Indianapolis Times, Indianapolis, Marion County, 30 July 1936 — Page 17

YORK, July 30. — Candidates are ot

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the times which try the souls of columnists.

. My‘own inclination is to write about poli-

tics pretty ‘much every day from now until

election.’ Mr. K., who ig a close friend, says that wil |

bore thie life out of him. : :Xmust sami that my partisanship seems leds. than

that of’ certain citizens. If Gov. Landon is elected I have no inten-

tion ‘of - moving to. Canada or to

Tahiti. On. the contrary, I'll ‘stay right here and be awful - sore .about ft. To be sure, ‘I would consider spending a large. part of the year in Texas. - -Dallas, in particular, seems an up-and-coming city. For the first time in "20 years Rep. Blanton has been forced into a run-off - campaign, and. if “looks: as

though his chief rival has a: good.

chance of capfuring- his séat in-the House. I know: nothing. abofit Judge Clyde Garrett, ‘Mr. Blanton's opponent,’ but, sight ‘unseen, I'm" for him. Blanton blames. his indifferent showing. in: the first primary on “agitators.” This. is. pretty vague. -Rep.” Blanton has one of the largest ‘collections of agitators in the United Stdtes. .He still professes to take “The Red NetwOrk” seriously and on. occasion reads portions of it into the Congressional Record. Stacked up against Blanton, even Ham Fish is redder thai’ the rose. 2

Blanton and Economy

PUT it Jsn’t merely. the economic and political’ Views “of Tom. Blanton which makes him such & fit can~ didate for retirement. He is.a. member who seriously impedes the House .in- its -functions.as a deliberative body.. While the economy drive is on: it certainly ought to include words as: well as dollars. As a matter of fact, tesentatives who make. “long, .-rambling speeches for: the benefit of the Congressional” Record literally are wasting the people’s. money. ‘Down in’ the neighborhood of San Antonio, Maury Mayerick appears to be having ‘difficulties. A great deal of money has been spent in the canipaign against him.' Mr. Maverick received a plurality in the primary but he: must go into a, runoff. ‘I'hope he makes it. - Maverick’s fate is of concern well’ beyond the bordérs: of his district. He.is one of the few men in Washington to whom the word “liberal” can be accurately: applied. Washington ‘has its conservatives and its reactionaries and its mild conservatives and a scattering of radicals, but the liberal, like the buffalo,” has all but disappeared. from our plains. It might be a good idea to set aside a few national parks and reservations where the liberal could be protected and encouraged to multiply.

8 Like Judas Goat

NDEED, among the ‘old-fashioned liberals there were ‘a good many whom you could knock over with a feather. And every passing. breeze would lift certain ‘members of the herd right off their feet and drop them in the camp of the conservatives, where they were very promptly butchered and barbecued. The role of the liberal was not infrequently" like that of the Judas goat in. the slaughter houses. Certain trained members of the species would: act as decoys. to lead whole -troops’ of sheep to ‘their destruction. A herd. of liberals when viewed at ‘a distance might look very menacing, but the hunters found it possible to ride into the ‘thick of the flock and’ separate’ the animals .so they could be cut down one: by“ one. The average liberal never knew his own strength. It is -quite pertinent to ask me why the species

should be saved if it is of such slight. utility. Well,

of ‘coutss,. the sliberal’s- hide“ makes—a-good- carriage robe, and we may need something of the sort: ka America is to be taken for a buggy ride. :

© My Day

a BY ELEANOR ROOSEVELT. "VAMPOBELLO, N. B., Wednesday—By 10:30 yes4 terday morning it began to look like nice weather, so: we Started on the Potomac for I'Etang Island. ‘By the time we reached there, the sky was blue and the sun'was shining. A few minutes after we dropped anchor in the "harbor, my husband and Jbhn came alongside - in. a -whaleboat. James and Franklin Jr. were in a dory with an outboard motor. They seized Betsy and Miss Ongersoll and went ahead to See where we could best land on the beach. . Before we knew it everybody was off for the shore. The boys had their trousers rolled up and their shoss and socks off, and were offering to, carrying every one ashore. I insisted that I ceuld jump if two of them would give me a hand, but they seized everybody else and carried them, in spite. of protests from: the gentlemen who thought they could wade: just as well as those who were wading. The ladies squealed but Submitted more peacefully. | Before lunch Mr. and Mrs.’ Hopkins, "Franklin Jr. . And I ‘climbed to the. highest spot on ‘the Canadian island to get a view of the river.and the bay. We:saw two houses not far away and made our.way to them around the shore. We found that one: of them belonged. to a.Mr. Clark, who is quite a large landowner, They. had. the Canadian and American flags flying to greet; the boats in the harbor, and to my: surprise, on the ‘plano I found a picture of the President, which Mr, Clark said he understood I considered a good one. ~The men played ‘a strenuous game of baseball on the beach after lunch, and by 4 o'clock we’ started for honte on the Potomac. My. husband and the. boys de-

cided to sail their. own boat home, and arrived a little

alter dark.’ The younger ones. went down to a village datios. Béfore going to bed I left them a note to please: put

flashlight went to _see if everything was safely out. Much to my annoyance every light seemed ta be burn-

sitting In the hall. I Lad forgotten Hung in solitary sta ; 5 = (ORpytight: 1938, te ‘United Feature: ynaseai, Inc):

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"Geant a Seren : © BY.JOE. COLLIER * pus is a ] went that rents for H a mont. ‘It 1s two blocks hom

a dusty, winding lane, in the mid--dle of a-dump oly dt

appears | | to bes’ part and parcel. It is. not. within 300 yards: of a tree: and during the Yiller: i gtoans feshly-

Jess, but “from one ‘purple. drapes - In-that. SF astmient tives: Tadd. & Negro woman, 41 years old and nearly a life-long: resident: ‘of "In-

dianapolis.” She: pays: $14 month:

for her rent to a man she saysshe does: not’ know by name

“He is ‘about’ 60, she’ ‘says, and 3

, comes 4o- “her place segularly: a

in the afternoon of the first by.

each month, rain or shine, for the dollar. -. If Lucy doesn’t have it, he cautions her to “get some money”

and asks her when she'll: have_it. |

She tells him when she thinks she

will and he is back on the: minate.

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\EFORE Lucy's Husband | died, they were séparated and she.

‘moved upstairs, and set up.an-es-‘tablishment of her own. When

hér husband ‘died, he owed $6" in’ The man tried’ to get. Lucy to ) pay it, she: says, but she

arrears.

refused. Lucy Had. been. paying. her rent in advance with the month starting on the fourteenth. “The' man said that if she didi’t pay her husband’s- back rent ‘he would start hers on the first. She “said she pointed out that ‘she was losing 14 days that way, and he laughed. She's. paid ‘it~ ever: since on the first. Lucy says ‘she has. lived “there for six years::

on -the -walls, . just -bits of . card-

board tacked. up. Lucy gets. ‘her.

food from the trustee, and her ton of .coal a month, ‘which: she said doesn’t heat the place. In the front room is a chair, a cot, a table, with a “starfish on the footboadd, and a coal heating stove. In the next room there’s-a bed, which had a clean spread on it. Lucy said that when the people upstairs walk over the floor, black dust falls from the ceiling onlo her spread’ and she has » brush ito off each timer - i wd ;

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N° the other room : ‘there = a stove and some small array of cooking things. There is no city water. ‘There is no inside toilet. There is only one outside toilet in the neighborhood and it is used by 20 families. It is built of tin scraps. and is ‘as. far..as a hlock from some of the hatises. Lucy said the police always ‘are coming out. to pick. some one up for something ‘or. other, but that

she never has been in trouble, She

attributes. this: to the fact that she’ doesn’t “associate” with her neighbors. “She. said her husband," ‘when’ he was alive, didn't “fool arourid with them: either” and. that, so far as she knew,. he had pever -been in trouble, unless “it. was something minor about ‘shootin’ craps.” = = “But”tell me,” she asked, “what is: ‘they. goin’ to ‘do ~ahout these shacks? ‘Td hate to- move all of, a sudden “Wel, Amey? “she "was asked,

prospectus’ of |

“apartment “there: Sutters-a set: of t]

The. apartment is. three rooms. There -is- no paper.

Sia Pointed: shrough some o strutiiies on: Kansas-st, marked by the. State

Fire Marshal for destruction as fire hazards, the camera got. a slim

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of Public School No. 22, {rim and neat, surrounded by a green lawn. The property on which the school is built cost the School Board. $27,000; improvements : assessments another $5400; :and’ the building 50,000.

“could you- pay more ‘rent than $1. a month?” : . Lucy looked puzzled. Le “I've been trying to: think that: thing: out,” she said. . Until Lucy became ‘ihcapaicitated, : she’ ‘worked - weekly : for. a North Side, family, she said, “just doing things around. the house.” "eC 8.8.8. - OMETHING minor abou - shooting craps”’— Chief Morrissey, ,who ; for seve “eral years has’ labored to’ keep

‘down ‘crime even: as. Dr.. Morgan. and: associates have labored

(Gen. Johnson Writes Tastes Wonks.)

BY. HUGH oN JOHNSON

EW "YORK, July’ "30 ~The Democratic publicity and cams. pan strategy 'i5 -to say and do little’ until” September. carrying that out. Secretaries Roper and Pérkins have: gone. abroad. The silencer has’ been’ slipped on: Hop=kins and ‘Fugwell, : THe party's great’ oratorical ° guns have, Tot even been unlimbered. :

Meanwhile, the: ‘Hepublican. pn licity attack is moving on. all fronts with dafly ‘radio time and full use of ‘the - press, which: is overwhelmingly anti-Rooseveit. 2p ‘There used to be a: Teeling. in’ the Administration: that: it. didn’t. make. much - difference: if” ‘the ° Tiewspapers were - against: the Président. The idea’ was that he is:s0. good -on+itlie radio that-‘all ‘he. to do; to counteract” ‘the’ effet) of pons and

LETS | 3 EXPLORE YOUR MND Spi

hoop down disease, said is troubles. start,” very often,’ in the. bad housing . areas. LA “The beginnings of ‘ctime’ ”: tie

said as he looked at a crime chart - he had kept. in, his’ ‘offfee for. years, “frequently are in. the slum’ sec .[:

tions. That does not in"any serise’ ‘mean that even most of thé people’ .in bad ‘housing areas tend toward -crime.-'A great many-of them are

fine citizens who are "making the’

best of a ‘difficult-situation. > ¢ “Buf, some’of these kids learnat

school ‘where they. ave; saul J

They are |

and; tidy sonditions_ to

toni of hostile SieWspHnt; hte 80°

on .the air with a half-dozen “My friends” ina “fireside. chat”: or.a. more: formal ‘major effort.” 8 -#..8 HIS. never was true, to. ‘hee extent the Administration believed, and-it -is very. far. from. ‘true today. The radio does ‘not replace. news-

papers. heard a’ speech’ that aftracted him who didn’t: want’ to’ read ‘it and looked for it. & gerly iti’ ‘the next: day's. papers. - © spoken ‘word is: gone in .a flash. ‘You must’ see ‘the text to: be sure what Was "meant. | The: radio is a kind of “anhouneer” | peo and advertiser of the news. Without]

good and: constant ‘hewspaper ‘publicity the Administration is woefully jy

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handicapped.

It is hot ‘free from handicaps, over 1 ‘thrill fo: the;

polos x ens hey

‘about it “current everywhere. 2 : and < "matloved T

i “doubt; if ‘anybody (VET {mg

: Yet across. the’ vatow' street ave

satisfied ‘witir thie sat for of net |

homes.

er : do about it, lawfully. Pretty | soon they ‘are: stealing. autos for a brief j_féllow ‘has,’ ‘Then: they are’ trouble. © - “Some: of! them’ think better” of "it after their first brush with the Jaw, Some of, them: dog’t and: | grow up-to be ‘major: poli -prob-: lems. - You! know. that the, most: | _ desperate ’ ‘of our criminals, “the fellows who skioot to kill and very

is Pe a: thing Jas s pen eech be sweet, that At cloys.: nly: a few male voters love a crooner. .. :Such set and sloganeered ‘words: as

‘| “My. friends” wear themselves out

against the: public ear; until: they are first ‘ridiculed (and ‘then: despised: Personal appearance is- getting to bet far. more important than it to. Pe. A friend of mine in the lecture’ and’ condert booking business told me today. that his: business, ‘which: used to: be a: major. industry and then slumped a ost: out, of. sight, ‘had ‘come back in "a phenomenal way within the: rfew’ ‘months. Some ..cyelical ¢ Mm populag taste. is. oeing on,, he. thinks, and more: nl ever any, & to see ane ‘hear oul c Sagan Peg son.

are: terval before miber. -a He rr

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or Vacancy. on Labo re

Be AEASEREAITIR “51 Boas NRA

_; Times Speci] Writer | To "ASHINGTON, ‘July 30.~Two

Catholic priests are reported

deleterious’ effect on ‘the’ nélghborhood property. - children play in a wading pool, constructed : by: the Works Progress Administration, and filled with pure. city. water, get water from, Suestionable wells- for. drinking pltposes.

on AB. ' they. can

ling. at what. the, loth |

property eyesores ‘that ‘may have a ‘In. the school yard

At their homes they

sters; either in their teens or just . out-of them. : “Slum housing, insanitary ‘and » uninspiring, is. the cause for a “lot” of our crime and’ keeps a large part .of the police force oc~ ‘cupfed. : If ‘people: had. a decent :place to live in, a place that would, inspire "them to: be. re‘sponsible citizens in the ‘wotld, I ‘Believe that ‘many ‘a ‘youth who i now: embarks on a: life of ‘crime would ‘be. law abiding and. val.uable’ to. the community.” ”.

:Next~-~The- Federal. Sanitation

- often, do, are comparative young-1.

particular “Democratic : nis AL

synthetic statesman. - Even when the Deniocrats do

turn: loose ‘their oratorical ‘wolves, the array is. not imposing. They ‘have. lost, in Al Smith, their :most effective -speaker . except the. Presi(dent. The rapier of Carter Glass is: ‘sheathed in- his: pre-campaign asides. . Claude Bowers. is still in ‘Spain and very much occupied. Extept for these gentlemen, as sthe ‘Philadelphia - convention ' proved,

the oraterical material is very thin.

‘Some of it, like Messrs, Hopkins, Ickes, Tugwell and Miss Perkins, would better not be used at all."Too | many. people do: not ‘admire them. ‘They ‘stand as symbols of unaccept.able things. “They couldn’t ‘garner any. votes but they could: lose: Votes fon sheaves, .~ “To this “observer, at’: Teast; “this strategy wrong. “The ‘Republicans: are { stealing the show. : It: is ¢true- that the country. can sioken of too much baliyhoo.. . But eiteration: is! what

e | makes ‘public ‘opinion. = That is’ 4 fitst principle of advertising: Politi ; | cal campaigning. to | that is all it is. Democratic

‘is advertising and agdverTis far is in the h -and-

age Pe = . Eo es ature

"OUR. COLUMNISTS

The “Times. may’ or’ may not with the columnists : ". whose. writings appear on’ this : ‘and. other : pages. . Their "col - ~ umns are ip rong because |. they express e and in-, teresting re and“ not* Acid spree: “The!

.out of a hogshead and if they

. been eating such fish themselv

ing all right under t

i Wa <4 Eastport but nevertheless o[ white them ‘and build up ‘a real

‘ment. Now thelr

| asteoer, Me, Say: 30 = Bowed under the burden of a big trash can, a man. in ragged. overalls picked his. way over the rotten planks: of ‘the deck: jutting out 4 from one of the abandoned ‘sardine canneries Selecting a hole where the flooring; had: give away to. weather and neglect; he duniped the It into the dirty. tide.; Huge fish heads. were : i084 fo in She Siallov. Water as Eae'sen shied oly Filth covered . the beach where a half wild- dog wit with yellow eyes foraged in. competition. with | the.scavenger .gulls.. On. the next dock, three laborers, with peaveys,. were . - loading ' great woéden beams on (to a -barge. In. the. warehouse ‘of : the. U. «8. ‘Army. Corps -of Engineers clerks. : were checking out the. remaining. marine supplies ‘of the’ ‘abandoned’ Passd- |i maquoddy: Dam job. ‘So many coils |i of ‘rope, so. many marker: sq. many anchors and lanterns and. so. i many ‘feet of cable ‘dndachain;’ A dT sea-going tug was: expected. in to. . . Mr, Pegler pick: up twp barges used on the lob tow them : down ' to. “Along: the dirty ws street, men with hothing to do o0CapIed theme ove Lo ning." Tia: was the princoat busi a large p on: 's manfor a long .time, before. the Quoddy ER i likely to be’ their Principal opoupation, for a Jone, tims : to- come. - wi. ey :

Spend $7,000,000; Then Quit -

TT EB stores’ displayed: in’tHelr Windows’ poor, chedp 3 merchandise and not much: of that, but most of them -also showed - photographs: of Franklin: velt between crossed American. flags, in anticipation: the: President's visit.” It’ has’ “abandon Eastport to.poverty — decay after showing the town a beautiful vision of big factoiies; a crows ed sea and. prosperity. ‘The . people seem, unable to eve that “the government” will. 80. through with. its ane nounced intention to ‘close down the fob with: the work less. ‘than. half: finished ‘and ‘ $7,000,000. invested. But the: government” isn’t kidding and in two. weeks the os aero will: have: tailed oft to complete Suspens Not quite: comparable to, the ghost towns of: the West, Eastport , is.. nevertheless; sick: of a of the disease, 1t was a. strong, brave gown in its time, with men rio Voss Po through. treacherous ‘whirlpools a e t des and shi everywhere, 3 y ps calling in from ere are various. explanations wh her’ gumption, but none of. them Aid Eastport lash For example, ‘the government inspectors suddenly bee came. very particular-about the quality of the: sardines packed in the canneries. s They would sglect :a. few fish found a couple bearing rondenin the whole catch San claimed Hey had ves for generas selling them into the market. without / ane effects. Moreover, Portugtiese and Scandinavian sare

seen. are: admitted to the: American {rade ‘sight une

a ‘certain kind of spots would. as: being diseased. The fisher

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Lubec Doing All Right

B; a few hundred yards across the water the town of Lubec is carrying on the sardine trade and. do= He safe hahdicaps.. — «It ‘seems: far fetched to say that: psychiblogy locked there is an air of defeat in the listlessness. and filth of the: town; whereas Lubes is lively, neat and apparently self-confident. ‘There : a settlement of Passamaquoddy Indians’ at Perry, miles from Eastport, ‘and’ the Indians: lve in’ he filthy hovéls.-- But’ the ‘Indians’ ‘gave up: the battle long ago and settled down to be wards of the ‘governeeonquerors are being pulled down to their own level, apparently unable to call on any pows er within jhemselnes. to} rouse up and résume the fight,

Merry- Go-Round"

“BY DREW PEARSON AND ROBERT 8. "ALLEN.

WAsEmaTon, July. 30.~~Some: of the younger Democrats are chafing ‘behind the scenes over the ipactivity of the New Deal high command in ane swering Republican political blasts. They think’ Lane don and ‘Hamilton should ‘be answered tit-for-tat, ine stead ‘of. which Roosevelt ‘has passed down ‘the. word to igriore then. . One matter: that irked ‘them especially Was ‘Hamil ton's blast. charging politics in the CCC. Some of ‘the Bey 1 Beales. had > letter ‘which: Hat n Harry pking ‘praising’ the: ‘administration of New Deal relief. They. wanted to throw this in the Republican chairman's test ‘were reined. in by the higher-ups. «; . Also, ‘wheén” Lemke loosed one of ‘his’ major “blasts recently, yotinger New Dealers wanted to answer back with "a: speech by'a’New: Deal" Republican from. the liddle West. © gle ‘what really’ got under the skin of the energetio young. bloods. was, the, censorship placed tipon .s pamphlet they prepared on Gov. Landon’s’ vecurd, eho titled, “The Man’ ; Nowoyy. Knew.” J 2 n P set forth the. folowing’ ei tits resting he Beshuniitan candidate;