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ATEW YORK, July 1.—The Democratic = 7 Bourbons, led by Al Smith, Jim Reed, _ ex-Gov. Ely and others, are out to stop Roosevelt and turn the party over to the plutocratic interests against which Bryan

and Woodrgw Wilson fought so valiantly. e Democratic Party has, in the last century a half, wobBled badly between.progressivism and atism. The present crisis is only a reflection of the inconsistencies which have

accompanied its long existence un-

der changing. conditions. Thomas Jefferson, the founder of the Democratic Party, was an apostle of the “Principles of 1776” —one of the few true Sons of the American Revolution. His whole life was given over perpetuating in American tradition and practice the devotion of the patriot leaders of 1775 to 1783 to freedom and progress. . The Democratic Party under Jackson wasWfjevoted to the prinDr. Barnes ciples of equality, of strong nationalistic policies, of idealism and of optimism and reform. It wiped away most of _ the vestiges of the caste society in America—including |property restrictions on the right of males to ‘vote and imprisonment for debt. But Jackson's deepseated suspicion of the Eastern business and financial rope led him to oppose intrusions of govern= ment into business. bitter struggle ‘over slavery transformed the It lost the liberalism of Jefferson and the egalitarianism and optimism of Jackson. Be the party of the plantation owners, who felt that slavery was essential to Jheir prosperity—even to their existence. Most of its Northern adherents, whil¢ not slave-owners, were in favor of allowing the South to handle slavery as it saw fit. The party ‘earried the South into secession and civil war on

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IE Civil War put an end to Negro slavery and eakened the Northern contingent in the DemoParty. The graft and corruption of the pluto: . Republicans after 1865 gave the Democra . They came out for political honesty and administrative integrity. They elected two Presidents! on this platform, though Tilden’s victory in 1876 was snatched away by “military power and partisan bias. re was little real liberalism.in the democracy of Cleveland. He called out the Federal troops in the Pullman strike to aid the employers. He played ball with the big bankers. The iron and other manufacturing interests in the party even blocked Cleve‘lJand’s| own plans for sweeping tariff reductions. A return to progressivism, outdistancing even that of Jefferson, came when the “Boy Orator of the Platte” stampeded his party by his “Cross of Gold and Crown of Thorns” speech in 1896. He rallied to “his banners the discontented farmers and many laborers. He united social and political progressivism| with anti-imperialism. But his two. defeats and the, striking phenomenon of Roosevelt progressivism, in the Republican Party enticed the Demoeratic | Party. once again to flirt with reaction when it nominated Judge Parker in 1904.

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} Woodrow Wilson Started Well

ETTER than any other Democrat, Woodrow Wilson combined Jeffersonian liberalism with an

adaptation to the changed conditions and ideals of

1912. (His “New Freedom” was a bold statement of lenlightened capitalism. It promised much, but at the moment of triumph at home Wilson gave way to his Anslopnil seritiments and sacrificed his domestic liberalism to the exigencies of a foolish and unneces|sary foreign war. sham battle was an affront to civilized and thinking Americans. It was no more than a political racket to control the traffic in spoils and offices. The Republicans, whatever their superficial lip service to decency at the Cleveland convention, have now come ut utiequivocally as the party which trusts in rection, Here is the challenge to, and opportunity of, the mocrats. If they espouse the intellectual advenSSSI enges of Jefferson and Jackson, modified to eet donditions in 1936, they have a chance to win @ great victory. : .

My Day

BY ELEANOR ROOSEVELT

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but I feel rather wicked rejoicing in it when

{ H E PARK, N. Y., Tuesday—Another lovely day, \d

erybody around here is praying for rain. . Johnnie and I had a good ride at about 8:30. The house seems very quiet since my husband, and all which goes with the office of the President of the United States, have departed. . Mrs. Scheider and I did the household shopping in Poughkeepsie this morning, and then I went to lunch with my mother-in-law and Mr. and Mrs. Harold Edgell. He has just returned from Japan, and told us some interesting things about one of the great modern J ea artists, who is painting in the same way the

der artists did. This artist uses the same materials _and prepares his pigments in the same manner. | Mr. and Mrs. Edgell are on their way to leave a son at West Point for four years’ preparation for the my. Just as we were sitting together, a lady from e . Women's International League for Peace and Freedom came to ask my mother-in-law to make a presentation of some kind to the Queen of England in the interest of peace. I could not help smiling to If at the strange incongruities—preparation for ce arid war both going on at the same time. |My old friend in the butcher shop in Poughkeepsie visit his son in California, and they told me he uld be gone until autumn, His co-workers showed a picture postcard of the great redwood trees with e, and announced that they too wanted to see the stant parts of this country some time.

I can well imagine what it all means to my old :

d, for I know what effect those trees had on me. My grandchildren are coming over to have/supper the cottage with me, which is always a spree. ~ (Copyright, 1936, by United Features Syndicate, Inc.)

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WEDNESDAY, JULY 1, 1936

Entered as Second-Class Matter at Postoffice, Indianapolis, Ind.

INDIANA DISCOVERS HER PARKS

This is the first of a series of articles describing Indiana’s state park system, The articles will point out the vacation advantages offered by the 12 parks.

BY TRISTRAM COFFIN HE memory of exciting events in the. development of Indiana from an Indian hunting ground to a great Midwestern state lingers in the scenic beauty

f the far-flung state park System. . Hoosiers seeking rest in the soothing atmosphere of the past and fo play economically at a modern resort need go no farther than the borders of their own state.

Restored to the calm, even tenor of 50 years ago are the trails wandering through arches of giant trees. cool streams and carpets of wild flowers. Deer, wild turkey and buffalo roam undisturbed by the hunter on state property. Quail and pheasant rise from the long grass. The first state park was acquired in 1916, because a group of nature lovers thought the state could best commemorate. its centennial that year by establishing a state recreational center. Today, conveniently locate all corners of Indiana, are state parks providing all the facilities of modern resort life and nature study. The parks are Indiana Dunes, near Chesterton; Pokagon, near Angola; Bass Lake Beach, near Knox; Mounds, near Anderson; Turkey Run, near Marshall; MecCormick’s Creek, Canyon, near

| Spencer; Shakamak, near Jason-

ville; Brown County, near Nashville Muscatatuck, near North Vernon; Spring Mill, near Mitchell; Clifty Falls, near Madison, and Nancy Hanks Lincoln, near Lincoln City. ” ” N addition, vacation travelers - can visit four state memorials, 12 game preserves and state forests, Scales Lake, Deam Oak, and four fish hatcheries. \ The parks, forests, -hatdheries and memorials are operat by the State Conservation Department headed by Virgil M. Simmons, commissioner. £ Last year approximately/a million visitors, many from out of the state, wandered through the state parks, and more than 770,000 paid admissions of 10 cents each. Although the system has grown now until state official ean say without blushing that it is one of the best, if not the best in the United States, in 1915 a committee had to go begging for enough money to acquire the first state park. : Those who loved the natural wilderness of Bloomingdale Glens near Rockville wanted all Hoosiers to enjoy its beauty.

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HE Indiana State Federation of Clubs took up the cry and Gov. Samuel Ralston pledged his aid.

A total of $20,000, most of it donated by Indianapolis citizens,

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thusiasts including Richard Lieber, who later developed the sys--tem; Juliette Strauss, a newspaper woman; Dr. Frank B. Wynn, Sol S. Kiser and Attorney Leo M. Rappaport. : While negotiations for this tract, which later became Turkey Run State Park, were under way, the state bought what is now Mc-

A State Conservation Department game warden, poised on a rocky lookout in the Harrison County State Forest near Corydon, is master of all he surveys. ‘The Ohio River flows along in front of him.

Reservations Preserve Natural Beauty of State’s Early Days

Cormick’s Creek Canyon State Park for its first park. ; “ In 1916, Mr. Lieber was made state park commissioner in recognition of his enthusiasm and ability. He held the post until 1919, when he was named state conservation director. In 1933 a reorganization abolished the position, and Mr. Lieber retired from state park service. It was his devotion to the work that built the system up to its present glory, all agree. From one end of the state to the other are these natural playgrounds. 2 2® ” NDIANA can be rightly proud of its natural beauty, and the state parks are a paradise of birds,

animals and trees. Visitors can walk for miles on trails ebservin wild life. : ] During the last three years Civilian Conservation Corps labor has been engaged on a beautification program that normally would

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LET'S EXPLORE YOUR MIND

eee BY DR. ALBERT EDWARD WIGGAM—

IN ARITHMETIC,

HISTORY, GEOGRAPAY, LANGUAGE;

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school marks ‘and the like. Your child's drawings are very important and indicate many things about its mind and temperament. ?

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have taken 25 years, according to Mr. Simmons. Roads have been built, trails cut into a wilderness of. trees and wild flowers; shelter houses constructed, water systems laid out, sanitation improved and thousands of trees planted. New camping areas, designed especially for motorists traveling with house trailers or with tents and equipment, were established this year at the Dunes, Pokagon, Spring Mill, Shakamak and Turkey Run. : . The new areas are located along roadways which branch from the main park drives. Short spurs extend from these roadways to an individual camp site screened by trees and shrubs.

2 x » OR low-cost vacationing there is nothing like the Indiana state parks. In addition to camp-

ing and tenting space, many parks have cabins, inns and hotels. The ‘hotel at Clifty Falls, poised high on a bluff overlooking the Ohio River, is a favorite spot for honey=mooners. ; Although many of the state conservation properties are far

from the centers of population, all easily are accessible to auto traffic over fine roads. Several parks represent significant periods in the geological development of the Midwest. Turkey Run, for instance, was once covered by a greaf marine sea that left 500 to 600 feet of sandstone and shale deposit when it washed away. The development of these state properties is co-ordinated with the progress of conservation in Indiana. Submarginal land too poor

ed with trees that ultimately will restore the earth to rich fertility. - Lakes.and streams have been stocked with game fish, and the state department has several suggested trips for anglers who would like to take a canoe and lazily ~drift down streams for a few weeks. “ The Conservation Department admits that unfortunately few, Hoosiers know of the vacation possibilities in their own state. Mr. Simmons recently questioned eight important business men of Indianapolis with whom he was having lunch about. their knowledge of state parks. Although all had vacationed in Florida, only three had ever visited a state park.

Next—Clifty Falls and Lincoln

Park.

STUDIES ROOSEVELT

BY RAYMOND CLAPPLR ASHINGTON, July 1—One major object of the Republican campaign is to hang the dictator’s label on President Roosevelt and make it stick until clection day. Democrats, of course, seek to turn off this charge by asserting that Mr.

"| Roosevelt is only a strong. leader.

That this phase of the Republican attack is causing Mr. Roosevelt some concern ‘is evident from his acceptance speech in Philadelphia last week. He went to considerable pains to recall that the Founding Fathers fought for “freedom from the tyranny of jeolitical autocracy— from the eighteenth century royalists who held special privileges from He stands as a leader in this fight against the “privileged princes of these new economic dynasties” to guarantee the average citizen not only equal opportunity in the polling place but equal opportunity in the market place. He says that the flag and the Constitution stand for democracy, not tyranny, and that in a world where some es have grown weary in the fight to maintain self-government they have yielded their democracy. : 8 fd »

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strong personal lead “Government is a institu

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around, and that it is necessary for leaders to take the initiative in bringing about changes, modernization, lest we neglect to adapt our-

selves to changing conditions until

it is too late. But when the crisis is over, personal leadership is not so readily accepted.. The innate conservatism of people reappears. They are then inclined to trust institutions more

‘than men. After the war was over,

they turned from Wilson's personal leadership to Harding’s normalcy, back to a “government of laws.” It is a similar turning away from personal leadership, now that the crisis is over and every one feels safer, that is causing Roosevelt most

STRENGTH

of his current trouble. : Fundamentally, his chance of -preventing this back swing from engulfing him lies in convincing the country that all is not well with it yet, that some of

our institutions have become pathological, that we* ought not continue with a No Man’s Land between state and Federal authority. The fact is that Landon, in general, agrees with this and promises i: elected to seek improvements. His anti-monopoly plank is the same as Roosevelt's. Both recognize the need of laws protecting women and - dren in industry. And so on. The difference is more one of emphasis, with Roosevelt giving greater emphasis to the aspects of change.

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Fair Enough

NEW YORK, July 1.—It seems that those who catch their national conventions over the air receive a more pleasant ime pression of the orators and the over-thes counter enthusiasm of the pay roll patriots

. than people who attend in person or through

the newspapers. In Cleveland those who were press ent in the ‘hall during Mr, Hoover's farewell and the ensuing godspeed thought them both rather dismal. Mr. Hoover, notwithstanding years of experience, still <lrops his eyes and permits his phrases to drip down his vest. His enunciation was mushy, and the galleries broke in on him several times to yell “Louder!” Nevertheless, letters are to hand from Republicans who heard him at home, insisting that he spoke clearly and that the demonstration which followed came to them dry-cleaned of the laborious quality which was so apparent to people on the ground. I have heard also that the broadcast of the speeches and the tones of the delegates who yelled Westbrook Pegler : for their pay checks in Philadelphia were not as the papers described them. Even Gov. Bibb Graves of Alabama, who sounded like a bull in a barbed wire fence to those who heard him in the -hall, was al-. most intelligible in spots. :

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RE than a reproach to the press, this cone trast seems to me a mark against the -radio and a credit to the papers. True, ‘many papers are partisan and call the close ones in favor of their party interests, but even the press associations, which are impartial, manage to get reality into the copy. The ° radio, on the other hand, presents only the sound, omitting the feeling and the smell of -the show, Somehow, too, the sound is brought into sharper focus on the air, and a speech which is a wild bellow in the hall is detached from other sounds and the excitements of the scene. : To be sure, the radio has its running-descriptive men who take over the gadgets now and again, but they are so closely censored that they have developed a milky style all their own. Not theirs to point ‘out Yow the demonstration is run from the chairman's pulpit or to describe the next gang politician as such and mention how many relatives of his are planted on the party pay roll. Not theirs, either, to describe the total absence of any feeling for the poor and une derprivileged- among orators and delegates who wale low in great breakers of noise day after day strictly focr'what there is in it. ‘The running descriptive whith comes over the radio is a marvel in its own way, for the voice with the smile knows as much as the next one in the place and yet manages to suv nothing that could give offense to any one on either

side of the hottest political. fight in the time of living Americans,

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Robinson Turns Them Off

oO" the radio the great spontaneous ovation is an =" explosion of spirit, and those who listen in get the noise and faithful mention. of the toy. balloons, the placards, the tin bazoos and the tin horns of both

to farm was taken over and plant+#=% varieties. But the running descriptive. doesn’t permit

itself to back-track and refer to the serfdom of mille hands and cotton farmers whose rulers are howling against tyranny under “the robes of legal sanction.” One afternoon up in 2 hroadcasting booth a star running-descriptive man was having a cigaret bee tween innings while the crowd hollered for their supe a per in one of the minor demonstrations. : “I think Joe Robinson is going to turn them off,” he said. “Yes, he’s dousing the lights. That turns them off. They are like a parrot screeching in a cage. Throw a blanket over the cage and the pare rot will shut up. Now they are quieting down.” But he was off the air at that moment. (Copyright, 1936, by United Features Syndicate, Inc.)

Merry-Go-Round

BY DREW PEARSON AND ROBERT S. ALLEN

ASHINGTON, July 1.—Anna Roosevelt Boettiger is the apple of her father’s eye, and.she deserves to be. Vivacious, frank, straight-from-the= shoulder, she has the charm of both parents, her mother’s energy and a surprising amount of common sense. | : The other Roosevelt children have a long way to go before they wear off the rough edges, but Anna makes up for a lot of their shoricomings. : Probably the best criterion by which to appraise any woman, whether she lives in a tenement or sits in the seats of the mighty, is her children. Raising children in the White House may lack the physical disadvantages of a tenement, but in some respects it is harder. > Anna’s chief problem during the two years Sistie and Buzzie lived ‘there was to keep them from thinking they occupied a position more favorable than others. With newspapers constantly publishing their pictures, with every adult turning to stare at them on the street, with other children whispering about them in school, this was no easy job. How well Anna succeeded, will not be known for years to come. But she worked at it hard. No school morning passed during those very busy social days without Anna, no matter how late she had been up the night before, coming down tg’ her children at 8:15, driving them to school herself. A secret service man accompanied them, but thelg mother both delivered and collected them daily, 5

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No that they have left the White House and gone to live in New York, Anna has laid down the rule that as far as she can control it, Sistie and Buzzie are to sink completely ‘out of the public eye and become normal, everyday children, caring far less for the fact that their grandfather is President of the United States than for chocolate ice cream with marshmallow sauce, > : coo That is why she will not even let her mother mention a word about Sistie ‘and Buzzie in press conferences. | The two years which Anna Dall (her name at that time) spent in the White House were not p happy ones, although on the surface 2y seemed She was, naturally, the most sought-after young woman in Washington, and there were few functions of any importance to which she was not invited. attended many, always made friends, e names, was never shy. Hauteur was not in her make« up. She had no airs or affectations. - i