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1—Representative Millard E.
France
EWS REVIEW OF
New York's Interesting
Campaign On—Sinclair
Loses Teapot Dome.
By EDWARD W. PICKARD
NE of the most interesting of this
fall's election campalgns—per-
haps the most Interesting—formally
opened last week with meeting
of the New York Republican and
o¢ratic convent %T
the spectacular contest
portance not only to the s
to the nation, and It
political fate ot two mer
ing prom
the election,
Yorkers wil
modification
Heading th
are James W, Wadsworth,
election to the Unites
and Reg prese i
Both of
Sena
opponen
Wadsworth
4
the
fons. i outcom
}
i
{
i
nene
ne
of the
governor
aires, and
out-and-out
Sho
in the
increa
tential can
arty
r
I
sed
Wagner
worth
that
party’
1028
fed
glous
vention
ition
ernor Sn
enforce:
it is In
“The
larmed by
enforcem
tive to the
From thi
referend
matter.’
the
» polls on this
much
are now rall
was too for extreme
drys,
support of Franklin W. Christn
senator and F. W. Sew for
ernor, the candidates selected by
Antl-S8aloon league and
ganizations. The regular Republlean
leaders say they do uot fear this bolt,
but the Democrats will
complish the political destruction
Wadsworth and the election of
ner.
and they to
ving
ard gov
the
dry
other or
believe it ac
Wag
LLINOIS
cornered
ship.
of elvie reform leaders, Hugh 8.
gill of Chicago has come out as
independent Republican eandidate,
is a former state senator, a well
known educator and at present general
secretary of the National Council of
Religious Education. Though he Is
notably dry, the Antl-S8aloon league of
Illinols is strongly supporting Frank
IL. Smith, the regular Republican nom
inee, thinking him the best bet to de
feat Brennan, the wringing wet Dem:
oerat,
Democrats of Massachusetts, in
nominating Walsh for the senate and
Gaston. for governor, pronounced
strongly against prohibition, The
New Hampshire Democrats, however,
three
genntor
have a
the
is
contest
also to
¢
ior
Ma-
nn
Democrate candidate for
fair at Riverside.
convention of the
1 California
and bl
for fall
adopted a dry platform amed
» Republican adr ninistration
ure to enforce prohibition.
omplete harmony In the
et ublican convention was
the Process excluding
ontestin legations from
in h Includes Detroit,
was in favor of re-nominating
Groesbeck. The remainder
ates, almost without ex
ception, were anti-Groesbeck and the
| nomination of the ticket headed by
| Mayor Fred Green of Ionla was put
| through with ease. The Groesbeck
{s wrecked and the Green fac-
complete control in Mich-
Michi
obtained
the two
Wayne
one of
by of
del
hich
| Governor
of the deleg
machine
| tion 1s In
| gan.
HY ARRY F F. SINCLAIR and his asso-
tates et with In
m Sate nt
1 States f Ap
Sign al
Tea pot Dome
"the Since alr group,
lecigion Is sweeping
instructs the lower «
cancel the Mamr
lease
TOSDASR
respa
been a terri
Wish ' Ironwood
Mich.,, was
d skillful
disaster, at
averted by the persists
work of rescue
a cave-in in the
which killed
wns
ine three
prisoned 43 hun
ace. Work
ceased and
efforts to
They
experts of the federal bu
mines and for five days
At the end of that
43 were reached and
the surface, somewhat exhaustes
otherwise unhurt. Alr and water
had been plentiful
others
below the surf
the vicinity
wen united in
nbed miners,
cted by
rean of
bored unceasingly,
gave
were di-
168
time the brough
them
birchbark pulled from the shoring
the drift and bolled had furnis
food.
Seether IN Florida is pulling
\ gether and removing the
f the terrible
vf
while the
and mean
country
to the
must be
tropleal storm
Cruz, Mexico,
there and in
few lives were
sugar cane
damaged over an aren
hundred miles Inland.
hurricane,
people of the
to contribute
which necessarily
Another
struck Vera
great damage
vicinity, though
Banana and
were severely
estending a
y
| continuing
fund,
large
week
| did
lost,
FILLIAM T. DEWART,
i employed as a bookkeeper by
{ the late Frank Munsey, announces that
| he hea purchased the New York Sun,
the New York Evening Telegram and
| the Mohican chain of New England
| grocery stores from the Metropolitan
Museum of Art, the residuary legatee
of the Munsey estate, which ls esti
mated ns high as 240000000, The
properties In question ard valued at
£13.000,000 and will be mutualized un-
der a plan of employee control spon.
sored by Mr. Muausey.
HE Department of Agriculture an-
nounced its issuance of a citation
against the Armour Graln company of
Chiengo, charging an attempt to man.
Ipulute the market price of grain on
fron
tron
Maryland. <
“Taxt of the Marne”
Legion,
Trade
the Chicago Doard of
i calls on
why
under the
contract
fesuaedd,
irecting all market
fuse trading
pany. The hear
tober 11,
The charge of mixing
ings into the regular grain,
he citation is based, was Ins
Board of Trade di-
company was exoner
privilege
ring will be In
rye screen-
l "on which
estigated
yy the Chicago
rectors and the
an almost nlmous vote,
REMIER MUSSOLINI of
Sir Austen Chas
gecretary,
Italy
governme:
}
hese gentiem
3
{ussla nonth and were
$
that t} ers wis!
rul
But one of thelr n
Rosenwald of
behind when the m
ne Investigating on his own
interview Berlin
ission was full of
that
signs of
ie soviet
soe,
{ ACARD,
ission left and
accour
in he says the
He
any
filled bunk.
although t!
economic
ays ere are Im
vival and the soviet Vermeer
to 1 permanently
Oe
t seem
tablished, "bol
implanted In
people, there
and fear and
idation still are the weapons by
which the soviets rule.
UEEN MARIE of Ru
) left Bucharest for her
tour of the United States,
of the Leviathan
wonld occupy the presidential =
that vessel with a deck exclusis
her party. Landing at New
will go at once
President
vania railroad
posal a special
stil
shevik terrorism
the souls of the Russian
is no Individual freedom,
intin
y
i
"
ia
projected
and officials
announced that
ite on
vely for
York,
to Washington to visit
Coolidge. Pennayl-
her
her
she
she
! ‘he
has put at
train for
dis
trip
The queen has declded on the fol
itinerary: New York, Wash
Philadelphia, Baltimore, Pitts.
Detroit, Seattle, San
Francisco, Los Angeles, Denver, and
St. Louis. She will be accompanied
by her youngest daughter, Princess
HNeana, Prince Nicholas, the Infanta
Beatrice of Spain, the court alds, the
secretary of the Rumanian delegation
at London, and a Bucharest professor,
RESIDENT COOLIDGE has ap
pointed Charles Evans Hughes a
member of the Permanent Court of
International Justice at The Hague to
succeed the late George Gray. The
other Ameriean members of the court
are Elihu Root and John Dassett
Moore,
—r
HA seis
Commoner
1
By ELMO SCOTT WATSON
ITH
all
over
in
now
the primaries
of the
and the candi
dates selected by the
two parties,
interest now
Novem-
Hews
the
ber electl ar
papers
an "off year,
several Issues
lef, Ku econ-
omy, waterways,
tures. League of Nations,
foreign debt settlements
campaign expendi-
water power
devel ODI nt,
issues may
some
One more of these
bring out a big
They may have something to do
the political complexion of the next
congress and with foreshadowing the
candidates and issues of 1028 the
next Presidential campalgn year. But
to the average observer the election
in November, 1028, now looks pretty
much like a matter of “nothing to get
excited about.” Fact Is, the politicians
have had a pretty hard time of it this
year keeping the American people in-
terested in thelr (the politicians’) bus.
(of course, it is the bus
iness of Mr. Voter, but he is on
the job attending
one or two days a year, whereas the
politician is busy with it 305 days a
year). Too many distractions- North
pole flights, Helen and Suzanne
ing tennis, Aimee McPherson
her disappearing act, Gertrude
swimming the English channel,
dolph
fsh in the National
World series, and Mr,
Mr. Tunney deciding the heavyweight
title in fisticuffs. Fortunately for
them the crossword puzzie Is almost
or
vote in
ineas
foo,
doing
Ru-
lengue
Dempsey
ness than front-page endurance. But
the volee of the radio is still heard In
the land and here we are in the midst
of another football season, right ai a
Treasure Hunting
The orguiistion of a treasure hunt
depends upon whether it Is to involve
a large number of people and whether
indoors or out. For a large treastire
hunt a commiitee is appointed, which
selects the place or locations to make
the trail over which the hunters must
go. At each location is a concealed
clew, which is ambiguous and decep-
tive and whose correct interpretation
tells where the next location on the
¢ disappear
34
od
days”
much, the
the passing
ints often m
the s
Th
plore the strong-arm methods
in pome of the big cities of
remember the “bulcher
of the “good old days.”
Even In days,
jeans are sug to
| thelr politics seriously, it
quired a special effort to “get
the vote.” From the state of Missour
amusing story, printed |
Kansas City Star,
of that point:
of which
#80 aourn Cyan
used
the polis
today
boys”
might
Amer.
have taken
often re
those when
posed
out
na
illustrative
rules and regulations
jife easier for the voters
the joy out of politics,
and made It as tame a inn as
a game of croquet, grumbled vet
litielan, filling his odoriferous
with natural leaf He was
talking to some of the youngsiers on
one of the county committees who had
asked him for a lew pointers out of
tho depths of his long and somewhat
party leader.
o's you get "em
w.,” the came
on “In » days when
real 'lectioneering
“The new
about making
have taken all
cent
the
tes, and
business h
“Voter Is vi
it's nobody's
paigner went
you had to do some
to get an office some giants were de- |
veloped Men who knew what they |
wanted and how to get it
“Everybody In the county did all
thelr voting at the county seat in the |
forties—the ‘Fabulous Forties’ as]
some writer In the Saturday Evening |
trail is. The hunters continue on the
trail until the finish is reached and |
the treasure is found. The first clew
is disclosed to every one at once. A |
definite time limit ig set for the hunt,
Registration tags are often issued re
cording the time of starting and of |
reaching the different locations, where
checkers are placed to check the hunt. |
ers as they appear. If checkers are
not used, the hunters are required to
write the first two or three words of |
each clew to show that they have
properly covered the field.
shake a me
“It wasn't
old days.” But wasn’
judge from the te
temporary authorities,
more corrupt a hun
than It has ever been Take
of Illinois, for instance, Illinois
had its Senator Lorimer and
now shares with Pennsylvania
eral criticism for cam
expenditures. Governor Ford is
thority for the statement that
ing the period of 12 years (1828.1840)
neither the nor their
servants ever dreamed that govern
ment might made the instrument
to accomplish a higher destiny for the
people” and that the professional
politicians enjoyed an unparalleled
reign of graft
“Good old days”? Why not the “bad
old days"?
Pp
red
since
Years ago
the
case
which
get
align
an-
‘dur.
excessive
people public
be
Silk Lone in Use
filk Is almost as old as history,
and
three thousand years before the Chris
And as their mission then
we may
assume that the ancient merchants
The Chinese guarded the secret of
its manufacture very carefully, and
silkwormus were only brought to the
western world by being smuggled out
of China by a missionary, who con-
cealed them In a bamboo cane.