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4 Bull MOOse-AImOst

RUT the sad fact is that the Senator always leaves
- his fight in the gymnasium. The master shad-
ow boxer has been known to crumple before very
ordinary opposition the minute he ceased to work
with the big gloves. Once. he was almost a Bull
Moose. On numerous occasions the opportunity was
there for BOrah to lead the forces of insurgency into
battle. It has not been stark circumstance or any
harsh run of luck which has kept Borah in the back
ground when the really grueling fight was on The
his very own. l doubt that he can throw it. My
notion IS that the bonnet of Borah is fastened tightly
on his head by elastic band known as party
regularity
No, when the bell rings it is never Borah who
strips of the bathrobe and advances into battle
with his left hand extended. On the contrary. he
viii De found in somebody's corner holding the water
bottle And when the going gets tough he won't
even be there. 1t will be found that Borah lust
stepped out for minute. He's always tying his shoe
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Money Would Be Saved

MONEY would be saved by the obteration of
I'VE about 40 Legislatures and state administrative
organizations and the relations between the peo-
pie OF widely separated sections would be made much
more intimate and sympathetic. There is no racial
dlHerence between Hoosier and Texan, for ex-
ample, bu5 they both contributing the least they
can and drawing much they can out of a ma
tonal Treasury. If they both given to under
stand however that it is impossible to pour out
OF bottle than put into the bottle they might also
understand that the interest of the interest
Of the other.
All of Mr. Roosevelt's works have intimated be-
lief that the entire country ought to be brought
closer to the national government but he has said
nothing up to about the abolition of state lines
and state governments which exist only because they
were established arbitrarily in the days when present
conditions could not be imagined
Copyright. 1885. by United Feature Syndicate
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"TheH Can't Hurt Us"

or course. can't deny that on occasion he has
- shouted as Justify the next one Go on in
and fight 'iml He can't take it," But. decidedly,
the Idaho bruiser is a front runner When the
Knockout comes ne has left the arena.
His partiSans say he packs a punch but it is
pertinent TO ask Whom did he hck?" The
reply is likely to be that he put away the League
of Nations. Yes. he and four five other fellows.
Moreover. while I do not make the charge that
the League took dive this foreign foe was obviously
a Setup. 1t was all part of the BOrah buildup
Those who think that the Senator is logical
contender for the title would have him billed The
Constitutional Clouter.' Such title he hardly de
He certainly didn't do the Constitution much
good when he was of on his prohibition rampage.
In those days BOrah the Anti-SalOon Leagues
best bet. and if it wanted overlapping search and
seizure and cruel and unusual punshments it could
count on the gentleman from Idaho to remain COM
pletely silent while the Bill of Rights being torn
into little white ribbons for the lapels of the tenn
peTanCe people.
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turns the wheels of the ordinary
locomotive or in the way that the
gasoline engine of your automo-
bile is geared to the wheels.
To be strictly accurate, we
should speak of these new loco
motives as Diesel-electric.
In every case there is an cleo
trio generator or dynamo mounxed
on the end of the engine shaft,
The engine in the Zephyr is a
600-horse power two-cycle Winton
Diesel engine. 1t is directly con-
nected to a General Electric gen.
orator.
Current from the generator goes
to two electric motors which are
geared to the axles of the front
truck Of the train.
1T will be seen, therefore, the
i Diesel engine and the gener-
ator constitute a power plant on
wheels for the manufacture Of
GlGCbIlC CulI CllO. LILO Nu11CllV 10
fed to the electric motors which
make the train go.
To the layman this will seem a
complicated procedure. Why not,
he will ask, connect the Diesel en-
CINE directly to the driving
wheels? The engineer will explain
that what seems the simplest way
at first glance frequently turns
out not to be the simplest way.
There are too many difficulties
in the way of employing this
simple" method. The chief diff
Guilty is that of a suitable clutch
for putting the engine in or out
of gear.
The Diesel-electric combination
has many advantages. 1t is pos
sible to operate the Diesel engine
at the speed which makes for
maximum, efficiency. Starting,
stopping and controlling the speed
of the electric motors presents no
greater problem than that en-
countered in an electric street car
The electric motors, geared to
the driving wheels make for easy
starting and rapid acceleration,
important factors in economy of
operation.
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faction was Cliff woodward, at
that time national president, and
backing ticket opposed to major
Roosevelt policies.
On occasion, Jimmy Roosevelt
has not hesitated to oppose some
Of his fathers pet policies, not
ably the abolition of child labor.
But this time he lodged.
Although national secretary of
the organization, he did not show
up in Milwaukee. He claimed his
yeast business required his pres
ence in New Jersey.
Later Cliff Woodward, head of
the anti-New Deal ticket, tele-
phOned his alleged ally. Jimmy
said he was busy making a speech.
When this did not satisfy the
convention, Mr. Woodward tele-
phoned again. This time Jimmy
said he was i'll.
Finally he sent his young
brother, John. Harvard sopho-
more, who works in Jimmy's yeast
factory. John flew to Milwaukee,
sat on the platform. looked deco
rative, and made a short speech.
Between sessions he sat in his
hotel room, saw nobody. made no
mistakes.
Thus Jimmy was represented,
but he slid out from under the
anti-New Deal ticket. AS a re-
suit. the New Deal ticket, headed
by Frank Wickhem of Sioux Falls,
S. D.. was elected.
Jim Farley, who guided the con-
vention by long distance tele-
phone. considered this an impor-
tant victory. He did not want dis
Sension within Democratic ranks
even young Democrats. He
wanted to give an example of
unity to the nation.
ILLS BELTS, the congress
Il sional elevator operator who
once held up the President, takes
pride in being non-partisan.
I never had any animosity
against man for being q Re-
publican he says. Just while
back got three crates of peaches
from Georgia, and I give EN- half
TO Democrats and half to Repub-
licans."
All Mr. Belts asks is that they
tell him which way they want to
go. The Vice President got aboard
recently. and Mr.. Belts started up.
When Mr.. Garner impatiently
demanded TO go the other way, Mr..
Belts retorted. You didn't say
which way you wanted to go; I'm
no mindreader."
The Vice President had moth
ing more to say.
John was in one of his bad
humors that night, MIR. Belts now
explains. The newspaper boys
were crowding in the elevator
right on top of him. and he was
sore, or he wouldn't of spoke to
me that way"
Mr.. Belts writes weekly COL
umn called Notes From the Cap
itol' for the Jackson Herald of
Jefferson. Ga.
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Today S Science
BY DAVID DIETZ =

A MEMORIAL to Simon NewcOmb will be
4 n yelled in the village of Wallace. Nova SEQ
tia, where he was born 100 years ago. If you have
ever Travelled by ship or alrplane. you owe debt OF
gratitude 10 the memory of Prof NewcOmb. For
all navigation upon the water in the air is de-
pendent upon the astronomical tables which consti-
tute his greatest monument
For many years Prof NewcOmb, who died on July
II. 1909 was superintendent of the American Ephem-
Cris and Nautical Almanac Office His duty to
supervise the publication of the Nautical Almanac
annual volume of tables of the movements of the
sun. moon. planets. and stars.
Without these tables. navigation would be vastly
more difficult and extremely dangerous. The infor-
nation is also needed in the conduct of astronomical
ObServatOTieS.
WHEN Prof. Newcomb became head OF the Ma
w tionsl Almanac. four other nations were pub
fishing similar volumes. Such discrepancies existed
in the tables of the four volumes that he saw the
reed of compete revision of the fundamental data
on which they were based.
For 20 years. Prof. Newcomb labored upon this
task Of building up set Of tables or the whole plan
etary system This work hailed by the scientists
of every nation one of the most important tasks
ever completed by one man.
Prof. Newcomb of the worlds great pop
uarzerS of science well as one of its greatest sci
entistS His book the stars for the general reader
Astronomy for Everybody" was a best seller for
many years and continued TO be for several dec
AIDES after his death
a revised edition. prepared by Prof. Robert H.
Baker of the University of illinois, published not
long ago. Prof Baker has ADDED the facts discovered
since the death OF Prof Newconlb but has retained
the original material wherever possible. The book
is a mode. of its kind and complete refutation of
the roton that eminent authority must of neces-
sity be unntelhgble TO the layman.
THE son Of a country school teacher Prof. New
i comb earned his own living from childhood.
After teaching school himself for several years. he
entered Harvard University and graduated in
1883 He first won fame as a graduate student when
he published a mathematical analysis of the orbits
OF the asteroids thereby diSprovng the theory which
vas then current TO account for their origin.
In 1861 President Lincoln commissioned him
professor of mathematics in the United States Navy.
position which he held until his death. For is
years he served at the United States Naval Observa
tory, subsequently, becoming superintendent of the
Nautical Almanac
AT the time of his death he held the rank of
ADMIRAL and had been elected 10 the most important
scientific societies Of America and Europe He was
the recipient Of many honorary degrees medals and
decorations from foreign governments
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EUEnouNh
BY
WESIbR0OK PEGLER

IF I interpret Mr.. Roosevelts Administration cor
Il rectly up to now. it is his idea that the states
have become horse buggy institutions and that
this country should bee solid nation with uni
fed interests.
The NRA was intended to extend the authority
of the national government into the tneS transac-
tonS of the general story in the most benghted Mis-
sissipp crossroads. The Department of Agriculture
has been counting ears of and hills Of potatoes
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ing and groaning which occurs
when coupled cars pound against
each other
1t is unusually quiet within the
Zephyr because all the windows
are closed. Both noise and drafts,
two factors which contribute to
discontinue as we'll as to an illu-
sion of speed, are thus eliminated.
This is made possible by the use
of conditioning.
However, there is yet another
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A Cautious COnStitutiORGliSt

IT is only when hours being shortened and
wages raised that Borah springs to arms to de-
fend the fundamental law of the land"
And I repeat again. Whom did he ever lick?"
Even such a paooka as Huey Long has tented him
into knots. The Old Guard is fat and awkward
second-rater and yet Borah is just a pushover for
its roundhouse right swings Everybody knows that
the Old Guard hasn't any left. In fact. that's why
il called the Old Guard.
Mark my words i'll regard to the candidacy OF
William E. Borah. great deal will be said about
it right up TO the moment the Republican COnven-
ton assemblies. But then. at the very last moment
you will find Bill asking for poStpOnement. He will
explain that in his training camp he broke both his
hands.
Copyright. 1885,
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THE engineers cab and the
power plant, as we have said,
occupy about one-third of the
first car of the Zephyr. The rest
is given over to the baggage and
express department,
The second car contains, in or
der, kitchen, a pantry, din
cite, a passenger compartment
seating 40 people, and two lava
tories.
The third car contains, in order,
a. 24-passenger compartment, two
lavatories, and a 24-paSsenger OBJ
servation lounge. The rear end
of this lounge is tapered and
rounded to conform to the
streamlined tail" of the train.
Step in and have a seat in the
observation lounge. This is rail-
road travel in 1885 style. You
won't get a cinder in your eye
because there are no open win
dows. And besides, Diesel en-
CINE doesn't pepper the atmos-
phere with cinders.
Outside, the thermometer is up
around the 100 mark and the hui
Nudity is much too high for COM
fort. Here the temperature and
humidity are equivalent to con-
ditions in your favorite movie
theater.
Air conditioning is the reason,
of course. The task of condition
Ing this train is simplified by the
fact that the shining exterior of
stainless steel reflects more sun
light than it absorbs.
THE car is finished in a restful
decorative scheme in pastel
shades of green blue, and gray,
with draperies on the windows to
harmonic. A soft, diffuSed light
emerges from tubular ducts in the
ceiling.
So pull your chair to COM
Portable angle, lean back and light
a cigaret as the Zephyr carries
you along swiftly in 1885 style
A few more facts about the
Zephyr: The stainless steel body is
made of the famous 1913" steel
alloy, that is, 18 per cent chrom-
ium and per cent nickel. The
entire train weighs 95 tons which
is about equal to the weight of one
ordinary Pullman car.
The engine burns fuel oil at 4
cents a gallon and makes about
three miles on each gallon of fuel.
D ALPH BUDD, president of the
~ Edward G. Budd Manufac-
turing Co., which built the Zephyr,
tells the story of an engineer who
had been the companion of loco
motives from his youth up.
He sat beside the Diesel en-
CINE for an hour on the trains
first run.
Then he came back to the
lounge and almost with tears in
his eyes, said, Il love a steam To-
connective, but I can tell a power
plant when I see one"
Strangely enough, however, while
the Diesel trains built for long
distance travel have been the first
to capture public attention, many
experts expect to see the Diesels
make more rapid strides in other
departments of the railroad in
dustry.
These fields might not occur
to the person unfamiliar with rail-
road operation - branch lines,
switching, etc. But the Diesels are
already moving into these fields,
as I shall discuss next.
Tomorrow-The New Ravens
Comet"
Explosion Burns Cause Death
By United Press
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have a fight in which he didn't
get knocked out.
And. speaking OF Bombardier
Wells. I am reminded Of the fatal
flaw in the equipment Of the gen.
tleman from Idaho. He IS not well
suited 20 be either a President or
a presidential candidate. Senator
Borah has a glass jaw. In fact, I
don't think it would be stating it
too strongly TO say that he is the
George Creel Of the Republican
Party.
To watch Borah in a gymnasium
is to be lost in admiration for his
skill and aggressiveness. He can
y,,,,,nt, H. r.~-t.. - - 49, -
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THEY'RE the BOO-BOO BOus

THESE innovations have not all been accom-
Il plished, but Mr. Roosevets intention seems
clear. 1t has been necessary to organize national
police force, the fly cops of the Department of JUS
tice known &C" men, to go on the prowl and
shoot it out with ordinary stick-upS, most of them
kids in oroer to suppress outbreak of crime which
the states should have been able to control if their
own cops were not stupid. lazy, incompetent and in
too many cases. merely neighborhood bulldozers who
given motorcycle jobs to keep them from be-
coming cheap stick-ups themselves.
1t has come to such state that if two barf1es
get into scrap in a gutter in FIT. Wayne. Ind. as
TO which treats his wife worse and ought to be
horSewhipped first the Mayor calls the sheriff and
the sheriff yels for troops and the Governor cranks
up his telephone to howl for Homer Cummings to
send out Young King Brady and Nick Carter to sup
press situation which has got out of hand.
The states can't hire honest and efficient bank
examiners to prevent white-coar thieves from open
ing and closing stucco banks, and their public serv-
ice commissioners are recruited from the buns of
the legal profession to sanction the sort of robberes
which Mr.. Roosevelt, in theory, has been trying to
forbid.
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going for hours at time. The rights and lefts
which he sinks into the middle Of the heavy bag
seem sufficient to annihilate any adversary. Even
when live sparring partners thrown in with him
Battling BOrah smashes them about the ring in the
most terrifying fashion. There is no getting away
from the TACT that among the guinea pigs the Idaho
mauler Is veritable curly wolf
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with the idea of controlling the OPP
erationS of the farmer on the
Scrubbiest hillside patch.
Individual householders have
been invited to ignore state lines
ana borrow money from the Fed
eral government with which to
paint their barns and install new
plumbing in their homes. The
common man is to be ordered off
his acres if they are unable to
support him and shifted to better
acres somewhere else. The con-
sumner will be offered electricity
and the curling irons and perco-
lators with which to use electricity,
under the auspices of the national
=
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DAILY WASHINGTON
MERRY-GO-ROUND
By Dreao Pearson and Robert S. Allen

XXTASH1NGTON 6Probably the significant
w
jim Roosevelt
harmony within the
Nominay Jimmy lined with the faction of Young Demo-
vigoousy fathers policies
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His real love is Gov. Eugene
Taimadge.
That mans the best dern cam
paigner you ever SEEM" Mr.. Belts
says. "He toted his own skillet in
1884, and won 156 counties out Of
159 in the state"
Mr.. Belts first vote was for the
Populist candidate, James B.
Weaver, in 1892. He helped write
the Populist Party platform at
the turn of the century.
CIXTY-FIVE next month, Mr..
~ Belts has raised and lowered
congressman for seventeen years.
He once caught corpulent Con-
gresham Woodruff of Michigan
between the closing doors.
NO. Mr.. Woodruff wasn't sore.
He knew J. didn't go to do it."
1t vas when Mr.. Roosevelt came
to deliver his bonus veto that Mr..
Belts kept him waiting. He ran
the elevator nonstop from the
basement level, where members
get aboard. to the floor level, while
the President cooled hi. heels on
the ground floor.
THAT was the Presidents fault"
he remarked. He was 10 minutes
ahead of time"
Due at work at in the morning.
Mr.. Belts arrives at 7, always
dressed as if he were still clerk in
dry goods store in Athens. Pa.
He likes the new elevators. be-
cause they will take a load of
stout congressman without bump
ing in the basement.
Used to be with them old ma
chimes. when there was a heavy
load. we'd hit bottom. And they'd
Blame it on me. but 'twasn't my
fault-it was theirs, for being so
fat"
CONGRESS once met in a brick
~ building that stood on the
site now occupied by the new
marble and limestone Supreme
Court palace. This was after the
British burned the Capitol in
1914. Only a few friends
know that one of the first things
the mother of the late Senator
Bronson Cutting did after his
death was to provide for the fam
lilies of the pilot and co-pilot who
were killed in the crash that cost
her her son.
The NRA is having hard time
making the industrial studies it
is supposed to be doing. The
American Iron and Steel Insti-
tute has refused to submit data
unless it is permitted to review
the findings of the government
experts. Gov. Gene Tai
madge'S INSTRUMENTATION cru
Sading is running into stormy
weather right in his own baili-
wick. At a recent meeting in
Atlanta, Ga. he was heckled so
holly that police had 10 be sum-
moned to keep order.
Copyright. 1885 BY United Featur
Syndicate. Incl
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Explosion Burns Cause Death
By United Press
FIT. WAYNE, Ind, Sept. g.
Burns suffered when gasoline
tank exploded at his home were
fatal here last night to Marion
Smith, 80, Ossian.
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government, which would also find JOBS for people,
regulate their pay and hours and decide how much
they may keep of what they earn.
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Haywood BROUN

XXTILLIAM E. BORAH has been a potential
w presidential candidate for so many years that
there is an inevitable sort of public sympathy built
up for his aspirations. When a channel swimmer
has failed 10 or II times everybody hopes that he
Will have better luck on his next attempt Walter
Johnson had the nation roofing for him when he
finally had chance IL worlds series after years
OF pitching effort People used to get in the mood
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EXPLOSION Burns Cause Death

Tomorrow-The New Ravens
Comet"
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I Fan back in comfort
and light a cigaret.
You'are going 100 miles an
hour but you don't know it.
The spectator sees a
shining shaft of stainless
steel flying along the track
as the Burlington Twin
Zephyr darts by on its way
from Chicago to st. Paul
and Minneapolis. But with
in the train, there is little
sensation of speed. The
traveller who anticipated a
breath-taking experience is
doomed to disappointment.
The predominating sensations
are those of calm, quiet and COM
fort. When he RECEIVERS from his
surprise and begins to analyze the
situation, he begins to see why
this is so.
Remember that old automobile
you drove back in 1911? At 35
miles an hour the engine chugged
violently, the whole car vibrated
feverishly, the wind blew in your
face, and you had the sensation of
going a mile a minute.
Now you frequently drive so
miles an hour in your new, we'll
designed, quiet, smooth-running
car, and there is no particular
sensation of speed. If you have
been up in an airplane, you re-
member how little sensation of
speed there was at 100 miles an
hour.
CMOOTHNESS of operation and
~ absence of noise relieve the
passenger on the Zephyr of the
sensation of speed. The Diesel
power plant is quieter and
smoother in operation than the
putting. pounding steam locomo-
tive.
Another factor which makes for
smoothnesS is the articulated
structure of this three-car train.
The rear end of one car and the
front end of the following car
both rest upon the same truck.
The whole train is one unit.
Consequently, in going around
curves there is none of the creak-
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READ LIE sIoRY. IHEN coLoR THE PIcTuREl

yelled, There's the place" Wee
Scouty looked and saw some land
not very far below.
III get down low. while circling
round, and then you drop of to
the ground" exclaimed the pilot Of
the plane. All right, now, here
we go!"
In just a moment Scouty was a
very tickled lad because he'd made
the short drop safely. Then the
plane sailed out Of sight.
Back to the little ship it went
About a half an hour was spent in
picking up the other TIMES. AL
turned out all right.
Wee Quincy was the last TO land
He shouted Gee, this place looks
grand. A sign upon that archway
read Freak Forest Let's go in"
The plane then sailed by, with a
whirr, and Scouty shouted, Thank
you, sir The pilot answered
You'll find it the strangest place
you've been"