Indianapolis Times, Volume 48, Number 38, Indianapolis, Marion County, 24 April 1936 — Page 38

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RUNNING FOR PRESIDENT lUST A ROUTINE ASSIGNMENT FOR ALF LANDON, AUTHOR FINDS KansavS Executive Refuses to Become Excited Over Prospects as Campaign Warms Up; Wife ‘Frightened’ by AN the Hubbub. BY ARCH STEINEL “Alf, I didn't know you were such a great man. I’m getting frightened.” On Page 229—the last page of the book, “This Man Landon” (Dodd, Mead & Cos.), Frederick Palmer, lecturer, newspaper man, and war correspondent, criticises his book on “The Man P'rom Kansas,” Alfred M. Landon, by putting these words in the mouth of the wife of the Sunflower state’s Governor.

“l repeat that if this reads like a campaign biography, make the most of it, and the Governor of Kansas is to blame for it,” says Mr. Palmer. The book has forced itself on reading tables of the politicalminded Just as Gov. Landon has forced himself high in Republican minds as leading the race for the G. O. P. presidential nomination. Between the opening page and the closing phrases on Page 229 a cinematic view is given of Gov. Landon. He Taks ft in Stride Mr. Palmer goes to Topeka, Kas., to find out about “lliis Man Landon.” He expects hub-bub and “Landon-for-Governor” signs and finds ‘‘Where I had expected whoopee, there was no whoopee.” Making a presidential candidate appeared to be a part of the Kansas routine. “I was told It was easy to meet A's and that ‘he is people.’ “Landon's face struck me as not being characteristic of a man who had been long in politics and public life. Landon's face might be that of a business man or business-like college dean who never had held public office. It was an open face that belonged with the open door. . . . Mr. Palmer writes. The ante-room impression of Gov. Landon included a covert watch while he talked to politiciarts and an aged couple, former friends, who had been on relief. Gov. Landon Rave the aged couple more time than the politicians. The Politicians Like Him ‘‘lt seemed to me bad politics to have been so brief with the political leader. Later, I was convinced I knew nothing about politics when the political leader (one who had been given but a few moments with Landon) said to me, ‘I like him. He sizes up fine. He'll make a good run if nominated.’ ” The book brings Gov. Landon from his Pennsylvania Dutch ancestry and the family home in the Pennsylvania oil fields to Elba, 0., where he was born. It takes him from the Marietta (O.) Academy to a home in Oklahoma, and later the Kansas oil fields. Gov. Landon's father, a Teddy Roosevelt Republican, brought the bey Landon into the Bull Moose campaign. At 25, he organized a county for the Progressives and carried it for them. Fights OH Corporations His stripling conquest was stopped by his battle as an inde-

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pendent oil producer to start the flow of small “stripper” wells into corporation-owned pipe lines. The corporations objected. Gov. Landon held the independents had the right to the use of the pipe lines as the lines were common carriers. He won the fight. The 1932 campaign for the governorship, based on a platform of economy, found, according to the book, Landon ironing out party differences. Racing against the goat-gland expert, Dr. Brinkley, and Gov. Woodring, incumbent, he carried Kansas when Roosevelt was piling up a 74,000 plurality. Operates on Cash Basis As Governor, the Kansas G. O. P. hope put across a “cash basis” law of state, county and township governme/1, despite opposition from all sides. ‘ The Landon plan for local governing bodies or taxing boards was as though the individual, at the beginning of the year, should have in hand the money he was to spend and spend no more except in dire emergency,” says the book. “If there were any holes in the cash basis law introduced, it was not because able lawyers and Lawyer Landon himself failed to see them after it was drafted. It had the comprehensive dental spread of a steel-toothed comb.” Balked at Dam Project He went along with the New Deal until they desired to construct a $60,000,000 dam on Kaw River—a river with a channel at times no wider than Hoosierland’s White River—and then the book reports he stopped like a balky horse. He pointed out that $5,000,000 spent for soil erosion through building farm terraces was more beneficial than $60,000,000 in a dam that seaplanes could use as a landing field. Would Avoid Disputes Summing up his possibilities and capacities as President, Mr. Palmer says in brief: “He would only be President. Under a Landon ‘we’ government it might happen that a pronouncement of policy would not come from the White House but from a* Cabinet officer. . . . “If Landon were President, I am sure we should have fewer accounts in our daily news of presidential battles with the Cdngress. His method would be inductive instead of pedagogic. . . . Say He Would Balance Budget “Landon appears to me to fill the bill for those who want a President who will not agree with the latest man he meets—who will be in the pocket of no group. It might be well to have a quiet President. . . . "... Alf would balance the na-

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