Indianapolis Times, Volume 40, Number 42, Indianapolis, Marion County, 29 June 1928 — Page 19
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SON OF EAST TO RACE WITH SOKQF WEST Smith and Hoover, Born in Poverty, Battle Way to Heights. BY RAYMOND CLAPPER United Press Staff Correspondent HOUSTON, June 29.—The choice as to who shall direct the destinies of the United States for the next four years has narrowed now to two men—Herbert Hoover and Alfred Smith—both of whom started life in poverty and rose by utterly different paths to meet finally as opposing candidates for the presidency of this mighty nation. They come from the opposite edges of this spacious land—one from California and one from New York. The Republican party has chosen to offer to the country Herbert Hoover of California—a Quaker; born in lowa, the heart of rural America; orphaned in childhood; educated as a mining engineer by waiting on tables for his more wealthy college mates. Won .’ortune Abroad He is a man who sought his fortune as a mining engineer in the remote corners of Asia a prominent business man of London; director of the food supply for the starving Belgians; American food administrator during the war; Secretary of Commerce since 1920, and therefore, a member of the cabinets of Harding and Coolidge. He is a modern business man, a quiet personality, somewhat aloof; a statesman of the machine age, never before a candidate for office. i The Democratic party has chosen to offer to the country Alfred I Emanuel Smith of New York—(Roman Catholic in faith; born in Khe tenements of New York, the Baven of the downtrodden immigrants from Europe; forced to sell Bapers on the sidewalks of Manhattan; a fish merchant's boy in Fulton St. market. Worked for Tammany He was errand boy for Tammany Hall; a precinct worker, protege of ‘Big Tom” Foley, one of the ablest men Tammany ever produced; one of its wheel horses in the Legislature at Albany; sheriff of New York, and finally four times elected Governor of his State; an expert educated by rule of thumb, a great statesman. Never before, probably, have both parties been so complettely swayed by single personalities. Each was nominated on the first ballot. Neither had made any important declarations of policy before being nominated. Each offered himself as he was, without promises. Hoover was opposed by a coalition of old line politicians, but his personal prestige, assisted by an expert political organization, crushed it. Personality Wins Smith was opposed by the dry, rural West and South, but again by his personality and the assistance of a group of able political managers, he overrode his opponents, even with the two-thirds rule to handicap him. Both were taken just as they were. The issue which now seems likely to be most conspicuous in the campaign is prohibition. Both candidates are pledged by their platforms to law enforcement. Smith always has said he favored modification of the Volsteac. Lact, to permit each State to determine its own alcoholic content. Hoover never has committed Kimself, except to say that prohi■bition was “a noble experiment.” BOOTLEGGER IN LUCK Beer Shower in Traffic Jam Fails to Cause Arrest. By United Press SAGINAW, Mich., June 29.—A bootlegger was merrily journeying along with seven kegs of beer on a truck. He stopped at a street intersection for a red light. While at a standstill, a bung of one of the kegs gave way with a loud bang, and the keg proceeded to shower beer. Mr. Bootlegger? Well, he acted unconcerned, waited for the light to change, drove around the comer, replaced the hung and drove off unmolested.
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/The Seven Principal Stages in the Life of Alfred E. Smith
Memory of Mrs. Smith Reverts in Hour of Triumph to Courting Days With Al
BY THOMAS L. STOKES, United Press Staff Correspondent HOUSTON, June 29.—A woman sat in her hotel apartment here today, far from the sidewalks of New York, and thought of a young man who used to ride up Third Ave., on his bicycle, hop lightly off, and run eagerly up the steps of her home, derby hat cocked jauntly over one ear, a smile on his face. Memory turns backward in the hour of triumph. Mrs. Alfred E. Smith’s memory turned backward today to those days when plain Al Smith and she were young together in a romantic New York—a New York that whistled ‘‘Little Annie Rooney,” and was content to get where it wanted to go on lumbering horsecars that would stop in the middle of the block.
YES, BOOZE IS DEAD
Convention Proves Nation Is Dry
JYOUSTON, Texas, June 29.— The Democratic party has decided that -ti. prohibition is not an issue in the United States, thereby demonstrating again the versatility of politics and politicians. Such a result easily could have been anticipated. Prohibition has been no more real as an issue here than it has been a fact in Houston. One might explain that many of the “shots” fired in Houston never got into the microphone. Two old ladies wearing the white ribbons of the W. C. T. U. were walking along the corridors of an upper floor in a hotel here today and , narrowly missed being run down by two husky Negroes pushing a large square box car used to carry away rubbish.
The car was filled three feet deep with empty bottles, collected from one floor of the hotel. “My goodness, what are those?” said one of the astonished women. “Bottles, lady,” was the reply. An inspection follbwed. Accumulation of “Years'* “One good result acomplished by this convention is that it has forced you hotel people to clean out all the bottles that have been accumulating in your closets for years,” said one of the women. “You should be ashamed of being so untidy.” Yes, prohibition is no more of an issue in this campaign than it is a fact in Houston. The South is dry. Texas Is dry. Dan Moody, Governor of this State, is dry. The United States is the greatest prohibition country in the world. Here Are Prices Latest quotations on Democratic convention prices for favorite beverages follow: Ginger ale, 50 cents; White Rock mineral water, 50 cents; ice water, 15 cents a pitcherful; whisky, $6 to $lO a quart. It is a good thing the Democratic national conventions come only once in four years, or these high prices might start a revolt, or an Issue. CAN’T KEEP OFF SHIPS Nobleman, Head of Vessel Line, Sails for Vacation. By United Press NEW YORK, June 29.—They can’t seem to get away from their
own working groove, rich or poor. In line with the postmen who go Walking for pleasure is Sir Percy Bates, vice chairman of thejDunard Steamship Company, who came sailing to America for a vacation. After a few days of fishing in Canada, he will return on the same boat.
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DENIES KISSES CAUSE PYORRHEA; DOCTOR SAYS PASTIME HEALTHFUL IN SUMMER
BY BADER WINGET T T ISSING has caused everything JV from the fall of Troy to musical comedies. “But kissing never has caused pyorrhea,’ says Dr. W. S. Bray, D. D. S. John Erskine and Irving Berlin art responsible for the former statements, but Dr. Bray backs up his statement with medical science in refuting the recent statement of several German dentists to the contrary.
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For It is the hour of her greatest triumph—because it is the hour of his, Mrs. Smith is reminiscent. tt tt a SHE sat in the early hours of this morning, in convention with the din of shouting and cheering in her ears, and could see in memory, there, too, as she watched the jostling crowds go noisily past shouting his name, the young man who used to ride up to her house on a bicycle. About her in the box in that mad, tumultuous convention hall were other members of the family. A grown son and a grown daughter sat with her. There was a serious expression on her face, tears in her eyes as she heard the result announced that meant for her husband the highest honor that his party—a
BY LOUIS J. HEATH
DRY ISSUE OUT. DANIELS HOLPS Campaign Will Be Fought on Corruption. By United Press HOUSTON, June 29.—The prohibition issue has been eliminated from the coming presidential campaign, Josephus Daniels, former Secretary of the Navy in the Wilson Cabinet, declared early today following adoption of the Democratic party platform and the nomination of Governor Alfer E. Smith. “The Democratic platform just adopted,” Daniels said, “is such that every dry man understands that full enforcement will be given .he Eighteenth Amendment and the Volstead act. “The plank adopted will eliminate the entire prohibition question from the coming campaign and the contest now can be waged on the paramount issues of opposition to privilege and its twin corruption. “Without a strong law enforcement plank prohibition would have been an issue. Now every wet and every dry can work wholeheartedly for the election of Governor Smith. and turn the rascals or of Washington.” STEALS GEM FROM BOY Stranger Demonstrates Questionable Way to Get Rich. YOUNGSTOWN, Ohio, June 29 When a stranger told Patsy Cinquegrano that he’d surely get rich and have a lot of diamonds when he grew up, Patsy wanted to show on- . “I got diamonds,” Patsy said, and ran into the house and got his sister’s. It was a good diamond, and the stranger thought it so good that he put on his running shoes and beat it—with the diamond.
Kissing is a popular pastime indulged in the winter on davenports and in the summer on front porches. Usually it is harmless from a medical standpoint, some physicians agree. One of the handicaps of osculation, it is said, is the well known “trench mouth.” It is a malady which swept America after the war. It is caused by several things, but it is spread by kissing, physicians declares
INDIANAPOLIS, FRIDAY, JUNE 29, 1928.
party he has fought with for years—can give any man. Then she smiled, a happy, thoroughly satisfied smile, and waved her hand as delegation after delegation passed by to do her honor. Long years of battling, many of them lean years, had brought her this, for him. Tire re was a serious expression likewise on the face of young Arthur Smith, who sat with his wife. He seemed to be measuring it all, and wondering. Catherine Alice, his sister, now Mrs. Francis Quillinan, sat behind her mother, with her husband. tt tt a WHEN the wonder of it had passed, Arthur stepped over to his mother, like a little boy, and kissed her. Then everybody in the box kissed her. Governor Smith’s sister, Mrs. John J. Glynn of New York, was there, and John Raskob, of General Motors, and Eddie Dowling, the musical comedy star, who keot a tally of his own and seemed tc .be the only one who remained altogether sane. During the balloting, Mrs. Smith sat, serious faced, and twisting her <an in her hands. The marching mob made for the box, and the aisle was jammed before it. The shouting, exuberant delegates stood looking at her. She smiled. Then two youngsters pushed a live Mexican burro up over the edge of the box. Arthur took it in his arms and held it, a wiggling animal decked out in red, white and blue ribbon. Mrs. Smith laughed Everybody was happy. a tt a THE New York delegation passed and handed the State banner into the box. She took it and stood up beside it. Soon a California banner was contributed, and then the Lone Star flag of Texas, a huge banner which folded downward about its tall staff into a colorful decoration. The first inkling of Mrs. Smith’s joy came when the Ohio delegation asked to change its vote, and then announced 45 of its 43 votes for her husband. She smiled at this. It was the break that meant the great victory. Women predominated in the crowd which surged up. They stared intently at the woman who may be the next First Lady of the Land. They scrutinized her face and her clothes. She wore a flowered chiffon dress and a green, close-fitting hat, with a string of amber beads about her neck. tt tt tt THE woman they studied was born Catherine Dunn, and she lived on Third Avenue when young Al Smith first knew her. Katie Dunn she was known to him and her friends, a quiet, reserved pretty girl, who dressed well and sang sentimental Irish ditties. The family did not look with great favor on the match they sensed. Al was just a truck driver. So they moved Katie with them over to the*Bronx, much farther away than now. But young Al had a bicycle and courting went ahead. They were married in 1900, and began to keep house on Oliver St. They have five children, Alfred E. Jr., Emily Josephine, now Mrs. John Adams Warner; Mrs. Quillinan, Arthur W., and Walter Joseph. Sleeping Driver Causes Death Bu Times Special LEBANON, Ind., June 29.—Roy Burger, 19, Berwyn, 111., was killeld and his companion, Ed Dillon, 19, also of Berwyn, seriously hurt when the automobile in which they were riding struck a bridge abutment on a road north of here. Dillon, who was driving, said he fell asleep.
AN epidemic raged in Indianapolis last winter and early this spring, but the trouble is on the wane now. Few signs will appear late in the fall. This peculiar rise and fall of the symptoms has been noticed for several years and has gone practically unexplained. But now it seems that the answer to the mystery is “davenports” and “porch swings.” j The little trench mouth bugs hate the sunlight and air. In the winter they get a chance to
25 HOOSIER DELEGATES IN SMITH* Thirty Votes First Cast for Woollen, Then Majority Swings to Victor. Bu Times Special HOUSTON, June 29.—Indiana’s thirty votes went to Evans Woollen for president last night during the first ballot, which saw the nomination of ‘Governor Alfred Smith. Then twenty-five of the Hoosiers swung to Smith. Woolen received 32 vqtes. 2 of Alabama’s 24 going to him. His total was announced as 7, however, the switch occurring before the announcement. When the roll call was completed, Delegates L. G. Ellingham, Ft. Wayne, and R. A. Wernecke, Terre Haute, sought unavailably to get recognition from the chair. Finally, Ellingham waved the Indiana standard high in the air, but Chairman Robinson recognized the Ohio delegation first, and 45 of its 43 votes swung to Smith. Mississippi next was recognized, and the squabble oyer its votes occurred. Indiana Smith delegates, meanwhile, were fidgeting, anxious on the Smith band wagon. Indiana Is Recognized Finally the Mississippi squabble was settled, and Chairman W. H. O’Brien of Indiana was recognized. He announced twenty-five votes for Smith, five still sticking to Woollen. A little later the vote was announced, and Indiana’s standards, those of the delegation and alternates alike, joined the swirling parade which greeted the announcement that Smith was the nominee. The Indiana delegation’s procedure formally was decided on diming a closed caucus at Indiana headquarters at the Rice Hotel late yesterday, in which Chairman O'Brien won a decisive victory over a faction which desired to leave Woollen and vote for Smith on the first roll call. Loyal to Woollen The delegation’s action was predicated upon Woollen's granting O’Brien authority to withdraw his name. O’Brien telegraphed Woollen for this last night. Sounds of sharp discussion drifted cut into the hotel corridor from the caucus. O’Brien could be heard asserting that Indiana must remain loyal to Woollen. Both by Indiana law and from ethical considerations, all members appeared satisfied with the final decision, however. STATEG. 0. P. HEAD" TO CONFER WITH HOOVER Plans for Indiana Campaign to Be Discussed With Elza O. Rogers. Herbert Hoover, Republican presidential nominee, and Hubert Work, chairman of the national committee, were to be visited at Washington today by Elza O. Rogers, Republican State chairman of Lebanon, to discuss plans for the conduct of the national campaign in Indiana. The Republican State committee will meet soon, possibly in connection with the annual midsummer meeting of the Indiana Republican Editorial Association at West Baden, July 18 and 19, to advance campaign plans. Editorial association members have been called by E. E. Neal of Noblesville, their president, to meet at the Columbia Club, Sunday, to make final plans for the West Baden outing.
circulate with a minimum amount of sun rays, but in the summer they die off in great quantities. Hence the ups and downs of the epidemic curve. Back to the pyorrhea question. The Germans said pyorrhea is spread about like trench mouth through the germs transmitted by kissing. American doctors come to the rescue of the age-old pastime with the statement that there is no pyorrhea germ to be spread by kissing.
TRIUMPH AT LAST
Heart Is in Throat, Al Admits
BY PERCY B. SCOTT ALBANY, N. Y., June 29.—A former New York City newsboy, raised on Oliver St. of the metropolis’ famous east side, today sat in the State mansion preparing to stars a campaign which, if successful, will elevate him to the presidency of the United States. Governor Alfred E. Smith, the “Al”-who four times in the last ten years has been elected Governor of New York, last night received his greatest honor, when the Democratic party on the first ballot nominated him as its presidential candidate. The Governor is accustomed to political victories. His success in New York politics him that assurance. But last night he seemed reticent and even shy as he heard, over the radio, the returns that brought him the nomination. When the nomination was decided he seemed unable to speak.
Mrs. John A. Warner, ms daughter, threw her arms about him and only then did the Governor turn to newspaper men and say: “My heart is where my palate ought to be.” Friends With Al The Governor had gathered a few friends in the ballroom of the State mansion to hear the returns. In addition to his daughter and her! husband, there were Col. and Mrs. I Frederick Stewart Greene, Mr. and Mrs. Henry Moscowitz, Mr. and Mrs. Parker Corning, Dr. Matthias Nicoll Jr., Mr. and Mrs. Edward Griffin, Mrs. J. Foster Warner, and Adjt. Gen. Franklin W. Ward, in addition to a number of newspaper men. Outside, a number of women gathered early and the s'rains of -The Sidewalks of New Yoru' could be heard as the women started singing. h When it was announced the roll W*ll was to start, Smith called his 'ffreat Dane dog “Jefferson” and said; “Come on Jeff, let’s listen.” Alabama Breaks Ice The Governor seated himself comfortably on a divan within a few feet of the radio instrument. The first vote was Alabama and on that Smith received one vote. _ “That's one more than I got four : years ago.” Smith remarked. The list proceeded to California, I which gave its entire 26 votes to the | New York Governor. “That’s some different from four years ago,” he said with a chuckle, recalling the Madison Square Garden convention in which Smith and i William G. McAdoo forces fought day after day and finally eliminated each other. New York was called. The entire group in the ballroom laughed. Smith eyed them and with a straight face remarked: “Now, here’s a hard one that will surprise every one.” New York Comes Through Soon the announcers’ voice boomed that New York had cast ninety votes for the Governor. When the roll call was compieted. showing Smith had a fraction less than nine votes of nomination, he stood up and smiled: Then it was announced Ohio had switched its votes to give the Governor the nomination. New York’s Governor, perhaps recalling the far cry back to his early days on Oliver St., was quiet. His face was a study. His friends were quiet. Then Mrs. Warner rushed over and congratulated her father in a daughterly manner —a generous hug. Heart Where Palate Should Be It was then Smith accepted his friend’s congratulations, and turned to newspaper men with the statement: “My nomination on the first ballot fills me with joy and satisfaction that I know is shared by my family and friends. My heart is where my palate ought to be.” Outside the crowd had grown to more than 1,00. They were shouting exuberantly, calling for “Al,” and singing the “Sidewalks of New York.” Motor cars rolled up and down the street, their sirens shrieking.
“The average healthy moutn has about twenty-two to twentythree different kinds of germs in it all the time,” says Dr. Bray. a a a “ A MOUTH infected with pyrA rhoea has no more germs than the healthy mouth, with the exception of the twin bugs, streptococcus and staphylococcus. They are pus germs.” It seems that pyrrhoea is caused by faulty metabolism, faulty arragement of the teeth, incorrect
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Platform Highlights
Bu United Press HOUSTON, June 29.—The Democratic platform, as adopted after its presentation to the convention last night by Key Pittman, chairman of the committee on resolutions, included the following planks: Preservation of State rights and opposition to bureaucracy. Denunciaton of Republican corruption. Reorganization of Federal Government. Further reduction of internal taxes. A tariff based on “the maintenance of legitimate business and a high standard of wages.” Farm relief by organization based on Federal Reserve System. Fostering of mining industry. Outlawing of war and “abhorrence” of imperialism. No entangling alliances. Non-interference with other nations, especially Mexico and Nicaragua. Recognition of Monroe doctrine. Elimination of naval armament competition. Preservation to Federal and State governments of title over water power. Approval of collective bargaining and condemnation of labor injunctions. Scientific survey of unemployment with Government construction adapted thereto. Better working conditions for Federal employes. Care of wounded veterans. Enforcement of Eighteenth and all other amendments. Permanent record of campaign contributions. No radio censorship or monopoly. Ending of lame duck sessions of Congress. Equality for women. Humanization of immigration laws. Opposition to monopoly in merchant marine and maintenance of government service if necessary. Fulfillment of American pledge to Armenia. Federal aid on education. Strict enforcement of anti-trust laws. Immediate independence for the Philippines. Territorial government for Porto Rico, with view to ultimate Statehood. INDIA PROBE LAUNCHED Powerful Maharajah Called to London for Quiz. LONDON, June 29.—England is starting a thorough investigation
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diet, bad fillings and bad crowns. No more. That ought to stop the German savants and their anti-kissing arguments. Dust off the porch swing, hang out the moon and let necking be unrestrained, is the new slogan of Indiartapolis lovers. Os course there are the little trench mouth bugs to be taken into consideration. But who cares about bugs—there will be a full moon Monday.
HONEST RULE PROMISED BYI DEMOCRATS Farm Relief Outstanding Pledge Made in Party j Platform. DRY PLANK IS STRONG All Factories in Accord on Draft; Moody, Ritchie j Fall in Line. BY PAUL R. MALLON United Press Staff Correspondent HOUSTON, June 29.—Governor Alfred E. Smith will run on a platform pledging honest law enforcement and substantial farm relief, written around the slogan of Andrew Jackson, “Turn the rascals out.” The platform was adopted by tha Democratic party as represented in its national convention here with scarcely a dissenting voice, just before the roll call upon which Smith was nominated. The unanimity of opinion among the wets and drys, McNary-Haugen-ites and farm conservatives, antia and pros of all principles was demonstrated when Governor Dan Moody of Texas, who undertook tha role of “Boy Bryan” dry leader here, and Governor Ritchie of Maryland, a spokesman of the wets, declined to submit minority reports, although both spoke from the platform on their views v Dry Plank Rewritten The prohibition plank was rewritten by Senator Carter Glass of Virginia, the most ardent of enthusiastic drys, it said: “The Republican party, for eight years in complete control of tha Government at Washington felt compelled in its national platform to promise obedience to a provision of the Federal Constitution which it flagrantly has disregarded, and to apologize to the country for its failure to enforce laws enacted by the Congress -of the United States. “Speaking for the national democracy, this convention pledges the party and its nominee to an honest effort to enforce the Eighteenth Amendment and all ether provisions of the Federal Constitution and all laws enacted pursuant thereto.” Glass succeeded in eliminating from the report, as presented by the committee, a statement as to how the Eighteenth Amendment and the Volstead act could be repealed. ’ Glass Accepts Points He accepted the plank as it stood, although he is an earnest opponent of Smith. Moody explained he had fought for the bone dry plank adopted by the Texas State convention and Ritchie said he adhered to the plank without sacrificing his argument that prohibition usurped the rights of States. In the final analysis, however, everyone seemed to agree about everything and Smith appeared to have obtained as near an acquiescent endorsement from the bone dry south as he possibly could receive. The farm relief plank spoke in no specific terms about the Mc..aryHaugen equalization fee system, but it promised agriculture about everything a democratic convention could offer without endorsing a Republican bill. It offered a Federal farm board system to handle the surplus, development of cooperative marketmg facilities, and every possible effort to diminish the spread between the producers’ sale price and the consumers’ buying price. But the convention chose “Republican corruption” as the big issue upon which the party will set Smith to battle in November against Herbert Hoover, the Republican nomP* ank "'as second among EJ :hlrty P lanks > running about 6,000 words. “Shocking thieveries,” sordid corruption and unabashed rascality,” “compound frauds,” and “startling depravities” were the terms used by the platform to describe what the Democrats considered ' Republican iniquities, such as charged in the oil scandals and campaign expenditures investigations. The watchword of the day should be: ‘Turn the rascals out”* the plank concluded. Four “Cures” Offered The remedy for agricultural ilia must be found in one of the four following things, the platform committee told the convention: 1. Credit loans by the Government to co-operatives on a basis similar to Government aid for tha merchant Marine. 2. Creation of a Federal farm board to assist the farmer in marketing, as the Federal reserve board has done for the banker and business man. 3. Reduction of the spread between the price the farmer sells for and the price the consumer pays, aimed apparently to reduce tha profits of the middlemen and tha cost of transportation. 4. Consideration of agricultural conditions in formulation of Government financial and tax measures.
BOBBIES MUST REDUCE! London Cops Fight Ruling With “Fatness Means Fitness.” LONDON, June 29.—Babe Ruth isn’t the only one who has to reduce. News here is that London’s portly “Bobbies” must “reduce orj retire.” The London cops ard anxious about that rumor and it isl said that the heavy bluecoats aJ presenting an argument that “faj ness means fitness,** iJl^