Indianapolis Times, Volume 41, Number 101, Indianapolis, Marion County, 6 September 1929 — Page 17

SEPT. 6, 1929

SILENT MAYOR MAKES GOOD FORJETROIT Public Demands Reticent . Official Make the Race Again. By United press DETROIT, Sept. 6.—Detroit’s experiment with a silent mayor has turned out to be such a success that the automobile capital in all probability will elect John C. Lodge to succeed himself when his first term expires next January. Lodge might be called the man nobody knows but everybody votes for. His record is one of the most amazing in the history of municipal government in this country. He was swept into office by a majority of 13,000 votes in November of 1927 without making so much as one speech or a single public statement. Service Was Drafted He was drafted by what he likes to refer to as the “common people” and elected against an opponent who had the advantage of being a Republican mayor in a large northern industrial city. The mayor was John Smith. He came out for liberalization of the prohibition laws and he and the members of his organization used the radio extensively for carrying their campaign to the voters Everybody had heard of John Smith, but almost nobody knew John C. Lodge. He had been a member of the city council for some time and was said to be related to Colonel Charles A. Lindbergh. Reference to family records developed that he was Lindy’s grand uncle. The famous airman's mother is a daughter of Mayor Lodge’s sister. Election Deepens Obscurity Now that Lodge has held office nearly two years the people of Detroit know even less about him than they did when he was plain John Lodge. Instead of raising him to a prominent place in the public eye, election to this important office actually deepened his obscurity. He never makes a speech, never turns out to welcome famous visitors to Detroit and is almost never interviewed. But every day between 10 a. m. j and 4 p. m. Lodge is at work in i the mayor’s office and anyone who wishes to see him can do so there. Under his administration city improvements have gone forward steadily and taxes have come down. The silent mayor who came into office without a platform < althcught 52,000 persons had petitioned him to make the race) has obtained such good results that he has been asked to run for re-elec-tion and has accepted. Lodge is 67 years old and has never married. I

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FIND EARTH IS HUGEDYNAMO Source of Energy Is Not Available for Use. Bu Science Service WASHINGTON, Sept. 6.—The earth itself is a huge electric dynamo generating enough current to supply light, heat and other electrical needs to the ten largest cities in the United States for a least one million years. Recent researches on thermal reactions inside the earth, conducted by Dr. Ross Gunn, civilian scientist of the Naval research laboratories, and inventor of a short wave oscillator and airplane altimeter that have been taken up by the radio and aircraft industries, indicate that the earth is the greatest known electrical wonder in the universe. Dr. Gunn has published a theoretical problem of the earth’s electrical condition showed that the currents generated inside the earth amount to more than 200,000,000 amperes. Dr. Gunn is careful to emphasize that this tremendous source of energy is unavailable for use by man. Like atomic energy, it wall be kept in Nature’s storehouse for the use of the generations of perhaps a million years in the future, he says. CLAM DIGGERS PROSPER Business Along Grand River Is Growing Steadily. Bu United Press lONIA, Mich., Sept. 6—Another profitable business along the shores of the Grand river is assuming proportions. It is clam digging. A clam is a clam to most persons, but to "clam diggers” they may be called a lady finger, a squawfoot, a pocketbook, a mugget ball, a pebbleback, a three-ridge, a sheep toe or most anything else.

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