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BY HARRY ELMER BARNES | (Substituting for Ernie Pyle) QENSIBLE citizens would naturally like to penetrate beneath hysterics of the late campaign and find out just what the Roose-

- velt Administration has meant to date,

viewed against the historical perspective of our political and economic past. This broad view can be obtained only from an informed and ims partial observer, equipped with a true historical viewpoint. Such an assessment appears in Walter Miilis’ long article on “The Essence of the New Deal” in the Virginia - Quarterly Review. There has been much talk about the “Roosevelt revolution” by both enemies and friends of the Administration. In either of these interpretations there is little reality. The enemies charge a surrender. to Moscow, an attempt to overthrow the Constitution and the enthronement of radicalism. Mr. Millis quickly disposes of this argument: “It is folly to accuse the New Deal of addiction to Moscow; its general picture of the desirable society is scarcely dist ble from that enshrined in the complacent and lethargic mind of Calvin Coolidge.” Likewise, the Administration thesis of a great popular revolution which has introduced sweeping political changes and transforming economic measures—a real and immediate New Deal—is far removed

from the facts. . This contention revolves about the superficial and fictitious “Roosevelt. revolution.” It rests upon emphasizing the immediate effects of such things as the NRA, the AAA, the CWA, social security legislation, concessions to labor and the like,

” ” s Fleeting Episode ALUABLE as these may have been in the way of restoring a temporary prosperity, they are of themselves only a fleeting episode. Seme were abandoned voluntarily, Others were petering out when ‘the Bupreme Court took up its ax. The court summarily dispatched the rest. This superficial New Deal, *about which so much ballyhoo has been raised by friend and foe alike, is already a matter of historical curiosity. But there has been a fundamental and .residual “Roosevelt revolution,” which is usually overlooked. It is to this that Mr. Millis especially calls our attention. . * ” 2 ” Real Revolution ; HIS real revolution consists (1) in the fiscal and | credit policies of the Administration—devaluing the dollar, throwing .off the: shackles of the gold standard and making the banks more and more de-

pendent upon government paper; (2) in the raising of agriculture to a position of competitive power in the American economy, and (3) in a program of spending in the interest of maintaining the American economy as a whole—government responsibility for general prosperity.

y= Mrs.Roosevelt's Day BY ELEANOR ROOSEVELT '

ASHINGTON, Thursday.—When I finished my > column yesterday I did not realize that the most exciting part of my day was still before me. After a very pleasant little period of singing by the

girls of the high school glee, club and tea six of us.|.

started off to drive to Terra Alta, W. Va., where I was to take the train. FT TE _' It'was a mountain road and full of curves. It was slippery and there was an ‘absolutely dense’ fog so that the higher we climbed, the less we could see ahead of us. Finally our driver put his head out the window to watch the white line which he could still see. I was sitting on the right-hand side of the car 50. I kept my eyes on the side of the road. The boy

driving the car behind us was very familiar with the road and finally he passed us and his tail light acted as a pilot for us. We reached our destination safely, but the two men, who had planned to drive on to ‘ Washington, gave up the drive, put their cars in a garage and came on with us by train. We got in late last night, but Jack, the red setter,

. was wide awake and wagged his tail with joy at not

being the only occupant in the room. I was so sleepy I could hardly pat him and say an adequate good night. A few good hours of sleep, however, and I woke up full of pep this morning. I meant to go out and do some Christmas shopping, but by the time I had gone over Mrs. Helm’s basket, ed and marked the mail which was on my desk, done such things as Mr. Muir and Mrs. Nebitt wanted, and written a few longhand notes, it was 12:30 and Mrs, Morgenthau had come to 2 me. X : { Mrs. Ernest Lindley and Mrs. Bernard Ryan of /lbion, N. Y., joined us for lunch. Miss Le Hand also i.ppeared, having just stepped off the train from Florida, and brought me a| note from my daughter-in-law Betsy, who had gone through to New York. find an account in my ail this morning of the work done by the American Phristian Committee for non-Jewish German refugees. During the past months, churches in this country dave been raising a fund to take care of the refugees - Who have come to this country, and who are to be found in various European and South American counjries in still larger numbers. The Jewish people have fone a wonderful piece of work in caring for their own refugees, and have generously contributed many thouand of dollarsifor the care of non-Jewish refugees, but there still seems to be a need for further asvistance. x /

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Women Can Be Beautiful at Any Age, Believes Anna Case, the Singer, Who, at 42, Married Clarence Mackay.

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BY WESTON BARCLAY - OMEN who find romance after 40 all seem to have

some quality of loveliness that has not faded with

the years.

Not all are as trim of waist or slim of hip as Mrs. Simpson. Some have more of the frail gift of beauty than

she. has defied the loss of youth. Such a woman is Anna

All seem to have some .charm of face or figure that

Case, the opera singer, who

was 42 when she was married romantically to Clarence Mackay, financier and patron of musicians. She believes that beauty comes from the soul.

“If beauty,” she -says, “were a question of lovely skin, bright eyes, cheeks as pink as rosy apples, it would be, limited to girls of 20. :

“But this; of course, is ridiculous.. Most of us have seen women who were beautiful at 40, 50, even 80. “Time deals harshly with the human form. Waist lines widen, faces become flabby and hair loses its luster. Yet the years give us the compensation of charm, sympathy, tact. If I were to give beauty advice I would cultivate your soul.

“A cruel mouth, calculating eyes |

or a vicious belligerent flare to the nostrils can .not be overcome by the use’of powder puff or lipstick.” Like Mrs. Simpson, Anna Case devotes much thought and care to her dress, but she is not a slave to style.

’ ” ” 2 “ OST women dress like sopranos and most men like baritones,” she says, “although they may fit into entirely different classifications. If it is the: fashion to read a certain book these people will read it. If dresses are worn only to the knees these women will wear them, although they have the limbs of a piano or a canary.” To appreciate the story of Anna Case's romance one should know the story of her life. She probably is the only opera

star who ever shod horses. . Her father was the village blacksmith in South Branch, N. J. The family was poor. : She helped him in . the blacksmith shop, worked in the kitchen “for neighbors, sold soap from door to door and drove

the family buggy to take pas- |

sengers to. the railroad-station for 25 cents a trip. Her earlier recollection is waking: hungry in the middle of a cold night to find rain: coming through the sagging roof of the kitchen, where she slept. She never had music lessons when she was small, but learned to play the organ and piano by ear. When she was 15 she was organist in a village church and sang in the choir. A grocer’s wife urged her to take lessons from a teacher of voice. When Anna Case said she couldn't. possibly get the money the grocer lent it to her. The teacher was a good one, who recognized the quality of her voice and took her to a famous teacher in New York, who agreed to instruct Anna Case without pay. : . 8 8 Nd

RIENDS got her a job singing at three of the. afternoon musicales in’ the Hotel BellevueStratford at Philadelphia. She borrowed a hat and gown from one of the more prosperous girls she knew and shoes and silk stockings from her teacher, so that she might be presentable.

Roosevelt Speech Is Step Against War, Sullivan Says

BY MARK SULLIVAN

ASHINGTON, Dec, 4—Presi-

dent Roosevelt's address at Buenos Aires is a step to safeguard the United States and the whole

American continent from infection

N 1917, in Russia, a little group of men, taking advantage of chaos ‘that existed ' there, carried that country into communism, a form of society and government utterly new. : Of - communism, ‘ the principal haracter

Clarence Mackay

On one of ‘those three afternoons . Andreas. Dippel, administrative ‘manager of the Metropolitan Opera, wandered into the lounge of the hotel with Sigmund Behrens, . his Philadelphia representative.

“Who is that. little soprano singing in the kalcony?” ‘asked

Dippel..; “I'm sure I never heard .

her before.” ’ : “I don’t know,” admitted Behrens. phe ’ ; '“Plefss go. up and find out” said Dipped, 4) : Behrens ; returned to tell the impresario that the girl was Anna Case, only 18, whosé only public. appearance had been in a village choir, + « e a Dippel wrote a note. “Please. call on me in New York,” it said, “so that I may hear you sing again with the possibility of an engagement in mind.” With some difficulty” the. girl persuaded her” father ‘that opera was quite respectable—not at all like. musical comedy—and he let her sign a “contract. In 1910, when she was 19, she made her debut in a small part, the first American girl ever to sing at the Metropolitan without ‘European training.

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SHE progressed. quickly to leading roles, but left the opera after eight years, preferring concert work. Music critics often wrote of her loveliness as much as of her ability as a singer, even when. years had gone by and she no longer was an apple-cheeked girl fresh from a village choir. And now the story of the romance. One day, nearly 25 years ago, Clarence Mackay, who = has

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served as head of the Philharmonic ' Symphony Orchestra, director, of the Metropolitan, who inherited one of America’s great fortunes, was sitting in his box at the opera. Mr, Mackay. heard a fresh, youthful voice. The voice was the soprano: of Anna Case. The opera was Gluck’s “Orfeo.” Mr. Mackay was charmed by the voice and the singer, but, an exceedingly proper gentleman, he did not go back stage after the performance. © The next time Anna Case sang Mr. Mackay was in his box and the next and the next. : : : Shortly after his first wife went off to Paris to get a diyorce Mr. Mackay was giving a party. at

Harbor Hill, his magnificent estate .

at Roslyn. He asked the Metropolitan manager to bring “the little newcomer from New. Jersey.” At the party were the’ famous Geraldine Farrar, the great Caruso—and Anna Case was shy. Mr. Mackay talked to her about horses: and flowers, things she knew from her life in the New Jersey village. - From that day on they were friends.

o 2 i HETHER Mr. Mackay fell in ‘ love that day or’ later no one knows. It is known that years before their marriage he chartered a special train and airplane so that he could hear Anna Case sing. He was in Ireland when he read in a newspaper that she was to sing in a church in Paris. It seemed too late to hope to get there in time. But he hired a train to take him to Dublin and a plane to take him from there to Paris. He reached the- church

just as Miss Case stood to sing

Gounod’s “Ave: Maria.” Whenever it was that he fell in love with Anna Case, Mr. Mackay’s faithfulness to the teachings of the Catholic Church kept them from marriage. Mr. Mackay was legally free from his first wife from the time she obtained her divorce in 1914. It was not until more than a year after she died

in 1930 that Mr. Mackay married the .opera star. He was 57 on the day of ‘their wedding and Anna Case was 42. It rained that day, but both were smiling as they left St. Mary’s Church at Roslyn. i ~The bride, in white lace, with a bouquet of orchids and lilies of the valley. was comely. It seemed hard to believe that shej was 42, that her early years had been hard and that she had been a singer in concert ‘and opera for well over 20 years.’ i 2 2 2 7 R. MACKAY was born with a silver spoon in ‘his mouth, but he knew what it meant to be

. ploneer days:iof the West. father was John W. Mackay, Irish immigrant boy, who was propri_etor of a saloon in Louisville before he weil to Cglifornia dn the - gold rush. Jolin W, Mackay struck it rich in the'$300,000,000 Bonanza ; shaft of the Comstock lode. ' :Her marriage made Anna Case the mother-in-law of Irving Berlin, master of jazz, who married’ .- Mackay’s daughter, . Ellin. Ellin ‘Mackay’s marriage to the composer, who once had been a singing waiter at Nigger Mike's in ‘the ‘Bowery, was contrary to her ~father’s wishes. Mr. Mackay had "forgiven her before he. married “Miss Case. "Mr. and Mrs. Berlin were at the wedding. ~~ ' A month before the marriage: Miss Case joined the ‘Catholic Church. There was no religious question to trouble Mr. Mackay when they were married as there had been in the case of ‘his daughter. Four days before the wedding a big Rolls-Royce drove up to the house in which Miss Case spent her childhood. The: building had been reconstructed and expanded in size some years before to make a country home for her mother. Miss Case and Mr. Mackay went there to ask the blessing of Mrs. Case, widow of the village blacksmith. ;

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PAGE13 BY ANTON SCHERRER | the everlasting credit of the old-time saloon let it be said that it survived the fitful moods of the impulsive nineties. I

press the point because 40 or so years ago there was no telling what would ha

‘next. The air. was charged with uneasiness, - Standards were unsteady, values were tottering and

the best anybody could do was to think up an ideology to fit the situation.

Stuart Sherman, with one eye on Aubrey Beardsley in London and the other on Mr. Pulitzer’'s New York World, used the term “Yellow 90's” to express his position. Henry L. Mencken thought up the “Electric 90's”; Richard Le Gallienne, the “Romantic 90's,” and W. L. Whittlesey surprised everybody with his slick little connotation of the “Moulting 90's.” It was pretty good for a Princeton professor, and it served to emphasize the singular and rather startling fact that everybody, with the

Mr. Scherrer

possible exception of our saloon-keepers, was in the :

process of shedding something old and sprouting something new. | The saloon-keepers of the “Moulting 90's” went their own way, unmindful of the Princeton professor, and because they did is why I can continue my series on the old-time saloon and maintain the dignity of historical sequence. As proof of my contention, I cite the present bag in Stegemeier’s Grill, which came unscathed through the “Moulting 90's.” Except for its huge size and its rather developed use of Romanesque ornament, the 45-foot-long Stegemeier bar preserves all the tradie tions-of the old-time fixture I talked about yesterday. Designed and built by Theodore Sander in 1892 for Billy Tron, it was acquired by the Stegemeiers in 1894, which just about makes it the oldest real-for-sure bar in town. Anyway, the one with the slickest top.

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Bigger and Better

LUG in the Stegemeier bar, not merely because i is’a collector’s item, but because it permits me to introduce Mr. Tron, who represents a historical phase not to be overlooked. Mr, Tron ran the Kingston on the “levee” where the Apollo Theater now is, and did

. as much perhaps as anybody in developing the saloon

to the exalted position it once occupied. Mr. Tron never violated the historical traditions, however, What changes he made were always in the line of making everything bigger and better—a bigger and better free lunch, for ‘instance, and a bigger and better bar, as witness the one over at Stegemeier’s, Only once did anybody attempt to rock the tradie tions. That was when Harry Walker ripped out the mirrors in his back-bar and put in mural paintings, Mr. Walker ran a very fine place on Washington-st, where Thompson's No. 2 now is, and could always be depended on to have the latest of everything. I've never been able to figure out, however, whether Mr. Walker was wholly responsible for these incvae tions, or whether they came to him by way of a precocious boy who blew into town about that time. He boarded with Mr. and Mrs. Walker at their home on W, Vermont-st, and such good care did they take of him that for a long time everybody thought he was their son. His name was Kin Hubbard. Le 0 He a to Lg AaXWRey Murals Didn't Get Far HE idea of the murals instead of mirrors didn’t « get very Yar in“Indianapolis, Howevér. For one thing; the old Germans didn’t care for them, and the old Germans still had the situation well in hand. Indeed, in many respects, the old Germans still had the best places. : : Nothing in this town, for instance, ever surpassed Gotfried Monninger’s place on Ohio-st where the Brevort now is. Mr. Monninger had the vision to develop his saloon in a big, square room with columns, thus approaching the proportions of a German “bier= halle.” It permitted the placing of a great mauy tables, for Mr. Monninger had. the notion that a chair was essential to the proper appreciation of beer—that, and possibly a good newspaper. : Mr. Monninger had plenty of both. On one wall, he had a rack filled with all kinds of foreign papers, for the most part funny ones like “Fliegende Blaetter,” “Simplicissimus” and “Kladderadatsch,” and they leng a literary air that even libraries lack today. I lost = jnieress in foreign affairs after Mr. Monninger’s ath.

Hoosier Yesterdays DECEMBER 4 :

MOS BUTLER, Pennsylvania Quaker, came to Lawrenceburg in 1803, looked over land near

Elizabethtown with an eye for a homestead and ree

turned East for the winter. He came back the follows

ing spring and found his chosen property under water,

Because of that, Brookville got its start. For, according to an account by Amos W. Butler, the pioneer’s grandson, written for the Indiana Magazine of History, the Pennsylvanian set out again to find a more suitable farm. Making his way along the Indian trail up the Whitewater, he was greatly pleased with the region at the forks of the river. Mr. Butler selected a tract on which there was lit large timber—doubtless an old Indian clearing. : This land was entered at the Cincinnati land office Dec. 4, 1804, the: first enfry within what is now the town of Brookville. : With Jesse’ B.. Thomas of Lawrenceburg, afters ward United States Senator from Illinois and authop of the “Missouri Compromise,” Mr. Butler planned the town. The original plat was laid in 1808, Mr. Butler remained ‘at the town until 1818, when he went to Hanover, in Jefferson County. Brookville’s

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: young manhood of Benjamin Disraeli was |by war on the continents of Europe daring, and full of drama. Elswyth |2nd Asia. Thane has written the story of that life in a “per- | These gestures toward war in

sonalized” biogra MR. | AELI _ | Europe and Asia are, of course, the Immediately after the Communist biography, YOUNG DISB. (Har- | casion for intent consideration by |leaders had set up their system in court), which reads like a novel.

| American leaders of thought, and in | Russia, they set out toas a solicitor's clerk at 17, Benjamin

Eo military and diplomatic circles in the rest of the world, joon found that work too grubby. So, fired by ambi- | Washington, - : fon which was stimulated by his women friends and | The prision prevailing is that the sncouraged by his generous father, young Disrael world is seeing a So geas; 3 entered i literary world, in which Isaac Disraeli war between two plready had |

it from communism, is that fascism | permits private ownership of business 'N. Germany, somewhat: the same In Spain, the course of events

distinguishing ¢ “ buried in an old Hanover vi istic is denial of private ownership i, 4 oa,

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