Indianapolis Times, Indianapolis, Marion County, 6 June 1936 — Page 27
i BROLIN
NEW. YORK, June 6.—Among the White House correspondents down in Florida last spring a favorite anecdote was built upon that familiar triangle of the drama— the husband, the wife and the husband's employer. I may forget the precise wording of it here and there, but it seems that Pat heard rumors that his boss was paying attention to his wife. Returning home suddenly one afternoon he found that the rumors were true. Pat started to rebuke the foreman in violent language, but his wife interrupted him, saying, “There you go, big yourself out of the best job you ever had in your life.” At least, that’s the general sense of the story, and it seems to me to have a certain pertinence for five members of the Suprémec Court of the United States. It has been evident of late that the reactionary group has been growBermont tea he Shs 5 ht, ot . The efforts © ef Justice ou Hughes to stay the violence of men like Butler and Roberts have been unavailing. But I believe that the furious five have gone one step too far. They should have gone home quietly and passed up that last legal round which went to their heads. Having left the Federal government gagged and bound, the rampaging majority of the court decided to give the same treatment to the states. Evidently the boys thought it might be fun to get both Hamilton and ‘Jefferson revolving in their graves at the same time.
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Even Ham Fish Astonished
HE immediate result of the raid into New York which killed the Minimum Wage Act for women and threatens all local welfare legislation was the rebuke delivered by Chief Justice Hughes. I venture to say that never before in our history has the presiding justice found occasion to tell his associates that they were reading into the Constitution something which simply isn't there. Moreover, for the time being, at any rate, the furious five have alienated the support of their chief buddies. Ham Fish wants an amendment now just - a8 the radicals do. Walter Lippmann calls the opinion “a hard decision,” and, throwing all caution to the winds, expresses the pious hope that some day in some way or other it may be reversed. At the moment of writing Bill Hearst, the third great keeper of the keys, has failed to-thank God for the Supreme Court and its decision in support of the sweatshops. For that matter the Herald Tribune has kept its
hat on its head and refrained from.exulting. " 2 2
You Can’t Count on Them
HE case which should now be pressed is the case of you and I and you against the Supreme “Court of the United States. It is foolish to say that ‘everything can be remedied as soon as one or two of the reactionaries resign. You can’t count on them, and, besides, Roberts is the youngest man on the bench. A constitutional amendment is necessary. Indeed, it should be desired not only by those Who want greater power for the Federal government, but by upholders of states’ rights as well. I do not know who first spoke of the “No Man’s Land” ‘which the majority of the court insists on carving out, but 1 think that President Roosevelt did well to reiterate the phrase. His criticism was mild enough. He suggested no
remedy. Up to this time friends of the President in ~
- the liberal groups have tried to excuse his silence on the constitutional issué. They have said, “Oh, be realistic. Mr, Roosevelt's first job is to get himself re-elected. Why & "he drag into the campaign an issue which may cost him millions of votes?” That position was never good statesmanship, and I doubt that it is even good politics now. The court itself has thrust the Constitution into the.campaign. Now iy. the time to speak promptly, clearly and exC
(Copyright, 1936)
Landon’s Freedom
. Chances Weighed
BY RAYMOND CLAPPER LEVELAND, June 6—When Cleveland calls Gov. Landon on the long distance and tells him he is it—as is expected by nearly every one here including some of those still heroically engaged in dying gestures of opposition—how free a man will he be? His friends say he will be as free as the air which tosses the Kansas sunflowers to and fro. Landon— they will tell you—didn’t have to sell his soul to win the nomination. ‘He didn’t have to make any ‘costly pledges. He didnt have to give anything away. Landon stayed planted at Topeka while his candidacy picked itself up, and, with the nudging of a few volunteer friends, began rolling along until now it looks like Old Man River in spring. He made no pil-
grimages to the thrones of the industrial East. If -
any one wanted to see Landon, he had to go to Topeka. Once powerful bosses either fell into line with their rank and file or were shoved aside.
So as we hear it here, this modest prairie flower
comes abreast of the nomination still a free Middle Western progressive, in spirit a Western son of the pioneers, a believer in individual freedom and opportunity, but convinced as society becomes more complex, the frontier freedom must give way to traffic regulation, lest those in the big automobiles . run down the humble pedestrians. He doesn’t want to abolish the big automobile. Neither does he want the driver running down helpless women and children, who are SEeFelsing their right to cross the streets. Long ago the Western individualist, an intense be-
SEEMINGLY, to Landon’s friends, he is free as a ‘candidate to apply his philosophy to the Repub-
SATURDAY, J JUNE Ee 1986
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we.
They Plan Active Role in Shaping Policies at Cleveland Conclave
THE G. O. P.
BY WILLIS THORNTON NEA Service Staff Correspondent.
LAND, June 6.— Nearly 500 women delegates, including 52 members of the Republican national committee, will de-
scend on the nominating .
convention in Cleveland, determined to play a more ac-
tive part than ever before -
in the party’s deliberation.
A swarm of 10000 women, wives of delegates, and visitors
with keen interest in politics, is
expected to lend tone to this convention, the twelfth in which women have taken an ‘active part since the first women attended the G. O. P. convention in 1892 as alternate delegates. Although there is always a good deal of the social aspect to’ the part women take in-these national conventions, the “pink tea” part will be played down in Cleveland. A recent get-together of G. O. P. national committewomeén from 15 states in Chicago guaranteed that they aim to take a real part in platform-making and - party administration. Mrs. M. D. Cameron of Omaha, national committeewoman from Nebraska, says women this year will insist on “putting their feet right under the same table as the men” and taking their part in working out party policies. Mrs. Bertha D. Baur of Chicago, national committeewoman from Illinois and a candidate for Congress, was another who insisted that “women are better politicians than men, and born organizers.”
# tJ » HESE and many others of the delegates are planning a determined effort to be more than window-dressing and “atmosphere” in this convention. Local committees, headed by Mrs. William G. Mather and Mrs. Chester C. Bolton, wife of the G. O. P. congressional committee chairman, are planning the usual teas and social events, but this program will be restricted, due to the uncertainty of how long the convention may run, and how long it will take to frame a platform and name a standard-bearer. Four widows of Republican Presidents have been invited to attend, but their presence is as
yet uncertain. They are. Mrs.
Benjamin Harrison, Mrs. Theodore Roosevelt, Mrs. William
- Howard Taft and Mrs. Calvin
Coolidge. Sever: more * pr
the wives of the ont candidates also
may appear, it was reported.
‘Chief of the Republica: women are Mrs. Alvin T. Hert of Kentucky and Mrs. Robert Lincoln Hoyal of Arizona. Mrs. Hert is a vice chairman of the Republican national = committee, and Mrs. Hoyal is chairman of the women's division. Members of the party executive committee also include Mrs. Grace Semple Burlingham
of Missouri, Mrs. Manley L. Fos-
seen of Minnesota, Mrs. Worthington Scranton of Pennsylvania,
and Mrs. Baur.
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' T least one genuine: princess \. will attend. She is Princess David Kawananakoa, alternate delegate from Hawaii, while Miss Margaret E. White, another alternate, comes from almost as far—from Juneau, Alaska. Several of the Republican women prominent at the convention are equally prominent in New York society. Mrs. Robert Low Bacon, wife of Rep. Bacon, and Mrs. Ruth Pratt, herself a former
One of This Group May Be Next First Lady
‘John Cobb (Jack);
Mrs. Alfred M. Landon
Maiden Name—Theo Cobb (of Topeka, Kas.). Children — Nancy Josephine, one stepdaughter, Margaret Anne. Hobbies—Playing harp, antiques collecting, riding.
Maiden Name— Annie Reid «(of
Hobbies—Her New Hampshire garden, college women's _organizaions, state, tubercular welfare Wor
Maiden n Name Myrtle Call (of Algona, 1a.). : oh ‘Children—Levi - Call, Ruth Al= Hobbies—Making' pancakes, writ- , children’s charities, keeping scrapbooks, ‘motoring, her ‘four
.
Mrs. Arthur: Vandenberg ‘Maiden Name—Hazel H. Whit-
taker (of Fort Wayne, Ind.).
Children—None: three step-
children: Arthur Hendrick Jr., Barbara, Elizabeth.
— ‘Entertaining, Carn people.
Hobbies Fife Girls, young
congresswoman, = are delegates
whose social and political stand--
ing are equally high. -
The national committeewoman
for Ohio, Mrs. Katherine Kenne-
‘dy Brown, will be assisted in ar--
rangements by such social lights as Mrs. John E, Hillman and Mrs. Paul Fitzsimmons, the latter the
first wife of Alfred Gwynne Van-
derbiit. Nearly a dozen Republican women already have sat in on pre-convention conferences- on proposed planks for the platform, and several dre expected to find a place on the platform commit tee at the convention. Mrs.- Hoyal is well qualified to speak on the part women ‘ have played and are playing in the
Republican Party.
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HE Republican Party is the women’s party of America, historically and practically speaking,” she recently told this interviewer.
“For more than 50 years, from
the time when mention favoring equal treatment for women was first made, in the Republican platform of 1872, the Republican Party - has fought and won the good fight for women,’ ” she said,
continuing: 3 “The only traditionally’ Deémo-
cratic section of the United States
is in the deep South, where wom-
en, though placed on a pedestal of chivalry, so-called, have consist-
ently been denied equality in the.
stern reality in living. “Women made their first bow on the national political stage when three women were alternate delegates from Wyoming to the Republican National Convention in 1892. Mrs. J. Ellen Foster was ‘presented and made an address to the convention as ‘chairman of ‘The Women’s Republican Association of the United States.’ - “Since that date, women have been sitting in every Republican National Convention as delegates or alternates. “Mrs. Foster was a pioneer in active political work nationally when, in the McKinley-Bryan campaign of 1896, a women's bureau was established in the na-
tional "headquarters in Chicago. .
and she was named director. “Mrs. Bertha Baur, present national committeewoman for Illinoise, then Miss Bertha Duppler,
LET'S EXPLORE YOUR MIND
BY DR. ALBERT EDWARD WIGGAM
AC. Bachrach,
Mrs. Frederick Steiwer Maiden Name~Frieda Roesch (of Pendleton, Ore.). Children—Elisabeth, Frederick Herbert. Hobby—Reading.
Maiden Name—Mary McConnell (of Boise, Idaho). Children—-None, Hobbies—Helping: disabled sol-
diers, Chinese art, her canaries, collecting toy elephants.
ton’ fon’ Name-~
Ronere Lloyd Bowers, Dwight
Mrs. Robert A. Taft
Maiden e—Martha WheaD. C). Children—William ‘Howard III, Horace
Hobbies—Her “husband, cHil-
‘dren.
“was a secretary “to ‘on of the |
executives at headquarters. 3 s = = = “ years passed, with women striving constantly for the right of equal suffrage. Every Republican platform, from 1868 on,
recognized their work and pointed:
out appreciation for their co-op-eration. Platform declarations or resolutions were adopted by four national conventions prior to ‘the
ratification of the nineteenth:
amendment. “During the same period, from 1868 to 1916, only two Democratic platforms referred to women. “And it was a Republican Congress which, in May, 1919, intro-
duced ‘and passed the equal suffrage amendment, after a Demo-
cratic-controlled Cengress had de-
feated the proposal’ to give women equal suffrage under the Constitution five times ‘between 1913 and 1919! oF “Although the ‘Republican platform will not be written until the
"national convention -assembles in
Cleveland, ‘American: women rest confident that their interests will be defended and promoted.” ig SL WL WO Republican women represent their sex in Congress, but
both are veterans with 10 years’ service in the House to their
sted. They are Florence P. Kahn
ASHINGTON, June 6—The Supreme Court's decree against the minimum wage has virtually resolved Roosevelt to throw the question of constitutionality and the court into the
Democratic platform. . . . who talked with the President about making a court: fight, just last week, found him saying: “Oh,
let's wait until after elections.”
But since the minimum wage law was thrown out, he has said that the fight on the court was on and he could not see how it could be avoided. . .. The Presi
= 8 Republican Convention convening in Cleveland next ‘the in
Washington Merry-Go-Round
eee By Drew Pearson and Robert S. Allen ——e———l
‘Townsendites say they. will have a “secret” observer at the Cleveland meeting. They will also have one at the Democratic Shnvention
“at Philadelphia.
HEN the’ Supreme Court adjourned this week for its four-months’ recess, it - had not passed on four major New Deal measures—the ° Stock Exchange Control, the Util- - ity ding Company and Social Security Acts. All of them are
certain to reach a court test next
year. « J. Edgar Hoover's lat=
‘est quarterly feport places Flor-
ida ahead in the number of mur-
90,000 Tequests for. copies of its Teport. Seventy-five thousand of
the ope wad Scomie who want them
zSonstituents, : Compr .. 5.4 Jt Feature
GRIN: AND BEAR Im
Securities Act,
3 Se Senate who want
of California: and Edith “Nourse Rogers of Massachusetts. - First elected to fill vacancies"
caused by their husbands’ deaths, both women, by repeated re-elec-tions, even in Democratic landslide years of 1932 and 1934, have
‘ demonstrated ‘their right to seats ‘on their own merits:
‘Mrs. Kahn, a grandmother, is credited with possessing. one of the keenest wits in ‘Washington. - Her acute intelligence and hard work have won ker the respect and affection of her colleagues on
both sides of the aisle, as. well as
the honor of being the first and. only woman member of the. imPostant Appropriations CommitShe is on the subcommittee in charge of State, Commerce, Justice and Labor Department ap-
/ propriations.
2 x = ; . ROGERS, from Lowell, A Mass. like Mrs. Kahn, has actively continued her husband's work in Congress. As a member
of the foreign affairs committee, :
ening of the foreign service, in in which he was interested.
She has been equally. active in legislation.
| behalf ‘of veterans’ . Her interest in the care of dis‘abled veterans resulted from her
work with the American Red Cicas ovessens during the war. , curly-headed, persever=ing, Mrs. Rogers attributes her
success in politics to hard work
and “being on the Job all the | time.”
“I have missed scarcely a roll Sal or yois fn all my 10. years
Rh a aT EES RCN
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“the ink was dry on the
- then, Mr. Smith's song was, worse and (of « Washingion,
' bined. After the convention in
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NEW YORK, June 6—Alf M. Landon’s
campaign song might be appropriate if he were running for the glee club, but for a man who wants to be President of the United States “Oh, Susannah,” seems an unfortunate selection. This is a song
reminiscent of the covered ‘wagon, which antedates
even the horse-and-buggy days that Mr. Roosevelt had in mind the time he flung . his glove in the air and pulled a * [F petulant snoot at the umpire be- : cause the Supreme Oourt ruled against ‘him on’ a close one at the plate. It is a mandolin or guitar song, moreover, and is associated with iced tea and gingersnaps on the old front stoop. Surely some one in the Landon party should have realized that this is" an age of. saxophones and swingy stuff and whisky sours at the Lido Carbondale Supper Club or the Dallas Deauville Dine and Dance. : 2 + Mr. Landon ought to get hot. . Westbrook Pegler’ But, then, is it really necessary for a candidate to have a campaign song at all in running for the highest office in the. greatest selfs governing nation in the world? Mr. Landon seems anything but a tuneful man, and if it takes a: crooner or a tenor to get:the vote he might as well save his entry fee, for he can nog hope to compete with the seductive mooing of Mr, Vallee, or the sandpaper murmur of the inveterate invalid Mr. Rommy Lyman. ;
No Aid to Success
Se far as my recollection goes, no campaign song’ ever contributed much to the success of any cane didate for the job of all-America target which the
Governor of a typical prairie state approaches with his banjo on his knee. Champ Clark’s houn’ dog number was a plaintive and rather defensive bit which didn’t sing well ‘and grew monotonous before music. Mr. Wilson; in is turn, more than assisted by the well-meant, but somehow inappropriate, lyric of “I Didn't Raise My Boy to Be a Soldier.” And “The Sidewalks of New York” was more a challenge than a lure to the overall trade outside New York two occasions. In the long convention‘at the Old Madison, Square Garden each repetition of the anthem of Manhattan increased the sectional and religious fury of the Ku-Klux Klan delegates, and in 1928 the constant blare of Charlie Lawlor’s masterpiece res
- minded the farmers of gangsters, the five points and
a broken heart for every light on Broadway.
In Kansas City they had a song called “Who
.But Hoover?” which was pretty bad and might
have beaten the engineer in a fairly even fight. But, brown derby worse than the song, and his religion proved a greater handicap than the song and the hat com= in Kansas City the Hoover people realized that no campaign song at all was better than the one they had and dropped it, so comparatively few people ever heard it. Pere haps if Hoover had used it miore he would have driven .some music lovers into the- Communist column, for “Pie in the: Sky” had something. . Roosevelt made good use of “Happy Days Are
.Here Again,” but nobody will claim that it made any
votes for him or that any one was kidded into a rid
‘lief that happy days were back. Those were pros
hibition days, remember, when Décple loved to hate : the drys, banks were exploding all the country, and every time a Republican his mouth to apologize for Mr. Hoover every one in’ sound of that one’s voice was converted to the long shot from Al. bany, who might not know ‘the answers, but wasy'y afraid to guess. # EJ #
Its No Privilege
J DON'T think 16 a priviiege to write the nations songs. - They are too easily turned to derisive pure poses. The British used to mock the fury of Gere mans by shouting their solmn hymn of hate back at them, and the Frenchmen sometimes burned the Americans by murmuring little sarcastic snatches of “The Yanks Are Coming.” “And once, in when the Rev. Billy Sunday was smothering a Shue bert “Passing Show,” Mr. Ben Atwell, the Shubert press agent, topped Mr. Sunday by sending a beyy of chorus girls down his sawdust trail doing the shimmy, a very daring dance at that. time, and sing= ing “Brighten the Corner Where. You Are.” : If the Republican Party must have a campaigh Song 9 happier suggestion would be “Just One Mate nce.” But there is risk in all such appeals, including
THE PUBLIC LIBRARY PRESENTS. Ir 1 HAVE FOUR ‘APPLES, by Josephine Lawrence (Stokes; $2.50), may well serve as an indictment against the practice which allows a $50-a-week clerk to buy on the installment plan, luxuries which only millionaires can afford, a system which: Miss Lawrence Sees to think ia the greatest avi In. aus
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