Evening star., 1940-06-19
half-cocked way the President has

half-cocked way the President has
OF doing things.
why did he not have a plan
worked ready to submit to Con-
gress instead OF springing it on the
country at a press conference?
Some reporter asked the President
if he intended to include girls in
the CONSUMPTION plan and the Presi-
dent answered, Why not?' That is
his impulsive way of doing things.
Yet this is of vast Importance to
every boy and girl and every father
and mother in America.
Too Much Haste Seen.
"The President said he may have
spoken too hastily in having in
dorsed an editorial in favor of uni
versal military training. He is
speaking hastily now"
Mr.. Landon was,asked if he him.
self favored universal military train
ing for American boys.
Il want to see the details of any
plan before / express an opinion" !"
he replied.
Republican circles in this city of
brotherly love-there are many sucn
circles-seethed with excitement to-
day over speech delivered last
night by John L. Lewis, president of
c. I. O., charging that President
Roosevelt had made depression and
unemployment chronic fact in
American life" At the same time,
Mr.. Lewis exonerated former Presi-
dent Herbert Hoover, declaring he
had nothing to do with bringing on
the depression in 1929 and adding
that the country was beginning to
emerge and take the road to recov-
Eery- in zs32~ under the Hoover
policies.
Mr.. Lewis Is to appear today be-
fore the Resolutions Committee of
the Republican National Conven-
ton, which is holding hearings be-
fore beginning its work Of drafting
the G. o. P. platform.
Lewis Once q Republican.
The attack on the President de-
livered by the c. I. o. leader was
variously interpreted as an effort to
line up opposition to the renomina-
ton and reelection of President
Roosevelt. Whether Mr.. Lewis will
attempt to lead his followers into
the Republican camp, or seek to set
up a third party-whicn might
easily cause Roosevelt defeat, at
the polls-was not disclosed.
Mr.. Lewis was at one time a Re-
publican, but he left that party to
follow Mr. Roosevelt and his New
Deal. 1t has been no secret, how
ever, that he has broken with the
administration.
His address, delivered before the
31st annual conference of the Ma
tional Association for the Advance
ment of Colored People, also was in
terpreted as a boost for the nominal
ton of former President Hoover
when the Republican National Con-
vention meets next week to pick the
party standard bearer. It is known
that Mr.. Lewis thinks highly Of Mr..
Hoover's ability and that he con-
siders Mr.. Hoover's record, so far as
organized labor is concerned, was
good.
Hoover to Speak.
How much effect, if any, Mr..
Lewis praise of Mr.. Hoover will
have on the action of the Republi-
can National Convention is entirely
a guess. Mr.. Hoover is coming here
next Tuesday, on special invitation,
to address the Republican National
Convention. He has been listed as
one of the dark horse" candidates,
possible winner of the presidential
nomination should the convention
deadlock over Dewey, Taft and
Vandenberg. He is still very much
a dark horse, though there has been
more discussion of his chances in
the last few days than for long
time.
Mr.. Lewis got around to the war
situation in his address, too. After
saying that the Roosevelt admins
tration had made mo substantial
contribution toward the abatement
of unemployment, he said that 1t
was tragic that the party in power
and its spokesmen have even now
no suggestion to offer for national
employment, except that possible
involvement in a European war may
relieve them from the responsible
ties of unSolVed domestic problems. .
president Roosevelt's proposal
sounds like compulsory vocational
training to me, which is hardly con-
sistent with our ideals of democratic
government. He ought to specify
which of the totalitarian models he
has in mind, the German or the
Russian"
The Republican Committee on
Resolutions met early today to con.
duct hearings on the proposed party
platform. William Green, president
of the American Federation of La.
bor, and the representatives of many
other organizations were listed fol
appearance. The committee hopes
to complete the public hearings by
midnight tonight and so permit the
committee to get down to work Of
drafting a platform tomorrow.
| A former Government official
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FULLER BRISTLEcOMB
HAIR BRUSH