Indianapolis Times, Indianapolis, Marion County, 9 October 1936 — Page 24

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LANDON HOLDS EDGE INKANSAS, ~~ WILSON WRITES

State Still Fighting Ground, Visit May Help F. D. R., He Reports.

BY LYLE C. WILSON United Press Staff Correspondent

TOPEKA, Kas., Oct. 9.—This typical prairie state is still fighting ground in the campaign between President Roosevelt and its Governor, Alfred M. Landon. Gov. Landon and the Republicans have more than a shade the best of it. But Mr. Roosevelt is invading Kansas next week hoping to beat the combined G. O. P. advantage of pride in a local product and a tradition of Republican presidential majorities. Some of Gov. Landon’s advisers are warning him that New Deal spending is a vital and popular factor in the Kansas campaign. They say election day polling here will be too close for comfort. Among those who reflect uncertainty are Arthur J. Carruth Jr. associate owner and publisher of the Topeka State Journal. Mr. Carruth’s paper is 100 per cent for Gov. Landon. “I'm a little worried about Kansas,” said Mr. Carruth. “I don’t mean that Kansas will go Democratic, but the vote will be too close for comfort in a state that should sacrifice party beliefs for pride and loyalty. I'm positive that by late October the state will take decided turn, but I think something should be done about it soon.. Hundreds of thousand of voters in this country and thousands of voters in Kansas will -vote for Roosevelt as a benefactor rather than Roosevelt as a President.”

Others More Confident

I rode from Chicago to California with Mr. Carruth last November. He and Kansas were plugging then for Gov. Landon’s nomination. A suggestion at that time that, once nominated, the Governor would do less than sweep his state would have jarred Mr. Carruth into a spasm. Now he is the most outspokenly pessimistic of the original Landon men. The others are uniformly confident. Around the Governor's office there is a sort of confidence and enthisuasm that was less evident here when I called in- June and again for a post-convention interview in July. Democratic strength here lies principally in western Kansas and around Wichita, a capital of aviation and oil in the south. Eastern

FRIDAY, OCTOBER 9, 1936

Entered as Second-Class Matter at Postoffice, Indianapolis, Ind.

-ent day newspaper seeking to girdle the globe in about 21 days can’t be reported, so Jules Vern,

59 DAYS FASTER THAN JULES VERNE! Nouelist's Kinsman Hails Dash of Times Flier as Symbol of Speedy Age

What the late Jules Verne might think of the dash being made by preswriters who are

a kinsman of the imaginative author of “Around the World in 80 Days,” takes

up the task in this special article. Jules Vern is professor of French at the University of Houston, Texas.

BY. JULES VERN (Copyright, 1936, NEA Service, Inc.) It seems that H. R. Ekins of TheIndianapolis Times and Leo Kieran are trying to make Jules Verne turn over in his

The China Clipper on which H. R. Ekins, Leo Kieran and Dorothy Kilgallen plan to speed across the Pacific.

Being the recipient of this autographed set, I considered it my duty to read the books and particularly the famous “Around the World in 80 Days.” nn =»

HE trip of Ekins and Kieran seems to be undertaken with the purpose of showing that what took 8) days, then 72, then 39 days, 19 hours, 43 : minutes (Andre Jager Schmidt in 1911), then 35 days, 21 hours, 35 minutes, 4-5 second (in 1926, Linton and Wells); then 28 days, 14

(Evans and Wells), may now take only 21 days, plus a few hours, a

few minutes and some 51-60 of a second. Should Ekins and Kieran succeed in breaking the record (I hope they do and they have my best wishes), the human race will. have the satisfaction of khow-: ing the earth is not so big, after all—that airplanes are a mighty fine invention, that - steamship lines have been steadily progressing in speed, and things generally are spinning ‘round at unheard-

- faithful

«ing that 80 days.

OWEVER, I doubt strongly that Ekins and Kieran will get as muclke out of that trip as phlegmatic Phileas Fogg and his Passepartout got “in “Around the World in 80 Days.” If IT remember well, they had quite a series of adventures durThey even thought they had done it.in 81 days, but having started in the direction opposite the movement

‘of the earth, they gained one day

without knowing it. Phileas Fogg came back with a beautiful Indian princess by the name of Aouda, who pre~ ferred the coziness of an English

manor to the ash-pit of a funeral

and, -following the Hindu customs, she was to accompany him in his new trip, which would have lasted more than 80 days). Fogg and the two reporters (one a Frenchman, the other an - Englishman), did quite a lot of sightseeing and brought back with them enough material for a wellrounded series of lectures for the Ladies’ Literary Club. = on LOUDS, blue sky and the deep blue sea, a few landing fields and a customs officer—that’s about all our new speedy adventurers will see.

The Aouda love “affair will not repeat itself, for 21 ‘days seven

hours, 15 minutes and 42-100 of a second will not permit it, although the 42-100 of a second is, in our present effervescent time, -a standard time for a love affair. We really should be proud of our achievement in the domain of science and mechanics. We do things fast, we travel fast. We go around the world in 21 days, among clouds and fogs; there have never been so many different and speedy ways of communication between the different races of the world—and there have never been so many wars, revolutions and so much unrest on the planet. Perhaps, however, our very speed of communication will some day be the means of allaying these troubles.

PAGE 23.

SHORT CIRCUIT PROVES FATAL

Young Father Killed While Fixing Tire in Garage of Home Here.

Robert Archer, 3622 Prospect-st, was electrocuted last night when his body came in contact with a short circuited light wire in the garage of his home. He was 26.

Mr. Archer had gone out to ew pair a tire on his car and climbed a stepladder to attach the cord, The light socket touched his should

| er and the charge hurled him to the

floor. Mrs. Dorothy Archer, his wife; heard her husband fall and suine moned police and firemen, who vainly administered artificial rese piration. : Besides the widow, Mr. Archer ig survived by two children, Jeanne,

1, and Donald, seven months.

hours, 38 minutes, 5 seconds

STH S13

Kansas is the Republican strong- of velocity. old. But in a hit-and-miss eastern Kansas poll conducted by the Topeka State Journal there was steady and surprising Roosevelt strength among farmers. That poll was discontinued. Now that Gov. Landon has formally announced his own detailed farm program, it will be resumed. The Landon farm plan blankets Mr. Roosevelt's rather completely. : No Kansas farmer need now abandon the Governor for fear that Feneral benefits will, cease to flow from Washington if*Mr. Roosevelt is sent home to Hyde Park. That should be enough to put the state's nine electoral votes in the Landon column.

BURT'S

grave. pyre (her husband had just died Nellie Bly had already demonstrated some 47 years ago that the 80-day limit for a “round-trip” ticket could be reduced to 72. She did save eight days, although I would like to know what she did with those eight days. It was about that time that Jules Verne tried to trace his ancestors among the dusty files of ancient town halls and churches. He found the Verne stock scattered in Brittany, Auvergne and Normandy. He also found there was another Jules Verne (without the final “e”), to whom he sent the complete set of his books as from one Jules Verne to another.

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