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And In November? What happens in the primaries on Tuesday will determine very much what will happen in November. The primaries are purely party affairs. The law restricts the votes to the members of parties. The men or women who call themselves independent are presumably not interested. But the independent voter, and those on , whom party ties are very light, will vote in November and will be a determining character. It might be suggested that those who are interested in party success will be very vitally interested in what is going to happen in November. It now seems rather certain that A1 Smith, for example, will be the Democratic nominee. Those who want a Republican President can figure out easily whether Watson or Dawes or Lowden would have a chance to win against him. They can also figure out, even more easily, as to the comparative chance that Herbert Hoover might have. What chance would Watson have, if his fake candidacy for the presidency should, by some evil fate for the republic, become a real one ? The candidates for offices on the county tickets will be interested in that little problem, and when they have counted on the possible effect, it is not at all likely that they will be in favor of sending Watson to Kansas City with orders to defeat the nomination of Hoover at any cost. For that is all that the Watson candidacy means. His own candidacy is admitted by his supportes to be fraudulent in that it is not intended to be serious. Do the candidates for minor office want to be placed in the light of fighting Hoover and declaring that they are willing to have any candidate except him? The same sort of reasoning goes to the State ticket on the Republican side of the battle. The Democratic primaries should be more or less of a formality. The candidacy of Frank Dailey for Governor is so outstanding that it is unthinkable that that party will select any one but him. But, does any Republican interested in party success think that his party should go to the polls with a list of candidates who redirect heirs to the regime which so disgraced the State? Does any Republican who has been promised anew and a clean house believe that the chances of success would upt be increased greatly by nominating Tom Adams for Governor? Does any candidate for any county office believe that he would be defeated if Adams were nominated. And is he sure of winning if some “undercover” candidate, picked by a combination of the old bosses, is chosen. Os course the defeat of Robinson for the senatorial nomination is an essential to any program of Republican successThat this beneficiary of Stephensonism should be nominated after the recent exposures is too grotesque to be considered. The birds lie has flocked with condemn him. His own short record in the Senate has stamped him as too asinine to remain in the limelight as an Indiana product. The question is, after all, so very simple for the honest voter. It is much more simple than is that of the bosses who are trying to trick the Republican voters. Coffinism must be ended. The last remnants of Stephensonism must be wiped out. The candidates of the gang are all plainly marked and easily identified. November will be an open season. What will the voters think then? What appeal will the ticket you help select make to the man and woman who cares more for their country and its honor than they do for party labels? Think it over. A Politician Goes to Jail The gates of Leavenworth Federal Prison have opened to receive Clyde A. Walb, who until Jan. 1, 1928, was State Republican chairman of Indiana. Testimony at his trial showed that he had for years forged the names of prominent citizens to notes and borrowed depositors’ money from his bank, with these notes as security, to bolster up his failing business enterprises, threatening his coconspirator, the president of the bank, with prison if he balked at accepting them. Walb was one of the political associates of Senator James E. Watson, now attempting to carry Indiana as a so-called favorite son candidate against Herbert Hoover for the Republican presidential nomination. Walb and D. C. Stephenson of Klan fame led the Republican State ticket to victory in 1924, electing Ed Jackson governor—the same Ed Jackson who recently escaped conviction on a charge of bribery by pleading the statute of limitations. They celebrated Shakespeare’s birthday at Strat-ford-on-Avon the other day. Odd, but there were no addresses by prizefighters. A cow in Illinois fought a train and knocked the fireman unconscious. Maybe it was an argument about Frank O. Lowden. A detour is the longest distance between two points.

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Is It Worth While? Is it worth your trouble to go to the polls Tuesday and help select the nominees of the party to Avhich you may belong? Or are you satisfied to let the bosses do your voting for you. Is Indiana deserving of the few minutes of your time that it takes to perform this duty of citizenship? When the hoys marched away to war a few years back, the girls and old men and older women stood on the side lines arid cheered. Those same boys are marching again this year. The American Legion in this State has become an army of peace and is asking that the voters go to the polls and vote. Just as the boys had to meet an enemy in the war, the legion is finding that very sinister influences at home are trying to keep the voters away from the polls and are endeavoring, for their own purposes, to spread the idea that it is not worth while to vote, that the votes will not be counted, that after all the bosses will triumph anyway. Why no march with the legion this year in its real crusade for a participation in government ? Instead of standing on the side lines, it is time to get into lino and go to the polls and take part. A large vote means the downfall of the bosses. A small vote, easily manipulated, makes it easier for the same old gang that has used fraud and deception so often in the past. March to the polls with the legion. Why Hilles Has Shrunk There was a time, not so long ago, when a man's rank in a political organization was high in ratio to his ability as a money raiser. The larger the campaign contribution, the greater the glory to the one who bagged it. And no questions asked. Then came the Newberry case. And the Vare and Smith affairs. And the Continental Trading Cos. revelations. And, lo and behold, the role of money raiser began to shrivel in importance. The hero of the piece became the villain—as the Nation discovered the sinister relationship betweeif large contributions and high office holding. As explanations were insisted upon and secured, “big money” ceased to be an asset, and was transformed into a liability. For it was learned that the fat shell-out did not mean a burst of patriotic openheartedness; that it was not a matter of giving until it hurt, but of giving until it helped. Now the chief usefulness of Charles D. Hilles to the Republican party in the past has been as a money raiser. He was known to be in close touch with the House of Morgan, with especial emphasis on the touch. And the House of Morgan has been a name to conjure with when money was mentioned. The attitude of international bankers toward Herbert Hoover is widely known. That they are hostile because of his stand on debt cancellation and certain other international questions is no secret. Therefore the reason why Hilles is against Hoover is not a mystery. Opposition of an important cash procurer in the money capital of the world would have been a terrible handicap before the country became wise to what large contributions really signify. But the public has learned.

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No Canals on Mars

No. 42 THE question of the so-called canals on the planet Mars is one which can now be regarded as settled. In all probability, they are not canals. Dr. Robert J. Trumpler, famous astronomer of the Lick Observatory, Cal., undertook a study of these markings on the planet at the time of the close approach of Mars in 1924. He made another study during 1926. Although the planet was not so close to the earth then as in 1924, it was higher in the sky and, hence, in excellent position for observation. Dr. Trumpler used the 36-inch telescope of the observatory, one of the world’s famous telescopes built

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were artificial waterways built by the inhabitants of the planet. But Dr. Tf'umpler says his observations do not support this view. “My observations contradict the view of former observers that these lines are narrow, uniform, straight canals arranged in geometrical figures,” he says. “The network covers the whole surface of the planet, not only the yellow-orange areas thought to be deserts. “The lines are not of canal-like character but show a wide variety of -formation from faint narrow lines to diffuse dark bands several hundred miles wide. “Even the same line may change in width and a few cases were noted in which lines break off abruptly. “No impression of artificiality is conveyed by this network but it seems perfectly feasible to interpret it as a natural topographical feature of the planet’s surface. “Our lack of knowledge about the geologic formation on Mars does not, at present, permit any definite conlusions as to the kind of topographical features with which the network should be identified.” Dr. Trumpler declines to comment to any extent upon the inhabitability of Mars. He points out that the question is one of speculation which can not be definitely settled by the facts known at present.

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BY LUDtVELL DENNY IN the midst of A1 Smith harmony and rejoicing over withdrawal of Senator Walsh as a candidate for the Democratic presidential nomination, along comes Senator Jim Reed, promising to make trouble. Reed is angry. He is insulted by this talk of “Smith on the first ballot.” He thinks he might have won over Smith in the California primary if Walsh had stayed out and not “muddled the waters.” The fighting gentleman from Missouri wants to tell the world in general and the Houston convention in particular that Smith is not the Jeffersonian candidate and not the man to clean up alleged Republican corruption. “I entered the contest because I believe someone representing Jeffersonian Democracy " and devoted to the cleansing of Washington ought to be willing to undertake the task. I shall go on with the contest.” says Reed. “If I were a general in a war I would not surrender my army because I had lost a skirmish.” But to the mind of Senator Walsh this Smith drive is no skirmish. It is the end. After talking with McAdoo, who fought Smith so long and so hopelessly at last, Walsh was “impelled by the logic of events” to write to his manager. “The result of the primary of Tuesday in California quite clearly idicates that the Democrats desire Governor Smith as their candidate. So decisive is it, following like action in States that might be expected to send delegates to the convention out of harmony with his candidacy, that it demonstrates to my mind the futility of advancing the claims of any other to party leadership in the ensuing campaign.” tt tt tt Like Reed. Walsh is sincerely opposed to Smith—perhaps even more opposed, because of his desire to keep a wet out of the White House such as Smith or Reed. But Walsh is unwilling to split his party after he believes that Smith will get the nomination under any conditions. Though it is commonly said, even by Smith’s friends, that the Teapot Dome inquisitor is as deserving of the presidency as any man in the country, Walsh now "recognizes” that the unpredictable winds of politics are blowing for the other man. In such a predicament Jim Reed is the kind of man who spat and shook his fist at Fate and went on with his losing fight against the elements. It was so when Reed stood alone against Woodrow Wilson. It will be so at Houston, and long after, his friends say. Though Smith supporters now feel certain their candidate can not lose the nomination, many of them are uneasy over the new bitterness which Reed is bringing into the campaign. They think perhaps more care should have been given to the sensibilities of the vanquished and rather less to “rubbing in” Smith anticipated victory. Smith managers now realize, more than ever, that their big job is to achieve and maintain that party harmony, without which Smith will lose the election. a a tt AFTER the Daughters of American Revolution controvery over "blacklisting” liberal speakers, in which defenders of administration policy were overwhelmingly victorious, Washington is hearing “the other side” from the Women’s International League for Peace and Freedom. Under the leadership of Jane Addams, who is also a D. A. R., the league passed resolutions: “Deploring the recent action of the Senate in sanctioning the marine occupation of Nicaragua, and we reinterate our opposition to any military intervention. “Urging the State department to request the Central American countries to share with us the responsibility of overseeing. Through a non-military commission, the coming Nicaraguan election.” Other resolutions favored immediate “demilitarization of our Mexican border similar to our Canadian frontier, and supported the Burton bill to prohibit export of American arms to belligerents.

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by the Warner & Swasey Company of Cleveland. Regarding his o b servations, Dr. Trumpler said, “They confirm the existence of a general network of dark lines and spots on Mars.” This network had previously been called canals and had given rise to a theory that they

(Abbreviations: A—ace: K—kins: Q—queen: J —jack: X—any card lower than 10.) 1. Dummy holding K X and declarer J X X, how must a trick be made if opponents lead that suit? 2. When dummy holds A J 10 X and declarer hold Q X X, how does he finesse? 3. When he holds Q X X in one hand, and J X X in other, must a trick be made by declarer? • The Answers 1. If Q is led through dummy, cover with K. If any other card is led. do not cover with K. If any card is led through declarer, K must make a trick. 2. By playing the Q and finessing unless covered. 3. Yes, by never leading that suit.

This Date in U. S. History

May 5 1631—Cape May, N. J.. bought from the Indians by the Dutch. 1766 —Ulloa took possession of New Orleans for Spain. 1775 —Benjamin Franklin returned to Philadelphia from Europe after an absence of ten years. 1840 —Martin Van Buren nominated for the presidency by the Democratic party. 1862 —Battle of Williamsburg, Va. What is the State flower and motto of Tennessee? The State motto Is “Agriculture, Commerce.” The State flower is the passion flower.

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TT only remained for the marvelous youth, Raphael to produce masterpieces of portraiture. So he added to his “Julius II” and “Leo X" the bold and buxom beauty of “La Fornarina" <i. e., the baker’s lady), and the rich colors of “Balthasar Castiglione,” and the nonchalant self-contentment of youth in the "Portrait of a Young Man,” and the dreamy delicacy of music and love in “The Violin Player” and “The Lady With a Veil." Here the painter attains the repose of the finest statuary, while adding to natural line the warmth of color and the vitality of expressions caught in their essential character. All the turbulence of life is left behind here, while the thing of beauty, liberated from the flow and stains of time, is lifted up sub specie eternitatis, as if it would be a joy forever. “All that is beautiful dies,” said Leonardo, “except in art.” Alas, it dies there too, when time breaks frescoes down from the wall, or colors drop from the canvas, or war wreaks its wrath upon beauty. All the more should we cherish loveliness while it lasts. Raphael is the apex of Renaissance art. Michelangelo wJI be greater, but his work will burgeon with the exaggerations and mannerisms of incipient decline. Think of a man bringing forth, in a brief life of thirty-seven years, 287 pictures and 576 drawings; and all with classic measure and quiet ease, with none of the distorting strains of Angelo, none of the heartaches and dissipated forces of Leonardo. Here is no “infinite pains,” as a Carlyle would expect to find; this is a power that rather satisfies Spencer's conception of genius as the ability to do with ease what would require infinite pains in other men. “Neither Leonardo nor Michelangelo, in spite of their long lives and the cultivation of their powers, seems ever to have reached the true enjoyment of artistic production. The former, if we look closely, wearied himself with thought, and dissipated his powers in mechanical inquiries” (Goethe too); “and we have to blame the latter for spending his fairest years among stone quarries, getting out marble blocks and slabs, so that, instead of carrying out his intention of carving all the heroes of the Old and New Testament, he has left only his Moses as an example of what he could and should have done. “Raphael, however, during his whole life, ever increased in the even facility of his work. We see in him the development of the intellectual and active powers, which preserve such remarkable balance that it may be affirmed that no modern artist has possessed such purity and completeness of thought and such clearness of expression. In him we have another instance of a talent that pours out to us the freshest water from the purest source.” tt a a AND now, parting from him, let us look at Raphael's “Autoritratto,” or portrait of himself; it stands in the Louvre on a special easel, and no man or woman can pass it quickly by; hundreds return and return to it to seek the secret of its infinite charm and its quiet happiness. Here again perfection conies, and makes words meaningless. He ' is a gentle youth, always a boy in transparent clarity of soul, and yet with something of the wistfulness of genius in him, something of the sadness that haunts lovers of beauty—knowing its brevity, seeing ugliness everywhere. When he was 37 he was at the head of all the artists of Europe. As master architect of St. Peter (for he was architect too), he lived with a lordly retinue of aides, pupils, and servants; and amid his other tasks he joyed in the obligation he had put upon himself, of making a complete record of the remains of ancient art in Italy. While engaged in excavations for this purpose he caught a sere; and suddenly, after a few days of illness, he died; as if to say that which God

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THE STORY OF CIVILIZATION Raphael Is Apex of Renaissance Art Written for The Times by Will Durant —.

had inexplicably given God might inexplicably take away. He belongs with Mozart and Keats, and those other celestial spirits, transiently embodied, who irradiated the world with excellence for a while, and then suddenly vanished, as in a miraculous assumption, from this prosaic scene. “Truly we may affirm,” says Vasari, “that those who are the possessors of endowments so rich and varied as were assembled in the per-

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Souih Bend Tribune Attorney General Arthur L. Gilliom of South Bend, candidate for the Republican United States Senatorial nomination in next Tuesday's primary, is put down in Dr. E. S. Shumaker's usual political blacklist just issued as a “wet of record.” If Dr. Shumaker knows anything he knows or ought to know that Arthur L. Gilliom is no more a wet than w r as Dr. Shumaker w'hen a conscientious doctor recommended to Shumaker that whisky seemed to be necessary for a very sick member of the latter’s family and he had the good sense to get it. Dr. Shumaker knows or ought to know that while his views on prohibition may not agreee with those of Mr. Gilliom the latter is dry and not even “wet of record.” Any one who knows Mr. Gilliom personally, who is acquainted with his personal habits, who knows his family life and who is in touch with his public acts knows that Arthur Gilliom is what the AntiSaloon League calls dry. To stamp him otherwise is to place upon him a false brand and to endeavor to damn him in the minds of those who do not know but desire the truth, those who measure men in public life solely by whether they are labeled wet or dry and v T ho have no conception of such public men’s ability

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son of Raphael, are scarcely to be called men only; they are rather, if it be permitted so to speak, entitled to the appellation of mortal gods.” We must love and protect genius wherever we come upon it; for it is the creative Logos, the Word made Flesh, passing among us precariously for a time, and destined to be crucified. (Copyright. 1928, by Will Durant) (To Be Continued)

and those who are fanatically dry or fanatically religious or both. That a man of Mr. Gilliom’s legal ability, Christian character, church affiliation and high standing as a public official and as a man should be submitted to such an indignity by Shumaker or by any other individual only demonstrates the unfair methods which will be indulged in to defeat a worthy person of acknowledged ability and good character because someone is pleased to place upon him a false label for the reason that he does not measure up to that individual’s narrow and bigoted ideas. If ever there was a decent, upright, loyal American citizen of real ability that citizen is Arthur L. Gilliom. He is not the deceiving type of person who sets an audience wild over a prohibition speech and then invites friends to his hotel rom to have a drink. He is not the kind of a man who openly disavows the KuKlux Klan and then secretly connives with it to obtain whatever political influence it may have. He is not the man to endeavor to make the people believe he is what he is not in order to procure their political favor and their votes. Arthur L. Gilliom is the type of high minded man needed in the United States Senate and the people of Indiana will serve their best interests if they put him there. Muncie Press All voting citizens are not good citizens, but all good citizens are voting citizens. Don’t be a slacker. If you do not take enough interest in your government to cast an intelligent ballot whenever you have the opportunity, then what right have you to accept the protection and the favors of your Government? In Indiana and in Delaware County great issues are at stake in the Republican primary next week, and in a lesser degree in the Democratic primary as well. The issue, so far as the Republicans are concerned, simply is whether they intend to clean their own stables then or permit the Democrats to do it in November. That goes for both the .State and for Delaware County. The eyes of the entire nation are on Indiana's Republican primary because it is the Republican party that long has been in power in this State and it is Republican officers chiefly that have been bartering away the people's rights to give stolen profits and stolen power to a gang of corruptionists. Maybe if the Democrats had been in office as long, the same thing would have happened; maybe not. Now the demand is that the party be tdeaned up from top to bottom so far as an indignant electorate can do it. Nobody in all the State doubts that this will be done either in Indiana or in our own county provided the people vote as they think and as they talk.

Daily Thought

The tree is known by his fruit. —Matt. 12:33. OUR deeds are like children born to us; they live and act apart from our own will. Children may be strangled, but deeds never.— George Eliot.

MAY 5, 1928

M. E. TRACY SAYS: “The Plight of the Farmers Is Dae to Nothing so Distinctly as the Fact That the Credit System IFas Not Adapted to Their Use.”

■pRINCE PONTENZIANI, Governor of Rome, who arrived in New York Friday, should feel at home, for he finds himself surrounded by an Italian community practically as large as that over which he presides. The metropolitan district of New York is not only the largest city in the world, but it contains several of the largest cities according to race and anceiiry. There was a time when Rome was larger than New York by comparison, but Rome has shrunk. Its present population ol 750,000 is probably less than one-fifth of whati it was in Nero's day. tt tt tt Find Roman Skyscraper Because of the important part ib has played in human history during the last 2,000 years, Rome has become a household word, yet wo know very little about it. Excavators have just discovered a nine-story department store near Trajan’s Forum. No one suspected that ancient Rome contained anything of the kind. So much emphasis has been placed on her temples, palaces, theaters and monuments that the commercial side of her existence has been overlooked. That the commercial, side must have been very impressive is obvious because of the taxes it took to maintain all the pomp and luxury, and because it took business to supply the taxes. tt tt tt Commerce and Culture One gets the impression that there was much culture and little commerce not only in Rome, but in other cities of the -ancient world. This is due to the fact that culture has been emphasized in our educational system as though it were a lost art. Asa matter of ordinary common sense, cultufit is impossible without) commerce to back it up. Communities may become famous through art and literature, but not until after they have been mada rich through trade. Thanks to the spade, we are learning that ancient cities were developed and sustained by the same force that makes modern cities. If Rome had a nine-story department store, Babylon had a banking house which remained in business for more than 200 years, which dealt in securities, acted as trustee for estates, collected rents and performed other functions that are common to the banking business. a tt tt Loans for Wage Earners Banks, like other enterprises are beginning to realize that they not only owe something to ordinary folks, hut that there is an opportunity to make themselves solid, as well as turn an honest penny, by extending credit to ordinary folks. The City National Bank of New York has just opened a loan department for salaried people, giving the wage earner a chance to borrow, without security, and at moderate rates of interest. The idea is not original. It has been used by the Morris Plan Banks for many years. Its adoption by the leading bank of New York City, however, marks a real departure from old-time methods. tt tt tt Credit System Unadapted The trouble with our credit system has been its failure to help those who really needed help. The plight cf the farmers is duo to nothing so distinctly as the fact that the credit system was not adapted to their U£o They have not enjoyed the same assistance through the extension of credit as have merchants, manufacturers and real estate operators. The small banks located among them were net able to carry the burden, and there was no means by' which the surplus of the larger banks could be made to serve that end. The formation of farm loan and intermediate credit banks has tended to relieve the situation, but a lot is required to make up for the injustice which manifests itself not only in the farmer’s plight, but in lopsided, wasteful marketing methods. tt a tt Farm Relief Clamor Farm relief is demanded not because agriculture would be unable to pay its way with a square deal, but because lack of a square deal has placed it in a helpless position, because while merchants and manufacturers have been assisted by a tariff, while real estate operators have been helnea by city improvements at public expense, and while other classes have enjoyed the benefit of our credit system and special loans, the farmer has been victimized, rather than aided. a a tt Pulls Eastern States The demand for farm relief has bdeome a factor to be reckoned with, not only because the farmers believe they are entitled to it, but because of the opposition in eastern States. \ This was reflected in the vote of Tammany Congressmen, who, instead ot favoring the bill, aq many supposed they would to help Governor Smith, turned against it by a majority of sixteen to six. Their action is interpreted as an effort to make Governor Smith more acceptable to the East, but to win the election he may need some of the West as well, and this action on the part of Tammany Congressmen may do him mors harm than good.