Await Landon’s
Plans for U. S.
Important Matters
Upon Which He Has
Not Yet Spokfh;
jCopies New Deal
By EARL GODWIN
Washington.—The people who
knew Alfred M. Landon as gover
nor of Kansas originally accepted
"%him as a New Deal Republican—
a much better New Dealer than
some of the Democrats. It is dis
concerting now to see Governor
Landon emerge nationally as an op
ponent of Franklin Roosevelt, who
is the President Governor Landon
hailed with delight, and who helped
keep Kansas from financial deba
cle. It makes many of us believe
with Governor McNut of Indiana
that Governor Landon has an im
mature mind,, easily swayed. A
candidate against the man who has
done so much for the country and
the world as Roosevelt, should have
strong reasons for'- supplanting
him; and the world waits on tiptoe
to see what Landon proposes for
America.
b
_W Governor Landon accepts much
of the New Deal. For instance, he
proposes to get the vote of the
rfarm belt by continuing the Roose
velt program. Why change? There
must be some other reason and
some other program yet undis
" closed, and no one can tell whether
. . it is a constructive program or a
return to the old destructive order.
When Landon ran for the govemor
♦ ship of Kansas he was so progres
sive and so close to the New Deal
. that Old Guarder John Hamilton,
now Landon’s manager, is said to
have shivered. Too much progress
for John, who now takes Mr. Lan
g don and dresses him up as a re
actionary. When this country was
on its back, Landon was a conspic
uous Republican cheering for
Roosevelt for using federal re
sources to restore the nation from
- its slump; using federal money to
.feed the nation’s starving; giving
the jobless work on a national
scale. In addition, Roosevelt was
using national credit to restore the
closed banks, to liquidate the froz
en assets; putting panic-stricken in
dustrialists on their feet with fed
eral aid, and saving from suicide
% men now in a stage of political hy
drophobia—men responsible for the
type of magazine articles now pop
ular, breathing hatred against
Roosevelt
^ Landon put his o.k. on pretty
* nearly everything Roosevelt did,
including AAA, which put Kansas
farmers on their feet Kansas Re
publicans in congress, including
Republican Senator Arthur Capper,
voted for AAA. It does not help
the Landon reputation for sincerity
to contrast his views as governor
With his expressed views as the Re
publican political candidate.
Why then, does Landon jeer at
Roosevelt because the Supreme
court declared AAA unconstitution
al? He certainly did not think it
was unconstitutional himself three
years ago, and it must be remem
bered that Landon’s own party
. came into strength and being
™ through the attacks Lincoln made'
on slavery, which was held to be
constitutional. It was Lincoln and
the Republicans who promised to
reverse the Supreme court on slav
4 ery or change the Constitution.
£ Landon himself fostered laws in the
Kansas legislature which have been
held unconstitutional by the Kan
sas Supreme court However, I
will not hcdd that against Gover
nor Landon, for legislatures are al
ways ahead of the courts on social
and economic reforms. It was one
time legal to cut oft a man’s ears
J for counterfeiting—and less than a
hundred years ago we sent men to
\ prison for debt In fact the first
” great use of federal power as a
democratic weapon for human
rights was a statute of 1841 which
gave federal aid to debtors who
. Were being imprisoned at the rate
^ of 2,000 a year. The law which
thus liberalized the debt situation
was then attacked by some of the
brainiest stand-patters of the day
as a dangerous and un-American
infringement on the Constitution.
These things make me feel that
Governor Landon knows in his
heart that the New Deal use of
federal power to help the people is
all right
I'
Governor Landon endorsed fed
eral relief policies, and there is a
letter now in the White House start
ing out, “My dear Mr. President”
and speaking highly of the civil
works program which put starving
men to work an the first job that
came to hand, when many people
believed we were within sight of a
revolution. Yet in his telegram to
the Cleveland convention he dis
carded his original idea and en
dorsed the doubtful theory of re
lieving distress by local units, like
New Jersey, where it is now proved
that their local relief administra
tions are serving the poor on a sub
starvation diet under an admini
strative policy Of the sort used in
the Middle ages. \
These facts lead me to the con
clusion that Governor Landon is a
kindly fellow, who would be a mild
liberal, and who would take all the
federal help he could get in times
of trouble; and who has been led
into the old guard camp somewhat
after the manner of a donkey pur
suaded by a nice yellow carrot
• • •
SOME THINGS TO WATCH.
There are many extremely im
portant matters on which the gov
ernor has not yet spoken. They
would show his stand on the great
reforms the Roosevelt administra
tion has made in the realms of
economic democracy, which Hi a
fancy term for keeping big busi
ness where it belongs. Governor
Landon has promised to unleash
the repressed economic forces and
sweep us all into a flood of pros
perity even greater than the pros
perity which marked the last
twelve months. The inference is
that Roosevelt has put hobbles on
business and banking, and that he,
Governor Landon, will take off
these restraints.
That is an important thing to
watch. We are told that Governor
Landon has a link with the steel
interests through his uncle, William
Mossman, a lobbyist for one of the
big steel concerns. The steel busi
ness is the great interest which
Morgan & Co. created and con
trols, and which is the leading busi
ness opponent of modern ideas of
labor organization. Many a Demo
cratic leader will be watching to
see whether Governor Landon
wants to rearrange ‘the govern
ment’s program and taxes in ac
cordance with the steel program.
It will be interesting to know
whether or not he would invite the
money changers back into the tem
ple by repealing or modifying the
law establishing the securities and
exchange commission. This is the
reform which has made it unsafe
to sell crooked securities. It is the
reform which some of the more un
scrupulous of the utility magnates
would gladly throw overboard be
cause, through this commission,
the expensive and useless holding
companies received their death
sentence. Governor Landon’s views
on this crucial matter, which caused
so great an upset in the house of
representatives, are yet unknown.
Leading New York bankers pre
vented the previous administration
from adopting the federal policy of
insuring bank deposits. In accord
ance with one of their platform
promises, the New Deal created
the federal deposit insurance cor
poration, and practically every de
positor in the country is insured
up to $5,000 against loss by a closed
bank. New York bankers are still
unfriendly to that policy, and it will
be interesting to know whether
Governor Landon would continue
such insurance if elected. He has,
as yet, expressed no opinion.
Another great business move of
the New Deal was the assumption
of more than a million mortgages
on homes from which the owners
would have been evicted. Is this
one of the fallacies of the New
Deal to which Governor Landon ob
jects? Many thoughtful people who
heard Governor Landon promise so
much in the way of relief, remem
ber that he once thought $1.08 a
week was enough for a man out of
work. * There is much more than
economy involved in the correct
administration of relief, and it is
odd that the hard-shelled reaction
aries cannot realize that if we do
not give adequate relief in these
one-sided boom days, we will soon
have a revolution on our hands. As
for Governor Landon’s promise
that he would reduce relief expense
by “taking it out of the hides of
politicians’’ — well, the school
teachers of Kansas can testify that
he took it out of some of their
hides when he reduced certain of
their salaries to $25 a month. Ac
tually, the administration of relief
is one of the most creditable
achievements of the government
Large business enterprises are
happy to bring their administrative
costs down to 9 per cent whereas
federal relief is being administered
for less than 4 per cent
• • •
OUR GREAT STRUGGLE.
The great struggle in this coun
try is not for power and place, but
is a surge for that thing called
“economic democracy.” This surge
goes forward in fits and starts. We
find it first showing conspicuous
strength nearly fifty years ago
when the' Interstate Commerce
commission was created. This was,
and is, the use by the people of
their own federal power to curb the
one-sided political and economic
strength of the railroads. The
whole story of our politics is the
history of the American people
working to the point where they,
and not corporate interests, dictate
the policies, write the laws, and
elect the presidents. In the con
servative eras which have been
marked by a lack of such use of
federal power, we see the com
plete disappearance of such natur
al resources as the forests of the
Northwest, and many great power
sites, and the ravaging of the min
eral and oil wealth of the country.
There was a time in the United
States senate when there was an
oligarchy of old guard Republican
senators who were more powerful
and ruthless than the late czars
and all their grand dukes; men
who had taken every tree from
the best forests in America, who
had the mines, the railroads and
the rivers in their own bands; who
became tremendously rich and in
ordinately powerful, yet who con
tributed nothing to our social wel
fare. Those day are gone, be
cause against the concentrated
wealth and power, and especially
against the narrow government of
these men, the mass of people pro
test from time to time.
• Wwtua Newspaper Uatoa.
Presidential Straw Votes.
Bohemian grove,
CALIF.—Every baby, as
I’ve always heard, is born with
a soft spot in its head, and once
in a while there’s one who
never gets over it, but grows
up and, in presidential years,
goes around taking straw votes
on railroad trains in order
definitely to find out which
ticket will be elected.
He is a kindred spirit to the other
fellow, who, to settle the whole is*
sue right now ana
avoid crowding at
the polls in Novem
ber, offers to bet
you a cool thousand
that his man beats
your man, and then,
before leaving, tries
to borrow five dol
lars from somebody
so he can get his
laundry out of hock.
Having met both
types within the ten
days before coming
Irvin S. Cobb
nere ana Demg teariui inai doui
species is going to multiply rapid
ly during the ensuing three months,
I’m thinking seriously of taking the
veil until alter the campaign ends.
Politics certainly does breed its
ticks.
• • •
The Little Bed School House.
YES, in my early days we also
had the little red schoolhouse.
Maybe the reason we liked it then
was that it got its red tone from
the paint on the outside and not
from the teaching staff on the in
side.
Likewise, in those unprogressive
times, we thought the youth of the
land should be taught to cherish
the American flag for something
besides private hissing purposes.
Hopelessly old fashioned, eh, what?
The Dictator Business.
IT LOOKS as though, when the
battle dust lifts from that dis
tracted country, Spain will have a
dictator, dictators being fashiona
ble.
It seems to be comparatively
easy to make a success of it, too.
Jifst follow a formula:
Make it a blasphemous violation
of the first commandment for any
one to assign you second place.
Be sure all sentences personally
uttered begin with the capital let
ter “I" and end with the pronoun
"me.”
Convince yourself that, in order
ever to behold any human being
who is your equal in moral and
mental stature, you must carry
about with you a full-length mir
ror.
Never permit yourself to be pho
tographed in your nightshirt, but
always in full uniform.
On arising, lock the jaws and
clench the fists and leave ’em that
way all day.
And—this is very important—
have a dependable police force and
somebody to pick on, preferably
somebody without any friends.
• • •
Political Claim-Alls.
SHRINKING JEEMS FARLEY
announces the Democrats will
carry every division of the Union,
although privately he is said to be
a little bit doubtful of two very
backward counties in Vermont
While generously conceding the
central part of Mississippi and the
western end of Kentucky to the
enemy, diffident John Hamilton is
sure the Republicans will sweep
everything else.
Congressman Lemke, most mod
est of the claimers, is certain he’ll
win in 40 states. Really, he doesn’t
need that many, but 40’s a nice
even number. If the shy Dr. Town
send also should run, he counts on
20,000,'000 votes in this country, be
sides clean-cut majorities in Swe
den, New South Wales and the Is
land of Yap.
Oxen Versos Onions.
VITTTH no aim to set up as a
specialist in human behavior,
I think I’ve stumbled on a signifi
cant, timely discovery. I found in
a scientific work this statement:
“Each living growth has to begin
in a single microscopic cell. More
over, every future thing of either
animal or vegetable kingdom con
tains in that first cell a fixed num
ber of even more infinitesimal bod
ies called chromosomes. In the ox,
the guinea pig, the man and the
onion, the number is the same in
variably.”
I contend this natural kinship in
classification may explain why, in
campaign years, some of us are
bellowing oxen, some are docile
guinea pigs and most of the rest of
us' are just plain onions.
IRVIN S. COBB.
0—WNU Service.
Bananas Give More Food
The banana gives more food per
acre than any other plant, more
calories per pound than any other
fresh fruit and, in some large spe
cies, produces more food per single
fruit than any other member of the
vegetable kingdom, says Collier’s
Weekly. Huge bananas grown in
East Africa and Cochin-China are
two feet long, as thick as a man’s
arm and contain sufficient food to
make an adequate meal for three
men.
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★★★By VIRGINIA VALE***
IRENE DUNN has just re
turned from Europe with a
lot of interesting information
regarding the famous Madame
Curie, whom she will portray
on the screen.
Most of us have thought of
the famous Scientist as a solemn
sort of person, but Irene has
discovered that she most de
cidedly had a lighter side. For
example, she was the best danc
er in her village, and loved
music.
Incidentally, Irene has drawn an
other plum out of the motion pic
ture pie. One of the three pictures
which she is to do for Paramount
is “The Count of Luxembourg.”
Gladys Swarthout seemed to be all
.'set for it, but, although she is
beautiful and has a lovely voice,
she is not too good in pictures. Her
technique seems to be better suit
ed to opera than to the screen.
—¥—
Marlene Dietrich finally got off
tn New York and then to Eurone.
with 19 trunks, (she
took an extra room |
on the train for the j
trunks, so that
they’d be handy
whenever she want
ed to change), vari
ous servants and at
tendants, and her
daughter.
Interviewed o n
her arrival in New
York, she said all
the right things—
that American
Marlene
Dietrich
women were the
most beautiful in the world, that
Garbo was her favorite actress,
etc.
If yon love thrills and .automo
bile racing, be sure to see “Speed,”
with James Stewart and Wendy
Barrie. Young Mr. Stewart is
climbing fast, perhaps because he’s
so natural, perhaps because all of
us who go to pictures seem to be
getting tired of too-handsome men.
As for Wendy Barrie, she is
charming. Incidentally, she’s been
seen aronnd again with the young
millionaire whom rumor had her
all set to marry when she landed
on these shores.
Warren Hull is both resourceful
and sensible. His young sons want
ed ■ swimming pool, but Hull is
one movie actor who refuses to
have a pool (and what with the cost
of the pool and the cost of keeping
it filled, who can blame him?)
So he did what fathers all over
the land have done; had a tank
built, seven by nine, that can be
filled easily with the garden hose,
and now everybody’s happy.
Joan Crawford’s favorite records
are no longer those made by Bing
Crosby. She’s switched to operatic
recordings, and likes to sing along
with the soloist.
And as for Bing—“Pennies from
Heaven” is bis next picture, and
he’s doing good work in it. His
family is all settled in their new
home, his horses are settled at
his ranch, he’s established as a big
attraction on the radio—and how’s
that for a lad who’d never amount
to anything, according to the
prophets of not so many years ago?
Auto trailers are becoming more
and more popular in the movie col
Loretta Young
tury-Fox went in
for them heavily a
•while ago — the
Jones family used
six to get to the lo
cation site of "See
America First,”
and during the
making of the loca
tion scenes of "Ba
mona” Loretta
Young, Kent Taylor
and Director Henry
lived in them.
oomeooay naa uie namona
cast worried by arranging for some
peacocks to be used in the picture
—not that anyone would come right
out and admit being superstitious,
of course, but they all recalled the
fact that peacocks are supposed to
bring bad luck.
So—somebody else just “forgot”
to bring the peacocks along.
—It—
ODDS AND ENDS ... Don’t blame
me if you miss “The Ex-Mrs. Brad
ford?—it’s great . . . Cora Sue Collins
has autographs from all the famous
folk she’s worked with . . . Evelyn
Venable recently bought her infant
daughter her first bonnet—but the
baby won’t wear it... George O’Brien
is working hard on “Daniel Boone”
. . . George Raft is going to try his
hand at pictures in England . . . Clau
dette Colbert and Clark Gable did
their hitch-hiking scene from “It Hap
pened One Night” at the Actors’ bene
fit show the other night and the audi
ence all but rolled in the aisles . . .
Maureen O’Sullivan may marry John
Farrow when “Tarson” is completed
. . . The bext Quintuplets picture
will be “Reunion,” with Jean Uersholi
tgain playing a doctor.
• Western Nevavaper Union.
Love Conquers Hate
By MEREDITH SCHOLL
© Associated News^wtpem,
WNU Service.
FREIDA had not gone twenty feet
before she fell. She pitched for
ward on her face. Her skis went
flying over her head and jammed
into the drift, breaking her for
ward motion. Snow got into her
nose and eyes and mouth. For
a moment she lay there, partly
stunned, conscious of an agonizing
pain in her ankle.
Presently she heard the swish
of skis, followed by a sharp grind
ing of snow as the runner came
to a perfect stop.
“Get up! said a voice. “You’re
not hurt”
Freida opened her eyes and
looked up at the man standing over
her. He was tall and dark and
homely. He grinned, and the grin
made her so angry that she almost
forgot the pain in her ankle.
“You beast. You terrible, un
feeling beast! Go away and leave
me alone”
“Oh, so you can’t take it, eh?”
She was struggling to regain her
feet, a task well nigh impossible
because of her maladroitness in
maneuvering the cumbersome skis.
The man reached down and
grasped her wrist. “Up you come!
Now, pay attention to —'” He
broke off at the expression of pain
that crossed her face. “Heyl
What’s this? By golly, you are
hurt”
“I’m not! I’m quite all right—
and—I—don't—” Freida’s voice
died away. She sucked in a great
lungful of air and then pitched
forward again in a dead faint . . .
An eternity later Freida opened
her eyes. She was lying on a
couch in a room that was hung
with skins of animals, deer heads,
out-of-door portraits, skis, snow
shoes and other trappings. A brisk
fire burned in a great stone fire
place. The pain in her ankle was
gone. She felt comfortable and
drowsy.
For awhile she lay in perfect
contentment. And then abruptly
she thought of Lee Rogers. A
wave of anger surged through her.
How she hated that man! How
she despised him! And to think,
only two days ago she had believed
herself in love with him! What
a lucky thing it was she had found
him out before it was too late.
How fortunate it was she had de
cided to join the party go’ng up
to Snow Crest for winter sports!
Reflecting on it, she knew a
sense of gratitude toward Lee. For
it had been Lee who had urged
her to come.
“You’ll love it!” he had said
enthusiastically. “Why, it's the
grandest country!”
/vna oewause sue uiuugm » **«
loved him she had agreed to go,
even though she didn’t like rugged
exercise. She loved Lee because
he was different, because, for one
thing, he was homely, amiably
homely, and she had always been
used to the attentions of handsome
men; she loved him because he
was shy and modest and acted out
of place in crowded ballrooms or
where there were strange people.
She loved him because he was
honest and simple and dependable.
He hadn’t proposed, which fact
puzzled her a little, because sooner
or later all men proposed to her,
but she had felt pretty confident
that he would eventually. ' Now
she was glad he had waited until
she found out his true colors. She
only wished she could tell him
what she thought.
The chance presented itself with
in the next moment, for the door
opened and Lee Rogers came in.
“Well, how goes it? Better? I’ve
arranged for a sleigh to come up
and take you back to the lodge.”
He sat down on the cot beside her.
“By the way. would you be in
terested in marrying me?”
Freida gasped. She stared at
him and struggled for words vio
lent enough to express her feelings.
“Marry you—why—why—”
“Oh, I know I waited quite a
while. But, darn it, Freida, I
was afraid. Back there in the city
you were so confident and sure of
yourself; so capable and very
much at home amid the glitter
and glamour of it all. I felt sort
of out of place, actually began to
wonder if there weren’t anything
that I could do better and with
more grace than you. I knew if
there weren’t we’d be unhappy, be
cause all men like to feel superior
to their women. That’s why I hit
on the idea of bringing you up
here. I’m a pretty good skier and
I thought—”
“Lee Rogers! You horrible per
son!”
“It worked out swell,” Lee
grinned. “Every time you took a
spill I felt superior, almost con
temptuous. And when you fainted
—say, that was grand! I carried
you all the way up here in -my
arms. Every step was a joy, you
looked so dam helpless—”
“Lee Rogers, I — you — I never
heard—the idea—of all things!—
how can you possibly—what a de
spicable trick!—how beastly—!”
“So, I figure, under the circum
stances, we might be pretty happy
together,” Lee finished. "Besides,
I love you. I’m quite mad about
you. ril be miserable if you turn
me down. Will you marry me,
darling?”
“Yes.” said Freida.
, \
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The Four-Word Test
In this test there are four words
given in each problem. Three of
the four in each case bear a defi
nite relationship to one another;
Cross out the one word that does
not belong in each problem.
1. Holy, sacred, profane, divine.
2. Tall, squat, lofty, high.
3. Lob, double-play, net ball,
ace.
4. New Hampshire, Vermont,
Boston, Connecticut.
5. Vain, humble, modest, sub
missive.
6. Shot put, javelin throw, lOfi
yard dash, discus throw.
7. Hot, stolid, fiery, ardent.
8. Harvard, Princeton, Vhssar,
Yale.
9. Tallahassee, Sacramento,
Chicago, Baton Rouge.
10. Running, swimming, walking,
trotting.
Answers
1. Profane. 6. 100-yard dash.
2. Squat. 7. Stolid.
3. Double-play. 8. Vassar.
4. Boston. 9. Chicago.
5. Vain. 10. Swimming.
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