "stop" in new deal reciprocal tariff policies. "The reciprocal trade program of the present administration has de layed recovery for our farmer*," the Presidential candidate said. "It has sold the American farmer down the river." Promising that "Republicans are going to trade not against, but in the interest of American producers," Landon said he was opposed to "isolation" because "a healthy in ternational trade is essential to world prosperity" and "world pros perity is good insurance against war. "Madness of Isolation" "Reasonable protection, which is so essential to our well being, is not bet rimental to world prosperity," the Kansan asserted, adding that "we can be a good neighbor without throwing away the latchkey to our door." "The great enemy of world trade to day is the war inspired doctrine of isolation and its resulting demands for self sufficiency," Landon contin ued. "We must not join in this kind of madness." The nominee came Into this north ern home of the Farmer Labor party near the Canadian border to discuss President Roosevelt's reciprocal trade program fror> what he said was "the point of view of the American farm- Br "We Got the Blind Horse" "In too many of these agreements," he said, "we are the fellows who got the blind horse." The Municipal auditorium was se lected for the address, nationally broadcast at 8.30 p. m. (central stan dard time). It climaxed a day's rear platform campaigning across lowa And through Minnesota dairy and livestock country. He told audiences from across what he called his "traveling back porch railing" that the new deal's "program of scarcity" was partly to blame for gmpty corn cribs and granaries. "They (scarcity policies) are rob bing the American farmer not only of his former export markets but even of his home market," Landon said. "Our party stands for production; not Coercion." The Republican nominee boarded .nine-car special train shortly be fo^T® l eft Des Moines at 9.30 a. m.. looking and telling news- men he "felt fine." He spent the night at the home of J. M. "Ding" Darling, cartoonist and former chief of the bi ological survey under Mr Roosevelt. Between stops as he sped to Min neapolis, I-andon chatted with visitors snd lowa party leaders, including Carl Cook, state central committee chair man. ex-Gov Dan Turner, and John Wallace, uncle of the new deal secre tary of agriculture, Henry Wallace. New Beal "Delayed Hecovery" Despite a cool morning, the gov ernor did not wear the vest to his gray business suit as he stood on the rear platform, his hair ruffled by the breeze. Usually, overall-t-tad farmers fringed the crowds, some puffing pipes and listening intently. Almost every time bunches of school children carrying sunflowers jammed as close as police would permit to Landon's car and their shrill shouts were the last heard as the governor waved and called "goodby." The Kansan spoke to a crowd that overflowed the 10,000 seating capacity of the block-long City auditorium. More than 15 minutes before his ap pearance. police were forced Io close the doors as the throng jammed horse-shoe galleries up to the rafters. Rested and Vigorous A five-minute standing ovation greeted his appearance on a broad stage decorated with sunflowers and red, white and blue draperies. Yel low squares of papers marked ''Lan don" fluttered down on the crowd. 1 Landon wore the blue pin-striped suit in which he made his first farm address in Des Moines, la, Tuesday. Apparently fully rested after a stren uous' day of campaigning, he read with emphasis, using his right .fist occasionally to emphasize statements. More often he employed the familiar forward thrust of his hand and clipped words. In tonight's speech, which was the second major address of Landon's farm belt campaign, the Kansan said administration tariff agreements had •'hurt" and "delayed recovery" for farmers. At the outset he emphasized "two points": "The first of these is that I am not opposed to reciprocal trade agree ments. Under certain conditions it is to the mutual advantage of two coun tries to lift various commodities out of their general tariff program for special treatment. Both countries make concessions: both countries ben efit. This is sound doctrine. Protection and Prosperity "The second point I want to make clear is that I am opposed to a policy of isolation. I want to see a prosper ous world as well as a prosperous America. A healthy international trade is essential to world prosperity. And even more than this, world pros perity is good Insurance against war. "I am convinced too that reason able protection, which is so essential to our well-being, is not detrimental to world prosperity. At a time like the present, when economic nation alism is rampant, we cannot afford to scrap our economic defenses. We can be' a good neighbor Without giving away the latebkey, to. our door." Saying "the great enemy of world trade" was "the war inspired doctrine of isolation and its resulting demands for self-sufficiency," Landon added: "We must not join in this kind of madness. If we are to maintain our standard of living the channels of world trade must remain open. We must not reduce farm production in this country to the needs of the do mestic market. It would mean a low er standard of living and n «"-ea'lv Increased relief load in the rural dis tricts." "The Republican party refuses to accept this philosophy of despair. It believes in making it possible for the farmer to plant full crops. It believes In Increasing the demand for farm products, not reducing the supply." Knox Calls Roosevelt 'Man Drunk With Power' Denver. Sept. 24--(AP)--Col Frank Knox. Republican vice-presidential nominee, wound up his western cam paign tour tonight by asserting high Huey Long's Estate of $153,585 Mostly Cash and Insurance New Orleans, Sept. 23 --(AP)-- The late Huey P. Long, United States senator and builder of Louisiana's most powerful politi cal machine, left an estate valued at $153,585.52. An inventory filed in civil dis trict court, today showed approx imately three-fourths of the es tate was made up of cash and Insurance. Most of the cash, which amounted to $60,586.82, was in a balance at an Alexandria, La., bank under the name of "Huey P. Long, attorney for, the state of Louisiana, tax reclamation." As counsel for the state, Long Instituted many suits seeking col lection of taxes he charged were owed by large and small corpora tions. He received fees for his services. 'FARM HANDICAP' LAID TO NEW DEAL IN LANDON TALKS Candidate Reiterates Crit icism of Reciprocal Trade Pacts in Wisconsin Cam paign Swing Aboard Landon ^ain on the way to Oshkosh, Wis., Sept. 25 --(AP) Gov Alt M. Landon campaigned across Wisconsin today seeking the 12 presi dential electoral votes held by the home state of the LaFollette, Progressive party. Halting his special train half a dozen times as he traveled through rolling hill country toward an over night stop at Oshkosh, the Repub lican candidate reiterated criticisms of the Roosevelt administration's recip rocal trade agreements and said its policies had placed farmers under a "handicap." The goal of the two-day tour of the Badger state was a Milwaukee speech tomorrow night, the third of his farm belt swing, in which the nominee planned to discuss social security. The Kansan already was on record with a pledge to "amend the social security act and make it workable," but had not yet detailed his view's. He finished his speech on the train today. Continuing to emphasize agricul tural subjects, Landon told crowds about his rear platform that "it was bad enough for the administration's agricultural program to lose our for eign markets for meat and dairy products, but it was nothing short of economic crime for its ill-advised reciprocal trade agreements to toss away our home markets like so much rubbish." "Wisconsin Leadership" He told farmer audiences that Re publicans were pledged to impose ef fective quarantines against livestock, dairy and other farm products of na tions which do not impose health and sanitary regulations equal to those of the United States. "I admit frankly," Landon said, "that in the past our party has overlooked this point. Today, how ever, we see the necessity of it. Our opponents, in contrast, are yet to give any indication of their realization of its importance." Referring to what he called "the appalling waste of federal funds that is now going on," the candidate reiterated that "what we need is more of that sane management for w'hich the farmers of this state of Wisconsin are famous." In discussing conservation, Landon said "Wisconsin has never shown its leadership better than in planning methods for retrieving its natural and wild life resources." "Your farmers also have been among the first to appreciate the im portance of preserving soil fertility," he said. "Land planning is Insuring the future of your dairy and general farming. Timber restoration is pro tecting your other fine industries. You have been doing a fine wortc in maintaining the things on which Wis consin prosperity basically rests." living costs overshadow the nation's recovery. _ Before this, in a Colorado Springs luncheon address. Knox made the first direct attack of his campaign travels upon President Roosevelt, calling him "a man drunk with power." Declaring a division of powers and local self-government were the basic purposes of the constitution, Knox said: "Within the last three years we have seen a man drunk with power try to break down these two funda mental principles. You have seen him seek to allocate to himself all legisla tive authority. "You have seen him reduce to a rub ber stamp the Congress of the United States. You have seen the contempt in which he has sought to bring de cisions of the supreme court. You have seen a man seeking to break down this division of power and take it upon himself--yes, and confess it. "He said to us in January, in his message to Congress, that they had created new instruments of power which, in other hands, might be fatal to the peoples' liberty. "I warn you to be on your guard. Silently in the night they are creep ing up. seeking to impose upon us. be fore we realize it, a new and alien kind of government." Simon Lake Confident He's Found Treasure-Laden British Frigate New York, Sept. 25 --(AP) --Simon Lake, Milford (Ct.) submarine In ventor, expressed confidence today he had located in the East river above Hell Gate the treasure-laden British frigate Hussar, sunk In 1780. The discovery, Lake said, was made on the 4th, his 70th birthday and the day on which his contract with the treasury department for salvaging the craft was renewed. He had been searching the river bottom for more than three years. The hulk, covered with heavy silt which has served to preserve it and balk divers' attempts to reach It, should be easy'to raise, Lake said, and work will begin on it within two weeks. It was found by means of a sound ing rod, 80 feet long, which was op erated as a pile-driver from a sur face boat. The stern of the craft was believed discovered in 12 fathoms by workers in a bottom searching submarine of Lake's invention. The frigates Hussar and Mercury carried funds tb New York to pay troops and carry on the Revolution ary war, When they arrived It was THE SPRINGFIELD WEEKLY REPUBLICAN; SPRINGFIELD, MASS.: THURSDAY, OCTOBER 1,1936 ACT PERILS CAUSE IN U.S., HE SAYS IN MILWAUKEE TALK Unjust, Unworkable, Stupid and Wasteful,,' Landon Calls Security Law Milwaukee, Sept. 26-- (AP) --A "common sense" pay-as-you-go old age pension plan was proposed by Gov Alf M, Landon tonight in an address assailing the new deal's so cial security program as a "cruel hoax" on workers and wasteful "bungling." "It endangers the whole cause of social security in this country," the presidential nominee said of the present security act. "In my own judgment--and I have examined it carefully--this law is unjust, un workable, stupidly drafted and wastefully financed." Fears Misuse of Pension Funds Delivering the final major address of his farm belt tour, Landon said there was "every probability" that cash paid in on compulsory old-age insurance "will be used for current deficits and new extravagances." He spoke of rolls of "neatly executed T. O. U.'s' and added: "If the present compulsory insur ance plan remains in force, our old people are only too apt to find the cupboard bare. Daydreams do not pay pensions. "To these--our old people, our workers struggling for better con ditions, our infirm--l will not promise the moon, I promise only what I know can be performed--economy, a living pension, and such security as can be provided by a generous people." The Republican candidate divided the security law "broadly" into three parts--compulsory old-age insurance, unemployment insurance and noncom pulsory old-age pension. Would Repeal Old-Age Insurance After demanding outright repeal of old-age insurance and terming its payroll tax "a tax on employment," Landon said that for the federal gov ernment to use its taxing power "to compel all states immediately to enact unemployment insurance statutes" was "something unheard of" and "most unwise." "The Republican platform," the Kansan said "proposes to encourage adoption by the states of honest and practical measures for meeting the problems of insurance against unem ployment It does so because we have still nearly everything to learn in this field. "With state experiments, different states trying out different plans and watching the results, we can work out a much better system than could possibly be imposed at this time from Washington." Taking up the third phase, the gov, ernor emphasized:-- "I believe that as a nation we can afford old-age pensions--that in a highly industrialized country they are necessary. I believe in them as a mat ter of social justice. Promises "Common-Sense Plan" "This part of the present law (pen sions for the needy aged not covered by the compulsory plan), can be made to serve as the foundation of a real old-age pension plan. This, the Re publican party proposes to do. It pro poses to overhaul this section and make of it a workable, commonsense plan--a plan to be administered by the states. "We propose through amendments to this section to provide for every American citizen over 65 the sup plementary payment necessary to give a minimum income sufficient to protect him or her from want." The present section of the law pro vides for federal matching of state pension funds up to sls a month. The nominee said that "Frankly, I am not in a position to state with finality the total cojt of this plan,'' but stressed that it "will be on a pay-as you-go basis with the result that we will know year by year what our pen sions are costing us." Landon prescribed, "three essential principles" for raising the money to pay old-age pensions: "The necessary funds should be raised by means of a special tax ear marked for this purpose, so that the already difficult problem of budget balancing may not be further com plicated. The tax should be direct and visible. And the tax should be widely distributed. Only if everyone bears his just share can we hope to prevent the plan being used for political pur poses." Hyde Park. N. Y, Sept. 26--(AP)-- President Roosevelt today appointed Rear Admiral Montgomery M. Taylor as a member of the new Maritime commission to serve temporarily in place of Rear Admiral Harry G. Ham let of the coast guard. A White House announcement said Hamlet does not retire until early in October and under the law he would lose "all the benefits of his long serv ice in the coast guard" if he were to take over his new job now. "For this reason," the announce ment said, "the President has asked Admiral Taylor to serve temporarily in order that the organization of the commission may be completed to meet with the requirements of the law Croating it." Rear Admiral Henry A. Wiley, U. S. navy retired, and George Landi'ck, Jr, of the treasury department, are other members of the temporary commis sion. The law provides for five mem bers, but others are not expected to be appointed for some time. believed the British were evacuating the city and all the gold and silver specie variously estimated from 81,800,000 to 84.800.000--was taken aboard the Hussar. It struck a ledge and was lost on the way to Newport, R. 1., which was under protection of the British fleet. Lake refused to disclose the loca tion of the hulk, placing it ''within 80 feet of a dock in front of a privately owned factory." He said he had made arrangements with the plant owners to build a fence to obstruct the view of onlookers. On the Sth he notified Secretary Henry L. Morgenthau he had found what he was certain was the Hussar and laid claim to it. Under his con tract with the government. Lake would receive 90 per cent of the gross amount found and the rest would be deposited at a New York Federal Reserve bank. Sixty years or more ago. the loca tion of the Hussar was believed es tablished and her position marked on the shore by three trees, named the "Hussar trees." Since then, the shore line has changed and silt has covered the wreck. 200 Aged Boys of '6l Forget Lunch Busily Arranging Another Reunion Washington, Sept. 24--(AP) --Two hundred old men, who love to eat almost as well as they like to meet and swap yarns, forgot all about lunch-time today, so intent were they on arranging another reunion of the Grand Army of the Republic. They voted to hold their national encampment next year in Madison, Wis. Then they went right >n to elect a new commander in chief-- C. H. William Ruhe of Pittsburg, Pa., who ran awy from home at 15 to Join the Union army. Along about 2 p. m., when they were getting ready to instal the new officers, an engrossed veteran on the front row ventured: "Guess we ain't goin' to adjourn at 12 for a bite to eat." While the Grand Army awarded its next meeting to Madison on the grounds that city had stepped aside this year for Washington, D. C., an BAD FARM SMASH IS PREDICTED FROM LANDON PROPOSALS Wallace Says G. 0. P. Can didate Is Backed by 98 of 100 Big Business Men and Isn't Ingrate Washington, Sept. 25 --(AP)--Sec- retary Wallace said here tonight that "the agricultural proposals put for ward by Gov Landon" and the Re publican party "would end in a smash worse than 1932." In an address broadcast by the Democratic national committee, re plying to a speech by the Republican presidential candidate at Des Moines, la., Tuesday night, Wallace broadened his remarks to assert: "The greedy and ignorant forces be hind the national Republican party have not learned the lesson of 1932 but are willing again to plunge us into that tragic chaos. "Ninety-eight out of 100 big bankers are for Landon," Wallace said. "Nine ty-eight out of 100 of the big cor poration executives are for Landon. No man big enough to run for Presi dent can be a complete ingrate." "The Men Who Fight Roosevelt" The secretary said "Landon will not and should not let the big con tributors to his campaign funds suf fer from his ingratitude." He contended that "the state cam paign in Maine tells us who some of these men are" and "the Liberty league roll gives us the names of others." "The munitions makers, oil men. power magnates, big packers and grain gamblers are the men who al ways have attacked farm programs and who are now fighting Roosevelt." he added. Turning back to the farm problem, the secretary said Landon "would do away with the soil conservation act as soon as 1936 obligations have been carried out, and of course there would be no production control." Asserting Landon had promised farmers "enough cash benefits" to as sure them "an American price" for the part of crops used in this coun try, Wallace contended this would en courage expansion of crops so that federal funds for payments "might easily go over a billion dollars a year." "Crash Within Two Years" This plan, Wallace said, "could not possibly last through two years of ordinary weather. Some time in the second year the crash would come." "This time the farmers's fate would be truly appalling because no politi cal party would have the nerve to give them the effective help," the secretary added. "All political par ties would say.--'lt is political sui cide to give real help to farmers. They won't stand by you. All they want is promises.' Wallace contended the Republicans "in the decade of the 20's used private money, gathered by the international bankers from trusting American in vestors, to finance the purchase by foreigners of our surplus farm prod ucts." "Now they propose to give the na tion more of the same kind of thing," he commented. From 1921 to 1932, Wallace said, "the only solution the Republicans had for the farm problem was high er tariffs' and the farm board." "They are trying to lead the Amer ican farmers into the trap of produc ing in expanding quantities for a foreign market which Republicaatar ift policies in a large measure de stroyed, and which they themselves admit does not exist," he added. AAA TO SEND OUT FEW FARM CHECKS BEFORE ELECTION Only One in 20 or 30 of 6,000,000 to Be Paid Within Month--'36 Bene ficiaries Up a Million Washington, Sept, 24--(AP) AAA officials said today that the flow of federal benefit payments to 6.000,100 farm owners, operators and tenants would begin early In October but that only about one farmer in 20 or 30 would receive his check before elec tion day. November 3. "We have had many appeals, es pecially from drouth states, to expe dite the payments and we are going to do everything we can to see that they are promptly paid." said H. R. Tolley, the farm administrator. "We hope to be able to get some where between 2 and 5 per cent of the total of the payments out next month." Other AAA spokesmen said the to tal to receive a share of the 8470,- 000.000 to be paid out under the 1936 soil conservation subsidy program would be about 1.000,000 larger than the number who received benefits under the old AAA program. The AAA said the number of farm work sheets filed this year and ths number of contracts signed in 1935 compared as follows:-- Work Sheets Contracts State This Year Last Year Connecticut 5000 2400 Maine 9000 10 Massachusetts 6000 1375 New Hampshire 4000 167 New Jersey 4500 434 I New York 42.500 2200 Pennsylvania 35.000 11,000 Rhode Island 1000 Vermont 0500 349 Invitation for its 1938 encampment was received from the deep H •;ith. It was extended on behalf of St Cloud. Fla. The election of the new commander was by acclamation, his opponent, George H. Pounder of Fort Atkinson, Wis., withdrawing. Later Comdr Ruhe made Pounder his chief of staff. Another encampment event today was a song and felicitation session with the women's auxiliaries, at which Veteran Dr Overton H. Men nett of Isos Angeles sang an unac companied solo to the ladies th the tune of "Let Us Call You Sweetheart." The question of the G. A. R. join ing with the Confederate veterans in a blue-gray reunion gt, Gettysburg in 1938--75th anniversary of the battle --didn't come up in open session, but Comdr Ruhe said it had been re ferred to his administration, to be acted on next year in Madison. ROOSEVELT PASSES '32 LEAD IN POLL OF MARYLAND VOTERS City Returns in Straw Vote Put Landon Farther Be hind Than Hoover, Acord ing to Newspaper Ballot Baltimore, Sept 23--With a lead of 29,687 over Gov Landon out of .124.- 431 ballots cast in the Sunpapers' poll of Maryland registered voters, Presi dent Roosevelt has passed the per centage mark he set in 1932 when, by a 130,130-vote margin, he took the state from President Hoover. His advantage against the Repub lican candidate swelled steadily by in creasing returns from Baltimore city, the President's ratio of the state-wide vote reached 61.64 per cent in the latest tabulations. Four years ago his share of the 511,054 Maryland ballots was 61.50 per cent. Meanwhile, Gov Landon's per centage continued a steady drop un der bombardment of Roosevelt city ballots to a point not far from the 36.04 per cent level of President Hoover in 1932. Roosevelt has 56.38 per cent of the county votes In the poll, as compared ■with a margin of 58.39 per cent of the rural support against Hoover, but in Baltimore his ratio was 67 per cent of the poll votes against 64.84 per cent of the 1932 ballots. In 1932 Hoover received 39.88 per cent of the votes cast in Maryland's 23 counties, while Landon has 43.13 of the poll ballots tabulated to date. In the city also his percentage ran higher than that of Hoover, which was 31.94 per cent four years back. Landon's share was 32.34 per cent of the Baltimore balloting. The fact that Roosevelt has a higher percentage of the poll vote than he received in the 1932 election, and at the same time Landon's ratio of the vote is greater than Hoover's, Is explained by the balloting in the poll for the Socialist, Labor and Com munist candidates. In comparison to the support the candidates of these three minor par ties received in 1932, the poll figures Indicate a shift in their suffrage. The combined vote for the heads of these three tickets four years ago was 2.46 per cent of the state total. In the poll tabulations, the ballots for the Socialist. Labor and Communist can didates comprise .58 of 1 per cent of the total. (Copyright. 1936, by NANA Inc.] SMITH GIVES RADIO TIME TOPRESIDENT Ex-Governor 'Defers' to Him, Will Speak Second On October I--May Seize Opportunity to Reply New York. Sept. 24 President Roosevelt and former Governor Alfred E- Smith will not be air rivals on the night of October 1, after all. In a telegram, sharply worded In part, Mr Smith today notified the President he would change the hour of his broadcast so as not to inter fere with that of the chief executive. Mr Smith did not hesitate to point out his radio time had been ar range<i well in advance of the en gagement made tor the President. The Smith telegram, after referring to the fact that arrangements to put the President on the air in a political speech had not been made until after it was announced the former gover nor was to speak, continued:-- "In deference to the high office of President, which you hold, I do not desire to interfere with your having a nationwide audience. Therefore I have canceled that portion of my contracted period which would con flict with your half hour and I shall not begin my address until 9.30 p. m, when you will have finished." Mr Smith's time has now been changed to start at 9.30 and continue for one hour. At the former gover nor's office it was said Mr Smith in tended taking notes on the President's speech, preceding him and that it was possible he would reply, at least in part, directly after the President finished talking. The text of the telegram read: "On September 11 negotiations were opened with the National Broadcast ing company for an hour's radio time to be used by me between 9 and 10 October 1 W'hen I am to speak at Carnegie hall, New York city. "Shortly thereafter the time was definitely reserved on the blue net work of the National Broadcasting company. "Since then announcement has 'Ten made of your intention to make a political speech at Pittsburg October 1 between 9 and 9.30 eastern standard time. "Subsequent to the announcement of my speech, the Democratic national committee. I am informed, has en gaged all radio time on the combined Columbia and National systems except that reserved for me. "In deference to the high office of President which you hold. I do not desire to interfere with your having a nationwide audience. Therefore. I have canceled that portion of my con tracted period which would conflict with your half hour and shall not begin my radio address until 9.30 when you will have finished." •NOT JUDGE CRATER'S BODY* New York, Sept 27--(AP) --Police Detective James Wynn of the mis sing persons bureau announced to night a comparison of descriptions of seta of teeth "definitely shows" a man who took his life at Leaven worth. Kan., last March was not the missing Justice Joseph Force Cater of New York. LANDON, PRESIDENT JOIN DISCUSSION OF ISSUES FACING U. S. 'Narrow Nationalism' Hit by Republican Roosevelt Avers Press Can Help Diminish Prejudice New York, Sept. 23--(AP)--Presi dent Roosevelt and Gov Alf M. Lan don tonight sent messages to an audi ence of 3000 at the Herald Tribune forum who earlier in the day had heard addresses by five other presi dential candidates. In a radio address from Hyde Park the President urged that "logic" rather than "prejudice" be used to de termine "the questions that are of such vital consequence to our country as a whole and to each Individual thinking citizen thereof." Landon, in a message read by Rep resentative Joseph W. Martin, Jr., Re publican campaign manager in the East, stressed two points on which he said he felt deeply, the new deal's "waste and extravagance" and "the narrow nationalism in its planned economy." t "It is natural, I suppose," President Roosevelt said, "in a campaign year for advocates and adversaries of any policy, or process of government to relapse into exaggeration and invec tive, and so becloud the controversy as to make it possible for the future of the country to be determined in rancor and temper instead of by calm deliberation and clear thinking. "I don't know that there is anv ac tual remedy for this state of affairs, but I believe that it is within the power and the province of the press to make whatever improvement is possible. I do not think that anybody objects to a statement of opinion or an argument either pro or ton. being put forth in the editorial pages pro vided the editorials do not contain misstatements of fact. That, unless I entirely misunderstood newspaper psychology, is what the newspaper editorial columns are for. "I do not believe--and I do not think any disagreement Is possible on this subject--that a journal's news columns ought to be tampered with, either of coloring news or by leaving out news. The news is the commodity that is marketed to the whole people. "I may be accused of idealism When I suggest that a Republican reader of a Democratic newspaper is en titled to all the news that appertains to his segment of the political land scape and that a Democratic reader of a Republican newspaper should not be fed exclusively on a Republi can diet. And I would apply the same idealism to the headlines." Landon Speaks of Liberalism Before taking up the two points, which made up the major portion of I his speech, Gov Landon said:-- j "A high degree of public under standing of the meaning of our con i stitutional right to freedom of relig- I ion. freedom of education, freedom i of speech and a free press is essential to the continuation of true liberalism. Within the past few years the num ber of countries in which these' rights exist have grown fewer and fewer. "This trend is directly opposed to the progress of true liberalism. With the tide toward race prejudice and absolutism abroad in the world it is important that we jealously guard our freedom in these respects." Then turning to the subject of waste and extravagance." he said all Americans were glad to cooperate' with the new deal when it "was orig mated ostensibly to meet an emer j gency" and "we were ready to ex cuse mistakes due to urgent haste and necessary experimentation." riihat Me Cannot Eicase" "What we cannot excuse today." he continued, "is the fact that waste and extravagance and the reckless ex perimentation then initiated have been fastened upon Washington as the habitual thriftlessness of a prodigal government of over-expending bureau crats. We Republicans are glad to ex press our sympathy with the many aims of the present administration, it is when we reach the wavs and means, the hard practical details, the problems of the day in Washington, the practical results, the housekeep wlo/L yo W M' that we Americans, both Republicans and Democrats, part company with the new deal. In this o.° r v can no esca Pe from the hard facts of arithmetic and ex perience." He concluded his message with an attack on the "narrow nationalism" of the new deal. f do not believe this narrowness of outlook is good economics." he de clared. "Nor does it make for social justice or higher standards of life. You women of America love your country and want it to go forward as erica fre from foreign entangle ment and true to its great past. Yet "re M deeply for peace. "You are therefore against the nar row type of nationalism that would plan the economic forces and direct the lives of the people of this coun try' America cannot exist safely and self-contained without foreign trade or any responsibility abroad. I know that such narrow nation alism tends to convert the nations of tne world into armed camps. The ideas of the present administration are fair to listen to. Rut when the President turned his back on the London economic conference in 1933 he set back the cause of peace bv many years. I am for that economic cooperation with other nations which will fully protect America's interests. I pledge practical support for the peaceful settlement of international disputes through arbitration and nego tiation." Enslaving Negroes to Work Farm Charged to Arkansas Law Officer Washington, Sept. 24--A tale of modern servitude, with slaves as sertedly laboring under a broiling sun in an Arkansas cotton field, was disclosed tonight by the de partment of justice. It was contained in the terse announcement of the indictment of P. D. Peacher. town marshal of Earl and a deputy sheriff of Crittenden county, charged by a federal grand jury with eight vi olations of the federal law pro hibiting slavery. Involved in labor difficulties with farm hands, the justice de partment alleged. Peacher roved over the countryside on May 19 of this year and arrested 12 Ne groes as vagrants. They were tak en before a justice of the peace, on what G-men branded "trumped up charges." and convicted. Immediately following the trial. Peacher took the 12 men to his farm and set them at work. It is charged, on the pretext that they were obliged to work out their tines. The case wast uncovered re- Jenkins Nabs Records Driving Car Two Days Setting 148-Mile Clip i Bonneville Salt Flats. Utah, i Sept. 28--(AP)--Ab Jenkins won the 48-hour world motor car speed record from Great Britain tonight after smashing a series of other marks in two days of driving over the Bonnevills Salt Flats. Aided by relief driver Babe Stapp, veteran Los Angeles race pilot who twice escaped unscathed when tires were thrown, Jenkins averaged 148.626 miles an hour, far surpassing the old record of 136.34 miles an hour established by Capt George Eyrton of Great Britain. The triumph in the 7134.082 mile grind marked the end of a big parade of speed and en durance records of lesser im portance brought back to the United States. STRIKE-BREAKING AND LABOR-SPYING TRADE DESCRIBED Propaganda Against Muni cipal Power Plants and Company Union Related Before Senate Group Washington, Sept. 23 --(AP) A thriving trade in strike-breaking and labor spying was described to Senate I investigators today by A. E. Lawson of Youngstown. 0., former official of two firms he said had participated. Secret spreading of propaganda against municipal power plants and i formation of company unions were among the agencies' recent activities, he told the Senate committee, which is inquirnlg into violations of civil liberties in labor disputes. Testimony that he took "a bunch of gorillas" to Akron, 0., to break up a meeting of the United Rubber Workers' union wras offered by C. M. ("Red") Kuhl, who called himself a "stool pigeon" and strikebreaker. Describes Two Agencies Both men formerly worked for the National Corporations service and j Allied Corporations service of Youngs town, O. Lawson characterized the first of these firms as a "labor espionage" agency and the other as "an out-and out strike-breaking agency." Scores of large industrial firms were among their clients, he said, adding that in 1934, President E. E. McGuf fin of National Corporations service received a salary of S3OOO a month. Earlier, other professional strike breakers told the committee that hired as company "guards" they had de liberately stirred up violence and damaged property to discredit strik ing unions. E. J. McDade of Chicago said that during the 1921 Cleveland milk strike red paint was daubed on the house of ;a company official to "create senti- I ment against the strikers" and guards fired on their own men to stir disor ders. "11l Teß You Everything" Muscular and heavily freckled. Kuhl testified eagerly and assured the com- I mitt ee. "I'H tell you everything." Se sketched a vivid picture of the Naw Orleans street-car strike for which' 1000 strikebreakers were j recruited, he said, from Chicago, New York, Buffalo and Philadelphia. Some were paid as high as S2O a day, plus expenses and a bonus "for al! the time they laid off the booze," he testified. In addition, he said they kept all fares collected on the street cars they guarded and operated. Strikebreakers whit* he called "finks"--were recruited by "a sort of underground grapevine system." Kuhl told investigators. Earlier Lawson had testified that "honest strike- breaker* are few and far between," I and that "something is wrong with i most of them." WOODRING NAMED TO SUCCEED DERN, BUT TEMPORARILY Coolidge's Son-in-Law Gets Recess Appointment as Secretary of War--Future Action Veiled Hyde Park. N. Y, Sept. "S--(API-- President Roosevelt tonight gave a recess appointment to Harry H. Woodring as secretary of war. tem porarily filling the vacancy caused by the death of Geyrge H. Dern. Woodring, a former governor of Kansas, has been acting as head of the war department since Dern, a former governor of Utah, died late last month. The White House announcement said the Woodring appointment was only temporary, but gave no indica tion whether he or someone else would be given the post permanently. I The announcement said that under the law the caMnet vacancy must be filled within 30 days. Half a dozen other men have been mentioned for the war department post, including Gov Paul V. McNutt of Indiana and Senator O'Mahoney of Wyoming. cently when Atty Gen Cummings, receiving complaints from pover ty-ridden share-croppers, com missioned Samuel E. Whitaker, a lawyer, to visit Arkansas for a careful investigation of cotton field labor troubles. Beacon. N. Y.. Sept. 23--(AP) --Birdsall Sweet, now 18. com pleted today the fifth year he has spent with an "iron lung" to aid his breathing. Hospital attendants described his spirits as good and his growth In bight and weight nearly nor mal, Henowlsable to getaround In a wheel chair and spends only his sleeping hours in the respira tor. His treatment began after an attack of infantile paralysis and for a while he was compelled to spend all his time in the device w hich compensated for his par tially collapsed lungs. President Roosevelt is among the promi nent persons who has sent him messages of encouragement dur ing' his long confinement. TENTATIVE OUTLINE INCLUDES SPEECH IN CITY OR WORCESTER Omaha, Denver, Chicago, Detroit and New York Are Mentioned as Strategists Meet President Hyde Park, N. Y., Sept. 24--(AP) --Plans for a series of shOrt prea idential campaign trips that will center the Democratic drive in New England, the Middle West and the Rocky mountain areas were dia cussed today by President Roosevelt and 27 of his chief political lieu tenants. Several conferees said dates had not been selected, but that they had gathered the impression the Pres ident would make more than half dozen major addresses. Cities mentioned included Omaha, Denver, Chicago, Detroit, New York and perhaps Worcester or Spring field, Mass. Trip to coast Unlikely There was a further possibility that the President would make speaking dates for Cincinnati, Cleveland, Buf falo, Albany, Rochester and Boston. Although Mr Roosevelt has had un der consideration a trip to the Wert coast, chances for such a swing were described today as remote. Some of i his political advisers said none of the jaunts would rake more than five days for the round trip. Chairman James A. Farley of the Democratic national committee, spokesman for the array of some of the party's best political talent, told reporters.'-- "We had a general discussion of th* entire political situation and the Pres ident was immensely pleased with the reports submitted by those who were present. "We discussed his future activitiea and in a general way he presented his ideas of ths condition of the cam paign in recent weeks." Definite Annoaneement Later He added that, any definite an nouncement as to the Presidents plans for speaking trips would ba made later by Mr Roosevelt, but that he did not know whether one might be expected in advance of ar. address scheduled next Tuesday at Syrar-n«a N. Y, before the state Democratic convention. Senator Robinson of Arkansas, ma jority floor leader of the Senate, said the conference "disclosed a general confidence but a realization of rhe wisdom of fighting." The political consultants gathered in the huge oak-panel library of the President's Dutchess county home for the discussion of plans for a six weeks' campaign to win a vote of confidence in the new deal and fopr more years of Democratic power. In addition to the President's own plans to head the vital October drive for his reelection, conferees hinted that party finances were touched on. May Go te Denver First There were intimations that the first stumping trip would take the chief executive to Denver, with an Omaha atop on the way out or back. Later, they expected him to visit Chicago and Detroit and perhaps Cleveland and Cincinnati on another tour. The same trip, they indicated, might bring him through Rochester and Albany. Some of the presidential advisers were urging him also to stop at Buf falo. particularly since his Repub lican rival for the presidency. Gov Alf M. Landon of Kansas. made one of his principal addresses there. POUCE URGE BROAD DEPORTATION LAWS TO COMBAT CRIME ■Federal Legislation Enlarg ing Classes of Alien Crim inals to Be Expelled Asked as Chiefs Convene Kansas City. Sept. 24--(AP) --The nations police officials today urged broader deportation laws to help them cope with the problem of alien criminals. In a resolution unanimously adopted by the International association of Chiefs of Police, the existing deporta tion law was declared "unsatisfactory because it fails to provide for deporta tion of large numbers of dangerous and habitual criminals who should be deported." "Federal legislation is greatly needed to enlarge the classes of alien criminals subject to deportation," the I resolution asserted. Andrew J. Kavanaugh, director of safety at Miami. Fla., and retiring 1 association president, said the Kerr deportation bill presented at the last session of Congress embodied the broader powers desired, "but Congress failed to act on that bill before ad journment." Today's resolution recommended a similar bill be -presented at the next session in January. In another resolution the '•police chiefs urged a federal law to prohibit interstate transmission of racing news to gambling establishments. Such es tablishments become "breeding spots for crime." the resolution declared. Kavanaugh said the resolution In no way aimed at the publication of race results in newspapers or through other "legitimate" channels. The officers sent a statement to President Roosevelt saying they would protest vigorously against any legis lation designed to restrict the use of all forms of gas to army and navy forces. Declaring ''certain groups" which they did not identify favored such a law, the chiefs asked that any such legislation permit the continued use of tear gas for police purposes. Leon V. Jenkins, director of police at Portland. Or, was elected presi dent to succeed Kavanaugh at the closing business session of the four day convention today. Baltimore. Md., was awarded next year's con vention. HIMMDxKaFhTuFAX Halifax. Sept 27 --(API-- John Hays Hammond. Jr, United State* inventor and traveler, sailed his 113- ton schooner Odysseus 111 into Hali fax harbor today on his way hack to Gloucester. Mase, after vtoltlna Sydney, N. S, Gaspe and Gutt of St Lawrence ports. 7