Evening Star Newspaper, September 24, 1936, Page 11

South Dakota Relief Votes May Rule State Leans Hard to Roosevelt — Repub- licans Lack Funds. Today's dispatch deals with the political situation in South Dakota, the twenty-first State to be visited by David Lawrence in his tour of the 40 States which are factors in the National campaign. BY DAVID LAWRENCE. IOUX FALLS, 8. Dak., September 24—This State is fighting ground for both parties. Out of a total of 290,000 votes, the de- eision will be made by about 15,000 voters. The best information obtainable from' Democratic sources is that the State will be carried by President Roosevelt with somewhere between 25,000 and 35,000 majority. Conversely, the Republican esti- mates of victory do not go beyond 20,000 majority. § Somewhere be- tween these two rather conserva- &8 tive appraisals is 3§ 8 small, but im- portant balance- of-power group. ay be the vote, which the Democratic leaders frankly insist is for Roosevelt. There are about 50,000 families on relief and something around $50.000.-{ 000 has been spent on direct relief, | though the total spent in the State by | Federal agencies is in the neighbor- | hood of $290,000,000 in the last three years, David Laurence 100,000 Relief Votes, If we figure two voters to a family there are 100,000 votes involved in the | relief vote. But some of this must have been Democratic before, poulbly} 60 per cent, since that was the ratio of Democratic to Republican in the]| State in previous elections. So, if 40,- | 000 Republicans are now on relief, and ¥ if it is true, as Dr. Gallup claims in his poll, that 80 per cent of the relief vote will be for Roosevelt, then 80 per cent of the 40,000 would mean 32,000 | added from relief sources to the nor- mal Democratic vote. It would be| enough to swing the State to Roosevelt, | provided there were no corresponding | defections from Roosevelt to Landon | among the seif-supporting citizens. In the last election Mr. Roosevelt | won by about 83.000, so it is obvious that both Republicans and Democrats ®are expecting a greatly reduced vote for Mr. Roosevelt. Just why the relief vote should di- vide this year any differently from any other group of voters is not diffi- | eult to understand if there is to be | active campaigning among tre relief | workers and if they are to be advised that the money being tendered them | came out of Democratic pocketbooks only. As s matter of fact, relief money «omes out of the Federal Treasury, and ® 3§f it were possible to get the political affiliations of the income taxpayers of this country, it might be found that there "are more Republicans than Democrats among them. Certainly it would be discovered that the “economic royalists” pay fat sums into the Federal Treasury, and most of these “economic royalists” are supposed to be Republicans. So the income tax receipts which are being used for relief eome out of Republican pocketbooks as much if not more than out of Democratic, and, strictly speak- 4ng, the relief workers might be thank- ful to both, if voting is to be based on gratitude. I found Sioux Falls a busy little eity. It taps & rich area, and this Bioux Valley doesn’t look as if it had been touched by drought conditions at all. Indeed, it is very unfortunate that Eastern people have been given by the New Dealers the idea that this 1= wholly & land of distress, for it isn't, except in certain stretches in the mid- e part of the State. Business Brisk. . The vast amount of Federal money poured into the State has produced | & sort of prosperity which reflects itself in increased bank clearings and greatly increased postal receipts. | BSome of the business men in the re- tail side are looking at the bulging eash drawers and feeling inclined to support Mr. Roosevelt. This I have found also in other Western States “where there has been & good deal of Pederal spending. Next March, how- ever, when some of the same busi- ness men are going to be making out * fneome returns on the new surplus corporation tax, they will not be so happy about the share they will be permitted to retain. The Democratic organization here- abouts is well knit and harmonious, and if it succeeds in getting its vote to the polls its chances of carrying the State are better than even. The Republican organization has plenty of enthusiasm but very little, if any, money to compete with the Federal office holder organization and the lief vote. The Republicans have an tside chance of carrying South Da- kota if they can get the funds for the THE EVENING- STAR, WASHINGTO News Behind the News Practical World Peace Plans Sought in Vain—Pan. - ‘American Alliance Constructive Step. BY PAUL MALLON. . HE unnounced situation behind all this current peace and war talking is that no one can think of a single practical thing to do about it. A curious investigator asked 15 persons in high official life, in the diplomatic game and in the professional peace movement. for " solid suggestions of steps to be taken to establish world peace. The ane _swers totaled 8,000 words, but could have been told in one. Officially, the Government looks to the forthcoming Pan-American Alliance as a step in thé right direction, but unofficially it must be con- ceded it will have little effect upon the European or Far Eastern war threats, Otherwise, there are no ideas sprouting in the official mind. No hope of & disarmament conference. No pos- sibility of world economic or finan- NC};-%F—T';‘N cial stabilization. No treaties. No e alliances. Unofficially, there is a suggestion that, if the use of sanctions could have been promoted, something could have been done, but every- body knows this country would never seriously undertake sanc- tions, which might as readily lead to war as peace. Likewise, the pos- sibility that an Anglo-American Alliance might make the world behave is agreed to be an impossibility from a domestic political standpoint. There, ideas end. The issue is held in midair by the irresistible forces of con=- flicting world situations, and no one has anything more than a 2-foot stepladder. The only workable resistance contemplated or discussed is negative—extension of Army and Navy for defense, munitions bans, no foreign loans, individual trade treaties, etc. Just why the Communists chose to support President Roosevelt is & question which has not only been annoying New Dealers, but some Com- _munists as well. Many a red-eye¢ has walked otit on _his party because of the change in line. % L They have a candidate of their own. Mr. Roosevelt has renounced their support. The whole thing adds up to unsatisfactory answers. A likely monm-political erplanation is offered by the Socialist candidate, Norman Thomas. He notes that the red change of line was announced shortly after the Communist leader, Earl Browder, returned from Russia. He suspects the decision is therefore a result of Russian foreign policy rather thanm domestic politics. ‘What Russia fears most right now is war with Japan or Germany. They consider it inevitable. The progress of American communism would be a minor consideration if Russian communism, or what is left of it, faces Japanese and Russian bayonets. The reds need allies, and apparently are playing Mr. Roosevelt for a sucker, x X k% A boiling series, of personal and personnel situations exists within the Commerce Department, and there seems to be some question whether the lid can be kept on until election. A reorganization of two or more pureaus in that department is considered inevitable. Certain Senators are aroused because no shake-up has developed in the air division, and also because Mr. Roosevelt delayed appointment of the maritime commission, with trouble developing again on the Pacific waterfront. The Communists may have a lot to learn about American politics, but they have already found out how to comply with the Campaign Expenditures Act, without felling whence their money comes. Their last accounting showed re- ceipts of $7,000, of which $5,000 was a loan from the Central Committ of the party. The givers of the $5.000 thus were not identified. Th Anti-Saloon League used the same device, keeping its organization and its Campaign Committee separate. Incidentally, the Communists say they are going to spend a quarter of a million of capitalistic dollars in their campaign, but do not say where that is coming from either. v et e The State Department can prove it did everything possible for im- prisoned Lawrence Simpson in Germany, but its activities would have been more effective if there were not an inner suspicion that he is not entirely guiltiess, or if he were not a Communist, . e . Lost soul of the campaign is Democratic Senator Copeland. He has not been asked to say anything and won't be. His description of him- intensive organisation work they have ahead of them. Meanwhile, if I had to predict on the basis of today's status, I would not put this down as et a3 & Landon State but as one in which the Roosevelt forces have the edge. (Coprright, 1938, | Plan Radio Landing System. Britain’s largest airport at Croy- “¥on, ‘England, will have a radio land- ing system. madt Mtk Household Furniture of Every Duaip!in, Paintings, tric Refrigerators, Gas Ranges, Draperies, Oriental Rugs, Pianos,, Ete. 2 At Public Auction AT SLOAN’S 718 13th St. .SATURDAY September 26th, 1936 Alse'st 10 ‘:‘: self is that he is “not a Republican, and very still.” (Copyrisht not a New Dealer, still a Democrat, . 1936.) Landon Read Proposed. MILTON, Mass, September 24 (®)—Citizens of Milton will gather in Town Hall October 1 to act on a sug- gestion that a street be named Lan- don road. The town already has & Roosevelt street. . Infantile Paralysis Spreads. SAULT STE. MARIE, Ontario, Sep- tember 24 (#).—Another case was added last night to a growing list of infantile paralysis patients in this dis- | trict. There were 37 cases in the city | and district. Tugwell Mum But Speech Echo Lives Were He Talking Now, New Deal Aide Could Enliven Campaign. BY MARK SULLIVAN. EWSPAPERS ' last week re- ported that & salient American figure had retired for s time to an ivory tower of silence and inconspicuousness. One dispatch read: “Tucson, Ariz, September 17 (LN.S.) —Secretly touring the United States ‘to study rural rehabilitation and grasshopper control projects,’ Rexford Guy Tugwell left here today after his incog- nito had been -learned. His destination was unkown.” Other dis- § patches said that . ‘Tugwell ° had influenza ° and had gone to a hospital for X treatment, Need for rest and quiet would adequate- -| 1y justify the in- cognity name on :?;.hotmm s Mark Sullivan Yet here is a strange thing. Here is the man who proposed most of the ideas in the New Deal, and who persuaded. President Roosevelt to adopt the ideas, urge them on Con- gress and fastened them on the coun- try. And here are those ideas, and the President, engaged in a campaign in which the New Deal is on trial for its life. Yet here is the principal author of the New Deal silent on a desert in Arizona. ‘Tugwell’s silence and inconspicuous- ness, we may be sure, is not due wholly to influenza. Even were he in the best of health, most of us surmise, Tugwell would be inconspicuous in this campaign. His silence is part of the silence of others high in the Presi- dent’s circle. Silent also is Prof. Frankfurter. Others talk. President Roosevelt talks. National Chairman Farley talks. A hundred minor New Dealers talk. The acolytes and ap- prentices of the New Deal talk. Its recruits talk, including those recruits high in Democratic leadership whose status in the New Deal is that of forced conscripts. They all talk; they talk much and they talk loudly. Recalls Comic Opera. But those who invented the New intellectually are its commanding generals—they are silent and unseen. One recalls the military technique of brated by Gilbert and Sullivan in “The Gondoliers”: In enterprise of martial kind, When there was any fighting, He led his regiment from behind— He found it less exciting. But when away his regiment ran, His place was at the fore, O— That celebrated, Cultivated, Underrated .. Nobleman, The Duke of Plaza-Torol When to evade Destruction’s hand, ‘To hide they all proceeded, No soldier in that gallant band Hid half as well as he did. He lay concealed throughout the war, And 30 preserved his gore, O That unaffected, _—— THE ELECTRICAL PARADE _AAonches Ose/ 30 DAY TRIA L NO OBLIGATION 1328-30 New York Ave. N.W. —or BATEMAN, J. L, & SON 2212 Rhode Island Ave. N.E. BARRINGER, J. A. 514 10th Street N.W. BOND ELECTRICAL CO. 5405 Georris Ave. N.W. GEORGETOWN ELECTRIC CO. 1205 Wiseonsin Ave. N.W, MYERS & FLOURNOY 514 H 8t NE. PINKETT, G. D. 4 1013 U 8t. N.W. SCHNEIDER, C, SONS . 1220 G ‘Street N.W. TRIBLE, JOHN % 1239 Geed Hope R4 S.E. 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If he were not restrained by some influence outside himself, he would stand out in front, demounce the “propertied czars,” declare the destination to which he proposed to take America, and tell the world to like it or lump it. ‘Whether Tugwell has been told by Mr. Roosevelt to be silent during the campaign is a thing no one can surely say. The intimacies between those two are not for the ears of outsiders. But one can surmise a amiling order from President to pro- fessor: “You'd better lay off, Rex, for a little while, No hot stuff! Until after election I'm golng to work the other side of the street. I'm going to go to the right. I'm going to tell ‘em bedtime stories, sing lullabies to them. -I'm going ‘to hold conferences with insurance presidents and public utility heads.” You know—lion and lamb stuff—green pastures and still ‘waters—that sort of thing.” Roosevelt Speeches. It the country is to be denied Tug- well's voice until November 3, the Republicans ought to reprint some of his old speeches. This campaign needs paprika on both sides. Pep for the New Dealers, and irritant for the Republicans, would be provided by reprinting the speech Tugwell made to the Democratic State Com- mittee at Los Angeles last October. The speech which began “How deep are the sources of your indignation?” The speech in which he said: “We must draw together, nursing the sources of that anger which has driven us forward and making more and more clear the great hopes which will pull us in the same direction . . .” The speech which contained the phrases, “death struggle of industrial autocracy,” “disestablishment of our plutocracy.” It was the speech in which Tugwell said: “It is well enough known by now what the leadership of President Roosevelt commits America to; it is well enough known by what methods further achievements will be made. « + . Our best strategy is to surge for- ward with the workers and the farm- ers of this Nation, committed to gen- eral achievements, but trusting the | genius of our leader for the disposi- tion of our forces and the timing of our attacks.” ‘The strategy of “timing our at- tacks” includes, apparently. the de- | vice of soft pedalling during a cam- But that speech of Tugwell ought to be circulated. velt re-elected. (Copyright, 1936.) 'HE opinions of the writers on this page are their own, not occasional bouts of insanity. It might explain | why the Communists want Mr. Roose- | D. C., THURSDAY, SEPTEMBER We, the People Campaign Stories That Hit Below the Belt Begin to Pop Up. BY JAY FRANKLIN. Alf Landon was an undorgraduate at the University of Kansas his classmates nicknamed him “Fox.” When he was an independent oil operator he cleaned up & tidy fortune by business methods apparently no’ dissimilar to thoee employed by his contemporaries. ‘The Democrats are now resurrecting these facts and using them to attack the Republican candidate. Senator Joseph T. Robinson of Arkansas made a speech the other day, in which he characterized Landon as “fox- T am told—although I have not seen it—that a pamphlet is being circulated throughout the East, under the title of “ ‘Foxy' Speaks.” ‘This pamphlet features a cartoon of Landon with fox ears and gives details of & business career which seems to have been conducted ac- cording to the rather elastic rules of the American business game in the last three decades. ‘This sort of thing is on a par cover was a British subject, that he swindled investors, and that he staked Chinese coolies out in the sun. . It is on a par with the report that Franklin Delano Roosevelt was onee involved in a corporation which speculated in German marks during the podt-war mflation, It is like the revelation that Tugwell, as & youngster. once wrote & Whitmanesque poem in which he said he would “roll up his sleeves and make America over.” It recalls that 1920 election rumor that Harding was a mulatto, the 1916 spew of barroom gossip about Wilson's second marriage. the Wall Street gossip that Theodore Roosevelt was a confirmed drunkard with * s We are not asked to vote for Landon as an undergraduate or as & business man. We are being offered our choice between two parties, tw~ policies, two theories. Landon is on the side of big business, big banking, of Du Pont, Hearst and Morgan, openly and admittedly. He represents a policy under which the Federal Government would be reduced to the part of an innocent bystander in the economic and social struggles of the day. He represents the theory that the political institutions of a self-governing democracy are incompetent to deal with the larger problems which beset its people. Roosevelt represents the middle class party of reformed capitalism, of a concert of interests as opposed to the dictatorship of either capital or labor. He represents a policy of active Federal intervention in economic and social conflicts, wherever it seems necessary or desirable to redress the balance. He represents the theory that there are no serious social problems which responsible statesmanship dares ignore in a period of stress. This is the issue of the campaign. Malicious personalities have no part in it. The two candidates are alike, men of charm, character and ability. Their ezxperience has been different and there is no doubt that Roosevelt is at this time better equipped by his career to deal with broad national and world problems, while Landon, despite his good will and common sense, is even more limited than Warren G. Harding. Yet, other things being equal, Landon could learn and, if elected, might not perform discreditably against the backdrop of great afairs. The point is that people do change, do_develop, do accumulate experience, wisdom and character as they move through life. Gen- erally speaking. the only things they seriously regret are the things they didn't do. Landon is no longer an under- graduate or an oil man, for all practical purposes he is not even | New York and Headline Folk and What They Do Col. Behn on Job in Spain Keeping World in Touch With War, BY LEMUEL F. PARTON. N GREEK, sosthenes means “life strength,” an appropriate name I mains in Madrid when other in- dustrialists bolt, and keeps his tele- phone system working. ‘The Spanish system is one of 68 telephone, telegraph, cable and radio for Col. Sosthenes Behn, who re- * .companies * throughout the world ruled by Mr. Behn, as chairman of the board of the In- ternational Tele~ graph & Tele- phone Co. He and his system stuck through the downfall of the monarchy, and kept on expand- ing,under the re- publie. The present Left government, appreciating the fact that, although dodging bullets, he stayed on the job, promises him protection and damages for any injury to his properties. “He has won the respect of the Spaniards,” says a current dispatch, A few years ago there was some talk of this writer going to Spain for Col. Sosthenes Behn. |the I. T. & T. to help keep the world informed about the company's doings. Talking with the nervous, aggressive, hard-driving Mr. Behn across his desk, it seemed to me that, baldly, what he wanted was a press agent, but the last thing in the world he wanted was publicity. It wasn't very clear and nothing came of it. But it was clear that he and his more philosophical and easy-going brother, Hernand, are decidedly type-shy, if not gun-shy. Hernand Behn s president of the I. T. & T. Starting from scratch in Herbert Hoover's “poor house” otherwise known as the Virgin Islands, the Behn brothers kept on branching out until they were the overlords of a $700,000,~ 000 corporation. When they were get- ting a start in the sugar business and banking in Puerto Rico. a little, busted Puerto Rican telephone compary slumped into their hands as a random | bit of financial wreckage. They looked it over carefully. Sosthenes Behn, al- ways a self-starter. scrambled up to refinanced it—on & shoestring. Governor of Kansas. He is the nominee of a formidable political party, growing bigger from his contact with the forces which shape events and nations. ‘The issues are real. The fight is a hot one. There is no need to pull punches, but the American people are shrewd enough to give a fair decision without expecting the protagonists to hit below the belt. | (Copyright. 1936.) | necessarily The Star’s. Suych 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. COED CLEVENGER L Right Shoes Fool Right People. | CHICAGO (P)—Five sample cases | containing 125 shoes were stolen from | H. M. Alcorn’s automobile. | The laugh, said Alcorn, a shoe n, is on the thieves 0es were for the right foot. | Col. Sostnenes Behn was commande: of the 322d Field Signal Battalion in | Prance, finishing with a D. §. M., ani he knows the smell of powder. 6 feet tall, broad-shouldered and powerfully muscled, with iron-gray hair and mustache. He used to wear a beard. One may be sure that ths one thing he never said is, “Excuse it, please.” He is (Copyright, 1936,) Japan Has Farm Plan. Japan plans a 25-vear program to turn 1,600,000 tenants into landed farmers. ALL THE FACTS of this Wanton Slaying are Published for the 'FIRST time ‘ - Official Detectve Stor Another Murder by a Sex-Crazed Moron @ Victim of a gorilla-like monster who came to rape and fled in fear HAgain First With ALL the Facts THE INSIDE STCRY 05 the DOBBINS MURDER AT CAMDEN after he silenced her screams with a bullet. crime that rocked the Nation, now finally, completely disclosed . . . revealing never-before-published facts. Read it in this issue of Official Detective Stories. Here's the account of @ OTHER FACT STORIES IN THIS ISSUE— THE SKULL THAT CAME TO LIFE. No clues to the murder but the skele- tion of the victim. This EXCLUSIVE FEATURE tells how Captain Grant Williams. expert on physiognomy and craniometry, rebuilt the features from scientific information s _that two sis- ters of the dead girl fa¥ed when they saw it. One of the most amazing stories in scientific crime detection. THEY MADE “QUEER” MONEY IN SAN QUENTIN. An amazing story of the most brazen counterfeiting gang in crime annals. SEX BEMIND BARS. ‘The second of Vance Dickson's daring exposes of malpractices in prison. Why should prisons be the spawning ground for the seeds of degeneracy? THE_MOST WANTED MAN IN PORTLAND. Cash awards for this man, Own jou find him? RISE AND FALL OF RACKETEER BARONS. The Volpe Brothers of Pittsburg mitted the unpardonable sin of sang. land—reaped rich rewards—then paid a terrible price. WHAT HAPPENED TO JUSTICE? The case of the missing Supreme Court Justice_of New York, Judge Joseph Force Crater. STERILIZATION. PREVENTION, NOT PUNISHMENT, shouid be the practice in dealing _with sex crimes. The story of Harry F. Powers and the marriage racket that disclosed a mur- der farm. IN THE CRIME SPOTLIGHT. The latest sensations—and what the law is doing. MODERN SCIENCE IN CRIME DETECTION. Anyone, with a few materials and careful ‘handling. can photograph fin- er-prints. This article tells exactly