Indianapolis Times, Indianapolis, Marion County, 4 August 1936 — Page 13

ee By ~ HEYWOOD BRO

NEW YORK, Aug. 4—I have no doubt "that Jack Doyle, the pocket billiard economist, is eminently correct in his statement that election betting is mostly myth-

_ ical. Mr. Doyle has sagely observed you can

get more action in a horse race. People sometimes speak of rival candidates swinging into the stretch, but the resulting duel is slower than slow motion. It is true, of course, that Alf M. Landon seems to be running in blinkers, and even so the analogy | between potential Presidents and “| ‘thoroughbreds and will not bear (| much pressing. oR MBI There is the further fact that in 3B | modern politics no long shot ever ~§ has won. When a price of as much I as 5 to 1 is quoted against a con-

tender it might as well be a |

thousand. I assume that James Watson Gerard's purpose was = political rather than mercenary when he offered to bet 2 to 1 against Landon. There was an overlay, but according to my information, only 4a slight one. In spite of polls and predictions Franklin D. Roosevelt remains a decided favorite. Since Landon’s acceptance speech the price against the Kansas Governor has lengthened. I am acquainted with one large operator who has in mind a very tricsy wager. He professes to be willing to bet $75,000 on Roosevelt at odds of 3 to 1, but he stipulates that the wager is off unless Landon makes six more broadcasts over a national hookup.

Speaks and Odds Lengthen

AFrEouaH there was nothing in the scant substance of Gov. Landon’s speech which appealed to me, I thought that his delivery was much better than might have been expected. I hated it, but I thought it was politically effective. To this extent I had to agree with the loud chortles of glee which came from John M. D. Hamilton, but, after all, what can Mr. Ha, n and I do against so many? Seemingly we were both wrong. Gov. Lan-

~. don talked himself from 7-to-5 to 9-to-5.

But win, lose or draw (and won’t it be terrible if the election runs into a camera finish?), Alf Moss man Landon ought to be hailed by history as the stooge king of American national politics. Lemke, - Gerald Smith, Father Coughlin, Doc Townsend and Norman Thomas all have professed to be against Landon, and yet each of these men has done his bit to help the campaign of the Kansas Governor. Norman Thomas really is against Landon, which makes it a little hard to forgive his ineptitude in giving the Governor a chance to repair in part the damage done to the Republican cause by the labor sections of the Topeka oration. Of course, the speech must have been carefully prepared by a multitude of counselors. The attack on trade unionism could not have been an accident. ” 8 8 Norman Thomas Erred

BE the repercussions were strong enough to give - Landon and his advisers pause. And that was the unfortunate moment at which Norman Thomas chose to rush in. In spite of the clear and admirable plank in the Socialist platform, Mr. Thomas seemed to be a little muddled on the problem himself. There is very gmall comfort in the fact that Landon tells Thomas that he believes in labor’s right to organize and bargain collectively and that he thinks it is legitimate for outside organizers to:-come in. That is hardly going to frighten Jones & Laughlin or the Associated Press out of their announced intention to knock down even the limited protection afforded by the Wagner Act. The real point is to ascertain what’ type of legislation guaranteeing these rights will be suggested or supported by Gov. Landon. On this issue Landon has remained completely silent. He may not be more than & typical prairie state politician, but, at least, he is good enough at the game to make Norman Thomas look like an ungifted amateur, )

My Day

BY ELEANOR ROOSEVELT

YDE PARK, N. Y, Monday—This day began early in the morning. Mrs. Woodward was to make the 7:40 train and I had arranged for her to pick up Miss Cook and Dr. Elizabeth Howe, for they all wanted to be in New York early. The only one who has been off on a real holiday was Miss Cook, and though she did not murmur, I said for her: - “How disagreeable it is to leave the country on a hot day and go in to work in the city.” At midnight last night Miss Dickerman and Mrs. O'Day started for the western part of the state. Mrs. O'Day remarked that she could hardly see any point in going to bed as they had gotten in so late and had to get off so early. From past experience I know very well that getting in late and starting out early is one of the symptoms of being in a political campaign. I gloat a little wickedly at the thought that I don't have to do it. I saw them all off in my riding clothes this morning, had my breakfast and rode for an hour. Then Mrs. Scheider and I worked till about 12 o'clock, after which I had a swim before lunch. We met a friend at the station at 1:45, did a little shopping and when we returned to the cottage I promptly deserted them. My husband was holding a conference, and these hot days I find some one who can serve tea at:intervals during the afternoon is rather welcome. The President brought me beautiful samples of Canadian handcraft from two officials of the Canadian government. One is a lovel woven blanket, and the other a hooked rug with a picture of a farmhouse -and a horse and wagon, really beautifully done. When I was in St. Andrews the other day, the woman who runs the Cottage Industries’ up there told me she wished that we might have

RO Jariffs on hand work so that we could exchange our‘wares. I was rather | -

surprised for I felt that the competition might be keen, . but she pointed out that there is an individuality about all hand work and ‘that homespuns, knitted or hooked rugs are different in Canada than in. our mountain states and ini all other countries, and that a wider market would be beneficial. ‘Copyright, 1938, by United ‘Feature Syndicate, Inc.)

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BY WILLIS THORNTON NEA Service Staff Correspondent.

IKE a rising sun, Spain flamed across the skies of the

world from that year 1492 in which the Moors were driven from their country, and Columbus opened a new

world to exploitation.

Soon enough, gold began to come back from the Spanish Main and was piled on the wharves of Cadiz and Palos. Many'a castle in Spain rose:on this golden foundation as the conquistadores pushed their way into the Americas, Cortes to subdue Mexico, Pizarro conquering Peru, Coronado threading his way half way across North America in

quest for treasure.

They left in their wake murder and blood and fire,

but they also brought wheat, and the horse, and their religion to the Amer-

icas. There was a boom in Spain.

Prices rose, everything had to ex-

pand. Europe looked askance at the rise of a great first military

power, But while Ferdinand and Isabella were planting the seeds of these things, they were planting other seeds, too, whose crop is still being harvested in Spain in the strings of burning churches and monasteries which smolder in the wake of today’s mobs whenever there is disorder in Spanish cities. They were the seeds of religious persecution. Even before the days of Ferdinand and Isabella, the Christian Visigoth kings persecuted Jews and nonconformists. But under the great King and Queen, religious persecution was elevated into a system and an unholy union of church and state by which each used the other to obtain its ends. # ® 8 i JEABELLA, liberal and conscientious in many ways as an administrator, was a religious zealot. While her armies stood before Granada, she issued an edict banishing the Jews from Spain. Perhaps 200,000 of them were driven out of the country to die miserably on the shores of Africa or to wander as outcasts thrpugh Europe. But egged on still further by her chief advisers, especially by the monk Torquemada who had been her tutor in youth, Isabella proclaimed him chief inquisitor under the order of Pope Gregory IX, who had named the Dominican Order his chief instrument in extirpating heresy. Torquemada made himself a name loathed through all history, a synonym for “systematic and heartless cruelty. Men and women whose beliefs were not those of the Roman Church were tortured with a brutal ferocity that makes the heart sick. ‘The fires of torture and burning lit by Torquemada burned for 300 years; the heat they generated is felt in Spain even today. | : The Inquisition was an equally implacable foe to learning, and thousands of- hooks. were burned because it was charged that they contained heresies, a custom still surviving in several dictator-rid-den countries of today. But despite these horrors, Spain went forward. When Ferdinand

‘and Isabella died, the Spanish

crown passed by marriage to the Austrian Hapsburgs in the person V. He was Flemish, and to him Spain was only a part of his empire. He plunged headlong int strom of Eurepean intrigue and war. : He pumped treasure out of Spain to support his German and continental ambitions. % » ”®

OON he was confronted by a bloody revolt under Padilla. But. he suppressed it, and broadened the Inquisition to include the Moriscos, descendants. of the Moors, whom he thus tried to Christianize: by fire and sword.

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Between the expulsion of the Jews, and the persecution of nonconformists and Moriscos, and the continual losses of war, Spain was continually bled of its best manhood. There is an old Spanish saying that “Castile produces men, then wastes them.” Charles, sick in body and soul of his effort to govern the patchwork empire of which Spain was a part, retired to a monastery. He left the empire to Philip II, husband of Mary Tudor of England. Philip, the dark, well-hated sovereign, drained Spain further by a series of wars. He fought with France, annexed Portugal, and joined a coalition against the Turks in which the Spanish fleet under Don Juan of Austria played a great role in defeating the Turkish squadron in .the Gulf of Lepanto. He sent his Spanish infantry to the Netherlands, and there under the Duke of Alba they made themselves a synonym of cruelty in suppressing widespread rebellion and in carrying the tortures of the Spanish Inquisition into the Low Countries.

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AXATION in Spain and the flood of gold from the Americas paid the bill. Spain was the richest country in Europe, with the greatest spread between her rich and her poor. Toward the end of “The Golden Century,” Spain was outwardly the most glorious country in the world.. But her government was inefficient, riddled by a corrupt and hobbling bureaucracy. It was then that England, ruled by Queen Elizabeth after the death of Mary Tudor, began to cross Spain’s path. Her rising navy clashed with the Spanish sea power, and there were bitter conflicts on the Spanish Main in America, . Then Philip decided to put an end to all that. He made a loose alliance with France, traditional enemy of England, and started building a navy which was. ex- . pected to be so great that: it could easily land a force of Spanish in: fantry on the coast of England and subdue that rebellious Protestant country. In the very course of Philip's preparations, Drake swept the West Indiés clean and even entered the harbor of Cadiz and burned merchantmen while the Armada was building. » ® »

| 1588 . Philip thought he was ready. In May, a splendid fleet of 131 vessels sailed from Lisbon, carrying 7000 sailors and 17,000 of the flower of the Spanish army. The Duke of Medina Sidonia was its commander. The fleet was dispersed by a storm, but rallied together again. Elizabeth’s English admirals, Howard, Drake, Hawkins and Frobisher, were experienced navy men, tried in action. Their ships were better manned and carried better armament. During the last 10 days of July, 1588, they engaged the Spanish fleet in a running fight up the English coast, sinking, capturing or running aground many vessels. At the end of that time, a storm broke, further dispersing the

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defeat of the Moors in Spain, but even today, the

revolt began in Spanish Africa,

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Spanish fleet, which tried to sail on around Ireland and back to Spain. - Storms and the English. harried the Spanish vessels, which were pounded on the rocks all along the coast, . carrying with

them the flower of the Spanish army and the hopes of Spain. The sun of Spanish glory passed its zenith and began to sef.

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flieting French and British anibitions, torn by revolution, and shorn of her American colonies, Spain meets final international. humiliation at the hands of the United States.

Gen. Johnson Finds Little Cause for © Alarm Over Nazis’ Long Island Camp

(Gen. ‘Johnson Writes Thrice. Weekly.)

BY HUGH S. JOHNSON EW YORK, Aug. 4—There is a great’ Nazl encampment at Yaphank out on Long Island, New York. The last time I saw Yaphank was on Sept. 5, 1917, when Camp Upton was being built there. . At the behest of the War Department, and on the assurance that everything was ready, I had ordered 5 per cent of the first World War draft to report for duty at all national Army camps—raw civilian boys combed ' from every walk of €, aE ts a They-#ame to Uncle Sam's Army almost’ as the good Lord told his

| disciples to go forth to the ravening

wolves of the world—without scrip or staff. We had ordered them to bring" practically nothing but #their toilet kits. On one curiously bleak, early ‘September day, when the long dank streamers of Atlantic fog were drifting in from the sea in chilly strata ' of unadulterated ‘gloom, "I motored out to Camp Upton (Yaphank) to see the first béwildered contingents come in. uF It was the first real mass movement of the war. These beaming youths were taken in charge by detachments of hard-boiled sergeants

assurances, their barracks were not ready. Not enough heat, not enough blankets, not enough of anything— and there were 95 per cent of that draft yet to come. ’

T was that disillusionment and .what; followed that precipitated one of the most dramatic incidents in the Sienate—Chamberlain’s attack aon Wilson and the War Department. The result was’ a belated efficiency, but that visit to Yaphank will remain forever in my memory as a day of foreboding and alarm. Current dispatches carry a new Yaphank story. Old Camp Upton is reoccupied. ‘The present recruits

are thousands of uniformed Nazis

saluting - with upraised arms, berating the Jews, and playing “The Star-Spangled. Banner” first. and “Deutschland Uber Alles” next— “Deutschland Uber” the Star-Span-gled Banner, It is the same old Camp Upton, but now Camp Siegfried. ‘No one is allowed to speak English, only: German; and the uni-

formed children are disciplined for ‘any breach of Nazi regulations.

Sinclair Lewis implies that “it. can happen here,” .and: I suppose that an excited ‘piece could’ be written about’ this apparent desecration of what has pretensions to being an American patriotic shrine—a prin-

cipal jumping-off place of a bloody

of the old Army, and in spite of all

crusade against German autocracy,

Liberty League Spokesmen Deny Organization Is to Disband

BY FRED W. PERKINS by Times Specisl Writer j "ASHINGTON, Aug. 4. — Rumors that the American Liberty League is about to fold its tents were -denied today. Responsible spokesmen said ths league was cep tain to continue until the November election and “probably indefinitely afterward.”

The League, financed largely by the du Pont family of Delaware, has:

become almost a lone wolf in Ameri_politics—although a wolf that has its fangs sharpened only for President Roosevelt. The Republican high command has declined to

“|admif an alliance. The League,

however, maintains. that it and not

| the Republicans did the jilting.

Jim Farley, in a bitter reference to the League before the Democratic National Convention, said its activities had- been so “gross that they had to be repudiaied by the regular organization,” ]

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feel free to attack Gov. Landon— should he be elected and violate the League ideas of what is right and proper-—just as freely as ‘it has attacked Mr. Roosevelt. “So far as could be learned today the League's activities for the fe diate future will be confined to the issuance of pamphlets’ dissecting

| various: phases of the New Deal,

from the standpoint of Chairman. Jouett Shouse and his backers. Two were issued in July. One reviewed the allegedly “huge

expenditures . under the Roosevelt

Administration and alarming increase in the national debt despite the most burdensome peace-time taxes ever levied.” : The other declared the real object of New Deal fax laws “is to use the taxing power to control and regiment business” which “when fried under the NRA was out-

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from which tens of thousands of young Americans marched, many:to their deaths. But it will have to be writtep.by somebody else. Camp Siegfried; is typical of dumkopf Prussian sfupidity—just another big blunder?” I was at West Point, when Prifice Henry of Prussia came through this country, to test out the strength. of German-American sentiment if his brother, the Kaiser, should: goto war. The Germans cheered him everywhere ‘and he reported them solid and dependable. } 8 8 = [Vas in diss chuise of fhe draft when the question: came’up as to what confidence Amiéilba could repose in such strong CrermahnAmerican communities as Wisconsin. We resisted every attempt to oust any draft board member because he had a German name or

ancestry. But we’ held those appointees to. the most rigid discipline and accountability of any, and told them so. The final result was astonishing and sometimes heartbreaking. Wisconsin turned in: the best performance under the draft.

These boys were sent.sometimes-to|

fight their own brothers. But they were unhesitatingly sent by their own people and - they went with chins up. ~The Hitler business is a sort of national madness. - Its repercussion here is an absurd but not a dangerous imitation. The Germans are militaristic but, by that very token, they are disciplined. We have proved that they respond better than most to the discipline of American patriotism. Regardless. of the rather childish play-acting of Camp Siegfried, the . beer-heated and cheese-scented breath of the ineffable Adolf is not against our necks. nf The Germans may have given ‘us wars ‘and a good deal of insufferable Prussian posturing. But they also gave us fairy tales, Christmas a vast variety of toys, yule logs, Sania ‘Claus, canary -birds, gingerbread men, doughnuts, cuckoo clocks, our word for home, and the most melting love and folk

guage. In spite of all these imitation asm en ral of any Teutonic peril here. It’s a kind of a big fat Weber ‘and ‘Fields Ger ‘man ‘dialect joke, =r ied

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NEW YORK, Aug. 4.—1 always have ‘a great respect for’ American inst tions, including the reformatories and lur tic asylums, and have been inclined to a institutes as’ venerable landmarks of

civilization, too. Of late, however, ths

to association: with persons engaged in the trade seducing public opinion, I have learned that the nigh sacted name of institute: is. sometimes used ulterior ‘purposes and that an in- : stitute may be nothing more than a

{| -press agent doing a job for a ff +} . client. :

‘The foundation also comes into doubt at this point. Foundation has a solid: sound. Orators declaim about the. foundations of our liberties and our government and of our noble American institutions. Mr. Harding was fond of mentioning the Founding Fathers, and Mr. (i Harding was a sound man, A typi- |i cal American, it must be admitted. | ‘—and the flower of his party, although I find no proud reminders of his presidency in the recent orations of - his -political heirs. But, referring the institute, an American institution which has c: tured the American imagination in the last 15 or years, I am sorry to ‘have discovered that a any one can organize an institute. After all, V does it take to create an institute of piscatorial res ‘search, for example, or an American motor trangs portation institute? Or a citrus foundation?

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F* an institute of piscatorial research may. nothing -more than an office in a tall building, a hundred dollars’ worth of letterheads and envelopes, a8 mimeograph machine, a stenographer and a pubs licity man representing the fish trust. True, the letterhead will bear, down the lefthand margin," i list of familiar or vaguely reminiscent names, mostly of professors, explorers and afterdinner speakers, but that will be only scenery. = - And a foundation or union or even a league or congress for the propagation or suppression of this or that may be nothing more than an institute, - Often in my mail I receive announcements from institutes, unions, leagues and congresses and always the prestige of these titles does something to chegl the hand which would toss into the basket a hands out from an ordinary press agent. After all, an ine stitute might be something, or a foundation or congress. And when their letters come with a 3-cen stamp and the inclosure is signed by hand, in ink asking me to become a member of the honorary com: mittee, eligible for mention on the lefthand margin of the stationery, my emotions are too delicate for explanation here. ia

Press Agent With Spats

B= every time this has happened to me I hay discovered that the institute, foundation, league or union is in reality just an office up on the hig floors of a tall building, with some little girl in ch for $20 a week and one phone and a water coo and that the head man is one of those high-pov deceivers of the publicity business who calls in once a week to look over: the mail. The profe: the socially prominent auctioneers and famed travelers, authors and lecturers are nowhere

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a seen, and when I read the roster from the lef _ | margin of the page to the little girl in -charge

ask if I may speak to them she says: “Who? don’t work here, If it is a bill just leave it, tho wn 1 Ty send if on.” = Jia y 1 have grown very aloof toward announces ments from institutes, foundations and the like. Bui if some one sends me some copy frankly marked pub= licity from a press agent, I will smell it up wit

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BY DREW PEARSON AND ROBERT S. ALLEN

H=RED, S. D., Aug. 4—Every day, trav westward fhrough Miles City, Mont. t passes one of the strangest and at the same most pathetic caravans in the world. It is an exodul —a flight of many thousands of homeless, futureless aged farmers and their families, broke, lost, finish: Miles City is a port of entry for Montana and th West, and through it streams this horde of the des tute from the great plains section. They are g West once more, just as their fathers and g fathers did before them. But this time they're This time they're starting all over a hoping for land, work and food. What most of them don’t realize—it wo make much difference if they did—is that the little room for them in the West. Where do these families come from? Why they left? Where are they going? ‘The answers Je

in the story of the Bjornsons of Herreid, 8S. D., ty]

farmers of the great plains, typical sufferers from drought. i Tam Herreid stands in the middle of a hot, lifeless arid plain. A few weather-beaten farm houses a a filling station mark the “town” :itself. The B sons live three miles out, on the dry, hard waste There is no sign of life at.the Bjornsons’, gray house, the windows closed, blinds down, p broken. Across a flat patch of:s0il is a barn.

tween the two stands a wind mill, its vanes

‘the big round tank at the base dry and