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help for Negro families, and with
Dyess to work out a great program
for whites, we can go places if
the government will advance the
money. 1 am convinced that here
we have the secret that will an
swer the problem of the tenant
farmers and the land workers Of
America"
over and over again I heard
sincere men and women working
on the rehabilitation of beaten
people express these same hopes.
Not only are men and women CIV
en- a fresh chance, but their chill
dren will be brought up under
vastly different environment than
their old, pOverty-stricken homes
gave them. AS one woman, work
ing with the children of a colony,
said to me: I'VE have a swell
crowd of young people-from 2
to years old. They're the fin
est of all We can really do things
with them. We want to give them
something more to follow than
idle political promises. We want
to build new life for them"
IT will all take a trying amount
i of patience and intelligent
leadership But one of the things
that 1 have discovered in this
rambling over America is that we
have tens of thousands of fine
and experienced men and women
who are ready and waiting to
throw themselves into the mighty
task of the rehabilitation of our
country. They want only the
chance.
When you leave Dyess Colony
and drive southwark you soon get
into the country of old-time plan
tations, weighed down and handi-
capped by a vicious system for
which the owners are personally
no more to blame than the abused
shareeropper himself. .s 49,
Here in this homestead project
may be the answer that will not
only be fair for all but will help
build new and beautiful South
land.
Tomorrow What the South
thinks of Huey Long.
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State Department Put on Spot by
Nazis' Demands for Bremen Apology

campaigns against Jews and
Catholics in Germany. American
Catholics and Jews would be eX-
pected to resent any "toadying"
by the United States to the Ger
man government as a result of the
flag incident,
2. Agitation in and out of Con-
gress for severance of diplomatic
relations with Germany as a re-
suit of the national policies of
the Hitler regime. Some elements
would be glad, apparently, to use
the flag incident as a convenient
peg upon which to hang such
action.
3. The thinly yelled dislike Of
Administration officials them
selves for the Hitler regime, partly
because of the religious and racial
policies, and partly because of
German violation of treaty obi
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just what all this means to u.s."
she said I'VE got seven children
and Nav there and We was right
down to bed rock. Course thereu
be a lot of hard work for Bennett
to clear off the land and get his
crop in, but We'll all help. We got
something to work for here. We
got a home and We'll have a fine
school, and there's already a hos
pital with 80 beds in it. And we
got our own Home DemOnstra-
ton Club. Mis-. Salyers, who's the
head of it, is a wonderful woman.
And we got a farm agent who's
fine man, too, and we got All
Club for the boys and girls. It's
jest about like heaven to folks like
us who was down and out"
Then Granny broke in. She
couldn't wait any longer
Il kin tell you we jes' love this
Mr.. Roosevelt" she exclaimed.
He's the only President we ever
had who was really fer the poor
folks. We JeS' love him.
Il II tt
II VISITED a half dozen other
Il homes and heard the same tale
of high hope and promise. No
pioneers of old ever embarked on
a search for the Golden Fleece of
the good life and freedom with
more earnest enthusiasm than
these broken homesteaders of the
Dyes Colony. Each day brings
new families to the settlement in
1885 covered wagons. In these
government trucks they are haul
ed in from every corner of the
state. Most of them are so poor
that they have nothing but little
household furniture and possibly
a single COW and few chickens.
They have been carefully chosen
by case workers in the different
county relief agencies. They are
all innocent victims of a system
over which they had no control.
Howard Eichenbaum, who has
served as architect for all the COM
munity buildings and homes and
been in on the development since
its inception, showed me about
the 20,O0O-acre project. 1t was
started in March, 1884, he eX-
planned, when w. r. Dyess, State
Relief Administrator, and success
full business man and planter in
mis- own right, sold the idea of
great experimental project of
small homesteads for rural South
ern workers to Harry L. Hopkins.
Il
THE vast tract of delta cut
Il over land was purchased at
around $3.50 an acre; six portable
were installed and road
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in early Etruscan pottery. His
mission. it is limited, Will be
something else again.
The Atlanta division of the FILA
includes several Southern key
states, among them Georgia and
Louisiana Ruler of the first is
blatant, red gallused Gov. Gene
Talmadge. Gar of the latter is
the ineffable Huey Long Both are
violent Administration foes.
Right there is where Tom
Tom" comes in.
AS rabble-raiser he is a match
for Talmadge and the Kingfsh
any day. When it comes to ring
ing the changes on political
gathering, the bulky ALBANIAN is
in a class by himself.
He is expected to tour Georgia
and Louisiana, making a number
of speeches during which he will
give Gene and Huey a dose of
their own medicine.
THE capital has been Speculat-
l. ing on the sudden silence Of
Mrs. Roosevelt. Some whispers
are that the President suggested
she keep out of the limelight,
limiting that her activity did not
have too favorable a reaction
politically.
Close friends of Mrs. Roosevelt
smile at thlS-Say that the Pres
ident is too wise; has known his
wife too long to give her any adj
vice along these lines. Finally
they say that Mrs. Roosevelt al
ways likes to get out of the lime
light in the summer.
Whatever may be the truth, it
is a fact that each summer the
First Lady has got away from
Washington and her effulgent
press conferences. During this
period she does not talk for pub
hcation. SHES away from the
cameras and wants TO be the For
gotten First Lady of the Land.
So far this summer she has been
moderately successful. She drove
to the Roosevelt summer home in
Campobello, New Brunswick, spent
week, turned around and drove
back 10 Washington. Then she,
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attended Rex TugwellS social con-
ference at Buck Hill Falls, Penn
sylvania, where she missed the
dance as she was not invited"
Now she has left for another
motoring trip through New York
state, which will shortly take her
back to Campobello.
Little of this has appeared in
the press.
A S Parthian shot before
L n junking the job of AAA Con-
sumers' Counsel, DR.. Calvin B.
Hoover will unleash a report
bound to make headlines. He is
privately investigating profits of
meat packers; will release the ex-
pose Just before returning to
academic life at Duke University.
Not merely a sanctuary for
dust-laden documents is the new
Archives Building on Constitution
Avenue. AS modern touch it
has within its classic marble walls
a movie theater, where private
showings of secret Intelligence
Corps films and pictures of war
maneuyers will be shown.
Another anachroniSm on the same
avenue is the art display in
Madam Perkins marble Labor
Department Building In huge
gilded frames against its virgin
walls are paintings of a dead
striker. vagrant on a park bench,
an evicted tenant. and an idle
group at a factory gate.
When Massachusetts, Congress
man Treadway gets caught in a
shower. he raises his walking stick
over his head to keep the rain of.
Made of three telescoping sec
tions. the stick blooms into a full
sized umbrella. When Ne
brasks's veteran Senator Norris
attacked Michigan's aspiring Sen
ator Vandenberg in debate re-
Gently, Vandenberg sat at his desk
shaking with laughter. Reason
was. the attack was being thwart-
ed by a perSistant fly, which
alighted repeatedly on the nose of
the senator from Nebraska.
tCopyright. 1895. bv United Feature
Syndicate. Incl
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Arkansas. But it is separated as
far in distance and time and
thought as the Reedsville Home
steads in West Virginia are sep
arated from the coal mining hell
in SCOTS Run.
sat in the living room of house
No. oil and chatted for an hour
and more with Bennett Price and
his wife and mother-in-laW. 1t
was a neat five-room house, wired
for electric lights, with bathroom
and modern conveniences. With
the house went 80 acres of land.
WE only been here two
w months but we're putry
near settled now" Mr.. Price told
me with real pride. He had
came originally from Kentucky.
but for a number of years mad
been farming in Lawrence County.
Poor crops and low prices had fin
ally put him on the relief rolls.
Looks like we'd make out here
fine" he went on. The houseII
cost us $1150, and by the time we
get the farm equipped and every
thing going we'll owe the govern
rnent around $500. We don't
have to pay anything for three
or four years. and then we get
25 years to settle up. We can do
it easy. Well grow everything we
eat right here, and we should have
ten bales Of cotton and sell eggs
and chickens and some hogs
We've already got a community
canning factory where we can
put up all our own vegetables,
and sell some besides. And we're
going to have a community shop
to make mountaineer furniture
and things like that. Well get
our living and around $500 or more
from our cash crops. Well pay
the government around $3.50
year. and most of the rest will be
clear
TINE black-eyed, capable young
Il woman leaned forward and
took over the conversation.
You can't very we'll imagine
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EuEnough
by
WESIBROOK PEGLER

IT is seriously proposed that the United States
withdraw from the Olympic games in Berlin next
year on the ground that the Nazis unfit to enter
tain the event or to associate with sportsmen That
would be one way of doing the thing and there are
interesting arguments in favor of the motion to
retire.
However, take it that the object of this move
would be TO hold the Nazis up to scorn before the
world and suggest that this could be done more
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Listening America
FIOMESTEADERS HOLD NEW HOPE
Social Experiment Termed Symbol Of Neu Ae1ica in Making

The reaction to great social ex-
pertinent of those persons most directly
affected by it is described below by
Frazier Hunt after a visit TO the Dyess
Colony in Arkansas. This is the ninth
of twelve articles which Hunt, who
Travelled from coast to coast to sound
out popular sentiment on public ques-
tions. has written for The indianapolis
Times
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machinery brought in. Actual work
on home building was started on
Friday, July 13, of last year.
To date there are $50 homes COM
pleted, out of total of 700 that are
planned Fifteen miles of graveled
roads have been built and 48 miles
of right-of-way cleared; 40 miles
of road draining bitches finished.
The three-room houses have aver
aged $500; the four-room homes
SLOTS, and the five-room houses
$3.50. The barns average 500. All
the houses are equipped with bath
tub, toilet and lavatory and are
wired for electricity. 1t is hoped
the central plant will be built from
funds allotted by the Rural Electri-
fication Program.
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eneCtlYeIy II The athIetes OF TINS
country were to do the sporting
thing and give the Nazis every OPP
portunity to make themselves
notorious as muckers in actual COM
petition. This they would be
likely to do as they have shown a
rare knack for brutal stupidity and
bad manners.
If this country withdraws, the
Nazis will be in a position to plead
not guilty and even to enter a
counter charge that the Americans,
with all their facilities and their
Wanted love of games. were afraid
to meet the Nazi youth They can
not cnnVicf themselves unless they
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with S o m e
1900 acres
cleared and
in crops. 1t
is an inspiring
e. a m pie of
what magma
ton and work,
coupled W / t h
g o V e I n menu
b a c kin g, can
really do.
This Dy e S s
Colony lies only
a few miles
from the heart
of the share
choppers W a r
in northeastern
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BY FRAZIER HUNT

Copyright. 1885. NEA Service. IncJ
A LITTLE over a year
ago it was an aban-
doned tract Of swampy
marsh land and cut-over
cypress forests. Today it is
a thrilling colony of $50
bright, modern little homes
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By United Press


WTAsHINGToN, July 81
w State Department officials
were on something of hot spot
today as a result of Germany's
emphatic protest concerning the
Communist attack on the German
flag in New York Harbor last Fri
day.
Ordinary procedure would call
for a formal apology, or at least
an official expression of regret.
That would probably close the in
cident. The case is complicated
by number of embarrassing
angles. which preclude any such
simple solution. Some of these
are:
1. The strong feeling n this
country toward the Hitler govern
ment as a result of the repressive
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i ms means lmpunlty not only ior
propositions which, however novel,
seem interesting, statesmanlike and
respectable, but for propositions
that shock the uncritical as OBJ
scene. seditious. blasphemous,
heretical and revolutionary"
This. I think. is an excellent re-
covery On the part of a man who,
in his early 70s went pretty far in
praise of Fascism and the curbs
which il imposes. To be sure, the
case against Fascism grows stronger
every day in the light Of historical
developments. And it Is all Of
piece no matter what its outer form
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The homesteads are in 90 30 and
40-acre plots, according to the quail
ity of the land and ability of the
family. Each house is set in an
acre or more of woods that is not
allowed to be cut down.
"XGTHEN we get Dyess COM
w pleted we're hoping the
government will let us develop a
project further south for Ne
groes, MIR. Eichenbaum explained.
IF we get the okay, we would
settle good hard working Negro
folk in homes on land that
would be charged up against them
at a total cost of around $1,000.
With this as a laboratory of self
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are given all the hundreds of opportunities which
occur to a country which is host to the Olympic
games to cheat. foul and cOnSpre.
1t would further enhance the pleasure of the
enterprise from the American point of view to give
their athletes reSoundng licking at every point of
competition in which it is possible to meet them in
the long program from chess to weight-lifting.
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There is little logic in the position Of those who
say. Why Of course. I'm against Hitler, but
think that Mussolini has done a swell job for the
Italians" Indeed. it is 2 pity that practically all
the discussion Of these two relationships has been
restricted for the most part to character studies Of
the Duce and the Fuehrer.
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DAILY WASHINGTON
MERRY-GO-ROUND
BY Dre1O Pearson and Robert S. AL

XXTASHINGTON, July publicly,
w there deliberate
welt bestowed gentleman Alabama
former Senator Heflin.
Officially Helm the
Heflns interest housing
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II Seems bM
BY
Haywood BROUN

A BOUT the most sensible thing which has been
n said by anybody in regard to the present world
mania for curbing freedom Of expression was written
recently BY an old gentleman who has just turned
79 ! found the quotation in the New York Times
and tire old gentleman whose name Of course, is
Mr. Shaw. SAYS:
"A civilization not progress without criticism
and must therefore to save itself from stagnation
and putrefaction, declare impunity for criticism
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Against War and FdSciSm

XXTAR and Fascism are Samese twins You can
w not have peace when nationsllsm has been
raised TO the boiling point Fascsm supplies the two
ingredients which chemically certain to produce
an explosion 1t sets up highly concentrated capt.
tasm and then pOurs upon 1t the suphurc acld OF
$50 per cent patriotism. There is a binding haSn
a squirt of flame, and in the hOrrid light one can
see great masses of men crawling on their bellies on
to another war. Somebody near at hand or lar
awav is about to be civilized Big Business needs
the markets And in Fascist regime Big Business
is the government.
If visitation came to Hitler on the road to
Damascus and he were suddenly converted after the
manner of St Paul doubt that the miracle would
be of much aid to mankind Hitler could not check
the forces he has lOosed. He is the leader OF the
pack only by clint of constantly running for his lte
do not mean that FaSciSm is beyond the power
Of mankind to quel 1t can be checked, set back on
its heels and wholly eradicated But 1t is not one
man lob or even a task within the power of any
small group The workers of Germany can end the
tyranny when they wake to the manner in which
they have been duped and deceived, but they must
fight their way to freedom by organizing a solid
phaanx of all their fellows who are sore oppressed
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Eight Killed in Building Crasl
By nited Press

Bv Htted Press
WARSAW. July 31.-Eignt per-
sons were killed and several in
jured today when a wing of four
story apartment house-the birth
place OF the late Nine Curie Of the
ssasteur Institute collapsed.
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Under Any Other Name

A ND let us be done with the notion that under
N some particularly gifted person like Ham Fish,
in America or Col. La Rogue, in France, Fasclsm
might wear a kindly face. l suspect that even
William Randolph Hearst might lose the edge of his
own cutting love for the common people If he sue
Ceeded r his ambition to be the Fuehrer eX othclo
For his own good I suggest that he be stopped in
his efforts to attain this end. And since a little
touch of selfiShness never hurt any good cause, L
also urge that Mr.. Hearst be stopped for our own
good as we'll
And that means impunity for propositions that
shock the unCritiCa as obscene, sedltious bias
phemous, heretical and revolutionary
Copyright. 1885,
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THE German protest was COM
Il municated to Gov. Herbert
Lehman of New York by William
Phillips, acting Secretary of State,
together with a request for full
details of the flag incident. Indi-
cations were that any reply to
Germany must await Gov. Leh-
mans answer.
State Department officials be-
ieve they have an air-tight case:
that Gov. Lehman's answer will
show that the New York author
tiles did in fact accord the liner
Bremen reasonable" police pro-
lection and that had the German
line officials needed the police
warnings the incident probably
would not have occurred.
Such findings would enable the
State Department to give Ger
many a formal, but polite, reply
to the Berlin protest, perhaps
coupled with a routine expression
of official regret, which would be
expected to save face" all around.
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cations and discrimination against
American products and American
bondholders.
HOUR is the feeling prevalent in
l. at least some official circles
that the flag incident may have
served some useful purpose in that
it must have called sharply to the
attention of German officialdOm
the feeling against Germany which
Berlin's racial and religious poll
cies are engendering in this eoun-
try.
3. The conviction, from prelim-
mary reports from New York, that
officials of the German shipping
line were more to blame for the
incident aboard the liner Bremen
than we're New York police Off
Gals. Police had warned of the
danger of permitting hundreds of
= visitors aboard the Bremen before
the vessel sailed when feeling was
running high in New York. The
line officials disregarded this
warning.
6. Balanced against these feel
ings is the sincere desire by Ad-
minisJration officials for strict OBJ
Servance by this country of all
treaty obligations, including that
to protect the flags of foreign
powers.
Z. Equal dislike of all Com
munists, particularly the demon
strative and trouble-making type,
and the belief that to condone this
incident would be likely to en-
courage other such incidents.
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Tomorrow What the South
thinks of Huey Long.
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THE vast tract of delta cut
Il over land was purchased at
around $3.50 an acre; six portable
sawmills were installed and road
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RULES AND CONDITIONS

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Indiana except employees Of The Indian
apolis Times and members of their fam
lilies
2. Fish entered must be caught between
the hours of midnight. Sept. 81. and mid
night. OCT, 20, in any open waters Of the
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and measured.
The written statement may be delivered
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5. The statement must contain the fol-
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Weight ION tested scales); tc) Length from
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weigh exactly the same, other conditions
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Decisions of the Contest Editor must be
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