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By Carter Fie l
Washington.—Word from Cali
fornia may be awaited Just as eag
erly next November as it was twen
ty years ago, when the decision ns
to whether Woodrow Wilson or
Charles Evans Hughes was to be I
President hung on belated returns
from the Golden Gate state, und for
two whole days after the election
the country was in suspense.
Several keen observers, who flew
from the Pacific const to Wash
ington. report that the Republicans
are much heartened by the primary
result, despite the overwhelming
vote given President Roosevelt,
which has led Democratic headquar
ters here to do all sorts of things
with the figures. For Instance, the
calculation showing that Roosevelt
received more votes than all his
Democratic and Republican oppo
nents combined.
Already, these observers Just
back report, the Republicans are
at work to get people who are nor
mally Republican to register, and
to get nntl-New Healers of every
persuasion to register. Women, they
report, are particularly active, fol
lowing time-honored organization
methods. They are making house
to-house cnnvasses, and also work
ing by telephone.
They also Insist—while they do
not attach much Importance so far
as the Republican convention Is
concerned to the election of an un
instructed delegation over that
pledged to Gov. Alf M. Landon—that
the fuct that the uninstructed dele
gation won Is a good thing for Lan
don in the long run, assuming he Is
the nominee. It will he much bet
ter for Lnndon in November, though
It may not do him as much good In
Cleveland, they say.
Victory of the unpledged delega
tion had several effects of solely
local Importance, hut they may he
potent In November. It particular
ly pleased all the antl-llearst group,
many of whom have reasons for an
tagonism against the publisher
which have nothing to do with the
present situation. In fact, many
of these prejudices date buck for
a generation.
It also pleased enormously nil the
friends of Herbert Hoover all over
the state, and, normally, the en
emies of Gov. Frank F. Merriam.
California Feuds
It Is dllllcult for outsiders to ap
praise the bitterness of the various
California feuds, these observers In
sisted. but, ns the situation has de
veloped. even the Republicans
strongly opposed to the nomination
of Lnndon will he stanchly for him
should he he nominated, whereas
meanwhile they are working like
Trojans to build up the party or
ganization for the November battle.
Which, these observers say, would
not have been the case had the
Hearst-Merrlani slate of delegates,
pledged to Lnndon, been nominated.
Lnndon. they point out, has noth
Ing to do with the case. None of
the animosities that affected this
battle had to do with him. Men
fought the Landon slate bitterly
who actually want the Kansas gov
ernor nominated. They were not
fighting Lnndon; they were fighting
William Randolph Henrst In some
cases, Merrlntn In others, and fight
ing for particular local Republican
leaders In still others.
They fought shoulder to shoulder
with the Hoover men, the Vnnden
berg men, the Knox men, and the
Borah ndvocntes.
The main point Is that the Re
publican organization In Cnllfornin
needed building up. and will now get
1L Whereas, though everyone might
have been for the nominee In Nov
ember even If the Lnndon slate had
won, this so necessary preliminary
work of organization might not have
been done nearly so effectively had
the result been otherwise.
All of which does not convince
anyone here that the Republican
nominee will certainly curry Cali
fornia. Roosevelt Is believed by ob
servers here to have the edge there,
as demonstrated by that remarkable
vote, despite the enthusiasm of the
gentlemen who have Just returned.
But whnt has Just been lenrned
here Inclines everyone to concede
at least a doubt as to where Cali
fornia’s twnnty-two electoral votes
will go.
Power Project*
The elaborate plan of the nation
al resources committee for a huge
TVA aggregation of power projects
in the Pacific Northwest will not be
approved by the present session of
congress. In fact. It Is not likely
to be approved for some time.
The reason Is a very resourceful,
able and popular senator from the
state of Oregon. Charles L. SIc
Nary. His motive Is that the Port
land district of Oregon expects to
attract a lot of Industries due to
the cheap power expected from the
Bonneville dam. If the development
so highly recommended by the na
tional resources committee should
go through, one of the essentials
would be tying all the Pacific North
west projects together. The result
would be an averaging of cost,
which would make the price of the
current considerably higher than Is
expected to result from the com
paratively economical Bonneville
project.
The bigger Idea appeals very
strongly to President Roosevelt,
and the men who made the report
have his ear whenever they want
It. Undoubtedly they will do their
best to put It over. In fact, Just
the enumeration of their names
would he enough to convince most
people that they would have their
way with Roosevelt.
Frederic A. Delano, the Presi
dent’s uncle and very close friend,
Is actually the head of the commit
tee, though he Is vice chairman.
Harold L. Ickea Is chairman. Other
members are such potent New Deal
! figures as Harry L. Hopkins, Sec
retary of War Dern, Secretary of
Agriculture Wallace Secretary of
Commerce Roper, Secretary of La
bor I’erklns, and Dr. Charles E.
Merrlam. Charles W. Elliott, Second,
Is executive officer.
Hut potent ns these gentlemen ure
at 1(MK) Pennsylvania avenue, It Is a
ten to one shot that they will have
plenty of trouble overcoming the
very practical objections of Sena
tor McNary. McNnry happens to be
Kepubllcun leader of the senate. He
happens to have voted for a good
many New Deal measures. He hap
pens to be very popular In Oregon,
and he happens to be on remarka
bly good terms not only with his Re
publican colleagues but with u good
many Democrats ucross the aisle.
Hard to Persuade
It would take a lot of brain trust
ers ond friends of the President
to persuade Pat Harrison, or Joe
Robinson, or any one of some thir
ty other Democratic senators, to
vote for something that McNary In
sisted would hurt him personally
and politically buck In Oregon.
President Roosevelt not only
knows this, but has very much the
same personal feeling for McNary
himself. He knows all about the
“across the aisle” contacts of the
Oregon senator. He does not want
to stnrt anything In that direction,
much as he likes the general rec
ommendations of the national re
sources committee.
Another, and far from Inconse
quential, point Is that Oregon’s live
electoral votes Just might happen
to be very Important next Novem
ber. Mr. Roosevelt does not think
he needs them, and neither does
Jim Farley, but It Is not In accord
with the normal policy of either to
let any stone go unturned, political
ly. Fight for everything, Is their
motto.
League Is Dead
Even the most optimistic cham
pions of the League of Nations, and
Washington has many of them, now
concede gloomily that the lengue Is
dead. No obsequies have been held.
The meetings nt Geneva will con
tinue for some time In all probabil
ity. Rut nil hope of the league’s ever
becoming what was so greatly hoped
for It has disappeared.
The conquest of Ethlopln by Italy
proved the crowning touch. As a
matter of fact, cynics had been
pointing to a number of other epi
sodes, such as the conquest of large
territories In northern China by
Japan, and more recently the viola
tion by Germany of two treaties by
moving troops Into the Rhineland.
But up until the last few days one
could still find optimists who con
tended that after all the league
was the only real force for peace
In the world; that If It did not net,
It nt least arrayed public opinion
on the side of the innocent, and
against the aggressor.
As a matter of fact, the applica
tion of sanctions against Italy by
the league started quite a revival of
pro-league sentiment here last year.
Many thought that the sanctions
would break Italy’s back. Hud they
done so, the league would now be
at the high-water mark of Its career.
It would have proved that it could
accomplish things.
So Italy Triumphed
The reason some here thought
the sanctions might work, when
they thought about It last year, was
that Italy was so up against It finan
cially. Her gold stock was drained
down to the danger point In buying
supplies she needed. No one was
willing to extend her any credit.
Her war activities cut heavily Into
her possible exports and hence Into
her trade balance.
But, having gone all the way up
to the gate of action, the league
never did pass through the gate. So
Italy has triumphed, emerges with
enhanced prestige. Is more or less
a threat to the i>eace of the world,
and the league is now recognized
as being even less effective than its
harshest critics have been saying.
During the long tight between the
United States senate and President
Wilson over getting this country in
to the league, Mr. Wilson asserted
that Article X was the “heart of
the covenant.” Opposition to that
section was the most bitter of all,
for it was easy to rouse the Amer
ican people against the idea of
American boys being made to fight
some international battle against
some foreign country in a quarrel
in which the United States had
little interest.
But there are plenty here today
who admit that Mr. Wilson was
right, on this one point at least.
Had Article X been applied in the
present controversy, the league of
course could have crushed Italy.
Copyright.—WNU Sarvlo*.
The Gopher State*
A Minnesota Idea of a Bridge Approach.
Prepared by National Geographic Society,
Waahiniston, V. C.-WNIJ Service:
M INNESOTA Is unique among
the stales in its drainage
system. It sends water to
three widely separated seas, through
the Mississippi to the Gulf of Mex
lico, through the Ited river and its
tributaries to Hudson bay; and
through the Great Lakes and the
St. Lawrence to the Atlantic. And
no other state has as many lakes
within its borders. There are more
than 10,000 of them.
The map of the state reveals that
Minnesota Is cut Into two vast tri
angles by a diagonal line running
from the northeast corner (where
the Ited river flows out northward)
down the southeast corner (where
the Mississippi flows out south
ward). Imagine the upper triungle
painted green, and the lower tri
angle painted yellow, and presto!
you have the state roughly divided
Into Its natural forest and prairie
parts.
The green triangle, before the
lumberman came, was In general a
huge pine forest, and begins to be
so again. The yellow triangle, be
fore the farmer came, was grass
land “like the billows of a great
6en, majestic and limitless"; now
it is fields, with wind-breaks of
planted trees to shelter the red
barns and white farmhouses.
The diagonal line that divides
these triangles lias its significance,
too. It marks the chief trade route
through the state and also a wan
dering barrier of deciduous woods,
now carved up to make way for
fnrtns and cities, which everywhere
separates the pinelands from the
prairies.
Broader toward the south where
It attaches to the deciduous woods
of Wisconsin, it dwindles to a thin
scattering of stunted trees toward
the north—the final outpost of the
hard-wood forest of eastern Amer
ica.
As the ends of this diagonal mark
the low exits of the state’s two
principal rivers, the outer corners
of the two triangles mark the state’s
highest ground. At the outer cor
ner of the yellow triangle the
plateau known as Coteau des Prai
rie Just crosses, dividing the Mis
souri from the Mississippi basins
with its Immense gradual swell. In
the outer corner of the green tri
angle, the "Arrowhead Country"
above Lake Superior, are the Saw
tooth mountains and the Misquah
hills, rocky, choked in forest.
Climate is “Continental."
The climate of this pair of tri
angles Is a grief to those who re
sent surprises. It is “continental”
In the most emphatic sense. Tem
peratures range In a mild year
through 120 degrees; in a year with
u real wallop to it, as high as 165.
In consequence, the native of out
door habits must maintain a ward
robe that Includes everything from
the shortest of swimming shorts
to the longest of long woolens.
Lake Superior, it is true, tends
to temper the winds of the region
around It, hut not to the shorn
lamb; no, no. Thnnks to the prox
imity of that deep reservoir of pure
Icewater, a grouchy visitor has been
heard to complain that the coldest
winter he ever spent was one sum
mer In Duluth!
Nor are the blessings of ample
rainfall to be tnken for granted. Of
late years tbe yellow triangle, com
monly less rainy and much less
snow’y than the green, has involun
tarily tried the experiment of get
ting along with next to no moisture
at all. In fact, Minnesota has weath
er to please all tastes, in strong
doses which, ns a rule, stimulate
rather than kill.
The Nineteenth century marked
an Immense change in Minnesota.
The white man arrived In numbers
to establish himself in a country
where it was easier to make a living
than in the one lie had come from.
This was not a very noble purpose
in one way, and it led to many In
justices to the existing inhabitants,
both men and animals.
Yet the annals of the pioneer In
vasion reveal, too, a deep longing
in those people for the good life,
for they were certainly ready to
undergo discomforts that were sor
did and hardships that were killing
In their high hopes for the future
In a new land.
There was much to be done, for
the white man always Insists on
altering nature to suit his own
j views. Rut energy was the char
acteristic of the age. With rifle, ax.
and plow, and later with money,
miracles were wrought.
Its Animal Population.
For one thing, the status of the
native animals was drastically
changed. In the yellow triangle,
marvelously fertile for wheat, the
buffalo, antelope and coyote were
agricultural Impossibilities. The
first two were exterminated; the
remnants of the coyote tribe re
treated to the green triangle, al
tered their habits to suit a woods
environment, and became “brush
wolves.”
The deer, whose natural home
was the diagonal woods barrier,
also retreated into the green tri
angle. The lumberjack, by hewing
down the greater part of the pine
there, did the deer a favor, for the
birch and aspen that supplanted It
made a home to their liking; in
fact, In It they thrive and multiply.
Though one would not slight the
luscious vast potato fields, and other
agriculture of the green triangle,
It has in general been rebellious In
the farmer’s hands and so remains
essentially a forest and game ref
uge to this day.
True, the trapper and sportsman
have drastically diminished the
number of its natural citizens, such
as the timber wolf, otter, fisher, and
lynx.
But the beaver still builds his
dams there; the black bear may be
spied fishing with his paws when
the fish run into the streams; the
porcupine in large numbers yet
gnaws the Jack pine bark, and trav
els a path which, winding through
the snowy groves, looks ns neat
and regular as if some one had
rolled a heavy truck tire there. And
tlie snowshoe rabbit, whose fnvor
ite diet is the pine Beedlings set out
by government foresters, travels the
winter drifts on his padded legs.
The American elk, or wapiti, is
extinct in Minnesota. The caribou
is almost so; a herd is sometimes
seen in the remote fastnesses of
the great swamp of Beltrami coun
ty, north of Bed lake. But the
moose, in the Arrowhead country,
survives in fair numbers.
Canoe travelers often see the no
ble monster at lunch in some lake,
his body submerged for protection
against flies, his lips curling around
the water lily shoots that make a
dainty hot-weather salad for this
giant among American mammals,
Lots of Good Fishing.
Fish and fowl likewise have had
to adjust themselves to their new
neighbor, the white man.
A game-fish paradise has a way
of retreating when the sportsman
finds it. Thus the greedy now must
go to the border lakes to catch n
boatload of pike in an afternoon.
Hut this does not mean that there
is not famous fishing elsewhere.
The muskellunge of such lakes ns
Mantrap, or the fighting small
mouth bass of White Earth, and the
many other fish of a thousand wa
ters, make tall fish stories nnnually,
which, In spite of the low repute
of fish stories, are essentially true.
Certainly they reflect justly the fun
that ancient sport provides.
And the Minnesota citizen almost
anywhere may go out after supper
and hook a black bass or n mess
of crappies, or, in not more than
a day’s drive, reach lakes in whose
200-foot depths the noble lake trout
can be caught on lines of spun
Monel wire.
Of the original game-bird inhab
itants of the state only the grouse
can now be called abundant, and
its abundance wanes and waxes in
cycles. This ruffed grouse is the
characteristic bird of the green
triangle. Tame, richly speckled and
ruffed, it provides a voice for the
wilderness in the accelerated thud
of its wings drumming on some hol
low log, a mysterious music that
the forest muffles as if to hold se
cret.
Thanks to ill-considered drainnge
and the advance of the farmer, the
wild duck's breeding grounds In
Minnesota are largely lost to it; the
black V’s of its spring flight go for
the most part beyond the border
Into Canada. Nor lias the prairie
chicken been very clever in adapt
ing itself to life on the farm and
as a target.
But the introduction of a partly
pnrasitlc bird, the ring-necked
pheasant, which does not scruple to
help Itself to the farmer’s corn to
pay for serving as his autumn tar
get, has proved a huge success. That
fantastically colored bird, looking
titter to stand among the exotic
blossoms painted on some Chinese
screen than nmong the prairie sun
flowers, nevertheless has made It
self completely at home in the yel
low triangle.
As for smnll birds, such ns the
woodsman’s friend, the chickadee,
or that wine-red winter visitor whis
pering its clear song, the pine gros
benk from the North, or the horned
lark that brings the earliest music
of spring to frozen February fields
—they are far too numerous even
to be mentioned her*
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Then It Started
“You’re getting tired of me. You
never call me ‘dear’ as other men
do.”
“A-ahl Do they?”
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First Small Chap—My daddy has
a leg made of hickory.
Second Ditto—That’s nothing. My
sister has a cedar chest.
Teaching Practice
“I hear you are courting a school
ma’am. How are you getting along?"
“Well, she marked 14 errors in my
last letter.”
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