Indianapolis Times, Indianapolis, Marion County, 19 June 1936 — Page 26
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NJEW YORK, June 19.—It is the custom of commentators to be cynical about conditions, I've been to a dozen, and I have yet to see any regular in the press section applaud or cheer any speech, save in deri-
; Of course, this doesn’t go for the ring-
ore The press section van be crashed more easily than any other portion of the hall. The late Republean convention set a new low in this respect, as in several others. I am informed that official ‘word went out to let in all comers on the night reserved for Landon's nomination so that there might be ample noise and hoopla. In order to get to my seat in the middle of a row it was necessary tot:throw out nine persons, none of whom had any certificate for admission other than lungs and a Landon sunflower. It is possible that the Republicans know how to run the intricate affairs of this government, but Heywood Broun they showed vast ineptitude in running their last convention. Nevertheless, I like them. I mean conventions, of Course, and not Repubilcatis, : 3
Dyk but Dramatic at Moments.
A Hovon the Cleveland conclave was generally on the dull side, it had its moments of drama. Herbert Hoover's night certainly had enormous potentialities of excitement. - Not all of them ‘were realized, but it will still g0 down in my memory book 88 one of the notable scenes if the cavalcade of conventions, Before his appearance I predicted that it was. within Herbert Hoover's intention to stampede oy convention and gain the nomination. Most of his friends say indignantly that such a thought never entered his head, although I can see nothing dishonorable. in such a plan under a democratic system. ’ e “We. want Hoover” chant at the end of his Rar. was sporadic and scanty, but I still think that Landon might have been stopped if Hoover ‘possessed the platform genius of a Bryan or a John Li Lewis, I hated the speech and its implications, ,but ‘I recognized it, before Mr. Hoover began, as a shrewdly devised rabble-rousing oration. Even with
t delivery the speech was too long and much’
00 slow in getting under way, but the final paragraph, with its bids for choral responses, might well have sent the delegates to spinning on their heads Ait had been done in the grand manner. “Part of the flattening out at the beginning lay in Mr. Hoover's failure to stand close: enough to the amplifier. The shouts of “Louder!” from the rear of the hall most distinctly threw the speaker off his But Mr. Hoover committed an even greater sin against radio technique than standing: too far “from.ihe mike. He used only one gesture, and that Was to, pound the desk in front of him with his right hand:" As he started to warm up he pounded harder : harder, and each blow jarred the amplifier and ‘impaired transmission.
” ” Didit Wait for His Laughs
» FE ‘is sald that Mr. Hoover has been studying : public speaking within the last few months and he ‘has noticeably improved his delivery, but ‘he will never be a natural on the platform. Somebody at some time or another must have told: him, “Wait for your laughs,” but in his excitement, he forgot this counsel. The visitors and delegages were very slow on the uptake, and by the time they began to laugh at a sally Herbert Hoover was a Couple “of sentences ahead of them'and plunging
OAL vit I was impatient. with a Russian newsPeper man who criticized the convention and :exPlaines how' much better it would be done in the U. R.
“Instead of the band and”all that Tiotse,” he on a
plained, “we. would use charts to. show: what the speaker was trying to prove. We would try to avoid cohfusion instead of seeking to produce it.”
What he said was logical “enough. There isn't
‘miuich sense to a big political convention. Still, it t foll ‘the folk ‘ways. It is a poor thing, but: it is.
My Day
“BY MRS. FRANKLIN D, ROUUSEVELT TEN YORK, Thursday—We spent a few peaceful : hours on the train yesterday afternoon, having dinner in our stateroom. After I went to bed I lay for ‘8 dong while thinking over my part of the trip, which was coming to an end with my arrival in New York. "Th tticular thought which I found myself dwellng on LL
was the age-old question: What makes a suchostess? “I remember a woman TI knew when I was very young, who owned palatial mansions dotted throughQut the world. If you dined with her you were con-
scious that her mind was on the various men who
stood about in knee breeches and silk stockings ‘to “wait upon her guests. You néver felt she heard any‘thing you said. It didn’t matter very much whether - you stayed with her in the country or the city~you were never at home! From long experience, I have
«decided that the perrect nostess is one who Is so sure
‘of her-household staff that she knows they will do w ver they can to make her guests comfortable. If Shagever occur, she is not upset, for she knows that similar things happen in everybody's house, and that her guests will bg far more Aincomfortable. i she is uncomfortable.
1f she makes you feel that what you say and think |
is really important to her, and perhaps that you are a rather unique and brilliant person, then you will leave her house. not only feeling that you: have enjoyed yourself, but with- the glowing impression that you have given her pleasure, = If you are staying any length of time, it is very nice to fee! that you do not in any way disturb the ~ family life—you may join in it if you wish, or you. may have as much privacy as you wish. Too much arrangement is bad! In short, being a good hostess is an art; hut an art ; which: is built on tact and consideration for others,
‘combined with the kind of efficiency which makes the
+ wheels go round without too . much obvious oiling. . Judging by my own experience, most ‘of my intimate : friends accomplish this difficult feat with ata
sticcess. Back in New York and lunch with my Shilgrey, : Now for some repacking for another busy week! . (Copyright, 1336, by United Peatures Syndicate ne)
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The: fourth ‘of six nstelliments in in the: le story of Aled WM. Landos, President
Republican Nominee for
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BY WILLIS THORNTON - NEA‘ Service Staff Correspondent
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YEARS of traveling all over a state, dressalin laced. boots, khaki riding breeches, eather” -jacket and oilstained felt hat, dealing with farmers here, droppifg in on local: politicians there, is an excellent. background for a
man who inclines ‘to politics.
Alf Landon had such a background, together with the natural inclination for: politics which was: drilled; into ‘his boyhood and youth, and which he breathed i in the Very air.
of Kansas.
Gradually ‘he’ began ‘to take:a more’ or: ‘less
active interest in.Montgomery County: politics. The ‘memory: of “Teddy” ‘Roosevelt, ‘the idol - of his: youth, was strong. Both ‘Alf and his. father had ‘inclined toward the Bull Moose side in 1912, ‘and’ in fart ‘the. elder
had been: a ‘Roesevelt dele--
gate to the 1912 convention. Young Alf was the Progres- HF
sive county chairman that year.
Shortly before he: left. for ‘the *{
war’in 1918, Mr. Landon was: the youngest ‘of ra group of ‘politieal workers - for ‘Henry Allen's’ campaign: for the governorship of the
state. ‘The election was won while - Mr. ¢ Landon - was’ in the
Army.
On : his ‘return he" served for some time as. secretary to :Goy.That friendship. counted .
Allen. later, when Allen was one of the Kansas _ hoosters who helped
nominate “Mr. Landon at’ the
Cleveland convention. 2 2.»
NOTHER valuable friend was:
made two years later, for Mr. Landon: helped ‘campaign: for Wil-
liam’ Allen ‘White when the vet-
eran liberal editor was making his governorship fight ‘as an ‘inde-
‘pendent ‘against: the ‘Klan-dom-inated regular partiés.- And Mr. White “was dlso ‘most helpful to.
the Landon candidacy a Cleveland. By 1928, Landon was ready, to make the plunge into politics as his chief interest. Clyde Reed, a
‘brilliant, ‘earnest liberal who’ was not always entirely tactful in his:
campaign utterances, - called’ on Landon to be his campaign ‘man-
ager in the race for Governor.Mr. Reed had, like Mr.: Landon,:
been a secretary to Gov. White,
and a Bull Mooser. Mr.’ Reed won,
and Mr. Landorr picked the: job of Republican state chairman as his own, -He held it for‘two years. Mr. Reed had a stormy term as Governor. In 1930 he came up for
re-election. If Mr, Landon: continued as state chairman he’ ‘had’
to ‘be an office-holder, so for the
first time his name appeared on a’
public ballot. He ran for: precinet
eommitteeman in Independence. *
- v 3 # « 8. = - v -h +4 ) UT the “Republican: Party in Kansas was split that year,
and Mr. Reed, who ‘had made
mary enemies” by his outspokenness or lack of: tact, carried Mr. Landon down-in his.own defeat. ‘Gov. Landon lost the: precinct committeeship. at the primary. The situation - was further -complicated by the independent candidacy of “Goat Gland Brinkley,” the amazing character. who. by means ‘of unlimited radio facilities had sold many ‘Kansans on the idea that he would be just as sucoessful ministering
In this three-way fight, Democrat Harry Woodring, who ‘is now assistant secretary of war, came out on top. Heo During Mr: year term, Mr. Lanton ‘surveyed.
Alf. M. Landon at’ tHe time of his first. major political success— bringing ‘about : the election of Clyde ‘Reed as Governor and ‘his own - designation - as Republican national; committeeman,
‘major repairs.’
to. : their. econcmic woes as to: their glands.
Woodring’s. : two- | -ble.
the: Wietk of ‘the State: Repubiican- machine, and. ‘began; making He, began circulating about - the state, ‘meeting local leaders hére, talking with gas station attendunis‘ there, always conciliating, always speaking for a reunited Republican party. By 1932 the machine was. ready to run again,’ but the prospects facing the: candidate of the Republieans were not - bright. The . depression,” long’ evident. in Kan-
sas, had deepened: The Roesevelt | § landslide’ mipefidar. “Goat Gland” ‘Brinkley: 3
ot yet: completely: beaten, was back, in the ring. Ad-
ministration. had, been in. many ‘ways “excellent. . Landon decided: "$0, run- for gov- - ernor; many of his: friends Wagga their heads EA :
~ 80: when. ‘Mr.
; 8 # BE: campaigried) in: “his” ‘dogged, _unsensational manner, and won an ‘easy ‘vic over. ‘Lacey Simpson, his: conservative oppo-
nent.. It was a rind ‘battle _ in November, but in & state whith
gave Franklin D.’ ‘Roosevelt ‘a “75, 000: majority, Al: Landon came’ out on top. by 6000, It is dgreed. that
_ Brinkley drew enough’ Democratic ‘votes from Mr. Woodring to turn. “the tide.”
. From. that. time * on he ‘was’ a
: marked: man, and ong ‘or two Re-
publican editors; casting’ their eyes about for a possible presidential candidate in‘ 1936, ‘sin led out the man who: had done , improba =
In 102 1 Landon wi one of wo
LET'S. EXPLORE YOUR MIND
—BY DE. ALBERT EDWAKY wiGGAM:
= | kind." ; Ametican. (because) outside the gov- |
rE omen and dufside. SyS-| | EE a
‘Kas, ©
Republican ‘Governors: elected. In: 1934 he was the only one re-elect-ed. He ‘campaigned in more orthodox manner, being : Governor, ‘but: the amazing thing was that this time he .rolled up: a majority of
“Alf M. Landon is pictured at his office in’ the: Stateliotse, Topeka,
62000; 10 times’ that:by which he had" first been elected. . Ne wae His campaign was: made strict-
ly-on the. record, a record which: |’
has been subject t6 ‘much ‘critical
“Yeats of uavéling. all ‘over: state, ‘dressed in. daced oiling leather jacket and. ‘oil -stained "felt, hat . HHS; an excellent background for a man who: inclines to
bears witness.
oe for higher political ‘game.
NEXT—Landon’s record as’ Governor .0f ‘Kansas—it< made: him. a
examination, and will undoubted-
presidential candidate. .
FEAR *TOTALITARIAN STATE
BY MARK SULLIVAN
3 “the welte Cot talk about: plate ; and issues, Tost" of it, based ‘on partial ‘aspects, the ‘average ‘man must ‘be confused. about just what:
‘is the: major -issue before . America.
The _average ‘man must long for some . guidance * which : “will * reach’ down: through the partisan ahd often / local - discussion of : details which ‘are; relatively,. mere controversial trivalities, He must long to know just- what is the fundamental question. - '. . Inthe probing to. determine ‘what
the ‘board. issue ‘is, there. is a strik-
ing: parallel in three addresses at colleges during the present . ‘commencement.. season.” One is by Mr.. Walter Lippmann. at the University of -Rachester:
“The . “deepest 18sue. ‘of “dur time is whether the civilized: peoplés can | | maintain and ‘develop a free society | jor whether they .are to. all back | - into ‘the:
ancient order .of things when the whole of men’s’ SS ines their” consciences, - ‘their science, their arts, their labor; in-
and their tegrity as individuals, were at the| | : 2008, still decidedly oni. the, dry
disposifion. of ‘the rulers of the state. . .'. Let us, therefore, ‘be 6n guard against a reaction, masquerading as enlightenment ‘and. progress, which would’ a: and’ undo ‘the’ hard-won -achievements’ of the, emancipators ‘of manDentsewty bh ‘has worked in
+ 10 some extent:
Bi 6 address: was an attempt is. analyze ‘the ‘new conception 5
te. them all again|
nt 8 amplifica- + Nonof It is'a passage in an address |
o by myself at Wi . and -Jeff- |
A sists on embracing everything. “The state,’ says. Mussolini, : “is to’ be- the | sole and supreme. interpreter: ofthe ‘needs’ of society.’ ception not: only abtiots institutions,
. The new con-
it asserts . minute. ‘supervision and regulation over the individual... .:. The: outstanding characteristic : o all-the general characteristic: that
Hmeluges. 8 all—is : a demand. hy: =
Rein. ‘Neaded_ in Southeast
‘BY SCIENCE SERVICE : WASHINGTON, June: .19.~= Drought’s: siege in ‘the :Seuth--‘east ‘was shaken, but. not end- | ed, /by the showers tHat have fallen . during - the ‘seven-day ‘pariod covered by the U. 8 Weather Bureaus regular ~ Weather .and crop survey. + Although the situation. was ‘improved, the long- { : water deficits leave: the ‘bal:
For: ‘example, the ‘Carolings {and Georgia. - even now: have -had only‘ about ‘ohe-thizd ‘the - ‘normak rainfall during the, ‘past ‘two - months. - * ‘Much ‘of the. interior of ‘tie country: had a practically’ rainless 3 ‘week... Maisite: is am | 1 | in many: parts of area’ from . the Great Plains. eastward, es- | pécially in’ Tennessee and; the 3 io" Valley. Bad, va * i . one-time: “dust: bowl” in the: Southwest has enough res" ‘serve from. ecet Ta! “to “get by,” surface Soll is in ©
states that the individual surrender to the state not only many of his
familiar freedoms, and ‘mach “of his
free will, ‘but almost a pattiof his
personality, .and. to a- large degree |’
1% Ta
his} facdom: of ‘conscierice.” i: oil ar TY 8 iE third’ definition: of ‘the: para“mount issue : before. America,
startiingly parallel’ to the: others, is
a ‘passage’. from the: baccalaureate
address of ‘President Angell: ot ‘Yale to ‘the graduating : class” of, that. in-
| stitution. -
“Wht ‘we now. face is the ‘prob-
1: |1em ‘whether: we must resign. our-
selves ‘to a. complefer. ‘socialization of our resources and method than
| heretofore; ‘a’ larger surrender of in-
dividual privilege than we haye been accustemed : to as regards..our .intrinsic rights as citizens. In the last” few * years,’ fo reasons “Ahi have seemeéd. {0 be in’. r,i Wise and, indeed, inevitable, Eovenment has. steadily. sought to sxiend area ont dined within its Sutic: tion." ‘Unless - public /opition’ clearly. a ort he ther similar. encroachment, it, may. confidently - be expected /t6. spread. until, in effect, whatever ‘the ‘name, we shall have Souaeiing otis Tesémbling a foi tarian state.” ‘The ‘issue .is.. not- easy . for, ‘the’
average man to grasp. Even he sees it, the: notion nat evr
: mie sake giles pth 4 2of ihe: view
; xia a new. form’ irs aaa es Same ih the | form of: armed invasion; Americans would End pnd
fense of the A system. Yet the mevemen ds”
politics, of this Mrs Landon, 3puve, 3
‘EW. YORK, June 19.—My friend, Jimmy Powers, the sports editor of the New York Daily News, backs off and showers himself with fresh rose petals as a member of a new school of sports writers who have the vision and courage to tell the truth and nothing else but. “Carpentier,” says he, “was studiously ballooned into a cardboard terror, and patriotic French banke
rolls were tossed for 50-kilometer losses.” We will just skim lightly’ over the fantastic idea that any Frenchman ever lost his mind to that extent and proceed to the fact that every sports writer who covered ‘' the. Dempsey-Carpentier assignment warned the citizens that the pair were simply no match. ‘Carpentier was so bad that he did his boxing in secret in a ring pitched behind an old barn at Manhasset, L. 1, but we finally prevailed upon them to put him in the ring with a few punching dummies. In these little exhibi- Westbrook Pegler tions he showed himself to be even worse than we had suspected, and we ‘all told the customers so day after day. By ring time the jour= nalists were almost unanimous in predicting that Car« _pentier would not come up for Round 4, and there ‘were some “who said Dempsey could knock - him over whenever he chose to do so. g's. 8 : Paid $1,600,000 for Excitement. > £) TEVERTHELESS, the patrons turned out to the extent of $1,600,000, and, -although they saw no fight ‘worth the: name, they did get. their - -money’s worth in’ excitement. That seems to be their reason for going to expensive prize fights, anyway, for they always ignore warnings of mockery it ‘the occasion strikes their imagination. yor within" Mr, Powers’ ‘expetience: as a sports writer ' the “customers were touted off the Sharkey Scott fight ~in' Florida, “but attended "nevertheless. And Mr. Powers surely remembers the disclosures of the Boo-Boo Hoff funny papers which Gene Tunney signed within an hour before he entered the ring for ‘his first fight with Dempsey. The Hoff funny papers were a sort of contract awarding Hoff a share of Tunney’s earnings as champion in -case he won the fight. They were negotiated by Abe Attel, the pillows man-of the fake world seriés of 1919, and Mr. Hoff openly described himself as an ‘underworld character, Mr. Tunney told a bedtime story by way of explanation. ‘He said his. manager, Uncle Will Gibson, was about to buy a house in: New York and wanted a few thousand. cash -to close the deal. Nevertheless, the next time Tunney fought Demp-~ sey the customers bought almost $3,000,000 worth of yckets. asd
» ®'n Customers Are Indifferent
F there ever was an age of skepticism in sports 1 writing it was the era of wonderful nonsense which ied up to-the great American panic. ! Mr.' Powers says Primo 'Carnera was puffed up into a fairy-book ogre; when a reference to the files wail Show that, we : all. declared. he could not fight
a lic ck. ridiculed ‘the phony amateurism of the prow ‘fessional amateurs of the tennis business, we pointed out the pro teams in intercollegiate football and we identified those race tracks in Florida, Illinois, Ohio and elsewhere which were conducted by bootleggers. But it never made any difference to the customers. ~The ‘spofts writers of the moment have been, in the‘ main, quite unromantic about the Louis-Schmel-ing fight, but with the contention that they are the * ones who lit the torch I entirely disagree, The torch was ‘burning fiercely a dozen years ago, a 1 dise tinctly remember seeing Mr. Powers himsels carry= ing the-same as far back as 1925.
Merry-Go-Round
‘BY DREW PEARSON. AND ROBEET 8S. ALLEN A ASHINGTON, June 19.—Despite the millions of “words telegraphed out of Cleveland on the stop= Landon: movement, what is probably the most re markable story about’ it has not yet leaked out. It’ happened just after midnight ' followiig Hoover's telling tirade against the New Deal. When ‘Hoovér left the convention hall and the cheering delegates yelled for his return, Chairman Snell ane + nounced that he had taken a train for New York.’ But: he ‘had not. Hoover at: that time was n'a hotel only three blocks away. And a remarkable cone Aetrence was taking place. : Undoubtedly they would riot say 6 now, but at that time Col. Knox and Senator Vandenberg thought they saw; in the great ovation Sven Hoover, a clear confirmation that the. swing to - Landon could be : stopped. So they asked Chester Rowell, . widely known gan Francisco editor and close friend of Hoover, to: are range a conference. ‘Rowell returned in a few minutes with word that the ex-President had decided before coming to Cleves land not to meet any of the candidates. He wanted to maintain this. ‘But if Knox and Vandenberg had
s
"ny leas they waniss 10 convey, ie Would be glad
toirecelve them through Row SE owe won proposed tata joint statement be issued the next morning, signed by Knox, Vandenberg and Hoover. and aimed to stop Landon. The statement was to be read to the conven<
siatement. _ But he said he thotigh ing to Sen 8 ee aon so Jin