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The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1928-04-16
WATSON VEERS
FROM TOUCHING
SCANDAL faint
DiSmisSes Corruption With
@-SecUnd Notice in
Keynote Speech.

Senator James E. Watson is ig-
noring the Republican record of cor.
ruption in his campaign for Indi-
ana's presidential preference vote.
This stood out today as the sig
nificant disclosure of Watson's key
note address at Winchester Satur-
day, when the Senator in an expoSi-
ton of Republican principles requir-
ing one and one-half hours gave g
thirty-second glance at Indiana'S
political scandal.
Watson disclaimed party respon-
sibility for this state of affairs by
saying:
IF half dozen men in the State
go wrong, that doesn't involve the
whole political party-any more
than it would a lodge or a church
1t is something for the law and the
courts. We believe that when men
are placed in positions of trust and
responsibility they should meas
ure up.
No Mention of Hoover
GAS Burke said, you can't indict
whole party if perhaps few peo-
pie step aside the right path"
1t was Watson's first recent pub
lie utterance on the state of affairs
in Indiana.
Senator Watson made a dramatic
profession of innocence a moment
before, when he declared: II don't
know what the future holds, but
whatever comes, you may be sure,
I'll come back to you with hands
that are clean!"
Although he frequently expressed
high commentator for President
Coolidge and his Administration,
Watson not once mentioned the
name of Herbert c. Hoover, Re
publican presidential candidate, and
his rival in the May primary cleo
ton.
Two thousand persons we're
iammed into the Winchester High
School gymnasium to hear Wat
sons "home- coming" address. A
parade with bands and drum and
bugle corps wound through down.
town streets to find that every Wat
son man, woman and child in Win
chester was at the schoolhouse.
Visits Huntington Today
Mayor o. E. Ross, Randolph
County Watson manager. introduced
the Senator. Applause interrupted
Watson frequently and was pro-
longed when he declared: unless
our Nation is imperiled, I never
shall vote to send another American
boy across the ocean to war"
Senator Watson went to Hunting
ton for an address today. He plans
returning to Washington from
Huntington, but will come back to
Indiana, April "a, for a speech at
South Bend. He will stump the
Twelfth and Thirteenth districts in
northern Indiana, April Is and &c
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1928-04-16
PLANS CONFERENCES TO
REVISE SCHOOL COURSE
Meetings Will Be Held With Teach
ers Throughout State.

Plans have been outlined by Roy
P. Wisehart, State superintendent
of public instruction for conferences
with Hoosier teachers upon revision
of high school courses of study.
Heretofore the schools have been
using the courses accompanying the
text books in use, but Wisehart
plans to strike out independently
for a consistently progressive sys-
tenn.
School administrators and teach
erS have bee masked to attend the
conferences in their section Monday
at FIT. Wayne; Tuesday morning,
Peru; Tuesday afternoon, Ply
mouth; Wednesday morning, Lafay-
cite; Wednesday afternoon, Green
castle; Thursday morning, Bloom
ington; Thursday afternoon, Paol.;
Friday morning, Princeton; Monday
morning, April %, Rushville, and
Monday afternoon, Muncie.
A general conference of the edu-
Gators will then be called for May
when the ideas will be co-ordinated.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1928-04-16
DELEGATES ARE NAMED
Governor Appoints Is to Attend So
cial Workers Farley.

Governor Ed Jackson today an
nounced names of fifteen delegates
to the national conference of social
work at Memphis, Tenn, May 2 to
9. They include Amos w. Butler,
Msgr. Francis H. Gavish, Mrs. Julia
B. Tutewiler, j. A. Brown, State
charities board secretary; Rabbi
Moses M. Feuerlicht, L. H. Millikan
and Miss Isabelle Somerville, all of
Indianapolis Mrs. j. P. WATSON,
Delphi; Prof. T. F. Moran, Purdue
University, Lafayette; Prof. Donald
DuShane, Columbus; Judge E. Miles
Norton, Crown Point; William j.
Savers, Muncie; w. H. Eichorn,
Bluffton; Mrs. Florence Hinchman
Ham, KnightStown; Mrs. Florence
Riddick Boys, Plymouth.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1928-04-16
DEDICATE NEW CHURCH
Bishop Spreng breaches at Broad
way Evangelical Building.

The Broadway Evangelical Church,
at Fifty-Sixth and Broadway, was
dedicated Sunday, with Bishop
Samuel P. Spreng of Naperville
making addresses at three services,
morning, afternoon and night.
The Importance of sacrifice in
great accomplishment was stressed
by Bishop Spreng.
The unit dedicated Sunday, cost
ing 100000, was the first of a build
ing program authorized, to cost a
total of $150,000.
The Rev. E. L. Smith is pastor of
the new church, which was built as
the result of a survey conducted by
the Church Federation, which
showed that a church was necessary
in that location.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1928-04-16
COUNCIL PLANS
TO REORCANIzE,
CHOOSE LEADER
Revamped Ruling Body to
Name Committees at
Session Tonight.
HINT RAUB FOR HEAD
Is One of Two Veterans;
Must Break In Seven
New Members.

Public committee hearings on all
issues pending in council will be
suggested to the revamped city
council at its first regular meeting
tonight by Edward B. Raub Sir, and
Robert E. Springsteen, Democratic
councilmen.
Raub and Springsteen, the only
councilmen not involved in the
bribery scandals, will begin their
task Of breaking in the new city
fathers tonight. Raub, who presided
at the recent special meetings, is
expected to be elected president.
The first task of the president,
who will succeed Otis E. Bar
tholomew, resigned, will be to name
new committees. A president pro
TEN. also will be selected to succeed
Walter r. Dorsett, one of the in
dlcted Republican councilmen, who
resigned.
Hear Public Views
Raub and Springsteen believe
city officials and citizens interested
in issues pending before council
should have opportunity to present
their views at a public committee
hearing.
Formerly the old council rushed
into caucus few minutes before
the regular session and "railroaded"
the ordinance by vote of the -four
horsemen" majority faction.
I'm the past the council has not
had sufficient information on
great many questions. Everyone IN
terested in an ordinance should
have chance to present their case
to committee" Raub said.
"Such a practice would be more
satisfactory and business1ike, Civ
ing the council opportunity for ad-
vice and information, Raub de-
clared.
Abandon Old Methods
The committee system of the old
body, under which one or two mem
bers would Investigate" and
promise to kill Or pass the measure
before council, was one of the
practices of the indicted city fathers
to which many persons objected.
1t is likely that committee meet
ings will be set for 7:3O p. m, pre-
liminary to the opening of council
meetings.
Raub said he also will suggest that
there be two finance committees, as
in the past one committee has been
burdened by the number OF Or
dinapces referred for study.
Ordinarily five councilmen COM
pose a committee.
Back City Manager Plan
The council is composed of five
Republicans and four Democrats
Since its reorganization along the
lines suggested by non-partisan
civic bodies the councilmen have
pledged their support to the city
manager form and promised non
partisan administration of c1tys
BUSINESS.
Council also will have to name a
successor to Austin H. Todd, in
dicted councilman who resigned, to
serve as council representative on
the board of coming appeals.
Thirteen members of the City
Manager League, Chamber Of Com
merce and Board of Trade joint
committee which recommended the
new councilmen, will attend the
meeting tonight to voice their con-
fdence in the new body.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1928-04-16
CANDIDATE PROPOSES
TO STAMP OUT CRIME
Herman Seeger Offers Plan of List
ing All Persons Employed.

Beating burglars before they be-
gin is one of the planks announced
by Candidate Herman L. Seeger, 8O1
Bradley Ave, who is seeking the
Republican nomination for State
Senator from Marion County.
Here is how he proposes to do it.:
AN employers license and en-
ployes' registration law should be
passed. Under the act all en-
ployers would be compelled to reg
lister each month the persons en-
ployed and employees to file notice
OF change in employment.
Burglars, of course. could not
readily file the nature of their oc-
cupation, so crime might be sup
pressed at its inception"
Seeger is also for an industrial
court, conservation of natural re-
sources and a farm survey.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1928-04-16
BAD FERTILIZER IS SOLD
Farm Bureau Warns Against Agents
With Extravagant Claims.

Warning against inferior ferti-
lizers has been issued by the Indi-
ana Farm Bureau. Farmers are
cautioned to buy only from reliable
agencies, and to make sure of the
formulate before buying.
Many farmers have been defraud-
ed by listening to wild claims made
by irresponsible statesmen, the bu-
reau declares, and calls attention to
the opportunity to buy high fertf-
lizers at low price through cooper
alton with the purchasing depart
ment of the bureau.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1928-04-16
SET REZONING HEARING
Park Board to Examine Protests to
Gas Station May 3.

A public hearing on the petition
of ]. o. Spahr and Anna L. Kissel
to erect filling stations south of
Thirty-Eighth ST., on sites east of
the Monon railroad and at Kissel
Ave. intersection has been set for
May 3.
The park board declined to permit
the Indianapolis baseball club to
erect park on the site. Spahr told
the board the location was unfit for
residential use and he desired to
have it re-zoned for business. Prop
erty owners objected to the ball
park project.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1928-04-16
REBEKAHS ENTERTAINED

Sixth district officers of Rebekahs
were entertained Saturday evening
at the home of Mrs. Lillian Lock
wood, 948 Eastern Ave-, district dep
uty president of Marion County.
Cards and refreshments were on
the program.
The next district meeting is
scheduled for the afternoon and
evening, April %, at 231A S. Capitol
Ave.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1928-04-16
WILLIAMS CHAIRMAN
MarmOn Head Again in Charge of
Raising Lap Prizes.

President G. M. Williams of the
Marmon Motor Car Company will
again be chairman of the Speedway
Lap Prize Fund Committee it was
announced today. Dan V. Goodman
is vice chairman.
The committee will raise $4,000
for the $1C0 lap prizes for the
Speedway classic firm business and
industrial firms of the city. Last
Decoration Day, Driver Frank Lock-
hart collected $1,000 worth of these
prizes.
The lap prizes are donated locally
to show appreciation of the citi-
zenry for the Speedway and HIS the
effect of keeping drivers "out in
front" throughout the 500 mile
grind.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1928-04-16

pete in the Central Area contest,
to be held at the Cropsey audi
forum of the city library at 2:30
p. m, April 81.
A boy and a girl, winners of the
area competitions, will be awarded
q gold watch donated by Mrs. Anne
Studebaker Carlisle of South Bend.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1928-04-16

OF the fatal attack on Eads, that
he followed his alleged slayers from
the dance hall after ejecting them,
it being reported they caused a dis
turbance.
The trial was brought here from
Ripley Circuit Court at Versailles
on a change of venue, defense coun-
sci having filed lis af1davits sup
porting their motion for a change.
James M. Fortune, Jefersonville
lawyer, is presiding as special Judge.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1928-04-16

First intimation of the robbery
was given police today, when res
idents in the neighborhood of Ray
mond st. and the FIT. Harrison Rd.,
called Sheriff Omer Hawkins and
reported a safe with the door
knocked off along the roadside.
Police believe that a truck was
used to transport the safe into the
country, where the door could be
removed without attracting great
attention to the noise of pounding
or explosives.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1928-04-16
PAGE 8

The winners will compete for trip
to Washington at the finals to be
held later in this city. The Indiana
Lincoln Union is sponsoring the
contest. indianapolis district win
ners are Eileen Myrick of Martins
vile and Edward Fillenwarth, Ca
thedral High School, Indianapolis.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1928-04-16
FARM PLAYLET is FREE
Especially Written for Presentation
by Bureaus.

A three-act playlet, "Arming the
Farm" has been written by Verna
l.. Hatch, director of the Social and
Educational Department of the In
diana Farm Bureau, and is available
for free distribution in pamphlet
form. The playlet has been espe-
cially prepared for Farm Bureau
entertainments, and presents an in
teresting story of the part which the
social and educational department
of the farm bureau plays in the
building of greater rural life.
Out-of-S State residents may obtain
copies for twenty-five cents.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1928-04-16
YEGGS STEAL SAFE
FROM RIVOLI SHOW

Safe blowers broke into the man
ayers Office at the Rivoli Theater,
1855 E. Tenth ST., after closing hours
Sunday night, and took the safe and
contents.
According to Manager Willis
Grist, Sunday receipts totaling $458
and $40 worth of stamps were in
Guided in the loot Numerous the
alter tickets were found scattered on
the ground where the safe was
found.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1928-04-16
Home and ALI Money Burns
By Times Special

BIZ TUNES SpecldI
FIT. WAYNE, Ind, April 16.-A
$40 bill, the only money they pos
Sessed, was consumed when fire de-
stroyed the home of Mr.. and Mrs
George Cooper, Lincolndale, near
here, while they were absent. The
1acal Red Cross is aiding them.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1928-04-16

to a dance hall
tragedy near YER
sailles last No
vember. Defend
ants are Clarence
Jackson, j o h IL
Ryan and Will
liam Mehrhof, Jr.,
accused in the
death of Leonard
Eads, a deputy
sheriff, who died
from being beaten
after ejecting the
accused men from
the dance hall.
Authorities were
49, IL
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1928-04-16
ARNOLD STATES STAND
Nobody Drafted Me-" Says State
Senator Candidate.

senator Candidate.
Nobody drafted me, nor en-
treated me to rum" William A. Arm
old, 1852 N. Delaware ST., declares
of his candidacy for the Democratic
nomination for State Senator from
Marion County.
Il am not making a sacrifice and
I ask for the office because 1 want
it," he adds.
Arnold, outlined his qualifications
as being a Senate graduate" hav-
ing served from Floyd and Wash
ington Counties 1919-1921, a lawyer
and real estate man.
Il have spent thirty years in
politics and believe I can hold a
Senate position creditably and &C
ceptably," he asserts. my policy
is and will be economy, retrench-
ment and reform"
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1928-04-16
We can supply 1

We can supply money now for
current needs. Confidential and
quick. CAPITOL LOAN CO., 141K
E. Wash. St.-Advertisement.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1928-04-16
THREE ON TRIAL
IN KILLING CASE
Officers Alleged SIayerS in
Court at Madison.
By Times Special

By Times Special
MADISON, Ind, April 16.-Three
men are on trial in Jefferson Cir
cult Court here today on charges
of second degree murder, a sequel
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1928-04-16
TEN ORATORS IN FINAL
District Winners Enter Central Area
Contest April FL.

Ten district winners in the Lin
coin Oratorical Contest will COM.
Brownsville herald. [volume] (Brownsville, Tex.) 1910-current, 1928-10-26

several states as registered in the
actual election.
The Digest itself is acting as a
mere recorder of opinion, seeking
and presenting facts in that spirit Of
non-partizanship, of honest desire to
get at all sides Of a complex uues-
ton, which this. periodical has made
peculiarly its own.
ut presents its figures, vouches
for the honesty and carefulness with
which the poll was taken, and leaves
it's readers to draw their own conclu-
sions."
The editor Of The Literary Digest
issues a caution in his columns to
reinterpret the figures in case there
is an eleventh hour shift Of political
sentiment.
IF there should be evidence" he
writes, "of a wholesale shift from
camp to camp this year, readers
should take it into account and modify
their reckoning from our poll figures
accordingly.
"While we know Of no shift Of that
character, il is only natural that
many voters who marked the straw
ballots for one candidate may change
their minds and vote for the other,
which would throw the forecast Just
that much out Of line. IL there is
no such drift, Of course the fore
cast would not be affected"
Following is the total tabulation
hy states.
Brownsville herald. [volume] (Brownsville, Tex.) 1910-current, 1928-10-26
Rio Grande City
Club Plans Plays

RIO GRANDE CITY. Oct. ga
dramatic club which will have for its
purpose the discovery and 0
agement of local dramatic talent was
organized Tuesday evening at the
home of Mr.. and Mrs. Lawrence X.
Brooks. the meeting having been
called by Miss Shirley Brooks. chair
mar from the drama department Of
the Rio Grande Valley Federation.
Officers elected for one year were
George B. Marsh, president; Mrs. L.
Owen Scott, first vice president; Mrs.
Harry Hall, second vice president;
Mrs. Rossiter Garity, recording sec
rotary; DR.. W. H. Mcdonald, treas
urer; Ismael Magma, director.
Thirty have joined the club and un-
der the direction Of Senior Magma
two one-act plays will be presented
at an early date. One play will be IN
Spanish and one in English.
The plan of the organization is TO
present cultural entertainments at
stated intervals during the year, the
talent to be drawn from local mem
bers.
Brownsville herald. [volume] (Brownsville, Tex.) 1910-current, 1928-10-26
Literary Digest
Poll Discussed
ByF. Seabury
To The Herald:

To The Herald:
The Literary Digest's poll, or straw
vote. has recently been analysed by
q famous mathematician, Fabian
Franklin. former professor of mathe-
mates at Johns Hopkins university.
Professor Franklin pointed out that
the Digest's poll taken in 1924 cor
responded with the election results
Of that year only in the totals for
the nation. and was utterly unre-
liable in its figures on the several
states. He instanced the states of
New York. New Jersey, Connecticut,
Massachusetts, and Illinois. in which
the percentages of Davis votes to
Coolidge votes east in the election
should have run from thirteen up
to twenty-five per cent, had they cor
responded with the Literary Digest's
indications: but in fact these per-
centages ran from forty up to
fifty-two. In other words. Davis
received in those states from two TO
four times as many votes as were
indicated by the Literary Digest's
final figures in 1924.
Mr.. Woods. editor in chief Of the
Literary Digest. attacked Mr.. Frank
lin as unfair because he cited only
five states. Professor Franklin has
come back with figures covering
twenty-five states and showing that
the actual Davis vote in those states
was from / Ia up to 1 "a times
the vote indicated by the Digest.
The accuracy claimed by the Di-
gest for it's 1924 figures is now
shown to be based on two facts.
First. it is immaterial whether
the candidate who carries a state
gets 81 per cent or 90 per cent Of
the total vote. In either event, he
gets the electoral vote. But n pre-
dicion Of 80 per cent, and a realiZa-
tion of 81 per cent, shows too large
a margin of error. Errors of less
magnitude would change the cleo
toral vote in other states
In the second place. il is evident
that III the Davis vote was vastly
under rated in twenty-five states, il
must have been over rated in the
remaining twenty-six, to make the
total percentages of the popular
vote shown in the forecast agree
with the total percentages OF votes
as cast. That is Just what happen
ed.
Evidently IL the forecast gave
Coolidge eighty per cent Of the vote
in a strong republican state, and
likewise rave Davis eighty per cent
Of the vote in a strong democratic
state OF like voting population,
while in each the winner received,
say. sixty per cent Of the total, the
electoral votes would be correctly
forecast. but the popular vote in
each state would be entirely wrong.
The discrepancy in 1924 between
the forecast and the real vote was
greatest in Rhode Island. Massachu-
sets and Connecticut. and very
heavy in all OF the industrial states,
thus indicating what we have often
asserted. namely. that the voters not
Brownsville herald. [volume] (Brownsville, Tex.) 1910-current, 1928-10-26

poll is too incomplete, because II
omits the non-telephone population.
and too full Of errors. to be Of any
great value, except as showing the
exchange Of votes between republi-
cans and democrats. and as showing
the extent to which Smith and
Hoover. respectively, are getting the
votes that were polled for LaFollette
in 1924. On the exchange between
republicans and democrats, Smith
gains over Hoover about 1877. 900
votes. which in about eight per cent
Of the total vote nov shown, instead
Of five per cent as shown in the Di-
gest. issue Of two weeks earlier. As
to the Progressive vote, Smith is
still drawing more than sixty per
cent from the former LaFoilette
! voters.
r. W. SEABURY.
Chairman. 9th District
Democratic Campaign.
Brownsville.
Oct. %. 1928.
Brownsville herald. [volume] (Brownsville, Tex.) 1910-current, 1928-10-26
City Is Gaining
National Fame AS
Center of Health

Fame Of Brownsville's climate as
a permanent cure for the most criti-
cal cases of asthma is spreading
throughout the country, inquiries be-
ing received a. the Brownsville
Chamber Of Commerce indicate.
The latest requests for informa-
ton concerning the climate. which
had been recommended as wonder
full for persons suffering with
asthma" was received from DR..
Franklin Bache Van Mugs Of O.
cago.
DR.. Van Mugs declared that he had
a patient who was critically i'll
with asthma and that the Browns
vile climate had been recommended
to him and that he wished to send
the patient here for the winter
months.
II would like 10 have some first
hand information about your eli
mate. however. before | recommend
that my patient come there" he
wrota-