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Less Than an authority

A CCORDING to the testimony, Dr. Writ has
L never seen Mr.. Tugwell, never talked with Mr..
Tugwell never talked with anybody who had talked
with Mr.. Tugwell Just why he should be summoned
as a Tugwellan authority is still mysterious. The
only explanation lies in the curious temper of some
members of the committee. Some of the radio
listeners complained that too tight rein was put
Mr.. McGugin of Kansas.
However, I testify that with my own ears
heard the gentleman PROFOUND query which seems
to me a new low for any semi-judicial hearing
Laurence Todd had Just testified that at the dinner
he said nothing whatsoever and Mr.. McGugn asked,
Well if you had slid anything it would have been
COmmunistic, wouldn't it?'
There is an excellent authority on Mr. Tugwel
now living in Washington. His name is ReXford
Guy Tugwall If the house wanted to get at him
why didn't they vote the appointment of a COM
mittee to investigate him? AS a matter of fact,
the committee set up merely authorized to in
qure into certain charges made by William Writ.
These as it developed, did not remotely touch Mr..
Tugwell AS a result had farCical hearing in
which young woman who had never read a line of
his books or speeches solenly asked to expound
his philosophy.
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HJeemC TONE
h
Haywood BROUN

WHATEVER the future may hold for Rexford
Guy Tugweu, he has already gained for him
self one distinct niche in American history. He is
the most widely discussed assistant secretary Of
agriculture who ever served under the United States
government And his prominence can not be attrib-
uted to any weakness in his immediate chief In the
Judgment Of many Secretary Henry A. Wallace is the
most important and powerful III the cabinet.
AS a matter Of fact. Or. Tugwell owes large por-
ton OF his prominence to his foes. For instance,
admire Or. Tugwel and am generally in agreement
with his economic philosophy Mark Sullivan
abhors it. I have written about Mr.. Tugweil only
occasionally. Mark deals with him practically every
day, and has been a very considerable factor in
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ROUNDING ROUND
THEATERS W w.T Hi UH5TRE

Beauchamp, the father and
mother of Elinor.
The part of Lady Duckworth,
whose timely intervention and
diplomacy bring the play to a
happy ending, will be played by
Keith Ruddell.
Others in the cast will include
Cregor and Robert Burger as
Thomas and Jennings, buffers,
and William Schilling in the role
Of Lord Honeycut.
With the exception of NIessrs.
Cregor, Burger, and Vance Jack
son, bell boy, the cast is made up
of experienced players. Most Of
them took part in the dramatic
clubs successes of last season.
Mrs. Karl Ruddell, wife Of the
prominent Doctor Karl Ruddell, is
in charge of the makeup depart
ment.
The proceeds will benefit needy
boys at Cathedral high school.
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There seems to be a feeling
among anti-war organizations just
now that not since 1918 has the
prospect for peace been so def
nitely Threatened. AS a result,
groups such as the United States
division Of the Women's Interna-
tional League for Peace and Free
dom. and the National Council
for Prevention Of War are work
ing together more harmoniously
and intelligently than ever be-
fore for disarmament. The Ma
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Secretary Hull was all of these
things at the dinner given on Pan
American day in commemoration
of the anniversary Of the Spanish
republic.
Near the end, Spanish Ambassa-
dor Cardenas, the host, proposed
a toast. Lifting a glass of dark
Spanish sherry, he said:
I'VE drink to the President of
the United States and the Presi-
dents of all Spanish American
republics, and I propose that we
drink it in this wine, called La
Raza' CThe RaceD in token of the
race which uniteS us"
Although Cordel Hull could
not understand the ambassador
Spanish, he knew that it was his
duty as secretary of state to re-
ply. And he did-most eloquently
except for one thing.
He picked up the wrong wine.
The def hand of a woman is the
cause of considerable presidential
trouble in the house Of repre-
sentatives.
Mrs. Isabella Greenway Of Ari-
iona has been a member of the
chamber for only four months.
Prior to her election she never
had held elective Office. Yet to-
day she is one of the most dam
gerouS foes the administration has
in the chamber.
The reason for this power is her
long intimacy with the President
and Mrs. Roosevelt.
Mrs. Greenway was a brides
maid at the Roosevelt's Wedding.
On their honeymoon, they visited
the Scottish estate of Mrs. Green
ways first husband. Mrs. Roose-
welt made a special trip to the
Capitol to witness her friends in
duction into Office. The two wom-
en- are constant companions.
As result. house members con-
slider Mrs. -Greenway a member of
the Presidents family. So when
she bolts, they feel free to do
likewise.
HOUSE leaders say privately
IL that her vote to override the
veterans bill veto was a big fac
tor in turning the tide against
the President. It is cloakroom
gossip that many members wait
until after she has voted to de-
eide how they will ballot.
Nominally, Mrs. Greenway is a
Democrat. She never fails to pay
lip service to the new deal But
basically she is as standpattish as
Budget Director Lewis Douglas,
whose congressional seat she is
filing.
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DAILY WASHINGTON
MERRY-GO-ROUND
IN Dre1O PearsoN and Robert S. AHen =

WASHINGTON April 2Nobody paid attention
v the stock market hot but
DER Senator Ava Adams
banking and currency
Another
CoSgan progressive Adams on the
Roosevelt landslide rookie
the and appointed to the same COM
miee $3.50
Adams there's
HooSeves Also behind
o Inc latter mas been cooperating Roosevelt
m case he acted at the Harvey banker
and utility magnate ~
toI Glass and Couch wanted Tory vitaly mpor-
tah banking committee Adams
SerVaVe small town banker They felt depend on him
helr confidence not misplaced
Colorado Adams has led the fight to enaate the
~ 'i0
IT is easy to why CordeI Hull of Ten
l. nessee $1,000 " 4N
He makes appearance white tie and starch bosom fit
him beautifully of sincerity He shows real evo
ton to the Americanism ~ NV
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do little opinion molding among
the gentleman's supporters.
II
nNE of the most amazing ex-
" amples of quick-changing
public sentiment reflected on the
floors of both houses has been ex-
perienced by Margaret Sanger,
advocate of birth control Where
as only a little while ago, this
cause was considered so complete
ly beyond the pale that many
dainty solons turned crimson, let
it but be mentioned in the sacred
strengthens of their offices, now
every day recruits come tumbling
into camp. The bills for which
Mrs. Sanger and her cohorts are
lobbying would amend the pres
ent law prohibiting al possession
of birth control information or
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tional Councils lobbyist is jean
cite Rankin, who may be supposed
to know the deftest method of
getting into a congressman's office
since she used to be a congress-
woman herself. Dorothy Deter,
though she has never sat in the
seats of the mighty legislators,
does an equally good job of spell
binding for the International
League.
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BY MARY MARGARENT M'BRIDE
MA Service Writer

XASHINGTON April 2Becaue of the number present.
w day legislative Vay
congress has drawn bumper lady lobbyists
day in nterminabe
senate and Office buildings pupoSefu usually
volunteer
elusive legislator.
They generally their
kilograms
the recently
the
food birth control nationality emergency
Women's chidrens
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THESE two and their allies are
x concentrating on the Nye
resolution for an investigation Of
the munitions industry in the
hope that such a probe may dis
close much to aid their cause.
They have also been doing their
best against the billion dollar Vim
son naval building bill which has
been signed by the President out
is so far merely an authorization,
not an appropriation. Meantime,
women of the opposite camp, such
as the Daughters of the American
Revolution, who believe that the
honor Of the country can best be
upheld by preparedness, also have
their day every so often in con-
greSS.
The League of Women Voters,
represented in the marble halls
by it's congressional secretary"
brown-eyed, persuaSive-v c e d
Gwen Coach, is one Of the nine
organizations, all members of the
womens joint congressional COM
mittee, favoring passage of the
much-discussed pure food and
drugs legislation.
The joint congressional COM
mittee, by the way, including
eighteen national groups and
more than twenty million women.
was formed soon after the equal
suffrage amendment was passed.
1t is known on Capitol Hill as the
front door lobby and its first
chairman, Maud Wood Park, has
been called the woman who made
lobbying respectable.
The committee is a clearing
house for the legislative work Ct
its members, but does not itself
endorse, promote or propose"
any measures, contenting itself
with providing machinery for con-
stituent organizations to pool
ammunition for any given fight.
MISS GEACH, as chairman of
AVA a protest committee, has
also appeared this year at hear
ings to argue successfully against
disastrous cuts in appropriations
for the useful children's, women's
and economics bureaus.
The redoubtable Maud Younger,
veteran of many AN equal rights
victory, and Anita l.. Pollitzer,
deceptively small, southern and
gentle-Seeming, have had the
handling of the campaign for
equal nationality rights, especial
ly the right of women to pass
their nationality on to their
children, waged by the National
Womans Party from its watch
tower on Capitol Hill, one con-
venient block from the senate Of
flee building.
Long practice has made these
women adept in managing the
balky senator or representative.
They know exactly when to fore
stall a definite turn-down by a
political suggestion to think it
over" And then they go out and
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oPERETTA TO Be GIVEN
Young Peoples Choir to Present
Musical Offering Friday.

The Young Peoples Choir of the
First Friends church, 1241 North
Alabama street, will present "A
Story of Long Ago" an operetta,
at 1880 Friday in the recreation au-
ditorium of the church.
Director is Miss E. Leona Wright.
Leads will be taken by Miss Nellie
L Sielken and Russell E. Carter.
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every year and never yet has
cured a slice
How come. any way. all this
mystery and jardon in so simple
a matter as snagging a fish by
the lip and lifting him out Of the
water?
A fighter, is he? SO a four
ounce trout is a fighter, for
whom a man Weighing any
where from 1875 to 200 pounds
must carry a butterfly net
hitched to his belt. a cross-cut
saw. a tack-hammer. an apron of
hand-grenades and a satchelful of
assorted feathers and learn more
nomenclature than the captain
Of battleShip?
On what have these trouts
been feeding these last some-odd
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making the assistant secretary Of
agriculture stride the skies Of
popular consciousness like a
huge ball Of red fire.
Rex Tugwell has had a
huge build-up from the news
papers of the nation. There
has been no more skillfu job Of
press agency centering around
any one since the days when
Anna Held was first pictured as
taking her milk baths. And the
irony Of it all is that this pro-
digious putting has been carried
on chiefly by those papers and
politicians who want nothing
Of Mr. TugWeu but his last
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TINE basement theater IN III II.
dianapolis has come into It's
own lust as the community CIVIC
nlavhouses and player groups ~
local churches nave I0"0''0
nlaces of real Importance.
with few road shows col l
into the city. the basement inca
ter movement has been success
f,1lv introduced by E. Pierre LIE
miller who has launched nlove-
mont to place acting" play going
into the hands of all people.
some months ago, MI De
Miller erected a very small stage
in the basement Of his nome,
There even three-act plays nave S,
been produced with Mr.. De Ml!ler
and his acting and produclng
group handling all detallS lioi1'
cast to scenery. .s
MIR De Miller then pictured q
number of these nelghoornooo
theaters all over the city. MRS;
Eugene Fife, for years associated
with Butler university ana now
cond,,cting her own classes
Joined the movement by recently
erecting a small stage in one OF
the halls of her home.
Tn the summer, out-of-ooor
plavs will be given in natural set
tings in her back yard. Her nrsC
acting group membership was
practically filled after the hrSV
meeting. ,5
Her experience in directing ana
teaching argues well for the sue
cess of the venture. She states 1t
NAV be necessary to form another
group at once to take care Oh APP
plicantS.
Recently Mr.. De Miller mas
been working on his pet ldea OF
organizing a Theater Guild with
the basement or home theaterS
feeding into the various church
groups land there are many me
organizations of this type here)
and then including the commu-
nity centers and parks.
This may result in the park
community houses presenting a
number of attractions this sum-
mer. drawn from the guild.
Never before has there been so
much interest in amateur theater
in this city. The acting groups IN
the various churches OF the city
have made tremendous strloes.
Many pastors are turning over
several Sunday nights a year to
these groups to produce Biblical
plays.
The Irvington Players were
most successful with Ibsen during
their first season in Irvington. An
old church property was used by
this group.
The basement theater is a
splendid idea and Mr.. De Miller
is to be congratulated upon start
ing this movement and working
out his idea of a Theater Guild.
THE complete cast for the
Il play. so This Is London"
which will be presented at Eng
lish's, May 6. by the Cathedral
Dramatic Club. has been selected
by Brother Jarlath. c. S. b., and
Brother Alexanders, c. S. b., direc-
tors.
The feminine lead will be
played by Henry Kenney portray
ing the role of Elinor, the English
girl. Her American lover. Junior,
will be played by Russell Finch.
Their families, both Of which
have distorted views about the
others country and aren't back
ward about expressing them, will
be played by John Farrell and
Tom Gillespie as Mr.. and Mrs.
Draper, the parents of Junior.
and John CulbertSon and Ray
Gardner as Sir Percy and Lady
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years that they have become so tough?
1t is my conclusion that the trout have run I'D
great bluff because all the troutS that have seen
in the waters near by New York looked as though
they could be handled with ease by the Whitcomb
Riley model OF barefoot boy operating from rock or
muddy bank with willow pole. a length Of grocer's
string, and worm spaded up somewhere behind the
barn.
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GOVERNOR HALTS USE
OF MEN AS BEASTS
Arkansas Practice Called Repre-
hensible, Indefensible."

BIZ JHfCd PrCSs
LITTLE ROCK, Ark, April I'll
State prison farms officials today
took convicts out of the traces and
substituted mules.
Governor j. M. Futrell ordered an
immediate halt to the practice Of
Harvesting convicts to corn planters
as mules ordinarily are harnessed.
mo civilized state can permit
such practice to continue" he
said. I regard such a practice as
indefensible and reprehenSible."
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Publicly and privately she has
taken cauStic pot-ShotS at the
brain trust. Right now she is a
leader in the drive to amend the
securities act, has written her
Workmen in Arizona that this is
at the root Of unemployment in
the copper industry, has sug-
gested they protest to Washing
ton.
If Mrs. Greenway is a novice
at politics, she is no tyro when it
comes to leadership. She has
managed large BUSINESS affairs
for many years. personally directs
her Arizona ranch and copper
mines.
Unassuming, direct, masking her
forcefulness behind an Unborn
charm, Mrs. Greenway, in the few
months Of her incumbency, has
become one of the most popular
and influential members Of the
house. Her appearance in one
Of the back rows is the signal for
a rush Of members to her side.
1t is a common occurrence for
as many as twenty-five or thirty
representatives to confer with her
in the course Of the afternoon.
These gatherings are referred to
in the cloakrooms as Mr.. Green
ways Court"
CONSIDER the rare delicacy of
~ the state department in ar
ranging for the reception of Presi-
dent Vincent of Haiti What
could have been more appropriate
than long double line of marines
at the Union Station, through
which he passed? For twenty
years President Vincent's country
has been occupied by United
States marines. Letters sent to
newspapers on NRA stationery an
nounce that Miss Frances NJ.
Robinson, administrative assistant
Of General Johnson is preparing
a series Of articles for publication.
Colonel FitZnaurice, famous
Irish Transatlantic flier, is en-
tering a plane for the Irish Sweep
stakes in the air race from Lon
don to Melbourne But much
to the pique of the British, he is
coming to the United States to
buy his plane Oscar Chap
man, efficient assistant secretary
Of the interior, is past master at
the chief attribute Of a successful
politician. He never takes his fin
ger off the public pulse at home.
Hardly week passes that he
does not address his party organi-
cation in Colorado over the long
distance telephone.
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Syndicates Inc.)
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Fair Enough
by
WESTbROOK PE0LER

TRY to love my fellow citizens and especially my
Il colleagues in journalism, but these woods-and-
writer's who Go the compositions about fishing
and toss in casual references to tapered No lines
and gray hackles. are beginning to chafe and I am
going to give them to you.
Take them away and you can have them but
warn you that they belong to the same annoying
family as those writer's who devise the syndicated
daily golf hint which drives million victims crazy
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He's Prominent NOL0


He's Prominent NOU
NF late much has been heard Of a speech which
~ Professor Tugwell made in the year 1881 before
conference of economists. At that time Franklin D.
Roosevelt had not yet been nominated Tor the preS-
dency and the name Of Rexford Guy Tugwel was
unknown outside of university circles. l have not
looked M the press accounts of that particular adj
dress but it seems reasonable assume that it was
not prominently reported.
Now extracts from the speech are read over the
air on national hOokups during the progress OF a
hearing faCetiousy called the examination OF DR..
William Writ. Or. Tugwell, who was not even listed
in The cast of characters stole the whole show.
am still receiving letters from indignant sub
scrbers who say that the Indiana chatterooX should
have been permitted TO tell ALL
There is an excellent answer to that, over and
above the fact that the leaves would have come out
IN spring turned red and died, and that cub re-
pOrterS would have grown gray boards and become
managing editors long before the Gary eXpOunder
had even warmed into his stride He takes longer to
pass given point than any Elks parade Even his
best friends have learned never to be so ncautious
to ask We'll, how you today, Willie?' be-
cause he will tell them in thousands of words.
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These Experts, HO-Hum

I OBJECT to the influence Of these expert trouts-
Il men. Because. where formerly when a party
wished to go out ard remove litter of fish he lust
took his pole and a can of bait and went nowadays
a mans first thought is of his costume and bait is
considered unethical Sure know the pole-fsher-
man very often caught fish. but your complete
fashionable troutSman will catch no fish at least
twice often.
This I we'll know from having watched great
bodies of them dressed and accoutered to the frac-
ton Of a second, Tipping bits of lint fuzz and
feathers into the waters Of Westcheser county, New
YORK In Ve years at least 5000 OF these full dress
fishermen have come under my eye and have vet to
see one of them catch or even modest fish or to
hear credible rumors of such results
But they posted thoroughly on their gray
hackles, royal coachmen, silver doctors and all such
department store styles of fSh-lure and they would
fetch you some evil and possibly have YOU ar
rested II you were to come along with bamboo pole
and a lat worm and accumulate tWo-pound trout
for yourself.
Why do people want to be making such fancy
mystery of the old sports of chldhoods happy hours
anyway?
If I wish to cultivate relations with trout these
days am at liberty to fish according TO the natural
instincts of an old-tme worm fisherman? am not
II did, word would get around that Pegler was seen
gong along the brook with can of worms day
last week and the family would have to change their
name and move to Guatemala to start life over
But, tell you, I can't do anything with their
damn gray hacFleS and cOachmen and buffers and
their No tapered line. try to fling that little
business out into the stream and it fouls in some
shrub Then, when get it free and float it down
the water by hand, like sissy it just washes around
in the stream and nothing happens I don't blame
the trout It's the system
A Dangerous Sport
A FEW years ago. at Lake Placid, they were talk
n ing Oi hobbing down hill over the crystal snow
and this ned very attractive just ohand because
we used to do some doWnhll bobbing around our
neighborhood when just a gay, lovable boy
But science had put its chilling hand on this sport
too, and now they were careening along frozen
trough, six feet deep which wound down the side
OF mountain and people were sailing off into space
every day and strewing the scene with hunks of
themselves.
An ambulance stood at the bottom with the
chains on the wheels and the engine snoring gently
and bobbing down hill plainly had ceased to be
the sport that remembered from chdhood's
happy hour.
don't know what I going to do for sport
1 can't cast the gray hackle, I can't hit lick
in golf, I couldn't ride horse if I had one, and
the one time that I tried tennis figuring that here
was one game I should be able to beat, the ball
seemed to go right through the banjo. I wonder if
they require special csotune and some equiva-
lent of the No tapered line if fellow feels like
shooting few social hands of mumbly-peg
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drop of hearts blood. His position IS much Il
that of missionary captured by cannibals. He
being fattened for slaughter.
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Copyright. 1884. BY The Timesl
The Nome daily nugget., 1934-12-24

~ IXTY years ago this month there
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 occurred fight, the story of which has become one of the classics of the Western frontier. That was the Battle of Adobe Walls which began
 on the early morning of June 27, 1874, when a war party of several hundred Comanche, Kiowa, Chey. enne Arapahoe and Kiowa Apache Indians attacked a buffalo hunters