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Show ulVtaii basin record Tonift Digs Up Ancient Fourth er State National Press Eulldinif Washington, D, Washington. With the national convention of the Republicans on lyaweek New Seek to away, Disrupt G.O.P. Deal strate-glst- s are bending every effort toward a program designed to make a knock down and drag-ou- t fight of that session. It Is not disclosing any secret to say that the New Dealers are using this weapon up to the hilt because disruption of the Re- publican party would make victory easy for Candidate Roosevelt Predictions in politics always are perilous. Governor Alf M. Landon of Kansas seems to be In the lead at this time for the Republican nomination, but there are many observers throughout the country who contend that the "Kansas Coolidge cannot win, and that various other aspirants for the nomination, men whose hats are In the ring, likewise must be counted out. This is to say that a feeling is growing that a dark horse will be nominated. From the strictly Washington viewpoint, which may be different than elsewhere In the country, astute political observers are convinced that there must be a swift change In sentiment to keep the nomination away from Governor Landon. let, it must be said that politics is fraught with Just such things and so it is entirely possible that the Republican nominee may be someone other than the present apparent leader In the race. Those who feel that Governor Landon will be the nominee claim lie has played his cards well. But others Insist that the Kansas governor made a bad mistake In allowing his name to be linked with the Iiearst faction in California. Indeed, I have heard comment that this fact alone will defeat Governor Landon. .r iV ew observe of the New Deal strategists Deal reference Strategy Landon with to the boom. Some observers contend that the efforts being put forth from New Deal quarters in an attempt to discredit Governor Landon were being- engineered because the New Deal fears Governor Landon as a Roosevelt opponent more than It fears some of the other candidates for the nomination. Frank It. Kent, the Washington commentator for the Democratic Baltimore Sun, asserted that the New Deul activity against Londons nomination constituted "the best evidence of the increasing probability of the Kansas governors nomination. Mr. Kent did not say that which some other informed writers feel, namely, that the Landon candidacy would mean a bitter campaign on the part of the Roosevelt forces to the President. Nevertheless, it has been Interesting to note the various ways In which Roosevelt spokesmen and Democratic publicity men have been trying to show the country that Governor Landon Is not the man who should be nominated. I have no quarrel with these efforts. It is the- - game of politics. Virtually anything goes. It is to he assumed that present Repuhlieun maneuvers will be concentrated in a few weeks on Mr. Roosevelt personally as the Democratic candidate. In fact, one hears expressions around Washington that for the tlrst time In Mr. Roosevelt's political career, he is going to be directly under lire. Just in this connection, one can recall that through most of the New Deal administration, criticism of New Deal policies and plans, almost without exception, was directed at Roosevelt appointees. The President himself 1ms been exceptionally free from tiie type of personal attack that frequently characterises political opposition, lie has had absolutely none of the kind of criticism that occurred in tiie Hoover administration and was directed at Herbert Hoover, personally. - ct Mr. Roosevelt. 7 Club - f The Crawling Horde A Minnesota here comes Pat Mangan, of Brooklyn, N. Y., to get me antelope and coyote were all balled up. Pat doesnt talk my language at all in spite The agricultural impossibilities. first two were exterminated; the of the fact that, judging from his name, his folks came from the remnants of the coyote tribe resame part of Lithuania that mine did. treated to the green triangle, alNo Pat talks about billycans, and about "carrying his tered their habits to suit a woods round in became "brush and environment, swag and a lot of other things that have me running wolves. circles. I know that talk is Australian lingo, but I don t know The deer, whose natural home what it means. was the diagonal woods barrier, It was in the spring of 1302 that Pat arrived In Sydney, way also retreated Into the green tridown on the southeast coast of the island continent. He had heard angle. The lumberjack, by hewing a lot about the Australian Bush the great open spaces Just back down the greater part of the pine the narrow belt of civilization that fringes the shore and from there, did the deer a favor, for the he wanted to sea it birch and aspen that supplanted it The men he met around Sydney all talked of carrying your swag made a home to their liking; in fact, In It they thrive and multiply, and Pat and his partner, Bob, decided to have a try at it Though one would not slight the Australian "Swagmen Travel by the Stars. luscious vast potato fields, and other a Now, swag, as near as I can figure it out, is a sort of pack you agriculture of the green triangle, on your back. Anyway, Pat says he and Bob bought a tent, a carry it has in general been rebellious in a billycan, rolled them up into a pack and the farmers bands and so remains tommyhawk, blankets and a train that took them on a boarded trip through the bush to the refessentially a forest and game of a saloon, a blacksmith town of Daptoi a little consisting uge to this day. 15 houses. and True, tiie trapper and sportsman shop They got off the train at Daptoi and went Into the saloon. have drastically diminished the "Most of the customers in the bar, says Pat, "were swagmen like number of its natural citizens, such ourselves. We asked one of them If there was any work to be as the timber wolf, otter, fisher, and had around town. Why, yes, he said. Theres plenty at the lynx. smelting works. We asked him where the smelting works was, But the beaver still builds his and his answer astounded us. dams there; the black bear may be miles farther south, he said. The easiest Oh, its about forty-fivspied fishing with his paws when the fish run into the streams; the way to find It is to wait until night and then follow the tall star of the e porcupine in large numbers yet Southern Cross. Thats the way distances go in Australia. Forty-fivBush like stars the miles and the is around by you you travtown, the navigate and gnaws jack pine bark, els a path which, winding through would the ocean. the snowy groves, looks as neat Snaky Visitors Invade the Adventurers Camp. and regular as If some one had That night Bob and Pat shouldered their swags again and hit the rolled a heavy truck tire there. And for about trail. miles, until they came to a the snowshoe rabbit, whose favor- fresh-wate- r They pushed along were both twenty tired stream. dead by that time, and decided They ite diet Is the pine seedlings set out to camp and stay there for the rest of the night pitch by government foresters, travels the We made a fire, says Pat, "and boiled some coffee In our billycans. winter drifts on his padded legs. We had a bite to eat, and then retired into the tent for a smoke. Bob The American elk, or wapiti, is extinct in Minnesota. The caribou Is almost go; a herd Is sometimes seen in the remote fastnesses of the great swamp of Beltrami county, north of Red lake. But the moose, in the Arrowhead country survives in fair numbers. Canoe travelers often see the noble monster at lunch in some lake, his body submerged for protection against flies, his lips curling around the water lily shoots that make a salad for this dainty iant among American mammals. by National Geographic Society, Washington, I. C, VYMJ Service. Prepared buffalo, SOTA is unique amon, states in its drainage system. It sends water to separated seas, through the Mississippi to the Gulf of Mex lieo, through the Red river and its tributaries to Hudson bay; and three-widel- By FLOYD GIBBONS Famous Headline Hunter. Idea of a Bridge Approach. y through the Great Lakes and the St. Lawrence to the Atlantic. And no other state has as many lakes within its borders. There are more than 10,000 of them. The map of the state reveals that Minnesota Is cut into two vast triangles by a diagonal line running from the northeast corner (where the Red river flows out northward) down the southeast corner (where the Mississippi flows out southward). Imagine the upper triangle painted green, and the lower tri angle painted yellow, and presto! you have the state roughly divided Into Its natural forest and prairie parts. The green triangle, before the lumberman came, was in general a huge pine forest, and begins to be so again. The yellow triangle, before the farmer came, was grassland "like the billows of a great sea, majestic and limitless; now s it is fields, with of trees to shelter the red planted barns and white farmhouses. The diagonal line that divides these triangles has its significance, too. It marks the chief trade route through the state and also a wandering barrier of deciduous woods, now carved up to make way for farms and cities, which everywhere separates the pinelands from the prairies. Broader toward the south where It attaches to the deciduous woods of Wisconsin, it dwindles to a thin scattering of stunted trees toward tiie north the final outpost of the hard-wooforest of eastern America. As tiie ends of this diagonal mark the low exits of the states two principal rivers, the outer corners of the two triangles mark tiie states highest ground. At the outer corner of the yellow triangle the Lots of Good Fishing. plateau known as Cotenu des Prairie Just crosses, dividing the MisFish and fowl likewise have had souri from tiie Mississippi basins to adjust themselves to their new Countless Snakes Were Writhing on Top of the Tent. with Its immense gradual swell. In neighbor, tiie white man. the outer corner of tiie green triA game-fisparadise has a way we write some letters, and we got out pencil and paper angle, the "Arrowhead Country of retreating when the sportsman suggested that above Lake Superior, are the Saw- finds it. Thus the greedy now must and lay down on our stomachs. We had been writing for about twenty tooth mountains and the Misquah go to the border lakes to catch a minutes when Bob heard a noise on the side of the tent He looked up and uttered a frightful cry. hills, rocky, choked in forest. boatload of pike in an afternoon. Bobs cry startled Pat half out of his wits. It was a sudden But this does not mean that there Climate is "Continental." terrified scream. "My God, Paddy, don't move!" Pat turned his not is famous elsewhere. fishing Tiie climate of this pair of trihead. "What's the matter, Bob? For answer Bob pointed mutely Tiie muskellunge of such lakes as angles is a grief to those who reto the top of the tent small-mout- h or tiie fighting Mantrap, sent surprises. It is "continental It was still dark, but a bright moon was shining in the sky. In Its bass of White Earth, and tiie in the most emphatic sense. Temyellow beams, both men could see shadows of objects on the top of the fish a waof other thousand many in a mild year peratures range make tall fish stories annually, tent long, writhing shadows snakes dozens of them crawling all over through 120 degrees; In a year with ters, the upper side of their flimsy canvas shelter I a real wallop to it, as high as 10.T. which, in spite of the low repute fish of are true. The Reptiles Stayed Outside of the Tent. stories, essentially In consequence, tiie native of outCertainly they reflect justly the fun door habits must maintain a wardPat raised himself up on one elbow and took a cautious look around. robe that Includes everything from that ancient sport provides. There were do snakes Inside tiie tent not yet. But outside, there were And tiie Minnesota citizen almost thousands of tiie shortest of swimming shorts them, swarming toward them from every side. While they anywhere may go out after supper watched, the dozens of reptiles on top of the tent became to (lie longest of long woolens. hundreds, as Lake Superior, it is true, tends and hook a black bass or a mess more. and more of them began creeping up its sloping sides. of not in more than crapples, or, to temper tiie winds of tiie region "We didnt know whether they were poisonous or not, says around it, but not to the shorn a day's drive, reach lakes in whose Pat, but a bite from one of them might easily mean death. There t depths tiie noble lake trout wasn't any possible means of escape. Bob was hysterical and I lamb; no, no. Thanks to the proxenn be caught on lines of spun was cold with fear. The snakes were closing In on us. In another of that of reservoir deep imity pure moment they would be crawling Into the tent. I began to wonder ieevvater, a grouchy visitor lias been Monel wire. Of the original game-birinhabbeard to complain that tiie coldest why they had not come in long before. Something seemed to be winter lie ever spent was one sum- itants of the slate only the grouse holding them back. can now be called abundant, and The more Pat thought of it, the more he was convinced that somemer in Duluth! Nor are tiie blessings of ample Its abundance wanes and waxes In thing was keeping those reptiles out of the tent. Then it occurred to him rainfall to lie taken for granted. Of cycles. Tills ruffed grouse is tiie that maybe it was the light they were afraid of. That gave him an Idea, late years tiie yellow triangle, com- characteristic bird of tiie green lie told it to Bub, nnd immediately they began piling the blankets the monly less rainy and much less triangle. Tame, richly speckled and paper they bad been writing on everything inflammable along the sides ruffed, it provides a voice for thf and around the front and back ends of their shelter. snowy than the green, lias involuntarily tried the experiment of get- wilderness in tiie accelerated thud Ordeal by Fire Drives Away the Slimy Invaders. of its wings drumming on some holting along with next to no moisture When that was done, Tat picked up the candle and prayed that his low a log, mysterious music that at all. Infnct, Minnesota lias weather to please all tastes, in strong tiie forest muffles as if to hold se- scheme would work. He held the candle to the top of the tent. The canvas began to blaze. In ten seconds the tent their blankets everydoses which, ns a rule, stimulate cret. Thanks to drainage thing they owned was going up In a merry blaze. rattier than kill. "We huddled in the center of the tent, says Pat, "while fire Tiie Nineteenth century marked and the advance of tiie farmer, tiie burned all around us and over our heads. In no time at all the an immense change in Minnesota. wild duck's breeding grounds in tent fell in ashes, but the blankets continued to burn, Tiie white man arrived In numbers Minnesota are largely lost to it; the forming a black of Vs ring of flame that I had hoped would keep the snakes at bay. its spring flight go for to establish himself In a country That ring of flame wasn't even necessary, for at the first sign of where it was easier to make a living tiie most part beyond the border fire the 6nakes fled. into Nor lias Canada, the prairie than in the one lie had cotne from. Put's hunch had been right. The light was wlmt tiie snakes were This "as not a very noble purpose chicken been very clever In adapt- afraid of. He and Bob never got to tiie smelting works they were headed ing itself to life on the farm and In one way, and It led to many in' They turned ' right around nnd went back to the bright lights of a ns target. justices to the existing inhabitants, But tiie introduction of a partly Sydney. They had had enough of tiie Limb and of "currying thelrswag." both men and animals. KWNU Service. bird, tiie ring necked parasitic Vet the annals'of the pioneer innot which does scruple to vasion reveal, too, a deep longing pheasant, No S ign of Vigor in liiose people for (lie good lifo, help itself to tiie farmers corn to Meaning of Yankei In the early days of our country A Yankee is properly a New Engfor they were certainly ready to pay for serving as liis autumn tarmule) go discomforts that were sor- - get, lias proved a huge success. That it was commonly believed that a lander or one of Now England stock. di1 nni1 hard-lilp- s that were killing fantasiieally mimed bird, looking heavy suit of hair on a masculine By extension it means, first, an Inin their high hopes for the future filler to stand among the exotic face v as a sure sign of great manly habitant of the northern ns distinblossoms painted on some Chinese 'vigor. Consequently all those who guished from the soul hern In a new land. United There was much to lie dene, for .screen than among the prairie sun- could really sport a crop of whisk-ers- States, Now it comprises all Unitt li ne ei hide s nnisliif he, etc., wore them. Now ed States citizens. The is in n'e tiie white man alwavs on flowers, story Is that cmnpieiely at home in the ytj science tells us that these advertise, In 1713 one Jonathan Hastings, n altering nature to suit h s own low tri ingle. meiils of rip routing lie men were farmer of Cambridge, Muss,, used But energy was the ch views. As for small birds, such ns (he nothing but frauds, and of the age. With rifle, a, points out tiie word ns a pulling epithet, meanwoodIds fileml. the c hit lm. lew, that the o , nml fcibler n nun and plow, ami l.iti r with mopey ing genuine, or something that canor hat w tie red w inter s tor w i mil at h s w ill1 gels usually tiie more luxuriant bis not lie surpassed, ns n yankee ought. a ils elixir song, ti e pine gros beard becomes. It Is also pointed good horse, or Yankee" good cider, Its Animal Populations f in (lie .With, or the horned out that if times hirsute adornments etc. Tiie students pt Harvard, rnteli. Bor one tldm;, the status of the lai I; tint loinzs the euilest mu-i- e mean any tiling at all. It Is evidence iug tm tiie term, called nestings tin live aeiei ils u is liraM of sjoniz to fio'cu Fi !iru iry t'l'hls that tiie man is more closely re- "Yunkce Jonathan " it Mnn tVw in,, f.ir too nuiiieiiiiis ('"iiged. In tt.e tMiii'e. ineu lated to the orangutan than tiie nnd been me the nickname of the mat eloiist.v fe i.e fm heat, I he to he lhentioiu',1 lino. New Englander. gorilla. B. C. Here areTfeA Baking ReaB seo0 Ship, Color. r ui 0dr -- s sttc way-statio- n Having observed Senator Barkley senate for a number of years, I believe I am Justified in saying that he Is a square shooter and a fighter. In this respect, he and Senator Steiwer, the Republican keynoter, are much the same type of man and, therefore, If either convention gets off on. a wrong foot, the fault wdll lie with the convention managers rather than with the proposals offered by the men who are supposed to lay before the delegates a rough outline of their respective partys campaign policies. in action In the For many months Washington has heard the plaint of business lead-er- s who wanted Fear to fight socialistic Crack Down schemes and un- sound economic by New Deal policies given birth brain trusters but were afraid to do so because of retaliation." Almost constantly, information has filtered into Washington to the effect that If a corporation undertook to oppose New Deal plans vigorously, there was danger that some agency of the government would crack down on them. Much of this information has been taken by Washington observers with a grain of salt but a different aspect has been placed on the situation lately. It was In the senate that a New Deal Democrat, Senator Himer T. Bone of Washington, broke loose with statements that seemed to substantiate the fear voiced so frequently by business. Senator Bone charged that there was a veritable and "budding OGIU organized within tiie government. The OGIU, as most persons realize, is the secret spy system of tiie Russian Soviet and I think no one in this country lias a complete knowledge of Its vicious diameter. So, when Senator Bone likened the espionage system In otir government to the OGBD, he was making, to my mind, one of tiie most serious charges yet leveled at tiie Roosevelt administration. Of course, Senator Bone was attacking tills espionage system because 4 a feeling that It might be used to coerce members of congress and even executive or administrative officers of the government who were opposed to plans propagated advisers. His by thought obviously concerned the political phases of such a system, but tiie fact that he brought the matter to public attention serves, In a measure, certainly, to substantiate some of tiie claims that business Interests have made. Ire.-ldentl- al however, to recon- cile Senator Bones position respecting the OGIU which he charged was In operation within tiie government and his utter siWhile we are talking about the lence when the obnoxious senate forthcoming quadrennial convenlobby committee, headed by Senations, the two tor Black, Democrat, of Alabama, keynote speakers engaged In tiie wholesale seizure of Keynoters naturally enter private telegrams. It will lie reInto any discuscalled that I reported In these colsion. Senator Alben W. Baikley umns bow Senator Black and of Kentucky will do the keynoting ngents of (lie Fedorul Communicafor tiie Democrats at Philadelphia tions commission wont Into the files and Senator Frederick Stehver of of the Western Union Telegraph Oregon will deliver the main adcompany and carried off literally dress to tiie Cleveland convention thousands of private telegrams. I of tie Republicans. Senator Barkwas convinced then ami I repeat it ley was the keynoter at the Chicanow that the Black seizure was go Couventiou when Mr. Roosevelt nothing nioio tiian an attempt to was nominated by tiie Democrats dig tip dirt on nnjhody against four years ago and, although It Is whom they could find discrediting a subject not freely discussed, it is Information. Yet, Senator Bone, by said la high places that Mr. i loOM Ids silence, condoned that enur.-- e velt wanted the same mail to do only to denounce later the systems the Job again, believing the Kenof so railed "inspectors" used by tuckian to lie mi omen of good lm k. Secretary lakes of the Dopirtment The selection of Senator Stehver of tiie Interior nnd reputedly by was one of tliue tilings that can he several other agencies of the govsaid to be a surprise and yet not a ernment. I can only hope that if surprise, lie Is, without doubt, a Senator Bones charges are true good man for the Job. Vet In some that the Usual condition will result, quarters there Is a conviction that namely, that (in-iwill be oilier Senator Steivver was picked by tiie spies to Spy on these spies. "Old Guard of eastern Nba.ii.iih r Union, Wo-te- vr f. Republicans. Some observers still hold the belief that the selection of Senator Steiwer was not wholly pleasing to the Landon forces, but be that as it may, there has been dj particular ill feeling created by it. If It represents a piece of strategy by the eastern Republicans who were dealing with their problem by remote control, they apparently have played into the bands of the more liberal wing of Republicans. It is being predicted rather freely that the Oregon senators keynote speech will lean strongly to the liberal side but that it will stress sound economics. The best advance Information obtainable on Senator Barkleys plans is that he will devote the bulk of his time on the convention platform to a review of Roosevelt accomplishments in the belief that such a review will take his presentation out of the class of a defense speech. Those with whom I have talked concerning the Barkley speech believe he has adopted a smart political course; that he feels there is no need to defend anything that has been done and that the record itself Is the thing upon which the Democratic party can make a plea for of I oin unable, , C, It has been interesting to the maneuvers The dlscoveryofanotu. Egyptian tomb, belles burial place of Knunt ! Chefron of tiie fourth been announced by pfof s Hassan. A series of strange Wj prevented the archeologist J Ing an entrance Into the ton a rope had been placed ' first limestone bloc sealij trance, Ilassans foreman,, by a laborer. 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