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The Bitterness Will Die If Smith is nominated will the Democratic South go Republican? If Hoover is nominated, will the Republican West go Democratic? In other words, will wetness and religion on the one hand and the farmers’ plight on the other alter the whole map of politics? As the calendar swings into convention week, those questions stand out. The question about Smith and the South isn’t new. It was reckoned in the beginning. It has been diminishing in importance, in light of recent events. The second, about Hoover and the West, once was like the cloud in Noah’s day—no bigger than a man’s hand. But it grew and grew until there is no denying the threatening aspect of it now. Increasing bitterness against Hoover was the outstanding note in Kansas City, where this was written, Sunday. That bitterness bids fair to growing right up to balloting time. Will it stop Hoov'" All signs say no. ( Will it live after his nomination and continue to increase? We believe not—for the following reasons: Hoover has been painted as the enemy of the farmer. Who has done the painting? Not Hoover himself, but those who want another nominee. The farm argument was their one big bet. They seized upon it. They made it grow. There is nothing inherent in Hoover himself or in his atttiude toward the farmer that in the least justifies the assumption that he is in fact the farmers’ enemy. The opponents who are making so much of the farm issue, down in their hearts, know that. The weakness of the Hoover opposition, therefore, lies in its insincerity. With one breath they cheer for Coolidge, the man who vetoed the McNaryHaugen bill; With another they cry against Hoover as the farmers’ foe. Now those who are feeding the fires of bitterness are in Kansas City. They are politicians—the Jim Watsons and the like. Being politicians, they are by the very nature of things, In final analysis, regular. Loud though they are today in their attacks against Hoover, they will be the first to get aboard if he is nominated. They will go back home among their constituents, and, in behalf of the very man they now berate, will busy themselves at the gentle job of salving the wounds into which up to now they have been rubbing salt. Food for a Nominee’s Thoughts It takes the fastest ship twenty-one days to make the voyage from San Francisco to Brisbane, Australia. The Southern Cross, with a crew of four, just has completed it in three days, eleven hours and twentyone minutes. tt tt a We do not know who will be nominated by the G. O. P. at Kansas City this week, nor can we say who will be the Democratic nominee at Houston. But we respectfully call the attention of the victors at both conventions to the facts here sketchily presented. Their significance screams to high heaven. tt tt tt It took mankind a million years to move faster than a walk. A hundred years ago we could travel no faster than a horse could run. But within the last fourteen months the Atlantic has been crossed repeatedly in a little more than a day. The journey from the United States to Australia has been done in less than four. Astounding as they seem, and are, these records inevitably will be lowered, and soon. Lieutenant Williams of the Navy has flown 322 miles an hour, not for just a spurt, 'out in sustained flight. That is 473 feet a second, a speed which already is beginning to approach the velocity of a shell fired out of a cannon. It is only a matter cf time, of course, before aircraft generally will be traveling as fast as Williams’ plane. And the air will teem with commerce. Europe then will be only eight or nine hours from New York, China but twenty hours or so from California, and Australia less than a day’s flight. 8 8 tt For this country to elect a President who can not see this vision of the very near future would be folly. This world of ours is shrinking fast, for distance is very properly measured in time, not in miles. Washington now is as close to Australia as it was to Boston when Monroe was President a hundred years ago. Nothing can happen anywhere on earth, as President Coolidge has just reminded us, which does not have some effect upon us, for good or for ill. Our trade, our prosperity, our investments, our peace, our national existence even, are all dependnt upon the way in which our foreign affairs are to be conducted. The President who is to be nominated and elected this year would be dull indeed to think for one moment that his job is going to be routine or that he can let precedent be his guide. To the contrary. He will have to blaze a trail for himself, whether he likes it or not. He will have to decide problems such as no other President ever dreamed of before, not even Coolidge of the present day- Our foreign relations will have to be, not revamped, but made over out of the whole cloth, for a brand new era is upon us, where distance means nothing, but where Americans, Europeans, Australians, Asiatics, Africans and Fiji islanders are all neighbors, none independent of the rest, but all interdependent. The day is past, therefore, when we can afford to allow a coterie of self-appointed political bosses in a back room pick our leader for us. Such a leader would wreck us, as sure as we are born. An Odd Contrast The day’s assortment of news sometimes contains some oddly contrasting items. A United Press report the other day bore two strikingly incongruous stories. One told how Sam Pine Bird, a Sioux Indian, of the. West, was acci- ' dently killed by being run over by an old-time prairie schooner. The other, from Berlin, told how the great Lufthansa airplane line may be tied up by a threatened strike of its personnel. What sort of world are we living in, anyway? Thoa® two news stories don’t belong in the same paper. One is intensely, completely modern—l92B in ita eesence. The other is a throw-back to the days of the wild West. Odd, that they should hit the wires the same day.

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A Poor Seller Coolidge could have had the nomination if he wanted it. But he didn’t choose to run. Civil war developed in the Republican party because of that, and there was blood letting along-sev-eral fronts in Ohio, New York, Indiana and elsewhere. The party, while not bled white, was weakened, and the enemy was strengthened in proportion. All that would not have happened if Coolidge had wanted the nomination. Even those In his own party who doubt his sincerity don’t doubt his political sagacity. They know that he knew that his refusal to run spelled trouble within the party. And they just can’t see how he deliberately filled his pockets full of rocks just before starting a foot race. That’s why the draft Coolidge boys are having a hard time selling their wares in Kansas City. Europe Seeks Another War Once again the quari-el between Poland and Lithuania over Vilna threatens the peace of Europe, says Sir Austen Chamberlain, British foreign minister, now attending a meeting of the league council at Geneva. , And frbm the way Sir Austen and other Euro- j pean diplomats talk, they are getting pretty sore. For j ten years these two countries have been at daggers J drawn over the province and city of Vilna and j more than once their troops have clashed and spilled; blood. Only repeated intervention by the allied powers i has staved off war. I Lithuania's latest gesture was to ratify anew constitution in which Vilna was named as her .national capital, despite the fact that Poland holds the city under title conferred by the allied council of ambassadors in 1923. This act Sir Austen hotly characterized as “an act i of ill will and provocation,’’ with which opinion France’s spokesman at Geneva expressed agreement, adding that if the two countries can’t settle their quarrel shortly between themselves the league should do it for them. In fact, the council of the league immediately afterward tried to hurry matters by introducing a resolution demanding quick settlement of the row. But unanimity was required and Premier Waldmaras of Lithuania, wno was present, voted the resolution down, doing so with heated gestures. The British foreign secretary is not alone among European statesmen in fearing the outcome of the dispute. Six times in almost as many years Vilna has changed hands, generally accompanied by bloodshed. Curiously enough, Poles and Lithuanians seem made to be friends. And for centuries they were, Lithuanians willingly following Poland’s leadership. But after Russian revolution the Lithuanian nationalists formed a goverment of their own at Vilna and so the present row began, with variations far too swift and complicated to be chronicled here. Russian reds chased out the Lithuanians. Poles chased out the reds. The Russians again chased out the Poles and the Poles again chased out the Russians. Lithuanians denounced the Poles. At times the dangerous wrangle has seemed to be settled, only to hare up again hotter than ever. Several times war nas lurked just around the corner. Small wonder, then, that the League of Nations is showing signs ol impatience. A spark no bigger than this started the World War and pretty much the same j countries are interested now in Poland and Lithuania. The quicker the two principals can be made to , make up and be friends, the sooner Europe will breathe easy.

Sometimes a politician who persists in sitting on the fence gets the gate. _ r Dietz on Science Gardens of the Universe No. 73 1 MODERN man buys his civilization with a great price. The business man who spends the majority of each day in his office has traded the sun and wind and the hills and trees for his mahogany desk, swivel-chair, filing cabinet and telephone. But the wise man makes an effort to recapture that close communion with nature which was the rich

But we can not really get acquainted with the universe if we overlook the garden of the skies, that marvelous garden which the Creator of all things has set forth in the boundless ocean of space, the awe-inspiring universe oi stars. That great American poet and philosopher, Ralph Waldo Emerson, once observed that if a man were permitted to gaze at the stars only once in his lifetime, he would spend years preparing himself for that wonderful glimpse of the night sky with its golden array of twinkling stars. Emerson was right. If we could see the stars, but once, we would look forward to the sight with keen anticipation. We would want to know the names of the brightest stars. We would want to know the way in which the stars are grouped together into patterns or constellations. But because the wondrous panorama of the heavens is spread out for us every cloudless night, we give very little thought to it. The shepherd watching his flock by night in centuries gone by was more familiar with the stars than most of us are today. This is one of the paradoxes of modern life. The astronomer is busy today pushing out the limits of the universe. His telescope reveals to him stars that are so far away that'they must always remain invisible to the unaided eye. He sees,, therefore, stars which the ancients did not know were in existence. But while the astronomer has been extending the limits of the uiverce, most of us have been restricting the limits of the universe for ourselves. jWe have found the lights of the city so bright that we have lost sight of those marvelous lights which hang above the city. We have forgotten the stars. If we are wise, we will discover them again.

M. E. TRA C Y SAYS: “Free Speech Makes Room for a Dozen Fools to Every Wise Man, but If We Silence the Fools, We Also Would Silence the Wise Man.”

PLENTY of news, as usual, but overshadowed by what is about to take place at Kansas City, and later on at Houston. Under other circumstances, Nobile and his seventeen marooned companions would be occupying a large part of the front page, but this is politics’ day in the court of public opinion. It is a day made merry with by bunk and hokum, a day of meaningless claims and clamor, a day of the loosest kind of talk, but a day that would not and could not b? real without such things. The tendency, especially in business and high brow circles, is to be bored, is to say the game has ceased to be worth the candle, to point oct the quiet efficiency of a Mussolini in contrast with the clumsy injustice of a Soviet, and wonder if we have not gone too far in the extension of popular rights. One feels such an attitude on every hand, and feels it when election returns are tabulated, with only half the people voting. But how would our wise men and women run a republic without politics, and how would they run politics without the ballyhoo? Freedom is something that people have to test every once in a while in order to be sure that they possess it. Politics gives them the chance. 8 8 8 Desire for Freedom We have heard a lot of nonsense during the last six months. So far as purposeful and constructive action goes, 90 per cent of it could have been dispensed with. Purposeful and constructive actir>n, however, is not the only thing, j Most tyrannies have been purposeful \ and constructive; too much so, if anything. What people really want out of life is the opportunity for self-' expression. They may not have | anything worth while to express, but neither they, nor others can be sure of that until they have had a chance to try. Free speech makes room for a dozen fools to every wise man, but if we silence the fools, we would also silence the wise man. Freedom of conscience opens the way for all kinds of cults and quackeries, but it also opens the way for sincere thinking. tt tt tt Noise Hides Work Back of the barrage of empty noise and emptier chattcrings which have characterized this campaign just as they have characterized every other in our history, and always will, so long as this Nation remains a republic, is the force of intelligent leadership We have not heard very much from the men who are really guiding political affairs. Most of the shouting comes from subordinates, and most of it is meant to serve no other end than let off steam. Even most of the shouters who make it are aware of this. The real leaders have little time for such by-play. Senator Smoot of Utah, for instance, seeks only a chance to work in peace. So, too, Senator Bor?h is not saying very much. Back of the scenes, not only the platform, but the candidacies are taking shape. That is tht one thing we do not hear much abr.ut. What we heat abov* are claims and counter claims, put forward with the idea of enthusing one crowd and discouraging another. Most of the claims are exaggerated not because those making them lack honesty, but because it has become' the custom. 8 8 8 Coolidge Evades Issue On? guess is as good as another. Mine is that the Republicans will find a way to head off the farm revolt; that Senator Borah will get his dry plank and that Herbert Hoover will be nominated. Mcst everybody agrees that Herbert Hoover will be nominated if President Coolidge stands aside. Four times the President has said that he intends to stand aside, but he has not said it in that short way which leaves no doubt. One little word of two letters would have settled this controversy at the beginning. # Instead of that word, the President found it convenient to employ the expression “I do not choose.” It is curious how words can be employed, or interpreted to mess up a situation. An old anecdote in English history of which Christopher Marlowe made use tells how the placing of a comma changed an order to let King Edward II live into one for his assassination. tt tt tt Perils Republicanism It is hard to see how President Coolidge has done himself or his party any good. Admitting that he is in a position to determine the nominee, there are reasons for believing that he has made his own nomination undesirable, if not dangerous. He has embarrassed his friends quite as much as he has irritated his enemies. Those who have given his administration loyal support find thmselves without a word of encouragement or commendation while those who thought they had a right to depend on him are coldly ignored. If President Coolidge is as popular with the Republican party as he was six months ago. human nature must have undergone an unexpected and complete revolution.

possession of his pioneer ancestors who tilled the farms and sailed the vessels of pioneer America. This i f the springtime o f the year. Our thoughts, it we are wise, turn to the outdoors baseball - or golt or gardening or hiking or whatever our sprfngtiae hobby might be.

Daily Thought

Remember Lot’s wife. Luke 17:32. # n tt CURIOSITY is one of the permanent and certain characteristics of a vigorous intellect.—Johnson.

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BY DR. MORRIS FISHBEIN. Editor Journal of the American Medical Association and of Hygcia. the Health Magazine. ’tTITHEN the average person talks * ’ about having a cold, he uses the term to describe many conditions which are distinguished by physicians as different disorders. For instance, any irritation of the nose and throat with the discharge of some fluid is called by the layman a common cold, but the physician may distinguish it as an infection of the sinuses, a symptom of grip or influenza, the first manifestation of hay fever, or merely a general infecUon of the nose and throat. Today the common cold is likely

Chicago Tribune An alliance of the oponents of Hoover has been formed at Kansas City. It is a defensive alliance. At its head is Louis Emmerson of Illinois, who speaks for Lowden. It includes, as well, the supporters of Curtis and Goff and the anti-Hoover delegates from Ohio. In the van ride the delegates from Indiana. The reasons animating this alliance arc evident. Mr. Hoover is going into the convention with almost enough delegates to get the nomination at the first ballot, f Any serious defection from the ranks of his opponents will insure his success. Accordingly, their only hope lies in an ironclad agreement to hang together until Hoover is eliminated. In such a finish fight between Hoover and the anti-Hoover allies all the moral advantage lies with Hoover. He will have that advantage because of the presence

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You can get an answer to any answer- , able Question of fact or information bv writing to Frederick M. Kerbv. Question Editor. The Indianapolis Times. Washington Bureau. 1322 New York Ave.. Washington. D. C . enclosing two cents in stamps for reply. Medical and legal advice cannot be given, nor can extended research be made. All other Questions will receive a personal replv . Unsigned reauests cannot be answered. 1 All letters are confidential. You are j cordially invited to make use of this free service as often as you please. EDITOR. What is coke? A hard brittle porous solid of a blackish-gray color and more or less metallic lustre. It does not soil the fingers when rubbed and gives no smoke when burning. It übsorbs moisture from the air easily. Coke is made by heating bituminous coal to expel the volatile elements. The residue resulting consists chiefly of carbon, mixed with varying amounts of ash containing sulphur and phosphorous. In the manufecture of illuminating gas coke is a by-product. It is really bituminous coal with the gas burned out. Where is the town Ensenado? Is it a manufacturing town? What is its population? Ersenado is a port of Mexico, in the northern district of the territory of Lower California, of which it is the capital. It is situated on the bay of Todo Los Santos, which affords a rather poor harbor. Its manufactures consist of leather, flour, candy, low-grade shoes, and some vehicles, mainly consumed by local trade. It has a population of 3,000. Why do dogs turn around before they lie down? Early in the history of the animal kingdom when the ancestors of domestic dog were wild, they slept in the woods or open. When they were ready to lie down, they first had ’to trample the grass about them flat to make a place to lie. This fixed habit became one of the instincts inherent in dogs even today. How did execution by mob get the name of lynching? The origin of the term is obscure. The most generally accepted explanation associates the beginning of the practice with one Charles Lynch, a Virginia planter who undertook to maintain order by tak-

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No Germ Isolated as Cause of Colds

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to be considered an infection in itself, in addition to being related to the various diseases that have been mentioned. 8 8 8 UNFORTUNATELY no single germ has been isolated as the actual cause of all colds, but dozens of germs have been found in ! association with colds at various times in various places by different investigators. ! Indeed, not only are the ordi- | nary germs known to medical sci- : ence found occasionally, but even I those very small organisms that will pass through a porous clay fil- : ter and that are called filtrable viruses. I For this reason .most bacterlolo-

in the allies’ front rank of the delegation from Indiana. That delegation owes its being in large part to the support it received from the Ku-Klux Klan and the Anti-Saloon league. No moral strength can spring from such origins. A strong candidacy cannot. be built upon foundations sunk in the bottomless corruption of Indiana politics. Indiana, in American political life, stands for degradation, for the subservience of elected officers to the dictates of organized zealots, hypocrites and corruptionists. When the Senate, in derision, chanted. “Birds of a feather flock together,” at Watson's associate, Robinson, the Senators were only reflecting the moral judgment of the republic upon Indiana politics and politicians. The support of Indiana’s delegation is a heavier load than any of the candidates can afford to sarry.

ing into his own hands the punishment of all disorderly or disaffected persons. Are the Smith-Hughes and Smith-Lever funds available for use in the Philippines, Porto Rico and Hawaii? Smith-Hughes funds to the amount of $30,000 per annum are available for Hawaii, t but not for Porto Rico and the Philippines. Smith-Lever funds are used only in the United States. Does Italy produce enough coal to supply her own needs? Italy produces some coal but the deposits are poor and the major portion of the coal used is imported. Who received the Pulitzer poetry prize in 1926? Amy Lowell (posthumously) for her book entitled "What O’clock.”

Mr. Fixit

Let Mr. Flxit, The Times' representative at city hall, present your troubles to city officials. Write Mr. Fixit at The Times. Names and addresses which must be given will not be published The intersection of St. Clair and Pennsylvania Sts. was cited as “the most dangerous” corner in Indianapolis today in a letter to Mr. Fixit. Dear Mr. Fixit: The most dangerous corner in the city is at Pennsylvania and St. Clair Sts. There is no safety zone on either side; cars dash from four directions, seldom giving any warning signal. When anything is going on at the armory, especially, cars are parked so thick, with others rushing hither ad yon, at night, it is a physical impossibility, unless at perilous risk, to get a car going north and the Pennsylvania cars are the scarcest and slowest in the whole city. Someone will be killed at this corner. I implore your valuable influence in providing, in spite of the narrowness of the street opposite the park, a raised safety zone and, at least, a silent policeman. W. Police Chief Claude M. Worley promised Mr. Fixit to investigate the advisability of making the corner a “stop street” or erecting an electric traffic signal.

gists are convinced that it is not a single germ but the presence of many germs that may be responsible for different epidemics or in different individual cases. Many people are convinced that changes in the weather are associated with catching cold. Exposure to inclement weather, dampness, or sudden change, particularly sudden changes from very warm to very cold, seem to be definitely related to rapid spread of the common cold in the community. Colds are more frequent in cold weather than in warm weather. This fact was known even in the time of Hippocrates, who argued that the fluids of the body were congealed by the direct effects of the cold. The argument has not, however, been substantiated by scientific observation. ' 8 8 8 A draft is defined as a current ■Fa. 0 f a j r blowing with great velocity at a low temperature on some part of the body. If one sits in a warm stuffy room, or in any place when the body Is overheated and is blown upon suddenly with cold air, he is likely to develop a cold. There are all sorts of explanations as to the mechanism of this process, the best one being that congestion of the tissues takes place with associated irritation and greater opportunity for the germs to begin theb work on the tissues. It is a general observation that a cold tends to get well in from five to ten days regardless of what may be done for it, whether one carries a potato in the back pocket, a bag of asafetida around the neck, puts his feet in hot water, or adopts any of the patent medicines that are widely sold in drug stores for selftreatment. Regardless of this fact, however, it is worth while to adopt certain definite measures with a view to shortening the extent of the severity of the infection. The old-fashioned treatment included the hot bath, followed by hot lemonade and then perspiration under several blankets.

Bridge Play Made Easy BY W. W. WENTWORTH

(Abbreviations: A—ace; K—king: Q—queen; 3 —Jack: X—any card lower than 10.) r | THOUSANDS of bridge players fear to bid a suit containing four cards. They have been impressed with the idea that at least five cards must be held in a suit in order to make a sound initial suit bid. This theory is fallacious and obsolete. A four-card suit may be bid with as much freedom as a five-card suit, providing the suit and the total hand contain the minimum requirements for a fourcard suit bid. To make a bid in a four card suit, the'total hand should contain at least 2Vi quick tricks, one of which, as a rule, should be in the four-card suit. The four-card suit must contain at least two honors higher than Q J. The following table sets forth the minimum requirements for a fourcard suit bid: Quick tricks Cards held in required in bidding suit other suits A K Q X or A K J 10 none A K J X or A Q J 10 or K Q J 10 A K X X or A Q J X or A Q 10 X or A J 10 X or K Q J X or K Q 10 X or AQX X 1 K Q X X or A J 9 X 14 or A Q K J 10 X 2 To fail to bid a sound four-card suit initially may not only deprive your partner of valuable information but also of a game. It may be just the missing suit that he requires for a no trump bid. (Copyright. 1938. by the Ready Reference Publishing Company)

JUNE 11,1928

KEEPING UP With THE NEWS

BY LUDWELL DENNY KANSAS CITY, June ll.—Nothing stands between Herbert Hoover and the Republican presidential nomination now but Calvin Coolidge. It’s up to the President. He can sweep aside the Coolidge barricade raised by the "drafters’* against his will, and let the Hoover forces roll forward. Or he can split the Republican party into a factional free-for-all that will make the suicidal Democratic feud of 1924 look like a Quaker meeting. In an open fight, Hoover can win on an early ballot. But Hoover will not and cannot fight Coolidge’s ghost. There is no mystery and no “dee/i stuff” about the situation here. Never before has there been such' unanimity of press and neutral ob-; servers at a contested covention. Here is the plan: Having failed by every other device to stop Hoover, that strange alliance of Lowden Dawes, farm bloc and Hilles Wall Street crowd is trying to use Coolidge’s name to disrupt the Hoover forces. The Wall StYeeters are sincere in • wanting Coolidge. The farm politicians are not. They hate him worse than Hoover and plan for him formally to withdraw after the Hoover delegates are scattered and a dark horse slipped in. Both Lowden and Hilles are for Dawes in the end. How to achieve this? On the first roll call. Connecticut! will vote for Coolidge, Du Pont’a Delaware will follow. Hilles will swing in with about sixty New York. votes, and by the time they gefc through the initial ballot Coolidge will have from 150 to 225, depending on what Mellon does with Pennsylvania. 8 8 8 THEN one' of two things must happen. Either the President remains silent, in which case they will have to nominate him—for they; can not repudiate their administration leader on the eve of an election; and win—or he withdraws, by direct statement, or through ani authorized spokesman. Since nine of ten delegates and bosses are certain Coolidge will not run, the big question is the time element. ' Will Coolidge order down’ thd phantom barrier as the battle starts and permit the Hoover army to’ march on to a fair fight and victory against tangible opponents? Or will he wait until part of the Hoover forces are frightened or lured away by his ghost, and Hilles-Lowden and Lowden-Dawes slip up and strike from behind. The President probably will act at the moment when it will help Hoover most and hurt the allies most. It is almost inconceivable that he will play into the hands ctf the allies. 8 8 8 THERE are two things certain about Coolidge. First, he i3 one of the most astute politicians in the business. Second, he hates j Lowden and Dawes poltically with 1 a bitterness that was revealed by his enraged McNary-Haugen farm bill veto. These two factors are also tha probable key to the mystery of why' the President in his four do net choose statements never said flatly he would not run under any conditions. The President was not certain—as none could be certain the opening day, of the convention—that ho could prevent his political enemies from capturing the party. That he wants Hoover to succeed him in office, or he would not havaf' permitted three-quarters of his cabinet to head his commerce secretary’s campaign. But he has kept! the situation open in such way that, in an emergency, he could take the nomination to "save” the party from McNary-Haugenism. \8 8 8 'T'HIS course, though enabling Hilles and others to use hijj name temporarily against Hoover* will have helped Hoover in the end if the President formally withdraws when the balloting begins. Then it will give the final push to the Hoover advance, and leave the allies without the camouflaged Coolidge barrier behind which they are hiding. \ But what if Coolidge permits himself to be nominated, as a small minority anticipate? There is doubt whether he could unite the party. He could have done so several months ago, but perhaps not now. There will be bitterness, no matter who wins, but avowed candidates or dark horses would be free of one serious handicap facing Coolidge in November. Coolidge’s popularity with ttts electorate rests on faith in his sincerity and straightforwardness. There is no good reason now t6l doubt his utter sincerity in his four withdrawal statements, and, in his present desire to reitre. If. he runs anyway, the politicians will understand that it was because of his sense of “duty” to keep outs* Lowden and Dawes. But that is too involved for tha rank and file of voters. The American people, rightly or wrongly, think Calvin Coolidge has announced definitely his retirement from the presidency. And whoever is to blame for a misunderstanding, the people do not judge kindly of an honored whom they think has “fooled” them*

This Date in U. S. History

June 11 1496—Columbus returned to Spain, dejected. 1509—Domestic animals first brought to America. 1776—Congress appointed a commission to frame a declaration of independence. 1876—Republicans nominated Hayca • and Wheeler for President and Vice President. 1912 —Cuban insurgents fired on marines at Guantanamo. LODGE PAGE