Indianapolis Times, Volume 43, Number 22, Indianapolis, Marion County, 5 June 1931 — Page 21

JUNE 5, 1931

4 GOVERNORS 'MUSCLE IN' ON PRESIDENT RACE Stand Better Chances of Winning White House, History Shows. BY RAYMOND CLIPPER, United Press Staff Correspondent WASHINGTON. June s.—Governors have come into the foreground In unusual numbers as apparent presidential aspirants, muscling Into a field in which United States senators usually are the more conspicuous group. Four governors made utterances at the Governors conference in French Lick, Ind., this week which stamped them in the minds of practically all politicians as aspirants for a presidential nomination next year Thr?e potential contenders heard from were Democrats—Governors Franklin D. Roosevelt of New York, Albert C. Ritchie of Maryland, and George White of Ohio. The fourth was Governor Gifford Pinchot of Pennsylvania, an irregular Republican, who is being urged by some progressives to oppose President Hoover for the Republican nomination next year Break Through Restrictions All four broke through the restrictions of a non-controversial agenda to talk about depression, prohibition, power, wheat and other national issues of presidential size. In the early presidential speculation numerous senators usually sprout booms, most of them meet an early freeze. Senators are in a better position because of unrestricted senate rules to make what are in fact stump speeches on national Issues. The nature of the senate’s work throws a number of senators into strategic roles with regard to national policies. Furthermore, a gallery of newspaper correspondents is in constant attendance to give national prominence to senatorial activities. Ranks Higher Than Governor Then there is the modern conception that a senator ranks higher in the scale than a governor. All governors want to be senators, tut no senator is seen going back to oe governor of his state. When Senator Norris (Rep.. Neb.), once talked about quitting the senate to run for Governor, it was a political sensation. With the growth of the nation and the welding of the units in the federal system, the view of the senate as practically a council of ambassadors of the sovereign states disappeared so that the governor, once the more dominant figure, has been assigned now to the second table. Therefore unless a governor has a striking and exceptionally forceful personality, or is Governor of New York, which makes him ex-officio a presidential possibility, he has hard going competing with a senator standing cn the gigantic national sounding board at Washington. Senators Fall Behind Yet statistics show that after the early booms run their course, senators for one reason or another, fall behind. The chances favor the governors. Os twenty-four men nominated for the presidency by major parties since the Civil war, plus the candidacy of the elder Robert M. Lafollette of Wisconsin in 1924, exactly half were governors or former governors. Five were senators, including La Follette, who became a national figure first as Governor of Wisconsin. Blaine, Benjamin Harrison and Harding were senators before they were nominated for President. Garfield was elected to the senate, but before he took his seat, he was nominated for President and resigned. DRY LAW REPEAL TO BE DEBATE SUBJECT Riverside Civic Association to Sponsor Discussion Dion day Night. Repeal of the Eighteenth amendment will be the subject of a debate to be staged Monday night at 8 at the South Grove Club house under sponsorship of the Riverside Civic Association. Eugene McMannanon will present the affirmative on the question and Norman Robinson, the negative. Judges will be Robert L. Hoover of the Indiana’" -lis News, Walter Pritchard, ' t city judge, and a third persoi to be named. Following the debate, Hoover will speak. wifeTnot blond, so SHE SEEKS DIVORCE Mrs. Edna Johnson Couldn’t Stand Her Mate’s Preference. Preference for blonds sent one husband’s love for his wife “out the widow” and caused his brunet mate to sue him for divorce in circuit court Thursday. Seeking separation from Vernon Johnson in the Marion county court, Mrs. Edna M. Johnson, alleged he told her to leave home, saying that if she only had blonde hair and money he still would love her. The wife also complains that her husband wrote love letters to several of his blond girl friends in her presence. He also beat and struck her in a rude manner because nature had not endowed her with tresses of the proper shade, the suit alleged.

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(L HOW TWO FAR-SEEING PARENTS WILL HELP THEIR SONS TO KNOW MORE ABOUT THE PRACTICAL THINGS OF LIFE

ON a bright clear morning this month, two boys will step eagerly into a Ford roadster and start on a motor trip that will last the whole summer through. Theirs will be a trip never to be forgotten ... long to be remembered. Regular school will have closed for them, but their practical education will be but beginning. They will learn many things not found in books. Two far-seeing parents have attended to that. Pressed by the boys to give them an automobile as reward for passing with high grades, the parents consented on one condition . . . that the trip must serve a useful purpose. So this plan was decided on.

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BUTLER LISTS 170 COURSES FORJUMMER Sessions to Open June 15; Saturday Lectures Added Feature. Butler university will offer the largest number of special term courses in its history when the annual summer session opens June 15, according to announcement by Dean James W. Putnam, director of the session. The curriculum will include 170 separate courses of instruction and the faculty will total seventy-seven professors. Courses embracing the three colleges of the university and thirtynine departments of study will be available. Os the 170 courses to be taught during the eight-week session, 110 will be given in the college of liberal arts, twenty in the college of re-

Each day the boys will arise at seven o’clock and follow a carefully arranged route and schedule. This calls for their visiting principal points of interest in this country and spending time in leading industrial plants. They will get back to the sources of raw materials—see how things are mined and grown—and follow them through the various stages of manufacture. They will see how they are used by millions of people. Bustling factories will teach of the work of men and machines. The village farms and wide, rolling prairies will reveal the magic of nature and the treasures that lie beneath the soiL Everywhere—through

ligion, and forty in the college of education. According to Dean Putnam, all persons who can meet the regular university entrance requirements are eligible to enroll. Students taking work at present in the university may matriculate next week. All others will register Monday, June 15. Classes will begin the following day. An added feature of the session will be a series of Saturday lectures by prominent educators cf the middle-west. Harry M. Bell, athletic director, has announced an intensive eightweeks normal course in physical education for teachers and coaches who wish to meet license requirements. The work will include lectures and <--> i—football, baseball, track and. field athletics. Advanced theoretical courses in physical education also will be given. BELL-RINGING POPULAR Dlore Than 25,000 Hired in England to Toll Call to Worship. LONDON, June s.—England is a nation of bell-ringers. There are more than 25.0C0 of these men employed by churches aH over tjhe country to toll out the calls which bring people to worship on Sundays.

first-hand contact—they will learn more about the great country in which they live. v Thrown a great deal on their own resources—yet not too much—they will develop a poise and self-reliance they could get in no other way. The theory of books will become the actuality of fact. Each night they will sit down and write a letter telling what they have seen and what they have done in that particular day. And tw r o proud parents at home will read and envy and prepare perhaps to set forth on a similar adventure. It seems altogether natural and logical that the Ford was selected, for an extended trip of this kind. Alwtys it has been

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associated with dependable, economical, useful transportation. For more than a quarter of a century it has been both pioneer and leader. Years ago it was the first automobile ever seen in many of the sections the boys will visit. Today it is a part of the lives and activities of millions of men and women. So universal is its service that people everywhere look upon it not only as an automobile but a national institution. It is the symbol and the expression of high value at low price, unique manufacturing methods, and higher wages for American workmen. Many thousands of miles of use will confirm your first impression of quality and give you a feeling of pride and satisfaction in the performance of the Ford. You will come back from the long trip convinced that it is “a s*eat car.**

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