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Evening star., 1937-09-07
How to Stop the purge"
Coalition of Voters Seen Needed to Keep Democratic
Court Bill Foes in Senate

condition Mr. Roosevelt can, if he
chooses, send his original court
measure back to Congress letter for
letter and comma for comma, and pre-
sumably it would be passed. Mr..
Roosevelt can send such other meas
ures as he chooses to Congress, and
presumably those would be passed.
The Republicans Role.
What have said so far is picture
Of conditions that will exist next
Spring. In the light of that picture,
what will the Republicans do, par
ticularly the Republicans in the nine
States? They can follow either of
two courses. They can look on at the
fierce fight in the Democratic primary
in given State and be pleased. They
can say, "Goody, goody, here is
lucky break for us, there's a split in
the Democratic party-weH be able to
elect Republican Senator in the
Fall"
That would be a justified expecta-
ton. For if Democratic Senator op-
posed to the Presidents court measure
is defeated in the Democratic primary,
it will result that the Democratic
voters favoring that Senator and op-
posed to the court measure would be
likely in the Fall to vote for the
Republican candidate for Senator.
The Republicans can look at it that
way, but will they be wise to? From
the standpoint of the national good,
is it wise for Republicans to take that
attitude? They should remember that
by the time of the general election in
the Fall, the damage to the Nation
would be done. The Presidents court
measure and his other measures would
have been enacted by Congress: the
course of the Nation would have been
changed beyond possibility of re-
versal.
Kind of Coalition Needed.
What is the other attitude for Re-
publicans to take? The answer differs
IN different States. The word "coali-
ton occurs at once. But coalition
in the formal sense is not the thing
that Is needed. What is needed is
coalition of special kind. 1t is not
coalition of party organiza tions. it is
coalition of individual voters. What
is needed is a coalition of all voters
who oppose the Presidents court
measure-Democrat, independent. Re-
publican-in support of those Demo-
Gratis who opposed. and for the time
being have defeated, the Presidents
court measure
What practical thing can be done
differs in the different States. In
some States election laws do not per-
NIT Republicans or independents to
enter Democratic primaries; in some
States they do.
The general truth is that in any
State, if all the voters of all parties
who oppose the Presidents court
measure will dedicate themselves to
supporting Senators who have opposed
the measure. those Senators will be
Kept in the Senate. The support can
take different forms and ought to
take all the forms possible. In some
States it will be participation in DEM
ocratic primaries: in other States it
will be use of all available ways of
showing approval and stirring up
sentiment.
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youth the
been taken security
workers between As
While Miss uho
vett
hint that before
plight Of the
This proposed gathering woud
OF fincludino probability of Social
Security Board, industry
Tor legislation to take of the middeagd worker
job will be
Those who claim of
ons attempting the Shanghai
OF the International Settlement
willing
But the Chinese felt otherwise They Japanese
using their
by North Anne Nevspap
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Next the
msnfuly until Tugwe
Frank and other Tugwl
garrotng effort
the
At about the
responsibility
OF the control
His failure to take the Judiciary bill
husasm the
last Spring and Summer.
Now Mr. Wallace has moved still farther the
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political
including Wallaces
President be
ed 20 miles
exception David
the Reetement Administration the
Byrd of Virginia and by the rugged indviduas who nfe
Committee Agriculture
Reettlement committed tolies many faults
to be culed result OF the shortage of
a
problems created bad
agriculture.
The Administration
remedy Of lending individual
financially lifetime job bureaucracy The the effort
devotion of thousands public
mnt Administration poughed
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OF government as an impartial agency
acting in behalf Of all the people and
not just the campaign contributors.
Mr.. Wilson in the same message to
Congress made this important declara-
ton:
Labor not only is entitled to an
adequate wage but capital should re-
ceive reasonable return upon its in
vestment and is entitled to protection
at the hands of the Government in
every emergency.
No government worthy of the name
can play these elements against each
other for there is a mutuality of
interest between them which the
government must seek to express and
safeguard at all cost"
The voice of great Democratic Presi-
dent still lives in the minds and hearts
OF true progressives of the Democratic
faith, but it is repudiated as old
fashioned" by the fascist radicals who
dominate the New Deal and who en-
courage usurpation of governmental
power by special groups with political
potentiality and adequate campaign
FUNDS to help them win national
Copyright. 1879
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f class partisanship inside the Gov

of class partisanship inside the Gov
ernment
What would Grover Cleveland. an
other Democratic President, have done
with challenge by a labor leader
like John Lewis? It's many years
since Cleveland was m the White
House, so the present generation NAV
not recall his sturdy and courageous
fight against attempted usurpation
OF authority by labor in blocking the
United States mails. Mr.. Roosevelt
has since reversed Mr.. Clevelands
rule and let the C. 1. o. block the
mails
But Woodrow Wilson, under whom
Mr.. Roosevelt served, was President
within the memory of many NJ in
ofhcial life. What would Mr.. Wilson
say II he were confronted with the
same crisis? The answer is to be found
IN message to Congress on December
z, 1913, when President Wilson wrote:
The right of individuals to strike
is inviolate and ought not to be inter-
fered with by any process of govern
iieH1' DuI There Is predominant right,
and that is the right of the Govern
ment to protect all of its people and to
assert its power and majesty against
the challenge of any class. The
Government, when it asserts that
right, seeks not to antagonize class
but simply to defend the right OF the
whole people against the irreparable
harm and injury that might be done
by the attempt by any class to usurp a
power that only government itself
has right to exercise as a protection
to all"
Mr.. Wilson was no friend of the
economic royalists." He earned their
Ill will. He earned on the other hand
and retained the respect and admira-
| ton of labor. He was fair-minded and
never lost sight of the true function
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the hands the
bind his followers A. hasth
habit Of binding the with
Niagara Falls barrel It's
the the White
An explanation OF
most reliable adabe
the President Woud ueto the BILL
Park, realized that he mould
Udnted to send correction
to wouId inuolUe
tip speculative
mistake stand after
Mr. Roosevelt believes
genemans the Western
producers and rener
industry hope that the
same politicians did to their pledges
Congress have doubts
refners, proposal (copyrisht
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Senators who opposed Mr.. Roosevelt's
court measure will come up for renom-
ination. The nine are: Adams, Colo
RADIO; Clark, Missouri; George, Geor-
gia; Gillette. Iowa; Lonergan, Connec-
ticut; McCarran. Nevada; Smith,
South Carolina; Tydings, Maryland.
and Van Nuys, Indiana.
To prevent denomination of these
nine is the purpose of the attempted
Democratic purge. In each State
friends and agents and benefciaries
Of the Roosevelt administration will
undertake to prevent denomination of
these Senators. In the Democratic
primary of each State Tin one State
it is not primary but convention)
there will be fight. The fights we
are here speaking Of. let it be remem-
bered, are fights within the Demo-
cratic party. in the Spring of the
year. We are not at this point speak
ing OF the general election between
the two great parties in November
These fights in Democratic primaries
in nine States will take place mainly
in the Spring, on various dates. At
the time the primary fights take place
Congress will be in session. 1t will be
the existing Congress with the existing
membership-not a new Congress.
Will Affect Nation.
Suppose that in all or several Of
these primary fights the Roosevelt
forces win; suppose that all or several
of the nine Democratic Senators who
opposed the Presidents court pro-
poeal are defeated for denomination.
In that event the political effect will
be enormous. 1t will not be confined
to the States, it will affect the Nation.
Especially will it affect Congress.
Congress, seeing the Roosevelt forces
win in the primaries, seeing defeat
come upon those Democratic Senators
who opposed Mr.. Roosevelt's court
measure, will be stampeded. They
will conclude it is fatal for a Demo-
crat in Congress not to do what the
President asks. That the Democrats
in Congress should come to feel this
way is the main purpose of the at
tempted purge. The purpose is de-
signed to throw the fear of God"
into the Democrats in Congress
Cod, in this case, being Franklin
Roosevelt.
In that condition, with an immense
Democratic majority in Congress and
that majority in scared stampede
toward President Roosevelt-in that
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on the Grand Rapids Evening Press,
where he put on a drive for one of
the first city plans. Rehousing people
became his sine qua non; cleanup
campaigns all over the Nation his life
work.
Field secretary OF the National
Housing Association of New York,
managing director of the Philadelphia
Housing Association. manager of the
Civic Development Department of tbs
United States Chamber of Commerce,
he organized and became the executive
of the Pittsburgh, Boston and WASH
ington Housing Associations.
In 1915 Mrs. Archibald Hopkins
interested him in the Washington alley
situa ton. He spoke at meetings.
helped Mrs. Hopkins organize the
Ellen Wilson Homes Co., a company
that died when We entered the World
War. Still tenacious. he organized the
housing committee of the Council of
Social Agencies. began drafting the
alley dwelling act for the District
about 1880. The act was pioneer
legislation of its kind. President
Roosevelt signed the bill in 1894.
Three years later the courts upheld its
constitutionality.
1.-TWO hundred inhabited alleys
eventually should CO." Ihlder says. 1t
is the purpose of the Alley Dwelling
Authority. Congress empowered the
authority to acquire by gift. purchase
or condemnation the property neces-
sary for reclamation, gave it s500,00O
to start off. Two later ALLEGATIONS by
the President have increased the fund
to around s860,0O0
The authority has acquired property
in IA squares. Some it has sold, other
pieces have been redeveloped for COM
mercial uses in harmony with the
character of the neighborhood. -Four
squares have low-rent housing de-
velopments.
The idea has been 80 years sermin-
ating.
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the recent steel strike, Mr.. Lewis said.
THE murder of these unarmed men
has never been publicly rebuked by
any authoritative officer of the State
or Federal government. Some of
them, in extenuation, plead lack of
jurisdiction, but murder as a crime
against the moral code can always
be rebuked without regard to the
niceties of legalistic jurisdiction by
those who profess to be keepers of the
public conscience"
Mr.. Lewis conveniently forgets the
acts of violence of members of his
own group. some of whom are now
indicted for dynamiting and other
crimes. Other groups incidentally
have asked the President in vain to
do little rebuking of c. I. o. ter
rorism and have used the same argu-
ment. namely, that technical jurisdic-
ton should not stand in the way of the
use of the moral power of the presi-
Dental Office to condemn wrongdoing
no matter by whom committed in labor
warfare.
In fairness to Mr. Lewis as well as
the President, it should be noted that
public opinion recently called on
President Roosevelt to denounce the
"sit-down" strike even though tech
nically it was being regarded as a
State affair and not within the Federal
jurisdiction. The Senate responded
by the passage of such resolution
but the administration played John
Lewis game and killed the same reso-
luton in the House of Representatives
Id moreover the President never has
said publicly word in condemnation
OF the "Sit-down" strike. The Presi-
dent has been an effective partisan of
the c. I. o. and yet Mr.. Lewis de-
mands more. The incident will be
taken by many to illustrate the dangers
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Westerners
their project if more than million were
As result the
teN oect action to force the That
eIas FARMERS OF the Southern
Uruth.
Ihey this action diooino q canal
io thdn"the leDel
garden spot" OF Teras it back to a desert
Some see in the Mexicans sudden activity particular
pohca
Dam 49, -
But Whatever the motive farms
moved on Washington with
the Mexans
department attempted to avoid conference
Garner the delegation Secretary
latter soft
political possibilities of the West
However they wouldn't Mr. informed the
delegates that they law
that the hev were
threatened with the home
IHcg ddHy hfnted TO the possibility
incident and asked TOR immediate negotiation
suggested that
take the question
secretary hnaly capitlated
of the Undersecretary.
Mr Wees Immediately
document obviously paiae
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count OF III. 1t is
an essential fac
tor Il n d e r lying
the current dis
c u S S / o n about
what the future
course of the Re-
publicalls should
be.
For clarity, let
us summarize the
m ore pertinent
facts about the
attempted Demo-
cratic purge.
In the Demo-
C r a tic primaries
next Spring nine
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BEAVERS TAKE HINT

ATICA, N. Y, September 7 (P.-
Beavers built dam near here with
tilt downstream. Two months
ago heavy rains washed 1t away.
State conservation officials agreed that
the beavers made their mistake by
not building dam which leaned
against the current
Today they noticed the beavers
were rebuilding-and this time the
dam Tits upstream.
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fuI OF hardshell bureau chiefs IN
the Department of Agriculture
There can be only one answer
to this. Mr.. Wallace must have
abandoned all hope of making him
self President of the United States
m 1910. Only Herbert Hoover has
as great a record for double-cross-
ing his supporters. No man with
such record for unpredictable
mayhem in his human and political
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What's Back of It All
A Very Hot Potato Burns the Varnish Off Welles
Desk as He Vacations.
BY H. r. BAUKHAGE.


d-hot spelling
State which
to embark with additional his
The sizzling skilfuly Of
Texas but carefully guarded from the public
undersecretarys the there
Back of this
Of the early West where fought
water holes So far the significant details
The situation
the Texans Of the lower Rio Gande Valley the folks
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80 years now. His
courage, convic-
tions. pun n g e n t
humor and hobby
of tin KERN ng
a r o u n d boats
have given him
both an anchor
and a sail.
Born in Balti-
more, Md, a
graduate Of Cor
nell University in
1900, Ihlder be-
came a reporter
on the New York
Evening sun, an
editorial Wrifnr
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demands, in ef-
fe c t, t h a t the
Government for
mally a abandon its
historic C 0 n cept
of neutrality and
1 m p a r tiality as
between G r o u ps
and become COM
pletely a govern
ment by a special
class and for q
special class.
The c. I. o. has
had 80 per cent
control for some
time of the ma
chif1nrv of QOV-
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Western Senator's ideas, lies
a-smoldering on his desk.
Meanwhile, the men at the
water hole are oililg their polit-
ical guns.
X X
When Secretary of Labor Per-
kins, in a radio address on Labor
day night, declared that the hiring
policy of many industries. which
fixed the hiring age limit at IS,
"thraotope o,,r eociel efv,o+,,re -
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An American
You Should
Know
Ihlder Rhymes With
Builder, and So
He Is.
BY DELLA PYNCHON.

PRONOUNCE Ihlder corr
rectly. rhyme it with builder.
Il This is poetic Justice for public
spirited John Ihlder. executive
officer Of the Alley Dwelling Authority
for the District of Columbia since 1884.
Ihlder has a quiet conviction that
persistence wins-if you live long
enough" He has been hacking away
at the stone of public opinion for about
Evening star., 1937-09-07
Rule by Labor
Held Aim
of Lewis
New Deals Attitude
Seen Responsible for
Demands.
BY DAVID LAWRENCE.

A CHALLENGE to the Govern
~ ment of the United States, to
~ President Roosevelt and all
4 a the processes of government,
in so far as they affect labor, has been
flung by John L. Lewis, labor's dictator
in America, and the challenge has
gone unanswered.
Mr.. Lewis. boasting a political
strength Of 100000 votes and charg-
ing that he and his associates put
President Roosevelt into power, now
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Mexico, Arizona and California,
whose fields are irrigated by the
Boulder Dam project of the Colo
RADIO River.
The Mexicans say that they
aren't getting their share of the
Rio Grande, which, since it's
borderline stream, is in part theirs.
They say they will be satisfied,
however, if they are provided with
100000 acre-feet of water from
the Boulder Dam project.
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HE opinions OF the 1oriter this page
- necessarAy The Stars Such opinions presented
the Stars e1ort all sides questions
readers although such opinions contradictory among
themselves and directly opposed to The Stars.
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the Presidents court measure. This
attempted purge" underlies practical
ly everything else. 1t has consequences
not merely for the Democratic party
but for the Nation 1t entails conse-
quences for the Republican party.
The Republican party must take ac-
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We, the People
Wallace Called One of ''Deadliest Assassns" of
Other Mems Ideals in American History
BY JAY FRANKLIN.


The New Deal Secretary of a
puzzled philosopher
American history He does
murder of the little pigs
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In 1888 was more than an accident.
1t was a symbol of the pruning
hook in politics.
First OF his associates to be
sewn in sack and dropped into the
bucolic Bosporus was George N.
Peek, the original administrator Of
the Trfple-A. Peek's program Of
marketing agreements had broken
down when Wallace nipped in like
mongoose and broke Peek's po-
Evening star., 1937-09-07
BY MARK SULLIVAN.

NHE central fact in current poll
tics is the attempt to purge"
out Of the Democratic party
Henderson daily dispatch., 1937-04-17

tend to make the thousands of Hoey
supporters who worked for him in
both primaries feel any too good. For
it is a well known fact that Waynick
was an original Hoey supporter. In
fact, it is no secret in informed cir
cles here that it was Waynick's re-
fusal to play ball first with the Nc
Donald forces and later with the Ora
ham forces, when approached with
propositions to use the highway COM
mission in favor of the other candi-
dates, that caused these other can
didates, to assail him and the highway
department so Bitterly in the primary
campaign. It is also generally admit
ted that both the Mcdonald and Ora
ham forces blame Waynick for the de-
feat of their candidates and for the
nomination of Mr.. Hoey-for most po-
litical insiders" agree that the high
way department, directly or indirect
ly, is good for, about $4,000 votes in
any primary election, and that last
spring most of the highway depart
ment votes went for Mr.. Hoey So,
many cannot see how Governor Hoey
can afford to sacrifice Waynick in
order to win favor with the Mcdonald
and Graham factionS.
Henderson daily dispatch., 1937-04-17
Hoey Put on Spot
in Naming of New
Highway Chairman
Continued from Page One.)

to be an excellent executive, his
have irritated so many politically i'm
portant personages over the State
that he must be sacrificed in order
to appease "the boys" who get out the
votes when the primaries roll around.
They are also pointing out that Gov
ernor Hoey during his campaign gave
very strong intimations-some here
think he actually made commitments
to remove Waynick if he was
nominated and elected governor. They
are insisting that unless Waynick is
removed from the highway picture
that the former McDonaldites and
Sandy Grahamites cannot be expected
to come back into the regular" fold
in 1910 and support the organization
candidate.
Powerful" Politics.
So sure are the anti-Waynick forces
that these arguments have taken eff
feet that some of these are now bet
ting ten to one that Waynick will not
be reappointed, while a week ago the
betting was ten to one that he would
be reappointed. They feel confident
that Governor Hoey, who is never
i2lind to political considerations, and
who is admittedly anxious to restore
harmony within the party, cannot dis
regard these arguments, especially
since some of the most powerful poll
ticians in the State are known to be
openly opposed to the reappointment
of Waynick. They do not see how the
governor can refuse to do something
which they feel confident will bring
the Mcdonald, the Sandy Graham and
a large number of hte ]. W. Bailey
faction together back of this admin
istration and thus lay the groundwork
for a degree of party harmony which
has not prevailed for the past four or
five years. .
The result is that some of Way
Henderson daily dispatch., 1937-04-17

hicks strongest supporters and some
of those who have been sure from the
start that he would be reappointed,
are now beginning to have serious
doubts as to whether he will be re-
named. They are beginning to fear
that the forces who want to make of
the highway department a political
sop to appease disappointed poditi-
clans have already done their work
and that hereafter the highway de-
Ddrtment's chief job will become the
building of political fences instead
the construction Of highways. They
are inclined to believe that the care
fully selected delegations which have
been appearing before the governor
for weeks have so effectively present
ed their arguments that the governor
is on the verge of placing political
consideration as1ove ability and eff
cheney IN connection with the high
way chairmanship.
Good New Man Lacking.
1here are some, however, who still
maintain that Waynick will be reap
pointed chairman of the new highway
body, chiefly because Governor Hoey
has not yet been able to find any one
who is willing to take the job who can
compare with Waynick in ability, eff
ficiency and knowledge of the funda-
mental highway problems of the
State.
While they believe that Governor
Hoey has been trying to carry out
his declared intention of trying to
find some one who could and would
take Waynick's place, if he could find
some one as well qualified, they also
are convinced that the governor has
so far failed to find such a one, with
the result that Waynick still stands
at the top of the list among those who
have been or still are being consid-
cred for the appointment as highway
chairman.
Must Placate Own Supporters.
AS to eargument that the sac
rlflce of Waynick would tend to ap-
pease the Mcdonald, Graham and
Bailey forces and bring about great
er harmony, it is pointed out that
while this might be true, it would not