Evening star., 1945-01-22

and others.
Clarence Burlington Kelland of
Arizona offered a motion to have
the chairman and the Executive
Committee work out a more detailed
plan for the full-time organization,
to be submitted to the National
Committee by April with the un-
derstanding the meeting of the
National Committee would be held
not later than May l to pass upon
it. This motion was pending when
the committee adjourned to meet
again this afternoon.
Program Outlined.
Mr.. Brownell's program follows:
l. The national Republican organ
ization shall function on a full
time, all-year-round basis with an
enlarged staff of trained personnel
1t is not enough to operate only at
campaign time.
2. Close working relations shall
be maintained with the Republican
leaders and members of the Senate
and House.
8. The national committee shall
shortly be prepared to offer to Re-
publican Senators and Represent
atives (a) research staff which
will enable them to show more
clearly the fallacies of New Deal
doctrines and to help prepare af-
frmative and progressive legislative
proposals; (b) an investigation staff
which will aid them to ferret out
the waste, extravaganza and bung-
ling of the New Deal agencies; (c)
a publicity staff which shall assist in
presenting to the American people,
on and off the floors of Congress, the
reasons why the Republican party
should be returned to power ma
tionally.
4. A program of cooperation, not
only with Republican. members of
the Senate and House, but with
Republican Governors and Repub-
lican State administrations, shall be
institute and carried forward with
|vigor.
Investigation of Activities.
5. The activities of the national
committee shall be integrated with
the activities of the Republican
State Central Committees and
county committees. Republican
State chairmen and their staffs shall
be called into consultation for this
purpose. Every Republican victory at
the polls in local election helps us
to build a victory on Nationwide
scale.
6. The individual members of the
national committee shall take a
more active part in the development
and carrying out of the national
program for our party. The officers
and staff of the national commit
tee need this support to achieve our
goals.
7. In response to widespread Of
fers of financial assistance from
citizens in all walks of life through
out the country since election day,
the national committee shall broad
en- the basis of contributions to the
party treasury. All the 22,000, 900
voters who supported our cause and
others who now wish to join in our
efforts, shall be invited voluntarily
to make contributions to the party
The party, in return for this finan-
cial support, shall carefully budget
its expenditures under good busi-
ness management.
s. An intensive two-year CAM
paign, in cooperation with the sem
atorial and congressional commit
tees, shah be carried on to win Re-
publican control of the Senate and
House in 1916.
Victory in 1916 Forecast.
IF this program is carried out in
telligently, we shall win in 1896 :
Mr.. Brownell told the committee
/ ut is rank and file program, COM
piled after checking many hundreds
of letters and memoranda received
since election day. We cannot af-
ford to gamble that the mistakes OF
the opposition alone will insure our