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WHAT IS THE ISSUE?
Omaha World-Herald, June 27,
193fi.—The Philadelphia platform
thus describes the issue:
“The American people are called
upon to choose between a republi
can administration that has und
would again regiment them in the
service of privileged groups, and a
democratic administration dedicat
ed to the establishment of equal
economic opportunity for all our
people.” /
If that were a fair and accurate
statement there would be no pur
pose in conducting a campaign. For
on election day the verdict of the
people would be all but unanimous.
It is neither fair nor accurate,
however.
The choice is not between repub
lican administration and n demo
cratic administration. It is a
choice between two new purties, the
one headed by Governor Landon,
the other by President Roosevelt.
Each new party bears the tradi
tional name. But the name is
about the only thing that identifies
the one as republican, the other as
democratic. As u mutter of fact,
Governor London's party more
nearly represents the principles
and Weals of the former democratic
party than does President Roose
velt’s. And the president’s party
has shifted far to the right of the
Hamiltonian ideas tha^ were for
merly the bedrock of republicanism.
The people are not to choose be
tween the republican administra
tion of Hoover and Mellon, with
its “regimentation in the service of
privileged groups;” and a demo
cratic administration, like Wood
row Wilson’s, that Bternly opposed
such regimentation.
They are to choose, rather, be
tween an administration that is
moving toward regimentation of
the people and of all business and
industry under control of the gov
ernment, that has sought and still
seeks to buttress and give license
to monopoly under the NKA plan,
and one that would preserve the
Jeffersonian ideal of free industry,
free enterprise, and a free society.
Senator Norris has indicated the
issue, far more accurately, in a
few words. “Roosevelt is the plat
form,” he said. • >
That is obviously, trpe. Roose
velt is the platform. Roosevelt was
the convention. Roosevelt is the
party. His rule is absolute.
There is place in his party
for no other mind, no other will,
unless it he in unquestioning obedi
ence to his purposes.
In his platform, as in all other
respects, this is made clear. Under
his hand it has been made so broad,
so general in its phrasing, as to
leave the president free, in the
event of his re-election, to inter
pret and apply it just as he may
choose. He does not propose to be
once again embarrassed as he has
been by the Chicago platform,
which was specific and definite. In
the new platform there is mighty
little left of the clear declaration
of party principles on which he was
.elected and which he abandoned.
The plank on the constitutional
issue is revealing. Mr. Roosevelt
will seek to effect his purposes
“within the constitution.” If that
cannot be done—presumably by
changes in the supreme court or by
increasing its membership—then
“Clarifying amendments” will be
presented. Of what nature? Simp,
ly whatever may be found “neces
sary” to provide “adquate regula
tion,” whether by state or federal
governments, or both, of com
merce, industry, business, wages,
working hours and conditions, mon
opolies, floods, drouths, and what
ever. There is nothing definite.
There are no limitations, no re
strictions.
And since these activities and
problems “cannot be adequately
handled” by the states, the inescap
able conclusion is that they are to
be brought, all together, under the
control of Washington.
There is grave reason, and
abundant reasoq, (or believing1 that
■what Mr. Roreveit contemplates is
a new NRA, magnified and extend
ed, to be made securely all-power- j
ful either by a f»|crable supreme
court decision or by constitutional
Landon’s Is Typical Kansas Family
amendment. Government is to take
all of us alike in hand. It is to
compel us to be good according to
its own definition. It is to regu
late and control our activities and
our lives throughout the economic
field. And it is to use the taxing
power alike to support an over
shadowing bureaucracy and to
bring to heel whomever would re
sist it.
That, anyhow, is how it looks to
this newspaper—as if a socialized
economic system under a supreme
centralized government is in pros
pect. And quite candidly we do not
like it.
If there is to be escape from this
threatened reaction from our
democracy it must remain for Gov
ernor Landon and his new party to
point the way. We are hoping it
will be done. We think with Sena
tor Borah that the vicious evils of
monopolies and combinations and
trusts preying on the people should
be cured and can be cured under
our present order of freedom. One
reason why it has not been is that
the problem has never been consist
ently attacked with a resolute de
termination. Certainly the present
administration has made very little
endeavor in that direction.
We believe, too, that true liberal
ism, in this convention, is that
which will stand jealously for the
preservation of a free democracy
as opposed to socialism or absolut
ism or any form of the totalitarian
state. Of all the blessings that
government can insure, liberty
comes first and is priceless.
THE NEBRASKA
SCENE
by Janies R. Lowell
Behind the so-ealled “teapot tem
pest” that was precipitated late
last month when newspapers made
front page copy out of the alleged
refusal of the federal government
to match assistance funds with the
state until state and county staffs
were adequately manned by trained,
social workers, lies an issue that
Nebraska cannot evade, according
to the experts who have been ob
serving social science trends dur
ing the past six years.
We are entering upon an era of
social science, the experts say, as
we emerge from the era of me
chanical supremacy. Nebraska
hasn’t felt the trend as much as the
industrial states, but with the pend
ing rapid development of electrical
power on a large scale and the in
flux of manufacturing activity that
is certain to follow, social science is
bound to gain greatly increased
prominence here in the next decade.
At the turn of the century social
work was a comparatively simple
affair in Nebraska. Communities
were small enough and civilization’s
requirements were simple enough
so that neighborliness sufficed to
take care of the needy. Pastor and
priest were social work’s highest
authority.
As our economic and social
systems became more complex, it
became impossible to provide as
sistance for the unfortunate mere
ly by passing the hat among the
neighbors when Mrs. Jones was left
a widow with several children to
sypport, by the untimely demise of
her husband.
Social science in the modern
sense entered the state via welfare
organizations in Omaha and Lin
coln. The state and its subdivis
ions for some time had been spend
ing more and more to' take care of
the social misfits and casualties of
our social system—the law-break
ers, mental defe^ives, indigent
aged and orphans.
The state did not attempt, how
ever, to look out for the fathers
who were unfitted to support a
family, through lack of training in
the trade world or other incapacity;
wives who threw their family life
upon the rocks through ignorance
of training in meal-planning, sew
ing and other economies; families
made dependent by the illness or
desertion of the breadwinner; and,
hardest blow of all since 1930, un
employment.
To cope with these increasing
social ills, a new profession ap
peared—social service work. The
aim of the true social worker is
not to provide merely food and rai
ment, but to analyze cases, get to
the root of the difficulty and, by re
moving the cause of dependency,
restore the individual or family to
a self-sustaining and useful place
in society. Food and shelter are
used as the doctor prescribes medi
cine—as a means unto an end,
rather than the end itself.
Nevertheless, the average Ne
braskan does not have much use for
“social work.” Two reasons have
been paramount in causing this at
titude, perhaps—dislike of big city
ways and the city “slickers” (social
science naturally originated in the
big cities), and the recent emerg
ency program of the federal gov
ernment where in it was necessary
to throw u relief organization to
gether hastily and to thrust un
trained and unqualified persons in
to the position of social worker. In
cidentally, there have been many
fine social workers engaged in the
administration of federal relief in
this state.
When the state assistance board
was created last year, most of the
employees of the administrative of
fice were average Nebraskan and,
hence, opposed to “social work.”
While Director Irl Tolen has
strived hard to meet federal re
quirements, some of his chief aides
have been working just as hard to
discredit social work.
Social workers say that social
science is bound to come into its
own in Nebraska for the same rea
sons that road building was turned
over the the engineers—economy
and efficiency. The recent blasts
of several county boards and For
mer Congressman Edgar Howard
of Columbus against social workers
are the result of misinformation,
they say.
Meanwhile, Mr. Tolen declares
that there is nothing alarming
about the apparent withholding of
fourth quarter federal funds for
Nebraska’s social security pro
gram. The difficulties encountered
so far have originated in the laws
passed by the 1935 legislature, and
Mr. Tolen is of the opinion that
these rough spots will be ironed out
to the satisfaction of both Nebras
ka and the federal government
when the next legislature convenes,
Mr. Tolen also states that fed
eral government requirements dc
not necessitate counties replacing
their pension staffs with trained
social workers, although he has re
placed several of his employee?
with helpers more experienced ir
the social service field.
What the federal authorities did
want rnd what fhey ha. -e now ob
tained Is that the stay* assistance
committee be required to have
qualified field auditors, and to have
a qualified case-work supervisor tc
co-ordinate the work of the field
auditors and the staff administer
ing aid to the aged, to the blind, to
dependent children and children
and child welfare services, to pre
vent duplication, according to E. F.
Witte, reginal director for the fed
eral social security board.
Old age beneficiaries in Nebraska
now receive an average monthly
pension of $14.80 or about $3 less
than the average two months ago.
The decline is due not so much to
lack of funds as to the fact that a
large number of the old folks re
cently approved as pensioners have
some income on the side, thus re
ducing the amount of their state
federal persions.
There are now nearly 20,000 per
sons receiving old age pensions, and
from indications the 25,000 mark
will be reached before the year is
past.
The Nebraska stage is being set
for a vigorous and colorful politi
cal stumping campaign in both the
major parties, although the pros
pects for farm-labor and socialist
fireworks are not so promising.
Senator Norris has promised to
be a speaker at the Pawnee county
fair October 1 and he will attempt
to boost the candidacy of President
Roosevelt.
Senator Vandenberg of Michigan
is pretty certain to make a few
talks in the state in an effort to
counteract the Norris speech or
speeches, and the Michigan solon
also throw in a few good words for
Bob Simmons, republican nominee
for U. S3, senator. Simmons is still
rated as the best bet in the sena
torial race by political prognosti
cators, providing Norris accepts the
petitions now being filled for his
entrance into the race.
Mrs. Eleanor Roosevelt will make
a speech in Lincoln this fall al
though her subject will not be po
litical in nature.
Republican leaders say Governor
Landon of Kansas will visit the
Cornhusker state for a speech or
two. Congressman John E. Rankin
of Mississippi, majority floor lead
er in the lower house; Senator Bur
ton K. Wheeler of Montana; and
Senator Homer T. Bone of Wash
ington, are likely speakers in this
state.
Terry Carpenter, democratic J
nominee for senator, returned to
Nebraska with empty hands after
having visited Philadelphia and
Washington for the avowed pur
pose of securing the support of the
national democratic organization
which is pledged to senator Norris.
Carpenter says he will not give
up the fight, and that he is assured
of Townsend-plan support. The
Scottsbluif man said Dr. Townsend
told him he would make three or
four talks in Nebraska this fall.
Carpenter supported the “princi
ples” of the Townsend plan in his
primary election campaign. He will
open his campaign with a speech at
Wymore July 4, and at that time
has promised to make public his
platform.
It is not expected that the new
Union Party, headed by William
Lemke of North Dakota for presi
dent, will gain a place on the No
vember election in Nebraska. To
do so it would be necessary to hold
a state convention, duly advertised
j beforehand, as to place and time,
j and secure the signatures of 750
persons in attendance at the meet
ing on a membership roll of the or
ganization.
Nebraska’s proposed Farmer-la
bor party will not back the new
Lemke-Coughlin party, according
to D. R. Burleigh, secretary of the
committee on arrangements for the
farmer-labor convention at Lin
coln. This group intends to con
centrate its influence on state and
congressional tickets.
It is rather expected that the so
cialists attempt to regain their
standing in the state by go
ing through the same legal routine
that placed their candidates on the
ballot in 1932.
A “socialist-labor” party was al
so intending to put candidates on
the November ballot, but has been
discouraged by the law which re
quires at least 750 signers. This
party has nothing in common with
the Norman Thomas socialist party
or with the communist party, but
is formed along I. W. W. and com
munist lines.
The program of chemistry ap
plied to the farming industry in or
der to boost farm income through
chemical utilization of waste pro
ducts from the farm, and discovery
of new products for farm culture,
has not been keeping pace with the
predictions expressed in the last
legislature.
The growing aud processing of
flax, hemp and artichokes are still
held out as a likely aid to farm in
come, although the manufacture of
insulating board and other products
from cornstalks and wheat straw
has taken a setback since the time
a factory was being promoted at
Omaha seven years ago. The pos
sibilities are still there but the
time is not ripe it seems.
One of the most recent ideas for
enriching the farmer via the chem
ical route was that of distilling al
cohol from surplus grain, and us
ing the alcohol to blend with gaso
line as motor fuel. A corporation
was formed last year to establish
a factory at Omaha for this purpose
but has been unheard from for a
number of months, although such a
plant actually is being setup in
Wichita.
The legislature last year enacted
a law giving alcohol-blend gasoline
a preferential tax exemption. Re
sults so far show it was much ado
about nothing. Records show that
since the exemption became effec
tive November 1, only 2,808 gallons
of fuel alcohol have been imported
into the state, and no exemption
has been allowed as the blends that
have been sold did not contain
enough grain alcohol to make them
eligible. Three dealers are hand
ling the stuff—one each at O’Neill,
Bassett and Hartington.
HOG PRICES
John A. Robertson who lives
about 12 miles north of O’Neill,
wrote an article which was printed
in the last issue of the Holt County
Independent in which he w'as sing
ing praises of President Roosevelt’s
administration.
In that article he stated Hogs
sold under the Hoover Administra
tion at a low price. He also stated
that under the Roosevelt adminis
tration he sold hogs at a high price.
John A. Robertson forgot to tell
you that the first two years of the
Roosevelt administration, that hogs
were not worth much, and in fact
they thought so little of hogs that
they killed them.
The Roosevelt government went
out and killed hogs, paying peo
ple not to raise hogs, and now John
A. Robertson is one of the few
people that has any hogs, conse
quently most of the other people
not having hogs, a good price was
paid to John A. Robertson for his.
If the Roosevelt administration
floats a bond issue and borrows
money and practically puts a mort
gage on the United States to get
the money to go out and kill hogs
and pay people not to raise hogs,
how will that money be paid back
to the government. It was bor
rowed money, and John A. Robert
son will agree that his farm is part
of the United States and every
bond issue is a lien on his farm as
well as all others. This must be
paid back in form of taxation.
John A. Robertson has attended
Tax meetings and has made lengthy
talks against high taxts and kicked
as hard as anyone about taxes. If
Roosevelt continues doing what he
has done, a vote for him might
mean much more taxes.
With the three long years of
Roosevelt, the government has bor
rowed and borrowed enormous
sums of money, and they are pay
ing interest on it too.
Who but tax payers will ever pay
this back? xxx
It may be that the liberals are
all behind the New Deal, but evi
dently Dr. Glenn Frank, Gifford
Pinchot and William Allen White
haven’t heard of it yet.
If living in a Prairie State dis
qualifies a man for President, look
what it would have done to Abra
ham Lincoln.
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