Coulee City dispatch. [volume] (Coulee City, Wash.) 19??-19??, 1936-09-17

was going to take great pleasure,
the day after election, in wiring
President Roosevelt the results.
Knox county folks are wondering
if he did. They are a little surprised
that the newspapers up North failed
to pay any attention to their little
battle down almost under the
shadow of TWAS Norris Dam. They
had thought, from what Mr.. Brown
ing and other Democratic leaders
had told them, that the whole coun-
try would be reverberating next
day with this barometer" on ma
tional sentiment.
But they found out that the rest
of the country is still wondering
what Maine will do on September IA,
and no one cares, apparently, that
IVA workers did not vote Demo
cratic
The figures are rather interesting.
j. Carroll Cate, regular Republican
nominee for sheriff, received 16,061
votes to 1878 for his Democratic
opponent, J. D. Val Crippen, while
an Independent Republican candi-
date, received 1883 votes.
Beat Farley Man
Nor was this the only shock that
the New Deal received that day.
For apparently the whole force Of
the state organization, both United
States Senators, and what help Jim
Farley could bring to bear was con-
centrated on nominating Burgin o..
Dossett for governor. Whereupon
the Democrats of the state beat
Mr.. Dossett by $4,000.
This figure, however reflects no.
thing with respect to the sentiment
of Tennessee on the New Deal. The
victor, Gordon Browning, had been
beating his breast almost as vehe-
mently as Mr.. Dossett in protesting
his entire loyalty to it. In fact it was
Mr.. Browning who tried so hard to
arouse the Knox county Democracy
in general and the IVA workers in
particular to do their utmost in Knox
County's "weather-vane' election.
All that this Tennessee primary
proves, it would seem, is that even
the alphabetical agencies, added to
ordinary political organization, do
not always decide the day in a
primary fight.
Tennessee Republicans, of course,
are jubilant. They insist that this
spells revolt against Roosevelt.
They insist that the Tennessee DEM
ocracy is fed up on the New Deal,
and may throw the state to Landon
in November.
Such an outcome is certainly not
indicated by any polls which have
been taken All these place
Tennessee safely in the Roosevelt
column. But there is no escaping
the, point of the Knox county
election, although it would not seem
fair to apply it, pending the de-
velopnent of further facts, to COM
munities in every state where large
numbers of federal employees are
able to vote.
The point would seem to be that
regardless of the political character
of their original appointments, these
employees are apt to vote just as
they please, regardless of the pleas
and demands of their patronage
benefactors.
Change Methods
Long range weather forecasting is
an absolute necessity in working out
either crop control or crop insur-
ance, in the opinion of shrewd
career men in the Department of
Agriculture. Little has been done
about this so far as the government
is concerned, though as matter of
fact it has been advocated by the
permanent STAFF of the Agricul-
ture Department for more than ten
years.
During this period certain large
corporations have done a great deal
of experimenting, in which the ex-
perts connected with the Agricul-
tural Department took the keenest
interest. Certain corporations, for
example, employed Herbert ].
Browne, now dead, who devoted his
whole time, with considerable sue
cess, to long range weather predict
ing.
Browne was not interested in
whether it would rain next week, or
whether two months hence the. crops
would be burning up. He was inter
ested in whether next summer
would be hot or merely warm, what
would be the approximate rainfall,
and whether .there,would be plenty
or scarcity of snow winter after
next.
Any attempt to explain his
methods in detail would take the
writer well out over his head into
deep Water, though he has listened
time after time to Mr.. Browne ex-
plain just how he did it. In SUBJ
stance, it has to do with the ice
patches round the two poles and
various other elements, which grad
ually produce situations resulting in
cold or heat, rain or drouth.
Two more feet on a glacier in
northern Alaska or up north of
Siberia today, for instance, would
make all the difference in the world
as to whether a certain wind, which
NAV be blowing in Nebraska two