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wood Hale Broun. ~ “Fine,” he answered, * with you?” - And it came to me wi

. #Hock that my ‘though he is not precisely

evervthing. tiring. But

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—1 do not mean right off. the road... I must first swords with him to see which of us | is Heywood. : To me the competition seems fair | enough. I've had fore experience, | but T must carry weight for age, and the slightly younger Broun is | not yet in the precarious position ! of being assailed by those who say: | —“What now, Mr.——?2 Are not your words of vesterday very like those which you set down upon a rainy Thursday two years ago?” In his | typewriter lies a clean sheet of paper. : Kipling’s Mulvaney taught the young recruits by both direct and ricochet fire. and I trust that I have been a faithful preceptor for mv son! in the matter of providing him with a sufficient number of horribid | examples of what not. to do and say and think.

Mr. Broun

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His Boss’ Landlord | OWEVER, I must admit ‘that his business instincts. appear to be a little sounder than my. | own. His first post is with Monte Bourjaily, who has Just bought Mid-Week Pictorial from the New York | Times. I have heard it said that Mr. Bourjaily is | also a shrewd business man, but Woodie has suc- | ceeded in outflanking him. Heywood Hale Broun | is the employe of Monte, but he is also the land- | loid of his boss in the matter of a summer cottage. | And 50 I was not altogether startled when my son | told me after a very brief term of service that he | had managed to get himself a higher weekly stipend. | You see, he sat in the driver's seat, for he could alwavs threaten Lo raise the rent. In some quarters IT am held to be a radical, but | in the eyes of Heywood Hale Broun I am but a pallid | pink. And that is just as well, for I believe that generations go by opposites, and I would not like | to be the father of a lad who would in any way sup- | port the leadership of a Landon. And vet the young | Broun can not accuse me of seeking ever<to dull the | €dge of his revolutionary tegiper. I think he was | Just 16 when he came home one day and said. “Hey- | wood, do vou mind very much if I'm expelled by ! Horace Mann?” TI said that it would be all right by | me. in any case, but what was the row about? {

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Goodbye to H. the Third

- ELL,” he explained, “I'm one of the editors of | the schecol magazine, and | we have a faculty | adviser. The things I want in the magazine he | doesn't like. The things he likes T don't want in, I| think I'll go to Tilly and ask whether the paper's being run by the undergraduate body or by the faculty adviser.- And if he says that the adviser is running the whole show I'm going to try to organize the | staff to strike. And if they won't do lit, I'll just go | on strike myself.” . Fine,” 1 said, “and I'll help you throw a picket |

line around the chapel.” 7 |

" As 'I remember, there was & compromise. And! now the time has come for me to make.-a free will | offering—a sort of going-away present to Heywood | { Hale Broun. When he was very voung I wrote many columns about him ‘and even a novel. Later I mentioned him from time to time. I will hever use him as copy again. The boy grew older. The rights in H. the Third are herewith returned to the sole and

My Day

4 BY ELEANOR ROOSEVELT 3 / NEY YORK, Wednesday. —I was Rk ing by an item in the paper giving the number , of dead and wounded in Spain. What a fearful waste tit is for us to kill each other before a Te of

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struck this morn-

opinion can be settled amongst people of tBe sams nation. - The part which annoys one is the Rtupidity of wasting so much energy and vitality, and the ability to destroy people and things when. at the mofment. we need to conserve people and to build up Material possessions everywhere,

On top of this I walked through 14th-st, where. for |

HEYWOOD BROUN

EW YORK, Sept. 3.—“How are vou get- | ting along with your job?” I asked Hey- |

‘and how are things |

th something of a’ son had become 2a competitor, for | 2 newspaper man, he is at | least a journalist and has had assignments and a | ! raise and holds a Guild card and!

days now, I have seen picKets walking up and down : bearing signs which say they are shop employes on strike because of unfair conditions. At best this must | mean that the employer has had to get new employes | Who are not as efficient as the experienced ones and Who therefore cost him money, On the other hand a group of employes are out of | work and must either be supported by their unions, | their families or the government. Of course, new employes are taken on, but they ‘are less efficient and Probably get lower pay, and therefore the general buy- { Ing power is lowered. ~ Waste again and stupidity. Why can't we sit down { together with a board of arbitration. honestly state | \ our difficulties, and try to work out a sane method of | { procedure? : Of course; as some one said to me: “All vou are | hr to do is to change human beings: they never have been sensible, they have always believed in force + d resorted to it in the last analysis.” f. Well, it seems to me thai the time has come to { realize that if we are géing on in this manner we are } going to have some pretty difficult times. ! 1 read the story of a new invention for picking ‘ cotton. It may not be perfect vet, it may not work 80 well in hilly country as en the plains, but it is just 8 question of time before it is improved. More men -&ndswomen out of work. Unless we have sense enough to sit down and dis€USs the use of this new invention and many others:-so as the bring happiness, comfort and leisure

to human beings and not unemployment, starvation and despair, then we deserve the hard times which | Will surely come our way. : 1Copyright, 1938, by United Feature Syndicate, Inc.)

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THURSDAY, SEPTEMBER 3, 1936

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Townsend Fails to Check Roos

TENING TO THE PACIFIC COAST

(Third of a Series)

BY FRAZIER HUNT {Copvyright, 1936, NEA Service. Ine.)

ESPITE the Townsend-Coughlin-Lemke combination California js a five-to-one bet for Roosevelt.

- Most observers vary only in their estimates of the Roosevelt majority. These run from 250,000 to

“ 500,000 for Roosevelt.

Dr. F. E. Townsend is going to desperate extremes to force his followers to turn from Roosevelt to Lemke—or even Landon. His personal bitterness against Roosevelt apparently knows no bounds. His hate has been growing slowly

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gressional investigation of the whole Townsend Plan organization set it off like a firecracker. Today in Dr. Townsend's own mind the defeat of Roosevelt is almost more important than the election of Townsend -pledged congressmen. : In the southern third of California, centering about the sunny cities of San Diego and Los Angeles, the venerable doctor has literally tens of thousands of true believers who are being urged to pass up their bird-in-the-hand relief benefits, PWA jobs and social security under Roosevelt. and vote against him. But apparently only a relatifjely small propor-_ tion will do, this. - Mdst of them are too canny horsetraders to

waste their votes on a third party, |

and their mystic belief in Roosevelt persists despite their indignation at the Administration in permitting the Townsend investiga-? tion. ”

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N ‘San Diego County—where Townsendites claim 40,000 members—a determined drive to persuade the doctor’s- followers to change their Democratic registration before the Aug. 25 primaries resulted in a total shift of exactly 384 votes. This left the Democrats still 16,807 in’ the lead— 64.792 registered Democrats against 47,985 Republicans. Certainly it \Proved that Br. Townsend's im‘passioned voice has little political magnetism when it comes to the presidential election. In the congressional elections, however. a frightened man is the ambitious candidate who .does not pledge himself body and soul to the plan. Every Townsendite is a thorn in

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election | years are hectic times in California. and political - fever runs las wide a range as the temperatures in the state’s snow-capped | mountains and palm-fringed valleys. But ito date Alfred Landon has failed to impress his personality on the dwellers ofs the Pacific Coast. The Kansas budget-bal-ahcing feat of the Governor has less appeal than in the East. And somehow or other the mounting national debt is not. viewed with st#h alarm as in other sections of this vast country.

Ordinarily

” | . ART of this reaction is due to the tremendous unemployment and relief problems in the southérn third of the. state. In Los Angeles County alone live 45 per cent of the state's population, and ore out of every four are on relief of one kind or another. These unfortunates are resigned to a limited dole. and the one hope they look forward to is a bigger and better hand-out. “More than 85 per cent of them are for Roosevelt,” a man who knows the true unemployment situation. and views it calmly, said to me. “And the same is true of Sinclair's old EPIC followers. Most of the original 800,000 who voted

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for Sinclair are back in the Demoratic ranks. . . . It's a two-to-one- bet that Roosevelt will carry California by more than 300.000.” In San Francisco and all northern California Townsend is less strong than in the southern part —but so is Roosevelt. In busy San Francisco class lines are somewhat tightly drawn — and these reflect directly on the coming election. industrial center, is strong for Roosevelt. Capital and conservative management and large business is violently against him. Time and-again at union conventions there have been unanimous resolutions backing Roosevelt. Even those unions that are definitely tinged with radical ideas are throwing all their weight to the President. F- z on T IS such action by more or less radical groups that sends chills up and down conservative spines and turns them into Landon crusaders. In San Francisco. and other West Coast cities the bare mention of the Longshoremen’s Association or the Seamen's Union calls up nightmares of the waterfront strike of - the spring of 1934, when not a ton of shipping moved for 83 days. And the thought of that strike inevitably brings up the name of Harry

Bridges, who in the public mind

was the real leader of those exciting days. After spending almost three hours with him in a little room overlooking the waterfront in San Francisco, I am inclined to believe that this tall, thin, blue-eyed Australian cockney, who is not as yet even an American citizen, is the second most important labor . leader in this country, The first is John Lewis. In the early davs of the great 1934 strike newspaper men quickly found that in the then unknown Harry Bridges they could get a clear and dramatic presentation of the strikers’ point of view, In an incredibly short time he became the Red bugaboo of the whole coast—the hated and feared “redhot,” as Californians say. This paper notoriety was the one thing that the wiry, talkative Anzac longshoreman needed to make him a real leader. He didn’t fumble his opportunity. He didn’t mind the least how. Red they made him. The inarticulate strikers believed what he was saying.

= n = Eo an obscure winch-han-dler, loading and unloading ship cargoes, Bridges became the symbol and then the actuality of militant waterfront labor. He was elected head of his local union, and in the spring of 1935 he was one of the leaders in bringing together all the various shipping unions into whaf is a one big union — the Maritime Federation. In May of this present year he was elected Pacific Coast president of the International Longshoremens’ Association. His goal is the eventual control of all the transportation in America. He believes that American labor does not as vet know its own mind. He feels that it is ready for radical leadership. “Our people here on the waterfront feel the strength of both their political and economic pow - er,” he explained to me. “They know they can win. Théy have true solidarity. They're ready to go to town.” This year these men will vote the Democratic ticket. Four years from now they expect to vote their own ticket for their own candidate,

(TOMORROW — Dr. Townsend keeps Oregon and Washington on the fence.)

LET'S EXPLORE YOUR MIND

BY DR. ALBERT EDWARD WIGGAM

SAME AS AUTO DRIVERS ?

THE x. YEG ORNO___.

COOVRIGHT (OBE SON Ps -

XN WORK MEANS MORE 10 NE 4 THAN ANY THING / Canc SE SN arg g

DOES A MARRIED WOMAN'S WM =~ CAREER pan he Muck “0 CAREER MEANS wo, 2 MARRIED WA A

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ARE HAY EYER, ASTHMA AND OTHER

SO INHERITED 2 NES OR NO en

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1 IT WOULDN'T be a bad idea. When we see people risking both their own and other's lives crossing against the lights, and see mothers pushing a baby carriage

| and leading a couple of children,

and see people at night walking on the wrong side of the highway defying all the laws of common sense, safety and morality, and keeping the nerves of drivers on edge, it seems a system might be devised by which pedestrians could at least be tested as to their fitness to go out of doors without a guardian. Either that or else people should come to see that observing traffic lights by Pedestrians is a moral, indeed a solemn religious, duty. 1 regard myself as having sinned against my neighbor and disobeyed the Golden Rule if I cross against the lights.

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NOT IF she be really married. A man considers his career as his natural life—both| his way of supporting his wife and family and of developing his personality and life ambitions. He also considers

marriage as a normal part of this process. But, a° woman who has chosen a career usually thinks of marriage as something subsidiary, until she marries. Then she finds, if she is to gain the happiness and personal development of a congenial marriage, her career must become

subsidiary, : ” = 5 DR. BRET RATNER of New York University College of Medicine, according to Science, has studied 250 allergic children and 315 non-allergics, and their families, and found as many allergic children in the non-allergic as in the allergic families. He argues from this that the susceptibility to pollens, protein

substances, etc., which are the .im--mediate agents in procuring hives, | eczema, hay fever, ete. is not in-

herited. This is the best answer that can be given at present,

Next—When parents are of average intelligence will the children ever be above average intelli-

Labor, as in every

“Ordinarily election years a

evelt in California, Hunt Reports

re hectic times in California,

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wide a range as the temperatures in the state’s snow-capped mountains and paim.

fringed valleys.”

Coughlin Financing Would Strike at

Heart of

BY HUGH S. JOHNSON

PBrTiany BEACH, Del, Sept. 3. —When you sift the multitudinous mouthings of Father Coughlin for the grain of specific suggestion, you find just one. It amounts to this: ; He wants the government to call in all its bonds and other interestbearing debts, to give their owners in exchange pieces of paper which on the face bears words to the effect that the United States will pay bearer so-and-so many dollars without interest. His argument reduces to the statement that the bonds themselves are no more than this, and that the only difference is that the printing press “bloody bonds,” as he calls them, unnecessarily obligated the government to pay interest to the “international bankers” and the “money changers,” while his proposed “printing press money” would not bear interest.

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way out of all our trouble, He attacks the President because he claims that when Roosevelt promised to drive the money changers from the temple, he meant he was going to print money to pay the

debt and part of the expenses of

the government,-and since he hasn't done that, he has become the “great betrayer.” Now, of course. the President didn’t promise anything of the kind.

To the contrary, he promised a sound currency at all hazards, and

in his Pittsburgh speech toward the close of the 1932 campaign, cifically repudiated even press credit, Money has: value to the extent that people think it is sound. There is very little ' différence between printing press credit and printing

printing

LLandon’s Uncle Gets Attention

BY FRED W. PERKINS Times Special Writer ASHINGTON, Sept. 3 Democratic leaders of Pennsylvania left no doubt today of their intention to keep the public aware that William T. Mossman of Pittsburgh is the uncle of Alfred Mossman Landon, Republican nominee for President. They stressed the relationship in a closed hearing that resulted in the Senate Campaign Expenditures Committee ordering investigators to Pittsburgh to look into charges that steel and other are attempting to coerce the votes employes will cast in November. The charges were made by David L. Lawrence, Democratic state chairman in Pennsylvania. He described Mossman as public relations representative for the Jones & Laughlin Steel Corp. and said this meant he was “the company's chief political man and lobbyist at Harrisburg.” . Lawrence got a promise from Committee Chairman Longergan (D., Conn.) that alleged corporation coercion would be investigated in all industrial sections of Pennsylvania. The inquiry will be concentrated for the present in Allegheny a (Pittsburgh) and

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press money. The method the government has been using to finance

its deficits, ever since Mr. Hoover

started it and Mr. Roosevelt condemned and then continued it, is very little, if any, different from printing money. The real difference is that if the government started to print 30 billions of dollars of new money to pay its debts, and thereafter more billions to pay its expenses, everybody who had any bonds or dollars or evidences of debt of any kind would cry, “The deluge is upon us! Save himself who can.” : : o n ” eRe would be a wild scramble to exchange intangible money for tangible things—to buy, at almost any price, houses, wheat, diamonds, furs, minerals— anything. Prices would soar overnight until, as in Germany, France, Russia, the Confederacy, and America after the Revolution—every single time any government has printed money—it might cost a million dollars to buy a breakfast. This does not happen when the government finances ‘itself by printing-press credit, merely because it is an obscure process which few people understand.

OUR COLUMNISTS

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Such a panicky devaluation of money would be paradise for every debtor. The debt he contracted in 100-cent dollars he could pay off at one-tenth of a cent on the dollar. But that also means that every life insurance policy, savings account— and above all, every pension—would become valueless. There is a letter extant from a philosophical Southern professor during the Civil War, asserting: that his year’s salary in Confederate currency wouldn't buy cne week's cat-meat for his pet. Printing-press '*money means the repudiation of all debt and the destruction of all fixed income.

» n ” I that what Father Coughlin intends? Precisely. So much so that he recently told Northwestern farmers that, if the government does not thus repudiate their debts for them by this method, indirectly, they should do it themselves directly by forcible resistance to the processes of law. The good father not only wants the government to repudiate its own debts but, by the same process, he hopes to repudiate all private debts. That is also’ Mr. Lemke’s position. Lemke and Coughlin are teamed up with Dr. Townsend, who wants to pay a fixed pension of $200 a month to the aged. The howling joke of it

| is that if this alliance should win: or

become important in Congress (the

i latter is‘quite likely), and both pro-

grams should go into effect at once,

there would be a $200 pension which, | if paid in Coughlin dollars, wouldn't {be worth 20 cents. i “Blind leaders of the blind”’—and

both winding up in the pit of their own folly. : (Copyright, 1936. by Jnited Feature Cc.

Syndicate, In

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GRIN AND BEAR IT

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a WESTBROOK PEGLER

NEW YORK, Sept. 3.—Not often does a - newspaper man come up with a story as the one which Jay Allen filed to the Chicago Tribune from Elvas, Portugal, recounting the butchery at Badajoz, Spain, just a few

miles away, where 4000 Republicans were slaughtered by the Moors and the outcasts of the Spanish. Foreign Legion. ‘Apparently few of the victims were killed fighting, for Allen tells us that 1800 unarmed men .and women were turned into the bull ring in batches and massacred by machine gun fir- ° ing into the pack. The 4000 doubtless included some Communists and : anarchists,- but Allen's piece leaves an impression that they were mainly simple Spanish citizens of a young ° and hopeful republic, which had undertaken to distribute the land to the serfs who had worked it for hundreds of years for absentee owners. The story should be an important offset to the Fascist propaganda, which has attempted to tell us that the Republicans, alone, were capable of atrocitiss, depicting the rebels as noble crusaders with a holy zeal to punish the infidels of Moscow. San It is important, I think, that this piece appears under the copyright of. the Chicago Tribune, because it \is evidence of the character of the American press that such an account snould come from a paper which is listed among the reactionaries,

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To the Tribune

R Z=E=r R. M'CORMICK, who runs the is a multimillionaire of baronial character, Who has viewed with no little alarm the so-called Red menace in the United States and the leftist tendency of the Roosevelt Administration. Yet it was his correspondent who flew from Tangier to Lisbon and traveled by taxi, at his expense, to obtain the first story of a historic massacre by the reactionaries of Spain. If this were a Fascist or a Nazi nation the truth could not be told and yet there are those who assert that the Rewspapers in this country suppress news which is contrary to the sympathies of their owners. There is hardly a newspaper in the United States, unless it could be ‘the 'Los Angeles Times, which has less reason to give the Spanish peoples’ front an even break in the news. - The revolution had been given the character of a, desperate uprising of the best elements of Spain against ime ported Communism and certainly a temptation existed to develop that idea to the detriment of Moscow. But this is only further evidence that our journalism is the best in the world, and I predict that before the revolution is finished we will have the clearest understanding of the elements on both sides and of the religious factor. It is an affront to intelligence

Tribune,

“to assert that the great mass of ‘Spanish people, be-

cause they wanted a republic and a chance to live like human beings, have abruptly turned against the Christian religion which is part of their character and that Christianity therefore is the issue.

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Truth Will Come Out

J) S=cration, blasphemy and other outrageous acts of the wild radicals on the government side of the fight do not speak for the majority of ordinary poor ‘Spaniards and will not, in the long rum; conceal the fact that these people are fighting for the minimum scale of rights of human beings. Nor will the smoke and dust of the war becloud for long the fact that the revolution is not a people’s revolt, but an attack on the people by their evicted masters with the aid and comfort of Italy and Germany. ; We wiil get the Spanish picture in this country, because our journalism produces correspondents who will go anywhere and write the truth and papers which ‘will pay the cost of collecting the news and publish it. : Jay Allen's piece may be the turning point for us. I am afraid we were beginning to believe that the sole purpose of the Spanish republic was to destroy Christian religion. Now we hear of 1800 men and women massacred in a-pen by those who ‘were depicted as soldiers of the cross. - :

Merry-Go-Round

BY DREW PEARSON AND ROBERT S. ALLEN

W J ASHINGTON, Sept. 3.—There is a lot of fire behind the smoke regarding the President’s reported plans to hold a large-scale peace conference if re-elected, despite the indirect denials of the State Department. :

Actually, the President has discussed the idea with some of his closest advisers. He hasn't decided the thing one way or the other. But he is considering it carefully. : z He is not any too optimistic regarding the outcome of such a conference. All similar conferences have failed. But three factors incline Roosevelt toward calling it—if re-elected. 2 1. Never before have the leaders of Europe been so worried about war, and the people of Europe so anxious to prevent it. The crisis over the Spanish revolt gave them a glimpse of the war ghost just around the corner. : \ 2. Hitherto France has opposed a conciliation with Germany. This was always the great stumbling block. Now Premier Blum favors it. + 3. If such a conference fails, the United States will have made one final effort and thereafter will * have every excuse for more complete isolation. . At any rate, the real secret behind Ambassador Bullitt’s transfer from Moscow to Paris is to sound out the leaders of Europe, informally, regarding such a conference. Bullitt speaks the 1anguage of diplomacy, is a close friend of the President and was the man who handled the preliminaries to Roosevelt's Washington conversations in May, 1933. ; During the winter of 1932-33, before Roosevelt was inaugurated, Bullitt was in Paris and London talking with French and British statesmen. The President elect, in Warm Springs, denied that Bullitt was on any mission for him. Shortly after the deniakrwas issued | Bullitt was on the long-distance telephone, talking to Warm Springs from Ramsay MacDonald's office.

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E you scratch below the popularity of the Works Progress Administration with the aviation industry, you will discover a very good reason: WPA has built more airports in the nation than there are airplanes traveling on regularly scheduled routes. And if you scratch below the reason for thess airports you will find another very good reason: inspiration of women aviators. ; On the pay roll of WPA are four noted women aviators—Phoebe Omlie, Louise

But the net result is that WPA has spent $40,0 000 for new and o

nproved airports during year, an additional $31,000,000 being ‘advanced