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] : what kind of management is that,

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a jutgo of state funds,

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EYWOUD BROLA

EW YORK, Aug. 29. wil would have been | much more impressed by Alfred Lan- |

don’s speech on taxation if it were not for the fact that the Governor of Kansas inadvertently either the liquor.

Federal of the local devies'

The Republican nominee was more eloquent than usual when he approached the subject of contribu- |

tions by the well-to-do toward the | cost of government. For the first time in his campaign he reached a |

hy level closely approaching fervor,

gay

tion,

which | ould not have been in play at all if Washington had proceeded along the lines laid down in the political philosophy of the Governor of Kansas, Repeal is now the law of the land, and Alf Landon as a strict | constitutionalist is not pledged to lead any forlorn

: | hope of the drys in spite of his previous passionate

| gommitments to the cause of aridity. I assume that “4f he is elected he will not choose to refuse those | revenues which flow from beer and wine and spirits. ‘And vet I think that he was careless in climbing "all the way out to the end.of the limb and attacking indirect taxation. All Federal and local levies on liquor are indirect in the sense that the consumer pays the freight, with his martini or glass of lager, without. being acutely “conscious that he is being exploited by a mercenary and extravagant government, It seems to me that taxes which gurgle in the _ throat are much the easiest to pay. n ” zn

“Free Schools, Free Teachers BEFORE repeal was accomplished there was a good

financial problems. Some few patriots i their very best to drink America out of the depression, and they have failed.

_ bimes, it still remains 500 million. And this is a source of revenue which Alfred Tandon would have scorned and which Franklin * Roosevelt has made possible. Moreover, the extreme "dryness of Alfred Mossman Landon moves me to

wonder whether he really is the superman of thrift

and sound {financing so often mentioned in the

In ‘compliance with the aw he has balanced the “budget of Kansas. This result has been achieved - by neglecting state relief and cutting the salaries of ‘teachers down below the level of bootblacks. Kansas believes in free schools and pretty nearly free teachers. It may be said that the payment to instructors 4s all that a typical prairie state can well afford. The

: friends of Mr. Landon have presented him as the

very perfect watchdog of the Treasury. In order to adjourn on time let it be admitted that Mr. Landon has been a marvel in preventing all waste in the per distribution of the funds of Kansas. But ere may be leakages on the intake as well as the

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g dando as a Collector

AS Alfred Landen been a superb business man in gathering the potential revenues of the state of Kansas? I say that he has not. I am aware that -no dictatorial powers have been conferred upon him by his fellow citizens, but he has enthusiastically “joined with others in perpetuating an expensive fiction in his own domain. Kansas is dry. That doesn’t mean that you can’t get a drink in Kansas. Stragglers from Topeka have wandered in and said that Topeka is not nearly as bad as one might imagine. They say that it is no town in which to order a silver fizz, a sazarac cocktail or a mother’s Tuin, but that the land affords a reason“ably good supply of Scotch and rye and gin. In other ds, Kansas plays dry, drinks wet and lets the

wor bootlegger get away with the potential tax. ‘And Mr. Landon?

My Day

BY ELEANOR ROOSEVELT

TEW YORK, Friday.—We had an. uneventful N drive home yesterday afternoon. It was beau- . tiful through the highlands and we reached Hyde ~ Park in time for supper with my two grandchildren. They look upon the opportunity to eat with their = glders primarily as a period when their elders shall entertain them. We were no sooner seated than ~ they demanded, “A funny story Grandma!” Mrs. Scheider and I thought very hard and then related evewr incident of the last few days that could possibly be made to have a humorous twist. Finally my granddaughter said to Mrs. Scheider: “What you tell isn't always funny Tommy, but . you tell it in such a funny way it makes us laugh.” I realized that as a “raconteuse” I was neatly put ~ In my place.

Have’ you ever noticed how slowly children can

. eat? We spent one hour and a half over a very

simple supper. We all had a good time and the children have the right idea—laughter is certainly ~ good for the digestion. After supper we drove over to .the cottage and snowed under with envelopes of mail. Miss Dickerman had arrived to la'te in the after-

gioon, so, although no one joined me. in my early.

morning swim, porch today. . ' We worked: hard morning trying to get through as mich the accumulated mail as we “gould. At 12:30- I went over to get my grandchildren ‘and their governess to bring them over for lunch, ‘for they loek upon a change of environment as a real spree. . Miss Fanpie Hurst joined us, having driven over from her retreat in the Catskill Mountains. Even the children fell under the spell of her personality and listened with great interest to all she had to

three of us: bad our coffe on the

tell us,

What I wouldn't give to have her gift of writing! If ever any one had material for stories spread before them, I certainly have had it in the last few years. (Copyright, 1236, by United Feature Syndicate, Inc.)

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hem we see the breaking up of the Russian hi civil war between the Boilsheviki and the the guerilla warfare of the partisan bands,

16s carried on by Inumersble groups in-

forgot to take into account | on |

Nevertheless, though half a | _ pillion may sound like chicken feed in these piping |

: T= present Red Cross district

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Second Section

SATURDAY, AUGUST 29, 1936

Entered as Second-Class Matter at Postoffice, Indianapolis, Ind.

PAGED

This story is the last on the business boom which the Dionne babies have brought to their Ontario district and the program which is being followed in “getting the quins through the sum‘mer.” The introductory story and the one following were written by Willis Thornton, NEA staff correspondent, and the other four by Dr. Allan R. Dafoe, physician to the famed babies.

(CALLANDER, Ont., Aug. 29.—When the screen romancers imagined their first | mqvie featuring the Dionne quintuplets, they conjured up a.story of a country doctor’s long battle for a hospital for his isolated Northern community. It was fiction, pure and simple. But now that, too, like so many other dreams surrounding the

: { fabulous babies, is coming true. .deal of tall and fallacious talk about the manner | in which excise taxes would solve all our Federal | have done |

Callander is to have a hospital. Before the winter sets in, a Red Cross “outpost” will be standing "on the shores of Lake Nipissing, almost within a stone's throw of the house of Dr. ‘A. R. Dafoe, who is the real “country doctor”

of the quintuplets. It won't be a larg® or elaborite hospital; probably only a fourroom affair, with quarters for the resident Red Cross nurse, a rest room and equipment for emergency first aid and clinical work. But it will be a hospital and the fulfillment of a frontier dream. Specifications and blue prints are being studied by Dr. C. W. Routeley, head of the provincial Red Cross at Toronto, and bids will be submitted soon, according to -P. J. Keeling, the reeve of Callendar, The position of reeve is comparable to that of mayor in most American cities. The site, bordering a picturesque cove along the Lake Nipissing road, close to the center of the town, has been donated to the Red Cross by the village. Reeve Keeling says that a tag day to raise the local share of the hospital's cost is planned soon to add to the general carnival aspect of Callander, = = 3 z

nurse, Miss Sparling, who now boards with a local family, will live in the hospital. While no announcement of a directing physician has been’ made, it is hard to see how he could be any other than Dr. A. R. Dafoe; who has always worked’ closely with the Red Cross in the North country and who is at present medical officer of the district. " Establishment of this new Red Cross “‘outpost” hospital will endow with visiting nurse service a wide territory, badly in need of it since discontinuance of the .station at Bonfield ‘in which Dr. Dafoe and Madame de Kiriline formerly served. Clinical, out- SL aticht and emergency cases will be treated. there, with grave operations and ward" cases carried on to North Bay after first-aid treatment.

_ The relief” problem is almost

~ solved, for the moment at least.

Last year 140 families were bn the rolls of North Himsworth - town-

- ship, the community in ‘which Cal-

lander lies. It is a poor community, ‘whose

By Willis Thornton

NEA Service Writer

t, 1936, NEA Service; Inc}

Teatime is milktime in polite quintuplet society, so all refreshed by their afternoon baths and naps, the five Misses Dionne are entertaining, this afternoon, their nurses, Miss Yvonne Leroux, left, and

Jacqueline Noel, right.

And, left to right, the hostesses, as they say

in the society pages, are the Misses Emilie, Cecile, Marie, Yvonne and Annette. The liostesses seem still engaged in refreshment.

farmers can scarcely grub a‘living from the rocky soil even in good times.. Today there are just 16 families on relief, mostly unemployables. The farmers at work on the roads, the chrpenters at work on the new staff house, and the many souvenir stands, the cierks ‘and salespeople catering to the visiting thousands, tell the story. = zn n HE emporium conducted by Oliva Dionne, the world’s most famous father, is a beehive. Directly across the road from the nursery, it draws huge ‘crowds, and: 10, sometimes 12, clerks are busy selling a variety of merchandise as fast as they can pass it over the counters. Mr. Dionne should make a handsome profit this year and in succeeding years, for his:place is easily first as an attraction. Since its, establishment. in co-operation with the Ontario government it has drawn the cream of the trade away from earlier enterprises. As a sideline the father of the quins makes a considerable income autographing postcards or photos, as most visitors are so avid for his signature that they are glad to offer him a quarter. He spends only a short _ time each day at his shop, usually shielding himself from the crowds by retiring to a’ glassed-in cubby hole at the rear, a curtain dividing it from the main room of the store. There, on a card table, he signs his name and meets the more determined of his visitors.

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HE active proprietor in the ‘business is Dan Saya, responsible North Bay druggist and business man. A land boom all the way from Callander to the Diorne place is evident. One “widow woman” who has a rocky and unprepossessing tract that would have been well sold three years ago at $50 was offered $1000 the other’ day. Pro-

_LET’S EXPLORE

BY DR. ALBERT EDWARD WIGGAM

BRILLIANT COLLEGE STUDENTS LACK IN © FRIENDLINESS AND OTHER — QUALITIES o SOCIAB UN. ELBERT To THI TRUE 2 A MAK THNKETH €0 16 NEOORNO_. Io Row Fuk 3 RoE . ae en

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C. M. YOUNG, psychologist of Colgate, gave a test to over 200 students—all men—on six qualities of sociability—such things as number of students each one knew by name, the number he knew intimately, the average degree of liking he had for fellow students, and the degree of liking expressed by others for each student. Some students scored pretty high, others pretty low. He -then compared these sociability scores with their intelligence test scores and found relationship whatsoever—the brilliant students were as well liked and liked by as

many other students as the medio-

cre and slow. - : : 2 x = : THIS QUESTION is in dispute among psychologists and physiologists. According to Dr. James Sonnett Greene, Medical Director of the National Disorders, Stuttering je not § inherited

tal - for - Speech

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can run in families by being handed down by imitation, but, if it runs very long or involves very large phases of behavior, it rouses a strong suspicion that the basis of it is inherited. Many people believe if a thing is inherited it can not be cured. It is usually just as hard to cure things caused by environment as those caused by heredity. Most anypotty with proper: treatment by a real expert can be. cured of stuttering. ” ” =

1, THINK it is. Either that or

else woman's “mancipation” and | -

moters want the site for a restaurant. Complications incident to the “boom” have verged on the comic at times. For instance, three of Oliva Dionne’s cows were browsing about one night in the former pasture where the .new dormitory is being built. They came on a couple of barrels which seemed to offer good drinking. That the barrels were full of brine being used on the plastering work never daunted the cows. They drank deep. Next morning all were dead. The Dionne family has retreated behind an eight-foot board fence which hems in the still unpainted house, while a wire fence and ‘no admission” sign are regarded as protection enough on the road.

HE fence was built” by the North Bay Board of Trade, which exacted a huge sign advertising the town as its reward. Oliva. Dionne’s ‘garage was moved across the road to adjoin his house and thus make room for the extended nursery grounds. Farming - on the Dionne place has been cut to the minimum these days—there are more important and profitable affairs confronting the father of the quins. Every one in the neighborhood with a legitimate claim to the name of Dionne has found a source of potential profit. Many of the signs proclaiming that name do’ not necessarily -mean

ly taking part in the enterprise advertised. Some are distinctly silent partners, ‘whose name was their sole contribution. But, in one way or another, the charmed quintuplets, who frolic. in their nursery with such blissful innocence of sall the hurly-burly about them, have brought stimulating activity and prosperity to all their neighbors and to a lesser degree to all Ontario.

THE END

MONDAY— Brown County Centennial

BY HUGH S. JOHNSON

ETHANY BEACH, Del, Aug. 29. —As several astute commentators prophesied, Lochinvar Landon boldly rode out of the West to Pennsylvania and came right out for

Amercanism. Then he went to Chautauqua, N. Y. and fearlessly discussed education. He is in favor of it, But at neither place did he speak with particularity of the great problems which are disturbing this country.and upon which the coming election must turn—not even of the serious problem ‘of schools in Kansas.

He is for freedom in education and radio expression. Nobody disagrees. There is no issue. Neither is there any issue on freedom of the press, which he favors. -But he says it queerly: “No: censorship—no. control .at the source of news.” The great chain of newspapers that discovered and now most unrestrainedly supports him, breaks all American records for the control and coloring of news not only at the source but all the way through to the public. Its savage red-baiting crusades were responsible for the teachers’ oath in the few communities where it.is required by local law, The Administration joins Mr. Landon in condemning it. Again no issue, but is the Governor about to turn and rend the great patriot who fashioned him in print and pulp and ballyhoo? Probably not. E E. n

HE cat seems to be slithering slowly out of the bag. Mr. Landon isn't going to discuss issues— but just glitter some generalities with a strong Tory taint. There is a rumor that the subjects of his next five speeches will be, (1) Mother, (2) Home, (3) Flag, (4) Bible, (5) Sin, and that he will mildly favor subjects 1 and 4 and really get hot in denouncing No. 5. It is clear that the Tories have taken Alfred as* the whale took Jonah. The Governor is all for education by government aid but not by aid of Federal government, because he wants the people “to create their own institutions,” whigh seems to say that the people don't control the Federal as well as 5 e state governments. Also, he says that those who advocate Federal aid to education “are inclined to take short cuts—to have the thing done at a stroke by the powerful hand of government.”

in which our educational’ system was developed” but by “patient labor, long struggle and sustained devotion.” . That is a Solomon of a reason for putting up with a poor educational system. If there is any sense in it, we ought to have our automobiles built in a blacksmith shop. It takes longer that way. .

HEN ihe good Cavern: to say what he has

"| education in Banas, -

women read, think and’ act for themselves and are much more independent of their former “lords and ters” in every way. Instead of leading to greater antagonism me it lis

anc

glwden the seses. it seems {aif}

leading to better under: |

“This,” says he, “was not the way |

that there are any Dioxnes active-

for all children regardless of the condition of the local community.” The Governor, when he is budgetbalancing, evidently believes in letting the local communities root er die on education as well as relief. “Today,” said he at Chautauqua, “perhaps to a greater degree than ever before, the control of our educational institutions must be kept in the hands of our local communities.” How has this worked out in’ Kansas during the depression? an » TATE contributions in some other states are: California, 60 per cent; New York, 30 per cent; Maine, 28 per cent. The Kansas figure is 1.7 per cent. Here is what he said last year:

“It has been necessary to conduct our schools at lower costs. . . . During the last three years school costs in Kansas have been reduced approximately 40 per cent.” The reason they were reduced was because the country communities ran out of money and. credit” and the state retused to help. In balancing the Kansas budget, the Governor didn’t take it “out of the hides of the political exploiters,” as he says he will do as President. He took

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"GRIN AND BEAR IT

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Gov. Landon’s Record on Education in Kansas Is Reviewed By Johnson

part of it out of the jobs and sal--aries' of teachers and the education of children. Says the state superintendent: “Four hundred fiftyeight schools had to be closed with that many teachers going without pay. . . . 8357 boys and girls .. . . did not have thé privilege of completing a full school year.” ‘The secretary of the Progressive Education Association reported “teachers hired for $25 a month, of standards so low that elementary school graduates could qualify to teach. . .- Kansas was spending more for roads than for education.” An official of the State Teachers College wrote: “Kansas refuses school to some of its children is an ugly statement, but . , , not far from the truth.”

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HE Governor now says that the Federal government should stay out of the support of schools, but when he was balancing the Kansas budget by taking it out of the hide of all the ideals he extolled at Chautauqua, his Administration asked Harry Hopkins for "$150,000 of Federal money for Kansas schools. When Hopkins declined on the ground that the Legislature hadn’t appropriated 1 cent for these schools, the impression was so craftily spread through the state that the Federal government was responsible for the threat to close the schools of Kansas, for want of money, that Hopkins’ local administrator had to issue a formal statement denying it. “The self-sacrifice .. . of our teachers is one of the finest ex.amples of public service,” says the Governor. He ought to know.

{Copyright. 1938. by United Feature Syndicate, Inc.)

by Lichty

Fair fought; WESTRROCK PEGLER

EW YORK, Aug. 29.—Do not scoff away the problem of Julian T. Bishop, Green wich, Conn., a New York broker who adver= tised that in the event of Mr. Roosevelt's reelection he would sell his quail farm at Carthage, N. C., and move to Canada. David Croll, minister of public welfare of the province of One tario, has written that Mr. Bishop might be unwele -

come there, and a look at the globe will show that 2

there is not much choice of territory left to a fugitive tax slave who i requires asylum from the dues of : American citizenship together with the freedom and opportunities : which are available here. : In former times many American fugitives settled in England, : having fled the United States to escape, not the taxes, which were | negligible before the Great War, but | the gross vulgarity of the sons and ; daughters of those whese labor and | savings had made them rich. A class of people but one generation removed from the red flannel undershirt and the red cloth on the . kitchen table were beginning to smoke nickel cigars and equip their homes with gas light. Their noisy ostentation and the periodic raids of the masses against private property in the labor wars of the nineties made the United States unbearable to per=. sons of wealth and taste. They managed things much better in England, where the lower classes knew their place and kept it. Taxes were low, ‘wages negligible and one’s social inferiors duly respectful. These considerations and the lovely Old World atmosphere of the mother country, to say nothing of marrying one's daughters to persons who really mattered, made Eng land a delightful refuge. France, too, was attractive.

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Mr, Pegler :

War Brings Change

B= the war changed all that, The cost of the war was such that taxes became really excessive in England and the social stir resulting from. the war churned up from the bottom of the human pool allmanner of dreadful creatures, really no better than the working classes at home. France remained charms ing, with the franc at 3 cents. But when the perfidi= ous ‘Roosevelt cut one's dollar almost in half by his iniquitous inflation, the cost of the franc was doubled and with it the cost of living.

So one in the uphappy situation of Mr. Bishop must cross off England and, while he is at it, Russia, Austria and Spain, Italy remains to be considered, but one discovers irritations there easily comparable to those at home under Mr, Roosevelt at his worst. Italy has taxes which Roosevelt has not yet imagined, and an American resi« dent is firmly deterred from engaging in profitable occupations in competition with home talent. And Mr, Bishop is a broker who might want to turn over a dol= lar now and again. Ha is moreover, a man who likes

to speak his mind and that would never do in Italy.

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Home Land Not So Bad

N Germany his situation would be similar but more

so and of course he wouldn’t want to go to South America. Countries where in one period last year five revolutions were running, most of them concurrently, and most of the continent is governed. by military dice tators and feudalism. Hawaii won't let Doris Duke build a private beach to the exclusion of the rabble and Mr. Bishop probably would find objections to Australia and Africa, where taxes are by no means undiscoverable. The Australians might even object to him. I do not jest at Mr. Bishop's dilemma, I just wone der where a fugitive can go to find nice taxes and the freedom which Roosevelt still permits us. The world is narrowing down and I seriously doubt that he will find anywhere on earth a, better ole than his quail farm at Carthage, N. C.

Merry-Go-Round BY DREW PEARSON AND ROBERT S. ALLEN ASHINGTON, Aug. 29.—Secretary Henry Mor= genthau has completed the co-ordinating of government financing operations which Roosevelt asked him to undertake months ago. A central committee has been set up to regulate the issuance of government bonds, so that hereafter the Treasury and the Farm Credit Administration, for example, will not be going into the market to sell bonds at the same ° time, thus depressing the demand for such securities,

: . 2 = = "One of Gov. Alf. Landon’s key utility experts is

now an official of the Motor Carrier Bureau of the

Interstate Commerce Commission... He is H. M. Roberts, chief of the section of certificates and ine surance. Roberts was selected for the Federal job because of his outstanding service with the Kansas state government.

» 8 = Dr. Leo Rowe, director of the Pan-American Union, hopes that the new cockatoo he is training in the ways of Pan-Americanism will not pick up its vocabulary from the Marine Corps Band, as did ‘his other birds. Functionaries around the Union want to call the bird Leo. : : ® = » Workers in the SEC have a credit union which lends money to themselves. But the lending coms mittee lends no money to members of the public utility division which administers the Holding Cor= poration Act, on the ground that the Supreme Court will probably declare it, unconstitutional.

S = n ” Atkod if he were not once a member of the Re= publican Party, which he now excoriates, Secretary Ickes replied. “Yes, but I am not like Lot's wife. I am going straight ahead,’ : A ” = ¥ | N a farm near Wa titnoton the latest labor-saving devices are being tested by the Rural Electrifica« tion Administration, including an electric fence. “The fence consists of a single wire carrying a mild charge of electricity. Cows trying to pass it kicked up their heels and vanished. Next day they took one look at the wire and kept away.

= = = . The Official Register, latest government publicas tion, employs 250 workers and subscription list of 65. The other 15.000 copies of the publication go to government offices. Subseripuiens cost $10 3 year, ®‘s =» The latest batch of patents approved by the Patent Office included a “bottle holder,” ;

designed to Ln ary paren of th labo o hing bay boils while baby drains it.

started with a paid