Indianapolis Times, Indianapolis, Marion County, 4 September 1936 — Page 22

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NEW YORK! Sept. 4.—Sometimes I wake up in the niorning before dawn and say

to myself, “Have I been fair to Colonel |

Knox?” And often this gnawing question dwells with me until after lunch.

But when anybody nudges me I am reminded that Fearless Frank is the vice presidential nominee of the Republican Party. George Kaufman and Morrie Ryskind did no good service to the Ameri-

can political! system when they celebrated the public disregard for Vice Presidents in their satirical musical comedy “Of Thee 1 Sing.” Factually they were correct enough. The second man on the ticket is not highly regarded. Election results never have taken any count of place and show money. But this state of mind is very foolish, Vice Presidents upon numerous occasfoons have been called upon to take over the reins of government. As Hiram Johnson once said in effect, only a heartbeat divides the candidate from the spare. And yet even in the middle of a fierce campaign I have not heard a single argument as to the respective merits of John Nance Garner and Col. Prank (I-think it's “M"”) Knox. In the present race Mr. Garner is the realist and Col. Knox the young romantic. If John Garner has uttered a single word since the notification ceremonies: at Franklin Field that fact has not come to my attention. For Garner a national campaign is a long vacation in which he goes home to Texas and fishes in the hope of not catching*pullheads. Col. Knox has taken his assignment in quite a different spirit. To be sure, he has the motivating excuse that since Alfred Landon has gone into pantomime it is up to him, at the very least, to furnish the captions. And so Col. Knox probably. has made more speeches than even John D. M. Hamilton,

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What Has He Said?

UT. what has he said? Nobody knows but Col. Knox, and possibly the Chicago News. I am reluctant to compliment the newspaper publishers of America in a body, because I like some better than others, but I must say that they have remained singularly cool and dispassionate: in reporting the sayings and doings of a confrere. | = : Occasionally I read that Col. Frank Knox in his private train has made a whirlwind tour across Rhode Island, making 50 speeches from the back platform. But seldom; has anybody taken the space to divulge the fact of just what Frank happens to be selling. Sat : I call upon: the newspapers of America to break through their ‘traditional attitudes and give the reading public a much more complete coverage of what Fearless Frank is saying. I yawn at every word He says, but I will sleepily defend his right to say | it up to the point where slumber overwhelms me.

Mr. Broun

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OV. LANDON has touched upon few of the . issues. Col. Knox has made. so many speeches that it is quite possible he has taken up every pressing question. When I went to school we used an arithmetic which had the answers in the back of the book. If Mr.: Landon won't talk in the present campaign it may be that the complete solution of the Republican position can be found in the tail of the ticket in the speeches of Cel. Frank Knox. | But I still maintain that, no matter what attitude the editors of America take, the views of Frank Knox may conceivably (Heaven forbid!) become the national policy of the United States. As a voter I have a right to be informed. { Does Col. Knox want to tear the Constitution limb from limb or is he a strict constructionist who ‘ would go back to the Founding Fathers? Alfred M. Landon is against organized labor, but where does the Colonel stand? I demand that he be heard. After all, my study is in the cellar. ~

My Day

BY ELEANOR ROOSEVELT

EW YORK, Thursday.—I went [to Democratic headquarters this morning to*keep four appointments, but some one slipped up and I only met two ‘people. Since I am no longer responsible to any one else for the accomplishment of any specific piece of work, I have had a great opportunity] to observe the work of other people. : | When you are immersed in doing ¢ne thing yourself, if you are to do it well, that thing must seem more important than any other piece of work at the moment. It is a most difficult thing to‘do a particular job well and still keep enough perspective to be able to see it in relation to the work other people are Bt vears ago I learned that the periods in one’s life when one is simply a listener and observer may

"seem, 1seless, but are in the end very valuable. I hope

that if I am ever back in some kind of{executive position my present opportunities for observation will prove fruitful. x | The man or woman who can be the center of an organization, who can .keep his finger ¢n all the lines that flow out, without interference or too close a fol-Jow-up, and in addition can remain an oasis of calm with time to listen and think, will bel a pearl above price in any organization. i : As I look at the young people starting out today, I feel the best help we can give them is to encourage the acceptance of responsibility. A geod memory is very helpful in life, but nowhere nearly as helpful as the ability to analyze a situation and to think out ways of handling it. In other words, the photographer is useful, but the artist who paints a picture is creating something new.

Many of our children are taught to do as they are told

and to accept direction. Frequently the busy mother and father resent the questioning spirit which is the first step toward creative thought and future initiative. In this day and generation the youngsters with ideas who can think up new ways of giving service, “different ways of doing things that people are tired of doing in old ways, new uses for old materials of any Kind; in fact, those who have imagination and originality will get somewhere. (Copyright, 1936, by United Feature Syndicate, Inc.)

THE PUBLIC LIBRARY PRESENTS— OF books on applied psychology there can never be enough. At least that’s the experience of the local Business Branch Library, among whose latest and most welcome acquisitions is a copy of HOW TO USE PSYCHOLOGY IN BUSINESS, by Donald A. . Laird (McGraw;°$2.50). : One of Mr. Laird’s earlier volumes, “The Psychology of Selecting Men,” has long been a sort of Bible among personnel managers and in employment offices; and his other books have proved helpful and inspiring to all sorts of persons in their relations with their fellow human beings. ‘This ‘book is written expressly for the average business man to acquaint him with the fact, if he has not already grasped it, that “Psychology-—has gone to work.” :

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R three generati..us the Stuarts have lived at THE HEAD OF W-HOLLOW (Dutton; $2.50), Now, in the third generation, in the pg§son of Jesse Stuart, they have produced a tris poet and writer. Stuart writes of his friends, his neighbors, of life of the people who live in the Hollow. “Bellin’ of the Bride,” “Uncle Caspar,” “Snake Teeth,” “Dark Winter,” “Three Hundred Acres of Elbow Room.” are “Some of the titles. There is often careless writing and annoying verbosity; but these strange stories are resh, powerful, and genuine. W-Hollow is fortunate

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Townsendites, Irked by Probe, H urt Roosevelt in Northwest

(Fourth of a Series)

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

IN EITHER Oregon nor Washington is absolutely certain . Which way it is going to jump on Nov. 3. Slender, gray-haired Dr. Townsend can rightly claim the credit for

the present dilemma of these sister states which are

closely tied by a common bond of natural resources and

political neggs.

The chances are that Roosevelt will carry both—with majorities somewhere between 35,000 and 75,000—but the bitter fight against him led by Townsend and his loyalists. turns what would otherwise be a Democratic walk-away into somewhat of an uncertainty. “The greatest single political blunder that the Roosevelt Administration made was to permit the Townsend congressional investigation to get under way,” a wise and well-informed Oregonian said to me. “By and large, Townsend followers have been for Roosevelt, but this investiga-

tion has turned thousands of them against the President. ' They look upon it as an inquisition, and the good doctor has now become a martyr in their eyes.

In some ways Townsendism assumes even a - deeper shade among these crusading, reforming pioneers here than even among the retired Midwestern farmers and business men in the kissed lands of Southern California. Men and women in these verdant valleys of the Northwest still work for their living on their little communities. Sincere and kindly, they receive with open arms Klan organizers, dry fanatics and reformers of every kind. Once they set their teeth into a belief, they demonstrate an unequaled tenacity and stubbornness. Thus they have taken hold of the Townsend Plan. First of all they want the promised $200 a month permanent pension: But even more important in the minds of many of these crusaders is the sincere belief that only ,through the Townsend Plan can prosperity be brought back to America.

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N the center of Washington I drifted into a hardware store and fell into conversation with the middle-aged owner. “If we'd adopted the Townsend Plan two or three years ago we'd have no unemployment; and prosperity would be back again,” he went on after a few minutes’ general - conversation. = “There are 9,000,000 people in America who are over 60 years old. Some 4,000,000 of them are holding jobs. If our plan was in effect it would mean that right now there would be 4,000,000 jobs for younger men and women still on the unemployed lists. Add to that number the millions who would get work on account of increased purchasing power and production and we'd have all our unemployed working again.” I injected an innocent question about the cost of the scheme. It didn't faze his enthusiasm. “Why the cost of the whole plan is| trifling,” he argued confidently. “It'd be one-sixth of a cent on a loaf of bread—and 40 cents on a pair of $5 shoes. We wouldn't hardly know we were paying anything, and just think what we'd be gaining. I can tell you we've got to turn’ to some such plan before we're through. We can't get our unemployed to work by any other means.” I led up gently to the question of how he and his fellow-believ-ers were goilig to vote lin the National election. “Well, I'm not going to vote for

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Roosevelt,” he said with absolute finality. “I'm going to vote for Landon myself. Some of our club members are going to follow the doctor and vote for Lemke but I don’t see any use of wasting my vote. Of course there’ll be some who will stick to Roosevelt.” ”n 2 un UT in the Northwest I heard no less than a score express much the same ideas. They only differed materially when it came to the presidential election. Among them there is a definite divergence of views that may possibly lead to an open rift among the Townsendites. . One very definite viewpoint was expressed to me by the State Treasurer of Washington, Otto A. Case, who is a candidate for the Democratic nomination for Governor. “The doctor is making a very great mistake in dragging in the presidential fight,” Mr. Case explained. Not 2 per cent of the Townsend delegates at Cleveland were for the third party. We should center our fight on local elections and on our candidates for Senate and Congress. We demand the right to exercise our political rights the same as does. We have real power as long as we stick together. In Washington state alone we have 486 Townsend clubs with 152,800 adult members. Think of that.”. : This is the man who was the National Townsend Committeeman from Washington and the keynoter at the Townsend convention in Cleveland. It was he, too, who first signed the protest against the attacks of Father Coughlin and Townsend on the convention floor. Certainly his- views represent those of a considerable per cent of the Townsend followers in this part of the counfry. The fact that he is running for the nomination of Governor as a straight, outright Townsendite who subscribes 100 per cent to all the social and economic theories - behind the plan is taken more or less as a matter of course in his own state. 'It is. interesting to know that another of the candidates for the Democratic nomina- - tion is John C. Stevenson who is

_ a half-way Townsendite and ad-

vocates the payment of around $100 a month rather than $200.

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QO THWARD in Oregon, Senator Charles L. McNary, the present Republican incumbent, is being opposed in the senatorial fight by Willis Mahoney, an out-and-out Townsendite. And in

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LET'S EXPLORE

BY DR. ALBERT EDWARD WIGGAM

YOUR MIND

IF BOTH PARENTS ARE

CHILDREN EVER

ERAGE INTELLIGENCE?

NES OR NO

I KNOW a lot of men who have well-nigh put their wives into their graves because they never make any demonstration of their love—no flowers, compliments, endearing reniarks, gestures of affection, no notice of the new dress or hat, but often notice the old ones, Indeed: I know one man who I think did actually kill his wife just that way. These “strong silent husbands” who never show any outward signs of their love simply do not have much love. If cornered they say they have, but 99 per cent of their time they are ‘thinking of themselves or their business. : 8 = =

SOMETIMES THEY are gen-

uses, which is one of the strongest proofs that intelligence—both high and low—is. inherited. Sometimes a commonplace parent is carrying a few germ cells that contain the courage, grace, charm and ability of some ancestor many genera-

tions back. And, when the other parent happens to be car simi-

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lar qualities one or two children out of a number are pretty sure to: be born from those particular cells, and thus, be far above the parents even in the ranks of genius. By the same process able parents sometimes have a feeble-

{ minded child.

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I ALWAYS had a sneaking notion that a good deal of the price of old “Strad” violins was due to their rarity, the collector's instinct, but, according to Science News Letter, Frederick A. Saunders, physicist of Harvard, has developed vacuum tube testing methods far finer than the human ear and they show the musicians are right—the old violins are worth their price on quality alone. He finds the sides and bottoms do not matter so much as the top, which produces more sound . than the strings. All news

to me!

Next—Should job seekers “ake

Senator Charles IL. McNary:

neither Oregon nor Washington will there be a single congressional battle that does not have its bitter local squabble over the Townsend Plan. In these fights the Townsendites will voter almost as a body against the candidates who dare to refuse to pledge their full allegiance to the plan. Life is being made completely - miserable for every candidate. “If it had not been for the Townsend investigation the movement as a distinct political force would have been less than half what it is today,” a Portland political writer, explained to me. “The doctor had to all intent and purpose outgrown himself and was definitely on the decline when this stupid investigation raised him to a new pedestial and lifted his cause to new heights.” Obviously both states can be classed today as doubtful. But it is equally obvious that unless some new and unexpected upset takes place, Roosevelt will manage to capture the pair and sweep the three coast states into his bag.

(TOMORROW — How various observers in doubtful states view election chances today.)

Acts for Wallace

By Scripps-Howard Newspaper Allidnce WASHINGTON, Sept. 4.—Farmers, whose lives depend so largely upon the weather, may be interested to know that the Chief of the United States Weather Bureau, Willis Gregg, has lately been acting Secretary of Agriculture. . Mr. Gregg gets the job because Secretary Wallace is out in the West, as is Under Secretary Tugwell, and Assistant Secretary Wilson is on & business trip to Europe.

The Chief of the Weather Bureau |

is fourth in line, among all the department’s many bureau chiefs, because Congress made the job a presidential appointment. The. other bureau chiefs are appointed by the Secretary of Agriculture.

Dr. Francis E. Townsend. who, according to Renorter Frazier Hunt, has become a “martyr” in the eyes of many of his followers because of the congressional investigation of 0. A. R. P. affairs, is shown with Sheridan Downey (left), one of his chief aids, and Thomas W. Hardwick, the O. A. R. P. chief counsel at the investigation.

“. .. These sister states, so closely tied by a common bond of natural

resources and political needs.”

Federal Fiscal Picture Is Far From Rosy, Johnson Comments on Budget

‘BY HUGH S. JOHNSON

ETHANY BEACH, Del., Sept. 4. The revised Treasury budget is

| bad reading. The evil omen is not

primarily the deficit, which shows a marked decline. It is the absence of suggestion of any reduction in total spending, and the fact that the reduction in deficit is all accounted

-| for by increased taxes.

Take out the soldiers’ bonus and you will find that, while emergency spending for recovery and relief goes down by 1.2 billions, as compared with 1935, permanent expense is increased by 1.1 billions from 4.3 billions to-5.4 billions. Eight hundred million of this is for. national defense and old-age security. There's no hope for reduction for either under present conditions. For eight years under both Re-

‘publican and Democratic adminis-

trations our fiscal policy has been so terrible that no pot can call the kettle black. : > : a = FJ OR Mr. Hoover's four fiscal years, "June 30, 1929, to June 30, 1933, we spent in billions an average of

+ |'4.5 and received an average of 2.8— |. {an accumulated deficit in billions of

6.8, or an average of 1.7 in the red per annum. Mr. Hoover's trouble was not that he increased expenses, but that he refused to increase taxes and, “to inspire confidence and to avoid new taxes” relied on the most deceitful juggling of Treasury estimates in our history.’ At least Mr. Roosevelt has not done that. His estimates of revenue and spending have been, if anything, too brutally candid. During Mr. Roosevelt's four years, including the new estimates for 1937, the annual spending averages in billiohs 7.5, the receipts 4.5 and the deficits 3. ; Mr. Roosevelt increased Mr. Hoover’s revenues in billions by an avaverage of 1.7, topped Mr. Hoover's spending by an average of 3 and deepened Mr. Hoover's deficits by an average of 1.3. Mr. Hoover -increased the public debt by nearly 6 billions, Mr. Roosevelt will increase it by 12. =

» = HE argument for the Roosevel increased spending is that, while Mr. Hoover was accumulating staggering deficits by refusing to spend er for relief or recovery or to increase taxes for fiscal soundness, the national income was cut some 50 billions a year, or nearly wealth reduced by half. =~

wire have got to be pointed in the

same direction so that they will some day meet. They have been moving apart and they still move apart. What hope is there in sight? Mr. Roosevelt estimates spending for the year ending June 30, 1937, at

7.7 ‘billions or in excess of the aver-

age for his Administration. The deficit is nearly 2.1, or two-thirds of

the annual average. What says Mr. |

Landon?

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IS utterances on spending speak of “increasing financial responsibilities” ‘and “huge responsibilities that must continue.” “We will not take our economics out of the allotments to the unemployed.” ° “We recognize that society acting through government must afford as

can against Involuntary unemployment and dependency in old age. “We pledge that the Federal government will do its proper share.”

“We propose to pay cash benefits ;

in order to cushion farm families

against the disastrous effects of price fluctuation and to protect their standard of living.” These are the principal heads of spending by which Mr. Roosevelt increased Mr. Hoover's outlay by three billions a year.

E-3 2 nn TO a categorical newspaper query as to which of the re-

‘ducible items of expenditures he ‘will reduce, Mr. Landon omitted to

reply. The cold fact is that he has not gone one inch further in promising reduced spending than has

Franklin Roosevelt.

The fiscal outlook, as Mr. Coolidge once remarked of business in

‘the depression, is “not good.” But large a measure or protection as it Tiles Mr. Landon has semte far | suggestions than he has as yet offered, it is clear out of the presi-

dential campaign.

constructive and concrete

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

by Lichty

GRIN AND BEAR IT

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NEW YORK, Sept. 4.—Surely the most comfortable realm in which man may, live outside the state of total ignorance is that inhabited by scientists of the kind who

are now holding a sort of intellectual state

fair at Harvard, proudly exhibiting their

prize pumpkins of learning and talking shop in a Jargon all their own. Here are giants who examine the human race through a strong glass as we scramble through our split-second existence, 2 Ne: breeding, fighting, toiling, splitting i into groups to practice racial and international cannibalism- at the expense of weaker groups, whooping after microbe leaders, scattering abruptly in all directions and coalescing into new groups which then fall upon old friends in an endless turmoil within the horizon of a pin-point. The detachment of these men who are of us, yet live in the clouds,

‘would seem to isolate them from

the mountainous trivialities which make impossible the peace for which we are always fighting. They study our behavior by masses and by individual bugs and compare it to the conduct of generations of bugs which fought and died 10 minutes ago, so far back that their existence may be read only in faint traces on the slide. They find “us unchanged in our fundamental character and conduct, for greed and fear of the next man control our existance. They find us more numerous than we were a few minutes ago, when our ancestors chattered in the trees, but though we breed more rapidly, we also invent weapons and vapors to kill thousands by remote control. :

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Mr. Pegler

” Hysteria the Same

EING of us, though apart from us, the scientist can understand the sounds which we call lane guage, and thus study our ‘superstitions, many of which, as the detached intelligence plainly perceives, are fostered and defended by force of arms, to the prevention of peace. They are often amused by the pretensions of one group of bugs to a civilization sue perior to that of anotHer group. They were hilarious last fall when some of the white groups laughed at the warriors of the Ethiopian group ®ho groveled gn the ground in an ecstasy of warlike ardor before their Emperor and their tribal priests receiving a mandate from their primitive gods on going: out to fight the Italians. The scientists could see that there was not the slightest difference between the hysteria of the Ethiopian braves and that of 100,000 Italians who stood in a great public square facing a comic bug on a balcony draped with flags shouting “Doo-chay.” From their position and with their scientific notes on past perfcrmances they could see that this war, was simply another outbreak of the old cannibalism.

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Money Is Nothing

T= scientist does not get much money, but that is : nothing to him, for he knows money is merely a primitive system of markers or tokens by which the. bugs measure their tiny possessions and their little success in the twinkling span of their existence. True, his wife and kids, being bugs, no doubt want magnifie cent flea-circus cars reduced 10,000 diameters in which to ride around and impress other bugs. But the scientist himself is way off, somewhere, aloof from such desires. He thinks in aeons and millions of light years of distance and wonders what sort of bugs he: might bring into the field®if he could obtain a smear from some other planet. : Cotton planters say the Negro field hand is the happiest man alive, too ignorant to WOITy or aspire and just content to be. An enviable state to. be sure, but the scientist is too learned to worry or bother his head with earthly ambitions and think of the fun he has -peering at the pompous antics, the alarms and’ fights, emotions and passions of the bugs.

Merry-Go-Round ]

BY DREW PEARSON AND ROBERT S. ALLEN

ASHINGTON, Sept. 4—Those who have talked with the President lately, both during. his drought trip and bzfore, report that he is absolutely confident regarding re-election. :

He is not underestimating the necessity of putting 3 up a hard fight, they say, but he does not even admit any doubt as to the outcome. !

Reports Roosevelt has received from Jim Farley and from other scouts claim the entire Pacific Coast and Rocky Mountain states overwhelmingly for Roosevélt, and Kansas as the only really doubtful state west of the Mississippi River. There was some doubt about the Dakotas; but Democratic. scouts believe the President's trip has changed this. ; 2 2 In the East and Middle West, Jim Farley figures

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“that the really big fight will be in Ohio, New York,

Pennsylvania, New Jersey and Michigan. ’ New England has been kissed good-by, excepf fop Maine, where a fight will bé staged chiefly for psychos logical reasons. But there is little chance of carrying Maine. : : : : These estimates are hotly challenged at Repub lican headquarters, but at any rate they are what the President and his intimates seem to believe. El : T looks like a long, grueling fight between corne starch and tapioca. = These two foes, who maintain a sweet appears ance in public, are staging a bitter private war, and the scene is not in the kitchen. 3 If it were just one pudding against another, there

would be no friction. But where they get stuck is

over the question of postage stamps. For Uncle Sam, in making his postage stamps, has a preference for the glue produced from tapioca. He uses about 600,000- pounds of tapioca a year in this way. : 8 Cornstarch, a home industry, berates Uncle Sam for favoring foreigners. All tapioca comes from the Java-and Madura. And it’s on the free list. ’

To make matters worse, Cordell Hull negotiated a trade agreement with Holland, which binds tapioca on the free list for the next three years. woe BS United States imports of tapioca, used also as a sizing in cotton textiles, have leaped from 35,000 tons in 1934 to 85,000 tons in 1935. “avid = = = ENATOR CARTER GLASS, who is 78 years but does not like to be reminded of the fact, was talking to constituents who complimented him on his hale and hearty appearance. i “You'll outlive the New Deal yet,” observed on of the men. > : : : “That's my great ambition,” pertly shot back the Virginian : ;

Mrs. Roosevelt has just received a clipping from

old,

Alice Sanders, Honolulu, with the note: : hoping your secretary will pass this on to you, one who can crowd so many varied and in Digs into ‘My Day’ can find time to smile over The clipping shows a picture of Eleanor R velt. Underneath it is the caption, “Carole Om s R08 8 ;

Labor Day dates back to 1882 when pioneer u i552 th New :

York succeeded in having the first are lovated In thegiate of Washinglon,