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Show LEW FREE PRESS. LEH1. UTAH ad rxt ceen dissipated by its urxier Hoover. At that time also most people in this country assumed that prohibition was here to stay, that all agitation about it was futile, and that the thing to do was to try to get along under it. Al Smith was also tarred with the Tammany brush, and few New Yorkers will ever realize just how wicked and corrupt most of the folks ccl-lap- st l NATIONAL AFFAIRS Reviewed by CARTER FIELD It is generally accepted in Washington that James A. Farley is out for the Democratic nomination for himself . . . Factors that lead to the jMtfmlar underestimation of the imtortance of his candidacy . . . Drive for the investigation of the assassination of Senator lluey Long brings out a mass of contradictory and a fete circumstantial stories that are being circulated in Louisiana and in Washington. WASHINGTON. Anyone who discounts Mr. James A. Farley in pick- ing the next Democratic nominee for the presidency is leaving out a very important factor indeed. Big Jim is out for the nomination himself. It is entirely within the realm of possibility that he may get it, the experience of the party in nominating Alfred E. Smith to the con- b m ; i.vr Pj J trary notwithstanding. But an element of this situation u i , ...l. iiaa iiuit icwiuiu j reived the attention A 'l deserves is that of Jr I J. A. Farley faeen men. haye tioned for the nomination, including President Roosevelt himself, there is no one who will have more influence in controlling where his delegates go, if and when they leave him, than Jim Farley. Politicians of course are human. They are pretty much like everybody else. They look out for No. 1 first, and the double cross is no more a rarity in politics than it is in business, on the stage, or wherever else human interests run into conflict. But there is one feature of politics which is just a little different. In the nature of things there cannot be binding written contracts in politics. There is no means of making a livelihood where so much reliance has to be placed on promises and on verbal promises, for the shrewd politician does not put into writing the sort of promises that are important here. Farley Has Reputation For Keeping His Promises It so happens that besides a genius for organization, as he proved when he lined up the delegates for Roosevelt in 1932, Jim Farley has an enviable reputation for keeping his promises. Sometimes he has been prevented from delivering by White House intervention but there have been no reports of any important political leader thinking that d him. Jim When Farley could not deliver it was always a glaring case of the White House refusing to come across. It was never another friend of Farley who got the job. Meanwhile, in the seven years that have passed, Farley has kept up his contacts. He has not forgotten any politician's first name, nor his problems, nor his friends, and, perhaps more important than all, his enemies. No one catches Farley handing out pie to some chap who happens to be the bitter opponent of anyone who has been going down the line for Farley. It may be remembered that Farley did not sympathize with the purge, except perhaps in the one case of Sen. Millard E. Tydings, and that he took no part in it whatever. It was the Brain Trusters, the and Cohens and Hopkinses, who stumped their toes in Iowa, in Virginia, in Georgia and South Carolina. There may be something that Farley has done to irritate the regular organization leaders in some state, but reports about it have not reached Washington. And never forget that in virtually every one of the states it will be the regular organization leaders, primary or no primary, who will pick the delegates, and who will be the leaders of their state delegations at the convention. Importance of Farley's Candidacy Underestimated Popular underestimation of the importance of James A. Farley's candidacy, is due to two factors: 1. Belief that the defeat of Alfred E. Smith in 1928 proved that no Catholic can be elected President of the United States. 2. Lack of appreciation of Farley's political shrewdness and demonstrated loyalty to his friends, and the dividends these two assets might pay. As to, the first, argument is futile. Nobody knows. It might be pointed out in . passing, however, that Al Smith was weighed down by other elements than the prejudice which existed against his church in gaining a foothold in the White House. For one thing 1928 marked the high tide of prohibition. Up to that time the argument that prohibition was largely responsible for the extraordinary prosperity which existed in this country under Coolidjjc double-crosse- Cor-cora- out in the country thought the Master Map Is Record of U. S. Growth ; ' i SHI N D o v. n dis- 1 - j ' mobile. That if Huey had been operated on right away he would not have died. That he was suffering chiefly from shock, and hence the operation should not have been performed right away. That he was suffering from loss of blood, and the delay was responsible for his death. That it was by the Kingfish's impatient command that the doctor operated, instead of waiting for his own surgeons, supposed to be e. Just what good an investigation would do is questionable. but , . , , in. - I 1 UI i "' O , A General Qniz "'.. The Que&tionj What is an i. iausirop:.cL. what? 3. Can anythir,? done be undone? 4. What is the used? 5. What is the chin the B:bie? 1. Hfki k . . -- ;.. 2 fl IMF " . ti u - - - 4 J 7 I 6. 7. '$$? Is brass mir.i-i- What is tl o "rte tween being ur,.! nd rious? 8. Is there ar.v a soda wuter? 9. Are there any " e bocks 0 the Bible in which G 3 -- ot men. tioned? . x" '? , , v z ; s s ' v f VV- - t ': ! . Outside o the original iJ , T.-nnd Fennessce, the ,f i The Answers The recurrence ,,f "e sounds at the been..ff . more words in a m : in cl " as: succession, ,n i,,.,,:. army, awiully arrayed Boldly.'.au by battery besieged Pn :ade.' 2. Confined spaces. 3. Try unscranib: ;,n egg. 4. A vigintillior. :? tr.e highest figure listed in :at;un and of a numeru h.llowed by 63 noughts. 5. According to Ih ' (,w ogy, the deluge d the earth in 2348 B. C. 6. No. Brass is ri "' of cop. per and zinc, which mined. 1. I hey shotc transfer of more than e in the general land vfice. under the rectangular of puhlW domain as compiled 0 000.000 parn-the for survey system, source of basic formation Photos tie years. Natives like you and me shook their heads and said wasn't that strange. They it, , - -- about 1 j "1 had moved approxiand one fourth two mately miles during the past hundred forgot '7 i Mexico, ' Ask Me Jlnother Lit : vm. Yf imtl someone GTOIv Kiuji: i is - '" i Louisiana way covered a few years aeo that miles East Timbalier island, off New Orleans in the Gulf of For these and other reasons the cards were stacked against Smith, j Perhaps he would have been beaten anyhow, just because of the reli- gious issue. Southi-rHoovercrats Forgotten Men of Politics But those who led the Hoovercrats in the South are the forgotten men of politics. There is not one of them in important political place today save Frank R. McNinch, and he flourishes not because he bolted ' Smith, but because he agrees with Roosevelt and most of the liberals on the public power issue. This is important now, in view of Farley's candidacy, because everyone in the South knows all about it. No one is going to take the place played by Bishop Cannon in 1928, even if Northern suckers hoping for cabinet jobs and diplomatic posts could be found again to finance such a movement. No Horace Mann is going to play the "man of mystery" in another presidential campaign. Not until an entirely new crop of Southern politicians is reared, a generation which does not remember what happened to the men who "won the war and lost the peace treaty" under Hoover. If Farley should be nominated for President he will have to be beaten, if he is beaten at all, in the North and West. The significance of this is that the Southern leaders will not be as much disturbed as they were in 1932 by fear of a repetition of 1923. Fear of Al Smith drove them to Roosevelt in ly.iU, at the convention, lhcy may prefer various other candidates to Farley, but there will be no stampede to any candidate based on fear of the consequences of Farley's nomination. Start Drive, for Inquiry Into Murder of Huey Long Apparently a drive has been started for an investigation of the assassination of Sen. Huey P. Long. It may not materialize, but if it does it certainly will spoil a lot of stories which are now being told in Louisianaand Washington. The writer spent two days in New Orleans recently, and listened to quite a few circumstantial stories of the killing of the Kingfish. Some of the curious conflicts in stories told with the utmost positive-nes- s are: That the bullet fired by Dr. Weiss never struck Huey at all, the gun being knocked up by Huey himself just before Weiss could pull the trigger. That Huey was actually killed by a bullet fired by one of his body guards. Against this the writer was told just as positively that Dr. Weiss held his gun within a few inches of Huey's chest, and that Huey knocked it downward. And that there was no other wound save that caused by Weiss' bullet. That the bullet which killed Huey was extracted by the surgeon who operated, and that it was a .44. That the bullet which resulted in death passed through the senator and was never found. That the bullet in question was a .32 the caliber of the pistol Dr. Weiss used. Conflicting Stories About Dr. Weiss, Alleged Assassin That Dr. Weiss was almost decapitated by the rain of bullets poured into him, and died instantly. That Dr. Weiss lived for five minutes after the shooting stopped, most of the wounds being in his arms and legs. That the pistol of Dr. Weiss was a cheap make. That the pistol of Dr. Weiss was a modern, an expensive Browning. That Dr. Weiss obtained the gun because he decided to kill Huey. That Dr. Weiss always carried a gun, usuall) leaving it in his auto- Service.) -f r . 1 By NOAH JOHNSON WA before. IVNU i- ,- w-- Land Office ConiplHe Ilien-nia- l Revision: Painstaking J:!. al- most fanatical admirers, scattered in every state in the Union. Business men thought he could expand the Coolidge prosperity, for which they already gave him some credit because he had been secretary of commerce during it. Engineers thrilled at the idea of one of their number occuHerbert White the pying Hoover House, and thought he would produce such efficiency in government as had never been seen (Dell Syndicate i- - '"T- iger" was. Hoover had a perfect army of m IT 1 -. Dept. Sam had to remember because someone might ask him about East Timbalier island. About the same time government surveyors discovered the Missouri river had jumped its tracks around Bismarck, N. D , just a natural phenomenon to the folks at Bismarck but a minor crisis to Uncle Sam. Jt messed up his land records something awful. Log Jam and Earthquake. Meanwhile, back in Louisiana again, a great log jam formed ob-in the Red river, growing until it structed the stream and forced hurried waters to drain off into bayous. That was another headache for government surveyors, who had just returned from Arkansas where they found that an earthquake in 1808 had left lakes where no lakes were supposed to be. Every two years since 1882 this headache has been boiled down into major features. of ..: - , n'ZP Uncle e - Then workmen could lean back and relax, watching their finished 'baby" roll off color presses of the geological survey at the rate of 1.000 sheets an hour. History Chronicled on Map. Commissioner Johnson will tell you that many a strange chapter in American history can be read from One of them concerns his map. - i chronol--t.-oye- d three large tracts of "No Man's i. ueing lnteresu means to Land." later parts of Minnesota, the have attention around. Curious Louisitwo Dakotas, Colorado and is generally used to mean a desire ana, which were acquired by the to learn that which cL.es not United States without treaty, cesone. 8. No. It is properly called sion, purchase or other formal proceedings at the beginning. water. 9. The words "God," "Lord" This quirk in national development grew out of the hastily drawn and "Almighty" are not meLouisiana purchase from France in ntioned in the book of Esther, nor is the deity so much as alluded to 1803, which stated that the United in that portion of the Old TestStates should get lands in the drainage basin of the Mississippi river. ament. The deity is nut specificalLater, when the treaty for annexaly mentioned in the Sung of Soltion of Texas was negotiated in 1845, omon, but that book is symbolical the east boundary of that area was and the deity is continually aset at the Sabine river. lluded to. "God," under one name Between these two boundaries or another, occurs in all the other lay some 12,000 square miles of the books of the Bible. southwestern corner of Louisiana, east of the Sabine and not part of Our Constitution the Mississippi drainage basin. The American Constitution is, of this inclusion contested Spain so far as I can see, the most area into the Union, the controversy-beinsettled by a treaty in 1919. wonderful work ever struck off at a given time by the brain and This story is shown on Mr. Johnson's map. purpose of man. It has had a century of trial, These, however, are mere historical details, which once chronicled under the pressure of exigencies caused by an expansion in point need never be changed. Land ofof rapidity and range; and its efice workmen have far more trouxemption from formal change, ble watching Mother Nature's constructive and destructive tasks, an though not entire, has certainly proved the sagacity of the counceasing process which is the ma- nstructors stubborn the and jor reason new maps are necessary of the fabric William strength two every years. E. Gladstone, 1878. Sometimes man conspires with Nature to complicate matters, and no more fascinating chapter of land office history has ever been written than that concerning Lake Michigan and Chicago, where changes in the shore line precipitated a lengthy battle before the United States SuMen preme court. Here's good advice for a woman during her Streeterville's History. who legrs change (usually from 3S to she'U lose her appeal to nu n, ho worries This was the stirring, though unabout hot Hashes, loss of pep, dizzy spells, successful battle of "Cap'n" George upset nerves and moody spells. Get more fresh air, 8 hrs. sleep and if ynu Wellington Streeter and "Ma," his need a good general svstem tonic take Lydia to secure to of E. Pinkham'a Vegetable Compound, nude title wife, tracts land build trptcially for women. It helps Nature built up by the restless waves of more up physical resistance, thus helps give i con-cer- n snr o. 2I'nsravcd bach- uards by hand on copper plate, is preevery detail in the neic map More this. like pared in operations than 20 copper plates are used in assembling the completed map. It addirequires one year to make the tions and changes for each y I ' How Women STEP AO. Multiple color presses produce the finished map at the rate of 1,000 sheets per hour. a picture seven feet long and five feet high, known as the official master map of the United Stales. In the office of Land Commissioner Fred W. Johnson, part of the U. S. department of the interior, workmen figurately condense on the needle-sharp point of an engraving instrument millions of pages of official records, hundreds of thousands of drawings and years of wearisome trudging by hundreds of government of land transferred to private ownership by federal patent during the past century. It shows outlines of the national rectangular survey system upon which such land disposal was based. As if that were not enough, it presents a 1939 picture of the United States from A to Z, including state boundaries, cities, towns, rivers, railroads, national parks and reservations, outlying territories and possessions. To compile it workmen had to ex- in Their 40's Can Attract 'o2 vivacity often accompanv change WOKTU TKY1NG! dead to the world. " i v- - Ilk MANY Shakespeare Almost Migrated To America With 'Lost Colony' MANTEO, N. C Sir Walter Raleigh didn't discover tobacco contrary to the popular historical notionbut he did prevent young Will Shakespeare from joining the Lost Colony expedition to Roanoke island and thus saved him for literature and the theater. This fact is revealed in a scene cut trees," rejoined the poet ."You're wrong," Rnleigh said. Sir Phil;p Sidney has spoken to me ot your talents. At the tavern he heard you and your ale mug recit- You have the ing ballads. gift of words. Cherish that gift. I will commend you to a friend. Master Siiakospeare-- on with money " from Paul Green's historical drama. Shakespeare: "Then I am your "The Lost Colony," to be presented debtor forever." But Raleigh here this summer from July 1 to with a flourish, "Rather let replied historv September 4, in connection with the say that I am yours." 352nd anniversary celebration of the Had Sir Walter permitted Shake-s- i care to leave with the 121 founding of the first English settlein. ment in America and of the birth of msts in 1587. this would have been his first fate: The colony landed and set- Virginia Dare, English child t:e b.im in the New world. fort Raleigh. Rnann io. Fresh from Stratford and bored land hut it completely disappeared two years lat er. Gov. John White with holding horses at James 's old Globe theater, Shake-s.pear- e wont to England for supplies and ,. was anxious to leave Eng- when he re nrtwH l".tlc ... a land. Yet he was making a better inre oi me colonists excent ior ine cryptic word "Croatoan" Iwing at holding hones than he could ever hope to make out of carved upon a tree. According to a previous no. poetry. Exciting tales of the New world had fired his imagination and ment if the colonists left Roanoke he appealed to Sir Walter to take island for any reason whatsoever him on the 1587 expedition to Roan- they were to write the name of their new home on a tree. Governor oke island. White attempted to go to Croatoan but "I fear you'd find no time for storms forced poetry there," Raleigh is said to course and he him off the right was compelled to have replied. drop the search for the Lost Col" 'Tis well. No one likes my poor ony. He was Virginia Dare's verses here. Give me an ax, I can Bur-bage- c,i wt mptorn! life. tl Lost for Credit He who hath lost his credit surveyors over more than 1,800,000,-00acres of public lands. amine 100,000 constantly changing The newest map, prepared by orcalled township plats, on drawings, der of congress, is just now com- file in the land office. Every minute ing off the press. change had to be inscribed backMost Perfect Map Made. wards by hand on 20 copWhen you know the details, there's per plates from whichpermanent the maps are something terrifyingly grandiose lithographed, obliterating old details about this map. It carries a key to and substituting the new. When enthe identification of original titles graving was complete, artists added to approximately 6,000,000 parcels color, affording easy identification 0 to enjoy life and assist ralmmj that jittery nerves and dist urhinR ufs INSECTS FRUITS ON FLOWERS SHRUBS VEGETABLES sm SI EP AO. l)lolintjnf, fI() nmp Assembled on a background of cloth, the two halves are matched uith meticulous care to insure accuracy in every detail. Demand orighiot dealer alJ bottles, from your NEAVESTH0TEL Salt Lake's is last. Lake Michigan subsequent to earlv general land office surveys of the area. It was an episode in Chica-g- o early history fully, as colorful as the legend of Mrs. O'Leary's cow. Mvin nt0 the lands sometime n the early 1870s, these two . characters mm J V hi I sought-some-ti- mes at the point of a rifle-to ream possession in spite of high water and the efforts of Chicago pole state and federal officials to ous them from their autonomous principality which they Deestr.ct of Lake Michigannamed compnsed 78 acres of land near Ch" 0 ' s klS1"ess district, and started when the "Cap'n" mi iv - self-create- d Ed fallow reef around, formed an , .. pvenf,n " J" nea ine main 7u lanri 10 this dav tho area is referred "um "a ouceicr- ville." 5,RnSHt-fSnde- n a TEMPLE SQUARE .d and u'Z Rdtascd by Western Hotel Nc ws ppct Union. I It', Oppo.lt. Mnrtnnn TfmPj HIGHLY RECOMMEND Rales $1.50 to $300 s ERNEST C. lUtSSITMlJWL is |