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HELP FOR THE PRESIDENT \Y/I ASHINGTON dispatches tell that President Coolidge is ** now at work drafting the next. Republican platform. lie will be glad, of course, if we all help him a little. This newspaper has a suggestion or two. First, the platform ought to be different from the oldfashioned platforms. People always like something new and different. So it is suggested here that the platform be just as truthful and sincere as possible. That would be new and very different. For example, when pointing with pride, the platform could leave out those blessing bestowed by God, such as good crops and fair weather, and confine itself to those national policies of a beneficial character actually put into effect by the G. O. P. Further, in enumerating such helpful policies actually worked out by the party leaders, the platform could differentiate between those undertaken voluntarily and those into which the leaders were kicked by an angry constituency. This procedure would shorten the platform a lot and might result in more people reading it. Second, the platform should be directed at the people who are most interested, i. e., the campaign contributors. Os course, all previous platforms have been, but the language used has often confused the contributor. It has been aimed at him, all right, but over the heads of the plain people. Sometimes the contributor has missed the point. Lots of contributions have been lost in the past this way. A simple, straight thinking man like Coolidge ought to be able to write a series of planks that would leave no doubt whatever in the minds of the boys with the money. What should the plank contain? Well, that is a matter between the campaign contributors and the candidate and the latter should go direct to the source for his information. They’ll tell him. INEVITABLE SHE first big railroad to couple its rail service with an extensive motor truck system is the New York Central It is already using trucks for package freight and rapidly increasing the mileage. A former generation of railroad men would have fought motor truck competition by trying to strangle it. People are wiser now. They keep the old and adopt the new, using both —knowing that there is plenty of work for both. Steam railroads already are inadequate for transportation needs. Before long, progressive railroads will be establishing airplane routes.
YES, IT’S DIFFERENT A' X election in Japan has its interesting features, it seems. t ____ The one of the present is no exception. Our foreign editor. William Philip Simms, illuminates the situation for us in order that we may see quite plainly. Passing lightly over the causes of the election and other features he comes down to thp “hints” the government gives the voters as to their conduct during the campaign. Here are a few of them: “You shall receive no gifts of money, goods or promissory notes from candidates or their agents. “Y r ou shall not canvass for any candidates in exchange for promises of public or private positions. “ You shall not ride on vehicles supplied by candidates or their agents, nor shall you receive money to pay for vehicles, hotel charges, or tips. “You shall not circulate false reports about candidates with a view of preventing their election. “You shall not gather in large numbers for riots or otherwise create disturbance.” All of which leads us to the conclusion that Roosevelt was quite right. Japan’s is a civilization entirely different from ours —very, very different. THE lasts ditch seems in a fair way to be overcrowded. IF THE presidential ring has any message, it is: “Hold your hat.” HARRY THAW plays golf and yet a court declared him sane. A SCIENTIST says the highest being on Mars are insects, and that makes it seem closer than ever. THE convention breaks, if any. will have’a bearing on the presidential candidacy of Senator Glass is our reflection. % CONTRARY to the accepted custom, Lew Shank apparently hires men o~ >asis of merit and fires them for political reasons.
Who'll Be the Next President?
The votoers will decide that in November? "Not so; they'll only choose between the candidates picked by the national conventions of the great parties in June. Do you know how a President is nominated? Do you know the origin of political party conventions? How are the delegates to these conventions chosen? How many are there? Who chooses the national party committees? How are contests settled? Which States choose by primary, which by conventions, which by other means? How do the delegations vote in the conventions? How is a party convention organized? Who chooses the -temporary officers? How is a party convention organized? Who chooses
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NEW RULE ON DIVORCE IN PROSPECT
Texas Case’ May Change Entire Procedure in Separation Action, By ELMER ROESSNER, SfiA Service Writer FT. WORTH, Texas. May IS.—A quarrel between a "big baby boy” and a big, beautiful girl may revolutionize divorce proceedings in the United States. Winfiejd Scott, Jr., a 22-year-olu millionaire, filed suit for divorce against Josephine Gertrude Law
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Scott. Did she tile a counter suit? She did not! She sued Scott for breach of contract, asking SIOO,OOO damages. H & r attorneys contend /narriage is a e vil contract and breaking the contract makes it invalid, holding the violator of the contract responsible for damages. Finish Fight They hold Scott violated his contract to love, cherish and protect. Therefore, they assert, his wife is entitled to damages just as a contractor may he when a lumberman fails to deliver his materials. If the United States Supreme Court upholds Mrs. Scott’s contention (and both sides declare they will carry it that far), legal authorities, w r ho have studied the case, declare this is what may happen: 1. Divorce suits will be unnecessary. W r ives will prefer to sue for breach of contract because they can collect damages in a lump sum instead of chancing alimony. 2. All present grounds for divorce will be unnecessary- It only will be necessary to prove the marriage agreement has been broken. 3. Divorce through breach of contract suits will be possible in every Stale, as the contract laws are basically the same. 4. It will be possible to remarry immediately after a breach of contract separation. Only One Precedent The Scott experiment has only one precedent. That case was filed in Texas, too. Mrs. Emma Lee Gowin sued Jesse C. Gowin. She was awarded SI,OOO. An appeal was takep, but there the case rests. But because of the much larger amount involved, It is expected the Scott case will be pushed as the test case. Little Pete By HAL COCHRAN Pete is just a common purp, who, some time, must have strayed. He drifted into my back yard, adopted me, and stayed. I guess, perhaps, he knew that I was fond of such as he, and he sort of figured he had best get kinda fond of me. I like the outdoors, so does Pete, and every morn you’ll find me a-trail-ing through the w’oods and dells while Pete trails ’long behind me. I chatter with the little birds while Pete just stops to whine. Perhaps he’d like to chase them—but he knows they’re friends of mine. I've often wished that Pete could talk; I wonder what he’d say. No doubt, just words of friendship, ’cause he always looks that way. His eyes do more than give him light; they give me light as well, and they make me understand the things that Pete can never tell. Just dog—that’s Pete —and yet to me he means more in the end than camouflaging humans, for he really is my friend. No credit comes from man sometimes for even what you’ve earned, but I can do no wrong at all as far as Pete's concerned. Some time, within the future, little Pete must pass away, and when he does I’ll know that he has really had his day. And then, my time must also come, and say, I wouldn’t care If I went to canine heaven 'cause they’ll have Pete livin’ there.
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Los Angeles has an unrepealed ordinance forbidding street car conductors from shooting live game from the car platforms. But listen— Kansas City has a statute that is a true world beater: "When two cars approach each other at a crossing,” it regds, "they shall both come to a full stop, and neither shall start up until the other has gone.”—Trolley Topics.
A Thought The wicked flee when no man pursueth, hut the righteous are bold as a lion. —Prov. 28:1. * * * Wickedness may prosper for a while. —L’Estrange.
Ask The Times Vou van trcl an answer to any question oX laet or information by writing to the Indianapolis Time* Washington Bureau. 1323 New York Ave.. Washington. D. C., inelosing 2 cents in stamps lor reply. Medical, lciral and marital advice cannot be given, nor can extended research lx- undertaken. All other questions will receive a persona I reply. Unsigned requests cannot be answered. All letters art- eonriuentiai.—Editor. What are the characteristics of the teachings of Confucius? They are wholly worldly in character: the dry maxims in which he expressed his views are permeated by a utilitarian philosophy which is devoid of any touch of idealism. His system sums up its principles in the five cardinal virtues—humanity, uprightness, decorum, wisdom, and truth. What is the greatest age attained by a horse? It is reported as 53 years. How has water power been developed in the United States? There are about 3,200 water-power i plants of 100 horsepower or more, I having a total capacity of installed water wheels of 9,086,958 horse- | power. New York, with 1,542,983 horsepower, is the leading State in developed water power. California, with 1,451,830, is second: Washingj ton, with 480,356 horsepower, is | third; Maine, with 473,188 horseI power, is fourth; while North Carojlina, with 431,500 horsepower, has | displaced Montana in fifth place. What would be the tax on a net income of $3,000 a year under the Mellon plan, the Democratic plan, and present law? Mellon plan—sll.2s; Democratic plan, $7.50; present law, S2O. The table is based on a married man with no dependents. The first $5,000 is regarded as earned income and granted a special 25 per cent reduction. How many telephones are in use in the United States? It is estimated there are about 14,500,000, or two-thirds of all the telephones in the world. What were some of the famous libraries of antiquity? Four thousand years ago the firm of Turashu Sons, bankers and brokers, of Nippur, Assyria, comparable in their status in that country to the firm of J. P. Morgan in the United States, stacked in their business archives clay tablets written before the era of Abraham which recorded hundreds of their transactions. Ashurbanipal, who died in 626 B. C., had at Ninevah a library which had been classified and arranged according to the subject matter of the tablets. The king sent out his scribes to all the temples and schools of Babylonia and Assyria and had them make copies of the tablets in the modern Assyrian language. The story of the Deluge, which is dated about 2000 B; C., is clearly a copy of an older version. The Egyptians had a library in the Rameseum at Thebas. The ancient library at Alexandria, which was burned, had 700,000 volumes carefully arranged and catalogued. There was a great library at Pergamum, in Asin Minor, which, according to Plutarch, contained. 200,000 volumes.
HISTORY OF TAMMANY IS EVENTFUL Started in Early Days of Nation, Organization Has Great Power, Editor's Note —This is the fourth of five articles by Lowell Mellett. of this paper's Washington staff, who has just fl'.ished a study of the Tammany machine and its ways. By LOWELL MELLETT A teenth St., an inquiring per•**l son is given a small pamphlet entitled, “Plain Facts About Tammany for All Americans.” The opening paragraph recites: “Name derived from Tammany, a Seventeenth Century chief of the Delaware triber renowned for his wisdom, courage, eloquence, justice, friendship for the immigrant whites and love of freedom, who was the patron of the soldiers of the American revolution.” The phrase, "friendship for the immigrant whites,” is signilicant, for Tammany Hall has largely been built on the votes of Immigrants. In its earlier years the Society of Tammany was guilty of enmity toward the immigrants. Not until 1825, after the Irish had shown their voting strength, did it occur to the organization that it was better politics to cultivate them. The lesson never has been forgotten. Society Old One Founded May 12, 1780, as a patriotic and benevolent organization, the name originally was Society of St. Tammany or Columbian Order. The name remains the same, gave that the “Sainf;” has been dropped. Great emphasis was placed upon the Democratic nature of the order and while at the outset It included men of all political tendencies, before the end of the century, it had become so strongly anti-Federalist that few Federalists remained members. Aaron Burr was the first great leader of Tammany. He made It a real political instrument, working through one Matthew L. Davis, several times Grand Sachem of the society. Davis appears to have originated a political trick -still in common use. In a given political contest there would appear strong resolutions and public addresses adopted by mass meetings in various wards of the city. it would' be discovered that at each of these mass meetings the mass consisted of Davis and a oouple of friends
Supported Jefferson Burr’s political genius had made Tammany such a power by 1800 that the society was freely granted great credit for its part in the election of Thomas Jefferson and Tammany men were rewarded with many offices. By 1806 the political effectiveness of Tammany Fociety was causing general concern. In 1805 a charter had been obtained from the legislature, incorporating Tammany as a charitable and benevolent body. Tammany Hull, the political organi izution. was declared to be entirely independent of Tammany Society. This pretense has been maintained solemnly ever since. Tammany Tricks Unless one includes Aaron Burr's action in slipping through the Legislature a bill to incorporate a State j bank, under the guise of a biil to I protect the people against yellow (►fever, the first Tammany manitestai tlon of the kind for which it became ; famous, occurred in 1806. Benjamin Romaine, Grand Sachem, j was ousted a.s City Controller for j ha ving appropriated city lands to his I own use. In 1807 Philip I. Arcuiarius, superintendent of the almshouse. and Cornelius Warner, superintendent of public repairs, were ousted for frauds. Jonas Humbert, inspector of bread, was found to be extorting a third of the fees taken 1 in by Flour Inspector Jones, under j threats of getting Jones’ job. In i 1808 Abraham Stagg, collector of j assessments, failed to account for | SI,OOO, while Collectors Page and | Ackerman were discovered to be emj bozzling part of their collections. | John Bingham, alderman, persuaded j the council to sell city land to a j brother-in-law and then to buy it j back at exorbitant prices. And saddest of all, William Mooney, venerable founder of Tammany, now superintendent of the almshouse, was proved to be bilking the city out of some $3,500 annually. In all a deficit in the city’s accounts of $250,000 was revealed by investigation. * Family Fnn 1 A Perfect Match "So you dare to say you are an ideal match for my daughter.” “1 do, sir.” "Why, you have never earned a dollar in your life." “Neither has she.”—Boston Tran script. Read to the I>oetor “I don't like your heart action. You’ve had some trouble with angina pectoris.” “You're partly right, doctor, only that ain’t her name.” —College Humor.
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READER IN OBJECTION TO HANGINGS Louisiana Episode Commentary on Civilization, Writer Thinks. Editor s Note—The Times is pleased to publish communications from its readers on topic* of general interest. Please limit your letters to 200 wards. If you do not wish your name to be used note that fact in your communication. Anonymous letters will not be printed. To thr Editor of The Times I vi *wed with great interest the pictures showing the execution at .Amite, La., last Friday. Great affair to think of isn’t it? Five ablebodied men and one in a chair taken out and butchered in cold blood for the murder of one man. And yet, we boast of civilization and Christianity! We send missionaires to the “inferior” people across the Pacific, who do not measure up to our standards. Maybe this was a spectacular attempt by the State of Louisiana to land some free advertising. If it was, she succeeded R. A. MYERS. Comments on Whipping To the Editor of The Times Horrors of horrors! The account in Monday's Times of a 4-year-old child beaten by a brutal father made my heart ache and blood chill. Why was he turned loose after the first offpnse to be allowed to { wreak vengeance again? I cannot think of anything more displeasing to God than the mistreatment of the innocent. 1 wish I could spread my arms of protection around the miscared-for little ones. I congratulate the stepmother for her bravery. Six months will soon roll around and then what? God pity the helpless Innocents. Is there no way of protecting them
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and no restraint that oan be brought to bear? If there Is none, what is the matter with our laws? The blls--1 tered back, swollen ears and blue I hands appeal to us and arouse our ! sympathy. NELLIE ARMFELDT. The Pet Parade T 0 the Editor of The Times Here is a suggestion to children and their parents who are Interested in the parade of children and their pets which is to be held on May 24. It will be all beautiful and fine, I think, if it just doesn't happen that some of the pets get lost. In that case it would mean heartbreaking agony to the children and perhaps great suffering to the pets. I have been thinking that each animal, those carried in arms or in baskets or wagons, as well as the se that are led. ought to wear a leash which should be fastened securely around the little one's wrist because if the pets become excited, as many will, the children cannot always hold them. But if they do jump from their arms, probably .they can be recovered if they are on a leash. A FRIEND OF CHILDREN AND OF PETB.
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Tom Sims Says: Buttons are hard disc* mashed oft by laundries. Trying to get even usually makes a man look odd. No town is big enough for a reck less drivers’ convention. It is a fact that singing prolongs a person’s life if said person is careful where and when he sings. Every man has a letter he intends writing when he has time. People who talk in their sleep should tell the truth while awake. The great silence you hear is the kids kicking because vacation days are coming. Perhaps some people wear tight shoes because they feel so good when they take them off. Dad’s Bottle “Any rags? Any old iron?" “No; go away! There’s nothing here for you. My wife’s away.” 4 “Any empty bottles?” —London® Daily Mail.