Indianapolis Times, Indianapolis, Marion County, 23 July 1936 — Page 18

NEV YORK, July'23.—1I find that 1 mus, take back practically all the col g "which. I have written about the campaign, because they were all done without knowledge of the dire plight and the desperate threat of Julian T. Bishop of Greenwich, Conn., and Carthage, N. C. The New York Herald Tribune spreads this New Deal atrocity story on its front page under a two-column head reading: — . “Broker to sell farni, walk out of United States if Roosevelt is reelected.” Nor is this any scarehead. The story makes good in every detail the startling announcement. In all fairness to Mr. Bishop it should be explained that he did not make this announcement from any soapbox or as a participant in a hunger march or relief demonstration. The Bishops are the Bishops and always haye been. They are an old hunting family, with all the fine tradi tion which that implies. You may be sure that it was no whim which prompted Julian T. Bishop to put the advertisement in the July issue of “Game Breeder and Sportsman” which attracted the attention of the Herald Tribune.” The ad begins with simple dignity:—“In the event that Roosevelt is re-elected at the coming November election the entire Horseshoe Quail Farm, located near Carthage, N. C., will be offered for sale, due fo the fact that the owner will immediately move to Canada.”

8 2 ” Prefers Grouse to Quail

N the event of President Roosevelt's re-election, * he sald, he would go to Canada and start a grouse farm and not come back until things had changed. He did say, however, he would come back from time to time to attend to brokerage business. If this were any occasion for levity one might. say that Mr. Bishop prefers.to grouse in Canada than to quail in the ‘United States, but anybody who would say a thing like that at a time like this would be a callous cur. ' As Mr. Bishop points out, “I don’t think a bunch of fellows who were in Harvard when I was _ In Yale are smart enough to run the government. They're working just on the theory with a lot of Soclalistic ideas in their heads. Suppose Roosevelt got in there and there were changes in the Supreme Court. Suppose he has the appointment of three or four justices. Why, it's poisonous. I think this com-

ne election is far more important than the Civil ar. ”» :

The New Deal and Quail Dogs

T was once published,” says Herald Tribune, “that he lost $188,100 in stock market operations during the four iyears beginning in January, 1929.” Possibly the Herald Tribune forgets that this was during the Hoover regime. No broker can possibly expect to do as well as that under the tyrannical restrictions of the Roosevelt: régime, for as Mr. Bishop himself says: “The Securities and Exchange Commission came along, and there's no point in being a broker any more.’ I myself know Wall Street men who ete worked desperately hard under the New Deal without being able to lose a nickel. But I believe that Mr. Bishop is thinking even more of the effect which the New Deal has had upon quail dogs. In fine kennels built to house a dozen only six remain. And they are thoroughly broken. Why? The answer is easy. Under a Republican Administration they were all taught to point with pride. Now they can only view with alarm. And that breaks both dogs and stock brokers.

My Day

BY ELEANOR ROOSEVELT

AMPOBELLO, N. B., Wednesday—We left Miss Drejer's at 3 o'clock Tuesday afternoon and went back to Ellsworth to file this daily record and send some telegrams. Miss Cook and Miss Dickerman were going to follow us, but they had to wait while Miss Dreier came up with eye glasses which they had forgotten. I paused at the filling station where I stop every year to have a little chat with the men in charge. Two years ago the. little lunch room was burned down and last year it still looked rather decrepit. But this year everything is rebuilt, spick and span, and very prosperous looking. . When I asked how ihitgs were going they assured me that business was e. : I missed my turn for the cut-off, which is really a lovely road, and so came all the way to Whiting on Route 1, and from there to Lubec. The bridges which were down last year were all finished, and the road on the whole, is in good condition. ° -As you get into the less frequented parts of Maine you realize how mueh the summer boarder and visitor means to the upkeep of the farm and the village home. Some of the: small, gray farm houses standing back from the road make you shiver at the thought of winter. The children who survive in them and manage to get an education, must develop a determination, which, if they are given any opportunity, should take them far. If you lave this country as I do, the sight of the pines and the glimpses of blue water where the bays come in along the coast with black rocks and green trees growing to the edge, is very revivifying. I like the people who. stand around these spots and .say so little, but who are always ready to do something if it needs to be done. I reached the dock at Lubec to take the ferry, only to see the scow which takes us across the narrow, high on the beach on the other side, A fish truck's back wheel had gone through the planks used to get on and off the scow and they both were firmly wedged to the beach. The tide had gone out and left them afd it was evident they would be there for some time to come. There was no chance of getting our cars. over last* night. Luckily, Capt. Franklin Calder, who always has taken care of us and any boats we have u up her heard of the accident and came over with a to take us and our bags to our‘landing. (Copyright, 1936. by United Feature Syndicate, Inc.)

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(The Fourth of a Series)

BY FREDERICK G. MATSON ELIEF that the City’s acquisition of the Citizens Gas Co. would ‘be the quickest way to get natural gas for Indianapolis caused local manufacturers to withhold a fight on the gas plant purchase last year, Henry C. Atkins, president of E. C. Atkins & Co., said today. Mr. Atkins, who also is head of the Manufacturers’ Natural Gas Association, said an attempt to prevent the purchase of the plant and property was called off 'because Mayor Kern told -the manufacturers that before taking over the plant the Mayor understood it was the intention of the Utilities: District directors that natural gas would be made available. Mayor Kern said he had made such a statement. Mr. Atkins, in discussing the local gas situation, said that he, in company with Roy E. Adams, pres- | ident of the J. D. Adams Manufacturing Co., had a conference with Mayor Kern. and certain members of the City Utilities District in the Mayor’s office shortly before the City sold and issued the $8,000,000 revenue bonds with which it financed acquisition - of the gas plant. “At that meeting,” Mr. Atkins said, “Mayor Kern told Mr. Adams and me that he understood it was the intention of the Utilities Dis--trict directors that natural gas would be brought to Indianapolis to be available for industrial concerns. :

the trench.

Otis & Co. of Cleveland and Hal sey, Stuart & Co. of Chicago, two large investment houses. “These bonds were sold to:cover

gas company to obtain transfer of its plant and property under terms of the 1905 franchise, and to. make extens and improvements. to the plant and distribution system. This involved -$2,500,000 to common stockholders of the gas firm, $1,050,000 to preferred stockholders, and approxi-

” s 2 OTHING has been done about it so far. “Had it not been for these assurances,” Mr. Atkins continued, “and our. belief that the quickest way to get natural gas was to let fogs bonds. to pay off mortthe City take over the gas plant,. Be 2 n..8 the Manufacturers’ Natural Gas R. ATKINS did not reveal exactly what “steps” * the Manufacturers’ Natural Gas Association would have taken 10 attempt to stop the City from tak-ing-over the gas utility. It was learned, however, that such action probably would have been in the form of a suit against the City to prevent purchase of the entire ‘plant. <The suit, it is

said, would have been filed on the ground that since a sufficient sup-

steps to prevent the City from acquiring the Citizens Gas Co.” Mayor Kern today made. the

following statement: “I knew that under the legal | setup of the City Utilities District the Mayor has very little to say regarding its policies. “I probably did make the statement that Utilities District direc~ tors would make efforts to bring in natural gas, because it was my understanding that such was their intention at that time. “At the time the City-took over the gas company, I thought it was for the best interests of the City to have a thoroughgoing survey into the prices of natural “gas. That was my opinion at that time. Since then, I have nat followed the situation closely.

8-8 i HAVE done very little in this matter and have been careful not to go beyond the letter of the law because of the fact that anything I do might be construed as injecting politics into a non-political governmental unit.” The City of Indianapolis actually came into ownership of the Citizens Gas Co. last Sept. 9,

from a pipeline running across the northwestern tip of. Marion County within 12 miles of Indianapolis—taking ov the. coke oven manufacturing plant of the Citizens Gas Co. would be unnecessary. It would have: added

less cost, take only such part of . the ‘gas firm’s property as would actually be needed and useful in distributing natural gas. Such action, natural gas advocates said, might have compelled the Utilities District directors to negotiate for natural gas at once, or might have postponed sale of the bonds. ' Association .members said no revenue bonds could have been sold while such litigation, involv-

the City’s right to issue -the when instruments of transfer Ing ty's Jig. .

were given the trustees and di- bonds, Was pen rectors of the City Utilities Dis- : wed : trict, which has charge of direc- NHORTLY after the City took tion and operation of the gas over the Citizens Gas Co., the utility for the municipality. : a Acquisition of the plant was ac- | Utilities District - directors ancomplished by means of an | nounced appointment of Thomas L.. Kemp as general manager of

$8,000,000 . revenue bond issue, awarded May 29, 1935, Jointly to ! the utility. Mr, Kemp, who for-

the amount to- be paid to the.

ply of natural gas was dvailable—

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LET'S EXPLORE YOUR MIND

BY DR. ALBERT EDWARD WIGGAM

After. the Detroit City Gas Co. had negotiated a 15-year contract for a supply of natural gas, it had to construct a 230-mile pipeline from Detroit to Zionsville, Ind. The line was finished the first of this month, having been built in less than three months. These pictures, taken near Zionsville, show initial steps’ in construction of the line. Upper left is a trencher in operation, digging Men at work in fhe trench are siiown in the picture at the upper right. Sections of the 22-inch pipe, stretching northe along the right-of-way, are: Shown in the lower picture. :

merly was vice president, and gen‘eral manager of the Indiana Consumers Gas and By-Products Co. of Terre Haute, assumed his _ duties with the : local ality: last Oct. 10. Shortly sherenfiér’ thie Citizens Gas Co. became known as the Citizens Gas dnd Coke Utility. ~The attitude of the local manu-~ facturers, 26 of whom had or-. ganized the Manufacturers’ - Natural Gas - Association in 1981 in an effort to bring natural gas to _ their plants, was: “voiced by. Mr.

-Atkins. “The manufactiers! ‘in Indianapolis have been. stopped - from buying a commodity that is available to manufacturers in other communities,” he asserted. “Nat‘ural: gas is the only .commodity that they need to carry on their "business which they can not purchase,” he said.

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Discontented Republicans : Don ~ Factor in Election; Johnson Assefts

- BY HUGH S. JOHNSON: EW YORK, July 23.—It ‘is: frequently said that no ‘prognosis of ‘the election can be made so far in advance—that the -line-ups. are too uncertain and the facts too obscure. This is only partly true. There are not enough Democrats in this country to elect a President. That has been proved in election after election. The Republican Party. is the party of conservatism. America is and always has been

conservative. . The Democrats have

initiated every liberal policy advanced in the co in 50 years. It is only when there are enough discontented Republicans that the Democrats win. Mr. Hamilton is an old-line Republican politician. So ‘is Gov. Landon. The fundamental line-up is as old as the nation. Conservatives against liberals. = Tories against Whigs. The attempt to put Kansas = populist * whiskers ‘on a smug Republican business ‘han hokum. It is also hokum to a covered-wagon “Oh Susanna” as. a theme song for .a man whose background is not ‘covered wagons, “but oil derricks.’ 2 2 =

THE Republican Party has won in this country for generations because it is a disciplined and organized . appetite. ‘The Democ have lost because they are and. ways have been a disorganized mob. History . répeats. Mr, Landon is gathering to himself ‘all ‘the shat-| tered Old Guard remnants of both

‘ I parties, but the harum-scarum Dem-

ocrats are running all over the lot. George Peek is taking the ‘farmers away from. the only man in our}

ance.

Now| the Democrats can't lose many. discontented -Republicans— farmers, the aged, or any other class. —and" win. All these defections point to only one thing—the defeat of Roosevelt. The third party takes 10 votes from Roosevelt to one from Landon, and that is almost the equivalent of giving. them to Landon.

\HUS, in a simple tise comored strategy, the poor and underprivileged are confused into voting directly against their own interest and to desert, abandon and oppose the only President in our time who ever gave their problems anything more than pure political runaround. It is nothing less than a tragedy. This column has protested the vagaries of the methods of this Administration. “They have had no more is | constant critic. But this election: is not a choice of method. It is a choice of principle, and the essential

difference: of principle between Jef- | Hamilton remains:

ferson .and clear as it was in 1800-—democracy against reactio The slight circe c* ynthetic Kansas hay seeds in a Peansylvania oil man's hair can not change that issue.. The pondezcuis paz paroxysms of political grief by. ex-Gov. Ely, ex-Secre-tary Breckenridge, and -ex~-Senator Bruce, as they take their personal ons into the Landon camp, can not alter the substance of what they are perpetrating. It is intellectual freedom. But it is such

‘ment with: an’ eve to. ae deliver- 1

freedom as ‘a soldier claims’ ‘when he deserts to. the : colors: of the enemy. - Each of these ‘nien was nothing save as the party of liberism made him something. The Greeks had a word for it—and so did: the Hittites, the Mongols, the Franks, the British and every race of embattled men since the beginning of time. The word is treason. 8 2 2 2: HE Cotghlin-Townsend-Smith -defection speaks for itself. Coughlin, so far as he is anything more than a man hypnotized ‘by his own publicity, «is an . inflationist. Townsend is an anfi-inflationist. Gerald Smith is a cane-break revivalist with no. economic theory. ‘These three men; on the basis of an emotional appeal to fhe suffering of the aged, vilify thé only man

whose performance ‘promises any .re--

lief for the sufferers they inflame, to only one ‘possible ‘purpose--his defeat and the installation of- an administration adamant against their pretensions. There was something pitifully as | tragic. about ‘the Cleveland Town8S | send convention—ithe . faith of the trusting aged in the empty oratory of emotional spellbinders, whose

every word spelt, for those sufferers, "| nothing but disaster.

“The whole process is’ incredibl

{but it 1s not too early to predict z ‘oytcome. If these trends continue,

Franklin Roosevelt will be defeated, and his defeat will be due to ‘defections by the very classes who had most to from his,

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WEST POINT, N. Y., July 93. This son of the year is known as Beast E racks at the United States Military Ac emy. The origin of the term is lost, the meaning is not hard to arrive at for

season is devoted ‘to the preliminary educs

tion of the new class of cadets. 565 of them at this The cadet handbook, Bugle Notes, defines; : He as a new cadet. The new plebes- come in July, in civies, to begin a year of discipline 7 and work so exacting. that some of jf them, as always happens, will put by their uniforms, choke back the Jif tragedy of failure. and check out | of the military: academy without

ever having been recognized by the

upper classmen. Recognition comes

| at the end of the plebe year and is}

given with a bit of ceremony. Just. after the graduation parade the ji: corps marches into the central area, the front ranks are given about face, and the upperclassmen extend > their hands to the plebes who then Mr. Pegler achieve the status of human beings. :

The beasts are now largely in the hands of upper classmen who are teaching them squads east, the anatomy of the musket and. something about the code and traditions of the corps.

Definition of Leather

T table throughout. his. first year the plebe ‘only. when an upper classman addresses him, WHE Tb 1s. Deesedty Tor him to abt Tor oo such .as the: butter:or the salt. ‘His back must no touch. the back:of his chair. at any time in the plebs year and he must not lift his eyes from his plate: cept to face a superior who has spoken to him. For the purposes of table conversation he must several small. pages from Bugle -Notes, - largely none sense, which.he will be: called on to recite from time to time at the whim of any upper classman at thé board. - For example, an upper classman may sing out, “Mr. Ducrot,” which is.a general name ‘applied: plebes, “what is the definition of:leather?” To th the plebe answers, usually: in a flat, strong voice, “If the fresh skin of an animal, cleaned and- ‘divested of 2 all hair, fat and other extraneous matter, be immersed in ‘a solution of tanning acid, a chemical combination ensues; the gelatinous tissue of the skin is con' into’ a non-putrescable substance, impervious. to insoluble in water; this, sir, is leather.”: = - Such matter seems hardly necessary :in the: make & ing of an officer and it is doubtful that Gen. Pershing or Gen. Grant, at a critical moment in war, ever was able to apply to the crisis the precise rigmarole. But they say .this phase of the course teaches the: new cadet right at the start of his career the necessity for concentrating on a book-lesson and retaining a mele

“tal picture of: the text. They are crowded hard

studies and. they must get it the first time around. 82 8 8 Oversize Uniforins:

MAY of the beasts these years are surprisingly. bright at drill and this is explained by experi= ence ‘in the. militia and in school cadet corps. The average, nevertheless, is almost innocent of such knowledge and the average physique, though necess sarily sound and healthy, is rather weedy, judged af a glance. But given ‘a few months of drill and in their. more ‘or’ provisional status beasts, the young men fill out; pr shape and posture and become the. pleture-cadets: of the West Po model.” For that reason the uniforms which are issue onthe day of arrival are not tailored precisel the ‘beasts, buf issued: in sizes off the shelves. they had been tajlored on July 1, their unif would not fit them ‘on Bept. 1, when ‘the acad

._year begins. Consequently, the poor beast at- present “is only a rather baggy caricature of the cadet that

he will be by the time he goes: stepping off with the rest of the corps to the football games in the al so

Merry-Go-Round BY DREW PEARSON AND ROBERT §. ALLEN ASHINGTON, July 23.—During his 22 years; - Franklin D. Roosevelt Jr. has: succeeded in winning more. notoriety than any dther Younger; ems ber:of the family. . Like all the Roosevelts, . ne is an individualist, Franklin is a very personable young man, with plenty of charm, a contagious sense of humor, and an inordis nate capacity for doing the wrong thing at the o wins moment. However, most of Harvard, where he is now ab to enter his senior -yéar, has had: little opportunity te

bask in the radiance of his personality. For, after two years of dormitory life, Franklin. has retired from the

/ : ‘Liberty Leaguers and the a wntall of his father’s Administration. . Franklin has toned down his Barhey Oldfield

Conant’s home. Shortly afterward he was caught Windsor Locks, Conn.—speeding. A “Then, on March 24, 1934, at Jamaica Plain, he hit Mary “Bast Boston, who sued for $5540 On May 1, he was brought in for speeding at U: Conn. On Dec. 21 he was hauled in at Orange, going 78 miles an hour, and his time paid $20. Week ‘later’ is! edr * it Edward: Newiiap of