Indianapolis Times, Volume 47, Number 22, Indianapolis, Marion County, 5 April 1935 — Page 12

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LA FOLLETTE IS REAL THREAT IN 1936 BALLOTING ‘Young Bob/ Now 40, Warns New Beal to Watch Its Step. BY THOMAS I>. STOKES Time* Special Writer WASHINGTON, April 5—A third party sits in the Senate in the diminutive figure of Robert Marion La Follette of Wisconsin, who at 40 looks out of place with the elders even after 10 years among them. “Young Bob" has anew role in this Senate, as head of a fledgling third party. No longer is he listed in the rebel fringe of the Republican party, as he was for years—and as his father, the late Senator Robert Marion La Follette Sr. was until he, too, away. Denied the support of the Roosevelt Administration in Wisconsin because of the pressure on Postmaster General Jame* A. Farley from a revivified Democratic party there, young La Follette struck out on his own, as did his father, formed his own party and overcame both regular Democrats and Republicans. His party has seven members in the House, all from Wisconsin, who were swept into Congress on his ticket end who look to him for orders. . A Warning to Roowelt On the White House steps the day after last November’s triumph, the Senator issued a statement intimating that unless the New Deal goes far enough he will head an independent movement for the presidency In 1936 with his Progressive party. The statement followed a talk with President Roosevelt, with whom the Senator thus far has cooperated. Tradition has decreed that the La Follettes be party outlaws and that they go places and do things. It was so with the Senator’s father, who sought to make Wisconsin a model state founded on justice to the under-privileged; who proved his courage in the Senate by refusing to join the hullabaloo which put the United States into the World War; who left a heritage of social legislation, and who polled five million votes when he ran for Pi esident in the heyday of industrial prosperity in 1924. The La Follette sons, Bob and Phil, the latter now Governor of Wisconsin for a second time, carry on the tradition. Bolted G. O. P. in ’32 For years the elder La Follette. immaculate and belligerent, stood before Republican national conventions and offered a platform of his own. Always it was voted down. In time the party picked up the La Follette planks and. whitewashing them, nailed them into its patchwork platforms. His father dead, the son went before the 1928 convention which nominated Herbert Hoover to repeat the performance. His boyish seriousness, his electric manner, won the heart of the convention, but not its mind. Its most spontaneous ovation w r as accorded him Four years later he stayed away from the convention which renominated Mr. Hoover, and cast his ; fortunes with the New Deal. The program of the younger La Follette today differs little from that of his father in fundamental j conception. The framework may! be found in the outlines of the New Deal, but he would build higher. He would erect, within the limit of the Constitution, anew sort of socialized democracy.

For Higher Taxes He is for redistribution of wealth by heavy income and inheritance taxes to improve the lot of the masses. Where the Administration would provide four billion dollars for work relief, Mr, La Follette would provide much more. He would enlarge the President’s unemployment and old-age pension program. Where the Administration would build a few government power projects as yardsticks to force rate cuts, the Senator would have the government own and operate all the nation’s power resources. He wants government control of banking and credit through a central bank. “I'm 40—getting old.’’ the Senator remarked. He is an old man in politics and farther along the road than was his father at his age. The elder La Follette came to the House of Representatives when he was 30. It was at that age, though without the previous experience of the governorship and House membership, that the son entered the Senate. The father did not reach the Senate until he was 50. Like Father, Like Son The stamp of the father is indelibly on the son. The passion for social Justice was inherited. So also was the father's seriousness. There is little humor in the son.

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Margaret Culkin Banning Among the novels recently published by Harper <fe Brothers which is demanding attention is “The First Woman.” by Margaret Culkin Banning It is a story of a woman in politics. a a a BY WALTER D. HICKMAN “TT is high time that this spy busiX ness was debunked,” writes Bernard Newman at the very outset of ; his book, “‘Spy.” And the author is splendidly equipped to do the job because he was an English spy during the World War and for three long years of the conflict he was attached to the German intelligence division on the Western front. As incredible as it sounds, the author shows he was not only decorated by the King of England, but by the kaiser himself. Mr. Newman maintains during this amazing narrative that truth is stranger than all the fiction in the world, and gives ample proof that it was he who actually reached the mind of the enemy commander—Ludendorff. The reader is convinced that when this spy, working as a German in I the interest of England and the Allies, was able to confuse Ludendorff and break down his confidence I that he did a much greater service ; than wrecking 100 troop trains. I have reviewed many memoirs of spies and of their alleged accomplishments, but this is one author, | speaking in the first person, who ■ completely satisfies me that what he relates could have happened a.nd really did. The book right now is being hotly discussed in England and the United States. Some maintain it is just fiction and nothing else. Others insist that it is a strict recital of what did happen to one alert and intelligent spy during the war. I am taking the viewpoint that it is not fiction but fact, although it reads as amazing make-believe. a a a NEWMAN maintains that much of his most valuable informa• tion was not believed by the high French command and that these tactics caused tremendous loss of life for the Allies. He convinces the reader that many of his exploits might have been useful if* had been intelligently acted upon in Paris. His revelations concerning the ability and foolish red tape and jealousy of certain leaders, military and political, are more than scandalous. It is a incident of inefficiency and horrible waste of both manpower and material. There is slight evioence in “Spy” | that the author has romanticized the work of spies during the war. Everything he accomplished, or claims he did. could have happened. Mr. Newman w r as not born to be a sjby. In early youth, because of the difference of nationality of his mother and father, he was trained to speak fluent English, German and French. His training as an actor upon the English stage before the war helped him to stage successfully his many exploits, but it was his insight into human nature that really carried him from one syccess to another. No beautiful blond spy is introduced in this narrative although women do figure in a natural way in his adventures. Many of his days were drab days with no adventure and not even a j thrill. He was one spy doing each day his job as best he could. Whether you accept “Spy” as fiction or fact, read it. It is a most j amazing document. It is published by the D. Apple-ton-Century Cos. ($2.50.) The father was a skillful strategist.! So is the son. Bob La Follette knows more about the rambling Capitol building than anybody else in Congress. He grew i up in its marble labyrinths. He was ; only 12 when the family, with its ■ four children, first moved to Washington. He went to high school here and back to the University of Wis- j consin. His university career was cut short by illness after two years. ■ When he recovered he went into his I father s office as secretary. Read Father’s Message When the late Senator was nominated for the presidency at Cleve-! land in 1924, on an independent j ticket, the son accepted the nomination on his father's behalf. A boyish figure, he stcod before the assemblage and. in a high-pitched, dramatic voice, read his father’s ! message. There was almost religious fervor in the convention’s tumul- j tuous reaction. When his father came to Washington in 1907, a suspect because; of his advanced views, he was as- ( signed an office mid the subter- j ranean passages of the Capitol. Re- ; calling the dungeon-like chamber,! the son displayed one of his rare \ humorous flashes. “That,” he said, “was when fatherwas chairman of the Committee for) the Protection of the Potomac Mud Flats.” The nation has moved forward, j The son has comfortable quarters in the Senate office building. BIDDLE TO VISIT CITY Labor Relations Board Chief to Inspect Regional Offices. Francis Biddle, chairman of the ! National Industrial Labor Relations | Board, is expected to visit the j Regional Labor Board here on or about April 15. Robert H. Cowdrill. local director, announc 'd today. Mr. Cowdrill said the visit was merely | one of inspection and did not con- j cent any particular industrial prob- 1 lems in this district. \

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THE INDIANAPOLIS TIMES

.APRIL 5, 1935