Indianapolis Times, Indianapolis, Marion County, 15 November 1940 — Page 12

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ON HIGH COSTS FOR CAMPAIGN

U. S. Officials Believe Some Violations of Hatch Act Can Be Reached.

By THOMAS L. STOKES Times Special Writer WASHINGTON, Nov. 15—~Preparations being made by the Justice Department, and preliminary evidence already gathered, forecast some illuminating disclosures about the recent campaign.

Attorney General Robert Jackson has given carte blanche to the man

he has put in charge of prosecuting

violators of the Hatch Act and other election laws. This is Maurice L. Milligan, who gained a reputation with his election-fraud prosetions as District Attorney in Kansas City. Democratic Boss Tom Pendergast, among others, went to jail in that roundup.

Two Machines in Spotlight |

Two city machines were given na-tion-wide publicity during the eampaign by Wendell L. Willkie—those of Mayor Frank Hague in Jersey City and of Mayor Ed Kelley and Democratic National Committeeman Pat Nash in Chicago. Democrats! became very sensitive to Mr, Willkie’s frequent sneering reference to the tie-up between the New Deal and these bosses. At one time the New Deal moved actively against Boss Hague for his suppression of civil liberties, and there are indications that a revival of that, once ardent hostility to the bosses and their methods may produce results in the next few months. The Justice Department, in its investigation of election-law violations, is moving swiftly, but quietly, through its district attorneys in many parts of the country.

Some Evidence Gathered

It will have available whatever evidence is turned up by the Senate Committee on Campaign Expenditures, led by Senator Guy Gillette, (D. Towa) which sRows some inclination of bestirring itself into effective activity.

Despite Mr. willkie’s Injunction early in the campaign against exceeding the $3,000,000 limit for total outlay and the $5000 limit for any individual contributor, preliminary evidence indicates, that the sum spent in the campaign far exceeded the boundary he fixed.

Mr. Willkie prescribed the limit in August at Colorado Springs, when he bluntly rejected an opinion prepared by Henry, P. Fletcher, Republican National Committee counsel, which showed| how the Hatch Act limitations could be evaded by contributions to state and local committees.

Complaints [Checked

Mr. Fileteoher’s advice seems to have been taken by some individuals, with perhaps an added wrinkle pr two. Evidence has come to light indicating that wealthy Easterners contributed- to the campaign in states far away, under the guise of some sort of independent committee setup. Much of this [may be difficult to trace. Justice Deparimitmt officials have made a careful study of the Hatch Act and, despite its apparent loopholes, are convinced that some of _the types of exgessive campaign contributions which occurred can he reached.

Legion Guest

Robert P. Patterson . . . assistant War Secretary, will greet a new American Legion ‘national commander, §

WARNER IS DUE IN CITY MONDAY

New Commander to Recejve Reception at Scottish Rite Cathedral.

When Milo J. Warner, new American Legion national commander, is welcomed to Indianapolis Monday at a reception and luncheon at the Scottish Rite ‘Cathedral, Robert P. Patterson, Assistant Secretary of War, will be among the first to greet him. The reception and luncheon has been arranged by the Indianapolis Chamber of Commerce. Guests will be officers of the Chamber of Cammerce of Toledo O., Commander Warner's heme city. Governor-Elect Henry F. Schricker will represent the state and Mayor Sullivan the city. Col. W. S. Drysdale, new commanding officer at Ft. Benjamin Harrison, and other officers from the post will attend. The reception will be held in the 33d Degree room at the Cathedral. Officers and directors of the local Chamber of Commerce will be hosts and members of the chamber’s defense committee will serve as a reception committee, Chief speaker at the .luncheon will be Commander Warner. Mrs. Louis J. Lemstra of Clinton, Ind, new national president of the Legion Auxiliary, also will speak.

ARMY IS WARNED ON EXTRAVAGANCE

' WASHINGTON, Nov. 15 (U. P)). —Secretary of War Henry L Stimson has warned army officers that extravagant and ill-considered defense expansion expenditures would not be tolerated. The note of caution was contained in a memorandum prepared yesterday by Maj. Gen. E. S. Adams, the Adjudant General, at Mr. Stimson’s request and forwarded to the chiefs of all branches of the service, The memorandum recalled the testimony of Gen. George C. Marshall, Chief of Staff, before the Senate Appropriations Committee, that spending for defense must be

done “in the most business-like manner possible.”

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SOLVING FARM HOME PROBLEM

All Hands Involved in the Cropper Puzzle Help With Program.

Times Special WASHINGTON, Nov. 15.—The

problem growing out of the famous

“hunger march” of landless sharecroppers and tenants in southeast Missouri a year and a half ago is in a fair way to being solved, at § last—solved because all hands } involved sat down and dis- § cussed their

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This hunger march was a rising of several Mungred farm " amilies who had nothing to Goy,. Stark do and no place to go. It raised a lot of angry passions, scared the landlords and business people of the neighborhood, drew the eager attention of the Communists, and looked like a ready source of trouble for many years to come. Today the thing is being worked | out. The Farm Security Administration has had a lot to do with it, and so has Governor Lloyd Crow Stark’s Missouri administration; so, too, have the landlords and the homeless’ croppers directly involved,

Named Study Committee,

Last winter Governor Stark nanred a committee representing all of those groups to figure out a solution. This committee drew up a program aimed to put the landless folk on their own feet, so they could both be self-supporting and could furnish the seasonal farm labor which the “boot-heel” area of southeastern Missouri annually

Most interesting part of the program—because it shows the co-oper-ation which was obtained ‘from everybody concerned—is probably the .part which deals with the ef fort to stabilize the farm labor supply. Here is the way that is being handled: For a given family, the Farm Security Administration people go to a cotton-farm landlord and ask for a 10-year lease on a small tract of ground—maybe three acres, maybe five, sometimes as much as 10. Getting the lease, the FSA locates the family on the land and loans it enough money for a house. By contracting for the homes in quantity and cutting out all the frills, it is able to construct decent four-room homes for about $450 apiece. Family Pays $50 a Year,

The family pays off this FSA loan over 10 years—at a rate of about $50 a year. The landlord gets no rent, but at the end of the 10 years the house belongs to him. Meanwhile, the family has enough land to raise garden truck, keep chickens, and support a cow and a few pigs. These support it during the slack season; it gets .its cash income by hiring out as farm labor during the brief periods when the region needs a large supply of casual workers. That’s only part of the program, of course. It is now taking care of approximately 1500 families. A number of other families have been put on full-sized farms, with loans to enable them to make a start. A couple of “labor camps” on the California-migrant model are about to be put into operation.

2 Points Interesting.

Interesting about the whole business are twb points: first, the problem of supplying southeast Missouri with its necessary seasonal labor supply without forcing a few thousand families into wandering pauperism is apparently being solved: and second, the bad feeling of the early days is vanishing and landlords, tenants, state officials, and the Federal Government have worked out among them a program which is enlisting the co-operation of everybody involved.

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