Indianapolis Times, Volume 48, Number 36, Indianapolis, Marion County, 22 April 1936 — Page 13

Ft Seems to Me HEYMHN April 22.—Louis McHenry Howe closed his eyes and died just about the time that Franklin Delano Roosevelt began his speech to the Gridiron Club on Saturday night. If Col. Howe was aware of the world about him he must have smiled as he stepped out of the picture because his chief was riding on the high tide of his political fortunes.

I trust that there will be Democratic and particularly New Deal politics in heaven, or Louis Howe hardly will be happy. Surely he will be leaning over the gold bar of the kingdom on Election Day unless he shrewdly decides that no miracles are necessary. This was my first Gridiron dinner, and I enjoyed it very much. It seems to me that the character of the sketches is well above the average Dutch Treat Club show because of the fact that there is no recourse to stag jokes. And yet I must admit that I

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could wish the satire were cut in a little more deeply. I realize that the object of the party is one of mockery and good fellowship. And in maintaining the moods of good clean fun some humorous opportunities are lost. 00# It Mag He Too Much to Ask PERHAPS it is asking too much to expect the Gridiron Club to invite the President,, many Senators and a working majority of the Supreme Court to a banquet and then proceed to slash them to ribbons. But I think it may be scored against the newspaper men that they were somewhat more timid with the High Bench than George Kaufman and Morrie Riskind. No Gridiron endeavor had half the animus contained in “Os Thee I sing.” In spite of superficial differences, everybody who attends Is a 95 per cent American. The Inspired title of “Mutiny on the Bounty” led to an only middling sketch on the subject of Federal relief. The satirists of the Gridiron Club are not much Interested in economic problems, but only in politics, which is quite a different problem. Nevertheless, there was an interesting and exciting tension running through the evening. In many spots the pretense that this was badinage which goes on when good fellows get together seemed a very thin assumption. There always was the feeling that at any moment somebody might quit throwing left jabs and really swing the right. The members of the opposing groups were not quite as friendly as they professed to be upon the surface. The shadows of fundamental issues were occasionally seen passing across the dining room. And some of the silhouettes of rabbits looked not unlike wolves when viewed up close. 000 The End Draws Near PERHAPS it has always been so, but I went away with the impression that it had been my privilege to attend one of the last Gridiron dinners. It seemed to me that the velvet was almost worn off. There could be a day, I felt, when factual journalists could hardly go ahead with the biand premise that whichever party won the nation would proceed without much difference. There will be a time, closer to the corner than prosperity, when candidates will be compelled to say, “I called you that, and I wasn’t smiling. The issue is just a little too serious to be kidded in a Gridiron sketch.” I had a swell time at the dinner, and yet I think the speedy coming of the last roundup might be a healthful thing. (Copyright, 1936) G. O. P. Predicament Shown in Keynoter BY RAYMOND CLAPPER WASHINGTON, April 22.—Yards of good newspaper space will be consumed debating whether the selection of Senator Frederick Steiwer of Oregon as Republican National Convention keynoter was a defeat for the Landon forces, or whether the Eastern Hilles crowd went in for remote control and put over a Pacific Coast man, or if not, why not. That doesn't matter much. A convention keynoter is a one-edition wonder. If you can remember anything any keynoter ever said you are good. It is not the keynoter, nor very much the platform, that Interests the voter. He votes on the candidate. But it does throw some light on the predicament of the Republican Party to look at the record of its new keynoter. Theoretically, the keynoter is chosen to personify and voice the party principles. But there's quite a bit of regimentation in Senator Steiwer's record for rugged old Republicans to swallow. He v led for AAA and later amendments, for TV A and later amendments, the World Court, NRA, SEC, and the Wagner labor bill. True, he whitewashed these sins away to some extent when he voted against the gold bills, Bankhead cotton control, work relief, the utility death sentence and the holding company bill, against the 1935 taxes on wealth, and the Guffey coal bill. Undoubtedly Steiwer will keynote against Roosevelt extravagance and spending. He voted for the soldier bonus, and helped override the President's veto. DEMOCRATIC members of the House Ways and Means Committee shut out Republican members and drafted the new corporation tax bill, embodying complex and revolutionary changes in the principle of corporation taxation. Yesterday they let the Republicans have a copy of the bill. It will come up for 16 hours' debate tomorrow. Republicans have barely one day in which to study the bill, write their minority criticism of it, and prepare themselves to debate it. When such procedure is condemned as hamstringing thorough study and consideration by the opposition. Democrats indignantly reply that Republicans used to treat them that way in the old days, and that Vice President Garner, when in the House, complained bitterly but in vain about these steamroller methods. But the House Democrats are so busy copying old-time Republican . strong-arm methods that perhaps it never occurred to them that they might take this opportunity to set a better example, more in keeping with the principles of parliamentary deliberation. #OO PUBLISHERS meeting in New York have worked themselves up into a state over the freedom of the press and now some Washington correspondents are complaining that President Roosevelt is out to discredit them. No President likes newspaper criticism. Some conceal their dislike of it better than others. Hoover used to 'complain to editors about critical dispatches written by their Washington correspondents. Sometimes he set the Secret Service to trying to discover a reporters news sources. Roosevelt’never has liked speculative dispatches. Most of the time he has concealed his feelings. Recently he has taken to cracking back at his newspaper critics. He is making a mistake, from his point of view, because it is good advertising for his critics. But in almost 20 years’ experience in Washington, this observer has never heard of a reporter coming out second best if he had his facts straight. There is no man in the world who has as much freedom as a Washington correspondent whose editor will let him have it. COL. THEODORE ROOSEVELT, in accepting a third term as President of the National Republican Club, urges as one remedy for maldistribution the development of co-operatives similar to those in Sweden: “State, and where possible, Federal laws should be passed implementing these co-operatives. . . . Business in general should take these underlying precepts for its guide and should strive to devise methods through profit-sharing c- otherwise which would attain the same general enfe.”

‘WHY YOU SHOULD VOTE FOR ME’

Candidates in County Prosecutor's Race Explain Bid for Support

Republican and Democratic Contestants in May 5 Primary Make Statements to Indianapolis Times Readers. NOTE: The Indianapolis Times has invited all of the candidates in the county and local congressional primary election contests to make campaign stated ments in these columns. The symposium of County Treasurer candidates was carried here yesterday. Today the candidates for County Prosecutor, in alpha-

betical order, appeal for your vote. Responses from candidates in other races will follow. 0-#0 WILLIAM HENRY HARRISON Republican, for Prosecutor, Marion County. (Born Aug. 10. 1896, at Terre Haute, Ind.; lawyer. Member House of Representatives, Indiana General Assembly, 1927. Four year* Ranger Service, Yellowstone and Glacier parks under Department of Interior.) T BELIEVE that the office of prosecuting attorney should be conducted in an efficient, economical and aggressive manner. The methods used in the securing of evidence to be used in the prosecution of cases as well as the office management should be up to date so as to allow the prosecutor to cope with the highly organized crime of today. The and puty prosecutors appointed should be qualified both in legal experience and temperament to handle the cases assigned to them. The prosecutor should be willing to operate the office in an economical manner, endeavoring to save the taxpayers’ money rather than wasting it. I believe that the present appropriation law for deputies and clerical assistants to the prosecutor, which makes it mandatory that $60,000 be appropriated and spent each year for such assistants, be amended so that the prosecutor can do his share toward saving the public’s money. The office should be conducted in an aggressive manner but impartially and without bias or prejudice toward any one. The prosecutor should remember at all times that he is a public servant elected by the people of this county to serve them and that he is accountable to them. In soliciting the support of the voters, I pledge that, if nominated and elected, I will conduct the office along the above lines and will go into office free from any pledges or promises which might handicap me in fulfilling my oath of office. I was Republican nominee for United States Congress, 12th congressional district in 1932 and nominee for prosecutor in 1934. 000 THOMAS M’NULTY Republican, for Prosecutor, Marion County. (Born Jan. 22, 1894, in Indianapolis; lawyer; never held any public office). I AM married and live at 1510 W. 21st-st and own my home. I attended Manual Training* High School of this city. I am the son of James McNulty, who served as City Clerk under Charles Bookwalter, and is founder and former president of th *. Fidelity Trust Cos. I have been a oracticing attorney for 10 years. I nave devoted the greater part of that time to the criminal practice. I am well qualified for the position I seek as a result thereof. Asa home owner and a taxpayer I am in favor of the strict economy in public offices. Because of a disposition on the part of the public to believe that there is graft and corruption in the administration of relief and in the Federal, state and local agencies, if

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I am elected I will conduct a thorough investigation of these matters. As one of my first official acts I shall devote my time to the solution and prosecution of major crimes, including murder. Records disclose that 21 persons are in the county jail awaiting trial for murder. This is an intolerable situation which must and can be remedied. In fairness to all citizens of Mar-, ion County, I shall appoint among my deputies a full time Negro deputy prosecutor, in addition to the Negro deputies heretofore appointed by past prosecutors. JOHN*L. NIBLACK Republican, for Prosecutor Marion County. (Bom in Wheatland, Ind., Aug. 14, 1898; lawyer. State Senator in 1929, 1931 and 1932. Deputy prosecutor, 1926, 1927 and 1928.) I AM married and have one daughter. I do not approve one indirect result of the primary system and that is the fact that a candidate has to abandon home and business for a time to sing his own praises up and down the county. However, it is our present plan of choosing party candidates, and I offer my own record for closest inspection. I served three years as deputy prosecutor under William H. Remy, and I am familiar with the duties of the office. That alone is worth something to the public. I am familiar with the crime situation from the three corners of a criminal case. In addition to having prosecuted every kind of criminal charge from first degree murder in Criminal Court to a profanity case in Municipal Court, I have represented an occasional defendant in the last few years and have sat as special judge and judge pro tern, in criminal cases. I was in three sessions of the Legislature from 1929 to 1932, and I say, without fear of contradiction, that while there I served the great voiceless mass of the people instead of the lobbyist and selfish interest. I took an active lead in the City Manager League and the Citizens School Committee movements for better government, and I now offer my further services to the public on the same basis, to-wit: Respect for my oath of office and efficient and economical administration of the prosecutor’s office. I am not the candidate of any political faction or boss. If elected I will be free to serve in the future, as I have in the past, the entire public. 8 8 8 HERBERT M. SPENCER Democrat, for renomination Marion County Prosecutor (unopposed). (Born in Indianapolis; 39 years old. Lawyer. City prosecutor under Mayor Slack and assistant city attorney under Mayor Sullivan. Serving first term as Marion County prosecutor.) I HAVE practiced law with my father, William W. Spencer, since 1922. I am a graduate of Indiana University, a member of the American Legion, various Masonic bodies- and the South Side Turners. I am married and have one child. I was elected prosecuting attorney of Marion County in 1934. I am running upon my record of improved efficiency and service in the office. The reorganization of personnel and of the method of

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investigation and handling the great number of cases passing through this office each year (between 30,000 and 40,000) has already resulted in improved law enforcement. I am not satisfied and further improvements will be made as experience shows their need. Co-operation with other law enforcement agencies, city, county, state, and Federal, has been particularly helpful in obtaining convictions. If re-elected, I pledge further improvements and continued co-oper-ation in the interests of the protection of the public welfare. 000 HARRISON WHITE Republican, for Prosecutor Marion County. (Born at Hanover, 111., November 18, 1881; iawycr. Appointed United States Commissioner for the District of Idaho in 1911.) T AM a descendant of one of the oldest families in America. My grandfather, Jonathan White, mar-, ried Anna Goss and was descended directly through William White of Plymouth Colony. His father was a Revolutionary War soldier. Anna Goss’ grandmother, also a White, was descended directly through Gov. John White of Virginia Colony. Virginia Dare, the first white child born in America, was Gov. John White’s granddaughter. Harrison White’s grandmother’s father and grandfather were Revolutionary War soldiers. His mother, Adalade Montgomery, was descended directly through Gen. Montgomery, Revolutionary soldier. I attended MacAlester College at St. Paul, Minn.; read law at Gonzaga University. I have had no political appointments and have

Washington Merry-Go-Round BY DREW PEARSON and ROBERT S. ALLEN

TTTASHINGTON, April 22. ’ * While it is an old political strategy to put up the biggest possible front before any convention, nevertheless there are some very strong supporting factors behind the Landon camp’s boast that the nomination is “in the bag.” It probably has escaped most people, but those two old master hands at collecting Southern delegates—C. Bascom Slemp and Charley Hilles —now have the Dixie delegates securely in their pockets, and these delegates are tagged “Landon.” This fact alone is the tip-off. C. Bascom and dapper Charley do not back losers. They always play the winner. Throughout the winter, while lining up their Southern cohorts, they remained friendly to all candidates but did business with none. They wanted to see which way the wind blew. Several weeks ago they decided the Kansas cyclone was blowing strong. Also they figured that if the Midwest Progressives were given their man in IMS, the Eastern Tories could pick theirs in 1940. And 1940 is the year the most astute G. O. P. bosses really are heading for. Naturally they won’t admit it publicly, but they exude no optimism on the chances of defeating Roosevelt in 1936. All this does not mean there will not be battling at the Cleveland convention. There will be. But unless there are some major slip-ups, jt now looks pretty much like Landon. a a a \ PPARENTLY there was sound reason for the formation of the Republican “brain trust.” During the annual convention in Washington last week of the American Society of Newspaper Editors, Malcolm W. Bingay, editor of The Detroit Free Press, visited the offices of the Republican National Committee. Bingay is a prominent Midwestern editor, and The Free Press is known widely as a stanch Republican organ. Bingay first called on Ted Huntley, bustling new’ G. O. P. press agent. “How do you do, Mr. Bingay,” clarioned Huntley warmly, “how are you and how is The Detroit News?” The editor of The Free Press looked pained, but kept his peace. After chatting for a few minutes Huntley suddenly turned to his caller, said: “Mr. Bingay, your paper must have influence with Father Coughlin. Why don’t you get him to open up on Roosevelt and the New Deal?” The Detroit Free Press has been w’aging a fierce running fight with the radio priest for several years. Coughlin has attacked it over the air and the paper in turn has hammered him in its editorial columns. Again Bingay swallowed hard, but said nothing. As he rose to go Huntley suggested he “say hello” to National Chairman Henry Fletcher. In Fletcher’s of-

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held no public office save being appointed a United States Commissioner for the District of Idaho in 1911 by Judge Deitrick. I have had about 23 years law experience. I am a member of Westminster Presbyterian Church, have four children in public schools and two not school age. I live at 1422 Car-rollton-av, Indianapolis. I believe that when the Republicans lost control of Indianapolis crime mounted immediately to approximately 300 per cent in Marion County and has not, up to now, receded. On any arraignment day at Criminal Court you can see from 10 to 40 young men, some through school, some through college, making their start in life hand-cuffed to a steel chain, headed for the penal farm. When a condition like

fice, the dapper G. O. P. boss greeted him cordially with: “Glad indeed to see you, Mr. Bingay. It is always nice to welcome folks from Wisconsin.” 000 r a ■'HE Young Democrats of Massachusetts held a Jefferson Day ball at the Parker House in Boston about a week ago. Jimmy Roosevelt, the scheduled guest of honor, was unable to appear, but delegated the job to his brother John, a student in nearby Harvard. John finally blew into the party at midnight, explaining that he had been listening to his father’s Baltimore speech on the radio. Jimmy never did explain why he didn’t get there. 000 SENATORS enjoyed the informality of their secret sessions in the last days of the Ritter trial, when they could put their feet up on the desks and smoke. .. . Capitol guides have a trick of placing sightseeing yokels in a corner of the “whispering gallery” of Statuary Hall, then whispering from a distant corner the words “Get out of there.” Unaware of the phenomenal acoustics of the hall, the yokels believe the statues are speaking to them. .. . The House of Representatives has spent more than $40,000 for replacement and repair of furniture during the Seventy-fourth Congress. '. . . Biological Survey reports the recent death of a rec-

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this exists there is something wrong in Marion County. In the event I become prosecutor of Marion County I always would have a ready ear for fathers and mothers, their attorney and their minister. I would favor that which would be best for the boy and the home, ever having in mind my obligation to society, rather than 100 per cent convictions. I am the only neutral non-fac-tional candidate on the ticket. Appreciating the fact that the people would like to have a chance to vote for someone else for a change, I solicit and will appreciate your consideration. TOMORROW The race for Twelfth District Representative in Congress.

ord-breaking fish hawk. The bird lived to be 21 years old, eight years older than the previous record for any banded wild bird in this country. . . . Bureau of Internal Revenue also has a record. They have more girls in their stenographic pool than any other agency of the government. Population of the pool is 300. ... A jobless man, writing a plea to the President, said: “I am concerned with the imperative imminence of a living wage.”’ 0 0 0 "O USS LORD, farmer-author, left his Maryland farm to write a treatise for Wallace on soil conservation. When he returned, he found that rains had washed half his farm away. . . . A verdant christening has taken place in Tugwell’s Resettlement projects. Four new suburban communities have been named Greenbelt (Berwyn, Md.), Greenbrook (Bound Brook, N. J.), Greendale Milwaukee, Wis.), and Green Hills (Cincinnati, O.). . . . Free fishing adv’ce is furnished by the “Angler’s Service” of the Bureau of Fisheries. ... At lowa State University, sophomore Henry Browne Wallace is studying corn breeding, the scientific delight of his father, Henry A. Wallace. . . . The widening waters of Norris Lake, with a labyrinth of uncharted inlets, recently confused boatmen of the “Norris Muskrat Patrol,” who spent a day and a night trying to get home again. (Copyright. 1936, by United Feature Syndicate. Inc.)

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Fair Enough WESTBROOK PEGLER N EW YORK, April 22.—1 t has been more than a year since I visited Washington, but the last time I was there I had a feeling that the disposition of the government was unnecessarily bossy and that a lot of politicians and appointees in office were just reckless nobodies enjoying a wild time in protected jobs at much better pay than they could hope to obtain in private business.

Roosevelt had horned his A, a defiant note addressed to the money changers: J. P. Morgan had sat for his picture, bouncing a midget on his lap, and Ferd Pecora had dug up enough paydirt to send some of the worst of the big shots to prison with A1 Capone, if the Department of Justice hadn’t forgotten its reason for being and turned to playing a game of cops and robbers. It may be a good thing for the G-men to shoot to kill in dealing with the Dillingers and BabyFace Nelsons, but when the department goes after men in the

Si 1 brackets the custom is to bring ’em back alive. Thereafter it is the task of the prosecutors to prove they did what they did, but the record shows that the most notorious white-collar bad men wiggle off the hook. The Department of Justice would look better if it had nailed one big shot for illegal parking. , ° 000 Source of Inspiration or “irresponsible” is the word which I would select to describe the frame of mind of too many people who had their feet in the trough in Washington, and I think they got their inspiration from Mr. Big himself, because he wasn't any too exacting and he certainly did love to needle and burn those who disagreed with him. It was fun, all right, to crack down on the big shots and see them rub where it hurt, but I don't believe that while we were laughing at that we realized that all the petty job-holders were develop}pe crack-down psychology and coming to think of themselves as lower case Roosevelts and Hugh Johnsons. 6 Now, after three years, it strikes me that Mr Roosevelt has too little to show in the way of sound results and much too much in the way of arrogant authority in public positions which were designed for public servants. 000 Long-Time Campaign T IKE all other Presidents, the Boss hadn’t settled into his chair before he started campaigning for re-election and therefore couldn’t do his stuff, if he had any stuff, with a free and honest hand. It would be foolish, of course, to suggest that he call in all his minor crack-downers at this time and compel a wholesale, conscientious delousing of the government departments, because campaign time is no time to fire the boys who turn out the vote. But Roosevelt is one President who could do the honest thing and still be re-elected, because his contract has a four-year renewal clause as plain as if it had been written in by a lawyer.* The boys couldn’t stop him if they tried.

Gen. Johnson Says—

April 22.—Death, busy recently among the President’s opponents, terribly averaged the toll by striking down his most valuable friend, Louis Howe. To the very end Louis Howe’s mind was busy with plans for his hero s battles in the coming campaign In the jealous struggle of smaller natures in the official family for a place in the limelight, it is doubly a blow to lose the most self-effacing official that ever sat in Washington. There is not another person like him. There always was a complete certainty that his advice was colored by no thought save the President’s best and single interest—absolute loyalty, absolute devotion, absolute unselfishness. To an Administration amply manned with brilliant theorists, he brought a balance of intense realism. The value of his unobtrusive ministrations never will be known, but his absence due to illness was instantly reflected in a series of departures in policy, the wisdom of which has been seriously questioned. 000 A T this critical period, his loss is a national mis--1 fortune. It is a misfortune not only because his advice was needed, but because a man so sorely beset as any President is bound to be needs the strength of at least one such friend, and will be weaker for his loss. Living or dead, the example of such a man in such a place is a standing asset. It is unarguable proof that not all men are mean and that a life of utter selflessness can reach the highest places, not by seeking, but by not seeking. Only an armor bearer, proudly I stand Waiting to follow at the King’s command, Marching, if onward shall the order be, Standing by my Captain, serving faithfully. Surely the Captain may depend on me, Though, but an armor bearer I may be. There was never a braver, gentler, or more faithful knight. (Copyright, 1936. by United Feature Syndicate. Inc.)

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THERE is something breezy and refreshing about Rex Stout’s new mystery story, “The Rubber Band” (Farrar and Rinehart; $2). This is another yam about Nero Wolfe, the fat man who solves homicidal puzzles by sitting placidly in his office, drinking beer and orating in a vaguely Alexander Woollcott vein. Here we find him digging into the case of a lovely stenographer who is being framed by a cruel boss. As he digs, he runs across a $1,000,000 debt owed by a distinguished English diplomat; and that, in turn, brings him up to a neat and baffling murder. He finds himself, presently, unframing the stenog, putting the hooks into the Englishman, and solving the murder; and the account of his activities makes about as nice a bit of reading as the detective story fan could want. NOT so much can be said for Mignon G. Eberhart’s “Fair Warning” (Doubleday, Doran; $2). This one is pretentious and somewhat up-stage, and. in some of its more crucial moments, fails to make a great deal of sense. It deals with a young wife who, her husband being exceedingly mean to her. falls deeply in love with the man next door. No sooner does she fall than someone sticks a knife into hubby’s bosom, and she and the lover naturally are grade A suspects. After a good deal of rather labored suspense, everything comes out all right. Then we have “The Long Knife,” by E. Spencer DuPuy (Crime Club; $2). This has to do with a pair of murders in a hospital, and is distinctly of the hard-boiled school. It moves fast and includes a neat little romance, if you care for such; altogether, it Isn’t a bad story. (Bruce Catton.) *

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