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COURT TO FIX DATE FOR BALL'S TRIAL Indictment Charging Misuse of $515,959 County Funds Will Be Used. BY LESTER N. INSKEEP, Staff Correspondent of the Star. ARLINGTON COURT HOUSE, Va, December 10.—The date for the second trial of former County Treasurer E. ‘Wade Ball, on charges involving al- leged shortages in his accounts of more | than & half-million dollars, is to be set | at the opening of the December term of the Circuit Court on Monday. The | East Falls Church withdrawal case is| also rendm; and ready for argument. | Ball is to be tried on one of three ndictments returned by the October grand jury, charging him with the misuse of county funds otaling $515, 959. He is charged in oneé indictment | with having failed to turn this amount over to William H. Duncan, then county clerk, when Ball resigned as treasurer. One of the other indictments charges him with the misappropriation of $117.- | SHATTERED Howe Shows Upsetting of the Hoary Practices of Past. President-elect Began New Tactics With Accept- ing Nomination. Old precedents were smashed, new precedents set up, in the Democratic residential campaign. Hitherto unre- ated facts regarding the campaign are d in the following article by Mr. d. adviser and con: of Franklin Roosevelt from the time_the President-elect entered politics. Mr. Howe's personal loyaity. political sa- gacity and indefatigable efforts contrib- uted immeasurably to Mr. Roosevelt's election. BY LOUIS McHENRY HOWE. i NEW YORK, December 10 (N.A. N.A).—The Democratic presidential candidate was standing before a hushed and expectant national convention waiting to catch from his first utter- ances the keynote for the coming cam- paign. He had just shattered the an- cient custom of wailting weeks for formal, expensive ceremonies before the | 300 during the last half of 1931 and| the third with the misappropriation of $75,000 during 1930. | Setting of Date Delayed. | At the time Ball was arraigned. on November 18, defense counsel declined to file the usual demurrers and motions to quash, but the setting of the date | for the trial was delayed to await a| decision by Commonwealth’s Attorney Lawrence W. Douglas and Assistant Attorney General Collins Denny, jr., as to which of the three indictments they would use in the trial. Douglas will announce the decision of the prosecution on this question on Monday, at which time he also is ex- pected to remew his previous motion for the selection of an out-of-the- county jury for the trial. At the time | Douglas made this motion Judge Walter T. McCarthy stated that he could not entertain it until it had been definitely | determined which indictment would be | used. The indictment upon which Ball was acquitted in September involved $24,000 eof State fands. Withdrawal Case Pends. The case of the proposed withdrawal the East Falls Church section of town of Falls Church, lying par- tially in_Arlington County and par- tially in Fairfax County, from the cor- poration of Falls Church, has been mdlnc for several months and is on docket for consideration at this There will be but three new felony | & for presentation to the grand at this term of court unless addi- «cases should arise over the week end, Commonwealth’s Attorney Douglas said. This is one of the lightest dockets in many years. Grand ~jurors summoned yesterday were: Walter O'Hara, J. Vernon Smith, A. Rucker, James W. Trick, G. C. , Walter Cushing, James Harris and G. HARRIMAN TO SPEAK AT C. OF C. MEETING ‘Will Discuss Country-wide Aspects of Local Transportation Problems. O. Henry States, T on country-wide as- wflmwm fore the Washington Chamber of Commerce Tuesday evening at the May- flower Hotel. Washington's traffic per- plexities will'be discussed. The occasion will be “Transportation oo lan n;:pond b; ?fidzcnmnrsf y the 3 m'le-upgmdm Committee, form- ing the central theme. This plan will be presented as a special order of busi- ness. ‘Thomas P. Littlepage, president of the | ‘Washington Chamber of Commerce, will | preside. The resolution of the ti- | gens’' Joint Transportation Committee ‘will be presented by George E. Keneipp, | chairman of the Transportation Com- mittee. Among the guests invited are the members of the Senate and House District Committees, the District Com- missioners and members of the Public Utilities Commission. “LAME DUCKS” GUESTS Six Members to Attend Ohio So- clety Meeting. Six members of Congress will be ests of honor at a “lame duck” meet- g to be held by the Ohio Society of the District tomorrow night at 8 o'clock in the Shoreham Hotel. They are Representatives Frank Murphy, C. Ellis Moore, John L. Cable, Grant E.| Mouser, jr.. C. B. McClintock and | FPrancis Seiberling, all defeated for re- election. President Renick W. Dunlap will pre- side at the meeting. Mr. Murphy and Strickland Gillilan will have charge of the entertainment. A buffet supper and dancing will round out the pro- gram. 1. Harriman, president of the Commerce of the Unif gt Recent reports show that import re- strictions in Austria have failed to bring Prance, has died at Marseille, aged ' | dollars in the effort to elect a candi- E. Bell, Ernest W.|da ted | Coolidge and with President Hoover, | be self-supporting and efficient politi- candidate publicly admits that he knows he has been nominated. He had already established two precedents by arriving by airplane and appearing before the cohvention itself before it | adjourned. These were almost his first | words “I have started out on the tasks that l lie ahead by breaking the absurd tra- ditions that the candidate should re- main in professed ignorance of what | has happened for weeks, until he is; formally notified of the event. Let this | be symbolic_that in so doing I broke | traditions. Let it from now on be the | task of our party to break foolish tra- ditions and leave it to the Republican leadership to break promises.” Few of the crowd that roared its ap- | proval realized to what extent all cam: paign traditions had already been shat tered or how completely the Democratic campaign was to upset the ancient and hoary practices of the past. In fact. a great majority of the voters do mnot { yet know that on the Democratic side this particular national campaign bore little resemblance to any campalgn | which had been conducted before. Perhaps to understand these differ- ences it might be well to outline the ancient and honorable way of going about it. Choosing New Chairman. After the candidate’s nomination, and | in some cases weeks later, we selected new chairman of the Democratic Na- tional Committee, generally a personal friend, and almost invariably a man with not the faintest idea how a na-! tional campaign is conducted. The Na- tional Committee itself then proceeds to become, overnight, a vast campaign organization, with only eight or nine practical working weeks in which to spend intelligently several millions of te. It has then been customary to ap- point a Board of Counselors, generally from the National Committee itself, some of whom at least have had expe- rience in previous cam 5 An organization has then been has- tily thrown , the workers of this largely recruited from the friends of powerful political leaders. The na- tional committeeman has generally been regarded as the key man in each State, and through him, as a rule, the advice, instructions and orders to the State organizations have been passed. | The unhappy nominee has then been dumped aboard the train with the blessings of the central organization and started on a tour of many miles, unless, as was the case with President they were determined to confiné them selves to very few speeches and con- duct their pleadings from the back porch of the White House. & Under the old method this train was always under the directions 'of the “Board of Strategy,” and if some spe- cially insistent national committeeman was able to persuade them to add, sub- tract or change the points at which speeches were to be made, the nomi- nee only too frequently went to bed ex- pecting to speak the next day in Osh- kosh, only to find he had been routed overnight to Kalamazoo. Waste and Errors. It is one of the miracles of human intelligence that an organization thrown together this way, with inexpe- rienced leaders directing inexperienced help and with no time really to learn the job, ever succeeds in getting any- where, and there is, of course, enormous waste in efforts and money, to say noth- ing of errors in strategy and tactics. Democratic _organization this year, however, was based on a funda- mentally different conception of strat- egy. It was held that the functioning of the National Committee was prop- erly along the lines so ably worked out by John J. Raskob and Jouett Shouse, and should operate as a permanent body mot concerned With temporary campaigns, but with the perpetual task of building up State organizations to cal groups. It was not generally noticed, but this change of policy was revealed in the first announcement made after the | nomination. “The campaign is to be conducted,” said Chairman Farley, “not by the Democratic National Committee, but by the Democratic National Cam- paign Committee.” This was at all | times kept entirely distinct from the National Committee, and while the ad- ice and the opinions of the national ommitteemen were sought and wel- comed, technically they had no more ! { WHO Are The Cuardians Of PROSPERITY? . . . YOU @ your warehouse where “The Bank That Service Built” funds €cono! Bank serve MOUNT SAVINGCS BANK 9th Street and Massachusetts Ave. N.W. RRANK W. ROBERT T. HIGHFIELD Vice Prasident and Cashier members of your community control economic conditions in various channels to maintain SAVE systematically—at “The | THE SUNDAY STAR, WASHINGTON, D. C, DECEMBER 11, 1932—PART ONE. CONFIDANT RELATES HOW ROOSEVELT PRECEDENTS LOUIS McHENRY HOWE. authority than any other men of the party to direct affairs. | It was determined that the State or- | ganizations themselves, not only the- oretically but in reality, were to be en- tirely responsible for the campaign in their respective territories. In other words, as Chairman Farley would put it, “we laid it in their laps.” They were to be supported, informed and encouraged, but were at all times to| feel that this was their job, and that | success rested on their shoulders. Second Tradition Ignored. That there might be no misunder- standing on this point, a second tradi- tion was ignored. All State chairmen were called to the headquarters at New York in groups of 10 and 12 from contiguous States. They met with the national chairman and with the old and experienced leaders of the party at two long meetings each day, and gen- erally & meeting at night, for three day At these meetings they told those in charge of the central organi- zation of the conditions in their own localities. and in return were made to | realize that the statement they were to be solely responsible and upheld was no flattering gesture. The success of | this radical experiment was instanta- neous. Every State chairman went | back feeling he was a person of real importance, of real responsibility, and determined to work as he had never worked before for the success of the Democratic party. That they did so work, was evident in the resuit. The next radical change was in the advisers at headquarters. Gov. Roose- velt held that no matter how wise any set, of advisers might be, after they had been away from their own localities and out of touch with distant States three or four weeks they were unable always to judge situations correctly, So instead of a permanent board, a system of “visiting counselors” was set up. Dur- ing the campaign practically every leader of importance, including the national committeemen, was called to headquarters for a tour of duty. Con- sequently the advisory board was always changing, but it always maintained a majority of advisers who had been at headquarters for some time, 'so the continuity of plan was never broken. This also proved a highly successtul innovation. tate | actual test his belief that there should | voters for our party to the polls. But the theory of making the Si organizations responsible went further IN Different Strategy Is Followed by Party Throughout. State Organizations, Not| National Committee,Were Held Responsible. than the mere conferences of the State chairmen. Two years ago Gov. Roose- velt, who had very radical views on this point, had what amounted to a “dress rehearsal” of the national campaign. | This was his own campaign for re- | election as Governor. There he put to | be personal contact between head- | quarters and every precinct committee- | man, that they should be made to feel | that the actual responsibility physically of getting out the votes rested on their shoulders, and that the success of the State leaders depended primarily on the | individual efforts of each county com- mitteeman. Primary Campaign Activity. During the primary campaign for almost a year previous, Chairman Farley had collected the names and addresses of practically every precinct committee- man, a task of no small magnitude when it is considered that there arc| more than 140,000 of them. These | names had been put on plates so letters could be sent to all of them on short | notice. At the very beginning Gov. | Roosevelt addressed a letter to every | one of these local committeemen. Two sentences in that letter show clearly his viewpolnt as to the importance of this group of workers who might well be described as “the forgotten men” of the political organization in the past. This is what Gov. Roosevelt wrote to each precinct committeeman: “It has always been my belief that while those high in authority in any olitical organization get most of the imelight and applause, elections are won by the willingness and ability of those who deal directly with the voters. | The success or failure of our party in electing its candidates is after all| greatly dependent upon the loyalty and | efficiency of our county and State com- | mitteemen and women, on Whose | shoulders rests the task of getting “It I should be fortunate enough to be elected, I want you to know that I will feel it has been due in very large measure to the work of you and your fellow county and State committeemen and women. After all, the efficiency and value of your leaders, State and national, depend more than anything else on their ability to arouse your ac- tive' interest. There is little they can do to get actual votes—that task rests upon you.” Each committeeman was asked in | this letter to write freely on conditions | in his own precinct, and to give any | suggestions he might have on what | would be the most successful form of campaign in his territory. To make | sure these letters came under the Gov- ernor’s eye, the replies were to be ad- dressed to the Governor’s house in New York City, and not to national head- was gratifying in the extreme. Thousands upon thousands of the committeemen wrote back,.in many cases long letters, and in all CAMPAIGN - ner. Kansan's View Depressed. An interesting example was the case of a depressed committeeman in Kan- sas, who wrote that there was no use to send him any literature because his district was hopelessly Republican. Gov. Roosevelt smiled grimly at this letter, and dictated a reply of more than a page which, summarized, read as follows: “You say that it is going to be twice as difficult to get Democratic votes in your territory as in most of the others. That means, of course, that you will have to work twice as hard. I am accordingly di- recting that in your case twice the usual amount of literature shall be for- warded you in the future.” That district, by the way, showed up among the banner districts in the State for increased percentage of Democratic votes. When Gov. Roosevelt made his tour through all the Western States, there was not a stop at which anywhere from 20 to 25 local committeemen did not appear, proudly exhibiting their letters and assuring the Governor they were going to work as they had never worked before. In getting the campaign started an- other precedent went overboard, but here perhaps fortune favored us. The winning candidate for the nomination had built up a rather efficient primary organization over a considerable period of time. Its members were all trained and had almost a year's experience in political work. Because of this it was possible minutes after the Governor was nom! nated to telephone word to New York from Chicago which set certain ma- chinery in operation. Thus the ca paign can truthfully be said to have started almost before the final vote on the candidate was announced. One of the great difficulties in & na- tional campaign with an organization thus hurriedly thrown together is ob- taining accurate information on the rapidly changing conditions in different States. It had previously been the custom to rely first on the national committeemen, second on the State chairmen, and finally, when things were obviously going wrong, on the reports of individual scouts sent to get first-hand information. Reports Are Unreliable. Such reports are necessarily unre- liable. The national committeemen and State chairmen are always prone either to be over.optimistic or over pessimistic. Calm judgment by those in charge of a campaign is rare. As for the scouts, the accuracy of their reports depended too often upon the particular peopls they had seen. If they were lucky to find men on both sides of every question these reports were generally accurate. But if they saw those entirely con- verted to one side of a controversy it was entirely a matter of luck whether that side was the side to back or not. Here the Campaign Committee fell heir to an entirely novel and elaborate information system, which also is an idea of Gov. Roosevelt’s, established during his primary campaign. A combination of all the clipping bureaus sent in daily not only editorials, but every item of political news in prac- tically all of the newspapers in the country. At the height of the campaign these clippings mounted as high as 15,000 daily. These were passed through the hands of expert readers, and those which had a bearing on the situation were set aside, taken out and handed to expert condensers, also trained news- paper workers. These men condensed into a few lines the importance of the clipping or editorial, and every national committeeman and every vise) ust What He Wanted! OMETHING usable but different. Something to wear, in fact. And the perfect gift along these lines is shirts. Not just anybody’s shirts, but shirts with a tradition of style and quality and non-shrinkability, such as is combined fault- lessly in Reyem and the other individual city . . . Your bank is the combined are put to work through mic stability. That Service Built”—and your community. VERNON LEE, Presidest WM. H. JOHNSTON Vice President Solid colors and white, neat figures and stripes, in fine broadcloth or woven madras. Pajamas Silk Trimmed Shantung Silk Radium Silk $3.50 Bill Folds. KADETTE ALL-PURPOSE RADIO, $25 $1.00 to 25¢ Cuff Buttons.......... Shirts. and up House $1.65 1.95 .. 3.95 to $1.95 ..-$6.50 Toilet Sets.. Dress Jewelry. D EYER Neckties.. Pigskin Gloves.. Belts and Buckles, $1.15 to $3.95 Robes Wool Flannel.... Brocaded .. Radio Coats -$3.00 to 69¢ -.$1.95 $3.00 to $1.00 ..$3.50 $1.95 MEN’S SHOP inc 1331 F Street and all the different varieties of infor- mation upon which successful strategy must be based, far more accurately than ever before, and if our campaign committee has been praised for mak- ing few mistakes, it is due, I think, to this very unusual accuracy of daily information. Another radical departure was in the matter of the distribution of litera- ture, Previous custom was to print various pamphlets by the million, ship them in bulk by the tens of thousands to the various State chairmen, who in turn shipped them by the thousands to the county chairmen. It was theoreti- cally the duty of the county chairmen to get this literature in the hands of the actual voters. Literature Largely Wasted. A rather detailed survey, In whic! I took part, of a previous national campaign showed that of literature dis- tributed this way only from 3 to 5 per cent actually got into the hands of | voters who would be influenced there- | by. Thousands of pamphlets lay un- | distributed at State headquarters, and hundreds more in each county com- mittee rooms, and those distributed to the local committee chairmen rarely reached the precinct committeemen un- less these called at the county or State headquarters, and carried them away. Here again the revolutionary methods established two years before in the Governor’s State campaign was car- ried out. While 4 certain reduced lican method, was haj greater factor in this widespread, Nation-wide display. In connection with the sending out of this literature, an amusing and somewhat embarrassing incident oc- curred. It became necessary to ascer- tain if the letter inclosed with the rh je came within the postal regu- tions as matter descriptive of the uses of the contents thereof, in order to get the parcel post rate. A postal inspector was sent for. He felt that as the question involved some thirty to forty thousand dollars’ worth of postage, it should have the judgment of the imaster of New York himself. At the time the letter was written the necessity of having it okayed by the authorities had not been thought of, and the letter was handed to the inspector without its being read a sec- ‘The public were welcomed ly at the main headquarters at the Biltmore. But unless they had actual business there they were discouraged from visit- ing the brain workers across the street, | and under no circumstances were they permitted to roam around the mechani- cal department. In this way just what | we were doing was at no time a matter | of common knowledge, and we could | keep our little secrets of strategy. | 'There were many othér new and | Interesting features of the campaign | recently closed, but these are enough to show how" essentially and funda- | mentally different it was from all cam- ond time. He came back after some hours with a rather odd and much embarrassed expression. Modification Is Asked. ‘'The postmaster rules” he said, ‘that the letter is mailable at parcel | post rates, but he asks as a favor that | you somewhat mocify that postscript.” Then to our horror it was remem bered that the postscript read as fol- lows: “P. S.—Please acknowledge the receipt of this package as soon as it reaches your hands, as experience has shown that Democratic literature has a way of getting lost in Republican post offices.” ‘You may be sure that postscript was greatly modified before the letters went out, although, to be honest, it was worded in such a way that we heard wh!ether the package reached them or not. ‘Those who like statistics may be in- terested in knowing that during the | paigns before, and while, of course, predictions are risky, it is this writer's | confirmed impression that we have | established precedents which will be | more or less closely followed. (Copyright, 1932. by North American News- paper Alliance, Inc.) KEECH GIVES ADDRESS | ON OFFICIAL ROUTINE People’s Counsel Office, Utilities | Commission Covered at Mt. | Pleasant Meeting. Richmond B. Keech, people’s counsel, explained the operation of his office and of the Public Utilities Commission, and told of the current business of both, in a talk before the Mount Pleasant | Citizens' Association last night in the quantity was sent to the State chair- | campaign the organization employed Branch Library, Sixteenth and Lamont men and the county chairmen, indi- vidual packages were made up of only | 10 pleces of each kind of literature, | and sent to every one of the 140,000 | local committeemen. ‘With this package went another per- sonal letter bearing the Governor's sig- nature, requesting particular pains to see that these 10 pieces of literature went into the hands where they would do real good. As near as we can check, 90 per cent of the literature so distributed actually got not only into the hands of the voters, but into the hands of voters who were influenced by it. When I add that 63,000,000 pieces of literature were thus distributed, it will be seen that the job was man size. | One proof of its effectiveness was | brought back by the newspaper men ac- | companying the Governor on his trip. ' “We never saw anything like the propa- | ganda of the Democratic nominee, they reported. “Everywhere we went were hundreds and hundreds of the Governor's pictures in windows, and not one of President Hoover.” ‘The popularity of the nominee, as the vote showed, had much to do with this, but the fact that these pictures more than 600 people, with a pay roll of some $26.000 a week, and that in addition to the 63,000,000 pieces of lit- erature sent out, there were 5,000,000 buttons, and 3,000,000 personally ad- dressed letters. One oddity was the way the organiza- tion was set up. What was disrespect- fully referred to as “the brain trust meaning the national chairman, fi- nance division and a few other bureaus, such as the speakers’ bureau and the board of advisers, was established in the Hotel Biltmore, New York, in quarters that in every way resembled the headquarters of the past except, perhaps, that dess space than usual was occupied. Across the street, where the head- | quarters of the primary campaign had operated, practically six floors of a large office building were filled with what we called the brain workers, those who wrote and answered letters, who com- piled the information, who organized clubs, who kept up the enormous mass of dence generally and those who handled the publicity. These num- bered two to three hundred people. ‘Then an entire loft in a large office Throw awa streets. The association passed a resolution commending Maj. Ernest W. Brown, chief of police, for methods employed in handling the “hunger marchers” last | week. Praise for members of the force was voiced in a Jetter which will be sent | to Maj. Brown ‘and the Commissioners. Lester T. Walter, principal of the Powell Junior High School, was admit- ted to membership in the association. Later he outlined the needs of his school in a brief talk. Mrs. C. A. Burmeister of the Bancroft School also spoke. | H. Braden presided. | More than 200,000 goats and sheep are being raised on the Aegean Islands. PLUMBING & HEATING SERVICE y your old notions about motor cars Drive the revolutionary new 1933 New Air-Cooled Car Acclaimed Olympic Sales Beyond Ex- AIR-C SUPERC FRA pectations—Many People Want Air-Cooling In Lower Price Range By J. C. 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