Sun poll finds fear of open ballots; pay roll tax (Evening Star, Oct. 24, 1936, p. 7)

Sun Poll Finds Fear of Open Ballots New Deal May Learn Pay Roll Tax Will Clip Majority. Today's dispatch deals with the political trend in Maryland, the 36th State to be visited by David Lawrence in his personal survey of the 40 States outside the "Solid South BY DAVID LAWRENCE. Baltimore. Md., October 24.-- An assured State for Presi dent Roosevelt, the important fact to be determined here *as whether the pro-Roosevelt tide, In a "Border State'' contiguous to the solid South, is as high as reflected in the Baltimore Sun's extraordinary poll. If the Sun poll is taken at face VOiUC MIC 1VUUOC" velt majority in Maryland would be about 144,000, Which is 10,000 more than Mr. R o os e velt had lour years ago. Such a circum stance warrants investigation be cause it would be the second State on my jour neys where a ma jority larger than iyjg came to me _ David Lawrence. fore as a possi bility. The other case was California, which I visited early in August and which since then has shown signs of greatly reducing the majority originally indicated. The Baltimore Sun poll was hon estly and fairly conducted. The Sun Itself had declared editorially that It could not support Mr. Roosevelt for re-election, so there was no chance of any accusation of bit-s in managing the poll itself. Accidental Factors Involved. But there are certain factors over which the Sun had no control and which must be taken into considera tion in weighing the merits cf the canvass. First of all, the poll was an nounced several weeks in advance of the mailing of ballots. The Mew Deal machine in Baltimore urged its pre cinct captains to make sure that all available ballots were marked. An unprecedented response, unknown in any other poll, was recorded. it is reported that foremen on W. P. A. units asked the men to bring their ballot cards to a central place to be sent in. Likewise, in Negro wards, it is charged that workers col lected the cards for mailing to the Sun. Then there are rumors that many of the ballots were marked in post offices here and there by Farley employes. One mistake was made by the Sun--It sent postcards to be re turned, and that meant an open in stead of a secret ballot. Persons on the relief rolls saw strange key num bers on the cards and felt there .night be some way to Identify their votes If they balloted against the New Deal. The Sun itself comments on the hesitancy of rural voters to return the ballots because they felt that postmen on their route could tell what the ballot was and perhaps make a list of voters. Mindful of Factor. Says the Sun in its final survey: "An explanation--other than there was no desire to participate in the poll--was offered for the lower per centage in county returns. It was pointed out that the mail collections I in rural areas did not permit a maxi- j mum of secrecy and that persons may have declined to ballot for this reason." This may or may not have been j true also in the cities, but it is most j regrettable that the poll was not taken on a basis of every third or fourth name, so as to confound the politi cians, and with a ballot that could! have been placed in a return envelope to be marked and sealed in secrecy. If one takes the Literary Digest poll of Maryland, the Indicated majority for Mr. Roosevelt is about 37,000. If one applies 54 per cent as the per centage for Mr. Landon in the rural counties of Maryland, on the assump tion that the rural counties here j would be about the same as they are in other border States, like Missouri, it still gives Mr. Roosevelt about a 75,000 majority In Maryland. This, Incidentally, is what a private esti mate, made by disinterested sources, gives as the Maryland majority for President Roosevelt. But 75,000 is more like what may be expected in Maryland this year, and not 144.000, as there is no reason to asume that the New Deal tide will run higher in the border States than in the Middle Western States. U. S. Swings With Maryland. Marylanders are saying that, as their State goes, so goes the Nation, and that at no time has an election been won for 50 years that has not followed the Maryland cue. This used to be said about New York State until 1916 shattered the myth and elected Wilson without New York or New Jersey or Indiana or Illinois. This year, the border States are rather solidly Democratic, but none of them shows signs of approximating the four years ago majority of Mr. Roosevelt, and, In my judgment, Mary land will diminish the Roosevelt majority of 1932. mere nas oeen some Simuus ui Votes going on since the Sun poll was taken. Thus, for instance, workers are beginning to react unfavorably to the pay roll tax. Not only are they discovering that the Roosevelt regime has imposed a 1 per cent tax that will have to be deducted from their pay envelopes, but that employers must pay a tax of 2 per cent next year, 3 per cent the next and 4 per cent the next year for the social security pro gram. Strangely enough, the workers are interpreting what the employer has to pay as meaning that there can be no raises in pay to the employes for the next three years. Obviously, a pay roll tax that the employer has to bear, which runs from $560,000,000 a year up to more than $1,140,000,000 at the end of the third year, is a tax the like of which American industry has never known. Pay Boll Cut a Possibility. Unless the tax can be passed on to the consumers, industry not only may be compelled by circumstances to hold up on any raises, but it may actually have to cut pay rolls in order to give Uncle Sam the necessary toll. Employers are beginning formally to notify their employes of the pay roll tax that must be deducted from their pay envelopes in less than 90 days from date. This, in turn, is causing all sorts of questions to be asked and protests to be made. But employers are refraining for the most part from discussing the politics of it, leaving it to to the workmen to draw their own con clusions from the facts of the law. The Importance of the Issue, even though late in making its appearance, cannot be underestimated. Hereto fore, for example, the highest number of persons to pay an Income tax in America in any year has been around 5,000,000. Next January 25,000,000 persons will feel a direct levy on their wage Income. Gov. Landon has pledged himself to obtain repeal of the law if elected. President Roosevelt, on the other hand, is defending the act as a hu manitarian measure and giving he impression in his speeches that the employers will have to pay most of the bill. Either the pay-roll tax win have to be modified or there will be consider able confusion next Winter, plenty of wage disputes and a demand for re peal such as has not been heard in many a year with respect to any act of Congress. (Coprrisbt. IMS.) I* News Behind the News Nebraska 50,000 for Roosevelt Is Latest in Election Bets. BY PAUL MALLOV. STATESMEN and brain trusters have personal troubles. Just as kings and commoners, and even in the midst of elections. For instance, the wife of one obscure but important New Deal thinker packed her bags and took the children back to New York the other day. She could endure it no longer. Her complaint: The brain truster sat around every morning talking about ideas for improving the social condition of the forgotten man, and she wanted to go to the movies. Moral: What about the forgotten woman? Today's election special--Roosevelt fb carry Nebraska by about 50,000 votes, but ask for odds. (The President's Nebraska majority four years ago was 150,000, and inside Republican figures claim a London victory this time by 24,000.) Citizens of politically mad Wash* ington no longer greet each other with a good morning, aftertfoon or evening. They ask, what is wrong with the Literary Digest poll, if anything? The answer seems to be that there is nothing wrong with it except the Roosevelt totals. The semi-final poll, published October 23, identified the bulk of the pollees as follows: WOW ABOUT, thedigest f.

Hoover Voter* Roosevelt Voter* For Landon _,_-_ 842,998 228,007 For Roosevelt 127,443 648,897 For Lemke ......_...... 13,530 50,008 Total.'983,971 926,912 By the process of simple arithmetic, It Is evident that the Digest re turns came from 57,059 more Republicans than Democrats. There is nothing deceptive about that. The Digest explanation is that more Demo crats threw away their cards.

Harry Hopkins' Grecian profile showed a laugh at Bill Hard's charges of W. P. A. coercion in Pennsylvania, but the missing half of the face registered deep concern. In fact, the W. P. A. administrator quietly dispatched a corps of in vestigators to Pennsylvania to check up on Mr. Hard's investigators and investigation. Two other groups of W. P. A. investigating agents also have been set to work in Ohio and Indiana^ making contact with the same persons from whom Mr. Hard received tiis information, and others. The object is to get counter-affidavits, if possible, or at least refute the allegator, Mr. Hard. The United States will be in no hurry to recognize the incoming Fascist government of Spain. The State Department will let European nations take the lead. On the other hand, there will be no difficulty about eventual recognition. The delay will be for the announced purpose of ascertaining whether the Franco crowd is strong enough to maintain an orderly government. There is really not much doubt about that. The expectation here is that Gen. Franco will swiftly suppress the radicals as effectively as it was done in Italy and Germany. Our diplomats have had few informal contacts with the Franco regime, but these few have been friendly. Authorities here are pleased with his tendency toward moderation, as manifestd by his refusal to bom Dara MBana or ueatruy ovxxc* Spanish cities over which he ex pects to rule.

You will search the list of Democratic campaign contributors in vain for any contributions by the leading brain trusters. How ever, two show'ed up elsewhere, in the list of contributors to the La Follette National Progressive Com i mlttee lor president rtooseven. They were Tom Corcoran and Ben Cohen, co-authors of most of the financial reform legislation enacted during the last four years. Their do nations of $1,000 were more than a month's salary apiece. A New Deal publicity man was sitting with friends the other night, moping about the futility of his labors. He had devoted weeks to the preparation of campaign speeches for his bureau chief, but all his work had been held up at the White House. Apparently some hitch had de veloped and the speeches for his boss were to be tied up by the Chief Executive until too late for their delivery before election day. Red tape, that's what it was, he said. For amusement, he and his sympathetic friends turned on the radio to hear Mr. Roosevelt's address of the evening. They were startled a few minutes later when the dejected ghost writer leaped three feet in the air, shouting, "that's mine." The White House had held up the bureaucrat's speeches for a good reason. The President had decided to use the best parts of them himself. The ghost went to bed whistling. (Copyrighted. 1936.1 Lady Astor Parries Questions With Gayety and Repartee Lady Astor devoted the 10 minutes before her departure yesterday by air for New York to a demonstration of the model way to circumvent the questions of reporters and still leave the interviewers happy. It was a 10 minutes devoted to gayety and repartee, all combined to thwart serious questions of the re porter. "Where have you been?" she was asked. She tossed back her head and laughed, as she seized the arm of Admiral William H. Standley, highest ranking naval officer, and remarked: "Oh, we've all just come up from Florida. I was down there with the admiral, and Lord Astor was down there with Mrs. Standley." She put her arm around Mrs. Standley. "We two are going off together now and let the men go to Reno." More laughter from the former Nancy Langhorne of Virginia. "Oh, pictures," she exclaimed when the four reached the plane. She threw her arms about Mrs. Standley to say good-by. "Hold it," the photographer asked. "Oh, no, it would be much more scandalous if I should kiss Admiral Standley." "Of course," she turned to the reporter, "this is just the scandal I am giving you. I know you under stand." Lord Astor, tall, red-faced, perfectly dressed in black homburg, gray top coat, gray suit and black shoes, smiled throughout. Lady Astor pulled nervously at her red fox fur and once started aboard the plane in her eagerness to be off, but she was five minutes ahead of time. "The truth of it is," she finally admitted, with her arm about Mrs. Standley, "that we have been down in Virginia, at Greenwood, my old place. We arrived in Washington 45 minutes ago by car, and tomorrow we are leaving for Bermuda. In a fortnight was will return to England." "What do you think of the elec tion?" "Be careful, photographer," Lady Astor diverted the question. "Don't catch me with my mouth open. I'm none too beautiful at my best." "You were pretty smart to find us," she said. "The reporters didn't catch us at all when we came ovei on the Bremen. "Fine ship, but- I told thi captain that If I saw another pictun of Hitler, I would parboil him."

Minister Operates on Bird. With a razor blade. Rev. S. Warnes Buckie. Scotland, performed a success ful operation on a seagull. It appeare< to have a broken leg. When the minis ter examined the bird, which flutterei into his garden, he found that the le| was not broken, but was held extendet and useless by a fish hook embeddet under the wing. CTHE opinions of the writers on this page are their own, not necessarily The Star's. Such opinions are presented in The Star's effort to give all sides of questions of interest to its readers, although such opinions may be contradictory among themselves and directly opposed to The Star's. Augurs of Victory Digest Poll Supplemented by "Verbologist's" Point and Seafaring Prognostication. BY MARK SULLIVAN. LET it be reported, as the experi ence of one commentator, that the persons who write letters about the polls forecasting the election returns outnumber those who writ* about the issues of the cam paign. One might infer that interest m now uic eieu tlon goes Is greater than In terest In what the election will decide. But that would be too cynical a conclu sion. The more probable Infer ence is that prac tically everybody has made up his mind about how he will vote, that they are "rarin' to go" that the M„k BolliTan. total vote will be very large, and that everybody Is eager for light on the outcome. Many well-informed letters take exception to the weight I have given to the poll of Maryland as a barometer of the Nation. This poll gave Mr. Roosevelt 64 per cent of the whole. If Maryland be accepted as an index to the Nation, this Maryland poll would be a forecast of a decided Roosevelt victory. I stated that Maryland Is a good index to the country because in the last 12 presidential elections the result In Maryland coincided with the result in the country as a whole. This statement needs qualification with respect to two elections. In 1904 and 1908 Maryland gave a popular major ity to the Republicans, as did the rest of the country. But the Maryland Republican majorities were extremely small--in one year only 51, in the other 605. As a result, in the separate votes for Maryland's eight electors, the Republicans in 1904 got only one elector while the Democrats got seven. In 1908, the Republicans got two while the Democrats got six. Consequently it can hardly be said that Maryland went with the Nation-wide winner in all of the last 12 elections. This objec tion to accepting this year's Maryland poll as an Index to the Nation is sup plemented by others. Altogether, the argument that the Maryland poll Is an index to the Nation is somewhat weakened. Most Polls for Roosevelt. As to polls of the whole country, most of them, though not all, forecast a Roosevelt victory. So do most of the local newspaper polls of SUfes and cities. As against this, the Literary Digest poll points clearly and strongly toward a Landon victory. The Digest poll, it is fair to say, has exceptional authority. It has prestige because of its uninterrupted correct ness over a period of 16 years. Most of the other Nation-wide polls have had little experience, preceding the present year. The Digest poll has further prestige because of the tech nique for getting accurate results which it has learned through its long experience. The Digest poll has yet further prestige because of its enor mous extent. The Digest sent straw ballots to 10,000.000 voters. This is more than one out of four in the whole electorate, which In the 1932 election was slightly less than 40.000,000. No j other poll pretends to cover more than a relatively tiny fraction of the Di gest's coverage. One well-known Nation-wide poll, the Gallup one, can hardly reach more than 200,000 voters. Of the 10.000.000 straw ballots sent I out by the Digest, it has already re ceived returns from upward of 2,100, I 000. Apparently, by the time the poll closes, the Digest will have received returns from close to 2.500,000 voters. 1 I The percentage of returns is strikingly i large, This, again, indicates wide spread interest in polls and in the election. Tha Digest, in its latest installment of returns, points strongly toward Re publican victory. It gives Landon al most 1,000,000; Roosevelt nearly 900,000. That is, Landon gets £4.8 per cent of the total, Roosevelt 40.7 per cent, Lemke gets 3.48 per cent, and all others combined i 05. It is probable that in the one week re maining, Landon will fell somewhat and Roosevelt gain, for returns are now coming in from large cities, in which Roosevelt Is strong. But taking that and everything else into account, it is likely the end of the Digest poll will see Landon with upward of 53 per cent of the total vote. Many objections have been raised to the Digest poll. The Digest asks each voter how he voted in 1932. Most of the voters telL The returns show cn their face that of those now voting in the Digest poll, more were Republican in 1932 than were Democratic in 1932. Taking into account the fact that the Democrats won overwhelmingly in I 1932, it is inferred that an undue pro portion of Republicans are represented in the present Digest poll. To this the answer is made that an analogous i condition existed in the 1932 Digest poll with respect ftrihe 1928 vote--and this did not prevent the Digest's 1932 poll from being aoproximately correct. All the objections to the Digest poll seem to meet satisfactory answers. It is hard to discount its significance. Abstruse Graphs Submitted. I am obliged to think that about every statistician and bookkeeper in the country is making analyses of the Digest poll. Many of them send me their intricate calculations accom panied by abstruse charts and graphs. Examining these computations, many of them exceedingly complex, has re l quired me to use muscles which I had not previously exercised since I passed a college condition in trigonometry. I find myself grateful to certain read 1 ers who have sent me prognostications simpler in nature. One--I take him to be what might be called a "verbolo gist"--says that no presidential can didate whose name ended in "on" ever lost. Consequently, he says, Lan don will win as did Washington, Jef ferson, Madison, Jackson and the two Harrisons--though the latter Harri son. in 1892. failed to benefit by the magic of his name when he ran a second time. But maybe Mr. Landon doesn't intend to run for a second term. Another admirably simple prognos tication comes to me from somewhere on the ocean, from the schooner Ter ragram. This is an omen which Mr. Roosevelt, as a seafaring man, should take account of. It appears that ships use an international code of signals put out by the Government hydro graphic office. Each signal--there are thousands of them--consists of three letters. In two cases the letters hap pen to correspond with the initials of two men conspicuous in politics. One of these signals runs: "A M L--adjust compasses." While this, like the old Roman auguries, is somewhat cryptic, it would seem to suggest that Alfred M. Landon is about to steer the ship of state. This inference is strongly borne out by the other signal: "F D R--must go into dry dock." (Copyrlgbt, 1938,1 Just Mistake. This Shooting:. It was all a mistake. E. Emanescu of Rumania sadly admits now that he has been sent to prison. On his wed ding day he drank too much, went to the wrong village, entered the wrong church, shot the wrong bride, bride- groom and most of the wedding guests for taking part in the wrong cere- mony. He says he is going to marry j another woman altogether when he is released. Capital's Radio Programs Saturday, October 24. (copjriiht, 1936.) Eastern Standard Time. 1 WRC 950k WMAL 630k I WOL 1,310k WJSV 1.460k I P.M._ AFTERNOON PROGRAMSP.M. 12:00 Merry Go Round jGenia Fonariova Salon Music H. B. Derr 12:00 12:15 Chasin' Music Series News--Music News Bulletins 12:15 12:30 Charles Stenross' Orch. Farm and Home Hour Swing Time George Hall's Orch. 12:30 12:45 Stuart Gracey's Orch. 12:45 1:00 Red River Valley Days Farm and Home Hour Luncheon Concert Afternoon Rhythms 1:00 1:15 I Paul Pendarvls' Orch. Poetic Strings 1:15 1:30 Fiscal Hearing. Old Skipper's Gang College Medley Buffalo Presents 1:30 1:45 Notre Dame vs. Pittsburghj 1:45 2~0<r Fiscal Hearing. Glen Gray s Orch. Notre Dame vs. Pittsburgh Melodies _2:00 2:15 Fordham vs. St. Mary's 2:15 2:30 Joan and Escorts 2:30 2:45 _Minnesota vs. Purdue__ "_ "_2:45 Fordham vs. St. Mary's Minnesota vs. Purdue Notre Dame vs. Pittsburgh Foot Ball Frolic 3:00 3:15 Catholic U. vs. Miss. 3:15 3:30 u 3:30 3.^5 II II M «4 MM M M 3:45 4:00 Fordham vs. St. Mary's Minnesota vs. Purdue Notre Daime vs. Pittsburgh Catholic U. vs. Miss. 4:00 II M M M 44 44 44 4ll5 4:30 m Today's Winners 4:30 MM MM* MM MM 4;45 _5:00~ Sundown Revue Minnesota vs. Purdue Bill McCune's Orch. Catholic U. vs. MisT 5:00 j.jj 11. 5:15 5:30 The Kindergarten Sunday School Lesson Folio of Facts 5:30 5:45 Evening Star Flashes 5:45 P.M. EVENING PROGRAMS P.M. 8:00 i Dinner Dance Dinner Club Tony Wakeman Evening Rhythms 6:00 6:15 mm Palmer House Ensemble Arch McDonald 0:15 6:30 Home Symphony Editorial and Music Ann Leaf, organist 6:3° 6:45 «m Reg Newton, songs Swing Session 6:45 ~tm Hamid Grange Message of Israel Dance Music Swing Session- 7:00 7:15 (Hallowe'en Celebration Arthur Reilly Souvenirs of Song 7:15 7:30 Question Bee Evening Album Alt Wien Get-together 7:30 7:45 Sports Parade Melody Moments 14 7:45 T:00" Saturday Evening Party Hildegarde Rev. Charles E. Coughlin Columbia Workshop 8:00 8:15 Democratic Program 8:15 8:30 Meredith Wilson's Orch. Central Union Mission Foot Ball Revue 8:30 8:45, m u mm mm ><M 8:45 "JMHT Snow Village Slret-he* National Barn Dance Central Union Mission Gov. London 9:00 9-15 MM MM. M 9;15 9:30 The Chateau Rhythm Rhapsody The Serenaders 9:30 9.45 mm mm m„ 9.45 10:00 The Chateau Alfred E. Smith Baron Lee's Orch, Hit Parade 10:00 10:15 m« m Sweet Music mm* I0:15 10:30 Irvin S. Cobb Allen Strong 10:30 10:45 _ News Bulletins 10:45 11:00 News--Night Owl News Bulletins Art Brown Roger Pryor's Orch. 11:00 11:15 iBlue Barron's Orch. Contract Bridge Labor News Review 11:15 11*30 Midnite Frolics Slumber Hour Ted Fio Rlto's Orch. News Bulletins 11:30 11:45 _" _ George Olsen's Orch. 11:45 ia^oo" Jan Garber's Orch. Night Watchman Dance Parade Sleepy Time 12:00 13:15 mm 12.15 12:30 Griff Williams' Orch. M Benny Goodman's Orch. 12:30 12:45 Dance Parade 12:45 ITOO sign Off Night Watchman (1 hr.) Leon Belasco's Orch. Sign Off "jToo 1:15 I 1:15 1:30 I «l*a OS 1:M< l We, the People After the Fall of Madrid, Americans May Hear Enough of Reaction. BY JAY FRANKLIN. FTER the Spanish rebels capture the capital city of Madrid, we can look for a powerful change In our public opinion on the Issue of dlctatorshin versus radicalism. In this country, the G. O. P. has been working both sides of the street, accusing Roosevelt of being a dictator and also of fomenting a Communist revolution. Despite the Resident's forceful repudiation of Communist support and his clear statement of the liberal policy which prevents revolution by removing the causes of unrest, the issue will not entirely disappear It would be childish to expect the Republicans to abandon their 'red' her ring" campaign wnne it oners them a single vote In a single doubtful State. On the other band, the emo tional distortion Mich makes this sort of thing effective politics will shift rapidly as soon' as Gen. Franco's Fascist troops, foreign adventurers and Moslems blast a way to Madrid for the Spanish Fascists and Royalists who rebelled against the rule of the Spanish radicals. *r men me Loyalists win Decome 'origanae, me reoeis win oecome "Loyalists" and the civil war will settle down to a bloody, dogged police operation against Catalonia, Galicia and other centers ol radical sentiment.

Up to now, the world has been horrified by the reported atrocities of this cruel social warfare. Both sides have committed dreadful outrages but, generally speaking, the execution of priests and nuns and the destruc tion of churches have weighted our sympathies on the rebel side. When Franco's clean-up operations begin, we shall hear less about the attacks on the church and more about "the victims of Fascist reaction." In particular, u>e shall hear more about the Moors. These colored men, with their little crescent-shaped knives, will rove the country, looting, raping, burning and killing. Here is the key for the radical propagandists from now on until the complete restoration of Gen. Franco's authority throughout the peninsula. Even the Germans, who fiercely resented the Senegalese 16 years ago, may waver in their sympathies for the Spanish Fascists and a Musso lini who has carried Italian culture into Africa may wince at a fascism which bases itself on African auxiliaries in Europe. Then there will be the slow, terrible process of legal proscription, confiscation and execution against the Republicans. And as the church comes back to Spain, behind the Moors and the mercenaries, the radicals will remind the world of the Duke of Alva, Torquemada and the whole tragic tale of the wars of religion which ravaged Europe for a 100 years. For as the Spanish radicals be YOU DON'T SAY/ yes, iri TRUE come the underdogs, the bulk of the "atrocities" will increasingly be committed by Franco's Fascists and the world will hear of them through France and Portugal and Gibraltar.

Our traditional sympathy for the underdog will turn us increasingly against the Spanish Fascists and will reinforce the liberal drive to attack social responsibilities to uui uvmi vwwru imcicaia, nicy OlW lUUi tu UU*.L31U. If Roosevelt is re-elected, we can anticipate a more direct approach to the economic and legal obstacles to American reform. And if Lanaon is elected, he and his party can anticipate a rising pressure of popular determination to make sure that "it can't happen here." For when (this happened recently in wealthy New Jersey) an aged couple can be thrown into jail for the "crime" of being destitute, popular emotions are liable to flare up in a passionate demand for social security. And woe to the man or party which denies to the people what they deeply desire. (Copyrighted, 1936.) MUSIC EVOLUTION BROUGHT BY RADIO Time Limitations Require Cutting Arias, and Kostelanetz Apologizes. THE evolution of a new musical art form to meet the peculiar requirements of radio, particu larly that of time length, is forecast by Andre Kostelanetz and the opera artists who appear or have appeared on his Columbia program. The comment of Kostelanetz fol lowed Columbia's announcement that it had engaged six outstanding com posers to write the music especially for radio, taking fuU advantage of the orchestral effects allowed by the microphone, but conforming to the time limitations of broadcasting. The conductor indicated that his most difficult assignment in radio has been the presentation of opera arias as part of his bi-weekly, half-hour series. "It has been a matter of compro mising with my conscience." said Kostelanetz, "to cut the length of opera arias as presented by Nini Mar tini, Rosa Ponselle, Lily Pons and Grete Stueckgold on my program. However, after consultation with these artists, and an examination of listen ers' opinions, I believe that many arias in their entirety as they are presented on the operatic stage tend to become dull and tedious on the air because of their length and their recurring musical passages. Therefore. I have regretfully cut these arias with a deep felt apology to the masters who com posed them, but with the firm convic tion that this was the only way they might be presented most effectively over the microphone. And the opera stars with whom I have had the pleas ure of working agree with me." ■pOR the fifth season, t*e Boston Symphony Orchestra is to be heard in a broadcast series, beginning November 19. Altogether the sched ule calls for 21 concerts, all but three of which will come on Thursday nights. The exceptions are Thursday matinee programs. A COMEDY romance entitled "Bill Meets Judy" will be the First Nighter presentation on N. B. C. Fri day, October 30. Don Ameche will play the leading role--that of a young man who knows how to keep a secret. Dinas Mawddwy is the name of a slate-quarrying village in Wales. Eviry Saturday Night k Major Features and Notes Gov. Landon's political address in Charleston. S. C., will be broadcast by WJSV at 9. WMAL will broadcast a political speech by Alfred E. Smith at 10. Professional producers of strange strange noises will present the "Co lumbia Workshop" on WJSV at 8. Slip Madigan, dean of Pacific Coast gridiron coaches, will be interviewed by Ed Thorgerson during the football review program on WJSV at 8:30. He 1 will discuss high lights of the St. j Mary's-Pordham game, and the out look for foot ball on the Pacific Coast. Reg Newton will celebrate his third anniversary on WOL at 6:45 by pre senting a special program of piano selections. "The Better Man" will be the Snow Village Sketch on WRC at 9. Amos Alonzo Stagg. old-time foot ball coach, will be interviewed by Edward Everett Horton during the Chateau program on WRC at 9:30. Stagg has been connected with foot ball since he was a player at Yale in the 80's. The musical background 1 will be provided by Victor Young's Orchestra.

Peat Is found in Sweden in large quantities. Headline Folk and What They Do Slip Madigan Climbs to Coach Greatness From Backheld. BY LEMUEL F. PARTOV. EW YORK, October 24--Star athletes make bad coaches. The best coaches come from the run of the line or back field. So with Slip Madigan, here with his rampageous St. Mary's team to head-on the Fordham ram today. He was just so-so as Knute Rockne's center at Notre Dame, from 1916 to 19il9. As a coach, he has made little St. Mary's a big-time menace, East or West. There is more to Slip Madigan than meets the eye. but that, today, is mainly his pink shirt of high visibility, and his hat, a survival of the days of free enter prise. which, like that of Judge Lan dis, has become Institutional in spcrt. I happened to be around when young Slip Madigan was the undis covered man and St. Mary's the for gotten college. Out of Notre Dame in 1919, he coached an obscure Ore gon team, took a law degree and be came coach of St. Mary's in 1921-- also trainer, rubber, handler, doctor, dietician and pants mender. The University of California had beaten St.'Mary's by 120 to 0. In a dingy old building on a dingy side street, the college had about 300 stu dents. They winced when anybody mentioned foot ball. Madigan had to work like Billy Sunday to get out a full string of 11 men, to say noth ing of a scrub team or substitutes.; That year California beat them" by only 20 to 0, and from then on St. Mary's steadily kept both the goose egg and the wolf from the door. One alter another, the big coast, cobras were toppled by the little St.'Mary's mongoose--to their stupefied amaze ment. Last year Slip Madigan was the leader in a national poll of coach popularity, getting 349,444 votes. St. Mary's won students, endowments and a beautiful new home. Whenever one of his lads messed up a play, fumbled the ball or missed an easy catch, Madigan would tell them how Tom Deegan would liaive handled that play. The name might have been Dugan, but, at any rate, it was some such Irish name. Deegan, it seemed, had been one of Madigan's mates at Notre Dame. When a player put over something fast or clever, Madigan would recall that Tom Deegan won such and such a close game by just such a play. The boys got to asking themselves, when they went to bed at night, whether they had played that day as Tom Deegan would play. He was their mentor, even in training discipline and be havior. When St. Mary's and Tom Deegan had been winning games for years, somebody wrote a book about the late Knute Rockne. It listed every man on all Rockne s squads, but no Tom Deegan. The omission was called to Madi gan's attention. ''Well,'' he said, "it is true that Tom Deegan never won a game for Notre Dame, but he's won a lot of them for St. Mary's." iCopyrisbt, l9oti CUTTER OPEN TODAY t Coast Guard Ship to Be Shown From 1 P.M. to 5 P.M. The new Coast Guard cutter, Wil liam J. Duane, was scheduled to be open to the public today from 1 pm. to 5 p.m. at the Washington Navy Yard. The ship, which has been assigned to Hawaii in the new Treasury De partment drive against wircotic smug gling. will be here for inspection by the public tomorrow also from 11 a.m. to 5 p.m., and Tuesday. Navy day, from 10 a.m. to 5 p.m. It will not be open Mondfiy. RENOVIZE your home DEPENDABLE £7 Yeari EFFICIENT 17 Yean INEXPENSIVE >7 Yean EBERLY'S SONS 1108 K N.W. DISTRICT KM7 Dientry your home. Phone "iberly ■_ r Starring Mary Eastman Bill Perry The Serenaders and Gus Haenschen's Orchestra WJSV 9:30 P.M. EVERY SATURDAY NIGHT

w come to tne smartest, gayest, new musical show aver put on the air. Be the guest of IRVIN S. COBB at his PADUCAH PLANTATION JLaugn at (JODD S aeilgmiui nuiuur hear Dorothy Page's sweet contralto, Clarence Muse's rich baritone, and the Hall-Johnson Choir's rousing spirituals. Enjoy the artistry of the evening's guest star RUTH CHATTERTON A