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Communist Cry * Stirs Up Heat Real Issues of Campaign Turned ^ Aside; G. 0. P. Has Nothing to Offer By EABL GODWIN . TT TASHINGTON. — as the jf \ A / campaign warms, there is W Iess light and mor. heat, and everyone got hot over the charge that Roosevelt was a communist. That whisper has been going round and round among the stock brokers and society folks, but it comes out now in the political debate; and it has the effect of turn ing the real issues aside. Roosevelt is just as American as the Stars and Stripes, in fact there is a virility to his Americanism that shines out even more than that r, of some of the old timers. Any communist who votes for Roosevelt is voting for the best man, but he is not voting for a President who will compromise with American ^ ideals. Progressive ideas are always called radical. When the elder La Follette started his progressive ca reer which startled the industrial ists, he was assailed by the old guard as a menace to the United States; and yet out of the 35 major industrial, social and tax reforms that started with the elder La Fol lette, 32 have been written into the law of the land. Men were called | radicals once foi advocating pub lic education—Theodore Roosevelt was the object of a Wall street cam paign of defamation. They said he was a dangerous radical because of some of the wild men who voted for f him. His answer was that there is a lunatic fringe to every reform movement. In this campaign there is really no reason why political lunatics should vote for Roosevelt as they can locate Their own kind in any one of three or four minority parties, such as the Lemke party, the Socialist party or Communist party. All this agitation about commu nism arises out of the fact that the Landon-Knox campaign has been largely a* name calling affair with < out promise of a program from the * Republican party. That’s the way the G. O. P. has so far impressed the mass of common people who have heard their idol Rwrevelibbe* rated, but they are still listening Ato hear what Landon and Knox can do that will be better for them than that which Roosevelt has already done . . . The masses of folks saw the hungry fed; saw jobless men put to work; saw factories re open and men go to work at better wages than before; saw the banks re-open with insured bank accounts; saw millions of families saved from mortgage eviction—and they won der what it is that Messrs. Landon and Knox are finding fault with. Actually the Republican party does not offer any precise princi ples of government at this stage. It seems much more interested in damaging the reputation of the ad e ministration than in educating the f country in that “good government” of which they speak so feelingly— Theirs has been a mud throwing campaign, and i, makes their head men so mad they can't see straight ■when Roosevelt calmly Ooer ahead about the business of running the United States, apparently taking no notice of what his opponents are saying about him. Of course, a President can act, while all a candi date can do is to promise; but when you have modest candidal'- Landon fumbling around fbr a speech that will not commit him to anything; and vice presidential candidate Knox roaring up and down the land %ke a bull in a china shop—and accomplishing no more than that —When you have Chairman John Hamilton who apparently imagines all wisdom will die with him—you Utave a pretty trick to educate the mass of voters in anything at all! I have read all the speeches I could get from all three of these Head Republicans—but trying to patch them together into a plan of govern ment is beyond me. Knox Surprise*. Colonel Knox furnishes many sur prises in this campaign—He sur prised many of us when he en dorsed the idea of social security and old age pensions and jobless in surance, because Knox is the prin cipal representative of the old guard in the campaign, and the old guard has consistently looked on social security, old age pensions and in surance against a jobless state as Completely communistic. Sc when fhe colonel told a California audi ence that these things were OK with him it was surprising, until you realized that he was talking to ■California people who are apparent ly a hundred per cent sold on big and better old age pensions. to people in the southwest have had the deserts watered by rederal reclamation projects, and Fwho have seen so much benefit from federal public works, the colonel brings the assuring mes sage that his party does not want to hamper relief and cut off public frorks. In New York the colonel ‘ is party set afoot a whirlwind paganda and abuse agaiost all public works are a hundred per cent favored, the colonel promises to continue them all with bigger and better attributes--and at the same time reduce taxation, curtail expenses and balance the budget. The old fashioned medicine man himself couldn't do a better job at selling a bottle that would cure hoarseness or remove warts, which ever might be required. something for Nothin?. The more I read and hear about the Landon farm program the more it all seems to me like the old medi cine man’s gag of “something for nothing.” It is impossible for me to understand how Landon can give us the tremendous cash benefits he promises; and at the same time re duce taxes and balance the budget— In fact I think the governor is talking through his hat. The Republicans have told the city folks that food costs are high because of the cash paic. by the federal government to the farmers; they indicate they will put a stop to all that when Governor Landon is elected. That’s a good gag in the city; it makes unthinking millions really believe that the cost o*. living will decrease tremendously if Lan don is elected. Everybody will have a Job when Landon is in the White House; money will flow freely; and living will cost practically nothing! Well, that doesn’t go well with farm leaders; so Governor Landon at Des Moines goes through an amazing performance which can be likened to a magician making rapid passes to dazzle the audience and then bringing a rabbit out of the hat. In fact Landon promises that he would give everything that Roose velt has given the farmers; drouth relief; seed loans; he would give crop insurance too; he wii' conserve the soil to a fare-ye-well—And he’s going to give the farmers a sub sidy; the same subsidy which his party repudiated and rejected for years; but this time it’s actually going to be handed around in cash. Every farmer with a family type farm is going to have a wad of federal cash which will offset the ruination of those awful surpluses which the farm leaders talk about. No large commercial farms can have these surpluses. That sounds good until it reaches New York where many commercial farms are owned by insurance companies, and when they hear about it in Wall street, I fear that Governor Lan don will be rebuked. Because, al though Wall street doesn't like the idea of doing anything with farm ers except milk them dry, Wall street occasionally buys a farm of its own and wants to get all the federal subsidy that's being handed ’round. • To anyone who is looking for good sound philosophy of government and a plan to do something for agricul ture, the whole show is sickening. Landon’s Promises. Practically every promise Lan don makes to farmers has been lifted bodily from the Roosevelt pro gram, yet Landon has the nerve to say that after nearly four years the country is still without a settled policy for agriculture. Farmers know that for twelve years they suf fered, and that they began to im prove their lot when Roosevelt took office; when Henry Wallace began to operate, and when congress en acted its famous series of New Deal farm laws. Farmers know the dif ference between their four billion dollar income in 1932 and their eight billion dollar income this year. The Progressives. The progressive leaders who met in Chicago in September and en dorsed Roosevelt could easily elect Landon if they had swung that way. The progressive bloc in congress, whose leaders are such men as Norris of Nebraska, La Follette of Wisconsin, Maverick of Texas, rep resents literally millions of votes; and inasmuch as many of their fol lowers are nominally Republicans, this progressive consolidation for Roosevelt is vastly weightier than the much vaunted “take-a-walk” Democrats of the conservative stratum. Progressive politics means that section of public life where human rights precede property rights with out going insane about it. I think Senator Norris of Nebraska hit the nail squarely when he said “Roose velt is the only President since his illustrious namesake whose heart beats in sympathy with the common man”—The progressives who met to endorse Roosevelt represent men who have been fighting corporation interests in behalf of the ordinary citizen; who have been working for better industrial conditions and wages, who have fought child la bor; farm leacers who refuse to be catspaws for industrial high tariff schemes; labor leaders and many others of that general class. Noticeable among labor groups were men from the four railroad brotherhoods, one of the most pow erful organizations in the country and one which has steadfastly turned toward the progressive can didate whoever he has been. To these men the Roosevelt fight is simply one long battle against cor porate interests which have worked in the dark to throttle the advancing cause of the worker. Interesting also was the presence of Senator Benson and Governor Peterson of Minnesota, speaking for the Parm er-Labor party. The progressive conference was probably more completely repre sentative of the average working loan and woman and the average ioy conference BRISBANE THIS WEEK One Human Shipload A Floating Microcosm Intelligent Mrs. Widener Mrs. Astor and Dr. Carrel On Board the Normandie. — The ancient writer made this admission: Arthur Brisbane mere ue mree things which are too wonderful for me, yea, four which I know not: The way of an eagle in the air; the way of a ser pent upon a rock; the way of a ship in the midst of the sea; and the way of a man with a maid. What would that insnired writer say of this modem ship in the midst of the sea? The biggest ship he ever saw could be hung from the ceiling of the dining salon on this boat or tucked away in a comer of the sun deck, disturbing no one. A modem ocean liner, Queen Mary, Normandie, Rex or Europa, as it crosses the ocean indifferent to waves and winds, is a small world in itself, a microcosm, with this little earth playing the role of “Cosmos.” If this ship should sail to some new, uninhabited island of Utopia, it might supply everything necessary to start a new civiliza tion better than the one invented by Sir Thomas More, who has been made a saint since he wrote “Utopia” to amuse himself and had his head cut off for his Catholic faith. On board, with his friend, George Bacon, is Myron Taylor, head of the United States Steel com pany, biggest industrial unit on earth. He would supply the ma terial for skyscrapers, ships, rail roads and machinery, plus organ ization. Simon Gugggnheim would tell them how to make corporations profitable, by “holding on.” Various newspaper workers on the boat would be ready to start “the New Utopia Gazette”; Floyd Gibbons for war correspondent, plus members of the Edward H. Butler family, -that own the Buffalo News, and the able Abraham Cahan, known to more New Yorkers than any editor in America, with one exception. And, most important to newspaper prosperity, the ship car ries Mrs. George D. Widener of Philadelphia, who has traveled up and down in every come- of the earth and says to your narrator: “Mr. Brisbane, I have always wanted to meet you, because I read your articles every day." There spoke the nucleus of a high ly intelligent reading public. Mrs.. Vincent Astor, on her way back from a grouse moor in Scot land, would resume her real job of promoting deep music, finding co-operators in the passenger list —Madame Flagstadt, the admirable Norwegian singer, a deep soprano able to make Isolde more impres sive than Wagner ever imagined her. On board also is Arthur Bo danzky, ready to conduct the “New Utopia orchestra.” Mayor La Guardia of New York will tell you how earnestly Mrs. Astor talks to him about her plans for a great musical center. But Mr. LaGuardia will never know what shudders would sweep from Ward Mc Allister’s pineal gland to his Achilles tendon if he could hear Mayor LaGuardia say of the young lady in question, “That Mrs. Astor is a nice, serious girl, thoroughly in earnest.” To make this list complete, P. G. Wodehouse is on board, one who could and should describe this shipload of "important humanity” going nowhere in particular, for no reason in particular, some in the steerage, some “tourist” and some, with cabins on the sundeck, whose names break up passenger list con tinuity to make room for the magic words “maid, valet and chauf feur.” The contest between modem ships for the "Atlantic blue ribbon,” or ocean championship, held at this moment by the British Queen Mary, supplies most amazing proof of mod em engineering efficiency. Consider that, in a race across 3,000 miles of water, the Queen Mary, after being beaten several times by tilt —Tench liner Normandie, beat the latter and took the Atlantic blue ribbon by a margin of less than half a mile, across 3,000 miles of ocean. The oftener you cross, the more clearly you realize tt. '* the ocean is a great deal too big for our small planet It is all one ocean— Atlantic, Pacific, Arctic, Antarctic, all touching—water covering three quarters of the. earth’s surface. Consider the Pacific; take your world map, Mercator’s projection, fold it over from \sia toward New York and beyond. It will cover the United States, the Atlantic ocean and all Europe to the Bosporus. • Klac Feature* Syndloata. In*. WNU Service. J!lr.Qamti.£aftSTL ■FAILED ABOCW Nervous Ailments. SOME of the names used in describing mental ailments are naturally confusing and ev erywhere research workers are trying to get names that will describe certain symptoms and these names could then be used throughout the world. And even names oi very common ailments or groups ol symptoms are Dr. Barton. not as weu unaer stood by most of us as thfey should be. T Hu s imbecile meant that the in dividual did not have enough brain power when he was born and never will have enough to en able him to earn a living. In other words, he was bom that way. Dementia, on the outer nana, means mat me Drain power has "gone downward.” The individual was bom with sufficient brain power and was able to think, do mental work, earn a living, but his mental power has become less due to various causes. We have all seen this in many friends or ac quaintances who have lost their memory, their power to think as they grew older. Types of Dementia. Now this dementia may not be one of decay but of change in the attitude of the mind towards the surroundings, family, or work. The individual may get very excited about things, very depressed, or pay no attention to the most im portant or vital matters. This latter is called the apathy — not inter ested—type. The excited dementia patient talks a great deal, is greatly in terested in a matter, drops it and gets greatly interested in something different; his attention being at tracted by the most trifling object or subject. He is generally pleased with himself, but may have out bursts of furious anger. Depression is exactly the opposite to excitement. “The patient is slow in all his actions, thinks with dif ficulty and is miserable and un happy." Mental Indifference. In the third type of dementia patient — apathy or indifference — the patient is neither excited or de pressed, but absolutely indifferent and without apparent interests, de sires or ambitions. The patient sits down, doesn’t do anything because he isn’t interested in anything. As a matter of fact the patient can and oes observe and understand everything but hothing seems important enough to stir him to thought or action. Thus in a general way then im becility or being an imbecile is not having enough brains. Dementia means having brains but not balance. • • • A Sane Reducing Program. In following a reducing diet every overweight individual tries to re member that starch food—potatoes, bread, sugar and pastry — is definitely known to store fat. It is of course known that these foods are all good necessary foods as they create heat and energy in the body. But as the average fat individual does not use up as much energy in work or play as one of normal weight, the excess starch food gets stored away as fat. It is only nat ural then that potatoes, bread and sugar are the first foods reduced. Similarly with fat foods. Fat foods give twice as much energy as starch foods or the proteids — meats, eggs, fish. In every reduc ing diet it is advisable that butter, cream, and fat meats be also re duced. «uw uus reuucuon in siarcn ana fat foods—the energy producers — often means that the individual feels weak, lacks energy, is afraid he or she will collapse, with the result that both starch and fat foods are immediately resumed in full amounts and these individuals feel that reducing weight by reducing food just cannot be done in their particular cases. It might be well therefore for some who are reducing to start re ducing the fat foods first, leaving the reduction of starch foods for a few weeks later. Another point to remember is that food must not be cut down in large amounts at first. While the excess fat on the overweight indi vidual can serve to a certain extent as fuel for the needs of the body, only a small amount of it should be used as fuel daily or there may be shock, and sagging of face and abdomen. However one of the main points in reducing weight is to remembe: not to cut down on proteid foods: in fact it might be well to actually increase the amount of m at eaten Whereas fat foods and starch food: bum slowly, meat foods burn fast KNEW BIGHT SIZE The old shepherd’s daughter was going to marry a town dweller. Wishing to make her father look smart when he gave her away at the altar, she got him to agree to wear a hat, London Tit-Bits relates. The shepherd went to an outfit ter’s and asked for a hat “What size, please?” asked the assistant But the old man did not know. “We’ll try six-and-a-half first,” | suggested the assistant !‘Six-and-a-half be hanged,” said the old chap. “1 wear a 15 collar, at 1 I know my head be bigger than my neck.” Fatherly Advice “My boy.” said the business man to his son, “there are two things that are vitally necessary if you are to succeed in business.” “What are they, dad?” "Honesty and sagacity.” “What is honesty?” “Always—no matter what hap pens. nor how adversely it may af fect you—always keep your word once you have given it” “And sagacity?” “Never give it”—Santa Fe Mag azine. TIMELY REMEDY “How's that summer cold of yours, Tom?" “Oh, I got rid of it.” “What did you take?" “A fresh one.” A Good AUbl An inspector, while examining'a class in school one day. asked, “Who drove the Israelites out of Egypt, you?” he said pointing to a ■small boy in the corner. “No sit, ’twasn’t me,” replied the boy, trembling. "X only came back from the country last week!”— Knights of Columbus Bulletin. Installment Plan Fred—There’s Dorothy. X under stand she bought that dress on the installment plan. Jack—I suppose that’s the first installment she’s wearing now. — Pathfinder Magazine. Customer Always Bight Store proprietor: No matter what is said or what nappens, remember that in this store the .'ustomer is always right. What did that old crab say who was bawling you out a few moments ago? Clerk: He said you were the meanest, stingiest old ’rab in town. —Florida Times Union. Sold Him “Where is that beautiful canary bird of yours that used to sing so clearly and sweetly?” asked Mrs. vVeatherbee. “1 had to sell him. Mrs Butlam said, tearfully. “My son left the cage on the radio set and he learned static.” Preparedness "I knew you were coming ” said her little brothei. “Who told you?” asked the young man. “No one; but Margery’s taken Mr. Johnson’s photograph off the piano.” SMALL CHANGE “Health is better than wealth." “Lend me a dollar and I’ll take my chances.” Policeman. — “Hey. you, where you going with nine buckets of water?” Boy—“I’m going to drown a cat” A Gentle Rebuke Thurston—"Huh?” Dryden — “You evidently mis understand me. When I proposed that toast 1 said ‘Let us drink to success.’ not excess." "They say the cleverest men make the worst husbands." “D«^, believe it. The cleverest Meow-ow-ow! Cleverest lies 8——WM—M IS The Mind Meter • By LOWELL HENDERSON e Bell Syndicate—WNU Service. The Completion Test In this test there are four words given in each problem. Three of the four in each case bear a de finite relationship to one another; for example, they may be the names of animals or the names of state capitals, or perhaps synonyms. Cross out the one word that does not belong in each prob lem. 1. Gay, merry, dejected, frivo lous. 2. Edison, Whistler, Fulton, Morse. 3. Build, erect, raze, construct. 4. Phoenix, Salem, Raleigh, Macon. * 5. Arrow, bullet, cartridge, shell. 6. Inaugurate, start, introduce, continue. 7. Donate, pilfer, steal, embezzle. 8. Puma, leopard, tiger, rail. 9. Candor, duplicity, openness, sincerity. 10. Bat, mallet, racquet, gun. Prisoners continue to plot for escape in spite of the fact that they have been living rent free and meeting no bills for food or medicine. Wild animals often ap preciate the care they find in cap tivity and if they wander away re turn gladly to their cages. 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