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MONDAY, SEPTEMBER 14, 1936.

“ADAPT OR DIE” SAID Gov. Landon at Portland, Me.: “In this country, government in its relation to business always followed the principles underlying a free enter‘prise system—protecting this system has been one of the major problems of our government. In the early days of our republic most of the laws regulating business were enacted by the states. As the years went by, conditions ‘became more complex and gradually the Federal government became active in protecting the economic freedom and the welfare of our citizens. “As a result we have laws on pure foods, public health, banking, transportation, workmen's compensation, safety ‘appliances, monopolies and unfair trade practices, *and

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issuance of securities. “This is an imposing list. progressive.nation. signed to proteqt the public welfare and

preserve equality of opportunity.” :

Then the Governor turns to smite the law-making |

policies of the New Deal, with particular reference to NRA. He sees in that a sinister plot to establish government domi_nation of industry, and the same in AAA. r n n 2 E wish in the interest of a sane sense of proportion that every one who read or listened to the Landon speech would turn back the clock and go. over the history ‘of these Federal laws which the Governor so heartily in“dorses as a prelimmary to his assault on the policies’ of the ‘New Deal; that for example “Our Times,” by Mark Sullivan, ardent advocate of Landon, might be reviewed in those chapters which deal with the pure food and public health statutes that Landon now accepts as a part of the “imposing list” which marks America as a “progressive nation.” Or, in fact, that the list might be scanned in its entirety. For the same opposition would be found that is now being displayed by Landon in his crusade against the reforms of the “New Deal—the same opposition, and upon precisely the same grounds. Back in 1905, for instance, the big battle for the pure food legislation, which Landon now praises, was on. We select this from the Congressional Record of Dec. 13 that year, as symbolic: Said Senator Aldrich, Republican and large stockholder In wholesale groceries, and bitter foe of the pure food bill: “Is there anything in the existing condition that makes it the duty of Congress to put the liberty of all the people of the United States in jeopardy? Are we going to take up _ the question of what a man shall eat and what a man shall (drink, and put him under severe penalties if he is eating . and drinking something different from what the chemists of the Agricultural Department think desirable?” = : > #8 =n OES that npt have a familiar ring when attuned to the Governor's expression of alarm 31 years later aboyt the ‘coercive hand of government”? Or the story of the meat inspection’amendment in the days of the other Roosevelt, for whom Landon bolted the Republican Party and became a Bull Mooser—the story of “The Jungle” and the Neil-Reynolds report and of how the packing plants were finally subjected to limitations of the personal liberty of those who then served the stomachs of a free people as described by a verse of the time: : Mary had a little lamb, And when she saw it sicken, She shipped it off to Packingtown And now it’s labeled chicken. The whole point of the matter, as we see it, is that Landon, originally possessed apparently of a progressive urge, as demonstrated by his earlier adhesion to Teddy Roosevelt, is trying today to do an extensive job of what is known as spiral thinking—or, as the race track boys put it, round-booking himself.

Deal acts affedting public utilities and the issuance of securities, but he is dead against everything that isn't already on ‘the books and underwritten by the Supreme Court. To him workmen's compensation, which was fought as hard by the interests of its time as TVA is being fought by the utilities of today, is all right, is necessary, is progressive, protects the public welfare and preserves equality of opportunity. : ~ 1 2 =» = / JR UT such legislation as NIRA, designed to create fair i competition, eliminate sweatshops, establish minimum wages and maximum hours, and give labor the right to collective bargaining—or AAA, to equalize agricultural with industrial tariffs—are heading us for dictatorship and making us one with Mussolini, Hitler, Stalin and Franco. ~~ The whole thing doesn't parse. It \exhibits a presidential nominee in the role of a rationalier for campaign purposes; one whose instinct is to accept the necessity of governmental, activity to meet what he himself describes ~ as conditions becoming more complex, but who, because of

the exigencies of his race for office, must try to eat his cake |

and have it too. Landon is up against the same inexorable force which this very year swamped a distinguished Senator in Landon’s neighbor state. Thomas P. Gore, Democratic opponent of the New Deal, recently defeated for renomination in Oklahoma, made this comment as the returns were recorded:

“The law of evolution is—adapt or die. I didn’t adapt.” .

“» Fofd for thought in those words for this presidential nominee now attempting the ungainly task of covering, both sides of the street, .

_ The Bureau of Public Roads, using funds appropriated 2 the 1935 Emergency Relief Act, has eliminated 76 grade sings in the last year and 1117 other projects are under 4 on. The combined cost will exceed $90,000,000.

He is strong for those Federal | regulations that now exist, including the most recent New |

It has marked America as a | For every one of these laws was de- |

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Y, SEPT. 14, 1936

The Ghost Walks Every Four Years —By Herblock

Fair Enough

By Westbrook Pegler

| NEW YORK, Sept. 14.—For more than a year a native American sailor named Lawrence Simpson of Kirkland, Wash., has been held in prison in Germany awaiting trial

ments which are said to have been found in his locker aboard an‘ American ship in. Hamburg. Under. the German law any ordinary American newspaper containing an editorial criticising the Nazi idea may be described, as seditious. There are possibly a hundred American books, entirely legal in American territory, including, of course, the crew’s quarters of an | American ship in a foreign port, | which are seditious in Germany. | The case against Simpson has not | been” fully disclosed in the dispatches published in this country, | but if the American passport means i anything at all it should protect an American citizen from long impris- : onment without trial on such a charge in any country having diplomatic relations’ with ours. The American -embassy in Berlin is remarkably bashful about protecting the rights of Americans in such: cases and the situation has grown worse since George Messersmith, the consul-general in Berlin, was moved over to Vienna as minister. Mr. Messersmith was diligent to protect Americans in Germany and he tangled with the Nazi officials so often in such matters that they were glad to see him go.

Mr. Pegler

2 on F Americans Mind Their Business

F course, Americans in Germany do not attempt . to hold meetings to denounce Hitler or Streicher or Goebbels, nor do they attempt to preach democracy and sneer at Naziism. On the whole they are content to mind their own business -and not interfere in the affairs of the German nation. It would seem that if the Nazis have any legitimate case against the American sailor they should be able toc go to court and get the thing done. In fact, if the sailor were a British subject, carrying the blue passport of the Britishi Foreign Office, that is what would have been done long ago because the British have a method of picking up a Nazi in their country whenever a Briton is tossed into a German jaik and treating him just as rough as the Germans treat their man. This plan has been remarkably effective and the Nazis do not pick up British subjects any more unless they have evidence of genuine criminal activity. > Under the German laws Americans have no sccurity at all because they are supposed ‘to be subject to the same risks that affect Germans. This means that an American could be picked up and locked away in a concentration camp or prison for life on the mere word of a jealous competitor or malicious neigh~ bor that he was overheard to say that democracy is better than Naziism. ; = un n

| Urges Immediate Trial

AT is the theoretical extreme, of course, but it exists in the German laws and the question is Just how far they are to be allowed to go in applying those laws to Americans in their. country. Meanwhile, the Nazis vigorously maintain that German ships in our ports are German territory. It should not be difficult, if the American embassy in ‘Berlin is at all interested in protecting the rights of Americans and the prestige of the American ‘passport, to compel the immediate trial of the American sailor. If the documents were not evidence of a conspiracy against the German government the embassy should get him out of prison. The mere possession aboard an American ship of some paper or book analyzing Hitlerism or denouncing the atrocities ot the regime, a document which would be legal in this country, should not be accepted as ground for imprisonment. -

on a charge of possessing seditious docu-

The Hoosier Forum I wholly disagree with what you say, but will defend to the death your right to say it—Voltaire. 5

WANTS UTILITY WORKERS TO PAY BILLS : By M. M. Kinney

. . » One can hardly indict even a utility company for forcing the collection of its due. But the thing that does rankle with many of us Is the fact that these corporate robots, called “public” utilities, often the child of foreign capital and legislative misrepresentatives, enjoy advantages over ordinary businesses which amount to nothing short of royal prerogatives. Their “royal” charters give them the power and the right to force collection of their credits. Yet employes of a public service company, which sells power over the state,

‘may allow their bills to run unpaid

and this “public service” robot will not lift a finger to protect the credits of private business. I know! I have a file which evidences that seven appeals for fair play have been made, the last to the highest

| official of this company, from which

not so much as the courtesy of a single reply has been received. Their employe owes an undisputed kill for necessaries, past due since January. Imagine, if you can, any utility user stalling off the payment of his or her bill for upward of a year withnut suffering summary action. » n ”n

TOM BLANTON DEFEATED, SO POET IS ELATED. By George Sanford Holmes

The News From Abilene In Washington the sun shines bright, . The burghers are elated, As if some overpowering blight At last were dissipated; Wherever citizens are seen _ The same thing is repeated— “Have you heard the news from Abilene? \ Palais “Tom Blanton is defeated!” :

¥ Not since the British entered town And gave it such a flurry, And tried to burn’'the Capitol down ‘ Ere quitting in a hurry, Has Washington known such relief, Such joyous tidings greeted, Fulfilling hope, surpassing belief— Tom Blanton is defeated.

Alf Landon tours the East to test The voters’ inclination, And Roosevelt tours the arid West For first-hand information; The politicians bray and brawl With tempers super-heated, But Washington forgets them all— Tom Blanton's been defeated.

2 x =n HOUSING PROJECTS BOOST TAX PAYMENTS

By Carl Ferguson, District Manager, PWA Housing Division Construction of Indianapolis’ $3,025,000 Public Works Administration housing project, Lockefield

Garden Apartments, brought pay-|

ment to the city of $21,700.55 in taxes heretofore unpaid. A check for this amount was paid to the city when the land deal was closed. The money was part of more than $1,000,000 back taxes paid to 35 cities where PWA housing ‘projects were located when the

press their views in these columns, religious = controversies excluded. Make youp, letter short, so all can have a chance. Letters must be signed, but names will be withheld on request.) :

government purchased the sites for the projects.’

Under the law, land must be free and clear when the government assumes title. To effect this, it is hecessary in closing a purchase to see that all unpaid taxes are met but of the purchase price. In cases where mortgages exist on the land involved, it is also necessary to pay up the mortgages, either in full, or in whatever amount is agreed upon by thé parties to retire them completely. In Indianapolis, existing mortgages were settled by a payment of

Division acquired title to ect site.

The city has not only cleared up its tax debts on the property, but is assured of revenue from the area for at least 60 years. This is the period of Federal amortization, as provided by the law under which the project is to be operated. The government will soon take steps to determine the amount it- will pay to the city as “service charges” to cover the services which the new community will receive,

The record of the Housing Division for buying its project sites at low cost to the taxpayers was well upheld in Indianapolis. Here we

RITUAL

BY GRACE M. COOK When night is flying westward with Her lanterns burning dim: When darkness is the deepest ere The dawn, I watch for him.

I watch until I see a light, Like a small red star, appear Upon the’ far horizon; then I send a prayer to steer.

The mail-plane pilot down the path My windows frame, and cry =

“God bless you! Happy Janding!” as He zooms across thes :

DAILY THOUGHT

Therefore turn thou ‘to thy God: keep mercy and judgment and wait on thy God continually. —Hosea 12:6.

EAL holiness has love for its ; essence, humility for its cloth"ing, the good of others as its employment, and the honor of God as its end.—Emmons, :

the proj-

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$70,380,14 at the time the Housing:

purchased ‘approximately 22 acres at a cost of 49 cents per square foot. Economy in land purchase is a vital factor in the provision of modern housing at an ultimately low rental. ” ”n n DOUBTS FARMER AIDED BY MILK INCREASE By E. A. Wheatly . About "two months ago the price of milk was raised 1 cent on the quart. The farmers were supposed 'to get all of the increase owning to the fact their pastures were burned and they had to feed the cows their winter feed. Now that is one raise that I paid gladly. I am not connected with farming in any way. I live in the city and I was taking three quarts of milk a day at the time of the increase in price. But I have found out since, and I absolutely know it to be a fact, that the farmer did not get that increase. Just ask any farmer about it and he will laugh in your face. The milk that goes in the bottle after passing a certain test. is the milk that the increase was to be paid on. If there is such a thing as.letting some milk make the test

the farmer gets about one-tenth of

the increase. Now then who gets the increase? Of course I will get some denials from this item, but the farmer

knows better than anybody else. ” 2 ” READER FEARS HEARST WOULD RULE LANDON By William Lemon . The Republicans again are using their old “Stop Thief” formula to distract the attention of the voters —“Roosevelt Dictatorship.”

Could it be possibie that William Randolph Hearst, who is now in Europe, is not. studying the methods employed by European dictators for the benefit of his protege, Gov. Landon, in case of his election? If we are to follow in the footsteps of Italy, elect Landon, and we will have our Mussolini Hearst and our Victor Emanuel Landon, with untaxed capital and the : laboring class paying the expense of the government. This was tried once under the McKinley administration, with the late Mark Hanna taking the role of

Roosevelt, no one can dictate to him. We found that out in “Teddy’s” administration. The average man wants a President, not an understudy of some capitalist, and we-are not yet ready for a dictator. =

J 2 ¥ =n KNOCK! KNOCK! IT’S G. 0. P. RAPPING By Reader, Frankfort

Knock! Knock! Who's there? Don’t -be silly. You know my knocks. It's the Republican Party

wanting in:

a Mussolini. One thing about , &|

It Seems to Me By Heywood Broun

NEW YORK, Sept. 14.—The government of the United States is an elaborate business, and the chief campaign argument of the Republicans has been that the Democratic Administration has been guilty of waste. Running a national campaign is also big business, and the men who are advising and directing Gov. Landon. now are likely to be the same people who would stand beside him or behind ; him if he were elected. : Whether Landon wins or loses, it - seems to me that no presidential campaign has been so badly han- © dled up to this precise point. Per- . haps the worst blunder of all is the : sending of du Pont, Sloan and © Rockefeller money into the state of Maine. Political ethics being what they are, there is nothing criminal or immoral in the Republicans tak= ing campaign contributions from the du Ponts. The Democrats would : do the same if they could get them, But it is certainly bad politics and bad bookkeeping to have these con- - tributions made directly to the G. O. P. campaign fund in Maine. ’ - I have gathered from the statements of John D. . M. Hamilton that Maine is in the bag for the Republicans. A majority so large as to be unprece~ dented has been freely predicted by the Republican Sokewnen, and they have explained that the hardbitten Down Easters of Maine are a thrifty and selfin crew of good Americans. I have been told that they are wild with resentment against Federal spending. *

Mr. Broun

2 ® 2 0» . Mad at Washington Money }

IZ makes them even madder, so it/has been ex= plained, when Washington money is spent in Maine. This they regard as an effort to bribs them and to seduce them by a mess of pottage from their birthright of freedom. : Perhaps I have been a little too naive, but the statements 6f Mr. Hamilton and others about selfreliant Maine and its devotion to Alf, the budget«. balancer, did ring true. But now look and see how the campaign budget is being balanced: “Pierre S. du Pont, $5000; Lammot du Pont, $5000: Irenee du Pont, $5100; Henry F. du Pont, $2500; B. Felix du Pont, $5000; J. D. Rockefeller, $5000; Alfred P, Sloan Jr., $5000.” : : Of course, $5000 is not much from a du Pont, but there are a lot of states. If a friend of liberty and foe of extravagance and waste is ready to sent $5000 into a state hailed as a rock-ribbed Repub« lican certainty, what wouldn't he contribute to the

campaign in a doubtful state? = = = *

Can There Be Selfish Motive? 1 Phan time to time, of course, I had heard that there was such a thing as a power interest in Maine, and that not all the pigs within the Pine Tres State were included in The mythical herd of the imagi= nary Mr. Pottle. Can it be that any single contributor to the fund of the Republicans for their state and senatorial ticket has any selfish interest in rolling up the vote or is this money spent whelly in the effort to ses - that Maine shall remain just as it was when thy Founding Fathers set a first timorous footstep within its forests? : 3 : I Gov. Landon appeared in person before Maine. ; went to the polls on its barometric mission. It has been said that on these trips he surrounds himself with” none of the disciples of reaction who used to be asso~ ciated with the Republican Party, but that he takes along merely old friends and Bull Moose buddies from Kansas. I think the Governor ought to make sure there are no stowaways who ride the rods. § :

EW YORK, N. Y. Sept. 14.—Mr. Roosevelt was gently quoting: “He maketh me to lie down in green pastures; He leadeth me beside the still waters,” and neglecting to add, “Thou anointest my head with oil"—“Preparest a table before me in the presence of

forever”—and several other passages from the same psalm which could have given his orthodox enemies { no comfort. ; At or about the same‘time the Baltimore Sun was printing a walkout speech by Frank Kent, and after 99 years of loyalty to the Democratic faith, announcing it was off Roosevelt and would be off Landon if he exuded thé taint of Hooverism. He already reeks with it. : A little earlier Mr. Walter Lippmann emerged from the purple silence to intone, in the manner of one who has recently wrestled with his soul but at length has walked with God in the garden in the cool of the day, that he is going to vote for Landon. A ‘rustle of relief went op from a waiting world to get that suspense over. : ;

2 =» Bn . : S I understand Mr. Lippmann’s excuse, he thinks it would be a good time to stultify the Federal government by making it a house divided against itself, with a Republican President, a certainly Democratic Senate and an uncertain House. Apparently conceding that Mr. Landon adequately equipped to be President,

is not

General Hugh Johnson Says——

But the main idea is more esoteric—almost too highbrow for any, save those who move in the rarefied mental atmosphere where Mr. Lippmann ratiocinates,

to understand. It is that we need

change of a government by

telegrams by which Roosevelt ac-

cepted the resignation of Ruth Bryan Owen Rohde as

mine enemies”—“I will dwell in the house of the Lord :

a “meeting of minds,” and therefore we should kick our old two-party idea of running the country into a cocked hat. We've all heard of coalition government when the enemy was knocking at the gates and a country put up its strongest man and persuaded politics to adjourn to provide a united front against a common enemy. = = ”

R. LIPPMANN’'S idea is a radical reversal of that. The world is aflame with revolution and war. We learn from the Cleveland platform that the “republic is in peril.” Yet this political recipe is to: take a tyro and seethe him in a bitter, boiling, partisan stew, composed of a Democratic C secking to make a record against a Republican President, and a Republican President trying to put the bee on a Democratic Congress—all for the sake of the 1940 election. . : In the graceful idiom of the great Kansas budgeteer, it is the most cockeyed reason that was ever presented by a brilliant man to kid himself into supporting something against which every fiber of his intellect must revolt. Cale Garb es I suspect Mr. Roosevelt will

American minister to Denmark there is a story. It began when the daughter of William Jennings Bryan became the first woman diplomat ever to rep-

resent the United States abroad. The career boys in

the State Department balked. : The only thing that brought them around was a White House intimation that Mrs. Owen might be appainted Assistant Secretary of State. So they thought it would be better to have her across the Atlantic rather than just down the corridor. They hadn't anything personal against Mrs. Owen. It was, Just the idea of a lady diplomat, 1 : = = = ¢ ME OWEN had one major obstacle ai Copenhagen, and that was finances. She was quite frank about it. salary as American minister was $10,000, and it took a lot more than that to entertain. .

She solved the problem by taking with her Helen Lee Eames Doherty, adopted daughter of Henry L. Doherty, the utilities magnate. Mr. Doherty considers mesh of ihe comemie Meas advocated by Mrs. Owen's ‘father friend, F. D. Roosevelt, to be darkly

The Washington Merry-Go-Round

By Drew Pearson and Robert S. Allen VV ASHINGTON, Sept. 14.—Behind the cordial ex-

All this gave Mrs. Owen the of being a wealthy woman, on Miss Doherty's - marriage, plus her father’s lack of enthusiasm for F. D. Roosevelt's holding company bill, eventually lost Mrs. Owen her secretary. How= ever, she continued to do fairly well. ; = Her friend, Secretary of the Treasury Morgerithau, sent a Coast Guard cutter to take her from Denmark to Greenland. She wrote a book, some magazine articles, and delivered a series of lectures about the trip. : 3 - ; 3

repu tation in Denmark

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AZT this time love began to stir in the eyes of Capt. Boerge Rohde, aid to the King of Denmark. Because Mrs. Owen was single, he had. been detailed by the Danish Foreign Ministry to accompany Mrs. Owen to official functions. Capt. Rohde is an attractive and intelligent gentle. man. $2500. : Therefore, Mrs. Owen had every intention of keeping her job and salary as minister to Denmark. But here, her old friends, the career boys at tha State Department, stepped in. They felt Mrs. Rohde was’ enjoying dual nationality. =a : : Legally and technically they probably were right, Anyway, all this was behind the cordial éxchange of telegrams between Mrs. Rohde and the President.

But he is not wealthy. His salary is about -