Carbon County news., 1937-11-05
essary to supplant the present
Roosevelt regime with one of a
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The senator's speech climaxeC
the annual one-day convention d
| the Montana Young Republicans
who reelected five of their sever
state officers. They are John K
Powers of Bozeman and Mrs. Ales
B. Cunningham Of Helena, mem
bers of the national committee
Lawrence E. Gaughan of Billings
chairman; E. B. Logan of Billings
treasurer, and Alex B. Cunning
ham of Helena, secretary. Frances
Elge of Helena and Winfield Page
of Missoula were selected as vice
chairmen.
Speakers at the convention in
cluded the Republican state COM
mittee chairman, E. K. Cheadle,
Jr., of Shelby, and the president of
the Montana Republican club,
Charles r. Dawley of Great Falls.
They outlined the work their Or
ganizations are doing, and urged
the younger members of the party
to take more active interest in
Republican affairs. Cheadle stress
ed that such action is welcomed by
older members of the party.
The convention delegates were
welcomed to Billings by Melvin N.
Holiness, Yellowstone county re-
preventative in the legislature. It
was decided that the next conven-
tion should be held in May, with
the meeting place left open.
Senator Bridges, who as COVER
nor of New Hampshire placed his
state on a pay-as-you-go basis
during depression years, following
an administration in which war;
rants were issued to cover ordin-
ary running expenses said that
the first item in a constructive ma
tional program should be. to bal
ance- the budget. Continual deficits,
he said, can only lead to bankrup-
tcy. He said federal financing I'M
der the present regime is imitation
ary, and that "the people who suf-
fer most in infationary times are
not the well-to-do but-and here
is the tragedy-the people on the
lower rungs of the economic lad
der, the wage Garner, the small
home owner and the man on Sec
urity wages. Government debts
is a stubborn reality and as it
mounts, despite Rooseveltian prom
ises to curtail spending, the vicious
flames of imitation eat into the
body of national credit. A dollar
is worth only what it will buy in
bread and meat and the quicker
the average man is educated to the
fact the quicker will he respond
to a program based on govern
ment spending"
Continuing, he said II believe
that I express the sentiments Of
the party when say that I want
the people of America to be able
to look into the future without
fear of insecurity and; need. The
Republican party has plainly and
unequivocally stated. that it fav-
ors sound social security. We
should, however, work to carry out
the principle of truly equitable
and workable basis. Many of the
provisions of the present social
security act are bad. It is not
right that so many workers should
be excluded for the benefits of
social security. For instance, I be-
lieve that farmers and other agri-
cultural workers should be given
the same aids as industrial work.
ers. IF the social security theory
is sound for the average working
man it is surely sound for the far
mer. The farms of this nation must
prosper if the industrial sections
are to prosper and in order to
prosper the farmer must be given
the same encouragement and pro-
lection as the factory employees.
. Detailed study should be given
to the question of whether or not
a reasonable old age pension c;lr-
rently financed and granted as a
matter of right and not solely if
the recipient is broke, might not
be more equitable and more con-
sistent with American IDEALS"
The senator expressed the opin-
ion that relief costs can be drasti-
cally reduced, and said local ad-
ministration on a nonpartisan basis
is necessary.
Despite the defeat of the tcourt