Decatur Daily Democrat, Volume 34, Number 288, Decatur, Adams County, 5 December 1936 — Page 4

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ittNe to mix a little good, sound | sense with his love. The Goodfellows club is moving along nicely and it looks like this will be the banner year. The lad-1 ies in charge say they can use $500! or more to advantage, providing al merry Christmas for a large num-! ber of poor children and their par-1 ents. There is nothing sadder than to know of some family where there will be no Christmas cheer. Surely we don’t want that to occur this year, when every one is[ fair!? prosperous. Samuel Insul got his shirt studs and cuff buttons, said to be worth $40,000 safely buck for $4,000. He had promised them to a Greek | < lady who guarded him during his 1 | stay there several years ago but Mrs. Insull demanded their return, got them and placed them in a Paris safety deposit box, where they still are. Mrs. Coyimzoglu brought her lawyer to Chicago to see that she was not “slimmed." A compromise resulted. Those who feared that Mr. Townsend would not be governor have their proof that he has his own [ideas and will carry them out. The proposal that the state government relieve local units of any financial burden in the social security act by enacting a cigarette or . luxury tax has been rejected by the governor-elect. His statement, simple but direct to the point was: —“1 believe local control infers some local responsibilities.” You will be pleased with Governor Townsend as he proceeds on a careful and sound course. Advertisers are requested to get their copy in the evening before they wish the advertisement tq run. Os course this is a great convenience to us but that's not the real cause for the request. We j want you to get the best results 1 from your effort and we are sure that with this added time we can give you better looking displays - and better locations. It’s difficult 1 tp do our best when the copy is all piled in the day of publication. , This often makes us late and then the paper is not as attractive as it [ otherwise can be made. Please cooperate in this manner. The Pittsburgh Panthers will meet the Washington Purple Pack at the Rose Bowl in Pasedena on New Years day in the mid-winter [ football classic. Chosen because of victories over Notre Dame, Nebraska and Ohio and regardless of the fact they lost one game and were tied in another, this powerful bunch of "Huskies” will try their best to "bring home the bacon.” This will be the fourth trip to the bowl in the past eight years but so far they have not had a win. The team was chosen over two southern unbeaten elevens. Alabama and Louisiana State. o Answers To Test * Questions Below are the answers to the . Test Questions printed on Page Two ♦ 1. For the time being. 2. Marietta, Ohio. 3. It declared itself an independent republic in 1777, and remained an independent sovereignty for thirteen yearn until admitted to the union in 1791. 4. Chemicals used for destroying insect pests. 5. French artist. 6. Ping-Pong. 7. On the prewent site of Hartford i settled in 1633 by a party of Dutch from New Netherland. 8. Constantinople. 9. California. 10. The worship of idols. —— o Modern Etiquette By ROBERTA LEE • • Protecting the Varnish Varnish on the table, or stand, can he protected by cutting a piece of oilcloth, the size of a small doily, and placing it under the centerpiece on which a plant or a vase of freshly-cut flowers is standing. The varnish is protected from resultant moisture. Boiling Milk A pinch of baking soda added to [ the milk, when boiling, will preI vent it from curdling.

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Series Os Stories Reviewing Gov. McNutt’s Administration; (Editor’s note: This is the fourth Hoosier vote by the former state ( of a series of five stories review- chairman. ( ing the administration of Gov. peters made numerous trips to 1

Paul V. McNutt.) i By ALLEN DIDDLE l United Press Staff Correspondent) ; Indianapolis Ind., Dec. 4 —(UP) The off-stage political activities ot i Gov. Paul V. McNutt are as closely attached to his administration as his rapid-fire legislative action ' and his fiscal policies. 1 Considered a formidable candidate for the Democratic presidential nomination in 1940, the retir- ' ing governor has fabricated one of the most powerful political mach- : ines in the history of the state. Added to his striking personality and abilities as a leader, the governor has had able assistance from the Hoosier Democratic "Two Per Cent’’ club and the reorganization act- passed by the 78th general assembly. The Two Per Cent Club gave the state party leader funds with which to campaign in the state and the reorganization act centralized control of the administration with the governor. Both created enemies for the Democratic party in Indiana but elections held during McNutt's administration gave the governor and his co-workers majorities far surpassing totals Republicans could muster While the Democratic party machine met the challenges of the opposition party, McNutt handled insurgents in his administration and the party. First to feel the governor's lash under the reorganization was Frank Mayr. Jr., secretary of state, who resented provisions of the reorganization act which permitted McNutt to appoint all workers fn the statehouse except personal secretaries to elective officers. According to party circle, Mayr, elected on a Democratic .ticket in 1932, has promised to discharge three key men in his once powerful department including Robert Codd, assistant secretary of state, Grover Garrott, state police head; and James Carpenter, auto license division chief, w’ho had opposed Earl Peters for the state party , chairmanship. ' Mayr acceded on the request to discharge Codd. but kept the others until the reorganization act be - came effective when they were the first to feel its force. Meanwhile, there had been rumb-i ping of a feud between McNutt,! 'and Peters, the source of which was found in the 1932 National Democratic convention. McNutt and his advisers had decided to play Indiana as a pivotal state and distribute its 30 delegate votes until a bandwagon actually was started. Peters reportedly played a lone hand and shopped among the candidates after the convention smoke . had cleared. Indiana politicians found Peters had the ear of James A. Farl e y. National Democratic , chairman and campaign manager of Franklin Roosevelt, as result of ;a reported final deiiveraue of the

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the Washington “pie" counter, with what state party leaders believed. an intent to build himself 1 up for the senatorial nomination 1 in 1934. Mc~ttt and the others found their relations with Farley strain ed. The governor denied emphatically that Peters had delivered the Indiana vote and contended the , state had given Roosevelt a majority on each of the three ballots leading to the bandwagon movement. He added Farley was using the failure of Indiana to swing all of its votes to Mr. Roosevelt on the first ballot as "an excuse rather than a reason." McNutt declared I the Democratic national chairman "feared anyone with a swing," and > as a result refused to recognize the strength of the governor's faction. McNutt's first answer to Peter's strategy came with the formation 1 of the Hoosier Democratic club on Aug. 2, 1933. Organization plans stated specifically that contribu-[ tions to the club would not reach ' the party’s state treasury. Peters protested to the state committee,! but the most consolation he received was appointment of a sub-com-mittee, heavily loaded. With McNutt followers, which settled nothing—a victory for the governor, Floyd Williamson state auditor, termed the club plan one to “Slicker" Peters. Peters resigned on Nov. 14, 1933 as state chairman to enter the senatorial race. Dr. Carleton B. Me-' Culloch was rushed into the state I chairmanship by McNutt to teal' party wounds. Just prior to the I state convention in 1934, Omer Stokes Jackson took up the cudgel for the administration, relieving Dr. McCulloch as chairman. Waiting until virtually the eve of the state convention, the governor named as the administration’s senatorial favorite Sherman Minton, public counselor of the public service commission, for whom the governor claimed a $4,000,090 cut in Hoosier’s utility bills. | U. 8. Senator Frederick Van Nuys. previously outspoken against the patronage principles of Pleas E. Greenlee, secretary to tHe governor, placed Reginald Sullivan, [former mayor of Indianapolis, in the field. Minton won on the fourth ballot against a field of seven and faced Arthur D. Robinson, Republican incumbent, in the fall election. Although not a candidate, the governor defended his administration vigorously against a “Stop McNutt" campaign of the Republicans and [repercussions of the state prison ■escapes and Dillinger era. Minton ■ won the election. I Another break in the friendly reflations between McNutt and the . [ Senior U. S. Senator was seen j when the Van Nuys’ faction offer/ed the Albright bill in the state senate during the 1935 session, , providing that the gubernatorial

and senatorial nominations be placed back in the direct primary instead of state convention. After - much wrangling, the effort was de- [ seated. Meanwhile, patronage dispensed over a counter at the statehouse I drew increased opposition. Green-1 lee made the wholesale replace-

Farley Wins Ireland’s Welcome MRUMf! | k is? -—Jr a CTarleTfrevident de Valera 1 |M Relaxing from the Democratic national campaign. Postmaster General James A Farley is visiting the homes of his ancestor? in the Irish Free State Ln the above picture he appears with Eamon de Valera. Ireland's president, who extended him a warm official welcome at the government buildings in Dublin, above. Preview of 1937 Beach Styles A ' 2r l i . ■ 4 » 1 O .-AWW,... • •'''■'Qyr-' . i •• a a****** W 1’ I '' < L I <W Hl TCff u Ji" S */• 1 -84 i i 1 atw-r ' | | w This stream -lined ' V beach creation mod- g w :■ eled by stunning Mae *7 B fiT Si Lin sig at Tampa. 1 T w ■ t "‘ J 1 y vance ,dea on what ■ ft' 4 will be popular for re- I iOrt wear next y far I l • ——-J

fment necessary with the changing <>f administration and continued to I build up the party machine by dta placing insurgents with "loyal" Democrats. One of his chief feuds was with IAI Feeney, appointed safety dlrec- | tor as a peace offering to Senator [ Van Nuys. Feeney made most of his answers through the newspapers. bringing the fight before the general public. After both principals had been scolded by McNutt for airing their troubles before the public, the governor legislated Feeney's position out of existence, i Major factions of the state Dem- ' ocratic party lined up again at [the convention this spring. Although he never gave a formal endorsement, the candidacy of Lieut. M. Clifford Townsend for the gubernatorial nomination was known to carry McNutt’s approval. VanNuys entered the fray again with E. Kirk McKinney, Indiana Home Owners Loan corp, head, as his candidate. Mint on returned from Washington to support the candidacy of Pleas E. Greenlee, who was fired from the administration with announcement of his ' candidacy. It took McNutt only one ballot to demonstrate his supremacy at the convention. Marion county held up the convention nearly half an hour but split its vote previously pledged to McKinney and shoved the Townsend bandwagon down j victory hill. A#in in the (j-neral electing Republicans lanched their attack against McNutt and again the gov- ‘ ernor took the stump to defend his actions and principles. He won with Townsend receiving the static’s greatest Democratic gubernatorial majority. The words of an anonymous parity worker are a fitting conclusion to a political biography of McNutt. ‘‘There is no steering a course between two streams with Paul V. McNutt,” opined the worker. ["He's either liked or disliked.” [ The governor stated it this way: i I don’t like a man who doesn’t keep his promise. Also, when you go out to hunt elephants be sure [you have the right-sized gun.” (Next —McNutt’s viewpoint.)

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