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fiy Carter Field
Washington. — Governor Alf M.
Landon’s strength in the farm
6tates, now demonstrated, serves to
keep him in the presidential race,
but leaves him still dependent upon
success in the parlay of bif states
east of the Mississippi.
That parlay has had but one
change as a result of Landon’s im
proved chances west of the Missis
sippi. Before the farm speeches at
Des Moines and Minneapolis which,
repercussions have indicated,
cinched for the Republican nominee
Nebraska, Iowa and South Dakota,
and put Minnesota and Colorado in
the "leaning Republican" column,
the group of states east of the
Mississippi that Landon must carry
to have a chance stood as follows:
New York, New Jersey, Pennsyl
vania, Ohio, Indiana, Illinois and
Michigan. And even this was pred
icated on the premise that he must
also carry all the New England
states.
With his present strength in the
farm belt, Indiana may be eliminat
ed from this must list.
As is general in such cases, In
diana begins to show more Repub
lican strength at the same moment
that it loses its status of being ab
solutely vital to the Republican can
didate. Present indications are that
Indiana will go Republican. In fact,
the same farm speeches which
cinched Iowa and Nebraska and
South Dakota for Landon helped him
enormously in Indiana and in south
ern Illinois.
But the fact remains that Landon
cannot lose a single one of the
modified must list. There are just
not enough electoral votes within
the realm of probabilities to make
for one of them.
The most interesting phase of this
campaign to any disinterested ob
server must be the way this list of
states, all of which Landon has to
carry, shifts about. For a time aft
er Governor Herbert H. Lehman
was induced to run for re-election
in New York, it seemed as though
the Empire state was the weakest
link in the Republican chain. Then
for one reason and another Repub
lican prospects in New York began
to improve until now they are much
brighter than in Pennsylvania, Ohio,
Illincis or Michigan.
Drift in Pennsylvania
Pennsylvania was the second state
to play havoc with the nerves of
the Landon backers. But there has
been a drift back there, and now*
Pennsylvania, the Republicans
think, is responding to treatment.
Next one of the important polls
showed Michigan swinging to
Franklin D. Roosevelt, and all the
tremors that New York and Penn
sylvania hAd caused in the Repub
lican high command were repeated.
For all realize that they cannot
win without Michigan's 19 electoral
votes.
There is no evidence of any swing
back in Michigan, but for various
reasons the Republicans are now
worried more about Ohio than any
of the others.
Primarily this is due to disap
pointment. From the moment of
the Cleveland convention they had
assumed that Ohio was in the bag.
It had gone for Roosevelt in 1932 by
only about 74,000. Many of its im
portant leaders were known to be
lukewarm to Roosevelt. Both its
senators had voted against the
Roosevelt tax bill. Senator Vic
Donahey had walked out of the Phil
adelphia convention despite the
earnest pleading of James A. Far
ley that he make a seconding speech
for Roosevelt. Finally Landon had
spent his boyhood in eastern Ohio.
But the polls being taken by the
Columbus Dispatch and the Scripps
Howard papers are showing that
while the Republican nominee for
governor is running way ahead of
the Democratic incumbent, the
same voters are favoring Roose
velt over Landon by a substantial
lead. So the jitters of John D: M.
Hamilton’s lieutenants are now re
sulting from Ohio.
In a couple of weeks it will prob
ably be New York again, or Penn
sylvania. A parlay is rather hard
on the nerves.
Two-Edged Sword
Although the Democrats have
failed to capitalize the insurance is
sue sprung by Col. Frank Knox,
there is an element among the Re
publicans which is frightened to
death about it What they are afraid
of is that so many life insurance
salesmen will run into stiff sales
resistance on the part of their pros
pects, and blame Colonel Knox in
particular and the whole Republican
ticket in general for their difficul
ties.
Actually the big men in the in
surance business are in absolute
sympathy with Colonel Knox’s
views, on two counts. But the big
insurance men have very few votes,
whereas the number of life insur
ance salesmen is legion.
That is where the two-edged
sword of this issue comes in. And
probably no one will know for some
time to come, perhaps not until aft
er the election, which edge did the
most cutting.
There are two entirely different
phases even of the one side—the
side that Colonel Knox is present
ing so vigorously.
One is the charge that Roosevelt
spending, with the constantly in
creasing national debt due to the
fact that the government every year
spends more thaa it takis in, will 1
inevitably lead to inflation, infla- j
tion, once started, cannot well be [
stopped. Few governments in the
history of the world, once they em- ;
barked on printing-press money, ,
have been able to do anything about j
it. The latest spectacular case, of
course, is Germany. On the other j
hand, the United States government j
financed the Civil war with print- j
ing-press money, and eventually J
made good, redeeming all the j
greenbacks with gold.
The story of that recovery, how
ever, is so dreary, extending
through the Grant administration
scandals, and with repercussions
leading up to the McKinley-Bryan
sound money versus free silver
campaigns. In fact, that story is
so unhappy that few of the active
inflationists in public life, such for
instance as Senator Elmer Thomas
of Oklahoma, have manifested any
desire to mention it.
They Talk Figures
To this phase the answer of the
Democrats of course is that Presi
dent Roosevelt is just as strongly
opposed to printing-press money as
is Governor Alf M. Landon himself.
They talk about balancing the budg
et after the emergency is passed,
and then slowly paying off some of
the debt. They do not talk very
much about this for an obvious rea
son. If they start talking figures,
naturally it looms inevitably that
there must be higher taxes. Dur
ing the campaign the Democrats do
not want to talk about higher taxes.
In fact, the White House went to
some pains to make it clear to the
country that there would be no new
taxes next year.
There is another reason why the
Democrats do not want to talk so
much about higher taxes just at
present. Every one knows that Pres
ident Roosevelt's own idea about
these higher taxes is very definite.
He expects to make the big corpora
tions and the big incomes pay more.
When he proposed the original slid
ing scale tax on corporation in- .
comes, nearly eighteen months ago,
he wanted the scale to run up much
higher.
When last spring he urged the
present tax law, he wanted a much
bigger slice of undistributed earn
ings assessed, the idea being to
force distribution of bigger divi
dends, and then to get at the big
incomes by high bracket individual
income taxes.
But discussion of that point right
now is not the Democratic strategy.
That particular issue is a two-edged
sword for them, as much as the
Knox scare on life insurance poli
cies and savings bank deposits is
for the Republicans.
Another issue
Loss of interest on savings bank
accounts, and diminished dividends
on life insurance policies, is another
phase of the issue Col. Frank Knox
has injected into the campaign
which is causing such concern both
among Republicans and Democrats,
no one being sure which way the
net advantage of this issue is going
to fall on election day.
This phase of the issue has noth
ing to do with the possibility of
printing-press money—of an infla
tion which might lead to a gradual
fall in value of the dollar so that
the purchasing power of savings and
insurance payments might be heav
ily cut.
It is concerned with the immedi
ate present, and has to d.o almost
entirely with the present very low
rate of interest. In the first place,
all the banks are stuffed with gov
ernment bonds. These bonds pay so
little interest that from the point of
view of income to the banks it is al
most as bad as not loaning the
money out at all.
This cheap interest rate has nat
urally affected other borrowers.
Corporations making new bond is
sues have taken advantage of it.
Everybody who has to borrow mon
ey has taken advantage of it. So
that the income of banks and in
surance companies which must in
vest money in order to live has fall
en sharply.
In the case of banks, this has re
sulted in sharp curtailment of inter
est payment on savings accounts
and almost universal discontinuance
of any interest on checking ac
counts.
Cuts Dividends
In the case of insurance compa
nies, it has resulted in sharp reduc
tion of the amount of dividends al
lowed policy holders. To some pol
icy holders this has actually meant
an increase in their premiums, for
many have always used the divi
dends to reduce their premiums.
To others, who have always used
the dividends to purchase addition
al insurance, i. has simply meant
that they did not obtain this addi
tional insurance. Taking both
classes, the net has been that the
cost of their insurance has in
creased.
So that it might be stated that
all holders of savings bank deposits
and insurance policies have been
hurt as a result of this cheaper
interest rate, not to mention owners
of bank stocks.
On the other hand, the borrowers
have had a field day. They have
been getting money cheaper than
at any time in their memory.
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THE English like pageantry.
No one is long in London be
fore that becomes evident.
And when spring comes to
the British capital, pageantry is not
far behind.
A month before, the south coast
has retained the winter’s health
seekers and a generous sprinkling of
visitors from "The Colonies.” To
watch the opening of the mail in a
drawing room of Penzance or Tor
quay is like leafing the pages of an
imperial atlas or a stamp album.
The season’s northward passage
from Kent and Sussex changes the
country’s outlook. Then the visiting
expatriates move north, and the
Cornish Riviera emerges from its
plate-glass windbreaks. The daffo
dills have begun to show themselves
in London’s parks.
How many hundreds of springs
have worked their magic around
Ludgate Hill? Yet the story is never
old.
In St. James’s Park the pelicans
plume themselves for another round
of admirers. Testy old Colonials,
amid youngsters with the same
straight backs, ride splendid horses
along that mid-city strip of tanbark
known as Rotten Row. Before St.
Paul’s and under the haughty noses
of the Landseer lions in Trafalgar
Square children minister to the ver
nal voracity of the London pigeons.
In Whitehall, where the Horse
Guards sit their coal-black mounts,
warm red winter capes are removed
to display white buckskin breeches.
In front of the Old Admiralty,
whence Nelson hurried off toward
the Strait of Gibraltar and the
battle commemorated by the name
of Trafalgar Square, a flower sel
ler thrusts out a sixpenny bunch of
daffodils.
As if the bright lights around
Leicester Square had helped coax
them forth, early blossoms circle
the base of a statue to England's
immortal poet and playwright.
Leaning on a pile of his works, his
legs crossed more carelessly than a
sculptor allows in the case of a
general or a statesman, Shake
speare broods in the center of a
theaterland whose craft he glorified.
Nerve Center of Empire
Another spot gilded by daffodils is
the garden outside the Houses of
Parliament, a site where monarchs
ruled from Edward the Confessor
to Henry VIII. Since the days of
Bluff King Hal, the House of Com
mons has turned this Thames-side
meeting place into the democratic
heart of a farflung Empire.
The World war Tommy sang to
Piccadilly and Leicester Square,
but the nerve center of the British
Commonwealth is this fortress of
constitutional government beside
British historic river.
Three centuries ago, under the
Palace of Westminster, a tall fellow
with auburn hair sat amid barrels
of gunpowder. In a few hours King,
i Lords, and Commons were to meet
in the hall overhead. A watch pro
vided by Thomas Percy ticked all
England closer to chaos.
The Gunpowder Plot was dis
covered. Intervening centuries have
healed the grim memory of his ex
ecution, and Guy Fawkes Day has
become a children’s festival, with
fireworks shooting from grptesque
effigies to amuse the crowd. But
even yet, before the king leaves
Buckingham palace to open Parlia
ment, red-coated beefeaters search
the cellars beneath this mighty pile.
On Hampstead Heath coveys of
kites, their strings coiled on reels
strong enough for tunny fishing,
shake their tails across the heavens,
while Punchinello wags his long
beaked face before those still too
young to read Punch. On a hundred
lakes and streams the swans stretch
their long necks in begging. Down
the hidden lanes of Devon, Kent, and
Sussex cyclist and motorists push
their explorations.
The wide expanse of Dartmoor,
the coves of Cornwall, the gossamer
haze of English lakes, the pilgrim
places of art and architecture, of
religion and literature, all have
their devotees.
Yet even these alluring places, so
fondly dreamed of around tea tables
in paneled rooms, are hard put to
keep admirers from rushing off to
some display of uniforms, banners,
horseflesh, or costumes—perhaps a
lady of quality wearing the same
gown and the same title as did a
famous ancestor in the age of Queen
Anne or Nell Gwyn.
At a pageant the king may sit
his horse while colors that have
faced enemy Are are dipped in sa
lute, or the tale of Runnymede, built
up by Roman and Dane, Plantagenet
and Tudor, may be retold in one
stirring afternoon beside the
Thames.
In the Midlands, smoke and haze
often thwart the sun, but spring ar
rives with the pounding of hoofs and
the cries of the crowd at the Grand
National Steeplechase, which deter
mines the winners of the Irish
Sweepstakes, now duplicated on
Derby Day.
The course is four and one-fourth
miles, with 30 jumps. Beyond any
of them, all but the lead horse may
land on his rivals’ sky-turned hoofs
instead of on billiard-cloth turf, or
trample a bright-clad jockey. An
Aintree steeplechaser will swerve
in the middle of a leap to avoid a
fallen rider, but when a dozen leap
ers cross Becher’s Brook together,
like a pony ballet pawing the foot
lights, there is danger aplenty and
drama for all.
A few days after the race half
the men who slap reins on workaday
horseflesh will be clucking to their
steeds in the name of the year’s
Grand National winner.
After this dramatic attack, spring
consolidates its hold. Small parties
hie away to rustic spots beloved be
cause they are known to few. How
one island can contain so many fa
vorite picnic sites is a mystery.
“Gated roads,” “private” signs, and
turnstiles are designed not so much
to -keep out beauty seekers as to
keep in an air of ’seclusion and
quiet.
Everywhere citizens move out to
greet the bursting bud, the new-born
lamb, the soft spring breeze along
white cliffs, or welcome warmth at
the foot of red-rock sun traps near
the sea.
England can be grim. There is the
cruel tower where Anne Boleyn’s
slender throat was severed by a
sword and those of Catherine How
ard, Lady Jane Grey, and the Earl
of Essex by an ax; but London
River calls us. London Tower is a
scene of the nation’s tragic deaths;
the Thames of its birth and growth
and power. Who has not heard the
aphorism: “The St. Lawrence is
water; the Missouri is muddy
water; the Thames is liquid his
tory”?
Cruises on The Thames
Today a well-managed excursion
cruises down London River under
the auspices of the Port of London
Authority. Shiploads of school chil
dren and adults are carried amid
the busiest portions of London’s 70
mile port. They are shown through
the docks that feed and furnish a
nation and link this tiny island to the
Empire its restless mariners won,
and to the world.
Leaflets are distributed which map
the course, epitomize the river’s
history, and list the day’s portion
of a thousand ships a week converg
ing from the far corners of the
earth. Through loudspeakers, intel
ligent guides point out where Ra
leigh spread his cloak for Queen
Elizabeth, where the time-ball of a
modest observatory marks the
stride of our sphere, where Francis
Drake, expecting punishment, was
knighted on the Golden Hind.
Once there were more boats upon
the Thames than there were hack
ney coaches in the streets, and mag
istrates from the City were rowed
to Westminster. Today many travel
ers ignore the ‘‘most significant wa
terway in the world,” extended by
the Grand Union Canal, which
makes the industrial Midlands ship
ping suburbs of the London docks.
Near the upper reaches of tide
water is Kew, a vast open-air nurs
ery for plants and “a convalescent
home for all sore souls.” Through
the Royal Botanic Gardens at Kew
Uie rubber plantations of Malaya
passed on their way from the native
forests in Brazil. India’s post offices
could not sell Asiatic quinine to re
lieve the tropical fevers of countless
millions until South America’s cin
chona tree was bequeathed to Cey
lon and the Himalayas through the
propagating gardens of Kew.
Kew is one of London’s best-loved
playgrounds, especially when young
spring has ringed its little lake with
fuzzy foliage and touched the wide
spread green with masses of gay
blossoms. Bluebell, lilac, magnolia,
and azalea, all have their devotees.
'Old Oaken Bucket' Panel
Pattern 1067
So dear to our hearts—the tune,
“Old Oaken Bucket,” and now,
a wall panel in its memory, which
every one of us will want to em
broider at once. Such a home
like scene, this, which is planned
for quick embroidery, with single
and running stitch used mainly,
and only a smattering of French
knots. No frame is needed—just a
lining.
Pattern 1067 comes to you with
a transfer pattern of a picture
15 by 20 inches; a color chart and
Foreign Words ^
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A tout prix. (F.) At any price;
whatever the cost.
Brutum fulmen. (L.) Ineffec
tual thunderbolt.
Chevalier d’industrie. (F.) A
swindler; sharper; an adventurer.
Deus vobiscuml (L.) God be
with you!
Ecce. (L.) Behold.
In medias res. (L.) Into the
midst, as of a subject.
Mauvaise honte. (F.) False
modesty.
Pate de foies gras. (F.) A pie
of fat goose livers.
Revenons a nos moutons. (F.)
Let us return to our sheep; i. e.,
to the point at issue.
Nil admirari. (L.) To wonder
at nothing.
Quantum sufficit. (L.) As much
as suffices; enough.
Savoir faire. (F.) The knowing
how to do; address; tact.
key; material requirements; illus
trations of all stitches needed.
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Dept., 82 Eighth Ave., New York,
N. Y.
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