Indianapolis Times, Indianapolis, Marion County, 11 September 1936 — Page 21

HEYWOOD BROUN

EW YORK, Sept. 11. — Mrs. Beach of | Kansas City has discovered the sweetest |

reason to vote for Landon. quently in a letter to a fellow classmate.

She states it elo- |

“Dear Mary—This is Marjorie Marshall |

of the class of "07, writing.

I promised Alf |

Landon I would write to all the girls who were in | K. U. at the time ‘he was and trv to rally them into an active organization that would work to help elect, ! him President of the United States.” | But now comes the truly inspired |

part of the argument: : “There comes a chance only in Iwo or three generations that ga woman, especially, has the opportunity to say that she went to school with the President, and I know for that reason, if none other. that every K. U. girl will feel as I do—that she would give almost anything to have a part in this campaign.” Mrs, Beach is eminently correct In saying that only rarely does a woman get a chance to say that shie went to school with the Presi- : dent of the United States, She has a right to consider herself a lucky girl. And Landon

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is a lucky man for.that matter. He isn't quite as Jucky | as Mrs. Beach, because, even if Roosevelt is re-elected, |

she can still sav: ‘Do you know that Who ran for [President of the United States? was ii : And it wasn't Blaine, as my good friend Mrs. Peabody has just suggested. helpful, dear. No, dear, not the elder Harrison. died in office very much before my was Alf Landon. ” n ”

The Firm of Hamilton

" E was a nice, quiet boy and a nice, quiet candi- . date. 1 wonder what's ever become of him. None of us has heard a word since the late autumn of 1936. 1 believe he's in the oil business now with a firm called Hamilton, Hamilton & Hamilton.” The luck of Mrs. Beach, in the first place, was that

she didn't choose to go™o Vassar. Smith or Wellesley. | These are bad colleges to pick, for the time being, if |

you want to be able to say vou went to college with ‘the President of the United States. _: The” best chance to earn this interesting distinction would lie in matriculating at Harvard. But not all our -President have been matured beside the Charles. Some few years ago™a Princéton boy made the grade and there was even a Yale man White House. A ‘Harvard man put him there. And, a5 I remember, a President came from some one of those big colleges on-the coast. : Personally, I have not had the privilege of going to college with any President or even a candidate, but there is still plenty of time. Moreover. I am thinking of returning to Harvard soon to do some postfreshman work. But all this time we have left Mrs. Beach in the lurch. or Princeton, because they are not co-educational.

Just Another Chain Leiter

“HE friendships you make in college ofteri last a 1 lifetime, unless you are careful, and it must be nice to call a President by his first name. “We shall ask each; person to whom we write to in turn write five other persons,” exclaims Mrs. Beach. splitting no hairs but, only an infinitive: “If this plan Is carried through to the end the K. U. girls will have reached personally over 100.000 people.” But hold on! ° There can't possibly be 100.000 girls who went to college with Alf M. Landon. Mrs. Keach dilutes her original Stimulating scheme into sosmuch skimmed milk. The best the belated letter receiver can say is, “I know a friend who has a friend whose chum went to gollege at K. U. with a man who took a terrible licking in the election of 1936.” That's too remote. For instance, I belong to the same college fraternity as a man who almost got elected President, but I don't think that this bond has ever meant a great deal to either me or Charles Evans Hughes.

My Day

BY ELEANOR ROOSEVELT

Ay, N.- Y., Thursday—Somehow or other § yesterday ‘the paper and the mail got the better

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She couldn't very well go. to Harvard or Yale |

I went to school with a man | What | s name? No, darling, it wasn't Samuyel J. Tilden. |

Thank you for trying to be | He | time. .The name |

Second Section

FRIDAY, SEPTEMBER 11, 1936

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

SCHOOL DAYS AT THE S

1 836 and 1936 Displayed Side by Side in Educational Exhibit

ATE FAIR

of my intention to tell you a few more incidents of the strange places in which I have written “My Day.” Once, for instance, after a day spent at Camp Jane Addams, we sat on a rock, with the typewriter on another rock, right at the entrance to the Bear Mountain bridge Then one day we were very late; so out of the -back of the car came the typewriter and we parked ourselves ‘beside a busy road. where Mrs. Scheider worked with the typewriter on her lap. Perhaps the most exciting of all was the day when I went to the Warwick School, which I remember mentioning at the time. But I did not tell you that Mrs. Scheider sat at home and wondered what had become of me. She was considering sending in search of me, when my telegram telling her that the piece was finally done, reached her. One day the copy was late getting in and we had a frantic telephone call.” We felt extremely aggrieved, for, as far as we knew, we were not at fault. In fact, we had taken our piece to the telegraph office ourselves in quite a storm, and felt extremely virtuous as we drove home with some difficulty, while the rain came down in sheets and thunder and lightning played all about us. the Poughkeepsie telegraph wires had been out for a

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"ihe costume of

desks. George

On telephoning we found that |

time due to the storm, and that no one was really at |

fault. The copy reached its destination just in time.

Just the other day we found ourselves on the

train with less than half an hour to make another |

one at the Pennsylvania Station for Washington. In our hurry we left the typewriter behind. So very laboriously we did it in longhand, dashed into a friendly office and asked a stenographer if she would stay over, type it for us. and gett off. She acquiesced without a murmur. We made our train and it ap-

peared the next day. (Copyright, 1836, by United Feature Syndicate, Inc.)

New Books

THE PUBLIC LIBRARY PRESENTS— HIS book, THE*ABANDONED WOOD, by Monique T Saint Helier (Harcourt-Brace; $2.50), is a novel for the connoisseur, for thd reader who delights in

delicate phraseology and finely wrought word-paint- |

ing. It is writing strongly comparable to brush work

—a pastel done by means of Skill delicate strokes |

and colors, accomplished very gra

ally before one's |

. eyes, so that the meaning of the work is not fully |

* revealed until it is completed. :

“The theme of the story is an old one. It con-

serns the decay of a proud, ancient French faniily, the |

Aleracs, and the usurpation of their lands by Jona- . than Graew, -peasant proprietor. Momentarily we glimpse the entangled lives’ of the characters, reveiled by their thoughts and actions rather than by the narrative: Carolle Alerac, who hates Jonathan Graew; Mlle. Huguein, who secretly loves him; Jonathan himself, who loves Catherine, who in turn thinks of Jerome Balagny: the pastor, who loved Carolle’s mother; and best of all Gillaume Alerac, -Who, at 70, realized the folly of indulging in resentment and hate, and whose love for his granddaughter Carolle is beautifully portrayed.

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N this book. DUDE RANCHERS AND PONIES, by Lawrence B. Smith (Coward-McCann; $3.75). is combined the work of many experts -on the West— cowboys, dude ranch managers, poets and photograph. ers. The result is a book so full of dude ranch atmosphere that when we finish reading, those of us who have been ranching can hardly wait to return, and those who haven't feel so learned in: the ways of a horse and a dude that We can not wait to exhibit our knowledge. We learn of. different kinds of horses, how they are selected for various uses, how to ‘brand, break, train and ride them; why cowboys dress &s they do, and how dudes should dress and act.

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: EY LOSE THEIR INDIVIDUALITY IF THEM 2

THEY TRY TO MERGE YES OR NO

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LET'S EXPLORE YOUR MIND

BY DR. ALBERT EDWARD WIGGAM

DO MOST

o TONE OF FOR THER EDUCATION TO MAKE Hi FAILURE TO COMPLETE SCHOOL IN YOUTH? YES ORNO ce

CONT MAKE DECISIONS TO HELP THEIR CHILDREN T¢ ACT WISELY AS | © LONG AS POSSIBLE?

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NO—IT will tend to develop each one’s individuality toward

| larger ends and ideals than eath

could have attained without the complement of the other. If they make a serious effort to achieve

common attitudes and - opinions it will unite them in a grand enterprise—the search for truth-—some-thing much grander and more developing than ‘for each one to try to argue or bulldoze the other into his private attitudes and opinions. : 2 8. = ; NOT AT ALL. Adult education has little relationship to what schooling one has previously had. Yery little of the schooling we adults had in childhood and youth is much help to us now in this radically changed world and we have forgotten most of it anyhow. As pointed out by Everett Dean Martin, president of the American Association for Adult Education, people are going In for more education today for two reasons, firsh.-to fit themselves for larger Jobs or‘ new Jobs, and, Ray re 2 SE og 2 She God

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second, to make their lives more interesting and enjoyable.

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NOT UNLESS they want either to lose them or make mollycoddles of them. As Helen Ellwanger Hanford points out in Scribners, the time when mother can say complacently, “Mother knows best,” has not only passed but this attitude is now greeted with shouts of laughter. Perhaps this change, if properly handled by parents, means oppor-

tunity for them to improve as par-

ents. There are a thousan® Indei pendence Days in every child’s life and if these are recognized and a new freedom granted at that- point,

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even if the freedom be only to wear |

| a pink frock instead of a blue, ang [ granted with a sense of humor, it can mean a deeper co-operation that will draw both parent and child into a new mutual helpfulness and understanding. rd

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Americans Become Easy Marks for Tricks, Johnson Says

BY HUGH S. JOHNSON ETHANY BEACH, Del, Sept. 11. —From boyhood it was Huey Long's boast: “I can sell anybody anything.” It was not without truth. “Every man a king” was pure hokum, but he got away with it, and among millions. If he had lived, there is no telling how far he would have taken it.

There are: perfectly phenomenal instances of the ease with which the American public can be sold in mass. In the winter of 1916-17 there was no sentiment west of the Alleghenies for us to enter the World War. Mr, Wilson was ‘re-elected for having kept us out of it. Yet, within four months, by the dexterous injection

long “built up” by more insidious

whoop. : It ‘had, for centuries, been considered inherent in the Anglo-Saxon heritage that conscription is: impossible as a means of mobilization among the countries of the common law. Yet within two months, by the use of careful, comprehensive and well-established selling meth-.

it was a national institution of almost universal popularity. 2 = = ! A T, and just after, the Armistice, At was as much as. your reputation for loyalty was worth in Washington—and, to a lesser extent, everywhere—to question the inspired truth of every one of the 14 points, or our Heaven-inspired duty of adherence to the League of Nations. Hadn't we fought the war to make the “world safe for democracy? pro-German?”

remarkable sustained exhibitions of continuous forensic selling by Senators Borah and Hiram Johnson, the sentiment of the whole country was switched from completely “pro” to almost wholly “contra”—leading up to the “great and solemn referendum” and the first instance in our

history in which an incumbent Adin a brilliantly victori-

1. When' education first bloomed—awa

3. And then here's the one-room school at age in Brown County it has the barrel-lik

paces for the benefit of fair visitors. room, is really Mr. Neese's smartest pupil. 4. And just alongside the two

class taught by Miss Elsie George, Carmel. Hamilton County.

Mass Selling

of slogans into a public sentiment

propaganda, we were in it with a)

ods, we had it; within four months,

What are you anyway—a

Yet principally by one of the most |

the era—the

y back when—men like Charles E. Smock, 68, Box 630, Indianapolis (shown with the bell), were teachers and called their pupils to claychinked log schoolhouses similar to the one Ss 2. The side-burned Mr. Smock, he’s really a teacher, schoolhouse of 1836—at the fair. the fair's educational exhibit. Built 50 years e stove in the room’s center and knife-scarresl

hown at the Indiana State Fair.

is shown here teaching a class in

Neese, 50; Johnson County russ teacher, is putting his class through the

ous war had gone down to a particularly inglorious political defeat. : 8 nn HE obvious conclusion is that, as a people, we are particularly susceptible to our own institution of high-pressure, sloganeering salesmanship over wide areas of space at almost any ‘particular instant of time, A supreme try for an all-time record along this line is going on before our eyes—the Republican effort to convince the country that the depression was over in 1932, that Mr. Roosevelt brought it back by being elected, that he deepened it,

Thomas Duncan, the “dunce”

in the corner of the

antiquated schools is this modern schoolroom with its The pupils are from the Carmel schools off

and that ever since the only effect of his efforts has been to prolong it and retard recovery. In the face of the most remarkable recovery in economic history in so short a time, and a growing prosperity in all lines unequalled since the dizzy days of the 1929 fantasy and collapse, this is the pearl performance—or attempted parformance—in the whole history of charlatanry and mass-deluding from Peter the Hermit to Phineas T. Barnum and Albert Ponzi—from the Mississippi Bubble to the Hoover boom. wud (Copyright, 1936, by United Feature Syndicate Inc.) .

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by Lichty

GRIN AND BEAR IT

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NEW YORK, Sept. 11.—One point made by

Jim Watson in his story deserves fair °

consideration even though it does come from a nian who sees nothing wrong in the selection of Presidents by private decision of the

likes of Boies Penrose and himself. : Jim's book, “As I Knew Them,” complains that many hard-working Senators and congressmen receive no credit for years of studious toil, which do nok

appear in any public record, and observes ' that in aimost any given £3 membership of the lower House there are a lot of freshmen so inex- * perienced and so little acquainted with’ the town as to be useless or worse. . He might have added to these freshmen a proportion of sophomores or second-term Representatives, because Washington is a ! complex capital and there are some { statesmen who do not learn their : way around even in four years. The ° freshmen, howevér--are almost a dead loss, so bewildered in the maze of buildings, bills, bureaus and procedure that they find themselves up Mr. Pegler . for re-election and, in many cases, licked, gone andforgotten before they have had ‘a chance to record their presence. : If it takes eight or 10 years for a newspaper reporter to become thoroughly seasoned on the Wash= ington run, to acquire the background and extend his range of acquaintanceship, it is hardly wise to expect that new congressman to hop into new surroundings and a new job and make himself useful to the full extent of his natural ability.

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: = new congressman arriving in Washington for

the first time learns a sharp lesson in humility. He is a celebrity and a person of consequence on his own home grounds, but in the capital he is only one congressman among 435. They come and they go in

Washington and the social prestige of the position is almost negligible at best, a fact which affects the soul of the membership most unhappily. Senators are invited around to the fashionable salons, which are in many cases mere dog-pits in which famous enemies are nosed up face to face in the hope they will go for one another, but the cohgressman is elaborately ignored. The public buildings are vast and the goV~ ernment departments so many that a man can’t possi bly memorize their initials, much less understand the services which they purport to perform. * Then, too, even in the House membership, the atti= tude toward the greenhorns is similar to that of upperclassmen toward freshmen in college. The old-timers know that the new men are confused and treat them with condescension, have secrets from them, kid them and won't let them sound off with patriotic orations, a bitter disappointment.

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Overlooked by Jim

B* as Jim points out, legislation affecting such matters as banking and finance and the tariff is not to be understood from partisan speeches by tha leaders on the floor nor frem the scanning of headlines in partisan newspapers. These problems take solemn study and a grade of intelligence which is notto be found in such wholesale lots as make up the body of the House of Representatives. Another phase of the problem which somehow doesn’t occur to Jim is that when legislation affecting great interests one way or another is defaulted by the nonentities "into the hands of earnest, devoted party leaders who know the ropes and "know how to get schedules whipped into shape, there is always a danger that these splendid old characters will “slip over something which ought not to be. I didn't discover this ‘disturbing thought in Jim's memoirs, but then

you couldn't expect him to think of: everything, least of all that. : ;

Merry-Go-Round

BY DREW .PEARSON AND ROBERT 8. ALLEN PORTLAND, Me., Sept. I1.—All' the way from the lobster pots on the coast to the lumbér camps on the Canadian border, the state of Maine ds enjoying its quadrennial political spree. There is nothing that Maine loves more than to

‘have the eyes of the nation turned on it for the pure

pase of gauging the November election. That hackneyed- political proverb, “As Maine goes, so goes the nation,” is giving this state a spotlight thrill quite out of proportion to its tiny quota of five electoral votes, : It is hard to believe, but the two national com mittees are pouring as many dollars into this state ag there are votes—approximately 300,000. Both sides have brought up their heavy oratorical artillery and bedecked the populous centers with posters, tanners and buttons. : The strange part about it all is that when the shouting is over and Monday's votes are counted, if Maine does “go Democratic,” the state will almost undoubtedly support Landon in November. In fact, the impartial dopesters are expecting just exactly that. They are saying that Maine will put Democrat Louis J. Brann in the Senate, and then turn around and give Roosevelt a drubbing ‘seven weeks later. ~ : In other words, there are a lot of people “down” here who want to see Democrat Brann in the Senats and Republican Landon in the White House® Brann has been popular through two terms as Governor. A lot of Republicans will support Brann because he is dynamic and because he has been an anti-New aler, After the NRA decision by the Supreme Court and the President's “horse and buggy” denunciation, Brann was one of the first prominent ‘Democrats

ments.

- to declare himself opposed to constitutional amend-

. 2 n = . Be" this did not offend Jim Farley. Big Jim saw the chance of capitalizing Brann’s vote-getting powers in the interest of the Democratic Party. A year ago, Brann had no thought of ‘running for the Senate. « : Farley saw the need of heading up Maine's Democratic ticket with a man who, in September, could soften the blow Maine was expected to deal Roosevelt in November. He persuaded Brann to forget his anti« New Deal sentiments, and seek the senatorial seat, It was a good bargain. Each had something ‘to give. Shortly after Brann announced his intention of running for the Senate, the Deer Island Bridge was approved. This was a desirable project, but had been held in abeyance for a long time, : ~ This made it possible for Brann, in_the midst of the campaign, to go down to Castine and announce his success in getting big things done for Maine, In fact, the total three-year Federal Maine is around $150,000000, If Brann is elected, Farley will make

and the jue

YC] ical effect on the e host pl 8 Re iogea) je Suv for the Democratic Party,

Farley will have the con t alibi that Brann was not a New Dealer, and

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