Democrats Give Nation
Leadership in Place of
Inaction and Timidity
At the annual banquet of the
Associated Young Democrats of
Baltimore County (Maryland) held
at Towson, the Principal speaker
was Postmaster General James A.
Farley who told them that there
were two outstanding questions to
be disposed of at next Fall's elec
tion, These were he said, "First,
has the Democratic party measured
up to its responsibilities? Second,
has the Republican party recover
ed its balance and regained the
power of leadership?”
He chose to consider the second
question first. “After the disastro
us defeat of 1!*36,” he said, "the
master minds of the GOP reached
the unhappy conclusion that the
party needed something positive
and constructive to recapture pub
lic confidence. The practice of con
demning everything undertaken by
the Roosevelt administration had !
been a flop. In other words they |
recognized that the time had come
to go through the bankruptcy j
wringer, get rid of liabilities and
frozen assets and start business
afresh with a new line of goods.”
As a result Mr. Farley said Dr.
Glenn Frank was appointed “a kind
of friendly receiver” to see what
could be saved from the wreck and, I
after pondering along with the best
party talent for two and a half
years, produced a report which
“failed to uncover a single new
idea or approach for dealing with
national problems. Everything in
it is either an adaption of what
the Roosevelt administration has
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Going Over New Census Forms _
Edward Lawson, Consultant in the Census
Bureau’s Department of Public Relations, and Dr.
Frederick D. Patterson, President of Tuskegee In
stitute, go over one of the forms to be used in the
1940 Population Census, which starts April 1. Dr.
Patterson said, “An intelligent approach to improv
ing the miserable conditions under which Negroes
all too frequently live, work and receive their educa
tion must be based on facts such as will be revealed
in this Census.”
already done or a return to the
methods that prewiled in the
good old days.”
Mr. Farley noted that the Re
publican National Committee in
making the Frank report public
immediately disclaimed responsibi
lity for its contents and he feared
“for the fate of Dr. Frank’s brain
child when the Old Cuarders gath
er in the back room at Philadel
phia.”
There were three eminent gen
tlemen, Mr. Farley said, who seem
ed have the edge in the contest for
the Republican presidential nomi
nation. One of them had come out
boldly “for optimism and against
pessimism;” another had pro
foundly concluded that the Demo
cratic program was excellent and
only needed him to administer it,
while the third would throw out all
of the Democratic program that
he dared. Oh, yes there was also
Mr. Hoover ready to make the sac
rifice, but the country did not'
seem to take him at his own valua
tion.
I he opposition candidates al
ready in the field are hardly the
type to cause you sleepless nights
or anxious days,” continued Mr.
Farley. “Far from fanning the
flame of public enthusiasm, they
have failed to excite even a flicker
of popular approval.
“This brings us to the question
—has the Democratic Party lived
up to its responsibilities?
“The people demanded a change j
because they were tired of inac-1
tion, caution, timidity, and hesita-1
tion. The nation’s economic mach- ;
inery had broken down and some-1
thing more than platitudes was
necessary to set it running again.
“The Democratic Party has writ
ten into law a series of enactments
that will never be undone because
they bear the full approval of the
American people. The stabilization
of the banking system, the insur
ance of bank deposits, the social
security act, the policy of federal
aid for agriculture, the restraints
on reckless stock speculation—
these are not crack-pot ideas that
were foisted on the public by
dreamers and visionaries. They
were born in the needs of the great
mass of humble citizens and their
adoption as wise federal policy
should have been accomplished
years before it was.
“These basic reforms will live
because they have behind them the
solid weight of public approval. If
the opposition party dares to advo
cate their repeal, we welcome the
contest on that issue.”
HOUSE MEETING FOR GOV.
COCHRAN HELD
House Meeting for Governor R.
L. Cochran, for the United States
Senate were held at the homes of
the following citizens during this
past week. Mrs. Rhieva Brown,
3010 Burdette Street; Mrs. Sadie
Cummings, 2428 Lake Street; Mrs.
Mary Hill, 1432 North 22nd St.;
Mrs. Zoe Walker, 3012 Miami St.;
and Mrs. Harry Leland, 2824 North
26th Street. Approximately 300
persons, attended these various
meetings. At the home of Mrs.
Harry Leland there were 110 per
sons present.
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DISPELLING THE FOG
By Charles Michelson
Director of Publicity, Democratic
National Committee
Every Republican spokesman
barn-storming through rural
Amer America, becomes excited by
the plight of the American fann
er. He is particularly worried by
the regimentation of the tillers of
the soil.
Senator Taft, speaking in Illin
ois, admitted that there might be
some good in the Democratic way
of handling the farm program, but
added: "Whatever good might be
done is more than balanced by the
deprivation of liberty and freedom,
which is hte very cornerstone of
our republic.”
That is pretty bad, but, accord
ing to the Republican Senator who
is running for the Presidency of
the United States there is worse
behind, for he dwelt at length on
the futility of having the farmers
vote on the various projects offer
ed by the Department of Agricul
ture. Said Senator Taft: ‘‘The or
dinary farmer has no practical al
ternative except to cast an affir
mative vote. It is extraordinary
that under such circumstances any
production control vote has ever
failed to carry.”
Well, the tobacco growers voted
on the question of a marketing
quota on tobacco for 1939. The
growers turned it down. Then the
British Imperial Tobacco Co., with
drew from the purchasing and,
faced with this loss, the producers
of “fine cured” voted nearly 90
per cent for a marketing quota for
1940. Nearly 300,000 participated
in this democratic election. Under
the law unless two-thirds of the
voters favor it, marketing quotas
cannot be invoked.
It was on this basis that the
1939 quota was rejected for though
132,000 voted for it 101,000 were
opposed, so there was no quota im
posed.
Concerning Regimentation
Regimentation, though a favorite
scare word with the candidate for
the GOP nomination, fails to
frighten the grain belts. Recently
Congressman Francis Case, Repub
lican from South Dakota, deliver
ed a speech in the House of Repre
sentatives on the soil conservation
program. He jeered at the idea
that the farmers were goose
stepping at the order of the Agri
cultural Department and told that
the grangers thenselves first voted
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Said this Republican Congress
man: “It is working in almost 900
different areas across the country
on more than 200,000,000 acres. It
it controlling erosion. But the way
it is working is the important
thing. Instead of walking on to a
farmer’s land and telling him that
he will have to do thus and so, the
farmer himself is enlisted to do
the biggest part of the job him
self.”
Presumably Senator Taft, and
the others who are keeping up the
cry of dictatorship and coercion of
the farmer are as conversant with
the rules and regulations of the
Agricultural plans as is the Con
gressman from South Dakota but
does that make any difference in
their clamor? Not a bit. That is
their story and they will stick to
it.
So from now on until the votes
in November are recorded we will
continue to hear that the farmer
is being regimented; his liberties
interfered with and his manage
ment of his lands taken out of his
hands.
The genesis of the farm plan
tells the real story. Seven years
ago President Roosevelt called the
farm leaders together at Washing
ton. Out of the session came the
bill subsequently enacted by Con
gress. As experience revealed de
fects or inadequacies in the mea
sure it was modified to meet new
conditions and to correct those
defects and inadequacies. Every
change was after consultation with
the agricultural groups. The Re
publican spokesmen have failed to
offer any concrete substitute pro
gram while never ceasing to gird
at the one under which we are now
operating.
Democracy and Mr. Weir
President Roosevelt defined this
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in his recent address to the AAA
anniversary farm dinners: He said:
“The national farm program is
American democracy’s response to
agricultural distress. And any un
prejudiced person who knows any
thing about the subject not only
admits but proclaims the fact that
our national farm program was
democratically conceived and is be
ing democratically conducted with
the active help of our farmers
themselves.”
But Senator Taft insists on his
story of despotism over the grang
er.
That story will go down in his
tory as being comparable with the
suggestion from the Finance Di
rector of the Republican National
Committee that the New Deal’s
treatment of business was “the
threat of a purge of property which
is not far removed in principle
from human purges of the Ger
man and Russian type.”
It might be worth considering
that Mr. Weir is still very much
alive; that he still draws his salary
of from $150,000 to $200,000 a yeat
and that the net annual income ol
the Weir corporations for the
past five years ranged from si*
, and a half million to nearly eigh
teen million. Last year they
amounted to more than twelve and
a half million dollars.
That’s something of a purge
isn’t it?
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SENATOR
President Nebraska Constitutional Convention
1919-20.
Governor of Nebraska 1929-30
HE STANDS FOR:
1. Economy in Government (No account overdrawn during his
term as Governor of Nebraska and he left a Four-Million
Dollar Balance in the treasury—lowered state tax levy be
low ten year average).
2. Favors local government control and is opposed to further
centralization of governmental activities.
3. Approves social security legislation and favors further study
with a view of improvement and expansion.
4. The protection of the rights of labor.
5. Elimination of the Government in business, except where
necessary to protect the people from exploitation.
6. Keeping American boys and American dollars at home—not
in Asia or Europe.
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