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Show ; I-:.'- . '. I- - ; V' :; - ' W s .,,. TIIE SMITHFIELD SENTINEL. SMITH FIELD. UTAH Itruekarlo MIXTURE OF RELIEF CASH AND POLITICS DANGEROUS Camlidalcs Methods of Influencing Voters Scored by Washington Observer; Suggests Return to Election of Senators by Legislatures By WILLIAM BRUCKART WSV Service. Notional Frew Bldg., Washington, O. C. : And then, rather in disgust with I had finished WASHINGTON. whole thing, I turned to a new the few a leading my evening paper The volume is titled "Notanights ago when I found myself book. Bar Addresses. ble news The Virginia the in down dumps. quite Among the 27 speeches listed of the day was disturbing. It was vicious news in its implications. there, I decided to read that by the There was so much of it that was late Thomas R. Marshall His. adall of the others, was indisturbing that I could not help won- dress, like to tended are good government preach a as where people, we, dering and the obligations of the lawyer as headed. On page one, there was an ac- well as the layman. In reading that count of the bitter factional fight speech, I came across this passage: I have only one apology that I within the Democratic ranks in Tennessee. Sen. George Berry was know of to make for my political rather, renomi- life. I apologize to the American seeking nation and Senator McKellar, his people for having been in favor of colleague, was fighting tooth and foe election of United States senanail to prevent it Party control in tors by the people. My reason for it the state was the objective, and was, different from the reason of many men. I had gotten tired of Marshall's Apology Thomas R. Marshall, Vice President of the United Stolen in the Wilson administration , once taidi "1 have only one apology that I know of to make for my political life. I apologise to the American people for having been in favor of the election of United Staten senators by the people . There , thinkn William Bruckarl, in the key to today's problem. Let state legislators pick U. S. senators , he says, and well be rid of the demagogue who is elected by his ability to promise more than the opposition. there were countless charges of the use of money, federal relief money, state payroll money, other money. There was, likewise, a fight going on next door. In Kentucky, Gov. "Happy Chandler was seeking the Democratic nomination to the senate and Sen. "Dear Alben Barkley wanted to be renominated and re- elected. Also, the New Dealers in Washington, from President Roosevelt on down wanted Senator Barkley sent back, and the President had gone into Kentucky to tell the voters of his views. Again: money, federal relief money, state payroll money, charges of attempted trades of federal judgeships so that there would not have to be a bitter primary fight like that which came. Mr. Hopkins Idea on Relief Votes Backfires Here in Washington, there was the greatest spender of all time, Mr. Harry Hopkins, head of the Works Progress administration and professional reliever of destitute persons whether they are politicians or the poor, popping off another idea. Mr. Hopkins was saying that 90 per cent of the relief clients would vote for President Roosevelt for a third term. It was a statement that immediately caused a backfire from Capitol Hill where Senator Sheppard of Texas was saying as chairman of the committee investigating the use of relief money in politics, that there must be something done about such methods of influencing voters. In another place, I read how Governor Earle of Pennsylvania was calling the state legislature into special session there to enact laws that would prevent a grand jury from investigating some of the governor's acts. The call for the special session had been preceded, of course, by a terrific political fight over the Democratic nomination for United States senator in Pennsylvania, which was won by Governor Earle. The governor preferred to have the investigating done by members of the state legislature, if there was to be an inquiry, rather than by an independent group. The only way to prevent it was by a law taking away the authority of the courts and the grand jury. There were other states involved, too. Senator McAdoo, who is seek- Demvoting for some old rum-nose- d ocrat for the legislature in Indiana because a United States senator depended on him for election; and I thought that I could raise the grade of legislators in Indiana by letting the people elect the United States senators. Mtscellany Weekly News Review Wmuklmuton Mgeat Now, it was an altruistic movement to make that change in the organic law of the United States; but, ladies and gentlemen, when it has resulted in the spending of half a million dollars to elect a senator, I want to know if the old fashioned government would not have been better. Answer to Todays Problem Given in 1920 And right there, I believe, is the guts of the present day problem. Mr. Marshall had held many elective offices and the speech from which I quoted the above passage, was made while he was vice president of the United States. He was an observer and a student of politics. He saw in 1920 where we, as a people, were going and I have no doubt that he could have predicted exactly the set of circumstances we. are meeting now. When Senator Norris of Nebraska, once a Republican, then a Democrat, and now labeled as something else, drove the constitutional amendment through congress and cleared the way for direct election of United States senators, he accomplished two things. (1) He made it possible for the purest type of demagogue to win elections by his ability to "promise more than the opposition, rewards, political patronage, pork barrel returns to the state and (2) he augured that vast sums of money can indeed, must be used to influence elections. And, in amplification of the second item, he made it possible for any administration, any dominant party, in control of the federal government to build up national and state machines jointly by using federal money. Too Many Senators Out for Greatest Amount of Swag I grant that corporations, "vested interests, formerly had too much to say about the election of United States senators by state legislatures. But of the two, I have come to the conclusion that we had a better national administration and particularly a better senate under that condition than under the system where every voter casts a ballot directly for a United States senatorial nominee. That is why 75 per cent of the present senate members are nothing more or less than salesmen who are trying to collect for their states the greatest amount of swag which they can put over with their brother senators. That is why, too, day after day, we have watched cliques formed and trading done over legislation in the senate. The senators either are trying to make good on demagogic promises or they are building a storehouse to be used in the next campaign. Senator Norris may have thought he was performing a great service to the American people and he may have felt that he was building a monument for his name, but I am firmly convinced he did quite the contrary. For, be it known, were it not for Mr. Norris monumental amendment to the Constitution of the United States there could hardly be such an outrage committed as that by Mr. Hopkins. It must be remembered that Mr. Hopkins never was elected; he is an appointee of the President of the United States and is responsible to him alone. So when Mr. Hopkins flirts with a state electorate, there can be no other interpretation placed upon his action than that he is using the influence available as a result of his dictatorship over relief distribution. ing renomination as the Democratic senatorial candidate hi California, was under fire. Some of his campaigners, it was charged, were using coercion as well as federal relief funds, while out in South Dakota opponents of Governor Berry, now the Democratic nominee for the United States senate, were bringing forth a new set of charges. They Informed the senate committee here that the Farm Security administration in South Dakota had been sending out a press release that had nice things to say about Governor Berry. The press release was two years old, of course, but the FSA was mailing out many of them to It all depends, of course, upon voters and paying no postage on how one views the functions and them. It was another case of using purposes of the United States senthe franking privilege, said the ac- ate. If one wants the senate to be cusers. just a glorified house of representatives, able to maintain itself solely Politics Hits iVra Loir With on what pap it is able to lay in o Change in Sight the laps of voters then, we ought It was enough to make one sick at to keep the present system. If, howthe stomach; here was politics in a ever, one believes as I do that the new quagmire, and no signs to in- senate is comprised, or should be, dicate that it is not a permanent of senators of the United States incondition. What, I thought, is go- stead of senators of a state variety ing to be the type of men coming in- unconcerned with the Union of to the United States senate with such states, then there could well be rebackground as these stories peal of the amendment. 0 Western Nfvipipvr Catos Dead two hours after smothering under blankets in his parents car, Robert Didier of to adrenalin inresponded Chicago a surgeon at Wheeling jected by was HOTELS hospital Next day Rpbrt home, chortling happily in his crib. UTIL PLAN DOMa, SALT uTT" 4th Be. A Suu St. Rita, , w Meeting at San Francisco last QUIET RESPECTABLE Ctr.M week, Womens Christian TemperWhaa la 1ENO. NEVADA naa -held daily "fruit Baas HOTEL GOLDEN m got his Broadway ticker tape show- ance Unionists swat pepeler hotellam sofor luncha Foreign juice hours as challenge hours. er, city hall ceremonies and cocktail CLAY PRODUCTS Joseph Stalin once said Russia eons after competing Manhattan ciety to forsake its wanted "not one inch of foreign and Brooklyn committees ironed out SEWEB FACE BUCK WALL COPING POTS soil. Last week Japan decided Dic- their disputes. Ahead for Douglas Business CLAY PRODUCT. ALL tator Stalin had either changed his Corrigan was all the excitement he ; . Last week as Russia and Japan UTAH PIKE CLAY CO. mind or was at last throwing open could stand in any American city moved to war, American dollars PHOTOGRAPHY support to beleaguered China. But he will agree to visit and gold moved over the Atlantic. best explanation of all was that big When nervous European capital Asia is still not big enough to hold Politics 14 Baath Main Bah LaCfS scurried for cover, gold soared from two stubborn powers. a new Filsu af U Kxpeeerae Ilanka Auan ounce, to QAC $34.94 Tennessee $34.77 before Valley Long II. Sayrtai .'jZ dU 1 Eapaaaraa Since 1931, when Japan marched was a household term, Tenhigh. In two days, continentStamps. Eiaaawy pfesta. Bn 1171, SehlS into Manchuria, American newspa- thority In absorbed $26,715,000 nessees Senator George L. Berry al hoarders BUILDING MATERIAL "" per readers have heard periodicalblock of land in his yellow metaL a large bought Moscow "on were and that Tokyo ly TVA's expansion the brink of war. Only Russias home state. When Senator INTERSTATE BUCK CO. the Berry Sports land, required autonomous Siberian army kept out for to sell finally $5,000,000, tried Byfabulous Several months ago Japan from moving Building sad Firs Brisk into Soviet territory. But even that heard a court decide the property ron (Whizzer) White turned down a HoUow BnOding Cla Ftra stunt placed $15,000 offer to play professional was not enough to prevent periodic was worthless. The Sewsr Pipe Vitrified Til dishim in Franklin Roosevelts football with the Pittsburgh Pirates Bool Mantels. TO Drsla Whizzer" favor. next autumn. Reason: accomLast week George Berry fell in combined scholastic-athleti- c Hr. SH into K. UN From plishments at the University of Colhia own states disfavor. poscholthe Rhodes powerful Crump Utah Memphis Salt taka Cltr. orado had won him a litical machine swept over TennesHe would accept it immediarship. OFFICE EQUIPMENT see, nominated one Thomas Stewart ately. for senator in the Democratic priBut last week after careful delibNEW AND USED Saaks aa chain, maries. Also defeated was Gov. eration Whizzer White found a way aMlai mehs, safes, ifeaS g. U DESK EX- - Ml 8. Statai SsKlg Gordon Browning by a political am- to have his cake and eat it. ReATHLETIC GOODS ateur, Prentice Cooper. Republicans, hearsing for a radio program at still hopeless in the South, held no Denver, he took time, off to anGBEAT WESTERN ATHLETIC GOOD. Clara, Baashalla. laftlah. nounce acceptance of the Pirate UalfaraM. Bata. primary. Ut3 Vsllykalla. Athletic sheet, ate. Franklin Roosevelt had kept his contract and postponement of the IDAHO SCHOOL SUPPLY CO Salt Let hands out of the Tennessee family Rhodes scholarship until next Janu ICE CREAM FREEZERS squabble. But as America went to ary. in other states, SODA FOUNTAINS ICE CREAM the polls last week Elated, Manager Art Rooney foreFREEZEBS and lea Cream eaUsa. first primary returns to reach New cast National league championBar Fixtures, Stools, Carbonators, a Deal headquarters showed the score Aha raaandltlanad sqaipaMet tan. TabJaa for his Pirates. From WashCO. Maaaf actum tied the alleged "purge having ship OVlrc Place - - Salt Lab q had Redskins Peat where the just II ington, failed to jell: three-year to a signed Sammy Baugh MOTORCYCLES In Virginia, Sen. Harry Flood contract at the biggest salary HABLEY Fiko Byrds machine defeated two "100 in professional footballs history. Uaad Motorcycles. JAPANS KAZUSHIGE UGAKI Writs for Catalan HOUSE OP HOPPEB. 14 E. Bdy. Belt IA per cent New Deal congressional Owner George Marshall wired RooHe wanted less lewlestness. aspirants, William E. Dodd Jr., and ney that it might be wise to hire the SURGERY TREATMENTS outbreaks along a thousand miles R. Bruce Shafer. Winners, who will Pitt stadium for the Tbarmootnic Few Aids Disease Cats. of border, where last probably be elected next November, game October 2. Many ekronle disorders suit as artkhh, were Rep. Howard W. Smith and "secret war month the haunts tiam, palria disorder of r lanced prostata alandt hate c Colgate W. Darden, who beat People crept into the open. TharmoRcnh Fever Treatment, At 8 p. m., one night last week, both Shafer and the incumbent Norto anmary. Information and Back to her Parisian home last lertina R. man Hamilton. tura tant on rsonaat over a eight Soviet tanks stormed week via the Normandie went peA SURGICAL CLINK In Missouri, Sen. Bennett Champ hill near Changkufeng at the 111 Templeton Bldr. Balt Lake Ctor. Utah tite Simone Simon, her ned Clark of was renominated after Manchukuo, helpjunction contract with a Hollywood producer MUSIC Russian Siberia and Japanese Ko- ing scuttle the Roosevelt judiciary at an end. While ships photographMaaU Pienaar Plana Pnb Basilar C. imin of rea. Behind them a pall smoke and reorganization bills. Most LD.8. Choir Mmto Headquarters came Soviet infantry, while over- portant result, thbugh, was Gov. Will save you money aa Pknos, Orju A Band Inttrartloa at Drums Mush Sheet head soared planes that severed rail Lloyd C. Starks successful chalconnections between Manchukuo's lenge of the Pendergast machines HOUSEHOLD inland Kirin and coastal YukL At supremacy. Starks candidate for WUNGER ROLLS far all Washer. Whbash and BataiL APEX SALES battle's end, Tokyo boasted 800 Russ the state Supreme court, Judge I.T LAU casualties. Moscow admitted 68. James M. Douglas, easily floored BLOCKS CINDER BUILDING the Next day, while eastern Japan Pendergast nominee. went under emergency regulations, Made of hard cllnken and cement, In Kansas, New Dealer George weight, Hie hast insolation. Attracth the war started again. By night- McGill won renomination to the sentalc. Termite proof . Inexpensive. Endi Cinder Blech. W. 17th fall the third day, Russia claimed ate. But chief interest centered in undisputed capture of Changkufeng Former Gov. Clyde M. Reeds sucEYE GLASSES REPAIRED but it appeared the fun was just cessful G. O. P. senatorial fight Mail as year hiakan lenaaa. I heat will starting. Tokyo rushed 35,000 men against Radio Evangelist Gerald B. Whekaale prices. Satief action GairaiMi 400 to war the Optical Shop. Beaten Baildinr. gait Uh frontier Winrod. and planes while the Soviet pointed war trains SCHOOLS In West Virginia, New Dealers n eastward along its Kee and Barter! ag taaskt in ahert time, lam! John Jennings Randolph, to railroad. Joe Smith won congressional renomjtaljnr aad.etcady wash. Barken an Neither nation appeared to be giv- ination hands down. MOLEK-BARBEKCOLLEGE.Selt LahtOV ing an inch, which supported the HEARING AIDS theory that one or the other must Crime out of Asia. At eventually get -- DEAFNESS AIDED When youthful Thomas E. Dewey Tokyo, Foreign Minister Kazushige Dont mdangir yonr IvtiaeM New Yorks district attorUgaki daily sent fresh instructions became or Social Ufa. to his Moscow ambassador, de- ney, Manhattan expected fireworks. Got Mm Gonnino manding that Russia prevent "re- Many a bombshell has fallen in preAcousticon Moscow trial accusations currence of lawlessness. against TamAND HEAR! e simply sent back the same de- manys James J. Hines, With UfMaao Guraata New Deal patronage distributor and mands. Acousticon Institute At Washington, the state depart- alleged political fixer for the late Salt Lake Cltr lilR.So.E. Stats, ment hoped it would end in armed Dutch Schultzs policy ring. Last MORUB. Man am truce. In Paris, the foreign office week came two more bombshells. First was an agreement that J. said Russia had sent assurance that FENCES Richard (Dixie) Davis, disbarred atno "actual warfare would develAnd and end a ray of torney FENCES by weeks op. alleged mouthpiece for ELECTRIC Wonderful new controllers designed fu hope appeared in Japans proposal the Schultz gang, would turn states SIMONE SIMON ar affaetivtnaaa and improved safety. pJ that time out ba taken for peace evidence and testify against Hines. She may never come beck. nit electrifies tan milts of fence. Find Second was a bill of particulars from 111 up to 124.1ft postpaid Battery talk. power operated. Bakamen Wanted. in which Tom Deweys predeces- ers snapped, Simone Simon INTERNATIONAL ELECTRIC FENCE pointedJapans other wst pushed closer sor, William C. Dodge, felt once ly announced Perthnd. Orman she may never come to Hankow last week an China once more the lash of New Yorks am- back to the United States. PHOTO ENLARGEMENT more moved its government west- bitious crime buster. Not waiting One reason was that United States ward, this time to ancient Chung- until August 15 for the opening of king, 1,500 miles from Shanghai At Hines trial, Dewey presented his cinema audiences have not been en. Jan nn ta fill) developed and ENLARGES Hangchow, Jap troops methodically particulars last week before famed thusiastic, but a more important k two ta sis times. reason was her clash with the inwalked into a British owned hos- Justice Ferdinand Pecora. One i I aahrgsmcnts par- ternal revenue bureau. To her suite pital, removing 103 wounded Chi- ticular: That 2SC Attorney on the Normandie went a tax colnese soldiers.at mnhr print! What happened to to lector Service be Enlarao Photo certain knew. Simone Simon them, nobody P. O. Bax 17 Balt Laha cltr. DL had paid $4,000 due on last years Last winter Great Britain broke earnings. Kneeling on her bed the off diplomatic relations after Mexhoming actress crooned: "I have SALT UB ico seized its oil properties. With Ni. ISIS On paid my tax and I wouldnt get you WNU in trouble for the world.. July 15, the United States state department demanded prompt payAlmost unnoticed on the same ment for American land seized since boat was blonde Ariane Borg, 1915. Mexico's total oil debt to Unitbound for France with the h ed interests is that an American producer story had Last week President spent $70,000 "grooming" her for Cardenas answered, acknowlpictures that were never made. edging the debt, but claiming there Having learned to speak Englikh, was no obligation to make payment ride, fence, walk and dance, To say the least Mexico's stand 'set Miss Borg wondered a precedent. what she would do with her akin. Big Asia May Be Too Small For Stubborn Russia , Japan three-month-o- ld .by Edward W. Pickard T PIPE-FL- Ota 11-1- land-hung- ry h CODS-TE- E N 2-- Pirate-Redsk- five-ye- in ex-Re- p. ar Hto roughly-defi- one-ye- ar - Ince-IT- I Sa-B- Trans-Siberia- 8 one-tim- Cto i 35 - , ,States-Britis- $400,-000,00- 0. La-za- ro twenty-two-year-o- Domestic Up through Panama canal and homeward last week sailed Fisherman Franklin D. Roosevelt aboard the U. S. S. Houston, where last week he played Good Samaritan for Machinists Mate Oliver W. Halliwill of the escort destroyer, McDougal. Stricken with appendicitis, Halliwill was shifted to the Houston on presi- dential orders, later going under the knife of White House Physician Ross T. McIntyre. If Franklin Roosevelt had his fill of fishing last week, he did not have his fill of traveling. Announced at the White House was a list of speaking engagement that will keep him jumping until late September, from Georgia to Ontario, from New York to Michigan, from North Dakota to Tennessee. WILLIAM C. DODGE For ths moment, uninlimidaled. Dodge was among public officials "influenced, intimidated or bribed by Jimmy Hines. Tom Deweys mistake apparently lay in insufficient particulars. Because the bill admitted there were other alleged intimidation victims "not at present known, because Dodge and two New York magistrates were not specifically charged with a crime, Justice Pecora day directed the districV 'attorney to show cause why it should not be ld Twelve years ago many a theater marquee blazed the name AI Kvale to jazz-ma- d America. He was their idol, the scholarly boy saxophonist who won thousands of fans by play, tag Looking at the World Through Rose Colored Glasses. Last week a charity ward at Chicagos Cook county hospital opened its doors to Al Kvale, broke, suffering from convulsions. To the rescue came his two noted brothers, Mayo clinics Dr. Walter Kvale and Minnesotas Congressman Paul Kvale. Buffalo BilFs Tomb Bill) del hi Denver, Colo., on Jimvff Mi 1917, and was buried in a blasted from solid rock on Looko mountain, 20 miles from Denwr- - Trajan F. . (Buffalo HOME COMFORT One-tim- e cinema actress Pearl White thrilled an earlier generation by jumping from trains, changing airplanes in midair, bouncing from madly running horses. Her most noted serial: "The Perils of Paul. American hos pital ta Paris, Pearl White, 49, died. At Richmond, Va., tobacco heir Only Brian Bow, Finn MacCool and the Great Cuchulain were more barred. won curt cusimportant to New York Irishmen Unintimidated for the moment, tody of uRey,,0,d, year-ol- d last week than Douglas Corrigan. William son from Helen Dodge thundered : "This out- - Fortescue Arriving on the 8. Manhattan, rageous and malicious assault upon Forteseue Reynolds, sister of Thalia America s "mistake Atlantic flier Massie, who once my character is unjustified! in n Hawaiian murder case. figured Apartmtnli Pius Hutd . ad Bss" Day Week v , - r..- - ... - M-- IM and bp a '"V 8crviM 144 Ad -- The BELVEDERE APARTMENT HOTEL MSa. Stsla Si.. Sell Lak Clt Wm. it t'alvia IL Jschjj J |