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HEYWOOD BRON

WW ASHINGTON, Sept. 7.—1 have never Ww a photograph of John L. Lewis in which he was smiling. The picture takers generally get him to pose with a pugnacious

fist thrust out in front of him. And I am |

quite ready to admit that the president of | United Mine Workers of America is a serious-

the

minded man. But he does relax. He can crack jokes.

, There is noihing forbidding about his manner in | | He was asked | |.

a press conference. ; whether his trip abroad had been a good rest. “Fine,” “1 - didn't have an thought for three weeks.” The meeting of the minds which

intelligent

may occur in a conference between |

a public man in Ameri¢a and the reporters has a vast effect in the making of public opinion. think it Some .men have the knack of handling such contacts well, and others shrivel up. I personally believe that President Hoover had other important weaknesses but his

Mr. Broun rt utter ‘inability to. meet the press

with any skill or comfort was among his most fatal |

defects as an executive. It is familiar that Franklin D. Roosevelt does these things well, but for that mat-

ter so did Calvin Coolidge with an utterly different |

technique. I*would put Al Smith, back in the old days, as the best of the lot in knowing what newspaper men wanted when they descended on him in a body. Al knew news, He seldom let the reporters go away without a story. Gen. what broader effects, was also magnificent in playing those tunes which he wanted to set loose upon that medium furnished by an assemblage of reporters. 4 ” # High on the List

OHN L., LEWIS belongs high on the list. «) public platform he rises to the opportunities to drive home his point by effective theatrical devices. He is also practicing the same art when handling a press conference. Buf as the orator he swings along with Booth,

Gillette ° When the crowd came to his office in the Fogger Building Saturday they knew, and so did he, {that they were sitting in on an historic occasion. Gero hour had come in the fight between the craft unionists and thé C. 1.70. adherents of the industrial setup. The repercussions of this fundamental issue are

going to vitally affect millions in America who as yet |

don't know what all the shouting is about. It will

the shouting. And John L.

to coin an epigram. He torpedoes nor gave the nod to any Gridley.

_ -When I write my autobiography at the age of 85 | I rather think that I may remember more vividly | John Lewis chewing on a dead cigar and saying, |

“Lafa‘ And it may

“We're going through,” vette, nous voila,” nave more effect.

than any picture of in a French cemetery.

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Must Have Meant It

BY in the office.in the Tower Building there was |

a complete absence of any effort at heroics. “Well, wnat do you think Bil Green will do next?” asked a reporter. “William reen,’

- When another newspaper man asked whether Mr.

Green's own local in Ohio. might not refuse to send | him as a delegate to Tampa, John L. gave the cigar | “A prophet is |

another severe sometimes not try.” ing Scripture not for serious effect. There were no dramatic gestures but one.

fite- and remarked. lthout honor save in his own coun-

They

asked the big man behind the hedge of eyebrows what |

the final word of the C. I. O. would be to the penalty of suspension.

does with a mouse.

Now he leaned back and lit it. He took a deep puff,

“We're going through,” he said.

It sounded as if he meant it.

My Day

BY ELEANOR ROOSEVELT _ LBANY, N. Y.. Sunday.—This mornihg I had a

: chat with the President over the telephone on | his return from his trip and he says that they are all

hope to |

very well, only a little sleepy, and that they

remedy this before they leave again on Tuesday.

: There are moments when I hate the telephone be- | cause it breaks in on one so frequently when one |

does not wish to be interrupted. But there are other times when it is a joy.

for news one would like to hear, but can actually

talk and get all the jpformation which one can never |

acquire except by thé tone of a persons’ voice. Saturday Mrs.

he answered, |

1 don’t | is entirely a fair test. |

Johnson, who dealt in some- |

On the |

and when newspapers are his listeners | he studiously underplays after the manner of William |

said John .L. Lewis. |

But then he grinned to show that he was quot-

Lewis plays with a cigar as a cat |

Scheider and I began an annual vacation period. Some time before the autumn activ- | - ities really begin I usually g0 away for two weeks,

‘The Indianapolis’

Second Section

MONDAY, SEPTEMBER 7

1936

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

He oosier land Reviews

WE’ LL SEE YOU AT THE STATE FAIR

Its Accomplishments of the Past Year

One does not have to wait |

generally on a camping trip with some friends who

are pretty well tired out by this time. Theodore Roosevelt, used to say,

tain people who camp out well.

the ordinary daily routine may never come out. This year, however, away and

ne of the others has built ‘a new house | and urged

S to come and help with the settling.

One of the things we like to do best is to find the

right furniture and put it in the right place, hang

pictures or curtains. and move things all around until

we feel that we want to sit down and stay there,

As my uncle, | there are only cer- | Somehow or other | that mode of living brings out many things which in |

two of our campers are far |

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ACTORS AND &- ALTREC INTO THE:

I always wish that I had some real training as an |

interior decorator, more fun.

for I know of nothing which is | A room must come to life and look as |

though people could live a normal existence in it. It |

must be restful above all, a place where any one

would like to spend an hour with a book, or talk

toa friend. There is something similar, ing into a new house and camping out. has| play for one’s ingenuity. Mrs, Scheider and I went to get supper we discovered

however, between movAt least one | The first night that |

that the only cooking utensils that had arrived were |

our stainless steel frying pan and griddle. Z (Copyright, 1938, by United Feature Syndicate, Ine.)

New Books

THE PUBLIC LIBRARY PRESENTS—

| there is, in some of your gregarious friends, a sud- |

den interest in being solitary, then surmise that | they have read LIVE ALONE AND LIKE IT: A GUIDE FOR THE EXTRA WOMAN, by Marjorie Hillis (Bobbs-Merrill; $1.50). To those already established in their one-woman menage, this book will be a consolation and a cheerful guide. For the others who | have shunned this seclusion, it will appear a grand adventure full of comfort and gaiety. Whether you choose from necessity or preference. there is a ‘technique about living alone successfully. In sprightly manner, the author guides one in this game of solitaire, advising about friends, etiquette, leisure hours,

‘surrounding, food, and the ubiquitous budget system.

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N DRAMATIS PERSONAE (Macmillan; $2350)

William B. Yeats presents supplementary material | “Autobiographies” already published. These | memoirs and selections from diaries kept by Yeats are | says Padriac Colum, because they “reveal

to his

important, the mind of a man for whom the things of the mind Were the main things; it is a purification to read such & book in the present age.”

Yeats, dreamer and mystic poet-playwright, does |

not write autobiography in the conventional manner. He says himself, “To keep these notes natural and useful to me, I must keep one note from leading on to another, that I may not surrender myself to literature. Eo ae must Sette 5 a.asual though Then it 18 Buddha

GEORGE JEAN NATHAN, veteran—and usually caustic—dramatic eritic, states in Reader's | Digest that it is both the greater

| see themselves act. They see How

{they lock fighting or committing |

I murder or making love ‘and this

{both an objective and a subjective | way—both personally | and imper- | sonally—certainly a swell oppor- { tunity to feel important—the great- { est joy in life. 2 = 4 : WHILE RUNNING a vacuum sweeper, as stated in the Family | Circle Magazine, a woman picked up | the telephone and it killed her. This { magazine advises, it is always dangerous fo handle two electrical appliances at once, such as switching off the light on a winter morning while you are making a breakfast toast with an electric toaster, or while having ‘your hand on the

LET'S EXPLORE YOUR MIND

BY DR. ALBERT EDWARD WIGGAM

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| latter is especially : | cause your hands are likely to be

ide ! wet hands. { publicity and the fact that they can |

YES OR NO ee

INFELL,

: IN SOLVING = PROBLENS SUCH AG MECHANICAL PUZZLES PICTURE PUZZLES ETC YES OR NQ wenn

dangerous be-

wet — always dangerous even to switch on the house lights with Many people are electrocuted by reaching out from the bath tub and switching on a light. ”- =» = NUMEROUS EXPERIMENTS have been tried on this point and they all indicate that men are

all puzzles that involve the fitting of objects together, called sense of “spatial relations,” boys and young men do better than girls and young women. However, some researches indicate this may be due more fo the fact that boys have more practice in solving mechanical problems and fitting objects together, etc. than girls have.

that a little of the superiority in these abilities of males is inborn but that most of it is due fo environment.

Indications are

a PIR

When it’s fair time in Indiana you see views like these at the Indiana State Fair. 1—Just an old rowdy but a grand champion is Rowdy D'Or, Belgian stallion

owned by the Sugar Grove .

Stock Farm, Aurora, Ill. He quieted down for Miss Beverly Moore, Kokomo. 2-_Mary Ann Prosser, 4, of 1509 E. Bradbury, can count sheep easier tonight when she goes to bed after a visit to the fair. 3—Mrs. Eliza McKinsey, Columbus, looking at “Salt

of ‘the Earth,” the’ prize: po,

fair oil done by Robert. Fink, Terre Haute. 4—Squashed among squash and in the midst of a lot of pumpkin pies is Miss Helen Marie North, Rising Sun, 4-H Club girl. 5—A farm hand eyes hungrily a home-made Midway pie. 6—And it was Labor Day for these fair exhibitors as they trimmed the

beard of an Angus steer.

Gen. Johnson

BY HUGH S. JOHNSON ETHANY BEACH, Del, Sept. 7. —Father Coughlin’s voice, is plugging for the election of "Mr. Landon by. trying to split Mr. Roosevelt’s support. It once shrieked “Roosevelt or ruin,” next called him a liar and a betrayer, finally apologized, but still calls for his destruction, In all its millions of words it advocates only one specific, thing—<the printing of money to pay the debt and expenses of the government. That process in the opinion of all respectable authorities would crucify workers, widows and the poor on the cross of prices so high for the necessaries of life that none but the well< to-do could eat. = 8 2

ATHER COUGHLIN as “orator of Royal Oak” is entitled to whatever conviction he can carry with his dripping discourse .and emotional eloquence, but Father Coughlin talking radical politics and barely tolerable billingsgate is entitled to no respect whatever. Yet it does not stand alone among the excrescences of present-day political poltroonery. The headlines have announced that the greatest foot-racer this country has produced—Negro Jesse Owens—will take the stump for Landon. The reason he gave is that he wants to advance the interests of his under-privileged face. Latest rumors are that, in the high political strategy &f this golden age of the human intellect, Joe Louis’ support of Mr. Roosevelt will be sought and that both sides are:bid-

Father Divine. Maybe that is to offset Father Coughlin. Just why Jesse Owens thinks that the election of Mr. Landon would

advance the interests of the Negro

race is not quite clear. # = »

“HE principal reason why NRA never had any fiery defense in : Congress from the Democratic South is that it raised the condition of Negro labor in Dixie by a greater step than any since the emancipation proclamation. For the first time in this country, relief for the

ding high for the indorsement of |

unemployed and destitute under the |

Questions

the state in New York City, the first stop ‘was to raise the percentage of Negro relief workers from equality on the basis of population to equality on the basis of necessity—a very- important. shift. : “Thé New Deal has done more for Negroes’ than ‘any act of govern‘merit in our times. ° But neither rhyme nor reason seems to have any more to ‘do’ with this. kind of politics than they. do among the witch-fires of the voo=doo ritual. aR Aa ATHERS CCUGHELIN and Divine, old Doc Townsend, Gerald K. Smith are well lapsing back into that strange interlude in the early part of the last centyry when nearly

Jesse Owens’ Motives in Campaigning for Landon

every part of the country was producing some mystic with a divine afflatus! Russelites by the thousands gave away their worldly goods and stood upon every mountain top ina ressurrection nightgowns listening for Gabriel's bugle. The Spiritists were bringing back ghosts from all antiquity. leatherwood God was bellowing the new salvation and Joseph Smith received the golden tablets direct from the hands of the angel Moroni on the hill Cummora. Well, it’s no worse than the mystic menk, Rasputin. All he did was te wreck an empire.

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

GRIN AND BEAR IT

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- Douglass Buck, du Pont son-in

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Liberal Side

by . HARRY ELMER BARNES

(Substituting for Westbrook Pegler)

EW YORK, Sept. 7.—There are at least certain fair similarities between the Copperheads of the Civil War period and the Liberty Leaguers of today. Not the least of resemblance lies in the abuse of Jefferson’s memory by both of them. Just as to-

day the plutocrats and reactionaries whom Jefferson

would abhor if he were alive call down his blessings upon themselves, so during the Civil War the Copper=-

heads appealed to Jefferson's mem-’ ory to justify their savage attacks a upon President Lincoln. a oR One of the most interesting ex- ors 1 amples has been dug out by Prof. | zr Ray Abrams of the University of - Pennsylvania and published in the 1 Pennsylvania Magazine of History and Biography. It relates to the vituperation of Lincoln in a prominent Copperhead newspaper entitled the Jeffersonian, edited in West Chester, Pa., by John Hodgson. The Copperheads of the sixties beat our present Liberty Leaguers to it by predicting dire consequences even before Lincoln was elected for his first term. Three days before -slection Hodgson wrote: “We now make the prediction that, in the event of Lincoln's election to the presidency. a dissolution of the Union will follow. We are no‘ alarmist, but we can read the ‘signs of the times’ and the ‘handwriting on the wall’ . As sure as there is a God in Heaven we will have ‘fearful times in our country should the North elect Lincoln. His election would not only be an intentional insult to the South but will be regarded as a declaration of war... . We have said that the election of Lincoln will be the death knell to our. ree public. We say so because we believe it 4

Dr. Barnes

Attacked After Gettoshury

J opasoN thought no better of Lincoln's first ine augural address, which embodied a sharp, if Justifiable, attack upon the Supreme Court: - “As a whole, it is a lame, unsatisfactory and dis creditable production, inferior in every respect to any« thing that has ever emanated from any former President. In one word, the tiger's claws are not the less formidable because concealed under the velvety fur of Sewardism.” After the Gettysburg address Hodgson launched a bitter attack upon Lincoln which reminds us of the present assaults being made upon Roosevelt by Republicans and Liberty Leaguers respecting his public expenditures and his use of political patronage: “WHAT ABE COSTS US.—Lincoln has cost his country three thousand million dollars and a million of lives, and the end is not yet. What a scourge to humanity that he was ever born! . . . Is Lincoln fit to be President of the United States? Thousands and tens of thousands who voted for him are ready to say he is not. fit. . .. “If ever a man has prostituted his position for per= sonal and political aggrandizement President Lincoln has. . . . If the country needs any additional evidence that Abraham Lincoln has neither the honesty of a patriot nor the ability of a statesman, i has it in He last message.” : ” ” ” Roosevelt Criticism Mild

HAT even Al Smith or. “Father. Coughlin could take lessons in invective from the Civil War “Jeffersonians” is evident from Hodgson's editorial in August, 1864, in response to the Presidents call for . a day of humiliation and prayer: “God’s curse is upon the land. . On this day above all others, as the special appointment of the great Illinois jester and -buffoon, does it become us to acknowledge the truth, and pray for forgiveness of God for any and every part we may have taken in upholding the sins and abeminations of this wicked Administration . . . te put on sackcloth and retrace our steps. . . .” While it is too early to predict what may be said before the campaign is over, it must be admitted that President Roosevelt has thus far got off pretty easily at the hands of our present-day fake Jeffersonians.

Merry-Go-Round

‘BY DREW PEARSON AND ROBERT S. ALLEN

ASHINGTON, Sept. 7.—The Duchy of Delaware is one of the nicest, tightest little empires ever ruled by any monarch, outside of Monte Carlo, Lux= emburg or Lichtenstein. Its rulers are the du Ponts, manufacturers of powder, munitions, automobiles, paint, and one of the wealthiest families in the United States. They build Bghways and they own the two daily newsRrapers taat dominate the state, they elect the Gov= .ernor from their own family. But now their little duchy is torn with taternal dissension and political war. The joke is that what the du Ponts tried to do to the Democrats has now come home to roost. No group in the. nation spent more money trying to stir up dissension within the Democratic Party. Du Point money was in the Liberty League; in Talmadge, and in a long list of promising sores within the Democratic fold. That was the best way, they Sgured. to beat Roosevelt. So bitter is the feuding within Republican ranks in Delaware that unless peace is arranged soon, the three electoral votes from this traditional G. O. P. stronghold will bear the label of the man the du Ponts are so desperately anxious to geleal, = = AUSE of the row is an alleged deuiiecross. % I. Dolphus Short,’ popular Sussex County leader, claims that the du Pont-controlled state machine promised him the Republican gubernatorial nomination. Short’s claim is backed by former Congressman Robert G. Cannon, who broadly intimated at the recent state &. O. P. convention that Gov. C. in-law, gave this assure

ance two years ago. Buck, now nursing senatorial ambitions, heatedly. denied the statement. Under the whip-cracking of Buck the convention nominated Col. Harry L. Cannon, a rival of Short’s in Sussex County. Short and his followers promptly walked out of the convention, held a rump meeting in a nearby hall and organized an independent Republican party. A nominating convention will be h-ld this week at which a rival G. O. P. ticket hzz —ed ‘by Short probably will be put into the field.

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