NEWS REVIEW OF CURRENT EVENTS What the Great Democratic Landslide Means and What Caused It. By EDWARD W. PICKARD USINESS depression, hard times, unemployment, dissatisfaction of the farmers with farm relief, local political conditions, and last, but not least, the wet and dry issue, all con. tributed to the Democratic landslide on election day. The Democrats de- clared the people of the nation had thus registered their emphatic disap- proval of the administration of Presi- dent Hoover. This the Republicans denied. Take your choice. In the new congress, it appears, neither party will have a constitutional majority in the senate, and the same condition may prevail in the lower house, The Republicans will have 48 senators, the Democrats 47, and the Farmer-Laborites 1. If the last men- tioned, Shipstead of Minnesota, votes with the Republicans, they can organ- ize the senate, Otherwise it would take the deciding vote of Vice Presi- dent Curtis. Unless a recount gives the Eighth Indiana district to Vestal (Rep.), in- stead of to Ball (Dem.), the member- ship of the house will stand: Repub- licans, 217; Democrats, 217; Farmer- Labor, 1. A constitutional majority is 218, In both the progressive or radical Republicans will hold the bal- ance of power in matters of legislation and by coalition with the Democrats can continue successfully their habit- ual course of hampering the national policies of their party. houses NINE gains of senate seats which the Democrats are sure of at this writing were made in Massachu- setts, West Virginia, Ohlo, Illinois, Kentucky, Kansas, Oklahoma, South Dakota and Colorado. They lost one seat, In Towa, where Representative Dickinson defeated Senator Steck. Three administration senators who were beaten were Allen of Kansas, Robsion of Kentucky and McCulloch of Ohlo. However, two anti-adminis- tration senators lost out—Pine of Ok- lahoma and McMaster of South Da- kota. Two administration senators who were victorious in hard fights were Metcalf of Rhode Island and Hastings of Delaware. Hastings ran a8 a dry In a notoriously wet state, and against him was all the influence the anti-prohibitionists could muster, but he decisively beat Thomas F. Bay- ard, former senator, wet and a Dem- ocrat. There was much rejoicing among the wets. They elected four new wet senators: Lewis of Illinols, Bulkley of Ohio, Coolidge of Massachusetts and Gore of Oklahoma, and they claim Metcalf of Rhode Island will vote wet, However, three drys replace as many wets: Dickinson of Iowa, Huey Long of Louisiana and White of Maine, As for the lower house, the wets claimed a gain of about 70 members. Of course the drys will continue to control both houses by heavy majorities, but the leaders of the wets assert the elec. tion presages the eventual repeal of the Eighteenth amendment, Heavy wet majorities were shown In each of the three states, Illinols, Rhode Island and Massachusetts, where there were referendum votes on various phases of the prohibition question, OME of the election results were spectacular. For instance, in New York state Franklin D., Roosevelt, Democrat, was re-elected governor by the unprecedented plurality of 725,000 votes, completely swamping his Re publican rival, Charles N. Tuttle, The “Happy Warrior” thus becomes the outstanding figure of the Democratic party and a potential candidate for the Presidential nomination in 1082. He supplants Al Smith as a getter of Empire state votes both metropolitan and rural. There was a Tammany tidal wave in New York city, but Mrs, Ruth Pratt, Republican, was re-elect. ed to congress, defeating her Tam- many rival and Heywood Broun, col- umnist and Socialist; and Representa- tive La Guardia, also Republican, re- tained his seat. James Hamilton Lewis, picturesque and able Democrat, swept Illinois like a prairie fire, having a plurality for the senatorship of about 720,000 over Mrs. Ruth Hanna McCormick, Repub- lican, who straddled the liquor issue, and Mrs. O'Neill, independent dry, who was a very poor third. This was the climax of one of the most In- teresting campaigns in the country. The Democrats also captured almost all the offices In the state and In Cook county, which includes Chicago. Pennsylvania clung to Its rock. ribbed Republicanism and Gifford Pinchot, radical and ardently dry Re publican pominee for the governor- ship, was elected despite the defec- tion of many of the party leaders and the adverse vote of Philadelphia. Ohio seemed to indicate its wetness by electing Robert J Julkley, wet Democrat, to the senate: but on the other hand George White, Democrat, who was chosen governor, Is a dry. Wisconsin, as usual, went La Follette, electing young Philip F. of that fam- ily Its governor. Like his brother, Senator LaFollette, he is nominally a Republican. Democrats of Indiana elected nine congressmen, to four Re- publicans; among the latter {8 the veteran Will R. Wood who has repre- sented the Tenth district for many years. Mrs Otis T. Wingo of Arkan- sas easily won the seat in congress held by her late husband. HERE will be no sorrow in Wash- ington or the country at large over the elimination of Senator J. Thomas Heflin of Alabama. Forced from the Democratic party because he opposed Al Smith two years ago, he ran for re-election as an independent and was thoroughly beaten by John Bank- head, the Democratic nominee. His peculiar role In the senate, as the source of sensational news stories, may be partly taken by Huey P. Long of Louisiana. Mr. Long intimates that he will complete his term as governor of his state before taking his seat in the senate, different caliber will Morrow who was elected by New Jer- sey Republicans; Secretary of Labor Davis, sent to the senate by Republi. cans of Pennsylvania, and Robert J. Bulkley, the choice of Ohlo Demo- crats. Mr. Morrow and Mr. Bulkley, both wets, are looked on as Presiden. tial possibilities two years hence. Thomas J. Walsh, Montana's veter- an senator, was returned to the upper house, but he had no easy time defeat- ing Judge Albert Galen, the Republi- can aspirant, California escaped the Democratic flood and James Rolph, Jr, known sometimes as “Sunny Jim” and some- times as San Francisco's perennial mayor, captured the governorship with little difficulty. Nebraska's new governor is Charles W. Bryan, brother of William Jen- nings Bryan. He held the office once before and was the Democratic vice presidential nominee in 1924. He de. feated Gov. Arthur Weaver by a rath. er narrow margin, OMMENT by some of the party leaders Is interesting as represent ing widely divergent views depend- ing on party affiliation. Chairman Fess of the Republican national committee sald no outstand- ing Issues controlled the results, which he viewed as a “crazy quilt.” It was to be expected, he added, that the Republicans would lose 35 seats even without the disturbance caused by the economic depression. John J. Raskob, Democratic na- tional chairman, termed the Demo- cratic sweep a “notable victory on clean-cut political Issues.” He an. nounced he would do everything in his power to have the Democratic party view the tariff as an economic rather than a political question, “thus removing from business minds all cause for alarm and uncertainty as to how business will be treated in the event that this election and future elections give control of congress to our party." » Robert H. Lucas, executive director of the Republican national commit: tee, asserted that “everything consid. ered, the result must be taken as a vindication of the national administra- tion.” Explaining this, he sald no ad- ministration had ever goue into a con- gressional election under such adverse conditions. The results, he added, were “convincing evidence of the abiding faith of the thinking people of the country in the leadership of Herbert Hoover.” The view of Jouett Shouse, chalr- man of the Democratic national exee- utive committee, was: “The Democratic campaign was conducted on the Issue of the failure of the administration to meet its re- sponsibility and carry out the prom- ises on which it obtained election two years ago. Embraced in a subsidiary to this maln theme were such [tems as the enactment of an Indefensible tariff and the breakdown of the farm- relief pian of the administration, which had pledged itself to rehabill- tate the agricultural Industry.” WHILE the representatives of 32 nations were gathering at Geneva for the conference of the League of Natlons' preparatory dis armament commission, efforts were being made to bring about an agree- ment between France and Italy with- out which the parley would admitted- ily be American Ambassador Hugh 8. Gibson took the lead in this attempt to get the two nations to- gether and after conversations in Rome and Paris he announced that France had formally agreed to re sumption of its naval negotiations with Italy. These were to be strictly secret and held during the sessions of the commission. It was understood in Paris the Italians had consented to bring forward the actual figures of their proposed bullding program for comparison of those of France, and that there was a chance of an agree ment based on strategic needs and building capacity In 1088. with such questions as parity being excluded futile, Dispatches from Rome, on the other hand, said Italy had made no fresh that France must take the initiative. France, that and the French proposition. still reject a few minutes, Dr. Getulio Vargas assumed office as provisional dent of Brazil, and immediately an- nounced the members of his cabinet, all the factions of the revolutionary movement being represented. His minister of finance Is Jose Maria Whit. aker, of English descent, who has been a strong opponent of Washing- ton Luis’ coffee marketing scheme. His appointment means the certain reorganization of financial policy, and especially the revocation of artificially sustained cof. fee values, INCLAIR LEWIS, American novel. ist, has been awarded the Nobel novel “Babbitt,” which is regarded in Sweden as his masterpiece. The money value of the award Is £46300, and Mr. Lewis, Interviewed In New York, said he would accept It “with a feeling of the highest honor, gratifi- cation and pleasure” He Intimated he would spend the money on himself and his family. The presentation cer emony takes place In Stockholm on December 10. AS explosions and fire In a mine of the Sunday Creek Coal com pany at Millfield, Ohlo, entombed 98 men, of whom 78 were killed. The others were brought out alive and taken to hospitals, many of them seri ously burned. The disaster occurred Just after an inspection party had de scended to the lower levels, and all ity members were among the dead. They included William Tytus, president of the company; Howard Upson, field manager; Hubert Lancaster, chief en. gineer, and other officials, The terrible accident took the lives of a considerable percentage of the little village of Millfield. It was esti mated that approximately 300 children were left fatherless, but there was a ray of hope for the dependent families left destitute. Gov. Myers ¥, Cooper ordered representatives of the indus trial relations department to forget “red tape” and arrange for Immediate payment of workmen's compensation funds, (@. 1930, Western Mewspaver Union.) - bu Says Federal Observer Rural! communities, that Is, areas with sufficient territory und populn- tion to give them considerable unity in thelr affairs, are being shaped by new Communication and transpor- distances Social regarded as be- mast of the desired, township of 84 miles, many agrarian regions ns nn sultuable pattern, does not ordi- narily suflice in the Central West, Dr, C. J. Galpin of the United States De- partment of Agriculture, holds, A sur- vey has shown the number of families resident therein to vary between 100 and 200, They and their property holdings once were adequate to cre- ante a village trading center and fash- ion other requisites of solidarity. Doe- tor Galpin is emphatic In asserting that the old conception of n communi- ty. from the standpoint of size, is ob- solete. His conclusion is that “a com- munity of at least 1,000 rural! families is needed in order to maintain and support schools, libraries, hospitals, parks, playgrounds, churches, fire companies and the like. The total population of this community should he at leust 5,000 persons and the min- area about 100 square miles, the cuter boundary of the community being live to eight miles distant by highway from the center of the town, over longer dually transactions, formerly contnets attainment of now the widely The square Lay trends tends to the of rural the view expressed by Through United Effort The schoolhouse lot in the country, familiar to all tourists, with its ragged . broken turf, rusting pump and orners, is in Vir. However, y kept ubbery and growing all in the not more inh s in evidence in other sinless, swrmation into neat reanged shr flower gardens is planned renin’s educational authorities, us stand rural sthovses of hive heen prepared by are simple biue stutes, so mi prints cation of school lots placed at the incal districts hy competent landscape No state funds are for the but residents in fixing up the school lot, ax the; the hill the beaut ve been disposal of gardeners, avail cost, Cun UX up top ceme subscribed 3 wt can afford nmower, and the boys and girls are relied on to keep the weeds out, » grass down and the shrubbery and flourishing Town been known so com- pletely monopolized by effort for lawn that it for a ind or lass to set foot on it, tchool lots have elects became a crime playful though lacking other place for sports, ig an extreme not to be fenred country Louls Globe Democrat, spaces, — St, City's Campaign for Beauty Two decades when the steel ]/Z0, Lorain, Ohlo, of "Where Coal program, the slogan and Iron Meet" It was accepted as the official bat- And the great steel mills still munity. But today Lorair has picked some. different for a slogan. It has turned to a flower, the lilac, to make Only a few months ago the move was started, but in the short time since. the idea has spread rap- idly. Organizations, societies. busi. ness men, schools, churches, the city government all have indorsed the plan. Nearly 50 organizations are sup- pected to join the movement.—Cleve. iand News, Decentralize Industry Experts who are considering the subject say that the restoration of de. centralized industry offers the best solution for the problems that con. front the nations today. They assert that the influences which caused the crowding of Industrial plants into relatively small areas was not a com- munity of interest or other resistless economic trend. It was rather so ar bitrary a business as the making of freizht rates and the marking of rate Bones, The hard experiences of times like the present are prompting serious ia. vestigation of the question, Keeping City Clean Only if every one In the community will stop dropping trash around will we ngain have clean streets, For the antomobilists who come in from out. tide we might put up signs on the muin thoroughfares leading into the city, something like this—"Welcome to our clean city—please help us keep it 0." We might offer p izes for the shortest and best legends to put om these signs. Exchange, always safe, depress the heart. not GENUINE printed in red. word FOR COLDS— ALKALINIZE YOUR SYSTEM Doctors everywhere are prescrib- Ing this new treatment for colds: Bezin when you feel a cold com- ing. Take a of Phil 2 oo? i» : lps Milk of Magnesia, morning, noon and night, the first day. Do the game second day. ' i tablespoonful hen only at night, Colds reduce the alk: system. 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