Evening Star Newspaper, August 19, 1931, Page 5

EDUCATION EXPERT ONRADIO IS NAMIED Wilbur Appoints C. M. Koon as Rival Groups Continue Fight Over Air Time. BY ROBERT MACK. Pilling an intermediate position be- | tween the group of educators seeking an_allotment of 15 per cent of the broadcasting wave lengths and the rival educational group willing to co-operate with existing broadcasters, Secretary of the Tnterior Wilbur has appointed Cline M. Koon, nssistant director of the famous Ohio School of the Alr, to fill the newly created post of specialist in education in the United States Office of Education. The Federal Government thus steps Into the gap between the two partisan groups into which the educafors are | forming. One, the National Com- mittee on Education by Radio, wante actual wave lengths allotted to colleges and universities and_ reguiated by the | States: the other, the National Advisory Council on Radio in Education. is tee ing o find a means whereby organized education can make the best use of the limited radio faci'ities already avalable Politics Big in Tssues. Politics enters into the rivalry be- tween these two groups in no small degree. To meet the demands of the national committee, which is under the chairmanship of Joy Elmer Motgan of the National Education Association. would mean that many existing broad- casters must go off the air to make way for radio stalions operated by educ: tional institutions, Recognizing the difficulty facing such a move, the Na- tional Advisory Council is essentially a research agency trying to find out how educators can best us> radio without disrupting the present American system. ‘Whereas the former group is highly critical of commercial broadcasting and wants it subdued, to say the least, the latter group takes no stand against radio by the American plan, but evinces its willingness to co-operate with exist- ing networks and stations, which have ered nnembu blocks ':i hours to t'h-. educators if they can together for an organized program of broadcasting to the schools and homes. Both organizations are strong finan- clally and politically, ‘Morgan group is conducting its campaign for 15 per cent of the wave lengths, or . 13.5 channels, under an endowment said to amount to $250,000 from:the Payne fund. Senator Fess of Ohio, chairman of the Republican National Coy ittee, introduced legislation in Jas the chan- bt. ‘Tyson organization is backed by Carnegie-Rockefeller gifts and numbers the leading broadcasters and many outstanding educators among those friendly to its aims. THE EVENING STAR, WASHINGTON, Airmail Trail Blazers WILL ATTEMPT TO COMPLETE CRAMER'S FLIGHT. the Detroit R. D plane to ke dispzt: ETROIT, Mich—Photo shows, left to right. Co-pilot Robert H. Colling- non and Pilct Edwin L. Prestcn, who are preparing to take off from r in the near future for a flight to Denmark over the northern route, via Greenland end Iceland. This is the second survey | ed by the Trensamericen Airl'res Corporation over | this routs in the cevelopment.of an airmeil route over the North Atlantic to Europe. The first plans, not been heard of ever since it hopped hagen and all hope has practically been given manned by Parker Cramer and Oliver Pacquetti, has from the Shet'and Islands for Copen- up for the two aviators, —wide World Photo, U.S. PAYS TREMENDOUS SUM TO CARE FOR WAR VETERANS Since First Pension Act in 1789, and Cover- ing All but World Conflict, More Than Eight Billion Has B This is the third in a series of seven daily articles telling what the United | States, Great Britain and France have | done ‘for the'r war veterans and what | they contemplate doirg. ‘ World War velerans’ organizations usually shy at the word “pensions” for the future, but thcse who sens: what is coming admit that, on top of the | huge financial load the United States | Government now bears in veterans' re- | Hef, there will be new legislation cost- | ing much more! whether this relief is | een Spcnt. preference. 'This is being worked out by the Civil Service Commission. Special legislation was passed grent- ing new privileges of ccmpencation to emergency officers of the VJorld War Additional status has been given men who have “arrcsted tuberculosis.” They get $50 a month. Among the numerous other things ac- corded ave coffins and the American flag to be draped over the coffins of veterans, whother they are buried at Arlington, any other national cemetery, MOSBY COMPLETES | - SUBARGTIC SURVEY Makes 2,000 Soundings in Trip as Far North as Resolution Island. By the Associated Press. BOSTON, August 19.—From out of | the fog and chill winds of Davis Strait, | a bronzed adventurer returned here | Monday with astory of unusual condi- | | tions in the sub-Arctic which have made | | the North "Atlantic steamship lanes | more free from icebergs this year than ever before in recorded history. Ee is Olva Mosby, 34, & blonde, senior occanographer o {United States Coastal Survey Service, | why made the trip aboard the cutter | General Green, and who is believed to be the first Norwegian honored by a similar | appo.ntment. | It was Mosby's first trip under the 3 United States flag, but by no means his | first to the far North. For 10 years he | has_sought to penetrate the mysteries | -foot of weather vagcries in the Arctic and | sub-Arctic, much of the time as chief | oceanographer to Pridjof Nans:n, whom he met while working his way through the Univers'ty of Norway at Oslo. The Generzl Green left Boston in March for a preliminary survey of con- ditions on the Grand Banks and also to assist in locating icebergs. Eventually reaching Resolution Island, more than 2,00 depth soundings were taken lnd‘ thousands of temperature and drift ob- servations made. Numerous icebergs were sighted grounded in inlets and | bays along the coast, where the absence | of drift ice during the Winter had al- | lowed chem to enter and become | | stranded. | | covered, particularly in Hudson Strait, | where the fathometer reported a num- ber of places of 400 fathoms, where pre- viously it had been thought the water was much shallower. In the Davis Strait depths of between 2,200 and 2,500 | fathoms were found. One of the personal thrills of the expedition came to him when, while | exploring Norse ruins in Greenland, he uficovered a small slab of dark granite | hewn from a quarry hundreds of years | before the recorded discovery of Amer- |ica. It was one of the few trophies he | brought back with him. | Mosby hopes soon to rejoin his bride of a year and a half, who has been ' ewaiting his return at Block Island. | Mrs. Mosby is & niece of Joahn Mo- | winckel, former prime minister of Nor- | w by the national commander, Ralph T. | ONeil, gives it in s nutshell, as fol- | | low | | _“Legislation to relieve _dependent | children of veterans who lie helpless | in_hospitals. | “Legislation to ald widows and | D. known as “pensions” or by some other name. 1 The cost of caring for the veteran has | Koon to Start Research. Although Secretary Wilbur himself was ‘first instrumental in the National Committee on Education by Radio, he has since taken a middle ground on the matter of depriving existing of their facilities in order to turn them over to that educational group. In appointing Mr. man whose ex- ‘university radio station and co-oper- ating with muemun( commercial station. ‘The Ohio School of the Air broad- casts over the radio station of Ohio State University, but enjoys its greatest audience when it utilizes hours allotted to it by WLW of Cineinxati, one of the most stations on the con- tinent. tter time is given the ©Ohio free of cost in order to carry into the schools of Ohio tes. nearby States. Koon' is a 1015 graduate of West principal of various high schools in West Virginia. In his new post he will initiate and conduct re- searcth radio as a medium of educa- ; been tremendous. In 142 years, rinee | the first pension act in 1789 to the | nt and covering the wars that | wve intcrvened except the World War, | more than $8,000,000,000 has been spent on_veterans’ relief. ©On June 30 there were still on the rolls eight widows of the war of 1812. | On World War veterans the United States has spent more than $5,000,- 000,000. | ‘These figures are from Gen. Frank 'T. Hines, sdminictraior of veterans’ af- fairs, who warns: “We may lock with some apprehen- sion at th2 possible future cost unless our veterans’ policy is based upon a sound and common sense foundation.” But adds: “The pension and compensation roll of the Federal Government must be an | ‘honor roll. No one questions cur desire to deal generously and fairly with all vet- | erans when they are in nee ‘What has the Government done for | the typical World War veteran? Insurance Provisions. In the first place ths soldier, sailor | or marine opportunity—some- times he virtually was ccerced—into or elsewhere. Arrangements have becn completed whereby postmasters will co- | operate with th> administration in de- livering s quickly as possible to the | gress orphens of veterans. “Immediate construction of the vet- erans’ hospitals authorized by Con- family of & dead veteran an American | flag and for the services at the grave the War Department will provide rifies fo the firing squad. What Uncle Sam Has Paid. The financial story of how extensively veterans have avalled themseives of these principal priviloges and count'ess smaller ones runs into tremendous fig- ures. To pick only a few: Ccmpensation has been paid to the disabled to the total of $1,872,956,283. Vocational training to rehabilitet: men for new careers has cost $644,- 000.000. ‘War risk term insurance totaled about $40,000.,000,000. Government life insurance in ferce now is est'mated at more than $3.000.000,000. Patients receiving treatment in hos- pitals under the Vet Administra- tion total 34,666, divid>d among 54 old Veterans' Burezu Hospitals, 11 National homes, 43 other Government hospitals and 202 contract hospitals. Late figures show that there were on file in the form°r Veterans' Bureau, on "L!‘hhtlon to increase the disabil- | ity allowance of World War veterans | to_the same level as the pensions pro- | vided for veterans of the Spanish- | American War.” The Veterans of Foreign Wars plans | to ask Congress to amend the World War veterans’ act to include for com- | pensation the widows and orphans of | ‘World War veterans who have died of non-service-connected disability. | The Disabled American Veterans of the World War, who championed pay- | ment of the cash bonus loan up to 50 r cent of the face value, differed | from the Legion, which at its annual | convention before the legislation op- | posed the 50 per cent loan. | | Prom certain nal sources | |are seen evidences that a drive may | be made in the next session of Con- | gress to allow veterans to take the full | face value of the bonus in cash. This would entail another big load on an already overburdened national Treas- | ury.” but ‘support. for the legisiation is | | said in certain quarters to be growing | substantially. | It is the proposal of Gen. Hines, | however, to set up & new national $10,000 war risk life insurance. tion, and maintain an In-| formatien and bility this netted him a return Bureau for May 31, 1,242.028 compersation claims, | policy destined to evoke the most in- of which 227,211 were death claims. Of | telligent and searching interest of Con- Advisory schools and others interested in NOTE HINTS SUICIDE WAS T0 WOUND GIRL Asristant Purser of Liner South- ern Cress Found Dead in Cabin, Bullet Victim. By the Associated Press. NEW YORK, August 19.—Joseph up to $57.50 a month for a total dis- | ebility. If he died, it neited the same amount t> his family until the $10,000 was paid. In connection with signing up for insurance, men were required to make allotments to their familles, to whom the Govenment then also gave zn_additional allcwance. | When the typical veteran got out of the service he receivea the flat $60 bonus then in effect. If disabled, he re- ceived in the early days disability pay- ments which ran up to $30 a month fcr total disability, but which was later increased to $100 for total dis:bility and now stand fcr double to:al disability at $200. If he carried his insurance he got $57.50 & month on top of his other compensation for total disability. If he died with no insurance his widow received $30 a m-nth, additional emounts for children, put with $57.50 insurance in addition each month until $10,000 was paid. Apud, 28, assistant purser of the liner Bouthern’ Cross, was found dead in his cabin early Mondey with a bullet wound | in his temple and & pisiol in his right | hand, officers of the ship reported yes- i {erday when the liner docked in Brook- | yn. Autberities sald a note left by Apud indicated he had been despondent over e love affair and that he had com- | mitted suicide to wound the girl Ship officers said Apud had slipped into the room of & passenger and ob- tained a pistol belonging to Willlam H. Murray, son of the Covernor of Okia- homa, with whom he had become iriendly on the voysge here from Rio de Janeiro Apud's mother, Mrs. Carmen Apud of Brooklyn, said she did not believe her son had killed himeeif and would seek 8 further investigation. MISSISSIPPI IS USED | DESPITE LOW WATER Federal Barge Line t8il1 Operating, | Although River Stage Is Low- | est Since December, 1910, | By the Aspoctated Press. ST. LOUIS, Mo, August 19.—The Jow stage of the Mississippl | iver, recorded at one foot yesterday. has not hampered operations of the Federal barge line (Iniand Waterways ), officials of the barge line here was recorded at | however, sty they bave been hav Vocational ‘raining was provided the disabled, first under the Federal Board | for Vocationsi Education, later under the Veterans Bureau. This privilege ncw has expired. Free hospitslization, medical care and treatment were offered first for service- connected disubllities, But later legic- lation extenced thls to non-service- connected disabilities. New legislation | also added to disability compensation for injury a mew payment, “disability allowance,” for disablilities would could not be traced to war service. Adjusted Compensation. Adjusted secvice compensaticn, or the bonus, came In a kind of insurance pol- icy, payable m the future, but nego- tiable within two years. Loan value on these was Increased by Congress last year to 50 psr cent of the face value, and tremendous sums have been lent Veterans who have thus borrowed against the~ bonus, however, cannot borrow again on it untd, in several years, it again assumes a loan value The bonus vias based on compensation for $1 a day fr service in the United States and $1.25 for overseas service Ther: are many regulations concern- ing civil service preference for veterars, and suoposed to give them advantage ver others meking equal marks in ex- eminations. Velerzns' organizations ing difficuity, through ‘palitical 875, to get jJobs fcr veierans even with this these, 509,394 were allowed, 117,909 be- ing desth claims. In addition, there were on file 507515 cisability allowance clatms, of which 208,671 had been al- Jowed. ‘Total loans on the bonus, ‘both before and since the 50 per cent proviso, were $1,145,432.753.30. The total net amount of the bonus now in force is $3453,- 793,230. For the further better treatment of veterans Uncle Sam is still building hospitals. Congress in the last short session authorized $20,877,000 worth of new hospitals and home facilities, | while $16,350,000 was appropriated for | the construction of hospitals authorized at previous sessions and for beginning construction just authorized The veterans'organizations are awake to future possibilities. They never sleep on th~ job. The American Legion outlined the | legislative program it will push at the next session of Congress. An official summary prepared from a statement @ WASHINGTON'S FINEST MEN'S WEAR STORE @ IT BEGINS TODAY ..PHO SILVER Never before in Phoenix history. Special low prices for three days ouly, August 19, Phoenix quall 20 avd 21, .. | gress. How far the general's proposal | | will get in the short session, when | | legislators will have many other big | | proslems, is a question. | But the genmerzl 1; in earnest. So | | is his entire organization. They will | have & mass of facts and figures and | perhaps a specific plan. | (Copyright, 1931. by the North American | | Newspaper Alliance, Inc.) Tomorrow—What Great Britaln Has | Done. | Hoover's Son to Teach. LOS ANGELES, August 19 (#).—The California Institute of Technology an- | | nounced yesterday Harbert Hoover, jr._l son of President Hoover, will bscome a | | memb>r of the faculty late in Septem- ber. He will teach business economics and radio engineering as an assistant | professor_on the staff of the Engineer- | ing and Research School. ENIX.. JUBILEE an event like this. Phoenix style and distinetive patterns at a remarkable s: Plain colors, fn two-ton ing steipes fanciful clox, vertieal ed effects—all wew ereations—each with the Phoenix— “long mil leage” foot. C., WEDNESDAY, AUGUST 19, 1931. Will “Alfalfa Bill” Run? “Little' Too Early to Announce,” Says Oklahoma l Governor, But He Wants to Write Democrats’ Major Planks. Special Dispatch to The Star OKLAHOMA CITY; Okla., August 19 (NAN.A) —Everybody in Oklahoma s Gov. Willlam H. Murray (Al- falfa_Bill) is His_friends throughout the State are weging “Murray-for-President” but- tons and are organiz'ng “Murray-for- President” clubs, and Murray's secre- tary, Claude Weaver, is making speeches to_these clubs. Murray himself will not authorize the statement that he is a candidate for the presidency: he says that, even if he were a candidate, it would b> “a little too early” to announce it now, but he does admit he is planning to go to the | the natlonal Democratie convention at the head of the delegation from Okla- homa and that he hopes to write the most important planks in the Demo- cratic national platform, His friends go 5o far as to assert Gov Murray is hoping and expecting to cap- ture the nomination by thcse planks and by a flery speech that will voice ths aspirations of the farmers and the working men of the West, as Bryan captured the presidential nomination in 1806 by his ‘“cross-of-gold-and- crown-of-thorns™ speech in the Chicago convention. His Newspaper Quoted. Murray's weekly newspaper, the Blue Valley, farmer, said in its issue thi: week “The Murray-for-President boom has gotten off to a flying start end nothing can stop it." In the same issue is a verse, Murray,” containing the lines He may eat flapjacks with a shovel or pick And be dubbed by the mob as a coun- try hick But he cant be swayed by the glitter of gold: He has stood the test with a courage bold. “Bill In another column of his newspaper Murray takes a shot at Gov. Roosevelt of New York, whose supporters are working hard 'to “line up” the dele- gation that will be sent next year from Oklahoma to the National Democratic Convention. One paragraph says: “Gov. Roosevelt of New York is after the Democratic nomination on a wet platform the priacipal plank of which is, ‘Elect me and you will get beer' Murray says_what the people want Is beefsteak. There is plenty of beer now, but nearly all of us have to hustle these days to get the beefsterk, | and if Bill can prove that he can make the beefsteaks come easier and oftener !'it’s all over but the shouting.” | Becomes National Figure. “Alfalfa Bill”" Murray has become a national figure within the last few weeks. Since he called out the Na- tional Guard of this State to close the private toll bridges and open the State's free bridges, across Red River into Texas, thus defying a court order, and since he called out the militia to close running for President. | the oil wells of Oklahoma in an effort to raise the price of oil, the East has been calling_frantically for more light on_“Alfalfa Bill.” What sort of man is he? Is he a four-flusher, a braggart, an ignorant hill-billy, plaving to the galleries? Is he sincere? Is he honest? Has he ary |ability? ' What coes he look like? How does he act? This reporter came to Oklahoma City to ask him if he is a candidate, or if he will be a candidate, for the Demo- |cratic presidential nomination next year. He found Gov. Murray at a meeting of the State Equalization Board in th | State capitol, in a large room adjoining his private office. The Governor sat in a huge easy chair at one end of a long lable. He was in his shirt slceves, the cuffs rolled uv. showing a hairy length of forearm. His cravat was carelessly tied and hanging awry. His suspenders discolored with berspiration, - wers tuisted into rolls. and ‘only one strand |was connected with his trousers behind, for one button there was gone. His white cotton trousers were wrinkled, His shock of iron-grav hair wss tousled #nd mussed, and on his face was a gray stubble of beard. Works With Shoes Off. He was hvnkered down in his big armchair, both forearms on the table, his head held low and turned sidewise as he peered up from beneath buchy eyebrows into the face of a lawyer who stood beside him earnestly arguing thas the corporacion he represented hac made a fair return of its taxable pro erty. Murray puffed at a cigar as listened. The reporter sat down on a sofa be- hind one of Oklahoma’s leading citizens who leancd back and whispered: “Arc you going to write about the Governor” | If you are, and you want some higk art to ;o with it, look under the table at_his feet!” The reported looked. Murray's low- | cut white canvas shoes were off. His | feet were in white cotton socks; therc | was & hole in one of them and the side | of one big toe was exposed. “Does he often sit that way, with his | she off 7" was asked. “Nearly always in this hot weather |and generally there is more bare foot | on display than there 1s today,” was thc reply. There was a long argument, during which the Governor expressed himself fully regarding corporations. As the meeting broke up and Murray started for his private offic: a dozer newspaper reporters ficcked after him for a conferenci They asked many questions, and he answered them al and told several stories that aptly illus- trated his meaning. He has a keen sense of humor, laughs heartily and often, and has an inexhaustible stock of original stories from his life in | early days that u-e Lincotnesque in their | | quaint and humc-ous w-sdom. | The Capitol reporter for the Daily | Oklahoman tells the following story to | illustrate the humorous side of Mur- | |ray's nature: The reporter and staff | | photographer of the paper went to the | e mansion to take some pictures | Governor and his wife in their home. Having made all the pictures | they ~ wanted, the photographer un- | limbered and closed his camera, and he | and the regorter started to leave. They had crossed the lawn and were about to g0 out the gate when they heard the Governor call them: too Bl there! Don't you want this pose, 0" They turned and there was | Murray standing on his head and wa ing his fect in the air. The photogra- | pher hurriedly grabbed his camera to | open it again, but the Governor sprang upright, laughing, waved his hand at them and shouted: “Pretty lively for an old fellow of 62, hey! Well, good-by, come again.” | As the press conference ended, this | writer asked the Governor when he | might see him for a long talk, and the | Governor said at 8 o'clock that evening. | n the executive mansion that evening | |in Pis shirtsleeves and with his hat |1 ‘cn. the inevitable cigar in his mouth |and streams of smoke trailing behind /him. He took the writer to his bed | room, upstairs, ordered up some peaches | and ice water, lighted a fresh cigar, | icked off his shoes and lay down at | full length upon the bed. Asked About Candidacy. ‘ He was then asked about the “Mur- | ray-for-President” buttons and clubs | and if he were & candidate for the | presidency, and he said: | |_ “So far, that's all bandwagon stuff. | I hadn't anyihing to do with getting out those buttons. They were ordered and are worn by my overzealous friends. Naturally, they want to make me Presi- dent. It's all right. “But even if I do intend to be a can- | didate for the Democratic nomination, | 1 think it is too early now to announce | my candidacy. However, I am anxious | to have thie Oklahoma delegation to the ; | Democratic National Convention solidly behind me and am planning for that. I want to get on the Platform Com: mittee, so0 I may write soveral of the | most important planks in it.” | Asked what those planks would be, | he said it was too soon to go into | that in detail. “but” he add-d, | issue is not what it was in 18{6 when | Bryan was nominated. Then ': was & | class fight between different sections of | the country. Today it is more of a | fight between the small business man, the laborer and the farmer, on the one hand, and the big mergers and | | monopolies on the other, and it is not confined to any onc section. Today ell parts of the country are affected by the same ills.” | He said ha would stress this idea in the platform. He would emphasize the | remedy for our economic ills and he would have a plan for increa our | foreign trade, | America. He would favor a larger and especially with itin |. hibition clause. If I am. President it will be & dry, make this country dry of Sahara, and I could and would do ft. h"x ‘would oh‘ne - the giving vast ations to tial is what caused the Harding administrat| lieve Doheny ever Fall's friend and lent hi But Fall had to cover up the real naval reserves was given in return financial support in t] . I wouldn’t want to be President if my hands were tied.” “But how can you run for President without money for expenses?” his in- terviewer asked. G“lfl. me t:}l you how I X". elected overnor,” he replied. “I organized the Blue Valley Farmer th which T could talk to the people of 1 wrote my arguments and them in that paper, and in it T called for funds to print more of the pa fo T could put the paper in box in the State. And the in. trom the people, in little dribs. T had the election won P my opponents thought I had sta: Program to Be Repeated. “T am going to repeat that ver &lmlnm,vpllnwbl-fllw 'mccratic national convention at “An you_go, you on the Platform Committee, you 'Ir'ph- to make a speech that will sweep the delegates off their feet and win you the nomination, as Bryan got it in €hi- cago in 1896?° i halt the He laughed as he lifted another peach frem the iray and broke it with both hands and erowded one into his mouth. “Just suppose I should be for the presidency,” he said at last. 1 could put four successive coples of my paper into every mail box In United States I would be elected.” There is no question about Murray being a 1 orator. He sways crowds into the highest pitch of enthu- siasm. Murray'’s friends think he is a greater orator than was Bryan. They say if he ever gets a chance, to speak in the Democratic national convention | he will arouse it as no other man of today could. 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