Indianapolis Times, Volume 48, Number 66, Indianapolis, Marion County, 27 May 1936 — Page 19

It Seems to Me HEMMMN CINCINNATI, May 27.—0n1y a few days ago a client who signed herself “Faithful Reader” wrote and said, “For years I patiently endured dull columns by you about speakeasies, but now if you are going to go into a panic about the ponies it really will be too much.” I can not afford to offend the susceptibilities of so much as one laithful reader, the supply being

what it is, and yet I must make mention of the fact that through no fault of my own I saw the Latonia Derby. My presence in this remote Ohio city had nothing whatsoever to do with horse racing. I came to listen to a discussion of newspaper ethics and practices, a journalistic double-header as you might say. But there was no session on Saturday afternoon. A friend asked me whether I had ever been in the state of Kentucky and I had to admit that it was one which I had missed. “Well, it's just across the river,” he told me. “And x understand

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the scenery Is delightful. I believe comparatively close to the Blue Grass regions. Let’s get a car and make a survey of agricultural conditions in the border state.” It did not prove feasible, for we found the roads crowded with cars all headed for the Latonia race track, and so we decided that we might as well go along with the current. In a material sense the trip uas not profitable for me, but I live to learn rather than earn, and the afternoon was decidedly educational. I saw an <traordinary race horse and met the Governor of Kentucky. The former is called Rushaway and the latter Happy Chandler. And I’m Bitter Broun because I bet on Bow and Arrow. n n b Always Turning Up SOMEHOW or other that horse is always turning up under my feet. He follows me a great deal better than he does the pace, although I must admit he is the greatest 100-yard dash horse in the country. In that sense you get some satisfaction out of betting on him. Rushaway is made of sterner stuff. Indeed, if steps are not taken promptly this gelding may revolutionize racing in America. On Friday afternoon he won the Illinois Derby at Aurora and as soon as he cooled off they put him on a train for Latonia, more than 300 miles away. Just 24 hours after winning at a mile and a furlong he came out upon the track to sweep in an easy first at a mile and a quarter. He scored more easily the second time than the first, and his time of 2:02 1-5 on a track with sharp turns is brilliant. After (he race he proved himself a thoroughbred by the dignity and grace with which he submitted to the photographers. It looked to me as if nothing but our Sunday laws stood between him and another victory on the morrow. Two derbies in two days is not bad at all, but as yet the possibilities of Rushaway have only been scratched. Give that horse a quart of oats and an upper berth and he may make a mockery of competitive racing in America. Indeed, he should be restrained in some manner and made to conform to the principles of the 40-hour week. Otherwise all the stake hoises of the country and one of the columnists will be on relief. u u u No Sign of Fatigue THE trainer says that Rushaway lay down peacefully as soon as he was put on the train and slept soundly for 300 miles. Certainly there was no sign of fatigue in the manner in which he raced. Gov. A. B. Chandler is also an interesting figure. He says he is 37, and he looks much less. He is called Happy Chandler because he is always smiling. I wished he wouldn't. I didn’t bet on Rushaway. (Copyright. 1936) Hoover Invited to Party's Convention BY RAYMOND CLAPPER WASHINGTON, May 27.—Former President Hoover may yet turn up at the Cleveland convention. Republican National Chairman Fletcher has invited the party’s elder statesman to attend as a distinguished guest. Mr. Hoover’s acceptance has not been received, but it is understood that he and his advisers are giving serious thought to the possibility of a personal appearance at the convention. Undoubtedly if Mr. Hoover goes to Cleveland he will be asked to address the delegates, perhaps immediately following the nomination. In this Chairman Fletcher has been scrupulous to avoid any move that would seem to favor or prejudice any candidate for the nomination. He did not extend the invitation until after Mr. Hoover's statement last week that he was not a candidate. Chairman Fletcher apparently took the statement to mean that the bee which has been buzzing around Mr. Hoover’s head had succumbed to a fatal swat. On his last trip East, Mr. Hoover sounded out friends regarding former Gov. Frank O. Lowden of Illinois as a possible nominee. One friend, it is understood, cabled to Lowden, who is now in Europe, asking if he was available for the nomination. The reply, it is said, was that Lowden would accept if drafted. The suggestion has met with restrained enthusiasm chiefly because of Lowden’s age. That is the basis of recent Lowden talk. The big Saturday night acceptance rally planned at Cleveland in imitation of the Roosevelt Democratic practice is being called off as quietly as possible. Landon’s forces opposed it and, in view of the likelihood that he will be nominated, unofficial word has gone out that the show is off. Republicans will adhere to their customary practice of holding mid-summer acceptance ceremonies on the home grounds oi the candidate. u n u CHAIRMAN FLETCHER had made a tentative reservation for the big Cleveland stadium, seating more than 100,000, for Friday or Saturday night • following the nomination. The intention was to provide a show which could be attended by Clevelanders unable to see the convention itself. Excursions were to have brought in thousands of visitors. It had been planned to put the new nominee on the platform and on the air and also to parade other convention stars in a rousing campaign kickoff. The new candidate, it was hoped, would deliver his speech of acceptance there, as Roosevelt did in 1932 and as he plans to do at Franklin Field In Philadelphia this year. However, chief enthusiasm for this plan came from Cleveland concessionaires who saw an opportunity to prolong the take from the convention visitors. Landon insisted that if nominated he wished to have his acceptance ceremony at Topeka, in the oldfashioned way, probably about mid-August. His friends thought it would be a mistake for the Republicans to uncork their acceptance speech at Cleveland, with the Democratic convention coming around the corner. This, they felt, would play directly into .Democratic hands. There has been a quiet turnover of Republican control in Pennsylvania into new hands. That’s what’s behind the retirement of former Senator David A. Reed as Republican National Committeeman. The Mellons have let go in western Pennsylvania. E. T. Weir, the steelmaker who became famous in the Welrton steel labor controversy with the New Deal, is the new kingpin. He has had little experience in politics. But he has a bankroll and enthusiasm. With those you can hire all of the professionala you reed. yln eastern Pennsylvania Joseph Pew of the rich oil family has taken over and begun housecleaning. He has been a het vy sugar daddy for the Republican National Commltiee, the American Liberty League and numerous anti-New Deal groups. Now he's in Pennsylvania Republican politics several bankroll layers deep.

SMOKING OUT THE CANDIDATES

Knox Favors Relief, Locally Managed; State Old-Age Pensions

This is the third of a series of articles, “Smoking Out the Candidates,” written by Frazier Hunt, world famous reporter, for NEA Service and The Indianapolis Times, in which are presented the answers of Republican presidential possibilities to the same 10 questions on the vital issues of the day. BUB BY FRAZIER HUNT (Copyright, 1938, NEA Service. Inc.) "CRANK KNOX, third presidential candidate to come to bat on my ten questions, is a sturdy, square-toed, oldfashioned fighting man. He can give and take punishment. A few years ago on a matter that did not involve principle but only questions of the details of newspaper management, he voluntarily stepped out of a job paying more than §150,000 a year. To do that takes courage. It takes courage, too, to answer those 10 little highexplosive questions without at least a modicum of plain and

fancy side-stepping. The Colonel didn’t indulge in any footwork at all. And incidentally his title is not of the Kentucky variety, but of the vintage of 1918 and from the district occupied in France by the Seventy-eighth Division. It is generally recognized that he was the first man in this current campaign to step out boldly and attempt to reshape and revivify- the slightly battle-scarred Republican Party. He expected the rap—and he wasn’t the least disappointed. But when it rains such pleasantries as "selfseeker,” “horn-blower,” and “political adventurer,” the Colonel simply turns up his collar and lets it run off his back. It doesn’t pay to have too thin a skin if you’re somewhat of a shin-kicker

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yourself. Col. Knox has kicked shins and stepped on sore toes for a good part of his 62 years. When he steps or kicks he does it with the whole of his 190 pounds of high-pressure energy. When I talked to him the ex-Rough Rider went after my list of questions like a terrier after a rat and here’s the way he answered them.

B B B IDo you favor balancing the budget? If so, do you advocate reducing relief expenditures or increasing taxes? If by taxes, what kind? If not by taxes, how? I favor an immediate attempt to bring the budget into balance. I believe this can be achieved, in large measure, by reduction in the cost of government, including the costs of relief. B B B 2 Should relief be by direct cash payments or as wages? Should relief be paid for and administered by the Federal government or by the states, or both? I am firmly committed to the policy of local administration of relief, and in the form of cash relief, which we know from experience here, and from studies we have made elsewhere, will be infinitely less expensive and far less detrimental to morale than fake work-relief such as has been all too characteristic under the work in the WPA. If additional taxes must be imposed after the most rigid economy has been set up, then I am in favor of additional taxes to bring the budget into balance. B B B 3 How should the problem of permanent unemployment and care of the aged and unemployed be handled? The problem of permanent unemployment, care of the aged and unemployed, is exclusively a state problem for administration. The administration, it goes without saying, should be completely divorced from every flavor of partisan politics. I believe in old-age pensions and practice the principle in my own business, where we have an old-age pension plan which has been in operation for years. A similar plan could be made operative for every industry supplying steady employment throughout the country. There is ample provision for such a system within constitutional limits.

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

MVHPtopiE- \ at cartoon of bachelors over, - TFiRU-FIVE ARE UfcOALIY \& Tme Theif. boor RieKfc &E&T KXJCV ? I I l KbTMKb EQUALLY TRUE OF vk

IFAR FROM IT. They should accept the cartoon as one aspect of their character that the cartoonist has revealed by exaggeration. It is usually either a defect or one that many people dislike or think undesirable and often one that the individual can correct. This is true even of the cartoons that little Willie makes of “teacher” on the blackboard during her absence. She often gets angry and gives Willie a spanking; but a far wiser policy would be to join in the laugh and decide to correct the defect that inspired the lad; this would likely induce him to draw as beautiful a picture of her as possible next time. 0 B B 2 ABOUT THREE times out of five they are “telling you.” Wm. J. Reilly, in his “Straight Thinking —How to Solve Your Business Problems,” says that one of the finest experiences is to watch the eager face of a child asking questions—he asks because he really wants tc

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4 Do you favor further devaluation of the dollar or stabilization at present gold content? Do you believe in any form of currency change, currency inflation or credit inflation, a return to the gold standard, the remonetization of silver or a managed currency? I do not favor any further devaluation of the dollar, but I believe in its stabilization at its present low content. Ido not believe in currency inflation in any form. Ido believe in a return to the gold standard; and along with stabilization at the present gold content, I believe in making our paper currency convertible into gold on demand. In other words, I believe in a complete return to the gold standard. I do not believe in a managed currency. B B B 5 Do you favor any program whose aim is to control or fix wages, working hours or a shorter work week? Under a philosophy of individual freedom there is no possibility of any law, which is constitutional, which would control or fix wages. Any attempt by the Federal government to impose regulation with respect to employment in intrastate industries, I believe, is unconstitutional. Any approach to this problem must be through state authority. B B B 6 Do you favor an amendment to the Constitution authorizing the Federal government to deal with economic and social problems, national in scope, or of limiting the courts as to their right to declare laws of Congress unconstitutional? I do not favor such an amendment to the Constitution. I believe there is ample room within the limits of the Constitution as it now stands to deal with our economic and social problems. I am violently opposed to any effort to abridge the power of the judiciary to interpret the Constitution. B B B 7 Do you favor modification or suspension of the anti-trust laws to enable business men to get

learn. When your friend asks, “Do you really believe in telepathy (or the tariff or sales tax or predestination or transcendentalism)?” he is really trying to tell you he does not believe in it. We don’t like to admit our ignorance. B B B 3 VASTLY LESS true—indeed such women are usually splendid risks. According to this same authority—Dr. Paul Popenoe—vast numbers of women are unmarried at 35, not because they do not possess the qualities of physique, temperament and personality that would make excellent wives, but because they have decided to get their college degree first, then do postgraduate work, or else make a career in business and then get married; but unfortunately when they begin to look around at that age nearly all the best risks have been picked off by the younger girls. Next—Are Women Really More Beautiful Than Men?

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together: (a) To agree on trade practices; (b) To agree on labor relations; (c) To agree on control of production; (and) To attempt to fix prices?

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

WASHINGTON, May 27. What to do about Controller Gen. J. Raymond McCarl is causing considerable discussion in the inner circle of White House counselors. Appointed by President Harding, the 15-year term of the heavy-set, Windsor tie-wearing Nebraska Republican expires July 1. Under the law he can not be reappointed. Some of the militant left-wing New Dealers are after McCarl’s scalp. They charge him with trying to hamper the Tennessee Valley Authority, the Public Works Administration and other New Deal undertakings. They are urging that he be ousted from the government service. Other Administratiorites take an entirely different view. They make the surprising suggestion that McCarl should not be dropped, that instead his unexcelled knowledge of government business should be utilized in the office of budget director. This job has been vacant since Lewis Douglas broke with the President in the summer of 1934. Daniel Bell, a Treasury career man, has been filling the post as acting director. Roosevelt offered him the appointment but he declined, preferring to keep his high rank in Civil Service. B B B Retorting to the complaints against McCarl by the leftwing Nev’ Dealers, his friends in the inner circle group contend that he has been co-operative and sympathetic. They point out that Harry Hopkins as Relief, Civil Works and Works-Relief administrator; Gen. Hugh Johnson as NRA boss; Morris Cooke as head of the Rural Electrification Administration, and other top-rung New Deal executives never have had difficulty with the controller general. The argument is also advanced that if McCarl, noted as a watchdog of the Treasury, became budget director, the Administration would have an effective answer to Republican attacks about extravagance and reckless spending. Note—McCarl and the President are old friends, have been on cordial, personal terms throughout Roosevelt's incumbency in the White House. t B B B CHARLEY MICHELSON, political pundit of the Democratic National Committee, is planning a 200-page program for the Philadelphia Convention. That is 100 pages more than ever was dreamed of before by either party. Advertising in the Democratic Convention Program will cost $2500 a page, and is being sold by a staff of high-pressure salesmen to space buyers who know on which side their bread is buttered. Advertising alone is supoosed to net $250,000. Charley hopes to sell 100,000 copies at Philadelphia. Guests and delegates will be “invited” to purchase special copies at $2.50. Since the textual matter is obtained free from various government press staffs, the net profit per copy should be around $1.50, which may earn another $150,000 for the Democratic Party, making a total of $400,000. Note Jim Farley is following the policy of raising his campaign funds from the masses.

Col. Frank Knox

I believe in the rigid enforcement of the existing anti-trust laws, and I believe under recent decisions of the Supreme Court there is ample opportunity for

A S the group of Progressive Senators emerged from the White House last Wednesday night following a three-hour chat with the President, newsmen bombarded them with questions about what had been discussed. “Just a social gathering,” was the refrain from all but Senator Henrik Shipstead. The tall, pompadoured Minnesota Farmer-La-borite had a different story. “We talked about the common people,” he said. “How best to improve their lot. I have always been for the common people. My colleagues say they are, too, but I notice” (pointing to the other departing guests) “that they have limousines waiting to take them home. “I’m walking home. Just like you boys. I’ll walk with you.” B B B AN exodus from the SecuritiesExchange Commission is taking place. Various of the boys once engaged in regulating the stock market are now being hired by prominent banking houses and brokerage firms doing business with the stock market. They know all about government regulation. . . . Sumner Welles, erudite Assistant Secretary of State, has built a fish pond. Speculation is whether he will name his goldfish for members of the Cabinet. . . . Secretary Hull wins increasing popularity with the diplomats. They like him because he is natural, honest, and talks in a slow, Tennessee mountain drawl. “I reckon” is one of Mr. Hull’s favorite expressions. . . . When aroused, the Secretary of State has a vocabulary which not even Gen. Johnson, a hard-riding cavalryman, can equal. . . . Ambassador Francisco Castillo Najera of Mexico intermingles more with the American people than any

GRIN AND BEAR IT + + by Lichty

“My arthritis is driving me frantic, doctor—l find I can’t even wrtte_ a checkl"

sound trade agreements which do not attempt to fix prices or control production. Neither of the latter prices can be tolerated if we ar eto protect the consuming public. b b a O What is your remedy for the farmer? Do you favor the curtailment of production, industrial or agricultural? In brief form, I favor the remedy suggested for the farm problem by former Gov. Frank O. Lowden of this state. You are familiar with the terms of that proposal. lam positively opposed to any policy of curtailment of industry or agriculture. Ido not believe in a policy of scarcity. B B B 9 Are you in favor of the policy of making reciprocal trade treaties to encourage foreign trade or reduce tariff walls? I do favor the building up of our foreign trade through properly negotiated reciprocal treaties. However, this must be done only when it can be done without impairing the American standard of living. This is of the first concern, and I believe an effective reciprocal policy can be built up without impairing those standards. Such treaties should not, however, be secretly negotiated by the executive. u B B “t Do you favor a policy of public power development; the continuance or expansion of TVA, and control of utilities through the utilities holding company act? I do not believe in a policy of public power development, save, only, in the case where tha t is incident to the promotion of navigation in navigable streams. I am opposed to continuance or extension of TVA, and I would rigidly restrict the control of utilities to that point where it will reach the admitted evils in the utility situation, but leave the operation of utilities and their management in private hands, subject to adequate regulation. Next—Senator Frederick Steiwer.

previous Mexican ambassador. He also keeps 17 canaries. B B B CHAPERONED by her father, her uncle, and 100 other oldsters, anew Joan of Arc has come to Washington, flying the banners of reform. She has come not on a white charger but in a big automobile, and the visions which this Joan sees are visions of S2OO a month for every citizen over 60 years of age. She is 16-year-old Lois Jeanne Johnson, who quit school to play the role of Joan of Arc of the Townsend movement. It started last February in Los Angeles. She had come there from her home in San Diego to address a meeting of Townsend Club 93, the largest in the country. Sharing the spotlight with her was founder Townsend. After the show he asked her to continue speaking for the movement. When she talks, it is no Min-ute-Girl address. She holds forth for an hour or an hour and a half. And her audiences range as high as 14,000. A trim little thing, only five feet tall, with pretty brown eyes and a turned-up nose, she was first referred to as “the Sweetheart of the Townsend Movement.” But when organizer J. W. Bridges dubbed her “the Joan of Arc” she admitted she liked that better. And the name has stuck. She is staying these nights in the Washington Auto Park with the other Townsend caravaners, preparing for more speaking this summer, and hoping that in the meantime the San Diego High School will grant a diploma despite her truancy. (Copyright. 1936. by United Feature Syndicate, Inc.)

Second Section

Entered as Second-Cits* Matter at PostoSice. Indianapolis, Ind.

Fair Enough WEMMIfR May 27.—There has been considerable excitement in the papers over the feat of a little griding 1 named Rushaway, who won the so-called Illinois Derby at Aurora, 111., just outside Chicago, Friday afternoon, and won another so-called Derby at Latonia. Ky., just outside Cincinnati, 24 hours later. Rushaway cooled out nicely, as the professional phrase goes, shipped well overnight, a distance of 300 miles,

and arrived fresh and ready to run. A. G. Tam, the owner and trainer of Rushaway, reports that his steed lay down and slept, unusual conduct in a horse riding the cars. But not to deny the little critter any credit which is legitimately due him, it might be pointed out that he did not have to remove his pants and underwear and climb into his pajamas behind a curtain in his car and sleep on a shelf during his 300mile journey. Neither did he have to haul on his lingerie and trousers

again in the morning while lying on his back behind a curtain and maintaining due care not to crack his skull against the upper berth. The cars in which they ship the racing hides to keep their dates are much more conveniently arranged than the Pullmans and the privacy provided for the horse makes for better repose and close knitting of the ravelled sleeve of care. m B B They Don't Wear Suspenders TTORSES do not wear suspenders and they are neither modest nor self-conscious. They do not have false teeth, toupees or trusses to embarrass them in the presence of their fellow passengers and if a horse wants a face full of water in the middle of the night he need not fumble around in the little hammock to find his bath robe and grope under the berth for his slippers in which to walk to the cooler. He just waves his tongue a couple of licks and his caddy comes a-running with the bucket and sponge, to wipe down his lips and ooze a gentle splash into his neck. He hardly wakes up, unless he has something on his conscience or some business worry. I doubt very much that Rushaway would have been as fresh at Latonia if he had had to perform the acrobatic feat of pantsing himself in the morning, snapping his suspenders over his shoulders, shoving his shirt into his trousers and adjusting his buttons, at the same time maintaining his privacy and nonchalance. This is the ordeal which makes travelling drummers old before their time. As to the problems of ladies I will enter no discussion except to sympathize belatedly with those unhappy girls of a previous generation whose accountrements included a device known as the corset, copied from the blue prints of the wooden-stave silo, with some acknowledgments to the football shin guard. Modesty, in their time, was much more oppressive than it is today, and how they ever managed to reappear, once they had managed to shuck their armor, is more than I have the impudence to inquire. Perhaps they didn’t take it off at all, which would have made their suffering even worse. The Pullman Cos. offers nowadays an accommodation known as the single room but having made the offer almost invariably withdraws it. The single room is something on the style of the old-time firstclass cabin of the American line steamships, containing all the comforts and the privacy of a hotel room within the capsule walls of a telephone booth. But they never have any single rooms left because there is so little demand for single rooms that they can not meet the demand. Invariably they could sell a dozen more single rooms if they could get them but the rooms are not available because it is impossible to sell them. The story goes ’round and ’round and comes out nowhere and the customers then are invited to pay the Pullman Cos. a bribe of $2.75 to refrain from pulling down the upper shelf and shutting out the ventilation and cramping the compass of the lower berth. If you don’t pay the $2.75, the unfortunate porter pulls down the shelf on which you will bust your skull if you don’t take care. And the unfortunate customer gets so sore that he determines to get even with the Pullman Cos. by cheating the unfortunate porter out of his tip. B B B It Could Happen Only in America AND the point is that the little horse, Rushaway, winning two nominal and ;rbies in 24 hours with a sleeper-jump in between, has nothing on Paavo Nurmi, the fish-eating Finn who came to this country in 1923, broke an old world record for the mile on his first night ashore, broke another world record in Chicago the next night and broke a third one back in New York the third night of his American visit. Derby has become a cheap name for horse races in the United States. Any broad-jump for a stake of $lO and a collar of carnations presented by some politicians more than half soused on mint-juleps is a derby in America. The accounts of the Latonia Derby exclaimed that not even in England could they match the record of the little gelding which won two derbies in 24 hours. That is quite true. In England derbies happen once a year.

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