Evening star., 1944-11-03
By the Associated Press.

6y the ASs0clAteo fIeS6.
| WILKES-BARRE, Pa, Mop.
/ 3.-The tert OF Gop. Thomas E.
| DeUey's speech, deIiuered at
West Side Armory, Kingston.
i across the SusQuehanna RiDer
from Wilkes Barre. last night:
Gov. Martin and fellow Amer
leans:
You are not here to see one man
or any six men; you are not here to
pay any tribute to anybody; you are
here because you believe with me and
with, I believe, the majority Of the
American people, that If we can
clean the quarreling, pickering and
chaos out of Washington we can
speed victory and get our young men
home sooner.
You are here because you believe
with us that We can bring last
ing peace, because we will have har-
mony between the President and
Congress restored once more. You
are here because, you believe with
us that If we have change OF ad-
ministration we have to change II
fast If We are COINS to have q
hope for the future of this United
States as the country we know, We
love and grew up in
Last Saturday night my opponent
busted of q lot Of broken and very
stale promises that had been used
three times before; and then he
added a few new ones, and then he
said, by inference, these weren't any
good when they were made before
but I expect you to believe them
now and give me 16 years in the
White House.
He promised jobs to everybody at
the end of the war, but the record
shows that after eight years Of the
New Deal and $50, ,000. .000, 900 spent
and more power than all previous
administrations put together, we still
had 100000 Americans unem-
ployed in 1940 That promise was nc
good, and as I have said before, II
will still be no good, even though 1t
is repeated again and again and
again.
Promises on Housing.
I made a speech in Philadelphia
our own State, on September Z, and
from that speech my distinguished
opponent apparently discovered that
we need new houses in the United
States; that we needed new housing
as we have never needed 1t before
so ne found that had said we
needed a million houses a year for
Is years. He promised that, too.
The fact of the matter Is during
all his administration from the
beginning to this moment, including
all the houses built at your expense
with Government money, We only
had $4,000 units q year, while we
needed a million new houses to
get back up to the condition OF
housing in 1880. That new promise
Is no better than the rest of them,
whether it is repeated again and
again and again.
He promised to carry on social
security, and to extend 1t. Well, the
fact of the matter is that the old
age pension laws and unemploy-
ment insurance laws have been on
our books now for nine long years
and there are still 10000. 900 Amer
leans who are entitled to the bene-
fits of those social security laws
and they are left out. They are
left out because this administration
didn't have either the confidence
or the political courage to put them
in. So that promise, too, is no good
however often 1t Is repeated.
Now my opponent. also discovered
from listening to what his opposi-
ton has been saying that there
we're Is different agencies hung
around the necks of the working
mer and women in this country
so that nobody can find out what
his rights are. and when he does
find out they aren't there. It takes
months, and sometimes years, te
get an adjudication Of a thing q
man has a right to, with Is diff
1erent agencies giving different
rulings. Government has taken
over collective bargaining. In the
light of that record, my opponent
promised to stop that. I leave il
to you whether that promise is any
good either.
Assails 1000 Club Anew.
Now, while the mightiest war ir
history is being fought to victory
or. every front, the Nation is en-.
gagged in a great decision ovel
whether it shall continue down thu
New Deal road to totalitarianism OF
60 upward on the road to freedom ai
home. With these great problem,
before us 1t has been a tragic cir.
cumstance to find the leadership ir
our national Government viewing
with cynical satisfaction the most
corrupt offer ever made by any po.
litical party. Yes, the very brazen-
ness of the One Thousand Club L
ust more evidence of the corrupt
ing influence of too many years in
power.
Now to get to this sordid story
My opponent admitted last Tuesday
that it was he himself who thought
up the idea of the notorious One
Thousand Club This is the organ
ization which offers-yes, offers it
mind you-special privileges and a
voice in the formulation of admins
| tration policies. together with q