Indianapolis Times, Indianapolis, Marion County, 7 March 1941 — Page 9
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FRIDAY, MARCH 7, 1941 'Singing 0 Is Off to Find a Song That Will Unity North and South America
CURBS ON VOTE SPENDING URGED
Hatch Act Ineffective, Says Senate Group in Report On Campaign Costs.
WASHINGTON, March 7 (U. P.). ~The Senate Campaign Investigating Committee, reporting expenditures of $22,716,792 by the two major parties in the 1940 campaign, recommended today that Congress study a program for further restrictions on political funds. The Committee reported contributions of $6,284,463 and expenditures of $6,095,357 by Democratic organizations, and contributions of $18,156,332 and expenditures of $16,621,435 by Republican forces. “The Hatch Act has been ineffective in preventing the expenditure of enormous sums -of money,” the Committee said. Ceiling Proposed It proposed that the Senate study the possibility of putting a ceiling
on the combined total amount of
money which may be spent by all organizations candidate for President. The Hatch Act prohibits any one political committee from spending more than $3,000,000 in any one year. The Senate group pointed out that independent organizations were set up by supporters of both President Roosevelt and Wendell L. Willkie in 1940 to raise- and sup-
plement funds which the regular
national committees could spend for their respective candidates. Similarly, the report said, state committees took a larger part in the national campaign, working closely with the independent groups and the national committees to spread out spending.
Present Limit Ineffective
The Committee suggested the Senate consider placing a limit on the amount which any individual may contribute for political use. Present law provides that individuals may not contribute more than $5000 to any one national political organization, thus permitting several $5000 contributions to a number of them. The Committee found that a significant Republican transaction was the transfer of funds from one state to another. For instance, the Maine Republican Finance Commit-
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$7650 to the Indiana Republican State Committee, of which $4000 was contributed at the suggestion of the Republican National Committee, according to the report. In return for this $4000 contribution, the report said, the Maine group requested cancellation of two $2000 notes representing money owed by the Maine Committee to the National Committee.
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William Wolf, who never had a lesson in his life, is off to the land of the Latins in a search for the ingredients of a song which will unite the Americas.
gliding out the door, waving his hat to the city editor and singing 'TI’ll be loving you always, always.” It was a touching exit and the city room bade him good-speed and good voice. Mr. Wolf is what he calls a “singing ambassador.” And, | at that, he does have a letter of introduction from Secretary of State Cordell Hull. Solely with his baritone vocal chords, he says, he nas sung his way around the world, inspected the sights in 34 countries and in all has traveled 250,000 miles —all at the total expense to himself of 5 cents. This he spent for a bar of candy 15 years ago, the second day out from Los Angeles. That was when he started his singing travels.
Cares Not for Money
“I care nothing about money,” Mr. Wolf said. What he cares about is this busi-
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which both North and Shuth America can sing and thus get together and work out their problems in a nice way. “Music makes countries go backwards, it makes them go frontwards anddt . . .” Here Mr. Wolf became $0 engulfed in his enthusiasm for the project that words completely failed him. “If we could just find something that would sort of tell the history of all the countries and that kitid of thing, then we'd have it.” Mr. Wolf elaborated when, in g moment, he had recovered his speak ing voice. He’s In Earnest
“I'm earnest about this. I am sincere,” said Mr. Wolf. And to prove it he extended his clinched hand directly out from over his heart. “Be sure and put that in the story,” Mr. Wolf reminded. When this project is over, the Singing Ambassador thinks lle &at last will settle down. “I'm tired of traveling,” Mr. Wolf disclosed. But when he does give up the journey, he will have plenty to cull over in his memory. Once, hé¢ said, he sang for the, head-hunters in British Guinea. Best of all they liked “Bye, Bye, Blackbird.” He sang “When Day Is Doane” so many times te the wife of a prince in India that the prince stuffed the equivalent of $20 in his hand fo stop. About the same sort of thing happened when he was performing for American tourists at the Sphinx in
Egypt. “They threw money at me (bo quit.
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LAFAYETTE, Ind, March 7.— The feature of the 1941 Purdue University Gala Week will be the presentation of “The College Widow” at the Hall of Music the nights of May 2 and 3. George Ade, humorist and Purdue graduate, has be¢en invited to be guest of honor. Also invited as a special guest is John T. McCutcheon, Chicago Tribune cartoonist, a Purdue graduate
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They didn't want to hear those American - songs over there,” Mr. Wolf said, quite unabashed. He had an audience, he said, with Calvin Coolidge and when he asked the President which of several songs he’d like to hear, the President gave him what we'd call a bum answer: “I'll take your word for it.” Undismayed, Mr. Wclf sang “Always” to the man who decided that one full term as President was plenty. “Always,” Mr. Wolf confided, is the hit of his repertoire.
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Berlin probably 3000 times and never got permission once from ASCAP, or any of that kind of stuff, you know,” he confessed. “Let's see. Two hundred and
sion times 3000. . . . Whew, I can’t figure it out.” But whatever it would come to, that’s what ASCAP has coming from the Singing Ambassador. Mr. Wolf seldom has mucH cash on hand at one time, however, and it’s highly unlikely that he will ever square the books with ASCAP.
Packin’ Up His Troubles Once when he was taken over by some outlaws in China, he sang “Pack Up Your Troubles in Your Old Kit Bag.” tI must have had some effect on them, for he got
loose. ; These are only a few of his experiences. Mr. Wolf can go on and
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ways being terminated by the second.party. When in Siam, he was blessed by the natives, since the white elephant usually used for the occasion was ill that afternoon. Or at least that’s the way we get it from Mr. Wolf. Throughout all his travel, said the Singing Ambassador, women have at times been a problem, A young champagne at him in Paris because he declined to render her request. (And we mean render.) When he visited a newspaper office in the Philipipnes, one of the women reporters wanted to elope with him.
The Key to Her Heart
In Constantinople, he was singing at a cafe table when all of a sudden a Turk jumped up, accused him of flirting with his wife and thereupon stabbed him. “Music is the key to a woman's heart,” Mr. Wolf opined with halfclosed eyes and a sigh. “If the men would learn to sing the songs their wives like, they'd always have romance.” Personally, Mr. Wolf views mar-
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