Indianapolis Times, Indianapolis, Marion County, 6 June 1936 — Page 9

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" HEYWOOD BROUN

NEW YORK, June 6.—Among the White NEY 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 word-

ing 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/fumors were true. Pat started to rebuke the foreman in violent language, but his wife interrupted him, saying, “There you go, big mouth—talking 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 Supreme Court of the United States. It has been evident of late that the reactionary group has been growing increasingly Tonto. Justi The efforts of e ustice Heywood Bron 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.

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 as 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. 8 ” os Ss

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 I 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 issue. They have said, “Oh, be realistic. Mr, Roosevelt's first job is to get himself re-elected. Why should 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 is the time to speak promptly, clearly and 0%=

plicitly. (Copyright, 1938)

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 didn't have to give anything away. Landon stayed planted at Topeka while his candidacy picked itself up, and, with the nudging of a few vol“unteer friends, began rolling along until now it looks like Old Man River in spring. He made no pilgrimages 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 . ploneers,. 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 exercising their right to cross the streets. : Long ago the Western individualist, an intense belever in democracy, realized that he must sacrifice something of his ideal frontier freedom now that the ‘railroads had come to the West. He must call upon the government to insure him fair freight rates to market, and to prevent stockyards and meat packers from exercising their individual freedom in a way to tagple out the freedom of the farmer. Thus the Middle Western individualist does not hesitate to resort to his government for help in preserving his-real

2 8 = EEMINGLY, to Landon’s friends, he is free as a candidate to apply his philosophy to the Republican campaign. ‘Yet—watch out that he does not find himself,

: What kind of a party temper will be created by Senator Steiwer’s keynote speech to which the whole . country will listen? And by the speech of the hard-anti-New Deal permanent \

+=men” and taking their

SATURDAY. JUNE 6, 1936

MEET THE WOMEN OF T

They Plan Active Role in Shaping Policies at Cleveland Conclave

BY WILLIS THORNTON NEA Service Staff Correspondent.

(CLEVELAND, June 6.— Nearly 500 women delegates, including 52 members of the Republican national committee, will descend on the nominating convention in Cleveland, determined to play a more active part than ever before

in the party’s deliberation. A Swarm of 10,000 women, wives of delegates, and visitors with keen interest in polities; » expected to lend tone to convention, the twelfth in which women have taken an active part since the first women attgnded 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 committewomen = 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 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.”

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 réstricted, 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 unceptain. \ They are Mrs. Benjamiyl Harrison Mrs. Theodore R velt, Mrs. William Howard Taft and Mrs. Calvin Coolidge. / Several of the wives of the

' more prominent candidates also

may appear, it was reported. Chief of the Republican 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. Fosseen 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 Dow Bacon, wife of Rep. Bacon, and Mrs. Ruth Pratt, herself a former

One of This Group May Be Next First Lady

Mrs. Alfred M. Landon

Maiden Name—Theo Cobb (of Topeka, Kas.). ® CRildren—Nancy Josephine, John Cobb (Jack); one step- ' daughter, Margaret Anne. Hobbies—Playing harp, abies collecting, Hiding,

Mrs. Frank Knox

Maiden Name—Annie Reld (of.

Hobbies—Her New Hampshire garden, college women’s organizaHons; state ° Wbérewige Welfare wor

Mrs. J. Lester Dickinson Maiden Name—Myrtle Call (ot Algona, Ia.).

Children—Levi Call, Ruth Al

ice. Hobhies—Making pancakes; Write ing, children’s = charities; keeping scrapbooks, motoring, her: four.

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Mrs. Arthur Vandenberg

~~ Maiden Name—Hazel H. Whit-

taker (of Fort Wayne, Ind.). ° Children—None; three stepchildren: - Arthur Hendrick Jr, Barbara, Elizabeth.

‘Hobbies — Entertaining, Camp

- Fire Girls, young people.

congresswoman, ‘are whose social and political standing are equally high. = The national sniiteswoimn for Ohio, Mrs. Katherine Kennedy Brown, will be assisted in arrangements by such social lights as Mrs. John E. Hillman and Mrs. Paul Fitzsimmons, the latter the first wife of Alfred Gwynne Vanderbilt. Nearly a dozen Republican

. women already have sat in on

pre-convention conferences on proposed planks for the platform, and several are expected to find a ‘place on the platform committee 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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T= Republican Party is the w

omen’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:

“The only traditfonally . -Démo-

“cratic section of thé 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. omen 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 national headquarters in Chicago and she was named director. “Mrs. Bertha Baur, present national committeewoman for Illinoise, then Miss Bertha Duppler,

LET S EXPLORE

BY DR. ALBERT EDWARD wiecaM

YOUR MIND

delegates

C.) Bachrachi a PAPAL INN

Mrs. Frederick Steiwer ‘Maiden: Name—Frieda Roesch

(of Pendleton, Ore.).

Chilaten-«Elisabei, Frederick Herbert.

Mrs. William E. Borah Maiden Name—Mary McConnell, (of Boise, Idaho). Children—None. Hobbies—Helping disabled soldiers, Chinese art, her canaries,

Mrs. Robert A. Taft -_

Maiden Name—Martha Wheaton Bowers (of Washington, D.C

0h). Children—William Howard III, Robert Lloyd Bowers, Horace

chil-

Dwight

Hobbies—Her husband, dren.

i

BERS

Hobby—Reading.

- Was. a séeretary to one of the executives at headquarters.

# n » . ; E years passed, with women * striving constantly, for the

right of equal suffrage. Every Re-

publican 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 thé same period, from 1868 to 1916, only two Democratic platforms referred to women. “And it was a Republican Con-

gress which, in May, 1919, intro-

collecting toy elephants.

duced and . frage amendmen cratic-controlled Co : feated the proposal 0 give women equal suffrage under the Con-

d the equal sufafter a _Demo-

. stitution five times between 1013

iblican plate . tten until the national convention assembles in

and 1919! “Although the Re form will not be

Cleveland, American women rest confident ‘that their interests will be defended and promoted.” ” 2 =» i WO Republican women represent their sex in Congress, but both are veterans with 10 years’ service in’ the House to their credit. They are Florence P. Kahn 4

had de- |

TASHINGTON, June. 6—The Supreme Court's decree against the minimum wage has virtually resolved Roosevelt to

throw the question of constitu- |

tionality and the court into the campaign. It would not surprise ‘those around him to see a Su-

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Washington Merry-Go-Round fouBy Drew Pearson and Robert S. Allen Townsendites say they will have

a “secret” observer at the Cleveland meeting. They will also have one at the Democratic convention at, Philadelphia. 2 ” ” HEN the Supreme Court adjourned this ‘week for its four-months’ recess, it had not passed on four major New Deal measures—the Securities Act,

Stock Exchange Cont®l, the Utility Holding Company and Social |

Security Acts. All. of them are certain to reach a court test next year. . J. Edgar Hoover's latest quarterly report places Florida ahead in the number .of murders and Illinois in robbery. 5. The Senate munitions investigating committee has on file more than 90,000 requests for copies of its report. Seventy-five thousand of

the requests are from members of .

the House and Senate who want

them for inquiring constituents. (Copyright, 1038 by Ir United | Peature

of California and “Edith Nourse A

Rogers of Massachusetts.

|. Pirst- elected: to All’ Vatangies | - 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 her 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 im-

portant Appropriations Committee

She is on the subcommittee in charge of State, Commerce, Justice and Labor Department appropriations.

RS. ROGERS, from Lowell, Mass., like Mrs. Kahn, actively continued her husband’s work in Congress. ‘As a member of the foreign affairs committee, she has pressed for adequate ap~ propriations and strengthening of the foreign service, in which he was interested. She has been equally active in behalf of veterans’ legislation. Her interest in the care of disabled veterans resulted from her work with the American Red

Cross overseas during the war.

Small, curly-headed, persevering, Mrs. Rogers attributes her success in poiitics to hard work

‘and “being on the Job all the

time.” “I have missed scarcely a roll call or vote in all my 10 years in Congress,” she says proudly. “I believe the people of my district appreciate it.” Mrs. Rogers will aftend the con-

_ vention. Mrs. Kahn will not.

GRIN AND’ BEAR iT

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~ lef that happy days were back.

NEW YORK, Jurie 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 nt of the covered wagon, which antedates even had his glove in the air and pulled a petulant snoot at the umpire because the Supreme Court 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. - 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 selfe. governing nation in the world? : . Landon seems anything but a tuneful man, and Me anion Seems nyuine Jus 5 vnefl man he might as well -save his entry fee, for he can not 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 3 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

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| the ink was dry on the sheet music. Mr, Wilson,

in] his i More embarrassed than assisted by the -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 on 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, then, Mr. Smith’s song was worse and his bfown derby worse than the song, and his religion proved a greater handicap than the song and the hat combined, After the convention in Kansas City the Hoover people realized that ne 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 more he would have . driven some music lovers: into the Communist cols

were proe hibition days, remember, when people loved to hate the drys, banks were exploding all over the country, and every time a Republican opened 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 wasn’t afraid to guess.

It’s No.Privilege

‘DON'T think it a privilege to write the nation's songs. They are too easily turned to derisive purs poses. The British used to mock the fury of Gers 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 Boston, when the Rev. Billy ay was smothering a Shue bert “Passing Show,” Mr. Ben Atwell, the Shubert press agent, topped Mr. Sunday by sending a bevy of chorus girls down his sawdust trail doing the shimmy, a very daring dance at that time, and singe

‘ing “Brighten the Corner Where You Are.”

If the Republican Party must have a campaign song a happier suggestion would be “Just One More Chance.” = But there is risk. in all such appeals, including mottoes and symbols. During the Coolidge campaign the publicity department put out a picture of the strong, silent man carrying a Vermont sap bucket, and there was some thought of turning out great

- numbers of miniature sap bucketscas lapel ornas

ments until some Democrat inquired, “What Does the sap use the bucket. for?”

New Books THE PUBLIC LIBRARY PRESENTS-— 1 HAVE FOUR APPLES, by Josephine Lawrence (Stokes; $250), may well serve as an indictment

Is + problem ove In whic he Toe amily , and ’