Indianapolis Times, Indianapolis, Marion County, 9 July 1936 — Page 19

NEV YORK, July 01t § is not unreasonable, I think, for presidential candi-

. dates and their spokesmen to deal with cur‘rent political problems in somewhat general

terms at the beginning of a campaign. Before coming to immediate issues a man who runs for office is wise in setting the mood and tone of

his political philosophy. But the ides of November now approach with some rapidity, and I think it might be a good idea for all concerned to get down .to cases, A little too 1 much stress has been put on the names of many men who are not running for any office this year. This holds for both the Hamiitons —John D. M. and Alexander. I beg to remind Republicans and Democrats that neither major party saw fit to place Jefferson in nemination. William E. Borah and George Washington: were also’ passed by.’ Thére has been e little disposition upon both ‘to fight again the hattles of 1776. Republican orators have sought'to frighten some of the backward voters by informing them that George III is trying to tax their tea, while the President has dréssed certain industrialists whom he does not like in coats of flaming red and taken his stand at the rude bridge. Let this be the day when everybody takes off his mask and whiskers and stands revealed in his own personality. The masquerade is over, and while there i= no closed season on analogies and historical allustons, they should be used sparingly from now until election. The large man in the center of the room is not Lord North but big Jim Farley, and the somewhat slighter figure bearing a shield with strange device is not truly 8ir Galahad but a middle-aged Kansas politician known as the Honorable Hamilton.

” = This Fishing Fallacy HE time. has come to put away childish things. Gov. Landon has paid proper tribute to the fishing vote and should return his tackle to the attic. Once before I die I hope to have a chance to vote for somebody who has never fished in his life and would not enjoy it if he did. I suppose all Presidents must present themselves fo the public as piscatorial, because it makes them seem regular fellows and companionable. Of course, the whole tradition is a fallacy. The perfect angler iz highly grumpy and wholly individualistic. He is a Har and a bore and neglects his wife and children. And, speaking of families, I wish that voters would regard presidential candidates just as though they were bachelors. There is no such post as “first lady,” and we are not called upon to approve or disapprove of any candidate’s daughter, son, wife or first cousin. I have no doubt that Gov. Landon’s Peggy Ann is a pleasant miss. She seemed embarrassed at being put

Heywood Broun

>on exhibition at the Cleveland convention, and I

thought it was somewhat gauche publicity.

8 = 2 It’s Time to Speak Out Loudly THINK we should be at the zero hour and the boys ought to go over the top, leaving the women and children and other impedimenta behind them. Let's have no more rodeos, trout streams or sap buckets. The time has come for Gov. Landon to speak out loudly and clearly as to just what his attitude is oncollective bargaining and in precisely what manner he freiends to make that attitude good. Nor

is it too early for President Roosevelt to grow much

more definite on what sort of amendment he would

ggest to prevent the continuance of the dictatorship of nine. And Lemke might explain, or ask Father Coughlin to give the answer, just how the

Union Party purposes tos slash -relief and also save®}

the unemployed from misery.

BY ELEANOR ROOSEVELT

POUGHKEEPSIE N. Y., Wednesday—After driving

in from the airport I arrived in New York last night at’ 12:45. My only fellow passenger was & very nice young man, who confided to me that he had

- learned to fly because he had had so many automobile

accidents, and that he thought on the whole it was safer to fly. I had no idea what his name was, but he told me he: was in the same business as our eldest son, and that he knew that our second son had been interested in aviation, so we had plenty to talk about. When

~ we got out he introduced himself and I felt that I had

made a very pleasant new acquaintance. Mrs. Scheider and I had an early breakfast on the balcony, after which we gathered up our bags and arrived at my daughter's apartment at 9 a. m. The National Youth Administrator for New York City, Mr. McCloskey, joined us there. By 9:30 we were on our way to Camp Addams and arrived there simultaneously with the press and the photographers. It was interesting to me to be back in this old camp which is being reorganized and is now giving considerably more education. A few changes have been made in the actual camp itself but the routine is much as it always was. I think the Youth Administration is using better judgment in its choice of girls, so there were more girls there than there used to be under the old FERA management. °° As we drove away my daughter said ‘something to me which is very true. She felt, that to most of these young people, whose sorrows seem to arise out of a lack of money, the possession of money is the answer to every problem. One of the things I think we need to emphasize to all young people, whether rich or poor, is the fact that while people need to be able to provide themselves with a gecent standard of living,

~ the money which makes such.a standard possible will

not give them a happy life if they lack certain other

(Copyright, 1936. by United Feature Syndicate. Inc.)

New Books

THE PUBLIC to be appreciated, says William James,

(Editor’s Note—Special Writer Davis, traveling East from political Kansas, begins today a running, roadside reporter’s study of what’s on the mind of the Middle West—that vital span of America running from the Great Plains to the Appalachians. Interviewing Joe Citizen in shop, store, tavern and barnyard and aveiding the politicians, Davis is expected to contribute a serialized, human story of the American spirit in action in the year of apparent recovery and political decision—1936.

Here is the first dispatch.) 2 8 =

BY FORREST DAVIS

OONVILLE, Mo.,

Times Special Writer

July 9.—I stopped overnight at Mr.

Grady’s River View Tourist Camp and Old Trading

. Post (instituted in 1931) and. thus became acquainted with the outlines of a new industry and my host’s lively

portion of the “American dream.” Half a dozen other nomads, who had preceded me into the camp, were candidly picking their teeth when I walked

into the Post “cafe.”

Supper was over and the smell of

fried catfish taken from ihe Missouri River, which flowed,

shallow and yellow, just across the Daniel Boone Trail, still lay greasily in the air.

» 2 2 R. GRADY, a hoarse-voiced, active ‘little man wearing a diamond stud in the front of an open shirt, rented me the last of 10 neat, one-room cabins that stood in. a row across a bit of grass back of the Post. The rest were occupied by other plain Americans awheel from ‘a half dozen states; men, women .and children—as many children) as adults—noisily preparing to bed: down for a long rest in this poor man’s inn before resuming the road at tomorrow’s sunup. My baggage having been stowed and an extra blanket brought for my bed, Mr. Grady's cares were ended for the day and he approached the novel pleasof the night. He took command of the “cafe,” communicating good cheer to his newly met friends, the customers, as he moved in and out behind the counter, serving beer and sandwiches, ringing up-his take. He stopped at my table.

VERY THING O. K.?? he asked loudly. “0. K.,” I replied. find conditions?” “Tops,” he affirmed. “I've been in business from coast to coast. Never saw it better. Turn folks ‘away every night. But business is always good with me: .I don’t believe in bad business. I say a man makes his own conditions. I've got this camp running full’ tilt and , I've only had it two months. “It’s the seventh I've had in three years.” “The seventh?” I broke in skep- : tically. “The seventh,” he said. “You see before you the only man in ‘the United States following my line. I'm a tourist camp ‘doctor.’ ” He lighted a half-burned cigar and beamed proudly through the smoke, “I buy ‘em up when the last fellow made a failure, put 'em on their feet and sell out with a

than $3000 yet on a deal.” A motor horn sounded and Mr. Grady darted outside to the gasoline pumps. The “cafe” was filling. Local lads, one wearing a

i straw sombrero, and casual travel-

ers had joined the more perma-

“How do you

LET'S EXPLORE

YOUR MIND

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-nent, overnight campers. A half dozen women were in the crowd. The room was cheerful and cosmopolitan; a lot of racy, practical talk went on. . ” ” » T a nearby table a tall customer who had laid aside a Stetson with a, four-inch brim was telling a potato grower from Orrick, Mo., his impressions of that day’s mule market in Kansas City. and, as if the topic of mules suggested the theme, the contrariness of Kansans, or Jayhawkers. A ‘mule breeder from near Columibia, Mo., now on his way home, had that day disposed of a firstrate young span for $500. During the depression good mules got down to $150 a span. Pleased and emphatic, he said: “A Kansas mah is always bellyachin’. In Missouri we raise mules, Democrats, some: corn: whisky and - a little hell. In Kansas they raise Republicans and a lot of ‘hell, “They're sure boostin’ Alf Landon for [President over there. Plumb dissatisfied with FranklinDelano after he went to work and. pumped 84 million dollars in there with the AAA. We only got 62 million in Missouri and we ain’t kickin’. I talked to a fellow from Kansas who said Landon was for the farmer. ; “ “That may be,’ 1 said. ‘He ain't had a chance to show it. We do

know darned well Franklin De-

‘Jano is.’ I heard & lot of mean talk

- against Franklin Delano in Kan-

sas City’.” . . . Mr. Grady bobbed back into the circle and erated the conversational ball.! : : NEVER talk politics,” He said. “Politics - and religion don’t mix with business.” The potato. grower, ignoring him, said he'd

SWEDEN

This is the fourth of six dispatches on economic conditions in Sweden.

Ni BY WILLIAM PHILIP SIMMS Scripps-Howard Foreign Editor ASHINGTON, July 9.—~What

the Swedish State or the municipalities thereof have not

‘given the people in the way of cost-’

of-living yardsticks, the people have provided for: themselves, through

co-operatives. \_ . i For instance: ‘Swedish State, as we have seen, most of the t -sells electric .current. Hence public has a pretty definite idea of what they should pay a private concern Yor the same

On -the of ” ‘hand. the. price of electric bulbs- —without . which the

Supply. auality and todt

heard that Landon had made a good Governor, Ohne of the locals said, “what. about that Canadian beef that’s coming onthe market with the reciprocal tariff, knocking down our prices?” No one answered. A tourist from Colorado, just back from the East, said he’d found quite a lot of people interested in Landon. “It. don’t matter to. me who's President,” Mr. Grady persisted. “The farmers around here never had better prospects,” said the mule breeder. : “Hogs: and cattle are staying up, the horse market’s good, and look at mules!” Mr. Grady pulled the tops of a couple of bottles of beer and returned to his mutton. “Say what you want,” he put in. «Politics is politics, business’ is business, and I'm in the coming business here in the U. 8. A, the. tourist camp business. “I'm only starting. One of these: days youll be driving along the road looking for a place to put up for the night. You'll pull into a big landscaped place, ten times bigger than this, and you'll find Yours . Truly back of ‘the desk turnin’ em away. 2 8 = pn have a park with wading pools. Well have sa Munch ‘counter and a sit-down restaurant for city folks: tennis and croquet, a place to dance and’ maybe a movie. ‘ s : “The cabins - wil yun; up; to bungalows with kitchenétte, bath and ‘sitting room. I'll have a beauty parlor and magazines. And a trailer park; and I want a landing field in case; they get: these foolproof planes: perfected — and

they will; n s ever stopped - this country for. 1% % Re paused

for. fresh breath. : “Looks like you're fixin’ to run.

local societies formed the Swedish 4 Consumers’ ‘Corp. which, in turn, organized the Ko-operative Forbundet, or Co-operative Union, commonly called the K. F. The leading genius of the movement for the last 30 years has been. Albin Johansson, -& Henry Ford type of man, and it is to him more than any other person or thing that the stupendous success of the cooperatives is due. Not only has he organized the Swedish movement and personally led it in battle, but he has brought into it Norway, Denmark and Finland with important international jmport- and export ramifications. The Co-operative Union is the producer and wholesaler, The consumers societies are the retail half with more than 750 locals operating some 4000 stores. ‘At the end of the first five years, after 1900, the w

fo .on the he nin of te Swed- The

ish cos

Black Star Photo by William W, Ritasse.

the hotels out of business,” said the mule breeder, half scornfully. “Not exactly,” Mr. Grady responded. “The way I've got it figured, is that the hotels ran the roadside taverns out of business when the railroads came. Most all hotels are near the depots. If you're : catering to ' the public you've got to be where the public is. Today the public is on the

-.highways—thousands more every

year. Ninety per cent of the traveling salesmen alone go by car. “That’s why I say this business is in its infancy. It’s bound ‘to boom, look at it. any way you want.” 2 2 » O one disputed him. A local put a nickel in the phonograph, which automatically shifted gears and ‘began grinding out last year’s Hollywood song hit. A couple started to dance and Mr. Grady hauled Mrs. Grady out of her rocking chair behind the

"counter and swung her out on the

floor. When the machine ran down he came back, a bit winded. A citified- looking man leaning ‘against the counter picked up the . tal “What would you do if the country goes Fascist or those rad-, icals. down at Washington i regiment you“eut, 0 camp?” he asked 4 “We don’t take stock’ in Sich “ideas around here,” said the emphatic mule breeder, frowning heavily. : Mr. Grady, share of the “American dream,” shook hands with a couple of . sleepy campers. “In case I don’t get to see you in” the’ morning,” he said. “Folks ‘like to. get ‘an early start. I hope

you rest -good—and don’t: forges

to stop again. » Tomorrow—The c corn belt.

HAS ITS ‘YARDSTICKS'

grosses very nearly $50,000,000, while the. retail sales are not far from $100,000,000 a year. ” 3 ”

EMBERS can buy wherever they like, not necessarily from the society’s shops. Similarly, anybody can buy from the co-operatives, and at identically the same price. The only difference is that members, having invested a . small amount of capital in the enterprise, draw a 3% per cent dividend at the | end of the year. Outsiders do not. The dividend is really a sort of rebate on the member’s purchases. «The co-operatives’ policy is quite definite. It is not in business to hurtiother businesses. Its aim, Director Albin Johansson told me, “is to provide - for its members‘ foodstuffs and other necessaries in the best and cheapest way, and to serve as an honest yardstick against the abuses of monopolies.”

_by Lichty o

stuf nursing his’

EW YORK, July 9.—Something ehould "be done right away to spread the avail= able supply of Republicans who wish to wager on their man Landon in the- Novems ber election. Obviously, there are not

enough to go around even at the rate of ong Republican for each Democrat. :

Marvelously fat and wealthy Republicans abound in these preserves. : Your correspondent has obtained his Republican. and is well content, as the Republican is a very rich man. He is, in fact, tbo large for your correspondent to - handle alone and persons who have been unable to catch their own are invited-to apply for shares of him, Of course, even at three to one your correspondent’s Republican is an attractive proposition, for -the money will yield 33 1-3 per cent in a short time and the sav- : ings banks are paying only 2.per cent a year. - One night in Cleveland, your correspondent caught a magnificent Republican in the person of Mr. Ike

in two minutes, Lambert, with a strange look in his eyes, was offering even money up to $500 on his ‘man, But stealing is stealing and your correspondent let him go. : » » ”

Kicker Spoils This Bet OUR correspondent also caught a lady Kansan from Pelham, N. Y, that night in Cleveland and made a small wager at two to one, but let her get away, too, when she added a kicker to her .bet. The lady Kansan said the bet was on, but then said “pro vided I get a job doing campaign work for the Res publican Party bgcause my household allowance does not provide any betting margin.” This proviso seemed to raise the odds from two to something like 100. 3 It is to be hoped that greedy Democrats will not crowd around and make a nuisance of themselves, but it seems only fair to intimate that Mr. Teddy Roose= velt Jr. has been arching his neck and tossing his mane lately in a desire to bet a little on his man Landon. . He is an unmitigated Republican so, probably with a ‘little needling he can be induced to offer a price of six to five. This needling of the Republicans is a practice which will bear looking into. It seems hardly sport. ing as practiced by certain greedy Democrats, most ruthless of whom, so far as your corres respondent

knows, is Mr. Fred Tisdale of Stamford, Conn, } of Union City, Tenn.

” » He Drives Them Wild ~-

M= TISDALE is absolutely unscruptlous, “He stalks® Republicans at cocktail parties and ine sidiously guides the conversation around to the cg

eT paign.- He is a great judge ‘of Republicans and be ihe psychological moment he says: “Do: you 1 ?

your man Landon has ‘a c¢hahce or are | yo “just clowning to amuse the company?” That drives them wild. “Do you want to bet?” they holler. “Oh, I might,” Mr. Tisdale says, but you seem very confident. What price?” ae In this mannér Mr. Tisddle has needled wagers at 6 to 5 and quite a few at even money, foul imposition ‘on the - tenderest emotions of Republicans. Mr. Tisdale has absolutely no qualms about. it. “Som y has got to take them,” he says. would gladly share my Republicans with any deserve ing Democrats, but no good hunter believes in waste ing ammunition and why shbuld I lay more price than I have to? And anyway, I have to live among them. They were simply terrible around here for 13 Jong years of Harding, Coolidge, Hoover and Bishop annon.”

Merry-Go-Round

BY DREW PEARSON AND ROBERT S. ALLEN

ASHINGTON, Jhiy 9.--The bitter civil strife now raging within the ranks of the Ameriéan Federation of Labor boils down to two sources of conflict—vehement, personal antipathy and jobs. 7 The abolition of craft unions means the a of lush jobs for many A. F. and L. executives. craft union includes only one :

all workers in a given industry, no matter what th vidual trades may be. Thus the industrial union can win a strike n ‘successfully than a craft union, since it can call all workers in a given industry. There is no great personal dislike between Willi Green and John L. Lewis, chief Tenders of the:

Lewis gives him a delegate’s certificate™to the convention. Green is merely a pawn in the gam the mouthpiece for craft union generalissimos. sa = some-of Wo Soe Terscoaites i » » »

ILLIAM L.. 'HUTCHESON—President of