Decatur Daily Democrat, Volume 34, Number 259, Decatur, Adams County, 31 October 1936 — Page 6

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BEST SOCIAL PLAN (The clearest and best explanation ever give of the Social Security act and its operation came from President Roosevelt in an address this week At Wilkes-Barre. Pa. It follows) : “We have begun to build a system of old-age pensions and unemployment insurance to substitute for uncertainity a new new security In the life of the wage earner and his family. ‘ How far we have come is shown by the patriotic resentment with which labor and the public alike are meeting the lattest attempts of a handful of employers to mislead and coerce labor with regard to the Social Security act. Here is repetition of the arrogance and the ruthlessness which the operators utilized to try to break the solid ranks of labor when the miners fought at Armageddon in 1902. “No employer has a right to put his political preferences in the pay envelope. That is coercion even if he tells the whole truth. “But this propaganda misrepresents by telling only half the truth. Labor and a fair-minded public must place such tactics in a class with the coercion of the strong-arm squad and the w’hispering of the planted labor spy. “This pay-envelope propaganda has one clear objective—to sabotage the Social Security act. To sabotage that act is to sabotage labor. For that act, as you know, was worked out with labor and enacted with the active support of labor —all kinds of labor. “Why do these employers seek to repeal the Social Security act? Because under the act they have to pay far more than half of the insurance given to the workers. “Get these facts straight. “The act provides two kinds of insurance for the worker. “For that insurance both the employer and the worker pay premiums—just as you pay premiums on any other insurance policy. Those premiums are collected in the form of the taxes you hear so much about “The first kind of, insurance covers old age. Here the employer contributes one dollar of premium for every dollar of premium contributed by the worker; but both dollars are held by the government solely for the benefit of the worker in his old age. “In effect, we have set up a savings account for the old age of the worker. Because the employer is called upon to contribute on a 30-50 basis, that savings account gives exactly two dollars of security for every dollar put up by the worker. The second kind of insurance is unemployment insurance—to help the'worker and his family over in the difficult days when he loses his job. For the unemployment security of the worker, the employer under the federal law puts up the entire premium—two dollars. The benefits of this insurance go 100 per cent to the worker, none to the employer. But the premiums for this unemployment insurance so far as the federal government is concerned are paid 100 per cent by the employer. “Now let’s add it all up. Beginning January 1, for every one dollar which the worker is asked to put into an old-age account for hinfself, employers are required under the federal act to contribute three dollars to protect the worker from both unemployment and old age. That is. the worker contributes only one dollar so his old-age security; he contributes nothing to his security against losing his job. But at the same time the employer has to put up two dollars for unemployment and one dollar for old age. “Three for one! There’s the rub. That is what these propagandaspreading employers object to. The record extending back several years shows that their purpose has always been to compel the worker alone to put up all the premiums both for their unemployment insurance

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and their old-age insurance. They are now trying to frighten the work- ■ er about the worker's one-dollar premium. “These propagandists are driven in their desperation to the contemptible. unpatriotic suggestion that some future congress will steal these Insurance funds for other purposes. If they really believe what they say in the pay envelopes, they have no confidence in our form of government or its permanence. It might be well for them to move to some other nation in which they have greater faith. ...” — _ ■ ■ ■ —

MAJOR RALLIES I BRING CLIMAX i TO CAMPAIGN 1 Roosevelt Speaks In New York; Gov. Landon In St. Louis ii I Washington. Oct. 31 (U.R>—The' > 1936 Presidential campaign, begun . four months ago with the renomination of President Roosevelt and ■ selection of Gov. Alfred M. Landon 'as the nation's major jarty candid- . ates. neared the end today, with a ■ record number of voters scheduled . to produce the result at the polls : Nov. 3. i 'I Tonight, the Democratic and Re- ! ■ publican candidates conclude ■ weeks of vigorous cross-country | campaigning among farmers at the • cross-roads, village merchants, I townsfolk, and workers in the ■; citTes. The President will deliver ; his final re-election appeal at an > old fashioned Democratic rally at i Madison Square Garden, New York. Governor Landon will address Re-' • publicans in St. Louis. Both then i ■; will retire to their homes to vote' ' and await the outcome. . • Somewhat as an ante-climax will • be radio speeches by Governor Lan-, . don and President Roosevelt Mon- ■ day night. Both will make final appeals to “fireside audiences" only 1 * a few hours before the polls open. I Victory for both candidates was ; forecast by their campaign direc- ■ itort — youthful John D. M. Ham-: • i ilton, chairman of the Republican , NatioSil Committee, and James A. • i Farley, genial chief of the Demo-, i cratic National Committee. Impar-

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Itial observers believe the result upon the so-called doubtful i states—Michigan, Ohio. Indiana. Illinois. New York. Pennsylvania and Massachusetts. Record Vote Expected Ballots cast next Tuesday may surpass the 1932 record of more than 39.000,000. They may be mark|ed for Mr. Roosevelt, Governor ■ Landon, William Lemke, Union Party candidate; Norman Thomas. Socialist; Earl Browder, Communist, lor any one of the minor candidates, i but when they are counted, the naition will have answered the prin- ‘ cipal question raised throughout the campaign: “Shall there be a continuation of the New Deal program proclaimed by Mr. Roosevelt four years ago?” The President based his can? paign on a spirited defense of his policies. Governor Landon toured the country vigorously denouncing 'virtually all of the major acts of ' his opponents administration. The New Deal controversy caused violent party upheavals. Progressives, guided by the veteran Sen. George W. Norris, Neb., supported Mr. Roosevelt. Alfred E. Smith, John W. Davis and a group of prominent Democrats “took a walk from their party and advocated Governor Lan- , don's election. Registration Totals Up ■ Voters soon realized they were going to decide one of the most momentous election contests in history. They crowded into registration booths in record-breaking numbers. Tremendous gains over ■ former years were recorded in ev- : ery section of the country. New I York reported 2,899,123 voters, 560,319 more than in 1932. In Chicago. , ; 1,807,790 persons registered, com- ! pared with 1,498.314 four years ago. [ Los Angeles exceeded its 1932 to-1 j tai by 95,916. Other cities reported , I similar increases. From the rear platforms of their

special trains, over nationwide netI works and at party rallies, Governor Landon and his running mate, Frank Knox, Chicago publisher, directed a strenous attack upon the Roosevelt administration. New Deal prosperity, they said, is illusory i and New Deal policies are storing .up future economic calamities of super-1929 dimensions. “We must put the New Deal spenders out,” said Governor Landon in an address, hitting at what he termed the wasteful policies of the Roosevelt administration and charging his opponent with violation of a 1932 platform pledge to balance the budget. Landon Spans Continent The Republican candidate whose campaign tours from the governor's , mansion at Topeka, Kas., carried him eastward to Portland, Me.. New York and other cities anfl westward to Los Angeles, sharply criticized Mr. Roosevelt’s farm, labor. social security, and reciprocal trade policies. He declared the President had, taken the road to dictatorship, and 1 demanded repudiation of adminis- j tration spokesmen who “advocate the doctrine of scarcity, of regi- ■ mentation of ail phases of our life ' by an all-powerful Federal government in Washtnton.” Governor Landon promised a balanced budget, a return to a system of direct relief instead of work re-1 ’ lief, a farm program which he said; would substitute plenty for “scat- i city.” and strict adherence to the constitution. I Roosevelt Swings Into Action Mr. Roosevelt heard the first] rumblings of the Kansan's attack and set out to convince the nation i that his administration had restored d genuine prosperity. 1 “We are not here to defend the New Deal but to proclaim it,” he told a rear platform audience en route to Pittsburgh where he de-' fended Federal spending as a re- j covery measure. ! In the course of a single week 1 the President — I I—Charged in Denver that the ; Republicans were making a two- ; faced campaign, promising lavish Federal bounties in the West and promising retrenchment in the East. 2—Told a Wichita Kas., audience not to be frightened by Republican “bogeyman” stories. 3 —Explained his aims of individual security at a Kansas City rally. 4—Asked business men in a major speech in Chicago if they were not better oft than they had been in 1932. s—Told Detroit citizens their city was a more cheerful place than it was four years ago and declared that Federal spending started the wheels turning again. 6—Charged in Cleveland that stockholders throughout the nation were being flooded with artti-Roose-velt propaganda sent out from Wall street. Communistic issue Injected Whenever the campaign seemed to lag, other issues were injected that enlivened it and attracted nationwide interest. One of these resulted from a charge by William Randolph Hearst, publisher, that the President was supported by Communists who had received instruction from the Soviet Union. The allegation was characterized immediately as false, but the controversy continued. Finally, at the Syracuse, N. Y„ Democratic state convention, Mr Roosevelt declared heatedly: “I have not sought, I do not seek I repudiate the support of any advocate of communism. . . “ The political pot was kept boil-

ing when Father Charles E. Coughlin Detroit priest, vigorous New Deal foe and backer of the Lemke candidacy, called the President a “liar" and later asserted that Mr. Roosevelt was “antl-God." The priest subsequently apologized for his “liar” statement j Vandenburg Speech Cut Off Air i Recently. Sen. Arthur H. Vandemburg, R.. Mich., became embroiled in a dispute because he. was cut off in several radio station when he began a speech in which he used a phonograph record of the President’s voice on a program. Democrats shouted that | the senator had resorted to “tricki ery unheard of in any political cam- ! paign,” Columbia Broadcasting

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Company officials decided to investigate the entire incident. The W’orks Progress Adminis-j tration. headed by Harry L. Hopkins, was an explosive issue during the campaign. Republicans repeatedly attacked the Federal agency, charging that its funds had been used for political purposes and that efforts to examine its records had been met by a drastic censorship Court Order Sought Investigations were demanded in several states. Finally, a group of Republicans headed by Yormer ambassador and senator Walter Edge of New Jersey, went into District of Clumbia Supreme Court to seek an order forcing Hopkins to open WPA records throughout the coun-

' try. Hopkins and other L'emooa I leaders replied that the Rqg I can group was attemftfag to» relief for political purpoaj that Edge “wouldn't knovgl employed if he saw one." ! Smith's entrance into the ta paign was hailed by Governor U don and his forces u i J blow to Mr. Roosevelt, bn Ro * cratic chieftains declared ’hetru standard bearer had lost hit 3 fluence and every time h» he “made votes for Roostvrt," I Other Join Smith Nevertheless. Smith hndtiai eral Betlions to qttau k rtatbtj scribed as the “crackpot ’V PAGE HIX