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if Seem s to Me HEUMM N E .' V YORK, May 12.—Westbrook Peeler and I were sitting in one of the hot spots along Hunting Ridge and wasting our time over an impossible argument. It was a debate which nobody could win because the thing which we were discussing simply couldn’t happen. The question was whether the Jack Dempsey of the Louis Firpo fight could beat the present day Joe

Louis. I maintained that if Firpo could hit Jack with a right-hand punch in the first few seconds of a bout, Louis would slaughter him as he came swarming in. Peg rested his case on the fact that Dempsey knocked the Argentine down eight times in the first round even though he himself had. been socked nearly numb. "No matter how hard Louis hit him, Jack would have kept coming back.” Finally I tried to break off the discussion. “You and I are busy men. Peg,” I said, “and we ought

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to be working or playing poker or doing something more, important, than chew the fat of the fantastic and punch the bag of the intangible.” . ft It It Vp Pop* the Devil AS i) matter of fact. I didn’t express, it just like that. I brushed the line up later. But, at any rate. Peg agreed with me. "You’re right,” he answered; "we can t prove anything either way, but I’d sell my soul to the Devil to see that fight and convince you that you’re wrong. A fat gentleman whom neither of us hud noticed before was sitting right beside us at the bar. He edged up to Peg. tapped him on the shoulder. "Done and done/’ he said. "Who the hell are you?” I asked rudely. That fat gentleman gave me a mpan look. "I was not addressing yon, sir.” he replied haughtily. ‘‘l was speaking to your friend. Mr. Westbrook Pdgler ha' made n sporting offer and I have accepted it,. Peg took the situation in his stride. "Can I take Broun with me.” he asked, "and does he have to throw his soul in on the deal in order to get in?” The Devil shellacked me with a sneer. "I don’t want to seem offensive,” he answered, "but I would not be interested in bidding on Mr. Broun s soul. It, Isn’t listed on the. big board. I believe there is a little trading over the counter. Three-eighths asked, one-eighth hid. was the last quotation, as I remember. I am not concerned with fractional or inactive stocks, but I have no objection to Mr. Broun’s seping the fight with you.” "When can we see it?” asked Peg. who seemed to be filled with a reportoria) fervor which blotted out all other considerations. "Right now, if it pleases you.” “Just, one second, big boy,” Peg continued. “If T’m going to go through with this deal I think there ought to be a clause that I get ringside seats." The Dpvil seemed distinctly hurt. "You’ll not find me small in such matter". I promise you. How about, first row in the working presslt’s no trouble, I assure you. All the promoters and all the managers are my close personal friends.” - tt , b n Small Stanford Miracle SUDDENLY lip struck the bar with the palm of his hand three times and muttered some words in a language unknown to me. Just ns auridnely Peg and I were sitting in the front, row. and the bell rang. Jack Dempsey came charging out of his corner and met. Joe Louis well past the center of the ling. Tre Negro swung a left, and down went Dempsey on his haunches. He was up without a count and tearing at. his opponent. A straight left, closed his right eye. Joe whipped over right and a left, and then another right. Dempsey was down flat on his face. Rut at. eight, by some spontaneous muscular reaction, he was up. He could no longer see from either eye. but he was shambling forward in the dark with his right hand cocked ready to let drive. The referee stepped in and led him to his corner. The fight was over. “What did I tell you?” I said rather tactlessly. “How do .you like your bargain now?” "Well,” answered Peg, "I wouldn't mind so much ir the bout had been on the level. But, it makes me pretty sore to have sold my soul for onp of the worst fakes 1 ever saw in m.v life. Dempsey certainly dogged it.” (Cnpyricht. 1836) Republicans Divided Over Trade Policy BV RAYMOND CLAPPER WASHINGTON, May 12.—8 y deciding to pay an unprecedented official visit to Canada June 8. President Roosevelt is putting the Republicans in a predicament that may easily become embarrassing. Their Cleveland convention opens the next day. Thus whilp the President of the United States is visiting our neighbor on an official good-will mission, bark home at Cleveland the Republicans are scheduloo to be sending up a nationally broadcast bronx cheer. The occasion for the Canadian visit is to celebrate the new Canadian reciprocal trade agreement. As President Roosevelt and Prime Minister MacKrnvie King are exchanging felicitations on behalf of the two peoples over this mutual effort to reduce trade barriers. Republican speakers at Cleveland are likely to be denouncing this agreement as an assault. upon the American farmer. At least Senator Steiwer, Republican keynoter, who will be delivering his masterpiece to a national audience the night after Mr. Roosevelt lands in Ottawa, voted against the reciprocal trade act and denounces the whole bus'-.ess a an unconstitutional surrender of American markets which the Republicans ought to repeal. But, possibly Keynoter Steiwer will omit to repeat these hostile sentiments in his keynote because his party is divided over the reciprocal trade policy. Roosevelt's visit, may dramatize that division. In the past both parties have been on both sides of the issue. Since the Democrats revived it. Republicans have been inclined to be critical. When the reciprocal trade act came up in the House, only two Republicans voted for it. Only five Republican Senators voted for it,. One of them. Capper of Kansas. now believes the agreements are unsatisfactory because they let in too many farm products. Republican organizers are attacking the program in farm belt meetings, aided by George Peek, who as a former AAA co-administrator, fought a losing battle against Secretary Hull's reciprocal program. a a a RECENTLY. Chairman Robert. Lincoln O'Rnen nf the United States Tariff Commission, a Republican, urged the party to accept the reciprocal principle. Many Republicans objected, including presidential possibilities Vandenberg and Dickinson. Borah voted against the act as unconstitutional—it shifts tariff making from Congress to the State Deparment, and substitutes diplomatic negotiation for political log-rolling. Knox has expressed sympathy with the view that export markets can not be recovered without increasing imports, but he has not committed himself irrevocably. Landon has not declared himself, but is understood to be critical of some provisions of the Canadian agreement. Two Hoover Cabinet members, Henry L. Stimson and Ogden L. Mills, have indorsed the reciprocal program as has the United States Chamber of Commerce. Republicans would be less embarrassed if Congress failed to adjourn by June 8 because then Mr. Roosevelt would have to cancel his goodwill trip. Nq one who knows what is going on here is excited over the House victories by the Frazier-Lemke inflationists. Even if the House passes the measure, •he Senate and the White House block its path. It is written off here as a piece of campaign politics on the part of House members up for re-election.

RESETTLEMENT—WHAT IT MEANS * * * a a' a a a a ana a a a 16,600 Are Employed by Administration Under Dr. Tugwell

This i* Ih* flrl of si aerie* of articles inilTiini Ihr wid# field now covered b Ihf Administration <a A), Ihr tp'awlini Washington Fdoral agency attacked ,hy many, defended ha many ethers, and understood lij frw. BY RODNEY DUTCHER Time* Special Writer WASHINGTON, May 12. —Practically any New Heal alphabetical 4 agency you can think of is confined to a single problem or a single phase of Federal activity. The Resettlement Administration, under Dr. R,exford G. Tugwell—which Senator Warren Barbour of New Jersey calls an "ex-

periment in p at, p rnalistic g o v e rnment” anc) wants investigated b y Congress—is a startling exception. Only a year old, it is attacking a large number of national problems and is entering directly into (he economic lives of millions of men, women, and children.

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Waste of natural and human resources. unemployment, rural distress, reduction of relief rolls, urban and rural standards of living. low-cost housing for low-in-come groups—vgth their inferences of income redistributionfarm debt, decentralization of industry, soil erosion, dust storms, reforestation, possibilities of the co-operative movement, stranded '•ommunities—all these come to a greater or lesser degree within the field of RA deals with hundreds of thousands of families, millions of acres, and hundreds of millions of dollars. Burned water pipes on a Minnesota subsistence homestead, the farm wife in Arkansas who never learned how to can string beans or huckleberries, the banker in lowa who might be induced to cut the interest rate on his loan to a farmer, the mule that drops dead in a small Georgia cotton patch,

LET'S EXPLORE YOUR MIND BY DR. ALBERT EDWARD WIGGAM

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AUTHOR’S NOTE: These answers are liven from the seientifle point of view. Not all moral questions ran he. answered with ahsolnte seientifle. aeenraey. hnl no derision as in what is morally right is possible srilhm.l Seienoe. Seienee puts the rights nf nrgsnired society shove the rights of infividnals.

1. So Mrs. Hard argued recently over the radio. Mrs. Hard, as I understood her. stated that if she were dictator she would pay all women who have to work, but would prefer to stay at home, as much as they would make if employed and let them stay at home, although she aid not give the precise location of the money for all this. She seemed to think women who make their own money outside make the home women feel inferior and dissatisfied. No doubt, some truth in this. 2. This is the main contention of a remarkably interesting and stimulating book. “Wake Up and Live.” by Dorothea Brande. She says (abridged*: Failure indicates that energy has been poured into the wrong channel. It takes energy to fail. Failure does not mean that no energy is being used. Even the dreamer that, drives past, a traffic sign and causes n wreck burns up fuel in his day-dreammi. Failure

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drainage of a creek in Oklahoma—these indicate the diverse fields with which this agency is concerned. ana ALTHOUGH much of the program is experimental and only small beginnings of what might be a. 20 or 30-year process if carried on, Administrator Tugwell says it all adds up to an effort to "permanently strengthen the props under our economic and social structure.” The. program's three major phases are: 1. Purchase of millions of acres of poor land and conversion to proper usage—parks, forests, grazing land and wildlife conservation. 2. Transfer of thousands of families from bad land to good land and experiments in transferring urban families to suburban communities. 3. Rehabilitation of hundreds of thousands of farmers by loans and farm and home management advice, thereby reducing relief rolls. For this program, Resettlement Administration has been allocated about $275,000,000 from the fourbillion dollar work relief fund. The largest single item of expenditure will be for loans to farmers who have so little that they can’t, borrow elsewhere. More than a million farm families have gone on relief in the last few years. Resettlement Administration now has 3580 employes in Washington and 13.091 in the field, a total of 16,871. Average salary is $1407 a year. nan ABOUT 700,000 rien, nearly all taken from relief rolls, were working on Resettlement projects March 15. The peak employment will be about 10.000, most of it in development of acquired submarginal land. Criticism has been aroused by the fact that, of $72,813,000 spent, thus far, $16,098,371 has gene for administrative expenses. That's about 22 per cent, which has been cut down somewhat since March 15, but is still high enough to attract plenty of attention in case Senator Barbour persists ir. forcing an investigation. This brings up the question of whether Dr. Tugwell is an able administrator and ought to be in charge of spending all that money. Most of those officials closest to Dr. Tugwell in RA and the De-

comes chiefly from devoting precious energy to time-killing pursuits, worp' and the like. We work hard at failure. We should act always as thoc.jh failure is impossible. 3. In one of th.i great books of our time, every page of which delights with the certitude of its art and the depth of its philosophy “My Country and My People.” by Lin Yutang. he asks the question. "What price greatness?” and answers. “It is the lot of the great to be misunderstood.” Indeed it is the lot of all highly intelligent people if they have the courage to use their intelligence with originality. For this reason, althought geniuses on the average arc the most sane, sober and sensible people we have and give the average man all his sound world-wisdom, yet they are considered eccentric, queer, lop-sided and often insane. Tomorrow—Are women chums as chummy as men chums?

TUESDAY, MAY 12, 1936

partment of Agriculture insist that his administration has been at least as efficient as that of apy other new agency in the New Deal. Talk of “inefficiency” makes Dr. Tugwell sore and he defies anybody to prove it. A year ago Resettlement inherited the Subsistence Homesteads Division of the Department of Interior, the rural rehabilitation and land programs of FERA, and the land policy section of AAA. Subsistence homesteads, planned by Mrs. Roosevelt, Louis Howe, and other idealists, turned out to be a collection of experiments subject to all the ills of such pioneer ventures. They could best be classified as good, bad, awful and terrible, and Dr. Tugwell has been getting blamed for their deficiencies. Resettlement, killed nearly all those not yet in the construction stage and has been trying to improve the others, a a a Q URAL rehabilitation was in the hands of state corporations. Controller General McCarl ruled the corporations could not be used as instruments, and the business of taking over them and their assets has been proceeding slowly and painfully ever since. The staff cutting process led to many political squawks. Local pressure for housing pro-

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

117 ASHINGTON, May 12. Like football, presidential politics has its array of hopeful bench-warmers, watchfully waiting on the sidelines for the “break” that will send them into the game. In 1932, with Hoover pre-empt-ing the Republican field and the Democratic race wide open, the squad of second-stringers cluttered up the Democratic side. This year, with the situation reversed, the would-bes are on the G. O. P. bench. Without exception every one of the group is a long-odds entry. What they are really shooting for is second, and not first, place. But this does not mean that they have abandoned all hope of grabbing off the stellar role. In 1920, after Senator Hiram Johnson, Gov. Frank Lowden and Gen. Leonard Wood had fought, one another to a standstill, Warren G. Harding stepped in and walked off with the Republican nomination. In 1924, when A1 Smith and William Gibbs McAdoo deadlocked the Democratic convention for interminable days, the exhausted delegates finally turned to John W. Davis, a rank outsider. It, is possible—though not probable—that the Cleveland convention this year may get into a hopeless tangle over the leading runners and have to turn to a bench-warmer. On the chance that the lightning—in one form or another—may strike in their particular direction, the following aspirants are champing restlessly in the Republican paddock: Senator Lester J. Dickinson, lowa, Rep. James W. Wadsworth, New York, Rep. Hamilton Fish, New York and Gov. Frank F. Merriam, California. a a a TWO factors distinguish the candidacy of “Hell-roaring Dick” Dickinson: 1. Among Republican politicos he is considered Foover’s secret choice—that is, Hoover's choice after himself. 2. Securing a place on the presidential ticket is a matter of almost urgent necessity with Dickinson; for he probably will not be re-elected to the senate. To what extent there is an agreement between the lowa Senator and the ex-President is not known. But, privately, Hoover has displayed marked cordiality toward Dickinson —something he has not shown toward any of the other candidates. The two men have much In common. Both ,re lowans, they see eye to eye for a high tariff, against Federal relief expenditures, and on other major issues. Also, with Dickinson the party nominee, Hoover would be a dominating influence in his counsels. If this falls. Dickinson’s senatorial situation is precarious. Even if. he should scrape through the Republican senatorial primary. he would face an uphill fight in the election. A vice presidential nomination at Cleveland would get- him out of this tight spot. Even there, the

jects following the slash in PWA's housing program was also heavy. The land acquisition program has dragged, partly because many titles to acreage were obscured. Weather has held up many of them and there was difficulty getting the right type of labor from WPA. From the outset Resettlement suffered from a lack of experienced administrative personnel. Some of the earlier appointments to important posts were distinctly bad. Many such mistakes have been repaired by transfers and dismissals. The original administrative setup contemplated a program which would spend about $600,000,000. Much work was done on that basis before the figure was cut in half. Dr. Tugwell hopes eventually to get the administrative cost down about 10 per cent,. His field organization is divided into 12 regions, with a director and staff for each. Among his chief officials here are Assistant Administrator Will W. Alexander, specialist in economic reconstruction of minority groups; Assistant Administrator C. Benham Baldwin, former assistant to Secretary Wallace; General Counsel Lee Pressman, former assistant legal chief of AAA; Executive Assistant Grace E. Falke, former assistant to Tugwell as undersecretary of agriculture; Director of Research Warren J. Vinton, author, .statisti-

prospect is none too promising. The three leading contenders— Landon, Knox, Borah—all are from the Middle West, and if one of them is nominated for first place, second place is likely to go to an Easterner, a a a TALL, slender, wealthy, the bearer of a famous name, Wadsworth would be a front rank contender for the nomination except for one flaw—he comes from the wrong part, of the country to oppose Roosevelt. For strategical purposes the Republicans must nominate a Westerner, in the hope of offsetting the President’s strength in that area. Coming from New York, the President’s home state, Wadsworth is automatically eliminated from the presidential picture. But by the same token, it makes him an almost sure-fire bet as a vice presidential running-mate. G. O. P. master minds are counting heavily on carrying the conservative East this year, and Wadsworth fits perfectly into this picture. A former Senator, a good campaigner and one of the ablest conservatives in the Republican Party, his appeal would be strong all along the Atlantic seaboard, especially in New York State, one of the major battlegrounds of the campaign. The Landon camp looks with warm favor on Wadsworth, and, for that matter, so do the Knoxites. In fact, Wadsworth is the logical teammate for any Western candidate the convention might choose except Borah.

GRIN AND BEAR IT + + by Lichly

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cian. and housing expert; and Assistant Administrator Joseph L. Dailey, former Circuit Court, judge in New Mexico. a a a TJ A has spent about $75,000,000, has net encumbrances of $136,000,000. and has an unencumbered operating balance of about $125,000,000. It, would like—but won’t get.— $300,000,000 more for continuance through the next fiscal year. Available funds have been allocated as follows: Administrative expense* $23,650,000 Farmer subsistence homesteads 15,275,000 Submarginal land purchase . . 44.120,000 Land use development projects 15,000.000 Suburban resettlement 31,000,000 Rural resettlement projects 33,934,000 Loans to individuals 52,383,000 Grants to individuals 18.400.000 Further loans and grants.,.. 30.000.000 Loans to co-operatives 2,147.000 Farm debt adjustment administration 2,000,000 Much of this money will be recovered. All projects eventually will be turned over to local and state ownership and those in private hands will pay local taxes. Sooner or later the Resettlement Administration will become a part of the Department of Agriculture. Having no permanent home, its headquarters staff now is scattered through 27 different Washington buildings. NEXT: Rural resettlement and what's heing done with submarginal land.

LIKE Wadsworth, Fish is tall, wealthy, of a prominent family and comes from New York. But although strong in the Midwest, he lacks his colleague’s prestige in the East. Also. Fish has soaked himself in a mild solution of liberalism, which is not what the G. O. P. bosses want to counteract the liberalism of Landon. These facts, and his open espousal of the Borah cause, place. Fish on the outer edge of the running —except, of course, in the event that Borah should be the nominee. In that case, Fish would have an inside track for second place, although there is no arrangement between them. a a a I^OLLO WING Merria.n's sudden switch to Landon several weeks after he had effusively acclaimed the President, a “copyright” newspaper story proclaimed that the California Governor had been promised the vice presidential nomination in exchange for his support. The story was without foundation. Merriam was induced to bolt to the Landon camp by William Randolph Hearst. He received no guarantee from the Kansas Governor. or from his managers. Further, the only politico to consider Merriam seriously even as second-place contender is Merriam. It is possible that the bald Californian may be struck by the lightning, but if so it will set a new precedent for meteorological phenomena. (Copyright, 1936. by United Feature Syndic*i*. Inc.)

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Entered at Second-Claaa Matter at Pnatofnee, IndianupnUa. Ind.

Spendthrift America BY RUTH FINNEY (Westbrook Pegler Is on Vacation.) WASHINGTON, May 12. Extravagance—but not the kind you think—may turn out to be a leading: issue of this year’s campaign. While President Roosevelt’s opposition Is charring him with spending money too freely Viand his friends are going to talk about the criminal recklessness with which the nation's resources have

been wasted and of his efforts to stop it. Next to unemployment, President Roosevelt has put more time and effort on this problem than on any other. He has accomplished more than any other President except possibly his kinsman. But he barely has made a start. The natural resource problem remains second oolv to the immediate economic one in dire portent. Take oil, for instance, and natural gas. This country has about 13 billion barrels of oil in its proved oil fields. At the present rate of consumption it will last until

about 1949. Other fields may be found, but th® areas in which they may be found are definitely limited. a a a Mother Earth's Vaults r ■ ’’HE United States is using up its oil reserves at least, three times as fast as other countries are using theirs. “In a real sense oil is liquid gold.” says Secretary of the. Interior Ickes, "banked in the vaults of Mother Earth. If it. were gold actually lying in a bank we would not think of drawing SIOOO -worth of it. every morning and throwing it off the end of a long pier into the deep ocean. "If we should do that our next of kin would go into court., and properly so, and ask the court to appoint a conservator on the ground that we were incompetent to manage our own affairs. “Yet this liquid gold that we call oil is being wasted on an even greater scale.” Without oil, he said, “otir air fleets would gather cobwebs in their hangars, our ships could not leave their ports, we would have no mechanized artillery or motorized transport. There might not pven be sufficient lubricating oil for our horse-drawn caissons and the rifles of our infantry.” Nine wasteful practices in the oil industry are listed bv President Roosevelt’s National Resources Board. They are: 1— Overcrowding of wells in flush-production areas and developing such fields more rapidly than the demand warrants. 2 Operating oil wells with improper gas-oil ratios. 3 Actual physical wastage at the surface of prodigious quantities of vitallv important gas, resulting in lower ultimate recovery of oil from the reservoir. 4 Underground losses, resulting from migration of oil and gas through defective wells, from productive strata to beds from which the fluids can not. be reclaimed, and also from invasion of water into the oil sand. 5 Erection of excessive storage facilities above ground, resulting in needless expense and actual phvsical losses due to leakage, evaporation and fire. 6 Use of inefficient equipment, resulting in losses of oil, gas, reservoir energy, and, at times, loss of life. 7 Consumption of distress oil. forced on the market by over-rapid development, for purposes in which other fuels could be used. 8— Flooding world markets with exports of distress oil. 9 ~Premature abandonment, as a result of demoralization of crude-oil prices, of thousands of small pumping wells, which, if allowed to continue to produce, would still yield a large aggregate of oiL M B 0 Hot Oil Defiance THE Roosevelt Administration tried an oil cod® under NRA, with allocation of production quotas to producing states, and got the price up to $1 a barrel. But hot oil producers defied th® government, and after a few months the experiment was hampered by court action. The whole attempt ended with the death of NRA. Since then, oil states have cast about trying to cope with the situation themselves—without success. Oklahoma has been talking about a heavy production tax. All state efforts come up against the problem of competition from other states. NEXT—Vanishing Forests. Liberal Viewpoint BY HARRY ELMER BARNES ''j-'EN years ago John S. Sumner, of the New York *- Society for the Suppression of Vice, and th®‘ Watch and Ward Society of Boston, had the publishers bulldozed. A threat from Sumner and th® average publisher would withdraw a book from circulation. If he did not do so, a complaisant judg® was lively to back up Mr, Sumner with a severe penalty. Today, due to the American Civil Liberties Union and the work of courageous attorneys like Morris L. Ernst, Alexander Lindey, Arthur Garfield Hayes and others, a decided crimp has been put into the procedure of the professional “guardian” organizations. One of the most notable victories over such censorship was the decision handed down by Judge® Martin Manton and Learned Hand of the United States Circuit Court of Appeals reversing the ronviction of Escar Levine for the advertising of alleged obscene books. This decision is especially important because th books were of no great intrinsic merit. a a a r T' , HE original trial judge apparently operated on the old principle which Sumner had been able to get judges to acquiesce in, namely, that a book must be judged obscene if a single passage in it is clearly likely to incite to lewd and lascivious behavior or to lewd and lecherous thoughts. The trial judg® seems not to have considered primarily the probable effect of such books upon the normal human being but upon those mentally least competent. Judges Manton and Hand decisively rejected any such interpretation. Judge Hand contended that the book as a whole must be considered in coming to any definite or legal conclusion as to its obscene character. Such a civilized and sweeping decision must b# regarded as a complete victory by any reasonabl® exponent of the freedom of printing. Times Books JOHN J. SPIVAK, well-known American reporter, a* on a six-month tour of Europe with full warning. He was told by resident correspondents that if h® wanted to report what actually was happening under post-war dictatorships, he must see, hear, and shut up—in other words, put off his writing until he returned home. Spivak did just that and the resultant book. “Europe Under the Terror” (Simon Ac Schuster. $2.50), is one of the most revealing slants on th® European scene that I have read. But, let me caution you. it is essentially pessimistic. For Spivak s European fact-finding tour, conducted among the people themselves, thoroughly disillusioned him about dictators. (Bruce Cation.)

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