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U Leisure Class, Also Real American Sense and Defense The Supreme court says: "The free press stands as one of the great interpreters be tween the gov ernment and the people. To let It be fettered is to fetter our selves." Certain ly; the newspa per is to the na tion what speech is to an individ ual, and it is to the crowd wbat a looking glass is to the individ ual. History will Judge - a people Arthur Brlabane ,)y Ug newspa pers, Us laws, Its theaters, and it wlU have reason to criticize us. i _ ' Mr. J. Plerpont Morgan, repeat ing what Aristotle said before him, said civilization needs A leisure | class, and defined as the “leisure class” those that keep a hired girl. | Mrs.Franklin D. Roosevelt, thought- | fnl and wise, Improves that deflnl- | tion; a leisure class for her is made up of individuals that “have suffi cient economic security and suffi cient leisure to find opportunity for a variety of satisfactions In life.” * Charles Fourier, French philoso pher, said it long ago, and elabo rately. Henry Ford said it well, ad vocating a short work week, with two days off, that men might have time to. spend pleasantly the earn ings of five days. Ail that will come, and more. In the past men worked too hard, while paid and fed too little, and never dreamed of Mrs. Roosevelt’s “varied .aatisfactlons,’’ while the prosperous, as a rule, concentrated too much on foolish satisfactions. All that knew him learn with sorrow of the sudden death of Charles Curtis, former Vice Presi dent of the United States. He was an American, a real one, proud of the red Indian blood in his veins. As a boy he rode horse races well and honestly; as a man, he rode the political race fairly. As Vice President he was content with the position that the American people and Constitution gave him. He would havfc made a good and' loyal Presi dent had destiny so willed it The newspaper heading, “Britain Is redoubling her defense plans to offset Germany," should Interest somebody In America. This country Is not planning to “offset Germany," hot It has all Europe, Including Bus Ms and all'Asia, to think about in these flying days. We should per fect our “defense plans” und par ticularly our attack plans. Senator Pittman of Nevada sees Japan shutting us out of China, "even at the risk of war”; says our business men "have been run out of Manchuria already.” Japan might reply that her workingmen have been run out of the United States. The map wnl comfort Senator. Pittman. Gigantic Manchukuo, big ger than all of did Japan, leans up against Outer Mongolia and Soviet Russia. Japan will not invite trou ble with those countries, and war with the United States would In vite it. If you wonder “where all the tax money goes.” read this: “In six months the state of New Tork paid $801,012 for official auto mobile expense.” And that does not include auto mobiles for the department of men tal hygiene. One official discharged his chauffeur, paid by taxpayers, accusing him of cheating the state oat of $2,000 In one year through dishonest gasoline und repuir vouch ers. That is almost “u business.” "Charlie” Schwab may be seventy years old, but he still “knows his Way around.” The government tried to get $19,054,850 from Schwab’s Bethlehem Steel company, alleging profiteering. Instead of giving the' government $19,000,000. the “special master," henring evidence, says the government must pay $5,CG0,154 to Schwab and Bethlehem Steel. No wonder Carnegie, who was Scotch, thought a good deal of Schwab. Dr. G. A. Stevenson, “fellow” In the University college of Oxford, suggests to the London Times that the pax Romans (“Roman ppace”) of ancient times, when Rome ruled thA world and would allow no fight Idg, should be followed now by a pax Britunnlca (“British peace”), England ruling the world, telling everybody what to do. — . American Olympic athletes ap pearing on the field In Germany met gloomy silence, contrasting la use for European and Olympic squads. The defeated Germany to 0, will survive Real Struggle of the Campaign It’s Age-Old Fight Between Progress and Reaction; All Mourn for Curtis By EARL GODWIN WASHINGTON.—The noise of the politicians clamor ing for election of parties and Individuals conceals the fact that there Is a great sub surface movement leading to an up heaval. It Is not alone an adminis tration to be chosen in November; the election is merely a preliminary skirmish. The real struggle Is be tween those two old enemies Reac tion and Progress, which have been working against each other since the dawn of time. I look to an eventual liberaliza tion of legal, social and economic thought which will make It possible In this country to use the whole power of the nation to solve the problems which today apparently are insoluble because of legal tech nicalities and so called “state rights." That's Progress. I think Roosevelt will make this clear sometime during the coming political campaign; after he is re nominated at Philadelphia In the latter days of June. Parenthetical ly, also, I look for the sudden de velopment of crises here and abroad which may change the as pect of affairs to an extent that may project new and unsuspected Issues Into the campaign. For In stance, in event of a European war; or a widespread labor strike here, there would be Instant need of new policies. NEW DEAL ACHIEVEMENTS Let us reason out this social movement which will soon sharply define Itself against the skyline of current events. First came the New Deal with its fresh, clear breeze; Ita helpful sug gestions as to the rights of the em ployed class, the help for farmers, the aid to home owners, the public work with Its program of employ ment, the great mobilization of credit for business, and Its warm heart for the hungry. Then, as the New Deal took bold on the affec tions of the nation, there came the counter move of the Reaction, the attacks of the Liberty league, and the power trust. The attitude of the majority of the Supreme court upholds the social and economic views of the Liberty league and the power trust, while millions of other Americans seem to feel that the court’s action means there Is no room for a fresh idea in Amer ican government New Dealers believe that the court’s limitations on New Deal programs will bind the old order tighter, like staves on a barrel strained to the bursting point. The Old Order thinks the staves will pre vent the explosion; the New Deal knows that the tighter the staves the sharper the eventual explosion. Roosevelt would. If given opportu nity, loosen np the barrel and throw out a little of Its content, to prevent too violent a crisis. The way these things shape up in polities makes It appear that the New Deal is on the defensive. There is no more NRA, no more AAA and the President asks for re peal of all other agricultural con trol acts. There Is slow speed in the administration’s housing pro gram and the Public Works sched ule Is not what it ought to be. • • • NEW DEAL MUCH ALIVE But the New Deal Is not dead; not by a long shot. Roosevelt Is merely playing ’possum. He is sending out his scouts to find out what the mass of people are think ing. You can’t get the truth from city paper headlines. For instance, let us say that two hundred mine owners hail with delight the death of NRA; that gets Into the head lines from one to three inches deep and dominates the newspaper first page. But the resentment of 500, 000 soft coal mine workers, which is much more valuable politically, does not get the attention of the Washington correspondents until the United Mine Workers convene here and go on n rampage for Roosevelt, the New Deal and all that NRA and its brother, the Guf fey act, has granted to workers. (Labor will probably support Roose velt. but will eventually turn on him when he tries to regulate their Wages in a forthcoming program.) • • • WILL SIT TIGHT Roosevelt will sit tight; run the government, and If re-elected will go down the line with an improved New Deal administration to accom plish the objectives he has outlined many times, trammed>qp in the-one line “To tgafce America a better place to live In.” He will not scrap the better ments to Industry, to labor* to the banks, to business, to agriculture simply because of the Irritating de lays by courts and politicians. In stead, be Is now engaged In getting the sand out of the carburetor and is going to show a burst of stream great company of business men wbo know that be bus saved business through the loans of the RPC; mil lions of people whose homes were saved through the Home Owners' Loan corporation; billions wbo would have bad no money had It not been for the relief program. Watch out for a nationwide house-bull ding program which will clean up the city slums and come close to settling the unemployment problem. We have been stalled In our housing program so far because of pin pricks in the courts. But England drove a house-building pro gram through the courts and every thing else; England’s recovery Is due 50 per cent to house building. I understand Roosevelt Is about ready to spring one like it on us. • * • ALL MOURN CURTI8 Washington sincerely mourned the death, of former Vice President Charles Curtis. Here we all called | him "Charlie” Curtis and recognized j In him a great quality of manly | virtue. His passing suddenly, and the widespread note of genuine re gret reminds me that if we could only wipe out the bitterness and fury of politics we could pay more attention to the human element In public life. Now, for instance, Jf Charlie Cur tis had been running for office, In stead of living in a house by the side of the road and being a friend of all men, we would have been in the midst of a dally clamor over Charlie that would leave us unsat isfied as to whether or not he was all there. His political friends would have put a halo around him; his opponents would have dressed him up' In prison garb . . . but Charlie Curtis was out of politics long enough to have every one real ize that be was a great American and a great human being. • * • BORAH STARTS BALL Borah, by formally entering the Ohio primaries as a candidate for the Republican nomination for the Presidency, starts the ball rolling. Borah Is the first Republican to take the legal steps necessary to become an aspirant for the Presi dency; and thus is the first Repub lican formally to get into the race against Roosevelt Up to the time Borah chucked his hat in the ring In Ohio, Republican politics was all hot air.. Now Bornh smears up the Buckeye state’s hope to hand the Ohio Influence to Chester Bol ton, Ohio Republican congressman and a favorite son of that state. Borah Is no favorite with eastern Republican managers; and he is out to skin them alive if he can. Borah would like to break up the eastern and Wall Street control of his own party; and they are so afraid of him In the East that I feel Charlie Hllles and his New York crowd would rather lose the election than see Borah dominate it, because the eastern financiers would be as much out of the pic ture with Borah in the White House as they are with Roosevelt. LITERARY DIGE3T POLL When you analyze the famous Literary Digest poll which appar ently shows that more than ' half the country Is opposed to the New Deal, you will find that the wording of the questionnaire sent out had much to do with an unfavorable showing. It would be Impossible to find many persons with a hundred per cent O. K. on the Roosevelt ad ministration; in fact, I. doubt (bat. Roosevelt himself approves of every last detail of it the way It has worked out In the face of human frailties and reactlonncy Judges. But the Digest figures were re ported In* such a way that It ap peared there was a continuing drift away from Roosevelt The poll seemed to show that Roosevelt fell further and further behind as the poll progressed. This was accom- j pllsbed by first presenting the West and South with Roosevelt strong, and later to publish the vote from large industrial or eastern states, where the New Deal Is weak. The effect was to distort the poll, by giving It the effect of a moving re treat. Actually the state figures show very little change as the poll proceeded. Other polls conducted by other experts range from a 70 per cent endorsement of Roosevelt to a 62 per cent endorsement Of course, an election campaign between two Individuals Is the only way to gauge strength; • • • LIBERTY LEAGUE The Liberty league, la now en gaged In a national solicitation for funds and members, and gives folks the Idea it Is fighting Socialism and Communism when it opposes the New Deal. In my opinion the Liberty league, should It be successful In its pro gram, would precipitate a revolu tion here worse than the French uprising, because the league’s alius are purely for business. Their de mand for budget balancing, for in stance, means that they would tut off the emergency spending tiby which twenty million Americans sire now on relief. The budget- Is out oi Daiance Decause or rue emer gency; Jost as U was ont of balance in the World war by reason of war expenditures. The Liberty league leaders were, during the World war, largely engaged In selling munitions of war—and never in all that era did they worry over an un balanced budget They started ad vocating a balance wbep it became for the federal treasury 1 ' Shaw Comes Throngh Houston, texas.—i al ways said there was only one living person who could convince me .that George Ber nard Shaw was not the smart est man in the world—and that person would be George Ber nard Shaw. And, by gum, he did ltl For this admirer he began the dlstllilslonlng Job the last time he was over here, tell ing us so frankly what ailed us, and on the present trip lie already has fin ished up the con tract When a map, no matter how great he was In the past, reaches the point where he mistakes rudeness to his hosts for proof of iryi,, g. Cobb his own brilliancy, Instead of Just bad manners—well, to me one of the most distressing sights on this earth Is that of an extinct crater still trying to be the flaming volcano It once was. » t • Only tor Westerners WHAT, I ask you, Is the use of being a consistent old line Re publican back East, with fine bank ing connections, when all you’re per mitted to do, as the other fellows start drawing th^ir hands for this year’sjjlg game, Is to fuss with the discards? Why, lots of ua can remember when It wasn’t regarded as fatal to the Presidential prospect of a bright member of the G. O. P. younger set If he happened to re side on the Wall Street side of the Allegheny mountains. In fact, quite the contrary. Now it seems there’s a rule that only westerners may look longingly toward the White House without being accused of trying to peep In the*deck before the deal. So-Called "Sunny South” IF THE poetic pioneers who first christened the lower cross sec tion of our country the Sunny South came hither at this season of th<4 year, I think I know what actuated them. They called Dixie the Sunny South for the same reason that nat uralists have named a certain type of African hyena the laugh ing hyena—not because the crea ture laughs so often, but because he laughs so seldom that it nat urally attracts attention. After contemplating lowering or leaking skies for a straight ten days, Pm beginning to wonder whether the sun has retired from business permanently. Probably about next July Pll wish be had. Valuable Advice TODAY l. ran Into my old and wise friend, Bassett Blakely. He stuck to the cow business, whereas Will Rogers was weaned from It Otherwise these southwesterly ranges might have produced one. more corn-fed philosopher-humorist ■with a national Reputation. During the depression, Bassett tried to borrow a sizable sum from a gentleman with a well-earned rep utation for frugality. It was a for lorn hope. “No," stated Bassett, emerging from the interview, “he didn't let me have any money, but on parting' he gave me free of charge some beautiful advice. Bassett, my son, he said, neverAfeed your stock. dry fodder In windy weather. I did that in March in 1884 and one shuck blew away on me.” • • • Long’s Machine Endures AKE CHARLES, LA.—I mean no disrespect for any man’s memory, but for most any one of us who ever tasted success the verse that was written about little dog Rover might serve as an epitaph: “While he lived, he lived In clover, but when he died, he died all over.” I would have said that Huey Long’s machine, being essentially a one-man machine, would start fall ing to pieces before ever they buried him. But It yet endures and Is pow erful and, right or wrong,, it func tions. Admire such a man’s record or despise It, nevertheless you .have to take off your hat to a personality that can project itself back across the grave. They’re All Reaches /~\UT in California every patch of grt when things grow, regardless of xe, li a ranch So far as I knot, there are onl; two farms in southern California, ne's a lion farm and the other os trich farm. I look ft im day when a Hollywood scalp specialist will refer to his establishment as a dandruff ranch. . . In Texas, which we just left be hind ns, nearly everybody la a rancher, too, or used to be. Today we’re in the land of the. planters, and if we keep going, bearing north; tomorrow we’d be, among the farm * “The Human Target” > By FLOYD GIBBONS 'Famous Headline Hunter. ' , ' TODAY’S Story, boys and girls, is from Norman Daly. Bnt first, I want tb tell you about an exciting little adventure my old friend Jed Kiley. Jed lived for many years in France. One night when he and a friend of his were slumming in a tough French cafe in the Apache quarter of Paris, they-began to notice they were getting dirty looks from the motley group Of thieves and pickpockets who crowded every table. An “Apache”- is a French gangster. The name, as yon know, comes from a tribe of American Indians noted for their cruelty. The French Apache Is not a gunman, however, like his American counterpart hot he is adept In tho use of a long bladed knife.which he carries hidden in the folds of his baggy clothes. He can throw this heavy knlfb with uncanny skill and. piercers victim’s heart at 20 feet He Is also noted for hls( Intense hatred of all foreigners. . ■ >, . Jed knew all this aAd as the Apiches hod been drinking heav ily, he saw that hs and his frisnd were in real danger. Their *• table waa far In the rear of the smoke filled room and If they walked out they might fool a kntfo In their ribe at any. moment. And no one would know who had thrown It One table of roughs in particular were concentrating their hats On the Americans. There were five of them and they amused themselves and the others by heaping insults on the “American Pigs.” Jed pretended not to understand "French and began doing a little heavy thinking, He knew the Apache character and the pride they took In. their skill With knives and hit on an tdea. - Jed Gave the Boys a Target, Anyway. Jed'walked over to a door In the back of. the cafe and taking oat a one hundred franc hill, he pinned it to the door. Then, as 60 sullen eyes followed his every move, he announced In broken French that the bill wonld go to the man who pierced It first with a thrown knife. Zowiel An avalanche of knivee hit that woodtn door with a Splitting crash. Jed thinks1 many of them must have, pierced the bill hut he*e not eure. He didn’t wait to see. He and his friend went out the front door and up the street like a bat out of Hadesl And with Jed atm running, let’s leave Paris and go down to Nicaragua wlth^Norman Daly and see what happened to him. - - Pistol Shot Breaks Norman’s Pleasant Reverie. Norman spent five years as a member of the Chicago police force bnt, he says. It remained for the marines to give him his greatest thrilL He was & marine In Nicaragua In the summer of 1912 and one hot night as r, , . 1 - But Norman Know It Wasn’t a Bee—It Was a Bullet. , f I . \ he lay stretched on his back, puffing away on a glowing cigar, a sudden piatol shot disturbed his reverie. The shot was accompanied by an angry buzzing sound, as though a bee had quickly passed. But Norman knew it wasn’t a bee—It was a bullet I v '■ .He started to straighten MP when a voice growled at him to lie down and stay down and keep smoking. -Another shot snd a warning buzz made him obey. He recognized the voice as be longing to a rough Texan member of the outfit who was always quarrellng^with an equally^ough pal of his’abodk who was the best shot Norman also knew these two had been drinking. He quaked In his boots but he didn’t dare move. He knew what It was all about now. His .cigar was tbelr tArgett This Was No Vaudeville Act—This Was Real! Bang I Another shot I Then another and another l The bullets buzzed by so close that Norman says he could smell them. But still his cigar remained In his mouth. Be pursed his lips to get that lighted end as far out as possible and hoped the boys would shoot high. Two more bullets came fast and furious and Norman winced at each blast He started counting them to keep his nerves from breaking. WheiM2 had passed and that fatal 13 Was coining up, Norman nearly swallowed cigar and all. Bangt Thirteen came and passed. It was a lucky shot for Norman—he still wasn’t hit— but neither was the cigar! The next Shot Just passed under Nor man’s nose and then a shower of friendly sparks sprayed his pals face. , . • The cigar had bunt—like a Roman candle—on the fifteenth shot! f Whew 1 Norman sat up and wiped the beads of perspiration off his furrowed brow. He felt like screaming with relief but bo couldn’t get his breath. He looked around. Ah anxious group of comrades stood around him, watching with bated breath. He swallowed his heart and then, true to the traditions of the Marine corps under fire, he grinned. “Nice shooting, boys,” he said. . \ 'WOTJ Service, California Gold First , , Found on Sutter Ranoh It wa» on the land of John Slit ter, a Swlaa emigrant to California# that gold was discovered. Sutter had gone there In 1839, a^d by the time California became United States'territory following the Mad cap war he was the owner of an immense tract which he called New Helvetia Sad which, from his ‘fort* located at the Junction of the Sac ramento and American rivers on the site of what afterword became Sacramento city, he ruled practical ly Independent of the Mexican au thorities. Sutter’s fort was a sort of. station for the few immigrant, trains that had made their way overland to California and about 'it he had gathered a number of work* men who tilled his Soldi and cut timber |n the hills to Jhe east ' i - ' It was digging a tailrace foe s water-power sawmill on til south fork of the American river hi January, *1848, that John WW had charge of r
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