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Evening star., 1936-08-07

E-0ov. Smiths intimation that he
might take q walk" was made last
January. Col. Brechnridge's cam.
paign against Mr.. Roosevelt was in
April and May. For several weeks
no new name Of high importance, no
name equivalent to ex-Gov. Smiths,
has emerged into the news coupled
with an announcement OF opposition
to the New Deal.
Newspaper men and others know
there are other Democrats as promi-
nent as ex-Gov. Smith who privately
hold the same feeling about the New
Deal that Smith has. What Is needed,
from the point Of view Of the opposi-
ton to Mr.. Roosevelt, Is something to
dramatize and make conspicuous the
extent of anti-New Deal sentiment
among highly placed Democrats.
For another reason, q third party
made up Of anti-New Deal Democrats
would add something to the opposition
to Mr.. Roosevelt. Many Of the most
thorough-going haters Of the New
Deal are Democrats in the Southern
and border States. They know that
the Democratic party, as 1t has been
absorbed by the New Deal, contains
hardly any Of the principles and prac-
tices which for 10 years have caused
the South to cling to the Democratic
party.
South Seethes.
To the South, the Democratic party
Just isn't the Democratic party any
more. At the same time, many Of
these Southern Democratic leaders,
while they feel outraged by the New
Deal and Mr.. Roosevelt, cannot bring
themselves to vote the Republican
ticket. The result will be that much
OF the Southern Democratic disaffec-
tion against the New Deal will have to
express itself in the rather sterile ges-
ture OF staying home on election day.
A third party made up specifically
OF anti-New Deal Democrats, while
not impossible. Is at this time most
improbable. No newspaper man knows
OF any movement in that direction.
This weeks meeting at Detroit does
not contemplate q new party. More
over, 1t Is now getting late for the
mere mechanical details of setting up
. third ticket. Representative Lemke
and Father Coughlin are discovering
that starting third party is q for
midable business.
In the lack OF q third party for
Democrats opposed to the New Deal,
the effectiveness Of the anti-New Deal
sentiment among orthodox Democrats
must come through voting for Landon.
Everybody knows there is an immense
number Of such Democrats. AS the
campaign warns up. they will be less
and less likely to content themselves
with staying home on election day.
More and more their convictions will
carry them the whole distance of
voting for Gov. Landon. Similarly, as
the campaign warns up, Democratic
leaders who feel as ex-Gov. Smith
does. but have not yet spoken, will
feel 1t their duty to provide outspoken
leadership against the New Deal.
(Copyright. 1850
Evening star., 1936-08-07

are going to have their own produc-
the units and eliminate middlemen
and brokers. Altogether there is
plenty of disruption in sight as the
Government. under the guise Of cor
recting economic inequalities, builds
up vast bureaucracy of supervision
of the distribution and production
processes of the Nation and interjects
factors that cannot but be reflected
eventually in the selling prices. In
the end the chains will grow even
more powerful than they are today
and their profits will increase, whereas
the Independent merchant will face
new handicaps in getting low prices
with which to meet his competition.
May Foster Bootlegging.
On the whole, the law is so clumsily
written and so lacking in careful def
milton Of standards to be followed by
the Federal Trade Commission that it
will result, like the Volstead act, in
considerable bootlegging and secret
buying and selling arrangements
which, even when thought legitimate,
will, for safety's sake, never be reduced
to writing.
Had the law been confined to the
Evening star., 1936-08-07

Of relatively susl ne. the
be seen.
The sepuoieen. cleaned their prscempa9n torralis'
Springer Of his nomination the for
From all parts Of the State the FOLLOWERS gathered to
sso and also hear COL Frank KNOX, their nominee Vice
Springer campaigning until around Labor
day The intervening three weeks will vacaonng
facts with local leaders and lending hand settling
For the Democrats there but little the program
b 4aa Spe IN a osS 0a at M % annual summer outing
Townsend the States present lieutenant
address outlining his the
may head the former ce
program. N ~ ''''"
One Of the McNu claims has been that the Establishment Of
pdnts base reduced the tar
real estate and personal property wh un-
tneumbered cash balance OF Springer
other sneakers the G State ticket
ertra tar ard that actually htckened They
they M deny that there even million dollar the state
aet 1883 oDaea % T ooos
keeping system still uniquc and cryptic the auditors hired
Republican State Committee to the States ledoers.
the coming Indiana are to come face
d I M Th h a The . new @ sie ar.
being estimated In counties where the total tax already
studed with gss sa
In fact the spread Of public understanding tax situation
may boon Springer his demand for repeal gross
Already the elements which sso tax
Limitation law are rsopenng their campaign for repeal the provision
setting emergencies in which the limit
OF this emergency provision would make the law entirely incompatible
with social security and MNu eventually
sharp odds with favor It basked.
For the New Dealers there great concern over the position to
taken by the Indiana farmers this The
millions OF bushels toher
wpng out the advantages conhog distributions
national
might collecting
ducton weaered the prices sp
and waited for the situation prevailing
sold and forth between
and now it commands price exceeding ST.
The NeU Dealers arprehenSve about the
diana otherwise
the fact that
il not a particularly dctipe farmer.
At rate. the an edge on its
Republican opposition
headed by Ivan Morgan millionaire poted
the g.
Morgan chosen chairman after factions
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anti-New Deal Democrats. There IS
to be no equivalent Of the 1896 third
party which gold Democrats set up
after William Jennings Bryan cap
tured the regular Democratic party
and committed 1t to silver.
If there were to be third party
Of independent Democrats this year,
q logical head Of 1t would be Col.
Henry Breckinridge of New York.
who, as an act Of protest against the
New Deal, ran against Mr.. Roosevelt
for the Democratic presidential NOM
nation. Apparently Col. Breckin-
ridge has no intention Of organizing
. third party. Breckenridge has
visited Gov. Landon at Topeka. This
would seem q sign on Breckinridge's
part that he intends to vote the Re-
publican ticket and that he suggests
the same course to those Democrats
who feel as he does about the New
Deal.
To vote for Landon Is Of course
the best way for an anti-New Deal
Democrat to make his opposition
effective. A vote for Landon counts
twice as much as vote for Q third
candidate would.
Could Crystanse Sentiment.
Yet, from the standpoint Of those
who oppose the New Deal, there are
conditions which make an independent
Democratic ticket desirable. The
effectiveness of the independent DEM
ocratic ticket in 1896 was not limited
to the vote 1t got. In fact that vote
was very small, only about 10000,
which was only about l per cent Of
the total. But the real effectiveness
Of that 1895 independent Democratic
party lay in the publicity that at
tended it. the widespread advertise
ment it gave to the existence of in
dependent Democratic sentiment. The
greater number OF Democrats who
were moved by this knowledge ex-
pressed themselves not by voting for
the third ticket but by going all the
way over and voting for the Repub-
lican candidate, who in 1896 was Will
liam Mckinley.
So it would be this year. If there.
we're an independent Democratic
ticket headed by some one like Breck-
inridge probably 1t would not get
for itself more than or 2 per cent
Of the total vote. But 1t would
awaken q very large number OF DEM
ocratic voters to the existence Of
Democratic dissent from the New
Deal. Most Of the Democrats thus
aroused would make themselves as
effective as possible by voting for the
Republican candidate, Landon.
Dramatic Gesture Needed.
AS a matter Of fact, there is need
Just now for some kind Of dramatic
gesture from the leaders Of the anti
New Deal Democrats. The movement
has somehow an atmosphere Of not
getting as far as 1t one time seemed
likely. The important expressions OF
anti-New Deal Democratic sentiment
have seemed to fade into the past.
Evening star., 1936-08-07
Of plain fraud and clear

elimination Of plain fraud and clear
definition Of restraints. or Of monopo-
listic practices. its enforcement would
have been easier. But aimed as 1t Is
at the correction of inequalities in
economic life. with many business men
being advised by competent attorneys
that the law is invalid anyway, there
results a confusion as we'll as a def
ance Of the act which cannot but
affect adversely the entire distribution
machinery Of the country.
It's another example Of trying to do
too much in a single law and of
assuming. as the New Deal does, that
it is the function of government to
penalize efficiency of distribution and
equalize competition even though the
consumer has to pay more in the form
Of higher prices.
(Copyright. 1936,D
Evening star., 1936-08-07
Robinson Law
Confusing to
Business
Vague Statute MayLead
to Entertainment of
Retail Chains.
BY DAVID LAWRENCE.

NJ AYBE the N. r. A. was more
M spectacular and hence got
more attention, but Tor
4 4 penetrating effect on our
economic system the Robinson-Pat-
man law passed by the last Congress.
signed by President Roosevelt, and
now in operation transcends in i'm
portance any piece Of legislation en-
acted since the Sherman antitrust
law was adopted in 1890.
Business men are perplexed over
the meaning Of the new statute.
Lawyers are writing all sorts Of
analyses and Government ofncials
Evening star., 1936-08-07

not only as the master Of a half dozen
instruments but of a baton and voice.
He has been back in radio recently.
singing for Columbia, with a repertoire
of 300 songs. He prefers ballads and
likes 10 work them into q highly indi-
vidual rendition. His parents we're
stage celebrities Of 25 years ago. His
"Squaw Man" engagement was made
when he was five years old. At the
age Of six, he could whang the ukelele
ike veteran. He married Miss Holm
In 1888, having met her at O radio
studio.
Today's Detroit get-together of anti
Roosevelt Democrats, in which some
commentators see the possibility of a
new constitutional" party, was the
inspiration of Sterling E. Edmonds,
wealthy st. Louis lawyer and intimate
friend Of former Senator James A.
Reed, who joins him in the walk -out.
Mr.. Edmonds, writer and lecturer on
constitutional law, has been vigorously
assailing the administration.
In four years, he was reporter, city
editor, managing editor and editor in
chief on the st. Louis Post Dispatch
and the st. Louis Chronicle. At the
age Of "a he turned to the law.
He was special assistant to the
United States Department of State in
1918. and later lecturer on interna-
tional law at st. Louis University. His
books include international Law Ap-
piled to the Treaty of Peace" The
Lawless Law of Nations" and THE
Federal Octopus" Nationally, he is
principally known for his vigorous and
continuing fight against the child
labor amendment.
(Copyrisht, 1850
Evening star., 1936-08-07

In all respects
unpretentious. It
was not intended
to be otherwise.
I n t er es t has
arisen around 1t
because Of the
general curiosity
about what anti
New Deal Demo-
Gratis will do.
one outcome
seems possible to
take for granted.
Apparently there
Is to be no third
party made up
sDAcf hcallv 0f
Evening star., 1936-08-07
Folk
and What
They Do
Eleanor Holm's Hus.
band and Defender a
Master of Music.
BY LEMUEL F. PARTON.

A RTHUR JARRETTS FIRST ap.
~ pearance on the stage was in
~ the role of the Indian boy IN
THE Squaw Man" The ex-
perience did not leave him lacking in
chivalry. Over in Berlin, he's the In
dian boy who Is out after the scalp .:
Avery Brundage for bouncing his wife,
Eleanor Holm, the swimming star, of
the Olympic team. He says he will
take legal action.
The handsome young Mr.. Jarrett,
band master and vocalist, Is quite
some star on his own account, known
on the radio as . song stylist." He
Evening star., 1936-08-07
Four Army Fliers Killed

RENNES, France, August Z (P.-
Four Army f1iers were killed yesterday
near here when their plane broke in
two during maneuvers. The pilot was
catapulted from the crushed fuselage
and three others were burned to death
when the plane crashed at the Gael
Military Air Camp and burst into
flames.
Evening star., 1936-08-07
Behind the News
Foreeaster Opines Roosevelt May Delay Pet Reforms
De-
if Reelected.
BY PAUL MALLON.

talking about what President
" attitude may is reelected
competent White House spokesman here who knows
much about which probeby not much has this
interesting view:
For the merit tuo the Presidents main problem oould
be put the reducing expenditures
and making better toDnd balancing budget II
Improve getting financial
affairs into line In the first halt OF his then he might
expected denote the second halt his
further reform theories
that the complexion Of Supreme have been
altered by higher court.
NoteThe Of the determining
Presidents
Evening star., 1936-08-07

war appears to be just around the ENGLAND
CONSIDERS an appropriation to give every citizen appear.
ances sometimes deceptive.
authorities
OF English dogs wearing became
lament to provide each Englshman protection
What they
damaizatons probaby inspired purposes than e-
projection The British
increased budget for the realistic
to make the appreciate necessities
national defense than to talk about giving a gas
NoteWarare the citizen
Wo eHecy
gases
whole - ~
(Copyrig
Evening star., 1936-08-07

themselves are
puzzled Is to the
true scope OF
their powe ers.
And the most
distressing part
Of 1t is that after
costly readjust-
ments are made,
the law proba bly,
will some day be
declared uncon-
stitutional for it
amounts to an
invasion of the
reserved rights
Of the people
even more plain
Evening star., 1936-08-07
APPOINTED BY FARLEY
New York Man Heads Greek Di.
vision Of Campaign.

NEW YORK. August (P.-Demo-
cratic Chairman James A. Farley last
night announced appointment Of Erie
Kehaya, New York tobacco manufac-
turer and publisher, as head of the
Greek division Of foreign language
department Of the campaign organi-
zation.
He also announced appointment OF
Morris Cukor. former New York City
civil service commissioner, as chair
man Of the Hungarian division.
Farley said the department, when
completely organized, would consist of
1s divisions representing different
racial groups.
Evening star., 1936-08-07
New IDEAL Foes
Find Landon
OnlyHaven
Time for Third Party
Organization Gone for
Dramatizing Opposition
BY MARK SULLIVAN.

TINE gathering of small num-
ber of anti-New Deal Demo-
Gratis at Detroit this week is
Il o landmark In whatever Is to
be the evolution and final expression
of anti-New Deal feeling on the part
of Democrats. The Detroit meeting
Is informal, small in numbers, and
Evening star., 1936-08-07

was reared N
Brooklyn, q stu
dent Of Erasmus
Hall High School
and a choir boy
at st. Patrick's
c a t h e dral. He
entered Fordham
University, in
tending to be-
come g. lawyer.
His Niagara Of
musical tai mt
sluiced him into
Ted Weems' Or
chestra in Chi
cago, where he
hit q swift rise
Evening star., 1936-08-07

springs from the observation that
the bulk of Indiana voters reach
their political conclusions through
personal study Of the issues. When
in open rebellion against q system,
as in 1882. they turn out in full
strength, cast a negative vote and
care little which candidate may be
the beneficiary of their vengeance.
On the other hand, 1t has been the
rule in this State that when the two
Evening star., 1936-08-07
Farmers Ask Protection.

MEXICO CITY, August Z R.-A
dispatch to El Nacional said commits
sions Of farmers petitioned President
Lazaro Cardenas yesterday, at a con-
ference at Lagos de Moreno, Jalisco,
for protection against rebel bands.
Evening star., 1936-08-07
Hoosier Campaign Waits
ThreeWeek Respite Granted Voters Before Political
Activity Gets Under Way.
BY WILLIAM L. TOMS,

INDIANAPOLIS nd August IA respite the
Indiana political will
opportunity enaze the they debated
And from this temporary the campaigning efforts the
party orators capitalization Of sentiment which
has failed to surface While this
tcuary datering
Evening star., 1936-08-07

ly than did the N. r. A.
The Robinson-Patman law Is
neither wholly bad. however, nor
wholly good Its objective is worthy.
But in writing the law an array OF
group interests was consulted and as
a consequence the Federal Govern
ment has usurped power over the
business activities of concerns far and
wide, from retail to wholesale, which
will lead to general avoidance in some
instances and prolonged litigation in
others. It is another example OF
class legislation written to benefit
q certain group and yet likely to re-
suit in higher prices to the consumer
as well as in greater handicaps to the
independent merchant the legislation
was designed to protect.
The new law, broadly speaking,
would prohibit as unfair competition
the granting of such allowances as
would permit seller to discriminate
in favor of certain of his customers
when he gives them a lower price
than he does others. The law makes
1t a punishable offense not only to
grant such an allowance, but for the
buyer knowingly" to receive such
benefit.
Evening star., 1936-08-07

will gain important HOUSE strength
regardless Of whether their candi-
date wins.
Chairman Jim Farley has been
seen going in and out Of the top ad-
vertising agencies in New York lately
and presumably not on campaign
business.
In the trade they say the super
political salesman is looking for a
personal post-election business con-
nection in advertising, whether Mr..
Evening star., 1936-08-07
Film Scrap Consumption.

Manufacturers Of polishes and lac
quers in Germany are estimated to
have consumed about $4,000 pounds Of
film scrap in the last year
Evening star., 1936-08-07

the county chalrmen. He wanted to
meet every county chairman in the
country before the campaign was
over.
Also, he told them about one
county chairman in a central city
OF great political Importance. not of
the beaten path. who had never seen
the chairman Of the national COM
mittee in the II years he had been
in offlce.
Evening star., 1936-08-07

Roosevelt wins loses There talk that he might establish
himself He which
although could
took Charley Nicholson with him.
business could
political committees
ship will enough the
wolf
N1urmus dSapproval Republican
ters because Chairman John Hamilton
stormng headquarters
Odime polcos
the OF chairman
President
counter-suggestion
anywhere. -
Hamilton told
The midland journal. (Rising Sun, Md.) 1885-1947, 1936-01-17
q Western Newspaper Union

increasing, agriculture and Industry
are returning to full activity" and
1--WE approach balance of the national
budget" That last statement was
greeted with hooking laughter from
the Republican side Of the chamber,
and though the Democrats cheered
loudly, Mr.. Roosevelt himself smiled
at his words.
One passage in the message: was In
terpreted by some as a threat to close
the lower courts to suits attacking the
constitutionality of federal laws. The
President told congress that its enact
ments require protection until final
adjudication by the highest tribunal"
and added that congress ''has the right
and can find the means to protect its
own prerogatives."
Altogether, the spectacle in the house
chamber was extraordinary and I'M
parallel. All the senators and repre-.
sentatives were there, the latter being
remarkably noisy. Eight members of
the cabinet attended, and in the gal
leries sat Mrs. Roosevelt, the wives of
cabinet members, diplomats and enough
other privileged persons to fill the seats
completely. Vice President Garner and
Speaker Byrns Jointly presided over
the session.
The Presidents message was de-
nounced by the American Liberty
league as "the most dangerous speech
that ever came from President" and
by Former President Herbert Hoover
as a message of "'war on earth and
ill will among men,"
Senator Joseph T. Robinson, Demo-
cratic leader, struck back at the Pres
ident's critics in a statement declaring
that If the President had recited the
Ten Commandments he would have
been accused of having Interior mo-
tives. He repeated the challenge Of
the President to his critics to repeal
New Deal legislation.
The midland journal. (Rising Sun, Md.) 1885-1947, 1936-01-17

eSSlQS ldAcS liupOSCu
to finance the program was swept into
discard.
Not only are the processing taxes
illegal but the court apparently de-
clared the farm benefit contracts void
and put up bars against any attempt
of the federal government to regulate
farm production by whatever means.
Senators and representatives who
Immediately began planning legislation
to continue benefit payments to farm
ers and to balance agricultural output
did not seem to grasp the full signi-
ficance of this part of the decision.
The court said fatty that regulation
OF farm production is not within the
scope of the federal government and
of its powers to accomplish this, nor
can it purchase adherence to a control
scheme by federal payments.
The decision destroyed not only the
original AAA but also the amended act
of the last session of congress.
The dissenting opinion held that the
AAA was legitimate employment OF
the power to tax for the general well
fare. 1t attacked the theory that the
preservation of our institutions is the
exclusive concern of the Supreme court
and suggested that under the majority
decision the unemployment work relief
act is unconstitutional.
President Roosevelt, Secretary of
Agriculture Wallace and other admin
istration leaders had no immediate
comment on the decision to make pub
lie, but the President called Attorney
General Cummings and Mr.. Wallace in
to conference. The administration and
congress must do something to raise
nearly half billion dollars which the
government has contracted to pay
farmers and against which 1t now has
no income, since the processing impost
is outlawed. Disposition of about $780,
100000 accumulated under court orders
that impounded processing tax collec-
lions must be determined.
AAA Administrator Chester Davis
stopped all payments to farmers until
further notice." and the Treasury de-
partment ordered all collectors Of In
ternal revenue to desist from further
efforts to collect processing taxes.
In his budget message President
Roosevelt included revenue from
processing taxes, so the Supreme court
decision had the effect Of throwing the
1887 budget still further out of bal
ance by something like billion dol
lars.
The midland journal. (Rising Sun, Md.) 1885-1947, 1936-01-17
Budget Message Shows
Billion Dollar Deficit

IN HIS message to congress submit
L ting his approved budget for the
1887 fiscal year, beginning July 1 next,
President Roosevelt followed the dOu-
BILE system of accounting his admin
istration has always employed-one set
of books for regular expenditures and
income and another set for emergency
spending and appropriations. He as
serted that receipts from all sources in
the next fiscal year will aggregate an
estimated $5,654OO0,000. Expenditures
for all regular government departments
are estimated at $5,649, 100000. So
the regular" budget will be in balance,
with a surplus of $5,000,000.
But the message went on to say, at
ter explaining that the regular gov
eminent books will show fiscal affairs
In the black, as to income and outgO,
they will show red to the extent of ST.
1O3,000,0 900 in works-relief spending, less
the $5,OOO,OOO surplus" this leaving
the new appropriation for further
works-relief open for at least two
months.
That figure of $1,103, 100000 repre-
sents the Presidents estimate of unex-
pended balances on July from the
$4,SS0, 100000 and previous emergency
appropriations. 1t does not take into
account probable new appropriations
for similar purposes yet to be deter
mined.