Indianapolis Times, Indianapolis, Marion County, 29 June 1936 — Page 9

ANY readers have complained about recent columns. In their opinion each

ision of the Republican convention was

ached by the wholly spontaneous action of e delegates upon the floor without aid or punsel from any outside forces. They want proof to the contrary. ; May I cite a speech made by Col. Knox before Union League Club of Chicago recently ; in which he revealed that the decision to make the Landon nomination unanimous was reached by | a conference of four men 24 hours ‘} before the time set for the nomination speeches? May I point out

that Senator Borah left Cleveland.

il with the assurance that there 1 would be no mention of gold in the platform and that Gov. Landon’s message in regard to sound money came at a time when it was all but impossible to carry on any fight on the floor? Nobody has a right to say dogmatically that Gov. Landon could not have been nominated * without the support of William Randolph Hearst, but it is undeniable that through his magazines and | newspapers: Mr. Hearst carried on a very vigorous publicity campaign for the Governor of Kansas. Gov. Landon took Mr, Hearst's advice in regard to . the California primary, and it is on record (see Arthur Krock in the New York Times) that Gov. Landon stated that he could not afford to fly in the face of his friehds. ; ” ” Giving Aid and Comfort NE of the very few statements touching on national affairs which Gov. Landon has made since his nomination is contained in a telegram which he sent to Mrs. Gridley, a Chicago school teacher, on June 18. In this the Republican candidate said: “In this greatest crisis since the Civil War, when forces alien to our American form of government seek to destroy our country, I am happy for the opportunity to acknowledge through you our debt to the men and women teachers who today are unselfishly striving to keep alive the spirit of real Americanism among

. our children.” i It seems to me fair to say that the Governor

in that sentence is beginning to repay an obligation

and giving aid and comfort to Mr. Hearst's campaign against academic freedom in the schools and colleges. By a curious coincidence Alf Mossman Landon raised the red scare on the very day that Robert M. Hutchins, president of the University of Chicago and a particular target of Hearst attack, spoke against loyalty oaths and purges, saying, “The endowed ~ university which yields to the clamor of the press, . of thé public, or even its graduates, abandons the sole claim it has to their support.” Dr. Hutchins

spoke at the celebration of 300 years of Harvard, the

university founded by the Puritans. ”

. » tJ His Hand Is Everywhere : NDEED, the hand of Hearst is everywhere in this campaign. Col. Knox, by far the most outspoken of the candidates to date, makes no concealment of his close connection with the Lord of San Simeon. In the official biography of the Republican vice presidential nominee (“Frank Knox, American,” by Norman Beasley) there is an interesting chapter “called “Experiments in Budget Balancing.” The ” ritten while the colonel was still a candile head of the ticket. In the beginning the ints out that Mr. Hearst's business is far bigger :than that of almost all the states. Yes, I honestly think that William Randolph Hearst carries some little. weight in the Republican A ry. -H 3 «

(Copyright, 1936)

~My Day

| BY ELEANOR ROOSEVELT

YDE PARK, N. Y., Sunday—Saturday seemed : 4A very peaceful and quiet, outwardly, but every ‘one was under a certain tension. Curious. how the feeling that something important is about to happen ‘hangs over a house, in just the way one feels a ‘thunderstorm before it breaks, Everybody went about his business as usual and very one had plenty to do. My husband was putting finishing touches to his speech; seeing a number of people, signing innumerable papers. His secretaries were running in and out. ~ Mrs. Scheider and I were clearing up all the mail we could before leaving, and trying not to forget anything ithportant. A friend brought his daughter to lunch with me. James and his wife and John and a friend arrived from Philadelphia to go back in the train with wus. At 4:30 a group of people, whom Mr. Gerard Swope had asked me to receive, 550 strong, arrived. I greeted them as they went into the state dining room for - refreshments before being shown the White House. At 5:15 we|were ready to leave for Philadelphia, | I'went i to ask my husband what time he actually expected to get off, for I noticed other members of the family in various stages of preparation. My usband looked up and said: “Just four minutes.” | The trip to Philadelphia went quickly. We had the experience of hearing the announcement of our own arrival over the radio. Without thinking I went out on the platform to see if Anna, John and Franklin, who were to meet us, had arrived. Almost immediately I was reminded that my movements were “being recorded, and I retired inside the car hurriedly. | Then the drive through the streets with the Vice “ President and Mr. Farley. The tremendous crowd at the station, every one standing and the “Star-Spangled Banner” being sung by Lily Pons. A man must come to a moment like this with a tremendous sense of responsibility, but it must be very much augmented when he realizes, by watching the crowd about him, what his *houghts and words “are going to mean to innumerable people throughout ghe nation. ~ I had read the speech, but it meant much more ‘when I watched the faces of the people and heard ‘and saw the sériousness with which it was actually “delivered and received. : (Copyright, 1936, by United Features Syndicate, Inc.)

New Books THE PUBLIC LIBRARY PRESENTS— T a great many French statesmen are also

authors has been further demonstrated by the *

ation of Edouard Herriot's LIFE AND TIMES BEETHOVEN (Macmillan; $4). Although M. ot is better known as a brilliant statesman and

ed one. No doubt he received inspiration for his sympac and comprehensive biography when he repre-

ven, e of the fact that he is not a prof sician, or biographer Herriot's life of Beethoven is worthy addition

ee - = H i AX BALKAN liked to walk early in the morning; it made him feel “as though he were eight feet Land hed three hundred pot » ! «Fuchs, in HOMAGE TO BLENHOLT

25 - Million - Dollar Play-|

ground Scene of @reat Lakes Celebration.

This is one of two artilles on Cleveland’s Great Lakes Exposition which opened Saturday.

(CLEVELAND, June 29. —The rebirth of activity’ in America’s greatest industrial empire, the eight Great Lakes states, is being celebrated at Cleveland this summer in a 25 million dollar playground covering 135 acres along the down-

town lake front.

With its central theme the Romance of Iron and Steel, the Great Lakes Exposition, which opened Saturday tor 100 days, has gathered educational and amusement features of a size and scope to entitle it to the title of World Fair. 1 : It is not primarily an industrial show, although co-operation of the nation’s industries has insured that the story of American enterprise will be told in interesting fashion. Acres of brilliant gardens, hundreds of midway attractions, an international village, the Strzets of the World in which 200 buildings have reproduced famous European theaters, bazars and cafes —all vie with state and government exhibits for the attention of the visitor, Electrical engineering has lent its talent to the end that the Great Lakes Exposition will achieve lighting effects never before equaled, beginning with the seven flooded pylons which tower above the main ‘entrance on Cleveland's $40,000,000 mall, a block from public square. The cultural capitals of Europe have lent object dart and famous paintings for an exhibit at the Cleveland Museum of Art. It will include the works of such artists as Rembrandt, Rubens, El Greco, Cezahne and many others.

" 3 2 HE entire lake front has been landscaped: to make the Ex-

position grounds a harmonious,

blend of beauty. Into this plan fits the $200,000 horticultural exhibit, éxtending for 1000 feet along along the lake and filling a.large three-level building. ~~ x= An immense rock garden covering an entire hillside has been divided into sections, some arranged to give the visitor helpful hints on his own garden, others to exhibit rare and exotic plants. New developments in home building and architecture may be

seen in the model homes in the.

Court of the Great Lakes.

An elaborate style show is presented twice daily in the Marine °

Theater, constructed in the harbor. This also will be the scene of many aquatic ‘events. In the harbor will be a palatial floating club, the S. S. Moses Cleaveland, the lower deck of which is open to the public as a night club. The top decks are chartered by the Admiralty Club, with admission by invitation. Symphonic concerts are given nightly by an orchestra of 100

under the direction of = distin-

guished conductors.

” ” ” HE romance of Iron and Steel, housed with many oth-

| er exhibits in ‘the underground

Lakeside exhibition hall, depict in understandable fashion the

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growth of the industrial revolution which brought the machine age. The interior of an iron mine, roaring blast furnaces, contrast with primitive smelting processes. Other exhibits show the extent to which the every day lives of all are governed by this industry. ** Automotive displays by all the leading manufacturers fill. one large building. The Hall of Progress is crammed with exhibits of the electrical industry and utility appliances. Cleveland’s vast Public Hall, within the exposition area, has been converted into the world’s largest broadcasting studio, seating 13,000 persons. In’ the harbor will be anchored the sturdy whaler, City of New York, which twice carried Admiral Richard E. Byrd’s polar expeditions, a fighting Navy submarine, sea planes, a fleet of 10 speedboats and craft of many nations. . ‘Railroads, bus and airlines have planned special tours. ‘There is

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ample parking space, and hotel facilities have been amplified by

25,000 inspected rooms in private

homes, making “On to Cleveland” the slogan of vacationists in’ 20 states.

s 2 2 HE agency by which the Great : Lakes region emerged from the wilderness into industrial greatness — transportation — has been made the subject of a major attraction. . ; This historical pageant will depict, in a stadium seating 5000, how wheels served civilization in its relentless march inland from the Atlantic seaboard. Christened the Parade of the Years, it will have a 4st of 250 persons, and a vast collection of pioneer and

modern locomotives, automobiles, estoga wagons were freight’ car~

prairie schooners, bicycles and other vehicles of every age and purpose. : : ; From the time of La. Salle’s Griffon introduced sails to the Great Lakes, the region has been the stage for the development of faster travel. A hundred years ago, when Cleveland was incorporated, wagoning was at its height, and fleets of Conestoga

- wagons rumbled across the Ohio

gateway westward. » 2 Tu craft are generally confused with the “covered wagons” of the prairie emigration, but the latter were primarily moving homes whereas the Con-

A city of wonders amid a 25-million-dollar playground—Clevelandly Great: Enkes Exposition;

riers. Historians. have never agreed on the origin of the name. Canals played an important part in the development of the Great Lakes region. The Northern Ohio Canal connected the Ohio’ River at Portsmouth with Lake Erie, and the Miami and Erie Canal gave a waterway from the lake to Cincinnati. It was the fact that these were’ useless so many months of the year that spurred .the search for other modes of transportation and led to the eventual triumph of the “iron horse” and “horseless carriage.”

Next—The Romance of Iron and Steel. pigs

DIGNITY MARKS F. D. R. APPEAL

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observed in any political meeting quite the atmosphere which dominated this night. ; The audience was not noisy, wild, nor hysterical, but it was sympathetic—deeply so, .I should say. It listened. It seemed to understand. ” = " : OUBTEDLY, the arrangements contributed toward creating this mood. Instead of a

“| brassy band blaring out “Hail, Hail,

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which, when open, causes the pencil to jump the least is your “domi-

the Gang’s All Here,” the Philadelphia Symphony Orchestra played the final movement of a Tschaikowsky symphony. .- Imagine: warming up a political meeting with a symphony concett. At first it seemed a foolish mistake. You can’t pep up a political audience on Tchaikowsky. Then beside the director's stand a small, white, doll-like figure appeared, Lily Pons, the Metropolitan Opera Company's little songbird. She bared her tiny throat to that

velt. He entered the arena, not to some raucous thumping air, but. to

Qrchestra’s stately

within our gates. . . . We can not afford to accumulate a deficit in the books of human fortitude. . . . Divine justice weighs the sins of the cold-blooded and the sins of the warm-hearted in different - scales. This generation of Americans has a rendezvous with destiny. ... It is a war for the survival of democracy. I am enlisted for the duration. Each word was loaded with the subtle power of suggestion, designed to sap the force of every attack from. his opponents. . . Like the fathers of 1776, he was fighting not

political royalists but economic roy-

alists. Memories of his battle against fear and panic in March, 1933, were awakened as if to recapture once more the mood in which the nation hailed him as its deliverer. The Re-

publican Party promises to restore

the people's liberties. Roosevelt de-

GRIN AND BEAR IT

clares war for the survival of democracy. His mistakes are those of a warm heart. They will be judged leniently. : But the master’s superb touch was still to come. As he finished, standing there with his mother and family around him, the strains of “Auld Lang Syne” floated out over the audience. There was a pause. “I'd like to hear ‘Auld Lang Syne’ again,” the President said. The audience joined in, these thousands and Roosevelt, as old friends who had fought through the crisis together. Still a third time it was repeated. As a political theme song, it will be a hard one to beat. In a moment Roosevelt was gone. The audience stood in its tracks for quite some time, as if still under the spell, and then quietly began to leave. ! ;

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EW YORK, June 29.—There may be an element of humor in the plight of the 18 comic artists who were arrested for picketing a magazine office to enforce a demand for union recognition and a minimum of $15 per drawing, but the artists thems selves will be the last to see the joke. Los Humor is a pretty grim business, as every one knows who has ever watched the artists at work in the monkeyhouse of a big syndi- : cate, each in his own glass cage, drawing pictures from 9 to 5 under the mirthless eyes of a foreman. At 9 a. m. they receive their script for the day, written the day before by the scenario department. Then they retire to their cells, put on their celluloid visors and sateen sleeves, sit down at their boards and draw all day long. At intervals the foreman comes through to criticise the feet on Dopey Doodles or Willy Nilly’s expression as he falls through the trap door in the i abandoned factory while spying on fhe workers. The foreman never laughs. : It is a wholesale business now that comic strips come by the bundle, and there is no mood for hie larity in the canned-goods plant. But these are fortunate artists, nevertheless, for although they sel dom hear any laughing response to their work, at least they have steady jobs as long as they keep regular hours and don’t get cartoonist’s cramp.

s 2 Overlooked by New Deal

n= free lance comic ‘works on a speculative basis, and it is a severe strain on any man’s spon= taneity to know that when he gets a picture done some art editor, who may be feeling uncommonly his nose and flip it back across the table; not even troubling to say “no good.” The free lance comics are one class of toilers for whom, so far as I know, the New Deal has attempted no work relief. | True, early in the Administration, when Mr. Fare ley was turning out a commemorative stamp .for the opening of each new bar and grill, an attempt was made to promote the art of the comic strip as the true American art and to sell stamps in series episode in the of a typical comic strip character. But Mr. Farley, & whose sense of humor is somewhat warped, replied in all seriousness that this would offend the dignity of the office of Postmaster General. : 8

=» » Peaches for Sculping R. UPTON SINCLAIR wis the only one who

offered any concrete engouragement to the craft, and his proposal was not exactly the dawn of a bright tomorrow. When Mr. Sinclair was running for Gove ernor of California on a platform of dried apples tor dancing lessons he encountered a skeptic in Mr. Will Johnstone, a World-Telegram cartoonist. : “What about me under this EPIC plan?” Mr Zopasions dgpired cautiously. “Suppose I've gol a re o e Tamman Powe, ny tiger and I need a pair of “That has been all thought out,” Si said, hae £ Sculptress in or ranks. ale she a bust of a farm ; ; of peaches.” - fh ahd Be fave ber = veh Even among the highly successful member trade the sense of Justify plays hill tricks, comparable to the solem picketing of a mage azine office in a demand for RE The political cartoonist is a rare creature nowadays, and there are only two humorists among the few sure vivars. These are Ding and Talburt, but Ding sud= denly broke off to take a bureau job in Washington to dedicate himself to the preservation of American wild life. The experience seems to have been disappointing, for he finally abandoned boon-duck

“to resume a weapon more deadly in his hands than

the mimeograph ever could be.

Merry-Go-Round

' BY DREW PEARSON AND ROBERT S. ALLEN

VV AsHINGTON, June 29—There Was a secref meeting of Senate progressives, during the closing days of Congress, which may have an inr-

. portant bearing on how the liberal vote lines up

for Roosevelt. . At this meeting it was decided to attach a string to the support which La Follette, Shipstead and other. Senators who favor the New Deal are willing to give the President in November. + This string is a proviso that Jim Farley and the Democratic ‘National Committee keep hands off the political situation in their states. The left wingers are very bitter over such-ifitera ference. While they are giving their all to uphold the hand of the President in Washington, they bes lieve Farley and his lieutenants are trying to meats "ax their party organizations at home. a Wisconsin and Minnesota are two cases in In both states the liberals have independent : —in Wisconsin the Progressives, in Minnesota | Farmer-Laborites—and in both states the independ= ents control the incumbent governments. And in both, the Democrats have placed gubernatorial tickets in the field. i In Wisconsin the Democratic candidate is Arthur Lueck, a conservative lawyer. In Minnesota the Democrats nominated Fred P. Curtis, a state legise lator. ” o

o HESE Democratic aspirants have no chance to win in either state. But the liberals fear that in a three-cornered fight the Democrats will drav enough votes away to let the Republicans slip in. . The left wingers charge that the local Democrats are receiving aid and comfort from the national come mittee. They recall that in 1934 Emil Hurja, Fare ley’s Heutenant, stumped Minnesota for the Demos

Now, in exchange for their support, the liberals dee mand that Farley and Hurja be called off and

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