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NEW YORK, Aug. 5.—I don't know what's come over the younger generation. As a lad I was always ready for a fight or a frolic—particularly a frolic. 1 didn’t care how big they came—I mean the frolics.
Indeed, if some one said, “Let’s cut elementary French and go in and see the Red Spx,” 1 was the first to answer, “Done and done.” When conscience tried to interfere I argued elo-
quently that we only live once and that the most dangerous thing a man can do is to get into a rut. "During my entire life I have fought gallantly for license, not liberty. . Things done on the spur of the mo- | ment are more exhilarating than any kind of scheduled recreation. | I'm all for planned production, but | adventure should be loosed at the drop of a hat. ) I have. a. hat, and it droppeth like the gentle rain from heaven, i and yet I seem to be carrying on a losing fight for the reckless life. It is the younger generation which slows me up. Practically every night for the last week I have been saying, “Let's get into a low racing car at dawn or thereabouts, drive up to Saratoga, make a fortune at the track and whirl back honfe in the moonlight.” I want to add a bathroom to she farmhouse, and four or five 20-to-1 shots could do it very neatly. But every time I say anything about the low racing car and the spin to Saratoga in the moonlight some member of the household looks at me as if I had the mental condition. It so happens that practically all the people in my immediate circle are about half my age. F J ” ®
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VV Cope is rather less than that, but he is very apt to say, “Why, father, don't you realize that it is already after midnight? Don’t you think you had better get a good night's rest and take the whole thing back under advisement in fhe morning?” -- =
All of which reminds me it was scarcely more than half-past 3 when our genial host, fingering his chips, said, “How about two more deals? I'm sure we all have work to do tomorrow, and we want to be fresh in the morning.” But I don’t want to be fresh in the morning— not when 1 am $5.90 behind. I want to get even.
They tell me that I also talked a little wildly about dice games and roulette and coming home with 10 crisp $1000 bills and building a whole flock of bathrooms. However, nobody paid any attention to me and, like wise and health-conscious individuals, we all ate some cold pork chops and went quietly to bed. I most distinctly dreamed of a horse called Naughty Curl and numbers 4 and 17.
” ” ” Looks to Freud for Answer
“ HAT'S the Freud about that?” asked Connie. I explained that the great Viennese psychiatrist would undoubtedly hold that I was the victim of frustration. ie would -advise me, I ventured quite boldly, to get quit of my inhibitions ‘and to relax. “I feel certain,” I said, “that Dr, Freud, or any other
~ competent physician, would ‘warn me against over-
work. He would say, ‘My boy, don’t be a sucker for brain fever. I can tell by looking over your newspaper columns (I read you every day, though, of course, I don’t always agree with you) that you are indulging in a prodigious amount of mental effort. It isn’t just the writing. It’s the rewriting and the polishing and the amount of research you go into before touching your I don’t want to be an alarmist, but if you don't stop dieting so rigidly, if you don’t blow yourself to' maybe a couple of cocktails,
| if you don’t get into a low racing car and go to Sara- | toga, in the moonlight—well, I just wouldn't want to | be responsible.’ ” | “Freud is cockeyed,” said Connie, “and so are you.”
But, so help me, if I can borrow a low racing car
| and get somebody to drive it for me I'm going to hop | off for Saratoga before dawn while the road is a ribbon by moonlight.
My Day
BY ELEANOR ROOSEVELT
YDE PARK, N. Y., Tuesday.—Last night was a warm night and I wasn’t at all sorry to get up
early and give my household orders and start out rid-
{ ing by 8 o'clock, for the air felt heavy as though a | thunderstorm hung over us. Now, however, the sky | is blue and I am afraid we are not going to get a | rain to clear the atmosphere.
The usual number of visitors on business and for
| conferences are keeping the President busy, but in | spite of work we are having some friends who are just | here because we want to see them and not for any | other purpose. . | Last night I read aloud one of the stories from | Martha Gellhorn’s book, “The Frouble I've Seen,” and {I was interested to see the reaction of other people {who did not know her personally. One of the men iwho was listening. said: | “That’s an extremely interesting story. I didn’t hear {the beginning of it but it is certainly written well.” |* If you should happen to read the book it is the story lof Joe and Pete, the boy who led a strike for better (working conditions, and the man who followed him, believing what he said, but really understanding little of what the whoie situation implied. The development
of incident and character is well done and it shows
the inevitable disadvantages of those who have few material resources though they may be strong in numIn the first tests education, resources and the habit of power are likely to win out.
| I have sat at my desk since 10 a. m. and one little
cident has afforded me much amusement. On Sunay my uncle, Mr. Delano, and I accused the President pronouncing the province -of. Quebec in an Amercan way when he was speaking in.French. “Both of us were sure that it should be spelled and pronounced ‘provence.” Being a gentleman, of careful research, Mr. Delano went home and checked and found that he
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SPAIN—A_ STORY OF CONFLICT |
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of Spanish resources. Con-
tinual and. bitter warfare was necessary {fo keep a
lands.’ | Wars with - the French were continual, inspired by childish intrigues of intermarriage among the royalties of both countries. Under Hapsburg rule, the population of Spain declined from 20,000,000 to 8,000,000. Public finance was a wreck, the army and navy demoralized and ruined. In 1700 the last Hapsburg King died, leaving the crown to a French Bourbon, Philip V. ” 8 » OW Spain found herself in ' the "middle, allied with France against a coalition of England, Holland, Denmark, Austria and Prussia. Spain was the battleground. Allied troops took Barcelona, freed the Spanish: Netherlands, and invaded Spain itself through Portugal. Even Madrid was captured. Spanish’ troops fought and died in every intriguing campaign throughout Europe. When the French Revolution overturned monarchy in France, Spain was too weak to intervene. But her royal house made its position clear—it. was : against the revolution, ‘A Spanish army invaded France after Louis XVI had been executed, but was driven out, and French: revolutionary troops . swarmed through Catalonia. - The Spanish people neither supported their own King nor rallied to the revolufionary forces as the French hoped. They simply’ suffered. Peace had to be made to avoid complete conquest. } Rebellich was already rumbling
against England. Napoleon, who had: taken over the French Revolution, demanded that Spain, as his ally, declare war on Portugai, his enemy. Against his will, King Charles had to invade Portugal, supported by a French army. This campaign was inconclusive, but left Spain exhausted by a corrupt and licentious court. In war between France and England, Spain was now. drawn, not so much through the French alliance as through British affronts to her sea trade. For her pains, she saw her fleet beaten by Nelson at Trafalgar.
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Napoleen by refusal to recognize some of the kingships the conqueror distributed among his relatives. So Napoleon, fresh from triumphs throughout Europe, fil-
allies intent on invading Portugal. But when a revolution broke out
| BY WILLIS THORNTON NEA Serviée Staff Correspondent
"THOUGH direct downfall did not follow the defeat of the great Armada, Spain declined from that day. It was a hollow shell, with venal and incompetent officials, stupid -and bigoted rulers, and a people whose every effort at _ industrial or agricultural progress was thwarted by taxation and a stifling bureaucracy. pt, The Hapsburg emperors used the country as a pawn in the European diplomatic game; domestic government was weak and tyrannical at once. A rebellion in Catalonia, which even today maintains great pride of locality, was savagely suppressed. Portugal fell away without a fight, for when the Braganzas took charge there, the ‘Spanish crown was engaged in a fight with the French. : Naples revolted, and the. Thirty Years’ War took a dreary toll
in the Nether-"
in Peru and Mexico. And the . Spanish monarch chose this time - to form an alliance with France *
UT Charles IV had offended
tered: his troops .into Spain as |
against the Spanish King, the French soldiers were in Madrid ready to take ‘charge. ‘They-did so, but not without bitter resist-
ance from the Spanish populace,
who fought the trained French:
troops in the streets with much bloodshed. ; This unorganized resistance developed into an organized campaign against the French, for Napoleon had dared to make his brother Joseph King of Spain. Napoleon himself had to come to Spain to conduct the campaign to subjugate the Spaniards and beat the English, who were again invading from Portugal. At first Napoleon’s genius won both obJectives, but then came Wellington in charge of a new English expedition. ny In his classic Peninsular campaign, Wellington drove out the French, which gave opportunity
for Ferdinand VII, who had been
ousted by Napoleon, to return to his Spanish. throne. He faced, in 1814, the final revolutions in the Americas, revolutions that were to sweep away his empire overseas except for Cuba and the Philippines, 8 » 2
THs revolt spread to Spain it-
self, and by 1820, Ferdinand:
was forced to grant the people a
constitution. A conflict somewhat:
like that of today shook Spain, between the constitutional radicals and the monarchists. France again.stepped in ‘and “restored order” with troops. Ferdinand reassumed despotic power, and as
the last of American colonies
broke away, he died, in 1833. - Conflict immediately broke out between the “Carlists,” who wanted Fetdinand’s brother Don" Carlos to succeed to the throne, and the “Christinos,” who favored a regency by Christina for Ferdinand’s daughter Isabella II. Savage warfare again §wept the Peninsula for six years and in its course the monastic orders were suppressed, and 'their properties confiscated. Isabela, with foreign aid, prevailed. In the 1850's, radical and moderates united against absolutism, and the forerunner of today’s party lines was laid down. Through the sixties, these liberal parties. grew in power, and in 1873 a republic was set up. Isabella was driven out, religious orders abolished, and toleration decreed.
But a military coup much like -
that being attempted today broke the republic, and in 1874, the son of Isabella, Alphonso XII, was declared king. Religious toleration was immediately greatly restricted again, and a continual friction between the restored monarchy and the rising socialist, and radical’ parties harassed the country.
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‘Forced by Napoleon to accept a French King, all Spain seethed in desperate revoit, but without success until the English troops, under Wellington, cleared”
the Peninsula. Here Napoleon's French veterans are shown evacuating Madrid after Wellington’s victories.: The sketch is by NEA Staff Artist Ed Gunder, from an old picture by R. Hillingford. Cs
. hy N the nineties, with trial by jury ° only just established and the beginnings of liberalism appear-
ing, anarchism began to develop" in Spain. It ‘continues today to some extent. Catalonia was shaken by strikes, and repressive measures were adopted against the anarchists. - :
- (Mr. Sullivan writes thrice weekly.)
"BY MARK SULLIVAN ASHINGTON, Aug. 5.—Oneaspect of the many-sided
change now under way in America is the organized effort of “the Democratic - National Committee : to get the Negro vote as a mass for Mr. |
Roosevelt and the Democratic ticket.. For the first time, I imagine,- a Democratic national ‘head-
quarters has a Negro section, with Eastern and Western divisions, manned by Negro leaders, designed
to ‘organize the Negro vote and
get it cast: for the Democratic nominee for President. Such a setup has long been familiar in the Republican Party organization.
In the Democratic organization
it is a: novelty, and one with many implications, ' many signs of the deep-reaching change which the New Deal has wrought in the historic .Democratic
Party and in America. : - : The effort of National Chairman
Farley and the other Democratic
national leaders to capture and hold the Negro vote has been:
under way since 1932. In the elec-
tion of that year, the Democratic
Party passed into control of North-
ern leaders of the party to a de-
gree that never existed: before. The number of Southern Democrats elected to. Congress in 1932 and 1934 was not increased, for all Congressmen from the South were already Democrats. But the number of Northern Democrats “in Congress and in Governorships: was so greatly increased that the Northern leaders now ‘dominate the party. The South has come to have a minor voice, :
These Northern leaders deters
mined that to hold their dominance within the party, and also to keep the Democratic Party dominant in the nation, it was desirable to cap- * | ture the Negro vote, which ever | since the. Civil, War has been prevailingly Republican. ‘I gram of winning the Negro was facilitated by the relief funds, -of which Negroes - are large : beneficiaries, and which are : admin-'
emphasis on the big ci J have large Negro colquies. The Pennsylvania. ‘ until the past four
seems successful.
In the midst of this internal turmoil, ranging from demands for liberalization of the constitution
to bread riots by the people and “bombings by anarchists, trouble was brewing overseas. Cuba - was stirring with revolt, which the abolition of slavery in 1880 did not abate. Belated ef-
portion to their ratio of the whole population. 2 8. 8 ” HIS raises a question which L Southern “Democratic leaders must face. The Northern .Democratic leaders, who now' dominate
the party, ate’ committed to a policy
that Negroes shall hold office in proportion to their.numbers. A collateral policy, of course, is that Negroes shall be urged and stimulated to vote. HE This policy is pursued by the
' Northern Democratic leaders within their states: Can they pursue this policy in their states without pur-
suing it in Congress? How will the Southern Democrats feel about that? For 70 years, Southern Demacrats have feared legislation by the Federal Congress which would stim‘ulate Negroes in the South to go
to the polls and protect them there.
Fear that a Republican Congress might do this is a main reason that has kept the South Democratic, kept it continuously hostile to the Republican Party. The Negro in politics becomes a problem only in proportion to the density of Negro population in ratio to white. In the South there are many communities, including one state as a whole, in which Ne-
Confusing Issue BY RUTH FINNEY Times Special Writer WASHINGTON, "Aug. 5—Before Congress takes up the housing problem Bgain the government is going
to try to settle some of the many
disputes now confusing the issue.
. ‘The Bureau of Labor Statistics
has started: collecting data on how
many inexpensive houses actually’ are. being. built by private enter-
‘prise. + It intends to scrutinize the rec-
ords of 1522 cities, ranging from the largest down to those of 2500 population, to learn how many new homes are being built for $2000, how many for $5000, etc. Advocates of the Wagner Housing Bill or sime other plan of government subsidy - for; low-cost housing have argued that private enterprize is not building the kind of houses that a majority of Americans can afford ‘to live in, and that it probably never can do so at a profit. Those on the other side of the argument say private enterprise is meeting the need. The new study should
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forts at reform in Cuba failed to pacify the country. In 1896 the United States asked Spain to recognize the independence of Cuba.
NEXT—The final blow on SpanForty years of the attempt to convert the last: feudal country of Europe into a modern state. : :
SULLIVAN WEIGHS NEGRO VOTE
groes are a majority of the population. In such communities if Negroes were stimulated to vote, and if they were given*~offices in proportion to their ‘numbers, the local government wo be in the hands of Negroes. thout . going into the merits of any old and un= happy question, it may bé accepted as a pragmatic fact: that the whites of the South will resist this condition. - + Throughout-the South, as a whole, the number of Negroes who vote now is negligible. They are not prevented: from voting. Nowhere today, I think, is there any law which attempts to deny the Negro his constitutional rights. ‘It is rather that
the Negro is not encouraged: to ‘voté:
Not to solicit the Negro vote, indeed to discourage his g, is a principle and universal pry cticegef, th Democratic Party in: the : South. This attitude of Southern Democrats is now negatived by the attitude of the Northern.leaders who dominate the party in the nation
as a whole,
. ” » ® HE situation contains many kinds of political and social dynamite. One wonders if the Negroes as a race will be wise to accept the solicitation of their Northern Democrat. leaders, to change the party affiliation and do,it as a self-conscious .- mass action. The
Negro has been self-consciously] Republican for 70 years. True, Re-
publican leaders have long organized him and solicited him, just as the Northern Democratic leaders are now doing. : But that Republican affiliation since the Civil War has had a logical and sentimental basis. The mere act of ‘chs as a body, of shifting their affiliation by a deliberate mass action, would call
attention to the Negro in politics |
in a way that might not, in the
long run; be to the.advantage of the.
Negroes or of the country. Political action taken consciously as a body
by any group is always a disturb- | leaders |
ing phenomenon. : : The Northern Democratic may be sowing seed which the nation may later harvest 1n grief. It is well-known that the New Deal stirs up class consciousness in. the economic sense; President Roosevelt’s own speech
tunate appeals to economic class consciousness may be, an appeal to race consciousness has possibilities: in it more somber. .
are permeated | ‘with such appeals, However unfor-
Fair Enoug
NEW YORK, Aug. 5.—If there is any ~~ comedy at all in the great, grim spec« tacle of the Olympic games, it is provided by Der Fuehrer himself, the great Caesar
|. of the Nazi belief, whose “will” is accepted
as the decree of destiny and whose picture has been hung above the altars in some of the Gere man churches. The house painter, exalted above even the humble carpenter who established Chrise tianity, took it on the lam when two Afro-Americans, by name Cornelius Johnson and Dave Albritton, won the Olympic high jump, a
“| spectacular blow to that article of |
the Nazi faith which decrees the supremacy of the Aryan. Destiny seems to have muffed one at this point, and Der Fuehrer left the premises to avoid the || necessity of saluting the winners, | although he had given his personal | blessings to the Aryan winners of |i preceding events. A Te oh te Nex ¢ utter lack of a sense of 3 Pik the ridiculous. - You might say, too, Mz. Pegler 3 that this same lack is a great source of strength, for if there were any humor in the Nazi system it would have rejected much of its credo as too foolish for * the minds of intelligent people. But having no eye for the ludicrous, the Nazis frequently make them selves absurd in the eyes of normal human beings —and never more so than when their Caesar flees ; abruptly to escape the embarrassment occasioned ‘by a couple of light-hearted members of an op= ‘ pressed but redoubtable race. ie ” ”
f J Lays His Bets Safely
WEEN Max Schmeling came to New York to fight Joe Louis, Der Fuehrer was noncommittal to= ward his venture but let it be known through his press bureau that Schmeling held no commission from the Hitler Youth. But when Schmeling' won Herr Hitler got down a retroactive bet on him, and the victory was inferpreted as a demonstration of the invincibility of the Hitler idea. He was bound to win because a Negro could not lick a Nazi and that was the proposition which existed when the two Negro boys. cleared the bar just a hair under six feet eight inches’ and ‘turned to find ‘the mighty Caesar gone from his place. . 5 ? It has been explained that Caesar had to leave on time in order to avoid traffic congestion, but this is hardly credible considering that in Germany all traffic stops for Caesar. At Garmisch during the winter games his cordons lined his way elbow-to-elbow and there was no convenience but his own, even to the extent of impounding 10,000. spectators in the ice stadium for almost an hotir after the hockey was .-over, so that he and his party could depart in comf: ; 8.8 8 Hopping and Fleéing : ERHAPS, now, considering’ further inevitable . 4% ‘Negro victories in the current -games, it will be Mecessary for Herr Hitler to make a pojnt of greeting Jesse Owens, Ralph Metcalfe and other non-Aryans of ‘deepest hue to.overcome the world’s impression that the greatest Nazi of them all, the host to ti
|. Olympic games, knows nothing of the chivalry of
sport. That, however, would only
serve to emphasig the an
nonsupremacy of the Aryan, and that would an act neighboring dn treason to the faith. 7 It is an embarrassing situation either way, not for the Negro athletes. Sport has produced many dig Shu never one to com of a Caesar driven from his throne in the presence of his own subjects by a few happy, inoffensive play am & game who didn't even realize what lh going on. This is certain, anyway, that if Caesar feels bound to hop ‘up and flee whenever he sees a dark athlete across the line, a winner over the Aryans, isn’t going to see much of the Berlin Olympics.
Merry-Go-Round {
BY DREW PEARSON AND ROBERT S. ALLEN
ASHINGTON, Aug. 5~Big Jim Farley.and his campaign aids privately are in a bad state of blues over Roosevelt prospects in Maine. - : The Pine Tree State is not important for its elec
. Rep. Edward C. Mor his decision not to run Moran voluntarily took
‘the behest of Gov. Louis J. Brann. Brann is now running for Senator on the Damocratic ticket, bu declined to join the “six Governors” in their speeches | upholding the New Deal. Now, with the state in
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and I were right only if we were talking of Provence,
which is the ancient name for the southern part of Dem tic was 1 . Now, ce, so I have to be sure and set us straight with ing Demotra
husband for fear that he will take our strictures it is estimated that upward of ; GRIN AND BEAR IT ks jt by Lichty
years, the number of Negroes vot-
will . on his pronunciation seriously. | 100,000 Pennsylvania Negroes re (Copyright, 1936, by United Featute Syndicate, Inc.) ; : 2 5 ‘Senator iffey r gr na 4 Nr e 3
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