Indianapolis Times, Indianapolis, Marion County, 2 September 1936 — Page 16

(2 Seems to Me

HEY BROLIN

EH PARK, Sept. 2.—The contribution |

for today is written on a typewriter

_ Kindly lent by a fellow columnist who lives

here.between trips to coal mines, the coast of Maine and points east and west.

Almost unconsciously I fall into a diary form. Indeed, I might even call it “My Day’

is: using that title. At any rate, I got up at 10 and was amazed at the beauty of rur Connecticut in the earl;

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and a few wheat cakes I was driven to the house of George Bye,

to Hyde Park. Anybody who undertakes to go with George Bye on a short cut is likely to see a great deal 6f America. We also met a lot of Americans, but Mr. Bye, all other motorists, is much too proud ever to pause and ask for directions. After a good mahy hours of driving through a lovely countryside,

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meluding a big red barn which we passed every hour

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. the picnic was to pe held.

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ping to sign his check.”

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up from Florida and were on their way to our old

posite directions.

- whizzed to my "member of the family and to take him to the execu-

wisdom teeth were extracted today.

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got together for a little while and then after a little

| * TI had several appointments.

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then I was off to the station.

on the holir three times in succession, .Bye to stop at a garage and ask the w: keepsie. by the beautiful sunflowers which the garage man had /in his garden. Nothing would satisfy Mr. Bye until he got a large bouquet of the typical prairie | flowers for the columnist whose house, with any sense and a little luck, we might reach before nightfall. Unthe best the garage man could offer us was another short cut. ~ F FJ 2 : | < 1

y to Pough-

Roosevelt Luck Fails |

VENTUALLY we managed to fight our way free, | and we circled the village of Hyde Park onl; three times before discovering the cottage at which | Roosevelt luck appar- | ently applies only to the President, who is. in the | drought, area, because the rain fell in torrents from | and it became necessary for Mrs. Roosevelt and several other ladies to carry the chairs, the [tables, the chops, the frankfurters and the cake and pies, indoors. Mr. Bye and myself and] a man who identified himself as a member of the New | York Racquet Club discussed national politics | while this was going on. It seems that Franklin D. Roosevelt will not carry | the Racquet Club in spite of the fact that a hum- | ber of his classmates at Groton and Harvard are members of that institution. “I was sitting in the bar,” he said, “with five | other men when a political argument arose. My | four|| fellow members attacked the RBresident with | great bitterness, and I defended him. | - “I only defended the President very mildly,” he] said, as if seeking to justify his indiscretion , “but when I had finished one of the older members rose to his feet and exclaimed, ‘I think ‘that anybody who | holds such views should immediately resign from this club. I will have you know, sir, that I regard you as a traitor to your class, and with that he stalked out of the room without even stop-

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MUST say after eating the golden bantam corn which the Hyde Park picnic afforded that no one can tell me that Franklin D. Roosevelt is not a successful farmer. I also liked the blueberry pie, but the frankfurters could have heen a little less

George Bye drove me home by another short cut.’ At dinner were° Deems Taylor, America’s foremost composer, and , Quentin, Reynolds, foremost sports writer of a weekly magazine. After dinner Mr. Taylor went to sleep on the sofa, and Mr. Reynolds out< Hned for us the plot of his next short story.

BY ELEANOR ROOSEVELT EW YORK, Tuesday—After my picnickers left me | | yesterday I was going to dress quietly and go to Nov York, when a car drove up with my uncle and aunt, Mr, and Mrs, David Gray. They had just come

Home at Tivoli, which now belongs to Mrs. Gray. It was a joy to see them and we talked of this and that until I realized that if I did not fill my column some one would be calling me on the telephone to reprimand me for tardiness. . So we got into our respective cars and went in opI to the telegraph office and then back to the house, a hurried change to city clothes, a good-by to my grandchildren and mother-in-law, and

Miss Lape joined me this morning at 8:15 for our coffee on the porch, and just as-I was sallying forth a voice said to me: “Mrs. Roosevelt, couldn’t I give you a lift?” The gentleman who lives next door was standing by his car at our door. Very gratefully I'got in and was| daughter's’ apartment to pick up a

tioner, so to speak, for he is to have four wisdom | teeth extracted in the course of the next few days. I am always an optimist and hope that things will go smoothly and as a matter of fact they did, and two But it took until 12 o'clock and then we had to go back to the house and start in on half-hourly treatments which must continue for the rest of the day. By the time every one was instructed and a little diagram of what should be done was made out I was late for a 12:30 appointment. with Mrs. Henry Morgenthau Jr. However, we

shopping I went to the Democratic headquarters, where

One of these was interesting to me, for so few peo‘ple in this world put themselves out to do something themselves for another human being. They will write a letter or draw a check, they will go to see some one it it is convenient, but to také a long train journey of over 12 hours to come to tell me the story of a friend in order that I may be sufficiently interested to help that friend is giving of one's self in a rare way. (Copyright, 1936, by United Features Syndicate, Inc.)

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Second Section

WEDNESDAY, SEPTEMBER 2, 1936

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

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LISTENING TO THE FARM BELT

Relief Policy T wring M idwest T OWNS Against New Deal, Is Claim

(Second of a Series)

BY FRAZIER HUNT (Copyright. 1936, NEA Service, Inc.)

HE township supervisor and I sat on the running board of my car in a little village in east-central Illinois and talked of relief and WPA work. He was a Landon

man and was not the least shy in his eriticisms of the

present Administration.

“Tiere are exactly 1844 people in this yownillipasnd

824 in this village,” {25 families.

he explained. Of these 49 are on direct relief that comes

“Altogether there are

through me—at the rate of $15.61 a family in summer

and $21.50 in. winter,

There are also 159 other families

on WPA work relief, who get paid 50 cents an hour for

24 hours a week—or $12 a week.

hoy over 18 can get in $16 worth of work each month even if his father is on WPA. : “Eliminating say, eight of these part-time workers from this 159 gives us 151 plus 49, or 200 families, out of a grand total of 425, living either on direct county relief or on WPA work, That's just a little under 50 per cent— and this is one of the richest townships in one of the richest counties in one of the richest states of the union.” I asked how these reliefers and WPA workers would vote. -| “Most of them will vote for Roosevelt, although they kick now because they don't get more handed out

to them,” he answered. “They no longer ¢#suffer from humiliation. They figure now that they've got help coming to them. They take it as a matter of course. They figure that no matter who is elected President, they'll get taken care of.” = » ”

OW that’s ene side of how the small town in the Midwest is going to vote. I went to a furniture dealer in this same "village. He didn’t bother to mince his words the least bit. He said: “People are going to rise up against Roosevelt. We're frightened of the power that he is getting. And I think it’s nothing short of a crime the way he has squandered money to bring up an indolent class. Look what's happening in this community right here. Almost half the people are

on relief of some kind or other. They're actually insolent about it.

“Many of them are liying bet-

’ ter than they.ever have in their

whole worthless lives. It has put a premium on shiftlessness and indolence. And their votes are making almost a dictator out of Roosevelt. I tell you it's got to stop. The people have got to rise.” : Here was the turning of Mainst—of the small town—against Roosevelt that is a phenomenon of the past six weeks. Living close to the realities of relief and WPA work projects (in this same village $20,000 is being spent on a township high school” athletic field), tens of thousands of small towners have returned to their

. ancient spiritual home within the

Republican Party. They will vote for Landon. Four years ago many of them voted for Roosevelt—or rather against Hoover.

2 " 2 HZ in the heart of the MidXA west the farmer apparently

has become less strong for Roosevelt than he once was. One intelli-

In very special cases a

gent county farm agent explained it to me in these words: “The majority of farmers under 40 years old still are for Roosevelt. They are strongly behind the new soil conservation program. They feel it is their program and that they must work together and make their political power felt. But older men are not so progressive. In this state most of them are old Republicans and they will not change their beliefs. But Roosevelt, though he has lost strength with the farmers, still should carry 60 per cent of them with him in Illinois.” I talked at length with two brothers who each farm half-sec-tions of rich Ilinois corn land— with crops damaged but not ruined by the drought. Both had been brought up as ardent Republicans. One said: “I voted four years ago for Roosévelt and I don’t see any reason why I should not vote for him again.” The other said: “Well, I don’t know. Roosevelt is spending too much money. I think I'll vote for Landon, but I haven't made up my mind for sure. I'm strong for this soil conservation program. Maybe I'll go for Roosevelt.” "2 n 2 UST over the Illinois line, in the Wabash bottoms on the Indiana side, a grain elevator owner had this to say: “A good many people are afraid that Roosevelt wants to be a dictator. But the main thing to remember is that about 95 per cent of the people are more or less failures, and they want help. Lots of them look to Roosevelt to give it to them in some way or the other. I'm going to vote for Landon, but I honestly don't see much chance of him carrying any of these states around here.” In the city of Danvili». with its 45,000 people, a Townsendite had this to say: ‘People outside don’t have any idea of the strength of the Townsend movement around here. Why, every little town in this part of the country has a club and there are literally thousands of us. This year we're going to concentrate on our congressional candidates and not bother so much with the national issues. We're all strong for the Loc but most of us are going to vote for the man we like best for President. Maybe four years from now we'll have our own candidate.” In Chicago a labor leader in a South Side craft union said this ‘to me: “Fully 80 per cent of the

LET'S EXPLORE YOUR MIND

ALBERT EDWARD WIGGAM

BY DR.

You I KNOW 1 Mere & CONE DY. /

DO WOMEN HAVE A KEENER!

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YES OR NO en

OF COURSE, owing to the exis“tence of the male sex, women

{ have more to laugh at than men,

when the names of Jesse James, P. T. Barnum, Lydia | but what little is known by psycholo-

gists indicates we are saved by'.the fact that women have slightly less sense of humor than men. psychologists compared 124 men students from Wesleyan with 154 women students from Smith in rating the degree of funniness of a group of jokes: and concluded the women found the jokes less funny as a whole than did the men. However, since the jokes were originally selected by men, these authors think a series selected by women might show the reverse of the above results. : FP = ” = 1 AS EXPLAINED by Drs. Louis Dublin and Alfred Lotka in their able new book, “Length of

Life,” the life span — the longest.

time the strongest may expect to Jive—has not increased although average length of life has increased by some -30 years. The prime gel

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ample of life span is that of Christen Jacobsen Drakenberg, a Danish sailor, born in 1626, who lived 146 years; At 84 he enlisted ih the Danish Marines and served in several wars, and when a mere lad of 111 married Maren Larsen, a sweet young thing of 60 summers, who later died. At 130 he proposed to several ladies “but without success.” He was somewhat of a rake but after the age of 141 is said to have “led a respectable life!”

= = = IF IT Be really wholesome neglect it is one of the wisest things parents can do. In fact

wholesome neglect is one of the greatest ' secrets of education— setting up the conditions, oppor-

tunities and incentives for study

and development and then letting the child alone. Continual watching and lecturing children gets nowhere.

Next—Should pedestrians have a license?

: ies will go to Roosevelt.” A

- “Fully 80 per cent of the vote |. “The turning of Main Street emanating from Chicago Jacter :

against Roosevelt is a phenome-

non of the past six weeks.” «x

‘In the Midwest, where Reporter Hunt reports “the farmer apparently has become less strong for Roosevelt,” the President admires 19-month-old Darleen Welbers at Aberdeen, S. D.

vote emanating from Chicago. factories will go to Roosevelt. He'll carry this city by a big majority and the whole state by 400,000.” ” 2 8 POLITICAL writer gave me this as his conclusion: “In 1928 Hoover carried the state by some 450,000. In ’'32 Roosevelt reversed the decision and won the state by almost exactly the same number. Outside Cook County (Chicago) it was a cross-off and his state plurality was the 450,-

000 votes he won there. I'd say he’ll carry the state by some 300,000. Maybe I'm wrong; maybe he'll carry down-state, too, this time. Don't forget that in the

primaries this spring he got 600,~ 000 more votes than the combined votes for Knox and Borah.” Across in Indiana I picked up

a half-hundred comments. Two- _

thirds of the people I talked to gave Indiana to Roosevelt. Sev= “eral of them who had had political experience had the figure of

100,000 in their minds as Roose- ||

velt’s probable majority. I take no responsibility for that figure. But I have no hesitancy in putting down that Indiana looks almost as sure for Roosevelt as does Illinois.

NEXT—The situation on the Pacific Coast.’

Republican Nominee Landon hugs a potential voter at St. Louis, 17-me1th-old Joyce Rushing of Centerville, Ill.

Johnson Calls on Nation for Caution During Period of War Potentialities

BY HUGH S. JOHNSON ETHANY BEACH, Del, Sept. 2. —If a Spanish military bombing plane takes a shot at an American naval vessel, is that a possible step toward embroiling-us in the bloody war of massacre and barbarism in Spain? Suppose that bomb had made a direct hit? We went to war with Spain once because 4 naval vessel was sunk by a mine in Havana harbor. Yet nobody ever knew who detonated that mine, or even that anybody did. We invaded Mexico once. because ‘one faction in a revolution refused to salute our flag, and again because a rebel chief in another revolution at-. tacked the little border village of Columbus, N. M. In neither case were we in great danger from the war that followed in the first case and that was threatened in the other two. - But this Spanish horror is not war as we know .it. Its causes are not localized. They affect many nations. They do not put some against others, but bend each within itself and put the parts of nations on one side and parts on the other side of a deadly conflict. Not only who shall govern Spain is involved, but whether fascism or communism shall replace the older systems over all of Europe. . 2 ”n 5

"T was no mere coincidence that as the struggle grew acute, Stalin became unusually aggressive, Hitler increased his standing army, France threatened reprisals and Mussolini

made a silly boast of having 8,000,000 available effectives. ,All this

threatens war of a sort that the!

world has not seen since the racial holocausts of Ghengis Khan, or the merciless proscriptions at the end of the Roman republic.

Grant's officers at Appomattox im- }- :

mediately sought out Lee’s staff— many of whom were West Point classmates—and fraternized like kinsmen long separated. Johnny Rebs and Dam Yankees spent as much time as they could getting acquainted with men against whom they had fought four years. There was talk of “hanging Jeff Davis to a sour apple tree” and executing Confederates for treason, but Lincoln's “I shall treat them as though they had never been away” lived after he was gone. There was still some chivalry in the world. They don't do things that way in this modern “class. conflict.” The purpose is not merely to subdue opposition. It is to exterminate it by a “blood purge.” No

matter who wins in Spain it is likely |

that the other side will be blasted out ” existence by firing

That has been the method of Both sides up to date. It is, therefore, inevitable at the end. <

” = s OU can forgive a man who has fought you fairly even if you lost your friend, your brother or

your son in the battle. But you can } :

not forgive those who stand your bound and helpless friends and kindred up against a whitewashed

‘wall and mercilessly mow them

down with musketry. There is no requital in the human heart ‘in such a case but lives for lives and blood for blood. At least, for our age, this “blood purge” idea is new since the World War. The Communists started it in Russia by the assassination of at least 100,000 of the bourgeoisie. The Fascists adopted it. Nobody knows

Mark Sullivan’s Column : on Page 6

GRIN AND BEAR IT

the extent of Mussolini's and Hitler’s political murders, but they were no less than these dictators regarded necessary. They had espoused the principle completely. .That is the kind of a mess we could enter in almost against our will. Foreign intervention is one way out for a desperate faction.

” = z HEN defeat means death, a

losing faction is bound to be | desperate. Whether so intended or,

not, the sinking of the Maine did

bring us into the Cuban revolution |

against Spain. Villa openly boasted that he could punish Carranza by forcing American intervention. He reached Columbus and within two weeks our troops were 500 miles in the interior. It is one thing to chase Villa to Parral to avenge an assault on national honor. It is a very different thing to be sucked into that Com-munist-Fascist fandango of massacre and ruin, "It is time to watch our steps as naver before in history.

(Copyright, 1936. by United Feature Syndicate, Inc.)

by Lichty

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Fair Enough WESTBROOK PEGLER

EW YORK, Sept. 2.—Any cartoonist can justify under artistic license the use of the “stage property” skull of a cow in the

camping photographs of the Dust Bowl

which were posed and snapped by the Reset

tlement Administration to dramatize tha New ‘American Desert. Without the skull, the pica tures would have been meaningless, for we have learned to demand it in the American desert scenes,

just as we demand a cluster of distant palms or a pyramid in a picture of the African desert. : The desert behind the skull was J neither more nor less real for the presence of the prop and the photographer showed some restraint, at * that, for the accepted formula calls for not less than three bleached ribs along with the skull.’ It wasn't the photographer's fault that we de- | mand hokum in our pictures as well as in our oratory and politics, and it probably was no fun to go clat- ! 2 - tering around the country lugging Mr. Pegler ; and all the gadgets and {raps which a photographer has to carry in his line of work. If you think it was suppose you try packing a cow skull, with two horns, into a suitcase or wrapying it up in a’ convenient bundle. It would have been a& little convenience if this photographer had been able to unscrew the horns or fold them over. In literature they call such things cliches—not skulls but habits of expression. But, in the monkey house, as the cartoonists’ room is Sometimes called, they are known as gogs Ca

. Beef Stew and Plusoc ate

O picture of the home of a poor family is coms plete without a little patch where the plaster has fallen off the wall revealing the lath beneath. The cartoon Communist has bushy whiskers, although I have yet to meet a Communist with a beard and Earl Browder, the Communist nominee for President this year, wears his face nude except for a sorrel mus= tache. The cartoon plutocrat wears a silk hat and a golden log chain strung across a bulging vest adorned with dollar marks, although old Andy Mellon, the boss plutocrat of this country, wears an old fedora which looks as though the cat had been sleeping on it and is so skinny that you can’t see his vest at all. I have met some other plutocrats who are flate bellied and hard, spending a little time in the gym every day or twice a week, and fit to punch the ears off many individuals who have imagined the plutoerat as a fat and puffy ruin made soft by caviar and turkey. More than likely, plutocrats hate caviar and: turkey, but go for beef stew. There is also the working man in his traditional square paper cap. Did you ever see a working man in a square paper cap, g50em! printerse un

Republicans Used It, Too

DON'T think the Republicans can make rauch of the use of that property cow skull. There are certain liberties in the picture art. If it is a shot of some dashing young scion of society out for an evening in a night club with a scioness they move a champagne cooler up alongside the table for atmosphere, though the pair of them may be drinking - And, once when Mr. Coolidge went to Plymouth, Vt., to see his father, the Republicans put him into a suit of overalls fresh from the store, shoved a hay fork into his hand and appealed to the farm vote with a- picture of a hay-shaker shaking hay in a standup collar and tie. For. the lack of a little hokum in a picture, Jack Dempsey was like to go to prison once. During the war he posed for a picture running a riveter in a shipyard. If he had thought to put on a pair of workman's shoes it would have been all right, but he was wearing patent leather shoes with suede tops and that error eventually cost him more than $100, - 000 in lawyers’ fees and all.

Merry-Go- Round

BY DREW PEARSON AND ROBERT S. ALLEN

ASHINGTON, Sept. 2—One big Washington mystery is why the President has delayed naming the five-man beard to administer the new, merchant marine act. : The board has tough jobs to face. Toughest is cleaning up the existing ocean mail contract system, which Senator Black's investigating committee re= vealed to be loaded to the gunwales with scandalous abuses. Despite the urgent need of a housecleaning of the existing Shipping Board, the President has made no move to get the new agency under way. _ Two months have passed since Congress acted, but to all inquiries as to when he will appoint the five commissioners the President has given an evasive answer. What makes his attitude extraordinary is that the law fixes Oct. 1 as the deadline on which the shipping lines must file their applications for new subsidies. With no board functioning to fix the basis of thess new grants the ship operators are without formulas on which to do their figuring.

zn = 2 s T the root of the protracted delay is the same bitter fight that held up the passage of the new law for six months. Backed by the Commerce Department the shipping lobby violently opposed the aet and tried to jam through instead a measure that would have given them a practically free hand with government funds, This scheme was blocked chiefly through the efforts of Karl Crowley, solicitor of the Postoffice Depart ment; Tom Woodward, former member. of the Shipping Board, and Rep. Edward C. Moran, scrappy Maine New Dealer. These three men are leading contenders for places on the new board and the ship lobby is moving heaven and earth trying to prevent their appoint= ment. Its candidates are reported to be Col. J. M. (Sailboat) Jolinson, second assistant Secretary of Commerce; Paul Scharrenberg, conservative Pacifie Coast sailors’ union official, and Marvin McIntyre, appointment secretary to the President. Johnson and McIntyre are being attacked as being too friendly to shipping interests, and maritime unions in all parts of the country have bombarded the White House with hot protests against Scharrenberg. Because of this bitter cross-fire, insiders are pre=dicting that the President will not name the board until after the November election. = = 2 $ AX internal row involving Undefsecretary Rex Tugwell’s righthand assistant, 28-year-old Gracs Falke, is agitating the Resettlement Administration. The ruckus is over beds, bedspreads, tahles and window curtains. The question is whether the tenants, who next winter will move into the new homes in the Belts~ ville project, near Washington, should be allowed to follow their own taste in household furnishings. Officials in charge of the project contended that after Resettlement had built the houses they should step aside and leave interior decoration to the tenants. But Miss Falke thought otherwise. : She took the matter to Tugwell” and he sided with her. An executive order was issued directing that the homes be completely furnished and decorated. Tene ants were to have no choice. : Beltsville officials stormed and fumed. They ap-. peared licked. But they found an out. Miss Falke took a vaca tion. While she was gone the project managers won 8 modification of the order. 3 Now tenants can make their own choice,