Evening Star Newspaper, October 9, 1936, Page 11

Ohio Remains Battlefield to 11th Hour Relief Vote in One County May Give New Deal Victory. BY DAVID LAWRENCE. INCINNATI, Ohio, October 9.— Southern Ohio presents a typical cross-section of what's going on in the national cam- Ppaign. Normally, if it is permissible to use that word, Hamilton County, which includes Cinecin- e nati, is Repub- lican. in 1932 it went for Mr. j Roosevelt by a few thousand. To begin o show that Republican- ism is in the ascendency, the estimated figures from pre-election canvasses ought to indicate about & 15,000 majority. But what are the facts. The Republicans have high hopes of winning Hamilton County, yet they are plainly worried. Their worries are numerous. First, there's the colored vote. It used to be predominantly Republican. Now the Democrats have made in- roads. It's a toss-up. Both parties are promising the moon, and the colored voter never had such attention. Then there's the relief workers. They are being organized, apparently, to vote for the New Deal. Appeal to Self-Supporting. ‘The Republicans are trying hard to win the groups that are straying from the Republican foid, but, while they may succeed in some instances, the relief workers’ group seems lost to them completely. By an exposure of what the New Deal is doing the Re- publicans evidently hope to find self- supporting citizens who will resent the use of Government influence or coercion of relief workers and vote as & matter of protest against the pro- cedure. The campaign reeks with charges of Federal influence upon relief workers, but in Cincinnati affidavits have just | been published which tell the story in rather vivid simplicity. Benjamin Ellington. a former P. W. A. worker, swe: that Col. S. W. Moulding, sr., superintendent of con- struction on the Green Hills Federal project, called a meeting of W. P. A, worker to organize a Roosevelt club. Here is an extract from the affidavit of Ellington, who attended the meet- ing: “Col. S. W. Moulding, sr., announced that the dues of the organization would be $1 per year and that all workers in the Green Hills Federal project would be expected to con- tribute $1 to the organization, wheth- er present at the meetings or not. He thereupon introduced to the meeting Mr. John W. Barrett, president of the ‘Non-Partisan Democratic League of | Hamilton County,’ who addressed the meeting. Cites Duty to Join. “Mr. Barrett impressed upon those present that ‘it was their obligation to | Jjoin and become active members of | the Roosevelt Non-Partisan League, | since President Roosevelt was provid- | ing the money that made possible their jobs at the Green Hills Federal | project and that Republicans should | not be on the Democratic pay roll.” “Mr. Barrett further discussed the advisability of the organization affil- fating with the national committee, | saying that Col. S. W. Moulding, sr., | who was from the Washington office, | ‘would probably be able to do them more good if they so affiliated. i “Mr. Barrett in his remarks took ! issue with Col. Moulding’s statement that the re-election of President Roosevelt was a certainty, saying that every effort must be put forth for the President in Hamilton County. “Mr. Barrett summarized his argu- ment by saying that if Roosevelt were defeated, instead of their getting big- ger and better jobs, they would have no jobs at all.” i There are other incidents of the meeting recited in this and other affi- | davits, but the sum total impression | s the same—somebody is permitting | Government employes to be influenced | to vote for the Rocfevelt administra- tion, and there is a perceptible propa- ganda being circulated among persons on relief to make them believe the money they are receivihg does not come -from the taxpayersy generally, -but from a political group in Wash- ngton. In State after State I have visited the New Deal party henchmen talk openly about the relief vote they ex- pect to get. The heavy registration in many {arge cities would appeag to be fruits of their effort. In some States the relief vote may be the balance of power. It certainly might become so | in Hamilton County, though to be sure the Republicans are being stimulated to redouble their efforts to find citi- ®ens who resent the tactics being used to organize the relief workers. [ My own impression of Hamilton County is that intensive organization will be required to get out a vote to | match that of the controlled relief | Vote. | The Republicans have had their | party squabbles here, but it is signif- cant that they are more harmonious l than ever behind the Landon can- | Widacy. Thus, men like Mayor Russell —_— David Lawrence. If you like trying to figure out ,vhat you’d do in another fellow’s iplace, try this one. Tradition in jthe automobile business is not to mmake major changes in a car after @ successful year. Changes cost a of money, and besides, why \rock the boat? On the other hand, /progress and improvement come ‘only through changes, costly as they are. Buick has had a highly successful 1936 year. Plenty of i;eople said the car couldn’t be j§mproved. But Buick men had some ideas. To put them into ‘effect would cost plenty. Should ;they change, or shouldn’t they? Buickhad tode- cide—and did, to wen peTTER THE EVENING STAR, WASHINGTON, D. €., FRIDAY, OCTOBER 9, 1936. News Behind the News Election Uncertainty Rooted in Unprecedented Jumbling of Voting Factors. - BY PAUL MALLON. OLITICAL prognosticators have rarely been so far apart at this stage of a presidential campaign. Notabie example: Local polls in Ohio sliow President Roose= velt ‘eading, while the Digest poll indicates Gov. Landon is ahead by 2 to 1. Democratic Seer Hurja has Ohio down as a ressonable certainty in his private list. So has Chairman Hamilton. Example No. 2: A large newspaper sent two reporters into New York independently for a studied opinion. One reported the State with the large est electoral vote sure for Mr. Roosevelt, the other sure for Landon. The confusion throws light on the fact that nearly every tradi= tional factor is different in this election. Not only are there such obvious conflicting defections as the Roosevelt inter-party alliances, the Coughlin-Townsend-Lemke situation, the Smith-Reed walkout and the Roosevelt labor tie-up, but a less obvious one, which is important in Ohio and New York—the unmeasured chipping of the ordinarily solid Republican block of Negro votes. Agriculture Secretary Wallace ALFIS started this public campaign move . TOPS with a speech to Tuskegee Institute, famous Negro seat of learning, sev- eral weeks ago. He was sharply criticized by some of his campaign associates, but his friends assert he won the support of the institute for the farm program and promoted & kindlier feeling toward the A. A. A. among Northern Negroes. One of the tangible unobserved results of the speech was the acquisition by the Agriculture Department of & colored publicity man for the first time in Government history. He is A. L. Holsey, on leave from Tuskegee, now occupying a desk behind a screen in the office of Wallace's publicity agent. He handled publicity for Tuske- gee and writes farm handouts for the Negro press, although he is carried on the rolls as a “field agent,” and recently returned from a tour of the South in his capacity as an A. A. A. official, attending regional meetings, etc. . * % % % The story of Elliott Roosevelt's contract with Airman Fokker has been common knowledge in the aviation industry for more than a year. Even airline mechanics knew of it. The White House was aware of it. The Sen- ate Munitions Committee decided it did not require investigating as far back as last January in a secret meeting. The story did not get out until an aviation trade magazine published the charges and smoked out the com« ittee. - i The reason it was kept buried so long apparently is this: The terms of young Roosevelt's contract were mot specific, and the correspondence which could be offered in evidence was likewise not clear. Fokker contended the youngster was paid $5,000 and promised a huge sum to get business out of the Russian govern= ‘ment, while Mr. Rosevelt had a less serious understanding of his employment. In any event, the contracted deal did not go through, whatever it was. Nor did Mr. Fokker get back his $5.000. The question most discussed by New Deal insiders here does not concern the merits of the case, which have not yet been publicly de- veloped, but the problem of what a President’s son is to do. Mr. Coolidge solved it by prewenting his son from trading on the family connections and putting him to work as a clerk on a railroad. Mr. Hoover was dis- turbed when his son's connection as an engineer for a radio company be- came the subject of political de- bate, and the son ultimately retired. Young Elliott is supposed to have been the most outspoken of the Roosevelt sons against any such restraints. He is said to have told his family more than once that he intended to lead his own life. He is now in the private ra- dio business, which is, of course, more or less under Government supervision. Another son, James, retired from the insurance business in Boston following comment about his unenviable position. ‘The only completely satisfactory solution was that of Presidents who neglected to have children. The last unpublished statement of the American Red Cross is said to show holdings of $10.000,000 in Government bonds, out of a total investment of $26,000.000. All these Government bonds were acquired since Treasury Secretary Morgenthau became trustce. When Mr. Roosevelt was asked whether his conference with President Green of A. F. of L. related to the Green-Lewis *“schism,” he replied: “We skidded around the schism.” Republicans are having trouble getting money. A well-known Democratic national committeeman will resign as soon as the election is over, L] 1] (Copyright. 1936.) {DAVIES JOINS CAMPAIGN AS DEMOCRATIC AIDE Wilson, an independent Republican, and others who have been leaders in the so-called “charter” movement for 'HE opinions of the writers on this page are their own, not necessarily The Star’s. Such opinions are presented in The Star’s eflort to give all sides of questions of interest to its readers, although such opinions may be contradictory among We, the People good government here, men who have the respect of the community because | of their progressiveness, are openly favorable to the election of Gov. Landon. Ohio is a doubtful State in every sense of the word, and, after a three- day observation of conditions in different parts of Ohio, I have come to the conclusion Landon has the edge at the moment, but it is a very narrow margin and campaign develop- ments can wipe it out or increase it. They are betting in Ohio 10 to 9 on Landon carrying the State, but etting is an adventure in guessing. People who think betting means any- thing are reminded of the betting the | day before the Louis-Schmeling fight. | There may be some justification for | backing one's judgment on the physical prowess of two individuals who have performed in combat, but I cannot see much sense in betting on a national election in which there are about 20 States which can swing the electoral vote either way, and particularly when such pivotal areas as Hamilton County, for instance, can swing a State into one column or the other. Even if I were in the habit of mak- make any on this national election. I bet on either Mr. Landon or Mr. Roosevelt. (Copyright, 1936,) ol ——e British Battle Arabs. JERUSALEM, October 9 (Palcor Agency). — Heavy detachments of British troops, aided by aircraft, yester- day engaged a guerrilla band of 200 mel. Casualties were unknown, but | were believed heavy. Here’s a Bin-Full of cCoO Anthraeite Coal Prices Egg --numm---$12.70 Stove $13.00 Chestnut —..._$13.00 _$11.00 Buckwheot _.._$8.70 s vTOMOBILES al i} " the tune of some $14,500,000. So \RE BUILT 8OV L BUID T A ing wagers, I would be hesitant to | Frankly, I would be afraid to lose if | Arabs in the area near Mount Car- | "Capitnl Lawyer Becomes Chair- man of Executive Committee of Election Group. | By the Assoctated Press. NEW YORK, October 9.—Joseph E. Davies, Washington D. C. lawyer and chairman of the Federal Trade Com- mission in the Wilson administration, yesterday accepted appointment as vice chairman of the Democratic Na- | tional Campaign Committee and chairman of the Executive Committee !of the Campaign Committee. “No public service I have ever been in the public interest that that which has just been tendered to me within the Democratic National Committee,” he saig in a statement. “The re-election of President Roose- velt is vital to the country.” - NICE TO TAKE STUMP i To Speak for Landon in Four States. BALTIMORE, October 9 ().—Gov. Harry W. Nice takes to the stump in four States this month for the Lan- don-Knox ticket. National Republican campaign headquarters have informed him that { he would speak at Little Washington, { Pa., October 19 and at McKeesport, Pa. October 29. Nice earlier had offered his services to the commit~ tee. Between those dates, Gov. Nice will | speak in Indiana, New York and West ! Virginia. Happy Man He's sittin’ pretty with a WOODSON'’S Certificate Anthmci.te Al A. P. WOODSON CO. Coal—Fuel Oil—Delco Heat 1202 Monroe St. N. E. NO. 0176 themselves and directly opposed to The Star’s. On the Record i Politics and Candor and Hopes and Problems Over the Breakfast Table. BY DOROTHY THOMPSON. 144 0OOD morning. Have you got the papers? What's in G them? How is the cam- paign going?” “The Giants are three up.” “Don'‘t be silly. I mean the political campaign, of course.” “The political campaign? I am de- creasingly aware of a political cam- paign. Do you call it a cam- paign when two large hostile forces are re- treating in the same direction?” “The same die rection?” “Yes. Toward & liberal-conser- vative position. In other words, toward United States. I am not, young woman, in- 4 terested in thiS 0, Thompsen. campaign. Fur- thermore, I do not wish to discuss situations or conditions. I hope you have noticed that it is an excep- tionally beautiful day. Your dahlias froze last night, but the asters did | not. Can you explain that? Why do dahlias blossom last and freeze first?” “I want to talk about the cam- paign. You act as though there were no issue.” “There are many issues. But the chief one is whether there are more nuts in this country or standpatters, whether there are more lookers-back upon lovely yesterday, or more gazers forward into a be-tinseled future. If the nuts have the more influence, the present incumbent will remain. If nostalgia is tops the contestant will succeed.” ‘So you think the present Govern- ment is nutty?” Nutty?. How? “As nutty as this glorious Autumn. It is thoroughly nutty. The D. A. R. ladies, I observe, are perturbed about its radicalism. They seem to fear | that we are headed for communism, fascism and atheism. I understand | that the financiers are certain, or some of them are, that we are bound | for bankruptcy. You will permit me to reserve the opinion that we are headed for ebullient prosperity, I fear, | with its usual unpleasant accompani- ments. Already I am being informed by those who call themselves my brokers that the moment has come when fortune awaits me in the stock market, with no contributing effort | of mine. But the Government is nutty.” “Now, look here, you can't just| throw off snap judgments like that. | How is it nutty?” | “Lord, it's full of the kind of soft-headed benevolence that doesn't become any person over the age of 10. Noble. aspiring, Junior League attitude. Uplift. Knows nothing of the nature of man. The human race, | my child, has one chronic disease. | That disease is the gimmies. It is| endemic, epidemic and chronic, and | woe betide the government that cries E aloud in the market places ‘Come ye, come ye, eat, drink, without money and without price, eat and be satis- fled” Because they come ye. It is a trait of the human race that it is never satisfied, never has been and tide. And the tide is inevitable. Note also the line ‘Let us then be up and doing with a heart for ANY fate. That's us. Old America rushing gel- lantly forward with an eye to any fate, no matter what that fate is. Making, in fact, a rendezvous with it.” Anti-Voler’s Interest. “Since you feel so deeply, I pre- sume you will vote for the Repub- licans.” “My enthusiasm is insufficient to propel me to the polls. There are fewer bees in the Republican bonnet, but there are more moths. I do not suffer acutely from nostalgia. I do not long for the good old times and the eternal simplicities, particularly when they are preached by as astute and self-protective a crowd of citizens as we possess. Besides, the challenger is a mystery. Apart from two old ladies who have been dug up to testify that they taught him school, -and my old friend, Bill White, he seems to have passed unnoticed for 47 years. And for some peculiar rea- son that seems to be an asset. It does not move me. Not to action.” “Nonsense. He is Governor of & great State.” “Nonsense nothing. Tell me the | name of the Governor of Nebraska.” “Then I can only conclude that you are one of those revolutionists who | will fearlessly risk 10 minutes of his cross-word puzzle time to cast a ‘pro- | test vote’ for Browder, Lemke or | Norman Thomas.” “Your instinct for error is some- thing for Freud and Walter Pitkin to investigate. Again, no. Thomas rep- resents social democracy, which flow= ered perfectly and got frost bitten in Germany and Austria. Lemke is not a candidate. He is an actor in a play written by Huey Long, financed by Townsend, directed by Coughlin and still ably press agented, although it expired a month ago, by Gerald Smith. And Browder, the Communist, announces that Moscow no longer intends to absorb us, but is zealous to support us as part of a popular front, along with the Siamese nudist junta, the Finnish bath cult, the interesting movement for the independence of Hollywood under Upton Sinclair and Will Hays and all other forward- looking efforts. In fact, the Commu- nists have become altogether too lov- ing—as Zinoviev recently discovered.” Right Man Exists. “Just another totally destructive thinker. I suppose you think you could have picked some better candi- dates.” “I do indeed.” “So. And whom would you pick?” “I would pick a man of learning; man of authentic learning. Some o who has some time or other gone through serious mental discipline and has got out of it the kind of freedom, courage and wisdom that such mental discipline gives a man. Some one, also, who is a doer. An executive. But not a business man. Nobody with the buying-and-selling mentality. Some one who knows the world, the big world, and has had to compete in it. Some one who has had wide experience in getting on with many sorts of people, in conciliating and adjusting.” “I suppose you think the country | is teeming with such peopie.” “Not teeming. But they exist. There Whether Mormons Will Join Leader in Backing Landon Is Questioned. BY JAY FRANKLIN, Ia!g'.lnmunmm oy President Heber J. Grant of the Latter Day Sainls that the church had taken all needy Mdrmons off relief served to attract attention to the political revolution which has taken place in Utah. k4 ‘The original church of Joseph Smith and Brighan Young was noted for the tenet of “plural marriage,” and when the original Republican party went to bat it proposed to wipe out those “twin relics of barbarism’— polygamy and slavery. The hulla- balloo over Mormon polygamy ob- scured the fact that the church also embodied a strong communistic philosophy which enabled it to make the Utah desert blossom like the rose. s On the basis of collectivism, the Mormons created powerful economic institutions—insurance companies and sugar companies — which rapidly became powerful factors in the development of the Mountain States, and in the '90's the Republican party made terms with the Mormon leaders; polygamy was forbidden by the church and Utah was admitted into the Union as a loyal ally of the G. O. P. * % * % From that point on, Mormon economics followed the development of other large American corporations. More and more the church’s growing business affairs were managed by a small group of men, while the tithe- payers were taken for granted. The Mormon leaders became directors of railroads, banks, insurance companies and utilities, until the economic power of Mormondom was enmeshed in the corporate life of the United States. Men like Reed Smoot and J. Reuben Clark stood high in the councils of the Republican party, and in 1912 Utah shared with Vermont the dismal distinction of voting for Taft against T. R. and Woodrow Wilson. As late as 1930, Smoot largely wrote the tariff act which Hoover swallawed. The Roosevelt landslide of 1932, however, landed Utah in the Democratic column. Young Mormons—of whom Marriner Eccles, chairman of the Federal Reserve Board, is the outstanding exam- ple—came to work for the New Deal. They were conspicuous, even among the other emergency employes, for their energy, ability, loyalty and enthusiasm. The remarkable social exrperiments inaugurated by Smith and Young were so thoroughly justified by their human products that the New Deal began to draw on Mormon experience, M0 less than on New England, in its attempt to adjust our life to the Tealities of North America. me of the older Mormons took alarm. They were stung by the revela- tion that a greater proportion of Mormons than of non-Mormons were working on Federal projects in Utah. (This was the natural result of a system which featured large families and high educational standards, leading to a steady emigration of Mormons from the State). The Utah-Idaho Sugar Co.—a church corporation—also was refusing to pay Mormon farmers as much for their sugar-beets as other corporations would pay. The farmers ‘were refusing to plant beets and the Mormon plan, as originally announced, contemplated beet-culture for the benefit of the unemployed. ‘The older men of the church were also responsible for the issuance of & bull attacking “Communism” and, like many other ecclesiastical bodies, feared lest Federal relief might alienate the loyalty of its members and cause them to question the value of tithes as a form of social insurance. Moreover, men like Smoot, Clark and President Grant, who were stanch Republicans, were disturbed by the fact that every poll and political forecast showed Utah going for Roosevelt more strongly than any other western state, * x x x . ‘This, then, was the background of the Mormon plan for ending relief. Eighty-eight thousand of the church members were to be “taken off the dole” and the sin of idleness was strongly condemned, in State and Tabernacle. Then it was discovered tbat nobody in Utah was on the dole, and that only work relief was involved in the case of the 17,000 workers on Federal projects in Utah—representing 129, of the State's population. The church decided not to ask its mem- bers to resign their W. P. A. jobs. Then it was found that the Mormon plan did not propose to end the idleness of the unemployed. The food and beets were to be grown in their spare time, on idle acres, by Mormons who were already em- ployed, as a charitable contribution. This avoided troublesome questions of labor regulations and workmen's compensation. The sugar beet proposal died an early death, due to the refusal of the farmers to co-operate for the benefit of the church sugar company, and when the final figures were in, it was discovered, on analysis, that the amount of food produced would be sufficient to feed the 38.000 needy Mormons for about one week. In other words, the Mormon Relief plan was a failure. The result of this failure has been to educate the church au- thorities in the magnitude of the relief problem. Their failure was due to ignorance of the factors involved in this economic crisis. President Grant has now come out for Landon. Will the Mormons foi- | to the poor is something else again. | ypderstands the thought and the| called upon to perform is to me more | is, for instance, Mr. Robert Hutchins. A scholar. An historian. A lawyer. A gallant soldier. Dean of the Yale Law School at 29. President of the many destitute. Even now.” University of Chicago at 30. Modern, “Naturally and of course. Let them | put not cracked. Turned a great in- be fed and housed. But what an idea | gtitution upside down to adapt it to that the Government create work for | modern needs, and didn't break any every seamstress, paleontologist and | eggs in the process. Has to be a hod carrier! Work is work. Succor | financier. But not as an end in itself. never will be.” Work Vs. Help. “There are many unemployed and Aid te the unemployed is still some- | ;ovements of the world. Has to get thing else. All mixed up, because of | op with all sorts of people. Genuinely | nuttiness. Having rendezvouses with | superior man. Now, imagine picking destiny. Reconstruction of society by | g President because he's just a home | dancing on the green. It's arty.” | body, just a practical, common-sense | “I did not know you felt 50 fellow like you and me. I no more strongly.” | want an average man like me govern- “I do not feel strongly. But since | jng this country than I want my cook | you have directed my attention to |5 make coffee just like mother used this theme, which does not particu- | to make. If she can't do better than larly interest me, I am polite. I sug-|tnat I'd fire her.” gest that you consider the fact that next to ‘The Shooting of Dan McGrew' Nothing Wrong. and ‘Off Agin, On Agin, Gone Agin, | “You seem to me utterly frivolous. Finnigan’ the favorite poem of the | Do you think there is nothing wrong low his lead in politics when they have failed to follow his lead in economics? (Copyright. 1936.) talk about waste and extrava- gance” . . ., “You kick about it yourself.” “Sure I do. But how can business in this country kick about waste and extravagance and keep its face straight? Hasn't business earnestly carried on a conspiracy—an open con- spiracy in the advertising columns— to persuade every American family | that & $1.500 income will support a $700 motor car and a $100 radio? All this talk about borrowing! Hasn't every American individual been financing himself on the installment plan? Get what you want and pay for it tomorrow? Boondoggling! Is that thing up in Maine . . . ‘Passamaquoddy?” “Passamawhat? Is that a craszy idea? Well, and was the Ford peace ship a crazy idea? The Florida ship canal? Yes, and how about the Flor- ida boom? Did Roosevelt make that? Ukuleles for hill billies, though may- be that's Republican propaganda, but, anyhow, how abolut the hill-billy dames who buy artificial eyelashes 1 | and spend money for that awful stuff ‘I women put on their fingernails to make 'em ook like Lady Macbeth di- jrectly after the killing? Conspicu- ous waste. That's us. And who in- “ vented Hollywood? Who pays Walter | Winchell? Who press agented Anna | Hauptman? Who supports Aimee | Semple MacPherson?>” “You are pessimistic this morning.” “I am not. I am optimistic. This country is apparently foolproof. It | must be.” s | 1836 (Copyright. Winter Hits Alaska. ANCHORAGE. Alaska. October 9 (A —Winter nipped the Northland to- day with near zero temperatures and snow. The cold struck hardest at Nulato, with 2 degrees above, and at Ruby, 5 above, —_— Mexico has doubled export duties on bananas. American people, and almost the only one that the average American can quote is ‘The Psalm of Life’ Now, the point of that poem is that if we strive with appropriate earnestness we can leave large footprints in sand. My knowledge of sand is that no foot- steps imprinted in it survive the first Commercia Thousands of families week _after week are enjoying Plymouth Farms commercial cuts of poultry. When you buv Plymouth Farms cuts you re- ceive genuine Plymouth Rock fryers— abselutely the finest money ean buy. you can buy the parts you like Dest, in the need . it 'like You do Now Tows residenta: Stands 7-8, Eastern Mkt. 7th and C Sts. S.E. Atlantic 4511 1113 Water 5t. 5.W, LS Opp. Municipal Fish Mkt. Turkeys 38c 1 Anether bie shipment resh-Killed keys. " Heal fancy— average 8 A Centional value. ANOTHER PLYMOUTH FARMS STAND 18th & Columbia Road N.W. . with a3 compl wE trkeyss ehickens wnd st coe i 18th and ColumbiaRd. with this country? Don't you think we need a program?” “There is nothing wrong with this country. It is Western man's best break in history. But there is lots wrong with us. We Americans have delusions of grandeur. And the pro- gram is to get us over it. All this LYMOUTH FARMS Cuts of Poultry Buy Any Part at Savings Breasts, Legs, Wings, Gizzards, Livers Roasting Chickens 3 7c Ib. to 15 Ibs. cuts of Convenient to up- PLYMOUTH FARMS STANDS New Center Market 5th and L Sts. Entrance . 10263 3517 Conn. Ave. in Park and Shep A-l11 This Changing World Suvich, Italy’s New Ambassador, to Seek Trade Ties. BY CONSTANTINE BROWN. ULVIO SUVICH, the new Itak lan Ambassador, who arrived yesterday in this country, 4 one of the most trusted diplo« mats of the Italian foreign service He served as undersecretary of stat while Mussolini held the portfolio o the foreign affain and has beey closer to II Ducy than most Italiag diplomats. Suvich has na the charm of hij predecessor, Am bassador August( Rosso. He come . from a differen stock. Rosso way bogn in Italy ¢ free man in a freq land. Suvich wa born in Trieste which was at tha time under Aus trian rule. Like most Italian irides: cense, he was an embittered man And that bitterness is reflected some what in his character. He is no chatty or expansive. He does nol know, yet, how to slap people on tht back and make them comfortable iy his presence. But Signora Suvich ha all the “social” qualities her husban¢ lacks. Mr. Brown. U. S. Stories Resented. After being appointed to the United States, the Suviches were considerably worried over the unpleasant storief published in America about the new Italian Ambassador. Mrs. Suvich re sented especially a story describing her husband as a man with “fishy eyes.” At a dinner in Rome, wher( this matter was discussed. she turned to her husband and said, “Turn round | darling, and let me see how fishy yow |eves are.” And after a long look she | gave the verdict: “Of course, they art | not fishy at all” While Rosso’s job in America was to pacify public opinion here and make it veer in favor of Italy during the Ethiopian campaign, Suvich’s rol¢ | will be to strengthen the ties between | the two countries in & more practical manner. Mussolini is greatly interested in regaining the friendship of the American people. And he believes that this can be done by more sub. stantial trade relations between the two countries. Of course, he has an eye on the American dollar. He wants American interests to particie pate in the development of Ethiopia, He also wants American co-operation {in the economic reconstruction of Italy. And the reason why he pres fers American capital to any other financial entanglement is because | there are no pelitics behind Amerie Can economic co-operation. Money | in America, II Duce believes, is not |a political weapon, but a mere comodity intended to bring material gains. Mussolini Already Acts. Ambassador Suvich is expected to Start conversations with the State Departmen. to conclude a reciprocal trade agreement. Mussolini has ale | ready slashed the duty on wheat and | other foods with the hope that in this manner he will not only reduce the cost of living but will also facilitate the intensification of trade relations | between the two countries. Russia’s ultimatum that unless the Fascist States cease supporting the Spanish rebels the Soviets would he!p the loyalists is another piece of diplo= matic ballyhoo. Everybody from Lone don to Moscow knew that despite the neutrality agreement which the Ger= mans and the Italians signed with their fingers crossed, Franco cone tinued to receive assistance from Hite ler and Mussolini. Diplomats see in | Litvinoff’'s move something deeper than righteous indignation. The Moscow government wanis to put the dictators on the spot and show them off as men who disregard agreee | ments they have signed. U. S. Films Are Popular. ™! American motion pictures are supe | planting German films in Netherland India. LOOK FOR THE THEBE'S A @ Wheels move the crude ox corts of the Eost, &s well os the modern, stream-lined autos of the West . , ., but the motive power is the result of an advonced civilization. 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