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News Review of Current
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President Calls for Trace Between Labor and Industry—
Convention of A. F. of L.—Air Combat Forces
Taken Away From Foulois. JL ——
By EDWARD W. PICKARD
C by Waattra N«wcpip«r Union.
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P RESIDENT ROOSEVELT’S latent
radio talk with bis fellow cttlaens
waa well written, well delivered and
pecallarlj vague as to his future In
tentlons. He sought to
reassure business and
labor, both of which
tre questioning him
4inzlouslj, but be
made no definite re
plies to their categor
ical queries. His one
specific statement was
'that within a month
he would seek to ne-
. gottate a truce be
tween large groupa of
employers and large
groups of employees
through which there would be a cessa
tion of the strikes that have been die-
President
Roosevelt
raptiag the nation's business He said
he would ask the representatives of
those forces to agree temporarily on
questions of wages, hours and working
conditions and that with such agree
ments In force he expected further ad
justments would be made peaceably,
through governmental or private medi
ation.
“I shall not ask either employers or
employees permanently to lay aside the
weapons common to Industrial war,” be
added. “But I shall ask both groups
to give a fair trial to peaceful methods
of adjusting their conflicts of opinion
and Interest, and to experiment for a
reasonable tjme with measures suitable
to civilize our Industrial civilization.”
By way of reply to the appeals of
many business. Industrial and financial
leaders that the more radical measures
of the administration’s program be
abandoned, Ur. Roosevelt declared the
New Deal is to go on. To the ques
tions of those leaders concerning bal
ancing of the budget, government ex
penses, further devaluation of the dol
lar or return to the gold standard, he
made no reply. However, he did de
clare himself In favor of a system of
business based oa private profit. Then
he said:
"1 am not for a return to that defi
nition of liberty under which for many
years a free people were being gradu
ally regimented Into the service of the
privileged few. I prefer and I am sure
you prefer that broader definition of lib
erty under which we are moving for
ward to greater freedom, to greater »e
curlty for the average man than he
has ever known before In the history
of America."
Concerning the NRA, the President
gave praise to General Johnson and
said the national recovery administra
tion was entering Its secdbd phase,
"which is In turn a period of prepara
tion for legislation which will deter
mine Its permanent form.” He admit
ted there was a question as to the
wisdom of seme of the devices em
ployed during the first phase of the
NRA, but decried the attacks on the
constitutionality of many of the things
his administration nas done. "We are
not,” he said, “frightened by reaction
ary lawyers or political editors. All
these cries have been heard before.”
Near the beginning of his address,
the President said:
"I am happy to report that after
years of uncertainty, culminating In
the collapse of the spring of 1933, we
are bringing order out of the old chaos
with a greater certainty of the employ
ment of labor at a reasonable wage
and of more business at a fair profit
These governmental and Industrial de
velopments hold promise of new
achievements for the nation.”
First formal response to the Presi
dent’s speech came from the National
Association of Manufacturers, which
urged him to Issue a proclamation for
a “truce on Industrial warfare” during
which existing employment relations
would be continued, and challenged the
American Federation of Labor to take
like action. Its statement said:
"The President will finer employers
willing to alt down with him, as he
proposes, to devise means for ending
the constant series of strikes which
have been me of the major obstacles
to recovery."
Green and Morrison, respectively
president and secretary of the federa
tion, said this was a subterfuge and
that the manufacturers should first
publicly announce they would obey the
decisions of constituted authorities, es
pecially concerning discrimination and
collective bargaining.
That because It has failed to reduce
hours of labor sufficiently It has also
failed to create a satisfactory number
of new Jobs.
That Its compliance machinery Is In
effective. with the result that viola
tions of the spirit of the codes are eas
ily accomplished and quite general.
— Labor does not have proper repre
sentation in either code enforcement
or administration. —
“In one way,” the report says, point
ing to what seems to be viewed aa the
bur
only satisfactory accomplishment thu
far under the NRA. “codes have ful
filled expectations They have with
few exceptions wiped out child labor.”
RESIDENT GREEN In his address
the Federation of Labor declared
the establishment of the 30-hour week
was one of the possible means of wlp-
William Green
Ing out unemployment,
and said those oppos
ing It have offered no
other remedy. First
actual results In the
campaign for this
were announced later
to the convention by
Frank Feeney, presi
dent of the Elevator
Constructors' union.
What he called the
“greatest labor docu
ment ever written”
has been signed—a five-year agree
ment with contractor employers pro
viding the six-hour day, five-day week
for the 19,000 members of the union
on a pay basis of the eight-hour day.
The contract will become effective Im
mediately. Feeney said. In any locality
In which any other four of the build
ing trades unions negotiate similar
agreements.
The document also provides for an
absolutely closed shop and gives the
elevator constructors the right to
strike at any time to support any
movement for the 30-hour week.
While the delegates were cheering
this announcement, Col W. F. Axton.
tobacco manufacturer of Louisville,
Ky„ arose and made a lively speech
In support of the 30-hour week as the
means of getting everybody > back to
work.
M If we want to get business back
we must give employment to labor,”
Axton said. "Industry at the same
time must be protected from unfair
competition by such means as codes.”
The arrival of John L. Lewis, presi
dent of the United Mine Workers of
America, gave Impetus to the fight for
extension of the A. F. of L. Into the
Industrial union field and to the plan
to Increase the executive council from
11 to 25 members.
Although Lewis, controlling 3,000
convention votes, was opposed by
Green on the council plan, the miners’
leader removed the last douht concern
ing Green's re-election by announcing
that he would not only back Green
but would place him In nomination.
EMODRLINO of tho NRA by the
new industrial recovery board
which baa displaced General Johnson
Is under way. One of the board's first
official acts wad to give a good Job to
Kllbourne Johnston, son of the. retir
ing administrator—though he spells
his name differently. .The young man,
who Is an army lieutenant on leave,
was made acting divisional adminis
trator in charge of manufacturing
codes.
Donald R. Richberg, director of the
Industrial
clashed rei»eatedly with Johnson when
he was active as chief counsel of the
recovery agency t Intimated If there had
been wounds they were now healed.
“We have no quarrel,” Richberg said
with a smile, , < ' ;
On behalf of the textile workers
Francis J. Gorman formally accepted
the President's plan for an industrial
truce. He suggested a six-months'
armistice and promised that during
that period the union would permit
“no stoppage of ‘work” III protest
against any findings of this textlis or
national labor relations 7 boards. At
the same time Gorman warned that
“renewal of conflict” was imminent
unless the peaceful methods suggested
by the executive could be brought Into
“swift and effective action.”
✓
O NCE/m
sla Is
by a rei
more talk of war with Rua-
agltatlng Japan, stirred up
remarkably frank pamphlet put
opt by the Japanese army department
Soviet Russia possesses 3,000 war
' planes,
China, 600,” the pamphlet asserted.
“If these nations combined, the air
froces of the powers surrounding Ja
pan would total more than"” 6,000
planes.
“Although diplomacy can give as
surance that we will meet only one
enemy, we must assume that the ene-
tny will have at least 3,000 planes.
Japan has only 1,000 planes. Can our
armaments be said to be complete
with this poor air force?
“Constant trouble along the Sovlet-
Manchukuan frontier, the Increasing
ly challenging attitude of the Soviets
and Russia’s traditional unreliability
make the future of Russo-Japanese re
lations uncertain.”
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LLOWINU the recommendations
a special committee appointed by
the War department and headed by
Newton D. Baker, the department has
created a general
headquarters air force,
comprising all the air
combat forces, and
placed It under the
direct command of
Gen. Douglas Mac-
Arthur, chief of staff.
Thus all the fighting
planes are taken away
from Gen. Benjamin
D. Foulois. chief of
the air corps, and he
Is left In command of
air schools and air
Benny,” who flew with the
worked his way
to high command, has lonjr tteen at
outs with the general stuff, struggling
It
Gen. Foulois
only the army
depots.
W HILE President William Green
and some other leaders of the
American Federation of tabor. Just
convened in San Francisco, expressed
•4 -, approval of what Mr. Roosevelt said in
bis radio address, many others prom
laent in the federation are far from
satisfied with the way things are go-
tag. The executive council’s annual
report devoted pages to an analysis of
of the
the effect of th? NRA hpon the inter
est* of labor/ Almost without excep
tion, the effects were found either di
rectly harmful or at leait unsatisfac
tory.
The criticism was directed at the
workings of the recovery program, in
actual operation. The NRA and the
New Deal Itself were not condemned.
But the committee Indicted the pro
gram on these main grounds:
That U has failed to increase the
•
against ^ what fie considered Its fn :
trlgues and politics. Now the general
staff Is having its way with him and.
as one Washington commentator says.
Instead of the flying air fighter which
his record fitted him to be. he has be
come a desk soldier and a school
teacher.
Just as this order was Issued Brig
Gen. William Mitchell, former chief of
the air corps and a perpetual storm
center, was testifying before the com
mission appointed by the President to
study the government’s aviation prob
lem.
Mitchell called the organization of
a “GHQ” air force “a lot of bunk," and
he declared that all army officers whu
signed the Baker report should be
“kicked out of the service." He re
ferred to army aviation plana as the
work of “Boy Scouts” In the War de
partment
According to Mitchell, these are the
measures the country should adopt for
Its aerial defense:
Merge army, navy, and all air serv
ices under one command.
Build planes with a cruising radius
of 6,000 to 8,000 miles, r
Make detailed plans for war, Includ
ing the evacuation of New York city
in case of an air attack by Japan
“from a base in Alaska.”
Construct dirigibles, for 00 of them
“competently” handled could destroy
Japan within two days.
T HU world air congress convened
at
Washington, and one of the
most Important events on Its program
was the award to Wiley Post of the
International Aeronautical Federa
tion's annual gold medal for the out
standing aviation feat of 1933. For
his solo Night around the world Post
was chosen over Marshal Italo Balbo
of Italy, the Lithuanlan-Amerlcan
ocean flyers, Darius and Glrenas, and
J. V. Smirnoff, heroic Holland-Dutch
East Indies mall pilot.
J NTERESTING, though not highly Im
portant, Is the report that comes
from Vienna that Mustapha Kernel
Pasha, dictator-president of Turkey,
wMy marry one of the.
four unmarried sis
ters of King Zog of
Prssidsnt
Kemal
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THIS WEEK
What Yon Read You Are
She Is Lonely
Yes, Money Does Coant
Ihe President's Broadcast
the
“Hauptmann case.” dealing with the
Lindbergh kidnaping. Newspapers have
Increased circulation since Haupt
mann's arrest This proves that dtl-
sent, able to get aloug without ordi
nary news of national and International
affairs, canfiqt do without the Uud-
bergh kidnap news.
, The East reads about the “Bobby”
Edwards case, that of a young man ac
cused of killing a girl, Freda McKech-
nle-knocking her «m- the head end
drowning her when he tired of her.
Others are much interested Id the
case of a woman with a well known
name and a quarrel about control and
possession of a child, heiress to several
millions. Foreign princes, plain Amer
ican drunkenness, many unpleasant de
tails, are dragged Into the story. A
considerable crowd finds that Interest
ing. That Judge’s decision will be In
teresting. 4
_ Future historians will know what we
idlng the “news stories”
that Interested us.
Mrs. Eva Coo, whom reporters choose
“to call “Little Eva” Coo, now In the
women’s wing of the death bouse of
Sing Sing prison, convicted of murder
ing a man whose life she had Insured,
and waiting to be electrocuted, makes
a statement.
It has nothing to do with the hero*
after, death’s uncertainty or its mean
ing, the horror of the electric chair.
The statement says:
“I like company. I am so lonesome
I don't know what to do.”
to tiver the elee-
trlc chair and all that Is on the other
aide of that chair just ahead of her,
and Mrs. Coo's strongest Impression It
that she likes company.
We are a gregarious race, and ab
sence of Imagination Is a great help If
you must be electrocuted.
Does money make li difference to
the United States? It made some dif
ference when, in Foley Square, oppo
site New York’s Supreme court build
ing, six rather'old men were arrested
charged with “vagrancy.” One of them.
Sixty-four years old. who gave a name
not his own, was found with bank
books showing that be owned $6,000,
safe in the bank.
The magistrate “suspended sentence”
on the $6,000 vagrant. He was not
even fined. Five others that had no
money were fined and
Albania. Zog la to visit
Ankara soon and the
engagement may be
announced then. Kem
al. who - is fifty-seven
years old. divorced his
first wife, tatlfe Ha-
nourn. In 1925, and la
said to have expressed
a wish to re-marry.
King Zog's marriage
able sisters range ' on-rushlng
In age from twenty-three to twenty-
six. The Albanian royal family, like
Kemal, Is of the Moslem faith.
Rumors of another almost royal
marriage come from Paris. The Pariser
Tageblattt. German refugee newspa
per. says Chancellor Hitler contem
plates taking as his bride a German
princess, one of the family of Saxe-
Coburg and Gotha which is allied to
the crowns of half a dozen European
countries. It adds that the fuehrer at
the same time will assume the title
of “duke of the Germans.’’
to jail for ten days when they did not
pay.
There Is a text for some budding
Communist orator.
Some call President Roosevelt's
broadcast “crumbs of comfort,” thrown
to “the right,” where dwell big Indus
trialists. disgruntled financiers and
other sad conservatives.
It Is taken as “hitherto shalt thou
go and no farther, and here shall thy
proud wares be stayed.” addressed to
radicalism.”
The President’s broadcast proves that
gentlemen were mistaken who said the
President intends to do away with
“profits." making private enterprise an
obedient unit In the new system of
society. The address means to op
tlmistlc conservatives that the New
Deal desires only to be “helpful” to
private enterprise, not choke IL Bui
private enterprise must be good, and.
with the New Deal, keep Its eye on
the ulltmnte happiness of the many.
J JAR YARD university doesn’t like
■■hancellor Hitler's treatment of
Germany's educational Institutions. Dr.
Ernst F. S. Hanfstaengl, Hitler's con
fidential aid and himself a graduate
of Harvard, made an offer to the uni
versity of a German traveling scholar
ship, but It was declined.
James Bryant Conant, president of
Harvard, said In a letter to Hanf-
staengl—— *
If you buy whisky it Is wise to buy
a brand that you know. In New York,
this year, government % agents seized
100,000 cases of “queer” whisky. In
eluding 15.000 cases of "Scotch” whig
ky made In America, with one-eightn
bestoh to make It taste “smoky,’’ the
rest being sherry, glucose, and home
made alcohol.
The old game for children was “But-
tom button, who’s got.-the but ton 7“
“We are unwilling to accent a gift I—----- _ .
.... ~ KnAr, Tb* new game for grownups Is.
from one who has been so closely as
sociated with the leadership of a po
litical party which has Inflicted dam
age on the universities of Germany
through measures which have struck
at principles we believe to be funda
mental to universities throughout the
world.” , -
‘Dol
\
S AMUEL INSULL and sixteen of his
former associates in public utilities
are now on trial in the federal court
in Chicago. They are charged with
having used the malls to defraud In
vestors through the sale of $143,000,-
000 In securities of the Corporation
Securities company. Judge James H.
Wllkereon Is presiding over the trial
and United States District Attorney
Dwight H. Green heads the force of
prosecutors. Selection of the Jury
didn't take long, but It was certain
the trial of the case would consume
weeks far the witnesses are numbered
by hundreds.
lar, dollar, who’s got the dollar, and
how shall we tax It?"
-New York city, seeking $17,000,000
a month now. more later, for welfare
relief, has already put a tax on Income
taxes.
- To “tax a tax” Is a new idea. If only
deficits could be taxed, the problem
would be easy.
Secretary Wallace suspects, and
farmers will be glad to hear It. that
“an Ignorant, unscrupulous” political
attempt will be made this fall to make
the government lend 75 cents'a bushel
on corn and $1 additional on wheat If
Mr. Wallace’s fears are realized the
“new frontiers," as regards United
States finance, will be as wide as the
Milky Way and as high as the blue star
Vega.
-V -X
P RESIDENT ROOSEVELT and his
naval advisers held a conference at
the White House, and now Norman H.
Davis, ambassador at large. Is on his
way back across the Atlantic to taks
part In talks in London preliminary to
the International naval conference.
Presumably he Is all primed to insist
on tks President’s policies. With Mr.
1 Darts goes Admiral William H. Stand-
lay, chief of naval operations.
H. H. Kung. Intelligent Chinese
statesman, finance minister, tells Sec
retary Morgenthau that he would real
ly and truly like to know what thf
United States means to do about silrer
Also, since this country Is anxious foi
silver. China will sell us all she bar
taking gold In exchange.
Bret Ilarte. considering that Chines*
statesman, might add a, verse to h!>
description of Ah Sin. who possess*
"a smile that was childlike sod bland *
Nationat Topics Interpreted
by William Bruckart
Waahlngton.—As $e federal- retie/
administration looks forward to the
winter months when
Relief Co* the relief burden eb-
Mounta vlously Is heaviest,
Harry L. Hopkins,
federal v relief administrator, maker
public figures showing that the aver
age cost of maintaining a family of four
on public relief now Is $23.09 a month.
He says this figure varies materially
from section to section, that It la ma
terially higher Jn-the Industrial center*
of the South where relief-roll* are
largest and that, probably, the country
may expect a higher avemrre cost dur
ing the forthcoming winter.
The statement by Mr. Hopkins be
comes exceedingly .significant. In thr
opinion of observers here, especially
with reference to the likelihood that
there will be an Increase In cost this
winter. It reflects two things. First,
the administration’s drive to bring
a boat increased prices through crop
limitation or crop destruction or any
of the several methods employed not
only is adding to the burden of those
with limited buying power but it Is
compelling Uncle 3am and the states
and counties and charitable organiza
tions everywhere to pay an added price
to keep people from starving. Second
ly, the Hopkins statement gives more
than an intimation of how many addl-
lions to the relief rolls there may be
as a result of refusal of some people
to accept any kind of Jobs. It has been
known many months that relief rolls
carry a certain percentage of Individ
uals who amount to the same thing as
parasites, but the mounting cost both
lirtbe~iverage and In the total flgur<
are being examined by many experts
with the thought In mind that consid
erable waste Is In prospect.
The relief administration has been
attempting to make surveys of relief
rolls In many Jurisdictions. The re
sults In some of the cases have been
quite disturbing to those In the gov
ernment who are wholly desirous of
lending help wherever help Is neces
sary but who obviously are unwilling
to see government funds drained off
to care for individuals who are refus
ing to help themselves. How far this
condition Is going, none can foretell;
nor can anyone at this time say Ac
curately how extensive has become the
list of those who regard relief rolls
as their rightful meal ticket.
Some of the political leaders have
become alarmed because, haring knowl-
^ edge of tho dole system In England
and in some of the other European
countries, they know bow bard It la to
separate Individuals from relief after
those Individuals have lost the pride
and morale which causes people to sup
port themselves. Hearings before con
gressional committees last winter dis
closed In numerous cities bow some
people had declined to do the odd Jobs
created under the “make work" cam
paigns for the unemployed and had
preferred to make their semi-weekly
trips to the relief stores. At that time
there were relief advocates of the sob-
sister type who Insisted *that the num
ber of such unemployed was very small
and that it would not Increase. Relief
administration figures, however, seem
to show that the contrary Is true and
that wherever they may be there Is a
certain number of the unemployed who
will remain attached to the govern
ment relief roll until that roll is abso
lutely liquidated.
• • •
1 have beard several members of
congress express the opinion that this
phase of the relief
Difficult problem Is really the
Problem most difficult of the
whole structure.
They want to see the government spend
all of the money that Is necessary to
keep people from starving but they are
beginning to demand that some way
be found by which the sheep may be
separated from the gouts and proper
ly fed.
Here In Washington a taste of the
condition mentioned above bas been
W
a taxpayers’ organization. The tax
payers’ group declared that its Inves
tigators had found many unemployed
appearing at relief headquarters driv
ing their own automobiles, they
thought it igas paradoxical that a man
could afford to maintain his automo
bile and could not maintain his family.
Relief authorities In the local offices
denied these charges. The relief ex
perts said some of the destitute were
being transported to relief headquar
ters In the cars of friends, but despite
the denials there seemed to hare been
some Ore In all of the smoke.
Whatever the facts In the National
Capital altuatlou may have been, the
condition itself nevertheless Is attract
ing attention for the reason that some
of the soft-hearted individuals who
usually do more talking than anything
else hare risen to the defense of those
who called for their doles In their mo
tor cars.
The upshot of this and of the veiled
charges of waste—and sometimes graft
—in other citiea la that this govern
ment Is approaching a point where It
must become more or less hardbolled
In Its relief administration. If it does
not, nearly all of the observers agree,
the United States will have a relief
roll of six or eight millions which
will continue to serve as a drain upon
the treasuries, both national and local,
ter a good many years to
parasitic element be separated from
its meal ticket With winter coming
on radicals can make a fine case out of
a refusal by relief managers to feed
this or that “starving family.” I have
even heard suggestions that the com
ing winter may see some riots of a
character more severe than anything
we have yet known. But if they do
come It seems to bfi agreed they will
not be due entirely to lack of food but
to agitation on the part of some of
those wl
our present structure of government
s s w
With the return for the winter ses-
slon St the Supreme Court of the Unit
ed States, New
New Deal Up Dealers as well as
to High Court old dealers may havs
some ground for be
lief that questions respecting their acts
In the last year soon will be answered.
In this country, we have always looked
to the courts as the last resort to tell
us when eur legislative-bodies as well
as executive officers of our govern
ments, state or national, have gone be
yond bounds. All through the summer
there has been the mounting demand
for Juridiclal construction of New Deal
acta. It appears we are about to-get
them In numbers from the highest
court in the land. There are sufficient
petitions before the Supreme court to
delimitation
provide a rather accurate
of the New Deal scope in Its consti
tutional aspects.
Expert legal opinion here seems to
lean toward substantiation of most ol
w Deal activities by the blgk.
court But at the same time some
of the best legal minds in the country
are maintaining that while part of the
New Deal props look good, they are
outside of what has hitherto been re
garded as constitutional acts on the
part of government and so the consen
sus Is that there will be many five to-
four derisions forthcoming from the
Supreme court before It lays aside Us
robes next spring.
As the Supreme court now Is con
stituted, I think It Is generally regard
ed as leaning to the conservative side.
While the court Is not supposed to be
Influenced by economic phases, the
economy of the New Deal Is so
that
entwined with law that many as
tute observers tell me there can be
no segregation of those two ele
ments when It comes to ruling on con-
stltutlonal phases of the New DeaL
The best available figures show that
the government has Instituted about
140 cases charging violation of NRA
codes. It has won about 37 of
these, and has lost about 15 of those
coming to a decision. Private litigants
have brought action against the NRA
In 59 esses and the government has
won 20 of these.
Similarly* these have been some
thing like 20 rases in the courts In
volving Agricultural Adjustment ad
ministration rules and regulations. Of
those that have gone through to •
decision the government has won seven
and lost three.
While It must be remembered that
only a small percentage of these cases
represent clear-cut Issues, the box score
certainly Indicates the New Deal to be
the winner thus far. Rut as said above,
the lower court decisions mean* next to
nothing on questions of such import as
these; none of the litigants will stop
short of a final decision by the Supreme
Court of the~United States.
A situation somewhat unique In
American politics is developing In Wis
consin where the Ijs-
Witcontin Follette brothers are
Politice undertaking to con
tinue the family dy
nasty by marching under the banner
of a new organization, the progres
sive party. It Is all being done very
quietly but the facts seep through the
national political headquarters here In
Washington.
The regular Republican organization
-sees an opportunity to “knock off” the
LaFollettes by throwing their support
to John M. Callahan, the Democratic
candidate for the senate. Apparently
they have little or no hope of electing
their own senatorial candldate^the
Wisconsin publisher, John Bf^Cht
pelle, who ended the political caroler
of former Senator John J. r B!aIne In
the primaries of 1932.
If Mr. Callahan does pdtt^a sizeable
Republican vote the question Is wheth
er this will offset the defection* In the
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Democratic party. He was one of the
leading supporters of Alfred E. Smith
at the 1932 convention and neither the
President nor his lieutenants have for
gotten that It was the present Demo
era tic senatorial candidate la Wiscon
sin who gave publicity to charges that
Mr. Roosevelt’s early campaign in the
South for Presidential nomination waa
In part financed and supported by the
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tion that political leaders sometimes
do very strange things. They have been
known to throw their owp candidates
overboard when the occasion required
if they were to hold their control of
the party machinery, state or national
Consequently, It Is not particularly
strange that the Republicans wHl sup
port a Democrat for the senate if u
would mean the removal of the thorn
in their sides which the LaFollette
has proven for several