Evening Star Newspaper, October 13, 1936, Page 11

Kentucky Won for New Deal by Prosperity Repeal and Tobacco Income 2 Factors. G. O. P. Inactive. Today’s dispaich deals with the situation in Kentucky, the thir- tieth State to be visited by David Lawrence in his tour of 40 States to determine campaign trends, BY DAVID LAWRENCE. OUISVILLE, Ky, October 13.— Here is a State where the pro- Roosevelt tide is running high- er than the average, where you will find Democrats who usually are eight about the election returns say- tng that Kentucky will actually in- erease its ma- - fority over 1932. & This is dis- puted, of course, among Republic- ans, but even there the figure conceded is apt to be from 50,000 to 100,000, as eompared with the 185000 ma- fority which Mr. Roosevelt re- ceived four years ago. I made in-~ quiries here to David Lawrence, determine the reasons for the ab- normally high Democratic vote, and the answers summed about to the following: First, repeal of the eighteenth amendment has meant the rebirth of Kentucky's famous whisky industry. Whereas they were distilling about 1,800,000 gallons a year in the medical permit days before repeal, they are now manufacturing about 60,000,000 gallons a year. Second, the tobacco industry is thriving, and Kentucky is dependent on the tobacco growers for a large part of its prosperity. Coal Miners Won. Third, the coal miners, even among the hitherto unorganized groups, have been swung by Mr. Roosevelt’s labor policies toward the Democratic ticket. Fourth, farm income through Gov- ernment aid has been materialy en- larged so that it runs at an increase of about 41 per cent, which is much higher than the national average for farm income gained. Fifth, the anti-Roosevelt firgummt! has hardly been made in Kentucky, where there are only a couple Repub- lican newspapers and where the Dem- ocratic press has stayed regular. It is interesting to find a State where they apparently care very little about unbalanced budgets or who is going to pay the taxes that are going to be needed some day to put the ‘Treasury finances on a sound basis. ‘The anti-Roosevelt sentiment in Ken- tucky is to be found principally among the persons who take newspapers or tagazines from outside the State. Party Funds Conserved. As for the Republicans, they are not very well organized and one hears hints that there is a kind of con- venient truce going on whereby both sides conserve their financial re- sources. The weakness of the Re- publican cause in Kentucky, however, 1s to no small extent due to the very prosperous condition of the State and the well-ingrained belief that this has been brought about by the acts and policies of the Roosevelt adminis- tration. Another interesting reaction to be found here is the criticism of the Landon campaign even among Re- publicans. While the Chicago speech is commended as about the best that the Republican nominee has de- lievered, there is a feeling that an aggressive fight has not been made. *“Weak campaign” is an oft-expressed phrase. Basically, Kentucky is a Democratic State and very rarely turns over. There are quite a few Jeffersonian Democrats here, but the total defec- tion from the Democratic ranks will be found numerically small. Kentucky is riding a wave of pros- perity—and isn’t giving much thought to effects of the election. It would appear that, when the campaign is over and the facts about Govern- ment spending and future taxes begin to trickle in, there may be some sharp protests registered in the Na tional Capital. Thus far, it might be said that Kentucky isn't really a part of the national campaign and ought to be classed with the solid South, where they usually vote Demo- cratic no matter what's happening, unless, of couse, there's a Catholic running for President on the Demo- cratic ticket, as there was in 1928. (Copyright, 1936,) — Now Pine Forest. A stand of trees set out years ago on the Santa Ynez River in Califor- nia now has spread into a large pine wn season ON SALE AT FRUIT AND GROCERY STORES THE EVENING STAR WASHINGTON, D. C, TUESDAY, OCTOBER 13, 1936. News Behind the News: No Showdown Expected on Russian “Ultimatum.” “Neutrality Agreement” Held Generally Voided. BY PAUL MALLON. USSIA'S “ultimatum” accusing Italy and Germany of violating the R “gentlemen’s” neutrality “sgreement” would have caused instant mobilization of all Europe a few yearr ago. Now all it caused was a new “agreement” among the “gentlemen” mnot to recognize the “issue.” No one was rude enough to point it out, but, for one thing, Russia’s accusing finger needed a manicure. More than an official suspicion erists here that she has been,.contributing two of the greatest muni- tions of war, food and funds, to the Spanish government. Likewise, non-combatants have testified that 17 French officers were directing the defense of Irun. A few of their bodies were found upon the fleld later. As Russia is an “ally” of France, she neglected to mention these things, but confined her accusations to Fascist governments, which have been contributing planes and supplies to the Spanish rebels. Thus, it is no international secret that all the parties to the neu- trality agreement, except England, possess slightly soiled paws in this situation. Consequently, there will be no showdown. The lesson which the affair has given to high officialdom here is that neutrality is impossible in the existing condition of honor among nations, “Ultimatums,” “gentle- men” and “agreements” are words which have lost some of their meaning. * ok k% The Soviet move, was of course, recognized as another maneuver in the international alignment of com- munism versus fascism. But only the best informed here detected the same motive behind the simultaneous seizure of dictatorial power by Chancellor Schuschnigg in Austria. The bloodless revolution there was too subtle and sudden to justify final conclusions immediately. However, it was seen here as a consolida- tion of the Fascist position, undertaken probably by agreement of Mus- solin! and Hitler to end bickering. All of which is more bad news for Russia. * X ¥ X No text of the “gentlemen” neutrality “agreement” has been pub- lished. Apparently it included only an unworded pledge among the neutrals not to help either side in Spain with arms, munitions or funds. Even if there had been a text, participating governments could easily have winked at contributions by private citizens, and perhaps even secretly contributed to such moves without much danger of getting caught. It is extremely difficult to formulate a wholly effective neutrality policy in words, as Congress has discovered. The New Deal foreign policy makers intend to worry along with texts along the line of their loosely worded and well-intentioned neu= trality law, but only in this hemisphere. The coming Pan-American Congress will probably adopt these broadened pledges. Guiding diplo= ‘mats say no eflort will be made to get Europe to subscribe, becayuse they have mo hope that their eflorts would lead to anything ercept complications. The truth is they are skeptical of the ultimate effectiveness of all neutrality moves suggested so far, including their own. % One of those periodic upheavals within W. P. A. was effected quietly & few days back. It occurred in the advertising division. Twenty-seven men were let out at once in the publicity, radio promotion and movie offices.. No interruption in W. P. A. advertising activities was involved. Off the Government Printing Office presses came a circular on expansive paper advertising the new picture book of W. P. A. It was entitled “Work Pays America.” Ink sketches showed square-shoul- dered W. P. A.-ers in upright posi- tions operating picks, wheelbarrows and shovels. Inside were protographs of a nurse giving a child a spoonful of something out of a large bottle, an interior view of a sewer from east to west and a picture resume of the 90,000 jobs on which 2,500,000 workers were said to be employed. This publicity promotion will be continued by the new W. P. A. advertiser. He just kicked out the 27 old occupants of the division because he did not know them, and brought in his own friends. * % X % Retired Security Administrator Winant received three times as much c:uznmlawry mail upon his resignation as upon his acceptance of the office. Col. Lindbergh was privately urged Jby a certain congressional group to return from England and give two weeks over to the political campaign here. He took the imvitation under advisement, which means “no.” Victims of Senate investigations are getting wise. One firm’'s records were subpoenaed by the Nye Munitions Committee months ago, but, when the La Follette Committee recently tried to subpeena the same records, they could not be found. The firm destroyed them after receiving them back from the Nye Committee. (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. Rendezvous With Dixie Roosevelt May Be Called on Carpet by Leaders Fearful of BY MARK SULLIVAN. EPUBLICAN Vice Presidential Candidate Frank Knox 1is giving two days of cam- paigning to the Upper South, Virginia and North Carolina. One wonders if the Republicans have in- formation leading them to think they have & chance = 9 there. In the 1920 campaign, Har- ding, as the Re- § publican - presi- dential candidate, surprised observ- ers by making a trip into Tennes- see, which, up to that time, had been & solid unit in the Demo- cratic solid South. Democrats jeered at Harding's fo- ray. Even Re- publicans and neutral observers felt that probably Harding was merely doing an amiable courtesy to some old Tennessee friend or other. Yet when the results were counted, Har- ding and the Republicans had Ten- nessee in the bag, a mysterious stran- ger in the Republican group of States. It was not, of course, Harding's one day of campaigning that did it. What nad happened was that scouts had re+ ported quietly that a condition existed in Tennessee, which gave the Repub- licans a chance, and Harding’s visit was enough to put it over. 0. P. May Know. I, this year, the Republicans have any chance in Virginia or North Caro- lina, it must rest on conditions known to the Republican inner circle, but not known to observers. The Literary Digest poll, up to the most recent compilation, has not given any figures for either of the two States, but the practically universal assumption has been that the solid South is in this election as solid as in any preceding one. So far as I know, none of the Washington political writers now sur- veying the country has thought it p P Mark Sullivan, worth while to include any Southern | State in his travels. If anything un- usual is under way in that terri- tory, it has not come to the atten- tion of observers who make it their business not to miss anything. Pos- sibly Candidate Knox's present trip may have no purpose beyond encour- aging the permanent Republican or- ganization in the State he visits and perhaps stimulating Republican chances of electing one or two mem- | bers of Congress. To accomplish that in Virginia would not be extraordi- nary. May Voice Disquiet. Yet the fact is there is something exceptional in the South. It is a sense of deep disquiet about the New Deal. If all the South is going for Mr. Roosevelt, it is doing so with deep misgiving. Because Virginia has an electorate which is relatively small and relatively high in quality. It may be the ferment expresses it- self there earlier and with greater seriousness than it has yet attained in other Southern States. Every voter in Virginia knows that Party Fate. the Democratic Senators from that State, Giass and Byrd, are two of the ablest men in American public life. And every voter in Virginia knows that both these Senators are deeply disturbed about the absorption of the Democratic party by the New Deal. Possibly it would take only a litle organization and drive to cause a good many Virginia Democrats to vote against Mr. Roosevelt while remain- ing Democratic with respect.to the rest of the ticket. Rendervous With South. If Mr. Roosevelt is re-elected, he is going to have s rendezvous with the South, and the South is going to speak sternly to him. Not only South- ern Democratic Senators like Mr. Glass and Mr. Byrd, who have already opposed the New Deal in Congress, but other Southern Democratic Senators who have so0 far supported Mr. Roose- velt'’s program, are determined that beginning with the first session of Congress after the election the Demo- cratic party must be Democratic. In this attitude they are supported by the overwhelming sentiment of the Democratic South. To a degree rather greater than in the rest of the country, public opin- ion in the South flows from persons having intellectual leadership, county judges and members of county bars, newspaper editors and other profes- sional and business leaders. Most of these have an especial reverence for the Constitution as such, and an ad- ditional reverence arising from par- ticular safeguards which the South feels the Constitution has given it. Among Southern leaders of thought there is a strong feeling that the Democratie party as & whole and the South especially has been “sold down the river” by the New Deal. They are disturbed by the threat to States’ rights which is inherent and foremost in the New Deal philosophy. They have come to suspect that the Demo- cratic party is being deliberately changed in character by those who control it. They think the party is in a process, partly through de- liberate manipulation and partly through evolution, which by 1940 will make the party something utterly new, something which would for a time go by the name “Farmer-Labor party,” but which later would become very far removed indeed from the Democratic party of tradition. It Southern leaders of thought be- | lieved the best way to prevent this would be to vote for Gov. Landon, | they would not hesitate to do so. Many think the best way for them to hpld the Democratic party to its traditions is to remain in the party, vote regular in this election, keep their party status and therefore their influence in the party—and then, right after the election proceed to evict the New Deal from the place it has usurped. Their concern increases as time goes on. More and more of the Southern Democratic press draws a distinction between the Democratic party and the New Deal. If the campaign were a few weeks longer, outright rebellion might appear in the South. \ (Copyrighted, 1936.) We, the People Few Business Men and Bankers Prefer to Make Peace With New Deal. ’ BY JAY FRANKLIN, OME weeks ago President Roosevelt was amazed to see, in the fore- front of & friendly delegation at Hyde Park, one of the richest and ruggedest individuals in the United States. When the ceremonies were over, P. D. R, asked, with some dismay, whether this gentle- man was backing him for re-election. “Yes, I am,” he replied. “But why on earth are you for me?” asked the President. This was the reply: “The great danger this country faces today is disorder. What happened in Russia, Italy and Germany came from dis- order. What is happening in Spain came from disorder. To prevent disorder here I feel that we need a President who has two qualities, neither of which Mr. Landon has snd both of which you, dammit, “What are those two quali- ties?” {‘The first is a demonstrated ability to act as & conciliator,” the rich man answered. “The second is an equally demonstrated ability to take vigorous action when neces- sary. With these qualities in the White House I think we can escape the disorders which have bred rev- olution abroad. That is why I am for you." % x One of the seven wonders of this elfin political campaign is the belief of many hard-headed business men that law is more important than order, or that law and order mean the same thing. They don't. Anarchy is a danger, not of lawlessness, but of disorder. The truth is that many laws can safely be broken, amended, interpreted, repealed, or, as often happens, forgotten or not enforced, but that order is irreplaceable. Disorder breaks the economic con= tinuity by which we live—not merely interrupts it, but destroys it. When the pinch comes, nation after nation has chosen economic continuity—i. e. survival—in preference to legal precedent or political tradition. Dynamite a fey dams and bridges, blow up @ few power= houses and switchboards and the alternative to high-speed civiliza- tion 1s not sentimentnal savagery. The alternative is death. With this fact in view, the stubbornness of the so-called leaders of business and banking is fantastic. They know that they are licked. ‘They know that Roosevelt will be re-elected. They know that the New Deal has restored the stars instead of the dollar signs in Olé Glory. They know that they face four years more of the same treatment which saved their hides in 1933. Yet they would rather go down with the almighty dollar than go along with the American people. Some days ago this column mentioned the probability of busi- ness men trying to crawl back under the covers of the New Deal " before the election. This was mistaken optimism. With the excep- tion of a handful of men like Giannini, the attitude of the bankers toward the President is simply poisonous. Yet the New Deal saved every banker in America. An occasional astute business man, such as the one already described, ¢ Harriman, an Astor, a Filene, and #mall, hand-picked “dusinessmen-for-Roosevelt” groups just about complete the list. Babbitt takes his orders from Wall Street, rather than from his own profit-and-loss ledger. % %% The newly appointed Morgan ambassador to the United States, Mr. Thomas W. Lamont, recently presented his credentials at the White House and tried to negotiate a utility treaty between T. V. A. and the Morgan power combine, but the first session was a stand-off and the foreign plenipotentiaries retired to Wall Street to talk it over. The Treasury, however, had just invaded the Morgan sphere of influence by making a currency sgreement with France and England. As late as 1931, any country which wished to stabilize its currency had to go to Morgan's for a gold-dollar credit of $100,000,000 or so—remember? Now governments are dealing directly with each other, without the permission of the international bankers. There is no peace in that quarter. Not even an armistice. So the political doughboys will have to keep on blazing away at each other, out there in the elec- toral trenches, in the hope that the economic potentates can put up s0 strong & rear-guard defense that the New Deal victory will leave the President unable to consolidate his gains. Behind the election lies the Hindenburg line of the Supreme Court and its usurped power to nullify the public will. It is premature to expect any major surrenders with Morgan, Rockefeller, du Pont, Melion and Hearst in the fleld against Roosevelt. These economic royalists have no objection to crawling into bed with anybody, but they still believe that they are entitled to all the bed- clothes and to both pillows, the electric heating pad and the reading lamp as well. Until the stockholders of the United States of America—that is, the voters—produce their proxies on election day, the big business tycoons will refuse to admit that there has been any real change in management and will insist that all that happened in 1932-36 was a temporary re- ceivership for the United States, which has now been dissolved by Supreme Court orders, (Coprright. 1936.) Headline Folk and What They Do An Apostle of Theory of Regulating Human Blood Pressure. BL LEMUEL F. PARTON. TUDYING lions and crocodiles in the Tanganyika jungles of Africa, Dr. George W. Crile scouts a cure for diseases pre lent in a world filled with anger and fear. The tension of recent decades makes for high blood pressure and varying but increasing ailments. He found the jungle citizens—n on« ! voters and une . taxed — regulate ing their blood pressure mnicely, and he thinks we can learn to do the same, in spite of ths chronic disturbe ance around us. He tells the Southwestern Clinical Confer- ence about it at Kansas City. Dr. Crile has * been accused— unfairly, it seems to htis writer—of assigning to mechanics that which should be assigned to the soul. Howe ever that may be, we are, in the light of science, more and more mechanized, and we soon may be able to stop by the roadside and get spare parts when something goes wrong. For instance, Dr. Crile’s new rig is just a carburetor, For years he has been studying en- ergy controls. The adrenal gland gove erns the power mixture. It's apt to overdo it, especially with propagane dists working the choke plunger. Hence Dr. Crile, hacking his way through the jungles and cutting up lions and crocodiles to learn how to induce sensible behavior in human beings. ‘The lion, he finds, has a reinforcing “sympathetic system” which helps the adrenal gland to deal action hormones lion is such a quick starter. A pole vaulter, with this accessory, could make records from a standing start. Crocodiles have less of this supple- mentary impulse. They take things easier than the lion, live longer and are less likely to have high blood pressure. Dr. Crile now discovers that we have these provocative ganglia and that, exacerbated every day by a newspaper, a boss or a politician, they drive us to rage or fear, high blood pressure and attendant diseases. He thinks surgery can be perfected which will tame down this abettor of rampant emotion. Few men in the scientific world have been more impressively lauded and garlanded than Dr. Crile, resident of Cleveland and founder of the Cleveland Clinical Foundation. He born in Chili, Ohio, and gained his M. D. de- gree at Western Reserve University ing post-graduate work .at several | European universities. His studies of | glands and bodily metabolisms during | the war stirred profound interest in the scientific world. (Copyright, 1936,) s Idaho Is Indain Word. 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