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The “Embattled” Farmer There was a mob scene at Kansas City Wednesday. According to the press dispatches a great crowd of indignant and last ditch “farmers” stormed the convention and were forcibly held back by the police. They were there to impress the convention with their undying hatred of Hoover. Fortunately the names of the leaders of this “farm” protest were given. The names show that the mob scene was another fake trick of Watson. Three of the leaders whose names were given were 0. C. Mays, J. J. Maroney and Farris Jay. Who are these men and where do they farm ? The three are prohibition agents supposed to be working. Maroney was the one man permitted to see Stephenson after Tom Adams had fired his first challenge. He is the political tool of Watson and Robinson. He is quite valuable. He knows the bootleggers. These were the leaders of ' the “farmers” who were sent to break down the doors and crash the gates. Remember the names of these “farmers,”— Maroney and Mays and Jay. Bad Advertising for Indiana Once more Indiana gets bad advertising. This time it is the direct and logical result of the insincere and most ill-advised candidacy of Senator James E. Watson for the Republican nomination for the presidency. Watson went into the race, not with the hope of winning. This was admitted by his official organs who announced that Watson was not really a candidate, but would “throw Indiana” at the right time to someone else. The tactics of' his primary fight were at least questionable and his margin of victory slight. As might be expected several things have happened this week, here and at Kansas City, to give Indiana cause for shame. The Watson candidacy made it convenient for many of his old pals to call upon Clyde Walb at Leavenworth prison. The Governor headed the parade, according to press reports. And there was a revival immediately of that old and sinister quip, “From Indiana, are you a Democrat or on parole?” The week also found Ralph Updike, now Congressman, parading around the national convention with the brazen suggestion that he was being “urged” to run for Vice President. That would have been logical had Watson been nominated. But it only served also to recall the Stephenson black boxes and the written contract which Updike signed with Stephenson for patronage. The conviction of Earl Klinck for procuring a forged affidavit with" which to send the editor of this newspaper and Tom Adams to a Federal prison on a framed charge, revealed the nature of the machine which still controls the Republican party in this State. Men do not forge for fun. The document,, according to the unqualified statement of Prosecutor Remyy was carried to the Federal officials by George V. Coffin. Fortunately, this will probably be the last appearance upon the national stage of politics of the forces and influences which so badly advertise this State. Four years from now it may be confidently predicted that real Republicans will command of their party and that those who betray and besmirch it will be in the oblivion they merit. A Good Summer, Mrs. Coolidge Tired and ill. Mrs. Calvin Coolidge left Washington last night on her last summer vacation as the First Lady of the Land. Three months in Wisconsin and the six months more in Washington, and Mrs. Coolidge will have come successfully through six years in one of the most mercilessly public and difficult positions a woman could be called on to fill. , She has had illness and death in the White House. She has had more than the usual burden of social duty, because her husband finds such duties incompatible to his temperament. During the last winter her own health has been impaired and she has had the constant worry of a sick mother, in a hospital hundreds of miles away. It has been said that Mrs. Coolidge’s smile is worth a million dollars to the Republican party. In any case, her £ime as an ideal American gentlewoman has spread across the continent and brought her personality close to the millions who never see Washington or a President’s wife. To the average citizen, therefore, Mrs. Coolidge is not the wife of a President, aloof, in an exalted position. She is a real woman, much admired in her own right. Her departure now for the West is made in a manner that must have brought her acute discomfort. Any wife will appreciate how hard Mrs. Coolidge must have tried to prevent the upsetting of her husbands schedule and the chagrin she must have felt when her illness proved too much for her. She is going to a far and peaceful section of the country, where quiet summer days should restore her health and strength. Here's to a good summer, Mrs. Coolidge. When you return to Washington in September, may your milllon-dollar smile return with you—not for the benefit of the Republican party, indeed, but as evidence to your friends of your own well-being. .

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The Spontaneous Smith Out of the mass of long and heavy political statements comes a fresh and welcome relief. Its author is none other than AU Smith. “Well, he ought not to be hard to beat,” said Al, when shown newspapers announcing Herbert Hoover as the probable presidential nominee. Most politicians in Smith's place, faced with the task of commenting on the probable rival in a contest so momentous, would have knitted their brows and retired to solitude, to come forth, hours later with a carefully carved and ponderous document. But Al just says the natural, the human thing. And says it in ten words. Regardless of whether the future proves Al to be right or wrong on the question of whether Hoover is hard to beat, that spontaneity, that human quality of his, is Smith’s great asset as a campaigner. Dawes, A Handicap for Hoover A certain group tried to defeat Hoover and grab the Republican presidential nomination for Dawes by draft-Coolidge and other forms of trickery. This plan of “the gang’’ to put over Dawes for President at Kansas City, as they slipped in Harding at the Chicago convention, apparently has failed. And now they are trying to hang Dawes on to Hoover. This newspaper opposed the disguised presidential candidacy of Dawes. For the same reasons it opposes him for the vice presidency; Because he is a representative of predatory interests. Because he is too close to the oil muck. Because he was implicated in the Lorimer bank scandal. Because he is an enemy of organized labor. Because of his “minute men” record on civil liberties. Because that which Dawes represents has no place beside Hoover. The only arguments advanced for Dawes as a Vice President candidate are based on alleged political expediency. And those are fallacious. It is said that his similar nomination feur years ago did not defeat the Republican party. Eut 1928 is not 1924. It was one thing to run roughshod over the prostrate body of a Democratic suicide. It is another thing this year. Chain Hoover to Dawes, and his opponent has been presented with a mighty weapon. The Mexican Lindbergh Bringing a message of friendship from the people of Mexico to the people of the United States, Capt. Emilio Carranza, Mexican ace, zoomed into our national capital Tuesday afternoon. “Best regards from the Mexican press and people to the press and people of Ihe United States,” was the wording of the message Captain Carranza brought with him. He can rest assured, as the welcoming crowd of officials and citizens must have told him when he landed—that this sentiment is reciprocated fully on our side of the frontier. And it may grow, this sentiment, until the sister Republics bordering the Rio Grande reach the point where further misunderstandings will be out of the question. For those statesmen and diplomats are blind who can not see that amity makes for prosperity in both countries. Bravo, captain! May your wings never weaken! Yours was a splendid feat, splendidly performed. In a splendid service. Six couples danced more than 200 hours in Chicago. Bombs are not the only annoyances the people of Chicago have to contend with.

David Dietz on Science

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EVERYONE knows the constellation of stars called the Great Dipper. This constellation is easily recognized, for unlike the others, it actually looks lilc6 its name. But that perhaps can be explained upon the basis that it was in this nation of ours that the name originated. The ancients saw a much more fanciful story in the constellation and named it accordingly. Even today, the constellation is known by other names in Europe. The Great Dipper is easy to find because it consists off very bright stars and is located in a part of the sky where no

tion of men. As you gaze up at its bright shining stars, you will easily understand why this was so., Many names were coined for the constellation. In Europe today, it is frequently referred to as the plow or the wagon. A common name for it in England is ‘‘Charlies’ Wain.” This is thought originally to have been “Churl's Wain,” meaning a peasant’s cart. In time, it is thought, it became changed to “Charles’ Wain.” # The Romans imagined that the seven stars of the Great Dipper represented seven plowing oxen and so they called the constellation the “Septentriones.” But like the English of today, the early Greeks saw the figure of a. wagon in the constellation and so they caled it “Hamaxa,” which means “the wagon.” The Eskimos imagined that the stars of the dipper formed the outline of a reindeer. The Arabians thought of the four stars which make the bowl of the dipper as forming a bier and so they called the constellation “Na’sh,” which means bier. Mention of the constellation is made twice in the Bible in the Book of Job. The Hebrew name is “Ayish,” evidently related to the Arabic. The early Christians called the four stars of the bowl of the dipper the “Bier of Lazarus.” The three stars forming the handle were thought by them to represent Mary, Martha and Mary Magdalene.

M. E. TRACY SAYS: “The Farmers' Interests Have Been Neglected and There Are Practical Ways of Bettering His Condition.”

Kansas city, June 14.—My sympathy for the farmers has increased since reaching Kansas City. If they can not put up a better demonstration than they have here, they must be in hard shape. Os course, some people refuse to to see it that way. Some people believe the farmers are not so interested as a lot of politicians would make out and that the much advertised march on Kansas City was trumped up largely to help the anti-Hoover coalition. Be that as it may, the 100,000 farmers in town, as optimistic sympathizers claim, or 1,500 as impartial observers guess, or only 500 as the Kansas City Star estimates, there are hardly enough to carry the banners, and not nearly enough to furnish respectable audiences for the soapbox orators. As for the attempt to storm the convention hall, which occurred Wednesday morning, and which was supposed to bring the agrarian crusade to a glorious climax, ten or a dozen cops proved sufficient to frustrate it. All in all, the farm demonstration not only has fizzled, but turned out a rather pathetic affair. Its very hopelessness is causing a reaction 000 Political Bally-Hoo There is ground for suspecting that the farm demonstration was staged by those opposed to Hoover’s nomination. In the first place, it looked like the most practical way to start trouble, and in the second, it squared with their propaganda Ever since this campaign began. Hoover’s opponents have been claiming that they were not against him because of any personal prejudices, but because his unpopularity with the farmers made him too weak a risk. This was brought out clearly in the roll call by which the convention refused to adopt the minority report of the credentials committee and which forced Hoover s opponents to stand up and be counted. On that roll call they mustered a total of 395 1 2 votes. Fifty-nine of those votes were from New York, seventeen from Connecticut, nine from Delaware and sixteen from West Virginia. It requires an elastic imagination to believe that they sprang from love of the McNary-Haugen bill . 000 Problem Real One can admit that the farm demonstration was staged, that it has proved a fizzle and that it was not the basis of the anti-Hoover coalition, and still realize not only that the Republican party has a problem on its hands, but that quite regardless of political expediency, the farmers are entitled to assistance which they thus far have not received. This is not the first time that the difficulties of their situation have come to the front in a Republican campaign, or that shrewd poll-, ticlans have not tried to capitalize their sentiment. For sixty years we have had a well defined agrarian movement ii; the United States and we have had i.t because of a deep conviction oi: the part of farmers that they were not getting a square deal. The movenvnt began with the organization of the National Grange; found Expression in the Greenback and Populist parties and made itself felt in such political diversions as the * nomination of Horace Greeley, the free silver craze and the non-partisan league. The fact that it has taken varied and fantastic shapes does not mean that it is groundless or lacks a just cause. Nor is it without achievements to its credit. If few people remember the anti-monopolist furore. there is the strength of railroad regulation to proclaim that of Kelley. Taylor. Ramsey and Donit was not meaningless. The names nelly have ceased to figure in the headlines and their work is well nigh forgotten, but there is mote than one statute on our books tc their credit. The true character of the agrarian movement is revealed, not by its failures and discarded doctrines, but by the fact that it. still survives and presents problems still to be solved. 000 Needs Credit While it is obvious that the farmer can not be guaranteed good crops in spite of bad weather and while it is contrary to the principles of our Government that he should be made the beneficiary of class legislation, it, still is possible to understand that his interests have been neglected and that there are sound, practical ways of bettering his condition . Most of those who have given intelligent thought to the subject concede that industry has received more attention than agriculture and that the banking system has been made to fill the needs and requirements of commerce much more adeauately than those of the farmer. We not only have a lop-sided marketing system of farm products, but one which can be manipulated to an unwise and unnecessary extent, we also have a general credit system of little use to the farmer. The larger banking institutions of this country constantly are lending money to merchants and industries at 6 or even 5 per cent, but the farmer virtually is barred from such easy rates of interest. Operating on a yearly turnover, he is obliged to sign sixty or ninety day notes, because they have been found suitable to the store and factory Between him and the great reservoirs of wealth, which he should have as good a right' to tap as anv other citizen, there stand a multitude of small banks and middlemen who profit at his expense. These are conditions that could be corrected without class legislation and without steering the Government away from those principles on which It was established.

other very bright stars are situated. Consequently, the seven stars of the dipper stand out very prominently. Go. outdoors tonight, if the sky is cloudless, and spend a few minutes studying the dipper as it blazes forth in the northern sky. The dipper was one of the first constellations to attract the atten-

fHE INDIANAPOLIS TIMES

BY DR. MORRIS FISHBEIN Editor Journal of thr American M'dlcal Association of Hygela. the Health • Magazine. IN innumerable cases of hayfever and of asthma or of body reactions similar to that of these diseases, physicians have been able to find definite connection with sensitivity t<3 animal dandruff. In one series of cases 21 per cent of the children studied were found to be sensitive to the hair of cats, and many others have Deen found sensitive to dogs, rabbits and guinea pig’s dandruff. It is not always necessary that these pets be around the house for sensitivity to develop or to cause symptoms. Much of the upholstered furniture and some of the mattresses upon which people rest are stuffed with rabbit’s hair. On farms opportunity exists for constant contact with dandruff from horses, mules, cattle, sheep and swine. Moreover, the use of furs of many undomesticated animals is also associated in som< cases with hay fever or asthma symptoms. Cases are recorded in which women have responded with frequent sneezmg and running of the nose, with burning, itching anti watering of the eyes, and with all of the other unpleasant symptoms whenever they wore the silver fox neckpiece, the ermine or squirrel coat.

(Abbreviation*: A—ace; K —kin£: Q—queen; J—jack; X—any card lower tban 10.) AN opening bid by third or fourth hand may be made when greater strength is held than is required for an initial bid (by first or second hand). The reason is apparent when you consider the fact that the first or second hand by passing announces that the requisite strength for an initial bid is missing. Additional strength, therefore, must be held by third and fourth hands, respectively, to compensate for the obviously missing strength in partner's hand. Third hand to make an opening suit bid should hold at least 2’ i quick tricks, and to make a no trump bid should hold at least 2Vi to three quick tricks with three suits stopped. Fourth hand to make an opening suit bid should hold at least three quick tricks, and to bid a no trump. 3Vi, with three suits stopped. The quick trick table of opening bids by third and fourth hands as compared with first and second hands is as follows: First hand, 2 quick tricks in suit; 2 in no trump. Second hand, if first hand passed, 2 quick tricks in suit; 2 in no trump. Third hand, if first and second hand passed, 2Vi quick tricks in suit; 2Vi to 3in no trump. Fourth hand, if first, second and third hand passed, 3 quick tricks in suit; 3*i in no trump. From this it is obvious that a player holding four quick tricks should bid. no matter what the player’s position may be. Beginners very often open fourth hands on weaker holdings than the ie set forth in the above table. Time and experience teach them the folly of this policy. Some experienced players, however, believe that three quick tricks are sufficient to make an opening no trump bid fourth hand. The beginner will find it safer not to bid a fourth hand no trump unless the hand holds more than three quick tricks. Experience teaches that opening on only three quick tricks or less in fourth position seldom results in game. To open fourth hand, the player should be reasonably satisfied that with average assistance from partner game can be made. (Copyright. 1928. by the Ready Reference Publishing Company)

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You can tret an answer to anv answerable ouestlon 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. Medica! and legal advice cannot be given, nor can extended research be made. All other ouestlons will receive e 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 vou please. EDITOR. Does any Slate expressly prohibit Negros from woting on account of their color or race? It is provided by the fifteenth amendment to the United States Constitution that the right to vote cannot be denied or abridged on account of race or color. Some Southern States restrict Negro voting by applying qualifications of education or property ownership. How much was appropriated for the Veterans Bureau for the fiscal year 1927 and how much of it was applied to compensation? ThV appropriation was $458,965,000 of which approximately $130,000,000 will be used to pay compensation. What are the boiling and freezing points of kerosene? On account of the variability of its chemical properties kerosene has no diflnite freezing or boiling points. It will boil at temperatures between 200 degress F. and 500 degrees F. and freeze at 20 to 40 degrees below zero. What is the rate of radiation of the sun expressed in horse power? According to recent calculations it is a quantity represented by 58 followed by 22 ciphers. How much money is sppnt for chewing gum in the United States in a year? The latest figures for 1925 show $47,124,000 spent for gum. From what book was the movie “The White Monkey” taken? It is an adaptation of Galworthy’s novel of the same name. What poem contains the following verse. I know not where His islands lift Their fronded palms In air: I onlw know I cannot drift Beyond His love and care. “The Eternal Goodness” by John Greenleaf Whittier.

This Date in U. S. History

June 14 1775—Congress voted to raise an army of 20,000. 1801—Benedict Arnold, American traitor, died. 1900—Hawaii organized as a territory. 1912—Beef cattle sold in Chicago record high up to that time, for $8 a hundredweight—a

Daily Thought

Be ye angry, and sin not: let not the sun go down upon yojpr wrath. —Eph. 6:26. 000 WHEN one Is in a good sound rage, it Is astonishing how calm one can be.—Bulwer-Lytton.

may also become sensitive to other feathers, such as those of the parrot, the canary, the turkey, or the guinea hen in case they are brought into contact with these birds. It is recommended that persons who are sensitive to feathers keep away from yards, butcher shops, or houses were fowls are kept, and that they use pillows stuffed with other substances, such as the Java kapok, in order to avoid their symptoms. This substance is a vegetable fiber taken from a tree found on the north coast of Java, and now available in almost any large furniture establishment.

How many food calories are in an egg? A large one furnishes 100 calories. An average egg has 80 calories. What is the origin and meaning of the name “Robert?” It is from the French and means “bright in fame.” What is the weight and height of Clara Bow, the movie actress? She is 5 feet 3 l i Inches tall and weighs 120 pounds. How many bushels of wheat were traded in on the Chicago Board of Trade in 1926? 13,322,000,000. Is it true that lightning Is more liable to strike a silver maple than other species of trees? No. When was Notre Dame University founded? By whom is it conducted? It was founded in 1842. and chartered in 1844. It is conducted by the congregation of the HolyCross of the Roman Catholic Church. What are "receiver’s certificates?” Non-negotiable acknowledgement of indebtedness issued by a receiver under authority of the court as a lien on the property of the debtor corporation, to be used either /or borrowing money for the maintenance of the property, or to discharge obligations incurred in such maintenance. OUR THE TREE OF LIFE SOMETIMES called the “arborvitae” the western red cedar Is truly the “tree of life” to the Alaska Indians. The walls that enclose the India n'p house, the blankets that keep him warm, the ropes, indispensable in fishing and in harnessing his dog teams, all come from the inner bark of the tree. He makes his canoes from the western red cedar and cuts the biggest cpecimen he can find for the totem pole that he carves into his family tree. Nearly nine-tenths of all the shingles manufactured In the United States are western red cedar. Probably two-thirds of the cut of western red cedar goes Into shingles, the remainder being used for lumber, poles, posts, piling and other uses where durability is important. Western red cedar poles, on account of their form and size, are shipped to nearly all parts of the United States. Incense cedar, which gets Its name from Its remarkably aromatic quality, grows in Califarnia and southern Oregon. The cut is comparatively small and is practically all used locally except sonje high grade lumber which is shipped to wood-using factories and made into finish, doors and pencil slats. Port Orford cedar, noted for Its beauty and size, grows only in a narrow belt bordering the coast of southern Oregon and northern California. The wood is in demand for sash and door construction and boat building.

.TUNE 14,1928

KEEPING UP With THE NEWS

BY LUDWELL DENNY KANSAS CITY, June 14. —’ This is a convention of myths. The rumors don’t tell. The issues are camouflaged. Myth: That it was going to be a good show. Fact: It flattened out early. So far there is little color, little excitement, little tenseness. Myth: That Senator-elect Vare, notorious Philadelphia boss, caused the stampede for Hoover, becoming thus the “President-maker.” Fact: Calvin Coolidge started the band wagon when he knocked down the fake draft-Coolidge barrier. All the red-faced Vare did w ! as to announce, a few hours before Multimillionaire Mellon was ready, that Pennsylvania's seventy-nine delegates, bereft of Coolidge, had no place else to go except to Hoover. Uncle Andy was just as ready as Vare to get on the winning side, but he wanted to hold the spotlight as the strong silent man a few hours longer. So while he hugged his fame, the upstart boss outsmarted him. The result doubtless is important in terms of Pennsylvania State politics, but it didn't make Hoover. 000 MYTH: That Kansas City is a hot hole in June. Fact: You need a top coat at night and sleep under blankets. The air is invigorating, the skies blue, the far hills clear and good >o ’ook upon. Myth: That Dawes is a farm leader. Fact: Banker Dawes didn't get a hand when hundreds of delegates and citizens of this center of the farm belt watched Charlie with his upside down pipe flicker on the movie screen. While his managers talk and trade with other politicians for their dark horse candidate, who wants the presidency or vice presidency or what have you, the farm delegates are indifferent to him. Myth: That Kansas City is dry. Fact: (As reported by authoritative sources other than this writer). Bootleggers are plentiful, but don't crowd you off the mam street as in certain Eastern cities. Also the “reliable” liquor merchants are snobs, insisting on your family pedigree, state of servitude and moral character before trusting you. Once a member of the invisible band of elect, you are given a check —a brass check. It is numbered. You telephone your order, identifying yourself as number whatever you are. In a few minutes you are called for verification of your order and number. The bourbon is good, the Scotch not so good, and the rye makes you wake up on New Year's day with Billy Sunday resolutions and oaths. 000 MYTH: That Charlie Curtis is a clever politician, j Fact: The rrsh political writers, ! technically known as “trained seals” and the only newspaper men allowed to call themselves journalists and wear canes and spats, tock a chance on Curtis’ thirty years of unerring astuteness. But Charlie's foot slipped or his mustache got in his eyes Monday morning when he swung out) of the Union Station—which, by the way, is “the largest and finest in the world,” like every ether American terminal built in the last decade or so. Anyway, here was Charles on the station platform, ready to enter the Promised Land. Ex-jockey, hundred per cent American by the blood of his great-great grandfather Kaw. Senator Chief. Senate floor leader. He was ready to Cash in on his long party service and fence straddling. He had worked himself into a strategic position as a compromise candidate, or as Hoover's running mate, by voting for the McNary-Haugen farm relief bill and then turning around and voting to uphold the Coolidge veto. Then the political moonshine went to the soberest head in the business. He announced that whatever the party did it could not nominate a man for whom it would have to apologize—meaning Hoover. And that is the end of Charlie. Unless, of course. Herbert remembers his Quaker upbringing and turns the other cheek, permitting Charlie to ride in second plaoe, 0 0 0 MYTH: That, silver dollars have gone out of circulation. Fact: You have to re-enforce your trouser pockets to carry the “cart wheels” that every Parisianbloused cashier rolls back at you in change. Myth: That 100,000 Irate farmers were Fording it to Kansas City to force a McNary-Haugen farm relief plank into the platform and prevent Hoover's nomination. Fact: Only 500 arrived—most in Buicks or better. They are n;t talking McNary-Haugenism as the only panacea but are demanding “equalization for agriculture” by any means attainable They don’t profess to understand the McNary bill “fee” which Coolidge vetoed as fallacious and stitutional. But they are tired of Republican promises without action. They would like to form a third party, but they are so conservative on everything but farm relief and unorganized that most of them admit they will go on voting the Republican ticket of their fathers despite its “Wall Street control.” Myth: That Hoover cannot beat Al Smith. Fact: Depends on w’hether a drag like Dawes is forced on Hoover for a running mate, and whether Hoover is as frank a3 Smith in facing such campaign issues as political corruption, the power trust, unemployment. Invasion of civil liberties and attempted control of Government by predatory interests. Roll your own prophesy, or see this column the day after election. What clause in the Constitution of the United States is known as “The Elastic Clause.” Article I, Section 8. Par. 18 which provides that Congress shall have power “to make all laws that are necessary and proper for carrying into execution the foregoing powers.*