Indianapolis Times, Indianapolis, Marion County, 9 June 1936 — Page 11

(CLEVELAND, June 9.—Senator Borah ~~ said “Boo!” The man from Idaho strode up from the railroad station at half past eight yesterday morning. His train

pulled in through a pea-green fog. But in

the hearts of many Borah was the torchbearer who would hold high the flame which might be followed ‘mist and snow and sleet. The advance publicity was terrific. They said Bill Borah : was ready for the fight of his life. Upon getting to the hotel he would

need only time to change his col-"

lar before calling a press conference and putting his case before the people of the United States. And at first sight he seemed prepared to cry, “Die, windmill,” and gallop into the attack. His pants were pressed and there was a in the eyes which animate one of the noblest heads ever carried around by any American statesman. There was nothing old about in Except his ess, Heyw His first u nce was evd Brown fense against any possible tinkering of the Constitution. He did not think, he said, that people should begin to cry for an amendment after every five-to-four decision. But there was no press conference hard upon the heels of his arrival. A few scattering questions were asked by thé little group of newspaper men who crowded into the elevator and followed him to his room. But before there was any meeting of the minds Senator Borah asked the not unreasonable privilege of being left alone with his wash-basin and his campaign man‘ager. He said that he would meet the newspaper men at noon. This was later changed to 1 o'clock and the conference finally took place at half past

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‘A Tragic Political Figure HESE small details would be unimportant but for the fact that they are symptomatic. Borah is an orator whose vast vocabulary has never included the word “now.” He is the most tragic figure in American politics. Henry Clay is probably his spirit,ual ancestor and so is an old baseball player called John Ganzel who was with the Yankees back in the «days when they were called the Highlanders. Never was there a more menacing figure than John Ganzel when he was on deck swinging three bats, but when he actually came to the plate to take his cut at the

ball nothing happened except a high fly. So .it is with Senator Borah. He is the most

. forthright and courageous man in the entire political

field until he steps into the batter's box. He was the ‘hope of the progressive wing of the Republican Party, but what did he actually say whn he went on the record at his belated newspaper conference? In reply to a question he stated flatly that he thought the majority opinion of the Supreme Court in the New York minimum wage case was wrong. NevertheJess he was adamant against any amendment. # ” =

“This Is Not the Time”

MAT else could Borah say? His entire career has been given over to watchful waiting al= though in all fairness to him it should be added that sometimes he forgot to watch. Time unto eternity he has taken the position, “Not yet. This not the time." And now he has turned 70 and gone beyond it. His mind is. alert and his wit is nimble. He has a way with a crowd. Presumably the day will come when Borah is gathered to his fathers. Death will touch him as he waits for that zero hour which he has never

been content to set. And after some aeons have passed

Gabriel will blow his trumpet loud and strong summoning dead Senators and congressmen and commoners to hasten to the judgment seat and there présent such. as they care.to make for théme selves. And the mighty army. of: and march in those habiliments which they knew in life. But one will be among the laggards. Gabriel may blow with as clear and loud a note as he can command, but he will not wake Bill Borah from the dead. The most the loudest note can accomplish will be to compel the Senator to stir in his long sleep and murmur, “Not yet. Not yet.”

My Day a

BY MRS. FRANKLIN D. ROOSEVELT

be ES MOINES, Ia, Monday. — A pleasant eve-

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ning last night in Chicago talking to Mr. and Mrs. Charles Braested and Mr. Louis Ruppel. I

reached the train a little before 11 and arrived here

at 7:30 this morning. : I can not quite get accustomed to so much solicitude and attention on the part of everybody. Some day I suppose I may expect to, but it is still a surprise to me. When I was called up last~aight and told I could not possibly travel in a day coach for a part of my journey where the train does not carry a parlor car, I was almost indignant at being considered different than the rest of the world. Then I realized it had nothing to do with me, but with the fact that I happen to be the President's wife and must be treated differently, I think I shall have to learn this lesson every little while so as not to forget it. Dr. and Mrs. Morehouse, and Gen. Graw met us at the station this morning and we went at once to the Fort Des Moines Hotel for breakfast. We reached Drake University at 9 o'clock where the acedemic

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procession was just forming as we arrived. I slipped .

into my cap and gown and joined the line. I believe there is nothing in the world as hot as these gowns. As we walked across the campus to the church where the exercises were held, I realized I was getting warmer and warmer, and more and more nervous. I do not think I shall ever get over being nervous before a speech, especially a speech to young people, but this was a remarkably attentive and helpful audience to talk to. This is my first visit to a Middle Western university, and I was struck by the alive and keenly attentive looks on all the faces. =: (Copyright, 1036, by United Features Syndicate, Inc.)

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lem and then sit down until

his turn to recite again, now goes to the blackboard and gives a lesson himself.

“He uses his imagination in his English, his art and all the other subjects, bringing all his knowledge together for his interpretation.” Mrs. Fischer with several other teachers, in accordance with the age limit specified in the teacher tenure law, retired this ‘month from teaching service in the Indianapolis schools. : But Mrs. Fischer has not retired from teaching. ’ For the last 10 years she has taught German two evenings a week at Indiana University Extension. Many doctors, dentists and chemists who are supplementing their training with a knowledge of German for use in research have been among the prominent persons enrolled in her classes. She plans to continue teaching the subject at Extension when classes reopen in September. # » 2

T'S not at all difficult to adjust

herself to the adult mind after.

working with the child mind, she

. has found. Several persons have

asked: “How do you do it? Don’t you get dreadfully tired from the mental strain?” She shakes her head. “It’s a bracer. I haven’t found it tiring, not in the least. It has been fascinating to compare reactions of the two type minds. They’re not so different.” Her early education ‘was received in Minnesota high schools and in Mankota Normal School.

She started teaching in New Ulm,

Minn., when she was 117. Her first teaching position when she came to Indianapolis was in e department at School 18. She was\employed by Robert Nix, then supervisor of Gérman in Indianapolis; and at ong.time superintendent of schools in Minnesota. Mrs. Fischer came to Indianapolis when her husband, Hugo Fischer, now retired, took up: the

work of physical director at the

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LL the cultural activity at the

Athenaeum was brought to her mind, with the names of the old families so active within its circles—the Vonneguts, the Liebers, the Jungclauses. Although she studied music when a young girl, most of her experience came from singing in concerts directed by the late

Alexander Ernestinoff. Concerts

were presented every: month.

She went from: School 18 to 52:

and later to 16, taking leave of absence in 1926 and 1931 to get a degree at Indiana University in German and French. f When she was appointed to School 2, Benjamin Harrison, she taught language, English and general science in junior high school. She had been there four years when she retired. ‘Mrs. Fischer always has liked children and always. enjoyed

“HE old “hickory stick” is festooned with cobwebs. And well it might, believes Mrs. Clara Fischer, retiring after teaching in the public schools for 34 years. : For there isn’t any need for discipline in the schoolrooms any more. Children discipline themselves in their love of school work she has found. \ : “When children become interested in their work they don’t have time to go astray and they put all their energy " and efforts toward constructive activity,” she said. " “The child who used to recite when called upon, write a-theme (and often a pretty dry one) solve a prob- |

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‘ ily. A daughter, Mrs. J. W. Brown,

But she confesses a ; ” for journalism. “It might have been my choice of profession. But once you are in the teaching world, you never seem to get out,” she said.

® ” 8 one of the activities nearest to her heart is the first edition of “The Benjamin ‘Harrison Story Magazine,” written, illustrated and published by the pupils. As faculty advisor, Mrs. Fischer watched over the efforts put forth in the magazine, an English class project. Pupils drew the illustra--tions free hand, wrote the stories and then ran the pages off on the mimeograph. : The study and use of German and French have instilled a desire for travel—it will be to Europe, she said. : But her real hobby is her fam-

Carmel, with whom the Fischers make their home, admitted she didn’t know what her mother did like outside of teaching.

% 8 =n : “OVHE’s always been so busy at teaching and rearing her family, but now maybe we can find out,” she:said. A son, Hugh, teaches physical education in the Minnesota schools. Contract bridge is a weakness of Mrs. Fischer, who reports her son-in-law, as an “A-1” player—“You know,” she confided, “I ‘hardly dare play with him.” After experiencing 34 “last days of school” it wasn’t hard for Mrs. Fischer to notice a change. “There seemed to be a feeling quiet as school days out of the past all

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MARK SULLIVAN CALLS LANDON ‘NO. 2 MAN’

(Continued. from case, they would Have become better) acquainted with him, would have seen him in action, would have generated a fighting enthusiasm for him. Possibly it is just as well that Gov. Landon’s fighting is to come in the future, that the enthusiasm of party workers for him is to. arise in the campaign. Had he been through a fight in the primaries, he would have acquired hot enthusiasm: from those favoring him, but also hot opposition from those against him, ,

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As ‘it is, there is practically no emotion against Gov. Landon, certainly none to speak of among the delegates. With him nominated, no delegate will go home - resentful. with him nominated, assuming that is the outcome, the Republicans can go to work to elect him without any intervening period of ‘nursing wounds. cr # ” ® ET this would be a more exciting convention if there were some. emotion in it. There is little prospect of emotion, except perhaps some controversy over parts of the platform. And platform matters— currency, farm policy, tariff and the

LET'S EXPLORE YOUR MIND

BY DR. ALBERT EDWARD WIGGAM

like—do not stir much emotion. The emotion ought to Be about Gov. Landon. The fact is the sunflower, emblem of Kansas, is not: extremely

delegate’s lapels. The convention, so far, lacks a personality around

whom to polarize.

bility ‘in this convention, the delegates would rise to it. If some one should arise and put in nomination some perfectly well-known and popular and glamorous personality, such for: example as Col. Lindbergh, the convention might rush te him. But Col. Lindbergh is not available. Besides, the dramatic happens only

Republican. conventions than in Democratic ones. It has not happened

Jf there were a dramatic possi-:

rarely, and rather more rarely in

‘named William Jennings Bryan, by an extraordinary speech, swept a

and captured the presidential nom=

conspicuous by its frequency on | inati

In the 1916 Republican conven ‘tion, sometl unexpected, though not particularly dramatic, happened in ‘the drafting ‘of Mr. Justice Charles E. Hughes from the Supreme Court ‘to. be the Presidential nominee. : Sas Possibly the quiet mood of the convention -is - explained by: events that preceded it. Quite early the Republicans decided that it would be inexpedient to renominate Mr, Hoover. Since he was an ex-Pres-ident belonging to their party, he was in a strong sense their No. 1 man. For reasons of expediency, the

really since 1896 when an unknown

Republicans passed him by. Then

‘Landon Boom

By Seripps-Howard Newspaper Alliance @VLEVELAND, June §~"Oh! 4 Susanna!” ~The band plays through the streets and pauses for/a serenade before hotels where delegates stand gossiping in the tiled lobbies, shifting from one tired foot to the other.

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Everybody smiles and claps and |

Unique and

Effective Piece of Planning

credited to a few Kansas friends, Kansas City and country newspaper men. They started it. Quietly they said the good word here and there, told about their Governor, a fellow with his feet on the groufid. Always the contrast was with the blazing leader in the White House. } 7 ' Ea a g William Randolph Hearst, + whos had® grown bitter about D. Roosevelt, was attract-

‘led. The full force of his publicity

Kansan. 83

First on the. scene at Cleveland, early conti

Democratic convention off its feet ‘No. 1-rahk But

some thought was given to three Republican Justices of the Supreme Court—Justices Hughes, Stone and Roberts... They, too, ang. there. gene agreement that the Supreme Court

‘should be held inviolate. The vague ‘groping for a known No. 1 man ac-

counts. for the arising, and some persistance even to this time, of talk about nominating ex-Giov. Lowden of Hlinois, ; even ‘though he is well over 70 years old.

” = s | the nature of things, the Republicans have felt obliged to seek their candidate among new men. Their very newness keeps them out of the No. 1 rank. And no convention, no group of men and no individual, feels wholly pleased with’ If . when, for. motives however imperative, he finds himself committed to doing something which, however unavoiciably, is the second best thing. The convention is obliged to take consolation from the fact that Gov. Landon, if nominated, will by that fact, become a No. 1 man. But until Gov. Landon is’ nominated, if that is to be the outcome, the convention is, if not unhappy, certainly a little inert. The longing for an authentic No. 1 man, already known to be a No. 1, causes the convention to lack the spirit it might otherwise have. $ It is not that there is material opposition to Gov. Landon. ‘ Dele-

gates merely wish. they knew more| .

about him. Some ‘leaders: seriously think it imperative the convention should know more about Gov. Landon’s views. Some will" resist his nomination until they do know. Yet the turn to the al-

‘ternatives who have been active and ; ii i Senat

much ~ Vanden- ~ Senators

sideration would be given to Senator Vandent 2

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vere men of owas: general’ cio. lied down in his

«+ . Icy silence. Butler turned to Andrew W. Mellon,

(CLEVELAND, June 9.—There is somes thing about a Kansan—any Kansan— trying to be a devil of a fellow, which suge gests a Y. M. C. A. man drinking one bees after another and singing a medicated vers sion of “Frankie and Johnnie” in a roadside hamburger stand at half-past 10 at night to assist in the annual drive for funds. The tradition, the heredity and the environment of the Kansan are

against conviviality. The Kansas strain includes much New England blood, which makes for: aus-

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* the There is a good deal in the composite Kansas temperament. : It is a dreary spectacle, there- |- fore, when Kansans come to a national political convention to nominate a favorite son for the Presidency of the United States. Political conventions are low and sordid events infested by coun-

try lawyers who want to be Attor- Westheonk Pegler

- ney- General or Federal prosecutor, broken-down’

‘Journalists who would turn the crank for Pontius Pilate and a great mass of petty local busybodies eager to be noticed and hoping to attach themselves to the public pay roll somehow if they manage to boot their horse home in November. * 5 # ® #

Loathsome Characters

: Yo can Jook around the. lobbies in Cleveland today and’ see some of the most loathsome characters that American politics has ever prose duced. There is the old statesman, for example, whe ran with the Ku Klux Klan and the dry dictatorship and never cast an honest vote or entertained a principle in all his life, telling stories to a group of reporters in the shade of the potted palms.

There is a good deal of drinking in public private and the crowds churn around in the blie nd lobbies wearing badges and sashes, and it is only fair to say that the majority of the people are ignorant enough to believe that the convention was called to select the best living American to save the country from the perils of the moment. Amid these conditions the Kansans are conducting the campaign of Gov. Alf Landon, a Kansan, which is a description in itself, a dry in his heart, a horny= handed man of wealth, a Coolidge by temperamens and mediocrity’s appeal to mediocrity. Cl SE

# 2 2 Kansans Drink in Secret ANSANS simply haven't got the knack.

have been trained to drink in secret and eat cloves or gargle listerine afterward. When it came

¥ | to selecting a campaign song for their man Landon

they hit upon Stephen Foster's Negro doggerel, “Oh, Susanna,” an incoherent jabber which sounds like clever satire on the whole succession of hill-billy numbers and spirituals. They are appealing to the worst and cheapest in the-electorate in incom fashion. I don’t know but that this would be a good time. for a candidate to come out and tell the electorate ‘what his motives are. and what he thinks of them. He is a hundred-to-one shot anyway and his chances ' wogldn’t>be much the ‘worse for s ‘frank expression ‘of the honest belief which every presidential candi es since the republie began. This is Alf Landon’s chance to admit that “if ‘elected ‘he would immediately start campaigning ‘for re-election and buying his second term with the public. money. Ey

Merry-Go-Round

BY DREW PEARSON AND. ROBERT §. ALLEN

(CLEVELAND, June ‘9~—Random Jottings of & : roaming reporter as the Grand Old Party stages its quadrennial version of the Greatest Show on

Bill Borah has been grumbling backstage, more bellicose ever against the Old Guard. He thinks the bunch t ruled Harding and Coolidge are now dominating Landon. ; #5 _- Probably Bill still remembers’ the convention of 1924—also held in Cleveland—when he had a chance to be Vice President. Coolidge had been nominated on thé first ballot. Hours of secret debate on his running-mate followed. Finally Postmaster General Harry New told the party bosses: 2 “The kind of Vice President you want was crucle

-fled 1900 years ago.” . iA In the end they picked Charley Dawes. But al M. Butler, 's manager, by telephone to

that moment William the White House. We must nominate Borah for

informed them: “I have been talking Vice President.” :

“Mr. Secretary,” he asked, “what do you think of Borah?” : :