Evening Star Newspaper, July 28, 1937, Page 13

THE EVENING STAR, WASHINGTON D. WEDNESDAY, JULY 28, 1937. NewDeal Uses Smear Tactics, Is View Attack on Lehman for Differing on Court Cited by Observer. BY DAVID LAWRENC RESIDENT ROOSEVELT has plenty to worry about in dis- charging the multifarious du- ties of his office, but one of the chief thorns in his side must be the persons who set themselves up as spokesmen of the New Deal. & This becomes : particularly evi- dent as so-called New Deal spokes- men seck to drive & wedge between the President and his personal friend, Gov. Leh- man of New York The fact that a man may have an honest and sincere conviction about a public question seems to ose spokesmen as wholly im- the moment an opinion viates even David Lawrence. kets of | smear paint are tugn e indi- | viduals who e temerity to assert the Gov. E: of Pen ania, who wants to succeed Mr. Roosevelt in the White House, was among the first to denounce Gov. Lehman and to question his “liberalism” just because the New York Governor did not agree with the President’s court “packing” plan. Another New Deal spokesman Wwrote to several of the newspapers: “The stab-in-the-back letter from Gov. Lehman of New York to Senator Wagner urging the laiter to oppose s judiciary reform bill rk of & professional banker and an amateur politician, “Incidentally, it es President Roasevelt for having of man who ment is the same thing as advanced political libera Lehman Praised Last Fall. Whatever advanced liberalism may nique of atiri motives to you names. Gov. liberal last Autu New Deal side one-time inve praised h labor and day all the progressive achievements and co; record of the New York Governor are, acc ng to the: New Deal spokesmen, to be ca: the discard because Mr. Lehman ex- pressed himself as a citizen in a letter to one of the two Senators who represent New York State in Congress. The incident, however, is typical of the smear idea wh has prevailed here ever since the New Deal began The strategv applied to those who differed from the New Deal was always to attack them persona to imply that they could not possibly be honest but must be a tool of some sinister inter Part of the game is to get peop! write letters to the press accusing evervbody who differs with the New Deal of somehow beinz an “economic royalist’ or a product of wealth and luxury It never seems to have occured to ! these critics that they must find some | other name than “economic royalists™ for at least 15,000,000 of the 17,000,000 | who voted last Fall against the New Deal. For the latest available figures | in income taxes showed that only ap- proximately 2,000,000 persons earned | enough money to pay income taxes. | Certainly the 15,000,000 are persons who toil for a living and doubtless had | some apprehension that the New Deal might have designs on our American system of constitutional government, The smear campaign is usually handled by the Democratic National Committee, which believes that politics permits it to violate all rules of fair- ness and yet that its own misadven- | tures in circumventing the Federal | corrupt act are somehow | blameless. N\ Roosev is to some extent culpable for permitting the | smear method to be used, for he him- self has occasionally used epithets | attributing improper methods to those who oppose him on public questions, But the disciples of the New Deal have learned the technique so well that they employ it against anybody no matter what his previous record. Thus | Senator Wheels liberal of liberals, has lately been the subject of bitter abuse by the so-called liberal spokes- men. ents and calling on the | banker. but | half of Wheeler Object of Scorn. ‘The chief objection is that he hap- Pened to use his judgment independ- ently of the New Dealers. It seems that & person who disagrees with the New Deal may do so privately, but to make public his dissent is a high erime and misdemeanor in the code of so-called liberals Gov. Lehman's misdeed, it seems, was that he let the public know how he felt about the Supreme Court plan and that he released his letter at the wrong time. Just why one who fights for a cause must conform to some rule laid down by persons on the other side when he wants his own contention to prevail is something of a mystery. | CNUSED BY LEADING HOSPITALS N TREATING EXTERNALLY CAUSED SKIN - IRRITATIONS | Like countless individual users, im- portant hospitals have found treat- ment with Cuticura brings effective relief from skin irritation. Cuticura Ointment also helps heal andrestore smooth, clear skin. Cuticura Soap, quick lathering, mildly medicated, ideal for toilet and bath. Each 25¢. All druggists. FREE sample, write *“Cuticura”, Dept. 52, Malden, Mass. m as a | What’s Back of It All Tourists Will Be Sought to Rehabilitate Puerto Rico. ' $600,000 Earmarked for Travel Taxes. BY H. R. BAUKHAGE. OV. WINSHIP, when he sails back to his post in Puerto Rico Thurs- day, will carry in his pocket a plan, so far carefully guarded from the eyes of the public. If he goes through with it, the charms of Uncle Sam's somewhat obstreperous ward in the Antilles may be- come a rival of Malibu and Miami. According to the blue print, the insular government would spend some $300.000 a year for the next two years on tourist lure. It is presumed by the few who know the details that the island littoral would be converted into another palm-covered bathing beach with a bathing beauty under every palm. Anyhow, the Governor expects to have the services of a publicity expert who glorified the sirens of Florida and made the bathing suit the second thing a tourist looks at in any re- sort ad. Into the beguiling picture of luxurious leisure that is to be Puerto Rico there will sail a famous ship—the storied Leviathan, now tethered to a Hoboken dock by rusty hawsers and to the United States Government by a heavy mortgage. If the special three weeks' sur- vey now under way shows her to be satisfactory, the Leviathan is about to add to the many roles she has al- ready played as mistress of the seas; as the liner Vaterland before she was seized and made over into a troopship, then a luckless and expensive liner again under the American flag. a governmental white elephant, and now a sort of mortgaged “trade-in” for the new ship the International Mer- cantile Marine is pledged to build in her place. It is understood Maritime Commissioner Kennedy's O. K. has been given to transform the ship into a floating hotel, anchored as near the beach oy San Juan as her deep draught will allow. Under these conditions, the United States would probably be the owner, chile a hotel company operated her. After using the Leviathan as a troopship to pack soldiers to Franca and bring them back, the Government paid Germany $12.000.000 for the Leviathan. It cost about $8,000,000 to recondition her. Any one who slept among her standees or messed on beans and slum in her great dining room, with the Kaiser's picture decorated with highly uncomplimentary refer- ences and smeared with tar, will understand. She has carried (not too comfortably, as this writer can testify) more than 2,000 soldiers at one time, so there is room anm'd for plenty of pay- ing guests. * E ok ok There arises in connection with this attempt to sell Puerto Rican lure to the world one pertinent question: Are the charms of Puerto Rico worth their salt? The people don't know it vet, but the way the proposition {s to be paid is by a tax on salt. Since the island produces its own salt. the levy will be & domestic affair and not offensive to any American producers; Hence the protests are not expected to carry much weight. * oK Kk In spite of the ruckus raised over the alleged breach of confidence by Representative Maury Maverick who, besides reporting what took place at the famous Jefferson Island party, bootlegged photographs to the press, it seems he has a rival. The photographs of the gathering, which now have a real collector's ralue, are those said to have been taken by Representative Jennings Randolph of West Virginia, They display graphically the extent of the island hopitality. The prize snap, however, was not taken by Mr. Randolph, but shows him in all his glory quite dominating the scene. although the President, among others, is one of the group. The latest ruling of the Post Office Department has given Chair- Kennedy of the Maritime on a few more knots to The Postmaster General says the United mail mu 20 on faste ps. Since our liners can't compete for speed with boats like the Normandie and the Queen Mary, it means that foreign bottoms are tops as far as mail carrying goes The rule, the Post Office Department says, isn't being enforced to the letter, but it's still quite a blow when Mr. Kennedy is spending mil- lfons in Government money to shoot some extra pep into our own merchant marine. But business is business and the matls must go through, ) (Copyright, 1 spokesmer 11 endeavor to make it : 2% MAYOR PLACES ate were reactionaries or conservatives This is a gross err Men like Sena-| tors Wheeler, King, Burke, Borah From now on some of the New Deal nd Walsh of : : 2 an shi e Plot to Link Administration | ship, President Roosevelt McCarran, O'Mahoney. | Philadelphian Charges Threats, | SOAP & OINTMENT Massachusetts, for instance, do not| become conservatives just because they | want to see the spirit of the Constitu- | tion preserved. It is wrong to class| the group who defeated the court plan | as ‘“conservative Democrats.” They might be called insurgent Democrats, | but this implies that the Democratic | party belongs to the New Deal. which | may be open to question in the next | primaries. The most appropriate des- ignation is “independent Democrats, for this accurately describes the group | of honorable and fearless statesmen who saved the Constitution from the destructionis who call themselves “liberals” and New Dealers. (Copyright, 1937 e . County Claims Record. Fife County in Scotland is boast- fully claiming that it holds the triplet record for the entire country. Birth returns for the year to date reveal that three sets of bonny triplets were born in the county, at Dunfermline, Methil and Coliessie, respectively. With Protection Money, By the Associated Press, PHILADELPHIA, July S. Davis Wilson assigned extra police | guards at his home yesterday and | charged an attempt was being made to link members of his administration with a distribution of gambling pro- tection money Threats have been made against him, 28.—Mavor | | the Mayor said, but added the guards were called to protect his family. “I am not agraid of those who made the threats,” he said. “Rats never worry me."” The Mayor said a memorandum, found in the papers of State Policeman Wallace F. Ely, arrested on a charge of tapping the home telephone of Louis E. Wilgarde. secretary to Wilson, showed Ely had been assigned by a legislative committee to investigate gambling and vice in Philadelphia The committee, under the chairman- ship of State Senator Frank W. 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They left as the legacy of this fatal success a mass of 5,000~ 000 Progressive Republican voters ready to bolt the party allegiance. This mass gave Franklin Delano Roosevelt the elections of 1932 and 1936. F. D. R, even before his nomination in 1932, hoped to liberalize the Demo- cratic party, to convert it painlessly into a new, vital arganization, based on progressive principles, and with a pro- gram of continuous reform to meet the continuous need for national re- adjustment to rapidly changing con- ditions. i Judging by the Democratic gaucus | vote for tt ate majority leader- has failed to | liberalize the Democratic party. A | 38-t0-37 decision in favor of the pro- New Deal Senator Barkley of Ken- | tucky is a prefty siim tribute to the appeal of five years of reform and of unprecedented political power for the Democrats. A Defeat for Baruch. Faint satisfaction can be derived by liberals and progressives who have hitherto supported the New Deal from SO narrow a victory over the claims of Southern seniority and stand- pattism represented by Senator Pat Harrison of Mississippi, the defeated candidate for the honor of leading the administration’s fight in the upper | house of Congress. Such satisfaction as exists springs from the fact that Mr. Bernard M. Baruch, the Wall Street operator, was backing Mr. Harrison, who has long | had a reputation for conservatism so | deep as to make the late Joe Robinson look like a flaming radical' in com- parison. Mr. Baruch has long been the financial “angel” for many South- politicians and his attempt to a man congenitally unsympa- thetic to political prog: upon New Deal high command amounted to New Deal stock Mr. Baruch failed Roosevelt won his point by the narrowest possible n tor out of the caucus. Thus ends the President’s effort to | liberalize the party of Jefferson and Jackson and to achieve the progres sive aims of his cous! Roosevelt, via the present organization. Libe and sives will find it difficult to intrust | their political purposes to a party | whose basic decisions can be jeopa ized by a single Senator changing his | mind. This means that, just as T. R.'s | revolt split away a large progressive | bloc of voters from the G. O. P., 80 may the New Deal split away a large bloc of liberal Democrats from the party of the Solid South, Tamm Hall and Wall Street. “Harmony" or Progress. It is now a truism to remark that A new national party is on the way 1t is already within question is whether Mr. Rooseveit will have the courage to use his present technical control of the Democratic national organization to drive the| stand-patters and Wall Street Demo- 75 memt Democratic u Theodore | | crats out. of public life or whether the progressive movement will revert to Progressive Republicans like Bob La Follette and Fiorello La Guardia So the future course of national affairs depends on whether the Presi- dent decides to fight or to take a ma- Jor political reverse lying down The voices which are urging him to “come along quietly” to the re- actionary patrol wagon are strong and persuasive. If he is willing to preserve party “harmony” at the ex- pense of his entire reform program, there is no doubt that things will be made easy for him or that he will be lauded to the skies as a good sport, a great President and a Democratic hero. But it is doubtful that he could carry with him “his” following in any program of surrender, no matter how skillfully disguised. For the millions have followed Roosevelt mot because he was a magnetic man with a nice radio voice a pleasant smile, and an e; personali but becouse he fou row they wanted. « 12, 1035.) CUBA'S 3-YEAR PLAN DEFENDED BY EMBASSY Insinuations of Threat to Outlaw hat Foreign Capital and Jeopardize Investments Denied. The Cuban Embassy issued & state- ment yesterday replying to commentar: in the American pr on the announcement Havana for the social and economic rehabilita~ tion of the is republic. The statement denied that the : was thrown into confusion b; ement of the plan and said that after discussion for many weeks, the objectives of the plan have been approved by the political and eco- nomic organizations in Cuba “The Cuban Embassy deems grave and fa " it continued, e 8- tion that the plan is based upon the elimination of foreign capital or t it will endanger present foreign in- vestments in Cuba." COTTON LAW ASKED Parity Price Legislation Is Urged Bpon Congress. NEW ORLEANS, July 28 (#)—The Board of Direct of the American d ing parity pric ton during the coming season. The directors declared in a resolu- tion that the income is comparatively that of other farm would be “dis: s™ islation benefiting them to a later ses- marketing | sion of Congress. MASSACHUSETTS EDITOR DIES AFTER HEMORRHAGE of Hampshire Gazette Also Was Representa- tive of Associated Press. By the Associated Press NORTHAMPTON, Mass,, Ju | This Changing World | Presence of Foreigners in Peiping Makes Japanese “Seizure”” a Complicated Affair. BY CONSTANTINE BROWN. APAN intends to start another pacification mission in China. As in 1931 when it grabbed Mancnuria from the Chinese, the Tokio gov- ernment is moved by the most unselfish reasons in invasion of the Chinese territory. The Japanese just love the Chinese and the hearts of the Tokio leaders break into small pieces at the thought that the Chinese do not know how to better their lot Thousands of Japanese soldiers will exterminate thousands of Chinese in order to prove the Japanese thesis. The Chinese don't worry too much about it. In their philosophy they do not care whether they die of starvation or by a bullet or a hand grenade. 1i. despite the surprises which are still possible because of the peculiar mentality of the two n. tions, a serious conflict break . the situation might become more serious this time than it was in 1931. We have in North China, where the fighting takes place now, a sizable number of nationals. Of course, they can be evacuated and there seems to be no doubt that the Japanese military authorities will do their utmost to assist the Embassy to evacuate them. The high command does not want any Western witnesses when it “operates” on the Chinese. It has to force a certain amount of restraint on its warriors which other- wise would not be necessary. Hoe * ok X % But what Is really serious and makes the situation unpleasant is the presence of a regiment of United States Infantry in Tientsin and the Marine guard of the Embassy in Peiping. These troops are maintained in the two cities because of the agree- ment with the former Chinese government after the B revolution That treaty is no longer of any consequence. Yet the troop wtain the communications with the sea in the im probable event lier Borer uprising, are being maintained in Tient ng. » have been s 5th United States In But soldiers are not q famiiia he intricaties of diplomacy. They do not understand because there are several powers involved in that Boxer treaty, unless they all agree to recall 1r troops, one na alone will not do It's & matter of prestige which has caused many bloody conflicts. tions from the War D antry from partment to withdraw * ok ox % For the time being the Japanese government does not care whether Western soldiers are stationed in Tientsin or not. Whenever the Japanese high command choses to make their position there untenable, it can do it with the greatest ease. But their presence might become a serious menace to relations betuween Japan and the countries which keep armed details in China. Frictions betueen the Japanese soldiers and these international garrisons might occur with fatal results to both sides. Then the question of prestige and insult to the flag might become a serious issue. The whole thing is in the hands of the Tokin miiitary leaders If they chose to adopt a provocat nations that Asia must be controll ) f the Japanese want me: further complications, they will the French and the Italian garrisons such incidents er slice of Ch molest the American, While soldiers are tram taking place between the lo; situation in France is rapidly worse. French newspapers do not conceal their concern over what may happen in the course of this year and are drawing a parallel between 1937 and the great revolutionary year of 1848 when republican France threw herself Into the arms of Napoleon III, The conditions of the French democracy when it chose another dictator In the person of the nephew of the great to those of today. Unemployme nomic crisis. * A radical Social he government of King Louis Philip. Proleta ted France then as now. Tt result was a lavish expenditure (for those days) on social relief. In order to absorb some of the unemployed the government opened national worke shops in the Champs de Mars. The present regime gave the unemployed work by organizing the International Exposition in Paris this year, on the same location. The cost of living was mounting by leaps and bounds, it is today. e French wonder who their 1937 Napoleon might be, hinese soil, and a deadl; lists and the rebels in Spain, the internal growing Joseph M. Lyman, 41, managing edi: l(’nflnze enlisted tor of the Hampshire Gazette and local | lege amb; representative of the Associated Press,| of the World Wa in the Amherst died last night after failing to recoy consciousness from a cerebral rhage suffered Sunday. Born in Newcastle, Colo., the son of Dr. and Mrs. Charles W. Lyman, he was 4 years of age. He was graduated with honors from Northampton High School and after two years at Amherst for nearl rated wi the Fren On his d of the Gazette . and in 1929 moved East with his family when he | became man: Railway workers of England want longer vacations with pay charge he joined the staff | Headline Folk and What TheyDo. . Shannon *Too Bored” to Run for New Term in Congress. BY LEMUEL F. PARTON. OR many years Joseph B. Shana non headed the Kansas City “rabbits opposed Boss Tom “goats." Shs was never bored. In 1931 he wer Cong Accustomed to ac disliked 00 much talk. Ferv n, he flight both learned and unlearned. He whom he hat caught he holds and slays with his own discourse.” After 52 years he's and he's Joseph B. Shannon recreance to Jeffersonfan s informed and eloguen subject, but has d to most non- Jeffersor arg with “patent n," as George Meredith called is, T be- American po- land the toward in- he was reread all of Thomas (. (BODY OF BRITTLEBANK WILL BE SENT TO D. C. Remains of World Traveler Will Be Brought From Hawaii by Liner President Cleveland. LU, July 28 —The body of lebank of Charleston, 8. C,, be aboard the liner Presidens Cleveland when that vasse] sa tlebank, 79, died S Queens’ Hospital after becoming iil on the Dollar line dent Polx while he was on his ef haround- ruise The body will be sent to Washington, D.C. WITH A CULTIVATED TASTE, it's never a toss-up which kind of Ale and Beer you’ll choose. You'll look for the 3-ring emblem that means Ballantine’s—then make the 3-fold test just as Peter Ballantine did in 1840. He took one drink to judge the PURITY of his brew ... a second for BODY...a third for FLAVOR. The 3 moisture rings left by his glass became his trademark. Look for the 3 rings of quality, then ask for “Ballantine’s!” America’s finest since 1840. Cope., 1937, P. Ballantine & Soms, Newark, DISTRICT BEVERAGES, Inc. 65 G ST. N.W. DISTRIBUTORS " Dlst. 4143