The Tacoma times. [volume] (Tacoma, Wash.) 1903-1949, 1940-06-03

Deal represents the Demo-
cratic policies today. and
for the past seven and
half years. The Republicans
do not agree with the New
Deal, its actions and its poll
cies-some of them don't, but
many. yea, most do. and don't
know IL. They will be sure by
November the Sth or there
abouts and re-elect New
Dealer. the president, II he
wants II.
But now. friends. are the peo-
pie in times like these going TO
change? As Abe Lincoln said.
Never change horses in the mid
die of a stream. Are the people.
l ask you. going to change a pol
icy Of government based on seven
and half years Of action, yes,
successful action, TO one of prob
able policy-I repeat, probable
policy?
What Is COP Policy
What is the Republican policy
That answer can only be told by
talking to one of the many Repub-
lican candidates for president
that is, If he'll tell you, if he knows
himself. l pride myself in being
a close student of political affairs,
and l have not found out yet. VIII
the Republicans scrap the WPA?
Will they scrap the CCC. the NYA,
that is the national youth admin
istration, or the AAA, the FLA,
with which you are so familiar =?
Will they scrap the SEC. that is
the securities exchange commits
sion or the guaranteed federal
bank deposits, or the Hole, or
the minimum wages and hours
law, where before that law they
worked children in the south for
as little as five cents per hour;
where whole families had to work
to earn a living.
will they abolish that kind Of
results? Would they, if they could,
put back on the supreme court of
the Y. S. a half dozen old men who
were so reactionary and so behind
the times that they were still vot-
ing for Abraham Lincoln? The
Republicans don't dare say they
would abolish these or many other
reforms that we should have had
so years ago, like social security
that is only now being established,
and by whom? You know. Why,
Norway, Denmark and Sweden
have had social security for their
aged. their crippled, their blind,
for so years, before Hitler took
it away from them few days ago
more dictatorship, we don't want
any of that. Why, in those coun-
tries man or woman when they
had reached the age of 81 years
could retire on two-thirds pay.
Wants Aged Protected
What burns me up is that when
we need three or four billion dol
lars for preparedness, and we need
it, we get it overnight, but when
the aged need a decent pension,
enough to live upon. they don't get
1t. A few get SIS to $50 per month.
Is that humanitarian and right
thousand times-NOl And the
aged have been fighting for their
assistance for years. God grant
that they may succeed. and at
once.
How about 10000 boys and
girls between Is and "a walk
ing the streets, filling the jsils
of this fair commonwealth:
How about employment for
them: Retire the aged by a
decent pension, and let youth
go to work, Is the answer.
What is the Grand Old Party
going to do about these reforms
The answer is that they would dc
the same thing as they have al
ways done when they were in
power-do nothing! What do these
Republican candidates for presi-
dent propose to do? You tell me
and then I'll tell you-They say
these reforms are neither good nor
bad, but only. let US handle them
We II do II better. What a laugh
And, they really get serious about
! it.
Well, friends. we must have
comedy, but the price they ask is
too great; it is the price Of human
suffering. No, today we have an
enlightened people, our press is
not as controlled as II used to be
and our radios are pouring infor-
nation TO the people. The people
today can truly say. We know q
thing or two You are gosh darn
right we do, and-wait till next
November.
Our danger lies In al
lowing ourselves by honeyed
words to become disunited.
In unity, there Is strength
Our danger lies In the fact
we're progressiyes, because
radicals are continually filrt-
Ing with US. BY radicals, I
mean Communists. mean
direct actionists. I mean men
and women who want TO
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