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WEDNESDAY, SEPTEMBER 23, 1936.

LANDON TELLS THE FARMERS

LOR 15 years,” said Gov. Landon, “we have been strug_gling with what has been called ‘the farm question’.”

; ¢/ XN THE SKIES id DRIGKRTENR — BUSINESS HAS (MPROVED

nae WE ACT

Quite true. It perplexed the Harding and Coolidge and

Hoover Adm

inistrations.

It has been and continues to be |

one of the chief matters of concern in the Roosevelt Ad- |

Tunistration

The Harding Administration sought to provide the

answer by

enacting the Fordney-McCumber tariff, boosting

Emport duties on farm products. But as all tariff laws have |

a way of result io farmers was a Imarseis,

doing, it

also boosted other duties, and the net | further drying up of their foreign |

President Coolidge spent a considerable part of his |

mitt:

Wetoing such proposed legislation as the export debenture

i. Eng the equalization fee.

Asngust, 1936, th ev

And by 1928, the problem was so pressing that’ Presi-

ng the seriousness of the farniers’ plight but |

gent Hoover called a special session of Congress to deal with |

The measures enacted were two: One created the $oover Farm Board, which Buying up surpluses, but which actually By keeping those surpluses hanging over thd market. The ®ther was the Smoot-Hawley tariff, which ofitdid the Ford-mey-McCumber law in boosting farm import duties, and #iso ouidid it in robbing American farmers of foreign markeis. Then came Roosevelt.

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LC ONCERNING what the Roosevelt Administration has gone for the farmers, Gov. Landon last night said: “What is the farm policy of this Administration?

it has none.

ational policy for agriculture.

shows, however, that the Roosevelt Ad- | tried to do certain things for the farmers. |

Seeds Let a

= see how well it has succeeded:

1. It undertook to get rid of price-depressing surpluses. | © Whe 1332.33 crop year carry-over of cotton was 13 million | Wales. The present carry-over is about 7 million bales. The | omen carry-over has been reduced from 269.5 million to 64 | sion bushels, and wheat from 384.5 million to 150 million

bashels.

2. It undertook to boost farm prices.

That is what

£ Per cent of parity,

- ty factories. LS 298 000,000. In 1936, it will be about $7,850,000,000. | 2832 fhe cash margin which the farmers had left, after de- | @acting production expenses, was $1,473,000,000.

: 3. It undertook to build back farm income and pur- | S ghasing power, so that farmers could again pay their taxes | {3nd debts and buy what they needed of the products. of In 1932, the farmers’ cash income was | In |

3 was $3.869,000,000.

4. It undertook to stay the ravages of farm foreclos- |

and ease the burden of farm debt and interest. In SRR ouf of every 1000 farmers were foreclosed. In the foreclosure rate is 19 farms out of every 1000. In . the estimated farm debt was about $9,000,000,000. In TW36_ it is about £7,500,000,000. In 1932, the farmers’ inSerest burden was about $596,000,000. In 1935, it was about $413,000,000.

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at? much for the 15 yea

in sn't to Landon.

CIVIC AUDITORIUM

JRDIAXAPOLIS, said to be the only city of its size in the | United States without a municipal auditorium, apparently |

Bas a good chance to get better auditorium facilities. Forrest Logan, State PWA Director, says it is “just a

gmatter of time”

gumiect, is confident the Federal grant will be made.

‘meeds a large civic auditorium for lectures, operas, political | Falbes, athletic events, circuses and other events which the |

The plan then is for the county to issue bonds for the | S=lance of the estimated $3,000,000 cost, and for the city |

20 lease the building as a municipal auditorium.

~ A matural convention city because of its central loca- | Seen. Indianapolis fails to get many of the bigger conven- | ‘Sons because of inadequate facilities. The community also |

snore modern auditoriums are equipped to accommodate.

Aside from the many intangible civic benefits, many

ities have made their auditoriums self-supporting invest- | ents through careful planning and efficient management. | 3 : an - y » : 1 Fa 58 Ewers oa Guestionnaire, Does the auditorium is liable to the last cent &nd at possible risk of his 2" 29 answered “no,” five answered “partly,” and the re- | g.24 replied “ves.” To the question, “Could you get |

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: without the auditorium?” 57 out of 59 said “no.” - Thirty-eight of the 91 cities over 100,000 population s municipal auditoriums, Most of the auditorium congetion has taken place in the last 15 years, and during : period many cities have outdistanced Indianapolis in this community investment, he Junior Chamber's drive to arouse public sentiment ect should meet enthusiastic response.

In After being in power for nearly { years the Administration is still without a settled, | bl It’s right back

In March, 1933, | S=rm prices were 45 per cent below pre-war normal. In | were 23 per cent above pre-war normal. | 3% also undertook to restore the pre-war normal ratio of | gees which farmers received for what they sold to prices | | which farniers paid for what they bought. § She farm experts call parity. In February, 1933, farm prices. | . were 50 pet cent of parity. In August, 1936, they were 98 |

In 1935 |

sought to bolster prices by | pressed prices |

Fair Enough

By Westbrook Pegler

Mr. Tisdale's Remarkable Success in Needling G. O. P. Birds Evokes

Protest From Game-Barren South

TEW YORK, Sept. 23.—Your correspond.ent’s account of the remarkable exploits of Mr. Fred Tisdale, the Tennessee Democrat who has been needling Republicans around Greenwich and Stamford, Conn., has~had deplorable.results in Richmond, Va. Mr. Tisdale

lives in a region which abounds in Wall Street brokers, corporation lawyers and general managers, and he has had spectacular success this summer in obtaining wagers on the presidential election.“We don't want=to seem captious,” writes Mr. Jack Randolph, a copy reader on the Richmond Times-Dispatch, “but some of the boys on the rim of our copy desk sincerely feel that, having got your Republicans in the bag, you are now frightening game with no regard for others. “The head man of our copy desk here is a Liberty Leaguer, and until you began, beating the bushes in print -he was so tame we could have taken him sitting. Everybody on the rim was gentling him along, fattening him up for the season. Now he is wild and wise as a crow. He was our only game and he was a honey. The Times-Dispatch copy desk conservation committee had wardens in three shifts protecting him 24 hours a day and a copy boy frisking strangers at the door. “And now that fall is here and he is all fat and sleepy and he leaps frantically at the word ‘bet,’ races for the sports department, doubles back and angles downstairs to the composing room, where the printers think he is a Democrat and don’t molest

him. 1 CAN realize what a good chance we had at him. . He had to sit across the desk from us all night and the political copy gave us marvelous opportunities to approach him without causing alarm. This is a fair paper and gives the Republicans plenty of spread, the best kind of summer feed for him. And with the pampering he got he was as cocky and sassy as one of your Greenwich (Conn.) brokers. “For a while we were thinking it would be a shame to take him and there were some who favored domesticating him. I never was one of those, as I feel that Republicans never make satisfactory pets and are always likely to revert to the natural state. Liberty Leaguers are much the same except for the more brilliant plumage and the crest and wattles. I thought we should have had him for Thanksgiving. “Since you have been beating the bushes with your

Mr. Pegler

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rs which “we have been struggling | with what has been called ‘the farm question.” ” Through | 22 of those 15 vears, it seems, the more we struggled the | “Jess we accomplished. By comparison, the record of the last | three years must look pretty good to the farmers, even if |

until President Roosevelt approves a | $1 163 850 PWA grant for the proposed new building here. | %e Junior Chamber of Commerce, which has pushed the

stories about Mr. Tisdale we have almost lost hope of him, a Liberty Leaguer who would have pecked corn off the block as we lifted the ax. ; ” ” ” E feel that it probably is carelessness on your part and hope you will show the proper spirit of co-operation. We feel sure that we need only point

coveys around New York and Greenwich, and stray | ones may even be knocked over with long poles, we have no such bird over here and thousands of Republicans were winter-killed in 1929 and 1930. “Where hunting is such strenuous sport and game is so scarce we feel sure you will see the harm you do in raising a noise over Mr. Tisdale's exploits. If { you will lay off, maybe we can get our Liberty Leaguer back in shape by making no alarming noises or quick moves and perhaps cut him up for Thanksgiving.” Informed of this, Mr. Tisdale immediately offered to divide his Republicans with the boys on the rim at the Richmond Times-Dispatch.

ETHANY BEACH, Del, Sept. 23.—The Wilmington {Journal in a rapid resume of what happened when the hurricane swept up the eastern shore had | this unobtrusive sentence, “Soldiers and officers of the . .. United States Infantry left yesterday’—meaning by “yesterday” early in the morning of the day { when, after complete weather bureau warnings, the { worst storm of many seasons hit the Atlantic coast. Now, ¢he duty of the regular Army is plain. They not only have no obligation to butt into civil affairs but, if they do so, without orders, the commanding officer is acting on his own responsibility and if any | government property is lost, or any soldier injured, he

career, : But spectacular Army reputations have been made by bold disregard of such restrictions when the emergency is great enough.

. ” ” ® Vis earthquake and fire struck in San Fran- ¥ cisco, Freddie Funston—ofTicially a helpless byHe threw open the stores of the He housed and fed 17,000 refugees. He took charge of the city and shot the ghouls who

stander—moved in. great base depot.

come out in every great human catastrophe. He dynamited the buildings on Van Ness-av and stopped the fire. It took an act of Congress to clear him, but e endeared himself to the Army

out that while Republicans may be flushed in large’

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VOTE HOPES, NOT FEARS, SOCIALIST PLEADS

By R. C. Lancaster, Executive Secretary, Socialist Party of Indiana

Robert Gaylor asks me why 30001 former Socialists in New York are supporting Roosevelt this year. He can answer the question himself by telling me why the former Republican, Senator Norris, is supporting Roosevelt instead of Gov. Landon. Mr. Gaylor would probably tell me that Mr. Norris never belonged in the reactionary Republican camp, and I can likewise assure him that no genuine Socialist can support the candidate of a capitalistic party. We are willing to assume responsibility for the actions.of the members of our party; we are not willing to assume responsibility for renegades. Nor can we accept responsibility | for the opportunism of the Communist Party, I can assure you, | however, that we can not agree | with the communist position of de- | feating Gov. Landon at all costs. | We feel that it is time for the | American people to vote, not their | fears, but their hopes and aspira- | tions. : 2 =

CCC REGIMENTED, VETERAN CLAIMS = By “Vet” The Republicans are doing a lot of howling about “regimentation.” The one thing they seem openly to approve about the New Deal is the Civilian Conservation Corps. It is the most regimented thing ever seen on American soil outside of the Army and Navy. The usual Republican consistency, I guess. Incidentally, the only criticism they make of the CCC is that some of the jobs require a man approved by Democratic bosses. The fact is that practically all the good jobs are filled by reserve Army officers and not more than one in 10 of these is other than an old-line reactionary Republican. That is the “non-partisanship of the Army,” which gets such a big play in a recent number of the infallible Sat urday Evening Post. Incidentally, “civilian” rights are denied the men in the camps to such an extent that if it were known who wrote this article, I would be discharged from the Veteran CCC company of which’'I am a member. ” x 2” SEES CONSERVATION AID TO PEACE By James W. Cory A vistor, recently returned from a trip through the Scandinavian countries, remarked that these countries have been practicing conservation for years, and attributes |the great beauty of their country- | sides to that movement. Everywhere one goes in these northern countries there is a very definite evidence of the conservation movement. The results are so noticeable that the country-side is more attractive than the cities to the tourists.

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The Hoosier Forum

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

(Times readers are invited to express their views in these columns, religious controversies excluded. Make your letter short, so all can have a chance. Letters must be signed, but names will be withheld on request.)

seethes in unrest, due principally to a restricted vision and harsh competition, the countries to the north grow and prosper at peace with one another. Some might say that such conclusions are too visionary, and that conservation of beauty and resources can have little to do with the attitudes of men. Yet after careful thought and a review of the judgments from all ages it is clearly proved that man fits himself into the Great Plan and uses his abilities to further the workings of Nature and Nature's God, a stability

of mind, contentment in life, and.

a wholesome desire for peace and happiness permeates and motivates his every act. When men come to a full realization that as they act in harmony with the unchangeable laws governing the universe, the greatest

| benefits accrue for themselves and

all others; then they will gladly fit into the scheme of things and move as one great body toward perfec~ tion as planned in the beginning. Ed ” ”n

THIRD PARTY SEEN AS PRO-REPUBLICAN MOVE

By John Kazangian, 901 Fell Street, San Francisco, Cal.

Alfred Landon says his party will put our hquse in order, but under Republican dictatorship our house and country were indeed on fire, until President Roosevelt extinguished that fire, putting our house truly in order, delivering honest, long-suffer-ing citizens from bread lines and flop houses, extending employment, hope and prosperity to all. The Republicans fail to present a true picture of their past record. All thinking people understand this so-called third party was introduced by big corporation interests

BIRDS BY BARBARA G. GRIFFITH

A chattering amongst the birds Denotes the season's change, Their lusty calls from garden walls And baring trees, sound strange; As syllables, or almost words ‘ Drop from each bill-beaked mouth In question, “Shall we linger here, Or go awinging South?”

DAILY THOUGHT

And Samuel said, Hath the Lord as great delight in burnt offerings and sacrifices, as in obeying the voice of the Lord? Behold, to obey is better than sacrifice, and to hearken than the fat of rams.—I Samuel 15:22,

ET the ground of all religious actions be obedience; examine not why it is commanded, but observe it because it is commanded. -True obedience neither procrasti-

While southern Europe boils and

General Hugh Johnson Says—

When Hurricane Disaster Hovered Over Delaware Coast the U. S Army Moved Out... Yet the C. O. Was Wholly Within His Rights in Doing So -

in the “Lincoln County war” stood with his troop and

watched almost inhuman slaughter

nates nor questions.—Quarles.

and Republicans, with a friendly undercover understanding between them and a united object to defeat Roosevelt, deceive the voters and split the Democratic vote. x = = SAYS G. O. P. TIRADE DOESN'T REQUIRE REPLY By Subscriber I note in The Times that W. F. E. is champing at the bit and complaining because Mr. Roosevelt is not out making political speeches. It must be admitted that the Republicans find it tough sledding campaigning all alone; moreover, the weather has been most unbearable. He suspects that Mr. Roosevelt has no answer to make to the Republicans. j Let W. F. E. calm himself, for we

know of nothing requiring an an-|

swer. A constant tirade, beating the

wind and fighting windmills with- |-

out offering a single constructive idea does not call for an answer. ” on on LANDON’S STATEMENT BRINGS CRITICISM By Mrs. B. J. Shelton Nothing in this campaign has made me so resentful of the Republican tactics as Gov. Landon's recent, fearful declaration that the United States is headed for war if Roosevelt is re-elected. I wonder if Gov. Landon or any other high official of the party knows how close we were to revelution back in the days of Hoover! It was a common thing in those days for men, good citizens, but desperate ones, to say, “There will have to be a showdown soon,” or, “There is a living in America for everybody; I am willing to work for mine, but if I can not make it, I intend to take it,” or, “Whenever they hand me a gun, I'm ready.” Nor was it idle talk. : These same men, whose hands and brains were idle in those days, are working today, and although some of them are dissatisfied, they are thankful for work of any kind and hopeful that eventually they will get back to their old trades. It is men with their backs to the wall, Gov. Landon, who strike out against their government. It was the Republican Party and its Economic Royalists who backed men against the wall and kept them there for “three long years.” It was Franklin Delano Roosevelt who helped them to edge away, just a little, and who still, in spite of propaganda and revilement, is putting forth every effort in his power to help them to come forth into the open again. Our people know that no man, however great he may be, can turn national chaos into order in “four short years.” But so long as our people are on the uphill road, though their advancement be by inches, you need have no fear of their lifting their hands against their government, and so ‘long as Franklin Delano Roosevelt remains in the White’ House our people will be on the uphill road.

in! —By Herblock

It Seems to Me

By Heywood Broun

Man From Mars Drops In, Dizzy: Trying to Understand Puzzle of Hearst, Landon and Communists

NEW YORK, Sept. 23.—The man from Mars has not been around to see me for several weeks, but this morning I heard a gentle tapping on the windowpane and in floated the little fellow looking more bewils

dered than usual.

“I am puzzled,” he began, “hy your political came paign. I see by your newspapers that a certain no=torious newspaper publisher has been rebuked by a Mr. Early for ‘framing’ the American people. May I ask why it is necessary to avoid naming the publisher if he is ‘notorious’ ?” “It is considered bad manners for a President to point,” 1 hazarded. ; “The publisher could be William Randolph Hearst,” he suge gested. : . The man from Mars (kis name is Clarence) continued plaintively: “But the whole. thing is still cone fusing. to me. I read in Mr, Hearst's newspapers that he has discovered in a Russian magazine a statement .that the Communist

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Party is against Lantion. But I have been. listening up in Mars to your radio programs, and three times I have heard Earl Browder, the general secretary of the American Communist Party, say exactly that over a national hookup. Why should Mr. Hearst go to the trouble of digging up a Russian magazine?” 1 “It makes it seem more difficult,” was the only answer 1 could think of. : = 2 ” “YS it so that Earl Browder is in favor of the policies. of President Roosevelt?” the man from Mars wanted to know. “You must have listened very inattentively to those radio broadcasts,” I answered. “In the eyes of Browder and the Communist Party, Franklin De-

lano Roosevelt is a mild liberal who is trying to make the capitalist system last a little longer by making a few vague and.chiefly verbal concessions to labor.” “But I have gathered,” said Clarence, “that .Gov, Landon likewise is not in favor of any real change in the American political and economic system. Why should Mr. Browder care one way or another?” “That,” I replied, “is what some of the Com= munists want to know, but if you accept Mr. Brow=.der's promise. he is correct in concentrating the greater part of his attack upon Landon.. Earl Brow= der believes, and has publicly said so on many occasions, that the forces: which dominate Landon may ‘quite conceivably seek to bring about an Amer= ican form of fascism. He thinks.a certain newspaper publisher has had and will continue to have a great influence upon the policies of Landon. Browder does not believe that the Communist forces have ths slightest chance to seize power in America at the present time. He thinks that the Fascists have. He thinks that the nameless newspaper publisher is the spearhead of a Fascist drive.”

= = ” DC the Communist papers and the Communist speakers in America praise President Rooses velt?” “No, they invariably attack him bitterly. - They merely say that they think an outright Fascist regime would be even worse.” “But,” said Clarence, more bewildered than ever, “how can Hearst say that the Communists are back. ing Roosevelt as a fellow revolutionist?” ’ : “Quit asking fool questions,” I said sharply. “This is a presidential year, and a man who owns as many newspapers as Mr. Hearst can say anything.”

|The Washington Merry-Go-Round

Republican High Command Unearths Letter Written by Roosevelt in 1924 Attacking Government Spending During Harding Administration

of beleaguered

By Drew Pearson and Robert S. Allen EW YORK, Sept. 23.—The Republican National

and the Pacific coast.

partisans trapped in a burning building by the other side. It was massacre, and while his official and legal position was unassailable,-he failed to interfere. But that officer never erased that blur from his escutcheon, me » s = : PPORTUNITY does not knock often in the humdrum sequence of garrison duty. The hurricane on the Delaware coast may have been no great chance. ‘Not much harm was done. But on the day that outfit left—when a tigerish sea was clawing at the frail defenses of a whole community—it surely appeared that disaster hovered above an entire coast. This is not written in criticism. The C. O.'s con-duct-was fully justified by regulations and the stereotyped doctrine about a commander “carrying out his mission”—a phrase that has a horticultural tendency to make human turnips out of perfectly bright young men. This piece is only a regret about hardness of hearing when opportunity does knock. Eight hundred men—or whatever it was—and 40 or. 50 big Army trucks—what couldn't have been done with them in that terror and disaster, and what wouldn't have been the feeling all along this small state's eastern boundary, toward the regular Army. Instead of which “The , ,

Committee has just unearthed a letter written by Franklin D. Roosevelt back in 1924, which G. O. P. moguls hope will be the big boomerang of the cam-

gn. ’ pign the letter—written to the New York Times—Mr. Roosevelt complained bitterly about government spending, and pointed an accusing finger at the Harding Administration. . : G. O. P. strategists, got the letter by having their research experts comb the files of the-New York newspapers fof every scrap of information ever published about Roosevelt from the date of his birth on: This letter, written May 2, 1924, three years after “he retired as Assistant Secretary of the Navy in the Wilson Administration, was their reward.

2 = - > HEY planned to keep it for a strategic moment in the campaign, but here it is now: . “To the Editor of the New York Times—While I assume that the figures below, showing the operating losses of the Emergency Fleet Corp, have been printed in the newspapers of the country, I do not happen to have seen them until recently. I was utterly amazed; and I am wondering how many citizens are aware of these figures, :

| their new chief. Bullitt is partial to hard

dent Wilson. It was not contemplated at that time that serious losses to the government would result. I feel very certain that no member of President Wilson's Administration would have approved the continuation of a government business enterprise which is apparuty costing the taxpayers over $40,000,000 a year net 088.” : = = = JR COSEVELT ‘then proceeded with a tabulation of the losses during the Harding Administration of the Emergency Fleet Corp., of which he had been an’ executive during the Wilson Administration. The losses which he cited were $36,390,463 on freighter service, $7,531,137 on passenger and .cargo service, and $261,841 on tug service. With a profit of $601,292 on tanker service, he said, the total losses for one year were $44,091,150, : After a technical discussion of these ‘losses, Mr, Roosevelt concluded: : = “1 wonder what the two great parties will say about the continuation of the Emergency Fleet Corp. and the Shipping Board on present lines when the plate forms are brought out next June?” . is i - 2.8 Members of the American Embassy staff in F are worried over the advent of Ambassador Bill Bullitt,