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nh 00D BROUN
at Postoffice. Indianapolis, Ind. EV Y ORK % Sept. 1 —Frank has a theory
msm | JSTENING TO THE FARM BELT | lair Lonel:
| tomers may hind that it’s time to go | | ;
ome co ree cts Ten | / Tou ms for Landon, New Deal Rewins Far ms, Hunt F inds WESTBROOK PER
“You know.” he said. “I sit here nights and watch | l the erowd and everything's gding swell, but 1 stilt | ig have to pinch myself every now and then to remem-
ber that ‘it's all legal. I can't seem | to get used to it. You see, I started | out when I was 12 years old selling liquor to Indians. That was me and my brother Fred. In the beginning it wasn't exactly liquor. | We used to sell the Indians near-
Club has fine food and good liquor, but it's a © little tough on conversation. BY FRAZIER HUNT < 1336. NEA Service, :
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NEY YORK, Sept. 11 am beginning to feel sorry for Alf Landon becayse ‘it looks as though he just ain't there. j it is sort of brutal to stick a nice, pink-faced novice in there to get his lips split, his nose
N intensive four weeks’ motor survey of politics and drought in the. great Mississippi Valley heat bowl brings these conclusions: ; Throughout the small towns of the Middle West there is a decided drift to Landon. y :
Into the politically pivotal Midwest goes Correspondent Frazier Hunt on a reportforial tour of America. His first task: To listen to the pre-election sentiments of persons in all stations of life.
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His next task: ; To record these .
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"* that when one of them began to do better the other - didn't do quite so good.
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“moved and yet was numb, “reason or ' | like that in qur " understanding shown in the development of her char-
beer. ence, drunk on it. I get waked up at nightmare that somebody's me. “I don't know whether somebody told the Indians or found it out for themselves, after a while they with near-beer. They wanted whis ky, and, of ceurse, we had to sell it to them. We had a little candy-store | and we used to sell the whisky down | > the revenue officers run us out, town about 100 miles away | store. We sold the whisky that we went up East and a fine big bar on the
and they
Mr. Broun
in the cellar. *And by and by
and opened a stationery in the back room. After ran a drug ‘store. We had
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HINGS were going along well, and one Right | the headwaiter came up and said: ‘Theres a ‘man wants to sée vou private! He was a big, tough | egg, but he wasn't a revenue man. He was one of the | meb. Big Eddie they called him. ‘How much do vou want your place?’ he said. I thought fast. place was worth all together just about $30,000. said, ‘Thirty thousand doliars.’ pocket and said, ‘Well, “At first I thought that was fine. : “Nothing can happen to me now, I figures. I'm part of the mob myself. But just two days later the | headwaiter said, ‘They've took Big Eddie’ I thought he meant for a ride, but they just snatched him and | let him go in a week for $15,000. I didn't have any ‘peace after that. S “About this time we were getting bigger and bigger. Somebody was always dropping in and saying; 'We've _ potight' the Ibex Club’ or the. Gourmet or.sofne place or other, and I'd go along with them. There was a time when “we had 14 places. Some of thenmi-would gross us $2500 or even $3000 on a good night. At any Tate, we were taking in more than $5,000,000 a year, | * but. of course, we didn't get all that. There was a lot ’ of splitting to be done. n
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places-that wasn't 25 feet apart. And we noticed You might say we were competing with ourselves. “Now it's Just this place, and you can see the sum-
They couldn't tell the differ- | used to get awful | Sometimes even now | nights with a | scalping
whether they | but | weren't satisfied |
for a third interest in !
, cast He took thirty $1000-
mer msn't hurting us much and we do a good lunch- | _ eon business.
And we get don't - know what “em stay away. It figure them. I did think that after repeal they'd all stay home or go to the hotels, but after a couple of months they started to come just as good as before even without a locked door. Just the same, late at | night it sometimes gives me the willies as I watch all those :-muggs over there and remember that it's all perfectly legal, drunk on the near-beer. and I still have the nightmare that somebody's sneaking ad to rip me,”
“My Day
BY ELEANOR ROOSEVELT
YDE PARK, N. Y.,, Monday—Up at 6:30 . A morning to take Miss Cook to the early for New York. It certainly is a funny thing
lots of society
train how
_ lazy every one seems to be when you get started early.
My mother-in-law got home vesterday haven, Mass. 4where she stayed on her from Campobelio - I did some shopping in the village and then went over to see hk and found her, as usual, very busy. Tomorrow as going to fill up so tast tor. “her
from Fairway home
that, when sonie one telephoned to ask whether she
would as usual judge the babies at the County Fair ‘tomorrow afternoon, I was rather prepared to have her refuse. Instead of which she said with enthusiasm? : » Why of course, I always do!” The day has treated us to one or two showers and the hardest one came just as we were about to cook’ | hot dogs on an open fire and eat them out of doors. | ‘We did the cooking as the shower ceased but had tof] take refuge on the porch to eat them. | Mr. and Mrs. George Bye, Mr. Broun and Mr: and Mrs. George Waldo came over from Connecticut; our neighbors Mr. and Mrs. Paul Garrigue and one or two others were here. Before Broun |
and Mrs. Hey wood
could write his column. I wonder how many people have Field's “Time Out of Mind”? The New England characters are good. The unforgiving young man wrapped | up in his own ambitions, and the absolutely self- |
read Rachel |
forgetful woman. who became one of those village |
characters everybody knows has a history, but whom nobody really remembers much about, are thoroughly
typieal. J
.- The description of the, time when she tried to be . Just hands and feet, a mechanical automaton that 1s very poignant. For one another many
lives, and therefore appreciate the
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"that there is a life after death, it at least gave him
ample material for a very interesting treatise on this |. . ‘Subject. The author b2gan his research into the * spirit world when a Young man, sitting with mediums |
or psychics of all kinds, some obvious fakes and others sincere, receiving all ‘Kinds of messages and seeing
. materializations—all with a scientific outlook quite | unusual.
If the spirit of Abraham Lincoln spoke with a German accent or if Julius Caesar wrote a slate message in modern English, he shawed ‘surprise, studying them all with equal seriousness. Although Mr. Garland took them all in his stride and
~ received messages that he could not explain, at the
* age of 75 he is still open to conviction, finding the old { question, “If a man dies, shall he live again?” still un‘answered. . 3 = = = book, THE COLORED SITUATION (Meador; $2), by F. P. Everett, a Negro teacher in the St.
sl ui public schools, is designed for the vocational, . moral and civic guidance of Negro youth. whose voca-
tional betterment the author holds to be the most im-= portant issue confronting the race. Several chapters are
n by men who have enjoyed consp.cuous success various occupations. :
it is due largely to his social heritage, blaming | 8 people for their unfair attitudes and Negroes | mselves for constantly teaching the young that | have no worthwhile occupational opportunities, | spite the fact that chances in ‘numerpus lines of |
pavor have increased steadily.
The development of Negro business is Gonsidated
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makes ‘em Some and- what makes | 's just like the Indians: You can't
and I can't forget the Indians getting |
this |
- the converging corners of Kansas,
of us can remember times |
YEARS OF PSYCHIC RESEARCH | (Macmillan; $3) did not convince Hamlin Garland |
., Son with these inner rewards. The book maintains that the Negro's vocational |
In the industrial centers and larger cities Roosev el
still leads.
From 60 per cent to , 70 per cent of the farmers are for
the Administration.
This especially is true of those who
benefited from AAA corn and hog and wheat payments and from the present soil conservation program. Lemke will draw ‘almost as many votes from Landon
as from Roosevelt.
Only in the Dakotas has Lemke even
a remote chance of carrying any state.
Father Coughlin's Pr. [Lemke or Coughlin. West, but the majority of h politically only to the ex- | tent forcing their con- | gressional nominees to allegiance to the Townsend Plan. In the four states of Ohio, Michigan, Indiana and Illinois mote than 1,000,000 Negroes will their almqst unanifor Roosevelt.
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pledge
votes mously From western Pennsylvania and New York to the far reaches of Nebraska and Kansas, Landon shows gains, but he has yet to “sell” himself personally to the average voter. Most Republican votes will \be more anti- Roosevelt than pro-Landon.
Two reactions immediately result from the devastating drought. First, in cities and towns the probable increased cost of living will reflect against Roosevelt. Second, in the stricken communities the quick response of the Administration in planning \immediate human relief, WPA ‘work, feed loans, cattle purchases and long-term soil conservation, dams and resettlement plans have largely rewon the farmer to "Roosevelt's side. : To a considerable extent this last has offset the very defiant small-town drift toward Landon. The two together are the most significant. new factors in this shifting political scene.
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the cities, in this
Middle West you hear little talked of except the drought. The lean, weather-beaten son of the soil droops in spirit as he contemplates the tragedy of dust. The présent drought spreads over an. even greater. territory than the historic killer of 1934. Sweeping south and southeastward from the wheat fields and ranges of eastern Montana and Wyoming this murderous drought swings diagonally across the Middle West into the lands of the deep South. In many places the damage is worse than 34. In great portions of southwestern North Dakota and northwestern South Dakota-—and in the pathetic “dust bowl” that clips off
Colorado, Oklahoma and the Texas Panhandle—this “act of God” is the fifth consecutive visitation of death and destruction. The accumulated effect has left literally tens of thousands of families helpless and penniless. Westward from the rich Red River Valley of North Dakota I rode out beyond Fargo into the land that has lost hope. As far as the eye could reach were *still born” fields that should have been
. parched fields
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influence has constantly weakened. Townsend wields a far greater power than either He especially is strong in the Middle
is believers will follow him
beautiful waving seas of yellow grain. Heat and lack of rain had turned them into seared brown acres — short straw — ghosts of wheat, oats and barley. Corn fields were but mocking phantoms. Pastures had no more sustenance than dusty billiard tables left behind in abandoned mining camps. Some 50 miles west of Fargo 1 stopped and talked to a farmer, driving 15 head of cattle from
He was a tall wiry man, with fine, brown eyes that had a look of utter despair in them, Y .
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OWN 480 acres here, and they are all paid for,” he told me. “I've got over-300 acres in grain this year, and I'll not get a bushel .of oats or barley or corn, and out ‘of 120 acres of wheat I hope I can get 200 bushels of seed grain for next year. If we don’t have rain ‘pretty soon I won't even get that. My pastures are burned out, but I may have enough hay and straw from last year to carry through this little batch of cattle, I sold seven steers last week for $245. That'll be my total income from my 480 acres of land and my year's work.” I. slowly swung the conversation around to politics. “I don't mind tellin’ you I'm going to vote for Roosevelt,” he went on. “I'd say most of my neighbors around here will do the same thing. We think” he done just about everything he could do for us. Politicians been promising to do things for the farmers ever since I can remember, but Roosevelt really done something for us. . . We'll vote for Lemke for con=gressman, but not for President.”
From a score of different lips I heard substantially the same they'd vote for Roosevelt for President and Lemke for congressman. Only one farmer whom I talked to was going to vote for Landon—and he added that he recognized ‘that Roosevelt had done a good deal for the farmer but he didn’t like the way money was being spent and relief handled. +3
A hundred miles or so to the westward in the sections of the Dakotas where tHe failure has been complete, and debt: has blanketed whole = communities, there. is considerable sentiment for Lemke for President. Even to an itinerant observer the true tragedy af'a widespread drought soon shifts from ruined fields to ruined men and women. At Fargo, Dean H. L. Walster of the North Dakota Agricultural College and one of the wisest and most imaginative agricultural
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LET'S EXPLORE
BY DR. ALBERT EDWARD WIGGAM
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FOR WORK. DONE [=i NEG ORNO—
I THINK it would ruin it. course, where this work
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| taken as systematic college or uni- | no !
versity courses; credit very prop-
now sculpture, |
‘philosophy, |
studying history,
| tics; as Everett Dean Martin, presi-| | dent of the American Adult Edu-/!
| cation Association, says in Parents | Magazine, for the sheer joy of learn- | { Ing,
for expanding their outlook, { developing their personalities, and | | coming into contact with the free! ; master-minds of all time. Honore: | ary degrees seem trivial in compari- |
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”y. THEY SHOULD do neither one. 4m ° Their duty is to find out what | is the best pattern into which the | | child can and should mold its own | life, and then to aid it in every way | in that process of development. When parents say, “I can't do anything with them, they Want togeos
YOUR MIND
a SHOULD PARENTS THEIR CHILDREN AG THEY ARE, OR TRY TO MOLD THEM TO THEIR OWN PATTERNS? NOUR ANOWER
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NEVER HAVE SUNG af IN PUBLIC. WOULD THiS ATTITUDE BY WIVES Nerzags
MA HAPPINESS? YES OR NO ame ? their own way they are confessing
their failure to find out what pattern’ of life was the: best natural
| pattern for the child to develop. : | What they are really saying is that i erly is given, but millions of grown- | i ups are l.architecture, | mathematics, science, art and poli-
they are peeved because they can not mold the child into their preconceived pattern of’ life, person-
| ality and character.
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IF THE attitude is fifty-fifty,
mutual, give and take, on a
| genuine sporting basis, yes; if it is
all on the wife's side, no. As Maadame Flagsted relates ‘in Good Housekeeping, her marriage has been one of those really great and beau-
| tiful permanent romances in which { she and her husband have truly
| merged their lives into one. With this | kind of marriage there is no domination—simply the binding of two hearts and minds in one common endeavor to attain ends greater than either could attain alone.
Sexi fae women a keener
sentiments, accurately, impartially for readers
of- The Indianapolis Times.
The result:
A new
series of enlightening daily articles which should be interesting and stimulating even to partisan
followers of either major party who may or may
not agree with Mr. Hunt's unbiased conclusions.
to his barnyard.
leaders in this country, painted a part of the pathetic picture for me. n ” » WENTY-FIVE per cent of the land in farms in this whole state should never have had a foot of their grass turned over,” he explained. “A hundred thousand of our people here are living in country that was never meant for farming. Wind and water erosion and drought have beaten them down until today they are the victims of human erosion. Wind and water erosion are social problems, and until’ America is ready to pay farmers enough ‘to enable them to keep
®aught his breath fon: “It is easy gbout moving peoi but there can be
@& are earth-bound —their roots go deep down into the soil. We have to co-operate with climate, not fight it. We have to learn to get along with nature. . . . Then there is the terrific problem of debt. It's a dead load around the necks of these poor people—an incubus with tentacles that reach into future generations. In this one state our
states,”
farmers owe the Federal government almost $250,000,000, and
we'll have ‘on have somewhere between $50,000,000 and $100,000,000 more poured in this year. “Every man, woman and child of our 680,000 population will owe around $400 to the government alone. Five years of drought and the accumulative effects of erosion have been the cause of most of this. It's the reason for our radical leanings. ‘The radicalism of the prairies is bred from the prairies.”
TOMORROW '— Frazier Hunt will discuss the “barometer Indiana and Illinois.
Freedom of Seas’ Docirine Fraught - With War Dangers, Johnson Declares
BY GEN. HUGH S. JOHNSON ETHANY BEACH, Del, Sept. 1. —The State Dzpartment’s note to the Spanish government refusing to acknowledge a ‘‘paper” blockade of ports held by the rebels is a declaration in line with the international doctrine of “freedom of the seas.” That doctrine got us into every foreign war since we have been an independent nation except the wars with Mexico and Spain. : It is the position of mercantile nations in international law that the seas are free to commercial ships of all nations and that while such ships may be stopped and searched for contraband of war and seized when they are found to ‘carry it, they can not’ be merely because they are destined to an enemy port, unless that enemy port is actually patrolled by vessels of war and then only if they attempt to run that blockade—which it has always been conceded that they do at their peril. zn »
HE trouble has always come ” when a warring nation declares a whole zone on the high seas or a whole coast to be under blockade and then sends ouf occasional ships on the chance that they may encounter neutral merchantmen therein. The idea is that this declaration
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national law to the extent that,
| having given this warning, the pow-
Big Firm Hearings on SEC Calendar
BY RUTH FINNEY Times Special Writer ASHINGTON, . Sept. 1.— Giants in the investment trust world will come under scrutiny of the Securities and Exchange Commission when it resumes public hearings on the subject soon after Labor Day.
So far hearings have concerned |
comparatively small companies, most of them no longer in existence.
Atlas Corp, biggest trust: of all,
probably will ‘be taken up early in October, with special attention devoted to Goldman-Sachs, whose assets Atlas bought up after the crash. Equity Corp. which tried ' unsuccesfully to halt the SEC study, will be the subject of hearings in the fall. All the companies studied so far have been predecessors of this major organization. The SEC has just four months in which to complete its study and report to Congress its findings on the
subject of investment trusts. How- |
ever, most of the field work is done. Questionnaires have been analyzed,
and articles of incorporation and | annual reports studied and the in- : in them tabulated.
interfered with | spect a forbidden zone—a paper ;
blockade — declared by = Germany g..(|y justified. It certainly is justi- | fied in all our precedents. But are]
by occasional... precedents what we want to
er declaring the paper blockade can sink or seize neutral ships found in it. Napoleon, lacking a navy to make it effective, tried thus to quarantine the coast of England. It was respected by no neutral nation and got us into an undeclared naval war with - France. The : British, for a different reason, asserted a right to search our ships on the high seas and that brought on our naval War of 1812. In the Civil War, we barely escaped war with England also by a humiliating apology for
having seized the Trent—a ‘British |
vessel which had run out of an
open ocean carrying two Confederate officials. # un UT our greatest grew out of our refusal to re-
surrounding England and France, and patrolled only submarines. Mr. Wilson that to respect this
insisted
selves and all neutrals. in 1917 and 1918 for that and for that alone. When the war. was. over, one of Mr. Wilson's 14 points was this same freedom of the seas, but, on some
ington on his way to France. always fought for it. We never won
4 of foreign war!
| traders something like this: and ship as you will,
it. The War of 1812 was without mentioning it.
settled
The Spanish shindy is: not likely |
to suck us into a fight but this State Department declaration doesn’t indicate that we have learned anything—just as the {trial balloon about Mr. Roosevelt calling a conference of European war-lords: to promote world peace. suggests that our heads are still in the clouds and our pockets unbuttoned.
. zn 2 # S this column has repeated: ‘Jt
was something about the sea
’ vith Euactual blockade and reached the] 11%! made all ow ars Ww! "
rope.” It is not what we sell, but what we ship that sends thousands American soldiers or sailors abroad to fight for a few Americans’ property. The Spanish note may be per-
PPALRItos | follow in a world in flames? Espe- | Se | cially SHendment bo ae ous Jnter- [get us into fruitless foreign wars |
seas was a breach of duty to our-| We fought
precedents that always did!
and therefore may be relied upon | to drag us in again. How about saying to our foreign ! “Travel | but if you ! travel and ship into war zones, you!
do so at your peril. It is better that |
British representation, he dropped it | yu jose = Jae trade than that; overboard from the George Wem. | ness of another war.” (Copyright,
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1936, by Evndicate.
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GRIN AND BEAR IT
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“Take care of yourself, Bascomb—and don’ t forget to tip
your grofgssors.”
| he has always wanted a President.
Republican.
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- Jefty with Big Jim Farley.
mashed and his teeth knocked out by a murderous puncher. Goodness knows why the Republicans ever picked him, but I suppose they were misled by his good looks and personality ang his
showing in the preliminary class in Kansas, where he looked very i: good against some trail-horse com- : petition. Fight managers often are misled that way, impressed because a young fellow strips clean, looks good in his trunks, keeps regular hours and doesn’t drink, smoke or : chew. They rush the kid along ° too fast, throw him in against some ° tough puncher, and get him slapped around so hard that he never re- : gains his confidence and never looks the same again. es This Frank Roosevelt is a politHe may do a Jot of things wrong and leave a: lot of openings as he moves in but nebody is going to dazzle him with stylish footwork or stand him off with a jab, and when he gets in close with his head down and both arms punching. he tears you apart inside with body smashes. True, Alf has a smart, hard-boiled manager handling the bucket in his corner and some very fancy dudes rooting in the front row, but once that bell rang and they shoved him out there, the boy was on his own. He has had a couple of very bad rounds already and the boys in the corner have been patching him up ‘between rounds and telling him to strut his footwork and use plenty of ring but it is plain to any one who knows anything about this racket that, the boy is still years away. He was rushed along too fast. an unfortunate sacrifice to the selfishness of his handlers. Hearst and Ogden Mills and some others have had their hearts set on promoting a champion and they didn't have the patience to wait and bring him along by easy stages, through Congress, Imaybe, and then the Senate,
Mr, Pegler*
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}\. Hearst's Curious Hobby : >
HEY say Hearst has got a piece of Alf, but you can hear anything you want to in this racket and from long observation of Hearst I am inclined to think the boy is just another protege of his. Hearst has had a lot of them in his time and some of them he managed to pull through to minor titles. But Governors, Mayors and Senators never fulfilled his ambition, for ich guys get curious hobbies. And Hearst is such a changeable fellow that even if Alf should somehow! win the title, he probably would be around calling him a bum a few months later. Everybody that knows Landon says he is a fine kid, well spoken, intelligent, a clean-living boy and really too honest and decent for this racket. Moreover, he really knows a lot about the theory of the game and can analyze the other fellows stuff in a highly intelligent way, pointing out the strong points and flaws, But he hasn't been able to put his stuff into execution this time, ” n
Landon Can Take It
NE thing that they said for him has been thor-’ oughly proved already. They said he could take it and he certainly has had to take plenty already both from the crowd and the other guy. This is a heavy gambling fight and the longenders on the Roosevelt side and the parasites who hang around the champion’s camp have been riding the poor kid in a disgraceful show of bum sportsmanship. There's no excuse for blasting a boy who is constantly catching them on his chin, but keeps his punches up and keeps on wobbling around with blood in his eyes, knowing he hasn't a chance to win. What is this, anyway, an election or an execution? * : Well, it is just too bad they didn't give the boy four more years because then he might have made it, whereas after this :punching the boy is never going: to be much good any more. It will take it out of him. You'll see. :
Meity: Go- Round
BY DREW PEARSON AND ROBERT S. ALLEN ASHINGTON, Sept. 1.—There is an unnoticed element of irony about the farmers’ campaign committee announced the other day by Democatic National Headquarters, The committee's roster is singularly bare of Dem= ocrats. Members of the body are all prominent Midwest agricultural leaders with active political records—
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| but not as Democrats. Without exception they are
either Republicans or Progressives. For example: Chairman of the committee is Wil= liam H. Settle, an executive of the Indiana Farm Bureau Federation. Setfe is a life-long Republican who rejected the proposal of friends that he seek the G., O. P. gubernatorial nomination in his state. Another topnotcher on the committee is Frank Murphy, ‘Minnesota farm leader. who was a delegate to the Republican convention that nominated Hoover, Ranking up with Murphy is Ole Olson of North Dakota, who was one of the moguls of the Nonpartisan League from which Representative William Lemke, the Coughlinite third party candidate, sprang. Other prominent members of the Democratic farm committee include Homer Rush, an Iowa Republican State Senator, who was mentioned as a possible G. O. P. choice for Lieutenant Governor; Paul Weis, chair= man of the Wisconsin Progressive Central Commit= tee; Sam Fishman, a Kansas Republican legislator, and James Lawrence, Nebraska editor and Norris
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N spite of the guarded statements of Henry Wallace, the importation of Argentine corn is fast becoming an important campaign issue. Wallace is doing everything possible to soft-pedal the issue, pointing out that United States farmers are buying corn, not selling it, that imports tending to hold the price down will help them. The other day his Bureau of Economics made a statement that everybody knew: “The short ie ican crop will no doubt be supplemented by imports from the Argentine.” But even before this statement was released to the press, it was carefully scanned in the Secretary's office. Sensing danger, the following was inserted to guard against the charge that AAA crop limitation was responsible for the shortage: “Drought damage in the United States has reduced the prospective corn crop sharply, in spite of an in-
{| crease in this year’s plantings over 1935.”
It will take more than that, however, to head off the political charge that crop reduction caused corn scarcity, even though planting this year did increase. = = =” ONTROLLER OF THE CURRENCY J. F. T. O'CONNOR has been the object of much inner circle criticism and there are several top-rung New Dealers who would like nothing better than to 1if§ his scalp. But even a casual visitor to “Jefty’s” office can learn that he has one true friend. ; Hanging in a conspicuous spot on the wall of Jefty's outer office is a large framed photograph of Across the face of the picture in Jim's flowing hand are these werds: “Ta J. F. T. O'Connor, Controller of the Currency, my very good friend, a real fellow, a fine public servant and with a high sense of duty, Joyal to his party and his country, a real American. With affectionate A. Farley.” : is
| Bards.