Indianapolis Times, Indianapolis, Marion County, 1 February 1939 — Page 20

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By BRUCE CATTCON

| WASHINGTON, Feb. 1 (NEA). — The capital’s newest human storm scenter is muscular. ex-Congress-‘man named Thomas R. Amlie, who ; sits alone in a remote office here own melancholy while the Senate tries to decide whether he is too radical to ' be a member of the Interstate Commerce Commission. : - President Roosevelt’s nomination

+ of him to that post took the Sen-

ate by surprise. It also surprised ‘Mr. Amlie. A three-term Congressional veteran who ran unsuccessfully for the Senate last year, he “looked like just another lame duck until the Presidential finger point-

He is tall, quiet, intensely serious and looks like a prosperous farmer. When he talks, his drawl now and then has a broad Scandinavian inflection. He lacks the nervous mannerjsms most men have; doesn’t fiddle with things or shift his position while talking. :

Communist? Ha!

The current cry that he is next thing to a Communist amuses him; he remarks that he vigorously fought the Communists in his effort to start’ a farmeér-labor party a year or so ago and was denounced in Communist publications. A Wisconsin Progressive of the feft-of-the-La Follettes persuasion, he came down here in 1931 advocating a five billion dollar public works program. In 1932 he was calling for a 10 billion dollar program. In 1933 he advocated a production-for-use system for the unemployed; suggested: it, he says, before he heard that Upton Sinclair had the same idea. By 1935 and 1936 he had gone on to advocate a plan for a controlled system of farm and factory production. All of this, he feels, was not radfcalism: it was rather a search for a middle of the road line that would save the country from having to make a choice between the extreme right and the extreme left. Reverse Economic Contraction’ “If there is any middle of the road path, it can only be maintained if we reverse the process of eco-

. nomic contraction,” he says. “This

process, which makes 20 per cent of our people live outside of our economic system, sooner or later makes people turn to their emotions for guidance.” What happens when they do? He {llustrates. Suppose there has been a shipwreck, and 12 men are adrift in a lifeboat which has room for just 11. One man is due to get thrown overboard; and he will be the man who is different from the rest. “If I'm a Swede and the other 11 are New England Yankees, they'll pitch me-out,” he says. Then, he adds, the men who do the throwing will go on and. try to make their action seem logical—so they’ll have to develop a hatred of the man they're tossing out. “I've tried to avoid this division into right and left,” he says. “It means Fascism. If we have these 20 per cent of our people living outside of the economic system—what have they got to lose but their civil liberties? And what ‘do his civil liberties mean to a man ho is hungry?”

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Mr. Amlie doesn’t -think he got very far in his fight for a middle “of the road path. His best efforts of the last eight years, in fact, he looks on as a failure. But he doesn’t feel that he can be called a radical. es : Born in North Dakota of Norwegian descent 42 years ago, Mr. Amlie was educaled at the Universities of North Dakota, Minnesota and Wisconsin and hung out his shingle as a lawyer in Elkhorn, Wis. He has been president of his home town bar association and commander of its American Legion post. Will the Senate confirm him? There'll be a fight. One rather conservative Democratic senator summed it up like this: ! ; “After all, there are 11 other men on the Commission and they're all conservative. One lone wild man can’t do any harm here, and he may make some of the railroad men wake up.”

OFFICIAL'S MOTHER DIES

PORTLAND, Feb. 1 (U. P.)— Funeral arrangements were being made today for Mrs. Sally Geiger, 70, who died yesterday at the home of her daughter, Mrs. Carl Richey of Tippecanoe Lake. Mrs. Geiger . was the mother of Richard James, deputy secretary of state.

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Lincoln. The meeting will: open with a

by addresses by Dr. J. E. Grinnell, dean of instruction at Indiana State Teachers College, and Dr. Carl G. F. Franzen, professor of education, Indiana University. :

Distinguished service awards will

made at a nigh A program, “Indiana Marches On,” presenting dramatic episodes in the State’s « history,” will be broadcsst over WIRE, following an address by

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Speakers on ‘ Saturday include: George H Bush, custodian counselor, Purdue University; School Superintendent Frank E.- Allen, Bend; School Superintendent Arthur

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Knight of Purdue University. An executive session at 11:15 a. m. Saturday for election of officers will close the session.

‘FREED IN MACKEY HOLDUP + PRINCETON, Feb. 1 (U. P.). — Sheriff Stancil O. Williams today had freed a 30-year-old Oakland

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