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Show THE TIMES-INDEPENDENT, NATIONAL AFFAIRS Reviewed by CARTER FIELD By ARMY Frank Murphy losing out New Dealers, Wash- ington hears . . . Presidential primaries never a decisive factor. De a nena te res ooo =; Ee - oe x . (Bell Syndicate-WNU Service.) WASHINGTON.-One of the most extraordinary deflations of a political idol that old-time Washington is being observers can remember reflected in New Dealers' estimate of justice a now of Frank Murphy, the Supreme court, before that ata and practically torney general, national figure while governor of Michigan, because of his attitude about the sit-down strikes in the automobile plants. In 1938 Murphy was at the top of his popularity curve with New Dealers. His defeat, by a Republican, for re-election as governor was one of the bitterest blows the New Dealers had to take. Their wails about Murphy and Michigan were much worse, for example, than about the Republican sweep in Ohio and Pennsylvania, or Frank Murphy the election of a G. O. P. executive in Oregon. It was a menacing arrow pointing the return of reactionaryism, etc. When Murphy was made attorney general, there was rejoicing among the New Dealers, and bitter comments from the ‘Tories'? about ‘lame duck appointments." New Dealers Irritated. But the moment Murphy took his first action in the department of justice there was a_ perceptible movement away from him by the New Dealers. Irritation of the New Dealers with Murphy speedily became manifest in his conferences with newspaper men. The most left-minded of the writers, those in closest sympathy with Corcoran, Cohen and Jackson, began to attempt to prick the air of righteousness with which Murphy always surrounded himself on such occasions. To listen to the self-admitted insiders now, Murphy had no choice about taking the Supreme court justiceship. It was that or get out, say those close to the White House janisaries. But it looks as if Murphy has been losing out with other elements, while gaining no new friends. Presidential Primaries. In the early days of the Progressive movement, back in the days when Robert M. La Follette, father of the present senator, was the hero of many forward looking citizens, and in the days leading up to the nomination of Woodrow Wilson by the Democrats, considerable importance was attached to the idea of letting the voters decide as many important questions as possible. Nearly every Progressive, whether he were Democrat, Republican, or Socialist, for example, believed in the initiative, referendum and recall. The Progressives believed in the direct election of senators, instead of by the old plan laid down in the Constitution for their election by legislatures. Most of all, they believed in the nomination of candidates for President by preferential presidential primaries. As a young and enthusiastic Progressive, a junior member of the staff of the "Baltimore Sun," the writer talked to many of the then political leaders of the Democratic party, and to veteran political writers from most of the great newspapers of the country, at the Baltimore convention in 1912, the one that nominated Woodrow Wilson after William Jennings Bryan jumped his own primary instructions-for Champ Clark-and turned the tide to Wilson. Easy to Muddy Waters. It ought to have been clear to us how easy it would be to muddy the waters, never better illustrated than in both the Democratic and Republican parties this year, 28 years later. But even in that year it so happens that Wilson, who won the nomination, lost most if not all of the primaries in which he faced Champ Clark, and Hiram Johnson Wilson's nomination was made possible only by the switch of delegates elected to vote for Clark to him. Four years after Bryan jumped his state's primary instructions, Charles E. Hughes was nominated by the Republicans without manifesting any great strength in the primaries. Indeed until he was nominated no sure he would after that, one could be quite accept. Four years Hiram W. Johnson made the best showing in the primaries, defeating both Leonard Wood and Frank the O. vital Lowden, Michigan for example, primary. in No primaries had importantly demonStrated the strength of James M. Cox for the Democratic the same year. 4! nomination There ton air ILL EQUIPPED is a smell in of something the Washinglike a com- plete disembowelment of the army defense program by a congressional refusal to provide funds to carry it out. The navy will get by partly because the President regards himself and doesn't pay as a navy man and attention to the army, much partly because Jimmy Byrnes is in charge of the navy's needs in the senate and is man enough to see that they don't go by default. But the army has never been any too adept at handling congressional Its topside isn't altocommittees. gether out of the doghouse with the congress with and administration and it hasn't any outstanding congressional champion to present and Even the preinsist upon its case. sentation of the case to the country There have been has been bad. too many administration Pollyanna speeches assuring us that the army is coming along satisfactorily in its that and program modernization there is nothing to fear. * ‘alone, we could not defend our vast stretches of coast and territory with We couldn't fixed or slow forces. We can do it with what we have. ,only be sure of doing it by what we One other problem ‘propose to get. is to be able by an expeditionary force to repel or break up any hosIn tile lodgment in Latin America. view of the armament of other countries, both of these problems absolutely require such an army as I Until we get it, have described. our defenses will be woefully weak. We don't need a big army, but we need a small one that can move fast and hit hard over the widest area that any nation has to defend. Now you can't do a half-way job A motorized army this condition. The people who ha.e the best right to know about it-precisely and exactly-are States. of the United the people They know precious little and what Perthey know is largely wrong. haps if they knew more, we might get some action. HOW MANY ARE IDLE? There is a big tirade in the columnists parade. Are there 10,000,000 unemployed-or only about 2,000,000? It isn't necessarily a case of ‘"figures don't lie-liars figure,' but of assumption which you apply to get your result. That is a question of judgment, and here the wish is often father to the thought and ditference in wish and thought can make differences of millions in result. Federal figures on the shifting and infinitely intricate problem of unemployment are practically as worthless as a Gallup poll on a third term for Mr. Roosevelt. by Western Union.) Newspaper turn over in his grave. new adGood or bad, Louisiana's ministration will at least be differThe young lawyer 1s named ent. Sam Sam Houston Jones, because near Houston is quite a hero out the Texas line. The night Sam Jones beat Huey's young brother Earl ina bitter runoff primary, he kept a New g. Orleans victory celebration waitin They found him praying in a Methodist church, the sort of thing you d have expected from a medieval cruprobably sader. Not a Bad Idea. There are those who vow Louisiana needs a crusader. Some people also call Sam Jones the David who slew a modern Goliath, but 283,384 Louisianians who voted for him wére probably just as much against the Long machine as they were for Sam Jones. Nevertheless he is the flesh-andblood symbol of a protest against the most amazing political machine America has ever seen. It dates back to 1915 when Huey Long was handling compensation cases for Louisiana lumber mill workers. The idea was something like this: Give everything to the poor at a cost of nothing to them, that is, share the wealth. But to accomplish this you need a kingdom, and to h-1 with the expense. Huey ‘Upheld' the People. In retrospect, now that only the memory remains, Louisianians are recalling Huey's career. They remember how he "‘upheld the rights of the people"' as state railroad commissioner; how he was licked for the governorship in 1924 but came back to win in 1928; how through shrewd political maneuvering he became Louisiana's lord and master. Huey provided free school books. He packed the courts, attacked the corporations and built roads like the state had never seen before. And becoming cock-sure, he could boast: ‘"‘There are not many people in the United States who are smarter than eR I am, and none in Louisiana."' Still rising, he got elected United States senator but still controlled a puppet governor and legislature back home. In the national spotlight he became America's No. 1 buffoon and demagogue, filibustering in the senate, threatening to stop federal money from entering Louisiana, calling the President of the United States a liar. Predicted Machine's Downfall. And then they ‘‘got'' the Kingfish -shot him to death-in the 33-story Baton Rouge statehouse which symbolized his stranglehold over Louisiana. He knew it was coming, and he also knew the Long machine couldn't last after his death. Of his lieutenants he said: ‘‘Half of them will be in jail after I die. They _ Why does the federal government want to know? Principally to measure the problem of relief. That is both an intricate and an intimate problem. It is far too large and too much affected by local complexities to be approac hed or administered on a national scale, But there isn't a town or community in this country that cannot gauge its problem of adequat e local relief with far more equity, humanity and accuracy than these shotgun and partly self-serving estimates of Washington pump primers -or of their cpponents. RETIRING GOVERNOR-Earl Long (left) once summoned his "rubber stamp" legislature this way. Last time it didn't work. The solons stayed home. So You Want to Be a Model? New York Tells What It Takes EW YORK. - Young ladies: If you're between 19 and 23 with a just-so-figure and the knack before a camera pearing to do of posing without apso, you may have the makings of a model. The glamour profession which has attracted hundreds of small town girls to New York isn't what it's cracked up to be, say advertising men and photographers, but if a girl possesses all the necesSary requirements she may get a break. Models fall roughly in two classes. First, the free-lancer who sells her wares at an average rate of $5 per hour and prefers to depend on onetime calls. She is the girl seen on billboards, in magazine ads and newspapers. If she is successful her income will usually range from $50 to $150 a week, but not for many years. Some Are Manikins. The other classification is the fashion manikin who prefers a small but steady income modeling dresses in retail stores. Her figure is apt to be better than the free-lance model, but her face will be less ‘‘photogenic."' Even the free-lance photographic models are commonly divided into several Classes. The fashion model is the ‘‘glamour girl'? who seldom smiles, is a little too thin and can wear clothes with indifference. Another type is the "all-American gir]'' who is deliciously pretty and vivacious, who smiles over her cooling drink from the billboard or frowns over a headache. They Need All Types. Another type is the older, more mature models who pin diapers on babies, pose as happy newlywed s WASHINGTON.-Itf you see a and greet their husbands at night Strange figure parachuting into one Still a fourth is the character of our national forests this summer, model, ranging from small youngsters it won't necessarily be a man from to spinsters. Mars. More likely it's a "smoke The average model in New York jumper,"' one of Uncle Sam's new Is 23 years old. Her measurements forest fire fighters being placed into will be: height, 5 feet, 7 inches: service this year. bust, 34; waist, 25; hips, 35 The "fire jumpers" and wear a speshoe size, 5A. Another Cial two-piece suit of strong type, the duck, cute'? model, has a with trousers reaching high bust measureabove ment of 32; waist, 23; hips, 34, and the natural waistline. + Size 314A shoe. U. S. Drafts Mars Men To Fight Forest Fires costes CEOS GOVERNOR-DESIGNATE. Sam Jones, rated one of Louisiana's best orators, strikes a campaign pose. When Earl Long accused him of being "sweet smelling," Jones' men bought out the ‘dime store perfume counters and thus created a campaign symbol. things that come and France. bush to get libel-proof evidence graft. The picture showed a state university truck being used to haul supplies for the new house of a Long henchman. To Jim Crown's exploit can be traced the 200 odd indictments that followed; the resignation of Gov. Richard Leche and the ascendency of Earl Long; the flight of graft- guilty Dr. James Monfoe Smith, president of the state university who has since been convicted; the suicides of three henchmen; the frightened countenances of countless small fry politicians whose comeuppance now rests in Sam Jones' hands. Faces Difficult Task. After Mr. Jones left his prayer meeting in New Orleans on victory night, he told the crowd: "I promised to restore honesty and decency in Louisiana government, and anybody who knows Sam Jones knows that he keeps his word.'' Governor Jones was_ speaking boldly, for tax reformers have pointed out the precarious condition of state finances. Twelve years of the Long machine have boosted the bonded debt from $12,000,000 to $200,000,000. Louisianians pay the highest auto license fee in the country and one of the highest gasoline taxes. They are burdened with sales tax tokens and some 25 other new taxes which Huey and his followers used to ‘‘soak the rich and share the wealth.'' But the ledger is not entirely red, for Huey Long had done something else for Louisiana besides providing folk lore for generations to come. The magnificent state university, the statehouse, good roads and free bridges are assets which partly offset the huge debt. This writer remembers well Sir Muirhead's masterful drawings in the ‘‘international studio'' of an earlier and happier day-mellow architectural studies, or placid landscape | in English byways where no airraid siren ever sounded. He was | the son of a Glasgow journalist, studying art at a night school. It was in 1901 that he went to England, to become an honorary doctor of letters at Oxford and one of the most famous artists of England. He has exhibited in New. York several times and has an enthusiastic following among critics and the American art public. DEPARTME HOTELS When in RENO, NEVADA. HOTEL GOLDEN-Reno's {arg most popular hotel, a Hotel Plandome-Salt 4th So. & State St.-Single 75e «| SURGE MILKERS Let 22 So. West of Revised Hatch Act®is Gov. our why gf built-gets y Temple We never orders time a Dist Salt Lake( - 15e buy and direct 20¢ from the undersold. Write for sams promptly filled. Establisheq Felt Radio & Wallpaper Comp; So. 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Phone Hyland 37 $s KODAK FINISHING PHOTO-KRAFT 4, ECONOMY FILM SERVICE 1 Any Roll Developed with | 8 Quality Prints- - - Extra Prints - - - - - ome Wrap coin and film carefully SCHRAMM-JOHNSON Wat DRU@® PHOTO-KRAFT-Box 749 that Salt opponent Carl show ever be - 10c Patterns. ho cheng charged and 1940 WALLPAPER PATT See 1937, Rep. John E. Miller of Arkansas made his campaign for the United States senatorship against the ‘‘New Deal patronage machine." Foe prove milker CLEANER milk with less Write for information. WALLACE TAYLOR, ibe I's Ardent us fastest --->---- E. Bailey, had the active Support of his "organization of 5,000 state em- ployees,'' and of various members of the New Deal cabinet. Repre| Sentative Miller, running as-an in_dependent against "machine politicians,'' achieved a sensational vic| tory, as he won the seat of the late | Joe T. Robinson. He was the first independent elected to a major political office in Arkansas since the early reconstruction days. His success was acclaimed as a triumph over patronage politics, Today, by one of those curious Vows to ‘Cleanse' State, reversals of political form which Sam Jones knows all this but make news, Senator Miller is it makes him no less critical the most conspicuous oppone of the nt Long machine. of the extension and strengthenHe insists that dictatorial laws must be abolished, ing of the Hatch law, directe that d courts must against political job-holders be placed above remixproach, and that schools must ing in politics. be reHe would not vitalized. Says he: "A new day has only block its extension to cover dawned after a long night state job-holders with fou] supported in things happening in the dark.'' part by federal funds, but he would repeal section nine which bars governmental employees from political activity. The lean, bespe As Nation Gets Older ctacled Senator Miller is somewhat profes sorial in WASHINGTON. - Census taking appearance, and, incide ntally, was was a Simple job in the days of graduated from Cape Girardeau Washington, Adams and Madison. Teachers' college, in Valparaiso The first census, taken Ind. However, during he later turned to Washington's administrati the law and has been on in 1790, a practicing required only the "name attorney in Searcy, Ark., s of heads since 1912. of families; free white males Prosecuting of. He was attorn ey and 16 years and up; free county judge before his white males election to under 16; free white the house in 1930. He females; all is a native of other persons; slaves." Stoddard County, Mo. It wasn't until 1850 -_@---. that persons more than 15 years i THE old were first light of not so ancie nt required to give their history, it is quite clear as "profession to occupation or trade." why Franc is B. Sayre At the terns thinks we ought to get rid of the time a question Phili was ppine included s on Our high commissioner the value of real estate is a holder owned. of the Grand Cross of the White In 1860 was added a question on Elephant. Less pertinent, the value of personal but inestates. teresting The is the fact that he question regarding also the number of is a knight commande r of the Chula months a person has been employed Krom Klav, and a Phia during the year Kalyan was first asked Matri. These titles were grate j 1880. fully In 1890 the censu s bestowed b ureau: on him by the king became of concerned Siam, when, in the early "suffering 1920s, Mr from acu te or chronic Sayre was adviser to the king and disease," aided in many treat y negotiations. Census Grows Complex CLASSIFI: ten a poem about it. 2» 5 ie Arkansas Senator ma: Sypi,_ } Winter Heart Ailments There were plenty of bands playing when Sir Muirhead was appointed official war artist in 1916. He painted boldly or etched deeply his pictures for the war museum, for which he later became trustee. Much was made, not only of the importance of a minutely observed pictorial record of the war, but of the availability of so great an artist to render its fullaesthetic values. This time, there is a perfunctory announcement, only a few lines, of Sir Muirhead's appointment. Not even in the graphic arts is war getting its accustomed fanfare. of from Some 33,000 persons die fro» ailments each month during ¢} ter; 25,000 a month in summe British traditionalism again prevails. Sir Muirhead Bone, official artist of the World war, is again officially appointed as the artist of the navy, and it is understood that he also will render the graphic records of the conflict on land as well. Sir Muirhead, 64 years old, of Scottish birth, is one of the world's most distinguished etchers. He is also a painter, but in the years between the big wars he has turned more to etching. That is, with the trend of the times, as a modern war is decidedly an etcher's war. ‘Skeleton trees on a blasted hillside, zig-zag trenches, the splintered chaos of peasants' huts, the angular dy}namics of war machinery, all lend themselves to Sir Muirhead's superlative drypoint. There isn't much of the painter's mass and color in an up-to-date war-no gay plumes, bright uniforms and snorting black horses. There are, instead, the sullen monochromes of desolation, the inert black and white of sharply graven ruin. don't know how to handle this power which I've given them." Huey was prophetic, but not until last summer did a crusading newspaper editor catch up with the Long crowd. The editor was old Jim Crown of the New Orleans States, whose photographer hid behind a tri, shops of Shanghai, Alexan kyo and Madrid, with not war, so far, YORK.-This EW has lacked bands and banners al extradition such and all other citements and John Masefield has ‘ not even writ- Official Artist Of Present War Has Experience the world take a West Indies cruise to whose shops seem to dup Service.) Features-WNU World Jaunt Souvenj, If you would like to buy, of a 'round going around the world, yoy By LEMUEL F. PARTON (Consolidated has to It is tied ‘be motorized all the way. It 'to the speed of its slowest unit. is an integrated whole and if part it of rest the ,of it isn't high speed, Furthermore, might as well not be. if you streamline your divisions on the theory that you will make up for the loss of men by armor and automatic weapons of vastly increased power and then don't provide the weapons, you have cut your defensive power in half-or worse. It seems to me that we are making exactly this mistake right now If even with the program as it is. the appropriations are cut, I am absolutely certain that we shall make it. It is not an exaggeration to say that we have no usable army now. With the world at its most dangerous worst, we may be caught changing our clothes and so-very literally-with our pants down. I don't like the air of secrecy that military our on hearings covers do not make They committees. all know nations Foreign sense. about HARTMAN ORRIN ATON ROUGE, LA.-Next May 14a mild-mannered young lawyer from near the ge Texas border will take char of Louisiana's monumental state capitol. From its cavernous halls will scatter the ghosts of 12 Long years. Out front, in the hero's tomb they built after an assassin s bullet cut short his riotous career, cocky Huey Long will * The fact is that it isn't coming along at more than a snail's pace and that if the Caspar Milquetoast requests it has made for money to little faster are it come a make slashed, it could be a major catastrophe. modern in reorganizing is It streamlined divisions to be entirely motorized with new rapid-fire equipof the men ment and with many The war in behind steel shields. is proving that, with this Europe kind of organization and equipment, those are needed, far fewer men who are used are much better protected from death or injury, and the great speed, range and mobility will enable a few men to defend a far greater area than was ever before thought possible. This is a vital consideration in our military problem. Our principal unexpected and swift is danger angle expense an From ‘raids. on this. 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