| Show Roosevelt Stands On Albany Record Candidate Favors Repeal Relief New Nev Conception of Tariff B By ROBERT nOBERT TALLEY NEA Service Writer riter Copyright 1932 NEA Service Inc ALBANY N. N Y May 21 21 With With approximately convention convention convention con con- votes already in sight and needing out of the 1154 total to win the nomination Governor Franklin D. D Roosevelt approaches the Democratic national convention at Chicago far in the lead of a scattered field of opponents Therefore It is appropriate to check up on the things he stands for as a presidential candidate and on his record as governor of New York I Summed up here is how Roosevelt stands on principal issues of or the 1932 campaign PROHIBITION For repeal of the eighteenth amendment and substitution substitution tion lion of another amendment granting to each state the right to vote on whether it shall shaH be wet or dry I IU U UNEMPLOYMENT I T RELIEF Opposed Opposed Opposed Op Op- Op- Op posed to a dole in any form and for the present emergency favors state and local relief reller measures For Fora a permanent system i favors a insurance in some ome form ronn in which both workers and employers contribute TilE THE TARIFF F Favors a new ncr conception con conception c of ot the tariff based not on congressional log rolling or supposedly supposed supposed- ly scientific schedules but on negotiation negotiation of tariff agreements between nations for reciprocal exchange of goods to end the worldwide tariff war and restore foreign trade BUSINESS USI-ESS RECOVERY For a policy broad enough to Include every GA aa TIM rU Tva GOVERNOR SETS POLICY PLANKS Continued Prom From Pom Page Pae One part of our economic structure in including including in- in eluding the improvement of or the condition con con- dillon diton of the little fellow at the bottom bottom bot bot- tom torn of ot the economic pyramid as at against the Hoover reconstruction i program which Roosevelt contends contend i has las been framed merely for the benefit bene fit of the man at the top It t was wa on or I this statement that Al AI Smith based his hi hi attack atack on Roosevelt as a WATER POWER For strict government gov gov- control of or utilities both asto as at asto I Ito to rates and financing and for government gov operation In cases where satIsfactory satisfactory sat sat- conditions for private operation oper aton cannot be obtained He lie has hat S been indorsed by 37 senators and con congressmen gressmen opposed to the power powei I- I trust FARM RELIEF Favors permanent perma penna nent settlement instead of attempted I price stabilization methods method like those I Ion on which the federal farm Car board has hat S lost since 1929 FOREIGN RELATIONS He is lot for r collection of or war debts debt owed us by Eu Eu- rope He recently stated that tat United I States entry into the league leage of na tons is i now unrealizable though he hi I Iwas was a strong when wIh with 1 Cox he ran for the vice presidency in 1920 Roosevelt's Roosevel's foes foe criticized him Ire fre frequently fe on the claim caim that his hi campaign campaign cam cam- statements have been vague I generalities that generalities that that he has failed to go get gel t down to cases casee on how certain thin things thing s sarc Sare arc are to be achieved This attack has been directed especially espe espe- daily against his hi program for eco economic cc recovery which is i based largely large large- ly on restoration of the purchasing power of or the common man by a I method metod that tat is i unexplained This Thi Thi S criticism however cannot be said sid ti to tole tolie a alie lie le against Roosevelt's position with i regard to prohibition and certain certin other other other oth oth- er issues is As the chief executive of NewYork New Nev NewYork I York Governor Roosevelt Roosevel heads I a state that has more than u ople has property assessed at nearl nearly i io billion dollars and spends upward I of ot of the taxpayers taxpayers' morse mone money each year It I is s regarded as an executive job jol that is i surpassed in importance only by the presidency Itself itel and ad consequently consequently conse conse- Roosevelt's Roosevel's record as a governor governor governor gover gover- nor becomes n R matter mater of interest Ever since Governor Roosevelt took office ofie on January 1 1929 the state sUte legislature leg leg- has been Republican in i both houses houses houses-a a circumstance which makes it difficult to reach an exact appraisal of the Democratic governors governor's Another factor is the influence of ol Roosevelt's Roosevel's predecessor Al Smith who through four terms term as governor left lef a deep impress of liberalism on the state There Tere are some who say sy Roosevelt Roosevel has in the main mai merely completed things Smith started There are others oters who insist that Roosevelt Roosevell Roosevel has greatly improved and expanded the Smith pro program ram The Te outstanding accomplishments oJ ot Roosevelt's administration with wih the above cautions cuton in mind mid may be summarized summarized summarized sum sum- as a follows I Water I-Water Water Power Pots Roosevelt broke a deadlock of 20 years over public vs private development of the vast ast St Sl Lawrence water power power pow pow- er project by winning the appointment appointment appoint appoint- ment of a comissIon commission favorable to public development development It I is now awaiting awaiting await await- i ing nc treaty arrangements arrangement with the Canadian Canadian Ca Ca- nadian government He has urged a comprehensive program for tor water waterpower waterpower power development to t give farmers and people of smaller communities cheap electricity 2 Farm 2 Farm Relief The Te governor has urged and made into Ilo law measures re relieving re- re lieving levIng the counties countes of 35 per cent ol or of highways and bridge costs cot relieving towns and ad villages of paying for upkeep upkeep up up- keep of state highways increasing aleto ale aid to rural schools enlarging appropriations tons for the state college of agriculture ture and appropriation of for retesting of herds etc 3 3 Unemployment 3 ent Relief and Old Od Age ABC Alc Pensions Roosevelt Roosevel fostered a move for a 50 per cent increase in the tile states state's Income tax designed deigned to provide a unemployment relief fund to finance supplementary public pub pub- lie lic lc work and when no work ork was available food and clothing and shelter shel shel- ter ut but ter-but but no cash dole The states state's old age pension system became effective live tive January 1 1 1931 with benefits for indigents indigent of 70 or over The latest figures show about pensioners receiving slightly over a month the average monthly grant grat being being being be be- ing 2635 4 PrIson 4 Prison and Institution Reform Following ing Folo the fatal riots riot in the cen cen- tury-old tury Auburn Aubur prison Governor Roosevelt succeeded in getting a appropriation for prison camps and cantonments Increase of food fod and clothing allowances for prisoners in increases increases increases in- in creases in the number and salaries o of guards additional appropriations for new prisons To i improve hospitals for the te insane and feebleminded he got the voters to approve a bond Issue is issue issue is- is sue of ot 5 Labor 5 Labor Laws Labor legislation enacted In the two Roosevelt Roosevel administrations administrations admin admin- includes the outlawing ol of temporary injunctions issued without a hearing in labor disputes extension of the workmen's compensation ton lato law la to include add additional onal occupational dis diseases diseases di- di dis- dis eases mandatory hour eight-hour laws with wih prevailing rate of or wages wage on certain certain tain types tyes of or state work SEEKS REFORMS The governor has sought sough reforms in the te administration of justice and a commission is i now studying the courts to provide a more simple more economical economical eco eco- and ind more speedy system of justice Among his other accomplishments nt I have been stricter utility haye public regulation regulation regu regu- lation laton reorganization of the banking banking department reforestation and modernization modernization mod mod- of or the te state barge canal canal Roosevelt's Roosevel's relations with wih Tammany Hall HaJ also are arc of interest in view of ot his hi presidential candidacy As a young member of ot the state senate from a rural district in i 1910 Roosevelt started his hi political career as an a arch foe of or Tammany Later he apparently came to the conclusion that more was vas wa to be Rained gained by being friendly with wih New York City's vast ast vote getting machine than by opposing opposing opps- opps ing Ins it Recently though Recently though though the graft evidence evi dence turned up by the Seabury in investigating in- in committee in New York has made his position a i delicate one one one- one he has succeeded In playing a middle course without being too vigorous either for or against the tion ton Despite Despie Governor Roosevelt's lon long Ions lead leid the Democratic nomination is still sUI far from certain Roosevelt Roosevel lacks even en a majority of or the 1154 convention conven corwen- tIa tion tl votes vote much less les the that are under the t tw o- o necessary to nominate ude te thirds rule Three hundred and ana votes or third one-third can ca block blo RO And 6 velt's nomination C- C veIs veI's already 4 Roosevelt say there are sy SRi Gamer Roosevelt anti votes Garer and ant Roosevel favorite sons with many may mo delegates yet to be cos chosen i Pei I Ja Jack Garner Career er RS a I Monday t twI possibility rise he e tint lint of the lbs stories on the colorful speaker stores Datcher Wahl house by Rodney he which t ton on correspondent in i 2 t Texas c loy 1 i of the thc rise of a Texa st and Honl t prominence usO 0 on some of or the big biff big political the day J. 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