PAGE FOUR THE MICHIGAN DAILY SATURAY, JULY 27, 1935 mommoommom Election Costs Widely Varying, Pollock Learns Expense Ranges From 32 Cents To 92 Cents Per Voter, Professor Says 20 Counties Report Population And Location Of County No Factor; Politics Responsible, An "astonishing" variation in the county cost per registered voter for conducting elections, differing from 32. cents to 92 cents, is shown by a survey recently completed by Prof. James K. Pollock of the political sci- ence depafrtment. Sixy-nine per cent of the state population resides in the 20 counties reporting. The outstanding feature of Profes- sor Pollock's, study, conducted with the cooperation of the Secretary of State and county officers, is the fact that election cost per voter shows no connection with the location or pop- ulation of the various counties. Nor does the rural, urban, industrial, ag- ricultural or mining character of the county seem to influence varying costs in any explainable way. The average cost for the 20 counties is 62 cents for each voter. Here's Difference Here is how the cost per registered voter differs in the two extremes of the scale. Roscommon, 1,745 voters, cost, 92 cents; Wayne, 639,281 voters, cost 83 cents; Lenawee, 27,183 voters, cost, 32 cents; Genesee, 78,431 voters, cost, ,8 cents. Hillsdale and Calhoun counties share the 32 cent rate with Lenawee, despite a voter difference of 15,879 and 39,818 respectively. Other figures show that Kent, with 103,159 voters, has a cost of 39 cents, only one cent above Genesee. Again, Muskegon and Monroe compare close- ly in voter strength, 29,340 and 25,- 067, but the costs are 72 cents for the former and 41 for the latter. Lake, a near neighbor of Roscommon and with only a few more voters, 2,700, has a cost of 62.cents. Units Closely Grouped The three Upper Peninsula counties reported are Houghton, 20,640 voters, cost 46 cents; Delta, 14,653 voters, cost 46 cents; and Marquette 24,234 voters, cost 54 cents. All of these units are quite closely grouped as to geography and cost. The costs in this group, however, are also close to the adjacent counties of Washtenaw,' Jackson, and Oakland in the south- ern part of the state, with costs of 51, 59, and 40 cents respectively. "Basically the reason for high costs is that the administration of elections is in political hands. Election ma- chinery is used to pay political debts, to increase the power of patronage, and even to serve an eleemosynary purpose," Professor Pollock states in commenting on the survey. "The fig- ures also give force to the argument for a shorter ballot and fewer elec- tions.. As it is now, the voter gets it coming and going. He not only has to pay an excessive cost for his elec- tions, but he has them too often and with too many complications." 'Bride' Quits Twice, So Squire Gives Up LENOIR, N. C., July 26. - () - Squire G. R. McLean just can't make out these young folks. A couple handed him $4 for a marriage license, and sought a preacher. Finding none, they returned and asked him to marry therm. Squire McLean went to get three witnesses as required by law. When he returned, the "bride" was gone. She said she couldn't go through with it. The witnesses were released, and the squire started home. He was overtaken by the couple who had "fixed everything up." But the "bride" backed out again. Squire McLean, already late for supper, took her word as being final. He learned the next day, however, that the couple finally got married in a rural com- munity later in the evening. Vassar College (Poughkeepsie, N.Y.) is considered to be the most expensive of the women's colleges in the United States. It costs approximately $1,350 to cover the yearly expenses of each student. --Associated Press Photo. Unlike Gertrude Stein, to whom "a rose is a rose," the Rev. George Schoener, Santa Barbara's "Padre of the Roses," finds countless varia- tions in this flower. He has developed, among others, a black rose, a thornless rose, a rose with fragrant foliage, an edible rose apple and a 36-foot rose tree. * * * * * * Edible Rose Apples, Thornless Roses Grown By Elderly Priest 'Padre Of The Roses' Disagrees With Stein Japan Ponders 5-Year Building Of War Machine $261,000,000 Would Be Expended If War Office Program Goes Through TOKIO, July 26. - (P) - The war office proposed a broad five-year plan today for modernization, improve- ment and expansion of Japanese land and air armaments. The program, requiring expendi- tures of 900,000,000 yen (about $261,- 000,000), was drafted by the general staff of the war office for submission to the cabinet and inclusion in the budget. The money is in addition to regular military appropriations. War office authorities, disclosing the project pointed out that it was "essential" to modernize equipment and increase the air force, which they contended was inferior to those of other major powers. Fear Air Attack Although they considered Japan extremely vulnerable to an air attack, officials said the limitations on Jap- an's industrial capacity made it nec- essary that the program be concen- trated on land equipment for the first two years. Air force improvements would occupy the last three years. It was the first time since the Man- choukuan campaign that the army had disclosed its program for long- time expenditures. Officers had asserted previously that the situation forced daily alter- ation of plans. The situation in the Far East was believed to be sufficient- ly stabilized now, however, to permit formulation of the national defense plan for presentation to the finance ministry, the cabinet and the public. The army project coincided with plans of the communications ministry to request an appropriation of at least 13,000,000 yen (about $3,770,000) for development of civilian aviatiori. The communications ministry pro- gram provided for expansion of do- mestic air lines, establishment of air service to Singapore, subsidies for local air lines and creation of an avia- tion laboratory. Army Program The army program fell into three parts: An appropriation of 500,000,000 yen was designed chiefly for improvement and increase in military aviation, in addition to the 200,000,000 yen al- ready authorized. An appropriation of 200,000,000 yen was considered for Japan proper and Korea, for improvement of infantry, anti-tank and anti-air equipment, an increase in automatic firearms, mod- ernization of field guns, improvements in heavy artillery and an increase in motor transports. South Dakotans Shun Work, So Relief Is Halted -Associated Press Photo. A drastic order halted work relief in Hughes County, S. D., when clients refused to accept private employment in harvest fields, despite a shortage of harvest hands. M. A. Kennedy, South Dakota relief ad- ministrator, is shown putting up the "closed" sign at the Pierre office. One Reported Missing After Motion Picture Barge Sinks SANTA BARBARA, Calif., July 26. - (P) - Rose "trees" which grow 36 feet high, edible rose apples of ex- otic flavor and thornless roses are among the new flower and fruit de- velopments of a 70-year-old Catholic priest who is called "the padre of the roses." Living quietly in a modest home here, the Rev. George M. A. Schoener, Ph.D., ranks with outstanding con- temporary botanists. Black and Blue Roses The padre's accomplishments in- clude development of: a rose that ap- pears almost black; a strain of roses that, in a few generations, he be- lieves, will be a rich sky blue; a rose foliage as fragrant as the flower; a giant rose measuring eight inches across the bloom. As an art student in Swiss and Ger- man universities 50 years ago, the padre studied analytic botany, plant genetics and similar subjects. He took up theology and entered church ser- vice, but his duties as a priest broke his health after coming to America. Advised to seek outdoor work, he ac- cepted a post as administrator of an Indian mission at Brooks, Ore. Lux- uriant blooms in his parish there started: him on his career as a plant expert. There he accomplished after many failures the cross-fertilization of wild and cultivated roses. Trough aid from the Royal Botanic garden and army officers in India he Brothers Rig Up $50 Power Plant To Electrify Farm NEWTON, S. C., July 26.--(A) - Charles and Gordon Weaver have electrified their farm and home with a small water power plant of their own construction. The total cost of setting up the plant and wiring the house came to less than $50. Obtaining most of the parts sec- ond-hand, they set up a small gen- erator driven by an eight-foot water wheel. They dammed a stream on the farm and dug a ditch 200 yards long to convey the water from the pond, around a hill, to the water wheel. By means of pulleys and wires run- ning from the house to the water gate, the Weaver brothers are able to regulate the flow of water over the wheel without leaving their home. The generator furnishes power to light the house and barn, and to op- erate a number of small motors and electrical appliances in the home and on the farmstead. A centrifugal pump which can be connected directly to the water wheel supplies water under pressure for washing their cars and similar pur- poses. obtained seedlings to develop an ev-I ergreen rose comparable to the fnerj garden species. Today he has plantsl which not only bloom continuously in new colors, but which produce shoots which in a single year measure nearly1 two inches in diameter at the base and 36 feet high. Among the Indian roses- was the species Macrocarpa, which produces an edible fruit, large as a small ap- ple - smooth, yellow and sweetly scented. These he crossed with the Rugosa Thungerg, another fruitbear- ing rose, and with the Spitzenburg apple rose, and produced an even larger fruit. He has made these into jelly, which retains a spicy rose flavor. After a fire which destroyed his home and garden, the padre came here from Oregon. Friends who had followed his work made up a fund to help him establish himself here. Peas With Edible Pods His garden here contains a "rose avenue," 225 feet long, lined with giant rose trees. He also has perfected a mammoth sugar pea with an edible pod, meas- uring seven by one and one half inches. The achievements of the padre have won recognition for him from the International Congress of Horti- culture and other learned bodies. Memorial Statue Shows Man Entering Own Tomb CUTTINGSVILLE, Vt., July 26. - (A') - A strange mausoleum, with a life-sized statue of the wealthy New Yorker who built it facing the door, stands in a cemetery here. The builder was the late John P. Bowman, who was born in Clarendon, Vt. Bowman, his wife and their two children were buried here. The tomb was built of marble and granite in 1880-1881. The statue of Bowman was sculp- tored in New York by Tutini and shows him ascending steps at the door with a key to the memorial in his right hand. On his left arm he car- ries his ulster and a high hat. CLYDE PLANS FOR FAR FUTURE GLASGOW, July. 26. - (A) - The Clyde Navigation Trust, which ad- ministers the shipping business in this Scottish port, has approved a dock development planned to meet the trust's needs for the next 50 years at an eventual cost of $35,000,000. More than four miles of additional wharf- age will be provided. Mining Boom Predicted CAPETOWN --(P) - Within six years 14 new mines capitalized for $115,000,000 will be producing gold in South Africa and employing about 1,000 white men each, was the pre- diction of Patrick Duncan, minister of mines, in a speech in parliament. HOLLYWOOD, Calif., July 26.-(') - One man was reported missing and several hurt today after a barge fashioned to represent the historic square-rigger "Bounty," sank during the filming of a motion picture near San Miguel island, 35 miles off Santa Barbara, Calif. The missing man was believed to be Glen Strong, assistant movie cam- eraman, who was one of a technical crew "shooting" scenes for the pro- duction, "Mutiny on the Bounty." Artists in the picture including the three male stars, Clark Gable, Charles Laughton and Franchot Tone, were not with the location outfit. The United States coast guard cut- ter Hermes was dispatched from its San Pedro base early today to aid the crew, and the salvage tug Re- triever, used as a camera boat, was standing by the submerged barge. First word of the accid.ent was sent to the Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer studio here by short wave radio used. De- tails of the mishap were meager. The scene was supposed to show the sinking of the picturesque Boun- ty. It was believed the pump used to pour water into the barge failed to function properly, causing it to really sink. The location chosen for the particular "shot" is among the jag- ged rocks and treacherous reefs in what is known as Cuyler's harbor. Welter Strohm, production manag- er of the "Bounty" company, sta- tioned in Santa Barbara, said the assistant cameraman was the only man missing. The barge is owned by the Wrigley interests, and was chartered by the studio for the film. Studio technicians explained that a replica of the Bounty, designed to show it as it appeared after it had been wrecked, was built on the barge. The latter craft was being lowered to show the supposed wrecked vessel half submerged. Background "shots" were being made when the accident occurred. Stahlhelm Is Dissolved In Reich Order Is Current With Extension Of The Nazi Three-Sided 'Cleansing Act' BERLIN, July 26. - () - Dissolu- tion of the entire East Prussian Stahl- helm (Steel Helmet) veterans or- ganization was announced today by Gov. Erich Koch. The stern action against the veter- ans organization - Germany's equiv- alent to the American Legion - was taken under the Feb. 28, 1933, law for the protection of the people and the state. It accompanied a broadening of the Nazi threesided "cleansing act" against Semitism, "political Catholic- ism," and "reactionary" veterans. A new Nazi departmental dictator, Hans Hinkel, assumed power with the specific duty of eliminating Jew- ish influences from art. The anti- semitic boycott was tightened throughout the Reich and renewed moves were made to isolate Jews. All East Prussian Steel Helmet un- its and all subdivisions were affected by the dissolution order. All property of the organization was to be con- fiscated. Koch's order quoted a Steel Hel- meter as saying Franz Seldte, leader of the Stahlelm and minister of labor was "a traitor," and that he once ordered mourning crepe removed from flags during an anti-Versailles demonstration, contrary to the orders of East Prussian Steel Helmet lead- ers. It was learned today that no Jews will represent Germany in the 1936 Olympics because of what the Jews call discrimination against them by Nazi sports leaders and what the Nazis call the incompetence of Jewish athletes. 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