Indianapolis Times, Indianapolis, Marion County, 22 June 1936 — Page 12
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HEYWOOD BROUN
NEV YORK, June 22.—From Topeka comes the announcement that the Republican Party purposes to run its campaign without benefit of any Brain Trusters. ‘Of course, this doesn’t go for Doc Hearst,
who is running for the job of President Emeritus. It does mean, however, that such collegians as the G. O. P, has already placed under con-
tract will be kept in the dog house and summoned only when Alf or John is anxious to know how to spell one of the longer words. When the professors were banished and the books were burned it might have been an excellent idea for John D. M. Hamilton to have rescued a dictionary from 7] the flames, This would have saved , the platform committee from a _blatant blunder right in its opening paragraphs, The preamble of the Republican platform reads “The integrity and authority of the Supreme Court Heywood Broun have been flaunted.” Now, if erudition had not been banished by the G. o. P. cowboys as something too sissified to be considered by the young pioneers it might have been pointed out that “to flaunt” means “to wave” or “bo exhibit in an aggressive and palpable manner.” Thus it would be quite proper to say, “Herbert Clark Hoover flaunted the Constitution in an effort to stampede the delegates at the Republican National Convention in Cleveland.” Or, “John D. Hamilton, the personable leader of the Children’s Crusade for the establishment of the old order, flaunted his chin in both nominating speeches for Alf M. Landon.” ” 2 s
Clark Gable, the Example
1 make it even more simple I offer the follow=ing sample sentences: “When a motion picture critic says that Clark Gable would be an Adonis but for the excessive wingspread of his ears, that critic is flouting the ears of Mr. Gable.” But if Mr. Gable were to reply, “As a matter of fact, I am proud of - my large ears because I can wiggle them,” then Mr. Gable would be flaunting his ears. ' Nor is the point involved wholly pedantic and academic, After all, the Constitution must be construed in the light of the accepted meaning of English words. Some of the shadings are so delicate that five-to-four decisions result. That is unfortunate, but it might be even worse if a group were to
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come into power which insisted that words mean.
whatever you want them to. A political party which thinks that “flaunt” means “flout” would certainly never need an amendment. By the very nature of its imperfect knowledge it would be looser than ashes in its construction of all the clauses. "8 ” 8
Frank Knox, American
A I understood the Cleveland Magna Charta, labor is to be assured the right to bargain collectively without interference from any source. I still remain in the dark as to whether this is a promise that company unions shall be protected from “outside agitators” or whether it really promised organized labor protection against spies and employer tyranny. Many of these things may be made clear as the Republican candidates begin to speak, with dictionaries or without. A recent announcement suggests that Col. Frank Knox will bear the brunt of the national speaking tours, while Alf M. Landon will play the back porch side of the campaign. Col. Knox, of course, is on record already through the editorial pages of his admirable newspaper,-and his views are further made clear by an excellent biography entitled “Frank Knox, American.” I am not quite sure why the qualifying word is used unless it be to correct Mr. Mencken's assertion that a Chinaman could be elected on the Republican
My Day
BY ELEANOR ROOSEVELT YDE PARK, N Y, Sunday.—Yesterday began cloudy, but it cleared and turned out to be a lovely day. After taking Miss Cook to the train, -I went over to see my mother-in-law and the children at the big house. I found my small grandson “full of pride, ready to show me he could trot a horse in the field.
: He riding the same horse that my daughter practicdlly broke and trained years ago. This horse "has rather a hard mouth because she has been ridden by so many people. However, she is 6ld and gentle, ‘and -as my grandson is still on a leading rein, whoever is with him can hold her in. Atter lunch I drove up to see my aunt, Mrs. David Gray, and her husband, who have been spending a few weeks at the old house in Tivoli where we all ‘grew up. There are no younger members of the family who wish to take it over, or are financially able to do so,-and I think they will have to try to sell it. + The question being, of rouse, whether it is possible to do so. . No place, I imagine, ever seems exactly the same as ‘the house and grounds where one spent the years of one's childhood. Maud Gray and I have a deep feeling for this particular spot on the Hudson River, but neither of us are at present leading lives ‘which ‘make it possible to keep this place. We sat on the porch and looked at the old oak trees and visions of the past floated before our eyes. I remembered see‘ing some one use a witch-hazel rod for finding water for the first time in my life, and then trying it my‘self without any success. I started for home about 6 o'clock. On my way up 1 picked up two boys from Camp Smith and drove them a certain distance on their way to Hudson. On ‘my way back I was stopped behind a car at a red light, two small children jumped out, dashed back ‘and asked: “Are you Mrs. Roosevelt?” I admitted that I was, but told them to go back at once because the light was turning. By the next light I had passed them, but they were still right behind me, and this time the little boy and girl dashed out with a branch of red rambler roses which they handed me, remarking: “We are so glad to have met you, Mrs. Roosevelt.” Such are the adventures of the open road. (Copyright, 1936, by United Features Syndicate, Inc.)
New Books
THE PUBLIC LIBRARY PRESENTS— APDY WOODLAWN, by Carol Brink (Macmillan; $250), the book awarded the Newbery medal this year, is a sturdy, absorbing, pioneer story. Every parent will want to put it on the boys’ and girls’ shelf, but first will read it himself. It's that kind of book. Caddy practices being the
ccording Juliana Tanner in the “Independent
MONDAY, JUNE 22,1986
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LANDON,
THE CAREFUL KANSAN
Kansan ‘Looks Before He Leaps’ — in Business, Politics and Life
This is the last in a series on Gov. AIL BL. Landon, the Republican’
nominee for President. 8 e EJ
BY WILLIS THORNTON NEA Service Staff Correspondent
ALF LANDON has always been a careful man. . He has been careful in his personal, financial, and
political life.
He looks before he leaps.
Those who have
played bridge with him will tell you that he studies his hand a little more slowly than the average player, but once
~ the bids are in he plays it rapidly and decisively.
Alf Landon was careful as a boy when he made a risky long-distance swim, but saw to it that a boat fol-
lowed him “just in case.”
chickens and kept books on his expenses.
He was careful when he raised
He was careful
as a college boy when he budgeted his allowance and made his fraternity operate within its income. He was careful as a young graduate, when he took a steady job first for a few years before entering the oil business. He was careful as an oil operator, never “plunging”
his last cent, but always keeping some of his savings for another try in case the well was a “dry hole.” He was careful in his oil operations, watching expenses always, and knowing always just where he stood with any job. He always got the best geological opinions before drilling, never played hunches.
He was careful in politics, campaigning in a slow, unspectacular personal way. He drove about the state, talking with whomever he met as well as with. local leaders. When he ran for Governor, he had all west Kansas in his pocket through his personal method before any one else awoke to what was up. Politicians had been ac-
customed to ignore sparsely set-
tled west Kansas.
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J Aon introduced an interesting innovation in his campaigning. Instead of passing out cigars in the traditional manner, Landon “bummed” cigarets.:
Typical incident: Landon drives
up to a service station to get his car greased. A group of loafers sit about. Landon introduces himself, and says, “Well, any of you for Landon about here?” Loafer answers: “——, no! We're all for Brinkley here!” “Well, you ought to vote as you feel” answers Landon. “Anybody got a cigaret?” “And while his car is greased, he talks Kansas issues. Result: Six more Landon votes. This “just folks” attitude of Landon is not forced. He naturally feels that way about people. He likes people. The wearing of old hats, and the informality with which the Governor’s mansion at Topeka is conducted, are no political pose. He likes old hats, and he likes to live a spacious, informal life, walking to work, going fishing when he can, and talking readily with any one who has a ghost of anything to say. Landon once told a reporter a significant thing: when asked whether he was a progressive. “I am ga progressive turning conservative,” Landon answered, The Bull Mooser of ‘his: youth has been sobered by responsibility, by the necessity of meeting a ‘weekly pay roll, by the conduct of affairs. #s # 2 key is in his Kansas Day address last January when he said: “The hands of the clock of political destiny move. forward, not backward. But they must turn at a steady, orderly pace.” Alf Landon is a home and family man. When he takes his younger children riding pick-a-pack, or raids the ice-box late at night, or walks church with
- in the oil fields.
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Mrs. Landon, leading the younger children by the hand to Sunday
_ school, he is simply living in the
plain Midwestern way he has always lived and prefers to live. Close associates agree that Landon has grown in stature during his two terms as Governor. He has widened his horizon. ; “What our nation really needs today is better housekeeping,” h said last January. But there is evidence in his reading, in the people he consults, that he has grown in the past several years. He believes in expert advice in politics, just as he always did When you see a Kansas Governor reading the Brookings Institution's ponderous reports and Soule’s “The Coming American Revolution,” you know he looks beyond the wheatfields.
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T= has been said that stocky, be-
spectacled figure of Alf Landon striding down the streets of Topeka would not 'mark itself off in the eyes of a passerby from that of scores of other prosperous business men of Topeka, or Omaha, or Indianapolis. That might
be true for casual appearance and manner.
But not dll those other men would have accumulated an estate of probably better than a half million dollars. Not all of them
would have been elected Governor -
of their state twice during land-
slides of the opposition party. Not
all of them would have been able. to give that state a smoothrunning administration that accomplished what was asked of it. Not all of them would have. given up’ their competence and * security to enter the maelstrom of politics as a public service. Landon has told friends that to make the presidential race would probably take 10 years off his life. But he has not hesitated. :
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OVE Landon quoted Washington’s Farewell Address in a speech. “I know it is said,” he went on, “that the world has changed since Washington’s time. It has. But common sense is still common sense.’ Common sense, and the ability to co-operate and win co-opera-
‘tion, have been the keynote of
Landon’s political success. He once said: “I always try to avoid putting a man in a corner. :Men will always fight when cornered.” Better leave them out in the open, and work with them, has been the Kansan’s motto in. his state administration. And in another: speech, Landon outlined his credo as follows: “The West was built on faith, courage and the homely commonsense virtues of thrift, toil and neighborly co-operation. In Kansas they remain our c They remain the creed of Alfred Mossman Landon. = THE END.
LET'S EXPLORE
BY DR. ALBERT EDWARD WIGGAM
THIS is still a man’s world—at least women as well as men
find all-men plays more interesting
than all-women plays, a to
Woman.” She points out the success of such all-men plays as “Jour-
ney’s End.” “Wings Over Europe,”
“Hell Freezes Over,” and compares these with the failures of “Blind
YOUR ‘MIND
ES
Just as easily as he hurdled all obstacles to the G. O. P. presidential nomination in Cleveland did Gov. Alfred M. Landon put his dark horse, Sye, over the barrier at Topeka, as shown in the upper
photo. Below, the Governor is shown as he mounts, as he enjoys a gallop, and as he takes a breathing
spell at the end of his ride.
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resigned. Both; since in private life, haye written. -Both have _deseribed the New Deal, described if, from a standpoint of incomparable advantage, sanctum. I quote first a few senienees from Mr. Peek, for some articles, including portions of a diary which he is contributing to the Saturday Eve ning Post. One feels the coun can accept what Mr. Peek says as above challenge—he is a plain man with a ‘slow, deliberate, exact mind. About one or two expressions of judgment—as distinguished from statements of fact—I should differ slightly. I am not sure in the gamut of terminology for proposed social change, that “Socialist” is the precise term for Prof. Felix Frank-! furter. But that is immaterial.
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R. PEEK describing what he saw while inside the Administration. says: “The Socialists, or more strictly the collectivists, seemed—for nothing was “in the open—+to be needed by Felix Frankfurter,” Rexford G. Tugwell, and {Jerome Frank . . . the outstanding . « « Characteristic . . , is their willingness to make the. interests of our country and its people subservient to the practice of their the.ories, and substitute personal government, centralized in Washington, for traditional state and local governments. The tactics pursued were
followed in the setting up of totalitarian governments in Russia, Italy and Germany. These are se-
them lightly, I intend to prove each point . . . a plague of young lawyers. settled on W They all claimed to be friends of somebody or other and mostly of
held . . . they ‘appeared . . . anxious to extend government control as a prelude to
‘There was. no noise about it. They have had a guiding hand in the
from = the very. innermost | . .
unpleasantly reminiscent of those]:
rious charges and I do not make|
Roosevelt) there began to occur one of the cleverest infiltrations in the history of our ‘government.
drafting of nearly “all” “legisiation. Their idea is that government is the nucleus of a vast collectivism in which business or any private enterprise are just elements to_be absorbed. . . . Their thought was
that the Supreme Court and the
Constitution could be. put on the spot as a scapegoat in the public
eye, and government could thus move by a short cut to collectivism.
Nor did they ever put themselves in any exposed position of personal responsibility. They are borers from within. . . .-I sravely protested an
Win Air Trophy
By Bcience Service = J WASHINGTON, June 23. The Mackay Trophy, one of the most prized of all awards for airmen, is to be awarded to‘morrow to Capt. Albert W. Stevens and Capt..Orvil A. Anderson, United States Army Air Corps, commander and pilot, respectively, of Explorer II balloon of the National Geographic Society-Army Air Corps stratosphere expedition. The award is made in recognition of their record-breaking 4 ascent of last Nov. 11 to a height of approximately. 14 miles
The Mackay Trophy is a great silver bowl on a pedestal, with names of former prizewinners engraved on plaques on the base. The award was established in 1912, and has been won by such’ Army aces of the air as Rickenbacker, Maitland, Macready and Doolittle. Award is limited to officers in the Army Air Corps.
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SULLIVAN ANALYZES NEW DEALERS
infiltration of inexperienced young Socialistists into practical control of an Administration not elected as ...” Gen. Johnson adds, about Prof. Frankfurter: “His comings and goings_.are almost surreptitious, yet he is the most influential single , individual in the United States.” : SS 2 ERE, then, is the source of the ideas in the New Deal, and therefore in the coming Democratic national convention. As respects the New Deal ideas, practically everything comes from the group which Messrs. Johnson and Peek describe. Fully nine-tenths of the New Deal legislation, which the Democratic platform wil] indorse, was written by men in this group—it was written by them even when it bore the name of some Democrat in - Congress, If Mr. Rosevelt is re-elected,
lit is these men who will write the further steps of the New Deal legis-
lation. Professors Tugwell and
‘Frankfurter are still as high as ever lin power.
Many of the Democrats in. the. President's personal’ circle, and the holders of ordinary American ‘views, such as Gen. Johnson and Mr. Peek have been dropped.
: They are: out.
The sources of New Deal innovations, Professoes Tugwell and Frankfurter and their coterie, are still in. They are very close in.
‘They are the closest and most inti-
mate advisers the President has. The two professors will not be at convention in person. They, are not delegates. They have
never been elected to any office in|
all their lives. I think they have never submitted themselves to any group of voters. I doubt if they would be willing to; and if they should, I am confident they would not be elected. Yet in the coming convention these two are the most important men. The main business
“| of the convention will be to confirm what they have done, and to give
them a franchise to do more.
GRIN AND BEAR IF
| PHILADELPHIA, June 22. This is not's political convention in the familiar sense but a great carnival and barbecue to sound the ballyhoo for Mr. Roosevelt and the New Deal. Theoretically the Democratié Party is meeting to select a presidential nominee, but that, of course, has been attended to long before the gavel falls, and the week in Ae delphia will be devoted to self-praise, self-congratua ~ lation, enjoyment of the present and “happy. anticipation of four more years of political jobs and power. . |3 Philadelphia, by nature a quiet city, welcomes the patriots with
flags, bunting, electric designs and | that air of excitement with: which
, the inmates of a town where noth-
ing ever happens greet circus day. There is a small crowd in fi the Bellevue-Stratford on one side of Broad-st and another rod hanging around the entrance to the Ritz-Carlton, just opposite. ° The people peer into the faces of the Democrats as they drive up to the doors, searching for those : which they have seen in the movies and in the papers, and some of them are licking pencils and clutching v autograph albums. Jim Farley, the old czar of the New. York Prize ; fight commission, never enjoyed greater glory and prestige. A distant moan grows into a strident wail of police sirens, and Mr. Farley slows up to a spece { tacular halt at the Bellevue-Stratford under escort of the local cops. His importance, the urgency of his business and the firm determination the escort to see him through are all faintly t of the routine comings and goings of Adolf Hitler. 5
¥ o x It’s Been a Long Time Yok
X= pas een along time, come to think of it, since the Americans practiced the custom of throwing ; escorts around honored visitors and rushing them through the traffic unnecessarily fast—just to make
them welcome. For s long time, during the boom, % when a city wished to compliment a distinguished guest. the accepted thing was to permit the subject to violate the traffic laws in spectacular fashion, with advance guards riding along in goggles‘ and gauntlets to roar at the taxpayers and wave them to the curb. Nor is Mr, Farley the only recipient ‘of : this spe cial courtesy. Almost any Democrat with a badge bod : entitled to the same privileges : ; Of course, the Democrats have a more. festive teria 3 perament than the Republicans and make more noise about their afisirs-even in the years when are down. But the contrast is unusually shrill this year, for the unhappy Republicans had all they could do to raise a few Whispers in Cleveland. :
The Old Town Is Wide Awake
HIS is the greatest experience. that has’ befallen Philadelphia since Mr. Farley drove the first of the Tunney-Dempsey prize fights out of New York for : political reasons 10 years ago. They .were having 2 0 world’s fair in Philadelphia then, which was flo oppi! : like 3 ‘stranded ‘whale, the prize" fight ‘drew sever hundred Spori-page journalists to foun, ‘whose sedué= tive writings drew thotisands of spenders with sou market money, which was almost as. loose as the New : Deal money of the presemt horde. "There go the sirens again in front of the Bellevue~ Stratford, and a man with a walking stick crooked over his arm is signing autograph albums, The snake charmer goes on next, and then Little Egypt will ‘go into her dance in the lobby of the Bellevue-Strate ford, under the auspices of the Democratic National Committee. Gather closely, gather closely! every muscle, ladies and gentlemen! The Democrags are in town!
Merry-Go- Round :
BY DREW PEARSON AND ROBERT S. ALLEN" Priabsiruis, June 22.—Assembled Dem has to do just three things in this Gro rau erly Love: : (1) Change the two-thirds rule; (2) adopt a plate form more appealing than the Republicans; (3) keep the convention going long enough so that the i boosters who put up $250,000 to bring the ts here can get it back again. or The nomination of Pranklin D, Roosevelt, come along after all this is over, and it. is pi incidental. Of these objectives, the first two—the two-thirds rule and the platform—will be the hardest. 5 Thanks to Eddie Dowling’s array of radio ‘an theatrical entertainment, plus a carefully v schedule of procrastination, it will be fairly .e stall the convention along for five days. . ooh » To all outward appearances, the istiorh will Be equally easy. 'It will be pulled from the nag 8 of Senator Robert F. Wagner and adopted ) debate. “a Nevertheless, back in Washington, where ‘the pists form really was written, there was plenty of 4 the-scenes argument ‘the President's a And one of the most important factors was. ic entig to the one that bothered OCleveland-—the desire please the Lion of Idaho, Willan E. Borat, sh if possible, duce: him 10 “fake. a walk.” | Sg 8.88 # (hs VHIEF cortroversy centered around. nese ‘
* issues: (1) Monopoly; (2) currency;
wage and maximum-hour laws. "4
The: last, loaded 10 the hilt. Wiki ‘polttial mite, has caused sharp inner-circle debate.
anes. Other advisers point out also that Landon's “If necessary pronouncement, in Ave
author of the piaciom, favors ¢ legislation.
Mice,” “Nine Till Six,” and other all-women plays. All-men plays deal with blood and thunder, whereas
good neighbor to the Indians, the settlers and her Trends. Out of this habit grow many esciing: