South Bend news-times. (South Bend, Ind.) 1913-1938, 1918-05-13

whether or not the program has
been efficient. and where the $780,
100000 already spent has gone 10,
whether into legitimate production
or profiteering channels.
The "aerOnautic copperheads"
seem disposed TO take Borglum s
word for these things which is ad
mittedly their principal source Of
information, disregarding all the
Usual tests of reliability that ordi-
narily so 10 make such information
worth considering.
That Borglum has a particular
grudge against Col. z. A. Deeds of
Dayton, a prominent member of the
aircraft board, and that he should
have stated during his pretended in
vestigationS that Deeds was the
man he was after. that he should
have presented 10 the board several
ideas Of inventions that had been
turned down for uselessness, that
he should have misused the conf
dence of the president, capitalizinS
II in the promotion Of an aircraft
corporation of his own that would
employ those ideas of his, along
with others that he promised pros
peCtive stock buyers. he would lift
from the government" with presi-
Dental aid, none Of these things, or
any other the others placed before
the committee throw any light upon
Borglum's probable reliability as an
aircraft investigator, according to
the determined anti-war admins
tration gentlemen on Capitol Hill.
GRUDGE AGAINST
DEEDS HISTORICAL.
Sculptor Borglums grudgc
against Col. Deeds extends back
over a number Of years, when the
latter employed the former to
make a bust Of his dead nephew
Borglum's bill was $4,000, which
Col. Deeds paid. but not without de-
rouncing the charge as outrageous.
Later when the city of Dayton was
placed on the commission. BOrglum
bid on the job, but didn't get ii, and
has always blamed IL on Deeds. Col.
Deeds, the Wright Bros. aeroplane
plant. and in fact the whole city Of
Dayton were plainly thorns in the
1
out his negotiations with the Dodge
Co. of Mishawaka he had something
to even up with them. is a fact
which Is not secreted. He told both
Kenyon W. Mix. advertising mana
ger. and II. II. Suplee. consulting
engineer Of the Dodge Mfg. Co, that
he was going to get" Deeds and
Col. Montgomery. With these
men removed from the aircraft
board. and along with them How
ard E. Coffin. chief Of production.
it was Borglum's idea that his air.
craft corporation would have easv
sailing with the government in the
matter OF contracts and the secur
ing of designs for planes. motors.
propellers and everything wanted.
BORGLUM
EXPERIENCED AVIATOR.
Borglum's experience in aviation
matters appears TO consist Of an in
vention of some kind or motor brake
that the aircraft board found
wouldn't work. getting Aviator
Biakely drunk before he made his
Mineola test OF the Liberty motor
lass January in which he lost his
life. and his attempted promotion
of an aircraft corporation which
has been the subject Of the Mix
Suplee expose.
In addition 10 this. BOrglum un-
dertook flight in a gas balloon
some 10 years ago. Drifting out to-
ward the Atlantic. he pulled the
string which let him down in a
swamp of Coney Island where he
remained. sinking in the quicksand
between yells for help for two days
and a night. When finally rescued.
ne had gone down 10 his armpits.
and was more dead than alive He
was resUsitated by the same sort
| of medicine that sent Aviator
/ Blakely 20 his doom. In a few more
I hours the nation might have been
saved this scandal and the senatorial
/ ''aeronau copperheads" would
have needed 20 have found another
wise ''Cngel" 10 have provided them
| with an excuse for their "nagging. "
Taken all in all, Borglums air
| craft experience shows him 10 be
| efficient like County Atty Houhhan