Show NEWS THIS WEEK by LEMUEL F PARTON consolidated NU service EW YORK old oid general plutarco NEW ellas elias calles callea medicos cos strongman strong man for 11 years has repudiated force on several occasions but bat has topped stopped calles returns for lust just one more to fe mexico on round just now resident in a i i salvage trip buthorn ou thorn call fornia the former president will be allowed to return to ta mexico city to ir try v to recover his expropriated land according to a dispatch from mexico city the revolution against For firlo dias dial la in 1010 1910 made much of breaking up the great land holdings and distributing them to the peasants ile he made the land revolution as ranch much as any man but on june 18 15 1930 he pro posed to liquidate it thus it wo we wish to be sincere we must confess that agrarianism as we have understood it and thus far practiced it has been a failure five years later w with ith the as cen dancy of cardenas lean in than dlan savonarola of communal doctrine he was exiled and his bis great estates at santa barbara were confiscated As a peasant youth in his native mountains he doubled in barkeep bar keep ing and school teaching he led a savage strike against the dodge copper interests and in the turmoil of the revolution joined coined obregon and was president from 1924 1024 to 1028 1928 he was in cardenas cabinet and was supposedly pulling the strings but suddenly hopped a plane tor for san diego and took up golf ile he was an unyielding foe of the church during tho the years of his dictatorship in the presidency den and out muscular and vigorous at 03 with high cheek bones and squinting mongoloid mongo lold eyes he be Is of the cut of the latter day dictator and several times limes there have been re reports portis that he was planning a come back it Is now indicated that thai he Is up to nothing more I 1 important in than trying to salvage something out of the agrarian i ism m which he helped to start 0 HIS writer had a letter from his told THIS old friend eddie persons of san francisco the other day in which mr persons put santa barbara c county 0 un ty call when ww champion i fornia forma in a champions cause test tube as Championed tes if clinical 1 1 sample of what ruinous taxation can do to a minor commonwealth it would appear that santa barbara county is carrying on just to save funeral ex benses and mr persons one of the leaders of the san francisco business community Is trying to do something about it at it was a similar alarm among many citizens which started new yorks unique tax march on albany in which thousands of citizens representing organizations moved on the state capitol to apply tho the ay ax to the tax as their banners and buttons had it the new and seemingly unprecedented economy front Is the state budget emergency committee in which the various organizations converge it was started by a man who was scratching gravel literally and figuratively henry 31 champion had a ut lit tie tic sand and gravel pit on his 40 acre farm on tho the chenango Che nanga river 20 miles north of bing hamp hi impton tort lie ile was doing nicely until taxes began to pull him down ile he called a meeting of farmers in 1938 and formed the chenango Che county taxpayers association of which he was elected president in their first year of ax work they nicked from the county budget and moving on from there here found eager allies in similar or culminating in tho the state committee with mr champion as chairman they chalked up a reduction of in the state budget last year mr champion was a punishing ax man in his youth working in logging camps in Ar arkansas karkanias and wisconsin the latter being his bis native state ing his father Is still a lumberman in northern michigan he come came to new york state in 1914 und made bis first farst visit to now new york city last july rallying the tax rebels he Is a weather beaten citizen 44 years old who look at nil an like the little mn in the barrel although his organization has this little chap armed with a blunderbuss on its badges many mystics regard upstate new york as the cradle of prophecy many prophets having risen there if it a prophet this time it would appear to be a watt tyler and the capitol stands on nottingham hill the man in the barrel has had an uphill climb for many years md ought to take this slope easily |