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Southern Patronage

Information on the manner in which Federal pat
ronage is handled in the South, now being collected
by committee Of United States Senators, deserves
more attention than it is likely to get in the summer
Of presidential year.
The Georgia Republican State central committee
it has been shown receives regular monthly contrbu-
tions from postal employees in the State Contribu-
tors are card-indexed. Monthly payments range from
$3.50 to $3.50.
officers of the central committee denied the pay
ents constituted levies, although the ad
tted he had written some letters inquiring whether
those who had been paying intended to continue
doing
The Senators declined to believe that the payments
were voluntary, claimed.
There was additional evidence relating to payments
by postmasters and others seeking Federal Office.
The evidence in Georgia lends weight to repeated
charges OF corruption in Southern patronage made in
recent months.
The situation is one about which there has been
complaint almost since the Civil War. The Republic
an party in the Solid South has become nothing more
than machine of ofceholders who every four years
exchange delegate votes at nominating conventions for
the privilege Of dispensing offices
There are some 900 jobs at stake in Southern
States which pay in excess Of $35,0OO00O year in
salaries. That is the prize
There are few Republicans in the South. The
States cast no Republican votes in the electoral col
ege yet they exercise great influence in the nominal
ing convention. The ten States Of Alabama Arkansas
FloridS Georgia, Louisiana, Mississippi North Caro-
lima, South Carolina, Texas and Virginia in the last
convention had 1856 votes Of the total 1os9 conceivaby
enough to determine the nomination in close contest
It is to be hoped that the Senate committee now
at work will do thorough job Of exposing the sale of
offices and that the information will be used to effect
the reforms that have been advocated without result
for quarter century.
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DefYing DR.. Doran

James M. Doran, prohibition commissioner, an
noulced the other day that there would be no
more rough stuff" in prohibition enforcement. Off
GERS were admonished to fire suspected law viola
tors only in selfdefense to prevent felony They
told to be cool and deliberate and were warned
against promiscuous use Of firearms.
Now comes story from Buffalo which indicates
that coast guard boat Lake Erie acted in total
disregard of Dorans instructions
Persons aboard pleasure yacht discovered that
they were being fired upon. They had been given
no signals or warning, SO far as they knew
They discovered coast guard boat at distance
estimated by one of the passengers at two and half
miles The coast guard commander questioned those
aboard the yacht for few minutes and then ordered
them to proceed.
On board the yacht were FRANK G. Raichle law
partner of william j. Donovan, assistant United
States attorney general and other reputable
persons, some accompanied by their wives.
The incident might well have led to tragedy COM
parable to that in the recent shooting of Jacob D.
Hanson of Buffalo by coast guardsmen.
Protest has been made. 1t is recalled that Doran
declared that those who dsregarded his warning
would be held responsible. Now shall discover
what he meant by that.
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But instead, he secretly studied mathematics and
astronomy. Needless to say estrangement between
father and son followed 1t aggravated by Tycho
marrying girl of whom his father did not approve
At the age of 3d. however, Tycho had achieved
such reputation astronomer that King Fred
erck II Of Denmark built him magnificent observa-
tory on the island of Hveen off the Swedish coast.
Tycho, when making observations, always wore
the same court robes which he wore when entering
the royal court. For Tycho regarded the heavens
and their stars as the court of God and he felt that
if ceremony and respect were due to the court of
earthly king far greater respect due the court
of the King of Heaven.
Tycho's nova, after its appearance, famed
to such brilance that it outshone every other star
in the sky. For time its brightness was so great
that it could be seen in the daytime as well at
night
But after Year, the clear white light of Tychos
nova began to fade. Its hue became yellow, then
yellowish orange Finally it became ashy pale and
in the year 1874 it disappeared from sight entirely.
Astronomers have often speculated upon the pos
sble return of Tycho's nova. Consequently, an
astronomer never gazes at the star Kappa in the
constellation OF Cassiopeia without gancing at the
sky nearby.
I recommend the same procedure to all readers
the return of Tychos WOULD be great event
and it would be fine c5tlc---a to be the first to
discover it.
Other famous novae and something about present.
day theories Of their cause will be discussed next
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Confusing Prejudice

Obviously, it takes a different kind
of courage to work against adver-
sity for fifteen or twenty years than
it does to gamble with death in
some moment of such ecstatic emo
ton as obliterates fear, not to say
reason.
Finding himself a bankrupt at
the prime of his life, Sir Walter
Scott worked madly to pay his
debts. The same was true of Mark
Twain.
1t is curious circumstance that
we think of these men as authors,
rather than heroes, forgetting that
grit, rather than inspiration, was
responsible for much of their sue
cess.
The late Senator La Toilette.
stood up alone and voted against
this country's entrance into war,
while his seventy-nine colleagues
sneered and jeered. That took
nerve, but the immediate reaction
expressed itself in yells for his ex-
pulsion, not in cheers for his
bravery.
Too much Of our applause for
courage depends on whether it
takes a direction we like.
More often than not, we confuse
bravery with prejudice.
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Forms of Courage

Courage is a virtue. We can all
agree on that. 1t expresses itself
in many forms, however, and what
we have never agreed on is the
finest form.
Some people regard suicide as
proving lack Of courage under any
and all circumstances, but as a gen.
eral proposition, the suicide regards
himself as brave.
No doubt that young man who
jumped overheard thought himself
a hero at the time, though he might
have felt otherwise about it after
ward.
The monuments with which this
old world is cluttered leave the
question hopelessly unsettled.
No less an authority than Nj
Gibbon thinks too many Of them
have been erected to destroyers.
BY and large the warrior has been
accepted as the best example Of
courage. Facing death on the bat
tlefeld whether one dies or not, is
still, perhaps, the most exalted role
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Women Show Bravery

1t is quite possible for a man to
be courageous in one respect and
cowardly in another, as is illustrated
by the following incident which oc-
CURED during the hurricane that
swept Galveston Bay in 1915.
On Virginia Point, where the
Galveston causeway reaches the
mainland, there stood an old wooden
hotel to which some twenty-five or
thirty people fled for refuge when
the storm broke late in the after
noon. There were several women
and children in the party, as well
as minister, lawyer and a man
who had too many notches on his
gun for any one to doubt his
courage.
1t became a typical party of
prayers, tears, regrets, repentances
and Anticipated optimism as the
night wore on.
Some grew cooler with the rising
of the wind and water.
AS is not unusual when they have
time to get set, the women faced
their fate philosophically.
Sometime after midnight, when
the water had risen to depth of
two or three feet above the floor
and when it was only a question of
moments before the house would
float away or fall to pieces, the man
with the notches on his gun drew it
out of the holster, put it against his
temple and, shouting, 81 can't stand
this any longer" pulled the trigger.
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Value of Ultra Violet Rays Discussed

coming from intense sources of such
energy, and in this way supplying
the body with its vitamin D.
Finally, numerous methods are
available for giving directly to those
who wish it concentrated sunlight
from ultraviolet ray apparatus.
Many physicians have viewed
with alarm the possibility that too
much vitamin D will thus be avail
able, not only to growing children
but to the public in general, and
that harm may result from over
dosage.
In Germany recent investigations
have dealt with the question of
how much vitamin D is dangerous.
Feeding experiments on rats and
mice indicated that the fatal dose
is very large indeed, about ten thou
sand times the dose necessary to
heal disease.
In human beings at least twenty
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authorizations: A-ace; king; O.
queen; Jack; 8-any card lowe-
WTHEN your partner bids one
w no-trump he expects to find
in your hand one and a-half quick
tricks. For every one-half quick
trick, above one and one-half that
you hold in your hand you are JUS
titled in raising your partners no
trump. once.
Applying the foregoing principles
to the following illustrations, as
sumo your partner has bid a no.
trump and second hand has bid two
spades. Holding the hands described
below you should proceed as fol-
lows:
1. Spades A x x; hearts K x x;
diamonds x x x; clubs x K x
x. You merely hold normal strength
one and one-half quick tricks.
Your hand is not therefore strong
enough to raise.
2. Spades K j x; hearts K 6 x;
diamonds @ J 10; clubs j x x x.
You hold a stopper in spades and
two and one-half quick tricks. You
may therefore raise your partners
no-trump twice if necessary.
8. Spades K x x; hearts A K;
diamonds x x x; clubs @ x x r.
You do not hold any stopper in
spades. Do not raise.
4. Spades A ] x; hearts @ j 10 x;
diamonds x x x; clubs @ x x.
You hold two stops in spades. AL
though the hand does not contain
fully two quick tricks. you may
raise once in view of the two stops
in opponents suit.
5. Spades x x x x; hearts K
j x; diamonds A @ x; clubs K
@ x. You hold no stop in spades,
but great strength in other suits.
In spite of the fact that you do
not hold stop in spades you may
raise once because opponents may
not make more than four suit
tricks in spades and furthermore,
if they should bid three spades,
you are in an excellent position to
penalize them with double.
The essential requirements for
raising partners suit bid are. first,
normal support in trCnps and, sec
ond two assisting tricks.
Over 80 per cent of initial suit
bids are made on suits containing
not more than five cards.
The bidder logically expects to
find some cards of the declared suit
in partners hand. If the declarer
controls less than seven trumps,
game is seldom possible.
The trump support that your
partner normally expects to find in
your hand and on which your part
ner relies in making the initial bid
consists of trunps as good as A K,
K x, @ x or x x x, known as nor
NAL trump support.
Copyright. 1928. by the Ready Reference
Publishing Company
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times the usual dose daily over a
long period of time would be neces-
sary to induce serious symptoms.
Obviously therefore the damage
is not great so far as we now know
from the amount of ultraviolet
rays, irradiated foods, or vitanin D
that the human being may receive.
1t is, of course, possible that rela-
tionships between the vitamins are
important, and that too much of
one with too little of another may
produce effects Of which we now
have no knowledge.
1t is possible that the anxiety Of
manufacturers in promoting these
things may lead them to place on
the market far too many 1rradi-
ated products and thus affect the
infant to its advantage.
The public will do well to await
the arrival of actual knowledge be-
fore considering the employment of
such foods and methods as panacea.
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With Other Editors
South Bend News-Times

Good Republican papers, like
the Chicago Tribune, are shocked
and Mortified at the "taint" Of
Tammany they profess to see
clinging to the Democratic nomi-
nee for the presidency.
Their minds go back fortunate
ly beyond the piping times of Sin
clair and Fall and Forbes and
Daugherty and other shining
lights Of the Republican party to
the good old days of Tweed and
Croker.
The Tammany they conjure up
is the Tammany Of the seventies
and eighties.
We shall not undertake a de-
Tense of the Tammany Of today,
save to say that the association is.
as it has always been, typical of
New York politics, and that it is
less vivid and certainly less cor
rupt than the old organization.
But we would like to call atten-
ton to the fact that in their on
slaught upon Tammany and the
Democratic candidate, they have
unanimously forgotten the more
pertinent question of Republican
corruption, and that this corrup-
ton is a matter Of 1923 and not
of 1880.
Tammany, in all its wretched
history of selling franchises, steal
ing elections, grating in building
and supplies and the other evils
which Tweed went to jail and
Croker suffered exile, was rather
a jelly little infant compared to
the recent national administra-
ton.
It is the manufactured "evi-
dence" against Al Smith (whom
they would convict of Tweed'S
misdeeds) that marks the height
Of hypocrisy in the Chicago Trib-
une, and which causes many hon.
est citizens to wonder which one
of the Anti-Saloon League cap
tains, or which of the Ku-KluX
Khan emperors. or which of the
oil-ring magnates has shown the
light Of reason to its owners and
editors.
1t is not necessary to recall to
the public the heated denuncia-
lions of the league that appeared
in the Chicago Tribune when the
league supported Frank Smith for
the Senate, despite Smiths cor
rupt acceptance of insults money
At that time, the Tribunes very
sound argument was that "the
Anti-Saloon League will swallow
any kind Of a candidate provided
he talks dry"
The Tribune now puts itself in
the Saloon Leagues class
nay, it goes further-by swallow
ing the league, the Khan and the
oil men at one gulp, merely to
support Republican candidate.
Politics does make strange bed
fellows. We had always thought
that If a reformer, a crook, and
Chicago Tribune editor were to
find themselves in the same bed,
two of them would be kicked out
on the floor.
But here they are, all snoozing
away as comfortably as you
please. Meanwhile, the Tribune
has found a bottle beneath AL
Smiths bed, has reported the fact
to the prohibition enforcement
officials, and has the pleasant
satisfaction Of doing its duty as
DR.. Shumaker would want them
to do it.
Brothers Mccormick, Dinwid-
die Mcbride, shumakez, Evans
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Party Labels

The dissension within the Republican State
committee, and the domineering attitude of the
Watson-Kl Ian Coffin Robinson machine to pre-
vent any real friends of Mr.. Hoover from hav-
ing more than a sideline view of the cam
paign was not necessary to warn discriminat-
ing voters that in Indiana this year the Re-
publican party label covers two distinct kinds
Of candidates.
1t is inconceivable to think Of Mr.. Hoover
and the heir to Jacksonism and Stephenson
ism and Klanism in the same tent.
Discriminating voters know that if Mr..
Hoover truly represents Republican principles
and purposes, then the State ticket is repre-
sentative Of something else.
The State organization is very much on rec
ord in it's admissions and its confessions that it
recognizes this vast difference Of principles and
purposes and morals between its State candl-
dates and the national candidate.
Until the final vote was cast at Kansas City,
the State chairman was vociferous in his denun-
citation of Mr.. Hoover and went as far as he
could to suggest that Mr.. Hoover was not and
is not a Republican. On the side lines and
giving tacit approval was Harry Leslie, the
desperation candidate for Governor. In the
Office was Senator Robinson, voicing no protest
against the very rabid denunciations of Hoover
by the State chairman and the candidate for
Lieutenant Governor.
This was fortunate for Mr. Hoover It hap
pened that the vast majority Of Republican
delegates did not agree with the Indiana lead
ers, and that instead of reading Hoover out
Of the party, they adopted platforms and can
didate which makes the test Of Republication
fidelity to the things for which Mr.. Hoover
stands.
The only connection which the Republican
State ticket and the organization has with the
Republican party is the name. They deliber-
ately placed themselves in position to claim
no other heritage.
This is not year to be fooled by party
labels. 1t is not year to let enthusiasm blind
the voters to real duty.
This is the year when Indiana needs some
thing different than has been given it by those
who still hold title to the party name.
The State committee has, apologetically and
reluctantly, permitted Mr.. Hoover to name one
member of the executive committee. Presuma-
bly, the one man will be on guard against
treachery and betrayal The fact should not
blind the real admirers and supporters of
Mr. Hoover to the vast chasm between the
State ticket and the national ticket They.
simply do not belong to the same party.
Real Republicans will answer the brazen
duplicity of the crowd in control by defeat
ing the ticket named by forces which have
confessed that they are not in accord, in
purposes or principles, with the national ticket.
Mr.. Hoover is too fine and too big and too
tolerant to be used for the sinister purposes of
putting back into power the influences which
have disgraced Indiana.
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and Sinclair will now dance ring
arounda-roSy.
Hammond Times)


Hammond Times)
There will be no drift by mid
dle-west farmers away from the
Republican party in November.
This is apparent to even the po-
litically unschooled.
The farm revolt" never existed
except in the fertile imaginations
of few politicians who had to
promise their agricultural constit-
uents something and could think
of no better vote-getter than
high-sounding schemes for ma
king the farmer rich without
working.
Before the national conven-
tons farm bloc Congressman were
talking of boiling their parties if
the platforms failed to pledge
some specific form of farm re-
lief. Both platforms lack such a
plank, but not farm leader was
deserted his party.
Senator McNary has announced
his whole-hearted support of the
Republican ticket and predicts vic
tory for Hoover and Curtis in
every State of the corn belt.
He argues that the majority of
the farmers realize that for any
substantial aid they must look to
the Republican party.
Another farm bloc leader who
has climbed aboard the Hoover
Curtis band wagon is Representa-
tive Morton D. Hull of Illinois,
a Lowden man and a McNary-
Haugen last-ditcher. This signifi-
cant statements comes from his
lips:
1.-THE farmers throughout the
central West have no reason for
leaving the Republican for the
Democratic party. There is moth
ing in the Democratic platform
that would give them any advan-
tage over the Republican plat
form.
1.-THE farmer realizes his diff
culties in legislation and will not
take the chances that. go with
changing horses in midstream and
then be carted off in a chariot
drawn by the Tammany Tiger"
The farmers did not march on
Kansas City, but they will march
on the polls in November to vote
the straight Republican ticket.
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Gunnnan WeakenS First

Some fifteen people were crushed
or drowned when the hotel col
lapsed, while eight or ten Others
saved themselves by clinging t.
p Gees of the wreckage and floating
around until they reached places of
safety. Half a dozen were washed
up against string of overturned
freight cars, on to the sides of
which they climbed and stayed I'M
til morning. One saved himself by
wrapping his legs and arms around
a telephone pole, while two or three
made similar use of fenceposts.
The point is, that, living or dying.
the entire party conducted itself
with courage, with the exception Of
the one man who had too many
notches on his gun for any one tn
doubt.
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T yc h o'S N o v a.
Nova is the Latin
word for new"
Tycho is one Of
the most interest
early history of
ing figures in the
modern astronomy.
His father was
a nobleman. He
sent Tycho to the
u n iversit i e S
Of Copenhagen and
Leipzig to h av e
him prepare for a
diplomatic career.
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David Dietz on Science
A NezCStar BIaSed Forth
No. 80

A NEW star suddenly blazed forth in the constel-
IN lation Of Cassiopea in the year 1872. This
stranger in the sky appeared near the star Kappa.
It was first observed on Aug. g. 1872, by an as
tronomer at Wittenberg, Prussia, named Schuler.
It was subsequently studied by the great Danish
astronomer Tycho Brahe and SO came known as
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BY DIR. MORRIS FISHBEIN
Editor Journal of the American Medical
Association and of Hygeia, the
Health Magazine.


DURING the last few years news
II paper health columns, popular
magazines and much advertising
matter have urged on the public
the Importance of plenty Of sunlight
not only for the purpose Of prevent
ing ricketts, in growing children, but
also for such general effects as sun
light may have in building up the
resistance Of the body to infectious
disease.
1t is known that sunlight acts
upon the substance ergosterol to
produce within it vitamin D.
Hence already there are available
in drug stores concentrated prepa-
rations of vitamin D, made in this
manner.
Furthermore, Steenbock of Wis
consin developed a method of ex-
posing foods to ultraviolet rays
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This Ddte i'm
u. S. History

July IL
1767-Birthday of John Quincy
Adams, sixth President.
1790--First Methodist sermon in
America preached in Boston.
1804-Alexander Hamilton and
Aaron Burr fought a duel;
Hamilton MORALLY wounded.
1864-First organized national bank
opened in Philadelphia.
1864-Confederates under General
Early advanced to within threa
miles of Washington, d. c.
1890-Wyoming admitted to the
Union.
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Daily Thoughts

Blessed is the man that enduretb
the crown of temptation, for when
he is tried he shall receive the
crown of life.--James 1:12.
q
The virtue which never has been
attacked by temptation is deserving
Of no monument. Mile. de ecuderi
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A big public utilities company has been fighting
public ownership ideas by issuing parodes of we'll
known songs. We are expecting to hear something
like "Bye Bye Dividends" ut Aint Gonna Pay NO
More"
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Questions and
AnSzOerS

You can get an answer to any answer
able question Of fact or information by
writing to Frederick M Kerby, Question
Editor. The Indianapolis Tines Wash
ington Bureau, 1922 New York Ave.
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stamps for reply. Medical and legal
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tended research be made. All other
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Unsigned requests cannot be answered.
All letters are confidential. You are
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EDITOR.
What makes people sneeze?
1t is a spasrnodic involuntary ac-
ton resulting from irritation Of the
lining membrane of the nose.
What are the meanings of the
names Stephen, Steven and Ste
phania?
Stephania is feminine form of
Stephen, Greek word meaning a
Grown or garland" Steven Is
Saxon. meaning 'bespoken."