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Col. E. T. Pyle Seeks Instructions From Generalissimo Clyde Tingley And Suggests Attacking Richmond.

(Editorial, Page 12)

ORFOLK, Va., June 28.—All the world must know by now of the recent and highly significant appointment of Ernest Tarantula Pyle, that sterling character, that noble patriot, that rock-ribbed man who (or possibly whom) from the rock-ribbed coasts of Maine to the rock-ribbed slopes of sunny Califor... Well, what I mean is that the Governor of New

Mexico up and made me a full-fledged Colonel on |

his staff the other day. However, before launching into my new military career, there are several things T feel must be clarifiled in order that I may proceed with greater efficiency. With that in mind I have written to my commanding officer, Governor Clyde Tingley of New Mexico, setting forth questions and plans. Here is the letter: Dear General, Dear Governor, Dear Ting—My commission as a colonel has been received and accepted. I hereby pledge my fealty, and stand ready to do or die do) at your slightest command. For New Mexico I will gladly spill my last drop of blood. (However I'm anemic and probably haven't got over half a pint in me. Is that enough to do any good?) Unaccustomed as I am to being a New Mexico colonel, there are a number of things I need to know before starting my first campaign. First, shouldn't I perhaps return to New Mexico immediately and retire on a life pension? If so, please try to make it at least $100 a week. In case you don't retire me, I suppose you will want me to go into action immediately. Since I am already in Virginia, may I suggest the possibility of capturing Richmond? I am bivouacked here in Norfolk, and Richmond is only 100 miles away. We could make it by forced narches in maybe two months, or even if it takes all summer, for that matter. If we get tired we can stop in Williamsburg, where there is a dandy hotel.

How About a March to the Sea? But maybe it would be better for us to march to the sea. It's only three or four miles, and it's getting warm along the beaches now. Of course you are far away, and cannot anticipate *+ all the equipment I will need for my campaign. So will you turn this list over to our commissary department, and have them rush the following items by air mail? Haste is paramount. Do not delay. I want:

Two six-shooters without bullets; a cactus plant; one old burro (very feeble); a uniform, and a Morris chair. Of course a 10-gallon hat will be necessary, but I already have one they gave me in Texas a couple of years ago. If I wear that hat, do you suppose I'll have to divide my allegiance with Texas? A man divided himself cannot stand, you know, 1 say General, here's something else. I've notl the people in Norfolk not only fail to salute they don't pay any attention to me at all. Isn't treason or something? Shall I declare martial just sneak out without paying my hotel bill,

Mr. Pyle

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that law, or for spite

People keep asking me, and I can't The ques-

“Just what in the thunder is a New Mexico colonel i ) And furthermore—why?” You must clear this up for me at once Believe me, always Your Rspc't'fl & Obed't Serv't, ERNEST T. PYLE, Colonel.

My Diary

By Mrs. Eleanor Roosevelt

First Lady Makes Hurried Trip to Arthurdale for Editorial Meeting.

r= PARK, Monday—As I told you, I flew to Arthurdale yesterday morning. The National Editorial Association had been touring West Virginia yumber of people thought a picnic lunch in iitorium of the Arthurdale would be end to the trip. I was told quite firmly vy presence was essential and Dr. Adams, the the Tri-State Aviation Corp., offered to come in his plane and take me down and bring me back on the same day. My reason for doing this was that I did not wish to lose Saturday evening with Anne and John, who will be leaving this week for ¢ Seattle, and I wanted to be at Hyde Park to have some friends for dinner. I had been asked some time ago to visit a pottery project at Blacksville, W. Va, and so it was decided that if I was willing to start early in the morning, * I could go both to Blacksville and Arthurdale. Dr. Adams and his pilot spent Saturday night with us. We breakfasted at 7 a. m. and were actually the ground at 7:45 Daylight Time. Headwinds . kept us back, however, and instead of reaching Morgantown at 9:50 Standard Time, we arrivea at 11 I had one friend with me who had never seen that part of the country, so, fortunately, though we had gray skies part of the time, the weather was * fairly pleasant during the entire day with occasional blue skies and real sunshine, In spite of our late arrival, we went to Blacksville and I was much interested in the ingenuity they have « shown in starting the pottery project. Their machinery is made from parts of old cars and washing machines. In fact, all they could do for themselves, they have done. Mr. Tennant, under whose direction the work is being carried on, is certainly an ispira- % tion. They made a lovely blue tea set for me, which I shall always enjoy using.

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Wwe traveled over the mountain roads rather more speedily than 1 enjoved, but we reached Arthurdale ahead of the editors. Everything went off well there. + Mr. Baruch, who joined me on my arrival, voiced what I have been feeling for some time. Namely, that there is a greater sense of solidarity and security among the homesteaders than ever before. I only hope that the work which has been done in Arthurdale, in spite of all the mistakes and drawbacks. will give the 200 families there real security «and will, therefore, give more courage to those in other homesteads all over the nation. Our return trip was eventful. We ran into bad weather, skirted some storms, flew under some black clouds, and finally landed at Lancaster, where we were told we could go no further. So four of us were sent in Col. J. Hole Stineman’s car, to Philadelphia in a downpour of rain and what looked like small floods in various places.

Bob Burns Says—

OLLYWOOD, June 28.—I don't know much about dressin’ for different kinds of parties, but I al- { ways thought that there were just two ways to dress. vou either wore a dress suit or you didn't. The other day I called on a friend of mine who has the reputation of havin’ the finest wardrobe in Hollywood and I says, “What is the proper way to dress for these real high class parties out here?” He says, “Well, if it’s strictly formal, you'd better wear a dress suit over a bathing suit—then you're prepared for anything.”

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The Indianapolis Times

Second Section

TUESDAY, JUNE 28, 1938

After Roosevelt, Who?

Four Zealous New Dealers Among Presidential Possibilities

Editor's Nete — Yesterday Mr. Stokes discussed the chances of President Roosevelt's seeking a third term. Today, in the second of a series of dispatches on Presidential timber for 1940, he discusses the prospects of four highranking New Dealers.

By Thomas L. Stokes

Times Special Writer WASHINGTON, June 28.—Will the 1940 Democratic Presidential candidate— provided Franklin D. Roosevelt isn't nominated a gain—come from the inner Administration councils which have directed various functions of the New Deal and helped to formulate its philosophy? There's plenty of material there—plus some burning ambitions. In one way, this group has a head start. It has been on the inside. Strong Presidents in the past have lifted inner-council favorites to the nomination. If Mr. Roosevelt does not run again, and still controls his party, it is accepted that he will dictate the nomination of his successor. Theodore Roosevelt dictated the selection of his Secretary of War, William Howard Taft, as his successor. Occasionally Cabinet officers do the job for themselves without White House aid, as happened when Herbert Hoover, Secretary of Commerce in the Coolidge Cabinet, won the prize at Kansas City in 1928. Those in the Roosevelt official family who are interested actively, or being mentioned for, the 1940 nomination, might be divided into two general groups, though by no means with exactitude — (1) zealous New Dealers who have been influential in evolving the Administration's philosophy, and (2) a group of more conservative tinge,

including men of the so-called “practical” type.

o o os N the first group are Secretary of Agriculture Henry A. Wallace, Solicitor General Robert H. Jackson, WPA Administrator Harry L. Hopkins and Secretary of the Interior Harold L. Ickes. Though characterized broadly as stanch New Dealers and New Deal philosophers, these four also have proved themselves practical men in tough administrative jobs —Secretary Wallace in restoring agriculture; Mr. Jackson in various capacities in the legal attack on concentrated wealth and economic power; Secretary Ickes and

Administrator Hopkins along the relief and reconstruction front. Sharing most general support among official New Dealers as the Roosevelt successor—and also said to be at the top of the Roosevelt list—are Secretary Wallace and Mr, Jackson. Next to the President, himself, these two have been the leading evangels and interpreters of New Deal objectives. Though his chief task has been along the agricultural front, Mr. Wallace has included the whole national economy in his study and interpretation and has delved into all its aspects in his speeches and books. Born and reared a Republican—his father was Secretary of Agriculture in the Harding Cabinet—he deserted the party which once dominated his native Iowa and the Middle West generally. He is entitled to much of the credit for swinging that region from its traditional allegiance and keeping it faithful to the New Deal. Politically, the Secretary’s chief asset is a handsome nucleus of farm strength. That is an excellent beginning, for farmers today are perhaps better organized politically than any other economic group. There is a vigilant liaison between Washington and the man on the farm through the

Harold L. Ickes

county agents, who draw half their pay from Washington and preach the gospel of the New Deal and of Henry Wallace.

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R. WALLACE, in short, has at his command one of the best political machines in the country. Likewise, he is surrounded in Washington by a group of devoted young men who are almost starry-eyed with visions of their chief's elevation to the White House. What they lack in political acumen they make up in zeal and loyalty. Farmers are a great help politically, but they are not enough to make a man President. Before the Secretary can be counted a real factor he must make an impress in the urban centers and in the East. He must bridge the gap which still exists between the interests of the farmer and the city worker. Mr. Wallace also lacks, especially in contrast to Franklin D.

Roosevelt, a dramatic personality which the voters seem to love these days in their political heroes. An indrawn sort of person, his platform appearances do not arouse that mass reaction which Mr. Roosevelts evokes with ease. Bob Jackson looks to the Presidential sweepstakes with no such ready-made political following as has Secretary Wallace in the farmers. His chief political asset thus far is the admiration of President Roosevelt and of various ardent New Dealers. He needs political seasoning, and this his supporters would supply by entering him in the race for Governor of New York this year, on the theory that, if elected, he would be in a position to gain a national reputation before 1940. Democratic leaders in New York, however, do not seem to share the New Deal affection for Mr. Jackson. It appears that it would take personal pressure by

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the President, and lots of it, to put him over at the state convention this fall. It remains to be seen whether Mr. Roosevelt will find it expedient to go that far, ¥ F #4

R. JACKSON, as counsel of the Internal Revenue Bureau, as Assistant Attorney General and now as Solicitor General, in charge of presenting Government cases to the Supreme Court, has done yeoman work for the New Deal along the legal front.

He has been a leading advocate of three New Deal objectives—the undistributed profits tax, which recently was modified; the Supreme Court reform bill, which was rejected, and monopoly regulation, which is the subject of an inquiry this summer. He came under fire from businessmen and industrialists for his antitrust speeches a few months ago. Neither Secretary Ickes nor Harry Hopkins is given much of a

Side Glances—By Clark

"Please look, Henry—have | caught something here?"

Wallace look-in on the 1940 nomination, largely because they have suffered the wounds and bruises that come to those who occupy the front-line trenches. In short they have made some mistakes and many enemies. Mr. Hopkins has won commendation from many quarters for his handling of the giant and almost impossible relief problem, but like« wise he has become so involved in the issue raised over relief that he would be handicapped as a candidate, in the opinion of many political observers.

There are, however, those who are partial to either one or the other as a Presidential candidate, and the relief organization and the large relief vote have been cited as influentia! factors in a Hopkins candidacy. Neither he nor Mr. Ickes has ever admitted any Presidential aspirations.

NEXT — The New Deal “Realists.”

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Indianapolis, Ind.

Our Town

By Anton Scherrer

You Could Have Heard a Speech on Nearly Any Topic 30 Yeers Ago at Kentucky Ave. and Washington St.

ANOTHER thing that keeps me awake these hot summer nights is the thought (and with it, the worry) that the corner of Kentucky Ave. and Washington St. isn’t what is used to be. »

Thirty years ago it was the city’s outdoor forum where everybody had his say with the police= man looking the other way. It was the grandest place to learn what was ailing this sick world—the grandest place, too, to learn how to fix up this ailing world. Somebody was fixing up the world every night of the week on that corner, but Sunday was the day most of the fixing was done. On Sundays from 2 p. m. until sometimes as late as 11 o'clock at night you could hear as many as a dozen speeches dealing with everything under the sun, from agnosticism to socialism, including even the cult of Fabianism which George Bernard Shaw was preaching in London at the time. I still remember some of the headliners, especial ly Mother Waller, a big jolly woman who always wore a white pancake hat and a white flowing robe which sometimes looked like a hath robe, sometimes like a classic toga. It all depended on the mood I was in. Mother Waller always came to tha corner leading a group of colored sisters and brethren. It turned out to be her chorus. Soon as she had the crowd around her, Mother Waller would start singing: “Oh, we has a Baptist Church, Oh Lawd, we has a Methodist Church, Oh yes, other creeds and records, But when we search the bible—'ah Through and through— There is no church but de church of God.” After which the chorus would swing in with: “There's something wrong about de Bible 1 believe, There's something wrong about de Bible Oh, I know!” Mother Waller never did get around to telling what was wrong with the Bible, but she did have plenty to say about the saloon and what it was responsible for. She was so jolly about it all, however, that no one could get mad at her.

Uncle Day Knew His Stuff

Augustus Grassow was another headliner. He was a vegetarian and to add to his appearance he wore his hair way down to his shoulders. In a way, he was even more picturesque than Mother Waller, but he was too nervous to suit me. He had a distracting habit of walking up and down the curb, and sometimes he got so far away from me that I lost the thread of his thought. Mr. Grassow, I remember, had it all figured out that 2872 A. D. was the date of the millennium. Uncle Day was the best of the Socialists on that corner. Indeed, he was so good that he lasted several years. He was a full-beardgd, earnest man—an Englishman, I suspect—and as far as I remember he never wore a necktie. He always started his speech in a kind of whisper (a trade-trick, I'm told) to attract our attention, and then worked up to a climax which, when the wind was right, reached all the way to Mar=ket St. By that time, Uncle Day was soaking the rich, The strangest thing about Uncle Day is that a lot of the things he preached on that corner 30 years ago are actually enacted into laws now. Indeed, I doubt whether Uncle Day would have niuch to kick about were he living today.

Mr. Scherrer

Jane Jordan—

Believes Woman Sought by Two Men Should Choose One or Leave Both.

EAR JANE JORDAN-—Five years ago I married a man who did and does love me. When we were married we lived with his folks until we went to housekeeping, which was more than four years. Then last winter I left and went to work. While I was away from my husband I met and fell in love with another man older than myself. He is 42 and I am 22. I was planning to sue for divorce, but my husband got a home and begged me to come back to him. I did, but I do not love him any more. None of his folks like me while this other man and his folks are all crazy about me. Now here is my trouble. This other man has heen coming to see me since I came back to my husband and my husband doesn’t seem to care at all, They are even good friends. What must I do—give this other man up even though I love him and stay with my husband whom I don't love? Or should I die vorce my husband and go with this other man? TROUBLED BROWN EYES.

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Answer—Few women, if any, can be content with a situation in which two men are devoted to her and each other. A normal woman is bound to wish that one of them would oust the other and walk off with her: To be the main interest which two men have in common is to feel that you do not mean a lot to either one. What the solution is I do not know, except that you either should choose one and stick to him or leave both. It is possible that you might be happy with your husband now that you are away from his people if the other man stayed out of the picture. It also

Jasper—By Frank Owen

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. California. Robin Hood. Lock and lake type. Galaxy. Department of Commerce. . President of Czechoslovakia. A place where coins are manufactured. . It is an abbreviation of the Latin phrase pro tempore, which is translated “for the time being.”

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is possible that you might be happy with the other man, provided you are correct when you say he wants you. Of the two men I believe that your husband has shown the strongest interest in you. At least he had ‘vigor enough to find a home for you when you nade it definite that you would not live with his family, When forced to choose between his people and you, he chose you. The other man took a more passive attitude. If you're right about his love for you, wouldn't he have urged you to push your divorce through and marry him? He wouldn't have supinely accepted the situa« tion without uproar. If in spite of everything he lost you, he certainly should have accepted his defeat and left, you strictly alte. Even if you got your divorce and married him would you feel that you'd been wooed and won by a strong, self-sufficient fellow? It might be that he would be somewhat surprised if he knew that you took him so seriously. JANE JORDAN.

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