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Evening star., 1936-10-21
By the Associated Press.


LOS ANGELES, october 21.-The
text Of ALI NJ Landon's statement last
night IN reply to Harold 1ckes, Sec
retary OF the Interior, follows:
Up to date the administrations
spokesmen have been attacking me
on the ground I was puppet Of big
business. Now they attack me on the
ground that I am Socialist and the
enemy OF. big business. This is typi-
cal of the confusion and contradic-
tory policies that have characterized
this administration from its begin
ming. This attack is like the losing
team throwing the ball around wildly
attempting to score.
Yes, I communicated with Presi-
dent Roosevelt's Secretary Of the In
terror. I was engaged in a fight for
lower gas rates in Kansas. ! was
determined to obtain fair rates. And
I did. am glad the administration
has seen fit to make these negotia-
tions public. They show I was de-
termined to bring lower gas rates to
Kansas, even to the extent Of resort
ing to public ownership on State
basis.
have always been in favor OF
public ownership as gun behind the
Evening star., 1936-10-21
LandOn Answers Ickes
G. O. P. Nominee Replies to ATTACK, Defending
Course to Get Cheaper Gas Rates
for Kansas Consumers.

door in the adjustment of proper and
fair utility rates. I have always felt
that States that have good municipal
ownership laws. and consequently
good municipal plants, were in the
best position to negotiate for lower
rates
never made any formal applica-
ton to Mr.. Roosevelt's Secretary Of
the Interior for any funds for use
in our public service project. I did
discuss with him in an informal way
the possibility Of usng Federal funds
in a gas project that would be self
liquidating. In the long drawn fight
we were in at that time for fair gas
rates. the Henry L. Doherty outfit was
resorting to every technicality to pre-
vent an adjustment by the duly con-
stituted State authorities. The Kan
sas Legislature repeatedly had appro-
priated money to carry on this fight.
was thoroughly disguised with their
tactics-and I might say the other
Kansas utilities were disguised also.
Defends Secrecy Request.
Naturally ! asked Mr.. Roosevelt's
Secretary Of the Interior to keep our
discussion secret. II it had been given
publicity the private gas interests
would have preempted all the availa BILE
Evening star., 1936-10-21
.|CKES AND LAND0N .
. EXCHANGE bARBS.
Secretary's Estate Social
ist" Charge Brings Sharp
Reply From Kansan.
Ry the Associated Press.

Ey the Associated Press.
An exchange of campaign blows, IN
which Secretary Ickes called Gov.
Landon former "State Socialist" and
the Kansas Governor replied that the
New Deal was like q losing team
throwing the ball around wildly at
tempting to score" added warmth to
the presidential battling today.
Questioning Landon's sincerity"
the Interior Secretary declared in .
radio address last night that in 1884
and 1885 Landon was q State Socialist
advocating State-owned telephone and
natural gas distribution systems. but
that recently he became q rugged
individualist" over night.
Landon came back with statement
that New Dealers had been charging
he was 'puppet Of big business" but
now say he is "a Socialist and the
enemy Of big business" Landon de-
clared this was typical of the confu-
sion" of the Roosevelt administration.
On February z. 1885, Ickes said.
Landon wrote to him suggesting loans
to States for public Statewide tele-
phone systems" He added that in
December, 1884, William Allen White,
Kansas editor, was sent to Washington
with Landon proposal for the con-
struction of a natural gas pipe line
as a State enterprise
"Enjoining great secrecy because
the Governor of Kansas did not want
his colleagues in the oil business to
get wind of it," Ickes said, "Mr. White
unfolded a plan by which Kansas, as
State enterprise. would build pipe
line to the natural gas fields in South
western Kansas and market that nat
ural gas in competition with private
industry.
1T also developed later that Gov.
Landon did not propose to take the
people Of his State into his confidence
until 1t was too late for them to block
his ambitious plan. The cost
of Mr. Landon's little pipe dream
would be $35, ,0o0, ,000."
How does it happen" Ickes asked,
that the State Socialist of 1885 is
the Republican candidate for Presi-
dent in 1886 on platform of uncon-
trolled private initiative? Is it pos
sible that the Governor of Kansas was
willing to tear his principles from the
shallow soil in which they were rooted
because Of the lure of the greatest
Office in the world?"
Landon. In statement issued in
Los Angeles, said the gas negotiations
were undertaken in a successful fight
to obtain lower gas rates. He said he
favored public ownership as gun
behind the door" in adjusting rates.
The reason ne asked Ickes to keep
the negotiations secret, he said, was
that If they had been made public
the private gas interests would have
pre-empted all the available gas re-
serves and we would have been out Of
luck"
But we were finally able to obtain
the lower rates, with large saving to
the gas consumers of Kansas, without
resorting to the last weapon that
should be resorted to-public owner
ship" he added
The telephone incident. he said. was
also part of an attempt to get lower
| rates.
"The difference between my plan
and the haphazard system of the
present administration Is that this
administration believes in getting into
business and apologizing LATER" he
declared
Evening star., 1936-10-21

vember 23 to plan for the annual
Christmas party and community
Christmas tree.
Evening star., 1936-10-21
gas reserves and we would have been

gas reserves and we would have been
out of luck.
But we were finally able TO obtain
the lower rates, with large saving to
the gas consumers Of Kansas. with
out resorting to the last weapon that
should be resorted to-public owner
ship.
Very much the same situation
existed in our attempt to get fairer tel
ephone rates. I was exploring our
possible recourses. But when the
Federal investigation of the telephone
rate structure was begun. nothing
further was done In Kansas pending
the outcome of the investigation.
But the public ownership on q local
and State basis Is entirely different
from public ownership on q Federal
basis. In the first case you are using
the money of the locality or the State
for its own service. The Federal Gov
ernment is using the money OF all the
States for the benefit OF one.
Differences In Plans.
our uClLlLlcS III kAdkiooo AA ASSCkis
years have recognized their ohliga-
tions to the public and very generally
have been making rate adjustments.
1 believe the best interest Of the public
Is served In bringing about q recogni-
ton of this principle nationally.
The difference between my plan and
the haphazard system Of the present
administration is that this administra-
ton believes in getting into business
and apologizing later. I believe In
getting private interests to recognize
their obligations to the public and
then letting private business alone.
That is just what did in Kansas. I
got lower rates for the people OF Kan
sas on gas and other utilities, and pri-
vate business continues to operate.
might add that whatever I do in
the matter Of utility and power
projects, when elected President. /
will not use the money Of the people
to attempt to harness the tides!
Evening star., 1936-10-21
THREE ARE CHARGED
IN MERCHANTS HOLD.UP
Young Woman and Two Colored
Men Accused of Robbing
o Street Dealer.

Robbery charges were filed yester-
day against Mrs. Virginia Joseph, lS.
of the TOO block of A street north
east. and two colored men. alleged
to have held up and robbed Israel
Orlove, o street market merchant, OF
$l,400 early Sunday. The girl was
said to have driven to the market
with the alleged robbers.
She Is being held at the Woman's
Bureau with her l5-year-old sister,
in-law pending arraignment in Po-
lice Court. No charges have been
placed against the younger girl
The men charged are Ernest
Mitchell. 80, Of the l700 black Will
lard street, and John Harris, "a, Of
the 1900 block Florida avenue.
Evening star., 1936-10-21
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BLACkhEADS
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Thousands Of women,
Who used to be miser-
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This remarkable prep
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Evening star., 1936-10-21
EDUCATIONAL.
WALTER T. HOLT

Mandolin, banjo, guitar, Hawaiian gui-
tar and ukulele. Pupils trained for
home. orchestra, stage, radio playing.
Ensemble Practice with Nordica Clubs
1901 Col. Rd. NV. Col. 0946
Evening star., 1936-10-21
CHEVY CHASE GARDENS
CITIZENS UNIT ELECTS
Special Meeting Called for No
vember % to Plan Christ

mas Party.
SPECIAL Oispatch TO The Star.
SOMERSET, Md, October 2l.--Ken-
meth McAuliffe was elected president,
T. Ormonde Nichols vice president and
Mrs. John r. Galbraith secretary
treasurer Of the Chevy Chaae Gardens
Citizens Association at a meeting Of
the organization Monday night.
As its Executive Committee the asso-
ciation selected, In addition to the
incoming president, Philip L. Baldwin,
Ira c. Everett and Ralph P. HUH.
Frederick A. Genau was chosen to
represent the association as its dele
gate to the Bethesda Chamber Of
Commerce.
As delegates to the Montgomery
County Civic Federation the associa-
ton elected the incoming president,
r. A. Littleton and Frederick H. Cox,
and As alternates. Lewis Eisele. Theo-
dore F. Behler and Dale Flagg.
A special meeting will be held No
Evening star., 1936-10-21
FUNERAL TOMORROW

Lieut.. Nicholas, q. 8. N, to Be
Buried in Arlington Cemetery.
Funeral services for Lieut.. Guy e.
Nicholas, Dental Corps. u. S. NJ, who
died in San Diego. Calf. Thursday.
will be held at 2 pm. tomorrow in
Arlington National Cemetery. Lieut..
Comdr. Joseph H. Brooks Of the
Nays Chaplain Corps will ofilciate.
Honorary pallbearers will be Comdr.
L. c. Frost, Lieut.. Condr. c. G. Tins
ley, Lieut.. Comdr. F. G. Ulen. Lieut..
Comdr. p. A. McCole, Lieut.. r. w. Ma
lone and Lieut.. q. g. George N.
CroSland.
Evening star., 1936-10-21
BUSINESSES TO MAIL
SECURITY DATA FREE
Board Will Absorb Costs to Fa.
cilitate Compiling of
Records.

Employers and employees furnishing
data to the Social Security Board for
setting up wage records under the
social security act will get free mail
ing privileges.
This was made known in a decision
by Acting Controller General Elliott
of the Social Security Board, which
had asked if it could absorb mailing
costs to facilitate the compilation of
its records.
The board explained that it had
to get certain blanks filled out and
that 1t was essential to the success of
its operations that employers and
employees should not be subject to the
trouble and expense Of fixing postage
on mailing completed forms"
1t explained, too, that the Post Once
Department was not allowed to frank
this matter.
In giving permission for the board
to charge of this service to its mis-
cellaneous account, Elliott said "it is
common experience that obtaining
voluntary information by mail is
greatly facilitated by the payment of
reply postage"
He told the board the return post
age to be fixed on the forms 1t sends
out must be so handled that 1t will
not be available for the carrying of
any other matter.
Evening star., 1936-10-21
Children Get Break.

NEWPORT, KY. R.-H. B. Skinner.
secretary Of the Chamber of Com
merce. asked the city commissioners
to pass an ordinance making the de-
facing Of windows with soap misde-
meanor. Bring 1t to US after Hal
loween," they told him.
Evening star., 1936-10-21

pores from dirt and other Impurities. II
life. Prevents many blemishes, blotches
and blackheads. Refnes coarse pores.
Brings softness to rough skin. soc jar Of
DIOXOGEN CREAM will convince you.
Approved by Good Housekeeping. Not
drying. At drug and department stores.
Evening star., 1936-12-09
A Permanent p. W. A.

Secretary Ickes' presentation, in his
Star Radio Forum address, Of the case
for permanent p. w. A. was helped by
the recent findings of the Bureau of
Labor Statistics regarding the employ
ment results Of p. w. A. construction
projects. One of his handicaps. removed
by the statistics now available, has been
the lack Of specific information relating
to the number Of jobs provided by p. w.
A. construction. Compared with the
more Immediately visible employment
affected under Mr.. Hopkins W.P. A., for
instance, p. w. A. was placed in . rela-
lively poor light. For the only direct
ly ascertainable employment resulting
from p. w. A. construction was the WORK
furnished on the site Of the construction.
The Bureau Of Labor Statistics has
now come forward With the figures r.
Evening star., 1936-12-09
Abolition of Dollar Pass
Will Decrease Revenues
70 the Editor of The Star:

TO the Editor OF The Star:
According to the local papers, the Pub
lie Utilities Commission is without au-
thority to prevent the Capital Transit
Co. from committing financial suicide.
When the C. T. Co. first adopted the
81 pass, it was done to meet the COM
petition furnished by the cheap cabs.
Have conditions in that respect changed?
Not that you can notice! Then why
hand back the advantage that has been
gained by abolishing the pass? It costs
no more to run Q full car than it does
to run one half loaded. They should
know that by their past history. Their
excuse for wanting more fare and doing
away with the dollar pass is that they
are not making sufficient return on the
capital invested. Boshl Then why are
they putting 100000 q month into q
depreciation fund, and yet borrowing
and paying interest on money to pay for
cars, busses and repairing and replacing
tracks, etc? Probably listening to their
masters voice, the holding company that.
controls them, which always looks out
for its end. Congress inflicted this
merger plan on us, and as one Of the
unfortunate small stockholders of the
old Capital Traction Co., believe that
In justice to us they should hold IN in
vestigation OF the affairs of the new COM
pany. Their idea Of requiring that
majority Of the board Of directors should
b local men has not accomplished what
was intended by that clause In the
meESes bill. .. EDWARD 1o0AleN.
Evening star., 1936-12-09
Shooting Stars.
BY PHLANDER JOHNSON.
The Last Laugh

The Last Laugh.
Old man Stubbles has q face
That seems always out O. place.
When he hears merry quip,
Never winkS or moves lip
Toward a smile. He'll sit an star,
With q stern, forbidding air
Till he's all alone. an then
Laugh again an yet again.
When a hard-luck tale drew nigh
He was never known to sigh
Sympathetic like an nice,
With chunk of good advice.
But when he's alone he'll take
Pen in hand fur old times sake
An write out check or two,
Helpin' some poor teller through.
Those who meet him stand aside
Talkin' bout his sordid pride
An his domineerin' way.
Gold an cranky" they all say,
Cause his good deeds rest unknown,
An that's why, when he's alone,
He is laughing ut the Jokes
That he plays on all us folks.
Evening star., 1936-12-09

publicans still left In that body. And
yet these gentlemen supported President
Roosevelt in the past compaign-and
even in the campaign Of 1882.
Is the tail finally to wag the dog-is
the group of regular" Republicans to go
over to the progressive wing Of the party?
It is not likely that anything of that
kind will happen openly and on the
surface. Yet there Is every indication
that some Of these regular Republicans
are bent on shaking from themselves
the old conservative label-any inclusion
of them in the ranks of the "Old Guard"
brings cold shivers.
Republicans Of the conservative school,
even those who survived the recent elec-
tions, are today wondering what is to
happen to the Republican party. They
sadly wonder what there is left. Prob
ably they will acquire their second wind
and begin to breathe more easily after q
few months and take courage from the
fact that the party polled about 17,000,-
600 in the presidential election. For the
present they are badly shaken. They
might, If they would, regard the Demo-
Gratis. The Democrats have finally
bloomed forth in almost incredible ef-
fulgence. For years, during the period
since the Civil War, the Democrats were
impotent, crushed-except in the "solid
South" They refused, however, to re-
main crushed. In the last half dozen
years the Democrats turned more and
more to the ideas of the La Follettes,
the Norrises, the Johnsons and the pro-
gressives generally. They leaped aboard
the progressive bandwagon, in fact.
Some of the Republicans are wonder
ing if they did not miss an opportunity
are asking themselves whether, instead
of undertaking to read the late Senator
Bob" La Toilette of Wisconsin and
the late Senator Ladd of North Dakota,
for example, out Of the party back in
1925, they should not have taken a leaf
from their book.
The pendulum Of politics swings-but
rarely does it ever swing as far back
as it has been in the past. It will swing
again, depending probably on economic
conditions or on some issue not now dis
cernible. In the meantime there is a
growing demand among the Republicans
in Congress that the party become more
liberal. Hence the talk of af1liating with
the lost progressives.
Evening star., 1936-12-09
PrOgressives Old and New.

What to do with the La Follettes. the
Norrises, the Johnsons and other pro-
gressives has been a frequent topic Of
discussion for years among Republicans
Of the more conservative stamp. The
present Senator La Toilette and Senator
Norris have solved the problem by be-
coming Independent Of the Republican
party. Now that they, and many other
! progressives, have taken themselves out
of the party, the conservative Repub-
licans are trying to think up some way
of getting them back into the G. o. p.
They are giving the question serious
consideration today.
When the Senate meets-and the
House, too-on January 5, the question
Of party organization rises. 1t will rise,
to be sure, in party caucuses even before
that date. What is to be done with
the La Follettes, the Norrises, the Ship
-steads and the Lundeens, for example?
Fa Toilette is Progressive, and, with his
brother, Governor La Toilette, is the head
of the Progressive party of Wisconsin.
Norris was elected as an independent,
without party stamp. Shipstead and
Lundeen are members of the Farmer
Labor party Of Minnesota. They and
the people they represent have been Re-
publicans In the past-not Democrats.
There is talk of asking them to join, 50
far as organization Of the Congress is
concerned, with the thin line Of Re-
Evening star., 1936-12-09
THIS AND THAT
BY CHARLES e. TRACEWELL.

had Just taken up bird feeding in a large
way, and soon saw that wild birds and
cats do not mix.
Fortunately, Mutsie did not offer to
harm the birds. He would sit on the
porch, watching them for hours at time,
but make no offer of harm to them.
This was better behavior than that of
the Jones own cats, so Templton Jones
cut the famous knot by keeping the cats
in most Of the time.
Mutsie kept Tgey completely OF the
scene.
But one day Mutsie failed to show up,
and thereafter never appeared again.
BY this time Tigey had grown into a
big fellow.
Now was his chance. Deserted by his
own family, houseless in Chevy Chase,
he came roaming over to find what he
could find.
The kind hearted Jones fed him. Tigey
purred. Then, to reward them, he made
straight to a bird-feeding station and
showed them how prettily he could leap
Here" he seemed to say, "see what q
fine catcher am!'
The Jones family was now faced with
one Of those famous dilen1Inas one reads
about so much in the papers.
They tried every known method of
keeping their new friend away from the
birds.
Tigey didn't realize it. but he was
breaking up something into which the
Jones family had put time. money and
interest.
Harm to the cat was out of question
with the Joneses, so the only thing left
was to give him away, since he had no
home, or shut him up somehow.
The garage
1t was a bright idea, and, best of ALL
1t worked splendidly.
No sooner was the door opened then
Mr.. Tigey, lured by a platter of good
beef, entered with tail held high.
He ate his dinner. looked around him,
selected an old bushel basket for a bed
and dropped asleep.
A night In the open makes a fellow
both hungry and sleepy.
Outside the birds by the score few from
feeding station to feeding station, while
inside the cat lay asleep.
Sometimes in his dreams he would hear
the hutter of wings, pow erfully beating
the air, as so sparrows rose nightly in
the air at one time and Of one accord.
In time the cat came to look forward
to his voluntary incarceration.
A plate Of meat or salmon. placed on
the driveway outside, would not be
touched while the garage door was being
unlocked.
This way" his waving tail would
seem to say, this way for my little
house."
Into it he would march.
1t was his home.
Tigey had house at last.
He was house cat once more. Small,
but plenty big enough, with no one to
poster him. with two windows and a
very fine big door and a neat roof and
an old basket-it was his little house.
"A swell house" purred Tigey, from
the depth Of his cozy basket.
Evening star., 1936-12-09

Second strongest trait in cat nature is
love of home. Hence the common name,
house cat.
Tigey Is a free-born, roistering tom,
but when it comes to q demand TOR o
home, he is on a par with his tribe.
When his family deserted him, leaving
him locked in the attic, he was sorely
put out.
Being in the attic probably was his own
fault.
Tigey was taking his daily nap when
the movers showed up.
A night in the open makes fellow
very sleepy.
The minute Tigey saw these strange
men he streaked 1t for the staircase.
The men came on.
Tigey fortunately found the attic door
open.
Up he went.
And got shut in.
4 i
The desertion, however, rested securely
on the shoulders of his owners, So
called.
1t is q nasty little habit some persons
have deserting pet animals leaving them
behind to find food and shelter.
The cat was discovered, it is true, and
given to another family, but the trans
planting didn't seem to take"
Tigey roamed the neighborhood, look
ing for house which suited him.
It's the house, not the family, of course,
with these strange animals. It's the
familiar, as contrasted with the un-
familiar. It's habit, it's anything you
choose, so long as it is the usual.
r
Ever since kittenhood Tigey had his
eyes on the Templeton Jones home.
The Joneses liked cats, and not only
had several of their own, but were friends
to all strays.
A plate Of salmon on the back porch
was the order Of the evening.
Wandering cats partook of it often,
save when dog managed to get there
first. which one often did.
Dogs are the true garbage can hounds;
cats resort to this method of feeding only
in an emergency; dogs. however, out OF
preference.
Many persons do not realize that the
short intestinal tract of the dog enables
it to eat food which is tainted, or even
definitely on the bad side.
Cats, on the other paw, are very easily
SuCIl QlSCdIOcu lOOQcGQno,
especially in the warmer months.
y
Even before Tgey's folks moved away,
Tgey had his eyes on this house.
He would have come around earlier,
only Mutsie, another wandering tom, beat
him to 1t.
Mutsie was q fine big fellow with
watermelon stripes.
He loved to dominate the neighbor-
hood. Might was right with him and his
world. They knew no other right
Mutsie knew this law so thoroughly
and was so experienced in its application
that he drove the Jones cats indoors
and kept them there at the risk of various
wounds.
He drove poor Tgey, kitten. completely
away.
The Jones family was ready to acquiesce
in this dictatorship. At that time they