Indianapolis Times, Volume 47, Number 290, Indianapolis, Marion County, 12 February 1936 — Page 3

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DEMOCRATS OF COLORADO MAY BEAT NEW DEAL Threatened Conflict Over Costigan May Split Party Ranks. BY THOMAS L. STOKES Timn Sprial Writer DENVER, Feb. 12.—Colorado sits atop her piled-up mountains in a rather rarefied atmosphere, but ♦ here Is nothing rarefied or refined about her politics. Impending now is a conflict among Democrats which may split the party open and affect President Roosevelt's chances of carrying the state. “Get Costigan!’’ is the slogan of one faction, referring to Senator Edward P. Costigan, strong New Dealer and sponsor of much progressive legislation, both national and state. He is up for re-election Nov. 3. Those who would “get Costigan” include the banking, mining and financial hegemony which for so long ruled this state among the Rockies—and conservative Democrats as well as Republicans are enlisted. They are irritated by Senator Costigan's liberalism, and shout “communism” and "socialism” at, I his legislative measures. They would j break the political power that he has built, up in the state. Ready to Back Governor To this end they are ready to throw their resources behind Gov. | Edward C. Johnson, a Democrat who is soon to finish his second term. This strapping 6-foot-l former telegraph operator and rancher, a na- i live of Kansas, has a hough-hewn Abraham Lincoln type of face and a frank and winning county-picnic j and platform manner. He has shaken the hand of almost every, voter in the state, and calls an: amazing number of them by their first, names. The primary is in September. Gov. Johnson says he has not decided whether to seek the senatorial nomination. ‘Til tell 'em on April Fool's Day,” he told me at his office. He Is Ambitious Hp could, it is said, be elected Governor for a third term. There’s no tradition against that in Colorado. But he is ambitious, and it is believed generally he will seize this as the propitious time to strike. His feud with Mr. Costigan has become personal. He still smarts over the Senator's attempt to unseat. him two years ago when Mr. Costigan supported Miss Josephine Roche, now an Assistant Secretary of the Treasury in Washington, for the Democratic nomination. President Roosevelt, it is reported, has brought pressure on the Governor not to enter the lists against Senator Costigan lest the move split the party and injure chances of carrying the state in November. The answer of the Johnson adherents is that Senator Costigan did not mind splitting the party when he supported Miss Roche. Bitler Fight Foreseen Many Republicans, it is said, j would vote in the Democratic pri- j marv in the effort, to eliminate j Senator Costigan. So interested are they in this fight to unseat the \ Senator through his party primary | that they hardly have thought of a I candidate of their own. Observers say the senatorship seems certain to go to the Democrats in any case. The Costigan-Johnson contest, if it eventuates, will be bitter. Some favor the Governor’s chances because of his vote-getting ability. Others favor the Senator because of his record of accomplishment, including assistance to the sugar beet, industry, the biggest single economic factor in the state, and they point to the political machine he has built up through control of Federal relief. Through Mayor Benjamin F. Stapleton he dominates the Democratic machine here in Denver. Critic of Some New Deal Acts Gov. Johnson has criticised some New Deal ventures, especially certain phases of AAA. He has charged that the relief organization has been used for political purposes. He has given comfort to the Townsend pension clubs by appearing at meetings. Speaking with me about A1 Smith's Liberty League address, he said: “Ha asked ’em some questions that are going to be hard to answer." The Governor won general commendation by his demand for imprachment of one of his own Democratic officials. Secretary of State James H. Carr, on the ground of alleged Irregularities in the liquor control set-up. An overwhelmingly Democratic House voted impeachment. but Mr. Carr resigned before trial by the Senate. Seeks Big RFC Loan A factor in the Governor's campaign—if he should run against the Senator—may be a $25,000,000 loan which he is seeking from the RFC for a road-building program which the PWA refused to grant. Approval of the project, would give him useful patronage. Economically. Colorado is in good shape now. but a tide has set in against the New Deal. The tide is being blown up by conservative business, industrial and banking forces, both Democrat and Republican. Charles R. Enos. Republican state chairman, forecast that President Roosevelt would lose the state in November. He cited not only antagonism to the President and the NewDeal, but a revival of the Republican organization in the state, especially among the young mem - bers of the party. “The people have lost faith in the President's judgment and sincerity,” he said. Landon Seems Favored Democrats are not overly confident of holding the state for Mr. Roosevelt, though they believe they can. For years it was normally Republican. Gov. Landon of Kansas is most favored by Republicans in Colorado for the Presidential nomination. An organization is at work for him under Wilbert Devius. local lawyer and classmate of Gov. Landon at Kansas University. Mr. Devius hopes to get an almost solid Landon delegation. Col. Frank Knox may get a little support, as National Committeeman Lawrence C. Phipps, multimillionaire ex-Sena-tor. is for him. This is one state in the West *hich has demonstrated little enthusiasm for Senator Borah.

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Persons residing in four residences in the 400 block, W. 31stst, werlP overcome hv gas today when a main was broken due to cold weather. None of the persons, including twin babies, was in serious condition. 1. Mrs. Ben H. Barrel. 443 W. 31st-st, reclines in bed after she was overcome by gas. 2. Mr. Harrel and his 4-year-old son, John Robert, also were confined to bed for several hours. With them is Val Sehwert. 455 W. 31st-st, a neighbor, who twice was stricken by gas as he aided neighbors in fleeing from their homes. 3. Workmen of the Citizens Gas and Coke Utility are shown probing for the gas main break. They found it in short order and made repairs.

JOINT COMMITTEE SCANS COMPROMISE Balance on Home Rule and Central Control Urged. (Continued From Page Onp) Commission called for rigid cenarliza*ion of social welfare authority in the State Welfare Board to be established under the Federal social security program. However, home rule advocates on the committee have opposed such a drastic change. Children's guadrian boards now serve without pay, but probably would be paid approximately S3OO a year a member if that form of compromise is decided upon, it was said. Divide on Merit Plan Ts the county commissioncis, who now administer old-age pensions, are chosen, it is proposed to raise their salaries in the 1937 regular session of the Legislature. The committee also is said to be divided on the question of whether a civil service system should be adopted in the hiring of investigators and other welfare department employes. One of the advantages of the contemplated compromise plan on local administration, it was pointed out, is that fewer jobs would be created. * IT. S. Approval Likely With the eventual state legislation likely to differ sharply frost that in the model bills, it was suggested in the committee that it may be necessary for a legislative commission of several members to take the finished product to Washington for approval or new suggestions by the Federal Social Security Board. The committee is to adjourn today for a week and then reconvene. It is expected its report to Gov. McNutt will be followed immediately by the Governor's call for a special session. Decision to preserve home rule in administration of social security was announced by Senator Thomas Hendricks and Rep. Fred Barrett. Indianapolis, on behalf of Senator Walter S. Chambers, Newcastle, committee chairman. In order to comply with the Federal act covering old-age pensions, children’s pensions and public health, it has been decided to establish a state welfare board of nine, five of whom are to be of the majority political party. However, the board would have only supervisory authority and no administrative powers. As received by the committee, the Federal suggestions for a model state bill would have stripped the township trustees of all power except school administration and given it to the welfare board. Purple Heart to Meet The year's program is to be discussed tonight at the meeting of the Indianapolis Chapter of the Military Order of the Purple Heart, at 29 S. Delaware-st. Room 30. Mineola Council to Meet Tonight Mineola Council 31. Pocahontas, is to meet, at 8 tonight in 230 E. Ohio-st. Bargain Week-End Trips EACH WEEK-END CHICAGO $5.50 Leave on any train 10:20 a. in. Friday in 1 :.V> a m. Monday. Return limit Monday. Reduced round trip Pullman fares. NEXT SATURDAY CLEVELAND $4.50 Leave I'LOO p. m. Return on any train until 2:50 a. in. Mm,day. Coach service. DETROIT m_TT_-„54.50 TOLEDO $4.00 SANDUSKY $4.00 Leave 10:00 p. in. Returning reach Indianapolis not later than Monda> morning following. Coach service. NEXT SUNDAY CINCINNATI $2.50 Greensburg. $1.25 shelbyville. SO.VS Leave 7:45 a tn Return on any train same day. Coach service. ST. LOUIS $4.50 Leave 12:30 a. m„ 2 45 a. m.. nr s :03 a in. Return mi any train same day. Coach service. BIG FOUR ROUTE

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(Continued From Page One) it up and declare his principles and program. He said that he would obey the decision of the Supreme Court in the Dred Scott case. That was an obligation resting on every citizen. * But he added that the Supreme Court had often reversed itself and that he and his supporters would seek to have it reverse the interpretation made in the Dred Scott v,ase. “Will he appeal to a mob?” cried Stephen A, Douglas. To questions of this kind Lincoln replied simply, in substance: “We think the Dred Scott decision wrong and we shall appeal to the people of the United States.” a a a IN time, new judges could be appointed by the president and the Senate, and a majority obtained for a different view of the Constitution. Since an amendment was not then possible, a change in the membership of the court was the only way out for the Republicans. “Tampering with the judiciary,” screamed horrified Democrats, but Lincoln and the Republicans demanded another interpretation of the Constitution by a Supreme Court differently constituted. On this point Lincoln was as firm as steel, and m strong words he appealed to tne voters for support. “Familiarize yourselves with the chains of bondage,” he sa’id, “and you prepare your limbs to wear them. Accustomed to trample on the rights of others, you have lost the genius of your own independence and become the fit subjects of the first cunning tyrant who rises among you. “And let me tell you that all these thing are prepared for you by the teachings of history, if the elections shall promise that the next Dred Scott decision and all future decisions will be quietly acquiesced in by the people.” a a a WITHOUT condemning the Supreme Court decision expressly, the Republican platform of 1860 declared the doctrine laid down in the opinion to be contrary to the Constitution, “revolutionary in its tendency, and subversive of the peace and harmony of the country.” On this platform, Abraham Lincoln was elected President of the United States. In his first inaugural, President Lincoln paid his respects to the

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Supreme Court. Its rulings in particular cases were to be obeyed so far as those cases ran. But he continued, “If the policy of the government upon vital questions affecting the whole people is to be irrevocably fixed by decisions of the Supreme Court the instant they are made, in ordinary litigation between parties in personal actions, the people will have ceased to be their own rulers, having to that extent practically resigned their government into the hands of that eminent tribunal.” What President Lincoln and the Republican Party would have done about this constitutional issue if war had not come, nobody knows or can ever know. What they did do amid the war is a matter of record. a tt tt IN 1862 they pushed through Congress and enacted into law a bill prohibiting slavery “in the present territories of the United States and in any that shall hereafter be acquired.” The Constitution was unchanged. The Dred Scott decision stood. Chief Justice Taney still lived. It was written in the law books that Congress had no power prohibit slavery in the territories. Yet Congress and the President prohibited slavery in the territories. Not content with this defiance of the past, Lincoln decided to strike a mortal blow at slavery in the states. Under the Constitution only, each state acting alone, “within its own sphere,” could vote slavery up or down. Neither the President nor Congress, nor both combined, could touch “the peculiar institution” in any state. But was created “an emergency.” President Lincoln was commander-in-chief of the armed forces of the Union. And under the sanction of the war power, Lincoln, by mere proclamation, emancipated slaves in the states and districts then in arms against the authority of the United States. For this fateful stroke of state there was no express warrant in the Constitution. Yet Lincoln made a broad interpretation to justify his action. a a a AT best this was a “war measure.” Could the Proclamation of Emancipation be enforced on the return of peace? Or this constitutional point there were grave doubts. Besides, slavery was

still in effect in the states and districts not in arms against the Union. To finish the work thus started. Lincoln took the final step. He sponsored and Congress passed an amendment to the Constitution abolishing slavery throughout the United States. By skillful maneuvering, Lincoln and Republican managers were able to win the approval of three fourths of the states. The amendment was ratified. The Constitution drawn by the Fathers was changed to meet the spirit and circumstances of the new time. Thus a great public policy, both moral and economic in nature, was written down in the Constitution of the United States. The leader who had dared to take up that policy when it was “dangerous.” who dramatized it. who gave his life for it, was lifted into immortality, for all ages, for all climes, for all humanity. Those who imagine that the Constitution is a mere theme for hair-splitting by “great constitutional lawyers” may well ponder and remember the life and labor of Lincoln, the Emancipator.

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OARP IS NOT BIG BUSINESS. SAYS R. E. CLEMENTS Income Small in Relation to Scope of Work, Founder Claims. BY MAX STERN Times Special Writer WASHNIGTON. Feb. 12.—Charges that, the Townsend plan ha.s grown into a “big business" with huge, pay rolls and salaries were denied today by R. E. Clements, secretarytreasurer. cofounder and one of the triumvirate that runs "OARP''—Old Age Revolving Pensions. Inc. "We are doing the biggest job in the United States.” he said. “And we are doing it on less money than any similar organization would need. Look at what the Republicans and Democrats spent in the 1932 campaign, a matter of $7,500,000.” Mr. Clements said there now are nearly 7000 Townsend clubs, with from 100 to 21.000 members each. There are between 250 and 300 congressional district organizers, working under contract with 80 state area men. There are four regional headquarters—at Los Angeles, Chicago, New York and here. How Dues Are Split Each new Townsend club member is supposed to pay 25 cents, of which the organizer gets 5 cents, the state area manager 5 cents and national headquarters 15 cents. In addition to the initiation fee. each member is supposed to contribute 10 cents - month, but Mr. Clements said 40 per cent of the members were behind in their dues. In addition, the new Townsend National Legion is being organized, with dues at $ a month. Headquarters here hope for 100.000 legionnaires, but claim only 25,000 now. According to Mr. Clements, he and Dr. Townsend get SIOO a month each and traveling expenses. State area managers often are glad to go on straight $25 a week salaries, he said. The Townsend war chest of some $1,200,000 a year, he asserted, goes chiefly into radio, printing, rentals, and field work. “Radio is our most expensive item,” he said. “We broadcast twice a week over four regional hookups, reaching possibly half of America. We are just concluding negotiations for broadcasts over WLW at Cincinnati. which will give us a national audience. “An audit at our June Convention showed we had collected $628,000. with $51,000 on hand. We keep about this amount—two or three weeks’ reserves—in cash. “We will be glad to submit to any and all investigations, such as have been suggested by certain Congressmen. We will stipulate only that such investigations include ail pension plan movements. The Postoffice Department had two auditors working nine weeks in our Los Angeles office, and they have just given us a clean bill of health.” He laughed at the report that he entered the Townsend movement poor and is now wealthy, and denied giving his wife and secretary a SSOOO diamond ring. “I was property poor when I became interested in this movement.” he said. “I still am. Yes, I have property in 14 states, and that is one reason why I want prosperity started moving. It has cost me money to belong to the Townsend movement, but it was worth it.” Mr. Clements said the movement was “growing by leaps and bounds.” “The offensive of the economists has not hurt us,” he said. “It has helped us, by making more people think about it. People who think the Townsend plan is dead for this session have another think coming. We’re just starting.”

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SECURITY LAWS VEXING. BAKERS' GROUP IS TOLD West Says Unemployment Phase Especially Irks Industry. Present social security legislation presents a particular problem to the baking industry because of the high percentage of wage cost charged against gross income. Harold B. West. Indianapolis, said today at the Indiana Bakers' Association convention in the Claypool. Unemployment compensation phases especially vex bakers, since there is little unemployment in the industry, he declared. Charles P. Ehlers. secretary-man-ager. said that the old-age pensions, care of underprivileged groups and unemployment compensation features should be considered separately. “Unemployment compensation has no relation to and no place in the administration of the other two welfare phases of the program.” he asserted. Stump Leads Discussion Other speakers at the closed meeting were Albert Stump. Indianapolis attorney, who led a discussion on recovery of processing taxes, and H. L. Somers. Fort Wayne, who reviewed the 1C35 motor carrier act. Officers elected yesterday ara Vern C. Vanderbilt, Indianapolis, president; Herbert Graves, Lafayette, vice president, and Paul Dietzen, Andersen, treasurer. Mr. Ehlers was re-elected secretary-manager. The convention is to close this afternoon with a session arranged by the association’s Allied Trades Division. Speakers are to be Robert Wise. Anderson; William Marie, wardt. Joplin. Mo., and Karl Zimmer, retiring Allied Trades Division president. New trades officers elected vesterday arc Harry Mann, president; Henry Woodman, vice president, and Mr. Ehlers, secretarytreasurer. CO-OPERATIVE LEADER TO SPEAK_AT DE PAUW Dr. James Peter Warhasse Heads National Association. Tim ex Special GREENCASTLE. Ind.. Feb. 12Dr. James Peter Warbasse. president of the Co-Operative League of America, is to speak at De Pauw University tomorrow on the cooperative movement. He is being brought here by Paul Turner, De Pauw senior, and Prof. Hiram Jome, head of the university's economics department. Mr. Turner is president of the De Pauw Co-Operative and recently started a medical co-operative at Economy, Ind.

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