Photographers Have Held Day
With White House Candidates
IN A presidential election year,
would-be candidates are photo
graphed in “down-to-earth” poses
to catch the public s fancy. Thomas
E. Dewey, New York district attor
ney, is shown above in a snowball
fight with Tom Jr. Mrs. Dewey and
son John look on. At left: Detvey
as a farm hand near Owosso, Mich.
Ohio’s Sen. Robert Taft,
another G. O. P. hopeful, re
vived the Coolidge tradition
u'hen he posed for this fish
ing picture in Florida,
dressed in business clothes.
At right: He “looks ahead.” .
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I Vice President John Nance
I Garner is naturally a “man of
V the people" but these pictures
' help his Democratic candi
dacy. Above, in overalls, he
fishes near his home at Uval
de, Tex. At left: The vice
president feeds his chickens.
The campaign manager of
handsome Paul McNutt, Demo
cratic aspirant, is deliberately
trying to “un-glamorize” his can
didate. This “newest portrait”
ihows the effective results.
Frank Gannett, 63-year-old
Rochester (N. Y.) newspaper pub
lisher, stands before his portrait
and waves at banqueteers who
heard him announce his candi
dacy for G. O. /’. nomination.
Wives are helpful. Mrs. Taft gathers votes in New York.
NATIONAL
AFFAIRS
Rtviewtd by
CARTER FIELD
Frank Murphy losing out
with IXew Dealers, Wash
ington hears . . . Presiden
tial primaries never a de
cisive factor.
(Bell Syndicate—WNU Service.!
WASHINGTON —One of the most
extraordinary deflations of a polit- j
ical idol that old-time Washington
observers can remember is being
reflected in New Dealers' estimate
of Frank Murphy, now a justice of
the Supreme court, before that at
torney general, and practically a
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 Deal
Frank Murphy
ers. His defeat, by
a Republican, for
re-election as gov
ernor was one of
the bitterest blows
the New Dealers
had to take. Their
wails about Murphy
and Michigan were
much worse, for ex
ample, than about
the Republican
sweep in Ohio and
Pennsylvania, or
the election of a
U. U. F. executive in uregon.
It was a menacing arrow point
ing the return of reactionaryism.etc.
When Murphy was made attorney
general, there was rejoicing among
the New Dealers, and bitter com
ments 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 in
siders 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 Progres
sive 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 impor
tance was attached to the idea of
letting the voters decide as many
important questions as possible.
Nearly every Progressive, wheth
er he were Democrat, Republican,
or Socialist, for example, believed
in the initiative, referendum and re
call. The Progressives believed in
the direct election of senators, in
stead of by the old plan laid down
in the Constitution for their elec
tion by legislatures. Most of all,
they believed in the nomination ol
candidates for President by prefer
ential presidential primaries.
As a young and enthusiastic Pro
gressive, 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 writ
i ers from most of the great news
papers of the country, at the Balti
more convention in 1912, the one
that nominated Woodrow Wilson
after William Jennings Bryan
jumped his own primary instruc
tions—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 bet
ter illustrated than
in both the Demo
cratic and Republi
can parties this
year, 28 years lat
er. But even in that
year it so happens
that Wilson, who
won the nomina
tion, lost most if not
| all of the primaries
in which he faced
Champ Clark, and
Wilson’s nomina
Hiram Johnson
tion 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 mani
I testing any great strength in the
primaries Indeed until he was
nominated no one could be quite
sure he would accept. Four years
after that. Hiram W Johnson made
the best showirg in the primaries,
defeating both Leonard Wood and
Frank O Lowden. for example, in
the vital Michigan primary. No
primaries had importantly demon
strated the strri Rth of James M
Cox for the Democratic n ’ruination
the same year.
WHO’S
NEWS
THIS
WEEK
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By LEMUEL F. PARTON
(Consolidated Features—WNU Service.)
NEW YORK.—This war, so far,
has lacked bands and banners
and all other such traditional ex
citements and John Masefield has
no: • i a a- * not even writ
Ofnctal Artist ten a poem
Of Present War about it. In
Has Experience °ne detai1’
however,
British traditionalism again pre
vails. 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 rec
ords 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 be
tween 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 super
lative 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 sul
len monochromes of desolation, the
inert black and white of sharply
graven ruin.
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 full aesthetic values.
This time, there is a perfunc
tory announcement, only a few
lines, of Sir Muirhead’s appoint
ment. Not even in the graphic
arts is war getting its accus
tomed fanfare.
This writer remembers well Sir
Muirhead’s masterful drawings in
the "international studio” of an ear
lier and happier day—mellow archi
tectural studies, or placid landscape
in English byways where no air
raid 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 Eng
land, to become an honorary doc
tor of letters at Oxford and one of
the most famous artists of Eng
land. He has exhibited in New
York several times and has an en
thusiastic following among critics
and the American art public.
IN 1937, Rep. John E. Miller of
* Arkansas made his campaign
for the United States senatorship
against the “New Deal patronage
. _ machine.”
Arkansas Senator His backers
Is Ardent Foe of charged that
Revised Hatch ActhJs °Pponent
Gov. Carl 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 poli
ticians,” 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 po
litical office in Arkansas since the
early reconstruction days. His suc
cess was acclaimed as a triumph
over patronage politics.
Today, by one of those curious
reversals of political form which
make news, Senator Miller is
the most conspicuous opponent
of the extension and strengthen
ing of the Hatch law, directed
against political job-holders mix
ing in poXtics. He would not
only block its extension to cover
state job-holders supported in
part by federal funds, but he
would repeal section nine which
bars governmental employees
from political activity.
The lean, bespectacled Senator
Miller is somewhat professorial in
appearance, and, incidentally, was
graduated from Cape Girardeau
Teachers’ college, in Valparaiso,
Ind. However, he later turned to
the law and has been a practicing
attorney in Searcy, Ark., since 1915.
He was prosecuting attorney and
county judge before his election to
the house in 1930. He is a native of
Stoddard County, Mo.
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IN THE light of not so ancient
history, it is quite clear as to
why Francis B. Sayre thinks we
ought to get rid of the Philippines.
Our high commissioner is a holder
of the Grand Cross of the White
Elephant. Less pertinent, but in
I teresting is the fact that he also
is a knight commander of the Chula
Krom Klav, and a Phia Kalyan
Matri. These titles were gratefully
bestowed on him by the king of
Siam, when, in the early 1920s, Mr.
Sayre was adviser to the king and
aided in many treaty negotiations.
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That W as Just It: They
W ere All on the Chase!
Jones had finally mustered up
enough courage to approach his
boss for an increase, but his re
quest had been received with stony
silence. Jones thought he had bet
ter strengthen his case.
“You see, sir, the reason I’m
asking for more money is because
three other companies are after
me,” he explained.
The boss surveyed Jones from
head to foot for a moment, then:
“Indeed,” he sneered. "And
may I ask who they are?”
“Well, sir,” replied Jones,
“there’s the gas company after
me, and the coal company after
me, and the company we got our
furniture from.”
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