Evening Star Newspaper, September 15, 1936, Page 11

Votefor White Is Minimum for Landon Brann’s Following Held Not Necessarily Pro-New Deal. | Today's dispatch covers some aspects of the voting places in Maine, the fifteenth State to be | visited by David Lawrence in his tour of 40 of the 48 States. To- morrow’s dispatch will analyze the *| complete returns in Maine. BY DAVID LAWRENCE. ANGOR, Me,, September 15— An old woman, close to 90 years old, hobbled into the voting booth, assisted by her daughter, 70. They voted the straight Republican ticket and didn’t care who around the voting booth knew it. And in a Democratic district, I talked with one of the New Deal < Workers who said he was getting people out to vote who hadn't been seen on the streets of the city in months. This get-out- the-vote move- ment is well under way. It showed itself in § &n increased vote # in the Maine election in both parties. I visited several of the § voting places in and around . Bangor. The bal- loting was orderly and accomplished with matter-of-fact smoothness. The presence of women makes a differ- ence in these polling quarters. They furnish the respectability and fair- ness and sobriety that wasn't always present years ago in the cities, large snd small. I couldn't help thinking as I watched voter after voter enter the polling ‘booth, what a thrill of satis- faction it must be to have a voice tn the affairs of one's country. The writer unfortunately has no vote, | being a resident of the District of » Columbia, which for many years has been disenfranchised by Congress. Maine Unafraid. Over in Europe, where the voting In certain countries is done under coercion, and where there is no free press, there can be no such thrill today as the voter can experience in free America. The question of whether America shall remain free happens to be an issue in this campaign among those <people who think a change in the form of government will follow & New Deal victory. But so far as Maine is concerned, I oould find little evidence of this fear as yet, unless it was manifest in the intense way in which the Republicans worked throughout the State to make a showing for the Nation. With all due deference to the opinions held outside of Maine by political experts, political leaders and candidates, the people here didn't Tealize there was a New Deal or a anti-New Deal slant to their Septem- ber election till Gov. Landon came. Had the Maine voters been left to their own devices without all the hullabaloo about the theory that “as Maine goes, s0 goes the Nation,” they would have split their tickets more than they did. This is because Gov. Brann, Democratic nominee for the United States Senate, is personally popular and there are thousands of Republicans who voted for Brann in yesterday’'s election who will vote for Gov. Landon in November. Brann Aimed Between Parties. Conversely, the vote for Senator White, Republican nominee, is the minimum Landon vote, to which must be added many of the Brann votes. Bome indication of this situation was given by Brann himself, for he evaded the New Deal issue and tried to capture Republican votes by lettinz it be known informally that he was not fundamentally in sympathy with David Lawrence. » « the New Deal. So a vote for Brann was not a vot2 for Mr. Roosevelt, though & vote for ‘White was undoubtedly a vote for Landon. This impression is con- firmed in different parts of the State. Why, then, did Gov. Landon rush Into Maine at the last moment? Well, it the truth be told, some of the Re- publicans in this section thought it .was a mistake. They figured he could not at a late date in the campaign change votes, and yet he ran a risk in going into the State because Gov. - Brann is personally popular. Strategists Accepted Chance. ‘This is but another way of saying that the Republicans hereabouts were prepared for a close race between Brann and White, even though they felt sure of their ability to sweep the | State for Governor this week and for Landon in November. Undoubtedly the Landon strategists teasoned that Landon’s visit to Maine might clarify the issue in so far as the New Deal is concerned and per- suade Republicans who had intended —_— i * BUY IT FROM ROSS * 13-Piece Hostess 50c A WEEK - Combination Sandwich Grill, Toaster, and Waffle Iron with heavy chromium plated bake- lite handles. Beautiful walnut tray with § relish dishes, cut- ting board, and stainless blade knife. Diamonds—Watches THE EVENING STAR, WASHINGTON, D. C, TUESDAY, SEPTEMBER 15, 1936. News Behind the News State Department Tells of Selling Maine Potatoes Two Days Before State Voted. * BY PAUL MALLON. EVER before have national pglitical organizations gone in behind & N State elsction with strategy and money to the extent they did in Maine. Published expenditures represented only s part of the money sent into the State by both sides. Most of it will be totaled later by senatorial campaign investigators, but some of it may be hard to find. At any rate, both sides spent as much as they thought they could; both schemed and ran the State campaigns to an extent never attempted before, The air of nonchalance assumed around Democratic headquarters covered ceaseless energetic activities in which even Government bureaus were pressed into last-minute service for the cause. (Chairman Farley was supposed to have had some trouble co-operat- ing with his unfriendly senatorial candidate, but this was more apparent than real.) Actually, both sides shot the works in the Pine Tree State. To give you an idea how well Mr. Farley worked: The State Department here is not supposed to play politics, at least not on a ward basis. It deals with international affairs, waich are supposed to be conducted on a somewhat higher plane than even State elections. Also, high- minded State Secretary Hull has never been particularly clubby with the Farleyites. However, on Saturday, two days before the Maine election, the State Department stage-whispered to the press that it had sold Ar- gentina 20,000 barrels of Maine potatoes. They were to be used as a seed crop for Argentine potato growers, who have suffered a severe drought. While Hull is not supposed to be running a grocery store, in this instance he appeared as salesman to the Argentine agents who came here to study different types of potatoes, letting the news slip out just prior to the voting. What he did not let slip, unofficially or otherwise, is that the Argen- tines are also buying Canadian potatoes in like amount. * ok K K If you could administer some truth serum to the right persons, you could find out that President Roosevelt plans a long December sea voyage, Win, lose or draw. Naval admirals in the crows nest are supposed long to have had orders for preparations, in which that sabotaged cruiser, Indianapolis, played a part. Deck swabbers have heard the Indianapolis was to accom- pany Mr. Roosevelt, probably on a visit to South America to open the big Pan-American Conference. He was to ride another cruiser, but the Indianapolis was to go along. The suggestion will undoubtedly be denied now, and it may not de- velop. It would be extremely difficult for him to get away for such a long trip, unless he wins, and, even so, he cannot plan definitely this far ahead. However, keep the idea in your date book for post-election re- membrance. SHOOT THE WORKS / * ok K X The Navy is passing around the intimation that “Reds” were responsible for the Indianapolis sabotage, merely to cover up a very thorough inside investigation. Few investigating authorities believe they have a political agitator to deal with. Their hopes of catching any one at all are not very high, but the composite mental picture they have of the maniac is that of a pyro, rather than a Russo. The possibility that it may be a seaman is not impressive. The electric power cable aboard the Indianapolis was punched with phonograph needles and nails while civilian workmen were overhauling the ship. The dis- astrous fire aboard the Colorado in Panama in 1930 occurred from the same cause after the ship had been overhauled at the same navy yard in New York. Lofty State Departmentalists, who are not supposed to know an election is coming on, have been issuing long lists of data purporting to show that farmers and agri- cultural areas were the principal beneficiaries of the reciprocal trade treaties. Recently they worked up a complete series of announcements, showing, State by State, how the agricultural prod- ucts of each State had benefited from these treaties. No politics, of course. Top naval authorities do not believe communism has made any serious inroads among the enlisted personnel. * ok K % The New Deal lowdown on the Michigan primary was that Sen- ator Couzens could not pull through, and knew it when he issued his statement supporting Mr. Roosevelt. The entry of Frank Murphy into the Demoeratic gubernatorial situation in Michigan was promoted, at least partly, by a man who wanted his job as Philippine high commissioner. The promoter did not get it, ‘but may if Murphy wins. (Copyright, 1936.) 'HE opinions of the writers on this page are their own, not necessarily The Star’s. Such opinions are presented in The Star’s effort to give all sides of questions of interest to its readers, although such opinions may be contradictory among themselves and directly opposed to The Star’s. to vote for Brann to switcH to White. It was to drive Republican votes MAHARAJAH BAGS ELK away from Brann in the hope of South Facing Old Problem Revival New Deal Policy Has Raised Question of Negro Vote Again. BY MARK SULLIVAN. \HE Baltimore Sun’s declaration l against Mr. Roosevelt must cause an increase of troubled thinking throughout the South, Much of the press all through the South takes its tone from the “Sun- paper,” long an exponent of sound Democratic thought. All over the South, editors and other leaders of thought—judges, lawyers, other professional men and business men—have been increasingly dis- turbed by what the New Deal has done to the Dem- ocratic party. So far, however, : most of them have been held loyal by the power of tradition. Yet § they realize that nearly everything giving realty to that tradition has disappeared. The South has been Democratic be- cause Democracy was the party of States' rights, but now the New Deal is making a direct attack on States’ rights. The South has cherished for a century the rule in Democratic Na- tional Conventions, which gives to one-third the power of preventing a presidential nomination, and -hence gives the “Solid South” that power. But in the recent Democratic Conven- tion in Philadelphia the New Dealers repealed that rule. The South has been Democratic because the Demo- cratic party discouraged Negro voting, while the Republicans encouraged it. Yet the South now sees the Demo- cratic national ,organization ener- getically encouraging the Northern Negroes to vote and urging them to vote Democratic. 0Old Problem Revived. ‘With the Democratic national or- ganization committed to recognition of Negro voting and office-holding, the South faces what it must feel to be a serious situation. The South must ask how it is to preserve its local attitude of discouraging Negro voting. The Re- publicans have always held that the colored people should vote. If now 2 Mark Sullivan. widening the margin that the Re- publican high command evidently de- cided to take the chance. For they doubtless believed that if the margin in the senatorial race were narrow it would be misconstrued as a sign of Republican weakness nationally, irre- spective of the vote given the Repub- lican nominee for Governor. (Copyright, 1936,) WINANT TO SPEAK To Tell Press Club of Security Act Progress. John G. Winant, chairman of the Social Security Board, will address members and guests of the National Press Club at a luncheon meeting to- morrow. Progress of the board in ad- ministering the social security act and plans for future administration will be outlined. The luncheon is to be | served at 12:30 o’clock. Complete with case $3 750 Hunting Trophy Shot on Colorado Preserve. COLORADO SPRINGS, Colo., Sep- tember 15 (#).—The Maharajah of Indore, traveling through Colorado’s Rocky Mountains as Sir Yeshwant Rao Holkar, has an elk head to add to his collection of trophies of the Cchase. ‘The Maharajah Sunday shot and killed a big bull on a private preserve near here. He said the head would be mounted and sent to his home in India. the Democrats as a national organiza- tion take the same position, how is the South to resist? If in Congress VIRGINIA U. LIBRARY WORK STARTS SOON $427,909 Grant From P. W. A.| Approved by President for New Building. With the aid of a $427,909 Federal grant from the Public Works Admin- istration, the University of Virginia is about to start construction on one of the finest university library build- ings in the South. Its total construc- tion cost was estimated at $950,909. The funds from P. W. A. come from allotments approved Saturday by President Roosevelt providing $17, 140,000 for 124 néw projects. All these allotments come from the new $300,- 000,000 revolving program of the P. W. A The library building will be com- pletely equipped. It will contain a memorial hall, besides 28 faculty studies, work rooms for the repair of /bindings and the usual reading rooms, offices and seminar rooms. A single allotment of $97268 was made to the Board of Education of Anne Arundel County, Md., to defray 45 per cent of the cost of a $215,000 school program. 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STouss 1317 F st there is introduced a measure to guarantee colored suffrage in the South, upon whom will the South rely to prevent enactment? The South, in short, is brought face to face with & situation which harassed it for 50 years following the Civil War. In the early decades following the Civil War the Republicans and others Who spoke for the freed slaves pro- posed force as a guarantee of the €ol- ored man’s right to vote in the South. Repeatedly there were introduced in Congress measures providing for Fed- eral troops at the Southern. polls. In time, the very harshness of that pro- posal led to its disappearance. The last important “force bill” in Con- gress was introduced during the early 1890s by Henry Cabot Lodge, then a young member of the House. For that action the Democrats remembered Senator Lodge, with bitterness, until his death. Later proposals took the form of reducing the South's representation in Congress. In effect these measures sald to the South: “Very well, il you won't let the Negroes vote then we will reduce your representation in Congress to fit the number of your voters.” As it is, representation in the lower houses of Congress is based on total population. On that basis, South Carolina has six members of the House. With representation in Con- gress goes power in the election of President, and South Carolina has eight members of the Electoral Col- lege—one for each member of the House and one for each Senator. Yet South Carolina's total vote in 1932 was 104,325. A small Northern State, Vermont, cast more votes, 135,~ 250 in 1932, And Vermont has only one Representative in the Lower House and three votes in the Electoral College for naming Presidents. In recent years, neither “force bills” nor proposals to reduce Southern rep- resentation has appeared seriousiy in Congress. By a kind of common con- sent the matter of colored voting in the South has been permitted to rest. ‘There has been tacit assent to the theory that it is a local question which should be determined locally. ‘The commotion arising out of the new policy of the Democratic national organization about Negro voting in the North is likely to cause spokesmen of the colored folks to revive pro- posals which have long been quiescent. It is likely to be proposed either that the Democrats in the South shall per- mit colored voting, with Democrats in the North encouraging it, or else that the representation of the South in Congress and the Electoral College be reduced in proportion to the number of persons who vote in the South. The Northern Democrats can now hardly decline to support the proposal if spokesmen of the colored people request it as a reward for voting Dem- ocratic in the present and presidential elections. ‘We have here one more of the deep upheavals the New Deal has brought about. (Copyright, 1036.) new schools will be constructed at Severna Park, Mayo, Cedar Hill, Bay- ard, Sappington and Galesville. The Cedar Hill school will consist of two rooms, the others being one room. STUDENT WHO ENLISTED FOR WAR IS HONORED Heroism of Maxwell L. Johnston, Now 38, Is Rewarded by Purple Heart Award. Belated American recognition of his heroism on the battlefield during the World War came today for Maxwell L. Johnston, 38, 1435 Chapin street, contract bridge lecturer, when the War Department announced he had been decorated with the Purple Heart. In 1917, when he was a Central High School boy, Johnston enlisted for service in France. A year later he had been hit four times, gassed three Dance Thursday Night to Be First times and had received several cita- tions for the Croix de Guerre. Adjusting and Regulating (as many as necessary). One adjusting of Escapment Wheel. (3) One Replacement of a New Crown (4) One Replacement of a New Main i (5) One I&"I:c‘e:mnt of a New Jewel m @ ~ We, the People - = ¥ An Open Letter to Mr. Lippmann BY JAY FRANKLIN. EAR WALTER: If I have sunk my teeth into your column now and-then it is merely because it has more meat on it than the editorial spindle-shanks of other commentators, and, also, because I feel that you are prepared to nrgue your points rather than make zel;e h:cl.:dy assertions or preach typewriter sermons to people who can’t The reasons which you advanced for your recent decision to vote for Landon, do, however, contain assertions which are contrary to the facts as I have observed them and which cannot bear the weight of the logic with which you usually support your views. In the first place, you make the point that since the Republicans have developed no deep or decisive issue against the New Deal, it will make little difference which party is elected. * x ¥ X ‘This is, I think, not up to your normal style of reason. Surely the party which has developed and applied a group of policies is more to be trusted to continue those policies than the party which suddenly accepts them in a campaign year, in the hope of getting into office. You have had 15 years in which to study the dismal results of letting the Old Gang slip into power on a “back to mormalcy” issue. The arguments which you advance for concluding that Landon, who you admit lacks leadership, will be compelled to establish @ “gov- ernment of national union” are strikingly similar to those advanced in 1920. * x % % In the second place, you make the charge that Roosevelt'’s Govern- ment has been too personal, that he did not call on the “leaders” in in- dustry and finance to assist him, and that he relied on the “For Roosevelt Before Chicago” group to the exclusion of the conservative Democrats. For Heaven's sake! Walter, where have you been during the last four rears? : Roosevelt accepted the air-tight money and economy planks which these “leaders” inserted in the 1932 Democratic platform, followed their advice during the campaign, only to run head-on into a situation on March 4, 1933, which rendered these planks ridiculous and inappropriate. * % ox x Even then he did not lose confidence in them and called on them freely to help him with the banking act of 1933, the N. R. A. and other emergency measures. Two things then happened, you remember. It proved rather hard to find these natural-born leaders. Instead of the men who do the real work and make the real decisions, he got a lot of manipu- lators, front office men, and high-toned hand shakers. The N. R. A. codes developed into a disgraceful scramble by the old line fixers and lobbyists to run their competitors out of business. It wasn't until late in 1934, that N. R. A. began to weed out these light fingered gentry and get down to brass tacks, and by then the damage had been done. * x ¥ x Moreover, your “leaders” of busines ran out on the New Deal as soon as it began to make sense. Tugwell was attacked as a “Communist” early in 1938, when he tried to get congressional action on the food and drugs bill prepared by the regluar officials of the Department of Agriculture. Dr. Wirt was virtually charging him with plotting a Soviet revolution by the end of the year. When Hugh Johnson bumped up against the hard guys of the steel industry in the Summer of that year, the Government’s re- covery program was stopped in its tracks. And when some of Mr. Roosevelt's conservative Democratic advisers discovered that N. R. A. might create an A. F. of L. that had real membership, they quietly bored a hole in the bottom of the boat and stepped ashore. 5 £k & % Since then, most of your “leaders” have been openly or secretly at- tacking the policies of the New Deal and the Morgan enterprises have been conspicuous for their legal efforts to block the Roosevelt reforms. Do you really thing it so strange that F. D. R. doesn’t call up Tom Lamont every other day or rub elbows with John W. Davis? As for that “F. R. B. C.” stuff, any responsible “leader’—yourself included—could have walked in the front door and asked to be allowed to help. Those who did were given responsible jobs and a chance to work for the country. But the others didn't even try, Walter, they didn't every try. And now they are for Landon and the old “Let George do it!” idea which has made our “best people” conspicuous throughout the world for their lack of civic responsibility and political sense. (Copyright, 1936.) BUCHANAN CENTER CLUB | Xl be fumisbed by the Trojan Or- MAPS SEASON'S PLANS |, Te center will be open throush- out the season on Tuesday, Thursday and Saturday nights, featuring a va- riety of activities for young people, including dancing, games, music and drama. Saturday nights will be de- voted largely to games under leader- ship of E. D. Sallenger. Mrs. H. C. Olson is in charge of the center. A LOT OF H in Series of Year's Activities. ‘The Recreation Club of Buchanan Center, Thirteenth and D streets southeast, will begin its season’s activ- | ities Thursday with a dance from 8:30 | to 11:30 p.m., the Community Center | Department announced today. 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