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HEYWOOD BROUN

"WN EW YORK, Aug. ' 27.~Gov. Landon.

should stick to the Chautauqua circuit. The friendly salute of that meeting place “Inspired him fo the best speech which he has 3 \ : 2 = a . 3 . made as yet during the campaign. It was not Precisely a Kansas ¢yclone. At many of the. | pressing problems of education {Alf did no more than wave his handkerchief, but, atleast, he was definite « Of the subject of the teacher's oath. “We insist that no teacher should’ be required to i take any oath not required of all. other citizens” may do asa start for : a more definite and a more liberal fanden. I am not suggesting, of course, that this single sentence ES makes -Alf another Thomas Jefferson. a Still, as I have said, it will suffice for a beginning. I don’t want to seem too ardent about avérage | Alf, and I think it may be a good idea to wait and see what he does next before completely smothering him with compliments; It will be asserted by some that the Governor EL of Kansas has now definitely broken with. the- sponsorship” of Hearst. That is excessive. - After all, if Alf M. Landon wants to, shake himself = free from ne influence of the publisher or. any sus- * picion that he ‘is dominated by~San Simeon he will have to do much more directly if he wishes to maks + many converis. + A very simple way to do it would be to say, “I am against. Hearst and the things for

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which he stands.”

5 ” = Passes at Paper Dragons’ Hi OR the most partjthe Governor was concerned, = 88 usual, in making vague passes at papier-mache © dragons. It is all news to me that somebody is trying to have the Federal government take complete con- , trol ofthe school system. It might not be such a bad idea, at that. : In essence the Governor was continuing his cam_Ppaign against any sort of centralized authority whatsoever. Ido not thing it is necessarily true that local control is always more democratic than Federal. In-

' deed, the burden of loeal Landon’s song makes it seem

... ‘lady waved her hand at me.

"of the woods and fields near the house.

very puzzling as to just why he wants to be President. As far as F can tell from his speeches the Chief Executive of the nation ought to be a ‘man at his ankle, The Republican nominee is forever saying, “In , Kansas we did that . . .” or “In Kansas we did this « » .' I wonder why he is willing to swap a job in : which he had a certain amount of power to hold a post which hes seems to regard as about as vital as the head' keeper of the Sultan's harem. I have heard from Landon twice 20 times that the President shouldn't do the on¥ thing or the other, so that I,am beginning to wonder just what function the Chief Executive should have in the conception of the _Kansan. Perhaps Alf M. Landon wants to get to the White House merely to use it as a springb&ard from which to hop away on tours of. saying pleasant nothings. XY | / 8 5 =.» 3 " Technical Improvement

« LTHOUGH not yet a master of the microphone, the job begins to grow a little on Alfred. ' He threws in a dramatic pause now and then, and spreads dar more unction than was with him at the beginning of his career upon the air. In another three months I have no hesitation in ‘predicting that he will be almost on a par ‘with Herbert Hoover as a broadcaster. However, I came to praise Landon and not to criti- © else him. He has done something toward the death of » the District's Red Rider. ‘The Chautauqua speech combined with the defeat of Blanton in the Texas Primaries may help to lift a burden from the teachers of Washington. : I hope also that Gov. Landon will not. forgets that he said, “The right of free inquiry is one of the essentials, of free government.” It will do much to enliven on if there is more free search for the truth on the part of the Republican nominee and much less

broadcasting of mere static. .

: BY ELEANOR ROOSEVELT EW YORK, Wednesday.—It is always interesting 3 to me to discover blind spots in my dwn observation. I was driving through New Haven yesterday afternoon, and instead of watching the lights al the Crossing, I fixed. my attention on a telegraph office across the street and on a street car directly in front of me. ; 5 When the street car moved I followed right behind" and was completely surprised when a much excited policeman yelled at me, bringing me to the realization that the lighlf was red. I pulled up and said I was sorry, that IT had been following the street car and bad not noticed the light.. He responded: .. “You wasn't watchin’ nuthin!” : The rest\of the {rip through the city was unevent- ~ ful, but it always seems to me a rather bewildering place. We reached. Westbrook, -and Miss Lape and BE Rend took us for a swim in the Sound. - ‘The beach near them 4s sandy and clean, and iSO we " enjoyed the first salt water dip we have had this summer, ; : In.a little while, however, people began to lock at “us rather curiously and we realized that it was probably time to go home. As we drove away-one Before long I imagine every one up ang down the beach would have found out how badly I{swim. / . We sat out until dark back ih the peace and quiet | More katy_dids had their home in the tree over our heads than I have heard for a long time. The stars came out and the moon came up with evident signs that rain was on the way, so we moved indoors and in a little while the rain was falling gently. : Up this morning at 7 o'@lock and on our way to New York at 8:20. I went in to see my daughter at * Democratic headquarters and found three Republican sound trucks lined up in 43d-st with large pictures ‘of the candidates and sunf¥owers painted on them. . I imagine they wanted the Democratic National Com-

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I was fascinated by them and took my daughter and a friend of hers out to have another look at

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*THE PUBLIC LIBRARY PRESENTS— JHILE many Writers and painters of Indiana ¥ ¥. have received national recognition, most of the native’ composers have been neglected. For the last few years members of a committee from the Indiana Federation of Music Clubs, who were well aware of this situation, have been collecting material about composers who were born in this state or who have ~ lived here. Indiana University has published | this material in a pamphlet, INDIANA COMPOSERS, ‘ NATIVE AND ADOPTED (25¢), compiled by {Mrs. Frank Cregor and others, which gives a biographical sketch of almost 100 composers of both traditional and modern music who have two or more published compositions to their credit. A .distinct service to the state and to the cause of culture has been rendered * by the assembling and publishing of this information. - =" n 2 JF you are. inlerested in puppetry, and if you are A not, read ADVENTURES OF A RUSSIAN PUP- - PET THEATER, INCLUDING ITS DISCOVERIES IN MAKING AND PERFORMING WITH HANDPUPPETS, ROD-PUPPETS AND 'SHADOWFIGURES, NOW DISCLOSED FOR ALL. Hand-pup-’ pets and rod-puppets; puppets, not marionettes. ‘Small, life-like creatures that could be carried in a bag on the back. That were, fhdeed, very often car-

ried that way up and down Russih by;Nina Efimova |that only takes placé in old age.

This type has increased from two

the author, and her husband, Ivan, ova. Out of the ‘bag. they would come ,to perform before audiences Of half-wild children, of peasants, of* gypsies. To perform in factories, in theaters, indoors, and cut--doors. S, . 0 Sing Jor Sher supper and a night's ing. I¢'s all fascinating, Puppetry Imprints;

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Fair Enough

ly WESTBROOK PEGLER

(Third of 'a Series)

(Copyright, 1936, NEA Service, Inc.) - THE quintuplets . have come through the sum- | meR with colors: flying, and

they have shown no ill ef-

fects from the hot weather so dreaded by most mothers of very young children. Those of you who have been in it can get pretty hot up here, too. Our highest. official temperature this summer at Callander was 96 degrees.” While I know that isn’t as hot as it gets in many places (especially as it did this last summer), it presents a summer problem that is. very much the same! as in regions farther south. There is a very common saying among young mothers that the second summer is the critical one. It is true that many babies survive their first summer, but fall victims to various complaints allied to the heat in the . second summer, But that is not because of any’ reason intrinsic to the Second summer as such. It is simply be-" cause it is about that time that many babies are changing from mother’s milk to commercial milk, sometimes with too little care in proper pasteurization. It is then that babies are apt to get their first taste of candy and stuff of that kind, ice water and other such things which very young children ®ought never to have. = OR the first time they eat vegetables improperly washed and prepared, or drink water which is not pure. It is in these things that the perils of that “second summer,” and of summer hot weather in general, are to be found, and not in anything about that time taken simply as a; period of life. The little Dionné girls have been

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+ .A new game of peek-a-boo with the smiling summer sun held the stage before the quintuplets’ nur- °

sery when the babies were given

parasecls which opened out magically! left, is all but hidden behind hers. Your slip is showing! turns her parasol upside down

brightly colored Annette, at Cecile (Pst!

‘to see just what it's made of, and almost obscures Emilie, beyond.’ Yvonne, in foreground, poses prettily, not allowing the shadow to darken her smile! Who's hiding back there at the right? only her sturdy little legs peeping out.

Marie, with

protected fiom these dangers, both in their second summer and this one-~their third. y Our water, for instance, is from a_ ‘deep well on the nursery grounds. It has been carefully tested, and we know it: is pure. Too many babies, especially farm babies, are given water from shallow or defective wells which have no sealed tops or which allow leakage or drainage of surface water into them. Of course such water ought not to be used by anybody, but it is especially. apt to be harmful to very small children. . If you are rearing children and ‘have any doubt at all about your water supply, have the water carefully tested ‘by a public health officer before you offer it to the children.’ i : I believe almost any public health officer would be glad to co-operate free of charge in making such test and thus being sure of the water supply within his territory. 2

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UR well water comes from the well very cold, and we do not give it to the babies immediately. All their drinking water is given them at room temperature, and never ice cold or with ice in it, as I have seen done. The shock of icy liquid introduced into the tender stomachs of very young children is likely to produce irritation, followed by bowel complaints and other disorders. ! The same thing goes for ice cream, which these children have not yet tasted. This is nothing whatever against:ice cream if it is ‘pure and properly made and served. e It has its place. But that place is not in the diet of very young children or babies. I have. seen parents give ice cream to babies-in-arms, but it is not a wise thing

LET'S EXPLORE YOUR MIND

BY DR. ALBERT EDWARD WIGGAM

MY OPINION is that this young lady was ‘just a starspangled little fool. I can’t think of a thing more to say—in polite society. Oh, yes, I might add that when either men or women get the

notion they can not be honest with

the ‘opposite sex they are the ones who are dishonest; and they are dishonest because they do not want the other sex to know their real

” 2 DR. CARNEY LANDIS, psychi--atrist, as noted in the Scientific American, points out that only one type of mental disease has increased during the past 22 years— the type due to hardening of the arteries of the brain, something

cases per 100,000 people to 14 per 100,000—a rise of 700 per cent. Dr. Landis thinks this rise is not due at all to the strains of ‘modern life but simply to the

2 > 3 NOTED PENCRIATRIST GAYS PEOPLE ASK CONTINUOUSLY, “i NOT THE DEPRESOION RESPONSIBLE FOR THE

IN MENTAL DISEASE 2* INCREASE ES OR

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ple. This seems to account entirely for the apparent increase. Numerous authorities that I have consulted find no real increase in mental diseases in recent years. They diagnose mental diseases better nowadays and thus discover more cases than formerly. = = =

SINCE I do not drive a car myself I think I can take a calm, unbiased, unemotional, unprejudiced, cold-blooded, unegotistical view of the matter and I shall say that if there is an autodriver who is not an egotist I have never seen him or .hér. They all think they are good drivers, and the older and worse they get, the more egotistical they become. They may ‘be Casper Milquetoasts as pedestrians but, put them behind a wheel and Bernard Shaw ‘is a

-model of modesty, meekness, and

self-effacement in comparison.

Meely to result in nervous chil-

to do. Probably the quins will be introduced to this delight later on, but not yet. * Unless parents are entirely sat- ' isfied as to the source of milk for their very young children, they would do well to make personal investigation of this source. They might be surprised, sometimes, at what they would find. It is needless to say that all

vegetables destined for the child’s table should be carefully washed before cooking. tae

828 nn UR little girls are outside a great deal. Here is their

| daily schedule for the recent sum-

mer months: S They awake between 5:30 and

Landon Preaching Toryism of McKinley, Hanna, Says Johnson

BY HUGH S. JOHNSON ETHANY BEACH, Del, Aug. 27. —“Wherever I have gone in this country,” was Gov. Landon’s first astonishing revelation at West Middlesex, Pa., “I have found Americans.” They live, it seems, as “families in homes.” The heads of these assume “responsibility for their support, carrying on every variety of occupation.” American families got that way’ because they never felt the “coercive hand of government.” Because they could all “root, hog. or die,” they got fat and happy and made America great. This pattern of sweet family

1peace was not what the New Deal

found. It found about 30 per cent of those families with no place to “root.” The government laid no coercive hand on any of them but it did seek to regulate the forces which were starving them to death. - The Governor doesn't say exactly what he would do about it. But at both Marietta, O., and West Middlesex, he intimated that the true American way is that of the Mark Hanna-McKinley election of 1896— the worst throwback into Toryism

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OMETHING has happened to the Governor since his nomination. The closest parallel in our history to the whole Landon build-up of “just a genial simple soul” is Warren G. Harding and his “back to normalcy.” From the moment Ogden Mills publicly indorsed him he has changed from the most rabid of the New Dealers to an individualist with a hide so rugged as to make Hoover's seem the skin you love to touch. =

In this speech he declared for state compacts in preference to Federal power. to regulate “inequalities.” In January, 1935, he said of the state compact nonsense: “. . ,It is about the deadest horse I know . «+ « I do not intend to waste any time in my legislative session on the compacts-between-states idea.” Here he says: “One of the chief

{causes of our economic difficulties

is the tendency of monopoly to fix prices.” On Aug. 12, 1933, he wrote “a guaranteed minimum price for crude (oil) . , . should be written in any oil code.” That was the position also of Harry Sinclair. For farm products Landon indorsed “fixed minimum prices for basic farm products.”

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» = ERE he cracks down on any interference with production, saying “it is clear that limitation of production. ..is not going to pro-

vide work.” In 1933 he said, “un- |

restricted production is economic chaos” and indorsed restrictions on the part of each farm crop which might move to market. : Here he says that the way of “our fathers” is “being challe are told that it does not meet modern conditions.” In 1333 he referred to the “candle-light” era and said “it is necessary to learn something new. The only way to do it is by trial and error...we are departing farther .and farther from parliamentary government. Democracy is on trial”

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rates Congress for not debating all emergency legislation and accdpting “must” legislation. In 1933 he’ said, “the makers of the Constitution recognized that, in a great emergency,

the. country :couldn’t conduct busi-

ness with a debating society...we have never felt it. a confession of weakness in a democracy to repose in our President the greatest powers of - any government head in the world in time of war.” ’

2” n s : ERE he threatens that “dictatorships are advancing” and proposes to solve our problems by leaving business alone. In 1933 he said, “business leaders are par-

‘alyzed” and later “.... the iron hand

of a national dictator is preferable to a paralytic stroke.” Here he says, “do away with” monopoly. - In 1933 he said, “the Sherman law should be relaxed . . . when unbridled competition is injurious to the public, a regulation of that competition should be permitted under governmental supervision.”

Here he insists that the “coercive |

hand of government” be lifted from individual enterprise. In 1933 he indorsed a plin to license all farm-

ers and all manufacturers and dis-

tributors of farm products. In view of this 100 per cent reversal the funniest line in the

speech is, “this doubt and distrust are fostered by unstable men fo whom it is always dangerous ‘to give political powers.” And the moral of that is: If under Old Guard prompting Gov. Landon, chosen because he was a New Dealer, will swallow whole the Tory doctrines of McKinley and Hanna the moment he is nominated, what will he do the moment he is elected?

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6:30, .at which time they have their cod liver oil and orange juice. At 7:30 their first bath, and breakfast at 8:10. From 8:30 to 9:30 they have free play with large blocks, carriages and the piano.

after being given a:drink of water, and play at their own discretion in the outdoor play yard under the watchful eye of a nurse. And she must be pretty watchful, too, with five rollicking / little girls scattered to -all corners of the yard and busy every minute at something new or exciting. About 11 they go inside again and are undressed. They put away their own toys, take a rest and get, their hands scrubbed up for din= ner. After dinner they are again dressed to go outside, and usually they take a short nap from 12:30 to around 2:30. From that time to 4 p. m. they play outdoors, and each receives a portion of acldophilous milk. :

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Eo 4:30 to 5:30 they play, usually with the nurses taking

We insist on their getting out and putting away all their toys. . They are then undressed and

- time for supper at 6:10. And by 6:45, or 7 at the latest, they are in bed, and usually quite tired enough to drop off to sleep almost “immediately. The children’s food is of the simplest: For breakfast, a half - slice of bacon, an egg, a small piece of toast, gruel and arrowroot biscuit and milk. Dinner is the heavy" meal, at noon, with whole asparagus and butter; thick asparagus soup, tapioca pudding and milk. Supper is simply. oatmeal and milk, Diet is not quite as monotonous as all that, however, and also includes spinach, corn soup, whole peas, potatoes, liver, bananas, apple sauce, caramel pudding, biscuits, prunes, oranges and oatmeal porridge. There is never ahy effort | to force the babies to eat. | They dress according to -the weather. When it is hottest, they Wear practically nothing at all, only the most abbreviated sun suits. All their other clothing is simple and washable. They have never yet gone barefoot outdoors; but always wear shoes. The bon- . hets are worn only when the sun is hot, and. all five of the little girls have a lovely coat of tan. , Summer has been a time of joy and well-being at the nursery, and not a time of illness and distress. And that is as it should be.

NEXT—Individual tastes and

sharply, and the shy

Marie comes into her own. :

At 9:30 they go out of doors

an active part, and then the children ‘again put their toys away.

given another bath in plenty of

personality begin to develop more

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by Lichty

GRIN AND BEAR IT

“Wilbur enjoys this kind of part, but he’s afraid it'll make . von ca‘typetoutof ham. oc oc

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NEW YORK, Aug. 27.—I hope somebody

is keeping a file of all the plans and E

monetary hallucinations which have seeped through the cracks in, a thousand earnest skulls in the course of the long panic. A

hundred years from now, another generation, still doing business in the same old capitalistic way and passing money from hand to hand, will pore over the brittle leaves of the wishful books, pamphlets and charts and marvel that such things : ever emanated from the mind of man. : There will be, of course, the Townsend plan. The ' Townsend plan was the one which would have saved the country by awarding $200 a month to each one over 60 years and attracted to the doctor's fold a great following of young and vigorous adherents who wished to re tire on the pensions of their parents and their in-laws. This was a flaw which the old physician had not foreseen and could not remedy and: his failure finally was due to the aroused resentment of the great body of orphans and half-orphans who bitterly rebelled at the burden of supporting jin idle luxury the |

Mr. Pegler

full-grown sons and daughters of the pensioners. But, |

before it finally blew away, the old doctor found himself in nominal charge of a huge and clamorous block of Americans, but his incapacity for politics made him victim to a gang of political kidnapers. They

him around the country to deliver naive orations and fumbling decrees and ran his idea into a campaign issue the year Roosevelt IT was re-elected President. ” vy =

Remember Huey Long? : E

T= there was Huey Long's share-the-wealth. plan. Huey was a Louisiana Senafor, a smart and cunning lawyer and the best rough-and-ready

tumble faker that the era produced. Huey promised

every family so much land, so much cash money and a minimum annual income, but the figures. varied - from time to time and he never did freeze them. He wanted to be a dictator-President and he might have made it, too, but he never had anything specific to offer labor and his promises were strictly sucker-bait, After Huey's death there was a wild scuffle for his organization, but it turned out that his widow owned the copyright and patent and the thing just disappeared. ; A priest named Coughlin came along, too, bawling and snorting about some group which he called the money-changers. You could hardly call his ‘ism either a plan or even a delusion. It was shapeless and insubstantial-like noise, but hatred was the

keynote. Oh, it was a wild period in the United States.

2 : o Fire-Cracker Dollar

Oo Senator called a conference described as the congress of the money nuts on Capitol Hill.’One man proposed that everybody be forced to spend all the money they had right away, for wages and goods, and thereafter spend each other’s current income by the end of that month or forfeit the remainder. In California, Upton Sinclair ran for Governor on a plan to barter services for goods, and almost made it, although a clerk living in a furnished room might have wound up with a cow, a second-hand steam boiler and a bass drum as his savings. : ’ Compulsory spending was another idea and a man hamed Cochrane came up with a plan for an evaporate ing dollar which would diminsh 4 per cent per year

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and vanish in a quarter of a century: There was an=

other dollar proposed which might have been called the fire-cracker dollar, This one had a 30-day fuse, The idea was to get rid of it quickly, fhus stimulating trade. At the end of a month it blew up and wasn’t a dollar any more. : We are storing up many headaches and debts for the future generations and it seems no more than \ fair to hand down something which will give them a few laughs. .

Merry - Go-Round

BY DREW PEARSON AND ROBERT S. ALLEN ; A ECanD LANDON CAMPAIGN. SPECIAL, Aug. 27.—Two things stand out about Gov, Alf Landon’s campaign special: * 1. The lack of noise and commotion. 2. The absence of women in his party. The first is of real significance. The second is largely accidental. The Republican presidential nom-'

inee is not an anti-feminist. He has women assistants

in his office in Topeka. : The quiet, orderly efficiency of the Landon train is the reflection a basic characteristic of the man. It is also, incidentally, in marked contrast to the confusion and air ¢f tension and excitement that usually prevail on presidential campaign specials. 2

The Governor dislikes turmoil and uproar. He likes .

to work ¥n an atmosphere of calm and order. He 1s not of an excitable temperament. He never gets ruffled—Landon is always poised and collected, This does not mean, however, that he is not capable of explosions. The Governor can get angry in a very searing manner. But, basically, he is not the explosive type. He works, plays and talks in a quiet, friendly and leisurely manner. 2:0 The scores of party leaders and other guests who accompany the train from state to state are made to feel at ease in a hospitable and homey manner.

contact. There is no “side” to' the man. . 2 3

a big hit with the hun-

People take to Alf Landon instantly in personal = :

2 ” ” T= candidate is making

slipped a bag over the old gentleman's head and took" = 3 A

dreds of local and state leaders he is meeting on -

his trip. There is no question but that he is going cver big with the men and women who come into personal contact with him. 4

In his back-platform appearances he is hot as =

effective -as he might be and obviously needs more experience at this type of cam x Landon does well in the informal part of the backplatform appearances. His attractive, boyish smile and easy, {friendly manner make an excellent impression. But in his brief talks he does not seem to g0 over. . The Governor appears hesitant and not quite sure :

. of what he wants to say.

The internal organization of the special train is

ably staffed and well managed. Assisting Landon in greeting and contacting accompanying local leaders are three experienced and talented Kansas politicians, old friends of the candidate. They are Lacey Haynes, Kansas correspondent of the Kansas City (Mo.) Star; Lester McCoy, Garden City, an automobile dealer and party leader in the western part of the state, and John Paul Jones, publisher of the Lyons Daily, the only Democratic paper in the state. : es ; E. Ross Bartley, who was secretary to former Vice President Charles G. Dawes and who handled the publicity -of the Chicago World's Fair in 1933-34, is in charge of press relations and is doing an efficient and workman-like job. : ’ a To advise on congressional candidates

him. Newtown is a the House. Landon