Indianapolis Times, Indianapolis, Marion County, 3 July 1936 — Page 9
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NEW YORK, July 3.—Walter Lippmann
did a broadcast in which he announced
that the Franklin Field speech marked a : complete reversal in the declared objectives of President Roosevelt. It seemed to Mr.
Lippmann, that the Democratic candidate
had suddenly become converted to the ideas of Mr. Hoover. | This somewhat strange interpretation appeared to rest largely on the fact that Mr. Hoover spoke of “freedom” and “liberty” and so did Mr. Roosevelt. Other Republican commentators insisted that the Philadelphia speech was an appeal to class consciousness, but Mr. Lippmann stuck to his guns. Indeed, he liked his broadcast so well that with a few small changes it became his newspaper column. “It used to be said of Theodore Roosevelt, I think,” wrote Mr. Lippmann, “that he stole Bryan's
: ming. Franklin Roosevelt has Heywood Broun i jen the clothes of Mr. Hoover, Mr. Mills, Senator Borah, even the Liberty League and William Randolph Hearst.” But on the same day that this appeared Mr. Hearst wrote under his own signature: “Father Coughlin says of his political movement, ‘We are supposed to be the leftist party, but as a magnet attracts steel, so does the President attract commuiism. “*The established and avowed purpose of the Communists is to overthrow American free institutions,” Mr. Hearst continued. “Roosevelt has been busily ergaged in trying to do the same thing ever since Lis election to the presidency.”
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TC militant liberals like Walter Lippmann and Ogden Mills, Franklin Delano Roosevelt may have softened into a mere Hooverite. In al] fairness to Mr. Lippmann it must be said that this widely syndicated columnist has never had the slightes interest in celestial pie counters, but I think he goés tdo far in accusing Franklin D. Roosevelt of stealing ‘the clothes of ‘Mr. Hoover, { Incidentally, somebody ought to ease in the mind of Father Coughlin and assure him that he is not in the slightest danger of being mistaken for.a radical, save in the kingdom of the blind. The platform which he presented is militaristic,/ anti-welfare legislation and anti-labor. If Father Coughlin will compare his own speeches with those of.Adolf Hitler he will tind that he is a Fascist and the leader of the faction on the extreme right. If any political commentator fears that the issues in the campaign may not be sufficiently sharply drawn he need only keep his eye on the developments in the steel industry. The Iron and Steel Institute has issued a document of secession and a declaration of war, The steel barons expect, and have a right to expect, support from Landon and Knox. ” ” - Steel and Republicans HE Republican platform has a plank on collective bargainings which promises protection “of the right of labor to organiz: and bargain collectively through representatives of its own choosing without intereference from any source.” The Steel Institute has promised to protect its employes “from intimidation, coercion and violence and to aid them in maintaining collective bargaining free from interference from any source.” The language is almost identical and the intent is the same. The Republican Party has gone on record as throwing its weight behind the company union. What js this violence which the Steel Institute# professes to fear? Does it really fear that a little ‘group of a hundred organizers can actually kidnap and coerce some half a million men? It does not. -It:fears the power of the spoken word. It fears the power of argument. Its declaration of principles is ‘an announcement that free speech doesn’t go, as ‘far as the steel industry is concerned. And it is well to remember that it was steel which fought for years for the maintenance of the 12-hour flay, :
clear before election day rolls around.
My Day
BY ELEANOR ROOSEVELT
ASHINGTON, Thursday.—I began this morning by going out to breakfast with some friends. Five of us had a very pleasant time talking over many things we had not had a chance to discuss. After that I drove to Alexandria, Va., and visited a WPA nursery for Negro children. They had only been open on and cff for a month, so they did not vet know how successful they were going to be in improving the general condition of the children. There was no question, however, that these little children needed building up. They looked as though the two scourges, tuberculosis and rickets, were pretty prevalent among them. The relief load has come down considerably. Out of 300 unemployed Negro women, who used to be on their sewing project, they only have 12 remaining. From there I went to a sewing project for white women. Here also the relief load has come down from 100 or more to 17. These women either have husbands who are now working, so they can go back to taking .care of their homes, or they are getting work in shirt factories. They toid me the usual story that one-third of their women had learned to sew since coming to the project, which will course, much more efficient homes as well as added skill if they work in a factory. A press conference at 11, the last for the summer. Then a long talk with a group on some homestead matters. Two hours of conferences this afternoon “and a number of people for tea, among them a young couple who were married last Saturday and are starting tonight for Hollywood. The young man is hopefully planning to make - gonnections again with the production end of the moving picture business. Youth is so trustful of life! These youngsters have known each other for just a few weeks and are so obvicusly happy and wrapped up in each other, that one feels like saying a prayer that the fates will be kind and spare them any disillusionments.
ry EYW00D.BROUN
clothes while Bryan was in swim-
The meaning of “economic royalists” will be all too
mean, of
FRIDAY, JULY 8, 1936
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INDIANA DISCOVERS HER PARKS Famed Hills of Brown County Decked in Natural Splendor
(The thifd of a series.)
BY TRISTRAM COFFIN STANDING on a high point in’ the Brown County State Park, the autumn visitor can see the dazzling splash of color that has brought artists to the community for years. As far as the eye can see are the brilliant red, orange and yellow of rustling leaves on the hillsides and
in the valleys. The fleeting lights and shadows and haze of Brown County are the delight and despair of a colony of artists that has brought fame_ to
Indiana. The park is on State Road 46 and 135, near Nashville, 48 miles south of Indianapolis. In addition to the Abe Martin Lodge, where meals are served, there are cottages and camping grounds. Located on 3821 acres of hills, Brown County State Park is ideal for summer vacations because the temperatures there always are from 5 to 10 degrees cooler than in the lowlands. ” ” »
HE visitor can walk or ride horseback through the 90 some miles of trails cutting through the lush growth of trees and wild flowers. Tired from outdoor exercise, he can plunge into the park’s swimming pool. During the vacation season, productions of various sorts are presented in the hillside amphi- _ theater. ~ Adjoining the park is the 11,301acre game preserve with its wild birds and game, from pheasants to deer, buffalo, elk and bear. The park is large enough that no ore need rub elbows with his neighbor. -If the visitor browses around the park he will come suddenly upon the two lakes rimmed with trees. To the crowded city dweller who spends his days in little apartments or in a house crammed into a row, the Brown County State Park gives an impression of unlimited space. Climbing up the lofty tower in the park, the visitor can view the rolling country-side for miiles.! “ ”
HE Abe Martin Lodge is perfectly in keeping with the scenery. Its rustic furnishings and large hall reflect the park’s atmosphere. The individual cabins are edged in by whispering trees. The front porch of each cabin peers down into a ravine. Entering a cottage from the rear, the visitor goes into its neat little kitchen. To one side “are bedrooms, with the living room and porch in front. Near Nashville, the county seat, are the cabins and cottages of the artists. The people of Brown County have © become - handicraftsmen, largely because the farm land is scrubby and submarginal. Their knitted and woolen goods, carved wooden trinkets and pottery are sold in Nashville. In many old Nashville homes, built years ago to resist the deterioration of years, the visitor can see large open fireplaces and round metal pots hung on tripods. There is a clean smell of burning wood around the homes and m the widely known Nashville House. Land-poor farmers, living on ground that their fathers, and their fathers before them, tilled, are being moved to more fertile
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Autos stream into the Brown County State Park any holiday or week-end. The building in ‘the backeround is the Abe Martin Lodge.
lands by the. Rural Resettlement Administration. The Resettlement Administration and Purdue University research men found that the submarginal land problem in Brown County was as great as in any other section of the state. This land now is being restored to its natural beauty by reforestation. It has become a tradition among Hoosiers that no resident of Indiana has really seen the state until he has gone to Brown
“ County.
Reservations for lodges at the state park should be sent to Abe Martin Lodge, Brown County State Park, Nashville, Ind.
” ” FJ N the rocky 400 acres of McCormick’s Creek Canyon State Park many Indianapolis girls are given a healthy out-of-doors vacation each summer. Junior and senior high school girl members of the Indianapolis
Y. W. C. A, some of whom might - never be able to afford a vacation at a resort, are at McCormick’s Creek Canyon now. Beginning July, 12, business and factory workers will go to the park to ride horseback, to tramp ovet the trails and to swim. Four dormitories, one lodge with kitchens and a dining room and a building with showers are at the disposal of the girls. McCormick’s Creek, which joins White River about one mile east of Spencer, winds from its mouth
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to the falls about one and a half miles through a deep, rocky valley. On each side rise cliffs higher than the tall oaks.
About a mile southeast of the east boundary of the park a small stream crosses the state highway with a shelf of shallow rock for its bed. Gradually widening, the stream cuts into the rock as it enters the park boundaries and within a half mile has deepened into a 100-foot canyon that continues for more than a mile. That a trickling strealn could
_cut into the hard rock is evidence
of the tireless strength of nature. Over the hill from Canyon Inn, the park hotel, is the swimming pool which is crowded every weekend and holiday by outdoor en-
thusiasts. A walk through the park, a cooling swim and then dinner is a program ‘recommended by those who go regularly. Not far from Brown County, McCormick’s Creek Canyon State Park is on State Road 46, just off State Road\67. It is near Spencer in “Sweet Owen” County. White River, bordering the park, is known for its fine fishing. Black bass, some pike and other species of fish are taken from its waters. From the observation tower, similar to that: in “Brown County, the visitor can survey the scenery for miles. A popular point of interest in the park is the abandoned quarry from which stone was taken for
the foundation of ithe present
Statehouse.
IV] Coramcrs ; ‘CREEK is named for John McCormick Sr., g pioneer settler who migrated from West Virginia to Indiana. The park, first ‘of all Indiana state parks, was purchased jointly by the people of Owen County and the state from the estate of Dr. Frederick Denkewalter. The park has a greater variety and abundance of flowers than any other Indiana state park. During April .and May, the Conservation Department; .employs a nature guide to "point’’ out the flowers, birds and trees to the visitor.
Next—Turkey Run and Shakamak.
STEEL INDUSTRY JUDGES LABOR ACT
BY RAYMOND CLAPPER ASHINGTON, July 3.—Roosevelt’s opponents are charging him with ignoring the Constitution and with substituting personal government by whim. These opponents are calling for a government of laws, not of men. It happens that some of these critics are included among the steel
executives who are digging in against
labor’s effort to organize the steel workers. They are publishing ad-
vertisements in some 375 newspapers,
it is reported, to advise the public that they will resist unionization of their employes. Now there is a law on the Federal books, known' as the National Labor Relations Act, or the Wagner Labor Relations Act. It was passed by Congress in the regular way and
signed by the President July 5, 1935. | It states, in Section 7:
“Employes shall have the right to self-organization, to form, join or assist labbr organizations, to bargain collectively through representatives of their own choosing, and to engage in concerted activities, for the purpose of collective bargaining or other mutual aid or protection.”
EJ ” ” ECTION 8 makes it unlawful for
an employer “to dominate .or interfere with the formation of any
labor organization or contribute financial or other support to it.”
There is a little bit more history
which bears on the impending la-
bor war in the steel industry. Last September one of the Liberty
Co., to ignore the law, violate it, treat it as if it didn’t exist. Reed replied that of course it was a lawyer’s duty, if he believes a law unconstitutional, to advise his client to disregard it. That is the attitude now being taken toward the Wagner Act. ® uw In OHN L. LEWIS, under the guaranty of that act, set out to unionize the steel workers. His original program, so far as can be learned, was to devote eight or nine months to organization, but to avoid demands for recognition or any other moves that would force the issue before the steel workers were pretty well mobilized. Because of the fact that Lewis also heads the mine workers, whose contracts expire April 1, it is probable that he had in mind bringing the issue to a head next spring. There is a close relationship between steel and coal and he probably saw a chance to tie the two situations together. But matters appear to be moving more rapidly than had been anticipated, with the chance of a showdown possibly by September. There are indications that the steel industry is not disposed to permit
Lewis to get set, but is anxious to.
meet the situation as early as possible. Union organizers, on the other hand, are being driven forward by
the impatience of some of their followers. Steel workers have no background of union discipline and
when aroused might be hard to re-
strain. If they join the union one week they expect action the next. ” ” ” NION men say the executives are trying to. goad them into precipitate action which would arouse a hostile public reaction against the strikers. They charge spokesmen for the executives with trying to scare the public by hinting that Lewis is trying to pull off a general strike. Already there is the tension of strike-eve in the steel towns. At Portsmouth, 0. striking workers held one plant in a state of siege until special deputies began escorting executives and. maintenance men in and out of the plant. Union spokesmen here are charging employers with setting up arsenals. The usual charges .of kidnaping and importation of gunmen are appearing. All of the tinder has been laid for a bitter industrial war in the good dld-fashioned individualistic way. As preparations are moving now, it doesn’t look as though they will even wait for the Supreme Court to give them a green light before diving into battle in the name of life, liberty and pursuit of happiness.
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Lair Enough WESTRRIK GLER
NEW YORK, July 3.—Proba I¥ not many - of our citizens are aware that Kansas has provided two nominees f )r the presidency this year. The other one is Earl Browder, who was selected by the Commu-
nists in a meeting held last Sunday at Madi-
son Square Garden. His running mate is an Alabama Negro, James Ford. They picked him with the idea of steaming up the Southern white folks, but it is not very likely that he will go down | into the South himself to address any of the party rallies. Mr. Browder is a Kansan of the Jolin Brown tradition. He wants his rights. He has the rubbery persistency of the wholesouled revolutionary, and, although they put him away twice for opposing the draft in the big war, he is just as stubborn today as he was then. Comrade Browder does business from a little office on the ninth floor of a terrible old goat's nest in which the Communists publish their New York paper, the Daily : Worker. On the walls are unfra ed pictures of Marx, Lenin and some Negro, probably James Ford. William Z. Foster, the man do conducted the big steel strike in 1919, is in and out of the place, and
Westbrook Pegler
‘there are a lot of comrades around who could stand =
shaving and look foreign. n # » American From Way Back
UT don’t pull that foreigner business on Comrade Browder, because he is more Kansan than Alf © Landon if it comes to a showdown, and he can look any member of -the Sons of the American Revolution: or the firet families of Virginia dead in the eye. For Comrade Browder was born in Wichita, Kas., where« as Mr. Landon is out of Pennsylvania, and he can back-track his American ancestry through the frone tiers of Kansas, Kentucky and ®irginia to the year sixteen hundred and something. . \ Comrade Browder never had much schooling, for he had to quit and go to work as a cash boy in the Wallenstein & Cohen cepartment store in Wichita when he was 9 years old. That was (in 1901. There were 10 kids in the family. His father, a laborer, was sick, and the $1.50 a wcek was important money. He tried to organize a strike of 15 cash boys, but failed when the boss eased him out of his job. It is hard to draw out these “ism” themselves. They seem to be all id blood or personal interests, but af Browder here, and there I discovered a semi-professional ball player. Now he shoots an occasional game of pool and he sometimes takes a drink. He looks | as though he weculdn’t get much fun out of anything but fighting for his rights. He is determined to have his rights.
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Turn Him On; He Doesn’t Run
F his year in the Platte County (Mo. jail and his 18 months in Leavenworth| he has almost nothing to say. It may be reticence, which would be strange in a revolutionary politician, but more likely it is just that he is numb on that side of his being. 1 asked Comrade Browder about the tough guys who were his classmates in Leavenworth and
guys about and without prodding Mr, at he once was
the cooties and smells of the prison, but he only
said the tough guys were just like people and the prison wasn’t so bad. on and he just doesn’t run. : He is married to a Russian woman and lives in Yonkers and has three children; ih one of whom
other average ~ You turn him
is old enough for school. He doesn’t like the personal family publicity which presidential | candidates are exposed to—which is a laugh, beca it isn't likely that his young ones will have to take anywhere near as much of it as Miss Peggy igi or the Roose velts’ children.
Merry-GoRbund
BY DREW PEARSON AND ROBERT S. ALLEN
ASHINGTON, July 3.—Now that the prelimie nary polizical cannonading is over, the nig job facing the President is to get some of the important | administrative problems out of the way before the
campaign begins in earnest. Here are the chief administrative tasks:
Taxes—The Treasury faces the big job of putting
into operation the new system of corporation texes
passes by eS Special committee of income ax lawyers is now draft regulations each section of the bill. 2 covering Drought—Henry Wallace's experts ‘have informed Mr. Roosevelt that the present, drought may beccme as serious as the one in 1634. Soil Conservation—Wallace has reported that he expects larger adherence—that is, more participating farmers—to his new plan than to the old AAA. Bug this is only surmise. The main uncertainty is the extent to which soil conservation will bring about crop control and maintain farm prices. t a x RIME—G-Man Boss J. Edgar Hoover, “having mopped up most of the big shot racketeers, hopes to catch up this summer with 12,849 cases now une der investigation and 5000 others not yet assigned. Labor—The| President is. carefully watching reports on John L. Lewis’ drive to organize the steel industry. He held an important conference with Lewis during the Philadelphia convention in order to soothe his ire at the fail of the Guffey bill «to pass. : L Finance—The cash balance in the Treasury is now at the 4 peak of about $3,000,000,000, of .which $1,700, is being paid out to veterans. There will be ge new financing this summer. Relief —WPA and PWA w
carry on as usual, will
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with about 3,000,000 jobless on | be few changes in policy. exc wage on all WPA jobs.:
League lawyers, Earl F. Reed, who am counsel for one of the steel companies, drafted an opinion on
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IT IS difficult for me to discuss « this as -a_ separate problem simply because I would abolish all capital punishment. It seems especially ghastly however, in youth, because there is still a whole lifetime ahead to remake the man. Miriam Van Waters in her splendid
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about among reluctant and intolerant relatives or left in indigence and uncertainty for their daily
life.
them, and it is a huge problem. t 8 =
SO that brilliant woman,
unconstitutional.
the Wagner Act, holding that it was He was put through stiff questioning by some 50 newspaper men when he issued
his opinion.
Reed was .asked by the reporters
whether, since he believed this law
to be unconstitutional, he should savise his client, the Weirton Steel
Attacks Unit Rule
By Soripps-Howard Newspaper Alliance ASHIN July 3.—Al-
-Resettlement—The agency tion of needy farmers, and tion on drought areas.
Meanwhile, construction of : ville dams is nearing comp Commission is continuing rate start installation of power Norris and Wheeler Dams.