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The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1936-05-05
Liberal Viewpoint
BY HARRY ELMER BARNEs-

THIS is the season in which we commemorate the
4 start of the good old American Revolution of
1775-1783 at Lexington and Concord. Even Mr.,
Hearst and the Daughters of the American Revolu-
ton pretend to find great joy in the deeds of our
ancestors in those glorious days. Perhaps there are
certain lessons which the red-baiters and anti
revouonaries of day might learn from this dra-
matte era in American history
Prof. Goodwin Watson suggests such a lesson in
his article on "Revolt on the Campus-1774" in the
Social Frontier"
On the eve of the American Revolution Kings
College (now Columbia University presided over
by a brilliant young president, DR.. Myles Cooper
When the rumblings of revolution appeared on the
horizon DR.. Cooper published in 1774 a vigorous
warning against radicalism which reminds one of
of the conservative hysteria of day against
the New Deal
Not Mr.. Hearst nor Herbert Hoover could
give us more glowing portrayal of the old system"
than DR.. Cooper set forth with respect to colonial
life under the British government:
Our frame of government for the admirable wis
dom of its structure has always been the wonder Of
the world and under its protection and mild infu-
ence, the subjects of Great Britain the happiest
people earth"
There are some direct lessons from this expert
ence for the present day. Prof Watson suggests one
of them
Was 1t not Thucydides who wrote in his His
tor1a that events are very likely in accordance with
human nature to repeat themselves at some future
time-if not exactly the same, yet very similar'?"
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1936-05-05
National Interests Control Conduct

THE League no longer can afford to ignore two
Il things:
First. that national interest controls the con-
duct of its members, not high detached I'M
selfish ideal of pure justice in the abstract
Second, the corolary of the above: that nations
are influenced by geographical considerations
Japan, by way of illustration invaded Man.
churla. Britain remained Indifferent. Had Ja-
pan seized Egypt Arabia, Britain would have
sprung to arms at once
Italy is swallowing Ethiopia. France doesn't
much care But Germany remilitarizes the Rhine
land and Europe has been on the verge of war ever
since. Should Nippon seize Outer Mongolia Soviet
Russia likely would join in the side of the VIC
tim OF the aggression. But by the widest stretch
OF the imagination one not conceive of France
or Britain doing So. Yet both would fight at the
drop OF hat were Germany to invade Belgium
The United States is doing everything it can to
make sure OF keeping out of the next foreign war
Nevertheless, should overseas power invade Can
ada or Mexico or most any of the Latin American
republics, Uncle Sam would most likely take up the
cudgel.
The present League of Nations is in peril It
Is IN peril because its Covenant ignores these facts
Under it, Mexico has the same obligations should
Germany annex Austria, as France or Italy This
leads the League to attempt the impossible and
falling, to incur the jibes and distrus of watching
world.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1936-05-05

came to the seductive salons of
Washington. One of the triumphs
of his social career was a recent
dinner given by the Vandenbergs
to Mr.. and Mrs. Sinclair Lewis.
Next afternoon Mrs. Lewis
Dorothy Thompson) was receiv-
ing committee of Southern ten
ant farmers evicted from the cot
ton plantations of Arkansas. They
were explaining the acuteness of
their suffering, when in burst
Senator and Mrs. Vandenberg
from their adjacent apartment.
Clutched in one hand was an
account of their dinner, written by
Martha Blair in the social columns
of the washington Herald. Woes
of the tenant farmers were swept
aside. The Senator from Michi-
gan began reading the story
aloud:
"A tearing success is what she
calls the party. Just listen to this:
Mrs. Vandenberg, like a Roman
general, handled % people in her
apartment. She said the Senator
always called her 20. D." for Off
Ger of the Day."
ooh, Martha is always so nice"
glowed Mrs. Vandenberg.
At this point Mrs. Lewis herself
interviewed. You know, Senator,
we have been talking about the
sad plight of the share-croppers,
and I thought their problem might
interest you"
"Share-croppers?" replied the
Senator from Michigan. Share
choppers? Oh, yes, I think Joe
Robinson (Senator from Arkan-
sas) has some of them down in his
district"
And he turned back to society.
Mrs Lewis then suggested that
the share-croppers talk to Gov.
Landon of Kansas. She said he
was looking for good Left" causes
with which to dispel the idea that
he was pro-Big Business.
Copyright, 1895. by United Feature
Syndicats. Incl
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1936-05-05

Lindbergh took a Western trip in
a similar outfit.
Five years ago the factory
made trailer was rare. Home
made jobs outnumbered them 10
or 20 to l. Last March, at the
Clearwater (Fla) camp, more
than go per cent of the 300 outfits
were factory models. The prod
ucts of more than so factories
were represented.
Last fall I asked the man who
built our trailer if he expected
the large auto and body manu-
facturers to sense the trend, hop
in with their capital and huge
scale production methods and
make it tough for the relatively
small factories that have mon
opolized the business so far.
or course they will" he said.
~ eff they were on their toes
they would have run lot of us
out of business before this. Next
year will see at least one of the
big companies in the field"
If he is correct. it will mean the
real beginning of the trailer boom.
It will mean that the finest engi-
neers will turn their talents to the
job of producing the soundest,
safest, most practical and beauti-
full house trailers ever imagined.
Modern production methods will
slash prices. Huge advertising ap-
preparations will speed sales.
The experimental stage has
been passed. The principles are
simple and easily applied. The
market is huge, the buyer eager.
Might not trailer building be a
large factor in healing the last
wounds of depression?
So if all this crystal gazing
should materialize, you may drive
into a trailer showroom in a
couple of years and ask how much
they viii allow on the old SO
model toward one of the new, air.
conditioned jobs.
The deal made, you may hitch
up and roll away on roads where
modern trailer camps are as num-
erouS as tourist cabins today.
Or, scorning camps and crowds,
you may head for the national
forests or the miles of unpopulated
beaches and lake banks; indie
pendent, carefree as granddad in
his covered wagon back in 40.
Tomorrow-What put the trailer
tourist on the road.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1936-05-05
Times Books

ID ECENT murder mysteries that are worth your
1Ainspection include the following:
The Case Of the Sleepwalker's Niece" by Erie
Stanley Gardner Morrow 81. Here we have Perry
Mason retained by young woman who fears that
her uncle, given to roaming about th2 house in his
sleep with a carving knife in his hand is going to
extermnate somebody some night before anybody
thinks to awaken him.
Sure enough, stabbng follows and Mason has
to go through all his delightfully."- illegal shenangans
to keep his client from being hanged. This yarn
may be shade below Mr.. Gardeners usual level, but
1t will do until the next comes out
The Dear Old Gentleman" by George Goodchild
and Bechhofer Roberts CHarper's: So. This tale.
somewhat unorthodox, but neatly written, tells of
Scottish servant girl who is tried for the murder
of a pal. The jury hands in one of those Scotch
mot proven" verdicts and the star reporter for q
local paper goes out to find out who did do it.
The book introduces nice. eccentric old gentleman
who slowly becomes pretty sinister sort Of person
before the last chapter rolls around All In all, ts
. gc~d book. (B. o..
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1936-05-05

TINE first true trailer prob
- ably was hitched behind a
covered wagon as a carry-all for
excess tools, chickens or children.
The first trailers hitched to autos
served a like purpose.
It was simple step to stretch
tarpaulin over rigid frame
and spread the blankets inside.
Then stoves and sinks and clos
cts were added and the tent was
traded for tires.
The English were years ahead
of lis. They we're exploring their
moors and mountains in horse
drawn caravans, purely for the
sport of it, while the covered
wagon still was competing with
the railroads here. They made
the switch to the auto caravan
as vacation accessory long be-
fore we realized that possibility.
But we have forgotten another
form of mobile home, the house
car, with living quarters in a sort
of truck body. Many thousands
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1936-05-05

VA @@AOAAA1N ~ = >ANS @'40S - ONAA
w ator Arthur Vandenberg
insists that he is not a candidate
for the Republican nomination.
His close friends say his eyes are
fixed on 1910.
Friends who are not SO close tell
the story of Senator McNary of
Oregon meeting Senator jim Cou-
zens of Michigan in the Repub-
lican cloak room last winter and
remarking, Jim, Vandenberg tells
me he is not in the nomination
race"
"Hummph," they say Couzens
replied, mo one else does either"
But despite these denials and
disparagements. Vandenberg is a
very definite and important factor
in the G. o. P. scramble. He is
Dark Horse No. /.
Should the onrushing Landon
steam-roller slip a cog in the
home stretch, should Borah and
Knox roll enough rocks in it's
path, then the big pouter-pigeon-
shaped editor from Michigan is
the first on the list as compromise
candidate.
A ND no one knows this better
n than Vandenberg. Which ex-
plains why, despite his persistent
denials, Arthur is displaying all
the symptoms of that most con-
tagious of all political diseases,
Presidentitis.
The three most viru1ent synp-
toms in Vandenberg's case are:
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1936-05-05

are still in use, though the trend
is to the true trailer.
The house car trailer contro-
versy is sure TO flare up where
tin can tourists gather. The
trailer fan points out that he
doesn't have to take his living
quarters along when he drives to
town for shopping and a movie.
He can unhitch his trailer and
park it or store it for day or
year and still have the use of
his auto.
THE house car owner replies
u that he can negotiate roads
and turns that would stump a
trailer. He can back his house
out of a dead-end trail with little
trouble. He has fewer tires to
buy. And so on. These are just
a few of the arguments on each
side.
Small factories began to de-
velop the commercial possibilities
of the trailer home. A favorite
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1936-05-05
Regional Understandings Needed

ME Kind OF league which experience shows would
be most effective is one within the framework
OF which regional understandings and mutual as
sistance pacts clear around the globe might func-
ton more or less automatically, founded on national
interest and geographical propinquity
In the event of war the danger of war in
any particular region, the interested nations would
naturally do all in their power to Chez. it. AS for
the otherS-tnose far removed geographically or
otherwise-they merely would be pledged not to
hamper the work of the peace makers.
Regional obligations and limited liability under
universal league would it is felt help solve the neu-
trality problem America, for instance wants to
stay out of Europe and she wants Europe to stay
out of the Americas Instead of mourning ennities
as she does now by her policy, the essence of her
policy-her Monroe Doctrine, her efforts at neu-
trality and forthwould have behind it the force
of international law
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of regional responsibility.
The United States would find
in the reformed League, it is be-
ieved, an actual aid to the grow
ing American demand for neu-
trality, rather than the peril Of
ENHANCEMENT which so many
profess to see in the existing
organization.
Latin America is increasingly
dissatisfied with the workings of
Geneva. Unless reforms are in
augurated important with
drawals are likely.
The plans of President Roose-
welt and Secretary Cordell Hull
for new Pan-American under
standing would fit, hand-in-
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1936-05-05
That HarUdrd SmOkeh0use

Il HIS meeting of the minds occurred precisely 81
\ years ago, but Thomas Nixon Carver was not
yet ripe enough in reputation to assume the eco
nomic leadership of the Republican Party. He
had to hang i'll the smokehouse up at Harvard for
another quarter oil century to become sufficiently
high in his profession to suit the requirements of
the substantial people to whom he now offers sus-
tenance
got G minus in his course, which was pretty
nearly DOGGY for me, but might have done much
better If it not for the brilliant outfeding of
iris Speaker and unusually warm spring in
Cambridge. Carvers course came in two sections
The first half devoted to the radical panaceas-
Socialism, the single tax and syndicasm. Often
spokesman for the heresies allowed to state
their views before the class. remember James
MacKaye converted me to Socialism
Carver let his adversaries have their fling be-
cause he was man of great self-conhdence, and
In the second half of the course he took all the
aberrant economists and crushed them under his
iron heel. At least that was the intention.
But spring soft and balmy, and every day
Iris Speaker, the rookie outhelder of the Red Sox
performed new miracles at Fenway Park. Why, I
saw Iris slide at least 20 feet upon his stomach
and up with the ball before it touched the Sod
That the very afternoon that Thomas Nixon
Carver demolshing the theory of Socialism.
Being absent, retained my faith in iris and Karl.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1936-05-05
/nKey MeM1M
BY
VIM. PHILIP SIMMS
Batting for Westbrook Pegler.l

GENEVA, May 5.-Revamping of the
League of Nations eventually to per-
NIT not only the return of Germany and
Japan but the adhesion of the United
States now is distinct possibility.
Reorganization would be based primarily
on two factors which experience of decade and
half at Geneva has proved absolutely fundamental,
namely the factor of national interest and the factor
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1936-05-05

BIUF6, 1IItU IIIe pIOpOSed arrangements The present
tendency to draw away from the European League"
might be turned toward a more practical co.
operation.
Before that happen, however it is admitted
mere the League first must make up its mind to face
world conditions they instead of continuing
to pretend they it would like them to be- Until
1t does that it never be universal and until it is
universal it never can be effective
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rage to those who can afford to buy and maintain
an automobile" But Prof. Carver never was more
serious In his life. studied economics under Car
yer, and there never was a chuckle in carload of
his lectures.
When elected his course which was called THE
Falacy of Radical Panaceas" or words to that effect
my faculty adviser said, you'll find Carver good
sound man." To my undergraduate eyes he seemed
ever more doddering than that.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1936-05-05

and Prof. Carver also Is the dean
of the new board of economic adj
visers gathered together by Chair
man Fletcher.
Thomas Nixon Carver's snake
oil is not offered as a cure-all.
The good gray sage is specialist
who can be seen only by appoint
ment. He limits his practice to
the substantial people CT
America" And he describes his
patients as "the real forgotten
men,"
Some newspaper readers may be
inclined to believe that the pro-
lessor is only spoefing when he
oduONofac Hfha Ix~1;@o&;1.- &c -.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1936-05-05
Oil Plays Big Part
in Landon' S Career
BY RAYMOND CLAPPER

OKLAHOMA CITY, May 5--FOr weeks myS-
~ FERROUS rumors have been going around Wash
ington that something is about to break that will
blow Gov. Landon out of the water. Something
about oil. Senator Borah is supposed to have some
thing up his sleeve to shoot before the Republican
national convention. The Democrats are supposed
to be waiting to let go if Landon is nominated.
If the Landon people are worried about any OF
this talk, they do smooth job OF conceang IT, Inc
fact is that there probably isn't much to worry them
The Indictment seems to boil down to the fact,
which it is understood the La1don people admit that
Landon has been in the oil business most of his life
and is Republican and that a lot of other fellows
also have been in the oil business and some OF them
are Republicans.
IL looks like something coming out of the graveyard
at a. m. and that has been done. But when you
go around the next morning to see what is wrong,
you get lost in vague fog and come out with MOTH
ing.
The Oklahoma Republican organization is con-
trolled by the oil crowd Most of them have known
Landon for years and are for his nomination, as are
a good many other Republicans in Oklahoma The
Republican national committeeman is William q.
Sicily big oil man. He was originally opposed to
a Landon-inStructed delegation although favoring
Landons candidacy.
At the Tulsa County Republican convention in
February another oil entered the picture, James
A. Veasey. He is general counsel for the Carter Oil
Co., q Standard of New Jersey company. He is gen.
orally regarded as spokesman In Oklahoma for
Standard of New Jersey and Walter Teagle. veasey
is an old friend of Landon's, and at the Tulsa
County convention he moved that the delegation be
instructed for Landon. OF the $50 delegates $50
were for Iandon. The criticism is that a Standard
Oil man would be so bold as to act in the open.
XTEASEY also is supposed to have been influential
in advancing Landons candidacy in New Jer
sey, where Teagles rother-n-law former Senator
Walter Edge is active in Republican affairs veasey
claims that he is active for Landon in his own per-
sonal right and that it has nothing to do with his
oil connections Obviously, if he wants Landon
TO be nominated, he is going to work among all of
his friends and associates just any one else
would.
Out Of it all comes a Landon- instructed delega-
ton of 81, of whom four oil milionaires includ-
ing Writ Franklin and Lew Wentz so-caled inde-
pendents
Landon's feuds with Sam Fitzpatrick of the
Prairie Pipe Line Co, Standard of Indiana sub
sidiary, and with Standard of Indiana in the strip
per oil fight history in Kansas politics
But 1t is enough to state that in two Kansas
campaigns for Governor the Democrats have tried
TO beat Landon. Instead of them blowing him out
Of the water he carried the state That is perhaps
the best testimonial to his conduct and char
acter.
The Standard Of Indiana crowd beat Lanoos
Tor precinct committeeman in Independence Kan,
n 1880. the purpose being to knock him out of the
state Craftsmanship.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1936-05-05
HEYWOOD.BRQUN

NEW YORK, May 5.-The Republicans
have been too modest in the past. Dur
ing the heat Of several congressional de-
bates G.. o. P. spokesman admitted that
they had no planned economy or any Brain
Trust. Evidently they were holding back
in order TO surprise the voters in November, for
Thomas Nixon Carver is out with book called
What Must We Do to Save Our Economic SYSTEM"
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1936-05-05
BY GEORGE H. DENNY

THE modern house trail
er, that neat, sturdy,
inexpensive home on wheels
which has attracted so
many thousands to a free,
exciting life, is a develop
ment of the last few years.
But the beginnings of life on
wheels are lost in prehistoric
mists. Every civilization has had
its transients, its wandering trad
ers, its fugitives from natural
catastrophe, political tyranny and
religious intolerance.
The wheel has been called the
greatest invention and the first
rolling residence must have fol-
lowed close on the efforts of the
man who inserted the first axle
into cross sections sawed from q
log.
Skip a few thousand years.
Wasn't it your granddad who
stacked his family and possessions
into a covered wagon, crossed the
Alleghenies, built a raft for the
wagon and OK team on the upper
reaches of the Ohio River, floated
down to the Mississippi, drove
ashore and joined the surge to
the new West?
Grandad was seeking fat land,
gold, timber, fur and freedom.
Maybe the tax assessor had
marked him too heavily back East,
Maybe things just got too crowded
when the new family moved in a
mile up the 'crick."
LIS grandson, roaming the
- country today in house
trailer, has many of the same
sturdy, pioneer qualities. He is an
1ndividualiSt. His foot itches.
The grass ahead is greener. He
seeks better climate. He is tired
of coal and utility bills. Taxes on
the farm or store were mounting.
Politicians had stolen everything
but the hottest stoves and when
last seen were buying asbestos
gloves.
These are a few of the reasons
have heard IN the months have
lived with the trailerites.
There are other motives, of
course. Retired farmers and mer-
chants, business affairs settled for
good, are looking for the best
fishing, hunting or scenery.
Health seekers are following
the sun. Travelling statesmen and
itinerant laborers nlingle with
SchoolboyS on vacation in the
trailer camps.
THOUSANDS live on pensions
4 from employers or the gov
eminent. Travelling entertainers
find this the best way to make
the tank towns. Tournament golf
ers go the rounds of the winter
meets.
More than q few are just plain
lazy, tired of the hurry and hus-
tie of the cities and lucky enough
to have the means to see the ma
ton from trailer window. Thou
sands are on the road only dur
ing vacation weeks.
There are farmers whose North
ern acres are frozen from Novem-
Der to March and who leave the
care of the stock to the hired man.
The covered wagon housed
many wanderers long after the
last claim was staked and the
best of the public lands were set
tied. The next half century saw
families on the move behind horse
and OK teams; disconnected, hop
ing for the perfect farm or job or
climate. Southern sharecroppers
are continually hitching up the
mule in the search for soft
hearted landlord.
Only in the last IS or 20 years
have the transients who pick our
fruit and berries acquired autos.
Then about 1915 the auto camp
ers were becoming commonplace.
With guns, tents and tackle they
were getting stuck in the mud of
all the wilderness trails in their
search for virgin lakes and for
ests.
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/ Haze No Regrets

NOR do regret that cut that particular lecture
Y and many others in the Carverian summation
for the status quo Speaker could go back for ball
far any outfielder ever saw, with the possible
exception of Dode Packert or Harry Bay Prof.
Carver played his position upon thin and shiny
SIS gold piece. He couldn't go to his right because
to the right of Carver there nothing but the end
of the earth and the back of giant turtle. He
wouldn't go to his left, although there not the
slightest danger of his crashing into the stands and
I gravely doubt that Thomas Nixon Carver then
now had the capacity to slide upon his stomach
even to save the captalistic system.
Although the years have gone over his head,
Thomas Nixon Carver is showing extraordinary agility
as chief counselor to the Republican Party He still
can't slide on his stomach, but the old gentleman is
making a very gallant effort to stand his head.
I think he'll make it. His was always massive fore
head
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1936-05-05
LIVING IN A HOUSE ON WHEELS
Experimental Stage Passed. Nog You'll See More the Roads

Here Is the second Of a series Of
articles on house trailers by former
member OF The Times STAFF, who now Is
on tour living in one.