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SATURDAY, SEPT. 4, 1937

INDIANA STATE FAIR OT often have nature and so many other factors cooperated to give such a splendid setting for the Indiana State Fair, which opens today. : It has been a busy year at the Fair Grounds. The entire 214-acre exposition space has been inclosed with a

new steel wire fence. able because of an elaborate new lighting system. Roadways have been widened and lowered and better curbing built. Parking space for 3000 cars in the infield is ready. A new saddle and light harness horse barn, with 202 individual box stalls, is expected to increase competition in the nightly horse shows, regarded as among the finest in the country. Other attractions cover a wide range of interest and entertainment. The Grand Circuit harness races will be held every afternoon except Sunday. Sixteen acres of the grounds now are under roof, assuring a successful show regardless of weather. Exhibits of farm products, livestock, home economics and other Hoosier interests are up to their usual high standards. The 1937 harvest, giving Indiana farmers their most prosperous year since pre-depression days, heightens inter-

est in the 85th annual State Fair and buttresses predictions |

that this year’s crowds may total 400,000. Don’t miss it!

MAYOR BOETCHER WALTER C. BOETCHER merits the support and good will of the community as he takes up the duties of Mayor of Indianapolis. He deserves the friendly co-opera-tion of citizens, a sympathetic understanding of his new responsibilities. It is te the credit of Mayor Boetcher that the sudden retirement of John W. Kern, upon his appointment to a high Federal post, did not disturb the functioning of city gov-

ernment.

on the inside as City Controller in the Kern administration. |

He is intimately acquainted with the City’s problems. He has experience in municipal government to guide him.

The public will follow, respect and reward intelligent

leadership that places the public's interests above partisan | The great majority will look to | osophy. His strength as a |

or personal demands. Mayor Boetcher for that leadership. party leader will be measured by his devotion to the larger interests of all the people.

WHICH IS AMERICAN?

'N a moving and powerfully worded speech over the radio | last night Miner John L. Lewis delivered a rebuke to those bitter-enders of industry and finance who still refuse | to accept collective bargaining as a constitutional and estab- |

lished fact of American life. Mr. Lewis paid his respects to certain employers who have turned their plants into arsenals and to certain city and state officials who have shot from the hip. He reserved his bitterest words, however, for those vigilante organizations that in the name of Americanism slander the C. I. O. as communistic and then carry on lawless and terroristic raids against labor leaders with gang-warfare methods alien to everything this Republic means. Every American, unless he is blinded by ignorance or selfishness, knows that labor unionism in this country, whether of the A. F. of L. or C. 1. O. variety, is as native as pot-likker, cut-plug or flapjacks. He knows that, while there may be a radical sprinkling in leadership here and there, both mavements are essentially conservative in their purpose of working for labor’s fuller life under capitalism. He knows that labor unionism is a politica leaven mighty wholesome to our democracy and an economic force that helps keep the industrial system from toppling. “Unionization, as opposed to communism, presupposes the relation of employment,” Mr. Lewis said. “It is based upon the wage system and it recognizes fully and unreservedly the institution of private property and the right to investment profit. It is upon the fuller development of

collective bargaining, the wider expansion of the labor |

movement, the increased influence of labor in our national councils, that the perpetuity of our democratic institutions must largely depend. The organized workers of America, free in their industrial life, conscious partners in production, secure in their homes and enjoying a decent standard of living, will prove the finest bulwark against the intrusion of alien doctrines.” As between self-appointed, flag-waving vigilante mobs on the one hand, and labor unionism on the other, there is no doubt where the best interests of America lie.

SUGARED POLITICS HE President did not like the Sugar Bill which Congress passed. Another politician on the same hot spot probhably would have signed the bill and said nothing, or, if he had said anything, merely would have remarked it was probably as good a measure as could be obtained under the circumstances. But Mr. Roosevelt issued a public statement in which he put in writing the terms of a bald political deal which he had exacted as the price of his signature. “I am approving the bill,” he said, “with what amounts to a gentleman’s agreement that the unholy alliance between the cane and beet growers on the one hand and the seaboard refining monopoly on the other, has been terminated by the growers. “That means that hereafter the refiners’ lobby should expect no help from the domestic growers. That is at least a definite step in the right direction.” It will be interesting to s2e whether, when 1940 rolls around and the quotas in the new sugar law expire, Mr. Roosevelt can enforce that “gentleman’s agreement.” The present measure perpetuates the seaboard refiners’ monopoly and thereby exacts millions of dollars from America’s househeld budgets, }

Night sessions will be more enjoy- |

Mr. Boetcher has the advantage of having been | cured that he 3s now ‘convinced ‘that the |

| the Bolshevik system

Nize Bebby !_By Talburt

THE INDIANAPOLIS TIMES

SATURDAY, SEPT. 4,

The Cares That Infest the

Day—sy Herblock

JUST WHEN PO YOU BOYS FOLD YOUR TENTS AND SILENTLY STEAL

Fair Enough

By Westbrook Pegler Senator Ellender, Huey Long Chief, Hopes F. D. R. Will Do for Nation What Kingfish Did for Louisiana.

of Louisiana, one of Mr. Roosevelt's progressive statesmen of the new South, de-

Roosevelt Administration is following the methods and philosophy of Huey Long, and

that he would like the President to do the same |

things for the nation that Huey did for Louisiana. Senator Ellender should be an authority as to the similiarity of methods and philAs head man of Huey's mock-Legislature he put through the laws which made Huey the

| single-handed military dictator of

Louisiana, and he has now completed his first session as a New

| Deal U. S. Senator.

He has had a chance to make comparisons, in consequence of which he now finds himself devoted to a leader whom he opposed until Huey was killed and the New Deal bought up the political properties of Long's organization. The progressive statesman of the new South does not speak for President Roosevelt, who may wish to disown certain of the methods and philosophy of Huey Long and any desire to do for or to the nation all that Huey did in Louisiana. Without holding Mr. Roosevelt responsible for Senator Ellender’s proclamation, let us see what the Senator would like to see Mr. Roosevelt do for the nation that Huey did for Louisiana.

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UEY packed not only the courts of Louisiana but the legal profession as well, by a law empowering his Attorney General to admit or kick out members at will. No attorney could take a case against any member of Huey's organization without the risk of being disbarred. Senator Ellender would extend the same power to the Federal Attorney General.

Huey passed a law providing for a debt moratorium, but conferred on his own state bank examiner the right to grant or deny debt relief according to the political devotion of the applicant. The progressive statesman of the new South favors 2 similar national law similarly administered. Huey empowered his board of tax assessors to raise, reduce or entirely remit taxes according to the appli cant’s politics and virtually deny the right of appeal, another item which would become national if the new New Dealer had his way. Huey enlarged the jurisdiction of his civil service commission to take in not only state emplovees but sheriffs and deputies, policemen, firemen, teachers,

Mr. Pegler

and every kind of local employee, all of whom thus | | use it for private gain, concentrate

| wealth, | masses of purchasing power which

became members of his political organization, paving a percentage of their wages for their jobs. According to Senator Ellender’s wish, Mr. Roosevelt should have a similar power over more than 3,000,000 public em-

ployees throughout the country. un u o

UEY handed over to the Governor the authority to appoint, and remove, every sweeper, bottleholder, bailiff and flunky serving in any of the state or inferior courts and the local commission and boards. Senator Ellender would place in the hands of the President or the Postmaster General every public job in the United States, however menial,

By J. L. 'B. NEW YORK, Sept. 4.—Senator Ellender | | The Times anent Stalin's “purge” { via the firing squad, he says “It | should be kept in mind that under

The Hoosier Forum

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

BOLSHEVIK SYSTEM SEEN

WORKING AT HOME to express

In Webb Miller's first article in| troversies

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Washington

By Raymond Clapper Any Liberalizing Within Ranks Of G. O. P. Is Likely to Get Start

During Pennsylvania Meeting.

ASHINGTON, Sept. 4.—Stray, telltale signs about the future of the Republican Party are beginning to appear, not among the elder statesmen who are exchanging letters of advice, but down in the state organ-

BLAMES CAPITALISM FOR | THREATS OF WAR

| dictatorial systems fcr that matter) | any opposition to or deviation from

the party line, after the line once is laid down, constitutes a crime.” How remindful that is of our own | recent State House ‘‘purge” when | employees were dismissed sum-

{ marily for disobeying headquarter’s |

instructions when voting for the

| candidate for the presidency of the | | Young Democrats Club!

And the effort to kill politically | the self-respecting Senators who

| followed their own conscience in |

opposing the court-packing bill in- | stead of yes-yvessing the President.

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By L. B. Hetrick, Elwood The effects of the capitalist system is millions unemployed, a great |

| |

{ nobility, a state church and a caste |

defense war. And now these same enemies and their following point out Russia's war proclivities. un n un QUESTIONS ANGLO-AMERICAN ‘AGREEMENT’ By Frances Martell, National Secretary,

American Association for the Recognition of the Irish Republic

About three weeks ago, the press dispatches from London reported a debate in the British House of

Commons in which references were made by more than one speaker

| to “the pact between Great Britain | and the United States” or to “the

Anglo-American agreement.” What this might mean the public in general had no idea, as nothing here has been published con- | cerning any “pact” with Great | Britain. But the Canadian news- |

system, and if we are to be called |

upon to defend it with blood and | | treasure, Americans may well stand

aghast. n n ” GROW A BEARD AND

| SAVE THE NATION By

Richmond Reader More than a generation ago it fell to the lot of a Hoosier to discern | what this country needs. And Indi- | ana remembers gratefully Tom Mar- | shall's simple notion about the 5-

| cent cigar. His homely broadcast of

the virtues in tobacco lifted out of

| the plebeian stogie class has brought

a goodly harvest. Even today, any | male who amounts to anything or | imagines he amounts to something

| velt has done well to patch up [such an evil system and fix it | so we can yet eat today though | tomorrow we may be gassed.

| death-dealing weapons to carve up

number employed making death- | dealing weapons, poison gas and training men in the art of destruction. Those that are employed at actual wealth production and lifesustaining commodities must turn it over to the capitalist class for destructive purposes, thus depriv- | ing of purchasing power the multi-

tude that do create, by their labor, the good things of life. Mr. Roose-

| the Senate?

| papers are now furnishing a some- |

| what startling solution of this mys- | , ; , i | tery. They are saying in their edi- | dent’s office, or in the Mayor’s chair,

| torial columns that the mysterious | {he ubiquitous 5-cent cigar of Tom

| “pact” or “agreement” is to the ef- | Marshall is seen. { fect that the United States and | | Great Britain promise “to stand to- | IU Pas spread to all the states of the gether in defense of democracy.”

When was this covenant made and | ° : by whom? The Constitution pro- | it has come into tough competition

| vides that all treaties with foreign | With the more plebeian stogie. Yet | powers must be submitted to and | { approved by the Senate. Has this | ( momentous agreement been before | Does any member of the

carries a cigar. Whether it be behind | | the steering wheel, in the Presi

It has been with us a long time.

| Central Plains. True, in the neigh- | borhood of Wheeling and Pittsburgh

it has oriented itself over the Alleghenies, into Philadelphia, into the cloakrooms of the House of Repre- | sentatives, and even into the more | dignified suites or the United

Mr. Roosevelt was not elected to | do away with the cause but to doc- |

it. But to say he is practicing | socialism as a whole is an insult to any intelligent student of scientific | socialism, It is true he has used | some of the Socialists’ transitory | principles, why not? He just had | to do it in order to prop up a falling, decaying system. The capitalist ruling elements use socialism for themselves, a roaring | success for those on the inside, who

rare—

In pair—

may be Some happy

gorgeously and in turn deprive the makes depression and thus leads to | war—a conquest for expansion. With enemies, the imperialists of | the whole world, whetting their |

Soviet Russia, how could they practice complete socialism there under | such circumstances when they had to stop constructive wealth produc-

tion and hurriedly prepare for self- | man.—Burke.

General Hugh Johnson Says—

New York City's Mayoralty Campaign Attracts Unusual National Interest

As La Guardia Bids for Re-election Without Benefit of Party or Sponsor. |

Mr. La Guardia works as hard as a couple of

EW YORK, Sept. 4—The election of a Mayor of New York City usually would be of only secondary national interest. This time it is different. Mr. La Guardia is splitting both the Democratic and Republican parties. He is fighting Tammany with one hand and the Tory part of the Republican Party with the other. He has played close to the New Deal—as any canny Mayor with a relief problem must do—but the Administration at least has not come out openly for him and may not do so. It is a political phenomenon. Mr. La Guardia is running on his record—entirely apart from partisan politics—and I think he is going to win. That should have a tremendous national interest.

ONCE had an interesting experience with the Mayor. I was sent by the President to New York City to put 220,000 people on the Federal payroll in WPA, and with only one direct order from Mr. Roosevelt: “Keep the political influence of anybody absolutely out of the effort.” This was not done to side-step Mr. La Guardia. It was donie-—as I was told and believe—at his request. I believe this because, during the entire unprecedented rush of job-making, not the slightest attempted pressure or patronage came from the Mayor's office. It is my observation, from this and other incidents, that the Mayor went into this great office determined to prove that it could be administered with out any political pandering whatever.

bird-dogs picking up a covey-trail. He knows the business of the city and does it—not as a politician but exactly as the most expert and zealous business

executive in American industry runs his job. He is smart. He is honest. He's got guts. All this, with varying exceptions or degrees of emphasis, has become so clear to New York, and is so astonishing in the present political murk almost everywhere else, that Mr. La Guardia is likely to be elected withoyt a party. ” ” ai —— Of course he is an astonishingly clever politician. His very record is the best of politics. His Nazi tail-twisting was good politics in a community so heavily Jewish. But the distinguishing feature of the Mayor’s politics is that it includes little if any political pandering at the expense of the people’s money or Government, and no political racketeering whatever, * And so William Allen White nominates him for Président on the Republican titket. He will loom larger. He would be a good President. But whether he would be a good candidate is another question. To be brutally practical, it must be remembered that he also is “sidewalks-of-New York,” and that's no bargain out in the short-grass country. He is of halfJewish and half-Italian extraction. In our remaining Detlighivd bigotry over wide areas, that is another urden.

The catalpa tree spreads a canopy |

Then strews snow-white blossoms | o'er path and stair compliment to

That in other years, where’er they

remembrance might stir when they see Or breathe incense of blooms that

Adorn the festive catalpa tree! |

DAILY THOUGHT

There is no power but of God: the powers that be are ordained |prairie of the Middle West can't go | of God.—Romens 13, 1. |

- sistent.

| States Senate. That is, among the

THE CATALPA TREE younger set. Of such stuff and lowly |

| By F. F. MacDONALD | tor effects, and he has done well at | Lavisl.ing her perfume upon ‘the air,

{ )n meeting the fate of Samson!) | When the seven locks and beard | | Were gone, Samson lost his sight, his | life! To those]

mean | | beards! |

izations. Like a tree, the Republican Party started dying at the top. But if there is any new growth, it will appear not up there but at the bottom, Shortly there will be a chance to observe the Re= publican Party's post-election undergrowth in Pennsylvania, where a struggle is going on for control of the state organization, On one side is the group which has held control in recent years, headed by Joseph Pew, Philadel= phia oil millionaire. He is one of the heaviest contributors to the party. His family is reported to have contributed a total of $500, - 000, matching the contribution of John L. Lewis to the Democratic chest, On the other side are the Progressives aligned with Gifford : Pinchot, who twice won the Governorship against the Republican machine and who is being urged to re-enter politics and run as Republican candidate for the Senate next year.

n ” n ENNSYLVANIA Republican politics become ime portant nationally for two reasons. One is that if any liberalizing of the party generally is to take place it should show up in Pennsylvania, where labor has taken the state away from its long Republican allegiance and thrown it to the Democrats. If there is any state where it is necessary for the Republicans to become more progressive in order to return to power, it is Pennsylvania. The other reason is that until the Republicans recapture Pennsylvania they can have little substantial hope, nationally, of ree turning tc political solvency. The Republican State Committee is to meet Sept. 25 at Altoona, Pa. to clect a new chairman, Younger progressive Republicans have been urge ing the selection of P. Stephen Stahlnecker, who managed Governor Pinchot's two campaigns. Mr, Pew is fighting to name Edward Green, a Pittsburgh coal operator who is now secretary of the come mittee and its acting chairman, Indications, accord ing to reliable information, favor Mr, Green's selece tion. In that case, domination by the Pew group would be assured, forecasting continuation of a conservative policy.

Mr. Clapper

” ” ” R. PEW took the organization over from the Mellon-Grundy alliance, Being one of the heavy contributors to the Repube lican presidential campaign last year, Mr. Pew ex= erted much influence in the Landon campaign. He had considerable to do with shaping its policies and with pulling it toward a more conservative position despite Governor Landon’s progressive leanings. Progressive Republicans in Pennsylvania complain that the party organization is making no effort to attract the independent voters who tipped the bale ance of power to the Democrats, but is determined to hold a conservative course and play for a backe swing of the pendulum away from New Deal policies,

The Washington Merry-Go-Round

President's Mother Persistent When She Interests Self in Son's Problems; Ambassador Bingham 'Attacked’ by Cameramen on Visit to Secretary Hull,

By Drew Pearson and Robert S. Allen

ASHINGTON, Sept. 4.—Mrs, James Roosevelt, mother of the President, does not often interest herself in her son’s problems of state, but those few occasions when she does, she is relentlessly per-

While the President was posing for photographs, before she left for Europe, his mother came in and remarked to Marvin McIntyre, his secretary: “Mr. McIntyre, have you answered that letter to Mr. Satterlee yet?” Without waiting for an answer, she continued: “You know it's a very important letter. It's much more important than most of these other letters you answer, and I don’t want you to forget it. I want you to tell Mr. Satterlee how much Franklin appreciated his letter.” Then, turning to Miss Marguerite ‘Le Hand, the President's private secretary, she continued: “You'll see that it's answered, won't you, Missy?” At this point Mr. McIntyre sought to divert Mrs. Roosevelt's attention by having her peek through a camera lens. She took one look, then left the room saying: “Now don’t forget that letter to Mr. Satterlee.” Note—Mrs. Roosevelt was referring to Herbert L. Satterlee, brother-in-law of J. P. Morgan.

” » » ALL, dignified Robert W. Bingham, U. S. Am-

bassador to Londom, is a favorite of cameramen, When he called on Secretary Hull the other day,

the photographers besieged him in full force. Goode naturedly the ambassador submitted to their insatiable demands. After snapping him repeatedly with his hat and cane, they asked him to place his hand on the door knob of Mr. Hull's private office. “Now, Mr. Ambassador,” one of them cried, “please open the door just a little, as if you were entering, We want to get an action picture.” Again Mr. Bingham obliged. As he opened the door a secret buzzer automatically sounded on the desk of Mr. Hull's Negro messenger. But the mes= senger did not move, “Tenille,” Mr. Hull was heard to say, “why don’t you answer that buzzer and see who is out there?” “Yes, sir, Mr. Secretary,” the messenger replied, “but I know who is out there. It is Ambassador Bingham being attacked by them cameramen.”

OT long ago the Ecuadorian Minister, Colon Eloy Alfaro, went up to New York to meet his two

| boys, who, as West Point cadets, were returning from | a South American cruise with a group of other West | Pointers.

The Alfaro boys, whose grandfather was President of Ecuador, could not be found on the ship when it docked. Finally he inquired of an immigration officer. “Oh, those two,” replied the officer sternly, “they were dropped off at Ellis Island. They're foreigners.” It required a long-distance telephone call to the State Department before the minister could get his West Point sons back onto United States soil.