Evening star., 1936-06-07
Planks Likely
to Make East
Gasp.
SOUND MONEY
is PROPOSED
Social Security,
Farm and Relief
Plans Weighed.
By a Stan Correspondent Of The Star.

By Stan Correspondent Of The Star.
CLEVELAND, Ohio, June 6.-The
Kansas forces of Gov. Alfred M Lam
don and their allies, hard at work on
platform planks. are giving particular
attention to some kind of declaration
in favor of empowering the States to
deal with such social and economic
questions as hours of labor and wages.
Whether it will propose constitu-
tional amendment outright or will
make merely a declaration of policy
remains to be seen. But the propon-
ents of such a plank believe that the
recent decision of the Supreme Court
of the United States in the New York
minimum wage law has put the mat
ter squarely up to the Republicans.
Let's take the ball and run with
It," they say.
Make Fasteners Gasp.
Some of the platform planks which
these Landonites are working on may
make the Eastern Republicans gasp
for breath. But there is reason to
believe that the convention will ap-
prove of most of them. There is a
money plank. which is neither a re-
turn to the gold standard nor decla-
ration for the kind of managed cur
rency which the Roosevelt admins
tration started out with. 1t declares
for sound money. based on gold bull
lion, but not with fixed gold content
or contract to pay in gold. 1t takes
away from the President his present
power to value or devalue the dollar
and returns that power to Congress
alone. If the proposed currency is to
be managed" it will be managed by
Congress and not by the President.
The plank also declares cooperation
with foreign nations to bring about
stability of currency and for a more
intelligent use of gold.
The farm plank is still in the max
ing In the main, the Landonites idea
is to pay subsidy to the farmers so
as to give them the full benefit Of the
tariff. There Is In this, however, the
home farm" idea; subsidies will 60
to the ordinary farmer in reasonable
amounts and not to corporations run
ming huge farming operations or In
huge amounts to individual farmers.
In addition. there will be a soil con-
servation proposal Frank o. Lowden
Is expected to send his ideas on farm
legislation to the group or to the
Platform Committee, when 1t has
been elected by the convention. Low
den himself is not expected to come
to Cleveland.
Social Security Plank.
They are working on a social Sc
curity plank, promising old-age pen
sions and unemployment insurance,
but decentralized and with the States
handling pensions and insurance, with
Federal grants of money from the
States. There will be strong anti
monopoly plank, as strong as they can
make it, and also a Civil Service
plank which will reflect on what the
Roosevelt administration has been
doing. Another plank attacks bu-
reaucracy and waste of Government
funds.
The tariff plank calls for bilateral
trade agreements with foreign ma
tions. without the favored nation
clause" and for continued protection
OF American products.
One thing the Landonites plan with
regard to the platform. They will
not place in it any planks that call
for big expenditures of Government
money. They do not intend to make
a mockery, they say, of promises to
curtail Government expenditures and
to balance the governmental budget.
On the question of relief, the Lam
donites are intent upon having this
returned to the States, but realize that
the Federal Government cannot drop
out Of the picture entirely. Federal
contributions will have to be con-
tinued, on a basis of population and
need. The States will determine
whether they will use the dole or
werk-relief programs.
Treadway Gives Views.
Representative Treadway of Massa-
chusetts, who is to be a member of
the Platform Committee of the con-
vention, today said:
THE Republican platform should
provide, first of all, for an immediate
return to constitutional government,
including the withdrawal of powers at
present illegally delegated to the Presi-
dent.
1T should provide for an immediate
cessation Of wanton extravaganza in
the use Of the taxpayers money.
There should be definite and posi-
tive assurance of the discontinuance
of governmental interference with
legitimate business. The reciprocal
tariff law should be repealed.
I'VE should condemn the unsound
monetary policies of the administra-
ton, which If further prosecuted will
inevitably lead to currency imitation"