Evening Star Newspaper, October 19, 1936, Page 9

Street Parade Belies Fervor In Chicago Roosevelt, Acclaimed by Thousands, May Get 50-50 Break. Today's dispatch describes the political situation in Illinois—the thirty-third State visited by David Lawrence in his personal survey of 40 States outside the “solid South.” BY DAVID LAWRENCE. HICAGO, 1Il, October 19.—T1- linois is close, doubtful, un- certain, but there are many reasons for belleving Gov. Landon has the edge. Downstate Illinois is concededly Republican this year, substantial gains having been made in the 1934 vote over 1932, and further strides being ap- parent in the in- formal canvasses that have been taken this year. But Cook Coun- ty may prove the surprise of the election. Here, in populous Chi- cago, President Roo sevelt re- ceived the biggest demonstration in the form of a street parade street parade that has happened in the campaign, but notwithstanding this Mr. Roosevelt may be lucky to get a 50-50 break in Cook County. Should Landon’s total downstate come to Chicago with 150,000 to 200,~ 000 majority, the even break in Chi- cago would give the State to Landon. The principal basis for my assertion that Cook County is not as strong as the street parade would seem to indi- cate is the heavy registration in the Republican wards of the city and & reconsideration of the primary vote of last Spring in the light of the new registration figures. Primary Gives Clue. Tt is usually true that a heavy reg- {stration indicates & protest against the party in power. This vear, in the primary, Mr. Roosevelt received 831, 000 votes in Cook County, & vote that occasioned surprise at the time and was indubitably a demonstration for Mr. Roosevelt's benefit by the Kelly- Nash machine that it ought to be pre- ferred to Gov. Horner in the distribu- tion of New Deal favors in ‘this vicin- ity. yBut 831,000 votes, it now turns out, is less than half of the recently tab- ulated registration in Cook County, which is about 2,140,000. Mr. Roose- velt would have to get 259,000 more votes than he had in the primary just to get an even break in Cook County. Experience shows that the party in power usually casts just about its primary vote. As for the street parade, a city that has 841,000 votes for a particular candidate can produce at any time a street parade of 200,000, and that's a lot of people on the streets. There 1s documentary evidence, moreover, of an artificially stimulated demonstra- tion. Here is the text of a facsimile letter published in local newspapers which shows that the union labor leaders compelled attendance in the parade: “Dear Sir and Brother: You are requested to be in a parade, Wednes- day evening, October 14, 1936, at 6 p.m., at Jackson and Michigan Boule- vard, David Lawrence. Fine Threatened. “This parade is very urgent, and you are subject to be fined should you not appear, by the Painters, Deco- rators and Paper Hangers of Amer- ica, Wood Finishers Local Union No. 61, “Fraternally yours, “J. DHONT, Recording Secretary.” This is the first time, so far as is known, that union labor has endeav- ored to coerce its members under pen- alty of a fine for failing to appear in & political demonstration. Likewise, it is reported that the 80,000 holders of Federal jobs in the ‘W. P. A. and other agencies were each required to bring five persons to the parade. This alone would account for 75,000 to 100,000 people if only one or two extra persons were brought to the line of march. Chicago newspapers are astir edi- torially over the incident and are pointing out that this kind of regi- mentation is exactly that which is used by Hitler to assemble the mass demonstrations which are so often pictured in the movies and in the Sunday picture sections of American newspapers. Have 2 Per Cent Club. Likewise, there is a decided amount of regimentation in the political arena. They have here in Illinois, for instance, a “2 per cent” club just like Indiana. ‘The organizers in Illinois, however, apparently anticipated that they would be charged with corcion so they took care of it in advance by asking the State employes to sign cards virtually saying “I have not been coerced.” The membership card actually reads as follows: “I hereby voluntarily and of my own free will and accord make appli- cation for membesship in the Iroquois Illinois League.” Just as the Hoosier Democratic Club in Indiana i not incorporated, but is conducted like a social club, so the Illinois leaders have used the club idea and they have stationed collec- tors in every district to get the month- ly payments. $1,000,000 Fund. ‘The State government pay roll in Tllinois amounts to about $15,000,000 a year and in three years the 2 per cent levy is estimated to have fur- nished a fund of about $1,000,000 which is used for political organiza- tion purposes. The reason that so many observers ADVERTISEMENT. THE EVEN News Behind the News Belgium Seeks to Free Self From Communistically Inclined France. BY PAUL MALLON. ELGIUM'S move to slide out of her miiitary alliance with France was more than an idle straw in the European diplomatic whirlwind. It was another turn of the war weathervane more definitely toward realignment of European friendships on a basis of fascism and communism. World diplomats are not giving public interpretations, but they know the reason behind it. They all inwardly accept France as practically com- munistic, from an international diplomatic standpoint. They see not only the Franco-Russian alli- ance, but the balance of power wielded by Communists in the French Chamber of Deputies. The Belgians also saw that and wanted no part of it. Realistically, they saw, further, that the danger of war in Europe now is between Germany and Russia. They did not want to be drawn into it indi- rectly by their old historic alliance with France. * % x X It does not mean war, but it does mean the decline of France as a world power unless she can extricate herself. It spoils the last pretense of the old French forelgn policy of security. It would leave her only Russia as a certain ally, surrounded by Fascist Germany, Italy and Spain, with such constitutional monarchies as England and Belgium drawing away from her. French statesmen will undoudtedly do all they can to keep the Belgian King’s assertion of neutrality from being carried out fully. They may succeed sufficiently to muddle the situation, but they can- not turn the wind which is definitely against them. War will come when the Fascist camps are solidified and co-related, when the coming Fascist gévernment of Spain is entrenched, when Fascist Germany and Italy push up to the Soviet border, consolidating their posie tions and influence in Austria, Hungary and the Balkans. * X x % Low-salaried employes in more than one Government office are be~ ginning to wish that those Du Ponts would give some money to-the Demo- cratic campaign. The burden is getting just a little heavy. They did not mind when they were invited to take $10 seats at the Jackson day dinner and even later when they were similarly “invited” to buy a convention year book for $5. But a few days ago along came an invitation to contribute 2 per cent of their salaries to State campaign committees, which are not under the same rigid restrice tions against receiving Federal do- nations as is the national com- mittee. This meant a $20 contri- . bution for each $1,000 of annual salary. and, in some cases, it hurt. The solicitation in one office, however, was about 100 per cent perfect. Suggestion by R. F. C. Chairman Jones that the corporation tax law would be modified next session was not accepted here as official. Mr. Jones has always thought the law was wrong. He wants deductions for plant expansion and debt retirement. In fact, Mr. ones, F. R. B. Governor Eccles and F. D. I. C. Chairman Crowley are understood to have worked inside for some such liberalisation of the bill in Congress against the Treasury last session. But the Treasury prevailed. Modifications of the law next session, if any, will be in the hands of the Treasury. The question is whether President Roosevelt will side with the Morgenthau-Oliphant group of advisers, as he has 5o far, or whether he will come around to the viewpoint of Messrs. Crowley, Eccles and Jones, whose advice was not followed often in the past year. * X % x ‘There are at least two cabinet rumors for every cabinet officer, except ‘Wallace and Huli. Imaginary flights of gossip have conjured the follow- ing possibilities if Mr. Roosevelt is re-elected: Gen. Johnson for the temporarily filled War Department chair; Mayor La Guardia for labor; Senator Couzens for Commerce, and also, with Joseph Kennedy and Gov. Lehman, for Treasury; Gov. McNutt for war; Donald Richberg for Attor- ney General; also Johnson or Richberg for Harry Hopkins. The ideas are pure speculation, partly for campaign stimulation purposes, but scme of the suggestions are believed to have been talked officially. La Guardia, Couzens and McNutt are the best bets, (Cogyright, 1936, doubt this, but T would not be sur- prised if it ran as high as 200,000. Then if Cook County fails to give Mr. Roosevelt a majority or even if it gives him as much as 100,000, the en- tire State would cast its electoral vote for Landon by a 100,000 majority. Illinois is fighting ground when a margin of 100,000 out of 3,700,000 ex- pected ballots is expected to decide the electoral vote. (Copyright, 1936.) are saying that Mr. Roosevelt will carry the State is that they are in- fluenced by a knowledge of the effec- tiveness of the Democratic organiza- tion throughout the State and by the noise and shouting made by the Roose- velt political machine in Cook County. Inquiry downstate, on the other hand, reveals that the trend is de- cidedly Republican. Some estimates given privately by Republicans is that the downstate vote will bring & 300,000 majority for Gov. Landon. I NG STAR, WASHINGTON D. C, q’Hl 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 opinfons may be contradictory among themselves and directly opposed to The Star’s. On the Record Basic Issues Are Ignored by Roosevelt in Re-election BY DOROTHY THOMPSON. RESIDENT ROOSEVELT'S fail- ure to discuss what are really the basic issues of this cam- aign is disappointing. We have had three and & half years of an administration which began by being frankly experimental. Mr. Roosevelt, upon taking office, com- mitted himself to ... & pragmatic ap- proach to the very serious problems which confronted the American people. He said that he would try this and that, seeking the best advice he could find, and what worked he would retain and what proved failure he would reject. Now, at the end of his ad- ministration, one might reasonably hope that the ?ewd of the Govern- ment, standing for re-election, would tell the American people which of his policies he considers to have stood the test of application and which he believes should be abandoned or modi- fied, and if modified, how. But, instead, he stands on the rec- ord. The record, however, contains some notable successes and some ghastly failures, and it contains, also, some attempts which are now accepted by both parties as being sound in ob- jective, but which are much criticized as they are legally framed and prac- tically administered. Aimed to End Deflation. Dorothy Thempsen Mr. Roosevelt has proceeded along | three fronts. One branch of his policy was devoted to ending the de- flation, adjusting debts, encouraging reinvestment, checking the flow of money into stock exchange specula- tion, increasing the governmental fa- cllities for exercising control over the volume of credit and opening me‘r To channels of international trade. this part of his program belong the | devaluation of the dollar, the aban- donment of gold payments except to meet international obligations, the extension of easy credit to home owners, the refinancing of farm mort- gages, the securities exchange act, the reorganization of the Federal Re- serve Board, the reciprocal trade treaties and finally the international stabilization agreement. It is apparent that in defending this part of his policy the President feels himself on safest ground. Second Part of Policy. ‘The second part of his policy had to do with the reorganization of American industry and agriculture. Behind the President's policy were certain theories. Some of these theories were given clearest expression by Dr. Rexford Tugwell, who has spoken with complete frankness in several speeches, in pamphlets and in books. Mr. Tugwell's chief thesis is that America is no langer an ex- panding economy, and has reached the point of maintenance; that the prob- lem is not one of production, but wholly of distribution. And that gov- Mary took two puffs and STOPPED AKE NO MISTAKE about it—the fresh ciga- rette is a happier smoke—a fresh Old Gold with all its original double-mellow goodness. Campaign. emment with coercive powers over industry is necessary at this point in our economic development to attain stability. The probability is that it is ‘wrong, quite seriously wrong. N. R. A. Fiasco Cited. The clearest demonstration of the Government’s attempts to deal with an unproved thesis was the N. R. A. conceived of as a plan for the organi- zation of self-government of industry under basic codes. By the time business men and trade union leaders had all assembled in Washington, each group trying to devise a code which would cover every possible emergency and be rigged for every possible advantage, the whole thing reached an absurdity, and when it was thrown out by the Supreme Court there was a very general sigh of relief. It is my belief that if the President is re-elected if will be because most people believe that he has abandoned permanently this part of his program. But there is nothing in anything he has thus far said to justify that belief. Rehabilitation of Slump Victims Atm. ‘The third part of his program aims at the rehabilitation of the victims of the depression, and abandons the lais- sez faire social policy which has been traditional in this country. Under it comes the Relief Administration, the Youth Administration and the social security provisions for old-age pensions and unemployment insurance. Here there is unanimity between both par- ties as to the principles. But there is the greatest possible divergence as to method. The administration’s only answer to attacks on method is that the Republicans don't mean their promises; that they are a crowd of social reactionaries who intend to scrap all social security and all Federal relief if they come into power, and that since the principle is all right the prac- tice will adjust itself. To this col- umnist that kind of answer is unfair to the American people, and con- temptible. The question of method | can be quite as important as the ques- tion of principie. Gov. Landon’s crit- |ieism of the social security bill was based upon a very careful analysis, which he wisely employed disinterested experts for months to prepare. It is not answered by Mr. Winant's resig- nation. The questions of whether re- lief shall be centralized federally, of whether a made-work program is wise, of whether it is the business of the Federal Government {o see that every unemployed actor and writer shall be provided with work projects, are ques- | tions which millions of American citi- zens are asking. Indeed, the whole made-work program is open to such serious debate that I shall devote a column to raising some of tne ques- tions about it that occur to me as one American citizen. But the President and his spokesmen are dodging every important question in this part of the Government program and confining themselves merely to expressions of warm humanitarianism. That is not enough! (Copyright. 1936. New York Tribune. Ine.) T. §. Candy Champion. Americans eat more candy than the people of any other country in the world. MONDAY, OCTOBER 19, 1936. We, the People Farm Section’s Switch Back to G. O. P. Arouses Question of Political Gratitude. BY JAY FRANKLIN. SOD&! of the New Dealers who think beyond the election are deeply worried over the possibility that some of the farm States may vote for Landon. It is true that ths most anxious ones will lose their political hides if this should happen, but it is also true that they include men like Henry Wallace, who are in New Deal politics to help the farmer rather than in farm politics to help the New Deal. For much the same reason, conservative Wall Street Republicans are not hot and bothered by Landon’s promises of a cash subsidy to farmers which would cost the taxpayers over $2,000,000,000 a year. They rightly figure that this is a promise which need not be kept if they succeed in plant- ing sunflower seeds in the White House. This is because projes- sional politicians flgure the farm vote—like all other votes—on only one basis: Dependability. All through - the terrible twenties the farm belters were dependable Republicans, as they had been, with rare ezceptions, ever since the G. O. P. gave them free lands after the Civil War. In 1932, the farmers’ patience was ezhausted and they voted for Roosevelt on a platform which promised immediate relief and “parity” for farm prices with in- dustrial prices, E The New Dealérs made good on their political promises to the farm belt. F. C. A. checked the tide of foreclosures. Devaluation of the dollar, plus A. A. A, production controls, restored profitable export and domestic prices. Farm income upped by $3,000,000,000 a year from the low point of the Hoover depression. * % % X Drought relief, long-range conservation and land use measures gave & firmer economic basis to commercial farming. Reciprocal trade agree- ments tended to expand foreign markets and to lower domestic prices for manufactured goods and specialties. Short of paying the farmer a cash bonus for being himself and going his own sweet way, there is little which an American Government could have done which the New Deal did not do. All this cost something. It cost money, which meant larger national debts and taxes. The processing levy took a large part of the expense out of the consumer’s pocketbook in higher food costs. Combinations of farmers in marketing agreements and in corn, hog, cotton and wheat programs meant, as all practical combinations must mean, a loss of some freedom of action. Special interests such as the dairy and live stock industries felt insulted by the admission of competing Canadian produce, Those parts of the original A. A. A. which kept good acres idle in order that bad acres might continue to try to support “the family= type farm” were admittedly uneconomic. Since no human program, not even United States Stel or General Motors, can be operated by capillary attraction or the law of gravitation, a staff of officials—a “bureaucracy”—was called into being to administer the New Deal's Jarm measures. They succeeded in approaching “parity,” but the price paid for this “parity” caused murmurs, and the Republican candidate offered an alterna- tive program by which the farmers were offered a “parity” which would not cost them anything at all. The G. O. P. promised to pay the farmers handsomely for being themselves and going their own sweet way. * ok % X If, in response to this “golden apple” promise, the farm States should return to the Republican fold, neither this nor any other promise made to the farmers by either major party need be kept, where fulfillment proves difficult, inconvenient or unduly expensive. For the farmers will thereby have committed the un- forgivable political sin of “in- gratitude.” This is not a moral issue in the slightest. It is purely practical politics. What earthly use will it be for either political party to do anything for a section of the electorate, upon whose reciprocal support at the polls no party can depend? Promise them anything before the election . . . sure! Offer them the sun and the moon and solar system as well, if you think they will fall for it, but don't bother to pay your political debts to them after you get in office, since they assuredly will welch on their political debt to you! That is the way national committees and their financial angels will look at the farm problem if the farm belt flops for Landon after Roosevelt saved them. 1f the party which restores solvency, prosperity and self-respect to the rural population cannmot count on the loyalty, gratitude or support of the people it has saved, why bother? That is the ques- tion which the farm States will answer on November 3. An old Greek farmhand named Aesop used to tell a story about & dog which crossed a little stream. The dog was carrying a piece of meat in its mouth and, looking down, saw what it thought was another dog also carrying an even finer piece of meat. The first dog snapped at the imaginary meat in the second dog's jaws. The real meat dropped into the brook and was swept away by the current. The dog which had lost the meat was undoubtedly very unhappy about the incident, but Aesop saw the point of the story. (Copyright. 1036.) Jane took two puffs...and SMILED with PLEASURE killers of cigarette enjoyment can’t get in their work on Double-Mellow Old Golds. The won- derful double-mellow blend Lorillard (Estab- Mrs: Simpson Faces Bars To Throne Edward May Have to Quit Crown If He Weds Her. BY CONSTANTINE BROWN, RS. WALLIS SIMPSON may become Lady Renfrew or whatever title Edward VIII might choose should he abdi- cate to marry her. But, despite his hold on his people, the King of Eng- land will never be able to marry the | attractive American and put her on | the throne beside him. Not that there is any law preventing the King of England from marrying | & commoner. The only provision in the law of the United Kingdom is that the -sovereign cannot marry a Cath- olic; outside this he may choose any one he likes as his consort, Marriage to Briton Desired. The English people, that is to say, the masses which count in the last analysis, were not anxious for their young ruler to marry a foreigner merely because she was a princess of blood. They would have liked to see him marry one of the daughters of some British pecr. England was de- lighted when Princess Mary, King George's daughter, married the pres- ent Lord Harewood and when the Duke of York married Lady Elizabeth Bowes- Lyon. It was good for the royal fam- ily to marry men and women of pure English blood. But it is more than doubtful whether the marriage of the King to & fi eigner who is not of royal blood and |is furthermore a divorcee twice would | be popular with the British people, The lady in question may have captie vated the hearts of Mayfair society by her charm and tactful entertaining. But there has been insidious propa- ganda going on now for several months among the masses about her extrav gance and how lavishly and freely she was spending the King's money. The few thousand dollars Edward is spend- ing on his friend have become in pop- ular imagination millions which may have been spent to a better advan- tage on the unemployed and the poor in the mining districts. Playing With Fire. For these reasons there has been a | feeling in the King's immediate en- tourage that the monarch was play- ing with fire when he disregarded t advice of the men who warned him that any rash step, any following of the impulse of his heart, may bring about a change on the British throne. 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