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COST OF
Passages of the Frasier-Lemke farm debt bill, calling for
$3,000,000,000 in new money to bring about inflation in currency,
Will be placed before the House on May 11.
Democratic leaders of Congress have assured the nation that
the bill is doomed to defeat. The nation hopes so—that is, the
thinking part.of the nation.
Briefly, the farm debt bill provides for dumping meaning
less paper money into circulation, distributing it among the
farmers of the nation to pay. off their debts and fixing the rate
of interest at 1 1-2 per cent, plus a repayment of principal of
11-2 per cent.
Sound prosperity has never been built upon false values.
Inflation is just another word for false values. It simply means
that a suit of clothes, for example, which, in reality is worth $25
will be stepped up to a selling price of SSO. A pound of meat
worth 25 cents will cost the consumer 50 cents. -
1 It is obvidus to the observer that the fixing of an interest
rate of 1.1-2 per cent, will do to those who have invested their
money in sound enterprises and property at reasonable interest
rates.. Worst,than ever, it will provide another avenue through
which the federal government will compete with private enter
prises. Not only will it affect enterprises, but it places Uncle
Sam in the role of a direct competitor to the individual. The
man who has a thousand dollars sunk in a first mortgage at 6 per
cent, will find himself competing with Uncle Sam who offers
money at 1 1-2 per cent.
Inflation will be disastrous for the salaried man. The man
on a modest salary—and their names are legion—-cannot hope
for his employer to hike his pay to meet the increased cost
living. Even if there be a few idealistic employers who might be
ao generous, the employe will be no better off—he would sim
ply handle more paper and receive no more merchandise in ex
change.
Shortly after the World War, Germany hit upon the infla
tion plan as a salvation for a distressed monetary situation. The
machinery at the mints were worked day and night turning out
bales of paper money. In one instance, a newspaper in Berlin
had to send one of its trucks to the bank to pick up the pay roll!
Not until a frenzied mob invaded the mints and destroyed the
presses was the fiasco of currency halted.
The generation of yesteryear in the South will recall tales
of their fathers who returned to a battle-scarred South, follow
ing the War Between the States. Confederate money, bearing
the portrait of Jefferson Davis, president of the Confederacy,
had been used as a means of exchange at par value when the war
started. As the tide of victory passed to the North, the barome
ter of money values in the South approached zero. There were
instances of a loaf of bread costing a thousand dollars in Con
federate money.
Those are fair examples of inflation. It will justly meet
bitter opposition in Congress.
LAUGH CLOWN, LAUGH.
Invariably, the United States Congress has a clown. Some
have been worthy of the title—others have been misunderstood.
Senator Tom Watson, for example, was branded as a bombastic,
blustering radical by his foes; to those whom he championed,
he was a leader of unquestioned ability. Those who hated him,
at least learned to respect him; those who loved him, loved him
well.
Then there was Senator Heflin from Alabama. Senator Hef
lin continuously aimed his vitriolic oratory at the Pope of Rome,
or, if fancy struck him, the Sultan of Turkey. Senator Heflin
made good newspaper copy.
Then came the dean of them all—Senator Huey Long. Sena
tor Long entered Congress on a wave of protest, publicity and
escapades. He was the newspaper man’s joy and grief.
Long, however, was smart. He converted his headlines
into power. Political factions learned to fear ihm. If it required
circus methods to carry his points, he hired a calliope, rented
a tent and barnstormed the country. At the time of his assassi
nation, he was without a question, one of the strongest political
figures in the nation.
Experienced students in American politics stood by in
amazement while this curly-haired master of organization mount
ed from a Bath Sands Club house rest room incident to a recog
nized candidate for the presidency of the United States.
With these foregoing examples, the nation is beginning to
wonder if the madcap congressman from the state of Washing
ton, Marion A. Zioncheck is attempting to emulate the methods of
Senator Long.* His escapades in and around the nation’s capital
during the past ten days would serve as an indication. The big
question now arises—if and after Congressman Zioncheck has
attracted sufficient attention to put the nation on notice that
there is such a person as Congressman Zioncheck—has he the
brains to back it up? Is he a ‘Madcap” Congressman—or just
another crackpot?
REALTY VALUES.
Awakening from a lethargy which has gripped them during
the past few years, the investors of the nation are carefully
watching the trend of the real estate market.
While much of the activity may be credited to the federal
government’s participation in the mortgage and construction
fields, a careful analysis of the situation shows that private in
terests are creating the larger volume of business.
The masses apparently are becoming more home conscious;
that is, an increasing number of people seem desirous of own
ing their own homes. The carrying charges have become more
reasonable; the outlook is bright for a drastic reduction in real
estate taxation. The favorable term of years in which to liqui
date the obligation all serve naturally to accentuate the desire
to own and live in one’« own home.
This splendid reaction from the inertia of the past few
years is evident in every section of the country. It has been
estmated that, on last Sunday not less than fifty thousand home
buyers invaded the Long Island section of the city of New York,
intent on purchasing new homes already completed, or to locate
vacant property on which to build. The increased desire to own
or invest has brought about a demand for vacant property which
has been steadily gathering momentum.
—.- bull Mooser Roosevelt—
LIFE STORY OF COLONEL FRANK KNOX IN SKETCH STRIPS
* ~ —Sketched by C. H. Crittenden, Central Press Artist- <
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Chase Osborn, also of Saulte
Ste. Marie, who had been trying
for yean to obtain the Republi
can nomination for governor of
Michigan, viewed with interest
the fights of Frank Knox, the
young publisher at the Soo.
Osborn saw in Knox a powerful
•Uy. In 1910 Knox joined
foreas with Osborn.. A com- <
pl«te Progressive Republican
ticket finally was nominated by
Osborn and Knox in 1910. It
triumphed at the polls.
Atlanta
—WORLD AT A GLANCE—
STEiWER TALK GOES ON
♦. Behind the Pre-Convention Scenes
THOUGH LANDON GAINS
* By LESLIE EICHEL
Central! Press Staff Writer
AS THIS COLUMN remarked
six weeks ago. wealthy powers
that-be in the Republican party
have “decided" on Senator Fred
erick Steiwer of Oregon as the
Republican nominee. Others pooh
l|ooh this —but the wealthy pow
ers-that-be still are for Senator
Steiwer for president.
John D. Rockefleler, Jr., is re
puted to be behind the movement
for Senator Steiwer.
That movement may be too late,
for Governor Alfred M. Landon of
Kansas has been “cleaning up" on
the delegates. If they “stay out”
beyond the first ballot, Governor
Landon will win the nomination.
If not, Senator Arthur H .Vanden
berg of Michigan may win. If he
cannot, in turn, obtain a majority,
the swing will be toward the
“dark horse’’ secretly picked—
Senator Steiwer.
Senator SUlwer has this advan
tage—both the big mcney men and
Senator Borah could compromise
on him. Senator Borah is not
averse to him.
• * •
MANEUVERS
There have been many back
stage maneuvers preceding the rise
of the curtain on the Republican
convention. In that respect, this
convention resembles the Demo
cratic convention of four years
ago.
All that makes for an exciting
play when the curtain does rise.
Not In the News
By WORTH CHENEY
. (Central Press Assoliatlon)
THE TEST of a man, someone once
said, is his behavior in an emer
gency. After receiving this story, sub
mitted by a. New York reader, we
think the same may be said of wo
men.
Our correspondent was riding in
one of the New York city’s subways
recently when the actions of a pret
ty young woman, who was holding
onto a strap, attracted his attention.
The girl’s face was a portrait of
dismay. She had just discovered that
the lining of her coat was ripped and
was hanging down below her ankles.
As she picked up the bottom of the
garment and gazed at it ruefully, oth
er passengers in the car began to
take an interest in her plight. But
only one person, a young man, seem
ed to think she might need help.
He immediately stood up and offer
ed the young woman his seat. With
a smile for tne young man she ac
cepted and sat down. Then she open
ed up her handbag, extracted a small
object which turned out to be a
small sewing kit. With difficulty, due
to the swaying motion of the train,
she threaded a needle, tied a knot
in the thread with an expert flip of
her fingers, and set to work.
She gathered up the ripped lining
and coat bottom on her lap and the
next five minutes she sewed with an
adept hand. While she worked almost
every passenger in the car looked on
admiringly. This, indeed, was a rare
occurrence in a subway, although al
most everything else has been known
to happen on one of the underground
transits.
Finally, when she had completed
her task, a neat job of mending, she
looked up. Suddenly conscious of their
ill-mannered stares, the passengers
scurried to cover behind their news
papers. That is, all except one—the
you ig man who had given her his
seat.
All through the needle operation
the young man had watched the girl
with intense interest. Then, when
she had finished, he caught her eye.
Grinning broadly, he looked down at
ragged post of threads which once
had held a button, and which now
he was fingering purposefully.
The girl gave him an understand
ing smile and directed a question at
him that was inaudible to other pas
sengers. Evidently she had asked him
for the missing button. Anyway, he
rummaged through his pockets and
finally brought forth the button,
which the girl then proceeded to at
tach to the coat while the other pas
sengers looked on amused and chuck
ling. But both man and girl seemed
entirely oblivious to their stores.
When the subway rumbled to a
stop at one of the downtown stations
they got off together.
It looked to onlookers as the start
of a. friendship, and perhaps, a ro
mance. Who knows? Anyway, it was
rather an original meeting.
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Knox, however, continued to de
vote his time to his newspaper
business and to his post as chair
man of the Michigan state cen
tral committee. There he was
when the great storm of Pro
gressivism began brewing in the
middle west, and‘President Taft
summoned Knox to the White
House to ask him to conduct the
Taft campaign in Michigan. He
replied that he would if Theo
dore Roosevelt did not run.
Eastern observers say that there
is no question as to who is doing
the most bossing. That person is
J. Henry Roraback, Connecticut
utilities magnate who directs from
his office in Hartford . Charles
Hilles, veteran New York political
boss, works in concert with Rora
back.
Hilles has had another adept po
litician C. Bascomb Slemp, of Vir
ginia, rounding up delegates in
the South. Thus Rbraack-Hilles-
Slemp now have a bloc of 190
southern delegates foi “trading”
purposes. The chief purpose is to
stop Landon and o force through
a “favorable" candidate.
• » ♦
AND SNELL
Choice of Senator Steiwer as
keynoter of the Republican con
vention is satisfactory to the
groups opposing the Roraback-Hil
les-Slemp combination in the con
vention. But the choice of Rep
resentative Bertrand H Snell of
New York as permanent chair
man of the convention is not to
their tastes.
Representative Snell is an ultra
conservative who is in thorough
agreement with the Roraback-
Hilles-Slemp group.
Furthermore, New York state is
to have still another dominant
figure in the convention—Repre
sentative James W. Wadsworth,
who has been mentioned for the
vice presidential nomination.
Wadsworth likewise is ultra-con
servative, although a shrewd vote
getter, and a tactician of consider
able ability.
Yes, the chief actors are putting
on their robes. But who will play
Caesar? And who will gain the up
per hand as stage director? Some
men would give a fortune to know.
—And We Call Ourselves Civilized!
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F
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But Knox was eager to induce
Roosevelt to run. The colonel
was iron in his refusal to throw
his hat into the ring. Roose
velt’s stand finally was broken
down somewhat by Knox and
others and Roosevelt sent Knox
on a tour to sound out senti
ment for the Republican nomi
nation. There was considerable
favorable reaction. Roosevelt
finally said he would run if the
demand arose.
All Os Us
By MARSHAL MASLIN
By MARSHALL MASLIN
“DON’T YOU LOVE ME ANY
MORE?”
There’s a guaranteed, tried-and
tested formula for killing love . .%•
or, at least, discouraging it.
It isn't a secret. Millions of men
and women know it and use it and
can testify badly to its effectiveness.
It’s merely a question, a sentence
of six words. You look sad, or you
sulk, or you whine, or you let a tear
roll down your cheek and you moan:
“Don’t you love me any more?”
Say those six words and you ’put
love on the defensive. You kill it
3s completely as Othello suffocated
Desdamona with a pillow. You drive
it away. You bore It to death. You
change Love to Pity or to Contempt.
Or you put it in chains it never quite
gets free from again.
Just these six words do that:
“Don’t you love me any more?”
These make ycu a beggar, a pite
ous mendicant of love. These show
you are desperate and afraid and
that you believe can be claimed as a
right, as a debt.
Well, it cannot. You ask. “Don’t
you love me any more?” and the
man or woman who hears your pa
thetic cry turns cold and shrinks
from the appeal.
The woman feels contempt for you
—you are not manly, you are not
strong, you are not Ivable then.
The man despises you—you are too
weak for him, you have no charm
at that momenty, you are a clinging
vine and he wishes you’d take your
arms from around his neck.
The answer to your cry may be,
“Os course, I love you,” but even ycu
can’t believe it. Love never uses that
impatient, distant tone. Love speaks
with a glance, with a touch of the
hand and needs no trumpeting inter
preter to announce his presence . . .
And if he does, you may bring him
back—but not with that beggar’s cry
of defeat:
“Don’t you love me any more?”
It’s a wise politician who un
derstands his own speeches.
I [ROOSEVELT
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Knox took T. R.’s message to the
conference of Progressive gov
ernors held at Chicago in 1912.
The governors definitely wanted
Roosevelt to run. What hap
pened to most of the Roosevelt |
delegates at the 1912 conven
tion is history. The Taft forces
won. Knox was for Roosevelt ’
to the end and the Bull Moose
convention that followed saw
him as chairman of the commit- i
tee on credentials.
—WASHINGTON AT A GLANCE—
SPEECHES OF F. D. R.
Viewed In Retrospect By Democrats .
RECEIVE FAINT PRAISE
By CHARLES P. STEWART
Central Press Staff Writer
WASHINGTON, May 2—President
Roosevelt’s recent speeches have been
damned with rather faint praise in
politic'l Washington.
It was to have been expected that
Republican politicians would damn
them, and they have done so with
praise sufficiently faint to be decid
edly below zero. However, very sotto
voice, Democrats have done a bit of
the damning, not violently, like the
Republicans, but in a tone of mild
disappointment. Not, they say, that
the presidential speeches in Baltimore
and in Ne’-’ York were otherwise than
excellent, but * s ’.v were not quite as
excellent as the Democratic critics
had expected them to be. This is
faint praise, as I interpret that kind
of damnation.
It is the consensus that the New
York speech was better than the one
in Baltimore, but even the New York
address unmistakable is assessed as
hardly up to the maximum Roosevelt
standard.
* * *
TOO GENERALISTIC?
The stock complaint of the presi
dent’s oratory is that it deals too
much in generalities—stuff that no
body can dispute, but which does not
guarantee anything specific.
For example:
In New York the White House
tenant pointed out that rural and ur
ban interests in the long run are
identical. Certainly. But it is obvi
ous that the farmer and the “city
slicker” don’t feel that way about it
in practice. How reconcile them?
The New York speech left the ans
wer to that question to the imagina
tion.
At Baltimore Jhere was a ringing
appeal to youth to “stand by” for
better times, but no explanation of
the fashion in which times are to be
bettered.
« * *
DON’T STAND ANALYSIS?
Briefly, the political verdict is that,
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TOO GENERALISTIC?
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CoL Knox on the stump
while the presidential talks are won
derfully inspiring over the radio, in
print they don’t stand much analysis.
And radio experts are beginning to
whisper that the national chief exec
utive tends to grow a trifle “stale"
on the air. They don't profess to
know exactly why. Maybe, they say.
the listeners-in are getting used to
him.
The suggestion likewise is made
that the White House suffers from
the lack of a Louis McHenry Howe.
The president’s late adviser was out
of commlsion for months before his
recent death. The slump, if any, in
the quality of presidential utterances,
post-dates the beginning of Howe’s
final illness. Howe assuredly was not,
in the literal sense, a “ghost writer",
but he was was an extraordinarily as
tute counsellor. He may not have
known much of the science of govern
ment, but he was a publicity man par
excellence. •
• ♦ •
A PARADOX
However, what of wr •
The Democrats are confident that
they wlil win in November, regard
less of everything. This is not a mere
claim. They honestly believe it. So
does everyone who follows politics.
The Republican management is in
eluded. It hopes to gain a little, but
not to win. And it realizes that Roose
veltlanism has been gaining lately.
It is paradoxical.
Poor presidential speeches! Never
theless. presidential gains-
It loks like fate—or something.
♦ ♦ ♦•
A "RATIFICATION MEETING”
The Democratic convention in Phil
adelphia simply will be a ratification
meeting.
President Roosevelt will be renom
inated automatically. The administra
tion doesn’t like Vice President John
i,’ bufc b® ren ominated,
just the same, to avoid any appear
ance of discord.
Republican conventions have
artificially prolonged to
prevent them from seeming too per
functory. Democratic conventions, as
in New "lork, in 1924, have dragged
out unpleasantly. This time the Re
b? hu C B a flM o ’?l entO C. ,n Cleveland must
a a ” a PP® ara nce of
a ciasn. The Democrats’ Philadelnhla
convention must be dragged out to
men f hilad ® iphla hotel and business
men a run for their money.
My New York
By
James Aswell
Y ORK I May 2—Giving You
the Run-Around: Up Riverside Drive.
rhnS s had ow of the Rockefeller
and painters be
stir themselves furiously through these
nrinn er r nO ° n ?' gettin « the Old
Claremont Inn in shape for earlv
opening . . . This eatery,' once so ex
that you could hardly watch
the dazzling panorama of the Pali
a? 055 the Hudson for worrying
about the check, is now a city°S
b- a bit the tariffs wih
oe a bit more moderate and I heai
that a young orchestra kader has
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expensive % lo °o 1s always
-w bifor" • The~T On
But ,S, 1 “ ke<i ‘hto y« r - “ r °
throu g h y ihe
wuple or hundred thrusaAd W
o/tff’L, 0 ® 0 ?® S ’ Kaufman, richest
of t..e play doctors, collaboratorsan
authors, standing in the lobby durmg
'azCC.—>
Today is the Day
By CLARK KINNAIRD •
j .Copyright, 1936, for this NewspaMr
| by Central Press Association
SUNDAY IS THE DAY
Third Sunday after Easter, May 3:
National Hearing Week. Constitu
tion Day in Poland. Zodiac sign:
Taurus. Birthstone: Emerald.
NOTABLE NATIVITIES
Edgar Wilson Howe, b. 1859, writer
and editor. ... Sir Ronald Lindsay,
b. 1877, British ambassador to the U.
S. . . . Juliette Compton, Aline Me-
Mahon and Mary Astor, cinemac
tresses shy about telling their ages.
• « •
SUNDAY’S YESTERDAYS
May 3, 1493—A papal bull, issued
by Alexander VI, divided all North
and South America between two men,
the kings of Portugal and Spain,
without knowing that two new con.
tinents lay between the boundary
lines he fixed to settle an argument
between the sovereigns.
75 Years Ago—President Abraham
Lincoln called for 100,000 volunteer*
for three months, to put down rebel
lion
May 3, 1932—Al Brown, alisas Ca
pone, entered the federal peniten
tiary at Atlanta, to begin serving an
11-year sentence for income tax viola
tion, the only charge upon which
America’s No. 1 murderer, bootlegger,
white slaver, etc., could be convicted.'
* * * ...
FIRST WORLD WAR DAY-BY-DAY
May 2-3, 1916—An official report
issued by the Belgian government
fixed the number of buildings de
stroyed in the whole country by in
vaders as 43,198 —at least half of
them “set afire by German armies
under pretext of reprisals.”-
Belgium was a comparative zone
of quiet now. Verdum was the axis
of the battle line, but the German
onslaught on Verdum had slackened
because of air raids which interfered
with lines of communications with
stipply depots 'in the rear. The army
attacking Fort Vaux received ammuni
tion and re-enforcements over a rail
road that ran via Cons lans and Metz.
One night 17 French planes from
Verdum flew over this line, dropping
•0 large calibre shells, and returned
unharmed. On another night 42
shells were dropped.
And by day flying machines, for
-he first time in history, were tak
ing place in the actual fighting.
When the Germans were bringing up
a battery to shell Pepper Ridge a
squadron dropped bombs upon it, kill
ing 30 men and nine horses. With
other horses frightened, the guns
could not be moved and the men had
to abandon them and run for cover.
(To be continued Monday)
IT’S TRUE
Preshident James Monroe died so
poor that he had to be buried at the
expense of relatives.
* * *
President Harding’s favorite mu
sical instrument was the zither and
he used to Invite Rear Admiral Hugh
Redman to come to the White House
and play for him by the hour.
• • *
Sijce Thomas R. Marshall made
the country aware it had a vice pres
ident by saying, “What this country
needs is a good five cent cigar," the
number of five cent cigars sold has
increased from 29 per cent to 88 per
cent of the total.
* * *
Queries, reproofs, etc., are welcom
ed by Clark Kinnaird; address him
care of this paper.
You’re Telling
Me?
WHO SAID women cannot keep
a secret! How many Lave told you
their correct age?
• • *
And it is a much wiser politician
who doesn't give any.
• • •
The modern world certainly
holds many dangers for the
pretty girl. She is liable to be
come a movie or stage star, ad
vertising model or the wife
of a handsome, young million
aire,
* * *
Commander Byrd’s Antartic voy
ages were held too soon. He should
have gone this year. Then he would
have missed the whole national po
litical campaign.
• * *
The real difference between
failure and success in an office
worker is that one watches the
clock and the other watches
himself.
* * *
Fame itself means'nothing. Whai
counts is what you do to achieve
fame. Remember, we’ve had cham
pion flaglope sitters, marathbn
dancers and hog callers.
3, play intermission the other night
. . . His high, dark pompadour and
horn rims gives him an expression of
perpetual surprise . . . Legends flock
’bout his career, which has known
amazingly few flops, and one of the
iest anecdotes concerns his telegram,
dispatched between the acts to a
'omedlan in one of the hits he wrote:
“am watching your act from the back
of the house. Wish you were here" . .
There is no fan roundabout. like
the baseball fan , . . His jay in vic
tory for a chosen club is limitless, hl*
nisery in defeat bitter . .He win
io out to the park on a day of ley
’lasts—as he did by the thousand the
other day—and-if his extremities suf
'er from frostbite he will light bond
fires 'in the concrete aisles of the
stadium . . Incidentally newspapers
live baseball clubs which are, after
til. private enterprises, more free ad
vertising than any other business in
he word, except, it may be the bus
ness of the. various politician* . , ,
The fans demand it . . . jack White,
he song-and-dance man, now whoop
ng it up at Dan Healy’s all-night car
avanserai. is certainly 'no world-beat
er as an entertainer; yet I think the
customers warm to him simply be
cause. in a town of wild and uns
trained baseball fans, he is the .wild
st and most unrestrained .. . Used to
’ e a big leaguer himself ... As did
lob Ripley, who retired from • th*
liamond when he broke his hand, to
nake a million dollars drawing car
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