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What’s Going Oil In G-. 0. P.? TV-- ■ is gems on this year an interesting contest in the Repub.'icon party which may make party history. It is a druggie between professional politicians and the rank and hie; and on its outcome will depend whether the party will become a democracy cr remain an autocracy. Hoover i, evidently the choice of the rank and file Republicans, but lie is not satisfactory to the professionals; and bacK of the professionals are the financial backers who put up big campaign funds for ths party organisation and expect tlicir reward in special governmental privilege. These special privileges may take vawicus forms, from the granting of oil leases to the selection of Teferal judges and appointments to important diplomatic positions— to say nothing of special favors in writing tariff legislation How the game is played never was illustrated better* than when die bosses ayd representatives of financial interests got together after the convention in IDlfO had been tied up, and came to an agreement with Harry Daugherty on the nominee. Those who v.ere able to sit in on the deal were the bosses who controlled votes and could deliver them. The bosses* are trying to play the same game this year". They sc;, om to get control of State delegations by putting up as candidates certain so-called favorite eon’s. For a time it looked as if Ohio's fifty-one votes would be gained by putting up Senator. Willis as a favorite son, although his candidacy was not taken seriously outside of his own State, and nobody in Ohio, unless it was Willis himself, sized him up as presidents} timber. Had- Hoover Kept out of Ohio, Willis would have walked off with a hand-picked bunch of fifty-one delegates, and (Jarmi Thompson would have been in position to go into the midnight conference with that many vo.es in his vest pocket, fully equipped to dicker and deal with other bosses in the selection of a candidate. Ilbover's entry into the Ohio primary campaign means that the Willis-Thompson scheme won’t work. Fop now the rank and file voters will have an opportunity, on April 21, to express their will. If .Willis captures half of the delegates he will do remarkably well. Anyhow, the delegation will not be made up entirely of deliverable dummies. While Lowden is considered in some States a real cr.itciidate, nobody who knows anything about politics thinks he has any chance at all of being nominated. It Is expected, however, that the Lowden delegates will go to the bedroom choice after Lowden has had a rjm for his money and the bosses are ready to put on Jthe work. Dawes is not openly a candidate. On the surface, he js supposed to be a loyal supporter of Lowden, but theJ general belief is that Dawes will emerge from the! smoke of the midnight conference as the man on whem the bosses and their backers will unite and to I'hom they will swing the votes of the favorite sons —provided they can get enough votes to beat Hoover. The "draft-Coolidge" play is part of the game to beat Hoover. It is the game Hides is playing in New Yopk, Big Bill Thompson in Illinois, and other party bosses in other .States who want to sit in. All of them know Coolidge means what he says and that he isn't even a receptive candidate. His closest friends, like Gillen of Massachusetts, are not in with thi| game. But until he is forced to speak out a third tiirj;, the cunning bosses may fool some of the rank and file and grab off delegates hostile to Hoover. Svnyhow, that's the game—to beat Hoover, to prevent a choice of a rank and file candidate and then lir.fjd-pick a candidate in a conference of party bosses and financial backers. If Hoover wins, he will have to win in the selection of delegates. There are seventeen States where they hold primary elections. In those States the rank and file will have to go to the primary and vote for delegates they know are sincerely for Hoover. Mayor Walker’s Wise Remark We outside of New York sometimes find it rather hard to understand and appreciate that city's dapper young man, Jimmy Walker. But now and then this well-dressed executive gets ryl of a remark that we can all subscribe to, nevertheless. The other Sunday he spoke in a New York Methodist church. He emphasized the need for tolerance and neighborliness, saying that “as soon as we have enough brotherly love we can throw away our penal code.” That little remark may be platitudinous; it may be trite and threadbare. But, after all, it is something on which we can all unite. It is profoundly trap. It presents a goal toward which, sooner or later, we will all have to work in unison. Cuba Will Want Autos Cuba is hard at work building roads, and in two years will have completed an extensive central highway system, according to a report from the United States Department of Commerce. This will make Cuba a much better market for American automobiles and will help stimulate production in American factories. Our prosperity lias a very complicated base. It seems odd, to think that such things as roads in Cuba could affect workers in Detroit and Flint. But that is the way it is. Truly, modern business is a mosaic, and many strange pieces are fitted into the pattern. Did Diaz Die Poor? Armando Diaz, commander of Italy's armies in the World War, died poor, according to United Press dispatches. His only property consisted of a collection of swords, given him by admirers, and a house given him by the city of Naples. But it is a mistake to assume that he left no estate. He left a mighty name—a name that for generations will mear\ much to every Italian. And that can be a far greater heritage than any collection of stocks and bonds. Women voters are to meet in Chicago in April to study city rule. It's usually pretty hard to get interviews with gang leaders, they say, but an easy matter in Chicago. Ford airplanes for the same price as flivvers are forecast. Is that a threat or a promise? Paris designers declare dresses must cover the knees now. The truth sometimes hurts.

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War In Adam and Eve’s Old Home Anew war seems about to break out in the very cradle of the human race. Ail across northern Arabia the British are in line, hourly awaiting .the start cf a “Holy War” against their protectorates by Ibn Saud, king of the Hedjaz and sultan of the Nejd. Here, in the valley of the Tigris and the Euphrates, is the traditional site of the Garden of Eden, where | Adam and Eve started off this world's travail with j their adventure with the apple and the snake. Here Noah lived and built his ark and so survived the flood. Here the Tower of Babel rose and was destroyed, and here stood Ur, the home town of Abraham, progenitor of the Hebrews, Edomites and other tribes, including the Arabs, of whom this same Izn Saud is a notable descendant. Today, according to dispatches, at the Palestine port of Jaffa—the biblical Joppa, whence Jonah cm- ! barked on the cruise made famous by the whale—they |are landing machine guns and other modern munitions cf war. Past Jerusalem, across the River Jordan in which Christ was baptized, and on through Die historic land of Canaan, British tanks and armored motor cars arc , rumbling towards the trar.s-Jordania frontier. And winging it from ancient Egypt, high above ; the trail trodden by Mcses and the children of Israel on their way out of bondage, giant bombing planes ; arc headed in the same general direction, loaded with civilization’s latest high explosives. What a setting and what a war! For millenniums this country lias seen little else, but never a war like : this—the twentieth century. A. D. at grips with the ! twentieth century, B. C. For, but for powder, Ibn Saud and his followers light pretty much a£ they did thousands of years ago, galloping into action on white camels lurching across the desert sands. The angel of Jehovah, we arc told, prophesied to Hagar, Abraham's bondwoman and legal concubine,' that her son Ishmael would be a “wild man.” And so the Ishmaelites were and have been down to, and including, the modern tribe of Wahabis, the followers of Ibn “aud. After the passing of Mahomet and iii.s first Caliphs, many of the tribes of Arabia broke away from the true beliefs and practices. Then, about 1740, Mahommed Ibn Abdul Wah"b, a sort of Arabian Puritan, ! led a move back to orthodoxy and so the Wahabis come to be. As for Ibn Saud. he comes of a family cf Wahabi sheiks, an ancestor, the sheik of Deraiya, in Central Arabia, having been converted by Wahab himself. His family having been driven out of power about 100 years ago by a rival chieftain in the north, he has, in recent years, returned from exile at Koweit and conquered all Central Arabia, including the territory of his northern rival. Said to be the most powerful leader Arabia lias had in generations, Ibn Suad now menaces the British. That is to say, he is threatening the less j orthodox Arabs of trans-Jor'dania, Irak and Koweit., I who are under British mandate and so under British protection. But for one thing the present troubles in Arabia might be far more serious for Britain than they \ promise to be now, though til? situation is serious j enough. Egypt seething with revolt arid India is almost as bad. But the Mohammedans of these countries don't see eye to eye with the Wahabis in all that has to do with their faith, otherwise all Islam, from Egypt to India, \ would be aflame against British rule. Ai/it is, Britain 1 may hope for the best. Velma West’s Plea A lawyer who has his client plead guilty often serves the public in more ways than one. Young Velma West was about to go on trial in Ohio recently for killing her husband. She had skilled attorneys, and for weeks they' had been planning her defense. There was the prospect of a long drawn out trial that would fill the public mind for many days; many highly unpleasant bits of evidence were to be presented, and many innocent people, called as witnesses, were to undergo disagreeable notoriety. Then, at the last minute, Mrs. West's lawyers induced her to plead guilty. The trial was avoided. Thus the State not only was saved the expense of a trial. It was spared an extended, unsavory spectacle. The lawyers are to be thanked. The Unknown Street BY BRUCE CATTON “Yes, sir,” said the talkative man on the street car, “I guess I know this town about as well ,as anybody could. There isn't a street or an alley I’m not familiar with. I've been living here for twenty-five years and I know the old town like a book.” One can learn a good deal in twenty-five years. A city soon grows familiar. It is not hard to imagine that your home town never can surprise you again. Yet the talkative car rider was wrong. He doesn’t know the town. Nobody does. Not one of us even knows his own street. Any collection of human homes, from a cross-roads settlement to a great metropolis, is an eternal, insoluble mystery, and we are mistaken if we brag of easy familiarity. Consider the street you live on. You walk down it every evening of your life; its physical aspects are seen so often that you could get to your house with your eyes shut. But the street, for all that, is a mystery. Each house on it is the dwelling place of two or more people like yourself, with secret hopes, hidden struggles and unknown, dreams like your own. You do not know the street at all. It is not simply a commonplace highway lined with ordinary Irame and brick buildings. It is the temporary resting place of some scores of aloof human beings, each of whom has Iris own victories, his own defeats, his own aspirations and his own little heart aches. Nothing is commonplace. You are mistaken if you think that wonder'and romance are to be found only beyond distant seas. They lie at your very doorstep, unseen. In your own block are a hundred unsung Odysseys. The man next door may wrestle with the Prince of the Powers of Darkness, and repel him; but since no trumpets sound, and since he gives you a casual, “Morning, neighbor,” next day, his victory goes unnoticed and you think him a plodding, ordinary fellow. Because our modern world has so many diversions, because its wilderness is removed beyond our daily paths, because it insulates us so well from the dangers and shocks our fathers knew, we are prone to assume that it las lost its glamor. But that is a mistake. Life remains what it always was—an everlasting mystery. For all its familiarity, your own street is as strange to you as the Khyber Pass. Your neighbors, like yourself, are immortal souls, fighting the long, unchanging fight to make dreams come true.

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BRIDGE ME ANOTHER (Copyright, 1928. bv Th- Rrady Rci erencc Publishing Company l BY W. W’. WENTWORTH

(Abbreviations: A—acc: K—kinc; Q—nueen: J—jack; X—any card lower than Ift.) 1. You hold A K Q Jin four-card suit. How many outside quick tricks are needed to bid it? 2. You hold A K J. What do you lead after K? 3. When you hold K Q J X in four-card suit, what outside quick tricks are required to bid it? The Answers 1. None. 2. Asa rule, another suit. 3. One. Times Readers Voice Views The name and address of the author must accompany every contribution, but on request, will not be published. Letters not exceeding 200 words will receive preference. Editor Times: The acquittal cf Governor Jackson cn the bribery charge does not mean that Jackson was not guilty. The evidences of ex-Governor McCray and his son-in-law, William P. Evens, James Noel. D. C. Stephenson all show that Jackson is guilty cf bribery. The jury no doubt would have found him guilty. The court, net wanting the jury lo make a mistake, took the case away from them. This condition leaves Jackson, we think, guilty of bribe 'y. The evidence stands undisputed, except by his attorneys, who claim that Jackson will prove himself clear of this crime as scon as he finds what the State is going to do with the men who were indicted at tlm : me time. If he was guiltv as charged. tin 1 was the case when he too': the cath cf office as Governor of Indiana. Under such conditions, no man should be allowed to act longer as overseer of our good State. The people of Indiana for the pr.it years have been in bad company, and if allowed to remain in such company as Jackson, the bottom will fall clear out of our Constitution. If the Governor would desire to redeem himself and hi, State from a nanic caused by the acts of himself and the Republican party, let him resign at once, and let us elect Tom Adams, who has been a great factor in showing up the recent scandalous conditions of our State under Republican rule. The Indianapolis Timor, also has published much evidence which has caused the conviction cf a number of officials who pot their positions through trie Ku-Klux Klan. Our higher courts should pass at once on who is mayor of Indianapolis. Mayor Slack seems to have done nothing wrong except incurring the ill will of the indicted councilmcn by giving a few Democrats jobs. C. WY CONAWAY, Friendship, Ind. Editor Times: Indiana Republicans are figuring on cleaning their house, but it is such a stupendous undertaking that they are puzzled as to the lest way to go about it. It has been suggested that Senator Watson should superintend the job. I imagine that if “Jim” Watson superintends the work, lie will not enter the old rotten, tottery Republican shack with a scrub-bucket, mop and soap. It would be much more like “Jim" to give the exterior a heavy coat of whitewash, pull down the blinds, and lock the doors, so that the interior would be hidden. There is no use trying to clean the old shack, for it is full of filth and corruption from one end to the other. They would better raze the old barrack, or else rent it for a fertilizer plant. Inasmuch as there will be an election in November, the Republicans will not have sufficient time to renovate their house; consequently I would suggest that they have the board of health place a large sign over the front door, with skull and crossbones on it, warning persons to keep out. I also would suggest that a red lantern be kept in front of the house at night. If Republicans ever succeed in getting their house cleaned, they would better give the Democrats a 99-year lease on it, and then put a sign over the front door, as follows: Republicans don't live here any more; white folks live here now. C. W. MACY. Converse. Ind. .i~ • • Editor Times: After having read “Lindy Less Lucky in Love.” recently in The Times, I could not resist the temptation of sending you the question it brings to me. Had your reporter done, as so many fans in baseball beg of their players, “followed up his play,” we wonder what the result would show. Miss Dorothy Morris says she wouldn’t trade “Herbie” for' Lindy. All right, we agreed with her. But what I am wondering is this, would she still take Herbie, provided he became famous overnight as Lindy did? We hope so, for it seems to me we want her to measure up. Miss Gertrude Curola's answer brings something to mind like this. Would she use the same sane judgment of another that she loved? It is said love is blind, you know, not selfish. If one doesn't care, one usually doesn’t worry. After all, it is not so much what you pay, but how much you want what you are paying for. The editorial written by Bruce Barton for the January Red Book seems to me to express the idea of marriage and the proper time for it in the best possible way, I think everyone will agree .with me when I say you would have to respect Lindy Starting with respect and ending with love certainly would seem to me a good foundation for any marriage. A TIMES SUBSCRIBER. Greencastle, Ind. What is the value of a Confederate SSO bill, issue of 1861, portraying a plantation scene, and also one issued in 1861 portraying a train of cars. The first is valued at $1.50 to $2; the last from 15 to 75 cents.

THE STORY OF CIVILIZATION Catholic Church Grows in Power Written for The Times by Will Durant

OVER the people and their priests, over the monks, and nun:--, arose the pyramidal hierarchy of the church. First the bishops—i. r.. the overseers—with tlicir great cathedrals—i. c . churches containing the bishop's church: then the archbishops, and the cardinals; and at last the pope. The pope was elected by the conclave of cardinals, who resembled the senate of the old Roman republic: in truth, except when the pone was an unusually dominant personality, it was these cardinals who ruled the church; and the continuity of their group, bridging every chasm of death and change, is the secret of the power and permanence of the church. With this element in the selection of the pope democracy ceased and aristocracy began, mA king itself as usual with a monarchical face: the pope chose the cardinals, the cardinals chose the archbishops, the archbishops chose the bishops, and the bishops chose the priests. There at the bottom democracy had another chance; any man might aspire to rise from the lowest to the highest office in the church: and though aristocratic birth might help him, a lower birth was small impediment. Under this mode of election the pojx's were for the most part men of great ability, far surpassing the average of any kingly dynasty known to history. Popes like Gregory I, Gregory VII and Innocent 111 were not unusual; time and again the genius of the papacy proved too much for the genius of kings; we have seen how Henry IV knelt in

Muncie Press It now appears that anybody who does not have much of anything else to do is to be a candidate for the Republican nomination for Governor of Indiana. The net result will be, of course, that the nominal ion will be thrown into the State convention since, in order to be nominated under the Indiana State law, it is necessary for a candidate to have a majority. Some day or other this column may sum up the qualifications of the various candidates, but to do so now would be unfair since within the next week there may be a half dozen more. But here is something which the voters may be guided: Before you vote, find out what have been' the affiliations of any candidate with unwarranted and unwarrantable public influences. Find out what gang, if any, the candidate has trailed with, and you will have a pretty fair index to his character. A man who has joined any movement or organization for political self-service when his conscience objected to such an affiliation, is nobody for you to identify yourself with, even though he be your brother. The candidate that cannot go into this year’s political battle with clean hands ought to be cast into the dump heap of politics—and that’s not maybe! South Bond News Times George L. Winkler, highest officer of the Federal prohibition forces in Indiana, has learned of his failure to pass the civil service examinations required for his position. That is indeed unfortunate, for Mr. Winkler has been a faithful, earnest and zealous officer in the discharge of his duties. He has, as well, conducted himself with somewhat more regard to the proprieties of law enforcement than many department heads, and has kept a firm hand—for the most part—over his men. Mr. Winkler has asked for reconsideration of his case, but he holds little hope, it is said, of retaining the position. Naturally there is a vast stirring among the„ Anti-Saloon League group, the leaders of which are insistent that Mr. Winkler be retained regardless of the examination. Mr. Shumaker has already written to Washington, and pastors of other faiths have joined in the movement to

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penance at Canosan, and how King John yielded all England in fief to Innocent 111. te • m AS it grew in organization and power, the church became the dominating state over all the governments of Europe. It had its own l ’w, called Canon Law. through which it controlled not only priests and monks and nuns, but marriage, interest, contracts, and wills. It collected its own tithes and revenues from the people, it had its own penal code and jails. By the power of interdict, it reduced every European king to tear and obedience; and in some measure, by the “Truce of God,” it forced a periodical interruption in the wars with which the barons amused themselves, robbed their neighbors, and killed their people. It was the theory of the church that since eternal life was more important than earthly life, the church was more important than the State; and it taught very clearly that the first duty of a man was to his church, and only then to his country. The papacy offered to Europe the characteristic Roman inheritance of centralized order; and the history of the Middle Ages is the story of the strife between this Catholic unity of the church, and the Teutonic pluralism and individualism of free cities, competing companies and rival kings. a b u AFTER a time the strife was concealed and the unity of Europe shone forth in one faith, one language for all scholars, and one

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have the results of the examination overruled. What effect this will have remains to be seen. What trouble has come in Indiana, through the enforcement of the law, has not been through Mr. Winkler. A prohibition force is probably the most difficult class of men in any service, to handle. They are, because of their general ignorance, prone to go too far, to take unwarranted steps, to antagonize good citizens. But, despite the fact that he has had such men as Bivin and Allie to contend with, it must be admitted that Mr. Winkler has accomplished much. We can not say, since we have not seen it. what sort of an examination was placed before Mr. Winkler. Here is an officer who has been in the law enforcement business for eighteen years. He is on leave from the Indianapolis police force, on which he has ranked as captain. Certainly if he were unfit for this business, we have been a long time finding it out. We believe that in appointments to the prohibition force, character should count heavily in awarding the posts. The most brilliant man living would not be acceptable as a prohibition officer if his honesty were not sufficient to give him courage to withstand the obvious temptations of the job. No one has ever questioned Mr. Winkler’s character. And until this, no one has questioned his ability, capability or Intelligence. We are happy—for once in our career—to join with forces who would like to see him retained. Greencastle Herald An increase of more than eight million dollars in taxes in the State for 1928 over 1927, indicates the “splendid business administration given us by Hoss Trader Ed Jackson, et al. But Ed is a good business man, all right, all right. He showed excellent Judgment in his recent trial, when he failed to go onto the witness stand and tell all about that SIO,OOO bribe transaction. Greencastle Herald An insult to Hoosier intelligence is the claim of Governor Ed Jackson that his lawyers prevented him from offering evidence as to his innocence. Sticking right to the Republican party, what would Theodore Roosevelt have done? Imagine Roosevelt accused of corruption. Can you conceive of Teddy saying to the public; ‘“I wanted to

supreme power. Though the saints were worshipped variously in various places, practically replacing the local dieties of pagan peoples, one God, one Christ and one Virgin held the worship of all hearts from the Ural Mountains to the western sea. Plato's dream of an ordered society ruled oy philosopher guardians was almost realized; it was only that the philosophers were theologians. Never had Europe known such unity before; and never would it know it again, at least for many centuries after the rise of nationalism in the days of the Reformation. But the church had forgotten Plato's provisio that in his aristocratic republic there should be no fixed laws, and that life should be left free to grow as it had to, under the flexible intelligence of wise men. Christianity had congealed into dogma, into a faith which its formulators thought would remain unchanged forever; the ideal of power had come down from ancient Rome with too great force to be merged properly with the necessities of freedom. By its wealth and rigid order Christianity had been converted to Rome as much as Rome had been converted to Christianity. Always the dilemma seems to face mankind; that it shall have order without liberty, or liberty without order and peace. Perhaps some day we shall be intelligent enough to deserve, and build, a unity that can be friends with freedom. (Copyright, 1928. by Will Durantl (To Be Continued)

prove that I was innocent, but my lawyers made me offer the defense that whether I did it or not, it was so long ago that the ( law could not punish me!” Would Theodore Roosevelt have said that? Would William Howard Taft have said it? Would the -late Robert M. LaFollette have said it? Would Uncle Joe Cannon have said it? How many honest and intelligent men do you know who would have said it?

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TRACY SAYS: “The Difference Between Hoover and Willis and Watson Is the Senators Have About Winded Themselves, W h i l e Hoover Is Comparatively Fresh.”

The question is was Mayor Walker late? The White House says yes, bu‘ the mayor says no. The mayor argues that he could not have been late, because he had a floating appointment with President Coolidge. The White House replies that the President never makes floating appointments. Washington news reports describe the way the mayor kept the President waiting as "the climax of a brilliant career of tardiness.”# The mayor describes it a* “the climax of a hectic life with newspaper men looking for stories.” n v n So Jimmy Was News Maayor Walker believes th® Incident would not have attracted so much attention but for dearth of news at the national capital, coupled with the excessive zeal of reporters. That statement Is little less than a reflection on the ability and success of such ardent news makers as J. Thomas Heflin, Senators Reed, Walsh and Borah, Congressman La Guardia and the White House spokesman. It is about time for some Republican to charge that Mayor Walker procrastinated deliberately to get himself in the limelight and for some Democrat to reply that he war merely retaliating for the w’ay a Re publican administration has kept Democrats cooling their heels for six years. # # # Now It’s All Hoover If Mayor Walker had reached Washington after secretary Hoover decided to enter the Indiana race, instead of before, he would not have found such a dearth of news. No one expected Mr. Hoover to do so, therefore it has become the chief topic of discussion. Hoover cannot lose, because even if he does not get a single delegate, he will be no worse off than he would have been. Senator Watson cannot lose because he has no chance of being nominated for President, no matter how many delegates he gets. Indiana Republicans cannot lose because they are in as bad shape as they possibly could be. * # * Fighting Candidate Though it appears to mean little from a local standpoint, Hoover's entry in the Indiana campaign means much from a national standpoint, especially when considered in connection with a similar move in Ohio. It means that Hoover intends to fight. More than that, it means new light on his political sagacity and courage. The public no longer doubts that he is aware of what is going on, or lacks the nerve to tackle it. an k Public Is Awakening Mr. Hoover is rather slow-minded, just as a good engineer should be. He wants to be sure thaif his stakes are properly set before he starts anything. Once they are set, however, he is not afraid to begin the blasting. The favorite sons and their chaperones have been having a. good, easy time of it. It will be Interesting io see where they will land when the shooting stars. Thus far the situation has been little but a hodge-podge of local trades and dickers, with ward politicians. county committeemen and other small fry doing most of the talking. Lack of interest from a national standpoint has enabled the boys to get together behind the door and fool themselves with the idea that they were running the show, but that lack is a temporary condition. The public Is beginning to wake up, just as it alwaj's does In the pre-convention spring time. By the time the trees begin to bud you will hear less small talk from small men. Many names that now are mentioned prominently will disappear, and moves that now seem of great importance will be forgotten. # # Gestures Are Few Hoover has not wasted his powder, has not bored the public with a lot of useless conversation, has not made plays to the gallery, has not gone out of his way to attract attention, has not been flustered by annoying, inconsequential gestures, A good many people have taken this as a sign of hesitancy, if not of weakness. There has been quite a bit of loose talk regarding Hoover’s “ignorance" of practical politics. Some have said that he not only lacked knowledge of how to play the game, but the courage to play it right. * * n Spurns Hot Air What Hoover lias done, what he has not done and what he might have done is debatable, of course, tut no one can review the situation thus far without admitting that he has made very few mistakes. If he ha i refused to bore the public with useless hot air, he has not refused to make the right move when the time came. Senator Willis did nos keep him out of Ohio and Senator Watson has not kept him out of Indiana. The difference between him and them is that they have about winded themselves, while he is comparatively fresh. That difference not only between him and them, but between him and most every other aspirant of the Republican nomination is likely to become more apparent as the campaign proceed*