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sevelt Will Country rats Admit Hard F but Jbxpect _Victory By EARL GODWIN rASHINGTON. — Well, the Democratic high command has quit fooling and admits there is a tough fight ahead feat Landon. My old friend, Farley, Democratic National eman, who has been claim le entire 48 states for Roose ow privately gives Landon as as eight states. '' The time has come, too, to tell actly what is going on politically. i things 1 now report are facts ich have been given privately to i President by his close advisers: 'The private opinion of those on inaide is that President Roose is not goirg to have a “walk ■” in the campaign. They feel of the New Deal’s victory; but ey know there must be fighting inch of the way, lest such gs as their hoped-for 500,000 ajority in New York state, for in ace, may be turned into a de nt of the same size. For this eason the President himself seems be counted on to bear the brunt 1 the fight; and as I see it now he start out in mid-September for red-hot campaign which will en cle the country. He will make trip as far west as the Pacific ISeast and will probably retrace the | course of the “Victory March of here can be no doubt about the vote from the solid south. Those electoral votes are as safe for sevelt as anything can be safe litically. All the yipping and'yam ering by the plush lined Demo hts who have tried to discredit sevelt among the masses of [[southern people have been ineffec tive. If there could be any dis satisfaction in the south it would be in Florida, and that would not occur had it not been for the dissension over the trans-Florida ship canal. ^Roosevelt’s chances in Ohio are none too promising but they seem to be getting better. That state is ' the strongest of the Father Cough outposts. Illinois looks safe for Roosevelt, odd as that statement f sound to a lot of Republicans, vever, the internal Democratic fight between Mayor Kelly of Chi cago and Governor Homer is ap parently settled amicably, and the Lemke third £grty in Illinois is go infif to split the Republicans rather than the Democrats. I would not, | however, depend too strongly on any promises made between Kelly and Homer. So Illinois might be classed as merely “fair to mid dlin’,” but likely to be good for F. D. R. Indiana, I think, is in |. Roosevelt’s bag right now. I dis agree with my Democratic friends who say that Iowa is a hundred per cent for Roosevelt; my re ports indicate it is doubtful enough to warrant some good hard work. |r Wisconsin and Minnesota are re ported OK for the President; and while there should be a special chapter on the g-emendous state of N||W' York, all there is to say is that the Democrats claim it by half a million. If the Empire state goes for Landon, then these Democratic [ predictions are frightfully wrong. 7 Michigan interests me. I think .BWMibtfui, but Republican Senator ~ * attitude is helpful to evelt Couzens, richest man in senate, and a Republican, en sea and will work for Roosevelt gan, old time Republican state, went ter Roosevelt in 1932 and swung back Republican to Sen ator Vendenberg two years ago. It should provide a terrific battle. Pennsylvania would be a h'ard far the Republicans to lose; I there is a good chance they [" will lose it It has been a hard boiled Republican state for years, • dominated for half a century by such bosses as Boise Penrose. But i> Republican bosses have died ilcally or politically, and a new I chine is set up, operated by ratic Governor Earle and tic Senator Joe Guffey — i, machine of deadly accuracy, ats are better organized in than ever before, i also make strong claims New Jersey. New England r rights should go Republican, but schusetts, Rhode Island, and dcut are giving the Republi lots of trouble. Vermont to be the one rock-ribbed blican state in the Union. Vermonters are so anti-New they even resent the work the 2. boys have done for Vermont and forests; and they hate » see them riding to work in gov nent trucks. If Vermont had sway, there’d be no federal aid anybody; and wherever there federal aid Vermont would ’em work like slaves and to work even if the job was f miles away. ator George Norris’ influence will turn that state to it; and the Pacific coast are, I believe, 100 per cent velt. the basis of present trends, RooSevalt should get more i MO electoral votes out of SSL do this without New York. TAXES REAL ISStJE. Land on, doing a better job at the radio microphone than when he •tarted with his Topeka acceptance speech, delivered a speech on taxes which was as easy as a preacher taking a firm stand against sin. All candidates for anything assail existing taxes and, without being specific, try t& make the country feel that if elected this bright fixing star will fix it so that everybody gets the benefits of government— but the other fellow will pay the bffl. Landon will, if elected, rec ommend a repeal of the taxes on corporations' surpluses; .and will probably try to put over a direct tax on industry and individuals. Both Governor Landon and the' President seem to be in agreement on the undesirability of so-called hidden taxes. Landon attacked the fact that practically everything from soup to nuts has hidden taxes somewhere. All clothing and other things that enter into every day buying are cleverly taxed, he as serts, and the fact that they have not raised enough revenue for years past is the reason for additional taxes on incomes, on tobacco and liquor, and on gasoline for instance. But hidden taxes were not in vented by Roosevelt He’s been hammering at them for years, and is as much opposed to them as Landon. If Governor Landon stops with his Buffalo address all we will have had from him will be his phrase “cock-eyed taxation” as related to the taxes on corporation surpluses. That tax, which was a last ditch, desperate measure to dig out enough money to go through with the bonus and other extras con gress enacted, was the one alterna tive congress could think of as against more taxes on the break fast table, on clothes, tobacco, gas or what not. If corporations, hiding money by the millions, are to be defended by Landon as against the ordinary wage earner, then the sooner he be anchored to Topeka the better. So when Landon goes on a search for more taxes, having relieved the corporations, where is he going to get them? He does not like hidden taxes so he will go to incomes. It is shown here by the Treasury that Landon would levy an income tax on at least six million people who are now receiving so little that they do not have to pay an income tax at all. Is that wise? The very rich, if taxed to the utmost limit, could not contribute enough to make up the needed amount—so it is the poor man’s tax that Landon would have to collect. In the last year the expenses of government were $5,500,000,000 and receipts only $4,000,000,000. Extra expenses were occasioned by relief to the tune of $3,000,000,000. Even had Landon been President and had paid no relief to anyone, he would still have had a deficit on the reg ular expenses of government. How would he have paid them? He could not have paid them; that’s the an swer. He would have borrowed, and then set out to cut to the bone— just as Roosevelt is now doing. LANDON ON BELIEF. I have been trying to get a line on the Landon relief policy, but at this writing about the only thing the governor has said indicative of his views was a statement at Buffalo that the G. O. P. would be generous in relief but would not be foolish. This indicates he would not follow some of his party and put the bur den of relief entirely on the states. You could tell by Landon’s Kansas experience that he favors the states doing as little as possible and the federal government doing as much as possible—but I didn’t think he dared say so in public. I have heard so many of the idle rich in the Republican party speak of relief as “spending millions on no-good bums to Induce them to vote for Roosevelt” Now the problem of the Republicans seems to be to keep an calling these unfortunate poor “bums” and still get them to vote for Landon. The G. O. P. rich hate federal relief. In another of Landon's eastern speeches—a better effort than his earlier fumbles — he spoke to a group of educators and highbrows on education. Of course, the gov ernor was for education — who wouldn’t be. The question was asked of him: “If you are so strong for education why have you sub jected the Kansas schools to such a hazing?” All teachers know that Kansas teachers were reduced al most to a starvation wage and that many schools were closed — had it not been for federal aid there would have been almost a complete dearth of public education in Kansas under Landon. But the Landon speeches are still second rate, sophomoric high school utterances on platitudinous sub jects.- He deals in “unctious inani ties” as Secretary Ickes puts it And, still following the vipegar tongued Ickes, “no one has yet pussyfooted his way into the White House and the precedent will not be broken in this year of grace.”, C Western Newspaper Union. Clock Predicts Moon Phase Which phase the moon' will as sume on the following night is shown by an Unusual clock installed recently an a church steeple in a Berlin suburb. The clock is a large lighted globe with shaded sections to indicate the proper phase loir any time during the, month. Above is alar*wMoMtloekriMngtime.—Pop ~nmt \2hmJzd about Honoring Akoi fu9 Andy CANT A MONICA, CALIF. O —Because Ambs 'n’ Andy paid a mythical visit to this community, the grateful popu lace will dedicate a bronze tab let in Palisades park, which is not only a beautiful park but is regarded by some enthusiastic citizens as being practically the ■ main entrance to the Pacific ocean. That’s California pride for you— the kind’ that inspires us to pass resolutions endors mg the sunsets. Well, I don’t be lieve there’s a small city in this country that has finer sun sets than Santa Monica. And when better ones are available (or towns of this size, Santa Monica will have them. Our boosters’ Irvin Cobb. clubs will attend to that. What I’m getting at. though, is that any fellows who’ve given as much joy to the world as Amos ’n’ Andy deserve a whole set of plaques. If they don’t wear out, thinking up their stuff until I get tired of hearing it, they’ll go on forever. “Hello, Kingflsh.” Vocal Contortionists. WHY must tenors make such funny faces when they sing? And why must a lady vocalist clutch both hands to her tum-tum when she reaches after a high note, as though she’d just felt the first pangs of cholera morbus? And why must there ever be any professional pian ist who also is a professional dan druff fancier and looks as though he should be gone over with one of these sand-blasting machines that they use to clean off office build ings. Just ordinary soap and water wouldn’t do. And, oh, why does a basso in sist on singing at great length of the joys of life at the bottom of a coal mine and, for an encore, ro hock me in the cra-hadle of the da heep until I’m as seasick as a cow? Hasn’t anybody since Rutherford B. Hayes was President, thought up a new song for bassos? And isn’t any body going to do so before the sands of the desert grow cold? ft looks like years and years to wait. • * • France’s Diplomatic Game. V17HILE France was asking us to VV »nter into a "neutrality pact” as regards Spain, it would appear she even then was extending very material “sympathies” to the loy alist side. Anyhow, Italy thinks so, and Germany, too. And now Portu gal sprouts unrest and Great Brit ain issues threats. Since we already were neutral— and, if we have any sense, will keep on being as neutral as a stop-and go signal—America didn’t need to enter any pacts. And if we continue minding our own business we’ll have neither a sick headache nor a fresh batch of uncollectible foreign loans when the present mess is over. The point is that France seem ingly has been caught playing a double diplomatic game. Wholesale Mercy. WHO killed Cock Robin? Who cares? ' Dead, isn’t he? His widow and orphans can go on relief, can’t they? But how about pretty Boy Sparrow? There's the one to think about—so young and so gifted and ambitious. ..... The Women’s Aid Society for the Freeing of Criminals—How soon can we get that poor lad out into the sunshine once more? He takes aim so much better in the sun shine. Must we wait until he breaks out? The state parole board—Not at all, ladies, not at all. Just be pa tient a little while, then leave it to us. Gov. Mushy J. Sapp—But why wait? When I think of that bleak Alcatraz and that hard-hearted Un cle Sam I’m proud to have some wholesome sentiment in my souL Pass me that pardon blank. Pretty Boy Sparrow—Well, happy days are here again. Say, I never did like that canary much either. Where’s my tommy gun? The Wisdom of Frogs. A LADY naturalist at the Smith sonian in Washington has been experimenting and she says that frogs not only listen to political speeches on the radio but, by their croaks at the finish, indicate a deep appreciation of same. This helps to confirm an opinion I’ve had*all along, that the only end of a frog which should command my entire approval is the end the legs grow on—especially when fried in crack er crumbs. On second thought, though, may be the frog has more brains than I’m giving him credit for. When you applaud at the rad of a broad cast there’s no chance for an en OtVIN 8. COBB. •—winii i _ mm Miss Flamingo By JANE WILLIAMS Q McClure Newspaper Syndicate. WNU Service. Harvey Roberts stole a glance at the face of his dis contented, elderly client. Jonathan Taft had half a dozen homes scat tered through the East—an apart ment In New York City, an estate on Long Island, cottages at New port and Tuxedo, a lodge in the Adirondacks, and a winter home in Florida where Roberts was now visiting the old man. Without any near relatives, Taft had always seemed happy enough but now that he had reached the age of seventy he was rheumatic and Harvey Rob erts thought it too bad that there were no close relatives to look after Mr. Taft. "I hope you can stay here a couple of weeks with me, Harvey,” Taft told the young lawyer. ‘‘I miss your father so much since he died.” In the distance appeared a rosy cloud of moving objects coming toward the piazza where the two men sat. It thinned put as it neared the house, appearing long and straggling. “Tint’s a beautiful sight,” com mented Harvey. ‘‘What is it —birds?” “Flamingoes.” They reached for field glasses but the flock had veered to the south and was settling down, a compact pink mass, behind the tall trees. “What is that?” Harvey asked sharply. “Another flamingo? What ever it is, it’s trying to get through your fence—oh, it’s fallen. I’m go ing down to have a look at it, sir. Can I lend you my arm?” “I have my crutch thanks,” snapped Taft, and Harvey slowed down his pace to that of the lame man. They came to the fence sep arating Taft’s estate from the en croaching jungle. Taft stopped when he saw the “flamingo” was a young girl, wearing a tattered frock of rosy cotton. "What the devil are you doing here?” “I hated to come—it makes me ill to trespass on property that should be my father’s inheritance, when he is dying—” she choked inarticu lately and compressed her lips. “Dying?" whispered Taft fearful ly. "Charlie dying?” Harvey Roberts saw the tragedy in die young eyes, as the girl turned slowly and crept through the fence. Then she turned her pretty face toward them and cried out: “What a poor, meager-souled old man you are, Grampus! Not even a blessing for your dying son!” She fled through the wooded path, like a brilliant rosy-clad animal and after her went Harvey Roberts, running fast to catch up with the girl. He caught up with her in the woods where she had sunk down on the doorstep of a ramshackled looking cottage. “Miss—er—Flamingo!” gasped Harvey, “what can I do for your father—quick, tell me!” “Doctor—medicine—food!” she murmured, gasping for breath. And she looked after the young lawyer as he ran off at top speed to take care of her instructions. Then she rose and entered the cottage to tend her father. A man’s thin form on a cot turned at the sound of footsteps. “Grandfather could not come. Daddy darling, but he has sent a young man to do the errands — the doctor will be here any minute — are yow feeling rested?” Presently Harvey Roberts arrived with the doctor, the medicine and a large basket of provisions. There was a rustling sound out side and then the form of Mr. Taft appeared at the door of the cottage. “Grampus!” cried Roslyn, and ran to help him into the house. Harvey Roberts felt he had served his usefulness and he re turned to Taft’s house, leaving the old man to make peace with his family. Surely, Harvey thought, now they would bring Taft’s son to the house. That would arrange things properly so that Taft would have an heir art his death and cer tainly Charles was deserving. He wondered if he would ever see Ros lyn again before she became just another society debutante. At the snake fence he stopped while he thought of her natural beauty. A sudden rush of air. and there she was. With one jump she was perched on the top rail of the fence. “Please let me thank you!” she said. “It was nothing. Will you be com ing to New York soon?” “Perhaps in a few weeks I’ll be able to make the trip. I’ll find you —somehow!” she said, and then disappeared into the thicket. It was some months later when the office boy brought in a white card on which was scribbled “Miss Flamingo.” Harvey remembered instantly. But it wasn’t until two years later when Mr. Taft invited him down to Florida once more for a week’s vacation that Harvey and Roslyn finally, got their affairs settled. Once their plans were made, it didn’t take them long to find a minister and “Miss Flamingo” sur rendered her bird-like independence to become Mrs. Harvey Roberts. 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