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. By Raymond Clapper

Furor Over U. S. Foreign Affairs + Good Sample of What Happens if .... General Policy Is Debated Secretly. ! (Batting for Ernie Pyle)

: WW ASHINGTON, Feb. 6.—This whole af-

“' fair over American intervention in Europe has been an hysterical performance

second only to the panic over the recent in-

vasion from|Mars. It astonished Mr. Roose-

velt and the State Department and has thrown a disturbing element into the negotiations going on between London and Berlin. Actually Mr. Roosevelt was trying to quiet the agitation and Lod |. thought that by having a. private | confidential talk with the Senate Military Affairs Committee he could explain the facts and end the commotion.. Instead, it only set off a louder bang. Columnists who for six years have found scarcely one approving word for Mr. Roosevelt's fight for democracy at home have suddenly appeared cheering him on toward the French frontier to save democracy over there. Even Mark Sulli‘van changed pace and pointed with Mr. Clapr pride at what seemed to be, at the Ee moment, a Roosevelt world crusade for democracy. Some newspapers which have made it their daily| task to view with alarm have been giving the President breaks over this thing that he never had before. For years any two-cent squirt " who deno'mnced Mr. Roosevelt’s: effort to improye of life in America could make Page r old Mr.’ Hoover, who used to be If, made a full-dress speech criticizing Mr. Roosevelt!s intervention in Europe and he was “pushed back to Page 16. Most of the newspapers . Roosevelt's desk have encouraged

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+ from those benighted sympathizers with. the New Deal who have supported most of its efforts for democracy at home. All of which makes it only the more cockeyed to hear Mr. Roosevelt, in what Senator Pittman says was the most important White House press conference of all time, cut loose again on the newspapers, charging them with distorting his purposes and with opposing him by pandering to prejudice and ignorance. That at the very time Mark Sullivan, his favorite whipping boy, was out on the streets with his one big cheer for Mr. Roosevelt, and when Frank Kent and David Lawrence and most of the front-line boys of the anvil chorus were announcing for practically the first time in six years how dead right Mr. Roosevelt was. 2 Things have been just that cockeyed around here for a week. + ;

It’s an Old Story in Washington

And the President, warming up at his press conference, said the fellow—he must have been a Senator because only Senators attended the secret conference —who quoted him as saying something about our frontier being on the Rhine told a deliberate lie and . he'd. like to have the fellow haled in to face him. It was just that Kind of day around Washington, while the deflation was taking place. As a matter of fact, although Mr. Roosevelt put on a good show of flogging the press, it wasn’t the fault of the press, nor of the Senators who disagreed about what the President said, as much as it was the fact that the performance with the Senate Military Affairs Committee took place under a pledge of secrecy. Anything concerning the design and nature of military airplanes, any technical information, ought to be kept an iron-clad secret. There is no reason why Senators and Representatives should have it necessarily. But general policy ought not be kept secret All of this hysteria and confusion comes from talking general policy under a pledge of secrecy.

My Diary

By Mrs. Eleanor Roosevelt

Explains Seriousness of Prank .By Young Couple at White House.

“J YDE PARK; NEW YORK, Sunday.—I am going . to devote this column to adding a little bit to what I said in a former column because I realize that many people do not quite understand the significance of certain occurrences.

« One of my correspondents writes in substance as follows: “There seems to be a considerable amount of acidity in you when’you go out of your way to suggest that these kids be barred from employment for the rest of their lives because of a childish prank.” Of course, I did not .suggest that they should be barred from employment for the rest of their lives. .1 did say that I would think seriously now about employing either of the two youngsters who succeeded in getting into the White House on New: Year's Eve. First, because of their lack of consideration for others, second, because of the lack of forethought and judgment they had shown in doing a thing which might have been dangerous to themselves and certainly jeopardized other people. My reason for: stating this as forcefully as I did is twofold. Almost invariably when something of this kind happens and is widely publicized, as this was, it is attempted by other people. If other youngsters

* encouraged by what these two happened to pull off

successfully, tried something similar many of us might find ourselves saddened by the results. Let me explain what might have happened in this particular case.

Important for Futures

The boy. who has extraordinary efirontery for his age, started up the private back stairs. If a guard had heard and seen him going up these stairs, he would undoubtedly have ordered the boy to stop. Suppose the boy, thinking himself about to achieve his desires, had hurried on instead of obeying the order. It would have been the duty of the officer to fire. He would have tried not to injure him, but he couldn’t have been sure. If this same thing were attempted when any President was

out in an automobile or on a train, the probability - is ‘that some one would be hurt, either the young- |]

sters or the guard. Whichever it was, a number of people would probably be grieved by the results. I think it is most important for their futures that these two particular youngsters learn how to think before they act, to have some consideration for other people, some reverence for positions in government. Otherwise, when the time does come for them to do their work in the world, they will not do it well;

That is why I do not think you should minimize or |

glorify pranks which affect other people as well

Day-by-Day Scie By Science Service . R the breakfast menu of a few years hence. Rhubarb juice. Passion fruit - juice. Guava juice. Strawberry juice. Blueberry juice. : For these are the new products that the giantinfant of the food industry, the juice business, is about to make available. Tomato, grapefruit and pineapple juices are the leaders. : Yet prior to 1925 bottled and canned juices were limited to bottled grape juice and small amounts of bottled apple, loganberry and other berry juices. - Three recent developments, it’ can be reported on the authority of Arthur D. Little, Inc., of Cambridge, Mass., are rapidly revolutionizing the industry. ~The. first, the introduction -of continuous flashpasteurization processes, is of very great importance, as it makes possible the preservation of practically all

kinds ‘of fruit juices without the simultaneous forma- !-

tion of ‘a “cooked” flavor formerly thought to be a necessary accompaniment of pasteurized fruit juices. The second development has been made by the leading can companies by the perfection of enamels which prevent. the corrosion of the tin by acid juices.

- Cans have come into. general use for fruit juices and

ere very popular containers for these products.

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AMERICAN INSTITUTE | ruBLac’opmmon] By DR. GEORGE GALLUP Director, American Institute of Public Opinion EW. YORK, Feb. 6.—Nine times out of 10 . the publication of official election returns, coming many weeks after the election fights have been decided, attracts little attention. But the official election figures for the 435 Congressional districts involved in last fall's’ voting, soon to be released, are packed with argument and dynamite—dynamite that may jolt the New Deal wing of the Democratic Party and bolster the conservatives. : 3 ‘Ever since the November election the two wings®f the party have been debating what the’ nation’s vote meant. Did it reveal a countrywide shift away from the New Deal? Or could Republican gains be credited primarily to state issues and local Democratic quarrels? The dispute comes down to the fundamental questions of New Deal policy between now and 1940 and has a strong bearing on nomination strategy. It ranges President Roosevelt and Party Chairman James A. Farley on opposite sides. vr ; Plotted on a map, however, the cold figures of what happened in the country’s 435 Congressional districts last November will go a long way toward settling the question. ‘A tabulation of virtually complete official returns by the American Institute of Public Opinion indicates that

the figures will uphold Jim Farley and underline the nation-wide character of the reaction to the New Deal.

‘This, in brief, is what the tabulation shows:

1—The Republican Party increased its strength in 36 of

the 48 states. ‘Whereas G. O. P. Congressional candidates in the country at large received only 40.5 per cent of the major party vote in the 1936 Roosevelt landslide, they took 48 per cent last November—a pendulumswing of 7.5 points." 2—Republican gains of 5 points or more occurred in a band of 26 states stretching-from Coast to Coast. -On a map, these states reach from Rhode Island and Connecticut on the East to Washington and Oregon on the Pacific. ‘They run: through industrial, agricultural and grazing regions with remarkable evenness. (See map.) Tits 3—The most surprising fact of all is that the five great’ - adjoining industrial states of New: York, Pennsylvania,

Ohio, Indiana and Michigan—representing 142 electoral

votes—shifted

“right”. to almost exactly the same extent. : ss : g

In spite of widespread differences in local issues and

candidates, the shifts were: : 5 Percentage Points Change in Dem. Vote Michigan eceecoesscsnssssossssessssesssesssssce =8 Indiana 2 I I IR -t : Ohio 00000000000000000000000600000000000006600000 === PenNSYIVANIS ccvovsrecsssscoscccssscssssssssasas == “New York cesessiivescastrassencestseinieeasats wf} : Outside the traditionally Democratic South, on the other hand, the only State-wide Democratic gains were in Maryland and Maine. ” ” 2 HE official figures will give ammunition to conserva-. tives and “middle-roaders” in the Democratic Party, but they also throw an entirely new light on some of the forces at work in the victory of Governor James in Pennsylvania, the defeat of Governor Murphy in Michigan and the spectacular race of District Attorney Dewey in New York, to mention only a few instances. ;

~ For Jim Farley the figures will probably be bitter- ,

sweet. While President Roosevelt has held to the theory that local conditions and dissatisfaction with state machines were principally responsible for G. O. P. gains. Mr. Farley has laid the blame on a nation-wide “undercurs rent” away from the New, Deal. So important has the question become that the party chairman has dispatched letters to scores of party workers and office-holders throughout the country, asking for analyses of what happened. The Congressional figures will answer many of Mr. Farley’s: questions, but the facts give him a more anxious problem in party-building: than he has faced for some time. Apart from the South, where there were no Republican candidates in many districts, the only states

which stand out from the general tide are Maryland,

Maine and to a certain extent Missouri. . Maryland ‘is the home of Senator Millard Tydings,

- whom hoth Mr. Farley and President Roosevelt opposed

unsuccessfully in the primary “purge” of last September. Missouri is the bailiwick of Senator Bennett Champ Clark; a frequent New Deal critic. who was returned to Washington this November with a big majority. » 8 » HE Republicans’ biggest gains came in the tier of

states along the Canadian border from Lake Superior to Idaho, and especially in Wisconsin and Minnesota

‘MONDAY, FEBRUARY 6, 1939

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Gallup Study Backs Farley Theory of Conservative Swing

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lican gains last November. Was it chiefly because of “local issues,” or because of a nation-wide conservative swing? The above map, based on a new. tabulation of election figures, shows where. the Republican Congressional vote jumped 5 percentage points or more above 1936. The map shows a block of 26 states stretching from coast to coast. Small Republican gains were recorded. in

nine additional states.’ As :

nesota: edi Percentage of Congressional Vote . Republican +: 1936. -: 1938 shift New England States— roe * Maine . eee 588% 585% New Hampshire ..u: 32 © = "56+" * Vermont ..........7 60° “64 Massachusetts .......”52 °° 54 ° Rhode Island ........ 47 “54 Connecticut .......... 43- 52

Middle Atlantic States—

New-York ....cco0cee. 42% New Jersey sessessene 46 y 52 Pennsylvania coqpeees +43 52 ‘Maryland csersnessses 40:2. ro 39.8 Delaware .....ccecc0c 46 0:56 West Virginia ....... 40

Southern States—

Virginia .....ccc00000 27% Kentucky ....ice00... 41 Tennessee .....ce000.. 27 North Carolina session +29 South Carolina sevecae: “1 nt Georgia .......c.00000 5 Florida shies esss ease 18 Alabama EER ER EER NEN] 6 Mississippi cooeoeseese 1 Arkansas Ssnstoettsen 8 Louisiana - e908 ve00s 0s *0 Texas co eemiaieeve 6 . Oklahoma .... 32

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WHERE REPUBLICAN PARTY GAINED The following percentages, from official election returns, show that the Republican Congressional vote increased in 36 states last November, including gains of 5 percentage points or more in 27 of them. Percentages are on a two-party basis ‘except in Wisconsin and Mir-

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Percentage of Congressional Vote Republican

Le 1936 1938 East Central States— CORIO rneise ss 43% 52% : . Indiana 4000008 s800 00s 44 TES 51. oo Tinos cccicveanennen 44 ’ 49 - WE Michigan ............ 46 54

West Central States—

Wisconsin Tess eiseuees 24% Minnesota Tek isenvens 39 Towa ......e0000ceeae. 50 Missouri asin =04 ‘Kansas sse0e0css0seee 52 Nebraska ....cec0000. 48 North Dakota ........ §7 South Dakota se0sevee 50

45% 50 56 40.7 59 53: . 5 56

Western States— ! 38% 42 36 35 30 31 31 19.5 315 50

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. Where the G. O. P. gained at the expense of third party

movements. The sectional shifts were as follows:

Percent. Congressional Vote Republican 1936 1938 . Shift New England .......,........ 51% 545% +35 Mid Atlantic .....cco00000000. 43 S51 East Central Fe ER, 4 51 West Central ceessesesansnses 49 38 South ee 31 20 West 37 42

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In the 280 individual Congressional districts where the Republicans gained strength, the range of. shift be-

tween 1936 and 1938, as reveaveled by the official figures, was as follows: . Republican Gains : 0-2 Points ese eses00sssssssssseneseses 34 Districts 3-4 Points Caves anaies eters erates insne 1 : 5-6 Points ar ie a snare tense urase 44 3 9-8 Points ese sesessstssssessnnse nee ss 44 e a 9210 POIRES i. sci sevensvosasssssvssssinses 57 : 34 ALANA OVEL cc iiv 5s vivir sssanieee 50 u 8 8 8 Coad VEN before the November elections Democratic leaders were ‘doubtful about several states because cf local issues. Michigan was one of these because of the :iitdown strikes that had plagued Democratic Governor Frank Murphy, up for re-election. Pennsylvania, with scandals

“hurled at the State’s “Little New Deal,” and Kanses, com=

plaining of farm prices, were others.

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By Anton Scherrer: L We of Today Not So Progressive : When You Weigh What Ovid Butler ~ Was Able to Accomplish in 1855. VER since I've been running this column, I've tried to hint that people of this gen-

| eration aren’t as progressive as'they think

they are. I've never gained much ground with ‘theidea, but now that I have more facts at my command, doggone if I don’t think I've been on the right track all the time. SLi : Consider Ovid Butler for a moment. Back in 1850, he. got a notion’ that Indianapolis ought to have a

university, He drafted the charter : ‘for it, planned its curriculum, pro- i vided a large: portion of its general endowment fund; endowed one of its chairs permanently, and on top ’ of everything else, donated 25 acres, the prettiest grove on his farm, for its site. Mr. Butler’s farm, Forest Home, was on the northeastern border of the city at the time, in what is now the neighborhood of College Ave. and 13th St.. To give shape to his dream, Mr. : Butler engaged the services of William Tinsley, an architect who had just arrived in Indianapolis by way jof Clonmel, Ireland. One of his first jobs around here’ was the one Mr. Butler gave him. It turned out to be a handsome piece of Tudor, as nice in its collegiate way as Christ Church was an expression of “ecclesiastical Gothic. Sure, Mr. Tinsley was the architect of both. : : On Nov. 1, 1855, Mr. Tinsley had his college build ing far enough along to call in Mr, Butler and hand him the key to the front door. It was the start of Northwestern Christian (now Butler)” University, - ‘That wasn’t all, though. Much more remarkable was the system Mr, Butler thought up for the conduct of the school. The leading—certainly the most progressive feature of the Butler system, as distinguished from that of all other institutions at the time, was the fact that it was a coeducational institution. Let me repeat that: More than 80 years ago, right here in Indianapolis, Mr. Butler set up a school admitting women upon the same conditions in the same classes, with the same course and graduation as that laid down for men, a thing unheard of in America at the time. ?

Another Startling Innovation!

Some years later, Mr. Butler went even further and startled the natives, to say nothing of the Nation, by inviting a lady to teach. It’s as nice a story as we have around here. On the death of a young daugh= ter, Mr. Butler erected a memorial and endowed a chair of English History and Literature and called it the Demia Butler Chair. He invited Catherine Merrill, a young lady somewhere around 35 years old, to be the professor. ; Catherine Merrill was born in Corydon in 1824, her

Mr. Scherrer

| father, Samuel Merrill, being State Treasurer at the

time. When he brought the funds of the State to In=

~\ dianapolis nine months after the birth of Catherine,

his wife held the baby in her arms as the wagon jolted over the hills and through the forests to the new capital. Here the child grew to womanhood and here she spent many of her years, exercising an influence that future historians will do well to pone der when it tomes time to interpret Indianapolis.

.| As far as I am concerned, I distinctly recall that the

best teachers I ever had were those who, at one time or another, came under the influence of Catherine Merrill and profited by what she had to teach. ° My only reason for bringing up all this today is’ because tomorrow Butler celebrates the 84th anniveryou guessed it without my telling you. pues :

Jane Jordan— Fiancee Now Indifferent, Youth Is Advised to End Courtship.

EAR JANE JORDAN—I am a young fellow of 24 J and have been going with a girl for three years. She is 22 and I think she is capable of making up her mind but she doesn’t know just what she wants. I love her very much. I didn’t at first but the longer we went together the more I grew ‘to love her until now it is serious. : : When we first started dating she said she loved me and that nothing ever could break us up, but for the last four or five months she hasn’t been like herself and has spoken of splitting up. When I ask her if she really wants to quit, she doesn’t say. I would like to win her back but she just seems to resent me; yet she still wants me to date her. \ I am worried all the time from thinking that our

| next date will be’ the last one, but I don’t have the

will power to stop. How would a fellow go about wine ning such a girl? DISCOURAGED.

- Answer—Interest yourself in another girl. This may sound like a calloused thing to say in view of

| your feelings, yet it is the only thing to do. One rea=

son that you are in such an uproar is that you do not feel secure in the affection of your girl. Instead of driving you away, the uncertainty acts as a challenge to your powers and rivets your attention on the young lady. Yet you are not wise enough to put her in the same position. You let her play fast and loose with you. No matter what she does, you stick. You offer no challenge to her whatever, but behave like a faithful dog cringing at her feet. And what hapepns? She places no value on your devotion. She's too sure of it to Worry. Accept the fact that she likes you as a convenience, as an escort or as a friend, but that she does not love you enough to marry you. Don’t waste any more time. A stubborn attitude of “her or nobody” will bring you nothing but more anxiety. At 24 you should be more flexible and able to adjust to change, : 8 ” ” EAR JANE JORDAN—I am in love with a fellow : of 25. I am 23. He has met a girl who is mar= ried. I always have been a good. sport about such things but I'm not about She seems to be working on his sympathy. I love him truly. What shall 1 do? - MISS M. b Answer—Give him up. Many young fellows are temporarily attracted by married women, but usually. they get over it. Don’t bother about it at. all but interest yourself in somebody else. : JANE JORDAN.

~ blems in a letter to Jane Jordan who will : a Tr Drestions in this column daily. :

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| in the introductory note to SECRET AGENT IN JAPAN (Little) Mr. Timperly, British journalist in Shanghai, did not assure us that the authenticity of this book has been carefully verified, most read would follow the narrative incredulously. : ; It is understood that war is brutal and that th ways of victors with the vanquished are not gent But this story of Japan’s occupation of Manchur strikes horror -to the heart of the naive Ames reader. : : Amleto Vespa, Italian by birth, a naturalized nese citizen and an agent of the Manchurian sec! service, was forced by the Japanese Government:

‘Manchuria. As secref’ por to know: