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Milford chronicle., 1936-10-09
A NEW Farm LEADER

Gov. Lahdon's farm declaration a
Des Moines has won the acclaim o.
the country. Farm leaders, includ.
ing Gov. Lowden and George N. Pech
endorse it. The support of it in the
press, in many cases irrespective oi
partisan viewpoint, is so strikingly
favorable that it must be clear here
is a man upon whom the farmer can
depend.
Gov. Landon's promise to plOw the
New Deal under, and his promise to
make every man a lord on his own
farm represent the spirit of the day;
that is why his view is so widely
hailed.
Gov. LandOn's Des MOines speech
is that of a farmer talking to farm
ers in their own language" This
Characterization of the Omaha World
Herald is typical of comment of mid
western papers. In that part of the
country, where farm problems are
vital to general welfare. the speech
at Des MOines, followed by that at
Minneapolis, reveals a true friend
speaking to friends, and not a theO-
retical muddler from the urban east.
"A first class speech" says the
Cedar Rapids Gazette. "LandOn un-
derstands farm problem" observes
the Sioux Falls Argus-Leader. The
family type farm, as expOunded by
LandOn. appeals to the Marshall
town, Ia. Times-Republican. "A
lord on his own farm" will be echoed
with a storm of applause all over the
nation, thinks the Cincinnati Times
Star. Evidence of careful thinking"
says the Denver Post in a long re-
view of the speech.
Landon gave his answer to the de-
mahd that he give the people specific
declares the lola, Kas.,
The Minneapolis Tribune
believes the speech increased Lam
dOn's stature in the northwest.
"CeciprOcity" for the farmer is ex-
posed by Landon. in the opinion of
the Waterloo. Ia. Courier. And in
the east, the Pittsburgh POst-Gazette
calls it "LandOns great speech on
the farm problem" Landon revealed
as a new farm leader who is
needed in Washington.
Milford chronicle., 1936-10-09

order of things in this country"
New" compared to what? Or
maybe he meant to emphasize this"
country.
Is there any real difference be-
tween planned economy" and "in-
tegrated economy" s
OF course not! In his message TO
Congress, dated Jan. 3, 1884, Mr..
Roosevelt referred to his national
planning as IAN integrated program,
national in scope" Same words,
same thoughts
Mr.. Roosevelt has never explained
where he got these ideas, although
he did admit that he had little
American experience to follow"
Whose experience did he follow?
You'll find it all in Tugwell's two
books, where he says: Russia has
shown that planning is practicable"
Why does Mr.. Roosevelt use ex-
pressiOns like new order of things ?'
To an American ear, that has an
unnatural, un-American sound. It's
one Of those Off-cOlor things jurors
would spot in minute. II sounds
too much like the communist express
sion, new order of the day"
But if Mr.. Roosevelt is elected,
how is he going to get his liysteri-
GUS ''integrated economy" by the Su-
pteme Court?
When it doesn't get by land you
know 1t WON'T, what is Mr. ROose-
welt planning 10 do to the Supreme
Court and the constitution?
He knows the answer now. So do
the Communists. That's one reason
they have issued orders to support
him against Mr.. Landon.
Milford chronicle., 1936-10-09
aGETTING RYs

One Of the difficulties Of business,
Is that so many people are satisfied
IL they can just 'get by" II they
can work well enough to draw their
pay, and provide goods enough so for
the time being the public will buy
them, they do not worry.
People who seek merely to "get
by" keep finding themselves up
against some new situation they had
not calculated on. The employer
finds such workers unsatisfactory,
and they lose their jobs. The Gus
toner finds the goods don't suit, and
the trade goes elsewhere. There is
no way to be sure of holding a job
and of retaining trade. but to rise
above the "get by" idea, and deter
mine to render the best service pos
sible. The one who excels beats the
one who just gets by"
Milford chronicle., 1936-10-09

Imagination and aspiration Of
youth that l most dread am
desperately afraid OF 1t because
1t teaches young men and wO-
men to unlearn the lessons OF
America which school and col
lege have striFet so earnestly 10
teach. Il encourages weakness
and penalties strength. II diff
fuses throughout the masses of
our people the spirit of aeqHisi-
tiveness which it condemns in
groups of them. It Furnishes ae-
cOmplishment and persecutes in
dividuals and industrial enter
prises alike simply on the basis
of the magnitude of their
achievement without regard to
the social value of the imagina-
tive and creative talent which
brought them into being. Il
thwarts mutual understanding
and cooperation and stimplates
antagOnisIn in our industrial life.
1t ferments class hatreds and ex-
ploits them for its own political
advantage. II is tragic for an
educator TO watch these lessons
taught to young men. Shall they
be instructed that comfort Is
theirs for the asking, that they
have a right to things they do
not earn, that ease and rest must
not be bought by toll and danger
and strUggle?"
And again:
Initiative, courage, hardihOOd,
frugality and aspiration for self
betterment are penalized, and
the fruits of these are to be
taken from those who have un-
dergohe self-sacrifiee to attain
them and bestowed upon those
who have never developed the
qualities to possess themselves
of rewards The necessity
for struggle, by which men have
developed strength and the dis
cipline of hardship, through
which they have achieved great
ness of mind and heart and soul,
are to be replaced by a speciOus
security"
That this Characterization of the
thics of the New Deal is correct nc
person can deny. BY way
( defense the most that can be said
J that the intentions of the ROOse-
cit administration were good. But
5 Dr. Hopkins observes, there is. an
Id adage which says that it takes a
Milford chronicle., 1936-10-09
sOUR GREATEST PROBLEAIn

Franklin D. Roosevelt, speaking at
Baltimore, October 25, 1882, said ::
1T is no time to delay when ll,OOO,-
600 of honest, industrious and willing
men and women are trampling the
streets and roads of our country 20
look for work. and we Of the Demo-
cratic party will not wait"
After two years of futile expert
ments and failure, the President said,
in his message to Congress, January
4. 1885: "The federal government
must and shall quit this business Of
relief"
That was the promise. What are
the realities? Harry l.. Hopkins, ma
tiOnal relief administrator, said at
Seattle, September 12, that unehi-
plOyment would continue as a ma
tional problem until something is
done about Spokane spokes-
man-Review.
Milford chronicle., 1936-10-09
THE STENCIL OF WPA

Buying of votes is nothing new in
American politics, but this is the
first time in which they have been
bid for in wholesale lots with pub
lie money. The uncOntrOverted facts
brought to light in Pennsylvania
would be incredible were they not
borne out by the undenied existence
OF similar conditions in practically
every politically doubtful State in the
Union. The political debauchery of
relief has long been notorious; as
election approaches it takes on the
aspect of a willful attempt at ma
tiOnal corruption.
In Blair County, Pennsylvania,
WPA workers are driven by hun
dreds in government trucks to the
registrars office and compelled, un-
der the eyes of New Deal fOremen.
to change their registration to Demo-
cratic. In Philadelphia they are
warned so to register on pain of their
jobs. In PottsVille, WPA officials
are Withholding per cent of their
pay until after election. In Johns
town a lame-duck Democratic poll
tician with an embezzlement record
but no other qualifying experience
is made a wOFk-relief foreman. In
Chester wholesale changes of regis
tration are the price of jobs. In
Schuylkill County WPA workers are
used to erect roadside signs urging
the reelection of Roosevelt. In
Pittsburgh they earn their pay by
improving the private property of
Democratic politicians.
In Buchanan County. Missouri.
hundreds of WPA workers were
escorted. on public paid-for time, to
registration offices and registered
Democratic in single day. In New
York dead men, cOnvicts and per-
sons with noh-existent addresses are
on the WPA Democratic rolls. thou
sands have been so enrolled on fOrg-
ed work cards and enormous graft
ing in WPA truck hire goes unpun-
ished. In West Virginia the State
Relief Administrator candidly de-
clares his intent to become Governor
on the strength of the $4,000 WPA
voters whom he controls, because
they know where they got their
jobs" In Missouri the Pendergast |
machine is using the WPA Organiza-
ton to carry the State for Roosevelt. |
In Illinois Democratic politicians |
and hangers-On get the high-pay |
WPA jobs; competent men without |
New Deal affiliations get those at |
$55 a month. In California WPA |
workers are frankly and repeatedly /
to divide their pay with the
Democratic campaign fund. In Ohio
the situation is SO scandalOus that
the Governor made a personal trip |
t., Washington to protest against 1t.
Ond so on. There is hardly a con-
tested State without a similar slush-
fund tale to tell.
Is the administration trying to
stop it? On the contrary, it is doing
everything possible with money
public money-to hold the lid down
and the stencil in until these votes
can be counted for Roosevelt ON No
vember 8.-Los Angeles TIMES.
Milford chronicle., 1936-10-09
GIVING AWAY THE LATCH KEY


In Minneapolis Mr.. LandOn toOh
the Canadian trade agreement aparl
to see how it worked. He found that
it had wrought injury to the Ameri-
can dairy industry, sending our i'm
ports of cheddar cheese, for instance
up 700 per cent in six months. The
result was that the price on the
American market fell from II cents
to 1872 cents, a drop which could
scarcely be called New Deal protec-
ton to the American producer.
The same thing happened in cat
tie. The influx of Canadian steers
permitted by the trade agreement
forced down the price in the st. Paul
market from 1915 hundred weight
to 1925 If this is the Roosevelt Ad-
ministration's idea of helping Ameri-
can cattle-feeders, it doesn't seem to
coincide with the accepted principles
of protecting American industries.
The upshOt of the operation of
eight of these agreements, as Mr..
LandOn shows, is that imports of
farm products have increased S4 per
cent, while farm exports have in
creased only 26 per cent. Under
these agreements, therefore, our i'm
ports are increasing more than three
times as fast as our exports.
George N. Peak, former foreign
trade adviser to the President, who
has broken with the New Deal, con-
demns the Hull trade treaties as
destructive to everything our coun-
try has cherished" and adds that
they are trade. agreements only in
the sense that they promote foreign
ers' trade by throwing open our
great home market for the easy en-
try of foreign manufactures and
foodstuffs."
He is right. Governor Landon is
right. It is time to stop destroying
the market of our farmers. It is
time to stop giving away the latch
key to our door. 1t is time to put
out of office those who are giving
away the latch key.-Philadelphia In
quirer.
Milford chronicle., 1936-10-09

said:
"The continuance of the New Deal
is the issue"
What happened to this issue? l
don't find il anywhere in the 1886
platform of what used to be the
Democratic party before the brain
trusters took II over. Has Mr..
Roosevelt given UP the New Deal or
what?
OF course, we all remember that in
1882 Mr.. Roosevelt didn't tell us any
thing about planned economy, or
Tugwell or other brain tFusters. Is
he doing the same thing to us in the
1885 campaign that he did in the 1882
campaign?
Well, it's pretty obvious that the
Supreme Court has declared all OF
this national planning to be uncon-
stitutional. It's equally obvious that
we can't be for both at the same
time. We have to choose between
national planning and our constitu-
tiOn. Mr.. Roosevelt has to choose,
too. What's his choice?
Consider these facts:
l. On Sept. 4, 1886, at Springfield,
ILL.,. MIR. Roosevelt, in referring to
some ardent helpers, said: Some
doubling ThOmases might refer to
them slightihgly as a brain trust. but
the fact remains that they know
their stuff"
"Stuff" may be right, but is Mr..
Roosevelt still defending the uncon-
EtitutiOnal ideas of his national plan
ners? Or what is he doing?
2. In that same speech Mr.. R0Ose-
welt said:
"Integrated economy Is the new
Milford chronicle., 1936-10-09
DEMOCRATIC PRAISE

Gov. LandOn's social security
speech won the praise of the Demo
cratic New York Times, which said :
Gov. LandOn's speech was the
kind of address deplorably infre-
quent in political campaigns. 1t was
genuine analysis of the problem
discussed. and in the simplicity of
its presentation a real contribution
to public misunderstanding of that
problem"
Gov. Landon's attack on the pro-
posed $47, ,OOO, 900, 900 reserve fund for
the payment of Old-age pensions is
called as sound as it was admirably
presented" The Times contends
that such a reserve is totally un-
necessary. proved by experience of
European nations. 1t approves the
governors analogy between a faith
er's attempt to safeguard his chill
dren with his own l. o. US and the
governments piling up of bonds as
security.
"a candidate with a conscience,
is the way the Chicago Tribune
characterizes the pension speech.
1T has been some years since this
country has had a President with
that kind of moral stamina. We need
one badly" Approval of the address
comes alike from east and west. The
Kansas City Times sees that LandOn.
if elected, proposes Ito sort out any
promising policies of the New Deal
from the fantastic. and to make the
promising workable"
The public reaction to Gov. Ian
dOn's speech on social security has
produced greater evidence of ap-
prOval even than his two farm prob
lem addresses and his tax speech.
Admiration for its clearness and his
boldness in tackling such a difficult
subject. in the midst of a campaign,
is freely expressed in the newspapers
of all shades or opinion.
Conspicuous among those which
approve is the st. Louis Post-D Dis
patch, which this week announced
it could not support Mr.. Roosevelt.
1t approves his declaration against
accumulation of a huge fund, tax on
payrolls, the great army of federal
employees that will be necessary to
the fund, and the Omis-
sion of important elements of the
population among beneficiaries.
"A $47, 900 900. 900 kitty" is the fea-
ture of the social security law, re-
ferred to by Gov. LandOn, which |
prompts the Boston Herald to praise |
the LandOn speech. Gov. LandOn's |
luminous, simply-phrased explana-
tiOn . =. is enough to make people |
gasp" says the Cincinnati Times
Star.
The Buffalo News contends that
the law is mot social security"
agreeing with the governor that the
present system must be radically
changed" "He delivered some tell
ing blows" says the New York Sun.
Says the Portland. Me-, Press-Her-
aid: "His speech was one of the
slearest and most forceful analyses
IF the act ever presented to the
American people"
e "Landon's best speech was his lat
,st," says the Emporia Gazette.
Milford chronicle., 1936-10-09
SHnYRtING OI1T MONEY

If the New Dealers ever stopped
"to count out the money they have
spent, much extravaganza and waste
could have been stopped. Instead,
they just shovel out the money"
It would take an expert bank teller
nine long years to count out the
New Deais expenditures in 1885 in
IS gold pieces. He'd have had to use
a shovel to dish it out fast enough
in 1895, when ss,ssO,OOO,OOO were ap-
propriated.
Milford chronicle., 1936-10-09

Monthly for Oc-
tober by President
Ernest NJ. Hopkins
Of Dartmouth Col
lege in which he
DISCUSSES the cor
rosive effect Of the
New Deal philoso-
ply on the soul OF
America. The meat
of the matter is in
the following quo
tatiOn:
at is the eff
feet OF the New
Deal on the
Milford chronicle., 1936-10-09
LANDON WELL LIKED

The great bulk of persons who
know Gov. ALI Landon have for him
not only regard and respect. but af-
fection. This is particularly true of
hard-bOiled Unemployment who are
not easily fooled and who have trav-
eled constantly with him.
Milford chronicle., 1936-10-09

IF YOU WANT to share whatever
success your home town achieves.
show you are entitled to that share
by spending your money at home so
far as possible.
Milford chronicle., 1936-10-09

SLEEPING PARTNERS do not
help a business to win success, and
sleeping citizens find their home
towns getting in bad before they
know it.
Milford chronicle., 1936-10-09

PEOPLE ARE ALWAYS complain
ing about the things other folks fail
to do on behalf Of the home town.
II the cOmplainers woHld do all they
could, it would help a lot.
Milford chronicle., 1936-10-09

THE WORLD RUSHES past the
store door very fast, and it is likely
to pass it without noticing it, unless
1t has been told by advertising what
you are selling.
Milford chronicle., 1936-10-09

THE MAN WHO can't speak up
for himself will not get great influ-
ence, and the business that doesn't
speak for itself through advertising
is not likely to grow very fast.
Milford chronicle., 1936-10-09
THE TEST

II you, MIR. Voter. had $1,000 you
wanted someone to take care of for
you, to whom would you entrust it,
Governor Landon or his opponent?
The answer is the way you should
vote.
Milford chronicle., 1936-10-09

IF PEOPLE NEGLECT their work
or their business, they lose their job,
and their business may fail. What
can you expect for your home town,
if people neglect its business?
Milford chronicle., 1936-10-09

YOUR PROSPERITY depends very
largely on the prosperity Of your
home town. Are you doing anything
to promote that home town pros
perity?
Milford chronicle., 1936-10-09

A town may be full OF fine and
intelligent and energetic people. But
if those folks Won't work together
for community gains; the town won't
get ahead much.
Milford chronicle., 1936-10-09
Nav DEAL MINDOM DRESsING

window dressing the New Deals
financial flasco looks good until
someone with an eye for realities
heaves a brick OF doubt through the
glass.
Milford chronicle., 1936-10-09
ROOSEVELTS aPREPARATION"

In a speech down South the other
day Roosevelt spoke of his 'prepara-
tiOn" for the Presidency. saying he
had practiced law, carried on busi-
ness enterprises and experienced the
exactions of public life. Although
he was admitted to the bar and hung
out a shingle in New York City, it is
not a record that Roosevelt ever had
a client. His business experience
consisted of whatever he had to do
with the Cameo raid ON suckers and
in the sale of German marks. In the
public service he was assistant sec
retary of the navy prior to the time
Al Smith made him a present of the
Office of Governor of New York.
ROOseveIt's other preparation" for
the Presidency consisted in having
been born to a name another man
made great and. to some extent per-
haps, in having selected ancestors
who salted away considerable sums
of pelf that other people won for
them.-Yakima, Wash, Republic.
Milford chronicle., 1936-10-09
THE FORGOTTEN ISSUE
By Robert n. GOldlhg

When the Hon. James A. Farley,
postmaster general and chairman of
the Democratic National Committee.
opened the convention which nOmi-
mated Mr.. Roosevelt last June, he
Milford chronicle., 1936-10-09

IF YOU WANT anything, you
have to ask for it and explain why
you should have it. The non-adver-
tiser does not seem to realize this
truth.
Milford chronicle., 1936-10-09
DIssIPATING OUR ADVANTAGE

Fifty per cent of the purchasing
power OF the entire world is in Amer
lea. why barter away that American
market with reciprocal tariffs that
benefit only the foreigner?
Milford chronicle., 1936-10-09
FORCEn FINANCING

The people have voluntarily fn-
anced the Republican campaign. AS
taxpayers. they have been forced to
finance the New Deal campaign
Milford chronicle., 1936-10-09
TRRAsnRY FIGuRES

We all know that figures don't lie,
but recent Treasury statistics from
Washington verify the old maxim
that liars sometimes bigger"
Milford chronicle., 1936-10-09
NEW DEAL ETHICS ARE bEMORALIzINC
THE AMERICAN PEOPLE BY
FOSTERING DEPENDENCE
BY NICHOLAS ROOSEVELT
For the National Republican Builders, Inc.


the demoTalizng-aspects Of the New Deal.
This why much importance attaches article
Milford chronicle., 1936-10-09

IF YOU WANT YOUR fair share
Os the eOuhtry's prosperity, don't ex-
pect to get it unless you tell the peO-
pie by advertising what you have to
sell.
Milford chronicle., 1936-10-09

IF YOU ARE a good friend to your
home town. let that friendship make
itself felt when you have some money
t1 spend.
Milford chronicle., 1936-10-09

THE MERCHANT WHO is waiting
for business to pick up. should go
out and pick up some business for
himself by advertising.
Milford chronicle., 1936-10-09

IF YOU WANT MONEY. prepare
and resolve to render some kind of
service that is worth money.
The Washington times. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1902-1939, 1936-01-08
GUYER DOUBTS
DRY LAW
HAS CHANCE
Expects Hearing But
No Action From
Wet Committee

Despite activity of the dry
forces" in the District in connec.
ton with the move to bring pro
hibition back to the National Capt.
tai, the author of the local repeal
measure himself is gravely doubt
full that it has a chance of enact.
ment.
Representative U. S. Guyer
(R), Of Kansas, sponsor of the
proposal now pending before the
House which would make the Dis
trict dry again. declared today
that almost the most he could
hope for during the present Ses-
sion would be hearings on his
measure before the House District
Committee.
He Has No Plan
He has no definite plan of his
own for pushing the prohibition
proposal, but said he intends to
follow along on whatever program
is mapped out by the District dry
forces" for whom, he said, he in
troduced the measure.
He pointed out that these "dry
forces" are planning for q gather.
ing here later this month, and
said that he would await the
outcome of that conference be.
fore he could say what steps, if
any, he will take concerning his
pending measure. Asked what
chance he believes his bill has,
he replied:
what can you expect? The
District Committee is a wet
committee. / doubt that any.
thing much will be done.
EXPECTS A HEARING
However, / do think that
we will be given a hearing. l
don't see why the committee
shouldn't give us a hearing, and
I believe Representative Car
penter (R.) Of Kansas, who is
on the committee, will make
every effort to see that that
courtesy is given u.s."
The Washington times. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1902-1939, 1936-01-08
LOCAL POLICE
HUNT 2B0YS

Washington police were asked
today to search for two missing
boys, one from Ballston. Va, and
the other from Jersey City. N. j.
Harry Stephens. jr.. 10, Of
Ballston, was reported missing
from his home since yesterday.
The boy was dressed in dark
riding pants, and a suede jacket
with the letters W. & L. on the
back.
Henry Burling, jr., IA, Of
Jersey City, according to his
father, has been missing since
November Z, 1885. The father
said his son left home because
of a poor school report. The
boy has gray eyes, brown hair,
is about S feet 6 inches tall, and
weighs about 125 pounds.
The Washington times. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1902-1939, 1936-01-08
This AAA Hearing
Gets Nowhere Fast

Paying no heed to the Roberts
interrogation, Assistant Corpora
ton Counsel Hinman D. Folsom
spoke up:
I'm for the farmer 100 per
cent. Why, the foundation Of
all our prosperity is out there
among the farmers"
Commission Chairman Riley E.
Elgen observed:
I'm against anything that
violates the States rights"
G. Thomas Dunlop, counsel for
the company, declared:
"At least the decision lets us
all know what our cOnStitu-
tiOnaI limits are here this morn
ing"
At this moment Mr.. Keech put
in an appearance and the hear
ing" adjourned.