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The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1926-06-04
KILLING THE PRIMARY

II is rather unfortunate that party which is oeu-
icated to government by the people should take 30
reactionary stand to pledge itself to destroy 'no
URINARY, as a means of nominating candidates
It is true that the primary has its faults ana It's
difficulties.
= is true that it has often produced candidates
for office who we're highly Objectionable.
II is true that the cost OF running Tor ola'e
Office is such as to cause many men OF merit ~
pause before dedicating themselves to pubic
But it is also true that bad as 1t is. 1t Is mucn
better than the convention system winch roos 'no
voter of any voice whatever in the naming OF can
didates
The best argument for the primary Is the Amos
phere and the conduct OF the TWO StaIe oon'
which have just been held.
They were alike IN their essentials. ms Gun
duct of the delegates did not differ
Those conventions brought to thisg city a tnou-
sand men and women for each gathering ana OF
that thousand, not more than dozen IN either s!ouP
had voice an expressed OPINION
These conventions were comparatively unin1-
nortant in that they dealt with minor state omces
and control of the party machinery
The direct primary was adopted not only IN tnis
but in other States when professional pocians hau
SO obtained control political parties that the voter
had no voice in the selection OF his ohclals
Selfish interests much more easily contfoi
conventions than they all the voters
The primary is loaded gun, not often used II Is
true hit always there as defense against outrage
and violence to the public conscience
The Republican party did not quite have the
nerve to go the lengths to which the Democratica
party pledged itself but it will offer no protest II the
Democratic party taking leadership starts an effort
to abolish the primary system
To kill the primary means that the government
Of this State will be delivered without hope of de-
Tense to bipartisan group of politicians who viii
manipulate the conventions in every city and county
and in the State.
The faults of the primary should have been cor
rected and an effort made to make the will OF the
people easier, not harder, Of expression.
pledge to make independent voting possible
and easier instead of impossible would have been
more in keeping with the spirit of the party of JEFF
ferson.
In an hour when that fine slogan "back to the
Constitution" was being raised, it is unfortunate
that it is proposed to take from the people the
one weapon defense against professional control
of parties.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1926-06-04
BRITAIN ALSO ASININE

Charles Edward Russell Socialist candidate for
Governor of New York in 1902 and writer yester-
day was refused permission to land in England, a
United Press cable announced last night
Why they would not allow him to land, nobody
seems to know. The British officials the dispatch
said, declined, to comment.
This gives us the best little chance to cackle
we've had SINCE we don't know when Because
Russell was barred? To the contrary. But because
our country has done SO many things in that line
lately that we can't help being glad that Britain
be chuckle-headed sometimes, too
Charles Edward Russell barred out of England.
Charles Edward wouldn't harm fly. He is one
of the gentest men, and while he may have his own
ideas about things, as every one should have, not
one Of them would hurt the smallest meanest Of
Gods creatures.
Maybe Britain is paying us back for barring the
Countess Cathcart or their communist member Of
Parliament, Saklatvala, or something.
Funny isn't it, what absolutely asnine things
can happen. s.astsas 7g4sas
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WHERE MEN GROW YOUNG

Have you ever heard of Cardin Hill? 1t rears
above Hannibal Mo-, overlooking the Mississippi
River, and on it they have just unveiled bronze.
lfesize statue of two bad boys and presented it to
the youth of the United States.
You probably know those boys. They never
lived in the sense that they "felt dawn and
set glow" They dwelt in the pages of books, but
they live yet in our hearts eThey are, to those Of
us who have spent happy hours laughing at them
and perhaps crying little over .them-the eternal
symbols of American boyhood.
Tom Sawyer and Huck Finn! What finer me-
mortal could be erected to Mark Twain than this
statue of his imperishable characters in the very
town where the famous humoristauthor spent his
own boyhood days? ~
On Cardiff Hill, meeting place OF Tom Sawyer
and his gang; where Tom fought and played and
dreamed Of finding buried treasure; where the moon
one night looked down on murderous knifethrust
by .Injun Joe" and two small boys hurried away
from the graveyard as fast as frightened legs
would carry them.
Mark Twain never forgot that hill. In "Tom Saw
YER" he says. 1.-THE locust trees were In bloom and
the fragrance Of the blossom filed the air. Cardiff
HILL beyond the village and above it, was green with
vegetation, and 1t lay just far enough away to seem
a Detachable Land dreamy, reposeful and inviting"
In his autobiography, written long years after
"Tom Sawyer" he says, "I can remember the drowsy
through the open window from the distant Boy Para
disc Cardiff HILL"
Mark Twain himself once through the viii
age streets Of Hannibal played on the little islands
in the Mississippi that to Tom and Huck were pirate
lars, and romped in barefoot abandon. amid "drowsy
summer sounds" on Cardiff HILL For Twain, we
know now was writing about himself when he wrote
about Tom Sawyer. Toms sweetheart. Becky
Thatcher present at the unwilling Of the statue
eLa i- NHreY o,,roL croz
Detachable Land Boy Paradise That. says
Twain, was Cardiff Hill. But think Of the delectabe
land and the boy paradise that he opened to millions
when he wrote tom Sawyer" and "Huck Finn" and
immortalized the finest thing EARTH the bad boy.
For Tom and Huck. you know, were bad. Not
malicious Just plumb michievous and wholesomely
real Huck smoked corncob and Tom rsassed" his
Aunt Polly and fought with the village boys. Tom
played hockey and Huck wouldn't go to school at
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Times Readers
Voice Vices

To the Editor of The Times:
Jim watson's apology for Coolidge
on account OF his stand on the World
Court places Jim alongside the short.
tailed shrew mouse that in a con-
fiding manner besought his fellow
shrews not to be unduly impressed
with the majestic stride and stature
of the elephant that had just
passed; assuring them that these
we're inherited traits, and. but for
these would be as small and In
significant as they. II Watson
should be selected this fall. as he
should not be. 1t will demonstrate
that surprising number OF Hoosier
Republicans are suffering political
strabismns. They will not be view
ing things in their true proportions
and prospective. There is wide
spread impression abroad in the
State that Jim was for the court
himself till he received the five or
more letters from organized pro-
pagandists. Here's believing the re-
turns In = November will show he
jumped from the frying pan into the
fire. E. P. MCASLIN
1901 Dewey Ave.
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MARRIAGE A LA ADVICE

Berlin is about to launch interesting expert
ment in the form of municipal marriage advice
bureau e
Both the married and the aboutto-be-married
who feel the need of guiding hand may call at the
bureau for advice.
In the main, it will serve the eugenists as its
prime purpose is to deter the physically and mentally
unfit from the holy state.
very fine ideal if anyone goes to the bureau.
We have ever observed that when swain and dam
oze desire to marry they will, regardless of all the
reasons why they should not for the betterment Of
the race.
Although the results and effects of marriage are
social in the larger its inception ever seems to
remain purely personal none-ofyour-busness affair."
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with comedy by all three and somel
good singing and dancing by the
women.
Gautier's Dogs feature tricks by
these very intelligent animals and
features a dog dancing the charles
ton. a dance must be pretty popu-
lar when the animals take It up.
Bill includes a photopiay His
Masters Voice" and a News Reel
At the Palace today and tomorrow.
(By the Observer)
other theaters today offer: The
Haunted House" at English's; THE
Goose Hangs High" at Keith's
Corinne at tho Lyric; "Wet Paint
at the Ohio; wild Justice at the
Uptown; Wages For Wives" at
Colonial; Torrent at the Apollo;
"Ransons Folly" at the Circle; THE
Checkered Flag" at the Isis.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1926-06-04
SOLOMON WAS A PIKER

Five men have decided that one hundred twenty.
five million people should be satisfied with prohibit
ton IL stands.
1--WE believe the Eighteenth Amendment to be
morally right and economically right, declare these
five wise men, members of the committee of the Sen
ate appointed to consider the proposal for modifca-
tion of the prohibition law u
"a national referendum" opine the wise men, sis
not provided for and tits belief it was not the
intention Of the trainers ofihe Constitution that
national referendum should ever be attempted
Could Solomon himself have been more wise
than these sagacious Senators
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many; too much Wall Street; too
much of a wet complex; too much to
forget OF what occurred in the 1924
convention. none of which represents
a great difficulty by itself, but which
forms a handicap that would be
hard to overcome.
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The South would fall in line, of
course. because the. South can be
depended on to fall in line for any
thing that bears the Democratic la
bel. but the West wouldn't, and 1t
Is in the West that the battle would
be lost or won.
The center of population is now in
Indiana, which means that the CEN
ter Of impulse and movement is
there also.
This Nation is no longer dom
mated by the Atlantic seaboard as It
once was, but by the prairie States.
the grain belt and the automobile
business.
That is something which politi.
clans cannot afford TO disregard.
Il II :
A New Yorker is not barred from
the presidency or even a Vermonter,
as Coolidge proves, but the West
will be served and any kind of a
type and origin that does not ap-
peal to ii is barred.
Governor Smith is Of the city. not
the soil, the greatest city, the city
Of Wall Street and Tammany Hall.
Besides that, he was leader OF
one Of the factions which plunged
the Democratic party into the worst
row IT has had since the Civil War,
and II he is handicapped by that
memory, so Is his opponent, William
G. McAdoo. 1t is unfortunate that
two such able leaders should have
done so much to make themselves
unavailable through an excess OF
bias, but it is fact that the Demo
cratic party would only be making
another mistake If they refused TO
recognize 1t as such.
T.
To mention only two possibilities.
Richie has made a good Governor
of Maryland and Donahey is as good
a Governor of Ohio as Smith Of New
York.
The Democratic party does no.
lack timber, but people are always
saying It does lack the capacity to
pick and prune its timber.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1926-06-04

A Democratic Opening
The Mans the Thing
Al Smiths Handicap
Two Governors
By M. e. Tracy


While Congress is stalling ovei
the French debt, farm relief
migratory birds. Muscle Shoals, anC
some other things and while thu
White House spokesman is trying t
convince himself that there isn't &
surplus In the treasury or IL there
is, there ought not to be, let's tall
politics.
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Obviously the Democrats have
their chance, much brighter
chance than any one would have
supposed two years ago.
Lack of leadership in, the Coolidge
Administration or more accurately
perhaps, its subordination to bis
business and brilliant influence has
created an unfavorable impression
throughout the country.
The Republican party is torn with
dissension and discord. Administra-
ton support is almost equivalent to
defeat for primary candidates.
Things have grown so bad that
President Coolidge has been warned
not to come out for Butler in Mas
sachusetts.
If Cummins beats Brookhart in
Iowa, the Administration can con
slider itself lucky and If he does. the
election of another Democratic
Senator from that State next fall Is
more than possible.
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But II the Democrats have such
an Unexpectedly fine chance, what
are they going to do with It?
Are they going to be content with
an accidental and temporary triumph
or will they make use OF 1t to re-
construct Ehe party and give the ne,
ton what IT has lacked so long.
What happens this year will tell
much of the story.
What happens this year win large
ly determine the program for 1925
and more important still, the presi
Dental nominee
The program is essential. OF
course, but the nominee counts for
more.
1t is not platforms that we really
vote for, but men to make them and
carry them out.
If the Democratic party doesn't
pick good candidate for 1928 It can
frame the best platform in the world
and still not get anywhere.
II 1t does pick. good candidate
1t can run him on most any kind OF
platform that is safe and sane.
So we come to 1names-Al Smith
Of New York; Richie of Maryland
Donahey Of Ohio; Jimmy Cox, Nc.
Adoo. etc.
4 Il =
OF all these Governor Smith Is
the most outstanding figure. II the
convention were held tomorrow, he
would go into 1t with the largest
flock Of delegates.
He has made a fine chief executive
for the largest State in the Union,
,s popular in the East and Is liked
most everywhere for his fearless
progressiveneas.
|. He has come up from the ranks,
a splendid type Of self-made man.
am great admirer of his pluck,
ability and. above all else, good COM
mon sense.
But in my opinion he is not the
right man for the Democrats to NOM
mate If they expect to win. Too
much New York; too. much Tam
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all. But in their hearts they clean and fine, and
we love them.
), Can it be that you are one Of those who have
never read Tom and IIuck? Never got lost with Tom
and Becky in the cave? Never foated down the
Mississippi with Huck on a raft? Never laughed at
lovable old Aunt Polly as she tried to discipline the
irrepressible Tom? Never listened to Hucks philos-
ophy?
deed unfortunate. But it is not too late. BY all
means run to the library and borrow Huck and Tom.
Better STILL buy the books and read them over and
over Read them ami never grow Old Read them
and go back to the boy paradise back to the fra
GRANGE of locust blossoms on Cardiff Hill. close 10
the Father of Waters"
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FABLES IN FACT

HE WAS A STRANGER IN
TOWN AND WAS HAVING A.
TOUGH TIME FINDING THE
STREET HE WAS LOOKING FOR,
PERIOD IT so HAPPENED THAT
HE CAME TO A CORNER WHERE
FOUR DIFFERENT STREETS
BRANCHED OUT AND HE GOT,
so FUSED TRYING TO DECIDE,
WHICH ONE TO TAKE COMMA
HE TIER UP TRAFFIC PERIOD
A COP TOLD HIM WHERE TO
HEAD IN PERIOD
downright, 1926, NEA Service. Incl
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THE
VERY IDEA!
By Hal Cochran

By Hal Cochran
The new hotel proprietor wished
to take worthy precautions against
fire-so he insured the place for
twice what 1t was worth.
Maybe the beauty OF a fish is only
I'm deep.
Any husband who holds the pursel
strings feels that there is no suchV
thing as the sweet buy and buy.
The coppers in the cellar peelxed
And watched some fluid bubble.
The man intended brewing wine,
But only brewed some trouble.
You may have your favorite kind.
but the best thing to put into pies
is your teeth.
The more you contract debt, the
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1926-06-04
LIES. TERM DOUBLED

NEW YORK, June 4.-Because
Joseph Bravata lied in telling Judge
Taylor that a robbery for which be
had just been sentenced to % years
Imprisonment was his first offepse,
the Judge doubled the penalty.
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Questions
and
Answers

You can get an .answer to any cues
ton OF fact or information by writing
to The indianapolis Times Washington
Bureau. 1922 New York Ave. Washlng-
ton, d. c.. inelosing cents y n stSaiitpIi
advice Cannot be given nor can extended
research be undertaken. All other
questions will receive personal reply.
Unsigned requests cannot DC hlsWeFoo~
All letters are onhdential.--Editor.
How does the Trans-Andine Rail.
way tunnel between Valparaiso and
Buenos Aires In South America COM
pare with the Simplon tunnel
through the Alps?
The Trafis-Andlne tunnel Is nve
miles long and 10,4S6 feet above sea
level. The Slmplon tunnel is twelve
and one.half miles long and Is tho
longest railway tunnel yet completed
How many market gardeners are
there in the United States?
About 45O, 900. This includes farm
ers who grow potatoes on a large
scale and fruits for canning.
What Is the large bird that battles
Rin-tin-tin In his latest pictures
There is a thrilling fight between
the dog and an eagle in his latess
picture 1.-THE Night cry
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The more you contract debt, the
larger II grows.
The border vidette., 1926-01-16
POULTRY DEMONSTRATIONS:

L. &c. Boggs, University ex
tension poultry man, will be. in
Santa Cruz county January ii,
IS and. 16 to give asseries-oftalks
on various subjects 'eoncerning
poultry: He is. also going I'd
give demonstrationsin> the selec
ton of'treeding stock. ->....'-.::2 =
On 14th Mr.. Boggs will be al
l.. r. Cox's ranch. .>Amado, at &c
a. %. and be will give talk ia
the Amado sehoolhohse at 1880.
The Patagonia demonstration on
the 18th, will be at Dick Rowe's
poultry plant, and the talk will
be given in the lobby Of the Com;
mercial hotel. = The demonstra
ton will be held about 10 q. N.
and the hotel meeting will be
held in the afternoon,
On January 10th a demonstra
tion will be held at Mrs. p. A.
Honnas' Sonoita ranch, at 10 a
%. and at 1:3O p. N. a meeting
will be held at the schoolhouse
to discuss poultry questions.
The border vidette., 1926-01-16
PRAIRIE DOGS ELIMINATED.

Phoenix - The prairie dog
menace has been completely
eliminated in Cochise, Graham
and Gila counties, nearly so in
Mohave county and considerable
progress toward. that end has
been made in Navajo. Apache,
Coconino, Yavapai and Mohave
counties. according to the an
nual report for 1925, being sub
mitted to the chief of the United
States bureau biologicsll survey
by D.. A.. Giichrist, in charge O:
thesbureau's rodent control work
in thepstata: s-~
> The report states that more
than,4 900, 600 prairie dogs, goph
ers and. other rodents we're ex
terminated during the year at
the surprisingly low cost of
three tifths of cent? per animal.
Gilchrist estimates that the
weight of 81, 1000 sheep or 5000
head of cattle and that the am.
cunt of livestock feed destroyed
far exceeded that which might
have been eaten by either the
sheep or the cattle.
The area of lands worked on
in the state during the year am
ounted to 538,281 acres. The
total cost of treating this area
with poison averaged five cents
an acre. It is estimated that
about s. per cent of the rodents
were destroyed. -;
:. In 1925. a total of 1924 unpaid
co'operators assisted the bureau
in its rodent control work. A
total Of 83.618;quarts of poisoned
bait was used. - This was an in
crease of 81 per cent il the mum
ber of co operators and SO per
cent in the amount of bait used
over the:preceding year. > "
The border vidette., 1926-01-16
DAiRYMEN TO MEETlN NOGALES
JANUARY le.

Word has just been received
from DR.. q. P. johnson that, due
to conference of the State Live.
stock Association and the Ma.
tional Association. meeting in
Phoenix, January IL, 13 and IA,
he will be unable to be in Noga.
les as be had planned. He will
be in the county seat on the 18Th
if nothing prevents, and the
work of testing COWS for tuber
culosis will be undertaken.
Much emphasis is put on the
eradication. of tuberculosis in
dairy cows. not only for an eco
nomic benefit to the farmer but
because q large percentage OF
tuberculosis in the human race,
especially children, is due. to the
use Of milk from infested cows.
The benefits of tuberculosis
free dairy herds are numerous.
The Individual animal and the
herd in general increase in value
according to their state Of health.
Animals from accredited herds
may be shipped anywhere with.
out further testing for a year.
Information regarding this
work may be obtained from the
county agricultural agents Office,
ia Nogales.
The border vidette., 1926-01-16
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CIRCLE. z RANCH GIVEN NOTICE
IN :'PRoGREssivE ARIZONA"

The January issue Of "progres.
.sive Arizona" published in Tue
son, contains an article on Pata
gonia's latest. enterprize, :. the
Circle z guest ranch, promoted
by the n,smeister. Ranch Com
:pauy, says, the Patagonian.
= The compaY purposes catering
to the better, class Of tourists
and vacationists from. all parts
of:the: world who, wish ITO get "a
touch of. the "wifd' and, woolfY
west" in. its natural, wildhess,.
Many. ,easterners come to. the
southwest to- enjoy their outings
each year and many sojourn. at
the guest" ranches Tor :. dude
ranches, as they are sometimes
known), where they: may relax
from the conventional habits of
their native environment, and
live for a time "ciose to nature" )"
Patagonia welcomes this addi,
tion to its is many attractions
and feels confident that it's value
will be greatly increased as it
becomes better known through
ont the country. ~. -. 49,
The ranch is under the direct
supervision of President, Carl
Zinsmeister and : Secretary Lee
G. -Zinsmeister of, the company,
who are the: type of residents
sought for by every community.
They carry optimism and enthu
siasm with them everywhere.
The border vidette., 1926-01-16

ford map of the town of Nogales,
Arizona, of record in the office
of the County Recorder of Santa
Cruz county, Arizona.
Notice is further given that,
unless last delinquent install.
ment, together with the penalty
and the costs thereon, is paid,
the whole amount of said assess.
ment will be declared due by me,
and said property upon which
said assessment is lien will be
sold at public auction in front of
the office of the City Clerk in
the City Hall building, in the
city of Nogales, Santa Cruz
county, Arizona, at 1000 o'clock
a. NJ, on Monday, January 11th,
1926.
Dated at Nogales, Arizona,
this 28th day of December, A.
D., 1925.
j. W. MACFARLANE,
Superintendent of Streets.
The border vidette., 1926-01-16
NOTICE 10 CREDITORS.

In the Superior Court of Santa
Cruz county, State of Arizona.
Estate of Benjamin Manning,
deceased.
NOTICE is hereby given by the
~ undersigned administrator
with the. Will Annexed of the
estate Of Benjamin Manning, de-
ceased, to the creditors OF and all
persons having claims against the
said deceased, to exhibit them, with
the necessary vouchers, within four
months after the first publication
of this notice to the said adminis-
traitor, at the Office of Duffy &
Robins in the Doherty building,
Nogales. Arizona. the same being
the place for the Transaction of the
business of said estate, in said
county of SAM. Oruz.
JAMES V. Robins,
Administrators with the Will An
nexed of the estate of Benjamin.
Manning, deceased. f>, = e" q. >.
Dated Nogales, Arizona, this 29th
day of December, 1925. 49, 1.2-5t