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SUNDAY NEWS, MAY 17, 1931 2S5 FRANKLIN B.ROOSEVELT Fighting His Way Back to Health, He Plunges Anew Into Politics '10 srf' II A 5 The story of Franklin Delano Roosevelt, the wealthy boy who wanted to be a seaman, but who is now governor of New York state with an eye on the United States presidency, is concluded in this issue. Here Mr. Sommers tells of Roosevelt's successful fight against a deadly germ, and of political battles which placed Roosevelt where he ts today. UK ALFRED E. SMITH was fighting for the White House.

He wanted Franklin Delano Roosevelt to head the state ticket, as Democratic candidate for needed the Protestant with the distinguished name There was no other way crovernor. Smith knew he if he was to have a chance of getting upstaters who CI -A I wsinonnswH TIT1 1 1 OiIHUl rcttsuiJCU, cum icflouucu ncu. "But we can't have a cripple for governor, can we?" some of the mealier-mouthed Democrats" whispered at the Rochester convention where Al was fighting for Franklin. "What do you want, an acrobat?" Al Smith snapped, according to the story. By Wid- World) Rootevelt and the governor at Warm Spring.

Ga. ,1 President, rather than a governor of New -York state at the time. During those first few months, before Tammany accepted the resignation of Chieftain John W. 01-vany because of internal trouble, Olvany and the other leaders wero welcomed at Albany. Tammany was charmed and won by Roosevelt's easy acquiescence to the hall's requests in the beginning and "the governor" was very popular.

The warmth and charm of Franklin Delano Roosevelt as exhibited socially proved a hirtder-ance rather than a help to him, because these Tammany leaders often left him with the impression he was thinking one way, only to learn later he thought the exact opposite. The governor slipped down another peg in the esteem of the efficient New York machine when he began to dry up a little. It was openly stated that, hoping to catch a presidency, Gov. Roosevelt was playing ball with the southern and western drys the fanatica who had defeated Al Smith. When Charles H.

Tuttle, the fiery federal prosecutor, decided to run lor governor, he indicated he would say something about the dry regime. Roosevelt beat Tuttle to it by declaring for repeal. But the declaration had been withheld too long to appear anything except another politician's bid for votes there was no ring of conviction about it. The damage had been done and Tammany had started to fade away from Roosevelt. When the odorous doings in magistrates' courts began throwing off their foul aroma, Roosevelt promptly asked the Appellate division of the Supreme court to begin an inquiry.

It was begun it thrust Samuel Seabury into the center of the stage. Seabury's inquiry" eventually brought to light the horrible doings of some of the unspeakable vice cops. A wave of public horror to another how quickly the city rose up in disgust. The snowball rolled along, picking up charges and smothering magistrates, until the Walker charges resulted. What was Roosevelt to do with them? Tammany wanted him to dismiss them as unworthy of attention and issue a statement calling Walker a great mayor.

To win the Tammany-haters of the nation Roosevelt would have had to appoint a commissioner to try Walker. Even though the governor had approved funds for the legislative investigation of New York City, the Tammany-haters did not consider that gesture as washing away the Tammany taint. So Roosevelt took a middle-of-the-road course, forced Walker to answer the charges, and didn't say a kind word about Walker in dismissing the charges. Ihis angered Tammany temporarily beyond any chance at reconciliation. THE END.

to carry this state in 1923. didn't like mm to vote tne brilliant future, Roosevelt was crippled. A more unfair blow, a more embittering: misfortune defies the imagination. But Franklin Delano Roosevelt I By WiUe voiid Before the dread diteate struck him down. Rooeevelt Demo-eratic nominee for Vice Preei.

dent in 1920. never gave in. Never once did he relinquish his hold on the future. Not once, when told he probably would not have the full use of his lower limbs in this life, did he falter in his fight to beat the blow from the dark. The greatest fieht of Roose velt's life to date followed.

It was a cruel fight, but he made it a winning one. More than that Franklin Delano Roosevelt has become the outstanding leader in a fight to solve the mystery of infantile paralysis. If the dread malady ever is licked completely it will be rmmm 1 democratic ticket straight Roosevelt's fight, reinforced with ail the knowledge obtainable from medical science, that has done more than anything else in the world to win. It fine tale of heroism against an enemy more treacherous than most. It was a very slow fight.

Some times the governor believed he only imagined he made progress. But he kept at it daily. He bought the Warm bonnes resort, with thousands of acres of Georgia tim- Derland around it. He decided to help others while he was helping himself others stricken by a blow from the dark. Even in tragic suffering an ex ecutive and a builder, the governor organized the Warm Springs foun dation, to build bodies of other sufferers back to health.

Now the foundation can accommodate 100 infantile paralysis victims. Thev pay only $42 weekly, which defrays expenses of board, lodging, professional treatment from physicians, nurses, and the upkeep of the buoyant baths in which they swim daily. All of the patients at Warm Springs do not pay. There is a small fund for charity cases. "I'm not going to be a candidate for any office until I can throw away my crutches," Roosevelt smilingly told political advisers in the early days of his fight to re cover.

It was several years before the governor was able to substitute canes and braces for crutches. It was a small triumph, but a great one to him, because some physicians had told him he never would be anything except completely paraylzed from the waist down. It was in 1928, when Al Smith finally won Mrs. Roosevelt's tacit consent to an agreement that she would refrain from advising not to run for governor. "Dear Al" called, on "Dear Frank" to make the race and help the national ticket in capturing New York's vitally important bloc of electoral votes.

Roosevelt's answer came: "My physicians are very definite in stating that the continued improvement in my walking is dependent upon my avoiding the cold climate of winter and taking the exercises here (Warm Springs, Ga.) in the cold months. It probably means getting rid of my leg braces within the next two years, and that would be impossible in Albany." Roosevelt later withdrew that refusal, a telegram that threw the Smith forces into a blue funk. Against her husband's eventual decision to run for governor in 1928, Mrs. Roosevelt now is ambitiously and heartily in favor of his determination to end Hard-Times Hoover's White House reign. Except for his two annual trips to Warm Springs, where he swims and exercises in the buoyant waters daily and the masseurs work, Gov.

Roosevelt is taking no treatments today. He does not diet, because 'dieting for his affliction he considers silly and physicians say he is right. The partial victory Franklin Delano Roosevelt won from infantile paralysis was gained chiefly between August, 1921, and July of 1924, when he made his first public appearance in politics. It was dramatically staged. It's the governor himself who is fond of telling the hmith story.

And he adds: "Being a governor is, after all, a sitting job." So is. basically, being our Presl dent, the biggest job in the world today a job for which franklin Delano Roosevelt is ambitiously striving. It will be, in the next eight years, perhaps harder than ever before, because of the importance to world history. There are close friends of Roosevelt who believe he will shorten his life if he submits himself to the gruelling campaigning and the pace at which a presidential candidate must drive himself. Others sav that's nonsense and Roosevelt, as governor, has proved he is fit to tackle the harder job as President.

His Heroic Victory Over Misfortune. Let us follow the dramatic story of the blow from the dark that paralyzed our governor's magnificent body from the waist down; in 1921. It is not only important politically, but it is truly an interesting tale of a great man's heroic victory over a misfortune as cruel as anybody could imagine. The story, too, holds the truth of the governor's present health, and his prospects for the future. Taking one of bis infrequent vacations from the law business of the firm of Roosevelt O'Connor, the governor joined his family for a holiday at his summer home, on beautiful Campo Bello island, off New Brunswick, Canada.

The goverr.nr was in great shape physically. His boyhood on a Dutchess farm had given him a fine, athletic body. Although he'd been defeated as vice presidential candidate the year before, Roosevelt's future was bright. Only 39, there was plenty of time. That summer the Roosevelt children, all five of them Sevoted to their father, were overjoyed at seeing him his genial self again after hard political campaigning that had taken him from them.

There was a joyous welcome at Campo Bello island. The children led Roosevelt for a two-mile chase across country. This was followed by a long and tiring swim in the icy waters of the Bay of Fundy, as Robert Cruise McManus tells the story. Roosevelt became exhausted. The insidious and mysterious infantile paralysis germ that had worked its way into his bloodstream found little to resist its ravages.

In seventy-two swift and painful hours this handsome six-foot man's fine body was twisted with infantile paralysis from the waist down. He was rushed to Presbyterian hospital here by his grief-stricken family. The terror was very real, because nobody could say at the time exactly what had struck the blow from the dark. Finally it was diagnosed as infantile paralysis. But, at the age of 39 with a There was a feeling that Frank was risking his legs for Al.

That speech did more for Alfred E. Smith than anything else could have done. And Roosevelt was the leading actor in it, even though the famous Happy Warrior phrase was not Roosevelt's but former Su preme Court Justice Joseph M. Proskauer's. The friendship between the Har vard-reared Roosevelt, a real bluestocking, and Smith, the newsboy from the east side's sidewalks, began in 1918 and lasted about ten years until Roosevelt got into the governor's mansion at Albany.

It was a firm, sacrincine and steadfast friendship too rood to last, probably. An early as 1924, some of the leaders in the Smith camp felt that Roosevelt had changed. A lot of people think Gov. Franklin Delano Roosevelt feels so sura of galloping to the White House on the Democratic donkey that he doesn't care whether he loses Alfred E. Smith voters, James J.

Walker voters, and Tammany voters. How the Friendship Really Came to End. Let'a see exactly how the firm Dear Al" and "Dear Frank" friendship really came to an end. In half of his speeches Roosevelt seemed to be fighting as much for Al for President as he was for Frank for governor. lhen Al went down like a nlum- met, victim of voters who didn't like New York City, his relizion and his politics.

And Roosevelt rose to the governorship, squeezing out a victory over Albert Ottinger by 25,500 votes. And after Roosevelt took his place as governor he never once asked Alfred E. Smith regarded as governor emeritus and admitted even by his enemies to be a cham pion executive one single thing a running -the state. Gov. Roosevelt requested no word of advice.

Roosevelt hadn't been governor two weeks when, in the role of party hope, he issued a proclamation to the Democrats of the nation. Only a few days after Roose velt's proclamation he came to this city for a four-hour conference with John J. Raskob, national chairman of the Democrats. It was revealed they had clashed on the method. to be pursued in carrying out a four-year drive among the nation's Democrats the between election campaign that originally had been responsible for sweeping Smith into the nomination so overwhelmingly at Houston.

What did they clash about? Did Roosevelt insist that the name of Franklin Delano Roosevelt be emphasized over the name of Smith and everybody else in the between election campaign? It's reasonable to suppose he did. Because there was plenty of evidence that the governor was thinking of himself as a possible;.