Grand Forks herald. [volume] (Grand Forks, N.D.) 1916-1955, 1922-09-27
BY FREDERIC I. flASk1N

terializing. On the contrary there
seems to be All actual conspiracy on
the part of the give-uppers to hold
out on the go-getters.
Popular Fiction and .Fallacies.
Writers of popular fiction anent
politics have been responsible largely
Tor popular fallacies as to the size of
campaign funds and the ease with
which they have been collected. The
impression has been created that fab
ulous sums have been gathered in by
party leaders. and that this has been
accomplished by processes almost as
simple as turning on a faucet. Ac-
cording to these breezy tales, the
party boss has only to decide on how
many millions he wants and then call
In the representatives of 1.-The inter-
ests" and, tell them what their re-
spective assessments will be, and the
money will be forthcoming in~stanter.
OF course. the boss has to make a
ing the interests hat they will get
their money back tenfold, but what
Is a promise to a party leader when
he wants money? Sometimes the in
~terests drive hard bargains and man
1fest a purpose to skin the public to
the bones and boil the bones for
grease, but why should a campaign
chairman worry?
The heroes Of these stories, UNI
bought n unpurchasable as heroes
should be, invariably do something
awful to the boss in the last chapter,
but in the meanwhile the boss always
gets the money. The campaign war
chests are always full to overlooking.
Just how much fiction there is in
this sort of stuff Is best attested by
the men who have agonized over the
problem, of how to raise enough mon
ey to see n committee through a cam
paign without a staggering deficit.
They will agree, irrespective Of their
party affiliations. hat the percentage
of fiction is fully equal to hat of the
purity of a well known soap.
Fred Upham, who has been treas
urer of the Republican national COM
mittee for years, in referring to that
kind of a novel, once said that some
lawful punishment should be visited
on the author.
I "The only punishment I can think
of that would fit the crime added
Mr. .Upham, would be to compel the
author to spend the rest of his life So
Hciting campaign funds. After ex-
per1encing what some of us have gone
through he could face death without
any terror OF the hereafter 3@
1t Is true that relatively large cam
patgn funds have been raised in years
past but it is to be doubted that they
have ever been as large as popular
imagination has pictured them. Rarely
have they been large enough to leave
the committees with balances in the
treasury after all the bills have been
paid. Instead. the usual thing has
been the spending Of every dollar that
has been taken in and the mourning
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be carried yer and wiped out after
the election.
There really is almost no limit to
the money that a national committee
can spend in a campaign, Ind that
without spending a dollar illegitimate-
~. Organization expenses and the
budgets for advertising and other
kinds Of publicity may be made Just
- large as h party will
permit and all such expenditures will
Withstand the most rigid scrutiny.
OF course money has been spent
%corruptly in the politics Of this counl
try, but such instances have been
comparatively are and a. a rule
have been petty and sordid, rather
than important. However, unless
present signs fail n 70 n need worry
about how the money 10 being spent
this year There isn't any to be
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q. Does the outside Of a wheel
travel faster than its axis? Please
answer the question yes or, no before
explaining7 g. N. r.
A. All questions in relation to the
speed Of different portions OF wheels
are relative matters; that IL one must
be particular to state that the speed
In relation to some definite point ID
desired. The speed of a point on the
outside of the wheel is sometimes
greater In relation to the groundHhan
the speed Of the axis and sometimes
less. The resulting speed in q given
direction is necessarily the same as
that OF the axis, a. II IL obvious that
the wheel would have to fly to pieces
III one part reached . destination be-
fore the other.
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the black mnAA NJ mrnAr II M