South Bend news-times. (South Bend, Ind.) 1913-1938, 1918-05-14
BORGLUM IS
'KAMERADING'
WILSON NOW
Editor of News Times Tells
How Marble Clippers Note
to Chief Is Regarded in
Patriotic Circle.
BY JOHN HENRY ZUNER.
Edito, Of The Ncws-Timcs.



WASHINGTON. May 14-In the
rotunda OF the capitol. Statuary
hall. is a white marble bust OF Abra-
ham Lincoln 1t is OF huge pro-
portions aud the work ~ sculptor
Gutzon Borglum. that evidences
almost as much skill on his part, as
a sculptor. as he has shown as an
aelonautic specialist.
Perhaps a man who has never
touched a chisel has no right 20
criticize statuary. but how about the
aviation expert whose only recon-
mendation Is two days and night
in a puddle OF quicksand off COney
island, having dropped there for
few thousand feet along with a gas
balloon?
Borglum. the marble clipper.
Borglum. the gas artist, and Borg
lum the aircraft investigator pro-
moter. has listed himself for his day
in court. with Sen. BranGegee Of
Connecticut as his mouth-piece.
either today or tomorrow. The court
before which he is 10 appear is the
United States senate with the
Chamberlain Hitchcock military af-
fairs "copperheads" sitting in iudg-
ment. and hence from the congress
siOnal record. those who care TO
look may get a glimpse OF the kind
OF statuary the sculptor intends TO
present. depicting NJ. W. and Ken
yon Mix and Henry Harrison
SupIee OF the Dodge Manufactur-
ing company. Mishawaka.
Harris Senator's Boss?
Sen. Brandegee Of Connecticut is
the senator whom Borglum is said
10 have assured young Xix and En-
gineer Suplee that he owes his seat
to Benjamin Harris also Of Con
necticut, and who would serve their
proposed aircraft corporation in the
senate whenever needed. He has
been very active for aircraft investi-
cation ever since BOrglum's presi-
Dental credentials were withdrawn
a month ago. Borglum says the
MiX-Suplee exposure is all a frame
mp and that the logic OF Brande-
gees oratory will prove IT, In other
words an attempt is TO be made.
with Borglum as the chief disturb
ing tool, to muddy the aircraft
n s
The objective is popular consump-
tion. and the creation OF enough
dissatisfaction in the public mind
10 make il want a change i'm the
personnel of congress beginning
next March.
Borglum's letter 20 Pres't Wilson
Is regarded here as the most mis-
cradle kind of political pettifoggery.
If not typical pro-German "kamer-
adism." Such is the type OF the
Hun prisoner who pretends especial
friendship despite his capture and
then tries TO assassinate his captOrs
while of their guard-sort of Leon
+. Czolgolz fashion.
Aircraft Program Moving.
II is pretty plainly asserted in Of
fetal circles however. that the air
c. aft program having passed the ex-
detrimental stages. production is
moving along with ample rapidity
and that we will henceforth have
all the aircraft for field service that
we can make use Of. An open state
ment OF exactly what has been
done. and when where and how.
may be what the senate wants. but
lit is also what Germany wants
is the way one official puts IT, No
kind or an answer that the war de-
partment can make viii be salts
factory TO the senate. II the truth
is told and the aircraft program
justified in detail as demanded. then
the war secretary VIII be criticized
again for giving the information 10
Germany. and by the same men
who have demanded t.
tt is pretty safe 20 state. though
unofIicially. that the United States