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Show UINTAII I llruchart's Washinqt on mSIN RECORD Field of Corn Waves in City Street Diqest MIXTURE OF RELIEF CASH AND POLITICS DANGEROUS k - XLi, WHOS NEWS FV Candidates Methods of Influencing Voters Scored by Washington Observer; Suggests Return to Election of Senators by Legislatures WNU ( By WILLIAM BRUCKART Service, National Press Bldg., Washington, THIS of the United States in the Wilson adminhave istration, once said: 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 Slates senators by the people . There, thinks H'illiam Rruckart, is the key to todays problem. Let state legislators pick U. S. senators, he says, and icell be rid of the demagogue ti ho is elected by his ability to promise more than the op- position. 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 reelected. 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 m 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 governors 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 seeking renomination as the Democratic senatorial candidate in 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 IUrry. The press release was two years old, of course, but the FSA was mailing out many of them to voters and paying no postage on them. It was another case of using the flanking privilege, said the ac-cu- si i s. Politics Hits iSew Low With Change in Sight ISo It was enough to m.ike one sick at the stomach; here was politics in a rf w quigmiie, and no signs to indie ite th it it is not a permanent cond turn. What, I thought, is going to be the typo of men coming into the United States senate with such background as tiiese btoiies voting for some old rum-nose- d Dem- 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. 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. k and cultivated a tiny patch of Three Chicago youngsters with a taste for truck gardening plowed field of corn. Photograph shows had a soon and street of near their residential the curbstone thriving ground the three city farmers tending their crop in the extremely foreign city atmosphere. Left to right, Joe Dam-biRose Huntsman and Neal Damble. e. Lemonade Stand Up to Date CLARA BOWS SON 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 poli-- , tics. He saw in 1920 where we, as a people, were going and I have no doubt that he could have predicted XTEW YORK. England pioneered UN the businessman - diplomat shrewdly and effectively, it would seem. Many of her best fixers and negotiators Best Fixers the throughout Have Stake world have been men who had a In Deals personal stake m the outcome of their operations. They were not disinterested, perhaps, but no more were the traditional diplomats who knew protocol, perhaps, but nothing about oiL America followed with Norman II. Davis, a financier who became an effective European swing man under five presidents, and then came Spruille Braden, engineer and industrialist who was our ambassador-at-larg- e in Latin America until he became minister to Colombia last April. President Roosevelt, agreeing to act as an arbitrator in the Chaco dispute, picks Mr. Braden to represent him. In his own private industrial diplomacy throughout South America, the husky and gregarious Mr. Braden has proved himself an excellent pacifier and troubleshooter. He knows the score in oil, copper, rubber, minerals, hides and what not, and this Wise terialized and par-I- n ticularized diplo-Latin mac ? has made Diplomacy him useful in dip-- , lomatic representations at various South American conferences. He has been working on the Chaco settlement for the last three years. In his youth, he did a short turn in the mines near Elkhorn, Mont., his native town, and then went to Yale and became a mining engineer. He was a second-strinhalfback at Yale, but a first string engineer and promoter from the start, electrifying Chile for Westinghouse, ora Exganizing the ploration corporation, branching out widely in South American development and finance. He desperately wanted to be minister to Chile, but was consoled with Colombia. He is forty-fou- r years old, remembered in New York as the fastest and hardest-workin- g handball player around Jack OBriens gymnasium, in which he combated a tendency to plumpness, creeping up on him a bit in late years. He was married in 1915 to the beautiful and socially eminent Maria Humeres del Solar of Chile. They have three daughters and two sons. Their New York residence is the former George W. Perkins estate at g Complete with cash register is the lemonade stand opened on a St. Louis street corner by Dickie Bradley, left, twelve years old. Constantine Demmas, six years old, hands over a penny for a glass, after a sample sip. Dickie says business is booming. Clara Bow, former screen glamour girl and wife of Rex Bell, film cowboy actor, shown with her baby son, photographed for the first time in her home in Hollywood, Calif. The son has not yet been named. Miss Bow has a boy pamed Toni. Czechoslovakia Aids Political Refugees 4 C Films Developed withjtW No stamps. THE I Snuth Wain S,J f ' OXC Bolivia-Argentin- the Norwegian parliament, is in America for a lecture tour. There is an interesting k in his career. Predicted At Geneva, in 1927, he staged Collapse a spectacular de Of League bate with Austen Chamberlain, in which, speaking for the small states, he vehemently insisted that the league must find a way to restrain strong aggressors, or else find itself impotent and discredited in a few years. With equal vehemence, Mr, Chamberlain proclaimed the trustworthiness of the strong states and their humanitarian aims. Warning Mr. Ilanibro against overt restraints by the league, he said, Along that road lies danger. Mr. Hambro was the most distinguished recruit of the Oxford group movement in 1935, and has since been a leader of the movement in Norway. Returning from a luncheon attended by Dr. Frank Buchman, founder of the movement, in Geneva, he told of the mystic exaltation of the company and later announced his adherence to the group. Although a conservative, Mr. Hambro is the president of the Labor party of Norway. For many years, he has been leading the fight of the smaller nations m the league. Arriving in New York, he remarks dryly that Norway Is she has a surplus in her budget. cut-bac- political refugees from Germany and Austria are finding a haven in Czechoslovakia. The government has established a camp for these unfortunate people at Bruenn where they work together at various chores. This group is peeling potatoes. roverty-stricke- n SWAM 50 MILES Flood of Pennies for China Consoliriitcd WNU e. Haul ChotUau, sensational forty-- j distame swimmer shown taking a hit of light nourishment In Santa Mouit a hospital, following his spectacular swim. Holder of two worlds records, Chot-tea- u demanded a steak, but physl-tlati- s said he was still ton exhausted to take anything but light car-ol- d Tutting her heart and soul Into a miniature relief campaign all liei own, Carolyn Bong, six years old, collected 4,000 pennies from fellow Chinese school children with which she suipii-toP.it ia Is of the United Council for Civilian Relief in China. The money will be added to funds for relief of sufferers of the Japanese invasion. d Nows Features, Service. Marriage Froblem In Africa Christian denominations have sprung up so rapidly among the natives of South Africa that the government has had to step in and separate those qualified to have marriage ceremonies performed. There are more than 500 all Bantu Christian denominations in the country, giving South Africa the largest number of religions in the world. The government has announced lr Pretoria that it will issue on ap proved list of churches having clergymen able to keep a marriage register and theiefore entitled tc unite couples. 8 f Espos-- - Exposures 2i gtpr Stamns. Fconomy Photo. Bo 6 f BUILD! NGMATERs t 1 INTERSTATE i BRICK CO. Building and Fire Brick Hollow Building Fire Clay Tile Vitrified Sewer Pipe Drain Tile Roof ft Mantels 3180 So. 11th E. Hy. (31 Salt Lake City, Utah OFFICE B DISK FX. L. ui EQUIPMEN'- -v AND USFD desks tnd tvpewnters, adding inchs, NEW 362 8 - A State N ATHLETIC GOODstcrr GREAT WESTERN ATHLETlr iri cer I niforms. Bets, Cloves, Baseball, Athletic shoes, etc Vollvbnlls, IDAHO SCHOOL SUPPLY C- ICE CREAM . TjrOB . IP O- --2(1 FREEZE res. SODA FOUNTAINS ICE CREAicture TER FREEZEKS Htid Ice Crean Bar fixtures. Stools, Carbona Also reconditioned etiuipmt-ticTables CO. 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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 m 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. It all depends, of course, upon how one views the functions and purposes of the United Slates sen-utIf one wants the senate to be just a gloi ified house of representatives, able to maintain Itself solely on what pap it is able to lay in the lips of voters then, we ought to keep the pi event system. If, however, one believes as I do that the senate is comprised, or should be, of senators of the United States instead of senators of a state variety unconcerned with the Union of states, then there could well be repeal of the amendment I Tr 1 SEWER Pipp POTS- .- WALL COP N?' ffe, ALL CLAY PRODLCT UT4H FIRE CLAY CO BRICK FACE ma-Brad- exactly the present circumstances. 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 assured 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. I h,!?''! popular By LEMUEL F. PARTON Answer to Todays Problem Civen in 1920 Western Newsp iper Union. moat WEEK WASHINGTON. President in 'll; NO NEVADA HOTEL GOLDEN uTlV When CLAY PRODUCT? D. C. And then, rather in disgust with I had finished reading my evening paper a few the whole thing, I turned to a new nights ago when I found myself book. The volume is titled Notaquite down in the dumps. The news ble Virginia Bar Addresses. of the day was disturbing. It was Among the 27 speeches listed vicious news in its implications. there, I decided to read that by the late Thomas R. Marshall. His adOn page one, there was an account of the bitter factional fight dress, hke all of the others, was inwithin the Democratic ranks in Ten- tended to preach good government nessee. Sen. George Berry was and the obligations of the lawyer as rather, renomi-natio- n well as the layman. In reading that seeking and Senator McKellar, his speech, I came across this passage: I have only one apology that I colleague, was fighting tooth and nail to prevent it. Party control in know of to make for my political the state was the objective, and life. 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