Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1944-09-23
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Formers, Domestics
Embraced in Plan;
Heads for Oklahoma
(Tert OF Speech on Page All
BY J. A. O'LEARY,
Star Staff Correspondent.

BY J. A. OLEARY,
Star Staff Correspondent.
LOS ANGELES, Sept. 23.-Gov.
Thomas E. Dewey was ready to
turn East toward Oklahoma to-
day after having moved boldly
for the second time in two days
to place himself in the role Of a
new champion for social security
reforms that the New Deal has
heretofore claimed for its own.
Speaking to crowd of 10000 here
last night in this State where PEN
sion plans flourish in election years,
the Republican nominee came out
fatty for:
Extension of old-age insurance to
100000 farmers, domestics, en-
ployes of non-proflt enterprises and
small businessmen, not now covered.
Widening of the unemployment
insurance system ito include the
groups which are now unprotected"
Return to the States as soon as
practicable Of the employment Of
fees taken over by the Federal Gov
eminent during the war.
Assurance of Medical Aid.
Development of "a means for as
surance of medical service to those
of our citizens who need it, and who
cannot otherwise obtain it."
Establishment by the States and
local communities of an information
service for veterans.
On the controversial subject Of
socialized medicine, however, Gov.
Dewey did not appear to 60 as far
as administration adherents have
proposed in the so-called "cradle-to-
the grave" security program, which
is awaiting consideration in Con-
gress. A major part of that program
,calls for establishment of a Nation
wide Federal system of health in
surance and medical care, to be
financed by a substantial increase in
the social security payroll tax.
Observers covering his campaign
gained the impression that Gov.
Dewey stopped far short of the New
Dealers on that subject. He did
not refer to medical care as Fed
eral function.
Pays Tribute to Doctors.
Instead, he paid high tribute to
the medical fraternity, and said:
Let us enlist the leadership and
aid of the doctors of America in
organizing our private and public
hospitals as well as our other serv-
ices into a fully effective system to
protect the health of all our people"
Previously he had declared that
"our free and independent medical
profession has advanced medical
science in America ahead of every
other nation in the world. Its free
dom has made it great. 1t should be
encouraged, not discouraged" He
also accused the New Deal of having
"alienated" the medical profession.
His words carried at least an i'm
plication that he has in mind some
thing quite different from federally
controlled system of disqualification.
Picks Good Place.
Gov. Dewey picked a good place,
however, to announce his support
for broader application of old-age
insurance and unemployment COM
pensation. Even before the war,
California had become the mecca for
families seeking escape from the
depression by migrating to new
fields Since the war it has at
tracted into its boundaries many
thousands more, who are working in
war plants and wondering what
their situation will be when peace
comes and the assembly lines cease
to turn out stream of military
supplies.
On the basis of the registration
figures. the Democrats hold the de-
cided advantage in the fight for
CALIFORNIA; Is electoral votes. In
the May primaries the registration
figures read as follows:
Democratic, 1865, 376; Republican,
,285,977; no afflliation stated, 1867
232.
Both major parties, of course, will
continue to work to add to their
registration for the November cleo
ton. and there is the added factor
that Californians have a way of vot-
ing more on issues than by party
label. Nevertheless, it appears OBJ
vious that to wrest this State from
President Roosevelt, Gov. Dewey
will have to win the support of a
substantial number who have been
voting Democratic in the last two
presidential elections.
In 1910 President Roosevelt polled
1,877,6l8 to Wendell WILKES l..
351 ,419 in California. This year, be-
cause of the war, the November vote
is expected to be smaller throughout
the country than in 1910, so that
registration figures may prove less
reliable than usual in specializing
on the November returns. First,
there is the large number OF men
away from home in uniform; Sec
ond, the presence in States like
California of thousands of new
workers, who must decide whether
to register there, or retain their for.
mer voting residence.
1t will take days or weeks to find
out what effect Gov. Dewey's visit
had on the trend in California, but
he appears to have done his best to
convince the big labor vote all along
the Pacific Coast that he has no in
tention of weakening any of the
gains they have made in the last 1G
years.
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