Evening Star Newspaper, July 22, 1936, Page 9

MiddleCourse Is Available to Smith May Balk at Talking for Landon to Save Prestige in Party. BY DAVID LAWRENCE. EPUBLICAN Chairman Ham- ilton’s effort to change Al Smith’s® “walk” into a talk for Gov. Landon has raised the question here of what several Democrats of prominence may do in the present campaign. For purposes of party regularity, Democrats ~ who are opposed to the policies the New Deal do not wish to come out in support of any Republican nominee, but, at the same tire, they wo not wish their silence to be construed as even tacit sup- port for tne re- election c¢f Mr. Roosevelt. The reason why the Demo- erats wish to preserve their record is that a bolt from the party means, as a rule, an end to influence inside the party. If Gov. Smith, for instance, is ready to burn all bridges for the future and take himself out of the Democratic party, he might consider seriously announcing himself for the Republican nominee. There are other Democrats who feel that Mr. Roose- velt will not always be in command of the party and that, after the com- ing election, especially if he is ae- feated, the opportunity for tiose who stayed inside the party taaks will be greater than for those who are outside of it. No Place to Walk. In the case of the 1912 election, the bolting was of a different charac- ter. A progressive Republican move- ment was available to David Lawrence. ticket. Today there is no inde- pendent Democratic movement to which a man like Al Smith can turn. This is the essential weakness of the situation so far as many Demo- crats of the Jeffersonian type are con- cerned. Strictly speakine. Al Smith would be making a political mistake of the first order in coming out for Cov. Landon, but it may be taat he feels | his political career is finished ¢nd that the time has come to make his fight for principles, iirespective of | the effect it has on his own political fortunes. It may be tnat Al Smith 15 rea political combat City. Middle Course Open. There’s a middle course, and it may be that it will be adopted by the man | who was thrice Governor of New York of | those who | wanted to bolt the regular Republican | y to turn away from future in the Democratic party in New York State or New York THE EVENING Bilbo Fights Harrison Junior Senator Backs Conner, Former Governor, in Battle on Colleague. BY REX B. MAGEE, Special Correspondent of The Star. JACKSON, Miss., July 22 —Mississippi will go for Roosevelt and Garner by an overwhelming vote. The State has been Democratic for | President since 1872, the last year it voted Republican for Grant against Greeley. The Democrats are so strong in the State that it looks as if there will be no opposition for any of seven seats in the United States House of Representatives, and certainly no Republican candidate for the seat of United States Senator Pat Harrison. Harrison is having a party fight of his own to return to Washington. Mike Ccnner, recent Governor, is the chief opponent in the fleld against Harrison. Theodore G. Bilbo, junior Senator, who broke with Harrison a few months ago, has announced he will take the stump in behalf of Conner. Gov. Hugh White, for whom Bilbo took the stump last Summer, is | known to favor Senator Harrison | over Conner. White was once de- " = = feated for Governor by Conner. J. B. Snider, former Conner supporter and now Lieutenant Governor, is & | Harrison man. | Paul Johnson, defeated by White for Governor, and who once beat Bilbo for the United States House of Representatives, | is backing Conner. Johnson and Bilbo are reported hardly on | speaking terms with each other. Just what influence Bilbo's political speeches will have remain to be seen. Political observers differ on his ability to swing votes against Har- rison and to Conner. Some cite the fact that Bilbo spoke for White and helped elect him Governor. Other observers point out that several outstanding former Bilbo political leaders are openly espousing Harrison. Notable among these is Toxey Hall, Columbia, former district attorney, | who was looked upon with favor as a candidate against Harrison, and Homer Casteel, State railroad commissioner from the first district. New Hampshire to Hold Primaries September 15. BY J. J. McCARTHY, Special Correspondent of The Star. MANCHESTER, N. H., July 22—The State primaries will be held Tuesday, September 15, when the voters of both the Republican and | Democratic parties go to the polls to name their candidates to the con- | test for election in November. y Candidates for the governorship face the nominations with= out opposition. They are Maj. Francis P. Murphy of Nashua, Re- publican, and Amos N. Blandin of Bath, Democrat. Perhaps the outstanding contest of all is that for the R{pubhun | nomination for the United States Senate. Senator Henry W. Keyes, seeking renomination, will be opposed by former United States Senator George H. Moses, Who is attempting e a political comeback, and Gov. H. WORY HAVE A Styles Bridges. All three candidates N CHAKCE: are conducting quiet and dignified campaigns. Perhaps as the primary date approaches. there may be some fireworks On the Democratic side Represent~ ative William N. Rogers is seeking his party’s nomination. Although it is expected that John L. Sullivan of Manchester, the last Democratic candidate for Governor, whom Gov. Bridges defeated by a very small margin, will enter the lists, he has not yet done so. In the first congressional district there are four Manchester Demo- cratic candidates seeking to succeed Bill Rogers. They are County Solici- tor John J. Sheehan, Executive Councilor Alphonse Roy, Timothy F. O'Connor and Edward A. Lambert. Another candidate is Arthur A. Greene of Conway, who has the Townsend indorsement. The district has been strongly Democratic in recent years. i Among the Republicans in the first district, Secretary of | State Enoch D. Fuller of Manchester is an announced candidate ! jor the momination, with A. B. Jenks of Manchester expecting to make another try. He was defeated in 1934. Mayor Charles E. Carroll of Laconia ezpected to seek the Republican nomination jor Congress if he received the Townsend indorsement, but he Jailed to receive it. In the second congressional district Representative Charles W. Tobey | of Temple will have an opponent in Attorney John D. Warren of Nashua, as well as Thomas Yaite of Nashua, district organizer of Townsend clubs, who has received the indorsement of the Townsends. Dr. Daniel J. and in 1928 the standard bearer of | pagoerty of Nashua is seeking the Democratic nomination. the national ticket. He can refrain from announcing his support of Gov. Landon, he can criticize those por- tions of the Republican platform with which he disagrees, and he can at the same time repeat his previously ex- pressed views in opposition to New Deal policies. If Gov. Smith wishes to speak he ean talk under independent auspices | entirely apart from those of the Re- publican National Committee or the | John D. M. Hamilton, chairman of the Republican National Com- | mittee, came to New Hampshire and was tendered a reception at Concord, met members of the State Committee and conferred with party leaders. Chairman Hamilton found New Hampshire Republicans well organized, mainly because of Col. Knox's place on the national ticket. INUDIST QUEEN INVITES JERSEY GROUP TO ZORO | Noted Florist Dies. STAR, WASHINGTON, Henry’s Ideal of Liberty Is Issue Resentment of Glass at Speech Is More Than an Incident. BY MARK SULLIVAN. HE indignation of Democratic Senator Carter Glass of Vir- | ginie, which flamed up at the Patrick Henry celebration in Virginia a little while ago, is more than & minor incident of this cam- paign. It goes to the heart of this presidential election—both as respects the- principles in- volved and the question whether the New Deal can win. Senator Glass came to the Pat- rick Henry cele- bration only as a guest. He had not * expected to speak | —he follows a laudable practice | of confining his | speeches to few occasions. But there was present as a speaker Wil- liam C. Bullitt, Ambassador to Russia, one of the leading New Deal radicals. Apparently Bullitt made a new record in audacity by seeming to claim Pat- | rick Henry for the New Dealers. The | New Dealers have been quite busy claiming old-time Democratic and | other worthies for their cause. Par- | ticularly have they been vociferous and persistent in claiming Thomas | | Jefferson. Some among them have claimed Lincoln. I once heard Father Coughlin—before he turned against Mr. Rooseveltl—claim Christ for the New Deal. (It hasn't occurred to any of them yet to claim Machiavelli, the pied piper of Hamelin, or the Roman { emperor, Diocletian, though the latter, | especially, is their true prototype—it was under Diocletian that popular government was displaced by abso- lutism.) Mark Sullivan, Rescues Reputation. Apparently, when Senator Glass heard Patrick Henry pictured as a | New Dealer, the Virginia Senator felt | that to let that pass in silence would | be an intolerable stultification. He rose, he said, “to rescue the reputa- | tion of Patrick Henry.” He told that Virginia audience just what Patrick Henry stood for—which, as Senator Glass showed, was the oppasite of the New Deal. He said Patrick Henry did not like the Constitution in its original form, not for the reason the New Dealers don't like it but for an exactly opposite reason. Henry felt | the Constitution, as originally written, | ‘did not curb government enough.” Senator Glass said it was through | Henry's efforts that the first 10 | amendments to the Constitution were | added within two years of the docu- ment itself. And those 10 amendments | compose the bill of rights, tlull charter of individual rights and State | wants to destroy and must destroy if | il is to have its way. ‘ Senator Glass wished that Henry | | was alive now. “If I had his force | something in the Senate without | trouble of deciding these matters. ® * ¢ view that the judiciary should be the CORFU, N. Y., July 22 (7 —David | final arbiters of all disputed ques- | me death.” J. Scott, 56, nationally known florist | tions o " Senator Glass was able | | limitation of government.” | Americans has. D. C, This Patrick Henry-Carter Glass episode has several important aspects. One is the earnestness of Senator Glass' convictions and his exactness of mind and his scholarship. Another is the incongruity of Senator Glass as a Democrat being bound to the New Deal—against his convictions, and only by duress of party solidarity. Another is the possibility that the New Dealers, either by their party discipline or by their inanities, may push Senator Glass a little too far; if they do, he may repudiate *them and blow them out of the water in a way thal might have tangible effect on the election in Virginia and other Southern and border States. How long can the South fail to see what the duress upon Senator Glass does not succeed in concealing? How long can Southern editors and othzr leaders of thought fail to tell their people what Senator Glass knows, namely, that the New Deal has taken away from the Democratic party pre- cisely those principles and traditions which for 70 years caused the South to cling to that party? But to see this Patrick Henry epi- sode as merely an incident in & politi- cal campaign would be trivial. The issue which is before America today is, with extraordinary exactness, the identical issue in which Patrick Henry became an American hero. Centuries of Struggle. Henry was the last American leader in a controversy that begun with Magna Charta in the thirteenth cen- tury. The issue was the right of the individual to be secure against oppres- sion by government. It was a six-cen- turies-long struggle to get more and more liberty for the individual to take more and more power away from the king, away from the state, away from government. It was a struggle to es- tablish the principle that the individ- ual has certain rights which are in- alienable, which not even government can take from him. ‘That is the whole history of the de- velopment of constitutional govern- ment in Great Britain and America. | As Woodrow Wilson phrased it, “The history of liberty is & history of the As Mr. Bernard Shaw put it, “Almost all Brit- ish constitutional safeguards are safe- guards against being governed.” (Shaw, being a Socialist, says that as an accu- stion. I being not a Socialist, quote it as a tribute.) Struggle Revived. I have said that in this struggle Patrick Henry was the last American leader. He was the last because until now we supposed that he and his asso- ciates had won the fight and won it for all time. But today, after a cen- | tury and a half of serene confidence, we are to assent to a conception of government which takes much liberty | away from the individual and confers great powers upon the Government to compel the individual. After we had | come to think of the individual's rights as a comfortable heritage, coming to us by virtue of birth in America, as much to be taken for granted as the air we breathe—we now find that this freedom is a thing we must again | struggle for. This is the real “rendezvous with destiny” which this generation of (I quote the phrase from Mr. Roosevelt’s acceptance speech, but it doesn't mean what he implied it does.) To surrender liberty, or to resume the struggle for it—that | rights, much of which the New Deal |15 the choice which fate lays before | this generation of Americans. I use the word “liberty” as Patrick Henry used it. Every American knows what it means. Liberty means immu- | of speech we might have accomplished | Nity from compulsion by government. | What Patrick Henry said was “Give | putting the Supreme Court to the | me liberty, or give me death.” He did | not say “Give me economic security or Patrick Henry religiously held to the | 8ive me death.” He did not say “Give | me 12 cents a pound for cotton or give He did not say “Dictate to me how much potatoes I can plant to quote off-hand Thomas Jefferson’s | OF give me death.” He did not say WEDNESDAY, JULY | 29 1936. No Mutiny on Pitcairn Missionary Sent There Finds None to Convert Among the Descendants of the Bounty’s Crew. Special Disnatch to The Star, ROCKPORT, Tex., July 22.—Taking the gospel to the people of Pitcairn Island, far down in the South Seas, is akin to “carrying coals to Newcastle,” it would seem, judging from the historic accounts of the descendants of the mutinous crew of the British warship, Bounty, who inhabit that dot of land. Notwithstanding that all of the mixed British and Tahitian colonists of the island and their forbears have been devout Christians for more than 125 years, Rev. Richard B. Fairclough of Texas was sent to Pitcalrn as a missionary. ‘With no one to convert to Christian- ity, this clergyman has found ample time to enjoy himself by participating 1in the daily happy life of the people. This fact is indicated in a letter which Rev. Paul Reese of Rockport recently received from Mr. Fairclough. “On Christmas day we held our annual election of officers for the government for 1936, he wrote. “Richard Edgar Christian is magis- trate; he is the grandson of Fletcher Christian, leader of the mutineers of the Bounty. “On New Year day we had a tree with presents on it for all on the public square, boat races and a con- cert. One of the islanders dressed up as Santa Claus. Several cricket matches were played during the Summer. They played about 30 men on each team. Play commenced at 8:30 am. and continued until about 5:30 p.m., with only a short interval for lunch. “A small trading cutter came here from the French Island of Manajaruva, 300 miles away. She brought coconuts, which were sold to our people at 6 shillings per 100 coconuts. Our people were glad to get them, as we have not enough coconut trees on Pitcairn. They do not grow too well here as Pitcairn stands too high above the sea. The coconut trees do best about sea level in a mixture of sand and rotted sea weed. L “The owner of the cutter asked our men to build him a small boat, 12 feet long, 5-foot beam, and he would give them 5,000 coconuts for it Our men are building the boat. “On January 23 we held a concert in commemoration of the anniversary of the Bounty's arrival at Pitcairn in the year 1790. We intended having the concert in the evening, but a wireless mes- sage was received that a passenger ship bound for New Zealand would call about 4 p.m., so the concert was held in the forenoon. I had been asked to give an account of the Bounty, her crew and the work she was commissioned to do. So I gave an account of her being built at Hull, England, in 1784, to her being burned at Pitcairn in 1790. “When we went out to the ship in the afternoon we were told of King George V's death, and that his son was King Edward VIII. A few days later they held a memorial service for King George V. I was asked to write an account of kings and queens of England. I wrote an account from King Henry VIII to Edward VIII, our present King, making reference to some of the principal things occurring in the reigns. I was asked to write to the King a letter expressing our sympathy in their bereavement, also to express our loyalty to him as our king and protector. I wrote it, but left it for the magistrate to sign. They may have got it typewritten before sending. It may not go direct, but may be sent through by the British high commission of the West Pacific at Suva, Fiji, who we came under. * ¥ ¥ x “When I was a boy, boats and ships were my favorite toys. T am still touched that way yet, always interested in anything about ships and the sea. During this last Summer I have made three models of the Bounty; they are for presents to officers on passing ships. Two of them should have been delivered to the 8. S. Rotoma last December, but that ship never called. She is ex- pected at the end of this month. I gave a smaller model of the Bounty to one of our captains of boats. He wants it for the S, S. Matawa, due this week end. It took me nearly 5 weeks to make it. It is very tedious work.” Pitcairn Island is isolated and mountainous, lying about 100 miles to the southeast of the Gambier group. It has a fine climate and a fertile volcanic soil. It is situated about 25 degrees south of the Equator. and the climate is perfect. There are no extremes of temperatures. The island appears like several peaks or a range of mountains standing up out of the sea. The highest point is about 1000 feet above sea level. and the coast- line is very rugged and precipitous. The island is about 6 miles long and 3 across in the widest part. The village, called Adamstown, is situated on the north side. The sweet potato and taro are the principal crops There are also yams, tapioca and arrowroot. Pumpkins, watermelons and rock melons grow to perfection, and the French bean and cow-pea do well. There are nine different kinds of bananas, and some of the finest oranges that the world can produce, as well as pineapples, passion fruit, custard apples, snow fruit, mango, alligator pears and breadfruit. The island is of historic interest as the oldest British colony in the ‘ Headline Folk { and What | They Do | | Schenck, Ostrer Bros. | | Among Those Famous in Business. BY ROBERT STRUNSKY. HE list of brothers in business is interminable, going back to Biblical times and carrying | through to the present day. | There have been some famous combi- | nations, ranging from Castor and | Pollux down through the ages to the Rothschilds, the Brothers Karamozov, the Smith Broth- ers, and, in our own parlous days, the Van Swerin- gens, and this isn't even scratch- ing the surface. Industry is full of them, most of : them working in harmony together, a few selling their birthrights for a mess of pottage. Thus it is not strange that the motion picture industry should have them here and abroad But what happens less frequently is that two pairs of brothers stretch hands across the sea and join forces. as in the case of the recent stock merger of the Gaumont-British Film Corp. and Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer. Con- cretely, M.-G.-M., headed by Joseph Schenck, has acquired half the voting stock held by Twentieth Century-Fox headed by Nicholas Schenck, in G.-B hcaded by the Ostrer brothers, Mark and Isidore. The two British brothers still con- | trol 51 per cent of the stock in the British Film Corp. The two Ameri- can brothers control 49 per cent. News lays once and for all the ghost that G.-B. was to be taken over en- tirely by the American film industry. The background of the Ostrer brothers differs substantially from that of the Schencks. The Ostrers have been private bankers in Eng- land for several generations, former me s of the London Stock Ex- change, partners in Ostrer Bros., merchant bankers, and sons of Na- than Ostrer. Among his varied in- terests Isidore counts not least the Sunday Referee. selling for tuppence and “beloved of the spgrting and | dramatic world of London.” His stature as ah economist is considera- ble. He is the author of Ostrer's “Law of Interest” and Ostrer’s “Com- modity Gold Standard.” The Schencks came from Russia and somehow managed to acquire the Palisades Park Amusement Corp., across the Hudson River from New York, without much delay. They built the first scenic railway and then met Marcus Loew and his theatrical enter= prises. Nicholas now is said to hold the largest number of directorates in the country, 109. The consolidation of the two companies simply mean: | better distribution of English and American films in both countries, as well as a further link in the growing chain of good will (Copyright 1936.) 3 Joseoh Schenck. Name for Chinese Rebellion History knows the Chinese year of fury, the year 1900, as the period of the Boxer Rebellion, but the Chinese belonging to the society which brought i and developer of the Holland tulip | southern hemisphere after Sydney and Norfolk Island. The mutineers of tribute to Henry: “At the altar of | “Fix the price I can charge for press- American Liberty League. Last Winter his speech before the league was a forceful exposition of his views, and yet, because it was de- livered at a Liberty League banquet, it did not have as wide an influence as it would have had if the auspices had been different. 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