Indianapolis Times, Indianapolis, Marion County, 18 October 1940 — Page 21
FRIDAY, OCT. 18, 1940
~The Indianapolis Times
SECOND SECTION
‘Hoosier Vagabond
JEFFERSON CITY, Tenn., Oct. 18.—Have you ever heard of Tennessee's nervous goats? Well, these goats ~ are SO nervous that if you slip up behind one and yell “Boo!” he'll fall right over in a dead faint. It’s the truth, I heard about them just the other day. It sounded like a-cock-and-bull story to me. But dozens of people swore to it, some of them my personal friends. They gave me the name of the owner of these goats. And, furthermore, they claim there are several such herds scattered through the Southern states. So we came past Jefferson City to say “Boo!” at the nervous goats. We found them at the farm home of Robert V. James. Mr, James is a friendly young man who has made a hobby of raising odd animals and queer chickens ever since he was a boy. He lives with his father and an aunt in a 100-year-old brick house with closed shutters, on a hilltop a mile out of town, _ “I've heard about your nervous goats, and woul like to see them,” I told him. : “We've got ’em all right,” he said. “Wait till I get my shirt on.”
An Inherited Defect
So while we waited we got a little history of the nervous goats. It seems they were first brought to iid-Tennessee around 1880, when a stranger showed up in Marshall County followed by four nervous goats and a sacred cow. This stranger stayed with a Dr. Mayberry, and did chores in trade for his keep and feed for his beloved livestock. But came spring, and the stranger wanted to go. So he sold Dr. Mayberry his four goats, took his sacred cow by her rope, and disappeared. The four nervous goats stayed on with Dr. Mayberry. And from those four have descended all the nervous goats now running around with the jitters in he Southern states. * The strain of nervousness is hereditary. It probphbly could be bred out if they kept crossing these goats with goats that are calm and composed, but ghey haven't done that because it’s fun to have a nerYous goat, .
Inside Indianapolis
/ THE COUNTY CLERK'S office seems to be the final bouncing place for many letters whose original Hestinations baffle even the alert Post Office. Some of the letters are sad little inquiries, some are pathetically touching, others downright funny. The clerks try to answer all of them, but they confess readily that some of them would tax John Kieran. Take the one that dropped in yesterday, addressed to the “Department of Domestic Relations, Indianapolis.” It was written with the blithe air of somebody asking for street directions. The writer was the representative of the sociological class of the high school in Wood, S. D., and this is what she wanted to know: 1. Indiana’s marriage, divorce and education laws. . Number of unemployed. . Percentage of white population, . Percentage of rural population. . Number of criminals. . Birth and death rates, . Whether there is a court in Indiana which handles only divorce cases. 8. Increase or decrease in population, 9. Extent of poverty and pauperism. " The clerk who answers letters at Mr, Ettinger’s pffice is going to answer No. 7 in the negative, refer the inquirer to the Statutes for No. 1 and send on the letter to the Census Bureau for the rest. With his best wishes for a white Christmas,
Washington PITTSBURGH, Oct. 18.—On this trip I fell in with gh even-tempered utility man who was able to discuss the Roosevelt Administration without choking so 1 took advantage of the opportunity to find out why he ghought business would be better under Willkie than under Roosevelt. He was able to talk coherently and to give a calm appraisal. He
made an honest effort to answer the question, and because he was
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honest, his answer was not as con- -
clusive as I knew he would have liked it to be. He is for Willkie, so much so that he won't allow any of his utility employees to wear Willkie buttons. “We don’t want to hurt Mr. Willkie's chances,” he explained. This utility man mentioned that within a few weeks he would begin a rather large addition to his plant. A Repubfican friend who was present playfully cautioned him yot to announce that until after election. It is not being announced for some time, although the expansion will be undertaken regardless of whether Willkie is elected—for the, simple reason that the business justifies an addition. That pointed at something I had in mind, namely that businessmen expand when they see a chance to make money, even if a Roosevelt is in the White House, and they refuse to expand when they can’t see profits ahead, even though a good friend like Hoover might as President be coaxing them to get busy and restore prosperity, as happened. a few years ago. When we become heated up in a political campaign, we forget that there are economics as well as politics,
Too Much Red Tape
The utility man discussed this point in substance as follows: «As to confidence in Willkie hringing about recovery, the point isn’t so much the laws now on the books but the way in which they are construed hy administrative officials. I am in the utility business and exect to be regulated. But often it seems to me that subordinate officials in construing the law put me to
My Day
SEATTLE, Wash, Thursday — Yesterday was another one of those days in which only the absolutely necessary time was given to work of any kind. I always find that when Anna and John and I do not meet for six months, there seems to be an endless flow of conversation that can fill up long hours of time. Visits are never long enough. We had our luncheon out on
the terrace with the children, who came home from school with just
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enough time to eat and rush back .
again. When they came home in the afternoon, they insisted that we all go out for a ride in. the new boat. Curtis proved his efficiency as a sailor by helping to. cast off and tie up and by doing much of the steering. I could not help thinking how pleased and interested his grandfather would be to find him developing this ability with boats. Curtis even told me much about the skforeline and weather conditions. 1 am sure that charts will soon be as engrossing to him as they are to my husband. Even Johnnie, at a year and half, has learned to stand up in the cockpit quite steadily, so that he has -almost a sailor’s roll in his walk. On our return, Curtis showed me the gardens. - his new home is certainly a grand place for the children because the land about it gives them an u x *
“fessed that she comprehends none of it.
By Ernie Pyle
Robert James has had about 15 in his herd. But he sold four to the University of Tennessee for experimenting, and recently has sold five or six individual goats just to people who wanted to have a nervous goat around. He got $5 each for them. His own herd is now down to five. The goats seem to be normal in all respects save this susceptibility to sudden fright by human beings. Lightning or gunfire doesn’t ‘bother them. Dogs either. But if they're grazing near a barn, and a man comes suddenly around the corner, the whole herd just keels over instantly, and their legs get rigid, as though they had epilepsy.
Just One of Those Days
«Now we'll go out and see how they work,” Mr. James said. The five goats were grazing in a pasture near the house. They walked away unconcernedly.as| we approached. Suddenly Mr. James started running at them, and clapping his hands. And what do you think happened? ’ My friends, not a thing happened. You never saw such nonchalant goats in your life. Those goats were absolutely philosophical: They just turned around and stared as if to say, “Why you acting that way, you crazy man?” Then Mr. James ran up behind the old billy goat and yelled “Boo!” at him. Whereupon the old billy turned arourfti and lowered his head and waved his horns. He was just exactly as nervous as Joe Louis on a lazy afternoon. “Some days they work and some days they don’t,” said Mr. James. But he was persistent. He chased the goats, he yelled at them, he did everything you could think of to make them nervous. They remained utterly stoical. Finally Mr. James grabbed one and threw him down real hard. The goat did then sort of stiffen up. His legs got rigid, and he seemed unable to move. But it lasted only a second, and then he was up on his feet and off like the wind. : That's the only manifestation of heebie-jeebies we got out of those goats all afternoon. I ran and yelled and clapped my hands till they were sore. With each failure I got more and more nervous. And when at last we gave up, the goats grazed placidly away, while I personally was in such a state of complete nervous debility that I had to be led to the car.
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(And “Our Town’)
The Principle of the Thing
Gallup
But Roosevelt Still Holds Big Margin
election will not be won until election day. Today’s survey is the fifth complete Institute poll on the Presidential race since the campaign began. The trend since the first
one has presented a consis-
tent picture of Democratic gains up to now. That trend is shown in Mr. Roosevelt's electoral vote score: Aug. 4, 227; Aug. 25, 247; Sept. 20, 453; Oct. 6, 499, with today's total of 414 showing the first drop. Taken at face value, the results indicate a comfortable lead for Mr. Roosevelt in the homestretch. But there are certain factors which make his position precarious. Among the' 37 states in his column, there are eight in which his lead over Mr. Willkie is only 4 per cent or less in popular strength (see table). These states account for 129 electoral votes. - The remaining 29 states where Mr. Roosevelt is leading by. more than 4 points (that is, more than 54 per cent), total 285 electoral votes, or barely more than the 266 required to win, Mr. Willkie’s gains in the current poll demonstrate how a shift of but a few percentage points can throw a large number of electoral votes to one candidate or the other. Interestingly enough, the most
PARK BOARD MEMBERS, it turns out, definitely don’t like the budget. It's not the money, mind you, put the principle of the thing. It all came out yes-| terday when Board member Gertrude V. Brown con-|
«I think I ought to be frank,” she said, “I don't understand this budget of ours.” The other members hastened to reassure her. «I wouldn't worry about it,” soothed Albert H. Gisler. “Nobody does at first. It has to grow on you.” “He's right,” said Jackiel W. Joseph, “it takes time.” i «I know,” replied Miss Brown, “but there ought to| be a few principles out of all that procedure that the, average person could understand.” Mr. Joseph, Mr. Gisler and Paul E. Rathert pond- | ered a minute. They could find no principles. “I'll tell you,” said Mr. Joseph finally, “go over to the State House and look up the Park Law. Then look up the Budget Law. If you understand what it’s all about then, you'll know more than the rest of us.” “And that's a fact,” added Mr. Rathert—a little sadly, too.
Adding to Your Education
MORE THINGS YOU didn’t know about Indianapolis: That there are 25 furniture factories here ., « « That we have 45 manufacturers of electrical equipment. . . . That we have the world’s largest maker of shoe polishes. . . . That this is the home of 37 insurance companies . . . That we have 735 wholesale establishments doing an annual business of more than $306.000,000. . . . And almost 4800 retail stores, which, in turn, turn over abut $140,000,000 a year. .., Some punkins, eh?
By Raymond Clapper
needless extra work. My business runs a gross of $10,000,000 a year, yet we spend $125,000 a year in compiling government reports. The smallest operation cannot be undertaken until somebody makes a trip to Washington, If we wanted to finance a $500 pole drop on one of our lines, we would have to spend $2500 in red tape. If you have different men in those subordinate positions, men who are sympathetic instead of hostile, much of the expensive and largely needless annoyance could be eliminated and busi-| nessmen would find it worth while to undertake some, smaller activities that are now more bother and ex-| pense than they are worth.” The question was raised whether it would be possible, if Willkie became President, to make a complete change in the personnel at Washington, down to the subordinates who do the actual okaying of the papers.
New Attitude Desired
“Of course, he couldn’t change the entire personnel,” my utility .friend replied, “but I think the subordinates often take their slant from the men at the top. If their superiors are hostile and suspicious, that attitude filters down the line. A change of attitude at the top would quickly be reflected down through the lower ranks of subordinate officials. Businessmen would feel they were getting a better break and would feel more like taking a chance.”
In short, he didn’t have any very serious complaint! except about an attitude of mind. He said nothing that couldn't be met by a shift of feeling at Wash-| ington from the “kick ’em around” attitude, which, began in 1932, to one of regarding these private busi-| nessmen as people who are now suddenly needed to help make defense go. There is so much business for | everybody in this defense program, directly and in-| directly, that Roosevelt would find it relatively easy to,
~ sweeten up a sizable portion of these people.
It probably wouldn't make very much difference one way or the other in the volume of business activity, because that is being shoved up toward the roof py the enormous defense orders. But it would reduce the) volume of bellyaching and give us more of a sense | of national unity, It would tend to reduce the amount of sharpshooting and would generally tone up the morale of the country, and that is truly important now, more so than ever before.
By Eleanor Roosevelt
opportunity to grow vegetables and flowers and to play games of various kinds quite safe from the passing traffic. In the evening, they showed me the movies of Johnnie's first attempts at walking. There is no doubt about it, every family should have a movie camera to record passing events and stages of development. These films provide entertainment and an interesting record for the future. I find considerable interest in the West on the part of various groups of women, who are already forming organizations on a purely voluntary basis to serve in home defense. / I think these groups will also ihcrease the knowledge of community conditions and help to coordinate all the service agencies to meet community needs. The number of women co-operating in work for the community will be so much increased that more and better work can be done in many ways. Tacoma, Washington, has a plan under the local government which includes both men and women. Perhaps, some day the national Government will have time2 to think of using the total man and woman power of the nation on a much wider scale than can be covered by any military organization. I am interested to find that here on the coast, as well as in the East, there is considerable interest in the radio concerts given by young N. Y, A. orchestras. . I am spending the morning today catching up with the never-ending flow of mail. This afternoon we are going down. to a reception for Democratic
officials, candidates and party Workers, .
Republican state today is not in New England, the only place where Mr. Landon carried any states last time. It is a middle western state — Nebraska — where Mr. Willkie leads with 58 per cent. As a matter of fact, Nebraska seems to be the geographical center of defection from the New Deal. The states closely surrounding it tend to be more Republican than the states farther away. It is noteworthy that the five states which shifted to Mr. Willkie since the last poll are all located in the mid-West area of which Nebraska is, geographically, the western buttress. More than twice as many states showed a gain for Mr. Willkie in today’s poll as showed a gain for Mr. Roosevelt. The largest Willkie increase was in Illinois—5 per cent. There were Republican gains of 4 per cent in nearly a dozen other states, including Michigan, Iowa, Indiana, South Dakota, Wisconsin and Indiana.
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How to Interpret Gallup Polls
TATE-BY-STATE figures released by the Institute have been subjected to so many fantastic interpretations, that the following facts are recited here as a common sense guide to survey methods, and to the figures released today. Modern polls make use of completely different methods from ‘those employed -by the Literary Digest and other “straw vote” systems. They are based upon principles of scientific sampling, employed for many years in the. fields of medicine, engineering, and all the social sciences. The
ALERT WOMAN TRAPS YOUTHS
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Gets License Number of]
Holdup Car, Sergeant " Seizes Pair.
A policeman’s daughter and an alert sergeant were responsible for the capture of two robbery suspects; after the gunmen’s attempted holdup in a north side grocery last night. Mrs. Charles Harmon, whose husband is employed in the Standard Grocery at 3839 N. Illinois St., was sitting in a parked car waiting for him. : a She saw a youth enter the store and point a gun at Mrs. Carlena Brown, the cashier and force her to lie on the floor while he attempted to pry open the locked cash register, Gets License Number
When Mr. Harmon came out of a refrigerator, the gunman fled and joined a companion waiting outside in a car and drove away. : Mrs. Harmon's father, Patrolman George Baker, once had told her that if she ever was near the scene of a crime involving a car to get the license number. ‘She did and it was radioed to alf police cars. A few minutes later, Sergt. Charles Hodges, sitting in his cruiser at Northwestern Ave. and Fall Creek Blvd., saw the car pass. He followed. When the car stopped for a traffic light at 10th and West Sts, Hodges got out, walked up to the side of the car and, with gun drawn, ordered the youths to get out. - They were from Toledo, O. and were identified by their draft registration cards. They are” held on vagrancy charges under $5000 bond each.
CARMEN ‘FIRST OPERA’ ON SALE TOMORROW
The first of 12 recordings to be released by the Indiana music appreciation campaign—Carmen—will go on sale tomorrow morning at 245 N. Pennsylvania St. The opera is being offered in a
Poll S
Leading With 54°, to 50%
Leading By More Than 54%,
GALLUP POLL'S POLITICAL BOX SCORE TODAY Willkie
Roosevelt
Leading With 54%, to 50%
Leading By More Than 54%
~ ELECTORAL VOTE AND STATE
3 Vermont .....,;54% 5 Maine 53 14 Indiana 53 29 Illinois 52 19 Michigan 52 11 1lowa ......... D2 12 Wisconsin ....
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51
93 Electoral Votes
" ELECTORAL VOTE AND STATE
7 Nebraska if 4 North Dakota. 4 South Dakota . 9 Kansas ......
H8 x 57 57 55
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24 Electoral Votes
ELECTORAL VOTE AND STATE
54% 54 53 53 52 52 52 61
Massachusetts Minnesota .... N. Hampshire. Missouri ...... New York .... Ohio hese vb Wyoming .... Colorado
17 11 4
47
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129 Electoral Votes
condensed version, consisting of three dowble-faced 12-inch records.
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Total Electoral Votes . . Roosevelt No. of States. . . . . . . . Roosevelt 37, Willkie 11
414. Willkie 117
laws of probability—first set out by Bernoluui in 1713—are used as a guide in determining the number of persons to be interviewed. Not until five years ago were these modern principles of sam- - pling employed in the study of public opinion. Since this time
‘they have been applied weekly by
the American Institute of Public Opinion. During this period trends of public opinion have been measured and reported in the case of hundreds of political, so-
cial and economic issues.
The accuracy of this work in reporting the trends of public opinion on every major issue of this period—whether it be adn conscription, sit-down strikes, the Supreme Court proposal, the embargo issue, the Towsend plan—is on record for any or all to examine. It is a record which should convince the most confirmed skeptic. : 2 x Whe polls making use of modern sampling methods ever go wrong in forecasting elec~ tions? The answer is obviously “yes.” Just as they will likely be right ninety-five times in a hundred when properly used, they may be wrong the other five times. Forecasting an election presents special problems which cannot as yet be approached scientifically.
The most important one is the vote “turnout.” If the United States had a law, such as Belgium and Australia have, which requires every adult to vote, the forecasting of elections would he greatly simplified, and the errors held to an extremely small per cent. But since the number of adults who actually go to the polls’ varies between 10 and 90 per cent, one of the great problems is to try to determine the number and political persuasion of those who will ac-
‘tually take the trouble to vote on
election day. The weather on election day has an important influence on the turnout of the two major parties. Political machines are more effective in some cities than in others in getting eut the vote. And no one has yet invented a fool proof way of predicting the amount of vote buying and other forms of corfuption which may. enter into an election. These factors—entirely outside the province of sampling—help increase the differences between election results and poll results. : The accuracy of any poll which aitempts to forecast am election can be judged best by its record. From a scientific point of view the state-by-state error is the best
fie Ernest K. Lindley
Biographer of
' President Roosevelt
Willkie Favors Britain, but
Tries to Win Appeasers, Too
HEN he made it in his acceptance speech, Henry A. Wallace’s identification of Willkie's ba iy a men seemed to many, including this column, o be grossly unfair. After all, Willkie was the only prominent candidate for the Republican
other things, a victory over the forces of appeasement in the Republican Party. . Yet there never has been any doubt that Roosevelt's defeat is earnest= ly desired by the members of the Triple Alliance. His opposition to them has been proved; Will- . kie’s has not. His skill and courage in Me, Lindley dealing with them have been proved; Willkie’s have not. He has become
| throughout the world the great-
est living symbol of democracy. Throughout the world the defeat of Roosevelt would be regarded as a rejection of the symbol by which the country is best known to the peoples of hoth the dictator states and the surviving re= publican or democratic states. "Even so, we are electing a President to suit us. What the dic tator states think of our choice should not be given. too much consideration. On. the positive side, what our neighbors in the Western Hemisphere think is more important. Roosevelt stands for a new policy of Western Hemisphere solidarity—a solidarity achieved by the collaboration of free nations, regardless of their inherent power, not by domination of the most powerful. Even though Willkie should conscien-
- tiously pursue the same policy, a
period of uncertainty, perhaps detrimental to our interests, would ensue. [4 » » HAT the nations which are fighting the dictator states think of our -choice is more important that what the dictator states think of it, But the prime test remains our decision with &
nomination who had outspokenly favored aid short Britain. That was one of the chief reasons many him. His nomination was among | ?
ckers with the forces of appease=
of war to Great Republicans favored
view to our own national intests. ; Now comes Col. Lindbergh again, asserting, in effect, that we have no interest whatsoever in
the outcome of the wars now |
raging across the Pacific and Atlantic; denouncing the policy of
to the members of the Triple Allance. . : It is a far cry from saying that we should not engage in war on the continents of Europe and Asia, to saying that we have no interest in the outcome of the struggle. : \ sa 8 - O Lindbergh “the effort that should have been devoted to the welfare of our own Nation has spread ineffectively over the difficulties of other parts of the world.” Against whom are we arming? Against Great Britain? On the day of Lindbergh’s radio broadcast, Willkie touched on the. same theme: Roosevelt will lead us into war. I won’t. Willkie dealt in innuendo rather than direct accusation. Being on record for maximum aid to Great
Britain short of war—which is all Roosevelt is on record for—he
, could not go further. The speech,
nevertheless, reflected his desire to have and to hold the appeasement vote. : Willkie comes into the home stretch supported by the elements who either favor the Grand Alliance or say that we have no interest in the outcome of the present wars. More important, in his own eagerness—perhaps one should say desperate search—for votes, he goes as far toward satisfying- these elements as his own past utterances will permit. This may be smart politics—although that is open to doubt. Af any rate, Wallace's acceptance speech acquires. more substance than it seemed ‘to have when it was delivered.
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way of judging accuracy. In 1936, the Institute had an average state error of 6 per cent. With experience gained since 1936 in many elections, the error has been reduced to .an average of about 4 per cent. In some elections the error has been larger than 4 per cent, in others less. But the average in 13 elections. has been slightly less than 4 per cent. This can mean, of course, that in a close election a poll using the most approved methods can be on the wrong side. Therefore no claim of infallibility is made now or ever will be made by the Institute for its reports.
» ” ” VERY student of public opinion knows the volatility of public opinion, particularly under the impact of events such as those reported in the press today. The election, for this reason, will not be won this “year until election day. No poll can do anything but report sentiment as of a given date. Today's report is therefore not to be regarded in any sense as a final forecast. Common sense dictates that in interpreting today's figures, full allowance be given to the “probable error” in the results—which recent experience would indicate to be about 4 per cent. Any state which is held by either candidate by 4 per
WALLACE SEEKS
OHIO FARM VOTE
Appeals to Labor Also by
Citing Payroll Gains Under Roosevelt.
WITH WALLACE MOTORCADE {IN OHIO, Oct. 18 (U. P.).—Henry | Wallace, Democratic candidate for | Vice President, opened his cam- | paign in Ohio today with a bid for | faymer and labor votes. His itinerary takes him by auto|mobile from Cincinnati a to Great Britain and, hostility (Dayton, Yellow Springs, Springfield | Urbana, Kenton and Bellefontaine where he will board his special car
for Chicago.
Informal talks were scheduled for all stops except Kenton, where he will speak tonight at a farmers’ fish fry. This speech will have a state-
wide radio network.
Mr. Wallace declared that the Roosevelt Administration has returned 9,000,000 workers to payrolls, doubled farm income and increased the annual national income from
40 to 70 million dollars.
He charged that the growth of new enterprise under Republican 1932 had been “blighted” and that the Roosevelt Administration has revived. it Republicans
administration prior to
with policies the
fought. :
“The truth about prosperity and jobs, which the Republicans have never been able to understand, is that what helps farmers and laborers—consumers -—- helps business,”
Mr. Wallace said.
“The men of finance, with little or no knowledge of business, think that lending money dnd putting men in debt is the true cause of they | were doing in the roaring Twenties until the debts came crashing down linto national ruin and panic.”
prosperity. That was what
DRAFTEE KILLS SELF
NEWPORT, R. I, Oct. 18 (U.P). —Paul Revere Chaplin Jr., 21-year-old unemployed chemist, committed suicide rather than register for the draft. “I am not going to be forced
into the Army or Navy or any other murder organization,” he had written in a note found in his pocket.
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ELECTORAL VOTE AND STATE
South Carolina 98% Mississippi ... 95 Georgia ....ce0 Alabama ..... 85 Texas .....+. 35 Louisiana 84 Arkansas 79 Florida ves 10 North Carolina 72, Virginia 71 Tennessee 69 Arizona ...... 67 Maryland .... 64 Nevada 63 West Virginia. 62 Montana ..... 62 Oklahoma .... 62 Delaware -.... 61 New Mexico .. 60 Kentucky .... 59 Rhode Island.. 58 Connecticut .. 58 Utah 58 Oregon ...... BY Washington .. 57 California .... 56 New Jersey .. 56 Pennsylvania... 55 Idaho ......:s- 9D
12 11 23 10 9 7 13 11 11
3 8
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3 8 4 11 3 3 11 4
8 4 5 8 2 6 6 4
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285 Electoral Votes
cent or less might have been carried, if there had been an elec= “tion at the time the survey was made, by the other candidate. With this fact in mind, it can be seen that, as if the period cove ered by this survey, Oct. 2 to Oct. 14, Mr. Roosevelt has a lead of more than 54 per cent in states totaling: 285 electoral votes. By the same token Mr. Willkie, for the same period, has a lead of more than 54 per cent in states totaling 24 electoral votes. In between are 222 electoral votes where the margin is so small that neither candidate can be entirely certain that he has'the lead. From these facts it can be seen that the present election campaign continues to be a close race.
Wite Made Knits Dodger of Him
ROCHESTER, Ind., Oct. 18 (U. P.).—Because Mrs. Jack G. Ko= fron, a circus sideshow performer, practiced her: art both at home and at work and then deserted her husband, he had a divorce to=day. at Mr. Kofron appeared in Fulton Circuit Court and said he didn’t mind when his wife threw knives in the sideshow, but that when she returned home angry and " flung them at him, he began‘ to get tired of it. He said that she | deserted him two years ago. Mr. Kofron told the court he had been able to dodge all the knives Mrs. Kofron pitched at him
+1 at home.
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TEST YOUR - KNOWLEDGE
1—For what product is Anaconda, Montana, famous? 2—The High Commissioner of the Philippine Islands is—? |3—Who was called “La Pucelle”? |4—“What hath God wrought’ was the first telegraph or telephons message? 5—A nautical “knot” is a unit of distance or speed? 6—With which sport was Les Darcy associated?
7—Prior to 1917, when it was cHinged to “Windsor,” what was the family name of the British Royal Family? 8—How many daughters have Presi= -dent and Mrs. Roosevelt? -
Answers
1—Copper. 2—Francis B. Sayre. 3—Joan of Arc, 4—Telegraph. 5-=Speed. 6—Boxing. 7—Saxe-Coburg-Gotha., 8§—One. ; ss 8
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