Evening star., 1936-09-06
!. S. TO retire
SANTA SAYS KNOX
Hits Social Security Act and
Warns Hearers of Tax
Rise.
BIZ the Associated Press.

By the ASsoclAteu fresSs
ALLENTOWN, Pa, September S.
Col. Frank Knox, Republican vice
presidential nominee, today combined
an attack ON the social security act
with a prediction, regarding Federal
funds, that "the people are going to
retire Santa Claus"
Knox spoke before cheering crowd
In the Lehigh County Fair Grounds
at a rally formally opening the ma
tional campaign in the industrial dis
trict of Eastern Pennsylvania.
G.. Mason Owlett, State Senator and
national committeeman, estimated the
crowd in the grandstands, and stand
ing before the speakers platform, at
$4,000. State Chairman M. Harvey
Taylor of Harrisburg called it the
largest Republican rally in Lehigh
County's history.
Col. Knox told his audience that
when he wound up his New England
tour Friday night he telegraphed Gov.
ALI M. Landon: Forget about New
England: it's all safe"
And tonight" he added. 'I1l wire
him again to say old Pennsylvania is
Just as safe
Crowd Forces Shift.
The rally Is a tradition in the Le-
high Valley territory. The custom has
been to open the campaign in Fogels-
vile, little farming community 8
miles west of Allentown, but it was
moved this year to accommodate a
larger crowd.
Knox received an ovation when he
drove down the fair grounds track,
behind a motor cycle escort, and
mounted the speakers platform. Lam
don-Knox pennants, bunting and flags
hung from the platform.
Lip service to security" was the
nominees term for the social security
measure, which provides for unem-
ployment insurance and old-age PEN
sions He called it unavoidable and
unsound."
THE present administration has
been for four years giving lip service
to security and welfare, and today no
life insurance policy is secure; no saw
mgS account is safe
Knox charged the administration
with "brazen effort to obtain popu-
lar favor by distributions of Treasury
largess."
You will be told of the hundreds
of millions of dollars of Federal
money spent in Pennsylvania and
that Pennsylvania received $165, ,oO0.-
600 for relief in the last fiscal year, as
If the Federal Government was grea t
grab bag. with each of 48 States
scrambling to get hand in first"
Share of Debt Increased.
"Just remember" he warned, "that
under the New Deal Pennsylvania S
share of the national debt has in.
creased by little over one thousand
million dollars"
"Al Smith has said that nobody
shoots Santa Claus. That depends.
If Santa Claus knocks you on the head
and takes away your money every
day, and gives back the next day a
part of what he has taken, he is not
likely to last very long.
II have notion the people are 60
ing to retire Santa Claus in No.
Vember"
Knox said a Republican admins
tration would offer legislation on So
cial security, but continued to say. "it
would pay the people to retire the
administration even If the new one
should do nothing, just as a town
takes up a collection to give to some
passing family, just to have them ieave
town."
Speaking two days before Labor
day, Knox repeated the warning to
LABOR, made in earlier campaign ad-
dresses, that If it seeks legislative
favors," it will find it had made a
bitter bargain" advising, instead, a
policy of fighting its own battles"
From Allentown the candidates
campaign route takes him to Alma,
Mich. He will make his Labor day
address there on the campus of Alma
College, the little school he attended
% years ago.