Evening star., 1936-09-09

Republican authorities believe they de-
tected in President RooSeveltS recent
broadcast on drought and unemployment
significant reversal of campaign tactics.
They consider that r. D. r. at least
revealed an emphatically more mellow
tone and manner than his speech of
acceptance reflected. Embattled refer
ences to enlistment" in war against
economic royaliSts and princes of privi-
lege are conspicuously lacking in the New
Deal chieftain'S latest appeal to the
country. The earnest plea to industry
for cooperation in unemployment is
also in striking contrast to some of the
Presidents bludgeonings in the direction
of big business. Altogether, his op-
ponents profess to think that Mr. Roose-
velt has signaled retreat in "class war;
fare" and now stands forth as a fervid
apostle of unity between the haves and
the have nots. The New York Herald
Tribune, principal G. O. P. organ, dis
cussing the Presidents so-called right
about-face, declares that the country
had plainly rejected his radical threats
and he therefore instinctively turned to
soothing sirup."
Power lion and New Deal lamb (per-
haps it's the other way about are lying
down together in Washington this week
like a pair of long-loSt brothers. The
occasion is the pooling of their resources
to make a success of the third World
Power Conference. The distinguished
delegates from more than SO foreign
countries would never dream that such
a bitterly controversial issue as "regi-
O finr1v of r,I1hIi0 f,fi1ifioc hoc drvoyy
yawning breach between the American
power industry and the Roosevelt ad-
ministration, for their respective repre-
sentatives are enthusiastically engaged
in presenting a united front to the
kindred spirits from overseas. Thus
great private interests in the hydro
electrical and allied fields are working
and exhibiting side by side in hotel
lobbies, convention auditoriums and BAN
quoting halls with p. w. A., T. v. A., the
Federal Power Commission, the Federal
Trade Commission, the Rural Electrifica-
ton Administration and other New Deal
agencies not always supposed to reek
with friendlineSS for the minionS and
magnates of power.
No recruit has been more cordially
DR.. Mary E. Woolley, veteran president
of Mount Holyoke College and leading
figure in the American peace movement.
She has just forsaken q lifelong al
legiance to the Republican party and will
support the President for reelection on
his international record. 1t is the ad-
ministration's activities in promoting the
good neighbor policy with Latin Amer
lea, its adherence to neutrality in the
Italo-Ethiopian conflict and the promo
ton OF reciprocal trade agreements that
combine to stir DR.. Woolleys enthusiasm
for the New Deal. She will confess her
political conversion in a banquet address
under auspices of the Democratic Good
Neighbor League at New York on Sep
tember Is. Secretary Hull will speak OH
the same occasion.
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Now that Herbert Hoover has arranged
to take the stump for Gov. Landon, G.
o. P. managers wonder whether and
when Senator Borah will make up his
mind to go to bat for him. Not long
after Cleveland the Idahoan indicated
he would not bolt the ticket This was
regarded an indirect assurance that
sooner or later he would actively cam
paign for it. Delay in formal announce
ment Of his readiness to do so is giving
Northwestern party leaders some con-
Germ. When Chairman Hamilton was in
Idaho last month is was considered a
little ominous that he and the Senator
did not meet, the latter having wired
his regrets at being detained elsewhere
IN the stats. Landonites say there's no