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Show UINTAII BASIN RECORD TT Scenes and Persons in the Current News Washington, D, C. XJ. As the campaign Washington. gets more heated it becomes increasingly evident Call Spade that the political a Spade battle this year will result more times jn a spade being called a spade men being named names than has happened in a good many is previous years. When this stage reached it invariably means that party workers as well as party leaders are thoroughly imbued with the sense of battle and it means further that no phase of either party policy or personal affairs of the candidates themselves escapes the attention of the opposition. That probably is the reason why Mr. Roosevelt lately has found himself being "kidded to a greater extent than usually occurs about his visits to various sections of the country. The opportunity has not yet come for Governor Landon, the Republican nominee, to be made the butt of such jokes or the subject of such personal attacks, but undoubtedly it will arrive long before November 3. To refer again to the President's trips, the correspondents here have been naving a great deal of fun about the Presidents determination to learn firsthand about the flood areas of Pennsylvania and New England and the drouth areas of the middle western plains. This is significant. It shows an Important change of attitude on the t of the Washington observers pa-who seldom find themselves in a position where they can tell everything they know. It is significant also from this standpoint that it shows Mr. Roosevelt to have lost the loyalty of a great number of those writers. Time w is when 95 per cent of the Washington correspondents were with Mr Roosevelt on everything he said or did and when they found vulnerable spots or weaknesses in his statements or actions they were inclined to overlook them. Such is not the case now, however, and I think it may be added with candor that the Presidents programs and policies, his speeches and statements in press conferences 'are examined with utmost scrutiny. From the Democratic standpoint, this is distressing. From the Republican standpoint, it is a highly valuable change m circumstance. The reason is that as long as the President had a completely "friendly press he did not need to be so careful nor did he ever need to fear that interpretations would be placed upon his statements or his actions, other than the interpretation which he desfred. It takes no stretch of the imagination to realize forthwith that any time he says or does anything to which exception can b? taken, some of those correspondents will point out the other possibilities find, generally speaking, that the WTiting corps doubted that the President's Pennsylvania and New Eng land visits were based solely on his desire to know what the federal government should do to prevent floods. One correspondent was so extremely frank as to write in his metropolitan newspaper that Mr. Roosevelt foresaw not a flood of water but a flood of Republican votes Of course, th s is an exaggerated position for any unbiased writer to take, but there were any number of those correspondents who laughingly inquired why it was sc urgently necessary for the President to visit the flood areas at this that there was no congress in session and no definite provision for the framing of flood relief plans. And referring to his trip to the central west, I am reminded of the hysteria that has arisen over sod erosion. Undoubt edly, soil erosion is a problem worthy of general attention but the thing that disturbs mi as a Washington observer is that soil erosion, like a lot of other problems, suddenly has become mixed up in politics when it is not a political question. The conservation of soi of natural resources, has been a matter to which farmers of the nation have addressed themselves for more than a hundred years. Who is it among farming community that has not attempted at one time or another to stop "washes or who has not planted some willow trees or some kinds of bush to prevent ditches being cut through the middle of fertile and arable land? And may I asl further, what farmer is there who has not given consideration to crop rotation, to the plaftting of types of clover or hay or grasses that would of themselves enrich the sod? All of these things are commonplace. All of them have been done from the time to which the memory runneth not to the contra,. But now we find a perfect hullabaloo a hysteria as I said at the beginning about a thing with which farmers long have been familiar. It comes almost into the category Soil Erosion east to west, PhotoMrs. Beryl Markham of England, first woman to fly alone across the Atlantic from m Toledo, Spain, wrecked Zocodover de Nova m Scotia. forced a made she landing graphed after Alcazar held by rebels. 3 President Roosevelt cutting ribbon at ded by loyalist shells aimed at the near-bMo. ; Governor Horner of Illinois cation of Mark Twain Memorial bridge across the Mississippi at Hannibal, left. at Missouri of at right and Governor Park 1 2--Plaza -- y They Won Gotham Freckles Contest Judges Choose Most Freckled -- Boy and Girl 5'1' 'A ''' A 44 Here are the boy and girl judged to have the most and best freckles in Greater New York. They are Patricia Gallagher, fourteen, of Staten Island, and Charles Cochrane, of Queens. Six hundred children competed in the contest Just how the judges arrived at the decision is unknown. Some of the entrants were so nearly completely covered with freckles that any choice seemed unfair. However, Patricia Gallagher and Charles Cochrane were finally declared flie winners. to -- it a ad- only visit the oldest communitie' in the nation to And soils that have been producing for two centuries and that have continued to show increased production through all of that time. The reason is that those farmers knew about soil e osion and they sought to prevent it. Those farmers and nearly all farmers recognize that soil must be feitilized; that it cannot be planted to the same crop eternally without destroying its fertility and th . know the necessity and the method for solving the problem. They have acted on that necessity and knowl- t 'Stossd V fA v, V f Jb 3 I is 44 A vx b r4 iA ft H t'' vx - it, 5 Jr $ & &- r.o 4 SOME SWORDFISH! v "V x) t. But Pete Cant Blow Off the Foam rrtrr XX : ' X ; g r tj, S. Lags Behind. Im thinking that no longer navy our first line of defense nor the army the second line. Im thinking that the chief peril and the chief security from that peril is in the air now. And of all the great powers, we are the most woe- " fully behind In the U matter of airplane protection. It would ? take us two years to saJr A make our air force irvinS. Cobb as strong as it was four years ago. It would take in finitely longer than that to make it as strong as the present footing of any country which conceivably might attack us. could always lock the Well, stable after the horse was gone if the stable hadnt been blown flat. w-- e Rules for Long Life. JAPANESE doctor has landed with the word that, by following a few simple rules, a fellow lives to be 240 years old. He didnt say, but I figure this applies only to those of us who never go motoring. The principal rules are to sleep on a hard mattress with a metal pillow and learn to wriggle like a goldfish. Whether, in time, the beginner sprouts gills and a fantail is not stated, but it sounds plausible. Ive already spoken to a tinsmith about a pillow and, on awakening this morning, made a few experimental wriggles. My intentions might fool some people, but I dont believe theyd fool a goldfish, unless hed been drinking or something. Im afraid my finning was faulty. Besides, I didnt feel any too dignified-greeting the dewy dawn by behaving goldfishiously. J. B. Weaver, d rector of the steamboat inrpection service of the Department of Commerce, Washington, D C , and the 1CD pound marlin swordfish ho caught at Santa Catalina island on tested 24 thread lino with breaking strength of 60 pounds, weighed on the Tuna club scales after having been conquered by Mr. Weaver In a spectacular 25 minute battle m the famous swordfishing banks off Santa Catalina island, 25 miles from the coast of Southern California, A v A c f , Yo Golden Annivers According to an insura pany, the chances of ce a golden anniversary d tirely upon ones age anc the consort at the tune marriage. Taking an case in which the bride two years of age and L is groom twenty-fiv- e years the chances that they t survive and celebrate tie anniversary is 168 out 1,000, or about one in sj BOYS! GIRLS Read the Grape Nuts ad. column of this paper and to join the Dizzy Dean If win valuable free prizes- ,Pencil Significant ents have gone and thunk up a plum bran new one extremists. Maybe, though, the point is well taken. The dispatches would seem rather to indicate that quite a number of persons over there have lately shown a tendency to verge toward the extreme. And picking out the various parties mixed up In the French political mess thats another tough job. Only today I ran into this one It sort of suggests Ty Cobb In his palmy days, covering the outfield. But that couldnt be because the French dont go in for baseball. They prefer dueling as being just as exciting. I must say its discouraging just when, by following the news from Paris, Im beginning to get the Reds unscrambled from the Pale Pinks, and the Mauves from the Heliotropes, and the Holy Rollers from the Merry Widows, to have this added complication bust right in my face. Looks as though Ill have to start it all over again. left-centri- it fioleman Mantis LANTERN CfL Use your Coleman In hundreds of places where an ordinary lantern is useless. 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To obtain this patterr cents in stamps or co preferred) to The Sewir Household Arts Dept Fourteenth St., New Write plainly pattern your name and address, I do not believe it i War Names Confusing. the bias of a contempon coining eighty makes me feel that the NOT content with different ninety separate have been of ur. and confusing names for the oppos- years nificance. Oliver ing forces in Spain, the correspondHolmes. EVER time-consid- ering pies-Learne- d give you decoration A xyix ' kt A dull moments with these seven, misch tens about! In thought up enough na- handshake he gave the wherever people desired to greet him but his campaigning was much less evident in the minds of the reporters than obtained in his visit to the north and to the central west. edge. Notwithstanding all of these facts we are due to see in the next session of congiess and probably for a considerable number of sessions thereafter a bunch of politicians who will be prating about soil conservation long after the farmers have become thoroughly sick at th stomach about the idea. It is just another one of those things upon which hungry political demagogues will leap and continue to use as a vehicle on which to ride into ofiice. I was born on a farm ard grew up there. I know the problem inside out because the farm upon which I was born was susceptible to erosion washing as my father called it to a greater extent than is usual in farm lands. It is no particular credit to any one to boast about preventing soil erosion because it is a thing that any farmer will want to do if he W'ants to continue to make his farm pay him a return. It is juet as much a part of farm management as it - to see that the woik stock does not develop Now as to the Presidents visit sore shoulders. to the drouth stricken area: The But the point of all of this as far as I am concerned is that political drouth was ent in the "dust capital is being made out of a conbowl as the bril dition with which politicians ought Little liant younr strate- not to be concerned at all. Some gists of the New Deal organization may accuse me of ignoring the have named the middle western drouth condition. I do not do so. We have had several years of bad plains. There can be no doubt, likeI find it diffiwise, that relief was needed and drouth conditions. that a thorough-goinunderstanding cult to associate political control of the situation by those responsible over the weather, however, because in Washington should be obtained. the claims of politicians have yet Yet, I believe it was the consensus to reach very far above their heads. of the writers accompanying the President on that whirlwind tour of Announcement is made at last the dust storms that Mr. Riosevelt that former President Herbert no of personally gained knowledge Hoover is going to conditions that was not already take the stump in available to him in reports from behalf of Goverhis subordinates. Indeed, I am told nor Landon and on very good authority that rethe ticket. Republican Though It lief representatives who had gone was long delayed, it probably ha$ into the drouth area already had come before the country became written their reports to the Presiconvinced that an irreparable dent and made their recommendabreach existed between Governor tions concerning policies to deal Landon and Mr. Hoover. Rumors with that relief situation befoie he were just beginning to fly mid gosleft Washington on that trip. sip tongues were just beginning to It must be quite obtious, howwag that Mr Hoover would remain ever, that Mr. Roosevelt desired to out of the Republ.eun picture this see conditions about which so much year so it is extremely fortunate Was being written in the newspathat he and Govemor Landon at pers. I think he cannot be blamed last tune been brought togctticr, as for desiring the opportunity to wit- far as Republicans aie concerned. ness things as they actually weie be I am not informed as to the reafore the rains came; b"t some of sons for this delay. It is evident his speeches from the rear end of that somebody slipped because it his special train evidenced someis unnatural for politicians to do thing more than a hint that he de- libcratcly decline to take advantage sired to see not only the drouth of when it Is pruficit'd stricken area but the voters who tin stiength in, there. $ Wtslfin Ntwqa-etmui. fit tional air races in Los Angeles set me to thinking. Its a danis gerous thing thinking to upsetting and nearly always the peace of mind. Is the pump-handl- e One needs c T the Hollywood, atcalif. More recently the President has made a trip into certain areas of the southland where it is suspected by Chairman Farleys representatives that a goodly number of Republican votes exist In fairness to the President i' must be said with respect to his southern trip, however, that he did Little actual speech-makinIt is true that of nonsense. Kittens Cross Stitch IBM) "Jbjvihd about National Topics Interpreted by William Bruckart National Press Building1 Spirited IDkJxt I Pete, a while Leghorn rooster in Philadelphia, drops in at a tavern every morning for his glass of beer. Air View of Father Knickerbockers Domain SPECIAL Tt Approved by your State a Has Memories of Valencia. to concentrate on pen-nant fights in the big leagues when we read of Spain, with 100,000 already dead. I hope the lovely old city of Valencia has escaped the common ruin. Seven yeurs ago I was traveling around and about over three continents, and at every stop had listened morning, noon and niglit, to the song Valencia. So a friend and I made a pilgrimage to the town in which presumably, the thing originated, and Valencia turned out to be the one spot on tlie map where nobody had ever played that tune or sung it or hummed it or whistled It, or even heard of it. It was indied a relict So we stayed a week. The sherry-and-eg- g before luncheon was also quite good all but the eggt IRVIN S. COBB T TS hard 1 Holer (after College, 118 Segeol mi X Hi ire st-- 'I id war-racke- d Ntw jm UPO- r " ' N- , f r X SOtfOl UN Vt, t 4k O I'll M N K S ' ' oft 4 TV.,' -- V - MU IAS t t - Xy, Here, from an airplane 23 000 feet above land, one looks down on New York city and Its environs where more than seven million people live. Manhattan, Erookljn, Jersey City, the reaches of Long Wand are all plainly seen. WNU srvlc. 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