The Tacoma times. [volume] (Tacoma, Wash.) 1903-1949, 1940-08-29

state fairgrounds. less than five
miles from Fir Cone farm, where
he was born and still lives.
They heard him praised BY JOS
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Gov. Harold Z. stassen Of Mime
sofa. who made the formal noti-
fication.
MeSary endorsed SOME New
Deal p0licies--ineluding FEEDER
nj control Of electric power
hut said that what We cannot
forgive" T. the New Deal phil
osophy Of Overseeing our pri-
waite lives"
He said that under the New
Deal the energies Of America
have "been hindered = where
not actually stifled.' He con-
demned the Roosevelt adminis-
tration for ''having fashioned
Its plan upon the thesis that
America n finished"
The senator endorsed public de-
velopment of electric power on
navigable rivers and federal control
of such power. He said where pub
lie power conflicts with private
interests, the solution can be found
through government purchase Of
the private properties, as was done
by the Tennessee Valley authority.
The IVA bought Tennessee prop
critics of Commonwealth 4 South
ern Corp, when that utility was
headed by McNary's running mate,
Wendell L. Willkie.
McNary praised as "high-
minded and sympathetic" his
Democratic opponent, Secre-
tary of Agriculture Henry A.
Wallace, but advanced anew
his own agricultural plan--the
McNary-Haugen export deben-
ture program that was vetoed
by Republican Presidents Cool
idge and Hoover-as n remedy
for farm problems.
He declared that he did not favor
a policy of appeasement in foreign
affairs, but II oppose involvement
In foreign military adventures"
America" he said, docs not
prefer the peace of appeasement,
nor the surrender of our national
dignity, our independence of action,
our political freedom or the civil
lied values that we cherish. We
administered a lesson to George
III We helped bring Maximil-
ian's imperial adventure in Mexico
to an inglorious end.
"Unless i mistake our tenn
per, we are no less firm and
positive today. We are not
docile people, and we propose
to work out our destiny on our
own terms
s'FOr more than seven years
we have fingered In a back
water, denying our destiny;
neglecting our defenses, both
spiritual and material" Me-
Nary said OF the New Deal.
"Some have lost faith In the
future, faith In work, the
source of well-being We
must choose In November
whether America shall advance
again along the path of her
historic mission, or retreat
still further into the fields Of
futility."
He said that "candor compels"
him to recognize certain New Deal
benefits, and that he did not pro-
pose to relinquish them.
But, he said, 1.-THE New Deal Is
exceptional in that it, alone, has
sought to substitute new states Of
mind for old, to inculcate reliance
on the government, in place of
self-reliance, and to supplant hope
with fear of what lies ahead.
what we cannot forgive is that
the New Deal, finding itself unable
to restore national vitality. fash
toned it's plan upon the thesis that
America is finished. that our
economy is inevitably contracting,
that opportunity has been ex-
tinguished, and that. hereafter, we
must look increasingly to the gov
eminent for jobs. for security and
for the oversight Of our private
lives"
This viewpoint, he said.
comes from war-ridden Europe,
n doctrine of ''the ascendancy
Of the state over the individ-
ual."
He said those who hold the
theory that Americas race Is
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