THE DETROIT FREE PRESS-THURSDAY, JUNE 2 5, 1938 Jittery France Good Mi iooq The Theater by Len G. Shaw The Voice of the People Thti folamn for Frw Frew rrnrferi to Dip lh'ir nptnlmm nn Qtterton or lb rlitr. t'lrftAf, be brlff, ttrjtr mnk si in their iinm And arlrlrfftati vhirh will be omit led on rrqurtt. After Thirty Years By Edgar A. Guest Still am I heedless of the garb I wear; Still do I drop my papers on the floor And toss my coat upon the Bishop's chair Which stands so reverently by the door.
Still do I streic my garments round about For her to find and neatly put away, Still am I leaving bureau drawers drawn out As if to close them I'd no time to stay. Still am I shouting down the stairs for aid To find the thing which in plain sight appears. I show no sign of betterment I've made For such devotion after thirty years. Still is she patient; still she shakes her head And smiles at cares that should be cause for tears. You'd never guess, so lightly time has sped, She has put up with me for thirty years.
(Copjrifht, 1930, br Edjr A. Gut) THE action of the Socialist Government of France in sending 30.000 troops to reinforce the 110,000 already on the frontier, shows how jittery the internal situation in France has become. The purpose of this troop movement seems to be to prevent the possibility of the Fascists in France from receiving aid from Germany if they precipitate a civil war. At the recent elections the Socialist-Communist "front" obtained control of the Chamber of Deputies, which enabled it to dictate the composition of the Government. The elections were hardly over before an epidemic of "sit down" or "folded arms" strikes occurred throughout France, whose object was to force the Government to secure for the strikers better wages, shorter hours and improved working conditions.
The Government not only surrendered, to a large extent, to these demands, but it went further and promised its radical followers that it would take strong repressive or suppressive measures against the French Fascist organizations. The Fascists have threatened to resort to arms if an attempt is made to disband them by force. And if they do, a revclution, which many people seem to think is the only means by which the air can be cleared and the country enabled to go ahead instead of going around in circles, would not surprise the world. The National Whirligig News Behind the News Congressmen Are Mortal HpHE Senate lost five members and the House of Representatives twelve members by death during the Seventy-fourth Congress. And during the Seventy-third Congress four Senators and fourteen members of the House died in office.
The attending physician to Congress blames its death rate on the fast pace at which Senators and Representatives work. While that may be true in some cases it does not by any means explain all the fatalities during the late Congress. Age and natural ailments played their part, as did accidents. Senator Cutting, for example, was killed in an airplane crash. Senator Schall succumbed to injuries received in an automobile accident.
And Senator Huey Long was assassinated. Composed of mortal beings, Congress must expect to see its ranks thinned by the Grim Reaper's scythe. The most distinguished Congressional victim of that unescapable instrument of death was John Quincy Adams, who, after having been President, was sent back to the House for 17 consecutive years, At the age of 81, Adams collapsed in his seat, was removed to the Speaker's room and there died, with these last words on his lips: "Thank the officers of the House. This is the last of earth. I am content." Efjc J3clrmt 4frec 'ON CIUBD rn 01" AetVTVSY" Puhll.l'fd ery TSt Detroit Fr.
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The Constitution was not framed to give ui 1 anything, but to protect inherent right, I I we already possessed. It was framed to I I protect minoritie against a government Elementarily controlled majorities. ALFRED M. LANDON. Keynoting in Philadelphia STRUCTURALLY the "keynote" speech delivered 0 by Senator Alben W.
Barkley to the Democrat.c National Convention in Philadelphia was quite cor- "h' was built in the traditional manner for purposes emotional appeal, and to tempt applause at con-venient intervals. The right denunc.atory nouns, adjectives and imprecation, were present and they did service in their proper places. The righteousness and holmes, of the faithful were halted The wicked enemy was consigned to perdition, and his garden was condemned to be sown v'th salt. 'Beyond this, Senator Barkley'. effort was a typual Kew Deal utterance in that the statements it contained had practically no affinity with reality.
It was remarkable for the facility with which it claim to merit and achievement where neither exist, and for the way in which it unwittingly dehv-ered condemnations of the very cause it was supposed to be exalting. in this connection the naiveness of the Senator While talking about broken promises and debt in-fcfeases was really quite delicious. 'There was much in the address which was an appeal to self-pity and narrow self-interest. But there was nothing which was designed to appeal to two-fisted, self-reliant Americanism. Instead, the American people were urgently invited to submit themselves to the guidance and control of a beneficent overlovdship which would pledge itself to take nice care of them.
1 On the factual side, the address was so rickity that he orator even misstated the amount of the National debt. It is diff cult to believe that Senator Barkley extensive effort to woo agriculture with a mass of half-truths can bear much fruit. The farmers have been close to hard facts for several years, and they know. Perhaps the most important section of the address was its assault upon the Supreme Court. Obviously fliis was inspired, and probably it was phrased, by the President of the United States.
It may be considered a notice of destructive attack pon that Tribunal, and consequently upon an important safeguard of Natioral liberty, if Mr. Roosevelt manages to secure a re-election. There was noisy applause in the Philadelphia Convention Hall while the keynoter spoke. With more than 60 per cent of the delegates connected in some way with the Federal piyroll, this was bound to be. Prudent men with soft jobs are apt to be complaisant when under the eye of the paymaster.
But the demonstrations did not sound like the honest enthusiasm of free men, as those at the Cleveland convention did. So They Swallowed the Dose WHEN it came to the pinch there was, of course, nothing for the British House of Commons to do but uphold the Baldwin Government in its Italian policy, including the decision to lift sanctions. The pill may have been a bad one, even for many the members of the Conservative Party. The British do not like to back down. But the alternative to swallowing it was to turn out a Government devoted to peace and put in one practically pledged to war.
And regardless of how members of the Labor Party feel, Great Britain as a whole is not craving for war. and more than that, it is not at present prepared for the sort of a ruction a break with Mus-lolini might precipitate. The outcome of the Schmeling-Louis bout didn't jo the boys who make a business of betting on elections any good. I It Can't Be Helped THE relative frequency with which astronomers are reporting the appearances of "novae." or as they are now being called "exploding stars" in the liy gives piquancy, so to speak, to the recently enunciated theory that all stars blow off once in a while when inside pressure overcomes surface Are You One of Them? TiriTH the beaches opening up, and the vacation season at hand what Mrs. Esther Cary, executive secretary of the Detroit Chapter of the American Red Cross, says about the sorts of people most likely to be drowned while bathing and swimming is timely and valuable.
"There are three types of persons who play the most important parts in the annual toll of death by drowning," says Mrs. Cary. "The daredevil who plunges from the highest tower, or exhausta himself in showing off; the prankster who insists upon being the life of the party, and the inexperienced swimmer who ventures beyond his depth." Do you belong to one of these types? And are you in consequence a candidate for enumeration among the 5,000 drowning victims who will go into the accident record this season? Think it over, Urges Fight to Separate Warren and Grand River To the Editor: I don't believe It would he too late yet to start a fight to have Warren Ave. separated from Grand River right now, as they will be starting very soori on a grade separation for the railroad tracks. Grade separations for main arteries have got to be a reality in the near future, so why not do both Jobs at once at Warren and Grand River Aves.
EDWARD RADCLIFF. Would Nominate Mrs. Roosevelt, Miss Perkins To the Editor: I notice the women are out to nominate a woman for vice president. If they and the Democrats are wise, they will nominate Mrs. Roosevelt for President and Miss Perkins for Vice President.
It is important they also Insert a plank in the platform regarding the Supreme Court. The past has shown that elected officials mean (nothing, but that nine "Kings" i holding office for life and not elected by the people rule the country. What a Democracy! DEMOCRACY. 'Sees Bunkum as Chief Product of Conventions To the Editor: With the opening of the Democratio Convention in Philadelphia, one may expect but a single difference from the Republican jamboree just past. This is that much more excellent vaudeville which will be offered by the Democrats.
Both these parties spill out the same old liberty bunkum and slob-berings over the common man, and neither ever gets around to the actual square deal. But when it comes to entertaining the crowd Boy! Remember the show Eddie Dowling put on last year with Will Rogers and Amos n' Andy? And all the Republicans did this year was to sing that silly song "Oh Susannah." V. H. McN. Pleads for Silencing of Noisy Airplane Exhausts To the Editor: In the Free Press editorial of this morning titled "Can't It Be Stopped," referring to the Intolerable annoyance from the roaring exhausts of airplanes such as destroyed the.
address of Dr. Ruthven, President of the University of Michigan, as your editorial describes, you have started a campaign which I hope will spread until this airplane noise nuisance is stopped. In the earlv motor a open engine exhausts destroyed the ui every community as do the airplane engine exhausts today. Motor car manufacturers realized that the nuisance was prejudicial to the use of motor cars. They campaigned everywhere to prevent the nuisance.
Th cutouts was prohibited in due time by the ordinances of every city and the use of engine exhaust mufflers becamA jf wulu cars became silent. There is no reason why airplanes should be permitted to blaRt the air everywhere in America any more than motor cars. Airplane engineers and aviators will av that nirnlanp erhi.i.t. not be muffled pontine nf tha of power involved by using a muf- mis is not tne tact. Proper mufflers can be supplied to airplane engines with a loss of power so mat, it.
is no material factor In th ah u. "-J. HIM Is needed to quiet airplanes, as motor cars have heen mtiAtAH i. aroused public opinion against the imuuuwiui existing nuisance; proper laws and -it, u'MiiiaillCB Clllll the unrelenting enforcement of the It Is ncrfectlv eimni. icnu*t- ali planes for all purposes to bear Identifying numbers readily readable with field glasses so that the police authorities can bring to book the offender.
Aviators like In l. of the exhausts as did early motor car users. Besides there is a sort tcr at me" pride about It-No more annoying noise nuisance exists- gatherings; interfering with church services; preventing radio listening in every home; annoying the sick-ct cetera, et cetera. I sincerely trust your editorial comment, will bear abundant fruit VVe have, been far too patient and long-suffering. HENRY JOY.
Turning Back the Pages From Frit Print Filtt 100 YEARS AGO-JCNE 25. 183a Press Pditoriallv the determination of the Whiffs, both In and out of Congress, to keep Michigan out of the Lmon until after the presidential election for the purpose of excluding her vote for Van Buren." 50 YEARS AGO-Jl'NK 25, 1886 Included in the gift of lno trees to Belle Isle made by the National Botanic Garden through Congressman Maybury, are many rare varieties, including a linden tree from Germany. 40 YEARS AGO JUNE 25. 1806 Senator McMillan was awarded an honorary LLD. degree bv Albion College.
a company of United States Military Wheelman has heen formed in Detroit. It held its first drill last night in the Auditorium. 30 YEARS AGO-JINE 25, lfMifi Elections in Panama were rather orderly today with the exception of a few fist fights without serious result until the police, protecting ballot boxes at Santa Ana Park, were attacked and one liberal morning by Malcolm W. Bingay MECHANICAL EFFECTS Tliore ifn't much In any of the papers thpp days on which to paps comment exerpt politics and out of all the pages and pages of type devoted to politics there is really, after all, very little news. Political news of today fs like the rouirh rocoanut pretty much husk and shell and very little, meat after you get down to it.
1 have just finished reading the 12 columns devoted to Senator Bark ley's key-note speech and by this time next week not a in all America will remember a thing he said; not even himself. Nobody now remembers what Steiwer said as a key-noter at Cleveland. Barkley talked twice as long as the Republican keynoter and said Just as little. He gave the boys every cliche and bromide and gag that has been used by political orators Blnce the Civil War days. The only one he missed was Theo dore Ttoosevelt's line about standing at Armageddon.
All the newspapers print these long speeches as a duty to their readers. I'll bet any part of the hole in any doughnut that not one reader in a thousand ever looks at anything but the summary. All students of the social order are agreed that we are In a period of transition, that scientific development is creating a new form of civilization. A new age (not New Deal) is being born and the people of the world are suffering, and have been for the past 25 years, from its labor pains. Science will soon change the whole convention system also.
It la slowly percolating Into the consciousness of the people that these national conventions as now held are about as artificial as second hand false teeth. Take this Philadelphia conclave, for example. It has been proved statistically that 61 per cent of the delegates to the convention are on the Federal pay-roll by grace of Jim Farley. They are herded there to cheer when ordered to cheer and to boo when ordered to boo. They have the same degree of ardor that is engendered by the stage director of a mob scene.
They are stooges who are given their parts before the play hegins. They know it and the public knows it. Why keep up the pretense? They will do exactly as they are ordered to do and as a climax will gather at Franklin field to listen to their boss, Mr. Roosevelt, who will let them know then what they are supposed to think. Neither Hitler nor Mussolini ever had more complete dictatorship over a group of subjects than Mr.
Roosevelt has over the herd at Philadelphia. As Ray Tucker remarked in Wednesday's Free Press, it is the beginning of the end of something we know not what. Everything is mechanlral and the paraded delegates take on the attitude of robots being guided by the master mechanic. The radio makes all these key note speerhes sound hollow, like an echo from a tomb. The man speaking Is wholly conscious of the fact that he Is not really addressing the crowd In front of hira but is yelling his high sounding phrases to the people across the Nation, Modern newspapers, the talkies and the radio have changed the entire complexion of American politics and American political technique.
The people hack home know more about what Is happening at the convention than do the weary delegates. Today, instead of a vast continent of segregated sectors wherein information comes slowly and Hint, is a factor, this entile Nation of 125 millions of people can gather together as In one of those early New England town hall meetings. People now know over night what two decades ago it would take them months to absorb. Back in the days of Bryan and McKlnley delegates would stamp around the convention hall by the hour to "set records" for enthusiasm. Now a new contrivance, called an applause recorder, checks scientifically the noise that la made; with the same exactitude that the heat of water can be determined.
The next step, I suppose, will be a combination applause meter and lie detector, which will determine how sincere the applause really is. One can readily imagine the head of a delegation who has the last word about the jobs getting his gang together and bawling them out for not yelling long and loud enough. "The meter shows, Jack Robinson." he nays to one culprit, "that you only used one half of your lung power and the lie detector proves by this graph that even then you were not on the level. You will either get more pep Into your veil ing and take this thing more seriously or I'll see that there's a new postmaster In your place at Smith Corners." Immediate communication and wide spreading of information, the World War itself and the gradual raising of the educational standards of our Country have all helped mature America. These conventions are like magic lantern shows in an era of movies.
The old hokum does not go down like it once did. The people listen, yawn, and say "apple sauce." The new merliani- cal ase makes more immerliately obvious the artificialities of much that goes on at conventions. Is it. possible that, we have reached the limits of political bunk, that the plant which once flowered so beauttl'illy has gone to seed: ihHt a wearied people are awaitin for the reiLMi of common and simple statements of facts? Is thai, after all. the appeal1 of Alt Lamlon to the i It is not improbable thai hv (lie litre N'meniht-r mils around the leal of rhe 1 w' he.
in 'Ii- n.iiKis of PiAuiii vei Common Si use, i r'-w form tue nanor ii r.n ve: v. ei-f-nr a-' b'. "Boy Meets Girl" appears to have built itself Into a summer fixture at the Cass. At all events, the Spewark satire of Hollywood enters Its fifth week next Monday evening, Sunday night performances, having been done away with during the engagement. I Maxwell Anderson will again turn his hand to historical drama next season, with "The Masque of Kings." It is said to deal with Ciown Prince Rudolf of Austria-Hungary, son of the Emperor Franz Josef, and Madame Vctsera, whose deaths in a hurW.tng lodge remain as much a mystery now as was the case upon the discovery of dual demise, at least so far as the public is concerned.
The New York Theater Guild will produce it, Ben Bard, who used to he the feeder for Jack Pearl back in the days when they were revue favorites, Is doing a bit of producing in Los Angeles. The Ben Bard Players arc presenting a comedy by Joseph Carole called "Mfss Captain Kldd." Since his marriage to Ruth Roland, Bard has made a few appearances in pictures. Bob Hope has been engaged as co-star with Ethel Merman in but Millions," the revue scheduled for early fall presentation. Katharine Cornell received the honorary degree of Doctor of Letters at Madtson, Monday, an honor she was unable to accept a year ago because of professional duties. Immediately thereafter she headed West- for a presentation of "Saint Joan" in Los Angeles.
Grace George will return to the stage at Westport, N. in July, to play the leading feminine role in "The Difficulty of Getting Married." It was adapted from the French of Louis Verneuil. Jose Ruben, Winified Lenihan. Rex O'Malley and Nicholas Joy will be in the cast, Broadway waa able to muster only one opening this week. It was "The Kick Back," a play by Edwin Harvey Blum that had been given an earlier WPA tryout in Brooklyn.
Dealing with several kinds of chaos in college, it appears to have left the New York critics unenthusiastlc at its conclusion Monday night. Eugenie Leontovitch, whose unmistakable talent received scant recognition in this Country, appears to have fared better abroad. In fact, she has become considerable of a favorite in London. Having registered in a piece called "Tovarich." she will shortly go into a production of "Antony and Cleopatra." Elizabeth Beigner having recovered from the illness which caused a postponement some months ago, Charles B. Cochran has again started rehearsals in London of "The Boy David," a play by Sir J.
M. Barrie, The Pygmies By Joseph Fort Newton "Confessions of a Little Man During Great Days," is the title of a remarkable book by Andreyev, the Russian novelist. It might be the title of the modern world in which we are trying to live. These are, indeed, sltipendous days, when tragic upheaval has come upon all lands and all peoples. They are uncomfortable, unpredictable, uncertain days, but they are great days none the less.
Yes, these are days of vast change, but we who live In them are little men little In our Insight, little in our appreciation, little in the wisdom and courage with which we face a new world. To be sure, we thought we had great men who would see us through if upheaval came. What became of the great men who would solve everything? They turned out to be figure-heads, or dead-heads. "Our financial giants failed to giant," said Will Rogers. Also, our political, social, philosophic and religious giants failed us.
They shrank to their real stature they proved to be pygmies. "Pygmies are pygmies, though perched on Alps." says an English poet all the more pitiful on the peaks. Little men facing great days. That is the tragic picture of the age In which we live. An old system of life has been shaken, if not cracked to its foundations.
Social standards, even social stabilities, are insecure, yet no one serms to know why, much less what to do to avert chaos. An old culture has been crushed; a new order is emerging. Yet the remedies proposed, the suggestions made, are the remedies of little minds, little men. who do not sec what is happening to us. By the magic of science it Is a small world.
A word spoken here can now be heard In a moment to the ends of the earth. But who Is wise enough, brave enough, to speak the healing, all-solving word. Our statesmen, if not etunts-men, are stuffed shirts. Our scholars are specialists who do not see the whole scene. Our prophets are fanatics who fly to extremes.
We are pygmies led by pygmies! (Convrirhl Observations by Robert Quillen Treaty: An agreement that is sacred to the nation it benefits and a scrap of paper to the nation it hinders. Why do we have floods? Well, have you ever noticed how the sweat pours from a bald head? You need not ask a man's opinion of the world. Just look inside his pocketbook and you know it. Saps are people who must live on skimmed milk because they let criminals take the cream. Sign of recovery: "We broka that contract to save ourselves; now let's all live up to our contracts." How times chance! Once the bank hateii to part with money, and now it hates to accept any.
You can tell a community where the W'omen boss. There are few close friendships between men. You run tfl! a peaceful nation. It is the ere 'bar dren't jaii cin.rri who uv to diairii it. v.
a is a i its, 1 and yn'i qu i Once a Beauty Spot announcement by the president of the Detroit Water Board that steps will be taken at once to improve the appearance of Water Works Park, will meet with general approbation. Water Works Park, with its famous floral clock, was for years one of Detroit's showplaces, and a very beautiful one, too. While it is true that it has recently become more of a playground than a park, and that it is not easy to keep the grass green under feet chasing tennis balls or baseballs, there is undoubtedly room for improvement in its upkeep and appearance, Oldtimeis, who remember Water Works Park at its best, will be grateful to the Water Board for anything it can do in that direction, The Great Game of Politics By Frank R. Kent The Two Things That Count PHILADELPHIA IN THI3 CONVENTION there ate only two things that really count. One is the platform; the other, the Roosevelt speech of acceptance.
The rest is all routine unduly prolonged for the various purposes of letting the Philadelphia people get their money back; making an impression upon the voters of Pennsylvania, which the New Dealers have gome hopes of carrying, and monopolizing the radio for five consecutive nights. With extremely few exceptions the speeches are the product of the party publicity director whose wholly mercenary literary activities have made him the greatest or at least the more prolific ghostwriter of his time. In this gathering, as in that of the Republicans, it is a rare speech which is written by the man who delivers it. So far as the platform Is concerned, there is reason to believe that it has been prepared in much the same way as much of the New Deal legislation. Ideas have been evolved by the bright young men of the Administration and unloaded upon Senator Wagner, of New York, the chairman of the platform committee, IN HIS TURN, Senator Wagner has turned to various of his colleagues for suggestions.
One of these was Senator Harry F. Byrd, of Virginia, who, it is said, was asked to write an economy plank. Senator Byrd declined on the ground he took publicly in the Senate that an economy plank In this platform would be a joke, inasmuch as the Administration's own figures showed that it proposed to spend next year a billion dollars more than it will have spent this year. In face of the figures quoted by Senator Byrd from the budget director himself, the declarations at this convention regarding budget balancing will have a slightly comic touch. AS TO THE SPEECH of acceptance two points arise.
One Is this: In view of the prolific preliminary oratory from the Messrs. Farley, Barkley, Earle, Robinson, Garner and others, it Is not going to be particularly easy for Mr. Roosevelt to say anything In praise of his own record or in condemnation of his opponents which has not been said before or will not seem a little flat. Yet. his speech is the climax and it will be very bad indeed if on the final night, after a wild week of enthusiasm, there should be a let-down.
Those who feel that this may happen, his friends say, are needlessly worried; they can safely leave that to Mr. Roosevelt. He is far too accomplished a political dramatist not to have in his speech the necessary number of surprise wallops to sustain the tempo and get the demonstration fitting for the finish, He may. It is suggested, read the Dec laration of Independence, ring the Liberty Bell and proclaim a rebirth of the Democratic Party. Along some such lines, it.
is believed, his address will be laid. A SECOND POINT of interest is how far the threat of a radical third party will send Mr. Roosevelt to the left. and when. It is recalled that when Huey Long was alive Mr.
Roosevelt more than once stepped in his direction as a means of sapping his strength. It was legarded by his friends, for instance, as good political stratejry when he made a Share-the-Wealth gesture, and Senator Long, it will be recalled, commented upon the fact. After Huey's death Mr. Roosevelt was undoubtedly relieved at the passing of the third-party threat. He said so in so many words to various senators.
He regarded it as his real political danger and justified several things he had done on the ground that they were necessary to spike the movement. THE NEW UNION PARTY which has just been launched and which it is expected will have the backing of Gerald L. K. Smith, new leader of the Long Share-the-Wealth following, makes it almost seem as though the ghost of Huey Long pursues him. There are those here who bHieve that, faced with a third party which will take from him radical support.
Mr. Roosevelt can he counted upon to adopt his old method of it: to wit. per-' suasiveiy moving in its direr-tinn. Tne chit reason for thinking he will not make any such ir: his Sa'inday night speech lhal the Ho-st advisers as to rue In. Ravm-md Mo-- hei eiivard Sweop? and business "lun.ttic tr.m PHILADELPHIA Franklin D.
Roosevelt may be defeated for re-election, but if he inhabits the White House for four more years It will be because of the blunders which his enemies have made here and elsewhere. Beneath and behind the Democrats' confident predictions of November victory lies the admission that the G. O. P. might work a miracle, with the help of a conglomeration of allies.
The Democrats really fear, though they won't admit it, the quiet showmanship of Alf Landon. They suspect that the Lemke-for-President movement may chip off 10 states which would otherwise go to Roosevelt. They shudder at the thought that the Smith-Cohalan-Colby revolt may swing millions of Democratio conservatives against the New Deal, Jitter i and Jumpiness Although no responsible leader dignifies the League candidacy or the Liberty League threat with forynal comment, it has sent the high command into a state of jitters and jumpiness. Even to Chairman Farley it's obvious that there will be trouble in repulsing assaults from the right and from the left. But plans are under way to nail the protest of the Liberty Leaguers against FDR's renominatlon.
According to talk in hotel lobbies, ex-Justice Cohalan, who signed the Smith -Colby telegram, is Father Coughlin's legal adviser in New York. Key Democrats say they have legal and political evidence that Mr. Cohalan is closely associated with the Detroit priest. To the ordinary reader that hookup may have little meaning. But in the minds of Democratic strategists It is convincing proof that Mr.
Roosevelt's enemies will stop at nothing to defeat him. Because of Cohalan's tieup with Liberty Leaguers and Coughlinites they see a union of radicals and Tories whose sole aim is to block FDR's re-election. Will Appeal to Under-Dog These last-minute attacks on the President from the left and right will have a distinct influence on the platform and on FDR's conduct during the campaign. W'hereas he intended to pursue a middle-of-l he-road course, he will now seek the votes of the underdogs. He will pitch his appeal to the man on relief and to folks whose maximum wage Is $25 a week.
He will appeal to the masses against the classes, even more than before. Two months ago the Presidential campaign looked like a "pushover" for President Roosevelt. After Cleveland, it. looked like a fight. Now It looks like a horse race.
NEW YORK There has been a subtle but significant change in TVA publicity lately. Recent announcements hv the Authority have featured navi gation, inoa control, sou erosion, fertilizer development, etc. with rarely a reference to the power program that used to capture all the headlines. New York sharps figure this shift of emphasis is a belated attempt to escape the kickback from mistakes in the promotion of the power program. It is known that sources high up in the Administration privately feel that David Lilienthal showed more zeal than Intelligence In his efforts to sell the advantages of Government-owned power facilities to the public in a hurry.
Lilienthal' Two Errors Here are two specific errors which New York learas have been chalked up on Lilicnthal's score by people close to New Deal headquarters, tl) He forced the sale of small private distributing plants in five Alabama counties and three Mississippi counties to TVA at about 60 per cent of their fair valuation by threatening to build competitive municipal plants with PWA monev that would put them out of business. (2) In furtherance of the "yardstick" policy, he established electric rates shout 50 per cent below the prevailing rates of private companies. Observers contend it would have been smarter to pay fair prices! for properties taken over and to undercut the prevailing rates of private utilities hv only about 1,11 per criu. ii me private concerns had sought to meet that (iguie, TV A rates could then have been slashed another per cent -and so on indefinitely, jri that way the "yardsrirk principle could have been mnintnir.ed without giving miii'icj the nt.cnir tn eha'g TVA u'-i on leady at their no-red, a' the mere Unverirg of Pie O. K.
for Another Year "VrT RS. LAURA OSBORN, of the Board of Edu-cation, has just made her regular scheduled protest against pie in school cafeterias; and as usual she has been overruled by male members of the board, supported in their obstinacy by the expert opinion of Dr. Burt R. Shurly. In other times this annual passage at arms used to be a little irritating.
Because pie really is something which ought to be reverenced, not traduced. But now we would be sorry if it should be omitted. Something of the flakey crustiness of life would be lost. Beside that, there is a comforting certainty that as long as Mrs. Osborn objects to pie on the school counter its position there is perfectly safe.
The tax dodger seems doomed to extinction. The multiplicity of taxes that surround him is such that he has to choose between paying them, or dying of exhaustion trying to evade them. The recently soaring price of potatoes can only be explained on the assumption that the spuds thought they were running a race with the National debt. At Alcatraz Al Capone hasn't the advantage of a personal bodyguard. School is out.
Hurrah for the sandlot leagues! Current Comment "Billions" Is the Word PROPHESYING that the Seventy-fourth Con-gress, thoufih ended, will long be remembered in the sweat of the taxpayer's brow, the Chicago Daily News says: "Some Congresses may perhaps lay claim to records of statesmanship. This one made an undisputed record of another kind a record of This exeicibe doesn't necessarily hurt a star, but it is not very good for planets or other bodies which happen to be adjacent. What is apt to happen to them reminds one unpleasantly of the Biblical statement that "the heavens shall pass away with a great noise, and the elements shall melt with fervent heat, the eaith also and the works that are therein shall be burned up." this evidently barrens to others, why not to us? Meanhii we will continue to concern ourselves with war, politic government, indus'ry. science, prcb ems. marriage arid giving in msrr.igc and a r.f o'her more or Ir en-irovirg th s-l'Ur b- aH crnh'z f'r f-'ied cut mt( must "There are persons who get a thrill out of spend- ing their own money as long as it lasts.
But the thrill of spending other people's money is a sensation I reserved to the elect and the elected. "If your Congressman voted with the majority look well upon him when he gets home and be duly impressed, toi he is a man who spent, or helped to spend. 000,000. i "Pethaps yr.u wul a trunce to peik to him. If so.
be tactful. Dcn't iv miliicrs. Ycu hart his leeirr.j?. Butirr.s is the wr i Sav WUirms and he v. he happy.
Kineu. 20 YEARS AGO JUNE 25. 1916 Authorities of the Dominion post-office have refused to carry the Soo, Out. Express in the mails, as N. Smith wtnte an editorial captioned.
'No Mote Soldiers for Overseas Service. This Young Re-Public Has Hone Enough." Ill YEARS At i 'ii Ji C. mar.ag.-i- 'er'is fn "'Tf7e the fnrrirg trieni frern ij-r traveled jeio thp les, 'rave 3rtt (MV aeiove v. 0 a. i.
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