Evening star., 1932-10-09
New Revolt in Wisconsin
Leading

ChappleS BOola Boys were playing at
the Beaver Hills Country Club. Jack
saw Irene Mary Mcdonnell, daughter
of James j. Mcdonnell, New Haven
coffee importer. 1t took him no time
at all to get an introduction. A short
while later he borrowed $50 and got
married. quit school and took his bride
and banjo on a day coach to Boston.
There lived Joe Mitchell Chapple, an
uncle, who was magazine publisher.
John got a job with his uncle at a
salary which hardly seemed adequate
to the Chapple needs, what with spend
ing most of the pay check at cabarets
on pay night and living on mackerel
the rest of the week.
That was in 1922 In December Of
that year President Harding appointed
Chapple's father postmaster of Ash
land. Some one had to run the news
paper SO Jack left his banjo in a Bos-
ton pawnshop and took his bride to
Ashland
The following September, with his
Princeton, in charge of the paper, Jack
took his wife and a 7-Week-old baby
back to Yale The banjo playing days
were gone, but Chapple began to get a
little fidgety sociologically. Rocking the
baby's cradle with one hand and holding
a book in the other. he started with H.
G. Well5 and George Bernard Shaw and
read to the left. through Marx, Lenin
and Bukarhin.
Disturbed Over U. s. Condition.
By the time he finished Yale in "a
and got back to Ashland he was very
considerably disturbed over the rather
bad job which he felt the founders of
hod In hn 1iUh n
the larger freedom of the new Russia.
BY 1926 Chapple could put up with 1t
no longer. He sent his wire and daugh-
ter back to her family in New Haven,
borrowed some money from his father.
paid few bills. bought third-clasS
passage to Europe, and had s490 left.
With that money and Smattering OF
French and German he visited dozen
European countries and spiashed radi-
calism all over himself. He had a
grand time.
Through newspaper contracts in Lon
don he not only interviewed leading
economists and politicians of England,
but gave them the benefit Of his own
had it out with all corners. Then he
of Nations a good, serious once-over
Later to Italy and Poland and Russia.
| He still talks with a slightly sopho-
moric enthusiasm about 1t all.
Il was astonished at the inflnitesimal
factions into which parties were split
| in France" he will tell you with a
| burning seriousness. In the Latin
quarter the various schools of art were
like babies crying with the collie.
came away from Geneva with great
| disappointment -" the League of Ma
tions was group of pretty buildings
which were merely an empty shell
Tried to Understand Culture.
well. everywhere I went I mixed
with the people-Eng!ish. French Span
ish. German; tried to understand their
customs and cultures. understand theiT
lives.
In Poland felt more clearly than
anywhere else the clash between two
systems-horder country. They fee
acutely tie threatened invasion upor
their individualism and institutions.
! "RuSsia-Moscow. Gene Tunney went
to Russia and wrote an article about il
said he went in with a twist in the
Russian direction and when he came
out he was all through. felt the same
way" ..
Big Bill" Haywood, Chapple says, was
the final instrument Of his Russian
disillusionment. An approximately ver-
batim account of his encounter with
Haywood is as follows:
Il interviewed Big Bill in Russia
He was accepted by the leaders there
as man who was truly class con-
scious-a man who. If anybody, could
feel the zeal of their misguided religion
A faith that is worth anything will last
I expected him to eXude Just that when
I visited him. He would be as one
with the Russians in the reorganiza-
ton of the world.
The first question I asked Haywood
was what he thought of the probability
of communism sweeping Poland. He
sauntered over to a divan and picked
up piece of tapestry and caressed it
isn't this a beautiful pattern?" he
said
Il asked him about Bessarabia. He
countered with an exhibition Of
another piece of woven work. He had
made collection of Russian fabrics
1t had become his passion.
Failed and Went Art"
II stopped and wondered. All Hay
woods life he had been a destruction.
list. The Soviet put him in contruc-
tive job in coal mine. Then, found
he had failed and gone art I came
to the conclusion that there must be
something wrong with system where
a human got Just so much blood anc
then turned back.
II came away from Russia with the
impression that the leadership of COM
munism was one of an intense individ.
ual power. There was no picture o.
altruism. 1t seemed to me that thes'
men were more ruthless in their pur'
suit of power than anything in capital
ISM I thought that If these men ir
such positions are merely stark indi
vidualists then the whole system col
lapses of itself and Is merely disguise
under which individuals bunko th'
people and keep them in condition
of slavery. 1t seemed to me as though
the objective of the strongest individ
ualistic outfit in the world was merel!
that of attaining monopoly on indi'
vidualism'
With these impressions Chapple CAM
back to America. collected his wife ant
daughter, and settled down in Ashlant
to make living-content until he en-
countered the power of La Folletteism
For the campaign he subsequent.
waged he went into debt and mortgaget
his home. He took couple Of old cars
with tent and skillet, and hit the high
ways with three or four youngsters GU
Of his newspaper Office.
Chapple Is good woodsman, ant
woodchopping is his principal exercise
He disavoWs any aping Of Lincoln o
the Republican Roosevelt on that score
His hobby. he says. is his children