Indianapolis Times, Indianapolis, Marion County, 28 August 1936 — Page 18

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It Seems to Me

is running for President.

that before Election Day somebody will nudge Mr. Hamilton and that he will retire from the race jn favor of Alfred. But this, I think, is an insult tojthe intelligence Te of the Kansas crc There are many instances in Mmerican politi-

cal history of a man capturing the | nomination at a convention by a |

single speech. John D. M. Hamilton has reversed this process. He has won the Mght to stand as the Republican standard bearer by a whole series of speeches all delivered after the convention. The contrast be-

tween the twe associated gentlemen |

is marked. Landon has touched on none of the issues, and Hamilton has not only mentioned them all but taken both sides aecording to Mr. Broun his geographical position. ver in the mining states, The effort of Landon has been to present himself as a plain, a simple and an inarticulate man who should be supported because his heart is in the right "place. Hamilton has thrown a great deal more than that into the race. His heart is in the right place

“and so is his mind, according to navigational findings

“of the situation.

The Republicans have a chance to keep cool with Alf or to get hotswith John.

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Youth and Hamilton

R. HAMILTON has one advantage over his assistant collaborator. He can stand forth as the exponent of flaming youth. Alfred Mossman Landon is in excellent physical condition, but he is confessedly middle-aged. John D. M. Hamilton takes on some- ‘ thing: of the aspect of Red Grange, as he shoots around the country. *Indeed, he has made one improvement on the Grange technique. He carries ice

on both shoulders. : When Governor Landon comes to the microphone

a technician sits just in front of him and gives signals ‘indicating when he should wait for his laughs, when he should pull a sob stop, and when he should speed-up. John D. M. Hamilton needs no such expert counsel. is challenging comparison with the .best of them. : La Set Down in Sorrow

ERHAPS I speak somewhat in malice as a disappointed broadcaster. the same time that Floyd Gibbons first made his

venture. » We are old friends, and I used to sit in-

the studio- and watch him work, filled=with a considerable content of envy. Floyd was the fastest man

ion the air, and so I decided that I would be the

‘‘slowest. - I thought I might as well play the opposite

side of the street. Moreover, the slower you talk the less you have to write, and the less strain. In watching Gibbons at his mile-a-minute pace I noticed that his. right foot beat a ‘tattoo on the carpet. It was tough work to go as fast as that. At the end of a broadcast he used to throw himself in my arms and say, “Heywood, have vou got a drink?” With . me the situation was quite different. I needed a drink before a broadcast rather than after. I had to get that calm, what-the-hell mood before "I. could go on and dawdle along with my South

, Brooklyn accent. After it was over, things were easy in the pre-

“enough. liminaries.

The whole strain had been

Landon’s radio technique is a good deal like my | own, and I'think that neither of us is very hot. It |

Is true that he uses water, while I require stronger ‘stimulants.

- My Day

BY ELEANOR ROOSEVELT EW YORK, Thursday—Last night I went to the first showing of “Anthony Adverse” as a movie, When we arrived some very beautiful movies of Hawaii were being shown, and they might have been a background for some of the later scenes in the new picture. - : I think it is a most difficult thing to take a book ana to choose the scenes which will not only produce a dramatic success but preserve the spirit of the story. In this case I think the scenes are very lovely. I liked the little boy who: played Anthony, and many of the other parts are well acted. I think there is some confusion in telling the story. A certain rollicking spirit of adventure which breathes in the book is missing ing the characters as you see them on the screen, particularly in Anthony himself. Lsslept well on my parch last’ night. "It was pleas--ant io look gt the tops of trees which make such a thick shade for the little back yard below us. In spite of 88 the building going on around us. which we hope is a

We went uptown a little after 9 and I spent a nice lazy hour having: my hair washed. I always wish

# I had been born with naturally curly hair and: that

when the washing process was over. I could simply run a comb through it and find it falling into nice natural waves, as is the case with some of my friends. ; At 11:30 I reached Democratic headquarters at the Biltmore Hotel and was completely mystified by the number of policemen standing around... I went upstairs to megt some people who had come from out of town, and on coming out af 2 found a crowd and even more police. At last I discovered the reason— the Japanese officers were lunching at the Biltmere. While I was at Democratic headquarters Mrs. Early ‘ called from Washington io tell us the sad news of Secretary Dern's death. When Mr. Dern came to Washington a few years ago he seemed+to me a strong, . Well man. Hg has been ill for some time and I feel deeply sorry for Mrs. Dern and all his family. * (Copyright, 1936, by United Feature Syndicate, Inc.)

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D BROUN

He is | goldenl in the East and strictly sil-

He is his own radio maestro, and he

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Indianapolis

FRIDAY, AUGUST 28, 1936

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Second Section

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Fair Lrnough ;

R. Dafoe

Annette

(Last of a Series)

(Copyright, 1936. NEA Service, Inc.) EFORE making any comments at all about the individual characteristics of the quintuplets, I

must say one thing clearly: It is too early to make any reasonable predictions about the characteristics and abilities, or even the temperaments, that these little girls will have when they grow up. A lot of the stuff writ-

ten on this subject simply doesn’t mean anythiag,

Some one sees one of the girls exercising on our “gym” bars and immediately says, “Ah. she's going to be an athlete!” Another sees one sitting quietly and meditatively and says, “Ah! She's spiritual! She will be a religious, or a scholar.” All this is unscientific and - means nothing from the practical point .of view. For if those observers could watch the little girls

day ‘in and day out they would

see that the one who is athletic one day may be quiet the next and the one who seems so “spiritual” on Monday may be a regular “little terror” the next. ; So when I set down here some of the little individual quirks and stunts of the girls you must remember that they are by no means to be taken as indicating permanent characteristics. It is too "early for that as yet. 2 -8 » NE of the most interesting developments of the summer is the emergence of Marie from the: Rosition of being the “little one,” or the quiet one, constantly pushed into “the background. Marie constantly has been’ closing the physical gap between herself and the. others, and has often shown signs of being a “little terror” behind an angelic appearance, g J She has been a leader in a new and somewhat rowdy “game” that has been popular during the summer. Creeping up behind another unsuspecting quin, -the player takes her ‘light aluminum drink-

indication of returning good times, we had a | - ‘very peaceful cup of morning coffee on our porch | with Miss Esther Lape, who came down from her |! apartment above to join us before she went to work. |

ing cup and brings it down on the

Cecile

head of the victim with a resounding bop. Needless to say, we don’t en--courage any such “game,” and the nurses call a quick halt as soon: as it begins, though of course there has been no harm done. The cups are light. and it's all in good fun anyway. : But the odd part is that Marie, who was given credit early for being so demure and spiritual, is about the most enthusiastic player and has more than evened any scores that may have accrued from her shy past. Marie also likes to pound the ¢* piano recklessly when she is given a chance at the Kkeyboard,. in marked contrast with Emilie, who will strike a single note and then listen intently. si Does this mean that Emilie is more inclined to music? I don’t know, and it would be premature to guess. - z ” ” NNETTE has ‘a little trick that has proved vastly amusing to the nurses at meal times. We insist that the girls eat some of their vegetables before: they get any soup, and then in turn that they must have eaten a respectable. amount of soup before they may have any dessert, Several times the nurses have caught Annette slyly pouring out some of her soup in the hope that she would be found ready for dessert that much earlier. ' Annette hums tunes very nicely, too, which I am told is some evidence of musical ability. All the girls are quite strong, and climb the Swedish bars or “gym” which we have in the play yard with ease and no apparent + fear whatever. . Each one is capable of ‘hanging by her hands, supporting the weight of her entire body, and I have seen Yvonne, for instance, do .it as long as a half minute before dropping off. Cecile seems to be especially fond of music, and the little French nursery song, “Savait Vous Plantez des Choux,” which the nurses are teaching the children, attracts her very much. : She is a leader, too, in H&rning

the little prayer-song which bel gins “Petit Jesu, Bon Jout,? and

LET'S EXPLORE YOUR. MIND

-BY ‘DR. ALBERT EDWARD WIGGAM

MY ANSWER for myself is an emphatic no. I have found all along life's journey a- vast amount of the ointment of happiness without a fly within a million miles. I believe I have met about as many trials, tribulations and anxietiés as the average. Indeed, as is true of every one, my. troubles seem a little bigger than those of others, but with all that, I can only répeat that the ointment without flies would make a fair-sized mountain compared to the mole hill that has been spoiled

by any of the millions of species of the flies of irritation and disap_pointment. | ” =” = | WHILE I do not believe we have exact proof that they do, certainly the likelihood of unstable, maladjusted greater from very early marriages for two reasons: Under modern conditions such foolish people are themselves usually. unstable, and this lack of sound mentality and

pale

{for

children would be

produced in their children; secondly, the children would be reared by immature, unstable parents which would certainly be a most unfavorable environment. From both standpoints the children stand a pretty poor show. . = n » 3 THAT word “willing” is the crux of the whole matter. They are not willing to think but prefer to be governed by their emotions. Of course President Butler is right— the world's problems would not be settled but most of them would disappear if men would think—but their vested interests, their passion personal importance, their greed for wealth which is chiefly

portant—all these prevent men from thinking—and in the ‘end they

desire most by being guided by their emotions and passions rather than by their intelligence.

desired as a means to becoming im-

gain less of the very things they|

Marie

in making the sign of the cross at their daily devotions.

” ” n HE children are rapidly learning their daily devotions of kneeling before the holy pic-

. ture over the nursery door, mak-

ing the sign of the cross, and murmuring their little prayers. . Such physical differences as existed earlier among the little girls are rapidly disappearing. At the beginning of August there was a difference of only about three pounds between the weight of Marie, still the littlest, at 22 pounds, and Cecile, the heaviest, at 25.8 pounds. Emilie weighed 24, Yvonne and Annette 25.12 each. | In height, also, the children are very close. Marie and Emilie stand 30% inches, Cecile and Annette 32 inches, while Yvonne, contrary to general impressions, is 3134 inches. Marie, Annette and Yvonne

. gether.

Emilie

have 16 teeth each, Cecile 15 and Emilie trails with 14.

So you see that physically the little girls are pretty close to being on a par, and whatever “handicap” Marie might have suffered in the earlier days from being the littlest amounts to practically nothing now.

Preferences as to clothes are beginning to arise, and Emilie shows a pronounced choice for yellow, which she invariably picks out if she sees the little dresses laid in a row. 2 : The manual dexterity of the children is increasing amazingly, and their cleverness in devising amusements with their little wagons in the play yard. is amazing at times., For instance, the other day “this happened: The little wagons won't hold more than twofquins apiece, no matter how tHey pile in, But sometimes they all like to ride toSo into; the first wagon piled Yvonne and Cecile.

Yvonne

ECILE, at the rear of the first wagon, reached out over the tailboard and got a firm grip on the front of the second wagon, into which Annette and 5 Emilie then piled. Furnishing the motive power at the head of the “train” was no other than Marie, “the ' littlest one,” whose delicacy had caused 50 much anxiety in the early days. Bending to her task with a will, Marie got the “train” in motion and pulled it half way around the circular cement walk of the play yard before it went off the walk and piled up in a “wreck.” In that one little incident were illustrated the strength, the in-. genuity and the mutual heipfulness of the quins as they come to the end of the summer and point toward their third birthday.

NEXT-Willis Thornton tells how dream of hospital will come true for Callander and how the quins have brought prosperity to the district surrounding their birthplace. :

Landon ‘Do Nothing About It Theory

Is Condemned by

* BY HUGH S. JOHNSON Beany BEACH, Del.; Aug. 28. 3 —In spite of their weaseling, hedging and political obsurities, the campaign speeches of ‘Gov. Landon and Col. Knox really reveal one definite formula. It is this—that if government will take its hands off business, agriculture and -employment and let prices, wages and production seek their-own natural level, consumption will surge forward, which will start production, which will give jobs, which will wipe out unemployment and end the depression. : That is definite. It is the honest opinion. of many men who have aemonstrated their ability by rising to the very top in business. It is the impassioned slogan of the America Manufacturers’ Association, the Liberty League and Herbert=Hoover; The theory is that, if labor wages go low enough and hours of labor are long enough, factory production will be so cheap that everybody can buy—that if farm prices are allowed to seek their natural level they will go so low that everybody can eat. When this happy result is upon us, low-cost cunsumption will make work for everybody—“God’s in his Heaven, all's right with the world.” > ” ud 7 OU have here the one clear-cut issue of the election. Because this is almost the precise reverse of tht essential theory of the New Deal. : The New Deal said in March,

1 1933, farm prices have gone so low

that farmers can no longer buy the

products of factories and nearly half the domestic market for industry is gone. Wages are so low and hours of employment per week e so many, that half the employables in industry are out of jobs.

.|Low wages and unemployment have

wiped out half the domestic market for agriculture. The combination of these two-causes is breaking banks, bankrupting business, starving the people and driving unfortunates' from both farms and city homes destitute into the streets. “The answer to the workers’ distress is to shorten hours and raise wages so that more people can buy more food and necessaries. To the extent that this fails, we must share our scanty rations like beleaguered soldiers in a siege by borrowing against our common wealth and taxing those who have more than enough to share with those who have nothing at. all. Meanwhile, prices to farmers will rise, and, unless something is also done for

and the Hoovef:Coolidge-Harding formula was—“Dd nothing ahout it.” The Roosevelt formula is and was “Do everything y@u can about it.” There are the wo theories. But are they mere tH€ories? Almost to the day, from thé 1929 crash to the day of Mr. Hoovel's dread exit, the Landon-Knox Zorpia, was tried in all its icy perfegtioi—three years and five months. Do nothing about if. Let farm prices and workers’

& ; Study Reform By Scripps-Howard{ Newspaper Alliance ASHINGTO} , Aug. 28.—British investmgnt trusts, as well as those operating in this country, are to be reformed. Officials here _are examining a voluminous report just made by a special British committee after a study of investmehts trusts, or “unit trusts,” as it termed them. . The committee tecommended that managements be; required to give out more information on profits, reserves and expenses, although British trusts now supply more information than do the bnes in this.country. i It recommendeti also that each trust be compelled to deposit 20,000 pounds sterling with the Paymaster General. § The report found that more than 50,000,000 pounds is now invested in British trusts.

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hours and wages seek their natural level. When all prices get low enough recovery will come. Down they all “Wert for three of the dreariest, deadliest years this country has ever known. Down without stopping in the greatest fall since: Lucifer was hurled from the ramparts of Heaven to the gates of Hell.- Down until hope was gone, courage was a memory, and far on the windy plains of ‘bleeding Kansas Landon ‘was wailing that business leaders were paralyzed and that the iron hand of a dictator was preferable to a paralytic stroke. Never

Was a political formula so thoroughly, so relentlessly and so disastrously.

tried as “let us glone”—three dreary years and five poisonous months.

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T= came Roosevelt and almost exactly three years and five months of the precise reverse of the Landon-Knox ‘panacea. Instantly every economic index wheeled from pointing straight down to pointing straight up. Up, up they went, with scarcely an interruption, to regain in many cases more than they had lost in the three, years and five months of Landon’s laissez-faire and, on .the average of all indexes, more than 80 per cent of that loss.

There is no theory about that. It is a comparison of practice. One crowd and idea run the elevator. It goes down as long as they are in there. The opposite crowd and theory take the controls for exactly the same length of time and it goes

|| up as long as they are in there.

Some of the application of the New Deal idea has been perfectly atrocious, but the proposal to kick the up crowd and idea out and put the down crowd and idea back seems to this writer to be the most impudent aspersion on the sanity of the American electorate in recent years.

(Copyright, 1936. hy United Peature

Syndicate, Inc.)

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GRIN AND BEAR IT

agriculture, the program won't work CN

at all. : = = 2

“YP Y subsidy, by control of farm marketing, by devaluing the

absurdly high value of the dollar, |’

and by disposing of unmanageable price-depressing surplus, we shall try to get farm prices up to a point

where farmers can buy the products

of industry. But we must regulate this because if we get farm prices too high, the rising cost of living will offset the effect of what we have done for workers.” The Landon-Knox formula is—

Mark Sullivan’s

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by. WESTBROOK PEGL

NEW YORK, Aug. 28—A couple of ‘emi oF nent lawyers at the meeting ‘of the American Bar Association in Boston ine

veighed-against the clowning of criminal =

trials in the newspapers, selecting the

Hauptmann case as their horrible example, . or

Well, that was a horrible mess to be sure, and the papers had no reason to be proud of their conduct, but it appears to me that the legal profession wag more to blame for the shameful : \ spectacle on its own home grounds than the press, which could have been kept within reasonable bounds if the judge had shown a little more firmness. Of course, secret trials are not desirable, but it isn't necessary to let the papers run hog-wild in covering a case involving a man's life’and a little pressure from the | bench would have been good for the | press and justice, both. The bar seems to forget that some of the most spectacular trapeze work in the Hauptmann circus was dis- ; coursed not by reporters or trained Mr. Pegler seals but by lawyers with a re- Tela sponsibility much more direct and solemn than that of the Fourth Estate. If the men of the bar ine volved inthe Hauptmann trial all had lived up to the principles which are dusted off and reasserted once a year at the meeting of the Bar Association and then forgotten, there would have been a much different story to tell. : : £ . = = ”

Bar Should Set Pace

§ is my claim that newspaper men usually treat court proceedings with just as much dignity and respect as does the legal profession, which has charge of the conduct and tone of such things. Perhaps they should observe a higher standard and set a good example for the courts .and lawyers but, after all, courts are official and lawyers are officers of the court, whereas papers are unofficial and governed by their own inner character. : re But when a reporter covers a murder trial and hears counsel for the defense admit after acquittal that his client was guilty, when he sees on the bench shyster lawyers who bought their jobs by the kick< back system, when he has put in a few years’ asso= ciation with prosecutors who do political business with notorious racketeers, he becomes a little blase about the solemnity of court proceedings. If justice is just a gag to the members of the bar, the reporter is likely to accept their estimate and permit a cynical flippancy to flavor his accounts. ; = EJ ”

On Courts in General | THINK I had better say here that in the foregoing I am not dealing specifically with the Haupte mann trial, but with the general experience of res porters around the courts. Judge Trenchard was so fair and conscientious and his reputation so good that some of the reporters on the job wrote special artie

cles about him. It doubtless struck them as news to encounter such a man on the bench after their observation of many other judges in many other courts,

Still, it was within his influence to subdue the conduct

of those who made of that trial “the most shocking example of the evil practices which have surrounded the trial of sensational cases in this country for many years.” These quotes are from the remarks of Judge Thomas Thacher before a meeting of Bar Association (delegates in Boston, . = E One great problem of the bar is the fact that some of its most illustrious members are men who got that way advising great financiers how to evade taxes on their income while little people were being haled be= fore the collectors for examination on tax returns three years old and‘ compelled to shower down an additional $3.47. With such conduct as the: highest example in the profession it is not strange that many of the new lawyers emerging from college by the thousand turn to practices which have made the legal profession a great American hair shirt. : :

Merry-Go-Round 8

3 t BY DREW PEARSON AND ROBERT S. ALLEN ° A 7 ASHINGTON, Aug. 28.—The question has been ~¥ raised whether any Senator has a sense of humor, and if not, why not. Here's Merry-Go-Round’s answer: - Very few, if any, Senators have a sense of humor. If they had, they wouldn't be Senators, Senator Ashurst of, Arizona has the best explanation. He says that people won't elect a laughing candidate. They, want a man who is serious and means business. . “I never smile when I am before my constituents,™ says the Senator who, in fact, is one of the few Sen« alors with a sense of humor. Most Senators are born without a sense of humor, or they never would have taken themselves seriously = enough to run for the Senate. 'But what little sense of humor they started with is dried out by the neces= sity of appearing important. 5 oh All Senators can tell a good story, but so can & parrot swear. Some Senators even keep a card index of stories to tell on different occasions. ; George Moses of New Hampshire has a real sense of humor, but he was defeated. . > The Senate is a place for serious men who do humorous things. : 2

® n = 5 Z GEoxeE COMBS, new director of the National Emergency Council for New York State, comes from Kansas City, where he was a famous high school orator, and jumped into Congress as its youngest member. George is a hard worker, and extremely effi cient. Still he finds time to be a bit of a playboy. a 8 KF : Senator McNary, Republican leader of the Sene ate, probably has the blessing of the White House as nearly as it is possible for a Democratic President to give it without saying so openly. Roosevelt and Mce ° Nary are old friends and have similar views, : 5 x = : = The Senate has no rule to solve the unpreceden ed seniority problem when two new Senators from the same state present themselves at the same time. If. the successor to Fletcher's seat and the successor to Trammell’s seat both present themselves on the opening day, Jan. 5, there will be an impasse. Neither will be entitled to be called the senior Senator from Florida. This might cause complications in making

‘committee assignments. Senators are always sticklers -

on seniority, claiming precedence over junior Sena tors. . : x = =» ! The comment of Charles Dickens on the income. pleted city of Washington, after his visit

The proposed conversion of

“result in a reduction of interest rate from 6

to 4)2 per cent on long-term 000, chiefly in this country

few Latin American countries

bonds to Argen which