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CURRENT EVENTS
PASS IS BEH
RADIO ADDRESS OF PRESIDENT
IS ELOQUENT BUT VAGUE—LA
BOR DEMANDS CHANGES.
By EDWARD W. PICKARD
©. Western Newspaper Union,
PRESIDENT ROOSEVELT’S latest
radio talk with his fellow citizens
was well written, well delivered and
peculiarly vague as to his future in-
tentions. He sought to
reassure business ami
labor, both of which
are questioning him
anxiously, but ho
made no definite re
plies to their categor
ical queries. His one
specific statement was
that within a mouth
lie would seek to ne
gotiate a truce be
tween large groups of
employers and large
groups of employees
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President (
Roosevelt
through Which there would he a cessa
tion of the strikes that have been dis
rupting the nation’s business. He said
he would ask the representatives of
those forces to agree temporarily on
questions of wages, hours and working
condßions, and that with such agree
ments in force he expected further ad
justments would he made peaceably,
through governmental or private medi
ation.
"I shall not ask either employers or
employees permanently to lay aside the
weapons common to Industrial war,” he
added. “But I shall ask both groups
to give a fair trial to peaceful methods
of adjusting their conflicts of opinion
and Interest, and to experiment for a
reasonable time with measures suitable
to civilize our Industrial civilization."
Byway of reply to the appeals of
many business, industrial and financial
leaders that the more radical measures
of the administration's program be
abandoned, Mr. Roosevelt declared the
New Deal Is to go on. To the ques
tions of those leaders concerning bal
ancing of the budget, government ex
penses, further devaluation of the dol
lar or return to the gold standard, he
made no reply. However, lie did de
clare hlinself In favor of a system of
business based on private profit. Then
be said:
“I am not for a return to that defl
■oltlon of liberty under which for many
years a free people were being gradu
ally regimented into the service of tire
privileged few. I prefer and I am sure
you prefer that broader definition of lib
erty under which we nre moving for
ward to greater freedom, to greater se
curity for the average man than he
has ever known before In the history
of America.”
Concerning the NRA, the President
gave praise to General Johnson and
said the national recovery administra
tion was entering its second phase,
"which Is In turn a period of prepara
tion for legislation which will deter
mine Its permanent form." He admit
ted there was a question as to the
wisdom of some of the devices em
ployed during the first phase of the
NRA, but decried the attacks on the
constitutionality of many of the things
Ids administration mis done. ‘‘We are
not,” he said, "frightened by reaction
ary lawyers of political editors. All
these cries have been heard before."
Near the beginning of his address,
the President said:
"I nm happy to report that after
years of uncertainty, culmlnajing In
the collapse Os tlie spring of 1933, we
are bringing order out of the old chaos
with a greater certainty of the employ
ment of labor nt a reasonable wage
and of more business at a fnlr profit
These governmental and Industrial de
velopments hold promise of new
achievements for the nation.”
First formal response to the Presi
dent's speech came from the National
Association of Manufacturers, which
urged him to issue a proclamation for
a "truce on Industrial warfare” during
which existing employment relations
would be continued, and challenged the
American Federation of Labor to take
like action. Its statement said:
"The President will find employers
willing to sit down with him, as he
proposes, to devise means for ending
the constant series of strikes which
have been one of the major obstacles
, to recovery."
Green and Morrison, respectively
president and secretary of the federa
tion, suid this was a subterfuge and
that the manufacturers should first
publicly announce they would obey the
decisions of constituted authorities, es
pecially concerning discrimination and
collective bargaining.
’II7HILE President William Green
W and some other leaders of the
American Federation of Labor, just
convened in San Francisco, expressed
approval of what Mr. Roosevelt said In
his radio address, many others prom
inent in the federation are far from
satisfied with the way things are go
ing. The executive council’s annual
report devoted pages to an analysis of
the effect of the NRA upon the inter
ests of labor. Almost without excep
tion. the effects were found either di
rectly harmful or at least unsatisfac
tory.
The criticism was directed at the
workings of the recovery program, in
actual operation. The NRA and the
New Deal itself were not condemned.
But the committee indicted the pro
gram on these main grounds:
That it has failed to Increase the
purchasing power of workers.
That because it has failed to reduce
hours of labor sufficiently It has also
failed to create a satisfactory number
of new jobs.
That its compliance machinery Is In
effective, with the result that viola
tions of the spirit of the codes are eas
ily accomplished and quite general.
Labor does not have proper repre
sentation In either code enforcement
or administration.
“In one way," the report says, point
ing to what seems to be viewed as the
only satisfactory accomplishment thus
far under the NRA, “codes have ful
filled expectations. They have with
few exceptions wiped out child labor."
Discussing the alleged failure to In
crease purchasing power of workers
the report says that in 16 Industrial
groups surveyed in the year ending
with July, 11)34, employment Increased
9.8 pec cent: individual weekly wages
6.4 per cent and the cost of living 6.3
per cent.
“This meant that the employees in
these industries are at the same posi
tion regarding purchasing power as
they held before the NRA,” the com
mittee commented.
The report finds also that minimum
wages fixed In codes have been regard
ed by employers as maximum wages
and that the wages of skilled workers
have accordingly been reduced to com
pensate for increase wages to the un
skilled.
The committee estimates that 10,-
500,000 people still are unemployed, al
though of these approximately 2,000,-
000 are cared for temporarily by the
CW A and various government construc
tion projects.
The council said organized labor
must be “forever opposed” to "curren
cy inflation as the method of recovery”
and it viewed the increased national
debt with “ala’m and with misgiving."
ORGANIZED business and the Pres
ident are not at all satisfied with
each other. Business leaders are
nervous, and .Mr. Roosevelt feels that
they have too many “inhibitions” and
are not doing what they should to aid
recovery. The Chamber of Commerce
of the United States, seeking a clear
statement of the President's future in
tentions, sent him a list of questions
on expenditures, budget balancing, cur
rency stabilization and the govern
ment’s part in business, politely re
questing categorical replies. Mr. Roose
velt received Ilie questionnaire witli a
smile and a Joke, and there was no In
dication of his Intention to answer it.
It was revealed In Washington that
the President also received not long
ago a set of resolutions adopted at a
secret meeting of 120 leading indus
trialists and financiers. These men as
serted that the policies of the New
Deal, along with the uncertainties of
the future, are throttling economic re
covery in tlie United States. The res
olutions were not intended for publi
cation and the President made no men
tion of them in his press conferences.
Still another hard rap at the New
Deal came In the form of a statement
by the federal advisory council, com
posed of leading bankers. It was con
talned in a set of recommendations for
the federal reserve system and severe
ly criticizes the administration’s mone
tary and economic policies, demanding
a return to what the Council considers
sound principles.
GEN. HUGH S. JOHNSON steps
out of the picture and the NRA
is turned over Io Donald H. Richberg
and oilier “left wing" members of the
New Deal manage
ment. President Roose
velt announced the
greater part of the re
organization plan for
the national recovery
body, naming first tlie
policy making board,
witli Richberg as its
chairman and Secre
tary Ickes, Secretary
Perkins, Harry L. Hop
kins and Chester Da
vis as memlrers. A fifth
member was yet to Ire
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Donald
Richberg
selected, he to be the chairman of the
new administrative board. Five other
members of this latter body are S.
Clay Williams, head of the Reynolds
Tobacco company; Arthur D. White
side, president of Dun & Bradstreet:
Sidney Hillman, president of the
Amalgamated Clothing Workers; Xeon
C. Marshall, labor specialist; and Prof.
Walton H. Hamilton of Yale. Two ex
officio members are Blackwell Smith,
assistant general counsel of NRA. and
Lean Henderson, chief of the NRA di
vision of research and planning under
Johnson.
The judicial branch of the NRA was
still under consideration. Mr. Roose
velt indicated that its duties might be
assigned to a special department of
the Department of Justice.
RESIGNATION of General Johnson,
as accepted by the President, is
not effective until October 15. Until
then he will be busy compiling his final
report and also, it is. said, writing the
story of his life.
This is not the time or place to es
timate General Johnson’s achievements
as administrator of the NRA which
was largely his own creation. He cer
tainly worked hard and accomplished
much, whether for good or evil. His
mistakes were admittedly glaring, and
not the least of them was his recent
assertion that during his administra
tion he had been in close touch with
Justice Brandeis of the Supreme court.
As that tribunal will have to pass on
the constitutionality of NRA before
long, this statement created a sensa
tion and was dismaying to tlie friends
of Justice Brandeis. Os course, the
Jurist could take no notice of it. The
"ifcw down” is said to be that Johnson
did consult the justice when he was
formulating the NRA and received
some informal advice which he dis
regarded. and that later Mr. Brandeis
told him he had better resign.
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SECRETARY OF THE INTERIOR
ICKES, as head of the federal pub
lic works administration, announced an
ambitious family housing project for
Chicago which, at a cost of $12,500,000,
will abolish a “slum area" of 37 city
blocks on the southwest side and re
place demolished buildings with small
apartment houses for 3,000 families.
Condemnation procedings were start
ed in the Federal court in Chicago, and
Mr. Ickes said If the property owners
are reasonable in tiieir demands the
project will go through speedily. The
area to be rehabilitated is inhabited
now almost entirely by persons of
Italian descent and, far from being a
typical “slum,” contains numerous
neat, well-kept homes and several
large apartment houses. The plan of
the I’WA for Its rebuilding is very
similar to housing projects in Moscow
and Vienna, with the government sup
plying social and nursery facilities as
well as dwellings.
MISS GRACE ABBOTT, for years
one of the government's most
faithful and useful servants, has re
signed her position as director of the
children’s bureau, to the grief of her
associates in Washington and the re
gret of every one who knows about
her fine work there. Miss Abbott now
becomes professor of public welfare
administration In tlie University of
Chicago and editor of the Social Serv
ice Review.
INTERESTING, though not highly im
portant, Is the report that comes
from Vienna that Mustapha Kemal
Pasha, dictator-president of Turkey,
may marry one of the
। four unmarried daugh
ters of King Zog of
Albania. Zog Is to visit
Ankara soon and the
1 engagement may be
announced then. Kem
al, who is fifty-seven
years old, divorced his
, first wife, Latife Ha-
Inou m, In 1925, and is
said to have expressed
a wish to remarry.
King Zog’s marriage
able daughters range
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President
Kemal
In age from twenty-three to twenty
six. The Albanian royal family, like
Kemal, Is of the Moslem faith.
Rumors of another almost royal
marriage come from Paris. The Pariser
Tageblattt, German refugee newspa
per, says Chancellor Hitler contem
plaies taking as his bride a German
princess, one of the family of Saxe-
Coburg and Gotha which Is allied to
the crowns of half a dozen European
countries. It adds that the fuehrer at
the same time will assume the title
of "duke of the Germans.”
SEVEN hundred thousand German
peasants gathered at Bueckeburg
hill for their national harvest festival
celebration and were told by Chan
cellor Adolf Hitler that their independ
ence as a nation was perfectly safe.
Said lie: “The latest prophecy is that
lack of currency for the purchase of
foreign raw material will bring about
our collapse. They will never beat us
down. Under the worst circumstances
they will make us more independent.”
Reiterating his government’s opposi
tion to war, the fuehrer said: “We
Nazis regard honor and life as indivis
ible. We have told tlie world what is
the honest wish of every German-
Germany and the German people de
sire nothing but peace. Nevertheless,
they will never relinquish equal
rights."
BECAUSE of bad treatment of Jews
by tlie German Nazis there was loud
objection to American participation in
the 1936 Olympic Games in Berlin.
Avery Brundage, president of tlie Ama
teur Athletic union, went to Germany
to investigate, and on his recommenda
tion the American Olympic committee
decided to accept the German invitation.
In his report Brundage, in addition
to giving the assurance lie had re
ceived from German sports leaders that
there would be no discrimination,
pointed out that Jewish sports leaders
in Germany were satisfied that they
will have full opportunity to train and
prepare for the Olympic games.
EIGHT per cent boost In wages,
amounting to more than $10,900,-
(XX) a year, lias been granted their em
ployees by tlie four big packing con
cerns of Chicago, Swift, Armour, Wil
son and Cudahy, and their example is
ollowed by packing companies In other
cities.
The wage increases were granted as
i result of negotiations between the
ompanies and their plant labor con
erence boards. Whether the Increases
were the full demands of the workers
>r were compromises was not stated.
l'he plant boards are established at
ill points at which tlie companies op
erate and they are composed of em
ployee representatives, half of whom
are chosen by the workers themselves
and half by the managements.
MAXIM LITVINOV told the League
of Nations assembly that Russia
still hopes for the establishment of a
permanent peace conference in which
the United States is a participant, for
the consolidation of peace movements.
He asked the league council to obtain
a report on whether the world disarm
ament conference could be resumed
with a possibility of success.
F HAROLD DUBORD, Democratic
• candidate for the senatorship
from Maine who was defeated in the
election a month ago by Frederick
। Hale, the Republican Incumbent, has
I announced his intention of contesting
■ the election, charging practices "tanta
meant to fraud.” In a letter to Gov-
I ernor Brann he charged Irregularities
: in voting, illegal use of absentee bal-
I lots and illegal registration of voter*
BRISBANE
THIS WEEK
What You Read You Are
She Is Lonely
Yes, Money Does Count
The President’s Broadcast
The whole country follows the
"Hauptmann case," dealing with the
Lindbergh kidnaping. Newspapers have
increased circulation since Haupt
mann's arrest. This proves that citi
zens. able to get along without ordi
nary news of national and International
affairs, cannot do without the Lind
bergh kidnap news.
The East reads about the “Bobby”
Edwards case, that of a young man ac
cused of killing a girl, Freda McKech
nie—knocking her on the head and
drowning her when he tired of tier.
Others are much interested in the
case of a woman with a well known
name and a quarrel about control and
possession of a child, heiress to several
millions. Foreign princes, plain Amer
ican drunkenness, many unpleasant de
tails, are dragged into the story. A
considerable crowd finds that interest
ing. That Judge's decision will be in
teresting.
Future historians will know what we
were by reading the "news stories"
that interested us.
Mrs. Eva Coo, whom reporters choose
to call "Little Eva” Coo, now In the
women’s wing of tlie death house of
Sing Sing prison, convicted of murder
ing a man whose life she had insured,
and waiting to lie electrocuted, makes
a statement.
It has nothing to do with the here
after, death's uncertainty or its mean
ing. the horror of the electric chair.
Tlie statement says:
“I like company. I am so lonesoma
I don’t know what to do.’’
Only a few weeks to live, the elec
tric chair and all that Is on the other
side of that chair Just ahead of her,
and Mrs. Coo’s strongest impression is
that she likes company.
We are a gregarious race, and ab
sence of imagination Is a great help It
you must be electrocuted.
Does money make a difference In
the United States? It made some dif
ference when, In Foley Square, oppo
site New York's Supreme court build
ing. six rather old men were arrested
charged with "vagrancy.” One of them,
sixty-four years old, who gave a name
not his own, was found with bank
books showing that he owned $6,000.
safe In the bank.
The magistrate “suspended sentence”
on the $6,000 vagrant. He was not
even fined. Five others that had no
money were fined $lO each and sent
to jail for ten days when they did not
pay.
There Is a text for some budding
Communist orator
Some call President Roosevelt’s
broadcast “crumbs of comfort." thrown
to “the right,” where dwell big Indus
trlalists. disgruntled financiers and
other sud conservatives.
It Is taken as "hitherto slialt thou
go and no farther, and here shall thy
proud waves he stayed,” addressed to
on-rushing “radicalism."
The President's broadcast proves that
gentlemen were mistaken who said tlie
President Intends to do away with
"profits.” making private enterprise an
obedient unit In the new system of
society. The address means to op
timistic conservatives that the New
Deal desires only to be "helpful" to
private enterprise, not choke IL But
private enterprise must be good, and.
with the New Deal, keep its eye on
the ulitmate happiness of the many.
If you buy whisky it is wise to buy
a brand that you know. In New York,
this year, government agents seized
100,060 eases of "queer" whisky. In
eluding 15.000 cases of "Scotch” whis
ky made in America, with one eighth
Scotch to make it taste "smoky,” the
rest being sherry, glucose, and home
made alcohol.
The old game for children was “But
ton. button, who's got the button?"
The new game for grownups Is, “Dol
lar. dollar, who’s got the dollar, and
how shall we tax It?"
New York city, seeking $17,000,000
a month now. more later, for welfare
relief, has already put a tax on income
taxes.
To “tax a tax" is a new idea. If only
deficits could be taxed, the problem
would be easy. -
Secretary Wallace suspects, and
farmers will be glad to hear it. that
"an ignorant unscrupulous” political
attempt will be made this fall to make
the government lend 75 cents a bushel
on corn and $1 additional on wheat. If
Mr. Wallace's fears are realized the
"new- frontiers," as regards United
States finance, will be ns wide as the
Milky Way and as high as the blue star
Vega.
H. H. Kung, intelligent Chinese
statesman, finance minister, tells Sec
retary Morgenthau that he would real
ly and truly like to know what the
United States means to do about silver
Also, since this country Is anxious sot
silver. China will sell us all she has
taking gold in exchange.
Bret Harte, considering that Chines*
statesman, might add a verse to his
description of Ab Sin. who possesses
"a smile that was childlike and bland.'
Kinr Features Syndicate, lac
W ND Service.
National Topics Interpreted
by William Bruckart
Washington.—As the federal relief
administration looks forward to the
winter months when
Relief Cost the relief burden ob-
Mo'jnts viously is heaviest.
Harry L. Hopkins,
federal relief administrator, makes
public figures showing that the aver
age cost of maintaining a family of four
on public relief now is $23.09 a month.
He says this figure varies materially
from section to section, that it is ma
terially higher tn the Industrial centers
of the South where relief rds ure
largest and that, probably, the country
may expect a higher average cost dur
ing the forthcoming winter.
The statement by Mr. Hopkins be
comes exceedingly significant, in the
Opinion of observers here, especially
with reference to the likelihood that
there will be an increase in cost this
winter. It reflects two things. First,
the administration’s drive to bring
about increased prices through crop
limitation or crop destruction or any
of the several methods employed not
only is adding to the burden of those
with limited buying power but It is
compelling Uncle Sam and the states
and counties and charitable organiza
tions everywhere to pay an added price
to keep people from starving. Second
ly, the Hopkins statement gives more
than an Intimation of how many addi
tions to the relief rolls there may be
as a result of refusal of some people
to accept any kind of Jobs. It lias been
known many months that relief roils
carry a certain percentage of individ
uals who amount to the same thing as
parasites, hut the mounting cost both
In the average and in the total figures
are being examined by many experts
with the thought in mind that consid
erable waste Is in prospect
The relief administration has been
attempting to make surveys of relief
rolls In many jurisdictions. The re
sults in some of the cases have been
quite disturbing to those in the gov
ernment who are wholly desirous of
lending help wherever help is neces
sary but who obviously are unwilling
to see government funds drained off
to care for Individuals who are refus
ing to help themselves. How far this
condition Is going, none can foretell:
nor can anyone at this time say ac
curately how extensive has become the
list of those who regard relief rolls
as their rightful meal ticket
Some of the political leaders have
become alarmed trecause, having knowl
edge of the dole system in England
and in some of the other European
countries, they know how hard it Is to
separate Individuals from relief after
those Individuals have lost the pride
and morale which causes people to sup
port themselves. Hearings before con
gressional committees last winter dis
closed in numerous cities how some
people had declined to do the odd Jolis
created under the "make work" cam
paigns for the unemployed and had
preferred to make their semi-weekly
trips to the relief stores. At that time
there were relief advocates of the sob
sister type who Insisted that the num
ber of such unemployed was very small
nnd that it would not increase. Relief
administration figures, however, seem
to show that the contrary is true and
that wherever they may be there is a
certain number of tlie unemployed who
will remain attached to the govern
ment relief roll until that roll is abso
lutely liquidated.
• • •
I have heard several members of
congress express the opinion that ibis
phase of the relief
D.fficult problem is really the
Problem most difficult of the
whole structure.
They want to see the government spend
all of the money that Is necessary to
keep people from starving but they are
beginning to demand that some way
be found by which the sheep may be
separated from the goats and proper
ly fed.
Here in Washington a taste of the
condition mentioned above has beeu
exposed as the result of complaints by
a taxpayers’ organization. The tax
payers' group declared that its inves
tigators had found many unemployed
appearing at relief headquarters driv
ing their own automobiles, they
thought it was paradoxical that a man
could afford to maintain his automo
bile and could not maintain his family.
Relief authorities in the local offices
denied these charges. The relief ex
perts said some of the destitute were
being transported to relief headquar
ters in the cars of friends, but despite
the denials there seemed to have been
some fire in all of the smoke.
Whatever the facts in the National
Capital situation may have been, the
condition itself nevertheless is attract
ing attention for the reason that some
of the soft-hearted individuals who
usually do more talking than anything
else have risen to the defense of those
who called for their doles in their mo
tor cars.
The upshot of this and of the veiled
charges of waste —and sometimes graft
—in other cities is that this govern
ment Is approaching a point where it
must become more or less hardboiled
in its relief administration. If it does
not, nearly al! of the observers agree,
the United States will have a relief
roll of six or eight millions which
will continue to serve as a drain upon
the treasuries, both national and local,
for a good many years to come. Some
of the authorities are growing fearful,
too, of what may happen should the
parasitic element be separated from
its meal ticket. With winter coming
on radicals can make a fine case out of
a refusal by relief managers to feed
this or that “starving family.” I have
even heard suggestions that the com
ing winter may see some riots of a
character more severe than anything
we have yet known. But If they do
come it seems to be agreed they will
not be due entirely to lack of food but
to agitation on the part of some of
those who have desires only to wreck
our present structure of government.
• • *
With the return for the winter ses
sion of the Supreme Court of the Unit
e d States, New
New Deal Up Dealers as well as
to High Court old dealers may have
some ground for be
lief that questions respecting their acts
in tlie last year soon will be answered.
In this country, we have always looked
to the courts as the last resort to tell
us when our legislative bodies as well
as executive officers of our govern
ments, state or national, have gone be
yond bounds. AH through the summer
there has been the mounting demand
for Juridical construction of New Deal
acts. It appears we are about to get
them in numbers from the highest
court in the land. There are sufficient
petitions before the Supreme court to
provide a rather accurate delimitation
of the New Deal scope in its consti
tutional aspects.
Expert legal opinion here seems to
lean toward substantiation of most ot
the New Deal activities by tlie high
court But nt the same time some
of the best legal minds in the country
are maintaining that while part of the
New Deal props look good, they are
outside of what has hitherto been re
garded as constitutional acts on the
part of government and so the consen
sus is that there will be many five to
four decisions forthcoming from the
Supreme court before It lays aside its
robes next spring.
As the Supreme court now is con
stituted, I think ft is generally regard
ed as leaning to the conservative side.
While tire court is not supposed to be
influenced by economic phases, the
economy of the New Deal is so
entwined with law that many as
tute observers tell me there can be
no segregation of those two ele
ments when it comes to ruling on con
stitutional phases of the New Deal.
The best available figures show that
the government has instituted about
140 cases charging violation of NRA
codes. It has won about 37 of
these, and has lost about 15 of those
coming to a decision. Private litigants
ha\e brought action against tlie NRA
in 39 cases and the government has
won 20 of these.
Similarly, there have been some
thing like 20 cases in the courts in
volving Agricultural Adjustment ad
ministration rules and regulations. Os
those that have gone through to a
decision the government has won seven
and lost three.
While it must be remembered that
only a small percentage of these cases
represent clear-cut issues, the box score
certainly indicates the New Deal to be
the winner thus far. But as said above,
the lower court decisions mean next to
nothing on questions of such import as
these; none of the litigants will stop
short of a final decision by the Supreme
Court of the United States.
• • ♦
A situation somewhat unique In
American politics is developing in Wis
consin where the La-
Wisconsin Follette brothers ar®
Politics undertaking to con-
tinue the family dy
nasty by marching under the banner
of a new organization, the progres
sive party. It is all being done very
quietly but the facts seep through the
national political headquarters here in
Washington.
The regular Republican organization
sees an opportunity to "knock off” the
LaFoliettes by throwing their support
to John M. Callahan, the Democratic
candidate for the senate. Apparently
they have little or no hope of electing
their own senatorial candidate, the
Wisconsin publisher, John B. Chap
pelle, who ended the political career
of former Senator John J. Blaine tn
the primaries of 1932.
If Mr. Callahan does poll a sizeable
Republican vote the question is wheth
er this will offset the defections in the
Democratic party. He was one of the
leading supporters of Alfred E. Smith
at the 1932 convention and neither the
President nor his lieutenants have for
gotten that it was the present Demo
cratic senatorial candidate in Wiscon
sin who gave publicity to charges that
Mr. Roosevelt's early campaign in the
South for Presidential nomination was
in part financed and supported by tlie
officers of the Kiu-Klux Klan in Geor
gia.
All of which leads to the observa
tion that political leaders sometimes
do very strange things. They have been
known to throw their own candidate*
overboard when the occasion required
if they were to hold their control of
the party machinery, state or national.
Consequently, it is not particularly
strange that the Republicans will sup
port a Democrat for the senate if it
would mean the removal of tlie thorn
tn their sides which the LaFolletta
family has proven for several decades
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