Evening star., 1936-07-10
PRESIDENTS TALK
'AMAzES KANSAN
COP. Legislator Questions
Inference Increased
Acreage Planned.
z, the Associated Press.

El the Associated Press
- Topeka, Kans., July 10.-Repre-
sentative Clifford r. Hope issued a
abatement at Gov. ALI M. Landon's
ofice today which said that President
Roosevelt had come forward with the
? astounding inference" that increased
wheat and corn acreageS were really
q part Of the administrations (tsrnl)
plan all along"
Now that the drought "is threaten
ing scarcity of food and feed crops,
Hope said. the New Deal is "attempt-
ing to get out in front and lead the
parade the other way"
The Kansan, ranking Republican
on the House Agricultural Committee,
participated yesterday in the luncheon
conference just preceding Frank Q.
LoWden's assertion that he and the
presidential candidate were agreed on
a farm program embracing a Federal
bounty to encourage soil conservation.
For Landon, todays light schedule
afforded an opportunity for more work
on the acceptance speech he will de-
liver July %. Observers looked to
this address for an elaboration OF the
terse that's right" by which the Re-
publican nominee agreed with Low
den's assertion that "bounties would
have to be paid" for soil conserva-
ton practices.
Knox Expected Wednesday.
Frank Knox, the vice presidential
candidate, was expected for a visit
next Wednesday to discuss campaign
plans. A scheduled caller tomorrow
was James G. Rogers, former Assis-
tant Secretary of State.
Hope said that with some amaze
ment" he had read accounts of Mr..
Roosevelt's Tuesday press conference
?" "in which he pointed with gratifica-
tion to 10 per cent increase in the
wheat acreage and corresponding
increase in corn planting"
The President" Hope said, gave
the impression that these increases
we're right in line with the admins
tration's program. This leads to the
question: Just what is the admins
trations program? Last Fall it asked
the Winter wheat producers to reduce
their acreage S per cent. Many did
SO, but enough others increased their
paintings to bring the acreage ur
nearly per cent above the 192S-1932
base period"
The farm plan outlined by Lowden
former Illinois Governor and one-time
candidate for the Republican presi-
dental nomination, embraced the
payment of bounties through a sys.
tenn of State administration.
Gov. Landon's working schedule
was hghtened today by termination
Of three-day special sessions of the
Legislature. which rushed through the
dations.
Out of the Senate debate their re-
nained in the records today the dec.
laration of Senator Joe Mcdonald,
Democrat, that:
The people of this State who 60
hungry, whose children are not cared
for, have right to invoke the wrath
of God upon the one individual who
now is causing their suffering. and
that individual is the present Gov
ernor of our State, Alf NJ Landon"
G. o. p. Leader Replies.
Senator Dallas Knapp, Republican
floor leader, terming McDonald's s
charge an insult on the fair name of
Kansas" had asked Mcdonald to de-
lete it from the Senate journal. He
refused.
Mcdonald, representing Kansas
City, Kans., unsuccessfully sought
consideration of beer tax legislation
during the brief session. Kansas law
prohibits the sale of intoxicating
liquor and there is no tax on beer, the
status of which as an intoxicant de-
pends upon individual court interpre-
tations.
Landon's majority forces defeated
McDonald's efforts by limiting the
sessions activities to the security sub
1ects
There is one thing I can say for
All Landon," Mcdonald said in final
speech. He has never said that he
balanced the budget. The Kansas bal
snced budget is myth Of the news
papers"