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THE POST-DEMOCRAT, FRIDAY, NOVEMBER 29, 1935.

DISPELLING THE FOG

By Charles Michelson Director of Publicity, Democratic National Committee

Political campaigns follow a pattern. The pending one shows no variation. Inevitably, at some stage, the Outs accuse the Ins of violation of platform pledges. So just now the theme song of the Republicans—genuine or synthetic —is that President Roosevelt went back on his pledge on the money question. Because he subscribed to the doctrine of a sound currency, and later on took us off the gold standard, and changed the gold content of the dollar, he is accused of faithlessness and inconsistency. The incident that the American dollar is the soundest unit and most stable of value in the world today, and that our Government bonds are above par, is ignored. Even my old campaign colleague, and later chief in the NRA, Gen. Hugh Johnson, records, more in sorrow than in anger, that the otherwise perfect NRA was wrecked “by the fiscal heresy and the currency-tinkering experi-

ment.”

Now I am the last person in the ^ harsh

ay 01 Id who would charge our lov-, able volcano with insincerity but an inconvient memory sends me back a litte over a year. The Gen-' eral delivered a great speech at the Century of Progress Exposition at Chicago in August last year. He

did say then:

“The charged debasement of the currency is a joke. Nobody knows what makes the value of money.” He elaborated on that theme: “W;hy should anybody fear the President’s currency management? Who saw to it that our gold reserve remained plethoric? Who took the steps that facilitated our exports and controlled our imports to a favorable trade balance? Who refused to forego one jot or tittle of our creditor position? Who insisted that our regular budget remain within balance? The President did all these things, against every urging and assault. We can trust that canny, cool, quiet mind and that courteous but immovable Dutch stubbornness. The ‘Roosevelt dollar’ will remain the best money in the world as long as he sits in that chair, in spite of all the theorists and doctrinaires this side of the Scilly Islands.” Mr. Kent’s Imperturbable

Neutrality

Quite naturally, the Republicans made much of the General’s recent magazine article in which he in effect, set forth that all of the New Deal, except that of which he had charge, had gone awry. This statement is not entirely correct, for he included Joe Kennedy’s administration of the Securities Commission among the virtues.

Not only did the Republican Na-1 tional Committee issue the critical parts of it as a campaign document, but Mr. Frank Kent that unbiased recorder of the Roosevelt administration’s misdeeds, became almost lyrical in his appreciation of General Johnsons new r tangent. I mention Mr. Kent’s unbiased at- 1 titude, because he is thoroughly j neutral as among the administra- j tion’s acts. They are all bound to be wrong, because they are Roose-

velt’s.

And there the inconvenient memory manifests itself again, and reminds us that a year ago Mr. Kent was daily grilling the man whose criticisms he so jubilantly

applauds.

“Those,” said Mr. Kent a year ago, “who find offensive the temper and intolerance at times displayed by General Johnson, who are bqred by his lurid adjectives and view with impatience his truculent heroics, should make certain allowances and not judge him

Then he went on to explain that the publicity the General had re-

ceived had gone to his head.

Another source of delight to Mr. Kent is the General’s denunciation of the “brain trusters.” These, wrote the Ex-NRA Chief, were responsible for freezing operations in the investment market by their “obscure and threatening attitude” while they were drafting Securities and Exchange legislation. In fact, according to the General, they were able to make their “starryeyed ; or fiery-eyed” idealism effective all through the emergency establishments except the NRA, which was naturally kept inviolate

of them by the General. The Brain and the Trust

ROOSEVELT STABILITY

“Do you remember the day Roosevelt took office? His sol-emn-faced countrymen gathered around their radio to listen. There was chaos in the United States. The biggest American bank panic was on. Confidence was low. “Then Roosevelt spoke. He spoke with confidence. He had confidence in America, in her people and in himself. Mr. Roosevelt's remarkable display of spirit on that occasion started the United States back to prosperity. “We think of that moment when we read a statement just made by Leonard P. Ayres, vice president of the Cleveland Trust Co. Mr. Ayres is no New Dealer, but he says that the year 1935 will go into history as one of the most nearly stabilized years in the history of our country. He writes that the flow of business has continued to move steadily forward. Yes, Mr. Roosevelt’s policies have given his country a stability that it has seldom known. We’ve stabilized with Roosevelt.”—Chicago, 111., Times (Ind.).

the individual master of any decision. There is a Brain Trust in Washington alright but the Brain is the brain of Franklin Roosevelt whole American People which— believe me—is well placed.” He reverted to the topic two months later, and after talking about the men in the Goverhment, he said: “It does not look like an academic layout to me. It looks like a cross section of leaders in American life and that is what it ought to be.” Deletion from Campaign Document It may be noted that General Johnson, despite his objection to a lot of things and a lot of Gov-

ernment officials, insists that what

And yet, it seeihs to me, that in t he calls the “mess” can only be

a speech at Nashville oh June 21, 1934, General Johnson discussed the Brain Trust, and said: “You take a couple of college professors of standing and mix them with maybe two hard business men and then sprinkl^ them with a garnishment of practical politicians and you have perhaps the ideal dish.” And later on in the same speech he said: “Whatever Brain Trust Franklin Roosevelt maintains is going to be a trust of the brains of a cross segment of the whole United States. There will be professors there for reasons already stated but nobody will dominate. I would like to see anybody dominate that man. Behind the sweetest and most considerate manner of any man I know is a determined courage coming from a long line of Dutch ancestry that makes him

Right Out Of The Air

By R F SERVICE

Helen Hayes, star of “The New Penny,” which is being hailed as the outstanding new dramatic

show on the air, stands firmly against studio audiences. She says that radio is planned for the ear and not for the eye and that although she’s been playing on the stage for. years, she feels that au-

Helen Hayes

dRnces in the studio provide a dis traction not only for the players but for listeners.

***Bob Burns, whose bright yellow shoes and tin bazooka are not so hard to take because of his swell aomedy, is finding that radio success is but a springboard to personal appearance box office mazutor The favorite comedy discov ery of Rudy Vallee and Paul White man is packing them in at his the®tre dates between broadcasts.

; *** Art Kassel is another popular newcomer whose radio program is clicking in a big way. The phono graph record makers who keep a day-to-day check on dance popularity all over the country, report that Kassel’s orchestra is making the imost rapid strides in favor. You j.iear his combination with the Mills Brothers on those Friday evening “Campus Revue” programs.

*** “Fibber McGee and Molly” is played by Marian and Jim Jordan on NBC Monday nights, and now the two stars of the shows are doing their own guest-starring, playing various characterizations they’ve created during 12 r years in radio.

*** For the first time in his nine years of broadcasting activity, during which time he ha» been assoCia-

cleared up “under the leadership of Franklin D. Roosevelt as the single effective exponents of the policy of do-something as against all the exponents of the policy of do-nothing.’ That tenet of the General’s creed, of Course, fails of mention by the Republican Na-

tional Committee.

The General says that he is now merely a private citizen whose vocation is that of a columnist for newspapers and free-lancing for the magazines. As such he naturally picks his market for his wares. It is not very probable that the Saturday Evening Post would have been eager to buy the General’s story if his views as to the Brain Trust and various branches of the Government were still in accord with his 1934 speeches. As a fellow columnist, I must congratulate the new recruit to the ranks of columnists on the happy coincidence of his presentday opinions with the magazine’s desire for such material.

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Monument to the ‘'father of the American Navy”, at Washington.

JOHN PAUL JONES

A LTHOUGH his exploits in the War of Independence were woven into the heroic legends of our country, the mortal remains of Admiral John Paul Jones, the “fsrher of the American navy”, rested for more than a century in an obscure graveyard in Paris. Only in 1905, President Theodore Roosevelt sent a convoy of warships to bring the body to American soil for honorable interment at Annapolis. Congress at the same time ordered the erection of a suitable monument as a perpetual reminder of the gallant sea hero’s contribution to American freedom. The monument, shown in the sketch above, stands in the nation’s capital. The admiral began his life as John Paul, adopting the name Jones after the death of an elder brother who had inherited it from a foster-father. He was bom in Scotland on July 6, 1747, and began his sea-going life at the age of twelve, when he was apprenticed to a merchant trader. When John was twenty-six,

his elder brother died and left him plantations in Virginia. He decided to make America his home. With the outbreak of the Revolutionary vtar, John Paul Jones, though still under thirty, offered his services in building up a Continental navy. His naval achievements were many and varied, his youth merely adding glory to his deeds. The historic battle between his little Bon Homme Richard aisd the giant warship Serapis marked the climax of his victories for the American cause. Congress ordered a medal struck in his honor. France, allied with the colonists, showered him with marks of esteem, and Catherine the Great of Russia engaged his help in fighting the Turks. Sick and heart-broken over court intrigues directed against him in St. Petersburg, he went to Paris, where he died on July 18, 1792, in the midst of the French Revolution. Into his forty-five years of life he had crowded achievements which fix his name forever on the American roll of genius.,

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CRITIC AND CRITICISM Nubi was the name of a tropical lass in a very tropical play. On the first night, when Nubi reached a point in the drama at which she had to sidle up to a messy-looking white man and drawl, “Me Nubi. Nubi like white man. Nubi stay,” Mr. Benchley, the critic, slipped out of his seat and muttered: “Me Robert Benchley, Robert Benchley no like play. Robert Benchley go.”

CAB DRIVERS PAST 80 QUALIFY IN LONDON

London.—Driving a taxicab at 76 is nothing in London. Harry Knaggs, who recently passed a rigorous driving test aftex- his license had been suspended for a minor offense, pointed out that two of the best cab drivers that he knows in London are past 80. He even conceded that both his friends were better chauffeurs than he was.

‘I’m Not Quitting,’ Says Hopkins; Denies Offer of Mail Order Job

“I’m not a quitter. When I take a job, I finish it!” That was the reply of Harry L. Hopkins, works progress administrator, to reports that he intended resigning to accept a flattering offer in business.

ted with the o£0' Friday night NBO concert programs Rosario Bourdons the famous ma% stro, is making » series of tran* criptions for a'* use on a Texa» broadcast chai;» ^ and for use ^ Rosario Bourdon broad. And wit# a library of 2,100 compositions, h« isn’t finding it very difficult to handle both tasks at the same time.

*** Although most critics agree that the author is the most important single asset of a dramatic series, radio’s best writers are comparatively unknown along the airialto. James Glover, who pens the “Roses and

Drums” programs, is one of the top ranking air scribes. A 30 year old lanky, rawboned Michigander, Glover get? most of his. background material for the program-’? Civil War settings by doing a first class research job origin of the epi-

sodes. His vividly interesting Sunday afternoon dramas are as authentic in their historical treatment as any textbook.

James Glover at the point of

*** Out of all the chaos of the amateur programs, “Studio Seven” over NBC three times a week, has one sane solution. For Jack and Loretta Clemens, stars of the show, use one amateur three times on their program an4 ths sponsor pays Urn amateurs! —

^Perhaps the busiest man US radio is Lawrence Tibbett, heard Tuesdays over CBS, because he la always on tour giving concerts and dashes into New York or Chioag* for his program.

*** Patsy Flick, who taught many of the great film and radio start various dialects, has been made a permanent member of Jack Benny’* Sunday night comedy troupe in Hollywood.

*** There are fan clubs all over the country but- One of the strongest and most helpful is the “Helen

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Notation* and Comments on the Progress of the New Deal and Recovery in Indiana.

By DUDLEY A. SMITH Indiana’s uniform wareliouse act of 1935 soon will be doing duty for farmers who wish to store their corn and borrow 45c a bushel from the federal government until such time as the corn is sold at the most advantageous market price. Although Indiana lacked a warehouse act in 1933, the federal government accepted arrangements Avhereby the state division of Aveights and measures sealed corn in the crib. This Avas done as an extra function of- the state government and the result Avas that in the early months of 1934, Hoosier farmers who had cooperated with the government to raise the price of corn were better off by $1,200,700 in the sale price of their crops.

come benefits awarded to farmers in any state of the Union. The knowledge that Hoosier farmers are prosperous as result of AAA and federal-state administration policies has brought a great volume of business into the state. It l. has started Indiana factories and business back up the hill to prosperity. Capital and industry find Indiana a superior state in which to locate and do business, not because of farm prosperity alone, but mainly because Indiana is a picture of well-managed, sensible state government that is encouraging to enterprise and which, by the way,

is the envy of the 48 states.

to 79.5.

National farm income in 1935 Avill approximate $7,000,000,000 an increase of nearly $500,000,00 from 1934. This is $2,500,000,000 better than in 1932. The index to farm prices in November 1912 had fallen to 46.7 and in February 1933 it had fallen to 40.9, but in September 1935 the farm price index had risen

The most real fact of life today, however, is that American citizens have regained their courage. The future is not black and uncertain as it was in 1932. The threat of a dictatorship for America and revolution is no longer ominous.'* They are so remote, after three years of Recovery, that political opponents dare call their memory a myth. They would not have dared do so in those dark days before Franklin D. Roosevelt entered the White House for choas was all too obvious. Men Avith families wished they were alone in the wolfish world. It seemed that even the poorhouse could not be supported As the final miserable haven for the aged. Neighbors seldom spoke to each other and friends no longer trusted friend. A moment’s reflections on these sorry times from Avhich we are now so far removed is sufficient answer to all political

critics of the New Deal.

Co-operation of state and federal officials in all matters relating to the advancement of recovery for farmers, the unemployed, the homeless, the destitute, business and industry has been a penchant in Indiana. As a result, Indiana’s administrative officials have repeatedly received the commendation of federal authorities and have been rewarded with successive recognitions that the Hoosie> state stands first in many fields of recovery activity.

town Club.” In Helen’s n a ti v e Joplin, Mo., her girlhood friends gather on Tuesday evenings to listen to la Marshall sing on the Sigmund Romberg program. After the broadcast they all sit down

Federal-state cooperation has brought to Indiana farmers the largest measure of increased inFn l

Helen Marshall and write Helen a long newsy letter. Helen writes right back too, and considers the criticisms and comments very help-

ful.

*** Over a year ago The Radio Theatre bought the air rigb ts to “Duley,” the long-run Broadway success. The program producers would not think of anybody to play the great role except Zasu Pitts, and it was just a year and a month later that the movies released Miss Pitts so that she might play in this Monday ev.eiisg' Radio Thb* atre heuiv ^

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The story was circulated by the Hearst newspapers and was repeated in a radio broadcast by Walter Winchell, one of their writers. Hopkins, it was said, was going with Sars, Roebuck & Co., Chicago mail order house, at a big salary. “I have not been offered a job and would not accept it if I were,” the relief administrator said. “When I accepted the President’s offer to direct relief, I intended to go through with it. That is still my intention. To my way of thinking, there isn’t anything as important as making an effort to see that millions of unfortunate Americans are given at least an opportunity to keep alive.” Hopkins’ salary is $10,000 a year. He responded to President Roosevelt’s draft at a substantial

sacrifice, his salary as relief director for New York having been only $8,500 a year, as a result of the 15 per cent wage reduction directed by the “Economy Act” of 1933. o NO WONDER HE ASKED

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