South Bend news-times. (South Bend, Ind.) 1913-1938, 1921-05-28
NAMING TIGERT AS
EDUCATIONAL HEAD
CAME AS SURPRISE
kentucky Republican Leaders
Greatly Disappointed in
Harding's Choice.
BY LOTIS ITDTOW.


-ieNe they have located the Big Bcr-
ia over IN the neigbborins state
OF ohio.
When Pig Bertha" spoke the
other day IL made lobe Hertc, re-
publican national committeeman for
kentucky. jump about 10 feet IN the
ar. Tie republicans members o.
congress from Kentucky executed
eeries or somerslUlts and Chesley
Searcy. chairman Of the Kentucky
republican state committee. began
war dance which is stiu going on.
The shot from Big Bertha was
fired when the name Of Or. John J.
Tgert Of Lexington Ky. was sent
70 the senate for appointment as
United States corn missioner OF ed
ucatI0n 10 succeed Philander ClaX-
ton. + bomb out az tho clear sky
could not have surprised the Ken
tuck leaders any more than that
appointment.
Who IS Or. Tigert2" they hogan
o. ask each other. and echo answer
ed Who" CertiaIy the learned
doctor had never been conspicuous
on the political firing line They had
and scraping up votes for the repub-
lican party and what the republican
party in Kentucky needs first. last
and all the time is votes For all
they knew. he might be 4 democrat,
or worse still, a prohibitiOnist.
What distressed the Kentucky
politicians the most was that when
the doctor took the hurdle and land
ed on both feet over in the patron
age preserve he out-distanced II he
did not put out Of commission a
number Of favoriues OF the Ken
lucky organ ization in his section
OF the state lobe Hert, Chairman
Searcy and the solid republican con-
gressional delegation have been try
| ing hard for months 10 get these
fair-haired ones happily bestowed in
the government service but have
been unable 20 move peg. Now
comes a man who never turned a
patronage trick in his life and with
hop. skip and a jump he passes
the whole bunch of fair-haired ia
vorites and wins the derby
Among the entries whom he left
at the quarter post were DR.. John
G. South Of Frankfort, who has been
pushed for appointment as minister
20 Panama for months by the Ken
lucky organization: Charles Kerr Of
Lexington. the organizations candi-
date for federal judge of the Pan
anna canal zone, also a candidate for
prohibition state enforcement COM
missioner and others. all residing in
the same congressional district with
DR. Tisert.
That all of the organizations
choices should be passed by and On.
Tigert. who wouldn't know politi-
cal organization from a bale Of to-
bacco. should be appointed is
phase of the situation that is getting
the goat OF tho Kentucky repub-
~~<fcan leaders.
Furthermore. as they view IT. OF
all the government jobs in America
the office of commissioner of educa-
ton is least likely 20 be OF any serv-
ice 20 the republican organization of
Kentucky The occupant OF that Of
fee is dehorned politically and has
no jobs 10 dispense 20 the faithful.
IL is not even known whether he
controls the appointment of his sec
rotary
In trying TO locate the Big Ber-
that that fired this shot into Ken
lucky. the suspicious of the Ken
lucky leaders were directed 10 the
bushes or the north side OF the
Ohio river. They are firmly con-
WINGED that the Big Bertha" is
manned by Ohio republican poll
ticians The theory on which they
are working now is as follows;
For weeks the Kentucky leaders
have been urging the appointment
OF Ludlow Petty. chief of police OF
Louisville. as federal prohibition en-
fc~cement commissioner 10 succeed
Jo}9 y. I1ramer. Orgau-zation in
fIuences in OAi0 are backing Newton
h FAIRBANKS brother of the late
vice president. Tor the same job.
Kentucky has had comparatively
little patronage and is entitled 10
more. Hence the united and aggres-
s.va boosting OF Petty was cutting
some ice. politically speaking. The
theory Of the NeGtuckians is thI-
ohio organization influences made
strlteeical vancouver b. selecting
TI-rrt as commissions Of educa-
don in order 10 put quieJus on
=
missioner. lat u silence vds the aim
the mancutcr Al~ mistake as the
app.1ut-.cat orr -G-srt has caused q
loud ana ~svC. sIoI roar.
Sen. Pomei,e ~ Ohio has uncov-
ereI verira..e hornets nest BY
coming forward ls the champion OF
The 1sJ nasal 4caccr1y cadets who
were dismissed from the academy
r-ccntv because Of failure 10 pass
. exceptionally hard test in cleo
..rv. The senator IS receiving let
rs nom various parts o. tne coun-
drawing aeide the veil on cOndi-
,-s AL 7he academy. Some OF
. letters are from boys who
.aIed On a technical examination
after having sPent Years Of hard
study al the academy. Tie most in
terez-.nc is from n man who signs
himself "A Rear AdmiraIs Brother"
H1 writes
.The method of instruction at
ANNAPOLIS is entirely wrong. About
he men are marched into a small
section room: they salute. sit down
and maintain painful rigidity until
tae period is passed. There's brief
lecture and a quiz and no midship-
man knows whether his answers are
correct or not. Every new profess
sor Is disguised at the system az
FIRST. but soon drops it as il calls
forth no exertions from himself. At
rotations no midshipman Is allowed
90 ask a question.