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Plain Treason r Even more serious than the charge of attempted bribery against Governor Jackson, which he avoided by pleading the statute of limitations, is the injunction of Judge Collins to the present grand jury. The situation he outlines amounts to anarchy, raw, red anarchy. In asking for an investigation of the last primary, Judge Collins became specific and direct. No judge ever delivered a more significant or a more menacing challenge to the powers that destroy free government. Judge Collins says that there is evidence that the results of the last primary were controlled by frauds, and that the will of the yoters was overthrown by trickery. He charges that in one precinct eighty-five votes were cast in the names of persons who were either dead, who had moved to other places or were wholly fictitious. These things do hot happen by accident. They are the result of design and carried on by men who are powerful enough to get away with them. What does it mean when eighty-five fraudulent votes are cast in a precinct ? It means that the earnest patriotic, prayerful ballots of decent citizens are nullified. It means an overthrow of government by forces that are too cowardly and too skulking to indulge in revolution, where the penalty is death. Compared with the red bolsheviks of Russia who obtained power by ruthless murder, these Indianapolis election crooks are despicable and beyond contempt, even if they are often found in pulpits by invitation. The tragedy of it is that every one knows exactly the forces and influences that are able to commit these frauds with impunity and they still get votes of misled and betrayed citizens of honor and integrity. Think back to the contest in the last primary. It is very easy to know and to understand who profited by frauds. On the presidential primary, there was a contest. Does any one believe that any one was either sufficiently interested, or in position to commit frauds if the interest be admitted, to secure fraudulent votes "for Mr. Hoover? In the senatorial contest, who were in position to profit? Is there any one who believes that the gang which indulges in fraud, using those protected underworld characters who are always in the shadow of the jail, but who find themselves on election boards, was desirous of naming either Attorney General Gilliom or Solon Carter as the Republican candidate? Who got those crooked votes —and ;tvhy ? When it comes to the delegates to the State convention, whose slates profited by these frauds? Follow those delegates to the State convention and find out whose orders were obeyed. Remember the selection of Governor Jackson as a delegate to Kansas City? The highest form of treason is the poisoning of power at its source. W T hen election frauds are committed, free government and self government disappears. There is erected instead a hideous gang government, which thrives by protecting vice and crime and crookedness and lives by pillage upon the people ’s taxes. With the fact firmly established that frauds did exist, the people should not be satisfied until not only the tools who committed these frauds, but the master minds who directed them are sent for repentance and punishment to some spot where they can no longer destroy the votes of honest men and women by their trickeries and their crimes. The Farmers’ Choice- / The professional political leader of Indiana farmers *—or of some Indiana farmers—sent a telegram to Secretary Hoover asking him to indicate what he Would attempt to do for the farmers If elected President. He sent a similar telegram to Governor Smith. Secretary Hoover did not reply to the inquiry, but It was said in his behalf that he was withholding discussion of all issues until his speech of acceptance, Aug. 11. Governor Smith replied immediately and in a manner that apparently pleased his heckler. It is difficult to find fault with the course each of the candidates took. ' The man who asked the question, W. H. Settle, happens to have been one of Jim Watson’s lieutenants in the campaign of misrepresentation and chicanery that resulted in Jim’s appearance at Kansas City as Indiana's ostensible choice for the presidential nomination. Os course, it wasn’t essential that Settle should be a friend of Hoover’s to qualify him as proper questioner of the candidate. But he should, at least, appear to be a friend of the farmers in whose behalf he presumed to ask the question. And, in our opinion, any man seeking to elevate Jim Watson to the White House does not qualify as a friend of the farmers. The essence of the farmer’s present discontent lies In the inequality of treatment accorded the farmep and the industrialist. No man in public life, during his time, has been a more subservient worker for the industrialists—as opposed to the agriculturists—than Jim Watson has been. The Indiana farm leader could not be unaware of that, no matter how salivary Jim’s support of the farmers’ demands in campaign years. So this Indiana Watsonite could have found no

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occasion for surprise in Hoover’s failure to respond to his telegiam. Governor Smith, however, did answer the tele-, gram. He assured the Indianan that he stood squarely on the Houston platform and declared that, if elected he would not wait until inaugurated to take up the farmers’ problem. He would summon a conference at once, he said, to thresh the issue out. A proper enough reply. Possibly a very clever reply, from the political viewpoint, although it is hard to tell four months before election day just how clever these things will turn out to be. But, politically minded though he may be, none will deny that Smith has sincere sympathy for the farmers of the country and is certain to tackle the problem bravely if elected. His shrewd commonsense may point the way to a satisfactory solution; he may evolve a plan that will hike the price of produce without hiking the cost of living. And do it without affronting the Industrial protectionists, whom his own platform makers seemed anxious to placate. Doing this, however, while standing firmly on that Houston platform may not be so easy, for, in the apt language of the New York World, staunch Smith supporter, the plank on agriculture was composed of woolly words.” It is possible to interpret it as offering adherence to the McNary-Haugen plan; also possible to interpret it otherwise. Leaving the platform out of consideration, isn’t the situation faced by the farmer just about as follows: In Smith he is offered a practical man, whose career makes clear that he would approach the farm problem honestly; a man whose record assures that he could not be persuaded to help widen the disparity between agriculture and other industries; a man unlikely to help the industrial East at the expense of agrarian West. Os experience with the farm problem—none. In Hoover he is offered another practical man, j equally honest, equally unwilling to favor the industrial Interest at the expense of the agricultural inter-! est. Os experience with the farm probem—plenty. I He is a man, who, during the war, despite persist- j ent misrepresentation, did everything in bis power to j protect the price of farm products. A man too sincere to mislead the farmers, but deeply concerned ’ with the necessity to find a means of bettering thencondition. The farmer’s choice, in other words, is a choice between men. A “Ilagnolious Affair” When Anne Bruce marries Lou (Slim) Gordon, co-pilot of the trans-Atlantic plane Friendship, in Chicago on July 20 the affair will be a sort of civic celebration. Trie marriage is to be held in the Trianon ballroom. At least 10,000 Chicagoans will attend; Mayor William Hale Thompson will be master of ceremonies, and the city will be gaily decorated for the occasion. Ordinarily a large public wedding has a suggestion of vulgarity about it. But not this one. When a trans-Atlantic flier marries the sweetheart of his choice it ought to be done with a flourish. A famous flier isn’t a private individual; he’s a public character. Why shouldn’t he let the whole town help him celebrate his wedding? We wish Slim and Anne all kinds of happiness, and we hope that Chicago outdoes itself to give them a splendiferous wedding. Fifteen thousand people attended a New York gangster’s funeral. Nothing like a free show to bring the crowds. Water was up to the ears of the man who crossed Niagara Falls in a rubber ball the other day when he was rescued. And, above the ears, what? Family troubles often bring divorces, but the dishes get most of the breaks.

.David Dietz on Science

Stellar Catastrophes

No. 100

FEW phenomena are more amazing than the appearance of anew star in the heavens. It is small wonder that in ancient times and down through the Middle Ages such an occurrence was regarded with superstitious fear and terror. Records of the appearance of new stars or novae, as the astronomers call them, are rather scattreed in

The first appearance of a nova of which we can be positive is that of Tycho’s nova, the new star which appeared on Aug. 6, 1572, in the constellation of Cassiopeia. It was called Tycho’s nova because of the study made of it by Tycho Brahe, the famed Danish astronomer. Between the year 1572 and 1917, astronomers have observed thirty-two novae. A large number have been observed since that day because the systematic watch of the sky with big telescopes has made the detection of a / nova more likely. Three theories have been advanced to explain the appearance of a nova. All three theories assume that a nova is not really anew star but merely a very dim or dark star which has suddenly flared into new brilliance for some reason. One theory is that the dim star collides with another dim The result of such a collision would be the generation of tremendous heat. The rise in temperature would cause the great increase in brilliance and result in the appearance of the nova. This theory is not widely held today, however. The two more popular theories are the nebular and the tidal theories. The nebular theory assumes that the star has run into a great nebula. The nebulae are great masses of gaseous material. There are many in the sky. Some are luminous, shining by absorbed starlight. Others are dark. The friction of the star against the nebula would cause it to flare up with great brilliance. The tidal theory assumes that a large and massive star passes fairly close to the dim s-ar. The gravitational pull of the big star would disrupt the dim star, causing molten material to be erupted from the center of it. This eruption would account for Jthe increase in brilliance. ' \ ~ I

M. E. TRACY , SAYS: “Prohibition Would Represent a Splendid Issue for the Democrats if So Many of Them Were Not on the Other Side, No Matter Which Side They Taker

JOHN J. RASKOB’S selection as chairman of the Democratic national committee promises much that is desirable, even if it does not necessary forecast the application of that good old Jeffersonian doctrine—“low tariff’’ for motor cars. For one thing it proves that the Democratic party no longer looks askance at big business. For another, it insures an adequate campaign fund. For still another, It puts an expert organizer in charge of affairs. Senator Reed thinks that Democratic victory hinges on nothing more difficult than to convidbe the country that Herbert Hoover is an Englishman. “If we are going to have an Englishman for President,” says Senator Reed, “I am in favor of the Prince of Wales. He, at least, Ii truly representative, and by that I don’t mean any reflection on Englishmen who have come to this country: they, like the prince, came here because they liked It. And Hoover went to England because he liked it.” Senator Reed did not go to England, not even during the war. He stayed at home and threw mud at Woodrow Wilson. n u Reed Falls in Line Senator Reed not only charges Hoover with being an Englishman and with spoiling the American farmer’s market in order to help the British government, but with changing his mind too frequently. Possibly the Senator Is jealous, since his own record of mind changing is not to be sneered at. Not only have eight years served to convince him that Woodrow Wilson was a great Democratic leader, but eight weeks have persuaded him that prohibition is an issue. Last May, when he was doing his best to prevent Governor Smith’s nomination, he felt quite sure that there would be no necessity for talking about the Eighteenth Amendment and the Volstead act during this campaign. Just now, he wants the Democrats of Missouri to talk about nothing else. Such a promoter of harmony! ft a N, Y, in the Saddle To make sure that nothing was overlooked in the Democratic campaign program, Vice Presidential Candidate Robinson came all the way from Arkansas to remind the boys that the South might need watching, and Financial Director Jesse H. Jones came all the way from Texas to reassure them that the exchequer would be in fine shape just as soon as he could balance his books and hand over the cash. Whatever Robinson got for his trouble, Jones got the air, Bankei Herbert Lehman having been tentatively chosen to take his place as financial director. This may be the same Democratic party that followed Woodrow Wilson through, but the location of its headquarters and ihe personnel of its management hi ve certainly changed. In those good old Wilson days, It was common to hear folks say, especially below the Mason-Dixie line, that the South was in the sac de. Right now it looks very much as though New York were in the saddle. The presidential candidate is from New York, the chairman is from New York, the financial director is from New York, the treasurer is from New York, and one of the five vice chairmen is from New Jersey, which means practically the same thing. a a a Platforms Scrapped As thus far shaped, the campaign promises most everything, except a subject on which the two parties can disagree. Plenty of songs have been written, plenty of coin is, in sight, and it is fairly certain that the Republicans will find some kind of a lid to offset the brown derby. If they are stumped, why not the Helen Wills eye-shade? Meanwhile, the platforms have been virtually scrapped, and though that was about all they were good for, no one, except Governor Smith, has offered a worthy substitute. a v tt / Dry Forces Ignorant The Democrats are not exceptional when it comes to prohibition The net result of this “noble experiment,” seems to be a bad case of country-wide grouch. What we know about it in some respects, and what we do not know about it in others has developed into the greatest curiosity of modem times. The Government knows enough about the incomes of three bootleggers in Chicago to bring suit against them for more than $2,000,000 which it claims they should have paid in taxes. It does not know enough about their business, however, to stop it. Various agencies of information know enough to tell us exactly how many speakeasies there are in New York, Detroit, Chicago and other large places, but the law enforcing authorities Appear to be ignorant of their existence. It is queer that we should be able to count the dives and blind pig.-, without being able to locate them’, or collect income taxes on ilhgimate trade without being able to suppress it. There Is obviously something wrong all along the line. As Congressman La Guardia points out, how could a man like John M. Philips drink himself to death over a period of years in a first-class hotel, with the doctor and nurse trying to prevent it. With his death certificate bodly stating the facts, and nothing be done? ....

ancient literature. The first mention of a nova occurs in the Chinese Chronicles in 143 B. C. But in this case as in the case of other ancient records, it is difficult to tell whether a true nova or a comet is meant. The Chinese shot off fireworks to scare away comets and novae.

THE INDIANAPOLIS TIMES

BY DR. MORRIS FISHBEIN Editor Journal of the American Medical Association and of Klvs’eia, the Health Magazine. A STUDY of successful people that involved a consideration of three different groups; namely, royalty throughout the world, American college graduates, and the British nobility, leads a recent investigator to the opinion that those people who hay* more than average mental and moral ratings have more than the average number of children. This naturally will lead, according to F. A. Woods who made the investigation, to an evolution toward a higher type of mentality. The tendency is to conserve rather than to decrease the human strains of greatest ability and of greatest moral worth. For instance, among the British nobility there are about 274 peers who have rendered notable service to their government. These had 640 living children, or an average of 2.33. Seventy peers with little or no public service to their country had 131 living children, or an average of 1.87. Harvard graduates have also been studied in connection with this investigation. About 25 per cent of those in “Who’s Who” have three living children, whereas only 15 per cent were without children. When the figures are studied In any possible manner they tend to show definitely that success is associated with the larger number of children rather than the smaller.

(Abbreviations: A—ace: K —king; queen: J—Jack: X—any card lower than 10.) WE have emphasized the fact that it is worth one trick more to play the hand in a suit than in a no-trump. When you hold a two-suiter (that is, two suits each of five or more cards) it is usually more advisable to play the hand in a suit. It is worth about three tricks more to play the hand in one of the suits when holding a two-suiter than in a no-trump. Bearing this in mind, when you hold two five-card suits, take out partner’s uncontested no-trump in a suit if: 1. Both suits are majors. 2. One suit is a major and the other is a minor with some top strength. 3. Both suits are minors, with both suits containing some t6p strength. Bear in mind that in the last analysis the probability of making game and not the chance possibility should be the determining factor in the take-out. If you take out on nothing it may lead to nothings Your take-out must not be based on whims. If the desire to “show” be present, it must be restrained. The urge to play the hand should not encourage you to make a declaration. The foregoing is but a guide in taking out a no-trump. It may be epitomized by saying that your take-out should convey clear and definite information. A major take-out should denote strength and a minor take-out general weakness. If your take-out is as changeable as the weather your partner will have to be a mind reader to act intelligently. A difference of opinion may arise as to the advisability of shading slightly some of the requirements above set forth, but this can only be answered by good judgment developed by experience and not by acrimony. (Copyright. 1928. by the Ready Reference Publishing Company)

Charity shall cover the multitude of sins.—l Peter 4:8. bub It is wicked to withdraw from being useful to the needy and cowardly to give away to the worthless. —Epictetus.

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Successful Folk Have Big Families

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Mr. Wood is inclined to believe that the average for total offspring for all college graduates Is lower than it ought to be to keep up the type. Among the better classes nowadays those who want children have them. A few generations ago the

With Other Editors

(Gary Post-Tribune) The two leading political parties have nominated very able men for president and vice president, and now there is a unanimous call on them by the public to run a clean, educational campaign, free from the bitterness and recrimination 'that has marred many campaigns. The political argufiers should thoroughly realize that it does a cause no good to resort to violent talk and exaggerated denunciation. There is such a thing as creating sympathy for a man or a j/ause by attacking him or it too sharply. When such assaults occur, people feel that they must be overdrawn and they turn against the man and the party responsible for them. A presidential campaign ought to be a very educational experience for the American people, if the discussion is kept on a high plane of argument. It is generally admitted that a two-party system

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selective force did not operate as it does today. The tendency seems to be definitely for successful, inteliig'-nt persons of good mentality and heredity, to marry, and to have at least two children. i

is a good thing for the country. No matter who is in power, there should be a strong minority party to criticise its acts, and hold it back from the faults and weaknesses to which It is subject. Each party should admit, therefore, that its opponents perform a certain service and that they emphasize certain points that need to be emphasized. Each party should go ahead and try to show in a reasonable way, why the policies which its own party and candidate chiefly stand on are superior. Campaigns of vituperation and mud-slinging do not win votes. The advice of the old shoemaker who used to attend the La'tin debates might well be recalled. He did not understand a word of Latin, but he could always tell who was losing, because that one would get mad. The candidates and speakers who show temper and bitterness thereby reveal that the people are not with them.

ington Bureau for 5 cents in stamps, and give detailed information at*-at the manner of displaying the flag on all occcasions. Can a chamois jacket be washed successfully at home? Wash it carefully in warm suds in which household ammonia has been added in the proportion of one teaspoon to a quart of water. Plunge it up and down in the water, but do not rub it. Shake hard and rinse carefully, but do not squeeze it much. Stretch it to shape while it is damp. How large is the star Antares, and how far is it from the earth? Its diameter is estimated at 275,000,000 miles and its distance from the earth is 250 light years. What was the loss to the American public on account of fraudulent and worthless stock in 1925? An estimate of the American Bankers Association is $1,400,000,000. Are “fiance” and “fiancee” pronounced alike? What is the difference in meaning of the two words? They are prouounced alike. The former is the masculine and the latter the feminine. The difference is distinguishable only in writing. What is the meaning of Sudan? It is a short form of “Beled-es-Sudan,” meaning “Land of the Blacks.” Is there such a word as “bloodshot ten”? It is an obsolete form of bloodshot. What is the color of the blood in the veins and arteries of the human body? It is dark red in the veins and bright red in the arteries. What inscriptionu is carved over the door of George Washington’s tomb at Mt. Vernon? “I am the resurrection and the life. He that believed in Me, though he were dead, yet shall he live." Is a square yard the same as a yard square? An area designated as a square yard may be any shape provided the total area is equal to a square yard. A yard square must be a parallelogram each side of which is equal to one yard. Who were the pitchers and how many innings did each pitch in the last baseball game of the 1926 world series? The pitchers for Ntw York were Hoyt and Pennock and for St. Louis, Haines and Alexander. Hoyt pitched six innings and Pennock three; Alexander relieved Haines in the seventh inning with two out and the bases full. \ v i

JULY 12, 1928

KEEPING UP With THE NEWS

BY LUDWELL DENNY WASHINGTON, July 12.—This man A1 Smith moves so fast the politicians can not keep up with him. Whether he is heading toward political destruction or victory is in dispute, but that he is going with a blare and a bang all agree. First he kicks over the careful Democratic platform compromise on prohibition by shouting from the house tops that he is for modification of that law and is running as an honest wet candidate. While the country is trying to catch its breath over that act of daring, A1 jumps into the farm relief dispute with a letter to an Indiana Farm Bureau Federation official pledging a special farm conference immediately after his hoped-for election, and in plenty ot time to prepare legislation before Congress meets. Now he picks a capitalist to conduct his campaign. And great is the flurry on the political roosts in Washington as a result. John J. Raskob, chairman of the finance committee of General Motors, who has been chen chairman of the Democratic national committee, is more than a representative of big business. Raskob is also a Catholic, a wet and a former Republican voter. nun r T'HE political “reaction to Ras- ■*- kob’s appointment come so thick and fast, it will be several weeks before the Democratic and Republican politicans agree on the results of this move. But here are the factors involved: First—Smith’s departure is In picking an “outsider” instead of a politician. Raskob has no political training. His campaign strategy will be that of a business man handling a sales campaign. He has in Smith and Robinson what he calls a good product in the way of a ticket which he proposes to “sell” to the American public. He does not know “the boys” who boss the Democratic wards and districts out through the country. Presumably he will count upon their service and wisdom, but if he has reason to doubt they are getting results he probabliy will send out a high-powered salesman from the head office to hook up speed. Second—As a man who is said to have voted Republican, except in Woodrow Wilson years, Raskob is more concerned with candidates than with parties. As irony would have it, just as some of the rockribbed Republicans have been objecting that Hoover has not always been a last-ditch G. O. P. regular. Smith demonstrates how little he values narrow party loyalty by putting the Democratic party machinery in the hands of a man who lists himself in “Who’s Who” as a Republican. Third—“ Capitalist” is what Raskob calls himself in “Who’s Who.” Now there is an old rule in both political parties which gives “capitalists” awfully important places behind the scenes as givers of money and advice, without advertising their campaign importance. That was one reason, it is said, that “Uncle Andy” Mellon managed the last Republican campaign from the rear rather than ffom the front, and also why he himself has never been a presidential candidate. This rule was also cited as sufficient reason why Smith should not name his friend Owen D. Young of General Electric as Democratic chairman. But obviously there is no essential difference in this respect between Young and Raskob. nun FOURTH— Since “Wall Street” tried to use Banker Dawes to block the nomination of Herbert Hoover, whom it dislikes, Smith’s selection of Raskob is interpreted by some as emphasizing that the Democratic candidate has the confidence oof big business. But it appears that big business Is divided and that at least part of it is trying to become reconciled to Hoover. It is assumed that Smith has decided that such connection with “Wall Street” as is represented by Raskob will help him politically more than it will hurt him. It is assumed that he feels he already has the faith and support of lart*3 numbers of the rank and file, but very much needs the support of the average business man and banker throughout the country. There can be no doubt that one of Smith’s chief obstacles is the belief of many business communities that a Democratic administration would be “bad for business.” Raskob’s management of the Democratic campaign apparently is intended as an answer to precisely that wide-spread “superstition,” as the Democrats call it. Fifth—Finally the choice of an eastern, wet, Catholic campaign manager for an eastern, wet, Catholic candidate indicates that Smith is not afraid of the Republicans raising the religious and prohibition issues against him. Indeed, some believe this shows that Smith is inviting the Republicans to raise these issues, which he thinks wil help elect him in the eastern State with the big electoral votes. All of this is but pne more prooi that this is to be a mighty struggle between two strong candidates standing on their personal records and prowess, rath** than the conventional battle between parties.

This Date in U. S. History

July 12 1804—Alexander Hamilton died of wounds received in a duel with Aaron Burr. 1817—Birthday of Henry 'D. Thoreau, poet and naturalist. 1864—Confederate troops driven back from their position near Washington, D. C. 1904—45,000 Chicago meat packing company employes went on strike. : /..e -W,-