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LA FOLLETTE AND TEE COURTS mT IS ONE of the misfortunes of American politics that presidential campaigns cannot be fought out on the real issues confronting the Nation. Politicians want jobs more than thej r want big questions decided. Hence, instead of stating their case and waiting for the people to register a decision, the politicians hem and haw and push and shove and throw tear bombs and stage gas attacks to try to force people to decide in their respective ways. The 1924 campaign is no exception to the rule in American politics. The Republicans began by sluffing over and beclouding issues at the Cleveland convention. The Democrats followed suit at New York. This led to the formation of the Progressive party, which did state its policies in definite, easily understood terms, for the will of the people. The old party politicians, alarmed at this course by Senator La Follette, are resorting to mud-slinging and calamity howling to befog the real issues. They are shouting “red” at La Follette and are trying to deceive citizens into believing that La Follette is the enemy of law and order, the Constitution, the Supreme Court, industry and prosperity. Nothing could be farther from the truth. La Follette refused the aid of the “reds,” he has always stood for law and order, no man in public life is a more ardent constitutionalist, he wants to preserve the Supreme Court from itself, and his record as Governor of Wisconsin proves that Progressive administration is good for industry—for those who work in industries, as well as for those who own them. What are the real issues T One, perhaps the greatest, in its ultimate importance, is the Supreme Court question. La Follette’s platform says: “We favor submitting to the people, for their considerate judgment, a constitutional amendment providing that Congress may by re-enacting a statute make it effective over a judicial veto.’’ La Follette, mind you, merely wants to put this question up to the people for decision in the usual constitutional way. The Constitution gave certain powers to one branch of Government, the judiciary, and certain others to another, the executive, and some others to a third branch, the Congress, and all the rest it reserved for the people. One of the powers it did not give to the judiciary wag the right to veto the acts of Congress by declaring laws unconstitutional. That function the Supreme Court assumed for itself. In so doing it made itself dictator over this land. Its dictatorship, self-imposed, was denounced by Jefferson, by Lincoln, by Roosevelt. questioned by John Marshall, our greatest Chief Justice. Once this dictatorship, self-imposed, almost wrecked the Union, when the Dred Scott decision led to the Civil War. The outcome of that war should have convinced the court that the Congress, which is responsible to the people, is the greatest in authority of the three branches of the Federal Government. But it did not, and since the Civil War the court hase vetoed more than fifty valuable and oppular laws, among them these: In 1895 it declared an income tax law unconstitutional. In 1908 it vetoed the employers' liability act. In 1918 it threw out the child labor law In 1921, in the Newberry case, it held that Congress had no power to regulate primary elections. In 1923 it voided the minimum wage law for women. Many of these cases resulted in five-to-four decisions, in which one justice, by his decision, vetoed a necessary law of the land. In no other modern government -does such a judicial tyranny exist. Abraham Lincoln once said t “The people of these United States are the rightful masters of both Congress and the courts, not to overthrow the Constitution but to overthrow the men who pervert the Constitution.” La Follette holds the same view His proposition is, simply, to put it up to the people in the good, old-fashioned constitutional way and let them decide, if Congress and not one of the nine Supreme Court justices, should or should not be final authority on the matter of laws for the protection and welfare of the people. ANOTHER 808-HAIRED bandit has had her career cut short, too. THINKING IT is time to complete his education, an lowa nan has just married his school teacher. Some class! HOWEVER, THE open minds in politics give no inside information that is of value—yet. MAN IN a launch pleasure trip was rescued within 200 feet of Nigara Falls. His rescuers convinced him he could not proceed that way and get any pleasure out of it

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Mrs. Theodore Roosevelt, once first lady of the land, allowed herself to be photographed for the first time since her husband’s death when the Girl Scouts made her their vice president and gave her a badge. LA FOLLETTE FAMILY IS OLD IN U. S. Ancestor of Wisconsin Senator Fought in War of Revolution. P'i Timt Special A DISOX. W!s., Oct 29 —The In Follette family Is of good ■ old Colonial American stock, reference to the La Follette family history shows. Senator La Fnlletfe’s great-grand-fa'her was a soldier with Washington in the Revolution. As the La Follette family were among the founders of the Republican party in Wisconsin, so were the ancestors of Senator La Follette associated with the family of Abraham Lincoln, the firs? President elected by the party of freedom In IS6O. Neighbor of Lincoln’s At the time of Abraham Lincoln’s birth In Hardin County. Kentucky, in 1809. Jesse La Follette, the gran 1father of Senator i-a Follette, was living in the same county and was a near neighbor of the Lincolns Living with Jesse La Follette at the time was his father. Joseph La Follette, one of the original American La Follettes and a soldier of the Revolution, who was to attain the age of a century and who died in Indiana In 1834. The La Follette family moved from Hardin County, Kentucky, In 182S to Indiana. Visited I.a Follettes Asa hoy, Abe Lincoln was a fre quern visitor at the Jesse La Follette home, and in this connection an incident is cited in one of tho biographies of Lincoln to illustrate his retentive memory. When he was President he was visited by a deleagtlon from his native county of Hardin. Among the old neighbors about whom he Inquired was "Uncle Jesse La Follette." ♦ "Asa hoy I often played in his barn,” the fireat Emancipator said, "and I remember it well, although I was then very young" Tom Sims Says It. as Haynes says, only 80 per cent of our bootleg la poison, what become*! of the other 20 per cent? We hnve rend so much about this airship Shenandoah, we dreamed last night we were ft football. In Chicago, a Judge ordered George Koupon to be quiet three days a week. Pome men are so effeminate. We told one we would get her the moon. Next night It wasn’t so large so she thinks we are doing it. If the first broadcasting station was a woman's sewing circle, thi . the first amplifier was the village gossip. And if your barber Is strangely silent he has been cutting women's hair. And if men talked as much as women their whiskers would he worn off Instead of shaved off And the world may never know why men have the largest jaw muscles while women use theirs the most. We don’t know If a straw vote shows the way the wind blows, but we do know It makes some blow. The curse of the poor Is starting flivvers on cold mornings. A man In Louisville, Ky., who shot his wife, will plead insanity instead of self-defense, thereby proving he is crazy. A trusting debutante confides in us that too many kisses smack of Usterlne. Big apartment burned in New York. Furniture and everything lost. Serves them all right for living in that town. There are grown people in New York who think they enjoy life. > “Score in Danger”—Headline. Sounds like a football game. "Death Is Mystery”—Another headline. Well, It always has been. Life amuses us. The average man pointed out as a success has a frown on his face. Half the things you think matter don’t, while half those you think don’t matter, do. M (Copyright, 1924, NU

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WHITE IS HA VING FUN . IN KANSAS Candidate Says He Does Not Want Job He Is Seeking, llti Times Special TTraiCIIITA, Kan., Oct. 29.—“1f \)y you’d told me a month ago ___J that T would be begging people to elect me to a job I don't want. I’d have thought you were crazy or a liar,” says William Allen White, lie who is running for Governor of Kansas as an independent. “I have a lot of interesting things T want to do with the rest of my life, and being Governor isn’t one of them. I don't want to go to Topeka. "But I’ve got to win so these imperial gizards, nighty nobility, and cow pasture patriots can't. What will happen to Kansas, this parallel ogrnm of progress, this greatest, freest and best State in the Union, if an invisible government based on cupidity and bigotry gets in power?" Fights Km-Klux Klan . So Editor White of the Emporia Gazette has gone out to light the ICu-Klux Klan in Kansas. He believes that both Republican and Democratic candidates for the governorship are controlled by the Klan. It seemed to him a disgrace that the voters should have no choice at the polls except a choice between a friend of the Klan named Paulen and a friend of the Klan named Davis. He went out among his acquaintances and begged various ones to run as an independent. Nobody would because they thought there was no chance of being elected and a very good chance of being politically dead after the shouting was all over. So White laid himself on the altar, prepared to suffer for a principle and to fight Just as hard as if everybody didn’t believe it was a losing fight he was undertaking. Used to lost Causes He is used to lost causes, and, as a rule, they aren’t so very lost after he finishes with them. He seems to fill them so full of life and laughter that they are strong enough to keep right on going at the time when they should logically pass out of the pie ture. That Is the way with the present crusade. For a week or two White has been driving around the country' in his own car with his wlf<> and son, making speeches every few miles on the rourthouse steps, or the fairground or some, equally Informal spot. He has no campaign dodgers, nothing but a white Hat someone gave him to wear as a campaign badge Thev llock by the hundreds to hear him because he wields words In a truly glorious manner, and he makes them laugh. Every Speech \i>out Klan Every speech Is about Jhe Klan. He calls the Klansmn willopns wal lupuses, genii, whangdoodles, shirt-tail rangers, pie-hirers, on 111 - thumpiana, and furies. Every day he has anew list of epithets f r them, Ir is not. at all certain, right now. that White wall go down to Quixotic defeat at the polls. White is well known and personally popular. The women are turning to him because one of Candidate Uaulon’s speakers denounced the child labor amer. dment. Labor favors White because he fought for them In the Injunction eas*s. The negro vote will he hat. As an Independent, ho Is apt to gather in the party Insurgents, roused to unusual action this year by the I j- Follette campaign. So you can never tell. At ativ rate, Whitt has made the State no e so much ftm that they’re not paying any attention to the presidential contest out in that parallelogram of progress of his. Buttons By HAL COCHRAN When they're shoutin' "button, button, who has got the bloomin’ button,” It would seem that mom’s the person who Is guyed. For It’s true.’ though maybe funny, that It’s always little sonny who is struttin’ with his shirtwaist open wide. Into work she’s ever pitehin' with her sewin' and her stitchin’ just to keep the needed buttons on his clothes. But no matter how she’s trust in,' there's an ever constant bustin’ and the buttons fly haphazard, goodness knows. Every lass and every kiddle who wearß waist or blouse or middy, keeps a mother Just as busy as the deuce. You will find she seldom scolds about tho little button holes; it’s the buttons that they're always tearin’ loose. Buton, button, flighty button, you are or less a glutton for the wear that kiddies give from early dawn. You are scam with weary digit, then some careless little midget rips you off and very quickly you are gone. (Copyright. 1924, NEA Service, Inc.)

IF YOU’RE CRYING FOR Laughs See Samuel Goldwyn * Production ' . V/ \'• ' with Potash and Perlmuttr and their three Vampire Beauties, Norma and Constance Talmadge and Betty Blythe . LAUGH—OR YOUR MONEY BACK n °w CIRCLE Now LAUGH WEEK! LAUGH UNTIL YOU’RE WEAK STANDING IN THE VAMPIRE VOTING CONTEST TODAYI Constance Talmadge, 620; Norma Tairaivlf*. 88B; Betty Blythe, 741.

Right Here In INDIANA By Gaylord Nelson SHE tragedy that occurred tho other night, during the prog- j ress of a dance at the Athenaeum, has stirred Chief Rikhofl. And he declares police regulations will be tightened. Dancing ia of most ancient origin. People have always expressed their joy and sorrow, pain and pleasure, by grotesque caperings. And the custom of wagging a l wicked shoulder—or some other 1 anatomical area—to the strains of i music will doubtless persist. Dancing has grown from a rite i with religious significance to a soofal institution. But either as a religious or social ! ceremony its influence on the course i of events has been felt for a long | time. At least from the evening i when Salome performed before ■ Herod down to the night a girl of the Middle West danced with the Prince of Wales. And dancing appeals to the young people today just as it did to their elders long ago. They will seek the amusement whether at a private party or suhseriptiotf ball. Os course there’s a j mercenary motive In the public \ dance. Why not? The fiddler must I ho paid. True, unregulated public dances ' may be potential evils. So rules to j govern their conduct have been in j existence for years. But, as usual, not strictly en-1 forced. Until a tragedy occurs. ; Then the authorities are aroused to righteous indignation, and tho regulations dance. Employment | | MPLOYMEXT conditions in 1 I rs I the city are improving, ac I ' cording to a report made to | tho industries committee of the In--1 dianapolis Chamber of Commerce Monday. Conditions for tho month of Onto- '• tier are 57.6 per cent normal, which is tiie host showing for any month since March and 20 per cent higher than the low spot In July. The report reveals employment still below normal, hut the plain man with a job is no longer a curiosity - envied hy less fortunate fellows And pav day is once more assuming its place as a regular mu- j nieipal function. And conditions are steadily ini proving. Which is a surer omen of a pleasant winter than mild weather or plenty of coal smoke. A pay envelope is small, but its circulation makes for general happiness So the Increase in employment is not only f academic interest to the Chamber of Commerce, hut of actual interest to the average man. For his private financial health and prosperity depend largely on the general labor situation As it convalesces his own condition Improves. Men out of work swell the street crowds. But. although they have more leisure to window shop, they have less with which to buy over the counter. That's the ultimate test of prosperity. And for most Industrial ills plenty I of employment instead of plenty of free soup Is the only sure cure. Dogs | . X Indignant render writes The Times: "The dogs are i taking us. Several hold reg- j ular weekly meetings In my locality - and they are killing chickens.” The dog is man's greatest friend and companion among four-fotted , oroaturea Together they have met stirring adventures from equator to , the poles. And a boy and his dog forma one of the Inseparable couplets of his- | tore. Ranked with Damon and ; Pythias, Ham and Eggs, and Hither j and Yon. Although many breeds exist, there j are only three types af canines. ■ Good, had and Indifferent. Those that run at large on city streets are frequently had. Their stns find them out. And the gate of the dog pound or the top half of a bun close on them finally. Then there are goods dogs. Last week a local vaudeville house featured an animal act. Dogs and ponies No human nctors play their porta with keener zest than those canines. Their Intelligence and beauty exceeded that of a musical comedy chorus. * Such dogs are man’s most loved pets. Then there’s the little creature the size, color, and consistency of a shoe brush. Igidles tote him around and fondle him. Though an oil mop would be a brainier and more animated pet. He's a raging fashion—but an indifferent dog. Eat heir’s Error "I liked that young fellow you were with tho other night, so I j asked him to dinner this evening. Told him to drop around in his business clothes." “Oh, father! He’s a life guard.”— Judge.

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Tongue Tips Robert M. La Follette, candidate for I resident: "I am not for peace at any price. I repel the aggressive acts of any power that attempted to seize our territory or imperil our national life or institu lions.” Gertrude Steel Chambers, psychoanalyst. Kansas City: "No person can expect to attain either health or happlnses through thinking de-1 structive thoughts, broadcasting Idle or destructive gossip or failing to start each day with the mental attitude of being glad- to be ali Dr. M. L. Burton, president Uni- \ v-rslty of Michigan, on athletics: "our chief task is not to win. <mr real aim is not to defeat another. Our purpose Is to train men to do their best and excel in whatever they undertake.” Raf.it-1 SaLitlnl. novelist: "The average stenographer or girl clery, today. earning $25 a week. Is 'r, a ;n>ssitlon Infinitely more enviable than that of th*' great lady of ai.y past i age, down to and including the eighteenth century." —— A attire Mr and Mrs. Musquash, or muskrat. have Just about brought up ihe!r second family of this year. They go in for double broods when '.he o<hj] wet spring lasts over into June. Rabbits are really burrowing animals, while hares live in grass nests on the surface, with Just enough room to turn around in. The hare is a batter sprinter than the rabbit. Both can right savagely with their teeth and strong hind-feet. South America is the native land j of the meek little Guinea pig and its near relatives Fossilized skeletons of these animals have been found showing that they dwelt there centuries ago. Family Fun Thinking "Do you and your wife think the ] same about things?" "Some things. When I'm out j late she keeps on thinking what she'll say when I get home, and eo do I.”—Bell Telephone. By the Doctor "Do you guarantee to restore and tone up my nervous system with this seines of treatment?” “You bet I do. Hast week a follow came to me just as you have to take his first nerve treatment, and when I got through with him he tried to borrow a hundred from me.” —Exchange.

WALK-OVER Announces Thursday and Friday Ms. End (fa g f P “NufSed” |H 0 f u /A\ j^| Month iOVnVJUJU Mon's Shoes Women’s Pumps Patents Cuban Heels Black Satins Men’s Oxfords Military Heels Spanish Heels Black Calf Suedes Black Kid Seasonable Merchandise y J/fc w e have no old or obsolete styles . K/ in our stock. The styles on sale Hr //mk Ap.Alkj are those in which sizes are broken. Sr l lf Let nothing keep you from attendy&xfi ing this sale. You, no doubt, will wjtsmtiSifrWfflm CS*.stock up with several pairs. Our men w IU fit you as carefully in tale shoes / P* HS w hen you buy them at $7. $8.50 and slo—the regular prices for WALKDuring Sale Doors Open y# ol Remember Sale Is On at 7 :30 a. m. and Close V THURSDAY and FRIDAY at 6:00 p.m. SHOE STORK OM ‘ Y - -

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Ask The Times You can g-et an answer to any noration of fact or information by wriiiuj to The Incbanapuiia Time* Washington Bureau, 132” New York Ave Wjjniiicton. I). C. inclosing 2 cents in (■tamps for reply Medu al. leeal and marital advice cannot he given, nor can extended research b* undertaken. A. other mentions will receive a personal reply Unsigned requests cannot be answered All letters are conhdentiai.—Editor. Did Columbus discover America or was It discovered by someone else? Christopher Columbus discovered one of the Bahamas in 1492 and named it Pan Salvador. The coast of North America was discovered in the region of New England or labrador 1.. y the Northmen as early as 1000 and named hy them Vinland. Though Columbus was the first of his time to set foot on the New World, It has taken its name from Amerigo Vespucci. What is the rate of pension for the widow of a man whi served in the war with Spain? Twenty dollars a month, with $4 additional for each minor child. Under what conditions can a naturalized American citizen bring his daughter to the United States as a non-quota or preferenee-within-quota Immigrant? If she Is unmarried and is under 18 she may enter as a non quota immigrant: If unmarried and over 18 but under 21. she may enter as a preference-within-quota immigrant. What do the names Velma, Helen and Anna mean? Velma, “love”; Helen, “light”: Anna, “gracious ” Which are the host types of engine valves, tijo sleeve valves or poppet vales? The United States Bureau of Standards says that both sleeve valves and poppet valves are satisfactory when properly designed and constructed. There have been, no tests made which determine conclusively the relative merits of these two types of valves: nor is It probable that any tests could he made which would prove the superiority of either type for all classes of service. What or who Is Cytherea? Cytherea is another name for Venus, so called from Cythera, a mountainous island of Laconia, noted for the worship of Aphrodite (Venus). The tale 1" that Venus and Alars, hairing formed an Illicit affection for each other, were caught In a delicate net made by Vulcan, and exposed to the ridicule of the court of Olympus. Probably, however, you refer to the character, Cytherea. the leading character in a recent novel by that name by Joseph Hergesheimer. Where are the highest tides in the world found? In the Bay of Funly, ranging from 50 to 75 feet.

WEDNESDAY, OCT. 29, 1924

Know Indiana What was the standing of the counties in 1860 in value of goods manufactured? Wayne was first with $2,700,000; Jefferson second with $2,473,000 and Dearborn third with $2,000,000. What were the chief manufactured products in 1860 Flour, lumber, pork, and whisky. What was the proportion of day laborers in the populations of 1850 and 1910? In 1850. three in 200. In 1910, fourteen in 200. The Bobber Shop By C. A. L. Last evening an automobile hit Blondy, the manicure, and blacked :t he eye she winks with. “The trouble with business,” said a man in the end chair this morning, "is pcop’c are saying ‘buy and buy bye and bye.' ” "Handle with care” is a good sign for a pair of boxing gloves. NEXT! Science This year is the centenary of the birth of Lord Kelvin, better known as William Thompson. Lord Kelvin did more for mans knowledge of electricity than anv other person and, unlike most scien tists, he was honored while still alive. He entered Glasgow University when 10 years old. At 11 he had secured two prizes, and at 12 ha received another for a translation of Lucian's "Dialogues of the Gods." At 17 he published a learned and detailed mathematical work. At 22 he became a professor In the Glasgow University, and he held this chair for fifty-three years. In e.ectricity Lord Kelvin, invented the receiving instruments that mde the Atlantic cable possible. There Is scarcely on electrical instrument for measuring that he did no: either invent or improve. Researches that he published in 1853 were the basis upon which has been built modem wireless telegraphy and the radio. He received many honors and was buried in Westminster Abbey. A Thought Answer a fool according to his own folly, lest he be wise In hie own conceit. —Prov. 26:4, 6. • • • A fool cannot look, nor stand, nor walk like a man of sense. —La Bruyere.—Copyright. 1924, NEA Service.