POLITICAL NOTFS: Hectares and Heart Fire

POLITICAL NOTES

Lázaro Cárdenas, proletarian President of Mexico, last week published a decree confiscating 1,723 hectares (7 sq. mi.) of a ranch near El Aguaji belonging to farmer loving U. S. Representative William Lemke of North Dakota, candidate of the 1936 Union Party (Father Coughlin) for President of the U. S.

> Representative John J. O’Connor of New York (purged in the Democratic primary but nominated on the Republican ticket against the Purge’s candidate, James Fay) announced: “I am not only confident that I will be re-elected but I am confident that I will be re-elected as chairman of the Rules Committee. . . .” To Mr. O’Connor from Democratic Representative Arthur P. Lamneck of Ohio promptly went a pledge of one vote.

> “Put some fire in the people’s bellies,” was the cry of Republican Alf Landon last summer (TIME, July 18). A cry of Republican Representative Bruce Barton to young voters last week was: “If there is fire in your hearts and a thrilling faith in America—then come with us.”

> The city council of Lynchburg, Va., about to name a new WPA-built stadium for Senator Carter Glass, recalled his distaste for New Deal spending, gave him a gold medal instead.

> Federal Judge William Clark of Newark last week added to the history of Free Speech in Jersey City by ruling, in favor of C.I.O. and the Civil Liberties Union, that Boss Frank Hague must let them move freely about, distribute circulars, display placards, but may still require permits for public addresses and control the composition of mass audiences. Red-hating Boss Hague promptly announced: “Our position is exactly the same.”