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THURSDAY, OCTOBER 15, 1936.
IT'S'A HABIT HEN RY FORD advises the people to elect Landon and get
rid of the Social Security Act.
In 1932, his advice was to re-elect Hobver and keep prohibition.
THE LIGHT THAT FAILED HE faint flame of liberalism which flickered in the Republican Party after the nomination of Gov. Landon - was snuffed out by his Detroit speech. In’that he negated all he seemed to stand for in the weeks immediately following his nomination and in the campaign two years previgusly when he was elected Governor. You will recall that there was talk of a new, liberalized leadership and a revitalized party after Mr. Landon’s | unexpected telegram to the Cleveland convention, But in his speech on the “Threat of the Present Admihistration to Our. American Form of Government”’— which was the text he chose for his Detroit speech—he came over all the way to Col. Knox, Father Coughlin, William Randolph Hearst, John Hamilton and those others who have been seeing things under the bed. He joined whole-heartedly and without reservation in an appeal to fear and to prejudice —in an undisguised effort to scare the voters stiff. : To do so he had to contradict his own words and his ~ own record. It represented a sacrifice of previously expressed principles for political expediency. It carried memories of the sort of overstatement which trapped Herbert Hoover when he threw caution to the winds and made his famous threat about “grass growing in the streets.” “Make no mistake about it,” said Landon at Detroit, “this threat to our form of government is a major issue in
this campaign.” .
i » o ” » Fo HIS is the same Landon who, running for Governor two years ago, said: ‘Business leaders were paralyzed in 1933. The iron hand of a national dictator is preferable to. a paralytic stroke.” “Congress in effect gave up its constitutionak powers,’ he said at Detroit. But running for Governor two years ago he declared regarding Congress, “You can't doi business | with a debating society.” . = At Detroit he said of the emergency powers granted to | the President, “In my opinion the emergency of 1933 was a mere excuse.” Surely that couldn't have been the same Landon who talked of the paralysis of 1933. ” ” ” 8° » T is a shameful thing when our Mayors. and the. Gov-{ ernors of the several states must appear: before the | chief executive as supplicants, or else lose;kha the Federal handout,” said Landon at Detroit.” hile : running for Governor he said: “Well, if the Democrats won't’ stand up for the relief program and its: administra tion, I will do it for them. I say that, considering. the probJems they have met, they have done a good job.” And in May, 1934, he declared: “It would be good business, in my - opinion, for Kansas to borrow every dollar it can get under the PWA that could possibly be spent on highway work by July, 1935. 3 . “] believe that we should continue to use our 48 sovereign states to try out new ideas in the field of government,” said Landon at Detroit. But in March, 1933, when Mr. Landon was named chairman of an oil conference called by the President, he said: “A compact between. the states is an iridescent dream,” ‘and the conference. later: arged Mr. Roosevelt to close all flush oil pools and to call on: the states to enact conservation legislation. So far did that recom- ; ‘mendation go in the direction of Federal regimentation that the President replied: “It is obvious that ‘the action proposed... is within. the sole authority and jurisdiction of the interested states. The President of the United States has no authority to declare a moratorium “such as is proposed and he might be regarded as infringing on the sovereignty of the states.” It isn’t pleasant to see a candidate, even under the intense pressure to which Gov. Landon has been subjected,
make the sacrifice he made at Detroit.
THE DEATH OF LIFE
IF puns were permissible one might remark sententiously that Time bears away all things, even Life. For: it has just been announced that the magazine Life has been purchased by Time, Int., and will be changed into something more serious. Life's passing leaves more than a twinge of senti‘mental regret. Through 53 years of America’s adolescence Life had won a placejas secure in the hearts of its countrymen as Punch in the British heart. 1t helped keep us sane with laughing at ourselves. But tastes in humor, as in dress, change with the years. Life seemed to let up on our risibles. In its usual dignity, ‘When it didn’t get a laugh, it bowed itself off the stage. “We can not claim, like Mr. Tunney, that we resigned our championship: undefeated in our prime,” said Clair Maxwell, Life president, in announcing the sale, “But at] least we. hore ‘to retire grocstully from a world still |
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VOICE FROM WAL STREET contrast to the shrill alarms daily broadcast ‘by the ‘Republican politicos is an article by John C. Cresswill in Magazine of Wall Street. This writer records no fever ear over the results of the coming election. He says:
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LUDWELL DENNY EARL D. BAKER. "
quiet room. "tion was the very breath of life to
“Hollow shell.
Fair Enough By Westbrook Pegler ‘Mencken ‘Going Republican Was
on Flowers Is Almest Too Much. NEW YORK, Oct. 15.—I declare, men, this here’s getting serious, One day we find old Henry Mencken gone Republican and gibbering in the unknown tongues and today we pick up the paper and
: Damon Runyon’s column and, we catch’ him writing about purple bougaimvilies
denias and gladiolis’” green yards. =We caty ing about velvet moonglo the murmur of evening, 3 “chicken frying on the stove and’ . biscuits in the oven, and ‘peace and carpet slippers in a white and
I was more or less prepared for Henry Mencken, because prohibi-
‘him; and when they lawed prohi‘bition away they left him just a But Mr. Runyon was different. Boy and man,. 1 have non 1 “My. Runyon: -for ‘rising :20 years, and though I knew he was: a soft touch for sad music and private woes, I never
Mr. Pegler :
on his knees stirring up the roots of his gladiolus. and red hibiscus along his garden ‘wall, Most of the time when I was knowing Mr. Rusyon
and his quarters in the Forrest were the town pump
way uneven, characters that you could find this side
life which he wrote about in his hoodlum fictions. They all seemed fo have the key to Damon. Runyon’s
up people on his phone. : sw 0» MES: RUNYON' ‘had pretty heavy. ‘hauling to got Mr. Runyen moved. out. of the Forrest Hotel, but she finally got him into’ ab apartment somewhere way
up in the suburbs—up around 59th-st, I heard, although Damon seemed ashamed of this and wouldn't
ever.tell guys where he lived. “Up ‘yonder way,” he would say, “ip. the trent a
piece.” Of course, Mr. Runon often wrote" very tender prose
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in the bass notes on his typewriter about heavies and hoodlums and guys that got snatched:and joints that got sneezed and nobody in our set ever reckoned to see him in overalls and sunbonnet and down on his knees with a trowel setting out petunias in‘his lovely little garden in Miami Beach.
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R. RUNYON was a very hard-talking man when he was himself. Talking about hunting once, I said-I would never shoot a deer—too pretty. “Nah,” Mr. Runyon said. ‘: “Me, neither. ‘I wouldn't never shoot me no deer. But ducks though. I'll shoot ducks. I hate ducks.” Anather. time he said another fellow was around town with his old lady. fon aye “His old lady!” I exclaimed. The sick one? I thought she was bed-ridden.” “Nah,” Mr. Runyon said. - “Nah, not the sick one. This is a big beefy old lady, built like ‘a Wrestler. Sound of wind and limb. He had to divorce that sick one. Doctor bills and nurses and specialists all the time. Kept him broke for 10 years.” . And now it is purple bougainvillea and scarlet
Sling him an anvil, men!
and yoses and gor: + Landon” woi'se than’ he did Hoover.
acd to-see him in overalls and sunbonnet ‘down’
~ Shock, but Damon Runyon Writing.
what do we read there? Well, we read old
~ and scarlet - hibiscéls | =f crawling over the garden wa
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he was living at the Forrest Hotel, just off Broadway, ! for the most fascinating collection of odd, or any-:
of Ossining-on-Hudson. Mr. Runyon’s quarters were ° the laboratory in which he studied the Broadway wild
off-the-Street club.’ Anyway, they were always just | walking in and ordering something to eat and calling |
about sentimental subjects, but mostly he wrote down’
hibiscus and the velvet moonglow, Man" overboard!"
‘| multitude of
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The Hoosier Forum
1 wholly disagree with what you say, but will defend to the death your right to say it—Voltaire.
SEES LANDON DEFEATED WORSE THAN HOOVER By Rohert Lanhon
After reading of the visit of Jesse. Owens, Olympic track star, to our city I would like to express my appreciation of the Democratic Party. What on earth do the Republicans think they're going. to have in November—a track meet or an election? . They are pulling’ all the ‘strings they can, but they’ re all. tbo ‘short. In fact, my honest belief is that ‘President’ Roosevelt will defeat
“What Jesse : Owens did in Berlin
‘| makes Him a hero io my mind, but
‘as a politician he’s still a good runner, What is Indiana’ going to do
back to the breadlines? ' It is goihg
to stand by under another Repub-
lican administration and watch
another depression comg over ‘this |: .
country of ours? ‘Will the fleet-footed Jesse Owens ever go hungry and have to walk streets looking: for a job? I
€ ove. he never will; put we have. nad
some ‘of our most
the G, won't’ be in the size of an elephant. A: for me, I'll not bite the -hand that's feeding me. And T'll stick with the champion . until whipped. Let's all vote for a good principle. Lets confinue the WPA, CCC and other things that whipped the depression, i ; 8. wn CHANGE FOR’ BETTER SEEN BY WRITER ; By’ William Lemon © : : Four: years ago, when President “Roosevelt. spoke here he faced a saddened, hopeless facestorn by the ravages’ ‘of “hunger and despair... ....: And at a Democratic rally Oct. 2 in Tomlinson Hall we saw the hall packed with well-fed, well-dressed, happy-faced Americans, In 1930 some of these men were working for as little as 15 cents an hour—today they are reeciving 350 cents an hour; Today we are asked to return to those hopeless," hungry days of the Hoover regime by Landon and his playmates—Hearst, DuPont, Mellon ny even old man Wall Street himse Should they get in power again, and that looks impossible at the present time, it’s good-by to. unionism, WPA and PWA. It means back to the basket days of 33." The sole aim of this Landon wrecking crew is to crush labor and the farmer, and let capital again dictate and rule our country.
” 2 ” AMERICA IS WARY OF COUGHLIN, WRITER SAYS By I. L. Patton, Crawfordsville + +Ever since “Bull Moose” days, there has been a feeling on the part of many discerning Americans that a third party might be the means of freeing our pation from the political domination:of Wall Street.
spell ‘the forgotten: man. Til adit O. P. will come back, but it.
. in the coming election? Is it going}:
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his revival, taking Coin” Harvey's theory of money as the Bible, and
singing ‘4 program: of: banking
revival patterned after that of Soviet’ Russia, many Americans polished their shoes to walk down the “saw-dust”’ trail
‘But, alas, the esonoinie evange-
list has left his eager followers dis-,
concerted. | Many have ‘begun to wonder just where the _saw-dus.” trail leads. Mr. “Average American - has watched silvery-tongued orators, Hitler and Mussolini, lead their people into the bonds of dictatorship {4 . and the fickle political man-
euvering of Father Coughlin has
left. Mr. Average American a little
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READER LAUDS NEW DEAL -
SOCIAL WELFARE PROGRAM".
By Eliver Owens
Some good advice was given “the Negro voter by Moon Mullins in the
‘ Message Center, Sept, 28, when he “There was only:one way for:
said: them to vote and that way needs no explaining,” and that all they have to do ‘is to remember; the past, when, of course, the , Republican
| Party was in power.
What did the Republican’ Party do for the Negro when : it was. in power during the four.years prior to the present Administration? Did it see that colored people: were properly clothed, sheltered and: fed?: Did it give them work in any form so they could buy clothing, she ter
and food The 2 esent Administration, through (tHe NYA, has given she
colored youth of the nation. educa~
TODAY
- BY GENEVIEVE MITCHELL What if I do not conquer Dare any ay I-did not: wield my sword ; With all my might And raise my shield 5 4 . In: gallant, swift defense Of some cause which I deemed To be the right? & I could not face myself Fe Did I betray : The oath my heart SPProves. What though I die? oi Today is mine. LE And I am not afraid 4
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DAILY THOUGHT. If we say that we ‘have fellowship with Him, and walk in darkness, we lie, and do nok the truth. —John 1:6. :
HE devil can an cite gotibtiire Sor
So When Father Coughlin started | rotten at the heart.—Shak
his purpose. An evil soul, producing holy witness; is like a villain with a smiling cheek: a goodly apple espeate
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» : RELIEVES REPUBLICANS WOULD BRING MISERY 113 N. K
been done. by any Administration.
have had classes to -advance “their education and have given thousands of them work on relief projects.
Now they are abdut to complete one of the most modern groups of apartments yet to be. constructed,
people at reasonable rent. Hundreds
toward education, housing and general welfare of thése people.
has done as much for the Negro? a SELDOM VOTES : STRAIGHT “TICKET : oo By Frank R, Hale : I have just read L. C. Lowder’s
article in the Hoosier Forum. He does just- the same as his friend
| Mr. Eastman in jumping at 'conclu-
sions and making rash statements regarding matters it is impossible
. |- tor him-to know abouit.
‘I'am not ‘a ‘Socialist or Commu-
‘[ nist’ and ‘I confess. I am Ignorant - {am a native Hoosier, an ordinary | ‘business man. I have been voting
of the articles "of these beliefs.
for 49 years, have never missed voting in any election. - I have voted
but two straight tickets in my life,
and I shall vote a mixed Heke! this year.
I am in favor of. the loading
tionally, but if something - better were suggested, 1 would be for it, I am not in favor of-the whole program of the ‘Indiana state administration, however; I am in favor of putting ‘liquor: control under . the
by Mr. Springer. ; But. most of all, I- concede. to. svery man the right to his opinion and, if he does not agree ‘With me, I do not hse him.
Election time is drawing near. The
‘I people must decide between: having] peop "and women, shouted “Boo!” before he had so much as
work with enough to eat and going back to the four years of misery which they endured before the election of President Roosevelt. - The Republican Party is implor-
{ing the people to place them in pow‘er again. 80. they” can save the 1 Uni
States from economic suicide and certain destruction. Destruction to whom, if the Democrats remain in power? ~ Probably destruc-
3 tion to some of the money hoardTo flaunt my challenged ‘banner | ers
President Roosevelt destroyed, or | curtailed,
publicans ‘the big-moneyed men did the controlling so they themseives reaped the profits. - If you still want to work and live and let your children live, think well about whom ‘you send to the White ‘House. Gov. Landon is a fine man, but remember, he is not the entire Republican Party. In my opinion, there will be many advisers when
.1 and if he attains the presidency.
"AONOR T'S - TERRIBLE~
UNSQUND= | EXTRAVAGANT: WASTEFUL!
It Seems to Me
tional, healthful and self-supporting : livelihood, which never before has |
And for adult colored folks, - they-
which will be rented to the colored of other things have been done]
Can |. | the : previous: ‘Administration say it
measures of this Administration na- |.
county governments, ‘as advocated :
‘select Rush in such high and galloping haste. “that Rush has reached his goal a very considerable ‘number.of his constituents don’t like him. I am not
; produciion so that the]. ‘poor man _ profited. Under the Re-
By Heywood Broun
West Virginia Deserves ' Bette Reputation, but the Fact Remains Rush Holt Is Senator, Writer Says,
WHITE SULPHUR’ SPRINGS, Ww. Va., Oct. 15.—West Virginia deserves a bets
“ter reputation than it gets in the minds of
the careless. Another name would - help. Right now this commonwealth sounds like
no more than an annex. Moreover, the name West : Virginia suggests to most of us something about’ “Rolling down the mountain,” or “She'll be rid ing four white horses.” But even after the “hill- -billy
fantasy has .been- dispelled there . is"no getting away from the fact that Rush Holt is a United States Senator from the great commonwealth of West Virginia.: The people of the commonwealth are get-. ting to be aware of this fact and they are uneasy. . Rush Holt is one of the youngest men ever elected to the Senate, In fact, he was below the consti tutional limitation when he first showed up in Washington with his election papers in his pocket, There was a great deal of discussions as to what could be done. Some of Mr. Holt's friends said that he. would never get any older no matter how long you waited, and that he might as well apply for his seat at once. Other counsel prevailed. They put Rush back into. the -barrel for further. seasoning until he had reached the age prescribed by the Constitution. You understand that technically there was a Senator right along, although not working at it. He: didn’t work at it ‘very hard after he made his formal application for admittance. Only a trained newspaper reporter could teil the difference between the Senate with Rush Holt present and the Senate without him,
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# x = : 4 OOKING back on it all, it seems very curious that
West Virginia should have been so anxious to Now
aware of all the factors concerned, but ene of them 1a that Rush ran as a strong supporter of labor and then
| changed: his mind after he was safely in the Benate.
Senator Holt was over in our general direction just a few nights ago to make a ‘speech on “My Policies.”
‘It. was scheduled for Fairmont, but it seems never to
have been delivered. When Rush got up to speak several hundred men
a chance to address them as “My good friends.” It would be pretty hard to say that the audience did not like the speech, since no part of it was ever delivered. Even if young Mr. Holt wanted to talk about. the climate of West Virginia they didn’t want to hear him. The whole thing got down into being just anti-Rush-Holt night.
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HE Senator is preity sore about it. -He says thah ‘the traditional right: of free speech has been sri He's going to- make the speech all over again . The issue involved is important, and from a legal point of view quite nice. A.erowd which continuously yelled “Boo!” kept the Senator from his guaranteed right to speak. On the ‘other hand, it may be. that free speech entitles anybody to say “Boo! Boo} Boa}? and to keep it up as long” as he iikes. There’s nothing in the Constitution about ‘that either; and sometimes a purely -negative sound such as “Boo”. may connote as much as a rabble-rousing phrase in the throat of an orator. It's just about as sensible to say “Boo! Boo!” and nothing more as ii is to get up and talk about “Saving America from the ‘Red’ of Mr. Roosevelt.”
EW YORK, Oct. 15.—The elect of Mr. Roose: velt is as certain as the best available information’ can make it. Even Republican forecasters ‘eoncede this in their confidential" “moments. Nothing short of some very important and very sudden sweep.
d Ropsevelt must now begin to think of
party and doctrine must now be reconditioned to
move under their own sieam. That means creating as much popular faith in that party and doctrine as there is now faith in Franklin Roosevelt. There is a marvelous opportunity to put it there.
‘General Hugh Johnson Say's— Roosevelt's Reselection Seems Certain and Now He Should Begin to Create a Much Popular Faith in Party and Doctrine ‘as Rests in Him.
are that the whole strength of this nation is avail-
in sentiment could change that at this late moment. fs a It
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The Washinglon Merry-Go-Round
- lowa Cameraman Fools Landon and Gets Shot of Him Eating; Sanatorisl
Race Depends on Presidential Election, WWeiters Say: F D. Rls Favorite, By Detw Bhasin snd obest . Allen | i
%., Oct. 15.—This eity is still .talk-