Indianapolis Times, Indianapolis, Marion County, 17 June 1936 — Page 13

W YORK, June 17.—There ought to be a law which provides that nobody can

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“attempt to speak for “American youth”

without first producing a convincing birth certificate. Under the present order anybody who does not have to be wheeled on to the platform assumes the privilege of leaping up to announce what the boys and girls of this country

want from the government. This tendency was quite prevalent in the late Republican convention in Cleveland. Much was said, and even more was written, about the manner in which youth had captured the citadel and opened the casements to let in a reviving breeze of pioneer principles. But in so far as the platform represented a concession to liberalism (and I do not think the delegates reached beyond their small change pocket) the tempo was chiefly set by William Allen, Heywood Broun White of Emporia. Bill White has some young ideas litically, but in build and thatch he is pictorially Rais ar man. At any rate, he is not a stripling, and, in all fairness to him, he has advanced no such contention. My mood of dissent was first aroused by a lady delegate. She was a pleasant and personable woman who bore her middle forties with grace and fortitude. She advanced briskly to the speaker’s desk and I was all for her until she began, “We young people of America—." Now, I will admit that in all probability the lovely lady never saw Abraham Lincoln, but gehe may well have watched the Floradora Sextette. I do not want to lower the entrance requirements for senescence, but I still feel that there should be a

sharper definition of terms.

s ” 2 Red Hair Does Not Spell Youth

T= delegate who annoyed me most along these lines was a man from Missouri. He seemed like a substantial citizen—a good husband and father and all that, but because he had red hair he presumed too much. He was not content to speak of “Youth.” He went to the incredible length of saying “We youngsters.” Flame on the head does not, by any means, indicate flame in the heart or in political opinions. I do not remember that John D. M. Hamilton, titian titan of the campaign, made any bid of his own to be included among the adolescents. That was done for him by the commentators and feature writers. Now. obviously, Mr. Hamilton is junior to his predecessor, Henry Fletcher. He was a trim athletic build and an excellent speaking voice. That he is well preserved I would not deny, but he is neither lad nor Lochinvar. Mr. Hamilton is a shrewd Kansas politician and he may show great ability as the leader of a national campaign. It is still much too early to hail him as a wonder child. »

: 2 8 Hale Hamilton His Brother

OME of the older theater-goers may remember his brother, Hale Hamilton, who was very successful in playing the slick city swindler in George M. Cohan’s dramatization of “Get Rich Quick Wallingford.” Both the Hamilton boys originally came from Fort Madison, Ia., which won a temporary fame some few years ago when the American Magazine identified it as the most typical American community and the home of “The average man,” a certain Roy L. Gray, who runs a clothing store. Mr. Gray was pretty well dropped out of the limelight after his brief period of fame. Other Americans who were even more average have displaced him. Some have gone into positions of high political preferment. Mr. Gray is not content to allow his fellow

townsmen to poach on his preserves in any contest of 3.

averages. “I'd say,” he commented, “that Fort Madison produced a man above the average in John Hamilton.” There it stands until such time as the Republican chairman can disprove the charge.

My Day

BY MRS. FRANKLIN D. RCOSEVELT

Gave, Ill, Tuesday—At 4 o’clock this morning Mrs. Helms’ faithful Mary was gently touching my arm and announcing that it was time to get up. I imagine everybody knows the feeling you have when you know you have to get up early in the morning. I packed as much as I could last night, making allowance that I might return from the coal mine so dirty I would have to change most of the things I had on. This proved a wise precaution. Breakfast and on our way by 5 o'clock. For that time of day our traffic policemen out ahead seemed rather unnecessary, as we had the road to ourselves. We reached the Orient mine at West Frankfort by 6:30. There is a superstition about letting women go down in a mine, so I stood where the men were going to work and watched them all load and go down. Then we went over to the New Orient mine, and as that is not working we were able to go down and see something of this mine which is said to be the largest in the world. It is certainly modern in every way, even to the landscaping around the office. I

must say this countryside is far less grim looking than

some other mine fields I have visited. We had a second breakfast with Mr. Williams, the WPA district director, and Mrs. Williams, Then we drove to Harrisburg, where we visited the trachoma clinic and saw the patients being brought in busses. The transporation is furnished by the WPA and it has doubled the number of patients treated at the clinic. In consequence, the sum of money which must be spent yearly in pensions for the blind by the state and county has been greatly reduced. The welcome and hospitality extended me everywhere in these small towns and villages makes one realize that no part of our country has a corner on hospitality. I have experienced it in pretty much every part of the country and it is always the same —simple and cordial, given from the depth of warm hearts. : Back at Mrs. Helms’ at 12 o'clock and then we drove to Indianapolis after lunch. (Copyright, 1936, by United Features Syndicate, Inc.)

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This is the second in a series of articles on the life of Gov. Alf M, Landon, Republican nominee Tor President. Waa :

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BY WILLIS THORNTON NEA Service Staft Correspondent. *

A CURIOUS little recollection about Alf Landon tells volumes about the man. A hotel-keeper at Lawrence, Kas., seat of the state university, recalls that it was young Landon, then a stiident, who came back after the school term was over to check up with the hotel and see that all

the bills of his fraternity chapter had been paid.

Back in 1903, in the high-collar and bulldog-pipe days, college students were notoriously bad pay. In seeing that he and his associates were an exception, Alf Landon was only reflecting life-long training by both parents in a rigid code of personal finance. p Alfred Landon always had enough money. His father had done well in the oil business, and the Landons never had to practice pinching economy by necessity. But nevertheless, Alf Landon’s activities

as head of the local chaper of Phi Gamma Delta are recall

with

some amusement by his fellow-members. It was Alf who insisted on systematic bookkeeping by his fraternity chapter, on one orchestra

instead of two for the chapter dances, on living within their uncertain income. . ” ” » ET he was not stingy; he liked the best when he really wanted something. Campus tradition credits him with sporting the first “Tuxedo coat” at Lawrence. Today when Gov. Landon wears four-year-old hats, it’s because he likes them, not because he is too stingy to buy new ones. An amusing story in this connection is told of some old clothes ‘which Mrs.

Landon gave to the ' Salvation

Army. When Alf found it out he raised the roof, called up the Salvation Army, and offered a substantial check as substitute if they would return the clothes he had grown to like. Gov. Landon was too light for university football, and the injured shoulder prevented even fry-

ing out. interest in football which survives today. He was also active in campus politics, and any one who has mixed in this variety of political activity will tell you that it difers from the real thing only in scope. It was here that Alf got the nickname of “Foxy,” which he always disliked. And it was because he disliked it that Kansas Democrats revived the nickname in later state-campaigns. s ” ” OT only is politics breathed

in the very air by all true Kansans, but Alf had had a taste of it at home even before reaching Kansas soil. Back.in Ohio the elder Landon had served as county committeeman, Later he was county chairman in Kansas. He never ran for any office; politics was a hobby with him, just as though he had been a native Kansan. It was not coincidence that he took his young, 15-year-old son with him to sit in on the Democratic national convention as a spectator when they took that trip to St. Louis in 1904. Alf Landon went on to the law school. He was a serious student, but not serious to a point of excluding ail fun. He liked dances, and there was at least one incident when he was called before the governing board of the university in relation to the activities of a festive society known as T. N. E. Older university men will recall that T. N. E. was not exactly a sewing circle.. A beer keg figured not only in its badge but was a keystone of the society's activities. The boys promised to

But he retained a keen

keep the society’s activities’ within bounds, and William Allen White, who was one of the board of governors, records that “while Alfred was in school they kept their promise.” : s ” ” HAT young Landon was intellectually curious is shown by the fact that he established a custom of inviting interesting visitors to Lawrence to visit the Phi Gamma Delta Fraternity so the students could meet them and hear their informal talks. Young Landon was chosen for an honorary legal fraternity in the law school, Phi Delta Phi, though it was known that he did not intend to practice law. To the considerable disappointment of his father and other male relatives, the young law graduate turned to banking instead of law. To this day, the elder Landon is a trifle disappointed with his son’s choice. At least he was until political success wiped away the sting. . Behind the cages of the State Bank of Commerce and the First National Bank of Independence, Kas., the young member of the bar toiled over the bank's books. In three years he had risen to a salary of $75 a month. It was not a stimulating prospect. Further, there was the smell of oil in the air at Independence, and there was the example of his own father’s success in the oil prospecting business. He had had a taste of the oilfields working during summer. vacations.

Young Alfred Landon laid down |.

his pen, hung up his eye-shade, and put on the laced boots of the oilfields. \

NEXT—The business man who tackled the hazardous game of oil prospecting and made it pay.

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Kept Busy at School Balancing His Fraternity’ Books

calmly sizes up the crisis.

For a possible resident of the White House, Nancy Jo Landon (left) shows little regard for appearances as she gives. tearful vent to childish rage while strolling in Topeka, Kas., with her parents and brother, John Cobb. Mrs. Landon ignores the outburst while: Gov. Landon

father in 1904. ;

HEARS DEMOCRATIC

BY MARK SULLIVAN ASHINGTON, June 17. — Democratic Senator Royal S. Copeland of New York announces he will not attend the Democratic national convention next week, although he had been elected a delegate. His decision is accompanied by an interview in which he expresses sardonic disaffection with the New Deal. At the same time he declares that his action stands by itself, it is not taken in co-operation with ex-Gov. Smith @&r any other of the disaffected Democrats. Also Senator Copeland declines to say at this time what he will do in the

LET'S EXPLORE YOUR MIND

~———BY DR. ALBERT EDWARD WIGGAM

DOES Fa TE IILTONGE PAROLE Bi rhieoncte SHOULD BE ABoLicHE0 5 ; NES * NO

November election. He implies strongly ‘ that he will not make speeches in behalf of Mr. Roosevelt, but he does not say at this time how he will vote. : Whatever the length of Senator Copeland’s step may take him, and regardless of what complex motives may be the cause of his action, his absenting himself from the conven-

tion that is to renominate Mr. Roose-.

velt is a new development in Democratic disaffection. The disaffection as a whole varies in its relation to the issues in the coming campaign. Much the ‘most of it is based on principle. Principle is very much in the minds of practically all the Democrats who are going to oppose the New Deal in the campaign. Some slight part of the disaffection may be due to disappointment over patronage or other form of grievance. Whatever the:causes.in individual cases, the aggregate of Democratic disaffection is going to be a decisive factor in the coming campaign. . » 2 t J distinction attending Senator Copeland’s announcement is that he is the first Democrat now holding office who says he will take a walk during convention week. The other Democratic dissenters of whom much is heard recently all are men whose office-holding and active leadership is in the past, such as exGov. Al Smith of New York, ex-Gov. Ely of Massachusetts, ex-Senator Jim Reed of Missouri. Their defec-

.} tion has an added moral effect from

the fact they are leaders who, because out of active politics, are able

ly. Presumably, the platform will

Big and pretentious, this well-groomed house at Independence, Kas., - has been the Landon family home since purchased by Gov. Landon’s

An alumnus comes back to the University of Kansas . . . Gov. Landon delivers the commencement address.

Alfred M. Landon, undergraduate . .'. he put his fraternity at University of Kansas on a bufiget.

NEW DEAL DISSENT

N an additional way, Senator Copeland’s action marks a ‘new stage in development of the whole situation. We now know with practical certainty that all Democrats who are willing to dissent openly from the New Deal are going, like Senator Copeland, to remain away from the convention. As a result, the convention next week will be made up only of those who support Mr. Roosevelt's renomination, however reluctantly, on the part of some. There will be no protest within the convention. Presumably, Mr. Roosevelt will be renominated unanimously. Presumably, a platform written by Mr. Roosevelt's friends or under his direction will be adopted. unanimous-

include a plank of the usual type, one which “points with pride” to the record of the Roosevelt Administration, which record includes the whole history of the New: Deal. So far then, in the development of this extraordinary campaign year, two early stages are past and are clear. ‘We can see there is‘to be no protest within the Democratic na-

did not name a Democrat as its vice presidential nominee,

2 ” 2 N this condition, what will happen? What will follow the Democratic national convention? Conceivably, the anti-New Deal

Democrats could form a third party. At the moment there are no concrete signs of it. However, there are signs of ‘a different development. It seems likely the Democrafic disaffection may express itself in a series of actions by Democratic leaders, of which Senator Copeland's is the first. A large number of Democratic leaders opposed to the New Deal are ready and more than’ willing té make formal public announcement of their dissent from the New Deal and their refusal to support Mr. Roosevelt. They wait only until after next week’s convention shall

go by without announcement by imrtant Democrats that they can not support Mr. Roosevelt. In addition to that, many active Democrats,

making p quietly keep their support of Mr.

tional convention, no bolt nor rump, Roosevelt confined to lip service.

convention nor other development of that sort. We know, also, that there is to be no “coalition,” no formal union between Republicans and anti-New Deal Democrats. The

Republican convention is past and it

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Jair bnough WESTBROOK PEGLER

NEW YORK, June 17.—Spirited competi« tion developed among the grass roots gentry of Westchester County last Saturday in the judging of thoroughbred vegetables grown on the estates which abound there. The occasiof was the fifth annual flower show, which in Westchester corresponds to the coune ty fair in Kansas or any other typical prairie state. When flower show time rolls around there is great primping and fussing and bother in the walled and turreted cabins of Westchester farmers. The farmers gather in their billiard rooms in the evening and lay nominal wagers of, say, a few thousand dollars, on their Brussels sprouts and caulifiower, and the weary farm wives gather in the .music room or the drawing room to speculate,

with excitement in their eyes, on the quality of the neighbors’ strawberries.

The gentlemen put in days with their tailors In New York preparing their outfits of Bond Westbrook Pegler Street overalls, and the ladies trudge from shop to shop along the Avenue and 5T7th-st buying stylish effects in mother hubbards and sunbonnets.

Farming Much the Same

UT, on the whole, farming in the Westchester flower set differs little from farming in the Middle West. One slight difference is that the cone testants do not, as a rule, attend to their farming in person, but use hired. farmers, just as the ardent sportsmen of the racing set employ professional traine ers and jockeys and sometimes even lease the horses, which run in their colors.

Generally, when you read in the papers that a certain ardent sportsman has won a stirring victory at Belmont or Saratoga the phrase means that a horse in his name won the stirring victory. So, too, in Westchester County farming as exe perienced by the grass roots enthusiasts, the actual handwork is done by professional farmers. A West= chester rube with an estate speaks of “my farmer” as he might say “my tailor.” The tailor makes the suit which he wears with grace and charm, but he accepts the prestige that it confers because he paid for it. The professional farmer does the hoeing and sprine kling, but the cabbage is entered in the name of the proprietor. The floral section of the show attracted wide attention, to be sure, but the greatest interest centered in that division classified as “Vegetables—Estates.” An estate is a large expanse of land with a mansion, a polo field and private golf course, surrounded by a high wall and having a name, such as the Elms or Shady Knoll.

3 ® 2 Strawberry Race Is Close

TN the “Vegetables—Estates” division the first class judged consisted @f “vegetables to cover space 10 by 5 feet” and was won by Mrs. H. Edward Man= ville of Pleasantville. - Mrs. C. T. Newberry of Irvington won a glorious victory in the “Vegetables in Wheelbarrow” event, coming in first by a margin of one radish. -.- Mrs. Newberry also -won«the- “Radishes—Twelve”

| event and lost’the “Spinach—Ten” 10" Mrs. Manville 1 “by the narrowest of margins. ’ .

Mrs. Eugene Meyer of Mount Kisco received an

"ovation in each of the gruelling strawberry contests,

The first was for “Strawberries—Four plates, four varieties” and the next “Strawberries—Two plates, two varieties.” The rural scene resounded with wild cries of “Come on, you, Mrs. Eugene Meyer's strawberries— four plates, four varieties!” and “Come on, you, Mrs, Eugene Meyer's strawberries—two plates, two varie etles!” as the strawberries headed into the stretch.

Merry-Go-Round

BY DREW PEARSON AND ROBERT S. ALLEN

ASHINGTON, June 17.—The problem of being a President’s son, under the best of circume stances, is tough. The Hoover boys found that out: also John Coolidge. They were rather modest, retiring individuals. Bug when you have inherited the characteristics of the most active woman in America, and of a father who even today is full of restless, driving energy, then it must be doubly tough. Jimmy Roosevelt, 28, eldest son of the President, hasn’t fully realized this yet—though he should. There have been infrequent times, of course, when the exuberant Jimmy thought life was a little hard. ‘One of these was when he was just out of Harvard, newly married, and anxious to make a living. His father was then Governor of New York, and offers from New York business houses literally were thrown at Jimmy's head. He could have had a salary of $25,000 for the asking. : But the Governor put his foot down. Salaries of that figure were not paid to a 22-year-old boy for nothing. Jimmy went off to live ih Boston—chiefly, because his wife’s father, Dr. Harvey Cushing, famous brain specialist, lived there. So Jimmy studied law and simultaneously launched himself in the insurance business. About mid-summer of 1932, as it became increase ingly certain that his father would be elected Presis dent, Jimmy suddenly woke up to the fact that the old adage “All that glitters is not gold” was not, in his case, true at all.

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FTER that, all kinds of insurance sales came his way. No great salesmanship was necessary. If was only natural that when rates are standardized, as in insurance, people should buy where they thought it might get them some political advantage. Simultaneously, Jimmy went even deeper into

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