Show American Way of Meeting Issues Pres Prescribed crib eel b by Landon Landoll Candidate Gives Views on Brain Currency Social Security Wages By LYLE C. C WILSON ILSON Copyright 1936 United Press TOPEKA Kan June 15 Governor 15 Governor All Alf M. M Landon today prescribed prescribed prescribed pre pre- scribed the American way war as the proper approach to the problems problems lems of a nation harried by unemployment ent and business uncertainty The liThe American way he said in a two-hour two interview means education and debate in congress and out of it We Ve all get impatient impatient impatient im im- im- im patient when we are not getting things done There are interminable interminable interminable able delays But that is the American way and that is the path we we must follow Governor Landon explained his views on the uso use of professional proCessional brains by the federal government and on currency social security and minimum wages You come away from tho the 1880 model governors governor's mansion hero here convinced convinced con con- vinced you have been listening to toa toa toa a man who Is doing some of the hardest thinking of his lifetime And you bring away with you the memory of a man who Is looking for tor expert knowledge You go In seeking an aji interview with a presidential candidate or oran oran oran an outline of a politicians politician's plans for winning a national election Your host rumples his gray hair and smiles He me meets ts each question question question ques ques- tion promptly More often than not he meets it with another ques ques- tion The governors governor's quest for cold and accurate information led to mention of the so-called so brain trust recently assembled in Washington by the G. G O. O P. P What would happen to the professional professional professional pro pro- brains department now that the tho G. G O. O P. P leadership had moved west with haired curly-haired John D. D M. M Hamilton in charge Governor Landon disposed of that In 15 words I believe he ho said in research men But I do not believe in making making mak mak- ing lag research men administration Professors it appears would have no place on the bridge if IC Governor Landon were the skipper in Wash Wash- ington But brain trusts are not worrying worryIng worrying worry worry- ing the man who was nominated last week to be the Republican candidate for president Social se security so- so the problems of laboring men and women and monetary control control control con con- are arc more directly before him It is in attacking those problems that he emphasizes the American way Look Before Leaping Look before you leap is a copybook copybook copybook copy copy- book maxim that might properly beset bo be set down as a Landon motto But that caution does not apply to campaign campaign campaign cam cam- The strategy es established established es- es last week when Governor Landon telegraphed his own Interpretation interpretation Inter inter- of the Republican platform platform platform plat plat- form in three vital ital planks to the Republican national convention in Cleveland will bo be carried into the presidential campaign Once in December and again to today today today to- to day the tho writer has been a guest in Continued on Page pase Two Column Three LA LANDON NOON OFFERS AMERICAN WAY Continued from P Pa Page c One the and corniced home homo in which the tho state of Kansas houses housesit it its governors He has hM read Landon's Landon's Landon's Lan- Lan dons don's speeches and from a combination combination combination combi combi- nation of public and private utterances utterances utter utter- ances draws the conclusion that there will be few lew subtleties in the Sun Sunflower Clower campaign for the White House What That the hell bell doe does he mean 7 was Senator William E. E Borah's question upon reading Governor Landon's interpretation and extension extension exten exten- sion slon of tho money plank of ot the Republican Republican Republican Re Re- publican platform The plank pledged a stable currency balanced budget and restoration to congress of authority to regulate the value of ot the tho do dollar dollar dollar-an Jar Jar-an an authority now lodged with the president who may still reduce the gold content of or the dollar by almost 10 cents Lashed b by Borah and other silver men from the west the Republican platform makers avoided mention of th the gold standard In Terms of ot Gold Governor Landon's telegram read to the convention before ho he was vas nominated said that a requisite of sound and stable currency is a currency expressed in terms of ot gold and convertible into gold But the governor explained the gold standard could not be restored until and unless it can be done without penalizing our democratic economy and without injury to our producers of agricultural products and other ra raw v materials Sometime Some Sometime Sometime time after late July when he Is formally notified of his nomination and the opening of pt presidential polls next November the public will learn that the governors governor's reference reference ref ret to restoring the tho gold standard standard standard stand stand- ard was conditioned merely upon international currency stabilization It t appears now a Landon administration administration adminis- adminis ration would as carefully avoid freezing the dollar to gold ahead of ot other great powers as would an administration headed by Franklin FranklinD D D. D Roosevelt You may search Landon speeches from the first campaign for governor governor gov gov- to the tho latest presidential candidate candidate candidate can can- utterance and you will find lind no adverse criticism of the gold devaluation of the dollar The only objection you are likely to find isto isto Is Iso to o the action of at congress in assigning assigning assign- assign ing ng to the president authority to put lut the dollar dolar up and down in what Governor Landon bell believes es Is Ls a a. violation vio- vio lation of ot the constitutional injunction injunction tion lion that congress must retain and i exercise tho right to coin money and regulate the value thereof Disagrees on Method l There is likely to be nothing in inthe tho the Landon speeches this year adversely adversely ad ad- critical of the principle of reducing the tho gold content of the dollar nor of at the objectives of certain certain tain lain other new deal experiments A Asman small bet might be made that the Republican candidate for president will vill face the microphone several times imes between now and November to o agree that the objectives of at sev sev- eral new deal experiments are not only praiseworthy but that the ef effort et- et fort to attain them was well worthwhile worth I I while There will be disagreement however about method Social security is typical of that disagreement The governor plans an entirely different approach to the he problem More than a year ago ho 10 made a speech like Mr Roosevelt's Roosevelt's Roosevelt's Roose Roose- velt's more recent address in Baltimore Baltimore Baltimore Balti Balti- more advocating a longer school period for adolescents and an earlier retirement age for oldsters to re reduce reduce reduce re- re duce the competitors for lor the jobs that hat are available But ho he opposes the he Roosevelt compulsory old-age old insurance law His actuaries re report report report re- re port that a year old who begins contributing today never would re regain regain regain re- re gain from tram the thc fund the sum of ot his contributions So the Landon plan is 3 for a system of ot grants to the states by the federal government minus compulsory features and without a a. means test for benefi benefi- He objects to compelling any elderly man or wom woman n to take a paupers pauper's oath before enjoying se security security so- so in the unproductive years I Change Not Imminent After talking to Landon you get getho ho tho idea that amendment of ot the constitution Is less imminent than his lis ra famous ous telegram to the Cleveand Cleve- Cleve Cleveland land and convention may have indicated In that message he said the constitution constitution con con- should be amended if it experience experience ex ex- proved that the tho states were unable otherwise to regulate the working conditions of ot women and children Senator Borah snorted disdain at such a proposal insisting Insist- Insist lug ing ng that there was no doubt of the states state's authority in such matters Now No it would seem eem there is not much difference between the Republican Republican Re- Re publican candidate and Borah on that hat question The Tho governor will willell tell ell you that Kansas Massachusetts Connecticut and California have minimum wage laws in force forc and the he supreme court has never challenged chal- chal their validity The Landon reference to regulation regulation regula regula- tion of ot conditions of ot labor deliberately excluded reference to adult male workers There are several reasons for that Agriculture and organized labor labor labor-In in the person of President William Green n of at the American Federation of ot Labor Labor op op- op posed an amendment in that form lorm Furthermore there Is a reluctance around Landon headquarters to attempt attempt attempt at at- tempt to do everything at once If condItions renditions of ot women and childrens children's labor abor are regulated the tho conditions of ot mens men's labor will be bo regulated in time or time or so 20 runs ruml the Landon political pout pout- cal philosophy |