Evening star., 1940-02-13


Hamilton was Mrs. Robert A. Taft,
wife of the Ohio Senator. She said
that in travelling in 20 States she
had "seen women flocking into the
Republican ranks who had never
been interested in politics before,
but felt they couldn't let the Amer
lean way of life be destroyed while
they stand idle ="
Several speeches at the TOO Lin
coin celebrations were broadcast,
with Mr.. Hoover leading of at
Omaha.
Americans cannot allow their fell
low Americans to 60 hungry" he
said, 'yet relief cannot 60 on FORE
ever. The current cost of relief, in
all its aspects, Federal, State and
local, is nearly four billion yearly.
3" We must restore these people
to self support before relief fails"
Declaring that the country must
keep out of war and turn from
Government spending to national
thrift" the former President added
it must adopt "the concept that it is
only through steadily increasing
productivity of the Nation that we
can make progress.
Martin on Radio Forum.
Representative Martin of Massa-
chusetts, House minority leader,
speaking on The Stars National
Radio Forum, said: For seven
years this country has been made a
proving ground for reckless expert
ments and those experiments have
failed. - If destruction be our
lot, we must ourselves be its author
and flnisher."
He called upon the Nation to be
on guard against devices which
might provide shackles for the lib
critics of the people"
There is the physical bondage Of
man to man, unknown In most of
the civilized world. There is eco
nomic slavery-of which all too
much exists in the civilized world.
There is political slavery.
which has in two decades
engulfed nation after nation"
This tide must not engulf Amer
ica."
Mr.. Martin declared there had
been rampant propaganda" to lead
the working man to believe his in
terests were separate from his en-
ployer's, to make employers believe
their interests were different from
labor's and lead the farmer to think
his interests separate from in
dustrys.
(Tert OF Mr.. Martins address on
Page B-6J
Some of the other Republican
speakers and their remarks we're:
Representative Barton of New
York: Abraham Lincoln was ILL
fed, ill-clothed, ll-housed-and did
not know it."
Hanford MacNider, former min
lister to Canada: History will record
that Abraham Lincoln freed the
slaves, but Franklin Roosevelt en-
slaved the free"
Fish Sees War.
Representative Fish Of New York
II am convinced that if President
Roosevelt is reelected or any OF
the New Deal internationalists We
will be in the war within three
months after the new Inauguration.
Senator Lodge, of Massachusetts
attacking the Roosevelt administra-
tons reciprocal trade program, told
a Boston gathering that "interna-
tional trade is the cause of wal
rather than the preventer of it."
The present trend, he said, was
toward increasing our trade rela-
tions with the armed camps of the
world"
"'' say to you - ~ he added
that if they want to make a politi.
cal issue of peace for America, We
will accept the challenge, secure ir
the knowledge that no amount o,
international trade is worth thu
sacrifice of a single American life.
Senator Nye of North Dakota tolc
a Quincy, Ill, audience that Re.
publican leaders should keep theil
eyes on the American ball and no
the European ball."
There isn't in Europe or Asia {
single challenge that merits a single
step of the American Government
to sacrifice single American mule
regardless Of a single American nfe,'
he said.
William Allen White, the EN-
poria, Kans., editor, said at Spring
field, ILL.,. that the Nation should Sc
lect "a humble and kindly" leade
like Abraham Lincoln to cope with
the unemployment problem.
NAPERV1LLE, Ill.-Republican
ate barbecued beef sandwiches ant
potato chips at their two-bit ban
quet - then puffed corncob pipe
and nibbled on stick candy Will
they listened to attacks on the Ne,
Deal. =
An invitation and two tickets ha,
been forwarded to President RooSe
velt, but he sent his regrets and tw,
25-cent stamps.
A Democrat, and one to whom
presidential aspirations are widel
accredited, Senator Wheeler o
Montana, made Lincoln day speecl
at Jersey City, N. j. He said tn
country was engaged in "economi
and social warfare" of a type tha
destroys the souls and the mora
fiber of a people" The Natiol
needs, he asserted, ito catch just
bit of the light which was in tn
mind of Lincoln"
British propagandists, he added
were doomed to disappointment
because America listened to tn
hymn of hate once before and for /
paid and paid" He said this col,n