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Only in the gashouse districts of U. S. cities was a parallel to be found to the wind-up last week of California's campaign for Governor. Against Democratic Nominee Upton Sinclair and his EPIC was massed all the fire and fury of a thoroughly frightened conservative electorate...
When ex-Socialist Sinclair and his EPIC began to slip, the Roosevelt machine started to back away from what threatened to be a bad defeat. The President made a great White House show of keeping his hands off California. Boss Farley, red as a beet with embarrassment, had nothing to say publicly. His anonymous explanation: the letter was a form letter sent out from Democratic National headquarters; an underling, unauthorized, had filled in the blanks with Mr. Sinclair's name; the realistic signature and personal postscript were the work of a rubber stamp...
...Nominee Sinclair's discomfiture, George Creel, Wartime propaganda chief whom, as the Administration's favorite, Sinclair had defeated in the primaries, repudiated the winning candidate. In a public letter, Democrat Creel charged Democrat Sinclair with failing to stand on the party platform, with pushing his own "Immediate Epic" plan in violation of agreements at the State convention. Declared disgusted Mr. Creel: "I think any one who votes in California this fall has to hold his nose. It's a choice between catalepsy and epilepsy. Sinclair has a fantastic, impossible plan and Merriam is as modern...
...WORLD IN BIRTH-Romain Rolland- Holt ($2.75). Fifth & last instalment of Author Rolland's modern French epic, The Soul Enchanted...
...ascetic. His soft manners, his kindly eye, his intense, humorless and uncritical idealism, his obsession with the struggle of Labor and Capital for the fruits of Industry mark him for the archetype of old-fashioned Socialist. Yet the Socialists have outgrown him and Grade A radicals believe that if EPIC is given a trial, its failure will set U. S. radicalism back 50 years...