Evening Star Newspaper, October 29, 1936, Page 11

New York City May Lag on Roosevelt Tammany Could For- get to Get Out Vote and Switch State. Today's dispatch analyzes the presidential campaign in New York State, the 39th State to be visited by David Lawrence in his personal survey of the 40 States outside the “Solid South.” BY DAVID LAWRENCE., EW YORK, October 20.—Hav- ing visited upstate New York, the query naturally is, “How much can Mr. Roosevelt get in New York City to overcome the upstate lead of Landon?” There is but one answer to that Qquestion, and it might well be put in the form of a query: “Why should Tammany commit suicide?” Curiously enough, the Tam- many organiza- tion is fighting for its life. It is I not battling against a crusad- | ing reform group trying to estab- lish idealists in place of spoils- men. Tammany is up against an- other group of invaders, known as the “American | Labor party,” who want possession of the machinery of New York City’s litica] organization so that Mayor Guardia and the laborites may do with Tammany what the Non-Partisan Leaguers used to do to the Republican party in the Northwest—capture the party label and control the primaries. Tammany has a mayoralty election next vear. The American Labor party, which is being secretly encouraged by the New Deal, is endeavoring to get & foothold this time so it may domi- nate and control the next city election and also the next gubernatorial elec- tion. If Tammany plays the game of the Roosevelt regime, it will be com- | mitting political suicide. May Lag on Vote. Many of the old-line leaders know | what is at stake. Will they. therefore, pass out the word to scratch the Roosevelt ticket? Far from it. Such things are not done nowadays. Tam- many will not get out its vote. If Tammany were really to exert itself, New York City would give Mr. Roose- velt more than 1,000,000 majority. As a matter of fact, that's what the New Dealers want and expect, but they are in for a surprise. The New York City majority for Roosevelt will vary somewhere between 600,000 and 800,000. The Literary Di- gest poll gives Mr. Roosevelt New York | City by around 900,000, but it also gives Mr. Landon upstate New York by about 1,200,000, The Republican and New Deal chief- tains upstate are not expecting the Landon vote to go beyond 800,000; in fact, the New Dealers put it down as Jow as 500,000 and the Republicans hesitate to claim more than 700,000. But the fact is the upstate tide is run- ning higher for Landon every day and there is every reason to believe that an | £00.000 majority for Landon is con- | servative upstate, Smith May Be Factor. As for New York City, a majority of 700,000 for Roosevelt would seem to be about what might be expected, con- sidering the defections in the ranks of what was once the Democratic party. Al Smith may not have as much strength as he had before, but if he converts one out of every ten Democrats, he is making deep inroads. Likewise, the Lemke-Coughlin vote ghown in the Literary Digest's percent- ages will have to go somewhere on elec~ tion day, as there is no Lemke-Cough- lin place on the official ballot. Landon will get the better of that shift, be- cause most of the Lemke-Coughlin vote 15 & protest vote against the Roosevelt regime and only incidentally interested in the Landon side. New York State plainly shows a re- ceding tide for Mr. Roosevelt. In 1935 it was manifest, as compared with 1934; and in 1934 it was apparent, | as compared with 1932, This State | has been slowly reverting to Repub- licanism, and unquestionably the dry sentiment has been aroused by Mr. Roosevelt's open boast that he brought | *“repeal” of the eighteenth amendment. 0ld Lineup Revived. In the old days, when there was wet and dry fight in New York State, the country and towns lined up against the cities. Today there is somewhat the same lineup, but the cities are not thinking about the wet and dry issue. The Republican leaders have probably underestimated their own strength in the cities and the New Dealers have overestimated it. New York State has been contin- uously classed as doubtful. It is. When 100,000 persons can shift their votes in the last few days and change the electoral count of 47, there is every reason to call it “deubtful” and *close.” In the ranks of the New Dealers, there is a sublime confidence that they will sweep the State. This is part of the “success” psychology and strategy of the New Deal high com- mand. The propaganda of ‘“coming victory” in New York State has been spread so assiduously that lots of New Yorkers who are for Roosevelt aren't even going to take the trouble to vote—they will feel their vote isn't needed. The Republicans, on the other hand, are eager to pile up a protest vote, no matter how the final figure looks. Narrow Margin Likely. The Republicans are, of course, the under-dogs in the fight. They are struggling desperately to get out their vote and to push the city vote up higher and higher for Landon. The discussion of the pay roll tax has begun to change votes. The bold strategy of the American Labor Party in setting itself up as a threat to Tam- many has brought disturbance in Tammany quarters, New York looks as if it were leaning very much toward Landon, but by & mnarrow majority—possibly not more than 100,000. «Coprright. 1936. by the North Americen Newspaper Alliance inec.) OLD GOLD AND SILVER wilk rinq you s CASH David Lawrence, . THE EVENING STAR, WASHINGTON, D. C, THURSDAY, OCTOBER 29, 1836. News Behind the News Edge Given Landon in Michigan—His Victory in Massachusetts Also Predicted. ; BY PAUL MALLON. OV. LANDON has a small margin In Michigan. The best surveys indicate he has reason to expect a majority of about 50,000 < ; votes there, although this figure is not guaranteed. Massachusetts is supposed to be even surer for Landon, with prospects that his majority there may reach 170,000. President Roosevelt's majority in Missour is being expertly guessed at & strong 170,000; in Arizona, at a slim 20,000, and, in New Mexico, at & slimmer 18,000 Note—None of these figures are perfect, but the guesses for the Western States usually work out more accurately than in the more populous States. . . s All the polls show Gov. Landon leading in South Dakota, but the small sum of 10 cents (no more, no less) could safely be wagered that Mr. Roosevelt may carry it by a majority of 13,000 to 30,000 votes. e e e The only really sure indication of Gov. Landon's election was given the other day when Gen. Johnson told friends Landon would not carry five States. The general won a reputa- tion in N. R. A. days for prophesy=- ing backward with unfailing regu- larity. Incidentally, Johnson has met all rumors that he may be the next Secretary of War with the crack that the only thing he is likely to be secretary of is the White House dog house. This makes it more or less certain also that he will be next Secretary of War. * Kk % The hypersentive State Department has rarely been “hyped” on any subject as much as upon the forthcoming Pan-American Con- Jerence. The experts in delicacy have been really outdoing themselves in an eflort to keep that meeting pure and serene. For example there is an Assistant State Secretary named Sumner Welles. The statement tnat he exists can now be made flatly. Reporters saw him the other day with their own eyes, for just about the first time since he took office. He called them in. That, in itself, caused a sensation in iitate Department quarters. It was expected that nothing less than a deciaration of war would be announced, but all Mr. Welles wanted to say was ‘hat there was nothing in the visit paid him by Juan B. Sacasa, forme- President of Nicaragua. It was the first that any one had heard of Sacasa’s visit, because Mr. Welles always runs his visitors in and out without detection. Never- theless, Mr. Welles did not want the word to get to South America that he had been hobnobbing with the Nicaraguan, installed by the Stimson mediation and later tossed by Guardia forces who were tutored in milder tactics by American marines. Japan has been hinting around that she would like to maintain the status quo on fortifications in the Pacific. She is supposed to have sounded out England and England has sounded out our authorities about what will be done when the 1931 treaty pledge ageinst fortifications expires December 31, Nothing official has been done about it yet. * x % It sounds like a good idea, but there is more than a suspicion here that Japan would not now be in favor of that status quo unless the status quo was in her favor. That is, authorities have reason to believe that Japan must have completed her indirect fortification program. She has been dredging our harbors, only for “commercial purposes,” of course, creating sand-beach landing flelds, only for “commercial planes,” of course, and generally has worked her commer- cial program around so that it fits her naval needs perfectly. For instance, there are the Bonin Islands, 500 miles south of her mainland. She had a $400,- 000,000 fortification project started there js 1921 when the treaty scrapped it. Not an outside visitor has been permitted to visit the Bonins since 1921. Dredging is sald to have made the harbor big enough to house about two-thirds of the Japanese fleet. Perhaps the half dozen 16-inch motors she had on Peel Island there have not been aug- mented, but maybe she added about a few dozen more for “commercial” purposes. Our authorities do not suspect that, but they do not know. ‘They are inclined to be skeptical about the staus quo. * X X % The best authorities say there is nothing in these stories that Britain has ordered war planes from American manufacturers, The manufacturer who was supposed to Rave received the order came around to see Federal authorities the other day, suggesting that if any one caught sight of any British buyers in the market for planes they be sent directly to im. If any British planes are bought here they will be built to British, and not American, specifications, The Army and Navy have an under- standing with the manufacturers now about the exclusive use of certain American patents. (Copyright. 1936.) LANDON ANTI-JEW ATTITUDE IS DENIED “Spirit of Liberty Bell” Dominates G. 0. P. Nominee, Kansas City | Attorney Says. By the Associated Press, | NEW YORK, October 29.—Jacob A. | Harzfeld, Kansas City attorney, as- | serted here last night that the “spirit | of the Liberty Bell” has dominated | Gov. Alf M. Landon's attitude toward | minorities and termed “a campaign | lie” reports he said were circulated to | indicate falsely that Landon was prejudiced against Jews. Harzfeld spoke with Theodore Roose- velt and Roger W. Straus on a radio | program (WJZ) sponsored by the Re- publican party. He said “this ugly libel” was based | on a letter in which Dr. F. A. Car- michael, superintendent of a Kansas State hospital, had written in March, 1936, to medical schools informing them all applicants for interneships “must be Gentiles.” Harzfeld said that Dr. Carmichael Why Laxatives Fail In Stubborn - Conslipation Twelve to 24 hours iz too long to wait when relief from clogged bowels and constipation is needed. for then| Shormous auantities of bacteria mc. cumulate, causing GAS. indigestion and many restless, sleepless nights. If you want REAL, QUICK RELIEP, take a liquid compoand such as Ad- lerika. Adlerika contains PEVEN ca- thartic and carminative ingredients t act on the stomach and TH bowels. Most “‘overnight” laxatives contain one ingredient that acts on the lower bowel oniy. Adlerika’s DOUBLE ACTION gl our system a _thorough _cleans| ringing out old poisonous waste ma ter that may have caused GAS pains, sour stomach. headaches and slcepiess nights for months. Adlerika relieves stomach GAS at| once and usually removes bowel con-| gestion in less than two hours, No waiting for overnight results. ~ This famous treatment has been 'recom- mended by many doctors and for 35 years. Take Adlerika me-%f fast or one i or Tore” peatime and in & shorl while you will feel marvelously refreshed. At leading druggists. B was “a Southern Democrat, appointee of a Democratic Governor,” and that Landon, ex officio head of the hos- pital board, was “furious at this manifestation of bigotry” when the letter was brought to his notice. “He ordered the immediate dis- missal of Dr. Carmichael,” Harzfeld said. . Learn to Sew on Buttons. GRAND ISLAND, Nebr, (#).—Fu- ture husbands and bachelors alike here are learning to perform an ever- present task—sewing on buttons. They are Lincoln school pupils of the fifth and sixth grades, members of a sewing club, Their teachers said they are becoming proficlent with needle and thread. 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 opinions may be contradictory among themselves and directly opposed to The Star’s. We, the People New Deal Yet May Cash in on Social Conflict in New England. BY JAY FRANKLIN. that Landon would carry all six New England States. For if there is any one head and front to the anti-Roosevelt “children’s cru- TWO Roosevelts Running RIGHT up to the eve of the election most political experts conceded New Dealer Promises “No is Nominee of Democratic South. BY MARK SULLIVAN. PREEIDE’NT ROOSEVELT on Monday spoke at the dedica- tion of a new building at a leading institution for colored students, Howard University. It was one of those presidential addresses which are designated as “non-politi- cal,” occasions when Mr. Roosevelt is just the Presi- dent—and is not running for re- election at all. Mr. Roosevelt § lived up to that serviceable as- sumption. His speech was not political—Mr. Roosevelt would hardly commit : any such viola- tion of subtlety. It was the sort of speech, in com- plete propriety, which any Presi- aent might make at any Negro insti- | tution. Mr. Roosevelt did not ask the colored citizens to vote for him—de- tails of the campaign are in the hands of Farley. The one personal allusion he made was to the effect that his administration had followed a policy that “there should be no forgotten men and no forgotten races.” But the President had with him, as an additional speaker, his Secretary | of the Interior Harold L. Ickes. It was from Ickes’ P. W. A. that the funds for the building came. And P. W. A, had functioned (in this case) with such happily precise timing that the progress of the building to the point of dedication coincided with the eighth | day preceding the election. With equal | felicity and facility, Ickes in his ad- dress was able to call off a long list of other Negro educational institutions| and hospitals which have received a | total of $6,250,000 from P. W. A. Garner Absent. I was all good, clean politics. Yet | one felt that Mr. Roosevelt's laudable sentiment about ‘no forgotten races” might have been more convincing. It would have helped if his running mate had been on the stage with him and had joined in his assurance to the col- ored audience. And one felt that the colored folks now about to vote for Mr. Roosevelt might be disquieted if | they were to remember that in voting for President Roosevelt they are also Mark Sullivan, |in two separate rolls—as nominee n(‘ voting for Vice President Garner. After all, in the course of nature, if the Demoeratic ticket wins, it is con- ceivable that Mr. Garner might prob- | ably become President some time dur- ing the next four vears—it is for this contingency that Vice Presidents are elected. | ‘This possibility seems to have been foreseen by some colored leaders. The National Council for Negro Constitu- tional Defense has been looking up Mr. Garner's record in Congress. It has issued a pamphlet reciting some | actions by Mr. Garner which suggest | that he, contrary to Mr. Roosevelt, prefers that the Negro should be & “forgotten race”—or should be remem- bered only to be discriminated against. The citations from the Congressional Record made by the Negro National Council have not been checked by me —it has not seemed necessary, for the ing care. It recites that on four occa- sions, from 1906 to 1922. Mr. Garner introduced in Congress bills “to repeal the law allowing enlistments of col. ored men in the United States Army.” Pat Harrison Also Absent. ‘There are other Democratic leaders whose presence on the platform with Mr. Roosevelt at the Howard Univer- sity dedication might have given a dent’s resolution that the Negro shall not be a “forgotten race.” For éxam- ple, Democratic Senator Pat Harrison, | in whose State an ingenious constitu- tional provision is so operated that only about one Negro in a thousand is This is the | upon yourself . . . four long years of pamphlet bears evidence of painstak- | much needed seconding to the Presi- | Forgotten Races,” Yet He permitted to vote. And Senator James F. Byrnes, in whose State of South Carolina only about 1,030 NeZoes vote in a total Negro population of about 900,000. Mr. Roosevelt, in one of his cam- paign speeches, spoke of the Repub- lican leadership in this campaign as being “Janus-faced,” presenting one fact to the East, another to the West. To any charge of “Janus-faced” com- ing from Mr. Roosevelt, the Repub- licans might make a piquant retort by comparing Mr. Roosevelt as promiser in 1932 with Mr. Roosevelt as per- former during his presidency. But let that pass. In Two Roles. The Mr, Roosevelt of today, the Mr. Roosevelt who is now running for re-election, is saved from any neces- sity of being Janus-faced. He is saved by the happy fact that he is running the Democratic party, and as head of | the New Deal. It is the Mr. Roosevelt that is head | of the New Deal who tells the colored | folks that in his administration there | is “no forgotten race.” It is the other Mr. Roosevelt, the nominee of the Democratic party, who says nothing about Negro voting in the South. It is the New Deal that solicits colored votes in the North. It is the Demo- cratic party that prevents Negro vot- ing in the South. But the Northern Negroes who are being solicited to vote the Democratic ticket might appropri- ately send a pointed telegram to Uvalde, Tex., telling Mr. Garner that “we will vote for you in New York as soon as we are allowed to vote for you in Texas.” Up to this time, Mr. Roosevelt, Farley, Ickes and the other New Deal leaders clearly have made progress toward gefting much of the Negro vote, especially in the great cities. | They get it mainly by appeal to a quality that is strong in the colored | race, the admirable trait of gratitude. A very large number of the Negroes in the large cities are on relief. An | appeal put out by the Democratic | National Committee says “We have almost nine and a half million col- ored people either on work relief or direct relief.” That number seems excessive, though the Democratic Na- tional Committee ought to know—pre- sumably it can get freely from W. P. A. figures which the Republicans are un- able to pry out even by court pro- ceedings. The colored persons on re- lief are grateful. Another group is the friends and relatives of those on relief. The colored people are a gen- | erous folk; it was their custom to give | from their own earnings to those who | had none. From this they are now | relieved. Fright Plays Part. ‘To the appeal for gratitude, Demo- cratic organization workers add in- timidation and fright. The colored folks are led to think that unless Mr. Roosevelt is re-elected, relief will end. A “Summons to Colored Voters” put out by the Democratic National Com- mittee tells them that unless they vote for Mr. Roosevelt “You will bring deprivation, starvation, and want of | food. clothing and shelter . . . So vote for your friend, your leader and your President, Pranklin Delano Roosevelt.” The colored folks abide by an old | Southern saying: “Whose bread I eat, his song I sing.” When Mr. Roosevelt nd the P. W. A and W. P. A. officials, in their outgivings about relief, say “We have given,” the “we” is assumed to be the imperial use of the word as a substitute for “I.” That manner of speaking has irked Father Coughlin, who pointedly asks, “Where does Mr. Roosevelt get that “we” stuff?” It does not occur to beneficiaries on relief that “we” really means all the tax- payers, and that Gov. Landon, if elected, would continue relief as long | as it is needed. (Copyrisht, 1936,) last week of the exhibit of rare gems and jewelry of modern design from the collection of BLACK, STARR & FROST-GORHAM, FIFTH AVENUE, NEW YORK, now on view in our store. We trust no one in Washington who loves fine things will miss this oppor- tunity to see these precious and perfect gems, and the many beautiful pieces priced in keeping with the times. SMART NEW DESIGN IN A COCKTAIL RING—SAPPHIRES AND DIAMONDS SET IN PLATINUM C.* 607 THIRTEENTH STREET N. W. WASHINGTON sade” it is in the Yankee homeland, where the colleges steadily poll 2 to 1 for any Republican candidate, and where the thrifty, “old stock™ farmers would rather give their native hillsides back to the Indians than to the Democrats. . Roosevelt's swing through South« ern New England caused the Demo- cratic National Committee to revise its figures upward to a point which restricted the “sure” Landon ter- ritory to Maine and Vermont. The huge and hysterical crowds which greeted the President every- where in the land of the Pilgrims’ pride bewildered all the com- mentators. -Could this be the region where “F. D. R.” were the “scarlet letters” of 19367 The answer seems to be that New England’s opposition to the New Deal has been based on social rather than economic or political considerations. As a matter of cold fact, the New Deal has been, mainly, an attempt to apply New England solutions to national problems. In the last 150 years New England has been deflated by experts—“not now and again, but again and again”—until it became a condition of survival for the Yankees to invent such practices as subsistence farming, diversification of crops, decentralization and diversification of industries, retirement of uneconomic farm land from cultivation, tourist and vacation development, lower interest rates and a healthy skepticism of Wall Street. * K x ¥ Thanks to these New Deal devices, New England survived the depres- sion and her investment in life insurance and college endowments was salvaged by (he New Deal's “waste” and extravagance” in the South and West. But from the outset the New Deal threatened to tune in politically on the serious social conflict in New England between the old Yankee stock and the foreign stock—the Italian, Portuguese, Irish, Poles, French- Canadians, etc., who manned New England’s factories and fisheries. This social struggle had become serious by the end of the war, its eristence comverted the Sacco-Vanzetti case jrom an ordinary tangle of legal technicalities into a psychological lynching The two Italian “martyrs to the class struggle” were not electrocuted because they had, according to very shaky circumstantial evidence, shot a paymaster at Braintree, Mass., or even because they were “radicals.” It was because they were “furriners” and because the old-stock Yankees who controlled the courts, the colleges, the banks, the factories and the wealth decided that it was high time to teach the aliens a sharp lesson. * ok * % From this point on the trail runs clear. In the Hoover landslide of 1928, Al Smith carried only eight States, but among them were Massa- chusetts and Rhode Island. The same two States voted for Roosevelt in 1932, in spife of the absence of “class hatred.” Since then Pennsyivania, where a somewhat similar social conflict exists, has gone Democratic, and it is important to note that Roosevelt received his recent ovations in those communities where the foreign- stock New Englanders predominate —Providence, Boston, Hartford, New Haven and the cities on the Sound. It is this social division which gives the New Dealers their hope of carrying Southern New England and New Hampshire as well on November 3. Under these circumstances a possible Nation-wide Roosevelt land- slide would take the form of social earthquake in New England, where the New Deal has been opposed, not because its policies offend New Eng- landers, but because they threaten to drive the old Yankee stock from the seats of the mighty, in favor of the despised “aliens” on whose labors they have thrived for the last 50 years. (Copyright. 1936.) {up with | Sam Houston, San Antonio. Tex | Bouthwest than a Headline Folk and What They Do Dizzy Dean Too Good, Put Up for Sale by Cardinals. BY LEMUEL F. PARTON. 1ZZY DEAN is up for sale bee cause he's too good. The St. Louis Cardinals have marked him up to some- where around $500,000, thinking that, with money like that, they could lay in a full pitching staff, which, they be- lieve, wins more pennants than one star. They took four pennants in six years before they got Dean, and only one in the five years after they bought him. He wins 25 to 30 games in a season. A pitcher who can turn in 13 is a star. But while one star doesn't win pen- nants, two or three stars do. With Carl Hubbell Dizzy might set up a mass production goose-egg factory. It is understood the Giants are dickering. Off-stage at a New York theater the other day th's writer was talking with some of the hired help about the waning star system (n the drama mills. It's the same story there. They pipe down the stars and build up the team. Sand-lot ball players and actors are warned. A straight-line, conveyor belt civilization demands steady delivery by performers who aren't too cone spicuous, too expensive or too indise pensable. We pull our punch in the arts, sports and business. Getting back to Dizzy Dean. he got his first pair of shoes when he joined the Field Artillery at Fort As a 6-foot-4 barefooted kid ball player he had kicked up more dust in the ot of other lads with shoes. The Chicago Cubs, in a Spring workout there, thought he was just another busher. He blanked them. The big clubs went after him. His father helped spring him out of the Army, and here is the “great gabbo” of base bali, as the sports writers call him—the allusion his friendly and fluent line of He was born on an Oklahoma cot= ton patch in 1911—‘“plenty poor.” as he puts it, but platinum-plated now. (Copyright, 1936.) Dizzy Dean. Natural Gas Parley Called. AUGUSTA, Ga. October 29 (A).— Mayor Richard E. 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