Evening Star Newspaper, October 19, 1936, Page 6

FAMOUS HIAWATHA LANDMARK SAVED Falls of the Tahquamenaw Included in Michigan Park System. .: the Associated Pross. “ §T. IGNACE, Mich., October 19.— fhe majestic falls of “the rushing Tahquamenaw,” known to every school boy who has read “Hiawatha,” are going to be preserved for future generations. The river, listed by modern cartog- taphers as the Tahquamenon, flows through Chippewa and Luce Coun- ties, in Michigan's rugged upper pen- insula, and breaks with a thunderous roar over two mighty sandstone ledges, 60 miles northwest of St. Ignace. Michigan long was anxious to in- lude the falls in its system of parks use of their natural beauty and legendary background, but funds for the purchase were not available. The difficulty was met through Federal purchase of the region and its subse- quent exchange to the State for cer- Rain lands needed to round out na- ional forest preserves. Visitors Seek Out Spot. Z Again and again through Longfel- How’s poem the Tahquamenon is men- ‘tioned. It was near the river that 3he infant Hiawatha was reared by “wrinkled old Nokomis.” » More than 10,000 persons visited 2he falls last Summer, and additional “thousands are expected when the ~Michigan Conservation Department zompletes its development program. Gorge Confines Stream. The principal ledge of the falls is 45 feet high and 225 feet across. Be- “Jow this the river sweeps into a horse- shoe gorge, walled by rock precipices 740 feet high and thence over the lesser dedge to make the lower falls. Actually, little will be necessary Zto make the falls into a State park, ‘because the aim is to preserve the -original beauty of the spot and pre- INent its exploitation. Lincoln (Continued From First Page.) Ifarmers, many of them, have been “dnclined to go along with Roosevelt. *This week Senator Capper and Rep- -resentative Clifford Hope are comb- ing that district. Both are regarded “by the farmers as their friend. And both are telling the farmers they will ,be better off wtih Alf Landon in the White House than with Roosevelt. «They are explaining in detail the ben- Fefits that will accrue to them under . the Landon farm program. Gov. Landon, who left here last #rpight on a surprise dash to Los An- geles, looked in tne best of health ‘and spirits. He is off on a campaign “trip that will carry him from Cali- ¢ fornia to New- York. He will not re- ‘turn to Topeka until just before elec- « tion day. A hard worker, Gov. Lan- “don plans to put everything he has «4nto this final drive. He is convinced “that the campalzn this year has many of the earmarks: of the campaign of 1896. In that earlier year, 30 deys before election, there was widespread # belief that Wiliizra Jennings Bryan # would be the next President of the ~ United States. When the ballots « were counted, however, William Mc- » Kinley had triumohed over his Demo- « Cratic and Populist party opponent. P Challenges Roosevelt. In 1896 it was the big States of the * Middle West and the East which » spwung victory to McKinley, after many of the Republicans had given # up hope. That is what Landon is 4+ counting on now—although he also hopes to carry some of the Western + Btates. Just before boarding his train for £ the Pacific Coast, Landon issued a - statement challenginz President + Roosevelt to say what amendments to the Constitution he has in mind to » validate the now defunct N. R. A. and < the old A, A. A, The Kansas Gov- « ernor pinned his question to the re- port that the Presideni’s son, James . Roosevelt, campaigning in Worcester, » Mass., had said a's father intended to g0 before the country and ask for a constitutional amendmen: to carry on the principles of the N. R. A, James Rooseveit issued his own ac- “eount of what he said in Worcester later. This version did not jibe with the stenographic report of his speech taken by a newspaper. According to + young Roosevelt, he said he personally saw no alternative but to ask for a + constitutional amendment, if it was proved that the purposes of the N. R. A. could be obtained in no other i way. . “Without aitempting to unravel Mr. »James Roosevelt’s constitutional the- ories as expressed,” said Landon, “this wmuch is clear in both statements: %Namely, that young Roosevelt under- ~stands the Presiden: still to intend to make N. R. A principles live and operate in our Government by one wdevice or another. This is precisely »what I have charged over and over again. The President must specifically deny that his son’s views are his ,Views. Otherwise the silence of the .father will be the confession that the L son spoke for the President when he gave us to understand that his father sintended to perpetuate the N. R. A. Swilly-nilly.” » Mrs. Landon Stays Home. ~ Gov. Landon goes West—and also winto the East—unaccompanied by pMrs. Landon. The Governor's wife ¥ds sticking to the icea that it is Lan- Fdon and not Mrs. Landon whom the “people want to see; Landon and not It's easy to go laxative-stale, be- cause 7 out of 10 lazatives are basically the same! Take effect- $ve action against sick-headache, biliousness, - sallow complexion and other constipation-ills . . . take Beecham’s, the different, pure vegetable compound that | keeps you prompt and flt. 12 2 REAL ,WBSEESS LAXATIVE Piits FREEF:EERS s A e N N e i e w0 Mrs. Landon who is ‘aspiring to the ncy. wfl:.don as he .ltm.! on the last 1ap of the campaign, is a vastly im- proved speaker, Observers who have been with him constantly since he bennhhclmpol(nnrelumtm agreeing that he has undoubtedly helped himself by his travels through the country. Kansas has had many New Deal sympathizers. Its farmers have ben- efited greatly through the operations of the A. A. A. and the Agricultural Adjustment Administration. Senator Capper stood squarely for the A. A. A, He did not hesitate to commend it. Now he is standing more strongly for the Landon farm program and he is telling the farmers so. Capper himself is up for re-election. In his campaign speeches, however, he is saying prac- tically nothing about his own can- didacy. He is hitting on all fours in his advocacy of the election of Gov. Landon. Capper, it is predicted, will win re-election to the Senate by a big majority—it may run as high as 150,~ 000. His opponent, Omar Ketchum, former Mayor of Topeka, who was de- feated for Governor by Landon two years ago, is going through the motions in this campaign, but that is about all. Capper has labor indorsement as well as support of the farmers. The prime aim of the Democrats, both in Kansas and out, appears to be to put Roosevelt across a winner in this State. They have no faith whatever in carrying the State for Senator or for Governor. Wil G. West of McPherson, a farmer and stockman, is the Republican guberna- torial candidate. His opponent is Wal- ter A. Huxman, an attorney and mem- the administration of Gov. Harry Woodring, who is now Secretary of War. West's election seems assured by a very substantial majority. G. 0. P. Has Four Seats Now. the present Congress four out of seven Lambertson, Hope and Carlson beyond a doubt, and they expect to re-elect Representative Guyer, in the second district. Democratic landslides of both 1932 and 1934, good chance that the Republicans will | win in the third and fourth congres= sional districts, now represented by Democrats. In the fifth district, Rep- resentative Houston, Democrat, will be re-elected. and perhaps six of the seven con-| gressional districts in these contests for the House, the chances for a say the least, remote. Democratic State chairman is claim- ing the State for Roosevelt by 75,000 votes over Landon. Four years ago, Roosevelt carried Kansas by 74,706 | votes against Herbert Hoover, at & mme when Republican chances were | of the Democrats Roosevelt is up against a popular Governor at a time when there has been a very distinct swing back of the Kansas voters to the Republican party. Conditions, generally speaking, are good in Kansas today—and yet there are 40,000 families on relief of one kind or another. Many of these peo- ple are in the “dust bowl’—the ex- JMPLIMENTS OF ber of the State Tax Commission in| ‘The Republicans in Kansas have in| seats in the House. They will re-elect | - Guyer has weathered the| There is an exceedmgly\ With the Republicans carrying five | Roosevelt victory in Kansas seem, to| And yet the| | at their lowest ebb. The present claim | seems fantastic. | THE EVENING STAR, WASHINGTON, D. C, MONDAY, OCTOBER 19, 1936. treme western part of the State, which has been hit hard for five con- secutive years by drought and dust storms. During the Fall there have been plentiful rainfalls, and even the Western section of the State has taken on green and a new life. Ex- cept for the farmers in the dust bowl, Kansas made a good wheat crop this year. The corn, however, was destroyed by the hottest Sum- mer on record. The farmers, how- ever, are feeling better. Roosevelt Bets Drop. A few weeks ago, talk spread in Kansas that Landon could not carry the State. That it was going for Roosevelt. Money to bet that Lan- don could not win here appeared. The Republicans immediately, how- ever, covered all the bets of this kind they could get, which were not nu- merous or large. And now the bet- ting is that Landon will not carry the State by 75,000 votes—which is a vastly different matter. Conservative estimates are that Landon will win in Kansas with a 25,000 vote lead over Roosevelt. This margin is neither as wide as a church door nor as wide as a well, but it will suffice. The Republican leaders hope, and some of them expect, the Landon lead will run as high as 50,- 000. I talked to one of the most astute politicians in the State, who has his ear close to the ground, and he has convinced himself that Lan- don’s margin of victory will not fall below 25,000. In their effort to defeat Landon the New Deal Democrats—the Demo- cratic National Committee, in fact— has had printed and spread through- out the country a large number of pamphlets and cartoons dealing with the Kansas school system. These pamphlets contain the charge that during the Landon administration Kansas has closed 444 district schools; that a salary of $25 a month is paid some teachers and that the pay of - FOR THE BIG PERFORMANCE NEWS oF 1937 ELECTION YEAR FACTS for Every Volon EDITED BY LOWELL THOMKS YOUR G Nov. 6 nearly 7,000 teachers averages $0 & week; that Kansas has dropped from fifteenth to twenty-seventh place among the States in amount of State aid to schools. Such pamphlets have been sent by the Democratic Com- mittee to school teachers all nrver the Nation, Much Resentment in State. ‘Whatever effect this kind of pub- licity may have outside Kansas, it is making no hit with the people of Kansas. There is a great deal of resentment, aimed at the New Deal National Committee. They admit that 444 schools were not operated last year. They have been closed because many of them had only three or four or five pupils. In 1935 there were 552 schools with one teacher each and with an enrollment of five pupils or less. It seemed wise to consolidate and close many of these schools, both for economy and in order to give the children better schooling in larger schools. It is pointed out here that there are seven States which have 1 per cent or more of their population enrolled in the regular sessions of colleges and universities. Kansas is one of them. 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