Evening star., 1932-10-16
BY WILLIAM HARD.

NEW YORK, October l5.-This cam
pAign Is marked by considerable num-
Der OF curious features
The first Is the slenderness Of the
campaign funds II the Republicans
get two million dollars to spend they
will be satisfied II the Democrats 60
up much above one million they Will
be eratified
The use of radio by the two parties
will perhaps be only nehAlf of what
It was four years ago. At the same
time there have been torrents Of COM
plants from radio auditors against the
intrusions of political speakers into
periods usually reserved for their ia
vorite musical and comic entertainers.
A great multitude Of voters seem to
prefer those entertainers even to the
presidential candidates themselves.
One Of the two parties has resolved
that never again will it allow any OF
It's speakers to 60 on speaking into the
customary periods of certain radio top
notch entertainment artists. It has
come to believe that the eminent states
man who pushes popular crooner on
the air makes more enemies than
friends.
The radio chains are not displeased
with the decline this year In the num-
ber Of political party programs. Those
programs are not profitable when they
supersede ordinary commercial pro-
grams. It pains a broadcasting COM
pAny to have to pay an expensive
troupe OF radio entertainers while dis
tinguished political orator is haranguing
in their time. The consolation Of the
radio officials is only that they can per-
hAps argue themselves into thinking
that they are thus performing a public
patriotic service
Meanwhile large proportion Of radio
listeners DO not regard 1t apparently as
a service at all. Once last year when
Senator Borah himself was addressing
the radio audience, the telephone girls
of the studio from which he was speak
ing spent his whole period answering
remonstrances from listeners who wished
to listen to the professional entertain
ment team which he was displacing
Editorial writer's may make such suit
able comments as may occur to them
on the tastes OF voters.
In any case the money spent by the
parties this year both on the appear
ances of their orators on the air and
on the appearances of their orators in
person" will not be excessive and there
will be few campaign fund scandals"
for the Senate to investigate. This is
q novelty.
The reasons for it are many. Rich
Democrats on the Democratic sucker
list" Of potential contributors to the
party Golfers are. many of them, con-
siderably frightened OF by the Eastern
Wall Street dread Of the words Huey
Long, Bert Wheeler, George Norris.
Bronson Cutting, and so on, china king
in Jack Garner.
In vain Mr.. Garner proclaims him
self to be q "gold-standard" man. In
vain his friends point out to Wall
Street bankers that the American Fed
Grafton Of Labor has charged him, on
his legislative record, with being much
more unfavorable to labor measures in
the Congress than his Republican op-
posite number, Charlie Curtis. In vain
Mr.. Garner demonstrates that his rec
ord as q total Is, In fact, distinctively
conservative. Wall Street, in general
has acquired another myth. which Is
that Jack Garner and q lot of Gov.
Roosevelt's other Western and South
western friends are against property"
On the Republican side, amazingly. .
quite similar situation exists. To much
OF wall Street the Hoover administra-
tion Is not entirely what Wall Street
80 impressively and authoritatively
calls sound"
A sound" administration, according
to q large part of Wall Street, would
Be in favor of lowering the tariff. It
could be In favor of canceling, or dras-
ticAlly reducing, the international debts
It would refrain from making 80 many
loans. through the Reconstruction
Finance Corporation, to business lnsti-
tutions which the orthodox strict econ
oxfists of Wall Street would prefer to
see taken into the courts and "reor-
sanixed."
A heavy fraction Of Wall Street re-
Rarxis the Hoover administration as
Sunsound" in these and other particu-
lars. It is from such sources that Gov.
Roosevelt derives his idea that Mr..
Hoover Il by way Of being almost q
sort Of dangerous radical. Repeatedly
Mr.. Roosevelt has made statements
such As:
Thoroughly unsound financial poll
cies BY the Federal Treasury have made
the situation of the Federal Govern
nient not exactly desperate but at least
threateninr to future stability"
Mr.. Roosevelt il confirmed in these
views by the Democratic party's most
influential financial legislator, Senator
Carter Glass Of Virginia. It is half
way open secret in washington that
Mr.. Glass consented to the passage Of
the Glass -Steagall bill only on the un-
derstAnding that Its provisions would be
used very spAringly In such operations
rs the recent open-fharket purchasing