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Show UINTAII BASIN RECORD v5S Scenes and Persons in the Current News $&' & X '"SSiSS&fc National Topics Interpreted by William Bruckart 3 f Washington, D, National Press Building1 Probably sufficient Washington time has elapsed since the election to give us some-Whthing of a perspec- something of Happened? tive, an understanding of what happened November 3. In vote for the that record-breakinof Mr. Roosevelt, there lie covered perhaps the greatest number of reasons why votes were cast as they were, ever to influence a national election. The results left the Republicans stunned; they were surprising even to the Democrats and that is no secret. I have consulted with numerous among the better informed political students and political writers concerning the basis for this deluge of votes that came so nearly making the electoral college unanimous for Mr. Roosevelt that there had been only one time in history when the opposition received fewer votes in the electoral college than Governor Landon will receive. The inquiries have brought almost as many different answers as there were peopl2 interviewed. Each one of these persons was thoroughly convinced that his diagnosis was correct and yet after hearing all of them I have a conviction that each one was only partially right. It was, in my opinion, a combination of reasons that brought about such an enormous vote for election of Mr. Roosevelt. The various reasons entering into that combination were influential individually only as regards a comparatively small percentage of the population. How else can it be explained? Unless separate reasons operated m various sections of the country and, indeed, upon segments of voters m those various sections, no such thing could have happened as the election, for example, of Henry Cabot Lodge, a Republican, to the senate in Massachusetts, while Mr. Roosevelt carried the state overwhelmingly for himself as a Democrat. There were other instances where Republicans won in statewide elections while the states electoral vote went to the President This necessarily shows that even in states that normally vote a straight ticket, either Democratic or Republican, there was some appeal which Mr. Roosevelt had for inthe voters that was sofar as the lesser candidates were concerned. In other words, there were split tickets and if this ever proved anything, it surely proved this year that the nation was overwhelmingly in favor of Mr. Roosevelt personally. I think that, as always, the national ticket carried many men into the house and senate, only it is quite apparent that the percentage of representatives and senators elected this time on the strength of the national ticket was larger than usual. I mea.. that instead of local personalities carrying the national ticket, the national ticket swept in the local personalities because it is the tendency of a vast majority of voters to vote a straight ticket. What I have just said seems really to complicate the wl ole picture. It seems to complicate it for the reason that such a paradox as the election of Mr. Lodge in Massachusetts occurred within this deluge cf votes. But whatever else can be said, nothing can overshadow the consequences of the vast power handed to Mr. Roosevelt. He is in complete control and has a light to feel that anything he does will be accepted by a large majority of the population. With the exception of George Washington, who was elected president by the unanimous vote cf the electoral college, and James Monroe, who had all excepting one electoral vote with him, no president of the United States has ever been awarded such a verdict. So, it strikes me tnat the outstanding question before the United States today is how will Mr. Roosevelt use this authority? It is in his hands to become a man of history, a man who will stand out among all cf our Presidents if tie uses his power wisely. It is to be suggested in the same breath that if he misuses or abuses that power he can easily become just as infamous. at g non-existe- I said above that there were so many reasons influential in brmg-in- g about the usual vote for Mr. Roosevelt that i t Reasons was almost impossible to enumerate them. Nevertheless, I shall try to set down some cf the more important ones that appear to have been operative. It must be remembered that these larger reasons embrace numerous and sundry variations. Each of the important reasons is made up of a uumber of less important and less significant and even less influential reasons. Each of the larger and each of the smaller propositions had Its effect. I do not want to have it appear that the order in which I name these various reasons has any significance. In fact, I think it would be utterly foolish for anyone to attempt to say that one particular reason was more influential than another. IIow, for instance, can any one individual know what caused partic un-So- C. v ular voters to vote a particular way without knowing the individual voters concerned? So, I am simply outlining some of the reasons that the political students agree have been important That the federal government can or should interfere in the management of basic industries like agriculture, manufacturing, power and possibly in the commercial field of finance. That the government can or should be centralized to a greater extent in the federal machinery as distinguished from the state machinery. This implies a disappearance to a large extent cf the age-olcontention for states rights. It goes even beyond that and into the field of local government which, it must be said, has not been too efficient. That the people, as citizens of the United States, ought not be hamstrung by rigid constitutional provisions and strict interpretation of them by the United States Supreme court This may easily be expanded into other propositions such as modification or revision of court powof retirement ers; mandatory judges when they reach a given age, or constitutional amendments giving the federal government more direct contact with individual citizens and individual businesses. lM f d vt, J I J 1 i 1 L ' r- . -' v 1 . n 1 li 1 iTAnx xf 5 ''i-i'- j nh i!llP I ! W s i V v f ft WT t . a&oMs, f si ?, 4' T 4 ' Saluting the President $ "M ist:t s i X g f$ t I ! 1 , (i CALIF. SANTA MONICA, to of the X X - Hy ( 5 - v i v? That the great business leaders last score of years are and that Leaders the time has come Outmoded ior a fresh start m leaderbusiness ship just as the advent of the New Deal accomplished a fresh start in the political leadership. In this thought is hidden various and sundry possibilities. There are those, for example, who have become permeated with a hatred of big business. Likewise, there are those who feel that only portions of big business have been unfair and have crushed the little fellow. Aside from these two is a third group that surely feels the necessity for strict federal control of all types of business, good as well as bad, in order to prevent private initiative from getting out of bounds. That many of our citizens are willing for the federal government to participate in business by direct competition with private initiative. This thought, expanded, naturally takes on the aspect of a broader movement for public ownership of various businesses than has been evident heretofore. It is axiomatic that reasons effective with one person are not effective with another and reasons that operate to control the views of a county or a section of a state or even a region of states undoubtedly have had nothing at all to do with votes taken in other parts of our nation. There are unsettled conditions. There are ten or eleven million people who are out of jobs. Some of these felt that they had been benefited by one Roosevelt policy; some felt they had been benefited by another. However one may examine the picture, it seems to me inescapable that it was a combination of reasons and not any single proposition. It may be added, as some honestly feel, that the Roosevelt political machine was able to encompass all of these factors and to show in the various sections of the country how effective particular policies had been in those particular sections. That to my mind is going beyond the scope of intelligence because strong as the Roosevelt polit- ical machine is, it had to have and had to hold the faith of an extraordinarily large number of voters in addition to those cont. oiled by the machine in order to roll up a majority of nine million votes over the total received by Governor Landon. Hi? What Will He Do? wlth mandate, this fresh delegation of power that has been given to him? Already there are signs developing among the old line, conservative Democrats of a desire to persuade him to be less radical than he was in his first four years as President. These Democrats fed that this country needs a little less of reform and considerably more of sound governmental management. How much effect they will have on general administration policies ob-- v ously is problematical It 1 ul Western Newspaper b'nion. Be st Von Ribbenthrop, German ambassador to London, photographed on his way to his official View of Madrid, Spam the prize for which the rebels and loyalists have been contending for 3 Secretary of State Cordell Hull (right) and Assistant Secretary Sumner Welles enroute to peace conference in Buenos Aires. Joachim 1 office. 2 months. . lls NEW NAVY CHIEF Roosevelt Enrolls in Red Cross 'V 1 sc I j ! f ' ' sySMSf' c V; r? v r" ff ?T f' A i 1 t s I J Admiral Cary T. Grayson, chairman of the American Red Cross, shown enrolling President Roosevelt as the first member in the annual roll call. Miss Hebe Reynolds, a representative of the District of Columbia chapter made the presentation in the oval room of the White House. f 'i, , 'X Y v Hurrying to Get Nowhere a motormaniac WHEN I see f I up the road and feel confident that, ninety-nin- e times out of a hundred, theres no earthly Admiral William D. Leahy has need for his hurry, I think of a been selected by President Roose- Japanese gentleman who visited velt as the new chief of naval opera- a typical New York They started downtown. The guide tions, succeeding Admiral William hurried his guest aboard a subway AdH. Standley, who is retiring. local, yanked him off at Times miral Leahy has been commander-in-chiof the navys battle force Square, jammed him on a packed with the rank of full admiral express, pulled him out of the express further down and violently inserted him into another overflowing local When they emerged at a the Japanese was badly bruised, rumpled and trampled. He limped to his hosts office, where they sat down with practically nothing to do except relax. So he asked why theyd changed cars so often when the original tram would have brought them along. Oh, said the New Yorker, doing that, we save six minutes. The oriental sucked in his breath politely and did some pondering. And what, he murmured then, "what were you going to do with the six minutes? v s ef Letting You In on Televisions Ground Floor j 1 WHAT'S HAPPEN!! am tit HEAR JIMMIE TIES! FIDLER way-statio- Cobbs Pet Annoyances COMEBODY writes in, demand- ing to know what my pet loath ings are. Well, let's see: Is it the fellow who, having heard every blamed word you said, waits until youre all through and then says, What? Or the barber who, .having finished the job, grabs up a towel and dabbles you with ninety hundred and seventy-fou- r separate and distinct Although still in its swaddling clothes, television has been found practical and It is only a matter of a dabs? Or the clerk who, when you go little time until the radio owner of today becomes the television owner of tomorrow. Photo shows a television In for a pair of socks, tries to sell broadcast of live talent. It looks like a movie studio, cameras and sound booms record the picture and the you everything In the store, Includsound of the actors to be flashed out over the air. ing some pa jama 8 that you wouldnt be caught dead In? Or the orator who says one last NANNY W. IIONEYMAN word and buries that last word under about five thousand other words? Or the solicitor who begins by asking for just a minute and hangs on until you begin to figure the present Christian era must be approaching its close? KUO P.M..LS.L H B.C. Red Rel EiUDEII' DROPS MENTHOL COUGH WITH ALKALINE FAC OFTEN HOW GAH YOU KISS li ! HAKE OP! husbands can FEW a wrfe should turn ft Into a .j. eg pleasant companion Xoronewholewcekineverj You can say Im W J kiss and make up man iago than attcr' i andtfyouwanttoboMy threwl'13- , band, you wont be a wifo. , For three generatlonsonewgo has told another bow to J( 8 Ing Comi Vegetable . ham tone upt Nature helps thus lessening the disco the functional disr.dn L , a women roust endj11 ordeals of life: womanhood. motherhood; to paring for I r Crack Horses Compete in Chicago Show V J $ $ 4 is prob- lematical because included among the new senators and representatives, especially among the representatives, are many men who do not impress me as having the slightest understanding of governmental functions. Consequently, from these and from those wild eyes already in the house membership, we undoubtedly will see some of the woist harum searum pieces of legislation ever proposed in the national house of representatives. It is such circumstances as is presented in the type of legislation that I named that will test Mr. Roosevelt's real capacity as a statesman. ; "I was , out-mod- So, again we get back to the question: what will Mr. Roosevelt do new U up now? Is Remes, ttt. ?j!e"ce, As for those who ai .,make voted the opposition most of them in many mls. what ticket well, Americans may be greedy to win, but theyre sporty losers. Berun-d- o sides, Itll soon be hard to find anybody ...looked pale... was against who a keen appetite... felthi you. Among the . was underweight, multitude, the patri- actually op; What did I d0j Irvin S. Cobb ot u' except posed you Intuition told me I will "1TY maybe in a whimsical spirit tonic. Naturally, I be as lonesome as an honest bone and grateful for the ' proin the average beauty-conteTonic brought me. . moters body. You, too, will be delighted way S.S.S. 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Why, some of his specimens must date back as far as 1914. But my aim is to collect the pistols carried by Jesse James and the handcuffs worn by Billy the Kid. Its a great ambition, but may run into money because it will take a large hall to contain all the Jesse and all the Billy James the Kid handcuffs Ive seen. d of the p f S'- vs.? :,t -- morning Elect! President Mr. you, But Many happy returns! youve already seen the happy returns, havent you? much; Med nip Weve been behind you right along. At times, some of us may To keep clean have been so far behind you we Pierce. Plea.antand hei!tu couldnt seem to see you, at all. liver, bowels and Fell! stomach But why bring that 'j v 4 t about: I India, the held a reception dimnl " the first time, he ' from his throne. Th. suspicious, yet I smiled at them and enjoying himself. ArdTf' was asleep. Having had? opium before the had had his court aitT gay, happy smile onh could be present m The Democratic majority in the next house of representatives will ir elude Nanny W. Honcyman, of Portland, Ore., who won over Judge William E. Ekwall, Republican Incumbent. Mrs. Honeywell Is a close friend of Mrs Eleanor Roosevelt and was a bridesmaid at the wedding of President and Mrs. Blucbloods of horse flesh from the leading hoise breeding states are competing for honors at the International Horse show at Chicago, which is a daily feature of the International Live Stock exposition. One of the most coveted prizes Is the $1,000 jumper stake. Horse and rider are shown in competition for this honor. Foremost among of its expositions kind in Uie world, the slock show yearly attracts thousands of farmers from every state in the Union and neighboring Canada. Stage and Stock Market I T'S curious that two of the most fascinating and envied professions financiering and acting do not necessarily call for Intelligence. Not that there arent brilliant persons engaged in both lines. But the mimetic quality, the knack of rendering other peoples lines, perhaps without ever understanding them, may be but a sublimated emotional instinct. Just as sometimes the ability to make great gobs of money has nothing to do with brains, or rather brains have nothing to do with it. A certain man can smell out a hidden dollar exactly as a rat terrier sniffs behind the wainscoting the rat which another dog would pass unnoticed. There are young ladies capably interpreting classic roles who probably think Salome is the name of an Italian sausage. IRt IN S. COBB. WNU Service. Go "Smiling Through. dtfid Our lobby I cooled during the summy Radio tor Every Koom Baths 200 200 Rooms -- r3 t-4 aut-- v ' e? I t hotel Sq Temple $501 Rates The Hotel pliere. 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