Evening Star Newspaper, November 8, 1936, Page 20

TBCORNHISHERS READY FORRAE Ohlo Farm Scene Tuesday of 18th Annual Cham- pionship Event. B3 the Associated Press. NEWARK, Ohio, November 7.— Eighteen men, hardened to athletic perfection by months of farm labor end tanned by the Summer sun, match their prowess Tuesday in the thirteenth annual national corn husk- ing championship. Two contestants from each of the major corn producing States will com- pete in the greatest of agricultural sporting events. It will be held on the 487-acre farm of Alva L. Oyler, 13 miles southwest of here. One hun- dred thousand spectators are expected. The two Illinois entrants, 27-year- old Adam Byczynski of Bureau Coun- ty, whose rough hut nimble fingers picked 41.175 bushels in 80 minutes to win the State championship, and ‘Theodore Tuftie of La Salle County, runner-up, are favored to win the national honors. Close Race Expected. Observers believe it will be a nip- and-tuck match between Tuftie, & 45-year-old grandfather, and Byczyn- #ki. At the same time they were not overlooking the Iowa champion, Carl Carlson, who picked 38.014 bushels in the State contest. Carl is a younger brother of Elmer Carlson, who won the national contest at Newton, Ind, last year with 41.52 bushels. Carl is familiar with the strenuous effort re- quired in the national contest, having served as trainer for his brother last year. The other Iowa contestant is E. H. Hendricks, who “skinned” 35.728 bushels of ears from the stalks in 80 minutes. 35-Acre Contest Area. Thirty-five acres of corn have been left standing at the Oyler farm for the contest. For 80 minutes after the starting gun booms the 18 men ‘will move between the rows, shucking the corn and throwing it into wagons which move alongside. No State contests were held in Mis- souri, Kansas and Nebraska this year because of the poor corn crop. These States entered their 1935 contestants. WARDEN REVEALS PLOT TO FREE TWO INMATES | Federal Agents Uncover Plan to Kidnap Official or Relative as Hostages. BY the Associated Press. MOUNDSVILLE, W. Va., November 7—Warden C. F. McClintic of the ‘West Virginia State Penitentiary dis- closed today Federal Department of Justice agents and State police are investigating a report of a plot to| iiberate two inmates of the prison. The warden said Federal agents told him at least three members of & no- | torious clique of gangsters had been trailed to Moundsville and were plan- ning to kidnap the warden or his cousin, Miss Margaret McClintic, us- ing them as hostages or shields in the Jail-break attempt. THE WEATHER District of Columbia—Mostly cloudy Wwith moderate temperature today; to- morrow rain and colder; light variable winds, becoming moderate northwest tomorrow. Maryland—Mostly cloudy with mod- erate temperature today; tomorrow rain and colder, probably changing to snow in extreme west portions. Virginia—Mostly cloudy with mod- erate temperature today;, tomorrow rain and colder. West Virginia—Cloudy, followed by Hight rain and colder this afternoon or tonight; tomorrow rain, changing | to snow flurries and colder. River Report. Potomac River clear and Shenan- @oah very cloudy late yesterday after- noon. Headed by Thomas Ellis Lodge, president, the slate of officers for the Federation of Citizens’ Associations for the ensuing year is shown above. Left to right, (seated) Mr. Lodge, Miss Elaine Eppley, second vice president; (standing) David Babp, secretary; Capt. A. H. Gregory, treasurer, and Harrdy N, Stull, first vice president. Miss Eppley re-electe Six-Year, One-Term Presidency Plan Divides Business Leaders Freedom of Executive From Necessity of Following Political Expediency in Decisions Is Cited. The single six-year term for Presi- dent is a cry that will not down in America, and the furious campaign just concluded has given it the breath of life again. The President of the United States, shall his tenure of office be extended to six years and shall he be denied the opportunity to succeed himself? More than 100 amendments em- bodying this idea have been battled for on the floor of Congress since 1789. William Howard Taft, after his term a%® President, advocated the idea. The | Democratic platform of 1912 carried a plank promising such an amend- ment, although its successful candi= date, Woodrow Wilson, personally dis« approved heartily. And in 1913, the Senate, by a vote of 47-23, adopted & resolution proposing that such an amendment to the Constitution should be submitted to the people, but the resolution stalled on the way to the House of Represtntatives and never got started again. How do American business leaders feel about it now? The associated newspapers of the North American Newspaper Alliance put the question to prominent industrialists in New York, Philadelphia, St. Louis, Chate tanooga, Syracuse, Cincinnati, Lin- coln, Oklahoma City and Milwaukee and found a majority in favor of it. Statements Pro and Con. ]o'rhe statements for and against fol- w: ’ Bruce Barton, New York author and advertisting executive: “Under present conditions, a President, during his first term in office, cannot so much as write a letter or bedeck a Maypole without pondering deep and long over what effect his action will have on the votes of some minority group. He is forced to oversell his adminis- tration, to describe everything he does as having the utmost excellence and everything the opposition sug- gests as being worthy at least of de- rision, at most of suspicion. “If we, in our business, were to make the claims for our products that a President makes for his in the course of a campaign, we would be haled before the Federal Trade Com- ‘m. | misslon every day and finally find & " | suitable resting place in Atlanta. I think that a President's statements should at least*have the relation to m. | truth of a patent medicine advertise- to 1936, Aver: 5. 30 000! 3 g > SIR2IBRRLEN. cember s Report Untll 10 P.M. Saturday. idnight ______ am. 53 oweit. 45. 5 am. yesterdsy. Year Bgo0, 42 . Record Temperatures This Year, fllheu. 105. on July 10, west.' 0. on January $3. Weather in Various Citles. Precipi- ~Temperature— tation. Kax. Mi gpm urday.night. 8p.m. 8p.m. N. C.___ 64 ) BRB kD DFOBD Chicago. Il Cinclunati. ' Ohlo Cheyenne, Wyo. land, Ohi 4 | ernment can do. ment. “But the present system dictates otherwise. The President and his rd, opposition must promise and promise 4 |and promise, and must deliberately, consciously, foster in the public mind a distorted notion of just what Gov- 1 remember Calvin Coolidge saying to me, ‘You can get a lot of votes by telling people they're not to blame for their own faults.’ Do you think America will ever see a campaign song whose powerful truth is its lyric, supplied by Samuel John- son: ‘How small of all that human hearts endure That part which laws or kings can cause or cure!” “Certainly, & single six-year term for President will not completely eliminate electioneering from the ‘White House, but it will at least cur- tail it. -He will be able to plot the course of the Government of all the peoples with only a sideling glance at the wishes of a portion of one of its election districts.” Executive Should Be Free. Robert L. Lund of St. Louis, former president of the National Association of Manufacturers: “The Chief Execu- tive should be as free as possible from political influence. A single term, however, would not certainly obtain et sanae B8 PR SN b £3 this objéctive because the President would still be surrounded and influ- t stake would make it difficult for a President to oppose the wishes of his friends with their political futures at stake. “The single term, thus, is not in it- self a cuve for the evils it is intended Furthermore, it is of not justify this hope.” John G. Lonsdale of St. Louis, for- ‘mer president of the American Bank- ers’ Association: “A single six-year presidential term would ensble a President to give %m attention to problems at hand without the necessity of planning for holding the office for a second term. It would give Congress the opportunity to re- assert itself and not delegate its pow- ers. Under the Constitution, Con- gress is a legislative body and should be a thing apart from, and not too closely associated with, the execu- tive.” g Charles Nagel, outstanding St. Louis attorney and former Secretary of Commerce and Labor in the Taft administration: “I believe a whole President for one term is better than half a President for two terms. Independent Action Likely. “A President who knows he can- not be elected to another term would be more likely to act ‘entirely inde- pendently than one with an eye to re- election. He would not be as greatly tempted to compromise his official conduct as he otherwise might be on occasion. . “It is true that the temptation to compromise might not be wholly. ex- cluded, but the six-year single term | would accomplish as much in that di- :ie;‘mm as is probably humanly pos- . ‘Walter Davidson of Milwaukee: “In the case of a strong President with a good program for the country, the single six-year term would seem de- sirable, but, under an unreliable President, with a Congress enacting his program, it would be quite an- other matter. In the latter situation we have the privilege every four years of changing the administration in power if the people so desire.” Rudolf Hokanson, for years a lead- ing Milwaukee automobile distribu- tor and now a banker: “A six-year term for the President would prove an interesting experiment. Elected for such a single term, the President, regardless of party affliations, would be less concerned about politics and more concerned about putting through a constructive program for the coun- try than' under the present system of & national election every four years. I believe, in the long run, the suggested change would lead to stability in Government, which, in it;u-n. would lead to economic stabil- . W. C. Maas, president of the Mil- waukee Association of Commerce: “Industry probably would be better off under a single six-year term for the President. Industry and- trade would be less disturbed than under the system of electing a President every four years. There seems more to be said in favor of than against the single-term idea. That is my first impression, but the proposal calls for thogghtful consideration. When we have a President who is not good for the country, even a four-year term seems too long.” Limit on Bad President. Charlton Yarnall of Philadelphia, investment banker: “The proposal has this advantage—if you got a bad man in office, you could turn him out in six years instead of having to wait & possible eight years before get- ting rid of him.” Samuel M. Vauclain of Philadel- phia, financier: “It's a good thing to stir the natives up every four years. I certainly wouldn't favor an ar- bitrary six-year term for the Presi- dent. Some of them do enough dam- age in four. > “As far as the President’s havi inal incumbency, he is entitled to re- election.” John C. Bell, jr, Philadelphia at- torney and Pennsylvania commander of the Crusaders: “I feel that the present four-year term is preferabls, éiééa President’s first term is spent build- ing up & political machine to assure his re-election. If the President knew that he could not be re-elected, his administration would be characters ized by & greater spirit of independ- ence. “I think, too, that there is no tion that an election every four hlmhh"“- For at is the only new officer, the others being Star Staff Photo. three months before election, time which should be devoted to business is spent talking politics. Moreover, many people delay decisions on business mat- ters, saying, ‘I don't want to do any- thing about it until ‘after election.’ All this retards business. I think that the single six-year presidential term is a wonderful idea, and I'm 100 per cent for it.” J. F. Owens of Oklahoma City, util- ity official: “I am not sure that elec- tions are the cause of all our trouble, for at least every four years we are ‘made to think of our Government, and that is good democracy. However, under the present complex conditions, we would be better off if the President had six years in which to carry out his program. Six years is long enough.” Dan W. Hogan of Oklahoma City, banker: “Such a proposal probably would have saved millions during the last few years. “It would leave & man unfettered to make an enviable record during that six years. As President of the United States he is at the zenith of public office in the entire world. Most men with judgment would rather have that honor than all the money they could pile up. “With a six-year term, it would be up to the man to make a success. He would be free of political whims and partisan control. It would make greater statesmen instead of poli- ticians.” E. W. Edwards of Cihcinnati, banker, manufacturer, financier and a leading Republican: “Some good arguments can be made on both sides of the six- year, single-term plan for the presi- dency. After weighing these argu- ments, I am inclined to think that the six-year single term would be best for the country. Kentucky Practice Cited. “In Kentucky, the law provides for a four-year term for the Governor, who cannot be re-elected to succeed himself. But some very foolish things have been done by ‘single-term’ Ken- tucky Governors, so the single term idea is not a universal panacea. It has been said that a public official who cannot be re-elected tends to lose his sense of responsibility, that he doesn’t need to watch his step so closely, for he has no re-election to seek. “But there is another side to that argument. No President is half as powerful in his second term as during his first. In his first term, he may place perhaps a thousand new ap- pointees in office—this puts him in a commanding position. In his sec- ond term, all the offices are already filled. ’ “A single six-year term would not only reduce the number of disturbing national elections, but would, in my opinion, give the Chief Executive greater incentive to concentrhte all his energies on his single term, to make & good record, s good reputa- tion in that one term. “He would be relieved of the anxiety and burden of planning, thinking and worrying about & second term and about his political future. He would have to bend all his efforts on the success of his present term, for he would know there would be no other.” George H. Patten of Chattanooga: “The United States Government is the largest business in the world, and if a private business followed the policy of changing management every four years it would soon be in a bad way. More Care With Vice President. “More care should be taken, how- ever, in the selection of & Vice Presi- dent. A President elected for a six- year term might die in his first year of office, leaving the Vice President to serve as President for five years. “A President elected for s four- year term has to give time during one or two years of that period to his candidacy for re-election, while, if the term were six years, with & second term prohibited, he could give all “Promise for Period Ahead” Is Seen in Momentum of Recovery Move. BY the Associated Press. The Chamber of Commerce of the United States yesterday spoke out with high optimism on economic cond™ tions, saying business momentum “is impressive, both in its extent-and in its promise for the period ahead.” In its publication, Washington Re- view, the chamber cited one favor- able factor after another to support the conclusion: “When all the evidence is brought together in an endeavor to consider the sum total of economic activity throughout the country, it appears unmistakabiy that Since the Summer of 1935 there has been steady prog- ress.” Although such s prolonged ad- vance might ordinarily suggest a tem- porary recession in the near future, the chamber reported that this did not appear in . present economic “Consideration of the elements which enter into national activity, both by business fields and by areas,” it was sald, “makes it clear that dur- ing the last 17 months the most sig- nificant. development has been the improvement in balance, among the flelds of enterprise and among the areas of the country. “This has not been a period of spectacular bursts here and there serving to sccentuate comparisons with low conditions elsewhere. “Instead, it can now be seen that there have been at work the processes which restore order where disloca- tion had earlier been evident, which bring all activities nearer the aver- age instead of some being far above and others equally far below.” The chamber said “It is necessary to ‘go back s decade to find another period in which business momentum had within itself equal elements of strength” and then, citing improve- ment in a half-dozen segments of business, continued: “Such data reflect both progress made and the progress yet to be at- tained.” Among individual upturns, the re- port, titled “Business Carries On* mentioned iron and steel, car load- ings, electric power, bituminbus coal and cotton textiles. RETIRED POLICEMAN C. C. WILLIAMS, DIES North Carolina Native Was Naval Veteran of World War. Charles ©. Williams, 40, of 808 Thirteenth street southeast, retired policeman, died Friday after a long iliness in Mount Alto Hospital. Mr. Williams, a native of North Carolina, was a naval veteran of the World War. He was appointed to the Washington police force in Feb- ruary, 1923, and served until July 31, 1934, when he was retired for dis- ability. He received several commendations from his superior afficers in the po- lice department, among them praise for solving a number of incendiary apartment house fres, important robbery and housebreaking cases. Surviving Mr. Williams are his widow, Mrs. Annie B. Williams; two sons, Lockwood and Deerwood Wil- liams; his parents, Mr. and Mrs. N. I. Williams, Elizabeth City, N. C.; six sisters, Mrs. Ruby Jones, Mrs. Marjorie Jackson, Mrs. Mary Glynn, Mrs. Frederick Gregory, Mrs. Edna Sharber and Mrs. Willard Scallings, and five brothers, Abel, Issac, Ladell, N. I, jr, and Bernard Willams. All the sisters live in North Carolina ex- cept Mrs. Jackson, whose home is in Craddock, Va. Four of the brothers live in North Carolina and one, Abel, in Philadelphia. Funeral services will be held at 9:30 am. tomorrow in Chambers Southeast funeral home 517 Eleventh street southeast. Burial will be in Arlington National Cemetery. Chamber of Commerce: “The four- year term has its drawbacks, but I believe the drawbacks of a six-year term are more important. Four years is perhaps too short for a President to accomplish the most in & term of office, but I think six years is too long without an expressoin from the voters.” George W. Holmes of Lincoln, Nebr., banker: “If a six-year term were adopted, the country would have at the helm of the Government & person interested only in advancing the progress of the Nation, and who could devote his entire time to that program, rather than having to look forward to the time when he would have to go before the people to seek his return to office. Business could move along at & more even pace, without the usual ups and downs in the business cycle just prior to and shortly after the presidential elec- tion.” John E. Miller of Lincoln: *“I do his time to the affairs of the Gov-|Of ernment. If we have the confidence in & man'to elect him President of the United States, we should have confidence enough to elect him for office. I do mot believe elections tend to retard business or lessen confi- dence.” (Copyright, 1036, by the North American The Easy and Safest Woy Arthur Jordan PIANO COMPANY S 'Washer TWO-TUB - $1 Waek Pays’ Arthur Jordan Piano Co., 13th and G 1239 G St., Cor. 13th Business or Family Keeps Them in Capital on Own Responsibility. BY the Associated Press. The State Department said yesterday its latest advices indicated approxi- mately 100 American citizens, includ- ing Pilipinos and Puerto Ricans, were still in beleaguered Madrid. They remained in the Spanish capi- tal on their own responsibility, chiefly for business or family reasons, in spite of repeated urgent warnings by Ameri- can diplomatic and consular repre- sentatives that they leave the city while there still were facilities for their evacuation. It was estimated that aimost 1,500 nationals were taken out' of the country to safety during the weeks succeeding the outbreak of the revolu- tion in July. For this purpose the Navy Depart- ment, at the request of Secretary Hull, recreated its squadron in European ‘waters, assigning vessels which for many weeks were engaged in the emergency duty of ferrying refugees STAR from Spain to Prance and Gibraltar. Four warships, the cruiser Raleigh, two destroyers- and a Coast Guard cutter, now are stationed in nearby waters in readiness g0 to the aid of stranded Ameri if they wish 10 leave. < Because of the critical situation created by the insurgent advance on the Capital, the American Embassy there only recently was reopened as a place of refuge for Americans neéding sheiter. _‘The State Department had no ad- vices 85 to how many of the ap- proximately 100 nationals still in Ma- drid had sought the safety of the stone-walled embassy bpilding. Neither were there any late reports from the Embassy as to conditions prevalling in Madrid. RADIO STATION SOLD Clarksburg, W. Va., Publisher Heads Group Buying Control. PARKERSBURG, W. Va, Novem- ber 7 (#).—8ale of Radio Station ‘WPAR to a group headed by John A. Kennedy, publisher of the Clarks- burg (W. Va) Exponent, was an- nounced tonight by Harold McWhor- ter, president of the Ohio Valley Broadcasting Corp. WPAR has studios at Parkersburg and Marietta, Ohio. ‘The Kennedy group purchased the entire outstanding capital stock of the RADIO Ohio Valley Broadcasting Corp, Mce Whorter said. McWhorter said that application will be made next week before the Pederal Communications Commission in Washington to approve transfer of stock ownership. e BOY HELD IN SHOOTING OF CHUM WITH PISTOL Army Automatic Is Discharged . as Two Were Playing in Officer’s Home. B5 the Associated Press. NEW YORK, November 7.—Carl Holt, 15-year-old Brooklyn high school youth, was shot and killed to- day while playing in the home of a school chum, Richard Greene, 17, in Brooklyn. Detectives booked charges of homicide Greene on and possessing |a gun without a permit. They sald Holt was shot by Greene with a .45-caliber Army automatic pistol while the youths were play- ing in the dining room of the Greene home. Greene is the son of Corpl. John R. Greene of the 12th Infantry, Com= pany E, United States Army, Fort Washington, Md. Capt. Frank Balls, in charge of the tenth detective district, Brooklyn, said police found 350 .45-calibre cartridges and 2,000 cartridges and a .22-caliber long rifle in the Greene home. SHOP AT THE STORE NEAREST YOUR HOME OR OFFICE IN OUR HISTORY e /" FOR YOUR OLD RADIO ON A NEW 1937 PHILCO AUTOGMATIC TUNING o= Pq 109 1ith St. . W. - Automatic ~ Tuning Radio Co. 3022 11th S.. N. W 1350 F St. N. W,