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Washington.—An inquiry comes
from my old home town in Missouri,
. asking, in effect,
TimeG.O0.P. hat
Got Busy
publicans
The letter, quite
Democratic stalwart,
Jim Reed, explains that the writer
would like to see Democratic party
machinery back in the hands
Democrats, but it is complained
that the Republicans have provided
winders.
crats in congress have
forth “cold facts'’ about New Deal
spending.
Republican party affairs for
awhile for the simple reason
Republican partisans,
ing nothing. They have
now to do something. Whether they
will become really active, remains
to be seen. They have been quarrel-
Ing among themselves, snarling
fighting, letting petty jealousies
keep their ranks split wide open.
But let's take a look at their pic-
ture now to see
any real hope.
It will be recalled that during the
fight against the Roosevelt plan to
pack the Supreme court with six
new justices, the Republicans kept
very quiet. That is, they were quiet
as far as surface indications go. Be-
neath the surface, they
helping the Dem ocrats fight off that
wation-wreeking scheme put forward
by the New Dealers. I believe every-
one regarded that as good political
strategy.
of ammunition out
hands.
lar Democrats like Senators Wheel-
er of Montana, Burke of Nebraska,
Rep. Hatton Sumners of Texas and
others like them.
of New
followed by a cleavage in the ranks
of the dominant party in congress,
and the Republicans failed to follow
up their jobs as the opposition par-
ty.
of many opportunities. In fact, noth-
ing was done at all until the govern-
ment reorganization bill
pushed onto the stage and Presi-
dent Roosevelt made that legisla-
tion an issue,
sequence in that fight,
ed with the real Democrats at the
the reorganization bill.
the vote which, had it been taken
mentary system, would have forced
resignation of ‘‘the government’’ be-
cause it showed lack of confidence
in the executive.
And, now to the present.
last few weeks,
In the
there have been
the rank and file of the Republican
lists. They are, however, just signs,
as far as any honest appraisal goes.
The Republican national committee
has selected Franklyn Waltman, a
Washington newspaper correspond-
ent, to take charge of and reorga-
nize the party’s publicity set-up. Mr.
Waltman is a fine writer, one of
Washington's best. He has spent
some fifteen years as a political ob-
server, He has courage and imagi-
nation; perhaps not as much imagi-
nation as Charles Michelson of the
Democratic national committee, but
he is young and vigorous.
This “‘sign’’ is significant because
there has beer no trained publicity
man at Republican headquarters for
the last three months, and the man
who occupied the post before either
was unable to do anything or was
factional strife within the party to
important to realize that the “voice”
of the party is apparently going to
be employed again.
* - *
Rep. Joe Martin of Massachu-
setts, who is chairman of the Repub-
. lican congression-
Signs of al committee, and
Awakening is assistant
publican leader of
the house, has come forward with
two or three blasts lately. Also,
he has been able apparently to
awaken some of the ninety-odd Re-
publicans in the house of represent-
atives to the fact that they consti-
tute the opposition party. So they
have been making some speeches
in the attack on the New Deal spend-
ing program. Chairman John Ham-
ilton of the national committee has
been on the air a time or two and
former Gov. Alf Landon of Kansas
has attempted in a couple of
speeches to recall that he was the
party’s 1936 presidential nominee.
Former President Herbert Hoover
came back from Europe and
jumped onto much of the New
Deal's vital theory in one of the best
speeches he ever has made. A score
or more ‘‘organization’” meetings
have been held in various parts of
the country in the last month, and
I understand that a flock more of
them is scheduled.
But to go back to a previous state-
these are just signs. They
can be made alive and real and ef-
of dry rot. It will be a couple of
months more before anybody can
tell, even though Representative
Martin now is on record as saying
the Republicans will win 76 addi-
tional seats in the house this fall.
The answer to the Republican
problem lies, I believe, in the an-
can the Re-
That
is to say, will it be possible for the
so-called ‘New York crowd” and
the so-called ‘Middle West crowd”
to arrange a common ground upon
which all can stand? And if they
in that, will they then be
able to persuade numerous lone
wolves and bellowing calves to come
into the corral for united action?
In this latter category, one will
find oodles of individuals who claim
leadership of followings, great or
One will see Senator Van-
denberg of Michigan trying to dodge
of any kind that may
race—because Mr.
Vandenberg is building for the Re-
publican nomination whether he is
willing to admit it now or not. Then,
there are such others as Rep. Ham-
sh of New York who was a
university football player. I
Mr. Fish knows his con-
strict and knows how to
politics there, but it seems to
great aid
great
suppose
gressional dis
play
obvious, therefore, that while
nant party is split widely
New Dealers and regular
Democrats, the Republicans have
some harmonizing ahead of them,
They will get somewhere or
just as they decide to subordi-
tty jealousies and efforts to
Heep control’”’ to the party neces-
sities in the coming congressional
Some observers in Wash-
lately have insisted me
Republicans will gain in the
house and senate this year despite,
and not because of, party organiza-
tion. Their conclusion is that Mr.
tis
the don
too.
to
declined tremendously,
has happened obviously, the
strength of the New Deal has
slipped off onto very thin political
and if that
The national capital has been
treated lately to a lifesized uproar
over the abuse of
the franking privi-
lege. The franking
privilege is ac-
members of congress and
that they are not re-
pay postage out of one
and collect it back for the
I have no doubt, nor does
else who is familiar with
that the franking priv-
ilege has been frequently abused. It
gen-
Franking
Abuse
corded all
anyone
Loan corporation, to get caught at
it, however, and Mr. Russell, there-
fore, is the goat about which the
storm has centered. He has re-
signed his job, but it appears that
he may be stuck with a postage bill
of about $280,
Mr. Russell was accused on the
floor of the house by Representa-
tive Church of Illinois of having sent
out ‘““millions’’ of letters advising
attorneys for the Home Owners’
Loan corporation in the various cit-
ies that Judge O. B. Taylor was re-
signing as associate general counsel
and was opening private offices in
Washington for the practice of law.
The letters, which were shown later
to number about ten thousand, high-
ly praised Judge Taylor and solicit-
ed business for him. Disclosure of
the act in the house brought about
Mr. Russell's prompt retirement
but the Post Office
Justice had to look into the matter.
postage and that there will be no
further prosecution.
The incident created a stir and
more will be heard from it prob-
ably, because there can be no doubt
but that the free mail privilege has
been abused viciously.
But it may be of interest to know
that there have been few if any con-
victions for violation of the free
mail privilege. Post Office depart-
ment officials were unable to recall
any prosecutions, although there
had been some indictments, since
the present arrangement went into
effect in 1887.
The incident involving Messrs.
Taylor and Russell calls attention
to the tremendous amount of mail
that is carried free of postage. Last
year, according to postal records,
1,107,252,468 pieces of mail were
carried under free provisions. Of
these 669,352,068 came from mem-
bers of the house and senate. If
postage had been paid on all of
the mail, the amount would have
been $33,713,305. Postage on the
congressional mail was estimated
at something in excess of $20,000,000
—which indicates how much less
campaigning costs after a politi-
cian is once elected to house or sen-
ate.
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H ELLO EVERYBODY:
“Son of a Sea-Cook?” Well,
be proud to be the
Yes,
tells one
story writers wi
Why,
sir, this sea cook is H.
yuld have
words and music:
By jiminy, this adventure
him Nix for short—starts out
just like a Rest rate pirate story.
San Francis and that proud old
coal hulk a t ven, the St
that made her known all up
Hulk." When the war came on
but her pride ha
ship
to get e
i been woun
And by golly, I'd
1-co0k,
and he
s5ea
izabeth, N. J.,
and the rest of the
to get hold of.
Conrad se
Here are the
crew all called
srkentine—
James,
verted
Nixon—the
cook,
barkentine St
rakish barque
Jame: started
Well, Captain Mar
mine timbers and cleared
hiver my timbers,
sea cook Nix the shivers before
fore she cast off,
A pretty
ab
tin
for
the
strange beginning of
yard and maybe she was th
And then a few mi
sky and came aboard the St
what the ancient mariner
a
les out two
aded her with
ica.
Seattle, I
bay, South Afr
yage. It almost gave
got out of the harbor. Be-
times and that was
cat was thrown back
that crew through.
of the
8 just
ere
t a haunted v«
2:54 4%
cot that brought
ooped down out
Cox Kk Ni im id to those bird
albatross crew said th
by the beard
ancient mariner, Cook
would be trouble and,
unlike
happened.
the
there
was tr
the goat
of Neptune,
Nixon wasn't
Coming out of the
into a howling southeaster
the barkentine far out of her cou
that mad Pacific. She battled brav
of timbers, she broke her back on
The
rse.
and nights before low headlands
them.
James ran
drove
hrough
3
be
the St
raged for nine
The old St. James
, but fi
EE =
cays an
bat ed
final ly with a sp
reefs of the isl neno
They rode four days
and a fringe of palms lay before
Well, those s: i rs from the St
y bay-—n after that old
vell | spot to be ahipwrk ked in,
nor for Skipper Anderson, nor for
the Bos'n, who were all nar
up on that hill beside the sh
to see a friendly sail
ip’'s bell
Well, sir,
a spot as one of the islanders
Nix and his shipmates arrived,
pitched over a precipice. He
neck. There he was, slowly dy
doctor or a nur the island
cided he'd
ng
Se on
That's just where the sea cook
James dragged their boats up into
and waited. It was a
the world for Cook Nixon,
mate-—the ond mate and
32 days they kept a lookout
of the old Bounty, hoping
SO
For
Neck.
n half as bad
months before
wild goats, and
broke his
fic and not a
over and de-
himself
they weren't
Three
out there on the Paci
became a hero and earned himself
I ever heard of. He went to
figured out a liniment
cocoanut oil as a lubricant,
that made Lindsay almost
that terribly swollen nec
still contorted and he suf
Nixon kept thinking this
bunk with an idea. Nix
got it!” and he dashed i
of bed.
both
and
hel pl
k of Linc
ffered
over
shot out
hands
Nix
and
neck
time
head was
Drugs? —well,
dislocated
three days
But his
that
Sure enough, in
he
ling,
30 a
One night mped out of his
“Lo rd, man, I've
m. and got him out
James’ anchor.
Well, sir, that
trying out his new neck.
in all directions.
He almost wagged his head off
flip flops. And then Lindsay hustled
out of that hut, ran up the hill to the
trying to
And that ended the curse that
barkentine St. James.
smoke on the horizon.
hung over the crew of the haunted
there was a smudge of
Cap
the badluck barkentine—yes, sir,
Columbia Has Old Church Tiles
Two tiles, taken from the oldest
church in the Western hemisphere
and presented to Dr. Nicholas Mur-
ray Butler, president of Columbia
university, as a commemoration of
his visit last year to Santo Domingo,
now hang in the Spanish house at
Columbia. Both ceramics are ac-
companied by papers certifying that
they come from the Iglesia de San
Nicolas, which was built in the old
city of Santo Domingo 14 years after
Columbus arrived in America.
Founding of West Point
emy at West Point was opened, ot
passed by the Continental congress
on October 1, 1776, calling for the
preparation of a plan for “a mili
tary academy for the army.” On
June 20, 1777, orders were given
for the organization of a corps,
which, however, did not move
West Point until 1781. The acad
emy was not formally opened as ¢
school until July, 1802,
SREAT BOOKS
Rash Remark
Cost Soldier
His Country
By ELIZABETH C. JAMES
| IEUT. PHILLIP NOLAN, main
< character of Edward Everett
Hale's “A Man Without a Country,”
was stationed in Louisiana about the
time that Aaron Burr made his first
trip down there. Nolan was young
and lonely and was flattered by the
attentions of Burr. Soon Nolan's
name was linked with that of Burr,
and the result was, that without any
purpose of disloyalty to his country,
Lieutenant Nolan standing
ready for trial by court martial.
In the progress f the
judge asked No
thing to about
his loyalty to the
United States. Exas-
perated at the com-
bination
Nolan
“Damn
was
trial, the
had
lan
any-
say At
court
Withdraw
cussion,
turned
utes
the verd
ing for dis-
re-
they
Elizabeth
James
, you shall
ng
Known as “Plain Buttons.”
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treated
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hips
HALE'S VARIED CAREER
Edward Everett Hale, whose
life was from 1822 to 1909, was
one of the most voluminous writ-
ers of America; his works would
fill ten large volumes. Although
he used every type of writing
except poetry, his permanent
reputation rests on the two short
stories, “My Double and How He
Undid Me,” and “The Man With-
out a Country.”
Hale followed many kinds of
work: he was a preacher, a writ.
er, a lecturer, and an active par-
ticipant in public affairs. Toward
the end of his life, he was chap-
lain to the United States senate.
ter Scott which someone had picked
up in port Everyone was com-
fortably listening when Nolan
reached the passage, ‘‘Breathes
there a man with soul so dead, who
never to h
my own,
threw the
rushed to
not reaps
my native land.’ Nolan
book into the sea and
his stateroom. He did
wear for two months
Acts as Interpreter.
During the long years of inactivi-
ty, Nolan mapped out a daily rou-
tine for himself. He followed a pro-
gram of regular study and became
proficient in many subjects, includ-
ing foreign languages. One day the
American ship came across a slave
ship that had mutinied and was
drifting. The slaves were freed of
their chains, but they could not
talk with the Americans to com-
municate their desires. Nolan was
asked to interpret. The slaves spoke
a dialect of Portuguese and they
went wild with joy when they heard
intelligible words. When the Ameri-
can officer stated that he would take
them to a specific point of land and
leave them, they set up a wail. No
No. Take us home! And they began
to cry out the names of the mem-
bers of their families that they
wanted to see. Nolan was inter.
preting each side to the other. His
voice became huskier and huskier.
In desperation to end the painful
scene, the American officer cried
out, “All right, tell them that I will
take them home!"
Nolan was more than 70 years
{old when he died. One night he
sent for one of his friends to come
| to his stateroom. When the friend
entered the stateroom and looked
around, he saw what appeared to be
a shrine to America. The American
eagle had been drawn on the ceil
ing. On the wall was a picture of
Washington, draped in an American
flag. On the foot of the bed was
a map of America. All of which
Nolan had drawn from memory,
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