OCR Text |
Show LEW FREE PRESS, LEHI. UTAH SEEN and HEAR around the NATIONAL CAPITA! A By Carter Field FAMOUS MOSTJUSSED MAN' DIES AMERICA'S Sank the Werrimac," Richmond Pcarsonllokon, thcMan Who Was Strange Paradox of Hero and Puldiclfeklen f By WILLIAM C. UTLEY CORRESPONDENT ADMIRAL RICHMOND PEARSON HOBSON More hokum The interested Washington. pure was kissed by more women than any other man who highly politicians Is being dispensed in the right on read into the President's words ever lived, and now he is dead. President Roosevelt's proposal to much more of a threat than a Admiral Hobson, from the time of his youth, was a paraenlarge the Supreme court, and promise. They regard it as almost more is expected as the debate an ultimatum the President gets doxical combination of Frank Merriweli and Sissy Ely. He was rogrows hotter, than is usual even in what he wants in the way of Su- to one the perpetrator of what may be the most generation a senate debate. court the preme enlargement, regu'a-tioand heroic deed ever performed in The principal cry against it is of wages and hours in industry, mantic, adventurous remembered by that it is a long step toward a dic- salvation for the farmers, etc., or service of the American flag. Yet he was to be a as him knew that Mr. is Uocsevelt that else! tatorship; the last American generation The "else," of course, means to who nursed a penchant for frightengrasping for "more power than a reformer, a trite evils good man should want, or a bad their minds that h will go to the little children with staggering accounts of foul oriental man should have." country again in V'W, demanding ing corner. Some of the very men making an endorsement of his policies and lurking in wait for them at every school this charge ere supporting a con- a mandate to carry on not because Whpn. in 1809. Hobson was gradto perhe wants to do that, but because uated first in his class from ire ly without the Spaniards nouic, stitutional amendment mit congress to override Supreme that may be the only way in which United States Naval academy at 300 yards from the channel, when court decisions by a vote he can be sure that his ideals for Annapolis he was cheered enthusia Spanish picket boat began firing of at its rudder without success. Then of both houses which would lend this country are made to come true. Most was He leaving. astically. itself much more effectively to the Many are pointing out that the his classmates hadn't spoken to him the first of the land batteries opened use of a dictator. of Calvin public reception Coolidge's for two years. It was one of his and as the collier neared its obAdvocates of the plan make much intimation that he would not run duties as a cadet to report the mis- jective more batteries joined the of the point that it is necessary to again was far different. Perhaps be- demeanors of other cadets; this he firing. Aid from the Enemy. keep the high court in touch with cause of the peculiar New England had done so expertly and consistentthe times that the "nine old men" phraseology the words "I do not ly that he was easily the most unOne projectile tore the pilothouse are living in the past. But those choose." It is astonishing to look popular cadet in the academy. off the Merrimac. By completely with on the reactions to hindsight making this point do not mention He was a crusader from the start. some miracle, no one was injured, that the "new blood" they scream that statement, made in the early In his days he at- although Hobson and Deignan were for would be only temporary; that summer of 11)27 practically a year the to convince country, inside it at the time. But the steertempted the Roosevelt plan, if successful, before the convention would meet through scientific journals, that ing pear was gone and they could might easily lead to a court of 15 which would nominate his successor. there was inevitably to be a no longer control the ship. ExplodJustices, at some future day, all of Yet He Might Run World war, but he failed to arouse ing shells destroyed the connections whom might be 85 years old and to begin arming with the torpedoes and they were America Politicians and editors alike con- - for it. Theenough utterly out of sympathy with whatoutbreak of the unable to sink it where they wanted ever administration might then be strued that phrase to mean that Mr. war found him a naval to. in power. Coolidge did not want to run, but constructor with the rank of Lieuthat if there were enough clamor They began to realize that the tenant, aboard Rear Admiral Wil- Spanish Opponents of the President say for or gunners might accomplish it, enough demonstrated need liam Thomas Sampson's flagship, that this action would destroy pubfor them, and sure their for or purpose which else it, something might lic confidence in the Supreme court. the New York. few direct hits and a after to his enough, he would make mind, But it is rather interesting that the appeal few Volunteers. a Hobson mines, the Merafter the striking sacrifice. ret effect of the proposal has been to to settle to the bottom. rimac New York, began the young Aboard is The a truth that great many bring forth a tremendous demonBut it was not sinking fast enough was crusading for the construcstration of popular approval for the people believe to this day that preand to go down before it had drifted unsinkable five vessels, of tion that was in Mr. in construction nine cisely view high certainly amazing could the narrow channel where it of the election results of last NovemCoolidge's mind. Lots of leaders tell told Admiral Sampson they from past would have trapped the Spanish mines the to be used sweep ber. Nor do they talk much, in mak- strange stories, and some of them fleet. harbor. to Havana entrance the have told Coolthem inof Mr. ing this point, about the many publicly, Unable to pursue his plans for stances in the past where the num- idge's irritation at he "Boy Won- When Sampson told him that he was ber of justices has been changed. der" after Herbert Hoover was far more interested in sinking one the flag, young Hobson decided to Friends of the President insJst nominated. The then head usher of American ship than building five amuse himself by feeling his pulse, that the step is absolutely necessary the White House, Ike Hoover, told unsinkable ones, the lieutenant was and despite the shot and shell he In carrying out the "mandate" of in his memoirs of the bad humor astounded but offered to do the job found it normal. "If anything, more the people in the 48 to 2 victory of Coolidge was in up in Wisconsin, anyway. It was in the line of duty. phlegmatic than usual," he later the President last year. But they right after the move to stampede Sampson had ordered Admiral wrote. In another few minutes the do not mention that there was no the Kansas city convention for drafti- Schley, who was off Santiago de reference to any tinkering with the ng him failed to materialize. Cuba, to sink a collier in the narrow Spanish cruiser Reina Mercedes and But be that as it may, very few channel at the harbor entrance and the destrover Pluton let fly with court in the campaign that on the contrary both sides talked about politically astute persons in Wash- thus bottle up the Spanish fleet inington attach much importance to side. Schley, not believing in the clarifying amendments. what Mr. Roosevelt has said about wisdom of the act, ignored the order. Blames High Court January, 1941. Sampson still favored the idea The President in his victory dinon their way to Santiago, he and, Baffling; Question ner speech would have the people and Hobson discussed plans for sinkSan Francisco's congressmen, and ing the collier Merrimac on a night believe that the high court stands in the way of flood prevention and dust the Roosevelt administration as well, in early June when there would bowl remedying. Which surprised are baffled as to what is to be done be sufficient moonlight for the naviV I v1 even government lawyers, who had about the electric power situation In gator to place the ship in position, been priding themselves on their the Golden Gate city. In the recent yet there would be an hour or so "victory" In the T. V. A. decision, municipal election, despite every of darkness between moonset and which permitted building dams for possible effort by the national ad- daybreak. Torpedoes abreast the flood and navigation purposes, and ministration, and despite the re- bulkheads and carTo hatches were even permitted sale of "incidentally quirements of law and various com- to be fired by an electric primer to plications, the voters again refused sink the craft. produced" electricity. The entire American fleet received Friends of the plan talk of the diff- to approve a bond issue for the purof the over the pose local city the call for volunteers to accomtaking of geticultyalmost impossibility electric system. pany Hobson. This was no child's ting through an amendment to the The trouble is that the law under play. With the exception of Admiral constitution. Whereas the old document has been amended beyond which San Francisco obtains the Sampson, there was hardly a soul recognition in the lifetime of those power from the Hetch Hetchy proj- aboard the New York who believed amendments permitting ect requires that the power must the emergency crew would return speaking Income taxes, direct election of sen- never be sold to any private utility, alive. Yet hundreds offered to go. Seven were taken: George Oar- ators, compelling woman suffrage, but must be distributed solely by imposing prohibition and then re- governmentally owned agencies. San ette. Daniel Montague, Francis Kel-- ! pealing it, nil despite highly militant Francisco has ignored this law, ly, Randolph Clausen, Osborn W. minorities in opposition. passed back in the early days of Pc'nan. J. E. Murphy aid George Admiral liuusun shortly leiore His Death. Much of the difficulty of the child the Wilson administration. It has F. Phillips. Hobson a'so took alon-labor amendment, incidentally, on never provided its own distribution an American flan, to be unfurled at two torpedoes at such close range which friends of the proposal lay system, and has repeatedly voted proper moment, just ns t'e such stress, has been due to two down every proposal made with a Merrimac was starting her dive to- that even Spaniards couldn't miss, and clown went the Merrimac io a a religious angle, which view to complying with the law. ward Davv Jones' locker. things hero's watery grave. The e;ght men, seemed to some to open the door Just before the election on March A Motley Crew. two of them wounded, wont down. 9 to federal interference with religious the Pacific Gas and Electric com. too and came right bock up again. ti'ifurlo-ifor never was The flag schools and a sectional unwilling- pany, which now buys the Hetch ness to surrender what was re- Hetchy power and sells it to San just about come time for the Rescued by Spanish Admiral. there were shot and shell garded as an economic advantage. Franciscans, reduced its rates to lifeboat had been shattered, The;r popping nil around our hero's ears so But senator after senator, who is customers ten per cent. swam 1o the catamaran, they tradiroom for desperately opposed to the very One apparently simple answer to and there was little on with only their bends hanging Even at the outset, the odds above water so things that Mr. Roosevelt wants to the dilemma would be for congress tion. they were less likely the were rcrhnps aga;nst open the door for by his court to pass a bill repealing the restricRut to be they were, after spotted. ever getting to the narrow change, has suddenly become loud tion in the original Hetch Hetchy an hour and a half in the cold water, to had She channel. of the in his insistence that it is a conbill. The San Francisco members of port found by a launch containing no stitutional amendment giving the the house, however, feel that this is steam right under the nose of the less a person thnn Admiral Cervera Morro Castle fortification and the federal government power to reguof the Spanish fleet. impossible. great battery behind it. The Spanish late wages and hours and working rotThey were treated gently. Cervera gunners' aim was notoriously conditions, rather than a "packing" Comes an Impasse himself helped Hobson aboard. such close at but ten, range! of the Supreme court, which is So the- - situation becomes someThe latter and his men were given A weird looking crew they wore desirable. thing of an irresistible force and an hot coffee arid dry c'o'hcs. Hobson 1::0 at the under as collier All this is a natural and logical way got immovable body. The Son Francisco was even then me'odratnatic in 1093. Their 4. a. m., June apparel political sequence, of course, for voters simply will not agree to spend "Oh. God," he exclaimed, these same senators, and those who their money or, approve bonds consisted of long underwear, two speech. twirling his mustachios perhaps life socks of each, preservers, which curled agree with them, are much more which will saddle the cost on them pairs romantically two inches and revolvers. Just cartridte belts confident of beating the President for the future and the from either side of his lip, "has government as if a Hollywood scenarist had writin a fight for a constitutional amendwill not agree to remove now a life ever through such a fire ment than by a majority vote in prohibition which San Francisco it- ten it, there popped from nowhere and never gone man a lost!" either house or senate. self asked for nearly a quarter of tie inevitable stowaway. It was The Spaniards, hearing that not Clausen, who had not been chosen, It has been a long time since any a century ago. a man was lost, and having rescued President has turned on so much It is expected that Secretary of the but came of his own accord. It was only a e:ght, were dumfounded and Hobson. and brave after gesture heat in a fight. Every ounce of presInterior Harold L. Ickes, under were doubly dumbfounded when him him, Mr. permitted Roosevelt can bring to whose jurisdiction fhe situation is, reprimanding sure Hobson told them that he had been to- 'Continue. bear is turned on. and who is himself a strongly was to cruise to trying harder than they had to sink Hobson's ownership man as far within 2.000 plan Causes Surprise yards of the channel, the Merrimac' Hobson and Irs men as the electric fiekl is concerned, even to the There is much surprise in Wash- will consult Attorney General Homer tlic-- i order full sfced ahfvd (for became heroes, and were treated with to Spaniards, were almost certain here should .they the have S. ington that country .dimming? about the next step, be discovered and fired upon.) until every courtesy, although they were so completely accepted, at full face with the possibility that the governimprisoned in Morro Casile." When value, President RooseveU's deci- ment will bring suit to comnel Snn there were only 200 yards left to Cervera visited him in his cell, bo would shut the Here entires go. Whiie from House to the sion retire Francisco to'comnly with the law. oiT in an admiral's full dress decked out M'crH.rrinc allowed to the and in January, 1941, It iVas firxl prrhted and stop, selling Hetch Hetchy procoast into the channel, where it splendor, Ilohson struck an attitude in the authorized and Roosevelt ed- duced power to a privately owned would be sunk. Any of the crew who and declared, "All chivalry is not ited article of Arthur Krock, in the utility. were to swim yet dead!" New York Times, which roused so Which, may mean, of course that survived. the sinking r to to After a few weeks Hopsori and all life a astern a catamaboat the tlie among many heartburnings electric company in San Francip-cran (raft) brought along as a last of lus men were traded back to the White House correspondents. It was would, merely install a team resort. American (T.nvy for the release of an repeated in a speech a few days plant and go ahead, while Hetch in At outset the number of Spanish prisoners. Hobson, speaking equal later. Hetchy power would have to be aucWhat causes the surprise here is tioned around to other California the dime novel hero fashion which Their welcome was one which bethat neither the authorized story nor towns willing to comply with the was to characterize his countless fitted them ns heroes, and from public orations in later life, ex- that moment until his death, Richthe speech, nor some interviews conditions by establishing governclaimed. "Charette, lad. we're go- mond Pearson Hobson was to bask with groups of senators, carried ment owned distribution systems. San Francisco will still have the ing to make it tonight! There is no in the reflected glory of his adveniny conviction whatever to Capitol Hill. They say that the whole idea water supply, which is what it reaPv power under heaven that can keep ture with the Merrimac. His seven aides were foon given the congrescarries with it too many qualifica- wanted most at the time of the us out the channel!" He was talking through his hat. sional medal of honor, but Hobson, tions to many "ifs" nnd too many original legislation. The Merrimac proceeded, apparentbeing an officer, could not receive C Bell Syndicate. WNU Sorvic. 'hnma" nnd "ambitiona." tresh-grate- It n Mate a rich pie paste ef ft. flour, salt, cupful butter and the boiling water out, cut in rounds, and line muffl, tins with It. Make a filling of the quarto cupful of butter, well creamed-adthe sugar and era! cream and vanilla. Fold in coconut, fill the lined tins bdJ bake in a moderate oven untui delicate brown, and they are These may be topped with whipped cream when they cool. ' three-quarte- blue-nose- d er f0 j tl-- - Mer-rimac- 's . j o - 1 4 Copyright WNU S.rvlc. Keep your body free of accumulat. ed waste, take Dr. Pierce's Pleas, ant Pellets. 60 Pellets 30 cents. Ady Knows the Value He who knows most grievei most for wasted time. Dante. Hobson as a Young Officer. y Uob-so- n rs well-beate- n two-thir- Spanish-America- n Enf lish Mock Chtest &w 14 cupfuls flour ft teaspoonful salt cupful boiling water k cupful butter cupful butter cupful sugar 1 cupful i cocor.ut 2 eggs 2 tea spoonfuls cream 1 leaspoonful vanilla REAR post-academ- Burl, Action Mi WASHINGTON flag-wav- ft Br Billio He was finally presented with it by President Franklin D. Roose- velt in 1S33. Arriving back in New York, Hobson was mobbed by Wherever he went, they sang after him: "Mr. Hobson, Mr. Hobson, You're a dandy, you're a peach, And the brightest blooming pebble That is shining on the beach." One woman threw her arms about him and kissed him. This started a craze which greeted him wherever he went, for he was a handsome devil and a hero. One newspaper reported that in Kansas City alone 417 women kissed him at the railroad station. At Topeka it was reported that at least 200 women kissed him, indicating that perhaps the prairies are not so dry, after all. He didn't object much. Hobson Becomes Reformer. But women soon began forgetting to kiss him, and the newspapers began to forget he existed. After rising rapidly in the ranks of the navy, his eyes went bad while he was serving in China. He applied for retirement on a pension, but did not get it, so resigned from it. the service. Here began the second phase of his life. He became a crusader in earnest, first to make America mistress of the seas by getting congress to appropriate funds for a navy equal to the combined total of all the other navies in the world. He used as his principal excuse the charge that Japan was preparing to attack us, and was one of the first to bring up the Japanese war scare, trying to get both political parties to acknowledge it in their platforms in 1912. He was exquisitely vague in the evidence he presented, and prone to exaggeration as he was in later campaigns against the demon rum and the drug evil. He mode over 1,000 speeches in behalf of his naval building program. He was continually worrying con gress for legislation prohibiting the sale of alcohol, and as a representative from Alabama, he was the first tointroducea prohibition amendment into congress. He soon became the most prominent figure in the prohibition drive. He told congress, "I cannot look upon the saloon otherwise than as an assassin" and "the result of all averages and estimates known showed it (alcohol) to be the greatest single cause of death." Congress Turns Him Down. Once the prohibition amendment was passed, Admiral Hobson took up "dope" that is, he took up the fight against the drug evil. He asserted that there were a milhon addicts, many of them children. He tried to have congress print, and distribute 50,000,000 copies of a pamphlet warning children of the unutterable tortures that might await them if ever they took the invitation of a si rancor - "oat. drink or ;niff" anything. A federal expert called in, testified that there were at the very most, 150,000 addicts in the country. Practically none of them children. He testified: "I think the direct effect of the article would be to create a certain number of cases of severe neurosis and insanity and a certain numhrr of cases of addiction by reason of the psychopath will want this new sensation Some of the statements about the number of addicts are smlply absurd; the opium does not exist to supply them." Congress refused to print the pamphlet. But Admiral Hobson continued his crusading, and at the time of his ?fal!1n&om a ,ieart at1ack on March lfVjKU, at the age of sixty-sihe' was still starting associations to prohibit' something or or to secure .some sort of other, legislation. Among them were the International Narcotic Education World Conference onassociation, the Narcotic Education, the World Narcotic Defense association, the Public Welfare . Qlaiiire's rA 1 V Form a partnership with Nature plant $ocne flowers and vegetables from SEED and watch them grow! For greatest invest in Seeds You Can Tru bred and grown by PUREBRED for quality. TESTED for germination. DATED to assure freshness. Feny-Mors- true-to-ty- FREE: Send post card for "Succeed viib Seed," valuable planting guide bf Martha Phillips. (2 k it o o SEEDS YOU CAN IHUST This easy way atNearbyStores MARTHA PHILLIPS GARDEN SUNDAYS, 9:15 CLASS A. M., NBC BLUE The Correct Thing those who are is never a mistake. Copying LIGHTS INSTANTLY-KOWAITI- Rfi Here's the Iron that will "smooth yourwtf en Ironing day". It will eave your strmpt ...help you do better Ironing easier and qaickr at less cost. A Rf al Instant lighting- Iron ... no heatinj J with mstehes... no waiting. The double pointed baseirons garments rar- - s!ide esii strokes. Large Uemtsitwll Ironing time is reduced . . . use it anywhere. Economical, too . . only Vit an hour to operate. See your local hardware dealer. FREE Folder Illustrating and tellin about this wonderful iron. Send postcard. m THE COLEMAN LAMP AND STOVE CO. Dept. WU319. Wichita, Kan.t Chicr.20. llU Philadelphia, Pe- - Lot Angel", Calit. - evenly-heaM- iriass-imoot- h . WNU 13- W rr.ttti it. fUMmhsuK-viSALT LAKE'S m NEWEST -37 " HOSTELRY Our lobby Is delightfully ajr cooled during tbe snmmcr montM Radio for Every Room 200 Room 200 Baths . HOTEL x (and Americanism Clear-n- g House), and if that one doesn't stop you, the Constitutional Democracy association. C Western Kewtptper Union. Temple Square Rates $1.50 fo S3.0Q Tha Ilntrl Miahly i" Square iHMtrble.rtrodly a, phrre,Yo will .Jwa.fln.l itlrnna-tilatsupremely eomforlaM-."a thoroughly agrrallft.You can tn'rf-fac-l h Uila hotrl underatand, HIGHLY RECOMMENDED Tm eaa alao appreciate why If a mark of diti octlon In at thit butilul hottalry ERNEST C. ROSSTER.i |