The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1928-08-10
KEEPING UP
With
THE NE WIS
By LUDWELL DENNY


Z UNIVERSITY, Va, Aug 10.-Just
" as the perspiring Institute of
Public Affairs pretty well had
agreed that both political parties
we're rather rotten but both presi-
Dental candidates good men and
true, along comes a learned doctor
and kicks over our calculations.
Smith and Hoover are representa-
tives of big business and not of the
common people. At any rate that
is the idea Of Prof. William E. Dodd,
of Chicago.
Listen to him: IF ever there
was a dilemma for the honest be-
lever in the ideals of early Ameri-
ca, the dilemma appears in 1923;
the cleverest spokesman of
the greatest industrial oligarchy the
world has ever seen and Smith, the
sutton Of the self-same in
dustrial oligarchy"
Il
THE future is just as awful.
Il The greatest issues "are all so
entangled that the cleverest may
not know how to vote. What shall
the simple, the everyday plowman
and tender Of machines say? It is
not the day Of a Tilden or a Cleve-
land or a Wilson; nor shall we see
in years to come such another
alignment Of right and wrong, or
come. A vast, harder feudalism
fixes itself upon the country of
Jefferson, and there is no heir Of
Jefferson to protest, not even in
Virginia"
Between the new industrialists
and Ku-Klux Khan even the South
is breaking away from the ideals
Of jefferson and Wilson, says Dodd.
"There is an industrial South
which would break the old rural
South; a business South whose re-
ligion is not unlike that of the older
North, the religion Of success. To
men Of this kind constitutions
were made to guarantee profits.
They like privilege as heartily as
they dislike low tariffs and Fed
eral control of banks.
"And of late there have grown
up curious organizations Of men in
hoods and cheap regalia. They
meet in great throngs and cry aloud
that the Roman church is the scar
- IS
fuse the issue"
A S for Hoover, he is a rich and
IA able engineer and business man.
But people are unable to under
stand how he could sit without pro-
test in a Cabinet which allowed one
of its members to betray his coun-
try and sell its richest resources for
a ranch in New Mexico. They do
not know how to explain the long
silence of so great man two whole
years after the Supreme Court has
declared the nature Of the crime.
Hoover surely will ask a more
effective tariff to prevent Europeans
from paying their debts. And then
he must scold Europeans, year upon
year, to pay the billions his policy
forbids their paying.
Smith, however, is the man that
Dodd sorrows for like lost sheep.
Smith is a liberal, but
"He was born within the charmed
circle Of Tammany-
"He can not but revere the ring Of
a cardinal
"He must have his drinks from
the bar room long since outlawed--
Representing the industrial work.
ers of the North and leading a party
which always has spoken for the
farmers, Smith might have provided
the solution of our national prob
lem.
But to confuse men, southern
Democrats in Congress have striven
to be more agreeable to business
than Mellon himself They have
abandoned the one attitude that
made them Democrats. So Smith,
of like mind appointed as chief Of
his campaign management the
greatest business man he could have
found, thus giving the world assur-
ance that a Democrat was a Repub-
Hcan,"
WYE are hearing discouraging
w reports on things besides poll
tics, too, for instance, education.
"Our country has a higher ilit-
eracy than any other leading ma
ton. Nominally 6 per cent Of Amer
leans are illiterate, though Is per
cent of our young men drafted in
the World War were unable to read
or write intelligently," said Miss
Charl Williams, field secretary, Ma
tional Education Association.
Miss Williams and DR.. William M.
Davidson, superintendent Of Pitts
burgh schools, led the forum favor
ing the Curtis-Reed bill to establish
a Federal department Of education
with cabinet rank. They were sup
ported by Dean G. G. Maphis, Uni
versity of Virginia; President Aur-
644d IOSl4llldAQU, MILD OOl4CSCs IL "a
r. Hatton, Northwestern University;
Dean A. H. Putney, American Uni
versity; President Bradford Knapp.
Alabama Polytechnic College; Miss
Marie Obenauer, director industrial
survey and research service and
Miss Gail Labghlin, member Maine
legislature
Opposing the bill were: Judge
oscar Leaser, Maryland tax COM
Rabbi D. L. Hurwitz,
Brooklyn; DR.. G. L. Pollock, Uni
Versity OF Michigan Dr. John H.
Latane, Johns Hopkins University.
The bill does not provide for un-