Borah anxious for Landon in West (David Lawrence), Evening Star, Aug. 18, 1936, p. 11

Borah Anx ious for Lan don in West Sees Definite Need of Progressive Approach to Problems. BY DAVID LAWRENCE. BOISE, Idaho, August 18.--Sen ator Borah, the young "old man" of Idaho, whose 30 years of service in Congress have made him one of the outstanding figures in contemporary history, will be returned to the United States Senate by a majority ranging any where from 20, 000 to 30,000. This seems to be conceded on almost every side. It is due to the fact that the Senator made 5 such an aston ishing run in the I primary, defeat ing his Town send opponent by 3 to 1. Coinci dentally, Gov. C. Ben Ross, the u^mociauc can D.rld l,»wr*Bc». djdate_ who wil] oppose him. won the nomination after the IVemorratic vote showed an almost fn-50 split, an evidence presumably of resentment against the Governor's sales tax and other levies. Borah, it Is taken for granted, now will get many of the anti-Boss votes cast in 1he Democrtic primary as well as many Democrats who didn't vote at all. I found the Snator hale and hearty and very happy over the outcome of the primaries. We had a long talk, not. about State issues or the cam paign here, but about the national political situation. There is not a bit of rancor in his heart over the fact he was not nominated for the presi dency at Cleveland. His friendliness to Gov. Landon was obvious through out the conversation. His concern is about the trend of the Republican campaign as a whole in the West. For w hile he din't say so in as many words, it, appeared to me a simple inference that unless Gov. Latidon makes the right appeal to the folks in the West his candidacy may be a liabilty rather than an asset to anybody running on a loral Republican ticket who depends on support from Independent voters In both parties. To Hew to Own Line. Tt should be explained at this point that regular Republicans here have wanted Borah to come out enthus iastically for Landon and make a aeries of stump speeches for the na tional ticket. Borah, of course, is going to make several speeches. That Is settled. And he will discuss na tional issues as he sees them, letting the chip# fall where they may. But Borah has some definite notions •bout how a Republican nominee, wha really wants to present himself to the West as a progressive, should go about It. If Landon senses this problem and, by his addresses, reveals him self as a progressive, then the task of men like Senator Borah in appeal ing to Western audiences will be rel atively easy. Much depends on the outcome of Landon's present trip. The speech of acceptance, of course, passed muster and it is realised that he could not rover all the topics on issues in any detail. Now, however, as he takes up one by one the issues of the campaign, the opportunity to examine the qual ity of Landon's progressiveism is at hand. All over the State the reports are coming In showing a distinct trend toward Landon, but at the same time many questions are being asked as, for Instance, "What does Landon stand for?" Another one is, "Who owns landon?" The trek of Eastern con servatives to Topeka has called up the latter question. But it Is significant that while there are searching ques tions about Landon, the opposition to President Roosevelt, even in an agri cultural State like Idaho, is such that many independents will vote for Mr. landon merely as a protest against the Roosevelt policies and as an in surance against the instability of an other New Deal term. Want High Type Campaign. I made Inquiries here and found that among Independent Republicans and Independent Democrats there is a genuine eagerness to know more about the Landon philosophy. Gen eralities will hardly do any more than mere negative criticism of Mr. Roose velt. Thus, notwithstanding all the criticism of Mr. Roosevelt, there is a kindly regard for him, even among those who will vote against him. They appreciate the fact, as so many ex press it, that "he tried to do some thing." They will not be swayed by bitter attacks on him. They want'the campaign conducted on a higher plane than mere denunciation. This plainly indicates that Landon has a job of affirmative campaigning to turn the West. Strangely enough, tnany of the topics that the East boils bver are not mentioned here. The Erinrlpal underlying trend, however, i one of fear that the New Deal administration will produce a chaotic financial situation. It amounts almost to a tremor that is discernible in the tone of comments by farmer and city folks alike. The rising curve of ex penditures has made a deep impres sion on some of the voters. Senatoi Borah confirmed this to me as we talked of what he found in his tout of Idaho during the primary cam paign. i Understanding language Required. To sum up, I should say that Lan I don has a very good .chance to carry Idaho if he makes a campaign as a progressive and talks to the people ol the West in a language they can rec ognize is the voice of a true pro j gressive. i If President Roosevelt should carry

this State, it will be by a close mar* gin. perhaps not more than 10,000 to 15,000 votes, which is in contrast to his 38,000 in 1932, or Hoover's 46,000 j in 1928. I At present writing Mr. Roosevelt has the edge. The Republicans, in vigorated by Chairman Hamilton's i visit, say the swing now Is in their direction, and that is corroborated by testimony from independent sources. ALso the Republicans showed an in crease of 5,000 votes In the recent primary, as compared with two years ago. and they didn't have contests at all in many counties. The Democrats i polled 13.000 fewer votes and had sharp contests that ought to have j brought out the vole. (Copyright, 19.'lfi,> JEWELRY REPAIRED Bring It to a firm son ran trnat. Msrirrata prleea. Skilled, nark maaihlp. Rair rrrdlt trrma. CASTELBERG'S 1004 F Si. N.W. CHICAGO B through the COOL ZONE Ride the "8:50 A M. Airliner"--the fast est service to Chicago. Travel above the heat waves--five daily through flights to Detroit with direct connections at Cleve land or Pittsburgh for Chicago and the Coast. Save time arrive relaxed! 4H Honrs to Chicago _ $.56 00 200 Minutes to Detroit -25.65 115 Minutes to Cleveland 1*.<5 PHONE NATIONAL 2171 District Traffic Manager. Charles E. Shoemaker. Jr. A rjoONUGHt j v qW^vvAY^ GOING OUT OF BUSINESS Only 14 more days of this sale! Time is short! In order to crowd an extra day's business into these two hours we're quoting unheard of prices on the following famous quality I Meyers clothing. Worth a special trip downtown. MEN'S SUITS *1 H Reg. to $35.... NOW M- M. 1 News Behind the News Lull Comes in Federal Bureau Spying--Coughlin Expected to Calm Down. BY PAUL MALLOV. A HEAVY lull has developed lately among the Government's prying squads. The young Hawkshaws In many of the Federal services seem to have lost much of their zest for their business. Some have suspected It is only campaign quiet. Others accept it as a natural reaction to Treasury Secretary Morgenthau's public demo tion of two secret service agents who spied on G-men. Both guesses may be close, but a more impressive explanation is accredited on the inside. Some weeks before Mr. Morgenthau's decisive action, an Investi gating genius in another Government department was invited to take a job outside the executive branch of the Government, and he accepted. The news of his departure was made public, but no excuse was ever offered. The inside explanation is that this genius also made the mistake of in vestigating another Government of ficial outside his department, this time a friend of Vice President Gar ner and Chairman Farley. The In vestigated official left Washington in a huff and has not returned. Messrs. Garner and eariey are supposed to have engineered the subsequent offer, which led the Investigating ex genius into other fields. Thus, a salutary peace has come to Washington.

The question of whether Father Coughlin has been put under good behavior restrictions for the presidential campaign Is still an open ona, despite the whoopee made at his Cleveland convention. Several conflicting stories are being spread about what he will do. The Inside consensus here is that he will go ahead with what he has started, but in a much calmer tone of voice. His radio manager has announced, without explanation, the cancellation of his Fall and Winter series of Sunday afternoon broadcasts, until "seme time after the first of the yearThe assumption is he Hill reserve a schedule on the Mutual network for the Lemke-O'Brien ticket, but the trade publication, Broadcast ing, reports that M. B. S. has announced no time reservations yet. Meanwhile, the Communist party has budgeted itself for $60,000 Worth of radio time, wherever it got the money. President Roosevelt's board of campaign strategy Is not unanimously in favor of his coming trip to the North Dakota drought area. More than two are supposed to have advised the President not to make the trip, on the ground that it would not do him much good and might do some harm. There is nothing he ran ao about the drought by looking at it. beyond what has already been done, they say. Also, as they see it, the trip may encourage the impression that he is using the drought for campaign purposes, especially if he is greeted by large crowds, has con ferences with the Governors, including Landon. and makes speeches. This probably explains why definite arrangements have been held in abeyance so long. There is fust a vague chance that the trip may be curtailed sharply, but not unless the President himself changes his mind. Usuclly. in matters of this kind, he considers himself to be his own best adviser, and he probably is.

A group of radio experts attended a private showing of the status of television research by one of the largest radio set manufacturers a few days ago ana came away wim »uiu that commercial television will not come during 1936. At least this was the company viewpoint. The demonstration showed close ups can now be transmitted in fairly good detail, but long shots are still blurred. The goal set by television technicians for them selves is to produce a picture as clear as home movies now are, and they are near it. C0MI ON STOPTUfcTING J V/iTU TU-a INFANT i Skeptics have suspected the radio people are in no nurry. ine radio set market is at present rather well filled. However, there are technical de ficiencies and economic obstacles.

State Secretary Hull was asked in a press conference for comment about the American Olympic victories but pleaded off, saying: "We have been kept so busy by ether nations' sports"--the javelin throwing in Sapin, of course. Military intelligence Is still much worried about the sinking of those Spanish submarines by airplane bombs. A complete report on how it was done has been requested. If airplanes ran sink aubs, some of our current j theories of warfare will have to be revised. A witness at the S. E. C. investment trust hearings was asked for his definition of an Investment trust, and gave it: "We invest the money j and trust in God." __ Bigger Wars Needed for Pensions Conflict Offers Hope of State Support for All. BY DOROTHY THOMPSON. COL. JOHN THOMAS TAYLOR, director of the Legislative Committee of the American Legion, last week came up to Vermont, the State in which I live, and made a speech to the Vermont Legion and its auxiliary at the eight* eenth annual State convention. Col. Taylor said there would be war in Eu rope Inside nine months. That was He predicted that we would become Involved in it. "Those countries all owe us money, and if war breaks out we are going to sell some of them goods--and the first thing we know' we shall be in it" But Col. Taylor says that there isn't gcing to be Bll v ui uuutcj ins Dorothy Thomson. Jn' the next war if the Legion can help it. He says that the first objective of the Legion would be to pftss the universal service draft law to see that there would be no draft-dodgers and that no individ ual would make any profits out of the next W'ar. And he said that now that the bonus had been taken care of, another major objective of the legion would be to see that all widows and orphans of veterans of the last w'ar got pensions. Pensions for All Kin Wanted. At present only the wives and chil dren of such veterans as died or suf fered injuries during the last war are covered by pensions. The legion wants pensions for relatives of any man who served. Maybe he never got farther than Camp Dix and maybe he never was nearer the front than a Paris cafe: maybe he will die peacefully in his bed 30 years after the war, but a grateful Government should take care of his relicts. Col. Taylor has, with seeming In nocence. put forward an American Legion plan for universal social se curity, which may prove more pro phetic than Dr. Townsend s. There is. he says, going to be another world war. and we shall become involved in it. All sign* indicate that it will make the last World War look like a sideshow. The Pacific will not be comparatively tranquil. Asia and Af rica will be in turmoil. It promises to be a national war, class war, race war and every known kind and variety of a war. There will be universal and compulsory service. Possibly for women and rhllriren, as well as for men. With aviation what it is, tha front may be anywhere and every* where. Therefore every one will be a belligerent; every one will be enlisted; when it is over, therefore, every one will have to get a bonus; and in the end every one will get a pension. Be cause every one will be either a vet eran or a widow or an orphan, or all three. And, of course, if the next war doesn't take care of quite everybody why we can have another war after that. In the course of a generation we would all be under the Govern ment's beneficent wing and everybody would be happy. It almost seems worth the wars. Can't Pay Out of War Profits. I hope nobody is worried as to how we are all going to pay ourselves pen sions for our patriotic services after the next war. We shan't be able to pay them out of the war profits, which we might tax away from the profiteers, because, of course, there aren't going to be any profits in the next war. But there will be a lot of land fought over, and a lot of crops destroyed, and so we will cut down more forests and plow up more land wherever there is a spot, if any, safe from shells. And afterward the rains and the rivers and the winds will blow away more soil, so that we shall not only have to pay the patriots bonuses as fighters, but In their capacity as farmers, we shall have to pay subsidies as well. And that will add to purchasing power. Industry will Immensely over-expand, because that is one fine thing about war: There Is no overproduction. What you produce you blow Into bits almost Im mediately; the government buys It for that purpose: It borrows the money to buy it, and when the fighting is over you have got the plants and the debts, a lot of scrap iron, and a Reconatruc tion Finance Corporation. You sub sidize the plants In order to make it possible for them to move on to a peace-time basis, and that adds to purchasing power, too. Since all the world Is poorer, after a first-class war, prices go up, and therefore you have prosperity. For we must all have learned in recent years that the more we pay for everything the better off we are. And if everything is costing a great deal, and we are therefore all yell off, we could perfectly well afford to pay [tensions to veterans, their wives and their eventual orphans. That ought to be self-evident. For if the world never made a war, never blew up the contents of mines, never cut off machinists' hands or blinded draughtmen's eyes, or brought up rickety children or denuded forests and fields, but just went on working artd producing and trading and con suming. we might create so much and get so rich that prices would go to a point where everybody could buy. and then, of course, no community could possibly afford to give anybody social security In the form of pensions and bonuses. So our hest hope of state support for everybody is plainly to have bigger and better wars. And if we just keep at it long enough and upon this single task concentrate the work and genius of mankind, we may eventually make a war in which all the veterans, wid ows and orphans, will be dead vet erans, widows and orphans. Then we shall have achieved the final com plete security which is the grave. tOotvrrttht. 1M* 1 We, the People Holt Seems to Be Burning All Bridges in Sight and Some Which Aren't. BY JAY FRANKLIN. MR. RUSH DEW HOLT, the "baby Senator" from West Virginia, hu delivered the keynote speech at Father Coughlin's conven tion at Cleveland. The radio priest hu been cleared at the Vatican and got the "Go" signal from his bishop. The National Union for Social Justice Is now a formal part of the political campaign. Senator Holt's appearance In the Coughlin camp hu puzzled even those who thought they knew the dark and devious ways of West Virginia politics. Holt was elected in 1634 on the Democratic ticket, with the sup port ol Jonn JU uewis united Mine workers. West Virginia shares with Colorado the doubtful honor of being the most perfect example of Wall Street absentee-ownership: It is rich In timber, oil, coal, natural gas and water power; It has made fortunes for Eastern and Northern Investors; Its .neaaim are desperately poor.

Corporations like Consolidated Coal and West Penn have pretty well controlled the resources and politlca of the mountaineers and the Holt election was part of the same "revolution" against this control, which swept the New Deal Democrats Into power In Pennsylvania. But Holt was under the constitutional age limit for Senators and had to wait until the late Spring of 1035 for the 30th birth day anniversary which permitted him to take his seat. While Holt was waiting, Jay Franklin. Senator Neely of West Virginia quite na turally got the New Deal patronage, and the conservative Democrats whom Holt had fougnt retained their power over the State. This ttfli the background for the "baby Senator's denunciation of "graft" in W. P. A. Few New Dealers would care to deny that there has been tome graft and more politics in State relief, but Harry Hopkins had no trouble in white-washing the West Virginia relief outfit on the specific charges made by Holt. Holt had simply been useful ammunition to the Republicans, and the United Mine Workers hao other fish to fry, so did not come to the rescue of their embairaxsing baby. Holt's party can now charge him with the dreadful crime of "irregu larity" in an election year, anc he has openly attacked John L. Lewis as a man who simply wants to make himself President and doesn't care what happens to the West Virginia miners. He seems to be burning all the bridges in sight and some which aren't.

The move to Coughlin fits with the fart that Holt's home Is In a strongly Catholic county, but misses the far more important fact that the State as a whole is mllitantiy Methodist. It also does not reckon on the possible boomerang of political Catholicism by the time 1940 comes around. Many thousands of sincere Catholics regard the Coughlin impor tation of political catnolicism as a grave danger to the cause of their religion in the United £tatec. The simultaneous convergence on the long-suffering city of Cleveland of Sqjiator Holt, Father Coughlin and President Roosevelt--who engaged in a "sight-seeing" trip to the Great Lakes Exposition--suggests that there may have been a political explosion in the making there. For the moment, all that can be observed is that the wayward Democratic Senator from the kept State of West Virginia may be either a bridge or a barrier to a reconciliation between the New Deal's social security pro(ram and the Coughlin demand for social justice.

The presence of Roosevelt no doubt served to moderate some of the more bitter words and notions which have inflamed the utterances of the "radio priest.' We may even see a temperate showdown between the followers of Father Coughlin and the great mass of American Catholics who have no desire to witness any revival in this country of the "bigotry" issue which disgraced Mr. Hoover's victory in 1928. The G. O. P. has been banking so heavily on Father Coughlin to drain liberal votes away from the New Deal that we have all overlooked the possibility that the liberal followers of the Microphone Messiah may persuade him to give Mr final support to thp President who has done more to pmmot# social Justice in the United States than any man since Abraham Lincoln. 'Onpvritht. 1 BUS Headline Folk and What They Do j Once Dealer in Sky- scrapers Turns Hot Dog Salesman. BY LEMUEL F. BARTON. I AC. BLUMENTHAL, pint-sir* j financier In a green ruit, restless as a Mexican jumping bean--and not much bigger-- got his first few millions by selling something big and expensive to few people. Now he switches to aelllng something small and cheap to a great many people. Theaters and skyscrapers comprised his old line, suitable to boom years. Hot dogs and hamburgers, better de passion goods, start off his new one. He is rigging a chain of roadside stands in England, which, as things go with j the Napoleonic Mr. Blumenthal, ought j to festoon the British Empire, and lap over Into Antarctica before long. If anybody can wrap a chaplet of hot dogs around Brittanla's neck, and make her like it, he's the man. When Mayor James J. Walker went into his tailspin, •'Blumey," as his friends call him, was in the ship, having made a blazing entry into New York in the mayor's entourage. Ho parachuted loose and went right on with his nimble careering without missing a step. By the time he reached his middle 30s, he had sold 1.000 theaters, gathering broker's fee* of *4 000.000. He had once closed a $50,000,000 deal in a taxicab in Just one minute of discussion. All this before his footlights turn with the mayor, his Broadway dazzle, his West chester mansion, his $25,000 pipe or gan, his marriage to Peggy Fears, beau tiful actress: his whirl of lawsuits, his chain of New England theater* and his Sunday night soirees, at which mingled actors, fighters, promoters, singers, writers, toe dancers and Jim Farley. Never was there a man mora given to herding and feeding celebri ties. j I have bought many a bottle of milk or package of breakfast food at his papa's grocery' in San Rafael, near San Francisco Pan a wanted ''Blumey'* to be a pianist..# A teacher worked hard for several years, then broke a chain on Blumey's" head and with drew. He went to the University of California in short pants. His yen for celebrities was strong even then. Ha peeked behind the scenes when George M. Cohan was showing at San Fran cisco and declared himself in as a sort of a mascot. Everybody liked him. He went along with the show, as the "leading juvenile," but not in the ordinary sense. He was and is so juvenile in appearance that Jimmy Walker used to threaten to spank him and send him back to school. Firmly set in long pants, he stain'd j dealing in W'es: Coast theaters the wav he now hopes to sell hamburgers, j I Properties valued at around $400,000,-* i 000 have passed through his hsnds. fiafls ...all the essentials of a good cigarette We use four of the world's best cigarette tobaccos... Bright, Burley and Maryland from our own South land... and aromatic tobaccos from Turkey and Greece. We use the right kind of cigarette paper.. .the finest Champagne paper tested for purity, burning quality and freedom from taste or odor. on essentials Lhesterjield wins