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* < True to Form Both' the act of “mercy” to Boynton Moore, convicted councilman, and the manner in which it was extended, were typical of the Jackson morals or lack of morals. The Governor could be relied upon, of course, to save a political grafter and crook from a prison cell if given half an excuse. Especially could he be relied upon to save a follower of Boss Coffin. A jury said that Mtfore waft guilty of bribery and his prison sentence had been fixed by a judge who believed him gtlilty. Now the Governor cuts this down to a fine of SIOO on the presentation of a plea that the other couneilmen who were equally guilty had been able to bargain for their liberty with their resignations. He signed the order and then left the city, with orders that it be not made public until the attention of the people might reasonably be expected to be centered upon the nomination of a presidential candidate. He was cowardly to the last. That pardon should be Jackson’s last official act, and would be if the State Legislature had courage or were free enough to meet and impeach him. Whether or not, the bargains made with the other couneilmen were justified or not depends upon the point of view. The bunch who pleaded guilty to misdemeanors in order to escape trial for felonies had their hands at the city’s throat. The legal processes of removing them are long and tedious. It would have required months to place all of them on trial and then more and more months for the Supreme Court to pass upon appeals. And in the meantime tfie c;ty would have been at the mercy of men who admitted that; they were criminals. f It may have hejen humiliating to submit to the blackmail by these criminals, but the sentiment of leaders of civic organizations decided that no price was too great to pay for the freedom of the people from the clutches of this outfit. But the case of Moore was different. He had had his day in court. There was no pretense of repentance. He was on his way. The people had paid the expense of convicting him. He had fought and was still fighting to keep his liberty and his place on the city government. The interference of the Governor with his sentence can be on no other ground than politics. The claim that here had been a bargain, even if true, would be no reason for granting mercy. The court had fixed the sentence. A jury had passed upon the guilt. The conviction c f Moore was, indeed, the fear-producing event w hich had driven the other bandits to cover. The sentiments of the Governor can be understood, of course. A man who stood so close to the prison doors as he did when his lawyers pleaded the statute of limitations could be expected to have a fellow feeling for a political crook who was caught before the statute had run. But his power to give pardons, to name officials, to disgrace the State as he does with such brutal brazenness, ought to be brought to an end. If there is any, sincerefy in the claims of Speaker Harry Leslie that he represents decency, and he is making such a claim as a candidate for Governor, he would call together the House of Representatives and -ask the members to impeach the man who so abuses his powers. That he has such a power is asserted by many very good lawyers. Certainly Indiana, long suffering, ought not to be forced to stand for more'of these Jackson acts of protection for the politically and officially corrupt. Labor at Conventions There arrives in Kansas City a dignified delegation to wait on the resolutions committee of the Republican national convention. It is composed of quiet, sturdy-looking men of middle age or more, seeming sure of themselves and their purpose. This purpose is to obtain the inclusion in the Republican platform of views similar to their own on the subject of labor and capital and labor and the Government. Week after next the same delegation will present itself beofre the resolutions committee of the Democratic national committee. This is organized labor in action—in one form of action, at least, the form it prefers to take ana the form surely most acceptable to all interests concerned. To the degree that organized labor is effective in thus counseling with the country’s political leaders, the necessity for the use of other methods—such as striking—is minimized., Fo"r that reason it is to be hoped that organized labor, its aims and its needs, may be given serious and sympathetic consideration at both national conventions. Labor’s suggestions scarcely are radical. The manner in which anti-trust legislation has been diverted from its plain purpose and made to oppress labor organizations is pointed out in the statement prepared by the American Federation of Labor. It is asked that present statutes so be amended as to leave labor and farm organizations free, aa undoubtedly was the intention of Congress at the outset. Because of the persistent abuse of their injunction power by the courts, it is asked that legislation be enacted carefully defining the equity power of the

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courts. The only definition organized labor can accept, of course, is one that will prevent the use of injunctions in labor disputes. A strong declaration in favor of labor’s right to organize is asked. A continuation of the present immigration policy. An end to the demoralization Os the coal industry, through legisaltion to protect capital, labor and consumer. A recommendation that the child labor amendment be ratified by the States. The prevention of competition between convict labor and free labor. Adoption of extensive governmental construction programs in times of unemployment. A scientific study of the whole subject of unemployment. More liberal compensation for injured Government employes. More adequate pay for Government employes. Protection of the right of free speech, press and assemblage. Opposition to compulsory labor in any form. Opposition to conscription save in case of defensive war. , Extension of the five-day week in Government employment, as conditions may warrant, to serve as an example to all employers. A declaration in favor of the principle of high wages and in opposition to any reduction in the income of American working people. Amendment of the Volstead act to permit manufacture and sale of 2.75 per cent beer. History Fails to Repeat Certain profe.ssional politicians who play politics for profit have been attempting once again to tie things up, to bring about a deadlock and then to get together as they did in 1920, select their dark horse, pledge him to their campaign and put him over. That s what the draft-Coolidge talk has meant. It explained what happened in the New York delegation yesterday afternoon. It has been “the Ohio gang" idea in anew guise. Such a gang has made a pretense of friendship for Coolidge. It has talked of drafting him. But it has known that he can not be drafted. And it has known that if Hoover should be beaten, it would not be Coolidge who would be nominated. What has been wanted has been another bedroom conference and another dark horse. To those who play politics for profit, nothing is so desirable as a dark horse, for it makes possible the selection of a man who will stand hitched. And so back of all the scenes, back of all the milling and the talking and the dope, has been that sinister purpose of selecting someone who can be controlled. What does a dark horse mean? It means that the leading candidates are out of it. And it means that those who put them out are in power. Being in power then they can get together where they please, in whatever hotel room they please. They* can call in whomever they please and offer him the highest office in the world if he will accept their terms. Out of a such a situation grew the greatest era of political corruption in our Nation’s history. And now, eight years later, the same vicious setup has gone out that the President has spoken, thus preventing further misuse of his name by the drafters. Hurried midnight conferences by bosies- failed to agree on a dark horse. Following that, Mellon and others are reported to have swung to Hoover. If this is true, it probably insures Hoover’s nomination on an early ballot—thanks largely to the publicity given to the gang and its game. Hoover's victory would be fortunate for the country, though it would be much more pleasing to this newspaper if he could have won without the help of a single band wagon supporter.

David Dietz on Science —.. Older Than History No. 74

THE great thinker Carlyle once exclaimed. "Why did no one teach me the constellations when I was a child?” Carlyle realized that he missed something in not knowing the stars and constellations by name. Yet that knowledge is easily acquired, and once acquired, it adds anew richness to the great outdoors. It makes inti-

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tions were traced out in the sky a long, long time ago. Nobody knows how long ago. As far back as records of history take us, we find the heavens divided into constellations. All of the ancient nations indulged in the practice of devising constellations. The system which we use today has come down to us frorti the Greeks by way of the Romans. The first complete description or catalog of the constellations which we know of, was made by a Greek scientist who lived in the year 370 B. C. H is name was Eudoxus. He was one of the ifiast brilliant of Greek scholars. Besides being an astronomer, he ■•’"s a mathematician, a physicist and a student of Government affairs. Eudoxus described forty-five constellations in his catalog. We know this in spite of the fact that the original catalog has been lost. The reason we know it is because just 100 years later, a Greek physician who happened also to be a poet, wrote a poem titled “Phainomena.” This is a Greek word which can be translated as “appearances” ‘or “phenomena.” The poet-physician was named Aratus. In his poem, Aratus recounted the system of constellations as cataloged by Eudoxus. The poem was later translated into Latin on several occasions, once by the famous Cicero, whose acquaintance most of us made daring our high school study of Latin. In about 139 B. C. there lived a famous astronomer and mathematcian in Alexandria, Egypt. His name was Ptolemy. He wrote a book known as the “Almagest,” which was used as a textbook of astronomy and mathematics for succeeding centuries until far into the Middle Ages. In this work, Ptolemy added three new constellations to those of Eudoxus, making a total of fortyeight. Only slight changes have been made in the constellations of the northern hemisphere from that day to this. (

M. E. iTra ay SAYS: “Business No Longer Is a Drab Routine Affair. It Requires the Spirit of Youth as Never Before

CHICAGO, June 12.—Like every other American town, Chicago has sent her quota of Republican politicians to the national convention, but one would never guess It. The streets are just as jammed with traffic and the hotels, Just as crowded with guests, as though "Big Bill” Thompson had not departed with hundreds of friends and foes. So, too, the Chicago Bar Association is pushing its $150,000 crime drive just as though State’s Attornew Crowe has not resigned his membership. The fourth annual convention of radio manufacturers and federated trades now in session here has brought ten people to town for each one who has gone to Kansas City. Yes, indeed, the radio business has grown to a proportion where it feels the need of a convention with no less than 300 manufacturers and two or three hundred jobbers and dealers. This convention of radio manufacturers and allied trades shows how rapidly times are changing and how definitely the age in which we live is marching to the music of scientist, inventor and exploiter of new ideas. As might be expected it is composed largely of young men. Business no longer is a drab, routine affair. It requires the spirit of youih, as never before, to keep step with the improvements and innovations which have come to play a leading part in it. Those who think the young mer. and women of this generation lack seriousness, vision to take aovan tage of their opportunities, or courage to gamble with fate, should visit a convention of this kind. Most of these boys—and that is what they are—might have found safe and easy places; they are the kind who can do anything well. They were not compelled to take chances in an experimental enterprise. They would not have done it, except for the grit and ambition which still dominate American character. Radio Still New When you get disgusted with the jazz that comes to you over the radio—though there is not as much of it as there was—just stop and think that there would not be any radio for it or better things to come over, but for the fact that thousands of young men are devoting their lives to the construction, improvement and sale of sets. Radio still is in the plaything age, a stage that most revolutionary inventions must pass through. If they did not do a lot of useless scampering as kittens, cats would never be able to catch mice, and if we did not make radio interesting to vast numbers of people by entertaining them, we never could prove its capacity for more substantial service. A Hotel City Not only the radio convention, but the mammoth hotel in which it is housed and likewise Chicago herself, prove how rapidly American life is changing. One hundred years ago there was nothing but wilderness, swamp and sand where the second city in the United States and the fourth city in the world now stands. One hundred years ago there probably were not a dozen towns in the United States with as many people as the Stevens Hotel can accommodate and there certainly was not one that could house them with such a degree of comfort and convenience. Think of a hotel, not only with 3,000 rooms and all the usual accessories, but with an exhibition hall three-quarters of an acre in extent and a ballroom capable of seating 4,000 persons, a city in itself, possessed of accommodations and advantages that were not known to any city on earth fifty years ago. a a tt 0 Temporal One can not help wondering where the march of events is leading us, or where it will end. It certainly has brought us to a different way of living and a different sense of values. The old-fashioned home that virtually was self-sustaining ha.: given place to pay calls. If we wished to see neighbors or friends, we now pick up the telephone anu where we used to trek to the theaters, we now sit in the parlor and listen to the radio. Through it all, there stands the law of compensation, the balancing force, which cures by one innova tion the ills produced by another. Thirty year, ago we thought the railroads woult bind us all to rigid use and schedules. Now we are alarmed over the thought that automobiles may make traveling to? easy and promiscuous. Five or six years ago we all were worrying lest the automobile would make young people forget what their homes looked like. Now we are worrying lest broadcasting keep them in too much Those who allow themselves to become alarmed over this or that new way of doing things should remember that human ingenuity is still at work and that any situation which needs readjusting, any condition which seems unwholesome furnishes it not only an an opportunity, but an incentive. If our intelligence has the misfortune to make more room for vicious tendencies at times, iet us not forget that it has power to correct the fault, and that the same ability which produces vehicles ct nonsense can convert them into vehicles of wisdom.

mate friends out of those twinkling, dancing points of light, we call stars. Around each cons te 11 atioh and around each of the brighter stars, there have grown wonderful legends, some of them older than written history, wonderful tales of ancient gods and heroes. The consteila-

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But the day of the Lord will come as a thief in the night I Peter 4:8. THERE is truth in Jesus which is terrible, as well as truth that is soothing; terrible, for He shall be Judge as well as Savior.—Henry Melville.

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BY DR. MORRIS FISHBEIN Editor Journal of the American Medical Association and of flygeia, the Health Magazine. THE brain of man is a highly complicated organ. Compared with that of a frog it is like the switchboard in the Metropolitan Opera House in New York compared to the two wires that connect up a dry cell. Yet tne brain of a frog, if mapped out in detail, would make the wiring chart of the largest electrically driven factory, to use the words of C. Judson Herrick, look as simple as a country road map. In fact, the brain is so complex I in structure that its very construe- i tion is sufficient to explain almost any theory that any one may want to offer as to how we think and as to how we carry on our conscious activities. The brain is the central switchboard of the human body. To it come impulses from nerve endings in the skin, in the eyes., ears, nose and tongue; to it come sensations as to balance, and the position of

You can Ret an answer to any answerable question of fact or Information by wrltlnß to Frederick M. Kerbv. Question Editor, The Indianapolis Times. Washlnqton Bureau. 1322 New York Ave.. Washinßton. D. C., enclosing two cents In stamps for reply. Medical and leqal ad dee cannot be given, nor can extended research be made. AH other Questions will receive a personal reply Unsigned requests cannot be answered. All letters are confidential. You are cordially invited to make use of this free service as often as you How does an electric fuse function? A fuse is a piece of metal having a low melting point, encased in an incombustible casing. By varying the size of the metal, fuses are made to carry various amounts of current and will melt when the current is in excess of the prescribed amount. The fuses are placed in a circuit at the point where the current enters it. When the current gets too strong the fuse melts and automatically opens the circuit. What is the best way to teach a dog to jump over a rope or through a hoop? Hang a rope high enough so that he can not step over it; place hin. on one side of the rope while you remain on the other side with? s niece of meat. Reach over the rope holding tire meat out to him and then suddenly move it over the rope saying. “Over.” Anxious for the meat he will jump over. After a few lessons you can gradually raise the barrier and later use a hoop. What are the superstitions concerning the turquoise? It used to be thought that a turquoise preserved the wearer from accidental injury. It was supposed to grow pale as the wearer grew sick and at death it lost its color entirely

Flying creatures seem peculiar to summer, at least in northern countries. Birds appear in great numbers; gnats and mosquitoes and flies swarm. The birds, of course, come from warmer regions, to which they return during the first cold spell of autumn. But what of flies, particularly the house fly that buzzes about the kitchen one day in June and is so soon followed by myriads of descendants? For a long time his winter quarters were somewhat of a mystery. Apparently all the flies died when cold weather came and then sprang to life spontaneously in the spring. When scientists began to study flies with a view to controlling them because they had been found to carry disease germs, they discovered that thfcre was no mystery at all. Flies pass through three stages from egg to fly. During the second of these the fly is inside a hard, reddish-brown capsule called a puparium. Usually the pupa becomes a fly within four or five days. But when cold weather kills all the flies, the. pupa is able to live inside its shell, remaining inactive, but ready to change into a fly as soon as the warm sunshine of spring reaches it.

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the body in space; to it come feelings of pain, of fullness, of warmth or of cold in interior organs. When those things reach the brain they are likely to be translated into action. If pain is received the response may be a lusty “ouch” proceeding to the world by means of the larynx and other organs of speech. If the sensation is one of emptiness from the stomach it may be translated through memories to motor activities including a trip to the ice box, looking over the contents, selecting a piece of apple pie left from dinner and the conveyance of the said pie to the mouth and thence to the point from which the original signal emanated. That is a type of co-ordination of which any electrical engineer would brag exceedingly. Mind, thought and their conversion into action are the functions of the brain, just as digestion is a function of the stomach. Functioning of any tissue in the body results in fatigue of that tissue.

and only recovered it when it became the property of some healthy person. It was thought to be especially effective in warding off diseases of the head and heart. What breeds of chickens are largest egg producers? The four most popular breeds for egg production are Leghorn, Minorca Ancona and Andalusian. The four' most popular breeds where the production of both eggs and meat is desired are the Plymouth Rock. Wyandotte. Orpington and Rhode Island Reds. What is the Italian Faseisti oath? “In the name of God and Italy, in the name of all those who have fallen in battle for the greatness of Italy, I swear to consecrate myself exclusively * and unceasingly for Italy’s good.” Where are turquoise found in the United States? In New Mexico, Arizona, California, Colorado and Nevada. The most important deposits are found in Persia.

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LODGE-POLE PINE WHEN the western Indians needed poles to hold- up their tepees and lodges they sought the tall and straight lodge-pole pine, and from this use the slender tree took its name. It is one of the important timber trees of the Rocky Mountain region, and forms the principal forests in the Black Hills. A large proportion of the lodgepole pine cut is used for mine timbers, particularly in the metal and coal mines of Montana. Ever since the first transcontinental railroad was built across the Rocky Mountains lodge-pole pine has been used for cross-ties. The wood can be easily treated with preservatives. Locally, lodge-pole pine lumber is used for general construction, and in some instances for flooring, siding and finish. The wood is straightgrained, fairly soft and is easily worked. It is more resinous than eastern white pine, but less so than the yellow pines of the South and West. Lodge-pole pine yields a groundwood pulp of good quality, suitable for the manufacture of news print paper. A considerable amount of the wood is used locally as fuel. At one time large quantities were made into charcoal, but the industry has# fallen away since the introduction of coke. The lodge-pole pine never grows to any great size, and because of its rigid form with stiff branches pointing upward, it is not a particularly beautiful tree. Indians use the sap of the lodgepole pine, which is sweet and has a sort of orange flavor, as a delicacy.

Just as a muscle may become tired from overuse, so also the cells in which the activities of the brain are carried on may become fatigued from thinking, which is their function. The people who think, therefore, that the mind is something apart, that can be detached from the body, have reckoned without the facts.

Bridge Play Made Easy BY W. W. WENTWORTH

(Abbreviation*: A—ace; K—king; Q—queen: .I—jack; X—any card lower than 10.) WHEN you are in doubt as to whether to open fourth hand in bidding, in the final analysis the true test is not whether you are reasonably satisfied that you can make game, but whether you can prevent opponents from making game if you open the bidding Fourth hand should not bid originally unless reasonably satisfied that if the opponents bid and obtain the contract they will not make game. For fourth hand to open the bidding after the opponents have passed only to permit them to reopen the bidding and make game, is poor policy. Better to “let sleeping dogs lie.” If you cannot prevent opponents from making game, do not open fourth hand. Bear in mind that every time the cards are dealt there is a possibility that a game can be made if the partners’ cards can be fitted together. This can only be ascertained by bidding. If you fail to bid when you should, you may never have the opportunity to bid again. The probabilities are that at least in every second deal of the cards, a game going hand has been dealt. Experts usually complete the rubber in six to seven deals. It is up to the players to give each other the proper information so that the hands may be played at the best game-going declaration. Every time you pass or surrender a game-going hand—every time you fail to bid when you should—your chance of making the rubber game diminishes accordingly. The object of the initial bid is to let your partner know that your hand contains at least two quick tricks properly distributed and that with reasonable support in his hand game can be made. In making your initial bid you merely advise partner of your strength, granting to your partner the privilige of declaring another suit or no trump if it be believed that thereby a game can more readily be made. This interchange of information results in finding the declaration at which game can most readily be made with the entire twenty-six cards and not merely with your thirteen cards. Bearing in mind that the object of an initial bid is to give information, the great advantage of bidding a four-card suit becomes quite apparent. The player must not, however, deviate from the minimum requirements. as otherwise it may bring disaster. Four-card suit bids are usually confined to initial bids. In third and fourth positions a four-card suit should be bid only if the cards are distributed unfavorably for a no-trump or it contains a demi-two suiter, that is, one fivecard suit and one four-card suit. (Copyright. 1928. by the Ready Reference Publishing Company)

This Date in U. S. History

June 12 1665—New York City incorporated. 1836—Iowa organized as a territory. 1845—Oregon boundary set by ’ treaty. 1878—William Cullen Bryant, poet, died.

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BY LUDWELL DENNY CITY, June 12.—Th ■“- big show Is on. Crowds, bunting, bands, noise, speeches. No one listening—its only the preliminaries, organizations, committees. The keynoter is up. Great party, great administration, great Coolidge cheers. They are having a good time. Everybody important. Going to pick the next President. As the boys watch the show, the the leaders move in and out. A hurried whispered conference with their floor managers, and out again to the back room. Hoover’s aids are confident. Lick ’em on the first ballot—or the third, anyway. George Moses and Jimmy Good are smiling. No, Coolidge won’t let Hoover down. The President will silence this draft Coolidge hokum, when the time comes. Then ’ Pennsylvania and New York will have to swing to Hoover, and we'll go over with a bang. A report comes in that the Hoover delegation from Maryland will filter away. Here is another. The enemy has “reached” some of the boys from Tennessee and Mississippi. Probably not true. Think of Massachusetts, Missouri and Vermont 'jetting ready to fall into lints, Everybody will be doing it soon. Maybe. tt tt a MEANWHILE the Lowden delegation is wilting. No chance. Frank slumps in an uncomfortable chair, resigned. A gentleman farmer, capitalist, husband of a Pullman company heiress. Straight as a string, his friends say. Nothing to that scandal which kept him from the nomination in 1920. He didn’t know his managers were distributing cash unwisely in Missouri, The fates against him then and now. Why won’t the dirt farmers rally to his leadership? Can Dawes slip in anyway, as into the vice presidency four years ago? Perhaps Dawes' luck still is running. Funny thing, politics. You never can tell. Lowden gets up wearily and walks out into the air. “Anyone but Hoover,” says Frank. Mrs. McCormick remains. Daughter of Mark Hanna, widow of the late Senator from Illinois, candidate for Congress, she drives the Lowden group. She has faith. “We have Hoover stopped; he can’t hold them ' much longer.” Over and over she repeats this to her delegates. They nod, shift their feet nervously, and look away. a tt st CHUBBY CHARLIE CURTIS sits with his mighty mustache, waiting for the lightning to strike him as the compromise candidate. Is’nt he a man of the people from Kansas, center of the farm belt? Didn’t he, the great, great grandson of Indian chiefs, rise from a jockey's saddle to be floor leader of the United States Senate? Hasn’t he, been making friends with both factions of the party for thirty years? Didn’t he just vote for the Mc-Nary-Haugen farm relief bill, and then turn around and vote against it to uphold the President's veto? Now if the convention will only jam into a deadlock, surely they will turn to him. “Anyone but Hoover,” says Charlie. Jim Watson—baby-kissing, backslapping Jini. Strategist of the allies. He learned his politics straight from the old master, Uncle Joe Cannon. Jim is determined to be in on the kill, again. He helped turn the trick in the Chicago convention, and in that midnight bedroom conference agreed with other bosses on Warren Harding. Why shouldn’t he be able to do it again, even though Penrose, Lodge, King and Kealing are dead, and Harry Daugherty no help any more? “Any one but Hoover,” says Jim, a tt u HILLES slides about noiselessly, with the customary and sweet smile of the mortician. Boss of New York, vice chairman of the national committee, spokesman for Wall Street and collector for the campaign war chest. Hilles is sad from years of effort of trying to stop A1 Smith and the Democrats from bagging New York. He started the draft-Coolidge movement to block Hoover. Now, Hilles is afraid he can’t keep up the bluff or Coolidge candidacy much longer. He is grooming his dark horses. First, he is in touch with Hughes’ freinds. The next minute he is trying to arrange the combination for Charlie Dawes, that modestly unavowed candidate of- - the embattled farmers and of their Wall Street “enemies.” "Any one but Hoover,” says Hilles, Hilles talks much of Uncle Andy, a shy, frail little ‘man of halting speech. Uncle Andy owns coal mines, banks, aluminum combines and other things. As Secretary of the * Treasury he also manages prohibi- - tion enforcement. Some say he manages Coolidge. He is Pennsylvania boss. He can deliver that delegation. Those seventy-nine votes hold the balance of power here. a an 1 TNCLE ANDY’S first choice Is Coolidge. At one time he was for Hughes. But now he fears ho may have to support Hoover. What else can he do, if neither Coolidge nor Hughes is available? All of which is very trying to an old gentleman who is accustomed to having his own way without any fuss. “Anyone but Hoover?" Now Uncla ’ Andy won’t go that far. Hoover might win and then where would i Uncle Andy be? Far from the big show, waiting in Washington, is the impatient; Hoover. An engineer fallen among politicians, fretting at the delays, ' the waste, the inefficiency of tho system. 1 At the White House, close to a direct Kansas City telephone, the man who probably will determina Hoover’s fate. If Coolidge refuses to stand before the convention >a3 a candidate, and acts in time, Hoover’s victory is almost certain. But if the President waits to withdraw until the Hoover forces ara disorganized then, neither Coolidge nor Mellon, nor any man can know * definitely what will happen.