Evening star., 1932-10-26

Few who heard Al Smith on the
radio from Newark this week. this OBJ
server ventures to say, got the impress
sion that Al is much more than so
per cent enthusiastic for the Roose-
welt presidential candidacy. In whole
hour Of typical sidewalks -of-New York
oratory. the former Governor mentioned
Roosevelt's name only once, and that
in the last 80 seconds of his talk. The
sneech. in fact was considerably more
OF a 1928 campaign utterance than
1852 address. Throughout it smacked
of an alibi for Smiths defeat four years
ago. 1t was for the most part an ode
to an ancient grudge. Undoubtedly
justified, as AL is. in blaming "blgotry
for what happened to him when he ran
for President. politicians Of all hues
question the wisdom Of his dragging up
the relisious issue to the extent he old
at Newark Monday night. II the o. y.
P. were still the party OF intolerance
that Gov. Smith apparently stnl hoios
it to be. it would hardly have nomina!eo
wild Bill" Donovan. who Is OF AIS AZ 5
faith. for the governorshfp OF New Iolk
this year. nor pitted Jew, Dlstrlct
ATTORNEY Medalie. against Bob Wag-
ner for the United States senatorsnlp'
-
Smith sprang something OF a Sensd-
tion when he revealed that he was tne
author of the repeal-and- d-modlncatloh
plank in the Democratic national pat
| form. Al was vastly more ef1ective at
Newark when lambasting the Repup-
ucans for straddling on liquor than
when he was reviving the old stuff
about Mabel Walker Wi1ebrandt and
| fine Methodists in 1923. If any man in
America is entitled to look upon cur
rent prohibition developments with sat
| isfaction it is AL Smith. He 1t was who
blazed the trail which both parties
| Though with a difference In proposed
method are now following. Had public
sentiment against the eighteenth amend
ment and the Volstead act crystalllzed
| in 1928 to the extent that 1t mas TO-DAY,
the "haupiest warrior OF them all, as
Boss Hague of Jersey City dubbed MN
at Newark. might we'll have been Presi,
| dent of the United States today. Al
unfolded his familiar "raddio' manner
at the big Jersey Democratic rally. He
sprang 'raddio'' in his flrst sentence,
and repeated it during the evening two
| or three times. No man on the air quite
has Smiths broadcasting personality.
| Call it cheap" and "undignifled." II
YOU please. but it strikes home. fasci-
mates the average listener and puts the
! idol OF Manhattan over in great shape
every time.
Mabel Walker Willebrandt was ap-
preaching California by automobile, in
| the course of crcss-country drive with
her parents, about the time Al Smith
vas broadcasting: We'll, lets go up in
Mabels room again" The lady OF the
law, who can no longer be in any doubt
-, &c
Los Angeles tomorrow, for a periodical
sojourn at her local Offices there. Mrs
Willebrandt has been in politics long
enough to acquire a thick skin, and,
though few people in public life have
been subjected to the ruthless raging
AL Smith gave her at Newark, Mabel
| may be relied upon to bob up serenely
and keep smiling. Her silence in the
Hoover campaign is almost as oppressive
as that of Senator Borah was until Al
Smiths liquor TRADE unloosed the
Idahoan's tongue Whether it is q
voluntary Willebrahdt sphynx or other
wise is not of record.
The Carnegie Institution of Washing
ton and the American Geographical
Society announce the publication of an
Atlas of the Historical Geography OF
the United States" which embodies the
results of 20 years of original research
In its preparation the collaboration of
foremost specialists in American history
end geography was enlisted among
others, DR.. j. f., Jameson (who origi-
mated the first plan for the work.. the
late Prof. F. J. Turner, Prof Max Far
rand, M. w. Jernegan, j. A. Robertson,
r. H. Whitbeck and r. De C, Ward, and
Drs. o. E. Baker and Isaiah Bowman.
The editor of the Atlas" is John X.
Wright DR.. Wright lays especial stress
on the manner in which it illustrates
! the growth of sectionalism in American
politics and discloses the roots Of polit-
ieal seetionalism In the diversity q the