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Show THE BULLETIN Poor Bear Bigger heJttanlUhoO6' Tales and Traditions lax Load: Landon from American Political Itiuoiy Urges Honest Bookkeeping in Buffalo Speech; Warns of Federal Waste. HANK (. HAGEN ELMO SCOn WATSON V1IE ORIGIN OF "RUCKERIZE A MONG the political factions of a century ago it frequently was the practice to pack, or ruck arize" a convention with delegates favorable to their candidates. Of course it isn't done today, what with committees on credentials and all, but lets have a peek at the Democratic convention of 1835 and see how the expression to ruckerize originated. Doughty old Andrew Jackson was determined, despite spreading opposition in his own party, to pass on the presidential mantle to Martin Van Buren of New York. He first sought to calm the Democratic opponents of Van Buren and allay their fears of the Jackson autocracy. Next he issued a cal! for a party convention to be held in Baltimore in May, 1835, eighteen months before the election. It was the first of the "snap" conventions and its advantages are obvious. More than 400 of the 622 delegates who attended, history records, were from four states over which Jackson exercised absolute control. No one was permitted to make a speech and there was no platform adopted. Speeches, it was explained by the chairman who presided, might provoke angry discussion and prevent the harmony it sought. With none but the Jackson lieutenants permitted to talk, the nomination of Van Buren became a simple matter. In fact, he was named on a single ballot. The embarrassing part to Jack-so- n before the vote was cast was that no delegates were in attendance from Alabama, Illinois, South Carolina or Tennessee, the latter, as everyone knows, being his home state. So when Tennessee was found to be absent, because of the split in the party inimical to Van Buren, Jackson's lieutenants went into the streets of Baltimore and looked around. They seized the first Tennessean they encountered, brought him into the convention and had him cast 15 votes in behalf of Tennessee. This man's name happens to have been Edward Rucker and for years afterward "to ruckerize" meant, properly enough, the packing of a convention. so-call- MAKING OF A STATESMAN A S DESTRUCTIVE as war is, its waging or its imminence has revealed an unselfish devotion to country which shines as a bright light in American politics. Stephen A. Douglas, "Little Giant" of Illinois, is the man who became a statesman, back ir 1860, and helped elect an opponent! Two years before, in 1858, Douglas and Abraham Lincoln had stumped Illinois in a series of debates that had drawn the attention of the entire country. Lincoln became a national figure by his adroitness in forcing Douglas to admit that the Dred Scott decision on slavery destroyed Douglas' "squatter sovereignty" doctrine. Douglas saved Illinois for himself by his reply but he had alienated the support of the deep South. So when the returns were in, following the 1860 conventione, Lincoln and Hannibal Hamlin was the Republican ticket; Douglas and H. V. Johnson represented the Northern Democrats; John C. Brecken ridge and Joseph Lane, the Southern Democrats, and John Bell of Tennessee and Edward Everett of Massachusetts carried the colors of the new Constitutional Union party. This split in his party's ranks was a revelation to Douglas. Republicans scoffed at him thus: "His legs were short, but his speeches they were long, And nothing but himself be could see; His principles were weak, but his spirits they were strong. For a thirsty little soul was he." But Douglas showed them all something of his principles. Realizing the election of Lincoln was inevitable, he cast aside his own candidacy, made a speaking tour through the South. "We must save the Union, he urged them ' there. "Lincoln is the next Presi- ; j i dent. j The South, true to its convictions on states' rights and slavery, held aloof from Lincoln, who failed to carry a single state below the Ma-- 1 son and Dixon line. But when Lin- -' coin stood on the Capitol steps to taks his oath of office, Stephen A. Douglas stood beside him and held n Presi-- ; .the hat of the dent. j ' newly-swor- i C Weattra K.wnpipitr Jtilon. ! The Cattle Slaughter Easy to Crochet Set of Lace Filet Farmers Angers First Psychologist The history of psychology may be said to begin with Plato, who was the first influential scientist ,to draw a clear distinction the mind and the body. Aristotle went farther than Plato ;in distinguishing different faculties of the mind and attempted to solve the relation of the mind and the body. His acute analysis of the human organism, "De Anima," remained the standard work on psychology for nearly 2,000 years. en Protest New Deal Cure-Al- l; Seek to Save Remnants o Herds. Alf M. BUFFALO, N. -jv. Landon of Kansas charged the Roosevelt administration with increasing lv 25 per cent the share of the co- -t of government fall in" of incomes of mainly on in a speech de$25 a week or livered before a crowd of 25,000 persons here. He deplored wasteful spending and deficits, with their increased burden of hidden taxes, and declared, "The time has come when we must establish a system of simple, honest bookkeeping." 'VVc must remember,'' he said, "that every time the government spends a dollar, that dollar will have to be paid by our children." The Republican Presidential candidate reiterated his belief in direct taxes levied on the net incomes of individuals and corporations as a means of charging everyone his fair share of the cost of government and letting him know what that share is. Taxes Hit Low Incomes. 'in the year 11)32, 5!) cents out of every dollar collected by our federal government was secured from direct taxes," said Gov, Landon. "The other 41 cents was collected from indirect and hidden taxes. "Four years later what do we find? We find that 51 cents out of That is the effect of New Deal policies, says Myers Y. Cooper, forevery dollar collected by the fed- mer governor of Ohio, pictured here. The overalls he exhibits bear 44 eral government came from hidden one for each hidden federal tax borne unknowingly by the farmer taxes. In other words, the share of tags, or laborer who buys them. "The Republican party sees that not only the cost of government falling mainla farm income too low, but farm taxes sre too high," ssys Gov. Cooper. ly on those with incomes of $25 a week or less has increased 25 per cent during the three years of the present administration. They are paying far more than their rightful share of the cost of government." G. O. P. for Relief. Gov. Landon likened the New Deal partys policy of spending double its income to the familiar character of the neighbor who buys more than he can afford, and eventually winds up on the rocks." "The Republican party believes in being generous in the spending of money for relief rad emergency purposes, but it believes that these funds should be spent without waste and absurdities," he said. Y.-L- pcr-m- is Iii, Politics Keeps Dakota Cattle Dry, Says Ding Washington, D. C. How politics has denied water to Dakota cattle during the drouth was described by Jay N. Darling, known affectionately to millions as "Ding" the cartoonist, when he was interviewed on the William Hard radio hour. Until recently "Ding" was chief of the bureau of biological survey of the department of agriculture. "The bureau of biological survey," said Mr. Darling, "made a careful survey for the New Deal administration of the water re- - By FRANK RIDGWAY More than 800,000 cattle have been killed and added to the New Deaers animal "death list, along with little pigs and expectant mother-sow- s slaughtered near the beginning of the Roosevelt administrations "three long years. These cattle killing activities have been carried .on in connection with the administrations Bangs disease campaign conducted in 48 states during the last two Pattern New china, glassware, even the furniture newly polished but what about a set of doilies to set Youll off all this loveliness? want to gather up crochet hook and some string and begin at once on this lovely filet design pattern 5627 a graceful basket design with flower garlands set off by a cool, open mesh stitch. You can make, in addition to doilies, a buffet set, centerpiece and tray cloth that In string the larger match. doilie measures 18 by 24 inches and the smaller 12 by 12 inches. In pattern 5627 you will find complete instructions and charts for making the doilies shown; an illustration of them and of all stitches used; material requirements. To obtain this pattern send in stamps or coins (coins preferred) to The Sewing Circle Household Arts Dept., 259 W. Fourteenth St., New York, N. Y. Write plainly pattern number, your name and address. years. Meat and milk production has been reduced and more and more imports of cattle, beef, and dairy products are coming in from foreign countries as a result. In the meantime Bang's disease runs rampant in the farmers dairy and beef herds. Disgruntled farmers favor calling a halt on the test. They have become dissatisfied with the program. But their cattle still are being "mowed down as fast as federal government men can make their tests to sort out the diseased cattle and send them to slaughter. Bothered by Dreams. Apparently men who are trying to run the farms of America by jerking puppet strings radiating out from Washington, still are working on the idea that there are too many cattle in the United States. Farmers and ranchmen are anxious to get rid of cattle infected with Bangs disease, which causes the loss of calves in both dairy and beef herds and undulant fever in human beings. But after having 10,000,000 tests made on their animals, they have become skeptical. They doubt the accuracy and value of the test. Farmers and New Deal planners alike apparently thought the program had merit when it was started. The idea of government aid in getting rid of infected animals seemed sound. Experience soon proved that the planners had entirely overlooked the fact that the test for Bangs disease had not been standardized and perfected to the point where it could be depended upon to give satisfactory results when applied under various conditions on a national scale. Some farmers had taken both the test and the sound judgment of the Washington officials pretty much for granted. They have now found to their sorrow that neither of their assumptions were justified. Farmers Now Dissatisfied. For many months dissatisfaction has spread among farmers throughout the country. Through their breeders organizations dairy and beef cattle owners decided to make an investigation and go to the bottom of the Bangs campaign fostered by politicians at Washington. About 200 of the cattlemen's representatives recently met in Spring-fielIllinois, where they aired the whole cattle killing, program. They found out that from the beginning the New Dealers apparently had used the Bangs disease test as an excuse to slaughter more of their cattle. Farmers now dualize that they have been paying a high price to aid political theorists in planning their revolutionary agricultural reduction scheme. Nearly 700,000 herds of beef and dairy animals have been submitted for test since July 1, 1934. Some of the farmers have lost many of their most valuable animals. In one southern Wisconsin dairy herd of 859 cattle all of them were found to be diseased excepting 130. 5627 Standard of Excellence At the height of his career, Claude Monet, the famed French painter, destroyed 12 pictures of a sheet of water, the fruit of three years work, because they did not rise to his standard. If our sense of what is good in conduct were as high and sensitive as that of this artist, we would be dissatisfied with many of the choices that we make. How often we accept the second best simply because we have no standard of excellence! When we are too easily influenced by Hie crowd, we stop short of the best; our decisions are made in accordance with poor, human ideals instead pf in obedience to the will of God. BLACK LEAF 4(T Keeps Dogs Any from Evergrceu,Shrabsetc. .Cumum mthbmm at Sprav. Opening for d, Copyright New Deal Foreclosed on 11,438 Farms in 35 Farm Credit administration here show. This is more than two and times the number of such foreclosures in 1934, and 1,399 more than in 1932. One farm in every ten is now under mortgage to the United States. The federal government, according to the records, owned 27,516 farms at the end of 1935, roughly 5,000 more than it owned at the same time the year before. All had been seized through foreclosures. Despite the large increase in foreclosures, 128,457 or approximately h cf the loans of the FCA on Dec. 31, 1935 were delinquent. By ruling of the FCA on February 1, 1935, this did not include loans upon an extension had been which granted. Critics of the New Deal policies pointed out that the government was paying bounties to farmers, presumably to keep them solvent, at the same time that it was foreclosing on thousands more farm mortgages than it had the year one-ha- lf JAY N. "DING" DARLING sources of North Dakota. A program of impounded water res- ervoirs to hold all the water that might fall in good years and bad was completed. "But," continued Mr. Darling, "the relief money for North Dakota was handed over to political administrators for distribution, and the scientific men who had prepared the water conservation program were told that the only way in which they could secure the authorization of their projects was to apply to these politicians. The result has been that the only water available in North Dakota in this year of excessive drouth is to be found in the few ponds which the very few biological survey was able to construct out of some stray moneys on which it managed to lay its hands." William Hard's Hour. Chicago. The radio division one-fift- before. Henry Wallace Uncle Joins Republican Staff Chicago. Daniel A. Wallace of Walker. Minnesota, uncle of Henry A. Wallace, secretary of agricul- ture, has joined the staff of the farm division of the Republican National committee, Congressman Clifford R. Hope, director, an- of the Republican National committee announced that the program, News nounced. for Voters" would in the future be Mr. Wallace will do editorial work known as "William Hards Hour". for the farm division. A series of It is heard nightly, from Monday to articles and regular contributions to Friday, over the NBC the farm and lay press will be Blue network at 9:00 F. M., EST, started lie will reimmediately. except on Wednesdays when it is main in Walker and at his St. Paul heard at 8:45 P. M., EST. offices. coast-to-coa- st China Triton See Rise in U. S. Imporis of Corn Washington, D. C. Mortgages on 11,438 farms were foreclosed during 1935 under the New Deal, records of the INI, hj no Washington, D. C. More corn have to be imported from Argentina this year, because of the will shortage of the American crop, the bureau of economics of the Department of Agriculture predicts. Some officials indicated the total would reach 50 million bushels, or nearly double the 27 million bushels which came into the United States from Argentina during the year ended June 30, 1933. The bureau avoided mentioning the crop reductions of the New Uc:'rs "scarcity" program ascribing the shortages entirely to the drouth. With September corn selling at $1.14, there were evidences of dissatisfaction among Middle Western farmers whose sealed corn loans had been called in during June by t ii e agricultural administration, which demanded immediate payment and refused time extensions. "I have proof that in one Iowa county alone 136 loans involving approximately 150,1)00 bushels of corn were paid prior to July 1, 1936, due solely to instructions contained in a letter sent to banks by the Commodity Credit corporation," Sen. L. J. Dickinson of Iowa said. "The majority of this corn was sold at around 40 to 50 cents a bushel. "Had it been possible to have held this corn farmers of that county could have realized at least another 50 cents a bushel, or approximately $75,000. Sen. Dickinson told of the futile attempts of some Iowa banks, through which farmers had sealed their corn, to obtain extensions in cases where it was apparent such extensions would save the corn producers hundreds of thousands of dollars. New Deal Pacts Nullify Dairy Sanitation Code Chicago. The mad internationalists" of the New Deal party, in flooding the country with foreign dairy products, are throwing Americas program of sanitation to the winds, according to Congressman F. D. Culkin of Oswego, New York, assistant director of the farm division of the Republican National committee. "In the past 20 years, the government and the farmers of America have spent more than $500,000,000 to protect the public health and obtain dairy products free from dirt and disease," said Congressman Culkin. "Under the present reciprocal trade agreements made by Secretary Hull and President Roosevelt, all this disbursement is thrown to the winds because the Hull treaties make no provisions as to quarantine and sanitary regulations and the protection of milk products at their source, in foreign countries. 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