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it Seems to Me nnwH jyjIAMI, April 11.—The President is heading north and so am I, but I think we are both making a mistake, for this is the finest time of year in Florida. The President probably spent the wiser vacation, for he followed the fish while I pursued the horses. His was the heavier catch, I have no doybt, and, besides, if you lose on a mackerel it doesn’t cost anything. In the beginning it seemed to me as if I might be on my way to fame and

fortune, but that was while I was still playing hunches. Later on I was ruined through the use of a scientific system. For instance, there was Idle Midget, a couple of weeks ago. Idle Midget just didn’t figure, but all morning I had been talking with a man about the munitions hearing. A coincidence like that could hardly be passed up by any one of intelligence. Morgan’s lap, • Idle Midget—how could one miss? The horse paid the nice price of 46 to 1. But the Midget couldn’t do it a

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second time, and there have been De Valera, Mixed Party, Flying Arab, Old Comrade and others too numerous to mention. Old Comrade was distinctly a disappointment. The racing colors under which he ran were black with a large red "C." Certainly there was a horse to fill the eye of any radical. But he finished last for all that, although the chart did say, "Old Comrade closed fast.’’ a a a Slww Shocks Miami SPEAKING of Old Comrade, Bernard Shaw found Miami just his meat when he dropped in for a day during the height of the season. He shocked the citizens and also the newspaper men. A reporter for a wire service told me, "Os course, I couldn’t send out most of what he said.” "For instance?” I inquired. "Well,” he explained, "the old gentleman said that Roosevelt was all right for an amateur, but that the United States really ought to import a couple of commissars. Imagine my turning in a story like that to my office!” Wild legends went around about Shaw in Miami. It was rumored that he had drunk tw6 cocktails. I investigated that rumor, and it turned out merely that Shaw had split a bottle of buttermilk with Bernarr Macfaddcn. And speaking of vegetarians, I did not learn until it was too late the sure way of beating the dog races. The more intelligent greyhounds, which is no great compliment, grow a little bored with the mechanical rabbit. They know it is a fake, and their racing becomes a little perfunctory. At such times shrewd trainers will take the blase hound out in the morning, put a muzzle on him and let him have a dash after a real rabbit. That night when the dog gets on the track he is full of patriotism, and he barks and prances. He is a good bet for show. It was Jack Bell, of the Miami News, who told me about the dogs and the rabbit, and by a transition which did not seem to me at all abrupt he began -> talk about war. a u a Training for Killing ‘"ITTHEN I was in a training camp,” he said, “they ▼ v used to teach us to hate the Germans. In bayonet drill when we stabbed dummies the man in charge always tried to work us up to a white heat of ferocity. I found it hard because I had never seen a German. The dummy we used in bayonet drill was just like the dummy I used to tackle in football practice. “I went to France and was put in the line and fired and was fired at, but still I hadn’t seen any Germans. And then one day in the Argonne we were advancing along a sunken road early in the morning and I saw my first German. He was about 17 years old and he was probably part of a patrol. He was sprawled out beside the road, shot through the chest and dead, but not so long. “With one hand he had torn his tunic open. That would have been the left hand. His right hand was tightly clenched on something. The captain said to search him. There was nothing in his pockets and his insignia had been cut away. I opened his hand. He was holding a picture of a young girl with two long braids. I gave it to the captain. I had seen my first German and I didn’t hate him.” (Copyright, 1936 )

Allan Hoover Gets S4BOO From AAA BY RAYMOND CLAPPER WASHINGTON. April 11.—Who started these disclosures of AAA benefit payments anyway? Now it leaks out that Allan Hoover, son of former President Hoover, is on the books as having received S4BOO in AAA sugar benefit payments from the New Deal against which his father is pitting wit and wisdom. The payment was made on a 1934 sugar contract and went to 114 Sansome-st, San Francisco. It is not known here whether Mr. Hoover was only the nominal recipient for payments intended for tenants or other parties, or

whether they were due him personally. It has been said frequently that the real purpose of AAA was to buy the Republican farm vote but nobody dreamed that Secretary Wallace would aim so high. a a a , ONE touching little Easter story is the way loyal Fascist Italians in this country have been buying Easter greetings engraved on almost paper-thin copper sheets which slip into an

envelope for easy mailing to relatives in Italy. Complaints were made to the State Department but the answer was that the government could not interfere since there is no prohibition on shipping copper to Italy. Since it would be cheaper for Italy to buy copper in bulk, the sale of the small copper greeting cards is taken here to be a combination of money raising and sentimental propaganda among Italians here and abroad, who probably think they’re smuggling copper to help II Duce. a a a HERBERT HOOVER also had a brain trust. But it has scattered. Two of those most active in it were not college professors but Washington newspaper correspondents, Roy A. Roberts of the Kansas City Star, and now its managing editor, and Jay G. Hayden, of the Detroit News. When Hoover was Secretary of Commerce and during the early part of his White House term, both of these political writer* were among his most Intimate advisers. They generally are credited with having helped him gain the political prominence which led o hist nomination in 1928. Roberts is supposed to have put at least one man in the Hoover Cabinet. But where are they now? Roberts is one of Gov. Landon’s principal political advisers and is now in the East doing missionary work for him. And Hayden a few days ago wrote a dispatch to the effect that Hoover was making efforts to block Landon Hoover was so aroused that he wired to Hayden’s editor protesting aaginst the dispatch of his former adviser. * IT’S settled now. The most powerful man in the Administration is six-footer Jesr.e Jones, chairman of RPC. He went to Texas recently to break ground for a historic monument at San Jacinto. But when this political Camera put both hands on the ancient plow which had been chosen for the ceremony, he not only broke the ground, but Ul6 piOW* IOQ* ;

CO-OPS—CONSUMERS IN BUSINESS * # * * * * Indiana Takes Lead in Training Youth to Cany on Movement

Thl* Is the *i*th and last of a aerie* of articles by Bertram B. Fowler, noted miKasine writer, showing the amazinr frowth of the co-operative movement in the United States. a it it BY BERTRAM B. FOWLER (Copyright. 1936, by NEA Service, Inc.) have definitely struck out toward processing and production, after functioning for several years in the purely retail end of the business and industrial field. As they grow and advance, the co-ops naturally will run into new problems and heavier responsibilities. The future of the movement will depend on how these problems and responsibilities are met. First and foremost is the question of education. If the co-op movement is to succeed, the great masses of the

people to whom it makes its appeal must be taught the philosophy of co-operation. Most of the big wholesalers are already facing this problem. There is in action now a system of education within the movement. The big co-op wholesale houses have not been turning all their profits back to their individual members. In most cases half the profit has been set aside to make up a fund for expansion and education. tt a tt INDIANA is an outstanding example of just how the successful co-op will work in the future. The Indiana Farm Bureau Co-Op Association has set up an educational department, which works in two ways. During the summer, it runs a series of one-week courses at camps and colleges rented for that purpose. At these courses, classes of about 30 young people are gathered from the various counties and are given an intensive course in co-operative philosophy and technique. These students return to their counties imbued with the co-op idea, to become local leaders in organization of study clubs to carry on through the winter. The summer of 1934 saw 1000 of these students trained in co-op schools. In 1935 this number was jumped to 1200. Plans for 1936 call for an even greater number. In Noble County, Ind., under direction of the Rev. Carl Hutchinson, the study club idea was linked with a system of co-opera-tive recreation. Folk games and dances of European countries proved popular with these typical young Americans. Asa result,

WASHINGTON, April 11.— Managers of Gov. Alf Landon are so confident he will win the presidential nomination that they have begun to lay the groundwork for a G. O. P. Labor Committee for the campaign. At a secret meeting in Washington last week, a Landon spokesman told 14 union officials that the Kansan had the nomination “in the bag,” and that the Republican Party would have plenty of money to wage an aggressive fight against Roosevelt. . . The last two days of March saw more new stock issues registered with the Securities and Exchange Commission than during all of its first year. Reason for the sudden rush was that until the April 1 deadline corporations could use their year-end balance sheets as the basis of stock issues. After April 1 anew audit of accounts was required, . . . The “Standing Room Only” sign will be out when Andy Mellon’s $3,000,000 tax evasion case is argued before the Board of Tax Appeals in June. Already more requests for seats have been received from lawyers and thrill-seekers than there are places in the board’s hearing room. Facing one another in the dramatic debate will be Robert Jackson, young Assistant Attorney General, and Frank Hogan, council for Albert B. Fall and others in the famous Teapot Dome Scandal. . . . Serge Uget, for many year* custodian of all Russian government property in the United States, including the handsome 16th-st embassy, is now an assistant to the United States Ditsrict Attorney in New York. ’ Said Senator “Cotton Ed” Smith during a hearing of the Agriculture Committee, of which he is chairman: “Some of these days some of our people will get to thinking, and I am afraid they will all die of apoplexy.” a a a THOUSANDS of thin copper plates, about the size of a postcard, have been sold to Ital-ian-Americans. They are inscribed with Easter war messages and instructions to turn the copper over to Mussolini’s depleted war stocks. Copper is one scarce war material Mussolini needs most. . . . Charley Michelson. publicity sage of the Democratic National Committee, is making the most of a letter which the G. O. P. committee sent out to all Republican editors offering to supply them with any material.

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Noble has become a model co-op county. Mr. Hutchinson recently went to the Ohio Farm Bureau to set up a statewide educational system based on his Noble County .experience. tt a tt A NOTHER important phase of co-operation has recently appeared. Churches, long in revolt over social and economic conditions, have begun to see in the co-operative movement a chance for pastors to take a leading part in formation of anew economic system. All over the United States the churches are embracing the movement, playing a growing part in co-op education. Co-op youth leagues are springing up. In universities and colleges all over the country, students are forming societies to feed and house themselves. As they learn to do this, they absorb the co-op technique and begin to think about working into the co-op movement when they leave school. Naturally, as the movement grows, the problem of efficient management becomes increasingly important. The co-ops have been fortunate in drawing to them shrewd and capable business men. Now, facing the problem as the big one of the future, they are planning training courses for future co-op leaders. In Kansas City the Consumers Co-operative Association is laying the plans for a co-operative college. Here, it is hoped, will come the best of the young cooperators from all over America to be trained for technical and expert positions within the movement.

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but concluding that "most of you, however, undoubtedly will prefer to run the letters of Mark Sullivan, Dave Lawrence, Frank Kent or Paul Mallon.” Michelson is now circularizing editors thanking the “Republican organization for unconsciously performing a great service to the public, even if it was a disservice to its journalistic protagonists, in revealing its views of the status of the syndicate writers.” . . . Jim Farley is carefully scanning the oratorical horizon for keynote speakers for the Democratic National Convention. One possibility he is watching is Clyde Hoey, candidate for Governor of North Carolinia, whose recent radio exposition of the New Deal brought a big reaction. a a a Most unusual spectacle of the week: Burly Joe Robinson, majority leader of the Senate, with a red paper cap perched on his head, singing German drinking songs at the German embassy. a a a ALL this week the Senate has suffered inhibitions. In session hour after hour, day after day, no Senator was allowed to speak. Sitting as a high court of impeachment, all the normal rules are set aside. Only the prosecutor and witnesses are heard. . . The well of the Senate looks like a broadcasting studio, with microphones scattered about the floor. Impeachment is not broadcasted, however, merely amplified so back-row Senators can hear the stumbling voices of witnesses. . . . The gentleman who is on trial. Judge Halsted L. Ritter of Florida, was once Republican candidate for Governor of Colorado. He is a former resident of Indianapolis. a a a When a Senator can not contain himself any longer, he dashes off a note, snaps his fingers for a page, sends the note to the desk. Prosecution is halted while the clerk reads the question—through a mike—and the witness undertakes to answer. a a a WHEN MAJ. GEN. JOHNSON HA GOOD finishes the three-months enforced vacation he got for criticising the WPA he will be placed in command of Governor’s Island in New York. War Department insiders say the outspoken officer will be sent to this post for two reasons: I. He has only a year to serve before retirement; 2. Disciplinary con-

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The co-operative movement isn’t all work. Above is a scene In a revue staged by employes of the Central Co-operative Wholesale in Superior, Wis., at the seventh congress of the co-ops’ district league. Turning back to work, the tractor shown at right is one designed especially for sale to co-op members.

POSSIBILITIES in the manufacturing fields have hardly been touched. But in their fertilizer and farm machinery programs, the co-ops have discovered some significant things. They have found that some big manufacturers already in the fields see in the co-op method of distribution a step forward. These manufacturers, as in the case of the Tennessee Corporation, have shown their willingness to play ball with the co-ops. Here may be one solution of the manufacturing problem. Another important factor will be that of legal and legislative action. Lobbies of vested interests will naturally enough move to get orippling and cramping legislation passed to stop the co-opera-tives in the easiest way. Already the answer to this problem is appearing. As the membership of the movement grows,

ditions there are unsatisfactory and a hard-boiled executive is needed to clean them up. .. . During Townsend investigation hearings Rep. Joe Gavagan, Tammanyite member of the committee, toyed with a pair of dice. .. . Senate Republican Floor Leader Charley McNary was paid an unusual tribute by the press of his state. Out of 218 Oregon newspapers, 213 announced they would support his re-election this year. Among them were the five leading Democratic papers. .. . Rep. Hatton Sumners, Texas chairman of the House Judiciary Committee and chief prosecutor in the impeachment trial of Judge Ritter, has participated in three such proceedings. This is onefourth of the total number of impeachment trials conducted by the Senate. . . . Despite extensive advertising, the Treasury’s baby bond drive is lagging. The bonds are moving steadily but not in the volume hoped for. a a a Correction of a news release sent out by the Republican National Committee: “Mrs. Wolf, director of the women’s division of the Democratic National Committee, will speak first on a given subject ar'l Mrs. Geprge A. Wyeth will speak last on the same subject. However, this is not a debate.” a a a Friends of r. e. ciemenis say the ex-co-founder of the Townsend movement is considering running for Congress in the San Pedro (Cal.) district. . . . With the Ohio primaries just a month off, more than half of the state’s delegation in congress have gone home to repair their political fences. . . . One of the most original pieces of campaign literature to crop out in this year’s electioneering is a creation by Lewey Robinson, young city official of Birmingham, Ala., who is after the scalp of Rep. George Huddleston, a bitter anti-New Deal Democrat. The document consists of an imitation $lO Confederate banknote, on one side of which are these words: “This piece of paper is worthless. Worthless as it may be, it represents the full value of George Huddleston as a member of Congress ” a a a Canvassers for Secretary Dan Roper’s business census get this comeback from business men: “The President promised us a breathing spell, so why doesn’t Roper leave us alone?” (Copyright, 1936. by United Feature Syndicate, Inc.)

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the politicians are naturally attracted to the co-ops as a source of political support. Such men as Gov. Philip La Follette of Wisconsin and Gov. Floyd Olson of Minnesota have come out into the open to declare their belief that consumer co-operation is the coming economic order. In the last Wisconsin Legislature a bill was passed making compulsory the teaching of co-operation in all high schools, state universities, colleges and normal schools. Here, say the co-operators, is the answer to the legislative problem in the future. a a a AND THEY are shrewdly building on this platform. Just as shrewdly they have refused to ally themselves with any political party, but plan to use directly those politicians who show friendliness to the co-ops. The co-operative movement will bear watching during the next few years. For there will either be a grand collapse, with the hopes of millions of farmers and labor-

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Solution to Previous Contract Problem liY W. E. M’KENNEY American' Bridge League Secretary PRE-EMPTIVE bidding produces strange results, at times. Certain players can not permit a pre-emptive bid to be made against them. It is like waving a red flag at a bull. They are bound to bid something. When playing against this type of player, strengthen your preemptive bids. Then again, there are players who do not know just what to do against a pre-emptive bid. Against this type you can use a light preemptive bid. Odd results, however, were produced with today’s hand. When South elected to open with a four diamond bid, West, of course, knew that South was trying to shut him out and promptly bid four spades, which could be made. Even though North held three aces, he felt certain that he would not take a diamond trick.

ers falling to the earth, or there will be here upon the American scene anew economic order, to play a growing part in the social and economic development of America. One thing about the co-ops needs to be clearly borne in mind. There is nothing of Communism in the movement, it is, as the Swedes have said, democracy in business. Communism would swallow up the movement. In fact, this has already happened in Russia, where a strong co-op movement was taken away from the people and controlled by the state, thus wiping out the democratic character. The co-op movement is pushing ahead in America, in Great Britain, and in Scandinavia mainly because these are the countries of the world that understand democracy and find it easy to transfer it into economic terms. It is this, more than anything else, that gives co-operation its importance and marks it as a movement that may go far. THE END

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Therefore, he decided to make a sacrifice bid of five diamonds. West now felt certain that North and South were trying to keep him from making a game, so he bid five spades, which North promptly doubled Most pre-emptive bidders fail to give their partners credit for holding much. South felt that he had forced his side into hot water, and that East and West could make five spades; so he bid six diamonds, which bought the contract. West’s opening lead of the king of spades was trumped by South with the three of diamonds. Declarer played the king of diamonds, and West showed out. The ace and king of clubs were cashed and , small club ruffed in dummy. A spade was returned and ruffed, and then a club was ruffed with the ace of diamonds. Another spade was ruffed by declarer and then the diamonds were played out. At trick eleven, West was squeezed. He could not hold the queen of spades and also protect the king of hearts. The squeeze play gave declarer sever; odd. (Copyright. 1936, by NEA Service, Inc.)

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Fair Enough WESTBROOK PEGLER (JF course, prohibition is no issue in the current presidential campaign. But I think of prohibition every time Mr. Hoover makes a speech, because the very word recalls what sort of President he was when he had his chance. It is hard to remember, so easily are pains forgotten, that during Mr. Hoover’s time in Washington many people were shot on the mere suspicion of some

bum with a government badge that they might have in their possession as little as a dram of some miserable counterfeit liquor, and that Mr. Hoover never had the pity, let alone the decency, to say “aye,” “yes” or "no” about it. If he had had the gumption to say that he believed in prohibition, that would have been something. But you can go through his entire record and never find a sentence in which Hoover the President or Hoover the Cabinet member affirmed a belief in the Eighteenth Amendment except to call it a “noble

experiment,” or expressed the natural loathing of honest men for a regime as brutal and dictatorial as Hitler and Mussolini at their worst. After all, if a government kills innocent men and then protects the killers from punishment, if a government breaks into private homes on the suspicion of malicious neighbors to slug the occupants and drag them off to jail for protesting, that is Naziism and Fascism. a a a One of His Daring Moments T3 Y the time Mr. Hoover became President prohibition was no longer an experiment, although he went so far as to call it so in one of his more daring moments. By that time prohibition had matured into the all-American outrage. There is no way of reckoning the number of people who were fined or sent to prison for being just a little bit guilty, as in the case of a man who likes his toddy and keeps a flask on hand. There is no computing the total of people who died of poison or lost their eyes or the number of ginger-paralytics who became unstrung from drinking jake. When Mr. Hoover became President prohibition was an established system of corruption in which agents of the United States government rode the bootleggers’ trucks to provide safe conduct or helped one gang of bootleggers hijack another gang’s load. Certainly not even Mr. Hoover himself could have been dumb enough to believe that enormous breweries operating openly in New York and Chicago could produce and sell their beer without the protection and partnership- of government agents and prosecutors. But the Anti-Saloon League seemed strong and Bishop Cannon was a tough politician, so Mr. Hoover showed what sort of President he was by repudiating the report of his own commission which investigated prohibition and found it rotten. a a a Hoover Should Yell '-pHERE has been some complaint that Mr. Roosevelt’s Administration is slightly dictatorial around the edges, and that can’t be-denied with any sincerity, for the boys have made free use of the whip these last four years, particularly In the Treasury Department. This business of using the income tax to beat people into line is out of the book of Hitler and Mussolini and Huey P. Long. But Mr. Hoover is hardly the one to holler "dictator” at anybody, considering the dry dictatorship which had his sanction under prohibition. In the last campaign Mr. Hoover represented prohibition because he lacked the honesty and courage to say a word which would have annoyed the AntiSaloon League and the Methodist Board of Prohibition, Temperance and Public Morals. Roosevelt denounced prohibition, and that was the great popular issue of the election. Not only a hedger, but a bit of a whiner, it is natural that Mr. Hoover has struck the pose of a martyr with the plaintive slogan “Smear Hoover” as a blanket reply to every criticism brought against him. There is no denying that Hoover was smeared. He ought to know, because he did the job himself.

Liberal Viewpoint BY HARRY ELMER BARNES

A VISITOR from Mars, or even from Europe, would have been rather dazed by the news last week-end with respect to our criminal procedure. He would have scratched his head in vain to discover some strain of logic. He would have noted the news of the Hauptmann execution, played up in headlines as large as thoso which proclaimed the declaration t>f war in Europe

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which could not be retraced and would end forever the prospect of clearing up the case in decisive fashion. If someone had desired further to enlighten our Martian visitor on “Jersey justice’’ he might have learned of the killing, some months back, of a New Jersey wife and mother by public officials. He would have been told how the slayers of this woman were cleared in a jury trial and how the former sheriff leaped over chairs in the courtroom to congratulate his ex-deputies with tears in his eyes. He would have been amazed to find that these deputies were reinstated in public office to continue their work of “protecting” womanhood, law and order. No protests, I believe, came from Princeton, u n u TURNING back to the newspapers, the traveler from Mars would have read of the Vera Streta case. Here was a woman who admitted shooting a man-—her one-time lover—under conditions that seemed to indicate premeditation. But she was acquitted. Moving to crimes against property, our celestial caller might have discovered the fact that Col. Luke Lea had been released, after serving one year and eleven months out of a sentence of six to ten years for conspiracy to defraud a bank in Asheville, N. C. The crime for which he wa£ convicted was the key incident in the failure of the Central Bank and Trust Cos. of Asheville, with a loss to depositors of $17,000,000. This led to the closing of several other North Carolina banks with greater losses. If the visitor from Mars could have drawn from these news notes any basic principles relative to our standards of judgment of crime, our zeal for justice, our penalties and our sense of fair play he would have done better than any realistic criminologist in our midst could have* been done. Barely has a week-end provided mare colorful examples of cockeyed justice. ■

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in 1914. Reading further, he would have found that a man, whose guilt was regarded by many as not fully proved, was being electrocuted with almost mob-like 'frenzy while his case was still under official investigation. Our visitor from Mars would have read how the distinguished and solemn faculty of the great Princeton University demanded a searching investigation of a Governor who claimed that he was determined to gather all the facts before taking a step