The Landon Week

The most exciting thing that happened to Alf Landon last week was his meeting with Franklin Roosevelt at Des Moines (see p. 13). Before & after that event, the Republican Presidential nominee:

P: Got ten railroads to establish joint drought emergency rates for shipments of feed and cattle in Kansas.

P: Telephoned Mrs. Landon at Estes Park, Colo, to offer congratulations on her 38th birthday.

P: Telephoned Herbert Hoover at Stanford University and got his promise to take the stump.

P: Refused to answer a newshawk who asked: "Has there been any waste of Federal money in giving farm or drought relief to the farmers of Kansas?"

P: Detoured for some drought inspection of his own while returning to Topeka from Des Moines, chatted with a few farmers, was stopped by pouring rain.

P: Visited famed old Editor Ed Howe at Atchison, Kans., was told: "You have too many advisers."

P: Issued a Labor Day proclamation re-asserting his stand that Labor's "right to organize . . . must remain forever free from Governmental or any other form of coercion."

P: Addressed a State American Legion convention at Wichita on Labor Day. declared: "I believe we can do much by intelligent legislation to lessen the danger of being drawn into a war with which we have no real concern. But after all the Spirit of America must be our main reliance in staying out of war. . . . We must keep our heads."

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