The Bishop Takes the Field

...Anyone with knowledge of governmental reform knows exactly what is meant by that term...

...A coat of tan in the early part of the sea...

...Lyon in his address opening the convention of the Cannonites, "is to restrain the liberty of individuals...

...The whole purpose of civilization and the only justification for governments," said Mr...

...Religion will not be mentioned specifically...

...They read: Here was buried Thomas Jefferson Author of The Declaration of American Independence, of the Statute of Virginia for religious freedom, and Father of the University of Virginia...

...In the duel over the exclusion of aliens, the battle is one whose stakes may be measured in terms of the loss or gain of political power...

...Raskobism and Cannonism are national issues and they already have been adopted as the battle cries...

...Brown was the choice of Bishop Cannon...

...THE BISHOP TAKES THE FIELD By FRANKLYN WALTMAN, JR...

...Few urban men can hold a district under control for so long a period as did the late Martin Madden of Illinois...

...Lyon were enthusiastically applauded at the meeting over the Roanoke town market...

...But now Dr...

...In I925 a Catholic named John M. Purcell was elected treasurer but only after the Klan had made a somewhat belated fight against him...

...That phrase epitomizes the conception of government on which the recalcitrant Democrats of Virginia hope to build a new party in the United States because they know that they are not alone in this belief...

...Victory in the Virginia gubernatorial fight this year means, if anything is certain in politics, that the followers of Bishop Cannon, with him at their head, will take the field next year against Governor Albert C. Ritchie in Maryland or whoever may be his choice for a successor...

...When hats fit closely to the head, as is 'the present fashion among women, they provide a minimum of protection against the sun's rays...

...With all observers at the Roanoke meeting these people left no doubt about their sincerity...

...Brown so far has spoken only in the vaguest generalities, endorsing Bishop Cannon's convention platform as well as the Republican platform...

...It undoubtedly will mean opposition for some Democratic members of Congress who have not divorced themselves from the northern wing of the party...

...Representations have been made by the minions of the Anti-saloon League to Governor Byrd that the institution has become a place of libertines, of drunkards and whatnot...

...It will be remembered that the day after the election a band of students draped the campus statue of Jefferson in black and attached to it a card declaring that "religious freedom died in this country on November 6, I928...

...Lyon explained many things...

...These pronouncements on the part of Mr...

...It is all very subtle...

...Time and again in their speeches they of[ered evidence that they feel themselves fired by the same patriotism as the colonial Virginia fathers...

...Taking them as a whole the delegations from the big cities like New York, Boston, Philadelphia and Chicago do not seem to contribute the men of influence in the House which one might expect from the importance of these cities in the industrial and financial life of the country...

...Political observers in Virginia assert they cannot see how he can win...

...With the cleavage in thought and feeling between city and country growing wider, students of American politics will do well to watch later developments in this struggle between town and country...

...Brown, who also denounces the short ballot, has declined to say whether he will appoint Mr...

...Even at that Mr...

...And my Helen never knows When I watch the mist beyond her, And in vale with you I wander Out of earthly woes...

...Just thirty-five years old, he is distinctly of the go-getter type...

...Unfortunately for it, this institution is under the necessity of seeking state appropriations and thus must subject itself to the rule and whims of the state government...

...Even if the present administration at Charlottesville is not ousted, it seems certain that the board of regents named by the incoming governor will have the duty within the next four years of selecting a president for the University...

...As Mr...

...Edwin A. Alderman, president since I9o4, is enjoying the sunset of an active life...

...Town and country have met as opponents on the national stage, and they will meet again...

...Should he do so it is inevitable that a president to the liking of Bishop Cannon will be named by any board appointed by Dr...

...Shirley Wynne, Commissioner of Health of New York City, suggested that vacationers should not try to get tanned in a day or two, since any such rapid change of the skin can scarcely fail to do harm...

...Raskobism is a word used to symbolize what he stands for, what Smith, Roosevelt, Ritchie, Walsh of Massachusetts and others of the northern wing of the party stand for...

...Lyon referred to him as a "crude, money-making protectionist reputed to have accumulated a hundred of millions of dollars through advance of the stock market value of automobile stock...

...Of course it is too early to make predictions, but in Dr...

...William Moseley Brown, former psychology professor at Washington and Lee University, the Cannonites have an aggressive and youthful candidate...

...Purcell just managed to get under the finish line...

...None of the regular Democratic candidates is a Catholic...

...The stakes another day may be something else...

...That possibility has thrown a shadow over the quiet University campus whose proud history claims as its own, Wilson and Edgar Allan Poe as well as Jefferson...

...They seem to think that every possible evidence they can secure of the action of the sunlight upon their skins is definite proof of the accumulation of solar energies in their bodies...

...Coats of tan have become so popular recently that enterprising manufacturers of cosmetics have invented a number of skin applications that simulate tanning...

...For years the division in the Democratic party has been marked between those Bourbons who believe that the "only justification for government is to restrain the liberty of individuals," and those who, like Woodrow Wilson, regard "individual liberty as the objective of all law...

...For many months the spirit of Cannonism has been dogging the University...

...And your lips are llke a bow Over which come sweetened arrows, Musical as white-throat sparrows, Arrows light as snow...

...What they stand for is compressed in the word "liberalism...

...Brown...

...Two-thirds up the little hill to his home, Monticello, surrounded by iron grating rests the body of Jefferson...

...He is sixty-eight years old and his health recently has not been of the best...

...It only made the party cleft more discernible and pronounced because Governor Smith, in his campaign, gave a new vitality and color to the tenets enunciated by Jefferson, Cleveland and Wilson...

...Haugen, the next senior, comes from the small town of Northwood, Iowa...

...The people who are giving support and enthusiasm to the anti-Smith movement, called by some wag "bucketeers," have nothing personally against the New York financier...

...Cutting athwart sectional and party lines, these two antagonists have already engaged in half a dozen skirmishes ,on the battlefield of American politics...

...Long experience in Egypt and India has demonstrated very clearly that cork helmets and other head coverings which allow a free circulation of air around the head and which carry brims large enough to protect the face from the sun's direct rays, are valuable precautions against what may appropriately be called the malign influence of the sun...

...The 193 ~ census may be expected to show, as the first decade of urban numerical superiority draws to a close, a still further increase in urban population...

...356 THE COMMONWEAL August 7, 1929 publican floor leadership...

...These same observers last year said Herbert Hoover did not have August 7, I929 THE COMMONWEAL 357 a chance to carry Virginia, but he did by a 25,ooovote majority...

...We have heard so much in recent years of the wonderful health-giving effects of sunlight that there is danger lest people forget that overexposure to the sun on hot days may prove a source of grave injury...

...Then comes Pou, on the Democratic side, of Smithfield, North Carolina, followed by Jack Garner...

...Dr...

...People used, as a rule, to seek the shade, but now, after having heard so much about the benefit of the sun's rays, many choose the open...

...Purcell, regarded as one of the ablest men to hold the position of treasurer...

...State issues will play only a small part in the Virginia campaign...

...And seniority usually leads to posts of power and privilege...

...They very properly indicate the various risks to health that are associated with undue exposure to the sun under very high temperatures...

...This advice has been refichoed by a number of health officials throughout the country and has been emphasized particularly by dermatologists whose expert knowledge of skin affections makes their opinion so significant...

...Alderman is weary and may soon retire...

...Careful investigation by officers of the state government have found the charges made against the University student body without foundation...

...EHIND the political machinations in Virginia of Bishop James Cannon, jr., concrete expression is being given to a new philosophy of government which has been in a process of crystallization in the United States during the course of recent years...

...Now that the fad for not wearing hats is spreading among young folks there is distinct peril of sunstroke...

...It seems strange that a political fight should center around one man who has never lived nor had any personal interests in Virginia, and around another man who has moved his residence to Washington...

...But should Cannonism become intrenched in the State House 358 THE COMMONWEAL August 7, I929 investigators may arrive at different conclusions about the moral state of the University...

...They feel they are in a holy crusade to save the United States from its "baser passions...

...For years he has wrestled with and successfully resisted the forces of Cannonlsm, the Anti-saloon League and the puritanical spirit which has swallowed virtually everything else worth while in the Old Dominion...

...The short ballot makes the state treasurer an appointive official, by act of the governor, instead of an elective official, as he has been...

...Probably nowhere in the state has the possibility of Cannonism in the saddle at Richmond caused so much uneasiness as at Jefferson's University of Virginia...

...The young women are using it not only on their faces and necks but also on their legs and back for exhibition purposes...

...Bishop Cannon is the impelling force behind the insurgent movement in Virginia and he has adjusted his mind to the national horizon...

...John Jacob Raskob has nothing to do with Virginia politics...

...It is not unusual, therefore, in our city parks and especially along our beaches, to see young folks deliberately exposing themselves to sunlight during long periods...

...Shortly before his death Jefferson wrote the epitaph for his tombstone...

...In the Mist Often as the wind reposes In the lily-blossomed field, I have, like the wind, appealed To your lips of roses...

...The issue of the campaign has been put into specific language by Frank Lyon, the temporary chairman of the insurgent convention held at Roanoke...

...What are the chances of a Cannon victory in Virginia...

...In regard to the general purposes and underlying motives of the Cannon movement in Virginia, the keynote address of Mr...

...So, it is asked, what is all the shooting about...

...For years he has manifested an interest in all kinds of movements and spent two years of his life as a Y. M. C. A. general secretary...

...Before the Virginia campaign is over much will be heard about the short ballot and the foregoing is the reason...

...SUN TAN: THE LATEST FAD By JAMES J. WALSH N A series of warnings to bathers in preparation for the great summer exodus to beaches and other bathing places Dr...

...Nevertheless the names Smith and Raskob, in the minds of the followers of Bishop Cannon, stand for a leadership of liberalism, as opposed to the narrow Puritanism held by so many Southerners and Westerners as the fundamental basis of life and government...

...Cooper of Wisconsin, the oldest member in point of service in the present House, hails from Racine...

...In fact it may be found necessary to install new administrative officers and it is even possible that Bishop Cannon aspires to the presidency of this time-honored institution...

...Carved in stone the words of this epitaph are discernible to all who chance by that way...

...As soon as Governor Byrd included this change in his reform program, the Klan commenced their opposition to him, crying out that the whole scheme was a clever plot to perpetuate the Catholic treasurer in office...

...You are but a dream I follow, Yet 'tis lovely all the way, Haunting with a misty fay Copse and tam and hollow...

...The fiery Jack Garner, of Texas, the minority floor leader, comes from Uvalde, Texas...

...The Ku Klux Klan has been fighting the short ballot and the presence of Klan sentiment at the Roanoke meeting was indicated by the wild applause given every denunciation of the short ballot...

...All these conclusions are correct...

...Representatives from the big cities are well down the list of members as ranked by seniority...

...The good Bishop's program has mystified many who point out that the fight against Alfred E. Smith is over, that prohibition cannot be an issue when all the candidates in the regular Democratic primary campaign are as dry, if not drier, than the Methodist churchman himself...

...Raskobism and Cannonism are terms used to describe the issues of the fight which has been precipitated by a coalition of the Republicans and anti-Smith Democrats in the Old Dominion, but those terms are generalities...

...It means habits and thoughts foreign to the Americanism of the mountains, hills and waste stretches of rural sections, men and women who enjoy themselves, dancing, cardplaying, attendance at prize fights, betting a dollar or two on horse races--in brief: "appeals to the baser passions of man...

...An explanation of the comparative lack of influence of the delegations from the big cities may be the fact that, other things being equal, a rural member finds it easier to remain in Congress than his city confrere...

...Lyon understands the word "liberalism," it is one "used freely by those who wish to gratify the coarser passions of man...

...It is true that the so-called Hoovercrats capitalized religion in their campaign last fall, but they are doing the same thing again this year...

...The last presidential campaign did not create that issue...

...He was the chairman of the Committee of Ten that carried out the arrangements for the convention and was a candidate for the gubernatorial nomination until it appeared Dr...

...JOHN" LEE HIGGINS...

...Incidentally this harassing of the University commenced after the presidential campaign in which the faculty and students at Virginia rooted for Al Smith...

...Governor Byrd sponsored and persuaded the state to adopt what is called the "short ballot...

...States with half the population of the metropolitan area have a greater share in legislation than the entire delegation from New York City...

...It means the giving of aid next year to Senator Heftin in Alabama and Senator Simmons in North Carolina against all comers...

...Yet he is of the cautious type and already has given evidence that he will resort to evasions whenever he thinks a vote may be captured or retained...

...But that was the day before Bishop Cannon's bucket-shop activities became known...

...Nor is their desire to carry their fight into other states an idle speculation, should they win this fall in Virginia...

...The constituents of a rural congressman are apt to be fixtures, and he has therefore a better opportunity to gain that personal hold on his district which is so often denied to a representative from the big city whose population is in a constant state of flux...

...It signifies the life of the big cities, "overpopulated, foreign-controlled cities...

...It is almost needless to say that under the influence of suggestive advertising, a number of young women are using them, and that some of the young men who slick their hair very carefully are also intent on acquiring a cheap and rapid coat of tan in the same way as their friends of the usually more cosmetic sex...

...Unfortunately a great many people at the present time are quite convinced that a thoroughgoing coat of tan is a definite index of the greatest possible benefit to health...