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{LANDON ON RECIPROCITY OV. LANDON, we deduce from his Minneapolis speech, : is in favor of the principle of reciprocity but opposed to £ the practice of it. Thinks foreign trade is a good thing but ~ wants to stop trading, disbelieves in the theory of isolation = ~~ but is willing to lead the country into the reality of it. i Summed up and reduced to its simplest terms, last & night's speech reveals that the Governor subscribes to the = historic Republican delusion that trade car ‘be made to

- FRIDAY, SEPTEMBER 35, 1936.

& travel on a one-way street, He's all in favor of exports, but

3 ~ dead set against imports.

‘He lets it be known that he is quite willing, even eager,

B to sit down and strike a trade bargain with any country— provided, of course, that country will agree to buy from us

= everything we want to sell but won’t try to sell us any of |

= the things we don’t want to buy.

The things we wouldn’t want to buy, under the Lan- | +, don formula, would be those we produce ourselves, and also |

& those which by some stretch of the imagination might come 5 into competition with what we produce ourselves. = For example, not only is it bad business to let Canada g sell us any butter when our own farmers produce butter, but = it is also outrageous to permit Brazil to sell us that “new “jungle produce, babassu nuts and oils” which; so he says,

* also competes with our dairy produéts. Similarly, our. corn’

So potatoes and tariffs on corn starch and potato stareh,

but also tariffs on tapioca and sago, which we‘don’t produce,

but which can be made into starches, and ate therefore = competitive. = THe only conclusion that can be drawn from the Lan- = don speech is that if he is elected and a Republican House with him, the country will be in for a resumption of the con- = gressional log-rolling and back-scratching which gave us the = Fordney-McCumber and Smoot-Hawley tariffs. The excuse = would be the same old one—to protect the American farmer “in the American market. And the result would also be the ® same the destruction of the farmer's market, both abroad ; “and at home. | Somehow we can’t see the farmers buying i gold brick again. . They can hardly forget that the year preceding pas- ~ sage of the Smoot-Hawley tariff America’s foreign: trade E totaled $9,641,000,000 and that four years later, the last = year under Republican rule, it had fallen to $2,934,000,000. * Nor that three years later, when the Roosevelt reciprocal ; policy had begun to show beneficial results, it had risen to 184, 329,000,000.

A SETBACK FOR SYMPHONY

HE membership campaign for the Indiana State Symphony Society was under way today, with the Indian- ; = apolis orchestra looking forward to what is expected to be - its. most successful season. 3 There is just one sour note. Although Indianapolis ‘this year demonstrated so overwhelmingly that it wants

~ outdoor summer concerts, the County Tax Adjustment

L Board has eliminated a $1500 item in the proposed city budget for a Garfield Park Symphony: program next J summer. Ee The action is particularly regrettable Sais the conx certs would have given Director Ferdinand Schaefer's orchestra the same w idespread community backing that has ~ helped symphony organizations in other cities to succeed.’

Chicago's Grant Park concerts won such acclaim this

5 summer that a music bowl on the lake front, seating 50,000,

is planned. Philadelphia’s Robin Hood Dell concerts have = just ended their best summer season, financially and artisti- |

: “cally, in history. Hollywood Bowl drew tremendous summer concert crowds. New York Stadium’s concerts this summer were one of the most popular hot-weather diver“sions for the masses of Broadway. In Cleveland, Boston, Detroit, St. Louis and elsewhere the story is the same—good 5 “music no longer is for the limited enjoyment of “superior “people.” Sing it grand entertainment. # The Tax Board should reconsider its action so the: community may benefit from summer music.

WHERE CLASS HATRED STARTS

HAT Roosevelt seeks to align class against class is a frequent charge against against the President. We Salways have felt it unfair and unfounded and reminiscent of the days of Jefferson and Jackson, Lincoln and Cleveland, Theodore Roosevelt and Woodrow Wilson—the charge that is always trotted out whenever a chief executive shows E veal and active concern for the welfare of the masses, instead of confining all his efforts to pleasing or placating the 3 = powerful. E Furthermore we believe that if you really want to find > athe cause of class feeling in this country you can discover Siti in the injustices that are chronicled so frequently as our Scurrent history is unfolded. : All of which makes pertinent the latest exhibit brought ~ “forth from unwilling witnesses in the Senate civil liberties _ <investigation,ssuch as: 5 Testimony by professional strike breaker Edmond B.

* McDade describing the employment of 700 strike breakers

for the Wisconsin Light and Power Co.; how the company =passed out ax handles for beating up the strikers; how steam : 2 ose was connected with boilers to play on strikers, and how thigh tension wires were concealed fo electrocute pickets, one ing electrocuted and two burned seriously.

Further, how a building was dyhamited by strike break- ¥ s and the blame placed on strikers; how a plant official's | ho me was painted red by strike breakers and strike Symps-

ers were accused.

It is not necessary to retell the whole story of spying : doubleronsing and industrial Tuthiessnesp to make the :

EARL D. BAKER

- without trial since

The public is becoming concert-conscious and fng-

Fair Enough By Westbrook Pegler Loses All Interest in Simpson

Case If Sailor Is a Communist, as Department of State Hints

EW YORK, Sept. 25.—Secretary Hull's defense of the State Department in the

‘Lawrence Simpson case sets me back on my

heels, because I seem to have been slightly misled, not to say deceived, regarding the sailor’s politics. If Simpson is a Communist who was doing the work of Moscow under cover of his American citizenship and his American passport, my interest in the case loses all sentiment because Moscow ought to look after her own. Mr. Hull doesn't say in so many words that Simpson is a Communist, but he did say the sailor demanded a Comimunist lawyer in Germany and none of those whe appeared on his behalf in Washington took advantage of a very inviting opportunity to say that he {8 no such thing, if he isn’t. Nevertheless, Mr, Hull made out

a bad case for his depariment, be-

cause he insisted ‘that regardless of Simpson’s politics the department had been diligent to protect his rights and yet-admits the ‘man had been held a. year ago June. If that is the best the State Department can do for 4 man who is presumed to be entitlegl fo the. full protection of the. American passport and the influence of the American government, Mr. Hull nm erely proves the contention of

Mr. Pegler

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‘all those who say thal a poor and obscure American

is pretty much on his own ~When he gets into trouble Bo in Germany. : i 8 or took 10 montis to obtain a trial for an American citizen from Brookl/n, who was finally convicted {n_Munich last winter znd given a prison sentence in

addition to the 10 months’ detention on a charge of | ‘political activity. political activity in Germany if it chafes the Nazi idea. :

Almost any chance remark may be ~ It is much easier to stick a foot in the door of the ‘White House and climb into the President’s:lap than fo catch a few hundred words with the first secretary of the Americar, embassy or legation in some ‘foreign : capilals unless you happen to be a fugitive tax slave in which case you walk right in and discuss conditions in deep abdominal tenes: with the ambassador himself. j The way to freat tle Nazis or any other haywire government which can see treason in the color of a

wandering American’s :1ecktie or the way he parts his Hair is to demind for our people the same freedom

- from molestation that Nazis énjoy in our country

where they hold public meetings in a foreign tongue to extol the Nazi system, and vilify elected public officials who, {or better or worse, represent the American form of governmant.

tis # Hn o HERE is 110 need to wait 15 months for them to bring to {rial an American who, for all that Mr. Hull has stated to the contrary, is entitled to the same protection from his department as any one else. ’ Milliam Ridndolph Hearst is our leading American Fascist, but if he were picked .up in Moscow on the : same charge which th Nazis brought against Simpson it wouldn't take 15 months to get nim to trial, and in open court, tuo. Fifteen minutes would be more like it.

The Hoosier Forum

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

| WOULD CUT AID TO

STATES GOING G. O. P. By Samuel Snodgrass, Fort Wayne, I want to make a suggestion I know will please the grass-root Republicans, and enable the New Deal to balance the Federal budget. Mr. Roosevelt is going to be reelected President Nov. 3-so just forget about who will be our next

President. Now in regard to my suggestion Republicans, as you know, are in-

sisting on states, counties and cities

taking care of their unemployed as they did in the Hoover regime when a large per cent had to fight with dogs and cats for the contents of garbage cans.

I think the Republicans are per-

fectly justified in demanding that states, counties and cities be given an opportunity to take care of the unemployed as they. did under

' | Hoover,

But this should apply only to the states that go Republican in the November election... So. I want to suggest. that the New Deal withdraw Federal aid in states that go Republican and continue it in all states that go Democratic. This,. of course, might not suit the unemployed or the real eState taxpayers in these Republican states, but it would satisfy the grass-rooters and help greatly in balancing the Federal budget. Suppose, for instance, that the Republicans carry 10 or 12. states and that these states are permitted to take care of their unemployed. That, you see, would save the government many millions of dollars

which could. be used in balancing

the Federal budget. That is where the New Deal made a fatal mistake in regard to Kansas, for the money the New Deal poured into Kansas, to save their farms and homes and to keep the unemployed from starving, would have gone a long way toward balancing the budget." That money of course saved

thousands of farms and homes in|

Kansas from being sold to satisfy mortgages, kept tens of thousands of. Kansas jay-hawkers from starving, and énabled bankrupt farmers and home owners to pay their delinquent taxes, which, in turn enabled the Kansas Governor to balance his state budget. But it was a fatal mistake of the New Deal, for if it had not been for that Federal money poured into Kansas, the state would have gone “busted” and’ thé Hon. Alf Landon would néver have been heard of. So I want to suggest that the New Deal stop playing the Good Samaritan to every Republican Governor and Mayor in need of a

‘Federal handout and use the money

now wasted on boondoggling projects in the Republican states to

aid deserving Democrats and to bal-

ance the Rogers] Sages,

SEES ONLY ‘ONE PROBLEM IN EUROPE s By H. L. World peace and economic security for the nations of the earth are dependent upon an understanding £ of the primary economic condi-

General Hugh Johnson Says—

How Will Landon Reconcile ‘His Spendthrift Gesture of : Relief Checks | - and Farm Subsidies With Pledge Against "Ruinous Debt and Taxation"?

EW YORK, Sept. 25.— “This means the conttnuation of relief checks.” These seven words are all that count in Gi. Landon’s farm speech. In the presidential auctior. he offers’ farmers all the New Deal ever gave plus outright subsidies with a clear intimation: ‘If tha! isn’t enough, ask for more.” Lest the inemployed get the idea that they are forgotten in this vicirious generosity with other peo-

_ple’s money fo make himself President, he assures

them that lie means “the continuation of relief checks” for fliem, too. That is easy to understand. But what is not so

- easy is that spendthift gesture coupled with a prom-

ise to “protect the farm and the rest of the country from ruinou: debt nnd taxation.” The who! of the New Deal increased debt and

and at least ot a er and at the same increased

Hine free thy Libe:ty Lasse of “debt and”

and not a foreign price. This is the first time this Pfintiple has been put: forward by a major political The last sentence is a stark untruth, In Gov. Landon’s howe town of Topeka, Mr. Roosevelt stated this principle verbatim. It has been Democratic faith since Al Siaith’s Omaha speech in 1928: This column ~advocated 1t, but with the tremendous difference that exists between Mr. Landon’s and Mr, Roosevelt's proposais. The difference is hat’ ‘the Tatter is definite

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" umns, religious controversies’ ex-

cluded. Make your letter short, so all can have a chance. Letters must be signed, but names will be withheld on request)

tions and economic organization of these nations. - Natural resources of the world are not equally distributed and must be exchanged in international trade, or in the form of manufactured commodities. Control over any vital: natural resource for national power

| or economic supremacy by any na-

tion means a lower standard of living to others dependent upon this resource. A free flow of commerce between all nations is imperative to secure a high standard of living and to secure world peace. Great armies and navies are necessary to those nations that seek to control their resources primarily for exploiting other nations, and thereby Landuly enriching themselves at the expense of other. nations. The European crisis resolves it-

self into one simple problem, i. e.

whether one or more groups of na-

tions shall be able to deny other, nations access to the means of |

economic well-being. , .- The ownership of the economia processes and resources ‘must bs distributed to those who: create and use the goods, so thét conflict of interest shall exist between producer and consumer, : # 8 DEFENDS EXPENDITURES FOR DROUGHT, RELIEF By a Free Lance v ‘Having lived in the drotghts stricken areas at several different points in both the Dakotas and oth-

‘er states in the belt recently. visited

by the President, my family and I

know exactly what the President

saw and what those farmers are facing. Many: times we - ‘have. seen the

SONG TO A GRAY DAY §

BY GENEVIEVE MITCHELL I love the clouds that harbor Gentle rains and steal, With tender impulse, from the West, Releasing from their misty: veils The crystal shower that cools The earth, and soothes her burning

breast.

The trees sing soft hosing: In -the wind; the flowers

| Forget the scorch of thirst and pain.

And I? With eager heart

"And swinging step I walk,

With face uplifted, in the rain.

DAILY THOUGHT A fool also is full of words; a man can not tell what shall be; and what shall be after him, who can tell him —Ecclesiastes 10:14.

- MAN can “not _ speak but. he judges and reveals himself. With his will, or against his will he draws his portrait to the eye of others by every word. Every opinion reacts on him who Se it.—

‘Emerson.

“natives.” -

retorts.

“in

deep, inthe prime of their develop-. ment, laid flat to the ground by the seething, scorching winds of desert fury, never to rise again. We have seen thousands of acres-of these fields, particularly in North Dakota, fust ready to be harvested, laid '| waste by the “black rust,” while the farmer stood by utterly helpless. Devastation of these same areas has this year greatly surpassed the losses known in former years. In view of these pitiful facts, it is about time the people of this nation should come to their senses and face plain truths when indulging in tirades upon “crop curtailment,” about the actual workings of which a great majority know little or nothing.

positively known facts: ‘First, that as even a farin ‘child of school age knows, the land, once bled of all its life and energy must rest if it is to regain strength to

produce again and that the farmer

must aid it to this end.

Second, that. no farmer was|

forced or coerced into signing the AAA contracts, but that participation in’ the ‘program was voluntary with ‘him. Third and most important, that if all co-operating farmers had planted "all available soil instead

would have lost thousands of dollars more in seed ‘and in hard and

the grasshoppers, and .‘the locust and corn-borer. plagues appeared. Therefore, let. us truthfully acknowledge ‘that this very curtailment saved the farmers themselves | and this hation, théusands of dollars which would have been lost in the path-of ‘the drought and pes-

tilence.- ‘And, to propagate the idea"

that our President, through the policy of his Administration, was in any manner responsible for the ‘shortage in small ‘grains because crop production was ‘ less, since a large percentage of farmers did not seed their lands, is nothing but pure bunk. . To these people ‘who are hounding the Administration over expenditures, let it penetrate that they would have seen the waste of many

than has already occurred, and the Administration “would have had to provide many more millions of dollars to save the starving farmers, their families and their live stock. So let us cease making a political factor out of a calamity wrought by nature. o 2 FINDS CHEER IN

| RFC SLUMP

By LeRoy S. Moore, Bedford The moving van soon will be reversing to the doors of the Reconstruction Finance Corp. the truck men swinging from the cab and making toward the entrance. This agency is not out of funds. Recovery is now a sure thing, and the business and industrial world that were sefved by this: ageney: ‘are paying off their loans to the’ government. The railroads Bins paid $155, - 300,000, the banks $1,700,000,000. Most borrowers are repaying their loans rapidly.

The Washington Merry-Go-R

German Correspondent in America. Wonders Why President, Then When He Assume’ Office Proceed

‘By KURT G. SELL Correspondent in United States (Substituting. for Drew Pearson and Robert S. Allen) VV ASHEGIOR, Sept, :35—Ramblings of a for-

eign correspondent in this capital are to be substituted today for the famaus. column

| of the iwo

I have no experience in cliche-writing, and can not write about “suave” diplomats (poor fellows; they are ‘working hard and should get our sympathy; an S are—most of them—not the morons our cub colleagues wows have the dear “democra’ ‘Democratic—there

“When I talk about “des with diplomats I refer to the

great wheat fields, more than waist= |

We should frankly admit three:

of curtailing their production, they.

fruitless - labor when . the drought,

millions more in ‘this devastated area}

I'm sure it must be more interesting: than ele and paramount issues.”.

and they

” public think they - 1 lay myself open to biting ;

Listen to assure you that 1 lke America and te 1s very mueh, that I do not earn a cent in , but spend all my salary here, that I 4: a taxpayer of this commonwealth for more _— 10 years, - So there!

It Seems fo Me

By Heywood Broun x

NEW YORK, Sept. 25.—There are two bac ways to meet a crisis. One is to'ge® hysterical and one is to:get apathetic. It is

“possible to cry, “Wolf! Wolk!” once too, afte, but. just the same it may‘ be fatal to.

“look at the nice old. police dog,” when if the wolf does actually come along. Still, I think the formula of “Thirty-nine days left to save: sha

American way of life” is a gross. piece of: Any

hypocrisy. The two colonelswc - Cormick and Knox—have been tho loudest' shouters: in: the . hugket brigade, -and yet. I have heatd no evidence that the way of life along the Tribune of the news front.has been much changed during tha Roosevelt regime. 1 am a kindly man, and ever since ‘the conventions 4 have been . tormented by the thought, “What ~ will'Frank Knox do the day alter election?” But here we are n fantasy ai» rived at the morning after election day. TheésAmerican public in ro uncertain terms has decided that Frank Knox is not to preside over the Senate. By a huge complimentary vote the people of this ptry have decided to keep a great editor at his desk. And who wouldn't rather write and be read than be Vice President? I'm hoping the Colonel will fake

Mr. Broun

_it in that spirit. I want to see him march up to his

office the day after defeat in just the same manner as he marched up Kettle Hill trailing an earlier ‘Roosevelt. And’ I trust that Frank Knox will sheka hands warmly -with ‘the elevator starter and say, . “Well, you can't beat this weather much can you? : 3 # # ® od RRIVED at his floor. we might expect to seg.the ' Colonel renewing old friendships around the city room and swapping stories. “Here's one I picked 1p in Des Moines, and, believe it or riot, the fellow Whoa told it to me was a minister. It Seems that tha school teacher came from Wellesley, ahd one -mizht she stopped at the farmhouse of a couple of antf-New Deal Democrats who had decided to vote for Lemke, Well, it’s along about 11 d’clock at night—. 8 $e ish it up later. Here comes the society editor™. And presently the Colonel is back in his sanctum and talking with his managing editor. “I think we've made the mistake of taking politics too seriously, Americans, at least intelligent omnes, don't take ary interest in voting. Thats, why a good man can’t got elected in this country. ‘Isn't there some subject we could play up.in which everybody's interested?”

“There used to be, Colonel, before you went ByaT.

We Sand it sex.” x e! Let's have a lot of it all over the Pe,

nia

“BW. 3 +E is a strange paradox by which the Colonel, wi 0 ‘has little to lose, does all the thundering in the campaign, while Gov. Landon, with everything. at stake, is still crooning. Ne For him there is no surcease of an active joly “nto which he can plunge immediately after the élegtion news. Alfred M. Landon would have to go er fo Topeka, 1s But Landon takes it al in good spirit and |

> ‘not the slightest sign of irritation until he walks,

the living room of the executive mansion. Some . neighbors planned a surprise for him, and 1 th I see Alf M. Landon wince and recoil. Indeed, I Hse

lieve I hear him say, Hy a oy, “Ma, will you § please get mn of

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Newspapers sign to Tear Him. Dawn

other hand, gE doom 0 an or woman with atitle oney comes ‘country they stop. ie newspaper presses. for. a picture of-her dog. . I do not un why Mr. “Roosevelt shoul considered a villain and a. doater, Just Just because he pens to come froy one of the- oldest eh - 8. A. 1f you want: érme ie government/ou : should be glad to have men. frony-au the decent 5 rig LAY on . : ; 2