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FRIDAY, OCTOBER 2, 1936

AL SMITH DEPARTS

« A L SMITH at last has done what everybody Profictid he ¥ would do. He has bolted his party's ticket and called &for the election of a Republican President. 3 It is one of those things that people have known would shappen, yet couldn’t believe they would live to see it. For Snot only has Al Smith been an active and partisan DemoSerat all his life, not only has been a Democratic officeholder “during most of three decades, but he also has been the “bosom friend for many years of the Democratic leader “whose defeat he now demands. It was a friendship formed =in battles for a common cause and ripened through common Svictories and defeats. ; So even the expected is startling when we hear Al “Smith say: | “I firmly believe the remedy for all the ills we are suffering from today is the election of Alfred M. Landon.” : Decent respect for the opinion of those millions whom ‘he is leaving naturally required Al to make known the rea“ons that impelled him to the separation. £ And the pity of it is that everybody has been right’ “about this also. Everybody has said that Al Smith is sore ‘because he was denied the nomination in 1932; everybody as believed that his opposition to Roosevelt is the result of hurt feelings. If he told last night all that he has to tell, ‘then everybody has been right. a He did not discuss the issues of this campaign. He did not discuss the record of Roosevelt in office. He did “ot discuss the character, the competence or the record of “the Republican candidate whom he espoused. He did not “discuss the Republican Party’s record or its 1936 platform. = He did not discuss very much of anything, indeed, ex-

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» ” » ERIOUSLY, with a complete absence of that sense of humor that once characterized him, he offered as proof of his assertion that the New Deal is not Democratic the “fact that he had never been called to the White House for sadvice—which, he said, he was always ready to give. It was a sorry exhibition of a great man gone sour.

JOHN WINANT, STATESMAN HE resignation of John G. Winant, former Republican : Governor of New Hampshire, as chairman of the Social “Security Board was typical. He did not believe that a “member of an independent Federal board should take part Sin politics. But when Gov. Landon denounced the social “Security program, the duty of taking part in politics became “more important to John Winant than preserving either his Z “job or his party regularity. So he did the simple, honorable “thing. He quit his job and took to the stump. 3 These excerpts from his first speech show how Winant feels about it: & “Under the Republican proposal all must pay, but the dmprov ident chiefly will benefit; and the greater the degree sof improvidence, the larger the benefit. Thus is thrift disScouraged ; family responsibilities broken down; real security “lessoned. “Hazards of life, liberty and property stalk our land. =A dependent childhood, unemployment and old age are com“mon enemies against whom the nation should present a united front. An advance has begun—and no man has a right to call ‘halt.’ ”

(CROP INSURANCE ERY few people, we think, will deny that the objectives outlined in President Roosevelt's letter to Secretary Wallace are worth striving to attain. Nor do there seem be any insurmountable obstacles to the working: out of a sound all-risk crop insurance plan. 5 The AAA program of voluntary, co-opervitive crop “control has; by bringing supply and demand more closely into balance, resulted in a stabilizing of farm prices and “income. : E Extreme hazards of weather and prices have long “made farming the most risky of our major enterprises. In “this insecurity we find the causes underlying the spread of farm tenancy, the conversion of freeholders into transient paupers. We find also what is largely responsible for he ebb and flow of national prosperity. ; There will be time enough when it is formulated to “examine the proposed insurance program. But. in the “President's purpose there is economic and social vision.

GREATER OBLIGATION HE announcement of plans for the seventeenth annual Community Fund drive, Nov. 6-16, finds Indianapolis and ts citizens in a better position to carry on this work of rivate charity than in recent-years. There are many signs of returning prosperity and less ridespread distress. This means the battle against human nisery should be increased, not slackened. It means a eater individual and local responsibility. If means that ssistance neglected during the depression can be resumed. nd it means the community can take over from the Fed-

government a greater share of the burden of caring

for ita unfortunates. Indianapolis has met this obligation in the: pas, and ill do so again this year. Loge

PEACE ON THE PACIFIC

BE ON ED II ain. Pacific Coast have agreed on a 15-day truce, and efforts ‘are under

to bring them together in a: new ours, wages and other contro versial night at least, the spectre of another tieup, similar to e costly and sanguinary strike of 1984, has receded.

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By Westbrook Pegler

World Series Reminds of Col. Theodore Roosevelt Jr.'s Expedition After the Giant Panda

NEW YORK, Oct. 2.--I would not jest about a solemn, : sacred occasion, but the World Series, somehow, reminds me of the expedition to China or Tibet or somewhere, of Col. Theodore Roosevelt Jr, and his young brother, Kermit, in search of a giant panda. Every year, for weeks before the series begins, it is talked up by our citizens -and our papers, and the most elaborate preparatiotis are made to celebrate the

event in a fitting manner. People down in Texas and Virginia and out on the West coast save their money for transportation. tickets and a little splash of night lite. The club owners send the ball players’ suits to the laundry and hang bunting in front of {he field boxes. The ground keepers rake the grass and pat down the skinned part of the field with the palms of their hands and: paint the foul lines with lime. Al ‘Schacht performs foolishness, the . band plays, except when the series is held in Philadelphia, when a phonograph plays a 10-1 ear-old 75-cent record through a loud speaker. Judge Landis comes to town, with his trick hat, and the two leagues appoint four umpires to do the work of two. At last the World Series begins. And then what does it turn out to be? If turns out to be a set of ball games no better or worse than the regular leagus ball games which are to be seen every day of the summer in the major league cities. I realize that

baseball is the subject of the occasion, and do not exactly expect that they should toss Republicans to the lions or give us an earthquake, but in a way, it does seem droll to put on all this noise and mayonnaise for a few games of ball. ‘Young Teddy decided he wanted a panda, so he and Kermit and some friends got together and figured things out. dozen vague countries where the people never wash their faces. They had to buy steamboat and train tickets and Boy Scout kits, flashlights, collapsible drinking cups, pistols and hatchets. They raised whiskers, they dressed up in short pants, they ate

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i with chopsticks and slept in barns.

® & # x HE Roosevelt boys were away for about a year, walking up and down mountains eight miles high

in China and Tibet, and got things in their whiskers.

and nearly scratched themselves silly with the itch and the bites and all. Still they kept on, and at last they came up with a panda. The panda was asleep at the time, but it woke up and started to. walk away when, bang! bang! the Roosevelt boys and their friends started shelling it. It fell down, got up, walked

a few steps and fell over dead, and the Roosevelt boys brought it all the way home to New York, the only giant panda ever seen here.

But what is a giant panda after you have got it?.

Some of the Roosevelt hoys’' friends, meaning to be facetious, said it was a giant mouse, and others said it looked like a tomcat or a mop. As a matter of fact, it was nothing of ile kind. 4 = n ” T wes something like a bear, but smaller, and something like a raccoon, but bigger, but if this one was a giant, then the ordinary panda with the standard wheelbase would be something ¢ on the order of a poodle, but less ferncious. And can you imagine a fellow who would go half way ‘round the world, mostly on foot, spending a year of his {i and thousards of dollars, to kill a hd

panda, criticising the President for wasting money on useless or ill-advised jublic works?

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

‘MODELS’ HELD NEED By Chalmer Schlosser

In his speech at Des Moines, Gov. Landon said: “Like the automobile the Administration believes in bringing out a new model every year.” We accept the compliment.

Why do maniiactirers present new models? It is because such new models are better than the old models, finer looking, faster, safer and more economical. When Roosevelt was elected one thing was certain—he could not use the old Hoover model. He must have greater speed in relieving the distress of the poor, the hungry, the naked, the sheiterless, the failing banks, insurance companies, industry and farmers. Landon agreed with him then. In fact while running for Governor of Kan-, sas he tied himself to Roosevelt's coat-tails and hung on for dear life.’ He was elected Governor by a small plurality. Even by approving

a majority of the votes. This was due to the fact that* Landon does

not run well, is not a vote-getter. You see, in 1930 Landon ran for precinct .committeeman and was| overwhelmingly defeated. He has to have coat-tails to hang to. This year he is trying to hang to the coat-tails of William Randolph Hearst. Believing that Hearst was wearing full dress, he grabbed low and to his horror found that Hearst was wearing only a dinner jaeket. But he kept on grabbing right and left until he finally grabbed hold of the financial pants pockets of the du Ponts, manufacturers of powder, and obtained $60,000,000. : 8 ” ”

ASSAILS LABOR STAND

By Edgar A. Perkins Sr. -In his talk to Republican editors at Wawasee, former Gov. Allen of Kansas compared President Roosevelt to Kerensky and John L. Lewis to Lenin. Mr. Allen was the headliner for the occasion, so it is presumed the assembled knights of the quill were in entire accord with their guest, past and present and at least for the immediate future. This is the same Mr, Allen, who, as Governor of Kansas, gathered some notice as sponsor for what was known as the Kansas Industrial Court. This was the brainchild of the Governor, but he did not write the bill. The bill was written by one by the name of Huggins, who, .according to his own admission, was peculiarly fitted for the job. In the Allen political organization was a young man by the name of ' Alf Landon, who was of sufficient importance in the setup that he became private secretary to Gov. Allen. Gov. Allen thought so much of the young man’s abilities that he is in this year one of Mr. Landon’s principal sponsors for the job of President, The Kansas Industrial Court

baiting element of the country and Judge Huggins, who had been appointed by Gov. Allen to administer

it, wag taken io the bosom ofthe

employers’ association and allowed to make many addresses telling of the wonderful method Kansas had

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rest.

As the method devised by Gov. Allen received unanimous approval of all those who sensed the menace inherent in trade unions, it would be unnecessary to go into any great detail as to the context of the law.

It is not always the wording of a statute that defines is real purpose. More often it is the construction that may be read into the law. Judge Huggins believed that labor organizations were inimical tb our institutions. He thought that the strike, the boycott, the lockout and the blacklist should all be put under ban and made felonies. So the real purpose of the Kansas Industrial Court was to cripple trade unions. As Huggins wrote the bill at the instance of Gov. Allen and as Allen appointed Huggins to administer the act, it must be presumed that ‘Allen and Hasgies were ong in the matter. However, the ' ‘matter finally reached the Supreme Court of the United States, where, perish the thought, the law was completely devitalized.

Now the only point in all this is what it has to do with the present Republican candidate for President. Mr. Landon grew up in the atmosphere of Huggins and Allen and the Kansas Industrial Court. He was not on the sidelines, he was sitting on the inside. Can it be that his vague and rather insipid utterances regarding his attitude toward labor are tinctured by those conclusions reached by Allen and Huggins 15 years ago?

As a rule, men do not change their opinions except there is some selfserving purpose intervening. In the case of Mr. Landon there has been none of this. And his years have lengthened, more and more his life has been thrown with that element of our social being which looks with disfavor on organizations of labor. This element has as much right to its views as have the others, but this is what makes the contests. The economic urge is widely diffused.

Abraham Lincoln said he thanked God we lived in a country where men could strike. Gov. Allen sponsored a law which would make a strike a felony. Gov. Landon was one of Allen's chief lieutenants. Gov. Allen is now one of Gov. Landon’s sponsors. Without dipping to class hatred, can it be disputed that the Liberty Leaguers and their kind are active in Mr. Landon’s cause? Or can it be disputed that all this element is opposed to the theory of collective bargaining that John L. Lewis stands for? This is the difference between the Allens and President Roosevelt. The President believes workingmen have the right to organize and | that it is the business of

DAILY THOUGHT

How much more abominable and filthy is man which drinkgin, iniquity like Water ?~—Joh

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r my youth 1 thou Thought of writing a satire on mankind; but now in my age I think I should write an apology for them. —Walpole.

the government to protect them in that right. He likewise believes these organized workmen have the right to use their economic power to better their conditions, limited only by the law of the land, to which they should be held accountable. ” ” EJ

SEES NO PERIL EXCEPT IN REPUBLICAN CONTROL By David F. Maish, Frankfort“America is in peril.” So reads

the startling statement in the Republican national platform. After all the trouble and eXpense we have been put to in making the, world safe for democracy, in making our money safe by guaranteeing our bank deposits, in making our stocks and bonds safe investments by requiring salesmen to declare their real value, and in making our high-

ways safe, here comes an organization known as the Republican Party, meeting at Cleveland, O., to tell

{us that America is in peril.

Its candidate for Vice President more recently announces in a speech at Allentown, Pa., that our bank deposits and insurance policies are in

This man—they call him Colonel —seems to be the only man in the country who has discovered the awful condition!

‘Judging from what happened:

(and what didn't heppen?) in the Harding-Coolidge-Hoover regimes, ii we are in peril, it is peril of a return to power of a party that had 12 long years in which to restore us to propsperity and normalcy— and failed. What have they done

the country? . Gov. McNutt was right when he declared “With Landon and Knox, we'll be on the rocks.”

‘2 a ” WONDERS IF ELEPHANT CAN FOLLOW DONKEY By 0. J. Miller Landon is trying to fit the feet of

the clumsy elephant into the tracks of the sure-footed mule. Can he?

yy 8» ‘DOUBTS PURPOSE OF ‘TOP SOIL’ PROJECT

By F. G. M. Ir Yadkin County, North Carolina, the WPA is hard at work on a project to “grade, drain and top soil” a little, more than a mile of road—Ilargely at Federal expense. The purpose of the top soil, apparently, is to help that grass to grow in the streets. = » » READER LAUDS /

ROOSEVELT COURAGE By a der Why should the American people vote for Franklin D. Roosevelt? For the very fact that he is and

‘always | will be the gallant leader

the world has proclaimed him to

‘be and [for his courage and strength

that have overridden barriers and tern down obstacles that lesser men previous to his nomination could not break down or would not. Those who are too blind to see the changes that have been made should compare the news in a newspaper of four years ago and in

today’s.

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It Seems to Me

By Heywood Broun

Sad Plight of Daring Young Man Who Saws: Woman in Half Attracts Columnist's Sympathy

EW YORK, Oct. 2.—Such a small item would generally be lost in the welter of world events, but I was trying to make tha paper last me out through a sleepless night. And thus I came across the Montreal date

line and the brief account of the tragic fate of Georges Lalonde, 28 years old. According. to the brief account in the paper, Georges Lalonde was a magician employed by a

traveling circus. Indeed, he is still a magician, and it is to be hoped that his wizardry will heal the wound under which he languishés at a Canadian hospital. It was his custom each evening to come out in the latter part of the show and after a little prelini=nary conversation and a few local gags to proceed to saw a woman - in (two. I must use my imagination slightly in dealing with this part of the idyl. The young lady who assisted M. Lalonde in his act was named Mildred Counihan, but for stage purposes she was Martha Morgenthau. Martha and Georges had plighted their troth in April. They were to be married as soon as the outdoor season ended in Canada, and fall is usually early in that part of the country. This year it has been a late autumn, which ac» counted for the show's playing one night at tha little town of Shauville, a typical farming community. As I've said, Georges, the magician, and Martha, the lowest common denominator, were inseparable, ” » 8

you knew their background it came as something “+ of a shock to realize that these two who meant fo be one as soon as the first frost fell would be compelled to be three for the sake of art and a living wage. . Of course, this highly multiplied condition existed on¥ in the imagination and only for the moment. Pierre Blondel, the old clown who owned the circus, says that he himself almost broke into tears every

night when Georges would explain, after completing the illusion, “Shall we join the ladies?” and in a tries Martha would be standing beside him ) This evening they had been very happy. They had dined at the little roadside inn of La Bells Helene, and Georges had had ‘his quart of cham. pagne and Martha her glass of beer. 2 = : : B= in the tent Lalonde and Morgenthau wets

ready for their cue as usual. The only possible departure from the set routine may have been in i 1 slightly acid tone in the announcement of Georges, Because he loved Martha so very much he was lured into a slight brusqueness in speaking of her in front of the farm audience, “I am going to saw this woman in two,” he said curtly. Then Georges leaned for his prop saw, leavirig a sharp sword on the table in front of him. Suddenly he felt a horrible pain. A voice in his ear roared, “Canaille!” According to the local police, this is the French equivalent for our word “loafer.” In the com~

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fusion all the lights went out, and so the Royal Mount.

ed are conducting a search, on the blind clue this they must find some farmer who has sentimental ob Jjections against sawing a woman in two. In the meantime Georges Lalonde lies gravely stricken in a small Canadian hospital. He has mpi the fate meted out to other masters in their severnl crafts. It is hard when the artist fails to convinge his public. -It may be even worse when he wins them utterly. Georges is very ill because he was too slicit for his own good. The people believed him.

General Hugh Johnson Says—

If Great Industrial Satrapies’ Were Run by Men Like E. T. Weir, We ‘Would Have Nearest Thing to Economic Utopia World Will Ever See WEIR is about the last man on earth whom

ETHANY BEACH, él, Oct. 2—~Mr. E. T. Weir writes in Fortune 1 agazine, “I am what Roose

velt calls an economic rovalist.”. The argument runs | ‘thus: Mr. Roosevelt shau'd not call any business man | 1, because Mr. Roosevelt was

an economic royalist; il ut ra wha dllve. ‘spoon in his mouth; second. | Mr. Roosevelt 1 :ver ran a business, had Ee, what a terrible build apa big business unit.

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The big, bellowing disciple of the la hasn’t beet apprised of the fact yet, Francis Townsend i$ called

The Washinglon Merry- GoRound

The Rev. Gerald L. K. Smith Is All Washed Up as Townsend Movement Big Shot and Young Has Received Word to Apply the Ax, Writers Say

By Drew Pearson and Robert S. Allen ‘TASHINGTON, Oct. 3—The Rev. Gerald L. K. Smith is all washed up as a Townsend move-

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Townsend conven where an appeal th eral Nhgre 8; sibs i resulted in sev eatin,

But since then hisireturns have been meager whily his expenses bear some resemblance to the Rootse