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Show UINTAH BASIN RECORD FLOYD GIBBO Scenes and Persons in the Current News jr-- Adventurers' j c N ycOur n.T' , tiPs, r'frrrr'n'-r.i- rsiSkltiTr Ml? f fY J&4 Washington. I suggested In these columns a year or more ago that the campaign of 1936 would bring forth some of the most amazing oddities in political alignments that this country had ever known. It was apparent, even during the battle for ballots In 1932, that a giIn the voting aligngantic shake-ument of citizens was in the making. These things are now being demonstrated and more proof of the changing times seems just around the corner. We all have seen how such outstanding figures as former Gov. Alfred E. Smith of New York, the Democratic Presidential nominee In 1928, have boldly flouted President Roosevek and his New Deal theories and we have witnessed such vitriolic outbursts as those by former e Senator Janies A. Reed, that Missouri Democrat, and we have watched with Interest the hauling and filling by Jeffersonian Democrats who find New Deal fantasies to be a bitter pill to swallow. Lately, there has come another most Interesting situation respecting partisan alignment. Although the action received much less attention than I believe it deserves, the determination of the Virginia Republicans in their recent convention at Roanoke to refrain from placing a Republican candidate in the field against Senator Carter Glass constitutes, to my mind, one of the most extraordinary twists ever to take place under our two party system. That convention, acting utterly without precedent, took the position that It was better to leave the field clear for the election of the veteran senator than to precipitate a political battle by naming a Republican candidate. The reason for the action of the Virginia Republicans Is quite clear in one way. They felt that Carter DemoGlass, although a crat who has carried on his share of bombardment of Republican principles and policies, could do the country more good from their standpoint than could be attained by placing a Republican candidate against him without chance of success. To state this premise In another way: Carter Glass does not swallow the New Deal as a whole and when he finds objectionable features In the Roosevelt program, he Is independ ent enough and has the strength of character to voice his feelings. Doing this as a member of the party in the senate necessarily has more weight than all of the criticism of the New Deal that could be voiced by a Republican if one could be elected In Virginia and the Virginia convention chose a course which It believed would best serve the nation as a whole. Ilut It Is the circumstance of a party convention refusing to engage in battle that Interests me most. Under such circumstances, the old idea of party loyalty becomes not Inonly Illogical but ridiculous. stead of a call to battle, we see what amounts to a call for support of a theoretical opponent. Of course, in the opinion of many, Carter Glass Is the outstanding exponent of conservative thought In the Democratic party and If he speaks for conservative thought In the Democratic party he Is almost speaking for conservative thought in the Republican party. It is easy to see, therefore, why the Virginia Republicans adopted the course they did but where does that leave party loyalty? What does It mean as to the future alignment of political thought? p old-lin- The Pit partisans that they have been unable to determine yet what their course ought to be. One of them remarked confidentially to me that he believed he would have to consult a clairvoyant before he could say whether he was going to support the New Deal or oppose It or try to straddle the fence. Of course, his remark was in a humorous vein but it epitomized the thought and, I may say, the worry of a very great many partisans at this time. So, we have a picture six months ahead of the actual casting of the ballots in which party lines are torn asunder for countless hundreds of more or less important party figures. 1 think everyone agrees that the condition comes from the development of New Deal principles and policies under the leadership of President Roosevelt. There will be many who are now doubtful as to their course who will realign themselves with the New Deal because they were originally Democrats and there will be many who will again follow the Republican banner down the stretch. But it seems to me that three years of Roosevelt probably have established a greater segment of Independent voting strength in thu country than had resulted from a quarter of a century of partisan politics before. The situation must be construed then as indicating that hereafter those who stick definitely in party harness will continue to stand bitched because they have political aspirations and ambitions or because economic conditions in their communities are better fostered by the party with which they have aligned themselves. At last, after almost two years of promotion work, President Roose-vel- t has aban- Quoddy Dream doned two of bis cherished Dropped dreams: harnessing the tides of Passamaquoddy bay in Maine and construction of a gigantic canal across Florida. The Quoddy project designed to produce electric power in quantities never before turned out, was to cost The great job of excavating a slit across the face of the state of Florida to let ships go direct from the Atlantic to the Gulf without going around the toe of the state was to cost $150,000,000. Only a small amount, that is, a small sum compared to other New Deal expenditures, bad been wasted on the ship canal plans before it was tossed into the limbo of forgotten things, but something like already has been used in the attempt to make the moon work through the medium of the tides of Quoddy bay. Both projects can be charged up to politics and experiments and probably the country will be better off to take the loss and avoid the use of further money. The President fully Intended to go through with his plans respecting these two projects until he ran Into vicious opposition in congress. Too many representatives and senators realized that they were going to have the names Quoddy bay and Florida canal hurled at them through the coming campaign if they voted their approval by including additional funds for these projects In the relief appropriations. I dont know what is going to become of the homes, the model city, erected for workers near the Quoddy bay project. Photographs of this village indicate It to be a community of which any resident might be proud. It was constructed to assure the workers on the Quoddy project a comfortable place in which to live. They still have the comfortable place in which to live because the governThe course followed by the Vir- ment still owns the homes but what ginia Republicans is not more is to become of those people and strange than the what disposition is to be made of On the action of Presi- - the property is something else again. Other Hand dent Roosevelt Most engineers have contended himself who has indorsed Senator Hiram Johnson of that it was impossible to place in the bay equipment California and Senator George NorFaced that could ris of Nebraska, with almost boyish tlon satisfactorienthusiasm. Senator Johnson and Senator Norris have not been rely while at the garded as regular Republicans but same time producing electric cur-erat a rate that would bring a they have been flying the Republican banner for a good many years. return on the tremendous investYet, the President verbally pats ment necessary. Further than that, them on the back and ofTers his no one yet has been able to show where so much electric energy could blessing. be ninrketed. The Is territory same we have the period, During watched Mr. Roosevelt playing sparsely settled and the Industrial touch-ango with the La Toilettes production is small. While it was in Wisconsin. Of course, the La contended that limitless power Toilettes catalogue themselves as would bring industries into that secProgressives but they never have tion, the Indications were, even afthad a great deal In common with er actual work started, for only a small Increment in the number of Democrats. factories and other users of energy. Likewise, in the senate if one is The Quoddy power Idea probably to believe gossip fiequently bandied was the most fascinating and most about, Senator McXary of Oregon, the titular Republican leader, has romantic of anything proposed by New Deal for the purpose of been only halfheartedly fighting the tlie creating Jobs. Like the proposed New Deal. In fact, some of Senator McNarys own colleagues claim Florida ship canal, it held potentialthose whose opinions herethat he has really given aid and ities buthave been sound remain untofore comfort to their political enemies. convinced that either the power plan In the meantime, one cnn wander or the canal for a short cut across around the halls of congress and Florida ever could repay the govhear private observations from men ernment for money snout theie. be to were who stalwart supposed um't I nln (0 Vt Hprn Nf life-lon- g 0. d old-lin- e i By FLOYD GIBBONS Famous Headline Hunter. know, boys and girls, it isnt at all unusual Wt to run into an experience that leaves him j barely able to stagger along home, but Harry Goldm N. Y., is one upon all those guys. Harry was dazed ar able to stagger before his adventure started. After it over he was a lot vvorse off. It all happened in April, 1899, when Harry Was YOU ; war for Uncle Sam. He v" Seventh Regiment cavalry, stationed In the field outside Pmar at things had quieted down to such an extent that troopers , record could get a pass from the officer of the day to go into to? a few purchases, and have what was widely known as a good tic Harry was one of the troopers who had a good rtol dont know how he managed to get It, and I know doggen". he didnt deserve it, because the first thing he did when town he and his buddy was to head for a saloon. They had a couple bottles of beer, and then they drank mule. They ambled around the town taking in the judge by Harrys and his pals actions, most of those sights wZ bottom of a glass, A. W. O. L. Is Bad Business in Any Mans It got to the point where they bad to do theirs;1 ting down, because whenever they got up on their feet the and wabbled around so fast that they couldnt get a good look a That went on until it became Just plain Impossible to t eight or anything else. Then all of a sudden it dawned that It was dark that they had overstayed their leave-a- r,: they had better get the heck out of town before the the guard came looking for them. They lurched to their walking toward the camp In three directions at once By the time they were half way there it was twice as (U they had started. They couldnt see a foot ahead of them and j. having some trouble trying to keep a foot under them. How the got separated, Harry doesnt know. He was walking along tav Cuba fighting the Spanish-Ameriea- n Ik" r: ' - ,v;:' k ' to- - . ,7 ' 7 f 3 v A ji - ' A JL pf 8 . ? & 2 Plutarco Elias Calles, center, exiled from Mexico by President Cardenas, arriving at Glendale, Calif. New 3 in photograph Washington. to the Capitol Members of the Unemployed Workers Alliance marching of Neville Chamberlain, chancellor of the exchequer in the British cabinet, who, it is believed, will succeed Stanley Baldwin as prime minister. 1 Birthday Party Is Given for corpo-- He HI si- taan, and bei pastora refused ( j, mhes jie them Isi is son, his fi rSt Ps Hi I get a la years , ngly ed Jacob, j, id In P e with je Itel alto; c art iam g 'jcceec I brews lower, Horse the S tl on Mrs. 1. W. (Chip) Roberts of Washington, D. C., wife of a former assistant secretary of the treasury, Is pictured with her horse, St. John the Baptist, for whom she gave a party on his eighth birthday. Mrs. Roberts is the former Evelyn Walker, whom Chip Roberts married In England recently. -- the; arther s Jos nth had A ...... Snarling Bear Was Pawing at Him In the Pit all of a sudden he realized he was talking to himself. He jelY pal, but he got no answer. On top of that it started to and then to rain. Harhy wrent on alone. Every once in a while a flashed would Illuminate the sky, and then he could see where he wasg third or fourth flash showed a dark object up ahead. That, Harry would be his buddy. lie gave a whoop and started towards It ' the dark he could see It coming to meet him. Just as It rest Harry stumbled and fell. A Harrys Pal Turned Out to Be a Big Black ' Kg$'vNv, --Tfi .yy. lie w it ig" u ,! v. ... c.r jj I v & Kj View of work on the MIrapalmeras site, covering 12 acres near San Juan, Puerto Rico, where the federal government Is erecting a modern housing development which will accommodate 131 families. The unit is one of the WPA slum clearance projects. Herrick Memorial Plaque Presented to Paris f ft 'X- V ; V- Ms me, ji rb w jto our Veafte oasis til hi is 8 again R, shlcl ip of p time jei flah, h, "e, ti b, all th lay of sc thi f Harry Learns That Bears Dont Fight Zf'fV Fair. Kill for animal The bear didn't fight fair. It was the darndest ever saw. It was jumping on him. Harry could feel 11 And the brute would land on him. Off hed go. And, then, Hed land on him again. What kind of a bear waa M fought like a moose? Another flash of lightning told the story. Harry looked W time to see the bear pawing and clawing at the top of the pit He lost his hold and landed on Harry again. That animal wasnt jumping on him. He was falling on1 using Harry for a springboard, trying to get out of the pit- J the last thing Harry remembers. Then, Bam I again, sod sclousness. The next thing Harry knew he woke up In the MPita friends were all standing around his cot. He thought they to be with him at the end until he noticed that they f! her H n ti M mar ;e ble f 'e It' v irsko.i j.HmcctP, 44aSMXC ' f 1 wi j tf Yt V 'A r if h hill h - Hit ft laco ed The Laugh Was on Harry, Even ff It Hurt, And when they told me about It," Harry says, I The bear was one that had escaped from a small cir wandered out of town. It was just about twice as scared But Harrys laugh didnt last long. When he tried his cot hie grin faded away. He was scratched from nea and had three broken ribs where the bear fell n want to make him mad now, Just ask him about the time Sidney Franklin with old Bruin amid the rose petals of that refuse pit way down there In Cuba in '99. f1 had P 100 ( t no ft n i lanbli nd s lor r dlvf "age st a - hi r"e be "hen as 6; !i5 eei t tl large part of the this training cabinet, covered birds are kept ult birds are allowed In length of time " birds are allowed to Increased as the most i rny h laughing. Roller canary breeders who spend time training their young male birds fi to sing, reup the rewards of their labors. By January or February of their first year roller canaries beA gin to show wiiat they can really do In the way of vocal development . writes Helen C. Loomis In the Detroit News, iron! the time they were very ' n i V young birds, the outstanding young TK2 males ln any well R r regulated roller ! AiM h TjCj canary breeding establishment are ?: ,!v carefully excluded from the com"IK?, Z? 7 K : .A. I A iv I , . ) pany of older birds possessing l' faulty notes which they might copy. t For a number of weeks many of them go through an intense tr vs 'w 4 period of vocal training under the tuof T. former telage American ambassador to France, was llorrilk, Tills bronze memorial plaque of Myron especially talented adult recently presented to the city of Paris by the Myron T. Herrick post of the American Legion. The plaque has been roller singers. Tlie young birds, perhaps a dozen placed on the wall of Ambassador Ilenkk's old office In Rue L'liullot. of them, aie placed in Individual Ir 'tbi 'an, Service. v7 ej. jf traia imvWYi is even Bear, cages in a large Training Canaries Is which Is also occupiril Highly Developed Art more teacher' birds. xl siieiV li self. iz&iS.riS eit ih s lag him 4 '7f) have it the wh For a minute Harry thought he was That bear must have come right out of one of those aguardu back In town. But no. The bear was on him now had him stall' mauling him like the devil. He couldnt dream those sharp kicked be couldnt dream the bruises the bear gave him as : , h, he t with g . there (si He reached out and grabbed hold of his pal, to help ' up again. His pal had grown a thick coat of heavy fur meantime, but Harry had had too many tequilas and aguardi back in town to notice. Again he stumbled, clutched his ps support, and both of them tumbled into a deep pit It was the sort of a pit they use for garbage in Cuba. Spl Harry that, even though he couldnt see. The fall jarred sc sense back into him, and, for the first time he began to won if tf pal had happened to grow that coat of fur. He didn't hae thlong. A sudden flash pf lightning lit up the pit That furry rills buddy at all. It was a bear a huge, black, snarling bear! t v ' da ! dig 1 s i b r if. $A MS fine s h Y i No f Government Housing Project in Puerto Rico 4, nev p Ancient Safe Uncovered San Lois Obispo, Calif. A secret safe, In which early padres hid their valuables from raiding Indians, has been found by Father John Harnett in the walls of the old rectory of the mission fathers here. It had been hidden from human eyes for more than a century and a half. ' a uch far IB, i SI 0 i , 5 nil I v a oi'1 ft oclileuV in Others 0)0 a month or so longer ' de'C highest point of iru The vnrluiia rolls, ,, etiaraeh which are canaries are perform with their little lip, but beaks A Wenhlf In the Si v lb ilty could coiiil'.ire lllllr wealth and spl t y on rHn i r n fur T |