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Easy to Investigate When an accusation such as was made by Robert Hicks, the Nemesis of mail order frauds, against Frank Rozelle, the new United States marshal for northern Indiana, is launched, there is usually a demand for an investigation. It might seem that in this particular case, there would be not only a demand from Rozelle for a most thorough inquiry, but one also from Senator Arthur Robinson and Senator James E. Watson, who obtained the place as marshal for him. The charge made by Hicks was direct and definite. He wrote to the attorney general and the postmaster general that Rozelle has owned a mail order scheme which Hicks says preyed upon women and took from the needy and almost hopeless the few dollars they may have saved. Mr. Hicks is a responsible citizen. He publishes a magazine devoted to the exposure of frauds in the field of direct selling. He is known for his benefactions, the most recent of which was a gift of $25,000 to the Wheeler Mission in this city. Either his charge is true or it is not true. If it is true, the impropriety of giving so important a public post as the Federal office to an owner of such a scheme becomes apparent. If it is not true, there should be a complete vindication. The evidence is easily obtainable and neither the postal department nor the Department of Justice would find any difficulty in settling the matter easily. In every so-called “home work” scheme or enterprise, either fraudulent or honest, the money is collected largely through postal money orders. In the Rozelle enterprise the advertisement called for the making of pillow tops at home. A charge was made for the materials. A promise was held out to purchase the completed tops. The postal records at La Grange would tell the story. Investigators have only to check up and discover how many women sent in money for materials and then from the books of the company discover just where the completed tops were paid for and where they were sold. Two days work by a competent investigator ought to settle the matter. Any one who honestly advertises for labor must have a steady demand for the product. All that is necessary is to point to the market, get the records of the banks through which payment was made for large lots and then disclose that instead of being a fraud, that the enterprise really gave work to women who need spare time jobs. If honest, there could be nothing more benevolent than an industry which permitted women to work in their own homes in some gainful occupation. If dishonoat, there is no meaner form of fraud. There is more at stake in this case than the punishment of a man. There is the good name of the State. There is the reputation of Robinson and Watson, who made Rozelle United States marshal. The time to make the inquiry is now and at once. It is so easy to discover the truth.

Bill Vare In Bad The Republican League of Philadelphia has found anew indictment against Boss Bill Vare, one that surely hurts. Bill Vare has been guilty of party irregularity, declares the league, and should be punished for it. The charge is important, if true. Bill Vare’s political career has been based on the party regularity of the rank and file. He has compelled it. His followers have had to shut their eyes and vote the ticket, regardless of what they might think. Any member of the organization showing insubordination or failing to abide by a caucus decision knew what would happen to him. But now Vare himself, as the Philadelphia Republican League sees it, has been guilty of insubordination. He has broken the rules. It happened, of course, at Kansas City. Vare, seeking desperately to get himself into the Hoover picture, didn’t wait for the Pennsylvania caucus to decide. He popped out with his announcement that he and his hand-picked Philadelphia delegates were for Hoover, without regard to the rest of the State. A great political coup, cried the politicians and the correspondents; Bill Vare has grabbed the role of president-maker away from Andy Mellon. That’s the way It looked, apparently, at Kansas City. But back in Philadelphia It appears to look different. Bill Vare’s coup, they say there, was nothing short of treason to the organization, a flouting of Its sacred principles. Listen to what the Republika league's official statement says: "Secretary Mellon was chairman of the Pennsylvania delegation. As such he could not announce the position of the delegates until after they had held a caucus , . . For a member of the delegation, over the head of the chairman, to presume to commit the delegation to any candidate, was effrontery, pure and simple, and contrary to all rules of party discipline. Unless the Mellons are willing to abrogate the leadership of Pennsylvania, they must take cognizance of this effrontery or party regularity and organization In State affairs will be a byword in Pennsylvania.” It certainly sounds too bad. While not suggesting that Bill Vare should escape the punishment due him, there Is one mitigating circumstance. There he wa in Kansas City, with*a chance to line himself

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up with a decent candidate and the temptation must have been strong. Bill Vare always has been a practical man In politics. He has used whatever methods and wnatever material he found necessary. Just now what he needs more than any other thing Is respectability—and lots of it. There was lots of respectability in the Hoover camp, as Vare saw it; why shouldn’t he try to grab off a large slice of it for himself. Wedl, he did try, and it is just too bad. It didn’t make him any more reespectable, and it seems to have/got him in wrong at home. Collier Comes Home After seven years’ service at Santiago, William Miller Collier, our ambassador to Chile, has resigned and is returning to the United States. In our whole diplomatic corps there is not a more cultured or more scholarly man than the retiring ambassador. Native of New York, lawyer, president of George Washington University from 1918 to 1921, lecturer on international law and diplomacy, and recipient of numerous learned degrees, he Is that rare thing, a practical man and an Idealist at the same time. His qualities have been recognized by both Republican and Democratic Presidents. Not long after our war with Spain, when Madrid still was a post requiring unusual tact in a diplomat, President Roosevelt appointed Dr. Collier ambassador to that country. There he got on famously and did much to re-cement the ancient ties of friendship between the two countries. In 1914 President Wilson sought him out to head the American delegation to Norway, where a conference was meeting to frame a government for the island of Spitzbergen. President Harding appointed him to Chile in 1921, one of the best appointments of that Administration. The dispute of long standing between Chile and Peru over the ownership of the territory of Tacna and Arica was about to come to another crisis and throughout the long and tedious efforts of the United States to bring the disputants together, Dr. Collier worked like a Trojan. Failure was certainly no fault of his. Not only Chileans, but all Latin Americans, lose a real friend in Ambassador Collier. He interpreted his job as offering a liaison between North Americans and South Americans. Friendly co-operation in the interest of both people was the basis on which he worked, that and the sincere belief in the sisterhood of the twenty-one American republics.

An Automobile Pest Public Safety, the magazine issued by the National Safety Council, in its current issue calls attention to an automobile pest who usually goes unnoticed in the public prints—the driver who, coming up to a red light at a street intersection, manages to stop his car squarely in the middle of the cross walk, forcing all pedestrians to walk out around him. The only driver who ever lands in that position is the careless one—or the inconsiderate one. It isn’t a hanging offense, of course; but it dees cause a terrific wear and tear on the tempers of people who are trying to cross the street at the time. It would be a good thing for every motorist to watch the lights a little more carefully. The cross walk is for pedestrians, not waiting autos. Our Standards Spread Social students who fear that standardization brought about by American industrial methods Is having a bad influence on the world will not get any comfort from a report just issued by the American Engineering Standards Committee. This report reveals that American standardization methods are spreading all over the world, and shows how twenty great industrial nations have joined in a move that will increase standardization in practically every industry on earth. It is an inevitable trend of the times and there is no use lamenting it. It has changed our civilization, to be sure; but there are Increasing indications that it is going to prove a change for the better. —— David Dietz on Music of the Spheres No. 81 WHEN we gaze at the sky, it appears to us as though all the stas were at an equal distance from the earth and fastened to the inner side of a dome or sphere above the earth. The ancients thought that this was really the case. They imagined that a series of crystal spheres surrounded the earth and that the earth stood still while these spheres revolved around It. They imagined that the spheres made heavenly music as they turned and some with particularly good ima gin a tions

even professed to be able to hear it at times. The great English poet, Milton, speaks of “the music of the spheres” in one of his poems. Today, however, we know that the case is different. Wc know that the stars are great flaming suns, many of them a

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hundred times larger than our sun. We know that the nearest star is 275,000 times further away than the sun and that many stars are millions of times as far away as that. But in studying the constellations, we are not interested in the actual distances or locations of the stars but only In their apparent position against the dome of the sky. Consequently, for this purpose, the astronomer speaks of the "celestial sphere,” just as though the sky really was a dome over our heads. A line projected into the sky from our North Pole marks the North Pole of the celestial sphere or the north celestial pole as the astronomer calls it. In the same fashion, a line projected from the South Pole of the earth marks the south celestial pole. A line drawn around the sky parallel with the equator of the earth marks the celestial equator. As we know, the earth is turning from west to east. But the effect of this is to make the entire celestial sphere appear to be revolving from east to west with the north and south celestial poles as the pivots. It is possible to give the location of each star in the imaginary celestial sphere just as the actual location of a city is given on the earth. The astronomer, however, instead of speaking of the latitude and longitude of a star, speaks of the "right ascension” and ‘‘declination.”

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M. E. TRA C Y SAYS: “The Prevailing Opinion Is That Governor Smith Has Developed Too Strong a Following to Be Side-Tracked, and That the Wisest, if Not the Only, Thing to Do Is to Accept His Nomination Without Protest.”

FT. WORTH, Texas, June 20.—The tenth annual meeting of the West Texas Chamber of Commerce is in progress here with from thirty to forty thousand visitors present. It is just such a show as George F. Babbitt would delight to take part in and as Sinclair Lewis would delight to ridicule. A queen, Miss Frances Long of Abilene, has been chosen and crowned, the "gods and goddesses’’ to dance attendance upon her. Business sessions are held in the First Baptist Church and as this is being written a parade is passing through the streets with no less than forty bands and fifty floats, not to mention Governor Dan Moody and other celebrities. It is the spirit of West Texas in holiday attire. Folks who make their living that way could find much to poke fun at. There is no lack of strutting, whoopla and bunk. Having come from one political convention, however, and due to attend another, the festivities strike me as rather solid and substantial by comparison. These people coming into Ft. Worth from a hundred cities and towns may make a lot of unnecessary noise, but they have something to back it up. u a a Center for Oil Not so many years ago West Texas was regarded as fit for little more than longhorns and two-gun sheriffs, and even now, more Easterners think of it as a place of "bad men,” stud poker and elemental emotions, all of which proves how much more faith some people put in yellow-back novels and slap stick movies than in census reports. West Texas is producing oil at the rate of 5,000,000 barrels a day, or 150,000,000 barrels a year. It is building thousands of miles of hard surface highway in all directions not only to connect villages that have become towns oveniight, but to take care of the traffic of innumerable manufacturing and mercantile enterprises. Tuesday morning there was a breakfast for visiting newspaper men, at which Tom Finley c* the Dallas News, Bill Hard of Washington and I talked. Finley and Hard talked well. But the most Interesting remarks were made by a gentleman from Rock Springs, a town of 1,200 inhabitants that was literally blown away by a cyclone, one year ago. 1 Rock Springs, he Informed us, had not only crawled out of its ruins, rebuilt Its houses and gone back to work, but would market more than $3,000,000 worth of wool and mohair this year. That is just one example of the grip behind the nonsense. Borger is another. Borger is a town of 15,000 people and has yet to celebrate its fourth birthday. Oil has done a lot for this country, especially in the last few years, but not everything. tt # tt Concede Smith Victory SAN ANGELO is the largest primary wool market in the United States; Abilene is a grain center and farming has taken the place of the old range to such an extent as to demand the establishment of a separate agricultural college. As might be expected, pep talks and politics from the most audible feature of the Ft. Worth pow-wow. candidates for various offioes are here to button-hole henchmen and exhibit themselves. Naturally enough, most conversations get around to the coming Democratic convention, no matter how they begin. One needs to do no more than listen to catch the drift of sentiment. Ft. Worth and West Texas as anti-Smith, but concede. Smith’s nomination. “On the second or third ballot,” is the prevailing opinion, “but watch the Republican vote go up in Texas.’’ , A Democratic leader, who has been prominently identified with Texas politics for thirty years, but who prefers not to be named for obvious reasons, tells me that Ft. Worth will go for Hoover by substantial majority and that Dallas will give him at letst 5,000. Mrs. Minnie Fisher Cunningham, candidate for Senator, says, "If A1 Smith is nominated, Hoover will carry Texas in the general election.” G. 0, P, Gains Votes WHILE I am prepared to discount these and other similar rumors, I have little doubt that Texas will go Democratic as usual, but I have found very few who do not look for a greatly increased Republican vote. The defection cannot be described as a bolt. It lacks both organization and leadership. That it exists, however, and that it will be felt at the polls seems almost beyond doubt. Meanwhile, there is little evidence of an open rupture at Houston. The prevailing opinion is that Governor Smith has developed too strong a following to be side tracked, and that the wisest, if not the omy thing to do is to accept his nomination without protest. Though his supporters are fewer than the probable Democratic nominee can usually count in this section they make up in enthusiasm what they lack in numbers. Whether the Texas delegation will get in line is debated on every hand. Some say it will, while others say it will oppose Governor Smith to the last ditch. The candidacy of Jesse H. Jones, whom the Texas delegation has indorsed, does not appear to be taken seriously. What is the middle name of Anna Q. Nilsson, the motion picture actress? Querentia.

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(Abbreviation*: A—ace: K—king: Q—queen; J—Jact, X—any card lower than 10.) WITHOUT any good reason. some players are wont to bid two or three or more in a hit-or-miss fashion. Too often novices indulge in this practice, the subject being very much misunder* stood. The urge to bid more than one is laually due to the player’s desire to capture the bid, the exultation aroused by the discovery of a strong hand or the egotistical desire to be able to play the game with his own thirteen cards, diregarding and belittling the partner’s holding. A bid of more than one should not be made without conscious realization of its possible effect upon the partner, the opponents and the game. Bridge is a partnership game. It is a game of information and partners should cooperate to play the combined twenty-six cards at the best game-going declaration. Bidding of more than one is usually unsound for two reasons—it is noninformatory and discouraging. It more often frightens and exasperates your partner than your opponents. It prevents joint action and bottles up information that may be most valuable. So elated are many players when they hold unusual strength that they Immediately bubble with the desire to proclaim it in a brass band fashion. When you hold a strong hand, put on the brakes! What have you to fear? Why inform your opponents of the hand’s possibilities. A pre-emptive bid announces to partner, "I shall play this solo! Place your trust in me! Let no one interefere with me! I shall dictate the bidding and the results of this game!” There are many skilled players who never make an original bid of more than one, because they believe in advancing the bid by easy stages. They urge that it is moro advisable to permit the partner to furnish information and thus arrive at the best game-going declaration. They encourage skyhigh bidding on the part of their adversaries, and thereby profit from large, worthwhile penalties. (Copyright/ 1928. by the Ready Reference Publishing Cos.)

This Date in • U. S. History

June 20 1782—Congress adopted the great seal of the United States. 1819—First steamship to cross Atlantic from America reached Liverpool. 1867—Alaska sold to the United States by Russia. 1889—Rhode Island, by popular vote, rescinded prohibition. 1912—Theodore Roosevelt announced that he would accept either Republican or Progressive nomination for President.

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The name and address of the author must accompany every contribution, but on request will not be published. Letters not exceeding 300 words will receive preference. Editor Times: I read your editorial, "Time to Inquire,” and it certainly is tough the way the bandits are grabbing the nickels and dimes from the "sheep-heads” (common people). Le s hope the bandits will save their moiey, get wealthy, retire, and not bother the helpless any more. All the purity, morality, hymnsinging, church-going, uplift bunk and charity doesn’t seem to help much in the line of making everyone a good citizen, does it? It’s hard to think of all the time and money wasted since 1910 trying to make the good old U. S. A. a nation of wingless angels. Yeh! Do you remember that between 1890 and 1910 there wasn’t onefourth the crime there has been since 1910? Back In the good, old, level-headed period, before 1910, there were not so many goody-goody laws and every man was blessed with the gift of attending to his own business. Look around today and notice the difference. Yes, it’s time to hit at the cause. Talk with men over 50 years of age and they can tell you “the cause.” OLD READER. Editor Times: When the Democratic convention assembles in Houston, the eyes of the nation will be centered upon the action of that body. Great care should be exercised in drafting their platform, as well as selection of candidates. Is there not too much quibbling about prohibition? We have the Eighteenth Amendment and the Volstead law. By fully enforcing

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You can get an answer to any answerable question of fact or information by writing to Frederick M. Kerby. 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 reply. Unsigned requests cannot be answered. All Tetters are confidential. You are cordially invited to make use of this free service as often as you jj>lease^ When and how was the boundary dispute between Rhode Island and Massachusetts settled? In 1862 Rhode Island and Massachusetts finally settled their boundary dispute by annexing to Rhode Island the Massachusetts part of Pawtucket and also the western part of Seekonk, which then became East Providence. Tiverton, which six years before had been incorporated as the Rhode Island town of Fall River, adjoining the Massachusetts town of Fall River, was ceded to Massachusetts in exchange. What causes wind? Wind is air in motion, resulting from atmospheric pressure by which air is forced to move from a place of high barometric pressure to a place of lower pressure. When was the process of making glass discoyercd? Glass was known to the Egyptians at a very early date. Tombs of the fourth and fifth dynasties (4000 B. C.) show glass blowers at work, and glazed pottery in the form of beads occurs in prehistoric times, but true glass first appeared later in the form of opaque “paste” and finally transparent glass.

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these laws, what more can the prohibitionists ask? In the selection of candidates, qualifications and locality should be considered. Governor Al. Smith of New York for President and Senator Hitchcock of Nebraska for Vice President would be a strong ticket JOHN ROBBINS, 517 E. Twenty-Fifth St. Editor Times: Asa reader of your paper for a long time, I am surprised that you have decided to support Hoover for President, notwithstanding the fight you have made against corruption In our State and Nation. We will be surprised to see you and Jackson, Updike, Coffin, Watson, Robinson and the crowd arc all working together and also the Star and the News. It does seem that Robinson had it about right when he said “birds of a feather flock together." I do not see how the country could gam a single point by putting the same old crowd in power, and a paper that has made the fight which The Times has must not see the same as its readers do. We are in favor of getting rid of the grafters, both in State and Nation, and feel we are going to do so regardless of your assistance, as we believe the way to kill a snake Is to begin at Its head. I cannot see where the Hoover sentiment comes from, anyway. It Is not here, I am sure, and I agree to await the final test to verify my statements. I am a Democrat and am for Al Smith or any other Democrat who is nominated, and it is the only way to clean house. You are at liberty to print this if you wish and sign my name to it. JOSEPH TROWBRIDGE, Mitchell, Ind

What is the national wealth of the United States? The estimated national wealth for 1925 was 355.3 billion dollars, representing physical property only and excluding credits and currency. It specifically includes land and the structures and other improvements thereon, public utility land and equipment, personal property, motor and other vehicles and gold and silver coin and bullion. On what date did Easter Sunday fall in 1919? March 23. Who made the first watch? Peter Hale, a clockmaker at Nuremberg, Germany, is given credit for making the first watches early in the sixteenth century. What is the lire of a patent? Seventeen years. Who burned King Solomon's Temple? The army of Nebuchadnezzar that came from Babylon and destroyed Jerusalem in 586 B. C. Where was the movie "The Volga Boatman,” filmed? Culver City, Calif. What were the dates of the burning and sacking of Rome and the fall of the Roman Empire? Rome was burned in the year A. D. 64 during the reign of Nero. It was sacked by Alaric in A. D. 410. The fall of the Roman Empire in the West was A. D. 476.

.JUNE 20, 1928

KEEPING UP With ' THE NEWS

BY LUDWELL DENNY HOUSTON, Texas, June 20. Al Smith does not want the Democratic nomination unless ha can get ft on an earl-y ballot. This ia the dope from the "insiders" close to the candidate. It sounds reasonable. It means two things. Smith would rather not run at all than be defeated in the November election. If the convention is to result in what amounts to a burial of the Democratic party, he prefers to let someone else be the grave-digger. All this is a roundabout way of saying there is only one supreme issue before the convention opening here June 26. That issue is unity. This cry for harmony is something more than the clever ruse of a candidate who needs more delegate votes to swell his present majority to the necessary two-thirds for nomination. Most of the anti-Smith politicians feel the urgency of this need just as much as does the New Yorker. That explains the withdrawal last month of Senator Tom Walsh of Montana, the Teapot Dome inquisitor. No one would accuse Walsh of being party to a "Tammany plot.” He was the candidate picked by McAdoo and the drys, after careful search of the field, as the strongest to stop Smith. They chose their own battleground where McAdoo had the most power, and there In the California primary they lost to Smith. Whereupon Walsh withdrew, with the explanation that Smith clearly was the choice of most of the Democrats of the country. ' Now in almost identical language. Governor Ritchie, Maryland's favorite son candidate, withdraws. He asks his delegation to' vote for Smith. "It has become increasingly evident that the great majority of the Democratic party in almost every section of the country are ready and want to align themselves behind the leadership of Governor Smith,” says Ritchie. "Governor Smith embodies far and away the best chance to win.” He goes on to plea for party unity as "the one and only thing needed.” IOERTAIN extremists are inVJ terpreting Ritchie’s withdrawal as a wet frame-up between the New York and Maryland Governors. This is far-fetched. Tammany, in fact, wanted Ritchie to accept a courtesy vote of his State on tha first ballot, for purposes of convention strategy—not to mention tha bare possibility that the wets might want to use him later as a candidate. In every contested convention, the decision as to whether the leading candidate is to be pushed over the line, or remain in deadlock leading to withdrawal, depends on what the politicians call “the break.” The break for Hoover came in the early hours of Tuesday morning just before the opening of the Kansas City convention—and after that tha only thing left was a ratification meeting. Since Smith can not be nominated on the first ballot, his strategy is to go over the top on the second or third. This will necessitate a “break” immediately after the first ballot. To be effective a break must be of large enough proportions to convince the doubters, the traders and the bandwagon boys that everything is over but the shouting—and punishment by the new boss of those on the losing side. On the first ballot. Smith is expected to get about 650 votes of the total 1,100. For nomination ha must expand this bloc to 733%. He claims, with Maryland’s 16, roughly 700, but almost 100 of these are’ disputed by opponents. On the second ballot, Ohio and Nebraska are expected to break, throwing probably forty or more of Pomerene’s forty-seven favorite son votes to the New Yorker, as well as the sixteen Hitchcock delegates. Soon after Tom Taggart’s Indiana! crowd of thirty are expected tc( jump from their favorite son, Evans Woolen, to Smith, in the hope tha Hoosier candidate will inherit! second place on the ticket. That will drag in a few stragglers at least and bring Smith tha| nomination—or mighty close to it. tt tt tt WITH an almost two-thirdal lead, it would be virtually Impossible to stop Smith. But, as indicated, Smith will not be satisfied with nomination. He wants nomination with a fair amount o£ party unity, or he wants nothing. If the early break is not sufficient to push him over the line, and tha fight stretches out beyond the sixth or eighth ballot, the convention will then be on the verge of turning Sam Houston Hall into another Madison Square Garden. This .would mean bitterness and division from which the party could not recover during the campaign, and perhaps not for years. This is the judgment of most politicians and press observers. Unless Smith wins on an early ballot, which would give him party harmony and an equal or better chance to carry the election. His closest friends believe he will turn away and let the party factions “strangle in their own blood.” Standing between Smith and nomination are three groups; Roman Catholic opposition who claim it would be the supreme national calamity, to have an alleged "papist president.” On-the-fence politicians like Senator Robinson of Arkansas, who will go along with the oarty majority without -uss and who are ready to accept the New Yorker if and when it is politically expedient to do so. Senator Jim Reed of Missouri* once a virtim of the Wilson feud, recently the investigator of'Republican primary corruption, and now the only major opposing candidate. This western, wet and witty candidate may get anywhere from thirtyfive to 135 votes on the first ballot, Reed is a hard but clean fighter. His chance is In a deadlocked convention, after Smith is eliminated. Bht if the Smith majority reaches the two-thirds goal without resorting to steam-roller methods in tha convention, the Missourian is not expected to join the Heflins in trying to split the party.