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Evening star., 1936-10-11

therefore, in national elections. In
1882, when Roosevelt was carrying the
State by $1,000 votes, johnson was
elected Governor with lead of $4,000
over his Republican opponent, which
seems to bear this out The ability
OF the Colorodan to split his ticket
was demonstrated when in 1923
Hoover carried the State by 100000
votes. a Democratic Governor was
elected by some 10000.
The Republicans are working like
beavers. They believe they have a
chance to win for Landon. They
frankly admit, on the other hand, that
it looks as though there was no stop
ping Gov. johnson. the Democratic
candidate for the Senate. Unless
there is a real sweep for Landon,
which is not indicated. johnson seems
to be in. In the gubernatorial race
the Republicans have more hope.
Their candidate Is Charles M. Arm
strong. who is opposed by Teller
Ammons.
Armstrong in the past hooked him.
self up strongly with the Townsend
ties. but more recently has backed
away, although still declaring himself
in favor of adequate old-age pensions.
The followers of DR.. Townsend have
been numerous in this State. In fact,
the old-age pension question has
thrust itself to the fore in politics
here. The fact that DR.. Townsend
has announced that he himself in
tends to vote for Landon may be an
aid to the Republicans in the presi-
dental race here.
$45 Monthly Proposed.
In an effort to satisfy this demand
for old-age pensions. an amendment
to the State constitution has been
proposed under which all persons so
years of age or more are to receive
a monthly pension of s45. 1t will
be voted upon at the polls November
3. The Democratic State platform
endorses the adoption OF this amend
ment. The Republican platform did
likewise, but after it had been adopted
Evening star., 1936-10-11
RED CROSS ROLLS
TOP 10000 MARK
1000 a Day Goal as Cam
paign for Members Enters
Final Week.

Red Cross enrolment must increase
at the rate of 1000 members a day If
the current campaign goal Of IS, 900 is
to be attained by midnight next
Friday, the roll call deadline.
Total enrolment rose 1929 yester-
day to within about 1000 of the 1885
membership. At the end Of the second
week Of the drive, the total stood at
4l,185.
Roll call solicitation chairmen
congratulated Maj Gen. Fred w.
Boschen, chief of Army finance, for
the record of his Government enroll
ment unit, which has amassed q
total of 30,795 members. nearly rs
per cent OF the aggregate for all
divisions.
Gen. Boschen said that while he
needed memberships from "a per cent
of the 10000 Government employees
in the District to make his quota, he
had found that the actual enrolment
average Of his unit was IS per cent
on a basis OF reports from 7 Of the 20
departments.
Other division totals reported last
night were: Financial, 2,337; utilities,
1,441: professional, 1888; business,
2,024; residential, $50; booths, 1877,
and miscellaneous, 927.
Campaign officials said they ex-
pected the bulk of general business
and utility memberships. to come in
this week. Many workers in these
groups have been waiting to COM
plete their canvass before reporting,
it was said
Volunteer workers in the Kalorama
house-to-house solicitation group met
last night at the home of Mrs. Harvey
Wiley, 2345 Ashmead place, and re-
ported encouraging progress. The en-
tire residential division will hold its
first report meeting tomorrow at
pm. in District Red Cross Chapter
headquarters, 1880 E street. Mrs. Cary
T. Grayson, chairman. announced.
Evening star., 1936-10-11

Continued From First Page)
when the deposits in this bank we're
only $29. 100000 its commercial loans
were $1,000 600, which in itself tells
story.
Roosevelt comes into Colorado to
find that the Democratic party-in
State politics-has not turned strongly
to New Deal candidates as the Demo-
Gratis have in two other States he has
just visited, Minnesota and Nebraska.
The faction of the party supporting
Senator Costigan and Miss Josephine
Roche, now Assistant Secretary of the
Treasury, is not in the ascendancy.
1t Is the faction headed by Gov. Ed
c. johnson which is on top. johnson,
although he Is supporting Roosevelt,
has broken in the past with the ad-
ministration. particularly over relief
activities. 1t was johnson who de-
feated Miss Roche for the guberna-
torial nomination in 1884 and who
beat an ardent New Dealer, former
Gov. William E. Sweet. for the sena-
torial nomination in the primary this
year. Senator Costigan declined to be
q candidate to succeed himself this
year on account Of i'll health. He
would have had a tough time, in any
event, If he had tried for renomina-
ton against johnson, who Is exceed
ingly popular throughout the State.
Senator Costigan is not expected to
return to the State to take part in
the campaign.
Not Straight Ticket Voters.
The strength which johnson un-
doubtedly has in Colorado may be a
help to Roosevelt. However. Colorado
voters are an independent lot. They
have elected Democratic Governors
for the last 10 years, while at the
same time they have gone Republican
in presidential elections, except in
1892.
1t seems clear that the Colorado
people are inclined to vote Republican.
Evening star., 1936-10-11

by the State convention, Republican
nominees got together and revised the
document in certain particulars, elm
mating the endorsement of this old
age pension constitutional amendment.
They figure that it will cost the State
in the neighborhood of $20, 900 900
q year-which they contend Is q lot
Of money. Under the State would
have to provide $45 for each citizen
between so and IS years of age, and
$50 for each citizen from IS on. The
Federal Government, under the ma
tional security act, will make up the
other SIS q month for the citizens
IS and over.
The Republicans are making a great
deal Of the administration reciprocal
trade agreements with Canada and
other nations, particularly in the
stock-raising sections of the State, and
it seems to be an effective issue.
The cattle and sheep raisers believe
they are not getting enough for their
live stock.
The Republicans are making a good
deal, too, of charge that 400 Colo
RADIO ranch families have been losing
homesteads or parts Of their lands,
through an order issued by President
Roosevelt against filing on public
lands. The Republicans say that the
administration has decided that these
homeSteaders cannot make living on
the ranches that have been yielding
them and their families living.
Beet Growers Satisfied.
The G. o. P. is worrying, however,
over the sugar beet growers who ap-
parently have been satisfied with the
Costigan act and the treatment ac-
corded them by the administration.
I talked with an eminent church,
man there who sums up the situation
by saying that the people who have
any money will vote for Landon and
those who are poor will vote for Roose-
welt. generally speaking. He admitted
that he himself was for Roosevelt.
Whether his diagnosis of the situation
Is entirely correct Is still matter of
some doubt. For example, not all Of
the people on relief in this State are
going to vote for Roosevelt; that goes
particularly for that element on relief
which is dubbed American to distin-
guish them from another group la
beled Mexican. Those inclined to
leave Roosevelt take the position that
they have been on relief for a long
time, and that they see no future III 1t
for them.
The fact that so many persons are
still on relief in this State, when farm
ing. stock raising, mining and business
are booming. not to mention the tour
Bt travel into the State. is puzzling to
business men here. They are wonder
ing if it is due to the fact that the
present prosperity Is not after all due
mostly to the Government spending
During the fiscal year ending June 80
last. the Federal Government allotted
Evening star., 1936-10-11
Red altitude of Labor Leader
Keeps Baldwin Regime Safe
Weakness of Opposition Contributes to
Stability of Government Despite Its
Lack of Courage in F Foreign affairs.

treme pacifism. The official organ Of
the party. the Daily Herald, has
markedly changed its note. And faced
with the crucial problem of rearma-
ment. the party. saying it would ne'er
consent, has, like the lady in Don
Juan, consented" and has formally
ratified the consent at the party con-
ference this week.
Any other course would have put
it so completely in antagonism to
the feeling of the country as to have
destroyed its claim to be responsible
opposition. Moreover. in view Of the
pressure it brought to bear on the
Government to adopt the severest
measures against Italy. even to the
closing of the canal any other course
would have been manifestly dishonest.
But while giving this reinsurance
to the country that Labor in power
could be trusted with the problem
of national defense, as it probably
could, and as, in the cast of M. Blum
in France, it has shown that it can,
its strategy is still discounted by the
formidable Cripps and in a lesser de-
gree by such uncompromising pacifists
as Lord Ponsonby. Cripps sees in
rearmament nothing but a device
for buttressing up the tottering fab
ric Of capitalism. and since his voice
Is still the most resounding one in
the Labor movement. it stamps the
opposition in the public mind with
his revolutionary outlook. He is by
far the best asset that the Conserva-
tives have in the country. for the
more he talks the more he scares
moderate opinion to the support of
the Baldwin government.
Indeed. the problem for the Labor
party is how to dissociate itself from
this eloquent and extremely able COL
league, who defies its authority and
stamps its policy in his own revolu-
tionary mint. Until it does so it will
remain in opposition, and the govern
ment can make any blunder it likes
without risk of supersession.
Copyright, 1885. by Consolidated Press)
Evening star., 1936-10-11

Of the great interest in the election.
In Denver the Democrats have built up
strong organization. The Repub-
licans, however, do not concede the
city is going Democratic -
Lemke is on the ballot here. What
votes he gets will be drawn principally
from Roosevelt, it is believed, although
Lemke sentiment is not strong and his
vote Is expected to be small.
Today Colorado has four Democratic
members of the House-the entire del
egation. The Republicans believe they
have a real chance to pick up a seat
in the second district, and a fair
chance in the third. 1t seems certain,
however, that the Democrats will elect
a Senator. The chances are that
johnson. in his race for the Senate.
will run considerably ahead of Roose.
welt in the balloting. Some Of the
Democrats say privately that john
sons lead may be as much as 10000
votes. He has considerable Republican
support, particularly among the busi.
ness people.
Evening star., 1936-10-11

CORNELIUS D. SCULLY,
President of the Pittsburgh
City Council, 7UhO DdS selected
By that group to succeed
Mayor William N. McNdir q
te1o hours toUoa0ing the lat
ter's resignation from office.
His resignation, McNdir er-
planned, 1UaS designed to end
the financial situation arising
out of the councils refusal to
confirm his appointee for city
treasurer, DhoSe abSenSe
tro4e the city'S pay rolls and
forced thousands of 1Oorkers
to go unpaid.
Wide World Photo.
Evening star., 1936-10-11
BLUM WEAKENED
BY FRANC DISPUTE
Linking DevaIuation to Wage
Scale Regarded Bad
BIunder.
BY WILLIAM BIRD.
} . l,& - ThA 0tor

By Radio to The Star.
PARIS, october 10.-The Blum
cabinet contrived, by the incredibly
bungling fashion in which 1t handled
the devaluation problem, to garner all
the oppobrium that was to be squeezed
out of the operation, but little, II any.
Of the credit. Today, more than
full week after the special session OF
Parliament passed the bill, and in
spite of the undoubted flip it has
given to trade, any impartial observer
will admit that the cabinets prestige
has reached a very low ebb. Unless
something happens to restore it in
the next two or three weeks, the
chance of M. Blum and his colleagues
weathering the coming budget debate
Is slim indeed.
There was a large body of con-
servative opinion in France favorable
to devaluation, and a more astute
presentation of the problem by
Premier and Finance Minister Auriol
would have rallied much conservative
support to the governments side
at least enough to avoid provoking
clash with the Senate. But the meas
ure was put up in such a way that
even the opposition leader, Paul
Reynaud. who has been preaching
devaluation for nearly three years,
voted against it.
Went Too Far for Communists.
The main trouble once more was
NJ tor fnr
to placate the Communists. At their
insistence, he incorporated in his
original bill a proviso that any in
crease in the cost of living would be
compensated by automatic increases
In wages. M. Blum must have known
that such a proviso had no chance
to pass the Senate, at least without
'hig stick" tactics. Perhaps M. Blum
was ready to welcome a test OF
strength with the Senate. If the
Senate had overthrown the govern
ment on this issue, the conscript
fathers could have been accused OF
circumventing the popular will.
But M. Blum apparently did not
foresee that a large fraction of the
Radical party In the Cnamoer o.
Deputies would fail to follow him or
the sliding wage scale proposition
But, as many Radicals pointed out
why should wage earne"s be the only
ones to be insured against rising
prices? What about farmers? What
about pensioners? What about small
holders of government bonds? What
about other categories of citizens, who
get their earnings in forms other thar
wages? AS soon as these questions
were asked. the sliding scale was
doomed. The cabinet had to back
down, and the Communists with them
The consequence is that Blum is
now blamed by Conservatives for
seeking to favor the workers. and
blamed by the workers for yielding
He reaps blame on both sides and
credit on neither.
Evening star., 1936-10-11
So, 100000 plus to Colorado for all
kinds Of relief.
Tahnr Vof> Nav SnJif

$62 ,00o,00 plus to Colorado for all
kinds Of relief.
Labor Vote May Split.
Organized labor In this State Is for
Roosevelt-but organized labor Is rot
SO strong as in many other States, and
the Republicans are counting on get
ting their share of the labor vote gen.
orally. The Negro vote, which runs
into several thousand in Denver, Is
not all for Roosevelt. The Republicans
have placed a prominent color ed
leader on their ticket for the State
Legislature.
One thing that worries the Repub-
licans is propaganda spread through
the State by the Democrats TO the ef-
feet that II Landon Is elected, he will
cut the price of gold and of silver.
They do not like this. So they have
obtained from John Hamilton, chair
man Of the Republican National Com
mittee, q statement to the effect that
Landon has no such intention. They
hope also to have statement from
Landon himself. The Hamilton state
ment, which Is just being put into cir
culation by the Republicans says:
"Rumors to the effect Gov. LAndon
intends reducing the price of gold to
$40 absolutely without foundation. Re
publican platform specifically advo-
Gated taking away from the President
power to regulate value Of money.
This clearly means any change in gold
price or gold content Of the dollar
would be made by Congress and not by
the President. Gov. Landon's tele-
gram to the Cleveland convention con-
tains nothing suggesting he contem-
plates reducing the price Of gold"
This gold rumor and the situation
among the sugar beet people. the Re-
publicans say, are their two chief wor-
ries, and they hope to straighten them
out. Landon. as Governor Of neigh
boring State, Kansas, has a certain ap-
peal to the voters. He spent his holi-
days here last Summer. Although he
is not now expected to make another
visit to Colorado before election, he
probably could help himself by so
doing.
Views on Ma jority Conflict.
Republican leaders here figure they
will carry Colorado by approximately
10000. The Democratic leaders are
more generous in their estimates, run
ming Roosevelt's expected plurality as
high as $4,000 or only II 900 less than
his victory of 1882. Both sides say
that there will be big vote out, prob
ably going as high as 100000, because
Evening star., 1936-10-11
BY A. G. GARDINER.
BY Radio to The Star.


LONDON. Ocotber 10.-The strength
of the Baldwin government is in the
weakness of the opposition. In its
internal policy the government has
done eXcellently. 1t has established
the financial position of the country
on a basis of security that is the
envy of Europe. 1t has restored trade,
reduced unemployment and made gen.
erous and judicious adjustments Of
the national insurance system. But
in world affairs it has lacked courage
and initiative, and in the Ethiopian
business it committed enough howl
ers" to have brought any government
down In normal times. But it stands
like a rock and is in no more present
danger of falling than the Pyramids.
And this for the reason that the
country sees no alternative. For all
practical purposes. the only opposi-
ton is that Of the Labor party. There
is some revival of liberalism, but it is
negligible for the present, and the
attempt of the News-Chronicle to or
ganize popular front on the French
model Of mobilizing all the parties Of
the left has been cold-shouldered by
labor, which sees itself as the heir
apparent to Office But labor itself
is in a worse fighting position than
it has been at any time since the war.
With the loss of its old leaders, Mac
Donald, Snowden and Thomas, 1t Is
lamentably lacking in personality.
The only man among them who
really catches the eye of the country
by his parliamentary gifts is Sir Staf-
ford Cripps, the eminent lawyer who
sat in the former Labor government.
And the more Sir Stafford attracts
attention, the more distress there Is
in the Labor party. For Sir Stafford
is Tenfant terrible of the movement.
II he Is not Communist, he is as near
being one as makes no matter, and
his weekly speeches in the country
are as uncompromising as they are
revolutionary. They alarm the con-
servative- minded public. but they
alarm still more his stolid colleagues
in the labor movement. For they
want Office, they want their party to
recover power, and they realize that
the more Cripps speaks the more their
hopes are damned.
The mood of the public was never
less revolutionary than it Is today.
Events on the continent have shocked
it into a temper Of extreme caution.
It fears alike the creed of Russia and
the creed of Germany and Italy, and
the forces of communism and fascism
are SO contemplate that there is not
a constituency in the country where
a representative Of either group would
get elected. The Fascist Mosley him.
self has the wisdom not to stand,
and the Communist Cripps has hither-
to owed his election to the fact that
he has been q candidate of the Labor
party.
Whether he will have that backing
in future Is doubtful. The Labor party,
in its anxiety to convince that body
of moderate opinion which sways elec-
tions that it can be trusted, have
moved very definitely to the right.
The trade unionists, who are the
backbone of the party, have banged
the door of their congress against the
Communists. The parliamentary
group has thrown over the leadership
Of Lansbury on the score of his ex-
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Negotiations for Use Of Curtiss-
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Ry the Associated Press.

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CHICAGO, October 10.-Negotia-
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aviation base at the Curtiss-Reynolds
Airport here neared completion today.
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to Rear Admiral John Downes. COM
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Glenview Field and two hangers
there.
H. S. Darr, president of the corpo-
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nature.
Plans were to bring IA new training
and fighting ships to the Curtiss-
Reynolds Airport. It was emphasized
the Nays activities would not in
terfere with regular commercial air
traffic at the field.
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NEW PIT. A. FORMED
Forestville Group Elects John
Burton President.

Special Dispatch to The Star.
FORESTVILLE, Md, october 10
Parents and teachers of the Forestville
Elementary School have organized an
association here. Officers chosen were ::
John Burton. president: Mr.. Carter.
vice president; Mrs Edward Worth,
secretary, and Lloyd Williams, treas
urer.
Mr.. Carter was appointed chairman
of a committee to draft constitution,
and Mrs. G. E. Staubus, chairman Of
the committee on entertainment for
the next meeting, to be held on No
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