Indianapolis Times, Indianapolis, Marion County, 3 August 1936 — Page 9
EYWOOD BROUN
NEW YORK, Aug. 3.—I didn't read : Colonel Knox all the way through. I dipped into the speech. Phrases such as “Diocletian in Rome to Mr. Roosevelt in Washington” naturally caught my eye. Evidently Gov. Landon is to do the simple, homely stuff while the Chicago editor supplies the erudition. ‘Possibly the Colonel intends to take a leaf out of Big Bill Thompson's book, and we may pres-
ently expect a promise that if Diocletian turns up in the Loop Colonel Knox will smack him. As a matter of fact, the Colonel
is no cloistered scholar, in spite of -
his casual reference to the gentleman who was “Rom. Emperor 284305 A. D.” As you probably know, | Caius Aurelius Valerius Diocletian 7 Jl issued an edict in 301 A. D. to regulate prices of food and wages. The scholars have only a fragmentary : knowledge of the details of this edict, but it is a fact that Diocletian —¢ quit his job in 305. Mr. Broun Still, he lived for eight years : more, and I have little doubt that he went back to Rome from time to time to make speeches in which he pointed out that recovery really started in his own administration, only the other fel- * low refused to co-operate. And there isn’t any doubt in my mind that he explained that the depression was world wide and that it would have been much worse but for his efforts.
n ” 2 None of Your French Lingo
OLONEL KNOX also brought in Babylor and England “centuries ago”’—which is a little vague.
But in the matter of Babylon nobody can accuse |
Knox of straddling,” Babylon fell, and the Colonel is: against it. The Babylonian pressure group can't intimidate the man who followed Theodore Roosevelt up San Juan- Hill. . “But, as I have.said, the oration of the Republican candidate for the vice presidency was by no means a trip through ancient history with gun and camera. There was, for instance, Frank's sly reference to the President’s phrase about a “rendezvous with destiny.” The Colonel said that to him- the word “rendezvous” meant a “date.” Frank Knox said that when the American people have a date “they want to know what the lady looks like.” The Chicago publicist is all for a bit of fun as well as the next one. In one respect Colonel Knox did depart from the Republican platform, but it was, after all, a copy desk job which he did on it. It became his painful duty to correct his fellow editor, William Allen White. The platform is against “flaunting” the Constitution. The Chicago publisher: put his pencil through that ‘and promised not to “flout” the Constitution. =
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Much Too Good for a Nation
NE thing in the speech somewhat surprised me. - Not, very long ago I saw an advertisement about ‘the Coloriel's newspaper, the. Chicago Daily News. The ad spoke of the fine building in which the plant is housed, of the modern machinery and the wellknit organization by which the most remote corners of the world are tapped for news. present-day miracles as telegraphing photographs and all the myriad means of lightning-like communication by which the paper puts a story on the street almost on the. very heels of its occurrence. But seemingly, while this is not only necessary but also admirable in the running of a newspaper, it is much too good for a nation, Speaking for the Republican PArty, the Colcnel said, “It disapproves a philosophy that laughs at the horse-and-buggy method and wants to use only a buggy whip.” I think Frank Knox cheated a little on that. He was nominated for the vice presidency more than a month ago. The lapse between this event and the actual notification goes back to a day, ‘shortly after the abolition of the electoral college, when people really did have to drive or ride horseback to carry information. .
~ My Day
BY ELEANOR ROOSEVELT
H*= PARK, N. Y, Sunday.—We spent the day yesterday getting ready for the President's re-
turn. In the morning three of the people who came °
from Washington planned the work with me, and in
the evening the people who came down from Campo- :
bello arrived. So, when I met the President on the steps at about 11:15 p. m. everything in the house; at least, was running smoothly. Mrs. Woodward had come up from Washington in the morning and we did a little. lying in the-sun. I thought that she must be tired out, but this morning she said: . I. mor “You may think people can go to bed when the
President, is expected, but I had .to sit up and come -
to the window when I heard his voice as he called the -dogs and seemed in such. fine: spirits after such ply §0 ® been home shout half an hour and. wer sitting in the President's little study while I heard an account from my husband of the day in Quebec and all that he had seen and heard on his way down
. through Vermont, New Hampshire and Massachusetts. .
Suddenly {he doorbell rang, and thinking that every-
had gone to bed, I dashed out to find Miss Le .
Hand, ho had Jus, ven herself home from AlY. e came Joined us and we talk . til about 1 o'clock. Ta fod. gn Finally I got every one to bed and Jack and Jill, the two Irish setters, came back to me as naturally as if I had never been away. They trotted up ahead of me to bed and lay down in their accustomed places in my room. - Of ¢ourse, the minute that Anna and John come back I shall be deserted, but it is nice to know that they are faithful intermittently anyway. ** This morning Mrs. Woodward, my husband and I went to church. To my surprise I found quite a crowd outside when we éame out. th:
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SPAIN—A STORY OF CONFLICT
years of history forming Spain.
history of Spain.
and Mohammedan.
knows.
Greeks followed with similar ‘sea coast towns. But with the rise of Carthage in north Africa, came the first conquest of Iberia. As today, armed men poured across the narrow Mediterranean and attacked. Hannibal laid waste and conquered all ‘the peninsula as a base to strike at Rome. But, still 200 years before Christ, the Romans’ great Scipio gained Iberian allies and reconquered the peninsula. . : 2 2 = PAIN was an important part of -~the : Roman Empire, under whose rule «dt continued for more than 400 years. Unified by Roman rule, Spain, had 360 cities, sent loyal legions to Rome, produced such men as Martial, Seneca, Trajan and Hadrian, and was Roman to the core. °° ‘ Walls and aqueducts of the Roman time stand today, and the Latin language remains the base of Spanish. : During the first hundred years after the birth of Christ, His re-
| ligion was implanted in Spain, as in
the rest of the Roman world. But when the Roman empire fell apart, Spain, like the rest of Europe, was faced by hordes of northern barbarians, surging southward. . Goth, Vandal and Hun overran the Iberian peninsula, Killing, burning, destroying. And for 300 years they remained, adding new elements to the original Iberian and Celtic natives, already mixed with Roman and Phoenician. The Goths dominated, and a succession of their kings ruled - nearly:-all of -what-.is now . Spain. Their capital was Toledo, scene of bloody fighting in the present re-
olt. But in the year 711, a new invasion began. The Moors of north Africa, Mohammedans, crossed the strait at Gibraltar, where rebel forces are crossing today, and invaded Spain. nom yt
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tian, had persecuted Jew and nonconformer unmercifully, and some of these people felt they could be no worse off under the Moors.
scepter of King Roderic were found on ‘the banks of the Guadalquivir after the battle. The conquering Moors swept on through Spain unchecked until Charles Martel stopped them -at Tours, France, in 732. = = - i But Spain remained theirs. The Christian Goths were driven into the northern mountains. The lead-
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| BY WILLIS THORNTON . NEA Service Staff Correspondent
| QPANISH blood runs. red in the streets of Toledo, San Sebastian, Cordova and Seville: 2000-year-old ‘cities look down on what must seem to them only another chapter in the violent and turbulent
The walls of those.
Through more than 20 centuries of recorded history, the Iberian peninsula has been the scene of conquest by Roman, Goth, Moor, and Frenchman, of internal wars among Castile, Aragon, Leon, Andalusia and, Granada, of bitter conflicts. among Roman Catholic, Jew, Protestant
Where the original people of Iberia came from, no one Phoenician colonies were established at Cadiz, Malaga and Cordova a thousand years before Christ.
HE Visigoth Kingdom, Chiris-
The ~ Moorish invasion was quickly successful; the crown and
ers of ‘Moorish civilization, with a degree of religious tolerance never seen before or since in Spain, ruled the land, for 400 years as absolute monarchs, and for 350 more as vassals to later Christian kings. From this Moorish conquest, the story of Spain is the story of gradually growing Christian power in the north, in Cantabria, Navarre, Asturia, Leon, Castile and Aragon, moving southward and continually striving to rewin the peninsula from the Moors. “ Even the Moors were divided among thmeslves, with rivalry between the pure Arabs and the north African Berbers (one of
of whom, Abed-el-Krim, was to.
cause Spain grief only a few years ago). . This continual campaign against the Moors became a part
of the Crusades, and second to.
none of the Christian paladins who fought against the men of
Mohammed was the Cid, Spain’s -
national hero. He was Rodrigo Diaz de Bivar, knows also as El Campeador, “The Challenger.
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E lived in the eleventh cen-.
tury, and performed such’ feats of arms, including the capture of Valencia, that his name
and fame became subjects of in-
numerable fables. Type of the battling barons of the Middle Ages, the Cid was: a free-lance,
and was often at odds with some of the mutually-jealous Christian
factions. ] To this day the Spanish admire the individual, the unfettered, the
proud. i Aided by-Knights from France:
and England, the Christian kings. .
dom of the north continued an’ intermittent. warfare against Sar-
,acen power, organized knightly
orders to fight the Sword and Crescent.
reconquered at the sign of the Cross for Christianity. But the northern kingdoms were still warring - with - one another, jealous, disunited. :
"It remained for the marriage ©f
King Ferdinand of Aragon with
Queen Isabella of Leon and Cas-
tile to weld Christian Spain into
unity. This united force recon-.
quered all Spain except Granada,
. the small section directly across from Africa, where a high state
of civilization, learning and cul-’ ture had been developed under the Moors. ] a os UXURIOUS buildings of that civilization remain today, and the Alhambra is-one of the
marvels which drew the American"
tourists who ‘were endangered by the present .revolt. : " Ferdinand and Isabella trained
By the middle of the: fifteenth century, practically all of what is now Spain had been
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LET'S EXPLORE YOUR MIND
BY DR. ALBERT EDWARD WIGGAM
Proud, independent, brave and relentless, the Cid - is still the hero of Spain. The great Paladin, im-
Turbulent Background Helps to Explain the Present Disorders
This is the first of a series tracing swiftly and interestingly the 3000 the background of teday’s bloody revolution in
burning of Ibn Jahhaf, faithless Moorish .leader, after the taking of Valencia. The sketch is by NEA Staff Artist Ed Gunder, from the famous painting by A. De Neuville. : .
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: : LAF Tame RE .:10,000 cavalry and 50,000 infantry and besieged Granada. :
Boahdil, the Moorish King, saw
that the jig was up. He negotiated
a treaty guaranteeing the Moorish
octupants of the territory ‘a certain freedom, and abandoned the city with his troops. !
On the morning of Jan. 2, 1492,
placable foe of the Moors, is shown here ordering the
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A es © Ee —- <LI evn d Ferdinand and: Isabella trium-
phantly entered Granddla.-~The
long campaign had built up a splendid Spanish army. The thrill of expelling the Moors at last
-had built a national consciousness :
and solidified all Spain under the. monarchy, enhancing Spanish prestige abroad. : :
Ang that same year of 1492 saw
three little ships’ under Columbus
“ tide.
‘from the Americas, the Spanish military rules Europe, and world empire seems not too high -a goal, thovgh the screams of the tor-
“tured ring through the chambers
“of ‘the Inquisition. ' Spain at flood
(Mr. Sullivan Writes Thrice Weekly.)
BY MARK SULLIVAN ASHINGTON, Aug. 3.—It is common to suppese that
‘the New Deal, as a political organ-
ization, .is the whole of the movement to take America into a new form of society and government. True, the New Deal is the spearhead, the organized driving force of it. The New Deal, by its hold on government, has the leverage of power which, if not ended, ean bring the new order about. But the movement exists in fields other than politics... It exists con-
| spicuously in education, though few
average citizens know what is going on in that field.
“commission of social studies,” is completing a. report which constitutes a proposed program for education in the United States. - * # = 2 THE program put forward by
these teachers and leaders of
| teachers, is, to put it in a sentence, one. which wants: teaching in the _./|schools. to lead toward :bri 1 | about a Socialist form of society in
|| firm, there is a disposition to put {} it in words that will not excite op- | | position. The report is: character{ized by “carefully neutral phrases.”
1 give this judgment without hav-
A commission made up mainly of | {college teachers, calling itself the
teaching? The . taxpayers must
* |'lack spirit and energy if they allow
themselves and their communities and the country to be reshaped according to the ideas of a small number of teachers who in many cases do not announce their purpose. In this situation, there would seem to be a duty for local newspapers to perform. When teachers undertake to bring about a new form of society, it is natural that they, like the clergy and the military, should dream a society and government suggested by their own temperaments and their own experience of life.
OUR COLUMNISTS The Times may or may not
Sullivan Questions Teachers’ Program Seeking to Bring New Form of Society
SOCIETY dominated by teachers would be as inconsistent with freedom as one dominated by the clergy or the military. In all three cases, the society would reflect the temperament and: experiences of the dominating caste. " Teachers, in the careers they 16ilow are the salt of the earth. Their work is of inestimable value to society. Hardly any class of men is so universally ‘deserving of esteem; and in the American tradition, no class receives higher honor. But when men of this temperament and experience turn to give thought te the world outside the college campus; when they undertake to reoitganize society, it is little wonder if they “dream of a whole nation organized as the college campus is organized, life mov-
|ing to the signal of bells along
carefully graveled paths, with every one in the community, both teach-
|ers and students, divided into | classes and each. doing the work
laid down for him
by a faculty of planners. : : )
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WESTBROOK PEG
NEW YORK, Aug. 3.—The Olympic thing is rapidly degenerating into a sporting League of Nations and adherence to the in ternational organization is coming to involve: the same risks and objections which turned te ‘United States against the League in neva. If this country must continue its membere
ship in the Olympic group it might be wise to turn Aihiehioan Olympic affairs over to the State Departe ment so that American interests may be represented by professionals who know something about internatignal politics and the art of diplomacy. : iOld Gen. Sherrill, who died last winter, was ‘qualified for this work, as he had had considerable experience in the diplomatic service and realized that there is neither honor nor chivalry nor even decency between nations. The old general could look a foreign diplomat dead in the eye and play dumb, pretending to believe everything he heard while saying to himself, “This man is a liar and a pickpocket and I must keep my hand on my watch.” The United States is now represented in Olympie matters by Mr. Avery Brundage, a Chicago contractor, who was an athlete of some note 20 years ago. Mr,
Mr. Pegler
| Brundage is the living spirit of the Y. M. C. A,, as
indicated by the expulsion of Mrs. Eleanor Holm Jarrett, the American swimmer, for supposedly going on a mild toot on the voyage to Germany. He is very sensitive to personal flattery and honors at the hands of the soft-soap departments of foreign gov= ernments and undoubtedly regards his election to the international Olympic committee as recognition of his sporting idealism, rather than his susceptible innocence.
” » 4 Olympics Turn Political
LYMPIC affairs have become political affairs in many countries, but nowhere more so than in Germany, Italy and Japan.
This year, because the Nazis, like the Italians in
Abyssinia, distinctly violated the covenant, an at
tempt ‘was made to vote athletic sanctions against Germany and withhold the American team from the Berlin games: If the United States had taken the lead in this, other nations of the civilized group une doubtedly would have done likewise, Then, because sport is a political enterprise in Germany, conducted under the auspices of the government, there
‘would - have ensued in‘ Germany a campaign of
hatred against the United States similar to the Italian campaign against the British last winter. Obviously, therefore, American Olympic problems are too delicate and dangerous to be entrusted to idealistic amateurs who undoubtedly do know much about sport but are not “qualified to represent the nation in international relations. ova, ® Eg "2
Seeins Best to Withdraw
HE idea of stape-controlled or state-supervised sport is bic ny however, to nations which approach sport ‘in the sporting spirit, Under gove ernment control the American Olympic team in evitably would be selected on the recommendations
= | of district political leaders. There have been many
es “of "this in the prize ‘Aghtimg industry, the
y state-controlled man-po prize fight commission, as a political favor. to the prize fight department of Mr. Hearst’s newspapers, arbitrarily designated the first Schmeling-Sharkey prize fight a heavyweight championship contest for the admitted purpose of . increasing the gate, That Mr. Hearst repaid this kindness with cruel cartoons of Mr. Farley is another matter. Under state con trol Mr. Farley interfered with the processes of nature, so to speak, as a political favor, and the same
| sort of thing would happen in Olympic affairs if the
government were to take over.
“Such being the case, it would seem best to withe draw entirely from the Olympic games and the ine ternational complications which they entail.
Merry-Go-Round .BY DREW PEARSON AND ROBERT S. ALLEN ASHINGTON, Aug. 3.—Confidential cables re V ceived by government departments throw some highly revealing light upon. the Spanish rebellion and the precarious state of European politics. Ap~parently nothing of importance can happen in one country without upsetting the balance in others. : When the Spanish revolution was at its "height, Germany served notice on France that if it supported the Socialist-Republican government of Spain, Gere many in turn would abandon a hands-off policy in regard to those two key provinces, Alsace-Lorraine, which are none too friendly to the Blum Socialist government of France. , / ; To show that she meant business, Germany actually moved troops opposite Alsace-Lorraine. i Whereupon the Blum government held a special cabinet session. Ordinarily it would have supported the Popuiar Front government in Spain, since France, too, has a Popular Front government. But in view of the German threat, Prance adopted a hands-off pol icy of selling no munitions to Spanish loyalists. Key to the entire situation is Russia. : Nazi Germany, naturally, was sympathetic to a Fascist movement in Spain. But far more important than this is the fact that Germany hates Russia, fears Russia, will do anything : possible to prevent the spread: of Russian influence in Europe. °
Germany went {o extreme lengths to block the suc= cess of Spain's Left government, 2a : # ” » ¥ 1 RANK P. WHEELER, 79, Marietta, O., a retired 4° school teacher, taught Alf Landon in the eight! grade in the Putnam Street School in Marietta