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SEENand HEARD around the ' NATIONAL CAPITALS By Carter Field % FAMOUS WASHINGTON CORRESPONDENT Washington.—It may be that tn some previous presidential cam paign there was a more "cockeyed" division of the Republican and Democratic parties on issues than in the present one, tut it is mighty hard to believe. Maybe there was some campaign when so many im portant questions were being utterly ignored by both parties, despite the fact that very large groups of the electorate were inflamed on each side. Maybe there wa: even a cam paign once where there was a weirder grouping of men prominent in the public eye backing each can didate. But it is rather difficult to figure. Carter Glass and Robert M. La foilette for Roosevelt, for example. Ogden L. Mills and Gerald P. Nye for Landon. Willian Randolph Hearst. the Chicago Tribune, and the New York Herald Tribune all on the same >audwugon. tor Lan don. Senator Joseph T. Robinson. Felix Frankfurter and Mordecai c'zekiel on the opposinr sound truck, for Roosevelt. Gifford Pinchot, the great advo cate of federal intervention in slates In the interest of conservation, for Landon, with Senator .»arry Flood Byrd and Senator Millard E. Ty dings, the old-tim*. states' rights duet, for Roosevelt, though the last two named are keeping pretty quiet about it. When it comes to issues it is even funnier. The truth about the silver policy of the Roosevelt administra tion is that it failed to serve its purpose, it raised cain in China and many other parts of the world, and it wound up by costing the federal Treasury untold millions. But—no Republican orator is at tacking it. Nor intend to do so. No piece of Republican publicity is is sued about it. Nor are the Demo crats defending it. It is simply being ignored. In his much discussed speech be fore the Liberty League dinner last winter, Alfred E. Smith asserted that the only promise the Roosevelt administration had kept was to re peal the prohibition amendment Helps Treasury That's just about the last we have heard about that. Most people seem pleased that repeal was accom plished. It is pouring money into the federal treasury at the rate of $720, 000,000 a year, plus a sum difficult to estimate but simply enormous into various state and local treas uries. But the Democrats are not talk ing about it. It was not mentioned in the long and almost all-including oratorical display at the Philadel phia convention. They don’t want it mentioned. Neither do the Republicans. Tempted as one might suspect by the possibility of pointing out how much faster we would be going into debt were it not for these liquor revenues, they are afraid of it. Tempted as they might be also by the fact that the Democratic plat form and candidate promised that, in bringing back liquor, the saloon would never be tolerated, the Re publicans still keep silent Why? Because both parties know there is a tremendous dry vote in this country, and also a tremendous wet vote. One party is afraid of one, the other party of the other. So again we have a stalemate. One issue which divides party lines about as cleanly as ever did prohibition or any other offside is sue is really being discussed, to the great distress and worry of some counselors on each side. This is the question of the reciprocal tariffs. Many Republicans regret that the Republican platform mentioned this subject. Many Democrats wish to heaven they could suppress the issue. What frightens some Repub licans on this is a very considerable eastern group, interested in export of manufactured goods, who like the Cordell Hull treaties- -think they will help their business. What frightens the Democrats is the boom in imports of farm products under these treaties. Politics, a wise man once said, makes strange bedfellows. Also cowards! Iowa Battlefield Des Moines, often called the farm capital of America, is the center of what might be called the secondary battle of this presidential campaign. The primary battle lies in the East, in the states from Illinois on to New York, including everything north of the Ohio river and the Mason and Dixon line. Governor Alfred M. Landon must carry all tnose states to have a chance, plus all Now England. If he does, and also carries, as expected. Delaware and Kansas, he will still need 30 more electoral votes. If he loses anything substun tial in that eastern sector, it will not make any difference what happens out here, save perhaps to Jim Far ley s claims of being a good prophet. In this section ot the country now ever the Republicans and Demo crats do not think of their fight as a secondary battle They are fighting as though each individual state in .which they happen to be was going to tiecide the election. And if the Republicans should happen to have success in al! those eastern states it just might turn out that they are right. Iowa is a perfect illustration of aow abnormal the present campaign is. Normally the larmers of any of these states down to Missouri are Republicans This has been true ever since the Republican party was born. Today in Iowa there is strong sentiment for Landon in the towns but the farmers art leaning to Franklin D. Roosevelt. Best opinion is that the state is so close at this moment that nobodj’ knows how it would vote even if the election were held today with no further slides, shifts or developments to compli cate the calculation. If the election were held today Senator L. J. Dickinson would be re-elected, probably by just a few thousand majority. Nobody can tell whether Roosevelt or Landon would win the electoral votes, but the Democrats would probably elect the other senator. Doubtful Chances If there is a substantial swing toward the Democrats between now and election. It would carry Senator Dickinson down to defeat. If the swing is the other way, the Repub lican nominee for the seat of the late Senator Louis Murphy, who was killed in an automobile accident, would win. This is Berry F. Halden, an editor down in Lucas county, famed through the southern part of the state for his pungent editorials, and a World war veteran. His op ponent for the short term is Repre sentative Guy M. Gillette. The one thing that seems certain, no matte^ what the swing from now on, is -hat George A. Wilson. Re publican. will ^>e elected governor. This is due less to Wilson’s pop ularity. though this is a real factor, than to the unpopularity of the pres ent state administration. Taxes are high, including a state sales tax, and the folks don't seem to think they have gotten much for them. This is one element of Senator Dickinson’s strength, for it is the present governor, Clyde L. Herring, who is running against Dic'anson, while the present lieutenant gov ernor is running for governor against Wilson. What the Republicans are count ing on to turn the tide is Former Governor Frank O. Lowden of Illi nois. Iowa has always been strong for Frank Lowden. It was even .nore enthusiastic for him back in 1920. when Warren G. Harding was nominated, than was either Illinois, or Minnesota, where he was born. Lowden is expected to make some strong speeches for Landon. If he does, unless something should hap pen to upset the present picture, the writer's belief is that Landon will carry this state. If Lowden keeps quiet, his not speaking will have the opposite effect, and. in the opinion of this writer, will give Iowa to Roosevelt. Cheap Housing Within the next few weeks Presi dent Roosevelt will take the coun try into his confidence about his plans for cheap housing. He has been interested in the idea for many years, and, since he entered the White House, has had innumerable conferences with leaders of related industries in the hope of working something out. The big rock in the path all the time has been the very high cost of constructing any sort of house which the President was willing to endorse. Obviously there were all sorts of political pitfalls in the idea For example, it the type of house thus approved should be cheap enough to muke it practical for the kind of people for whom it was ad vocated— the people who now live in slums, tenements and shanties—the President might be attacked by some of those now among his warmest supporters. They would say that the President, himself ac customed from boyhood to luxury, was condemning the “forgotten man” to a niggardly existence. But every time the President has tried to get something better devised, something he would be willing to endorse publicly, and o which government sanction could be given, the costs have shot up far above any reasonable rent ttgure. Costs Too High In the case of the house designed by the General Electric prople, at the urging of the President and ot Owen D. Young, what ran the costs up to such a prohibitive figure were the fittings. Naturally enough the electric company's experts were in terested in having every possible electrical device included. It would seem simple enough to cut all these out. but there again the President’s enthusiasm for increas ing the use of electricity came into the picture He is second 10 none in his advocacy of electric 'abor-sav ing devices. It is one of the reasons, though not the only one, that has made him so intent on TVA. on rural electrification, on getting rurreat to people at low »ates. The President has felt this way for some time. C Bell Syndicate.—WNU Service. Gaspe Peninsula Cleaning Cod on the Gaspe Peninsula. Pr#parf*<1 by National Geographic Society, Washington. I>. C.—WNU Service. CE an out-thrust tongue of land at the wide mouth of the St. Lawrence river lies the Gaspe peninsula, one of the newer wonderlands of North America. With completion of the Perron Boul vard in 1928, it was opened to motor ists around its entire area—about ten times that of Rhode Island. This summer it is being visited by an increasing number of vacationists from the United States. The climate is literally unique. There is plenty of bright sunlight but no really hot weather. July and August seldom see more than 75 degrees. Thanks to Gaspe's northern lat itude, it has an hour or so more day light each day in midsummer than Toronto or Boston. Best of all in this favored land is the air—once breathed, never forgotten. “Atmos pheric champagne,” it has been called. Here northern outposts of the an cient Appalachian Mountain system, eastern backbone of the continent from Alabama to Canada, meet the sea and sink beneath it in a chaos of cliff and headland. Tremendous forces of nature have left their mark all over the area. Ages of erosion have hollowed out huge valleys on the northern shore. On the south side of the peninsula, red cliffs and red pinnacles stand out in striking contras with the blue of the water and the green of pines. Beneath the waters lie other moun tains, worn and leveled by the waves of centuries. Into these shallows, in countless millions, swarm the cod. Down the slopes flow rivers filled with salmon, streams with romantic, musical names — Matapedia, Res tigouche. The Gaspe folk are a strange and interesting mixture. People Are a Mixed Race The first settlers were a few Nor man and Breton fishermen who an nually made adventurous journeys across the Atlantic to these famous codflshing grounds and finally de cided to stay the year round instead of returning to France when the season was over. Next came the Acadians, driven out of Nova Scotia. A few of them reached some isolated spots on the north side of the Bay of Chaleur, began fishing, and have been fishing ever since. These Acadians have a distinctive accent and a way of speaking largely produced by their maritime habits. A horse “swings” in its course to starboard or larboard, as old time sailors said—and when you stop the steed is “moored.” After the cession of the country to Britain came the Channel Islanders, Guernseymen and Jerseymcn from the English islands oiT the coast of France. Those English-French new comers, speaking either language with complete facility, as they still do, settled down in some vacant spaces, set to fishing and privateer ing, and left plenty of descendants behind them. A few years later, about the time of the American Revolution, groups of “loyalists,” or "Tories,” left the new United States to establish them selves at the head of Gaspe Bay and in other well-selected spots. Then the Irish arrived—they, too. had settlements of their own—and another group, northern Irish or Scottish, of bold sea-roving stock in either case. The Canadian habitant, most per sistent and prolific of colonists, fi nally worked his way along both north and south shores and set an example of farming in a country which so far had been entirely de voted to fishing. Finally, on the St. Lawrence near the mouth of the Metis river, at the landward end of the peninsula, was established a colony of Scottish and English settlers. Revealed by a Highway Ten years ago only a few out siders had any idea of the interest and beauty of the Gaspe area, for it was difficult of access. The last few years, however, have seen as tonishing changes. By a remarkable fjat of highway engineering, a broad safe 553-mile road, linked with the general sys tems of Quebec and New Brunswick, and so with those of Ne«r England, has encircled the entire peninsula. Automobiles can tour the area where ox carts nnd dog carts were outdestanced formerly on’.y by the horse and the reckless bicycle. A popular approach is to cross the St. Lawrence from Quebec to Levic. An easy day’s journey eastward, with the St. Lawrence at the left of the highway growing constantly wider, leads to Metis Beach, one of the most northerly summer resorts of eastern Canada and the first town to be encountered in the Gaspe ; peninsula. Here at Metis Beach the , golfer has his last game, for a while, i at any rate. The sportsman who is | not afraid of cold water goes for a j swim or a sail. Turning south from there, the road crosses the base of the penin sula, climbing the hills behind the village to the watershed which sep arates the valley of the Metis river, flowing into the Saint Lawrence, from that of the Matapedia, flowing toward the Bay of Chaleur. Bay of Chaleur rivers, and there are plenty of them, are full of salmon. The small white town of Carleton was named for an Eighteenth-cen tury governor general of Canada. Acadians of the original settlement in 1775 called the place Tracadi geche. from a Micmac word mean ing “Place of Many Herons.” The name was later changed, under the influence of Americans who came to Gaspe rather than fight against the English in the Revolution. A few miles farther, at the mouth of the Cascapedia river, a road runs off to the north to zinc and lead mines. Hereabouts there are many farm ers, mainly Canadiens from the upper part of Quebec. They share their machinery and they have tech nical advisers from the govern ment, so that their farms, although small, are good. Farther up the coast, at Cape Cove, have been produced the finest peas in North America. An Old Codfishing Town The town of Paspebiac, old fashioned codflshing center, is an odorous introduction to the authen tic Gaspe industry. Down on the beach are warehouses, where many practices have remained the same since the industry began soon after the time of Jacques Cartier, 400 years ago. Cod are stored about as they were by the first local fisher men, in stacks resembling huge pine cones. Cod are split, spread open, and dried so that they are hard and fiat as boards. Then they are ar ranged in cylindrical piles, the lower end smaller than the top and covered by pieces of birch bark held down by stones. A few miles more brings the trav eler to Port Daniel where Jacques Cartier made his headquarters while he explored the Bay of Chaleur. A wide sand bar almost closes the mouth of the Port Daniel river, and mosc of the village is built on the sand bar. The road for the next 40 miles hugs the shore. Then suddenly Perce comes to view. On the laiu'ward side are red peaks partly covered by greenery, then the tops of three fanglike cliffs and a white village nestling h- tween them and the headlands fronting the bay, Off shore stands the magnificent Pierced Rock (Rocher Perce) looking like the wall of some huge sea fortress or a monstrous battle ship, dwarfing to insignificance the village to which it gives its name. Near its outward end an arch has been cut through by the action of the water. Farther seaward was the sentry tower of the wall, a smaller pinnacle of rock, originally joined to it by another arch which has long since fallen in. Farther out still lay Bonaventure island, its cliffs topped by trees and meadows. The road from here to Gaspe climbs through mountain valleys and up peaks which are green and j rounded on the landward side but fronting the sea as vertical red cliffs, j Around the end of the peninsula j lies Gaspe Bay. On its south side, j along which the road runs, are hills j and woods and farms. On the other j side stands a range of w'ooded heights ending in the 700-foot cliffs j of Cape Gaspe, a long stone finger pointing southeastward across the mouth of the bay. An extensive drawbridge crosses the bay where the French explorer, Jacques Car tier, discoverer of the St. Lawrence river, took refuge during a storm. I Along the North bhore Gaspe village two years ago cel ebrated a four-hundredth anniver sary, with French and British both participating in the ceremonies, A huge granite cross was unveiled near the spot where Cartier landed in 1534 and took possession of the soil for France. The north shore of the Gaspe peninsula provides thrilling automo biling through the wild green Shick shock Mountains. This northerly range of the Appalachians., rearing to a height of more thar. 4,000 feet, is strangely shaped. The summits are almost level; the peaks have been washec and ground away, and only the flat foundations are left. In the distance it looks like a barrier wall with higher towers rising here and there above it. - There Are Three Reasons for Lavish Indulgence in Vegetables 1 ^ One Need Not Be Urged to Feast Upon Fresh Garden Produce. Those of us who could and did take a hand at planting the vege table garden early in the season are now enjoying the results of our labors. When you have helped to dig the potatoes and nelped to pick he young green cabbage, the yel low squash, the tender string beans the tasselled corn and have had a hand in cooking them, they taste like no other vegetables, of course. What a salad ripe toma toes, crisp cucumbers, lettuce and chicory with a few sweet onions make; it is not necessary for any one to urge vegetables “because they are good for you’’ upon you. While we cannot all of us enjoy vegetables just out of the garden and in such large numbers every day, we can indulge in them lav ishly at this season of the year when our markets are full of real ly fresh products not many hours away from the place of their pro duction. They are reasonable in price and, when well cooked and dressed, are satisfying to the pal ate as well as an asset to nutri tion. The minerals, vitamins and roughage which they provide are most important in a well rounded diet. Tomato Goulash. >/« cup salad oil. 2 onions (sliced). 2 green peppers (shredded). 2 cups of corn. 8 tomatoes (cut in eighths). Salt. Pepper. Heat the oil. Add onion and cook until a delicate brown. Add peppers and corn and cook five Glass Springboard Among the many odd articles which are now manufactured en tirely of glass are razor blades, springboards, fishing lines, book covers, frying pans, phonograph records, bells and violins.—Col lier’s Weekly. minutes. Add tomatoes and seasoning and cook until soft. Vegetable Salad. 1 cup shredded cabbage. 1 sliced cucumber. 1 cup diced beets or 2 sliced tomatoes. li cup French dressing. 1 bunch young onions. 1 bunch radishes. Mix cabbage, cucumber and beets or tomatoes with dressing and let stand in refrigerator a half hour. Before serving garnish with radishes and onions. © Bell Syndicate.—WNU Service. Fulfilled Bill — Have you ever realized any of your childhood hopes? Pete—Yes; when mother used to comb my hair I often wished I didn’t have any. Collecting 'Em Henry—I’ve a good mind to pro pose to you. Mabel—Oh, please do. I need one more proposal to beat my last year’s record Sees Through It “My Daddy’s so tall he can see right over the garden fence.” “So can mine — when he’s got his hat on.” Her One Thought He—When are you thinking of getting married? She—Constantly. Crying Need Mary Jane—All my mistresses have admitted that I’m full of “go,” madam. Employer — That’s very nice, but what I want is a girl with some staying power. Had to Show It Teacher, inspecting child’s drawing of “The Flight into Egypt”—Very good. But what’s that dot on the end of the string? Child—That’s the flea, ma’am. “The flea?” “Yes, ma’am. It says: ‘Take the young child and flea into Egypt.’ ” Uncle Phil There's a Difference A conservative puts two and two together and so does an optimist, but the conservative has the two and two. What we call “charm” is founded on kindheartedness. You can depend on that virtue. In ruling, better be careful. Minorities have a way of suddenly becoming majorities. 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