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NEW YORK, June 18.—Frank Knox h not yet been notified officially of the fact that he is running for the vice presidency. That ceremony occurs some time in August, I believe. At the moment the work-

ers on his paper must have a hard time to keep the news from their boss. "There are certain dangers in keeping Frank in the dark. Too much of the running news has been with-

held from him. For instance, the good gray publisher seems to be unacquainted with the fact that he has been drafted for the Youth Movement. If the Colonel were abreast of events he would: surely understand that this is no time for him to be reminiscing about the good old days. Take, for instance, his coms= munication te Alf Mossman Lane don, in which he said: “Both political and economic conditions call for a display of the same qualities which endeared us both to Theodore Roosevelt, I know that we

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ND the whole world just knows that Frank wears them. For that very reason I think it would

have been better if the Colonel had been content to wait for some one else to bring the matter up. But even beyond the matter of the technique of getting compliments upon the record I think Frank Knox made a mistake in recalling the Bull Moose years of 1912, That was almost a quarter of a century ago and might tend to disqualify the Colonel from membership in the Children’s Crusade to save the Constitution.’ Even worse is the tactless insist ence of his friends in saying, “Frank Knox followed Teddy Roosevelt up San Juan Hill.” Come to think of it, that was a full 38 years ago. There are a great many voters who no longer remember the Maine, and they will have to be reminded all over again that we were called upon to fight in the middle of a tough summer when the Spaniards were about to-land upon our shores and snatch away our traditional liberties. Old George Morris says that he also was at San Juan. He didn’t happen to see either Col. Roosevelt or Col. Knox, but he admits that it was a pretty big hill and that there was plenty of room at the top. Indeed, the whole maneuver might very well have resulted in a. glorious annihilation of the Rough Riders but for the arrival of the Negro soldiers com= prising the Tenth Cavalry. In addition, the rumor persists that Teddy Roosevelt chose the wrong hill to ascend. He was supposed to charge up San Juan, but when the dust had cleared away he found himself on top of Kettle, s 2 8

“Things to Do Today

S far as immediate political strategy goes it might seem the part of wisdom for Frank Knox to forget the entire San Juan episode. In the next few months the Colonel will be called upon to do a good deal of charging on his own account, and it would not do at all to have the impression get out that the first assistant candidate of the Republican “Party is addicted to climbing up any hill which meets

his fancy whether it is the right one or not.

Again, if the Spanish-American War really gets

, .to be the critical issue of the race somebody may

thumb back among his old documents and start the story of Hearst's famous wire to Frederic Remington.

. Whether or not he actually did send such a mes-

‘sage, it has gained an enduring place in national folk tales. Mr. Hearst is supposed to have cabled

to his impatient artist, who feared arbitration, “You

furnish the picturessand I'll.furnish the war.” = ' If I were Col. Knox I would put the rusty mus5 ket in the attic, hide away all decorations and swear off mountain climbing. More than that, I'd get myself a calendar painly labeled 1936 and under the cap-

7% ‘tion “Things to Do Today,” I would write in a legible

* ‘hand, “Don’t Sorget to run for the vice presidency of the United States.”

My Day

BY MRS. FRANKLIN D. ROUSEVELT EDNESDAY.—We reached Indianapolis at 5:30 on the dot yesterday afternoon, a tribute .to the driving of the state. police. : I feel as though I had seen the flower of these men in a good many places. Whether they are called .safety patrol, state police or rangers, they certainly

are a fine set of men and fulfill their variegated”

duties in a very able manner. The Girl Scouts and, as usual, the press, met us. At 6:55 I found myself sitting at dinner next to Gov. McNutt, who had just been through a long day’s session at the state convention. On my other side sat Dr. McCullough, the WPA state director, who does his job for the love of it. You can see he is vitally interested in every one of an astonishingly varied number of projects. After a talk to the Town Hall audience, we went to a WPA play, a melodrama of :the olden days. Fle I enjoyed it immensely, especially the old-fashioned tunes. I asked the actors if they were having a good time, and there was no mistaking the genuine look of

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This is the third in a series of - articles on Alf M. Landon, Republican nominee for President.

BY WILLIS THORNTON NEA Service Staff Correspondent.

N a lifetime' in the oil business, never incorporated, never offered for sale a share of stock.

His father, the venerable 79-year-old’ John . Landon , who smoked a long cigar at Cleve= land while the Republican convention acclaimed his son its candidate, recalls with relish the individualist turn of the Landon oil operations.

“He's always gone it on: his own,” the aging father recounted. “Sometimes with a partner, my= self or A. H. Black. But he always bought leases with his savings, sunk wells, and sold the oil, all on his own. Never incorporated or sold a share of stock.”

The oil business in the young Kansas and Oklahoma fields was a rough-and-tumble affair back in 1911. Alf Landon plunged into the game at 25, and "he played it hard. He never was a “wildcatter” in the sense of one who would take his last cent and bet it on a single well—rich if it came in, broke if it did not. There were plenty like that in the oil fields.

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OT Alf Landon. the game carefully, scientifically, always regarding oil prospecting somewhat like farming, as a productive, creative enterprise. His business was buying and selling oil lands and leases, going out on the job to supervise the drilling of his wells, dickering for the sale of his product, keeping books and watching the corners on the cost of his operations. That

was where Landon differed from

the average oil prospector. He knew what his operations cost, and they usually cost less than almost any one else’s. It was active, ‘open-air work. You slept out in mosquitoplagued swamps, in bare board shacks, your clothes and your skin saturated with oil and dirt. You watched all night, waiting for’ a new well to be shot, knowing that it might be a productive well, and that it might be just another dry hole. : Landon had plenty of dry ones, but the fact that a good proportion of his wells came in is demonstrated by the fact that he made money. He got the name of being lucky, but there is every reascn to believe that careful operation, intelligent direction, energy - and persistence were the things that kept Landon each year a little farther ahead of the game. » ” ”

UT though he worked hard and ‘drove his men hard, there was time for other things, too. He was chairman of the Belgian Relief Committee in Montgomery County in 1915, - He joined the Chamber of Commerce, and was active in behalf of the Red ' Cross, Salvation Army and the Boy. Scouts. While national tragedy stalked the nation, personal tragedy also lay in wait for Alf Landon. His’ mother had died in 1914. About a year later he brought his bride, Margaret Fleming, whom he had known in boyhood, from the old Fennsylyania home neighbor-

They had a daughter, Margaret Ann, the same slim girl who captivated the hundreds who met her at the recent convention.

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ring Motherless Girl With Car ver in Oil

The Aanidon: family album provides this interesting picture of four generations of the Republican presidential nominee’s: family. They

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Alfred M. Landon (in background), Mrs. Mossman, his

grandmother; John M. Landon, his father; Peggy Ann, his daughter.

But a year after her: birth, Mrs. Landon died. When the war came to America, Alfred Landon had a motherless daughter to care for. He was far down .on the draft lists, but entered service anyhow. Assigned to the Chemical Welfare Service, he served for some months in a camp near Lake-

overseas. He was a first lieutenant on his release from the Army. J ” s . ETURNING from his Army* service, Gov. Landon had no choice but to place a competent nurse and housekeeper in charge of his home to take care of the infant daughter while he plunged again into the oil fields. His standing rose in the oil country, and he became known through all the oil region of Kansas and’ Oklahoma as he drove from town to town inspecting and supervising his properties: and searching for new prospects. At one time he was. chosen vice president of the Midcontinent Oil and Gas Association.’ He was a leader in the fight of producers of the Midcontinent field to get a tariff against foreign crude oil. For many years he continued his association with the Midcontinent association as’ vice president for As ‘the years passed -and his daughter grew ‘up, Landon began to do less field work in the oilfields and more direction over the long-distance telephone... That is how he operates his properties today. By telephone he keeps in touch with local superintendents on his properties, directing their activities.

N 1930 Mr Landon married again. His bride was Theo Cobb, a prominent young society

LET'S EXPLORE YOUR MIND

BY DR. ALBERT EDWARD WIGGAM

woman of Topeka, the daughter of Sam Cobb, a banker. The present Mrs. Landon is 36 today, and would be one of the youngest First Ladies to enter the White House should Gov. Landon be elected. Things were breaking well for “Lucky Landon.” pos During a single week in his later career, Gov. Landon brought in .a 500-barrel well, won the Republican ' nomination for Governor, and became the father of a baby daughter, Nancy Josephine. She is: nearly 4 today, and there is now. also a baby son, John Cobb, 2. Sins Financially, :Mr.: Landon was a success. He had all thé money he wanted. He had a delightful home life. He had friends all over the “state. He had a politically minded “father, and every youthful “inclination for politics, including some early practical experience. Where would he turn next in rounding out a career? There could: be only one answer: Politics. ‘NEXT—An oil prospector tours from petroleum to. politics. .

the object of interest everywhere. He is the only Republican ‘who has| stirred any real-spark. The.interest grows in face. of almost: total ignorance: about - Gov. Landon personally. On his trip West, Roosevel” told friends that he thought Landon the most probable Repub-

BY RAYMOND CLAPPER 'ASHINGTON, June 18.—Im- * ‘mediately upon arriving in the shadow of Independence Hall to prepare for the Democratic national convention, Postmaster Gen-

eral Farley shifts his chewing gum:

to the ' other "side and predicts Roosevelt will win in 1936 as he did in‘1083, =" "ln. ; Genial Jim has a pretty good record as a prophet. Yet some who read the political signs closely will want to wait a while beforé making bets for November payoff. The quick rise of Landon is a warning against gambling on ‘elections—too far in advance. When a man so new that the retiring na-

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national committee have never seen him can snatgh the presidential

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: The inexpensive dress that 6-year-old Peggy Landon wears for the important event of having her ‘picture taken testifies to the simplicity in which she was reared despite .the affluence of her father and grandfather, both already well established oil field operators at that time.

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The alert curlosify of infant |

Peggy Ann Landon foreshadows: the . young woman who. 19 years later was. to cs lican convention’ throngs.

out in new and slightly more pinkish colors with comparatively few birth pangs.” i ¥omie oa Bl ‘March 27,’ 1935—Midwest Republicans assuming leadership in proposing grassroots convention to revive party. . .. Landon and Knox mentioned as potential: presidential candidates. - : From then on mehtion:of Landon occurred’ with: increasing ‘frequency. Typical excerpts indicating his progress: . 1 Ei Y - July 20—Landon’s budget record causes Republicans ‘to: consider: him as presidential prospect. Ma Aug. 30—“The man to watch is still pretty: much under wraps—Gov. Landon of Kansas.” 2 Sept. +256—"Circumstances: have given him (Landon) in this: horse

captivate the Repub-

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lican candidate.”

Governor has come up so suddenly on: the national horizon that the country thus far has seen only one flash snapshot. of it. . . . Although]

country, his economy idea has been snatched: up from coast to coast. ,-+.« ‘They his’ idea. .

says, ‘is “the application of com‘mon sense and sound business ad-

Nineteeri—and “th of the Republican conventioh—finds Peggy Ann Landon, University of - Kansas co-ed, ‘cast as pétential

Oct. 27, Topeka—“The Kansas

unknown to the

have caught only half of . « ‘The Kansas idea,’ he

NEW YORK, June 18.—The Wichita Beas con has made a fearless editorial attack on your correspondent in response to some well-meant observations regarding the coms monwealth and the state of mind known as Kansas, written during the Republican con~ vention in Cleveland. The Beacon seems to resenf more than anything else the suggestion that Kansans are not drunkards or good fellows in the colloquial sense of the term. “He could have been taught better were he to visit Wichita,” the editorial says. “We would find out here some of the most prodigal spendthrifts on: earth. We could point out to him at least 10,000 individuals possessed of quenchless thirsts, inherited and acquired, any one of whom could put the average Broadway columnist under the table.” ! This is not the first time your correspondent has placed himself in this difficult position. About a year ago from Cincinnati there Westbrook Pegler appeared a little story regarding the so-called annual convention of the Hoboes’ Union under the chairmanship of Jeff Davis; who calls hime self the king of the hoboes. Having known Mr. Davis for many years, your correspondent ventured to say that he was not a real hobo but, on the contrary, & cottage-bound, faithful, domesticated homer with & ‘devoted family, including grandchildren. = ;

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PF HIS catalog of the standard American virtues ‘A would seem to be pleasant enough. Neverthe= less, Mr. Davis was seriously annoyed and demanded a retraction, claiming that his reputation had been injured. ; - The Wichita Beacon seems equally difficult. Cers= tainly if any one were to write an article describe ing Kansans as drunkards and spendthrifts, Kansas would resent that. Kansas seems a good deal like a large family whose members include some rather risky charace ters with a tendency to hang around the roadhouse late at night drinking spiked beer. They admit withe in their intimate circle that there are such brothers in the household, and they doubtless do criticise them very frankly over the table at night. But let an out= sider suggest as much and there is a row on.’ “ ‘On the other hand, they betray a certain pride in the devilishness of théir gay dogs, as the editorial in the Wichita Beacon indicates. 2 ’. 5 8 : New Yorkers Mind Own Business

N the whole, however, they. are a pretty narrows minded family, as they often reveal in their utterances about New York. New Yorkers know Kansas only by hearsay, and are likely to admit that the state is a mysterious land to them, Kansans on the other hand, pretend to know all about New York and the temperament of the New York people, although every remark of theirs bringing in Broadway proves their utter ignorance of the city. They know New York from the movies, the color supplements and the Broadway columns and from their experiences as tourists and buyers at the night clubs and skins

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True, this phhse of New York life receives mors ‘publicity than the life in the dumbwaiter apart= “ments, the factories and the endless rows of all-alike “'houses, many of them with little gardens, stretching for miles into the suburbs. Kansans never consider -that human beings live in New York and the vast outlying sections who work at their little jobs, if they -can find jobs, spend their evenings at home listen« ing to the radio, try to pay their bills, mind their own business and get along. In this matter of minde ing their own business they are 1 typical Kansan, for they never did care whether Kansas had prohibition or not, whereas Kansas was yery positive that prohibition ought to be imposed on m : :

‘Would it be sufficient apology, therefore, to ade ; Sue hat there is a broken heart for every light in

Merry-Go-Rou nd

BY DREW PEARSON AND ROBERT 8S. ALLEN ASHINGTON, June 18.—~The sudden and Une ¥ obtrusive resignation of Ralph W. Morrison from the Federal Reserve Board has attracted no great attention, but around this mysterious Texan has developed one of the most unusual and important inside stories of the New Deal. * During: the 1932 campaign, Mr. Morrison cons ar Ch a .

tributed $50,000 to the Roosevelt ranking Kennedy as one of the

after Barney Baruch and Joe top contributors.’

race for the presidential nomination the No. 2 position which is where the best old runners. would’ rather

ministration to the progressive and humanitarian ideals of . government.'” £ : = “Nov. 29.—“The movement to make Gov. Alf Landon the, Republican ii- | presidential nominee next year is presi possibility = is| - | entering its second phase. . . . The claimed by William P, Helm, Wash- Landon. . Vv. All M.: organization phase is about to de-| ington corréspondent of the Kansas | yandon, the personification of ‘the | velop. , . . John Hamilton is to'be City - Journal-Post, ‘in 4 dispatch | economy issue, stands in the. best| made campaign manager” .. . Sept. 7, 1934. In July, 1935, Charles | strategic position of. any candi-| Feb. 20, 1936—“A nonpartisan naSessions, managing editor of Arthur | gage». “x C0 CCC et | gon wide poll soon to be published, Capper’s Topeka Capital, sent his| qt, 17, Portland, Ore--Republic- | shows Gov. Landon well ahead of an leaders talking: ‘Landon, : but presidential some of them don’t know how to

pleasure on their faces. They are actually doing .something to revive the interest in the theater, and that is almost more important than bread and butter to most of them. : I was sorry for my hosts this morning. We had to be off by 8 o'clock and we reached Dr. Elliott's ‘house in Lafayette at 9:20. We went to see Purdue University’s housing experiment. ' This is chiefly important at present because they « are putting up commercial houses out of the various + ‘materials now on the market. They are analyzing ‘the costs. The average price will be around $5000 or ‘more. It is quite evident that this is not the answer © to low-cost housing for the nation. The next steps © ‘are going to be increasingly interesting. - “#. * The sewing room here under the WPA is one of the best I have seen anywhere. The project in which . men with wooden legs make them for their equally unfortunate brothers is a rather touching one. Every-

nomination alm unanimously, you know politics is being played deuces wild. ha : ‘ Shea We : JEST mention of Landon as a

LO AGROUPOF the field (of 1 i Aree BOM SEXED RE oC WY? ‘{spelhhis name. ©. go 21—Nomina! ation at’ Cleve- © a YeoORNO: Oct. 33, Denver—“Gov. Landon is |1and predicted. ~~: = ~~ *

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