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National Topics Interpreted
By WILLIAM BRUCKART
NATIONAL PRES,5 .SLDO. WASHINGTON,. jT<?
Washington. — As the political
campaign waxes warmer, it be-
, . comes painfully
Mud Slinging evident that the
Ahead fight in 1936 for
the suffrage of the
people is going to be very dirty.
It is going to be bitter and there is
no way now apparent that such a
characteristic can be avoided.
I do not believe that either Gov-
ernor Landon, the Republican can-
didate, or President Roosevelt,
seeking re-election as a Democrat,
can prevent the hurling of invec-
tives that are going to be very
close to mud-slinging. Naturally the
President of the United States sel-
dom makes a mud-slinging speech
and Governor Landon personally is
a mild-mannered man who believes
in discussing issues rather than in-
dividuals, but the intentions or the
desires of these two candidates can-
not control the bitterness that is, to
my mind, certain to be found in this
campaign in a large measure.
As typical of the sort of thing to
which I have referred is the recent
speech of Secretary Ickes who, in
a national radio broadcast, became
quite ill-tempered in his attack on
Governor Landon. Mr. Ickes is not
known for his composure anyway
and when he gets heated up on any
subject he is likely to be guilty of
remarks that are not becoming to
an official of our government or any
other.
I have not the slightest doubt that
before the campaign has proceeded
much further there will be similar
speeches attacking Mr. Roosevelt
personally and that, while Governor
Landon may not approve, there will
be unworthy charges hurled at the
President.
Mr. Ickes skated pretty close to
the line in his attack on Governor
Landon by various adroit phrases
which were designed to create the
impression that the Republican can-
didate was either ignorant or dis-
honest. I do not know Governor
Landon personally but I can offer
this thought: No man is going to
be nominated by any political party
in a national convention, nominated
by acclamation, unless his record
is pretty clear. For Mr. Ickes to
say, therefore, in effect, that Gov-
ernor Landon had sold out to “Wall
Street” was not the sort of cam-
paign discussion likely to produce
confidence among all the people in
their government. It is compara-
ble, in my opinion, to a charge that
the President of the United States,
who advertises himself continually
as a friend of the common man,
was guilty of increasing his own per-
sonal fortune through presidential
acts—and every one knows this is
not true. But to get back to the
theme song of the Ickes’ speech, it
seems to me that the tragedy of his
radio pronouncement lies in the fact
throughout his discussion he was
preaching class hatred. Every one
knows, of course, attacks on “Wall
Street” are very common in any
political campaign. The dema-
gogues use it every hour of every
day everywhere they can find any
one to listen to them. It is ridicu-
lous, but it has happened for a good
many years. So when Mr. Ickes
made the charge that Governor
Landon was either unwittingly or
knowingly leading a “rich man’s
fight” against President Roosevelt
he was descending to a rather low
level of campaigning.
* * •
I have seen indications of a re-
action against the Ickes’ speech in
_ another way. John
May Cause Hamilton, the Re-
Showdown publican national
chairman, on his
recent organization tour of the west-
ern states, propounded the inquiry
that seeks to identify the “econom-
ic royalists” about which President
Roosevelt spoke several weeks age.
If the Roosevelt, campaigners con-
tinue this ciass hatred propaganda,
I rather suspect from what Mr.
Hamilton said in his speeches there
will be a perfect barrage of de-
mands to know the names of these
economic royalists. It may not
seem important; indeed, it seems
like it probably is inconsequential,
but if the Republicans let down a
barrage on the President of the
United States, he is likely to be
put in a bad corner.
Without attempting to forecast
what the Republican opposition is
likely to say, I can recall as an
observer close to the wheels of gov-
ernment during the Roosevelt re-
gime that Mr. Roosevelt frequently
was a guest on the Astor yacht and
that one of his chief advisors for
many months was the multimil-
lionaire, Bernard M. Baruch. It
seems also that a very rich man,
Henry L. Doherty, was in charge of
the nation-wide dance program
held on the President’s birthday and
Mr. Doherty, be t said, is head of
one of the great utility chains.
These are just samples. It may
be good politics for the President
to encourage these attacks without
approving them, but those of us who
know the late Louis McJIenry Howe,
ore convinced that he never would
have agreed to that sort of attack,
had he been alive and serving as
the President's closest political ad-
visor as he did for a quarter of a
century.
• • •
There is a situation in the fed-
eral government that threatens to
be quite nasty. I
Probe refer to the row
G-Men that has devel-
oped between the
Department of Justice bureau of
investigation (the G-men) and the
Treasury’s secret service corps. It
is all very much under cover, quite
secret, but the row has come to
Lights of New York
by L. L. STEVENSON
Meanderings and meditations:
Gypsy women, with rings on their
fingers and in their ears, strolling
lower Fifth avenue. . . . Wonder
why they’re not cut on the open
road.....Perhaps fortune-telling
business is better in the city. . . .
The jaunty umbrellas of sidewalk
cafes giving a touch of color to the
scene. . . . With customers survey- !
mg the passing show as they eat. j
. . . The trembling wreck of a
once well-known actor . . . who,
though threadbare, still lives in the
glories of the past. . . . Youngsters
shouting as they splash in the
Washington square fountain. . . .
Not necessary for them to travel
to a beach . . . and be jostled by
crowds. ... A Greenwich village
iceman making deliveries in an old
perambulator. ... A hot breath
from a cleaning and pressing es-
tablishment . . . with the tailor
singing as he slides his iron back
and forth. . . . Jacques Romano,
who's made so many trips to Eu-
rope lately he’s practically a com-
Behold! the New Fall Hats Arrive!
By CHERIE NICHOLAS
the surface sufficiently to result in
a demotion of two long-time mem- muter.....The gayly-colored bot-
hers of the secret service. "**' nf ” rn,lln"
J. Edgar Hoover has been well
press-agented as chief of the G-men.
Joseph E. Murphy has had almost
no advertising as assistant chief of
the Treasury secret service in
which he has served for more than
a quarter of a century. Mr. Mur-
phy and one of his subordinates
have been reduced in rank, their
record stained for life.
The two departments have kept
the facts well covered up. It seems
that something was going on among
the G-men that the Treasury secret
service thought they ought to know
about. They conducted their own
inquiry, their own investigation into I
the other staff of investigators. That
is as much as has been made public
except Secretary Morgenthau's an-
nouncement of the demotion order.
I have known each of these men
equally twenty years. Each is en- my idea of the low in eating.
ties of a rolling soda fountain.
• • *
A Third street youngster whose
costume is a piece of newspaper
tied about his waist. . . . That's
my idea of clothing at this season
... A little restaurant whose pat-
rons eat on the cuff until they sell
a poem or short story. . . . When
they settle, the owner throws a par-
ty. ... A small boy and a girl
mourning because a penny put in
a peanut vending machine brought
no results. . . . Many subway vend-
ing machine customers have that
same experience. . . . Maybe it’s
the -heat. . . . Blocked off lower
West side streets filled with play-
ing children. . . . Annoying to
motorists but safety insurance for
youngsters. ... A strong odor of
boiling cabbage . . . corned beef
probably cooking along with it . . .
fall hats thrill with
new silhouettes that
you gasp with their
is too dizzy, no
to have place
titled to the utmost respect. But
each operates along an entirely dif-
ferent line—Hoover with some will-
ingness for publicity; Murphy with
an absolute policy of never letting
his name get into the papers. It
is unfortunate that Joe Murphy was
the goat.
• * *
The board of governors of the
Action
Mystifies
and his hotel has a marine
grill. . . . Bernie Tassaler, city
hall reporter of the Long Island
Daily Press, the ne.vlywed of the
press room. . . . Cyril Arthur Play-
er, editor of Barron’s, who knows
the meaning of neuritis . . . and
probably is quite
mystifying to the
average person.
They ordered all of the banks of
the country which are members of
the Federal Reserve system to keep
a deposit reserve with the Federal
Reserve banks 15 per cent greater
than ever has been required before.
With the technical phases of re-
serve requirements and the me-
chanical operation of this particular
order, I think we need not be very |
much concerned. But with the prin-
ciple upon which this action is tak- scheduled extra sailings. . . . More
'T'HE early
A excitingly
fairly make
daring. No style
media too extreme
in the smart millinery picture.
In Paris, women of fashion are
wearing tiny skull-cap turbans of
black silk velvet that flaunt enor-
mous bows at the side or on the
forehead. You will be seeing these
bow turbans all over town.
Intricate manipulation is the key
to high style throughout all milli-
nery for fall and winter. It is a
well - krmv.-n fact that rich fabric
and ingeri/eus manipulation always
go hand in hand. Which leads us
to say that luxurious silk weaves
are adding big interest to hats ap-
pearing on the autumn style hori-
zon. When choosing your first au-
tumn chapeau look for models in
the new silk satins, the velvets in
rich glowing color, silk taffetas and
the handsome deep-toned velours
and duvetyrls such as go to make
fi ultra chic headgear.
K." C. VHogmer*star”'first ’baseman . The ne™er shape8 h,ave rolIinK
of the Saints and Sinners. ... Dr. brlr"s with crowns built up to a
Nicholas Murray Butler, who re- peak’ .for..,he trend 18 decidedly
turned recently from Europe. . . .
So many vacationers want to come
home from abroad at the same
time that some of the lines have
Wonder how much frozen custard
is sold out at Coney on a hot Sun-
day? . . . and how many ice cream
cones? ... A mocking-bird in a
cage outside a delicatessen . . .
but it isn’t singing.
• • •
John J. Woelfle, general manager
of the Hotel McAlpin, who has been
made an admiral on the staff of
Federal Reserve system took an ac- Governor Davey of Ohio ... he
tion recently that served in the navy during the war
en I think every one with a bank
account, however small, ought to be
vitally interested. They ought to
be interested for the very simple
reason that this action illustrates
better than any words I can write
how far the centralization of control
of the banking structure has gone.
This action was taken under the
National Banking act of 1935, a
statute that has been frequently
criticised as a “political banking
act.”
In the instance I have just re-
ported, the change in the reserve
subway trains would be a greater
help to some of us.
• • •
Bad luck to run out of gasoline
on the new Tri-borough bridge . . .
costs fifty cents to get towed off
. . . which is twice the toll. . . . But
that $64,000,000 structure sure is a
boon to motorists. ... A River-
side drive traffic snarl made me
think of that. . . . Wish I were
aboard that rusty tramp slipping
down the river with her flags show-
ing she’s outward bound. . . . De-
merra, with 126 degrees, didn’t
requirements probably will have no seem ;ny hotter than New York at
toward tall peaked and conical ef-
fects. See one such shown to the
left below in the illustration. It is
of spruce green silk velvet covered
with fine vertical stitching. You’ll
see lots of stitching on best-looking
hats this fall. Wear this type hat
with your tailored silk or sheer
wool daytime frocks or suits.
Heavy silk velvets of the Lyons
ciass are being made up in models
with sports - type brims. Often
these velvets are combined with
silk faille as manipulated for the
front of the hat to right at top in
the group. This type of hat you
can wear equally well with tailored
silk dresses or with wool dresses
of smart “town” character.
It’s when you are choosing a hat
to go with your best afternoon or
cocktail costume that you can let
yourself go in the matter of silk
millinery. Not only are there the
afore-mentioned bow-trimmed skull
caps in wide profusion but varia-
tions of the popular beret are
shown together with unique types
such as the model centered below.
The back of its tiny crown is of
black felt and the front of rust silk
velvet draped softly into an as-
cending point in front — a perfect
complement to your afternoon out-
fit.
This will be a season of color.
Millinery will more than ever tie
up with colors of the costume. Of
course black will be in the spot-
light. A large per cent of French
wines, rich reds and aubergine
purple will be worn. Spruce green
is a noted color and olive will be
a highlight novelty. All browns will
be good in lighter casts. Bordeaux,
a wine brown, is also of prime
importance.
As to sources of inspiration the
Napoleonic influence has been al-
most universally adopted by lead-
ing modistes of Paris. Some spon-
sor the military style of the soldiers
of France of that time. Others
glean their inspiration from the
conquering armies of North Africa
while still others concentrate on
the soft, luxurious influence of the
gay society of Napoleon's reign.
The beret shown with striking
quill as worn by the figure seated
(note her velvety duvetyne tunic
blouse) bespeaks the military
trend. This model, called “March-
ing On” by its designer, is proving
a favorite in high class shops that
are showing it. The lady pictured
with the voguish be-curled coiffure
and the blouse elaborated with ap-
plique in leaf design is wearing a
becoming portrait beret designed
by Marthe. It has new cire ribbon
accents.
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serious reaction on us as individu-
als. It probably will not hurt the
banks because Jew banks in the
country have had calls for loans
in any quantity since business is at
such a low level. But the point is
that under this law, the Federal
Reserve board of governors can
alter banking conditions over night.
It can issue new rules and regula-
tions that are wholly impossible of
understanding by the average indi-
vidual, but which are almost riot-
ous in their effect upon the manage-
ment of individual banks through-
out the country.
To state this proposition in anoth-
er way, may I describe it in the
terms of a private business enter-
prise. If a storekeeper in a small
town were subjected to regulation
from Washington and the regulatory
power in the federal government
had such discretionary authority as
the Federal Reserve board of gov-
ernors, could that storekeeper ever
feel that he was managing his own
business? I think not. Then, in the
case of the Federal Reserve board
of governors, it must be added that
the president of the board is Marri-
ner S. Eccles who is known far and
wide for his radical ideas about
banking. It can be further said that
Mr. Eccles has the ear of President
Roosevelt. This has been criticised
many times of course where oppo-
nents of the Roosevelt banking poli-
cies have contended that the banks
can be utilized in any way the ad-
ministration desires to use them. As
an illustration of this, the federal
government has been borrowing bil-
lions. Most banks are chock full
of government securities. While I
do not say it has happened, yet be-
cause I do not believe it has hap-
pened yet, nevertheless there is
a possibility that government bor-
rowings can be forced on the banks
under such conditions. That is the
course of action that has ruined the
currency in half a dozen European
nations.
fc) Western Newspaper Unlos.
102. . . . But nobody was in a
hurry down there . . . and a couple
of flour sacks make a suit. . . .
Just finished Rockwell Kent's “Sa-
lamina.” . . . Being about Green-
land, it’s a proper book for this
time of year.
• * •
Sailors strolling Broadway with
their white uniforms making them
look cool. . . . Chorines on their
way to rehearsal. . . . That’s no
hot weather job . . though their
costumes may be bathing suits.
... A mounted policeman washing
his horse’s face with a big sponge.
. . . Roses a cent a piece. ... A
huge cross-country bus coming to
an abrupt stop to allow a blind
man to tap his way across Forty-
third street. . . . An ancient chew-
ing gum peddler looking more wilt-
ed than her wares.
* . •
Maybe this is old . . . but I just
heard of it. . . . In old days, flap-
pers checked their corsets when
they went to dances.....The
modern misses don’t do that . . .
they merely wind themselves up in
adhesive tape. . . . Prosperity re-
turn notes: During the first month
the new Astor roof was open, 40,000
guests were entertained . . . they
spent more than $10-,000 .
(g) llell .Syndicate.—WNU Sorvlce.
FALL SUEDE BAG
Hr CHERIE NICHOLAS
Jail Is Empty Year
in City of Bad Men
Skagway, Alaska. —No longer
is Skagway the city of bad men!
Once the arena for Jefferson
(Soapy) Smith and his gang of
desperadoes during gold - rush
days, the city has ^not had a
tenant in its jail for’ more than
a year, Deputy Marshal Louis
Rapuzzi has just revealed.
Two cats have made their
home in the jail house — but
they can slip through the bars.
This stunning brown suede hand-
bag has a decidedly “new” look
as it visions what style-conscious
spectator sports maidens will be
carrying to tire football game.
Bags stitched to match gloves are
also a fashion highlight in promise
for toll and winter. The handbag
pictured has deep inside pockets,
staunch handles to swing by and
the new jewel slide fastener pro-
viding a delicate golden chain
across th“ top. The frock and hat
are in soft gray as an effective
contrast to brown.
Off-Shades
The fall dress and coat picture
will be brightened by so-called off-
shades. Particularly is this true of
football spectator clothes. Fore-
most among these are rust, royal
and purplish blue, moss green and
maple nugar bl own.
Contrasting Side Scams
Rccbas outlines side seams of
suits and evening gowns with
bards of contrasting colors.
TREND TOWARD RICH
HUES FOR AUTUMN
A new fashion season means a
new brainstorm for the experts ,
who must name the featured hues j
in women’s attire. Every name
must be suggestive of the hue but
it has to be different from its pre-
decessors, otherwise a woman will
think it isn’t new.
For the coming autumn season,
the trend in shades is toward rich
colorings and the names chosen
show a tendency toward specific
description rather than flowery
language. Sage green, for exam-
ple, looks exactly like the herb for
which is it named. It has that same
soft, grayed tone which is unusual-
ly lovely. Maple sugar brown is
another new tone which has a pale,
subdued cast that is different from
the browns usually appearing in
the autumn.
Suit Simplicity Subtle
and Therefore Expensive
Simple suits are always in de-
mand, but the simplicity of such
suits is subtle and therefore always
expensive. Chanel has created a
beauty which appears for summer
in lightweight gray flannel, and for
early autumn wear in smooth navy
wool. The jacket, with one-button
fastening at the waist, is slightly
fitted in front and has a straight
back. On one of the wide-stitched
revers is « slit pocket that holds a
hankie. There is a tiny turnback
cuff that continues from a set-in
seamed panel with three buttons.
Ilccl Taps
Although many of fashion’s high ■
priests claim that flats and low-
heeled evening slippers are defi- j
nitcly out, they refuse to take the
count, according to the latent style I
news from Paris.
Studying an Eclipse
Astronomers go to the ends nf
the earth to study tit* sun during
an eclipse because two layers ol
the sun can be studied only at
that time. At other times those
two layers, called the chromo-
sphere and the corona, are hidden
by the fierce flood of light from
the radiating surface of the sun.
Just outside the sun’s surface is
the chromosphere, a boiling ocean
of red hydrogen flames, which
sometimes shoot to o height cf
100,000 miles. Outside of the chro-
mosphere is the corona, a wide
circle of beautiful, pearly light,
composed mostly of helium and
hydrogen, the two gases used on
earth to inflate airships.
The Soo Locks
The Soo Locks are one of the
world's greatest engineering feats,
locks that literally lift up a lake
20 feet. Through these locks pass
more tonnage than through any
other canal in the world, including
the Panama. Practically all the
wheat and iron ore from our great
West passes through them on their
way to smelters and seaports and
all the coal from eastern fields
must go through the Soo on its
westward passage.
Royal Gorge Highest Bridge
The Royal Gorge, the grand can-
yon of the Arkansas river, 166
miles from Denver, is one of the
most magnificent natural wonders
in the West. The suspension
bridge across the top is the high-
est in the world, 1,053 feet above
the river, and is 1,250 long. Its
thoroughfare for vehicles is eight-
een feet wide.
Little Things
Little things! Life and death,
prosperity and ruin, happiness and
misery, hang upon little things;
they are like the linch-pin to the
wheel, on which depends the safe-
ty of the vehicle; they are like
the rudder to the vast mass which
it guides; like the slender nerves
to the hollow muscles.
Made Walls Blue
Many of the old blue walls found
In early Colonial houses—now re-
produced with paint—were made
by mixing blue clay with slum
milk. This combination formed a
tenacious plaster which proved
very durable.
Romans Thanked Loser
When, more than 2,100 years ago,
the great Hannibal nearly annihi-
lated the Roman army at the bat-
tle of Cannae, the Roman senate
went oul to meet and thank the los-
ing Roman general, because he had
not despaired of the republic.
Optimistic Lithuanians
The people of Lithuania, south-
ernmost of the small Baltic states
carved out of Russia by tbo pow-
ers in 1919, are declared by a
writer to be among the most op*
timistic in the world.
Arctic Night Babies Weak
Russian medical experts who
have surveyed health conditions
within the Arctic circle, found that
children born within the months
of the Arctic night have weak con-
stitutions.
Turtles for Chiefs Only
In former times, in the Fijian Is-
lands, the flesh of the turtle be-
longed to the chiefs only; now, to
the chiefs’ chagrin, anybody who
catches a turtle may eat it.
First American Flag
The first American flag had a
Union Jack—the English ensign—in
the upper left hand corner with the
present 13 stripes of red and white.
Beware of Whisperers
"Let us respect the man with a
loud voice," said Hi Ho, the sage
of Chinatown. "They who seek to de-
ceive are most often whisperers."
Ancient Theater of the Fast
The ancient theater of the East
survives in its purest and most
vital form in Java and Bali, Ori-
ental airibnr - =
SPECIAL . . .
Piano Bargains!
We are forced to repossess a
fine little studio, a regular si e
upright, and a beautiful little
grand that we will sell for less
than the small balance due on
very easy terms rather than
have the expense of shipping
them hack to Houston. We will
take farm products, cattle, hogs
or poultry in trade. You must
take advantage of these wonder-
ful bargains if you ever intend
buying a piano.
Thene pinnoN nwnt be Mild at nnre.
Wire, Write or IMione
Credit Manager
Brook Mays & Company
715 Fannin Street
HOUSTON, TKXAS
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