Indianapolis Times, Volume 48, Number 39, Indianapolis, Marion County, 25 April 1936 — Page 9

It Seems to Me HEVMDH "YORK, April 25.—Dave Lawrence tries to hold hack the tears with two / chubby little fists. The Washington col-' umnist is shaken with sobs as he stands on, the doorstep and bawls that the President*) “can’t take it.” The charge runs that Roosevelt secretly passed) out the word that he didn't, like the column written] bj Mr. Lawrence. And Dave replies that this is the ;

way dictatorships begin and that 1 as soo<; he has washed his fact-j he proposes to run ’round to, Frankie Kent's and Mark Sulli- | van’s and peach on Franklin. If the mere fact of not liking j Dave Lawrence’s column consti- ! tutes Fascism the march on Rome ' may come almost any day now, and I wouldn't be surprised to find quite a few newspaper men in the parade. It seems to me that Dave is sensitive to face the rigors of a t major political campaign, and the* fault lies in his early training. Mr. Lawrence began to shave and-

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interpret the White House at about the same time. He went to Washington immediately after gradu- , ation from Princeton, and. although only a cub' commentator, he was at first received reverently by; all the correspondents because around his head he*' wore an orange halo streaked with black. u tt u Syndicating Beautiful Rumors COOLIDGE had his cobbler and Hoover his medicine ball coterie, but Dave was the first to syndicate the rumor of a beautiful friendship. The elder statesmen of the press are cynical, and some finally vented their jealously by maintaining that Dave’s private understanding with Woodrow Wilson was a secret shared by no one else, not even by the President. To put it bluntly, they said that Dave was starring himself. But even if it were true that Mr. Lawrence created his own role none could deny that he acted it magnificently. He did not aspire to be a Warwick or a Richelieu at the court of Wilson but merely to play the part of a favored Fauntleroy around the White House. In those days Dave had black curls and a rapt expression. He was the American youth movement, and when he came trotting across the White House lawn on his sturdy little legs you never knew whether he was intent on rolling logs or Easter eggs. Tt, does not seem to me that Dave Lawrence has matured as much as the years might warrant. The black curls have gone, but he is still a little rapt, and when he is tired he expects some Cabinet member to pick him up and carry him. Until recently he never dreamed that any President would dare to tell him to go chase himself. Dave has been so used to the pat on the head that, the kick in the pants is painful to the prestige of the boy wonder. n n n Spanking a Commentator IWILL admit that it seems to me debatable whether a President of the United States should ever undertake to spank a White House commentator—even a little one. But if Franklin D. Roosevelt has manifested irritation at the advice and comments of Dave Lawrence I am not persuaded that this truly constitutes an attack on the freedom of the press. Mr. Lawrence's column still appears, I understand, and it seems to run about as usual. I can't see in what way Dave has been hurt. The great majority of the editors who take his syndicated material are anti-administration. They will like Dave more rather than less if he has been chastised bv Roosevelt. * Indeed, an increase in clients may well constitute a kiss to heal the place where it hurts. If I were Dave I would hie me to a photographer and have a picture taken for publicity purposes, with X marking the spot where the toe of the presidential boot first landed. Obviously the campaign is going to be rough and tough. Even graduates of Groton and Harvard are likely at moments to be unmannerly. It is time to put the women and children ashore, and as soon as Dave can quit crying I think he ought to get rid of that velvet suit with the broad collar and buy himself a pair of long pants. His Fauntleroy days are gone forever. ■ (Copyright., 1936) Elections in France Rouse U. S. Interest BY RAYMOND CLAPPER WAtsHINUiUN, April 25.—Because democracies. for the moment at least, seem to have hard going in contrast to the thriving dictatorships of Europe, there is exceptional interest here in the French general elections to be held tomorrow and the following Sunday when run-offs occur for those seats in the Chamber of Deputies for which no candidates receive clear majorities in the first election. France, too, is wrestling with depression and with the same parliamentary ineffectiveness which caused Italy to turn to Mussolini, and which for a time let us to give unusual power to the president. In a broad way French voters will determine whether they wish to continue to place their hope in parliamentaiy government or whether they favor greats er subordination of it and increased executive power —fascism. French politics is so • complicated that it is hopeless for an American to attempt to do more than relay a few high spots from persons here who are somewhat familiar with French affairs. nan THE French chamber is made up of some 19 political parties and groups, segregated roughly into three broad divisions—right, center and left. Party blocs shift back and forth from one group to another until the whole game becomes as intricate as chess. The right group has some 70 seats, the center about 150 and the left some 330. General forecasts are for a left victory—which be widely regarded as a rebuke to growing Fascism in France. The right group includes the big industrialists, and scoffers at parliament, and what in this country we would call Liberty Leagues. Hitherto they have been extremely nationalistic and for a strong policy against Germany. But they are sympathetic to many Nazi ideas and are oppoed violently to Soviet Russia, with whom the French recently concluded a military aliance.. The center is a coalition of middle-bracket commerce and industry and what we would call liberal ueflcrsonian Democrats. They stand for a moderate poiicy toward Germany. The left includes a wide variety of blocs. Socialists. Communists, small shopkeepers, peasants and workmen. Generally speaking they have been quite radical in speech, quite moderate when in power, standing for strong national defense, the League of Nations, modified capitalism, friendly to Soviet Russia, biter toward the Nazis, although once favoring a conciliatory policy toward Germany. French Fascists, led by Col. De La Rocque and the Croix de Feu and a peasant organization of "green shirts." have grown rapidly in the last year or two although still apparently far from constituting a real threat. Against this tendency the left groups have formed a "popular front." Principally, the issue in this election is whether this group will become stronger or will weaken. Strengthening of it apparently would check the growth of French Fascism and also stiffen French resistance to Hitler. n n ll wearing "Mussolini" steel wedding rings, rewards of D Duce for aid in the Ethiopian war. This is only a alight token of what would be going on if we were in the League of Nations and an active party to the sanctions dispute. Then Mussolini would be trying to put nose rings on his sympathisers in this country.

‘WHY YOU SHOULD VOTE FOR ME’

Candidates for First District County Commissioner Make Pleas

Republican and Democratic Contestants in May 5 Primary Write Statements for 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 statements in these columns. Omission of statements by the 92 candidates for State Representative and State Senator is necessitated by space limitations. The symposiums of candidates for County Treasurer, Prosecutor, Sheriff and for Representative, Twelfth Congressional District, have been carried. Today the candidates for County Commissioner, First District, in alphabetical order, appeal for your vote. Responses from candidates in other races will follow.

WALTER CAPP Republican, for County Commissioner, First District. (Born in Rush County April 23, 1892; restaurant proprietor. Attended Rushville schools. Lived in Indianapolis 14 years.) JUST preceding any election, there are always those persons who are ready and willing to promise the world with a fence around it to any prospective voter. Unfortunately I’m not in a position to do that for I realize that someone must pay the price, and it’s no secret that the taxpayer is that someone. I don't propose to' make any promises which I feel can't be met consistent with strict economy and good government. If nominated and elected I will make it my duty to faithfully execute the office of county commissioner, having always in mind the joint and several interests and circumstances of the citizens of Marion County. tt n tt GEORGE E. KINCAID Republican, for County Commissioner, First District. (Born in Eaton, O.; 49 years old; funeral director and proprietor of Kincaid Funeral Home. Serving first term as Marion County Councilman.) I AM married and have four children. My home is at 3918 N. Illinois-st. I am a member of the

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

TIT ASHINGTON, April 25. * ’ In the confidential files of the WPA is a carefully compiled dossier which New Deal sharpshooters will use during the presidential campaign if Gov. Alf Landon is the Republican nominee. The dossier contains a number of telegrams received by Harry Hopkins from Kansas mayors, pleading for Federal relief funds because they were unable to secure state aid from Landon. . . . Two important addresses recently delivered by high Administration legal officials were ' not made available to the press—one by Solicitor General Stanley Reed in Kentucky and the other by Assistant Atty. Gen. John Dickinson in Pennsylvania, the native states of each. The speeches contained sharply worded criticism of the Supreme Court. .. . The Interstate Commerce Commission has launched a secret investigation of the number of free passes given out by the railroads. Unofficial data in the hands of the ICC indicate that this free transportation is of startling extent, may run between two and three million passes. . . . Doorkeepers of the Senate and House galleries report the largest Easter week tourist crowds since 1929. . . . Missouri’s lone Republican Congressman, sparse-haired Dewey Short, is telling party colleagues that Tom Pendergast, Missouri Democratic boss, is out to get his scalp this year. According to Short, St.

THIS CURIOUS WORLD + By William Ferguson

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Masonic Lodge, Sahara Grotto, Junior Order of United American Mechanics, Brotherhood of Railway Trainmen and the Presbyterian Church. I graduated from high school in Eaton, 0., and also was graduated from the Jacobs Business College of Dayton, 0., and attended Ohio State University two years. I spent one year at the Robert W. Long Hospital in the training school for embalmers. I was employed by the Pennsylvania Railroati for several years before going into business for myself. I was the only Republican elected’ on the county ticket in the 1934 election. / I entered this contest for public office at the request of Republicans and Democrats. I feel the people of Marion County have not lost their faith in me as their only Republican county councilman. I welcome the support of all fairminded Republicans in this primary. I want most to see the Julietta State Hospital for the Insane transferred from the taxpayers of Marion County to our state. I want to see our aged citizens receive a more liberal pension, and our public roads must be taken care of at once. The office which I seek must be run more economically and unless each public servant is willing to cooperate in cutting the expense of his own particular office, our local tax burden never will be reduced.

Louis offered free hotel accommodations to all county committeemen as bait for the Democratic state convention; but Pendergast stepped in, had the secret offer withdrawn and the Democratic convention awarded to Joplin, which is in Republican Short's district. n n tt SUPERSTITIOUS Democrats on Capitol Hill now want to keep the session going until after the national convention. Someone dug up the interesting fact that no Democrat ever has been elected President in a year when Congress adjourned before the nominations were made. Grover Cleveland's two elections. Wilson's successive victories, and F. D. Roosevelt’s triumph in 1932 all occurred in years when Congress continued work during the convention month. . . A short time before Rep. Robert L. Bacon assailed the Bureau of Labor Statistics as a wasteful expenditure of Federal funds, the. socialite New York Republican asked for and obtained from the agency extensive data on foreign wage scales for a campaign speech he was preparing. This information could not have been obtained from any other source in this country. ... On the side of a station wagon in which Ohio’s Old Guard Republican Rep. John B. Hollister frequently rides to work are painted the words “Left Wing." . . . The American Federation of Labor’s dues-pay-

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JOHN S. NEWHOUSE Democrat, for re-election. County Commissioner, First District. (Born on a farm in Lawrence Township, Marion County; 62 years of age. Served as county councilman 1932-35.) 1 SPENT the early part of my life in farming. Twenty-eight years ago. I established the John S. New-

ing membership is now 3,405,000, approximately three-fourths of its all-time peak in 1919 of 4,050,000. ... To expedite the disposal of the surplus stocks of cotton held by the government, the AAA has asked Works Progress officials to resume the manufacture of mattresses for the jobless needy. . . . Triple A Chief Chester Davis apparently is taking his European survey mission seriously. He recently cabled for extensive trade data to use in his talks with European >off icials. When Education Commissioner Studebaker released 5000 pigeons from the base of Washington Monument in a peace demonstration, a wag in his bureau suggested the birds might have come from “some of these government pigeon-holes.’’ u n n A LADY'S departure for Europe is causing intense speculation among New England politicos. The lady is Frances Parkinson Keyes, authoress wife of New Hampshire's Senator Henry W. Keyes. Dope is that while she, the articulate member of the family, is out of the country. Husband Henry, privately plans to withdraw from the senatorial race, leaving it to exSenator George Moses. . , . Colorful is the campaign facing astute Congressman Mark Wilcox of Florida. Hi;; announced rivals for the Democratic nomination are an ex-printer who calls himself “Dynamite’’ Phillips, with a voice that “carries four blocks against the wind,’’ and an ex-Mayor of West Palm Beach who wears open-toed sandals and painted toe-nails. . . . SEC hearings in the case of Michael J. Meehan, Wall Street operator, now are in their fifth month, with another two months ahead before the verdict. SEC frankly admits they have been feeling their way on untried ground, hope to handle the next case more expeditiously. nan Official reporters in the House of Representatives say Congressmen seldom quote Shakespeare. Senate reporters, on the other hand, keep a Shakespeare reference book handy to make sure the Senator uses the right quote. nan A RKANSAS'S silent but able Senator Hattie Carraway made her maiden speech last week —but only her colleagues heard it. Mrs. Caraway took the floor during the secret deliberations on the impeachment of Judge Halstead Ritter and spoke in a low voice in favor of hi* conviction. Senator Borah, who also spoke for conviction, warmly congratulated Mrs. Caraway, said hers was the best argument of the discussion. . . . Prof. Charles Bullock and Prof. Thomas Nixon Carver, Harvard contributions to the G. O. P. brain trust, were retired as superannuated when they reached the minimum retirement age of 65. . . . Over in the Bituminous Coal Commission they have got down to ousting officials without even notifying them. The commission recently returned its general counsel, Henry Hunt, to the PWA—whence it had borrowed him without informing Hunt of its action. (Copyright 193. by United Feature Syndic**, lac.i ♦

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house Cos. at Cumberland, Ind., which is engaged in the hardware and implement business. County commissioner since 1935. • I have announced that m.v policy in the future will be as it has been in the past—to economically ..administer my office and to see that my constituents receive the very best government at the least possible cost. I wish to state that I will never depart from the principles

'Red Hysteria' Origin May Be Probed by Senate Body

BY HERBERT LITTLE Times Special Writer WASHINGTON, April 25. The origins and outbreaks of “red hysteria” will be one of the La Follette civil liberties investigation, if the Senate authorizes the inquiry on the basis of preliminary hearings just completed. The unearthing the sources of anti-radical propaganda was emphasized by many witnesses, including churchmen who have been the targets of such campaigns. An attempt by high American Legion -officers to suppress an Americanism booklet prepared by the Willard Straight Post of the Legion in New York is the latest such incident to be cited to the La Follette subcommittee. Edwin S. Smith, National Labor Relations Board member, read the account to the committee from a yesterday’s newspaper. He called the attempt “childish," but expressed fear for the danger to civil liberties involved. The booklet, intended for high school students, has been praised for its enlightened liberalism. Its author, Cyrus Leroy Baldridge, New York artist, says he got most of his material from the Constitution's bill of rights and “a man named George Washington." a tt a THE PAMPHLET was objected to, following its approval by the New York county committee of the legion, by H. L. Chaillaux, head of the Legion’s National Americanism Commission. He complained that it was printed on Japanese paper, that an eagle was printed in red. and that inside the flyleaf was another revolutionary

GRIN AND BEAR IT + + by Lichty

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that Jefferson laid down: That public office is a public trust and ■whosoever is trusted with this position for a season should ever bear the same in mind. n m PAUL RUSSE Democrat, lor County Commissioner, First District. (Bom in Indianapolis, May 7, 1884; bookkeeper in County Treasurer’s office under Timothy Sexton, William Clauer and Frank E. McKinney. Served as deputy clerk, clerk of Superior Court, Room 3.) T HAVE lived in Indianapolis my entire life, residing at 501 N. California-st for 40 years and for the past 12 years at 4014 Carroll-ton-av. My family includes my wife and three children. I served as bookkeeper in the county treasurer’s office under Timothy Sexton, William Clauer and Frank E. McKinney, resigning my position to become a candidate for county commissioner. Previous to my connection with the county treasurer’s office, I was a deputy clerk under John Rauch, serving as clerk of Superior Court, Room 3. of which the Honorable John J. Rochford was judge. I beiieve that my years of experience in serving the public especially fits me to be a good county commissioner, and qualifies me to give the people of Marion County a. good, clean and economical administration, which I pledge to do if nominated and elected. It would be my ambition to serve the people to the end that the taxpayer receive a dollar in value for every dollar spent. Consistent with an efficient and adequate program. I would do my best to reduce taxes, and insist that all contracts be awarded to the lowest competitive bidder, who will be required to give bond to comply strictly with requirements of such contract, and I would maintain strictest economy without sacrificing high standards, and assist in every manner in the humanitarian program of our great President, Franklin D. Roosevelt. To the attainment of these purposes I would devote my time, my thought and my most earnest effort. Monday—The race for Congress. Eleventh District. •

symbol—an upraised hand holding a lighted torch. There was too much emphasis on freedom of speech, not enough on freedom of religion, the report said. “Witch-hunting in America almost has reached the point of mania,” Smith said after reading this. “We would become alarmed if we found members of our own family brooding over the color of an eagle in a pamphlet.” Smith emphasized his charge that much of the “red hysteria” is a mask to crush labor organization. Apparently referring to Southern sharecropper situation, he said that the corporate farmer is proving to be “quite as determined as the industrialist to oppose the organization of labor. The terror spread by vigilantes is one of his weapons.” a a a “ \ MERICANS are asked to r*- sympathize with violence and the suppression of civil liberties on the grounds that democracy must be saved from the radicals,” Smith said. “Alleged patriotic organizations and an important section of the press constantly abet this hue and cry and have genuinely alarmed many persons innocent of any selfish animus toward labor or other economically oppressed groups. “These deliberately stimulated popular fears have found recent expression in teachers’ oath laws and anti-sedition bills. “What those who yield to emotional hysteria about the reds fail to understand is that you can not suppress freedom of expression without rapidly undermining democracy itself.”

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Fair Enough WESTBRofK PE6LER "YORK. April 25.—\ou may count me Smong those who view the so-called red menace with appropriate alarm. But I would feel better about the American campaign against Communism if it were a little less friendly to the kind of dictatorship which Mussolini invented and Hitler copied and adorned with certain murderous innovations of his own. As between Communism and

the Mussolini-Hitler type of government by massacre and snitching I see no choice but the present American system with all its irritating imperfections, its graft and individual crime, its sometimes frantic and silly coverage of picturesque murders in the papers, incompetence, high taxes and all. The republic has its faults, but nobody can say that we ignore them, for the whole country has been resounding with recrimination for the last seven years, and we still have our freedom to

squawk, criticise, start a hot-doe stand, go to church or take a trip, all of which would be abolished under snv dictator. The people who are howling down Communism and shouting up Mussolini and Hitler in the United States are the same sort who financed and helped to organize Mussolini and Hitler, and they are using the same stooge—Bolshevism. n n n Heads / Win, Tails You Lose TJUT the majority of Americans stand to lose either way, for it comes down to a mere question of what sort of shirt the hoodlums wear when they come calling on the victim in the night. And not enough Americans actually realize what a low and villainous lot of murderers they were, what evil mediocrities and neighborhood ne'er-do-wells, what dead-beats, street-corner roues and bums who made up the original bands of patriots in Italy and Germany. If a dictator ever took charge in this country his best lieutenants would be men of the foul and reckless character of Stephenson of Indiana, who ran the Xu-Klux Klan until he went to prison for life for murdering a woman. I doubt that many native Americans are giving any serious friendly thought to Communism, but Fascism and Naziism, or the American adaption oi both, is a greater danger because we have had e^Pf£ iments in that kind of government in the guise the Anti -Saloon League and the Night Riders. It is a weakness of ours. In every such case the operating forces were the lowest, the most brutal and greedy individuals in the community the American equivalent of the Italian Black Shirt and the German Storm Trooper. The threat of dictatorship is a little morp real now than it was six months ago. but it isn’t Moscow that threatens us; it is Rome and Berlin.

Gen. Johnson Says—

ASHINGTON, April 25.—During the SmithHoover campaign, we maintained at Democratic headquarters what we called the Chamber of Honors. It was a collection of the scurrilous flood of literature which the opposition, at a cost of hundreds of thousands of dollars, surreptitiously scattered over the country—principally in the South. It was designed to incite the most degraded passions of religious bigotry and intolerance, race hatred and emotional pro-prohibition sentiment. It was character-assassination at its worst. There was no truth in it, but it was so cleverly concocted that the vilest insinuations had the full textual effect of outright assertions. We kept it on display because one glance at the assembled array was enough to reveaf its common authorship and the unconscionable degradation of any mangament that would permit it—and to disgust any intelligent person who saw it. Yesterday, there reached my desk two printed anonymous documents which looked as tftough thev had proceeded from exactly the same source—even to the printing and paper. n tt a /~\NE was under the caption of a six-pointed star. In each angle was the name of a prominent Jew. Under each were names of less prominent Jews. It was asserted that each group controlled a principal function of government, and the names of Gentiles concerned with that function were omitted. The document connected each name with the Communist Party, and the old hokum about the Protocols of Zion was spread all over the text. The other document ascribed the deaths of Huey Long. Senator Schall, Gov. Ritchie, and some less prominent opponents of the New Deal to a New Deal murder plot, and insinuated that the reason A1 Smith declined an invitation ta “raid” the Whit® House ice box was that he was afraid of being poisoned. Thus opens the Old Guard of 1936 campaign on the same plane as in 1928. Somebody is paying for that and it costs important money. (Copyright, 1936. by United Feature Syndicate, Inc.)

Times Books

'T'HE driving American urge to make a visible. material success of life is intelligently dissected in William McNally’s new novel, “The Roofs of Elm Street” (Putnam; $2.50). Here is an ambitious novel which does not entirely succeed. It frequently is confusing, occasionally dull. Nevertheless, it is a worthy effort, and it exhibits a real understanding of the way the old pioneer spirit survives and suffers changes in modem life. Mr. McNally tells us about three friends—lawyer. doctor, and business man—who settle in a Minnesota boom town shortly after the Civil War. The country Js on the make, and so are they; and their restless, straightforward energy drives them on to riches. This energy was needed —by their community, by the Middle West as a whole. Whatever the price paid for it, it did get things done. And these men, naturally, transmitted it to their children. a a a TN the second generation it is still powerful—but not quite so socially useful. Its possessors continue to drive ahead for "success"; but when they get it, they aren't quite sure that it was worth getting. The price they pay for it is higher than that their fathers paid, and they dimly realize it. Then comes the third generation, born into a land which no longer needs so desperately to have men filled with this urge for material success. And now we see this driving force as a thing for which too high a price must be paid. Instead of giving meaning to the lives of its possessors, it tends to blight them. The country has walked out from under it. (Bruce Cation.)

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