The Freedom Call (Freedom, Okla.), Vol. 16, No. 33, Ed. 1 Thursday, May 19, 1938 Page: 3 of 8
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Washington--In the midst of all
of the politics and planning in the
national ' capital
Bitter Row there has lately
Develops come to the sur-
- face one of the
deepest and most bitter rows that
has developed incident to the admin
istration of Franklin D Roosevelt
It is the controversy long smoulder-
ing between the President and the
newspapers of the country It is out
in the open now and the struggle is
a desperate one -
' To go back a few years it will be
remembered how Mr Roosevelt was
described as having a very friendly
press when he entered the White
House He continued to maintain
the most pleasant relations between
his office and the newspapers of the
country and especially with the
Washington correspondents until
doubt began to develop in the minds
of some editors as to the soundness
of New Deal policies in 1935 The
-number of opposition 'editors ' in-
creased and in 1936 it was generally
said that the President had only
about one half of the newspapers
supporting him But even then
Mr Roosevelt continued to have ex-
' ceedingly cordial relations with the
corps of correspondents who report
on national affairs under a Washing-
ton date line
The Washington correspondents
and columnists who found little or
no fault with the New Deal began
to dwindle in numbers eventually
Now as a guess I would say that
probably only about one-fourth of
the five or six hundred writers be-
lieve heart-and-soul with New Deal
policies This does not mean that
those who observe weaknesses or
vulnerable points in the New Deal
do not write their commendation
when they believe it is due The
difference is that they are no longer
completely "sold" on New Deal
statements or propaganda without
digging further into every situation
As a result obviously attention is
directed daily to those weaknesses
as well as the strong points of the
New Deal the news is no longer all
ballyhoo for the New Deal
Another result is that White House
press conferences no longer are the
jovial carefree meetings filled with
laughter good-natured jibes and ex-
changes friendly shots back and
forth between the President and the
correspondents On a number of
' occasions quite the contrary has
been true The President has spok
en some very harsh words now and
then about news dispatches from
Washington by certain writers He
has not minced words when some
Republican writer like Mark Sulli-
van of the New York Herald Trib-
une syndicate for instance wrote
his observations of a critical nature
Altogether I believe it can be said
that the newspaper criticism at
times has got under the President's
skin and has made him quite irasci-
ble and squeamish I do not mean
to say that this condition obtains
every time the President meets with
the press but it has happened with
greater and greater frequency of
late that Mr Roosevelt has found
fault with what the correspondents
were writing
In the last two weeks however
the differences between the Presi-
dent and his advisors on the one
hand and the editors throughout
the country and their Washington
correspondents on the other hand
at last have been brought into the
open That is and I believe this is
a fair statement Mr Roosevelt has
brought the row into the open
The match seems to have been
j touched to the dynamite by Mr
Roosevelt at a re-
Dynamite cent "off the rec-
Set Off ord" sestion which
he held with the
members of the Managing Editors'
society The society meets annually
in Washington and always during
their stay they are invited to a
- White House meeting In the past
such meetings have promoted a bet-
ter understanding between the edi-
tors and the administration but the
last session appears to have done
exactly the opposite
It is not permissible to disclose
what goes on in those meetings and
not having been present I cannot
vouch for details of the recent meet-
ing I know however that hereto-
fore the editors 'came away always
feeling that benefits of the meeting
had been important At the last
meeting according to common un-
derstanding around Washington the
discussion was heated The Presi-
dent's remarks to the editors must
have been vicious In any event
there were few of the editors came
away in a good humor Indeed at
a breakfast of the society the next
morning one managing editor chal-
lenged his colleagues with the ques-
tion: "Are we mice or are we
men?"
Immediately thereafter the Amer
lean Newspaper Publishers associa-
tion at its New York meeting had
before it a report calling for the
elimination of politics and politi-
cians from control of the radio or
the press The report cited Mr
Roosevelt's frequent use of the air-
lanes for his "fireside chats" and it
added:
"The inescapable task of the
American press is to guard against
any encroachment upon American
democracy by the federal govern-
ment with radio as the instrument
of political power" '
That incident of course was not
ignored in Washington While there
was no word from
Minton the White House
Lets Loose the newspapers
were the target
for an intemperate speech by Sen
Sherman Minton of Indiana Senator
Minton has been a New Deal mouth-
' piece through the last year and only
a few persons believed that he was
speaking his own views Most ob-
servers thought he was doing a
"Charley McCarthy" for those in
the New Deal who needed a ventrilo-
quist and a forum then and there
to get their views printed'
Mr Minton jumped all over the
newspapers None of them would
print the New bed side he assert-
ed none would be fair They sim-
ply are awful things these news-
papers The report of the news-
paper publishers mentioned above
was described by the senator as
"an exhibition of unmitigated gall"
Some newspapers were accused of
"spewing out their propaganda"
against the New Deal and he
charged that the New Deal "simply
can not get its side of the story
printed"
The senator certainly got his side
of the case printed for the metropol-
itan dailies reaching Washington
gave him vast space—and also they
subsequently gave him editorial at-
tention Senators on the floor lis-
tened to Senator Minton too but
only Senator Norris of Nebraska and
Sehwellenbach of Washington took
any notice Senator Sehwellenbach
felt impelled to make a few well-
chosen remarks about the way the
press has treated the New Dealers
including himself
And I almost forgot about it! Sen-
ator Minton introduced a bill that
would send an editor or reporter to
jail if they printed any information
which they knew to be incorrect
The guilty persons could be fined
many thousands of dollars too un-
der the Minton bill I guess the rea-
son I almost forgot about the Minton
bill to punish editors was because
nobody took it seriously least of all
the colleagues of Senator Minton in
the senate It will go into a com-
mittee pigeonhole and will never be
heard of again
Involvement of radio and its con-
trol by the federal government in
the "freedom 'of
Irked by s peech" battle
Radio Policy calls to mind that
there has been
much complaint lately concerning
the federal communications com-
mission That agency has supreme
authority over the radio stations of
the country They cannot operate
without a license The law which
set up the comthission gave author-
ity to license stations for three
years -but as a matter of practice
the commission never has issued a
license to any station for a period
longer than six months In conse-
quence every station owner and op-
erator has to come into the com-
mission twice a year and file an
application for renewal of its right
'to operate
The complaint is that the broad-
casting industry is running on a six-
months basisouncertain at all times
about its future status Twice a
year therefore any station owner
has to make a guess whether his
investment is worth anything One
of the charges against this practice
a charge hurled by David Sarnoff
president of the Radio Corporation
of America was that the short-period
licensing practice "leaves the
door open for indirect and insidious
censorship" The charge of course
considers the possibilities of under-
handed activity that always are
available to an individual in public
office
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THE FREEDOM CALL FREEDOM OKLAHOMA
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"Quotations"
The attributed of a great lady
may still be found in the rule of
the four S's—sincerity simplicity
sympathy awl serenity—Emily Pon
Men hate to think largely because
they cannot tlo it—Nicholas Murray"
Butler
The home Is a laboratory where
we learn to get on in the wider field
that we must all deli into as we
grow older—Mrs F D Roosevelt
Nobody can ever set anything
right If everybody is equally wrong
—G K Chesterton
Business men know today that
their employees are also their cop
tomers—Colonel Arthur Woods
AROUND
he HOUSE
Cooking Dried Fruit--Soak and
cook slices of lemon with dried
apricots prunes or peaches One
thin slice of lemon will be enough
for each two cups of dried fruit
Varnish Straw Articles—All ar-
ticles made of straw such as bas-
kets suitcases Matting will last
longer if given an occasional coat
of white varnish
Cooking Caulliflower—Cauliflow-
er will remain a beautiful white
and be most delicate in flavor if
cooked in a mixture of half milk
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HOW to SE
By
RUTH WYETH
SPEARS
QTRIPES ate popular for slip
" covers this season Don't for-
get to center a striped pattern in
the back and the seat of a chair
The crosswise use of stripes may
also have possibilities as for the
bottom of the chair shown here
Generally the main plectes of a
slip cover are fitted and cut right
on the piece of furniture with a
generous allowance for seams and
a tuck in around spring seats
For small shaped sections such
as the fronts of some chair arms
and parts of some wing chairs
paper patterns may be made to
use in cutting the fabric
Pin the paper to the part of
1
which you wish to make a pattern
as shown here at A then mark the
outline on the paper feeling your
way along the edge line with the
side rather than the tip of the
pencil point Cut the pattern -
inch outside the outline as shown
at B This allows for a seam and
slight ease in the slip cover which
should never be taut at any point
When gathers are needed to shape
the fabric over rounded parts
gather the edge and arrange the
gathers with the cover piece
pinned in place as shown at C
Directions for making various
types of slip covers are given in
my book SEWING for the Home
Items of Interest
to the Housewife
and half water For some reason
this method practically Olin'
nates any odor during cooking
Improving Fudge—If you will
add a small spoonful of cornstarch
to the next batch of fudge you
make you will be amazed at the
improvement in flavor
Stretching the Salad—When the
salad is limited and you wonder
if it will go around comfortably
scoop out tomatoes and use the
salad as a filling Then you will
surely have enough
Borrowed Books
Many a man has learried to lend
books out of his library to the
silently hummed refrain of "Good-
by Forever" The widespread
habit of failing to return borrowed
books is a form of moral callous-
ness that might well be termed
literary larceny This habit has
strained many a friendship to the
breaking point Some men love
their books and they hate to see
them pass perhaps permanently
into unappreciative hands Iniq-
uitous also is the habit of marking
up and making notations in bor-
rowed books or making them the
base for flower vases or handing
them to the baby for its chiro-
graphical experiments We also
condemn—oh but what is the
use?
Impossible Conditions
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What would happen if an irresist-
ible force hit an immovable ob-
ject? The only answer to this old
question is that it presupposes
impossible conditions the two
terms being mutually exclusive
You cannot conceive of a force
that is irresistible being stopped
by any object nor can an immov-
able object be moved by any
force As the existence of the
two conditions at the same time is
Impossible it is also impossible to
say what would happen if they did
exist
Decorator also many types of
dressing table covers seventeen
different types of curtains bed-
spreads and numerous other use-
ful and decorative things for the
home I shall be glad to send you
a copy upon receipt of 25 cents
(coins preferred) Address Mrs
Spears at 210 S Desplaines St
Chicago Ill
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and Pepsodent Tooth Paste
If you want your teeth to gleam and WHY? Because Pepsodent alone con
glisten as Nature intended they should Ilium
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Have You Entered This Cake Recipe Contest?
IT'S EASY TO WIN A CASH PRIZE
- Nothing to buy No Letter to write
Have you submitted a recipe ht the big Cake Recipe Contest now being conducted through this news
paper by C Houston Goudiss author of our "WHAT TO EAT AND WHY" series? v
If nottake time today to write out your favorite cake recipe and send it tohimattaching the couponbelow
What Is Your Specialty?
There are no restrictions is to the type of recipe that
may be submitted A simple loaf cake has an equal chance
with an elaborate layer cake provided it's good! So send
along the recipe for that cake which never fails to de
light your family Enter that Special cake you reserve for
parties and church suppers Or the one your children say
is the best cake In town
No Letter to Write
You'll agree that this is one of the easiest contests you
ever entered because there is nothing to buy no letter to
writs And it won't take more than a few minutes to
write out your recipe and fill in the coupon
Contest Closes May 31st
You won't have long to wait either to know the out-
come of the contest For all recipes must be postmarked
not later than May 31 1938 and prise winners will be
announced as soon as possible thereafter
Prise winning recipes together with those receiving
honorable mention from the Judges will be printed in a
booklet to be distributed nationally
16 Cash Prizes
The winning cakes will be selected hi experienced
home economists on the staff of the Experimental Kitchen
Laboratory maintained by C Houston Goudiss in New
York City The recipe adjudged the best will win $23 for
the lucky homemaker who submits it there will be five
second Prises of 610 each and ten third prises of $3 each
First Prize
$25"
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and coupon properly filled out with your full name ad-
dress town state and the trade name of the shortening
baking powder and flour used in your recipe to C
Houston Goudiss 6 East 39th Street New York City
Cake Recipe Contest
C Houston Coudise
8 East 39th Street New York N Y
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Moreland, O. D. The Freedom Call (Freedom, Okla.), Vol. 16, No. 33, Ed. 1 Thursday, May 19, 1938, newspaper, May 19, 1938; Freedom, Oklahoma. (https://gateway.okhistory.org/ark:/67531/metadc2108217/m1/3/: accessed July 18, 2024), The Gateway to Oklahoma History, https://gateway.okhistory.org; crediting Oklahoma Historical Society.