Republican Speakers
Hit New Deal 'Statism'
In Lincoln Day Rallies
November Victory Is
Predicted; Dictatorship
Charge Is Frequent
Br the Associated Press.
Republican leaders rallied their
party for the presidential campaign
last night with Lincoln Day appeals
to encourage private enterprise and
keep the American Government free
from dictatorship.
While former President Hoover
was declaring that the United States
must abandon a “national drift to
ward statism,” active and potential
presidential candidates were criti
cizing the New Deal and forecasting
a Republican victory in November.
Senator Vandenberg of Michigan,
speaking at Grand Rapids, Mich.,
described Abraham Lincoln as “our
first coalition President.” He said
that Lincoln’s re-election in 1864 by
"all like-thinkers, regardless of party
affiliations,” set the pattern for 1940.
Thomas E. Dewey of New York
said at Portland, Oreg., that the New
Deal had failed to recognize a “con
stant erosion of capital.” American
development is lagging, he asserted,
"because of the nation-wide under
current of distrust and fear of the
shifting of policies of the admin
istration.”
Taft Sees Dictatorship.
Senator Taft of Ohio told a
Greensboro, N. C„ audience that
continuation of the New Deal would
mean a “modem, streamlined total
itarian dictatorship.” The Nation,
he declared, faces a fundamental
decision just as it did in 1860—
“whether this country shall remain
the kind of country which our
fathers made and Lincoln preserved,
a republic protecting the inalienable
rights, the freedom and liberty of
its individual citizens, or a totali
tarian executive with unlimited and
undivided power over the lives and
activities of individuals and local
governments alike.
“If President Roosevelt should be
re-elected in 1940, * • • the flood
gates would be opened.
Senator Bridges of New Hamp
shire, another presidential candi
date, said at Oklahoma City that
Lincoln would want for present-day
Americans "freedom from economic
dependence or domination from the
Government as well as from private
groups.”
He said the Great Emancipator
would have denounced “today as he
did in his own time, the economic
power of men* over men; but he
would regard as even more danger
ous the economic power of the Gov
ernment over its citizens as a trend
toward making the citizen a ward
of the state in the guise of benev
olent paternalism.”
Hamilton Sees Critical Period.
Addressing a three-State rally in
New York, Republican Chairman
John Hamilton said: “The people
of America know that when Mr.
Roosevelt steps from the White
next January, he will leave to his
Republican successor a country in
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as critical a condition as Buchanan
left^o Lincoln.”
Sharing the rostrum with Mr.
Hamilton was Mrs. Robert A. Taft,
wife of the Ohio Senator. She said
that in traveling in 20 States she
had "seen women flocking into the
Republican ranks who had never
been interested in politics before,
but felt they couldn’t let the Amer
ican way of life be destroyed while
they stand idle * *
Several speeches at the 700 Lin
coln celebrations were broadcast,
with Mr. Hoover leading off at
Omaha.
“Americans cannot allow their fel
low Americans to go hungry,” he
said, “yet relief cannot go on fore
ever. The current cost of relief, in
all its aspects, Federal, State and
local, is nearly four billion yearly.
• * * We must restore these people
to self support before relief fails.”
Declaring that the country must
keep out of war and turn from
“Government spending to national
thrift,” the former President added
it must adopt “the concept that it is
only through steadily increasing
productivity of the Nation that we
can make progress.”
Martin on Radio Forum.
Representative Martin of Massa
chusetts, House minority leader,
speaking on The Star's National
Radio Forum, said: “For seven
years this country has been made a
proving ground for reckless experi
ments and those experiments have
failed. * * * If destruction be our
lot, we must ourselves be its author
and finisher.”
He called upon the Nation to be
on guard against devices which
“might provide shackles for the lib
erties of the people.”
“There is the physical bondage of
man to man, unknown in most of
the civilized world. There is eco
nomic slavery—of which all too
much exists in the civilized world.
“There is political slavery,
which • * • has in two decades
engulfed nation after nation.”
"This tide must not engulf Amer
ica.”
Mr. Martin declared there had
been "rampant propaganda” to lead
the working man to believe his in
terests were separate from his em
ployer's, to make employers believe
their interests were different from
labor’s and lead the farmer to think
his interests separate from in
dustry's.
(Text of Mr. Martin's address on
Page B-6.)
Some of the other Republican
speakers and their remarks were:
Representative Barton of New
York: Abraham Lincoln was ill
fed, ill-clothed, ill-housed—and did
not know it.”
Hanford MacNider, former min
ister to Canada: “History will record
that Abraham Lincoln freed the
slaves, but Franklin Roosevelt en
slaved the free.”
Fish Sees War.
Representative Fish of New York:
“I am convinced that if President
Roosevelt is re-elected or any of
the New Deal internationalists we
will be in the war within three
months after the new inauguration.”
Senator Lodge, of Massachusetts,
attacking the Roosevelt administra
tion’s reciprocal trade program, told
a Boston gathering that “interna
tional trade is the cause of war
rather than the preventer of it.”
The present trend, he said, was
"toward increasing our trade rela
tions with the armed camps of the
world.”
“* * * I say to you * • he added,
“that if they want to make a politi
cal issue of peace for America, we
will accept the challenge, secure in
the knowledge that no amount of
international trade is worth the
sacrifice of a single American life.”
Senator Nye of North Dakota told
a Quincy, 111., audience that Re
publican leaders should “keep their
eyes on the American ball and not
the European ball.”
“There isn’t in Europe or Asia a
single challenge that merits a single
step of the American Government
to sacrifice a single American mule,
regardless of a single American life,”
he said.
William Allen White, the Em
poria, Kans., editor, said at Spring
field, 111., that the Nation should se
lect “a humble and kindly” leader
like Abraham Lincoln to cope with
the unemployment problem.
NAPERVILLE, 111.—Republicans
ate barbecued beef sandwiches and
potato chips at their two-bit ban
quet— then puffed corncob pipes
and nibbled on stick candy while
they listened to attacks on the New
Deal.
An invitation and two tickets had
been forwarded to President Roose
velt, but he sent his regrets and two
25-cent stamps.
A Democrat, and one to whom
presidential aspirations are widely
accredited, Senator Wheeler ot
Montana, made a Lincoln day speech
at Jersey City, N. J. He said the
country was engaged in “economic
and social warfare,” of a type that
"destroys the souls and the moral
fiber of a people.” The Nation
needs, he asserted,1 “to catch just a
bit of the light which was in the
mind of Lincoln.”
British propagandists, he added,
were “doomed to disappointment”
because "America listened to the
hymn of hate once before and for it
paid and paid.” He said “this coun
Lincoln's Faith
Praised by Four
D. C. Church Leaders
•
Civil War President
Honored in Broadcast
On Anniversary
That the faith and tolerance of
Abraham Lincoln might flame anew
in America today to light the way
for “godless quarters of the earth"
was the plea last night of four re
ligious leaders of the Nation’s Cap
ital who paid tribute to the Civil
War President on the occasion
of the commemoration of his 131st
birthday anniversary.
Lincoln was eulogized by a cross
section of Washington’s religious,
life—a Catholic priest, a Jewish
rabbi, a colored minister and a
Protestant minister—in addresses
broadcast over station WMAL un
der the auspices of the Committee
on Religious Life in the Nation's
Capital.
Dr. John K. Cartwright of the
Church of the Immaculate Con- j
ception called on Americans to
cling to the ideals of Lincoln so
that “in a world insane with the
false values of paganism and the
false ideals of the material and i
the false worship of the ephemeral
we shall give leadership among the
peoples in that faith which is truth i
and in that obedience which is
freedom and in that service which
is peace.”
Tells of Rescinded Order.
In his introduction of the pro
gram, Dr. Albert Joseph McCartney
of the Covenant-First Presbyterian
Church, chairman of the Religious
Life Committee, related how Lin
coln had rescinded a Government
order to turn the New York Avenue
Presbyterian Church into a hospital
during the Civil War, with the
comment, “We need this church to
keep the stars shining in their
skies.”
“We do, indeed, need the church
to keep the stars shining in their
skies today,” Dr. McCartney said
last night. “There are so many
earth-born clouds arising from un
try will not again be destroyed by
viuous war propaganda.”
"The United States can best pre
sent its democracy,” he s&id, “by
attaining a solution of our own
domestic problems.”
Senator Wiley of Wisconsin told
a Republican gathering: "Strange
concepts in Government, in eco
nomics, have come into being. Many
of our established ways are lost, and
•up ahead the road seems to go in
many directions, and—doubt and
perplexity come to bewilder our
senses. But • • * the dawn is up
ahead.”
Gov. Arthur H. James of Pennsyl
vania said: “In 1940, the Republican
party has the greatest opportunity
in its history to lead our groping
people to the light—but with oppor
tunity goes responsibility.”
Capper Talks in Baltimore.
Senator Capper of Kansas termed
the New Deal "a colossal failure” ip
a talk to Maryland Republicans in
Baltimore. Senator Capper called
President Roosevelt “the most dan
gerous man to the welfare of the
people of America today.”
“The most dangerous leader of
any people is the leader who be
lieves he, and he alone, is quali
fied for leadership,” Senator Cap
per said. “And that is why Frank
lin D. Roosevelt, with all nis charm,
with all his genuine desire to better
the lot of the people of the United
States and of the world, is the most
dangerous man to the welfare of
the people of America today.”
Theodore R. McKeldin, unsuccess
ful candidate for Mayor of Baltimore
in the last election, spoke at Cum
berland, while Iowa’s Representative
Franklin Jensen addressed the Ha
gerstown meeting.
Caroline County’s G. O. P. con
tingent heard Frederick P. Adkins,
a member of the State Industrial Ac
cident Commission, and State Sena
tor Wilmer Fell Davis.
Representative Schafer of Wiscon
sin told an Appalachia, Va., audience
that “if Abraham Lincoln and Dan
iel Webster lived in the United States
today they would certainly lead a
noble fight to overthrow President
Roosevelt and his New Deal disciples
who have perverted the Constitu
tion and the principles of govern
ment for which is stands."
Bandit's Second Raid
On Store Nets $250
By the Associstcd Press.
PITTSBURGH, Feb. 13.—Leonard
Goldstein thought he recognized a
neatly-dressed man who entered his
clothing store but wasn’t sure
whether he was an old customer.
“He looked familiar,” said Mr.
Goldstein, “but I couldn’t quite place
him until he threatened me with a
pistol.”
It was the same holdup man who
got $800 from Mr. Goldstein last
November. The latest raid netted
$360.
believing and godless quarters of
the eatrh that tend to obscure those
stars of hope and faith and brother
hood that beckon to the finer in
stincts in us all.”
Dr. Cartwright commented:
"The' great man whose birth we
commemorate was one in whom
the love of humanity was very
strong and deep. To him the unity
of the Nation was precious because
through it could be secured the
validation of man’s best possibili
ties. And high among those possi
bilities was the harmony of free
dom which would ennoble the rela
tionship of men whom ignorant
circumstances had driven asunder.”
The mind of Lincoln and the
minds of Americans liberated the
slave, Dr. Cartwright said, "because
those minds believed in human
freedom.”
"No Lincoln as an individual, how
ever wise and strong, could have at
tained his great purpose except in
a society sensitive in a wide and
ready way to the ideals which his
charity wrought out and which his
eloquence expressed," Dr. Cartwright
stated.
Rev. Mr. Taylor Speaks.
The Rev. H. B. Taylor of the
Fifteenth Street Presbyterian Church,:
moderator of the Presbytery of
Washington City, discussed the Lin
coln embodied in the phrase “with
malice toward none.”
“If Lincoln's plea that we have
malice toward none has vitally im
portant meaning for us today,” he
said, "it is that we should not enter
tain ill will in our hearts toward
our fellow citizens simply because,
with regard to some things, they
happen to difler radically from us.”
Lincoln's plea, he continued, clear
ly shows that “if we allow malicious,
indefensible prejudice against our
fellow countrymen—because of their
race or color—to becloud our vision,
we can never hope to see the glorious
democracy which, by faith, our
fathers saw, and for which they
lived and labored, and fought and
died.”
Rabbi Norman Gerstenfeld of the
Washington Hebrew Congregation
said “the figure of Lincoln looms on
the spiritual horizon of America, to
use the words of Walt Whitman, as
‘a man to match the mountains and
the sea.’ ”
Lincoln's Faith Described.
Rabbi Gerstenfeld pointed to Lin
coln's faith as one which all Amer
icans can share. He described it as:
“A faith in the supreme value of
a homely kindliness and neighborly
charity.
“A faith that not only ‘with mal
ice toward none and with charity
for all,’ but ‘with firmness in the
right as God gives us to see the
right.’
“A faith in the necessity of the
courageous integrity of free souls
dedicated to the discipline a free
conscience dictates, knowing that
charity without a firm conscience
can become a sentimental mask that
permits weakness in ourselves and
injustice to others.
“A faith that only when goodness
is combined with integrity can
goodness achieve the heights of
true righteousness.
“A faith that it is the duty of
every one of us to bless this land
with more than a spirit of tolerance
or charity, but to be true to the
light which God reveals to us.”
Songs by Glee Club.
A special feature of the program
was the rendition of several patriotic
and spiritual songs by members of
the Girls’ Glee Club of Howard Uni
versity.
me principal triDUie to uncoin
paid by patriotic Washington had
taken place earlier in the day when
President Roosevelt led the annual
pilgrimage to the Lincoln Memorial.
More than 5,000 persons, many of
them representatives of the 45 or
ganizations participating in the col
orful ceremony, paused silently be
fore the marble shrine with the
President as his wreath was placed
at the foot of the statue.
Thousands of others who would
pay homage to Lincoln visited the
memorial during the day, while
capacity crowds visited the Lincoln
Museum on downtown Tenth street.
The 131st Lincoln birthday anni
versary brought out social-minded
Republicans last night for the an
nual dance at the Raleigh Hotel
sponsored by party clubs in the Dis
trict, Maryland and Virginia.
Special Service Held.
A special service in tribute to
Lincoln was held last night at the
First Congregational Church by the
Department of the Potomac, Grand
Army of the Republic, the Depart
ment of the Potomac Woman’s Re
lief Corps and the Sons of Union
Veterans of the Civil War.
“Little Known Episodes in the Life
of Abraham Lincoln’’ will be dis
cussed at 8 pm. tomorrow in the
departmental auditorium by Dr.
Louis A. Warren, widely recognized
authority on Lincoln. The program
will be sponsored by the National
Park Service.
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B1 the A Modeled Pres*.
OMAHA, Nebr., Feb. 13.—Herbert
Hoover posed before the Nation last
night the problem of finding jobs
for 9,000,000 unemployed “as the
only safety of our republic.”
The former President, in a Lin
coln's birthday address broadcast
over ft Nation-wide radio network,
declared that until the problem is
solved the Government must con
tinue to provide for relief.
"Americans cannot allow their fel
low Americans to go hungry. • • •
Yet relief cannot go on forever. The
current cost of relief, in all its as
pects, Federal, State and local, is
nearly $4,000,000,000 yearly. We are
borrowing the money. Taxes which
would pay these deficits would as
phyxiate the whole productive sys
tem. We must restore these people
to self-support before relief fails.
"And to cure it Is the only safety
of our republic,” Mr. Hoover said in
his first political address of 1940.
Three Wrong Notions.
He listed “three wrong notions’1
which he said have brought "para
lyzing confusion” into the dynamic
forces of progress and played large
parts in creating the problem.
"The first notion is that the whole
system is wrong and must be made
over. That is what they call revo
lution in Europe.
“The second is that government
officials can plan, direct or operate
the economic life of the people. That
is what they call statism in Europe.
"The third is that government
can spend and spend and borrow
and borrow without thought of to
morrow. That is what we once be
lieved was the rock upon which lib
eral governments were cracked. It
did help wreck 12 democracies in
Europe.”
“No one, he continued, “will deny
we have injected a huge dose of
statism into our national system.
No one will deny that bureaucracy
greatly controls prices, wages, farm
production, industrial output and In
vestments. • • •
“And I do not need to expand
upon the effect of government ex
penditures, deficits, debts and taxes.
They certainly take the ginger out
of new initiative and enterprise.
Spending and taxes are the drinks
that make statism delirious."
To create the jobs Mr. Hoover
called for combination of the forces
of intellectual, spiritual and eco
nomic liberty, the moral strength of
a people, natural resources and con
stant new scientific discoveries.
“We have all these. And when
these great forces are firing on all
four motors they can make em
ployment for all our people.
"Now let me repeat something
that is perhaps elementary. The
gas which moves these motors is
sustained initiative and enterprise
of men. Its flow is dominated by a
most delicate valve. That valve is
the attitude of men’s mind. Men
act when they have hope and con
fidence of bettering the conditions
of themselves and their families. * • •
“They hesitate when they meet
discouragement or interference.
They slow down when they become
fearful of the future. * • • They at
once postpone buying something or
starting something. Then men lose
jobs.
“And right here we can find the
major cause of our unemployment.”
In a call for a "vigorous shift of
ideas.” Mr. Hoover listed 10 points:
“We must change from our na
tional drift toward statism with its
shackling of men to making a civil
ization of free men.
“We must change from pessimism
to faith in the future and greatness
of America. • • •
"We must turn from envisaging
our problems as requiring transfor
mation of a whole system, to an
attitude that our faults are marginal
around a heart and hearth which
are well founded.
“We must firmly adopt the con
cept that it is only through steadily
increasing productivity of the Na
tion that we can make progress.
National Thrift Urged.
“We must resolutely turn from
Government spending to national
thrift.
“We must desist from restricting
invention and labor saving methods.
• • • It is men we must conserve.
• • •
"We must realize that this system
is based upon morals not alone in
individuals but in Government.
“We must revive the belief that
the highest accomplishments of
democracy come from voluntary co
operation among men.
“We must turn our direction from
class conflict, pressure groups and
disunity and seek unity.
"And* we must keep out of war.”
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linen industry would be held here
March 5.
The proposed rules, defining terms
and listing practices, were made
public by the commission.
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A Lincoln Needed
In Jobless 'Crisis/
White Asserts
Editor Says Democracy
Eventually Will Find
Plain, Honest Leader
By the Associated Press.
SPRINGFIELD, HI., Feb. 13.—
William Allen White, Emporia,
Kans., editor, asserted last night
that "we should choose as our lead-,
er a humble and kindly man” like
Abraham Lincoln to cope with the
unemployment "crisis.”
Speaking before the Abraham
Lincoln Association, the
editor in a prepared address drew
a parallel between the "crisis” of
10,000,000 unemployed today and
Lincoln’s, problem of 2,000,000 slaves
in 1860.
"I feel,” he said, "that 10,000,000
jobless men in our land today pre
sent a pjpblem no leas menacing
than was the problem of 2,000,000
slaves. For 10 long years that
tragic situation has stood before us
challenging our best thought and
appealing to our deepest sympa
thies.”
But democracy, he declared, will
eventually put its finger upon the
“plain and honest” leader.
“That man,” he continued, "will
be ready for power when it comes.
His talents will crystallize under
pressure into heroic qualities. •••
“In this crisis of 1940 we should
choose as our leader a humble man
and kindly, purged of all vanity.
We do not see him even now. Who
saw Washington six months before
Bunker Hill? Who saw Lincoln on
his 51st birthday in 1860?
“I do not feel that democracy is
impotent in this hour. We still
have' the democratic privilege of
choice. • • •
"But we need more than one lead
er. We need an army to follow him,
an army of brave, wise, self-respect
ing followers. I am sure that under
the stress of these times that deeply
kind and soundly wise leader shall
rise • • • and we shall trust his
leadership.”
Found Rival on Honeymoon
LOS ANGELES, Feb. 13 (JP).—Mrs.
Bessie Polshow told a judge that her
husband took along another woman
friend on their honeymoon. She
won a divorce.
Deaf Girl Hears
Then Faints
With Joy
By the Associated Press.
GRAFTON, W. Va„ Feb. 13 —
Specialists said 18-year-old Eloise
Lockard would never hear again, but
she did—and fainted with joy.
Totally deaf for 13 months, Miss
Lockard was sitting at home talking
with other members of her family by
reading their lips when she suddenly
asked her startled brother:
"What did you say? I believe I
heard you.”
She collapsed after he repeated
the statement. Just to confirm re
turn of her hearing, Eloise tele
phoned her father yesterday and
said she experienced no difficulty in
understanding him. ,. 7
Police Capt. A. E. Lockard reported
his daughter became deaf while a
senior in high school, but was grad
uated last June despite the handicap.
Specialists said the nerves in her
ears were paralyzed and that they
couldn't help her. Physicians ihere
were unable to explain return of
her hearing.
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Granville B Jacobs
B. ■ —M. R.
One Wan Street—New Yerk City.
Granville Jacobs baa personally
trained more adalts In effective
eublle speakinr durinr the last
three years than any ether In
structor la the United States.
Announces
an
ExtraClass
in
Talking and Thinking
On Your Feet
note!
Two Years Ago Three Executives From
Melvern Dairies, Inc.,
—took this training. Since then every
executive and every key employe of this
organization has completed this course.
THERE IS A REASON!
—EXECUTIVES—
And younger men on their way up, from the following
Washington organisations, have profited from this course t
RIGGS NATIONAL BANK
AMERICAN SECURITY Cr
TRUST COMPANY
NATIONAL BROADCASTING
COMPANY
PEOPLES DRUG STORES
MELVERN DAIRIES, INC.
HECHT COMPANY
SOUTHERN DAIRIES
CALL CARL, INC.
HECHINGER ENGINEERING
CORP.
CONGERS LAUNDRY
STERRETT OPERATING
SERVICE
C. Cr P, TELEPHONE CO.
MEMBERS OF CONGRESS
ARMY WAR COLLEGE
ARMY INDUSTRIAL COLLEGE
TREASURY DEPARTMENT
BUREAU OF STANDARDS
GENERAL ACCOUNTING
OFFICE
DEPARTMENT OF JUSTICE
SOCIAL SECURITY BOARD
HOME OWNERS LOAN
CORPORATION
RECONSTRUCTION FINANCE
CORPORATION
DEPARTMENT OF
AGRICULTURE
SECRETARIES TO
CONGRESSMEN AND SENATORS
In addition, members of the faculty of Washington high schools,
dentists, physicians and leading attorneys. (At the meeting you
will be given a booklet containing names of scores of graduates.)
When the people from these concerns were asked why they
preferred the Jacobs course, 93% gave as their first reason
"Personal Coaching" and the experience of the instructor.
Make 1940 Count
Think this over! One nominal investment in tuition
and one interesting evening a week for fourteen weeks
. . . then for the rest of your life you can enjoy the
comfort, prestige and profit that comes to those who
have the ability to talk and think on their feet, before
audiences large or small, with ease and in a convincing
manner.
This class is being organized in order to serve
the overflow enrollment from the classes
organized last month. Each group is limited
to 40 people.
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The program at each of the meetings shown
below will be similar. Come to any one. Hear
graduates speak. The 5:30 p.m. meeting has
been arranged for the convenience of those
who prefer to stop in on their way home from
the office. These are not dinner sessions.
MAYFLOWER HOTEL
, North Room
Tonight, Feb. 13 Wednesday, Feb. 14
5:30 to 7:30 P.M. 5:30 to 7:30 P.M.
or or
8:00 to 10:00 P.M. 8:00 to 10:00 P.M.
Moth Men and Women Welcome
Ne Cent Ne OMigetion
Prepare for Richer Rewards—
and Greater Leadership