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THE EVENING STAR, WASHINGITON D. C, TuwrsDAY, J than meet most civil service demands. ULY 14, 1936. Landon Given Behind the News C. C. C. Wins||zm=uzsi iz Union Fight Applauded |[Headline Folk Able Aide in Col. Knox Vigorous Personality Might Alter Office of Vice President. BY DAVID LAWRENCE. HERE is something manifestly different about this national political campaign. something that even in its early stages begins to show signs of an aggressive and intense activity scarcely com- parable with any other campaign than posisbly 1896. But one of the most interesting aspects is the part that the candidate e for the vice pres- g iaency, Col Frank Knox, 18 gomg W pay and the propa- ble effect tnis q May have on tne * office of the vice presidency 1t ne | is electea. | Col. Knox is a ditferent type than 1s usuauy cnosen tor tne| vice presidenual | nomination. ¥or | cne thing he nis | never held puo- lc office and yet is as much if not more familiar with the problems of government than almost any man who has run for the vice presidency | in many years. As a newspaper pub- lisher, both in New Hampshire and in Tllinois, Mr. Knox has had to fa- miliarize himself with national ques- tions, and in his pre-convention cam- paign he covered more territory than any other candidate and thus be- came acquainted with conditions in various parts of the country. Col. Knox has called himself the “first mate,” ready to do whatever the “Skipper,” Gov. Landon. wants him to do in the development of the party strategy. But the colonel is not likely to be the obscure running mate that Vice President Garner was | in 1932 and is likely to be in the| 1936 campaign. | Aid Would Be Asked. The Vice President nowadays sits at the cabinet table. He can make himself as useful or as useless to the President as he chooses. Gov. Lan- don is the kind of man who, if elect- ed. would in all probability insist on making use of the administrative and executive background which Col. | Knox has developed in his business experience ovef many years. | "I)ge colonel is known n‘xmughcuti the newspaper world, for irstance, as; the man who economizes and who does it impersonally. He has cut| budgets so often and kept expens down so well that he has been at times a target of attack by victims of his economy program. | Certainly when it comes to cutting Government expenses the next Presi- | dent of the United States will need all the help he can get and all the jdeas of how to approach the prob- | lem that can be mustered. The vice presidency as an office has undergonc: little change even though it has be-| come the custom for Presidents to invite them into the cabinet room for | the regular meetings. d As presiding officer of the United States Senate, the Vice President casts his baliot when there is a tie | vote on a pending bill and the rest| of the time he may or may not give to the duties of interpreting the rules. Entirely apart from this, Vice Presi- David Lawrence. been a sort of liaison cofficer between the White House and Capito!l Hill| and some of the best bits of persuad- E ing on the matter of getting votes for | administration measures has done by Mr. Garner on behalf of Mr. President Due to Make Extensive Campaign Tour Despite Efforts of Advisers to Dissuade Him., BY PAUL MALLON. HE White House will insist for a while yet that President Roosevelt has no campaign plans. Nevertheless, those who have talked with him know that he has some very definite, if not elaborate ideas. For one thing, he wants to go to the Pacific Coast the latter part of September, and he undoubtedly will. For another, he wants to do more campaign traveling than any President seeking re-election has ever done, and no one has ever yet been able to stop him when his feet itch. His advisers are telling him not to go. They seem to be almost unanimous in the opinion that his best campaigniag spot is the White House. A few speeches in the Midwest and a concentraied final drive in the East is all they want. They told him the same thing in 1932 when he invited them to a big dinner at Albany to solicit their advice. Then he went. Now they say there may have been some excuse for that 1932 Western trip. His problem then was to show himself to the country, but that problem has now been more than adequately met. Nevertheless, Mr. Roosevelt will go again. The only reason his associates know is that he likes to go places. He enjoys waving at people and having them wave back. * ok X ¥ The delay of the Republicans in getting organized was due, insiders say, to the expansive activities of the finance committee. Usually political finance commit- tees confine themselves to raising money. They let others worry about the spending of it. Apparently this one is going to be different. Those who have sharp eyes noticed that when Pinance Chairman Bell called upon Gov. Landon not long ago he announced he had discussed a number of things in connection with the campaign, as well as finance. He did not say 5o, but one of the things he discussed was the publicity directorship. a subject which does not ordinarily concern finance committee chairmen. As a result there may be a wider use of practical business manage- ment methods in this campaign. Also more delay. ® x ¥ ¥ A grevious error was committed recently in this column. In referring to the progress of the co-operative movement in Sweden, the erroneous statement was made that the co-operative movement had flopped in England. The fact is early co-operatives in England failed because they tried to undersell their private competitors before they were strong enough. However, the subsequent Rochdale movement has had a great degree of success on more practical lines, as is mow being widely advertised. * % %k x There is one Government bureau, and probably only one, in which the free fighting fever of the New Dealers has failed to break out. Even the credulous Ripley will never believe it, but, in this bureau, such non-coalesc- ing elements as Miss Perkins, Mr. Wallace and Mr. Ickes have managed to serve more or less together for two years without a scratch. This is practi- cally a miracle. There has never been another board, commission or meet- ing in which Miss Perkins served, even with more placid men than Wallace and Ickes, without some ore running to the President within three days demanding peace or death. This miraculously serene council is the Civilian Conservation Corps Advisory Board, and the explana- tion for it probably is that the non- conformists dc not generally meet face to face, but send their repre- sentatives to board meetings. For instance, Ickes sends his Cam- merer Miss Perkins her Frank Per- sons, Wallace his Silcox. Even so, a movement is sweep- ing the New Deal to get them the next Nobel Peace Prize, in case Mussolini does not try for it. s N Over the July 4 week end, one railroad here increased the dollar volume of its ticket sales about 55 per cent despite the reduced fares. Its ticket sales from one station amounted to $45,000 this year as compared with $28,000 last year. Last year special round-trip rates were offered which were not in effect this year. On this road the local passenger business for the first month of low fares picked up about 35 per cent in dollars. This is an incipient hint that the I.C.C. may not have been far wrong when it told the railroads that the way to make money is to reduce rates and improve service just as all other successful post- depression businesses have done. * X x % It was ex-Senator Brookhart of Towa who told & congressional com- mittee a long time ago: “I thought that in controlling production you had to have a contract with God Almighty, and I have not yet heard that he has signed up.” (Copyright. 1936.) “TERRIFIC” PRICE RISE FORECAST BY ECONOMIST dent Garner, on the other hand. has Growing Debt, Devalued Dollar been | BS the Associated Press. | FIRE DESTROYS TOWN | Ontario Village Residents Flee by Boats. GERALDTON, Ontario, July 14 (®). —Fire destroyed most of the settle- ment of Hard Rock yesterday, but the | residents. numbering 25 to 50, escaped. and Business Confidence All Seen as Factors. CINCINNATI, July 14—Dr. S. S Many fled in boats on Little Long | Confidence of Public Political Interference, if Attempted, Will Bring Disrepute. BY DOROTHY THOMPSON. F ALL the relief measures in- troduced by the New Deal, the C. C. C. camps are over- whelmingly the most popular. The fact has been observed by every- body who has taken the trouble to question neighbors, friends and inno- cent bystanders, anywhere between Vermont and California. It was borne out in Congress B when there was talk of curtailing appropriations for the camps, and when popu- lar pressure im- mediately made itself manifest. It was confirmed by the poil of the American Insti- tute of Public Opinion on July 5, which showed that 82 per cent of the people Dorothy TRompsen oeried were in favor of continuing this New Deal in- publicans, Democrats registering themselves favorably. No such majority could possibly be won in a disinterested poll for any other of the New Deal relief measures. Dissatisfaction with most of Mr. Hop- kins’ organizations is general. Ask the disinterested what they think of W. P. A. and usually you will get an enswer flattering to neither the ad- ministration nor its beneficiaries. Home relief is also severely criticized. And the relief activities of the Rural Resettlement Administration are the most unpopular of all. Expensive But Popular It seems to me that the public shows considerable discrimination in its judgment. And the differentiation that it makes indicates that it is not pri- marily the per capita cost of relief which is alienating the taxpayer. For the C. C. C. camps are one of the more expensive measures, reckoned at cost per recipient. Direct relief is much cheaper, and the average W. P. A. worker can be maintained for less than it takes to feed, house, clothe, and teach a member of the Civilian Conservation Corps. But the public feels that the C. C. C. fulfills certain conditions and accom- plishes certain purposes which are not met by any of the other agencies. In the first place the C. C. C. com- plies with a primary rule of any good | relief administration. It offers aid for a specific and limited length of time. iThe person admitted to a C. C. C. | camp is entitled to work and mainte- nance for six months. He knows when he enters that the aid is not to be con- | tinued indefinitely. He has not found | a sinecure, however humble, on which | he can count forever. It is true that has been extended, and it is also true thatein the last couple of months word has gotten around to most of the | camps that the boys can stay beyond | their allotted time. This may be be- cause the camps at present are not ably is, a political maneuver. But at any rate it is not in harmony with what has been the policy from the beginning, on which public confidence is based. Army Wins Confidence. The second reason is as important | as the first. The C. C. C. camps { have been organized and adminis- tered almost entirely by agencies in which the public has confidence. They have not been set up by emer- stitution, with a large majority of Re- | and Socialists | in special cases the six months' period | overcrowded, and it may be, and prob- | An inspector, for instance, must be a college graduate and possess real technical equipment. The Army did an admirable job of selection amongst the officers. It was a voluntary serv- ice, which meant that the self-se- lected men had a genuine interest in the task, understood its require- ments, and did not undertake the work with the resentment or hauteur which they might have felt had the work simply been assigned them. Working hand in hand with the For- estry Service, which has a fine repu- tation and enjoys much good will, and with the park boards, most of the C. C. C. activities have been confined to work which had local support, and which really needed to be done. With untrained youths and veterans, many of whom had never in their lives done any work of a similar nature, some of whom had never handled an axe, it was inevitable that much of the work should be badly done, but there is nothing in the form of the organization itself which makes bad and sloppy work almost certain. The C. C. C. boys do a fair day’s work. They are not, as in W. P. A, permitetd to earn a subsistence and then prorated per hour at trade union wages, with the result that they work sometimes for only two or three hours a day or three or four days a week. Work under such con- ditions must of necessity be demor- | alizing. | Chiselers Not Allowed. In the third place conditions im- posed have been such that the C. C. C. camps have not attracted many chis- elers. The young man who goes into one of the camps must submit to cer- ;mm social disciplines. They are by | no means rigorous; they are not, for instance, more rigorous than those that many expensive schools impose upon the children of the well-to-do. But they must keep regular hours, they must maintain a certain decency of behavior; all the circumstances contribute to produce an esprit de corps and all of them militate against the anti-social character. In the fourth place, and this is the most important of all, the human re- sults are vastly more heartening than from any other form of relief. In al- most every case the C. C. C. boy leaves | |his six months’ service in better | health, better trained, better adjusted, | and better able to get and keep a job | than when he went in. He has lived for six months in clean quarters. He has slept in clean and well-made beds. He has kept his bunk and his belong- | ings in shipshape order. He has been | unusually well fed—in most cases | better than ever before in his life | He weighs more. He has added to his | skills, particularly if he is a city boy, and he may have added to his learn- |ing. In this respect—in educational | facilities—the camps nced vast im- provement. But at least some move- [ment‘ some gesture, has been made in | this direction. Political Trend Resented. | And, finally, untll about eight| | months ago, the C. C. C. camps were | pretty genuinely outside of political { influences. Early last Winter, and for | the first time, inspectors were informed | | from Washington that all men who | | held even the most menial administra- | tive positions—anything above and| { including the rank of foreman—must | obtain the indorsement of their Con- | | gressman. It happened that I was| | visiting a C. C. C. camp when such an | |order came, and I can testify to the |dismay and resentment which it |caused. I know of one inspector who | had given months of devoted service who resigned for this reason alone. !His own appointments had been made out of the rank and file for merit and | merit alone, and that the jobs of these men should depend upon the signa- | tures of politicians whom they had | never seen, filled him with a holy rage. | | which was not in the least mitigated | | when it developed that the indorse- | {ment could be obtained by paying a i Congressman $50 for his good | This, by the way. is not a conjecture. | It happened. Given enough of this, gency bodies hastily constructed; they and the public will begin to feel about States Marshal Ralph Martin, showing have not sprawled into a thousand | the C. C. C. what they already feel | the intricacies of handcuffs to a young Richberg Sees Healthy Sign in Lewis Attempt to Organize the Steel Industry. BY WALTER T. BONNEY. GREAT BARRINGTON, Mass., July 14 (N.AN.A).—The drive of John L. Lewis, backed by the 12 “rebel” unions, to unionize the steel industry of the United States is a healthy manifestation that vital prob- lems are now being faced, Donald R. Richberg, co-author of the national indusirial recovery act, and at one time N. R. A. general counsel, declared here in an exclusive interview. He is staving at the estate of Thomas Blodgett in this tcwn, where he attends each year a “reunion” of a group of Knox College graduates. Mr. Richberg's attitude toward the latest attempt to unionize the steel industry, with all the attendant problems, is that it is a long-time effort, and must be viewed from that point. He did not look for any sudden developments in the situation, even going so far as to guess that real progress couid not be measured until late in the Autumn. Though Lewis and President William Green of the American Federation of Labor are often depicted as waging a bitter personal battle over the question of who shall lead organized labor in the United States, Mr. Richberg said he felt the issue was almost entirely one of “methods and ideas” The threatened suspension of the 12 “rebel” unions by the executive council of the A. F. of L., Mr. Rich- berg thought, was a temporizing action which might easily be re= versed when the annual meeting of the federation is held in the Fall. Just as iwong as the agencies involved in the various controversies guide their actions by “reason,” the present unionization attempt should result in some vital conclusions, Mr. Richberg said. He was of the opinion that the question involved in the present struggle had to be faced sooner or later and that immense good can come out of the situation, provided that the leadership on one of the severa; fronts does not lose its head. % %k First of all, Mr. Lewis’ drive to unionize the steel industry may decide whether or not the ccmpany unions now serving the industry are adequate, Mr. Richberg said He expressed complete disgust toward “fake company unions,” but held that some company unions might provide an adequate form of emplove representation. He cited the case of the Bethlehem Co. union, which, he said, had been opcrating for years. Calling upon his experience in the automobile industry case during the existence of the N. R. A, Mr. Richberg said that sometimes, when bal- loting was undertaken to decide if company or other unions were favored, it developed that the workers were not particularly interested in any type of unionization, and showed this disinterest by failing to vote. He characterized the steel industry as one in which workers were highly skilled, and achieved their skills only by long years of training. He also noted that competition between the various steel corporations was keen, and said thesc two factors might have built up “company loyalty,” which would thwart the Lewis efiort to unionize the industry. “Perhaps it will be found that the company unions are satis- Jactory to the workers,” he said. Mr. Richberg predicted that the Lewis drive for unionization would move slowly and that there would be no trouble, at least during the first stages of this effort. For months, at lezst, the unionization efforts will consist entirely of an attempt to build up membership in the Lewis union, he said, taking members from the company unions and the or- ganized plants. Although it s likely the steel corporations will use every peaceful means of blocking such attempts, Mr. Richberg felt there would be no open conflict. “It’s not .llegal to try to build up membership in a union, and there will be little opportunity to block such efforts,” he said. He seemed to feel that the greatest obstacles Mr. Lewis would face would be the apathy of the werkers toward joining his union, and their loyalty toward job and company which has been built up over a long,period of years. g S e Both craft and industrial unions have a place in the American scheme of life, Mr. Richberg believes. He said he felt it would be unwise to try to unionize all workers on either basis. Admitting that some of the craft unions undoubtedly have suffered membership losses in the building up of the industrial unions, he felt they should view this loss from the point of the greater good resulting to labor as a whole. Mr. Richberg declined to express any opinion over whether he thought the Green or Lewis forces would emerge victorious. Without saying so in as many words, however, he indicated he looks for a settling of differences within the ranks of the A. F. of L. before the annual mecting in the Fall. Concerning the possibility of formation of a lapor party within the next four years which would exert real influence in political affairs, Mr Richberg said the voice of labor had become increasingly important in politics during the last 20 years. He doubted if a labor party would arise. unless a situation should develop comparable to that in 1924, when various labor interests united to support Senator La Follette. Then, he said. labor had to do something to counteract the extreme conservatism manifest in both major parties. Until such time as this conservatism regains control of the major parties. or the major parties are dominated by a “class,” it would seem unwise to think of a labor party, he said, adding that a labor party, in the last analysis. is nothing more or less than a “class party.” (Copyright. 1936, by the North American Newspaper Alliance. Inc.) ested, efficient, honest, which adds to ‘Well Behaved Citizens. the dignity and the morale of the bene- ficiary instead of demoralizing him, ‘ and which produces tangible and |Superior Court hasn't had 2 crimin favorable social results. >f relief the sacrifices. 'will, in the long run, rebel | (Copyright. 1856.) Against any other sort it | @ felony since long before that. killing a tourist. Deputy in Trouble. resident was involved in the case. DALLAS, Tex. (#).—"You put them on like this,” explained Deputy Uniied | . Prison Guard Is Slain. For this sort | €2se since 1934, and none of the coun- public is prepared to make | t3's 20.000 residents has been tried for ‘The last big trial was in September, 11934, when four outsiders were con- victed of holding up a Cairo bank. Be- | fore that a hitch hiker was tried for endurance records, No Grady County J. Henry Smythe. and What They Do Professional Sloganeer Gives Aid Gratis to Republicans. BY LEMUEL F. PARTON. HENRY SMYTHE, Jr. tht slogan man who looks like President Roosevelt and bat ® tles for Gov. Landon, touches off quite a snappy little news item a1 he draws from James A. Farley a dis- avowal of the campaign rudeness ir which Mr. Smythe’s sun- £ flower was 4 snatched and de- 4 spoiled at Phila- delphia. He re- proaches Mr. Farley as unable “even to tolerate the sight of a ‘sunflower of the man of the hour."” That’s the slegan that goes with his 13- inch sunflower which he wears |on the street. | Mr. Smythe has. in his office ir Manhattan Towers. New York City, the only slogan factory in the world For public causes. like the war and the Republican campaign, in whicl he fervently believes, his slogans ar free, but his skyscraper office is & commercial plant in which he has ground out literally tens of thousand: of commercial slogans. He has com. pletely sloganized the 10 command: ments, An ardent Republican, he has been a great help at the party's national conventions. In 1932, for Herber! Hoover, he worked up this one: “He¢ kept us out of worse.” In the Smith- Hoover campaign in 1928 his contri- | bution was: 0 con-Tammany-atior | of the Nation.” These are typical of | his political slogans, which he starteo | minting in 1904, in the Roosevelt- | Parker campaign | In the World War, he kept up a | steady barrage of slogans against the | Germans: “Treat 'em rough, that's { the stuff. until the Huns cry enough;’ | “Do your bit to keep it lit.” “Lend te 1defend " “A bond is a prayer that you send over there,” and so on. Mr. Smythe was gradated from the | Wharton School of Economics ané | Pinance of the University of Pennsyl- ! vania and also studied law. but he | became the only professional sloganeer in America as his genius was dis« closed. In New York, he was the head | of a firm publishing children's books | His being President Roosevelt’s double | is just an accident, as are the pince- nez and Roosevelt panama, and he makes no effort to look like the Presi- dent. He is just now puttng on forced draft in his slogan factory, to £l cam- n orders. The latest samples in- ude such word capsules as “The Re- publican Landonslide” and “Franklin was a th , while Roosevelt is a spendthrifter His was the advertising slogan “Parents should be savers for their | little shavers.” 1 This department learned for the first | time today that the United States | Bureau of Air Commerce has an avia- CAIRO, Ga. (#).—Grady CoUnty's iy ghe js Mrs. Louise Thaden, who at Endless Caverns, Va., makes a new | speed record for women with a flight | of 109.58 miles per hour. She was a school teacher who de- cided to make aviation a business Paradoxically, she kept her feet on the ground, while breaking altitude anc learned all th box-office angles and now she has a self-made career—made incidentally in the seven lean years of the depres- sion. | At Bentonville, Ark.. she walked ou* Roosevelt. | Huebner, dean of the Wharton School May Change Office Type. | of Finance, Philadelphia, told insur- G ange U % { ance men here yesterday that a “ter- So, 1n selecting a Vice President Who | 1ife rise” in the cost of living is on KINGSTON, Ontario, July 14 ().— on her classes and took to the air Guard John McCormick died yester- | Two or three years later she was break- day of stab wounds inflicted Sautrday | ing records. In Oakland. Calif., sh~ by Chester Crossley, colored, who is demonstrated and sold planes and unrelated activities; they have been |about many of the other agencies. |woman visitor. “Then I put the other organized by the Army and the De- | But the moral is plain. The public | cuff on like this,” he said. snapping | partment of the Interior, and tied |does not resent relief. The public is it shut. “This makes it impossible not hard-hearted. The public is not | for the prisoner to escape.” | Lac, while others were rescued by, men who went to Hard Rrock from Geraldton aboard a train. Most of the s capable of team play with the President there are possibilities for good government. It may well hap- pen that Col. Knox will, if elected, | change the entire character of the vice presidency so that it will cease to be thought of in cynical vein by political folk or by the public gen- erally. The Throttlebottom version of the vice presidency recently given in a musical satire probably did more to impair the prestige of the vice presidential position than anything else. but, on the other hand, the travesty was only a reflection of the attitude of passive acquiescense which Vice Presidents, either for modesty or other reasons, had themselves adopted. My reason for thinking that Col. Knox, if elected, will bring to the vice presidency an interesting change is that he has the faculty of original ap- proach. This is illustrated by a story some of his former comrades in the war will tell about him when he was in command of an ammunition train. Not content to remain behind the lines and supervise the shipment of ammu- nition to the battle front, he per- suaded the regular line officers that it was better for him to command from the front lines, where he could judge the requirements of the Artillery regi- ments he was supplying. He made | his headquarters at the front and was thereafter given larger responsbility by reason of his aggressiveness than any other commander of ammunition trains in his area. The colonel is a vigorous cam- paigner, a fluent speaker and is likely to carry the brunt of much of the at- | tack in the present contest. His ac- tivities will be well worth watching in this campaign for, to all intents and purposes, it is really a Landon- Knox ticket, a two-man fight that will be waged this time. The two leaders are in frequent conference and thoroughly understand each other’s plans for the campaign. Out of this harmony of operation in the pre- election battle may come valuable co- operation in the event that Gov. Landon and Col. Knox are next January inaugurated as President and Vice President, respectively. (Copyright. 1936.) Tage We fumigate all furs before we place them in our moth-proot storage vault by a modern process. 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