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the tune of Maryland, My
Maryland" The Farmers
Party sang militantly, the
paraphrased dictum of their
song being:
Organize, Oh ORGANIZED"
Fourteen years, a worldwide de-
preston and the rise of the radio
worked the difference in moods
between the two election cam
paigns. In 1921, the rural major
ity, well-nourished from the fat
war years, relied on its own asSo-
ciated powers.
Mildly radical and class con-
scious, the United Farmers be-
lieved that co-operatives, a degree
of government ownership and
wheat pools-a device for main
tanning prices by withholding sur
pluses off the Liverpool market
would restore the wartime state
of well-being.
DY 1885, Alberta's rugged in
~ dividualists, disposses, ed land
owners, not workers, had surren-
dered hope in their own capacity
to right things on the last from
tier"
Observing that their buying
power had no visible relationship
to the productivity of their fields,
the farmers concluded, with Mr..
Aberhart, that the fault lay with
the financial system.
Thus the spirit of the frontiers
man begged down and, in search
of miracles, he preferred to cast
his burden on the Lord and His
self-announced prophet, Mr.. Aber-
hart.
Whereas the note in Woods
song was aggressively self-confi-
dent, Mr.. Aberhart's campaign
hymn was preparatory.
In one aspect, however, the cleo
tons were alike. The young polit-
1cal husSy, Alberta, gave herself
intellectually on both occa-
Sions; a whimSicality which the
Stoutly British members of the
Ranchers Club attribute to the
large infusion of middle western
populism and religious mysticism
into pre-war Alberta.
The wrath of Bryan, in the view
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lin of the PRAIRIE" forsook pulpit
and school desk for the hustings.
More accurately, he expanded his
pulpit into province wide proper
lions and launched a province
wide class in applied economics.
with Douglas on one hand, the
Holy Ghost on the other" he
ranged here and yon, offered his
here-and- Promised Land
with precisely the assurance he
heretofore had employed in guar
anteeing life eternal to the peni-
tent.
TIE handpicked candidates for
40 the Legislature, he ad-
dressed picnics numbering 5000,
he weaned away United Farmer
locals in droves, he displayed
enormous talent at campaign or
CARNATIONS, he called for boycotts
of skeptical press.
A la Coughlin, he lambaSted the
bankers and the $50 Big Shots" OF
Canada.
The campaign, a sort of mass
revival, proved surprisingly mild.
The Farmers, beset by the accu-
mulated errors of IA years in Of
flee, besides a couple of spicy
amorous scandals involving the
premier and cabinet member,
stood by helplessly as the rank
and file focked to the Aberhart
banner.
The Farmers had invited Maj.
Douglas, founder of Social Cred
it, to spread his gospel in the
province and retained him as
Chief Reconstruction Adviser at
$4,000 year and expenses from
London and return for brief visi
tations.
The Liberals declined to give
serious battle. The Conservatives,
fleeing from the wrath to come
elsewhere in the Dominion, had
been an all but negligible minor
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might as well make up your minds
to that.
Il know some of you gentlemen
are very eager to have me retired
to private life. Let me give you
bit of advice.
IF you want to get me out of
the White House the first thing
you will have to do is to stop CHS
cling. Stop chiseling on your en-
ployeS.
Every time you lengthen hours
or lower wages-as I have evil
dence is being done-you make
thousands of votes for me.
1.-The worker says to himself:
TT was not that way under NRA.
The New Deal is for me. 1t is my
friend No. gentlemen, chiseling
on the hours and wages of work
ers is not the way to beat me-"
Some of the business moguls
admired the Presidents frankness.
Most of them. however, privately
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$500 year as effective political
bait, let them consider that the
offer was to individuals.
A family, not untypical, with four
or five adults and three or four
minors qualifying for sums less
than $25, might receive up to $3.50
a month out of the credit fund"
That are no small potatoes in a
land where, as we have observed, a
hard working farmer on his own
land might go whole year with
out handling more than $500 in
cash. Neither so high, nor so wide
as DR.. ToWnsend's 5000 month
but it sufficed.
MIR. ABERHART, yielding
Nl nominal allegiance to Maj.
Douglas, used the inconclusive
Douglas formulas merely as
springboard. Others found Doug
las mystifyingly vague-not Aber-
hart.
A small-town intellectual who
has passed the spare hours of a
lifetime parsing the utterances OF
Elijah and Hosea. to say nothing
of st. John the Divine, would find,
perhaps, no difficulty in Douglas.
Mr.. Aberhart, the fundamental
list, interpreted or miSinterpreted
the Scottish engineer literally, to
the dismay of Douglas and the
dyed-in-the-wool, original Doug
lasites in the province.
Thus it came about that Social
Credit, which is the preoccupa-
ton of small group of middle
class intelligentsia in the United
States, became a mass movement
in Alberta.
And on Aug. %, when the votes
were canvassed, it was found that
a Social Credit, which it's founder
scarcely recognized, had elected Sc
out of So members of the pro-
vincial Legislature with 81 per
cent of the popular vote in four
cornered fight.
The promises, which took flight
so readily from the pulpit in CAL
gary. and the rallies of the faith
full elsewhere, had come home to
roost.
Observation-Disclosures enters
Edmonton and a vale of grief.
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permitting East to trump another
diamond or allowing West to gain
the lead in clubs and then having
another diamond ruffed by East.
He therefore decided that his
only line of play was to try to es-
tablish a long club upon which to
discard the heart, and this would
have to be done before pulling
trump. So he led a small club, and
now West made a very fine de-
fensive play to the queen to pre-
vent the trick from being passed
into Easts hand.
Declarer was forced to play the
ace and was astonished to see the
king of clubs played by East.
South knew this unquestionably
was an effort to lubbock the club
suit. 1t was very fine defensive
play by East, WHO probably held
the jack and low club.
Kaplan returned the ten of
clubs, which East was forced to
win with the jack and now, re-
CARELESS of what East decided to
return, South was assured of win
ming the remainder of the tricks
for contract of four spades,
doubled.
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ity in the province since it's Gre
alton in 1905.
= II
AIONE could withstand the
4 y Christmas appeal, so definite,
so plausible when Mr.. Aberhart's
organ tones explained it. The zeal
of Social Creditors rose to such
heights that they objected violent
ly to dissent. Heckled, Mr.. Aber-
hart would ask his audience:
do you want me to be inter-
rupted?"
The answer Invariably came in
a thunder OF NOES" and if
heckling persisted the offender
promptly was elected.
Mr.. Abernart's i'm provis e d
party held convention and drew
up a platform. 1t needed none.
If purse proud readers sniff at
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expressed resentment at the i'm
plication they were "chiselerS.
WASHINGTON and New
wv York soon will see a
Roosevelt on the stage singing
and dancing in the chorus of
musical show.
The show is the 1886 produc-
ton of Harvard's Hasty Pudding
Club. The Roosevelt is the Presi-
dents son John, Harvard sopho-
more.
The audience should have no
trouble spotting John. Six feet 4
inches tall, he is the tallest of
the 16 in the chorus. Further
more, he will be dressed as man.
Eight of the Is will be dressed
as women. Johns female" part
ner will be George F. Baker Jr.,
son of the financier, who is critic
of the President.
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Washington Merry-Go-Round
BY DREW PEARSON and ROBERT s. ALLEN

WAsH1NGToN' March 10
w A score of big business men
who are members of the Business
Advisory Council went to the
White House recently to tell the
President what they thought the
government should do about
various economic and financial
problems.
One point on which they laid
great stress was the necessity of
cutting Federal expenditures and
balancing the budget.
Mr.. Roosevelt listened good
naturally and silently until they
had finished. Then, for 80 min
utes. he gave them a straight
from-the-shoulder reply that left
them gasping.
Government spending to re-
lieve unemployment" he said, will
continue. 1t will continue as long
as such aid is necessary. You
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not as a crushed foe. That in
wolves also overcoming the French
feeling that while Germany can
be beaten now, it might be more
difficult a year or two later when
ITitler is more fully armed.
AS for Hitler, it is thought that
he has enough to check him from
further belligerent moves in the
quick demonstration of support
which France has received from
the old allied nations, and with
the significant difference that
Russia this time is a powerful
Gnhtirnn nncnifnn ifacfnnd of O
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of the Ranchers Club, ranges the
prairie with Aberhart.
Il y
TT is true, parenthetically, that
i the surplus population of the
Mississippi Valley was drained off
by the Alberta land booms before
wartime prosperity and the appeal
of the sun shifted it to southern
California.
And, beginning with 1900 and
the migration of former Populist
Gov. William Leedy of Kansas,
agrarian unrest was imported with
the settlers from below the border.
Leedy, tall, lank and bearded
like Uncle Sam, incidentally, while
demanding peoples banks" and
greenbacks for Alberta, insisted
80 years too soon-that he had
balanced the budget and given
Kansas a good business admins
tration.
The Missourian Wood succeeded
Leedy as yankee agitator," be-
ginning also with Bible class and
ending as unofficial leader of the
United Farmers and uncrowned
wheat pool king"
Today more native-born Ameri-
cans dwell in Alberta than in any
political subdivision outside the
United States. A sociologist might
find a common root for the politi-
cal vagaries of California and Al
berta in nineteenth century, Mid
western Populism.
MATURE conSpired with the
~ godly, spring floods, hail,
early frosts and rust affliction the
province throughout the 1885
campaign period.
The magic symbol in Alberta is
"the CROP" syllables as firmly
bedded in the economy of Alberta
as the market" in New York,
"steeP' in Pittsburgh or "auto-
mobiles" in Detroit.
All hands agree that the series
of farming disasters would have
induced political restiveness in
1885; but, lacking Mr.. Aberhart
and his cash promises, the swing,
it is supposed, would have been
with the rest of Canada, back into
the Liberal Party.
But in the spring the "super
Father Christmas" the Cough
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Measured for q Casket

GO they measured poor Rudolph for a royal
~ bronze caSket and laid him in the cellar of
Capuchin Church and shipped his playmate down
the country where they stuck her down a hole I'M
til the wind blew away the reek of the royal
romance. Later they permitted her mother to spade
after that the Emperor's old lady went to Geneva
for little vacation and stabbed by an Italian
nihist as she was stepping off boat, leaving the
old gentleman alone with his miStreSs-the lady of
the theater.
Now, at 80, the mistress of Emperor Francis Josef
lives in quiet luxury much respected by press and
public, in Vienna, remembering the good old days
of the empire. She owns important downtown
block. town house and villa in country and re-
ceiveS to this day from the Austrian people a gen.
erous pension based not any personal favor to
the Emperor but on her service to art and the state
as member of the theater. She does all right in a
country where the beggars cringe and whine on the
streets at night and people stand in line at the
Capuchn Church above the luxurious tombs of the
Hapsburgs waiting for cupful of soup for their
children.
The revival of the good old days would bring
back to the cellars of the Emperor's palace about
million dollars worth of wine and remove from the
vulgar gaze of the peasants who sometimes find their
way to town, the imperial crown Jewels the order
of the Golden Fleece, the orders of the Garter and
Saint Stephen, the tooth which is said to have be-
longed to John the Baptist, and the order of the
Rose of Virtue The order of the Rose of Virtue is
papal decoration of which only three women in
history have been found worthy, and this
presented to the Empress Augusta, the 19-year-od
bride and the fourth wife of the Emperor Francis IL
it seemed appropriate to celebrate the virtue of the
bride of 10 with the order of the Rose. The fact
that she marrying the Emperor could have had
no bearing on the incident, of course.
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Royal But Shabby Robes

THE royal and imperial coronation robes have
Il strangely shabby appearance close inspection,
like the apparel of the actors in costume play which
finally finds its way to the masquerade store for
renting to high school dramatic societies. Some of
the ermine is merely white fuzz, with the black tails
marked on in ink, and most of the velvet seems no
more luxurious than the traditional plush of the
American day coach. But it looked much
beautiful in the good old days when the good and
pious monarch and thousand relatives of or
less intimate degree lived by the labor of people
who delighted to support them
These the good old days of simple virtue,
decency and respect for sound Institutions but
tain incredible dopes among the population seem not
at all eager to bring them back.
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EuZnough
by
WESIRR0Ok PEGLER

VIENNA, March 10-Back in the good old days of
monarchy, life in Vienna was very romantic.
old Francis Josef, the Emperor who reigned from
1848 to 1916, was an extremely pious man who de-
voted himself to many good works, but even he had
his honeyan actress by tradewho used to live close
by the imperial palace and often dropped in of an
evening to help him worry about his responsibilities
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She was, in fact, a close friend
of Empress Elizabeth, who was a
Bavarian Princess and sister of
crazy King Ludwig, and the two
girls sat up conSoling one another
the night that the Emperor's son
Rudolph killed himself and his
mistress in 1899. Rudolph didn't
like his wife and wanted his mar
riage annulled so that he could
make an honest woman of his
friend around the corner, but
Francis Josef was a firm believer
in the sanctity of marital ties, and
he disapproved the idea. After
all, he didn't care much for his old
lady, either, but he was taking
his punishment, and he expected
much himself.
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Solution to PreUiOus
Contract Problem
BY w. E. M'KENNEY

"ODAY'S hand came up dur
i ing the recent Maryland
state open pair championship
tournament, won by Fred D. Kap-
Ian and DR.. Richard Ecker, both
of New York.
1t illustrates fine dummy ham
ding by Kaplan, enabling his
partner and himself to score
top on the board and helping
them to win the title. 1t also il
Illustrates very fine defensive play,
which was offset by an alert de-
clarer.
The jack of diamonds opening
was covered by the ace in dummy
and trumped by East, who now
cashed the king of hearts and re-
turned a low spade. South won
with the ace.
Declarer now paused to analyze
the hand. He already had lost two
tricks. If he proceeded to trump
his remaining heart, he could not
get off the board without either
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Won't Fight,
Washington Thinks
BY RAYMOND CLAPPER

WASHINGTON March 10-The best Judgment
w here, both in and out of the government, is
that Europe will not fight Britain, it is felt here,
holds the key to the situation and is determined to
shift the issue away from the battlefield and into the
League of Nations, where every one can cool off and
try to take sane view of realities.
Brtans chief problem is to sell France on the
idea that Germany is an able-bodied nation once
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was very earnest and intent. It
seems he doesn't believe in labor unions, and he's
planning to stop them, particularly in apartment
houses. When asked him how he explained that
he would organize a Tenants Defense League and
that everybody who joined would have to pledge
himself not to give elevator operator Christmas
present If he happened to belong to any union.
have my doubts to how we'll this would work.
because there is already evidence that the building
service employees are already skeptical about Santa
Claus.
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DO dII UuOoOd1IuIIIB IItWo tVtIII, DUC
whenever I got hold of a story
found somebody exc had print
ed it four or five hours ahead of
me.
I have story of still another
man in trench helmet who is
running an elevator and carrying
shotgun. When I got down to
the office noticed that forgot
to get the name and the address,
and that delayed me a little. But
chiefly didn't print the incident
dug up because it would sound
as if I faxed it.
The gentleman with the Shntn11n
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II Seems hM
BY
.HEY,WO0D.BRoUN

NEW YORK, March 9.-My resolve to be re-
porter, if possible is not working out SO well
In weeks time I have rot found a single piece
of exclusive news and have developed a heavy
cold which may conhne me to my luxurious suite
and compel me to dish out mere opinion.
OF course, 1t a mistake for me to pick out
New York the city in which to break in. Too
much happens here and over too great an area.
Naturally, assigned myself to the elevator strike
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BY FORREST DAVIS
Scripps-Howard Staff Writer

crippsHo a
EDMONTON Alberta, March 10.-The Social Credit
prophet, William Aberhart, and his infatuated opti-
mists did not teach the prares to sing Before 20 Cod
Our Help Ages Past rent the 1885 midsummer peace of
Wetaskiwin, Peace River and Medicine Hat at Study
group" Mainst rally and basket picnic, earlier
pagn song had spurred the tickle Alberta majority
march to Edmonton and power.
In the years 1919-1921, when wartime farm prices
crashed, Henry Wise Wood gaunt silent immigrant
from Missouri organized political victory for the United
Farmers of Alberta, quite sweeping Aberharts, to
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expressed resentment at the i'm
plication they were "chiselers."
The Waterbury Democrat., 1936-08-04
LA SALETTE ORDER
 STAGES CARNIVAL
Local Committee Aiding in Success of Annual
 Hartford Event

The I.agaIetto third annual cars nival opened Saturday evening to the largest crowd ever to attend the opening night Of this anuai affair. Scores of Waterburians were pTess ent, After . concert and drill by the Broad Brook Fife and Drum corps which was Foundly applauded by the audience acting Mayor John Mackey delivered Q brief address opening the carnival.
 The winners of the firEt Major Bowes amateur contest held later ifi the evening were announced as Chrigty Vinnigan and His WTang. ierg--firgt prize and Sammy Dter. bins, eccentric comedy dancer; sec. end prize. The judges for this opening were master of ceremonies, Mayor Mackey, Mrs. Hugh Clancy, former member of the Lasalette Players and Frank Dower, supcr- intendent of the Bushnell Memorial.
 The amateur program will con. tinue each evening with the wins flers of the preceding evening con1- pcting on Friday night for Q major prize.
 In view of the large opening night attendance aS compared with fors mer years 1t is estimated that 20,- OOO will have vigited the college grounds before the carnival closes next Saturday evening August 6. Tine presentation of beautiful prizes will be one of the many features of the closing evening.
 A local committee composed of students and friends is aiding in the distribution of tickets.
The Waterbury Democrat., 1936-08-04
Farmer Exposes Farm
 Journal Straw Ballot
Magazine Editor Takes Exception to Subscribers Choice for F. D. R-FIints Reader Stop Subscribing

The truc political position Of the Farm Journal, which b conducting q supposedly non-partisan presiden- tlai poll Of American farmers, waB brought 10 light this week .n on ar- ticlo in the Few York Post. It dc. Veiopg now that the poll conducted by the farm paper iS Tlon- -partisan only in c Pickwickian sense.
 This interesting revelation was made to the Post by Walter A. Hocnes, thirtystWo, Q farmer of Cologne, N. J. Mir. Hoenes iS { deTn- ocrat, in fact, . blatant democrat. He subscribed for the Farm Journal in october, 1036. When he read about the publications poll of it's readers, he naturally expected to receive ballot. When he Cidn't he was chagrined. He wanted his vote for President Roosevelt to count in the poll, 10 he drew Up his own bal- lot He sent it to the Farm Jour- nal with c letter freely expressing his pro-R Roosevelt sentiments. Short iy thereafter he received the fol- lowing letter from the Farm Jour. nal, bearing the editors signature:
 Dear Mir. Hoenes: You seem to believe very thoroughly in MT. MT. Roosevelt and his methods and if 50. am sure you are going to Dc very unhappy if you continue to
The Waterbury Democrat., 1936-08-04

read the Farm Journal. We expect to do our best to stop Mfr. Roosc. velts borrowing, spending, budget deficits and increasing taxes, which is about the only contribution that MT. Roosevelt has made t0 Teturh- ing prosperity.
 Would you not Dc happier read- ing some other farm magazine which supports MT. Roosevelt if you Can find one? Very truly yours, Arthur II. Jenkins, Editor"
 Tn addition to suffering this afs front to his political sentiments, MT. Hoenes complains that he has re- ceived no more copies of Vhe fnaga- zine, though, no aEgertg, his sub. gcription had four months to run.
 Altogether Mir. Hocneg ig some. what skeptical of the flair and inc partiap character of the Farm Jour- nal's poll, especially as he since has learned that control of the Yarn Journal recently passed to Joseph N. Pew, JY., who is one of the three Republican bosses in Pennsylvania and a financial angel of the party in that stat But the farmer is undig- mayed. He says his vote for presi. dent Roosevelt will count wl'cn it is cast at the polls in November.
The Waterbury Democrat., 1936-08-04

Wheeler & Wilson Sounds like a firm name, doesn't 1t? We'll as matter of fact 1t was a we'll known firm name back in the days when. It was well-known in Connecticut and probably it's name and fame went beyond the state lines. But this firm did not deal in hardware dry-goods suits. It dealt in music. . The Wheeler and Wilson band of Bridgeport was to the parade of yesterday what Jesse Owens is to the track world of today Back in the days of real parades 1t took rank with such f nous organizations Reeves band of Providence, the Colt band of Hartford, the Third Regiment band of New London and others of the golden of bands Waterbury saw and heard all of them at various times. The hrenens parade, such as has recent iy been revived, brought the band to the fore. Every band had weknown air and It's leader and drurn.major were also well known