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All rights of republication of all other matter herein are also reserved. (Official City, State and County Newspaper) SMALL, SPENCER, LEVINGS & BREWER (ncorporated) CHICAGO NEW YORK BOSTON How Poll Operates In an interesting letter to the edi- 'tor of the New York Times, William Seavor Wood, editor of the Literary Digest, answers the criticisms of the drys as to the manner in which the straw votes in the Digest’s poll on the liquor issue are being distributed. So ‘great is the national interest in this poll and so much confidence has al- jways been placed in Digest polls of the past, The Tribune considers the letter worthy of publication in toto. It follows: I note with much interest in The Times this morning a state- ment on The Literary Digest pro- hibition poll from Dr. Daniel A. Poling, chairman of the allied forces for prohibition, in which he admits that the poll is honest, but, as you report, he “said the poll was one of the city rather than of the country and of men rather than women, and added that the drys are not voting but should do so.” I have the very highest respect for Dr. Poling, who is one of the notable religious leaders of Amer- ica, and for that reason I feel sure that he wishes to have his facts perfectly straight. The truth is that the poll is of the country rather than of the city. I have before me the figures of our bal- lot distribution for the twenty seven states classified as “rural by the United States Census Bu- reau. These states cast 27.5 per cent of the popular vote, but re- ceived 31.23 per cent of the total number of Digest ballots in the Prohibition poll. This was not done purposely, and we did not | realize it ourselves until critics tried to make the point that it was an urban rather than a rural poll. If they were right, then New York State with its big ci- | ties would receive a bigger pro- | portion of ballots than a rural State like Kansas or Iowa. We find, however, that New York State cast 12.11 per cent of the Popular vote and received only 9.86 per cent of The Digest bal- lots, -while Kansas cast 1.93 per cent of the popuiar vote and re- ceived 2.33 per cent of the Digest. ballots, and Iowa cast 2.74 per cent of the popular vote and re- ceived 3.16 per cent of The Di- gest ballots. More citations would simply emphasize the same Point; the poll is distinctly more rural than urban. Now for the other criticism— that it is a poll “of men rather than women.” To ascertain the truth of this we have taken a complete poll of all names on the list of registered voters for Port- land, Me., one of the original and strongest prohibition States. We mailed 26,556 ballots to these vot- ers, of which 14,598 went to men and 11,958 to women. We re- ceived 6,842 returned ballots, of | which 2,071 were for continuance | of the Eighteenth Amendment, and 4,771 for repeal. Both the men’s and women's votes taken separately showed heavy majori- ties for repeal. We are making no argument for or against prohibition, and are taking our poll with entire impartiality, and all we desire is due credit for the accuracy and integrity of our efforts. Our only suggestion to our dry critics is that they would do much better | to accept the poll at its true value, and shape their strategy accordingly, rather than to try | to obscure its significance by claims which do not stand exam- ination. i The Dry Side With returns from the Literary Di- gest poll showing a tremendous sweep of wet sentiment in the country, it is only fgir to present what the dry's say about the prohibition question. ‘They do not admit for a minute that they are in the minority, straw vote or no straw vote. Of all the dry enthusiasts, none is More sincere or more persistent for | jective is in the final stage of nego- ; London, the British Empire's great- {establishing the ocean base on the jthe logical outlet for an area many America’s total wealth was counted as 329.7 billion dollars, “These are the latest figures of the National Industrial Confer- ence board, New York city, and after a gigantic denial to the claims that prohibition has led the country into a loss instead of @ gain. “Presented alone, the liquor bus- iness loomed large, as it repre- sented $771,000,000 of investment, the brewers and distillers em- Ployed 63,000 men, the saloons employed 400,000 men. But all American manufacttring indus- tries together represented an in- vestment of $18,428,000,000 . and employed 6,615,000 wage earners. “One reason the liquor indus- try produces no real wealth is the fact that liquor requires only 81 employes for each million dol- lars invested while all other manufacturing enterprises taken together required 359 wage earn- ers for each million dollars in- vested. Many large American in- dustries, such as boots, shoes, food, clothing, iron, steel, lum- ber, printing, publishing, wool, knit goods, and foundries, em- ployed 506 men for each million dollars invested.” No attention was paid in the state- ment, issued from the headquarters tot the organization, to those phases late to such things as taxes, bootleg- ging, the spread of crime since pro- hibition, and similar factors. But one thing is certain. It is that the W. C. T. U. has attempted to meet these questions in the past and will attempt to meet them in the future with all of the logic it can command and with @ great deal of fervency and honest patriotism. Profit in Waterways Persons interested in seeing the Great Lakes-St. Lawrence deep water- way become a reality—and that in- cludes nearly everyone here in the Northwest—may obtain new support for their views by examination of the report of the Manchester Ship Canal, one of England's inland waterways. The situation of Manchester was a good deal similar to that of the cities in Mid-continental America. It had great factories and an established trade but they were stagnating in competition with Liverpool because of 35 miles of overland haul. Those 35 miles were a big barrier, so finally a private company, financed largely by Manchester enthusiasts, built a ship canal from Liverpool. Many scoffed | at it as an impracticable dream and sure to lose money. The canal was built at vast expense —and has made money ever since it was opened. At a time when ocean- borne commerce is at its lowest ebb, dividends are being declared on all classes of canal stock and a tidy nest- egg was placed in the surplus fund. Through trial and tribulation the people and interests centered around Manchester fought doggedly on un- til the final goal, the establishment of the ocean rate base at Manchester, had been achieved. Likewise, our landlocked area has fought on against countless odds, until today, its ob-} tiation. Almost immediately after the con- struction of tts sea lane, Manchester's | industries were revived and con- tinued to expand until it is second to est commercial center. It serves one hundred and fifty towns and about eight million people. The Seaway, shores of the Great Lakes, will be times Manchester's. It will raise the economic level in the whole of that vast expanse lying between the Alle- ghenies and the Rockies, with result- ant benefits to coastline regions. All that the Manchester Ship Canal did for the interior of England and consequently for the United Kingdom, the St. Lawrence Seaway will do for the interiors of Canada and the Unit- ed States and consequently for the whole of these two nations. Editorial Comment Editorials printed below show the trend of thought by other editors, They are published without regard to whether they agree or disagree with The Tribune's policies. of the prohibition question which re-| Speaking of Oly mpic Tryouts—! erties iti | th Gilbert. Swan “Shipwreck” Sunk . seee oe New York, March 23.—Shipwreck Kelly, a gent identified with flagpole Perching, has been hero of many a} quaint and whimsical adventure in the course of his unique career, Just the other night,-a tale-teller Passed on several particularly amus- ing chapters. There was, so runs the story, the occasion when Shipwreck found himself the star free attraction of a summer amusement park in the South. But the park managers were not content merely to draw the cur- ious to the gate; they wanted some scheme to “cash in” on the show. Some bright young man came through with a scheme. They would build a stairway parallel with the flagpole, construct a platform on top a few feet from the percher and charge a nickle to go up and take a peek at him. eee This was considered a grand hunch and overnight the platform was built. But it so happened that there was a rival from another amusement spot. As a fellow showman he had heard considerable about Kelly and Kelly's temperament. It seems that Kelly cannot stand being “razed.” It “gets his Irish up.” So the first nickle-paying customer on the new stairway was the rival, bent on “getting ‘Kelly's goat.” Perched but a few feet away from the “champ,” the banterer went to work, kidding, razzing and pestering. | Shipwreck’s temper went up ten points. He sputtered back, so it went —this amusing quarrel on the perch- “Come on down and fight,” chal- lenged the rival. Beginning to see red, Shipwreck accepted the challenge, so the story STIC KERS The first man had six dozen dozen hens and twice 25 roosters. The second man had twice five and 20 hens and half e dozen dozen roosters. Which man had the most of each? _. Chauncey Olcott (New York World-Telegram) Few of the younger generation ever heard the sweet voice of Chauncey Olcott, felt his Irish charm, swal- lowed a lump in the throat as they | listened to’ “Mother Machree” or quickened their heartbeats to “Paddy Whack” and “My Wild Irish Rose.” But many of their clders remem- bered and felt a pang of genuine sor- death at Monte Carlo. Pernicious anemia was what killed him! There was precious little an- emia about him in his prime, with his lively, debonair presence, his ro- guish eye and the light, clear tenor voice that could rollick you or move you to tears as it willed. No wonder the ballad singer is the oldest of all singers. For he sings simple human stories into simple hue man hearts, and that kind of music outlasts symphonies. Old and moving as the harp are Tow when they read yesterday of his + such singers, and Chanucey Olcott its chosen cause than the Women’s Christian Temperance Union. They ‘kept the prohibition movement alive ‘when it was in its infancy and have ‘Proved its strongest support during ‘the present period, when storms rage ‘around 1t. U. on the benefits of prohibition “The total wealth of the Amer- ed as 192 billion dollars. In despite the depression, — was one of the best. Many’s the Irish man and woman—and many more than the Irish—who say, “God rest JUST WOULDN'T MOVE Columbus, O.—About 200 people | had a lot of fun here when they wit- nessed a parking battle between a "The latest declaration of the W. C.j Woman and man motorist. The man was trying to back into a parking place and the woman, at the same time, was trying to drive forward into it. Thé two cars locked bumpers. Nei- ther driver would move. They re- locked for 20 minutes until the police broke up the tangle. An automobile manufacturer must. make parts for a discontinued auto- mobile fof five years, goes, but once he had left his perch, the other had disappeared. Alas, the dirty work had been done. In that wrathful moment Shipwreck had un- perched himself. ** & The Rats Desert Then there was that sad occasion when Shipwreck went aloft on the Paramount Hotel. Intending to run up quite a record, Shipwreck decided that he would make a little money on the side. Before his endurance test began, he went about renting up the many telescopes to be found in public»pla- ces. These ordinarily are rented at a nickle a peep, with the planets and Empire State Building's tip as attrac- tions. Shipwreck paid each telescopic pro- fessor a certain sum to leave his post and set up business in Longacre Square, Kelly figured that the cur- ious Broadway crowds would spill nickles lavishly to get a close-up view from the ground. But he hadn't reckoned with the weather. For days and days New York was hidden behind clouds of fog and mist and sheets of rain. No eye could have penetrated the haze. Shipwreck slumped woefully on his perch, visualizing the loss of his in- vestment. Well, he would wait un- til the sun came out! There would be plenty of time! the big clean-up. The sun finally. peeped through. Kelly looked down on the square. But not a telescope could he observe. The cops, it seemed, had run out the/ | catch-penny merchants. Arrangements were made for the return of several of them. Word was sent up to Kelly. Again he smiled. But the next morning the weather / FLAPPER, FANNY SAYS. Some people’s hardest job is to find one. “. SHOT TOWERS.” MOMIEN LEAD PRCIA HON Tene Mi Saks OF CLD VADER the FORMED INP SeHantck Caoee. as Tey ‘ANO THE WATER HARDENED THE Then would come | turned bad again and for days and days there was no visibility. When the scene cleared Kelly looked down once more, And again all the tele- Scopes had disappeared. Weary of standing around waiting for good weather, the good profes- sors had pocketed Kelly's pay and gone about their business. And he couldn't come down to do anything about it without breaking his con- tract! He had to stay up there a month, or thereabouts. 4 If President Hoover is unpopular, kn it is not due to the Democrats. It is}we might as well expect corruption due to the inevitable impression left |in the coming presidential race. The by the acts of the’ man himself—jpoliticians are not only expecting Jouett Shouse, chairman, National Democratic Executive Committee. xk * Wars in the modern world and be- tween civilized nations are seldom have the politicians, but I have the people—Governor William H. “Alfal- fa Bill” Murray of Oklahoma. I only ask that every gentleman in By DR. MORRIS FISHBEIN Editor, Journal of the American Medical ‘There is a well-defined impression the House of South Carolina I’ve had/@mong doctors and dentists that the @ drink with to vote for this bill and|condition known during the war as it: will pass.—Leste! of South Carolina legislature. i TODAY aniiVERsAny FURTHER GERMAN SUCCESSES On March 23, 1918, the great Ger- man offensive in Picardy continued, the attackers driving the British back Ea than five miles on a 25-mile front German bulletins on the battle said that their troops were on schedule in r Thomas, member | trench mouth, a form of infection of the mouth and gums, is definitely in- creasing in this country. In order to check this contention, Dr. I. Disraeli conducted a survey among public health officials, dental schools and individual dentists as to the fre- quency of the condition as seen in their practices, Between 80 and 90 per cent of the Persons questioned were convinced that the diséase is definitely on the increase. It is, of course, impossible to be certain that this opinion is cor- rect, since the condition is not gen- erally reportable to health authori- ties in the same way that measles, Scarlet fever, diphtheria and similar infectious diseases are reportable. Tt happens that the state of New the drive and had taken more than) york nas made the condition report- 25,000 prisoners. 2 General Gough, and was almost demoralized, the Ger- man reports said. The group in question was composed of 200,000 vet- eran troops. ‘Admitting that the fate of the war| / hung in the balance, French divisions were hastily rushed into the breach made between the British and French lines and succeeded in stopping, for the time, the German assaults. In this phase of the action, 30,000 French troops were opposed by nearly 150,000 Germans. Field Marshal Sir Douglas Haig, in command of the British forces in France, asked for further French and American reinforcements imimediate- ly in view of the prospects for still further attacks from new German divisions reported to have been moved into the salient created by the offens- ive of the three previous days. | Barbs > An Ohio State professor says that depression is a good eye-opener, but it’s not hard to think of a better one. xk OK Poorhouses in three states have been closed because of lack of funds. Well, the drys used to tell us that the poorhouses would close after pro- hibition. ad -_* A half frozen man picked up in Baltimore had more than $1,500 on him. Would yoy call that cold cash? ae oe A student of political science says it, they are counting on it. se * ‘The average man would not be af- fected by the proposed $5 a barrel tax on beer. His production seldom gets | those which can be narrowed down to|that far ahead of consumption. @ formula for submission to a court.| (Copyright, 1932, NEA Service, Inc.) | BEGIN HERE TODAY i 20-year-old, falls in love LARRY HARROWGATE, y. artist, whom al hall hostens, Lnery ti ELIZABETH BOWE tante, but shows att Ellen until bis flanct from Europe. From a sense of gratl Jen ngrece to marry BARCLAY, a kh man of 57 who han pal expenses for her bri injured in a atrect MYRA, Barclay has been married a divorced. Scandal accompan! divorce from LEDA GRAY! dancer, and, fearing thi he revived, he and EI to keep their m tl after they Barclay wit ¢ Europe. offices of GAST, B: SYMES & relny’s attorney: are not, pear: to walt, an: icned after thee CHAPTER XXXV lief. her problem, had himself set her free. because stranger whom she could hurt, “Why postpone it?” manded courageously. “y dear.’ note of high courage, That's what we came for.” And Barclay was content. mony, tic soul. ELLEN ROSSITER, beautital ie meets at Dream- r, MIKE, ccldent, He also finda 2 job for RERT ARM- STHAD, engaged to Ellen's elster, settle n for= 7 zo to ti PRENDER- bat NOW GO ON WITH THE STCRY ELEN was overwhelmed with re Steven's question struck . the chains from her very spirit. To postpone this marriage, to defer it until Steven's retu?n from Lon- don—that would give her five blessed weeks in which to conquer She need not go ahead. The man who loveg her Then she looked at Steven and saw in his eyes the despair he could not hide. She knew she could not take advantage of such quixotic generosity. She under. stood Steven had made the offer be- cause he was the person he was, understood that she must refuse it © was the person she was. She saw Steven again as a beloved friend. He was not 8 she de thought you might like to, my “I wouldn't,” she told him ons “I want to be married today with Myra. They were. married in a tiny white painted church with green leafy branches rustling against the windows and letting through spots: of sunshine that speckled the red carpet, The minister’s wife cut flowers from her garden for the al- tar and played “Oh Promise Me” at the organ just before the ceré ‘The minister's wife was a roman- She did not dream that the last note of the song made El- len thin of an ocean liner’s whis- tle and of the final warning, “All ashore that’s going ashore.” She did not guess that as the organ wheezed to silence and Ellen fought down the sheer panic that made her want to rush from the church and the pale, beautiful bride was thinking it was too late now to go ashore. The gangplank was raised. v. Then as the minister began to speak Ellen saw Steven’s adoring eyes smiling into her’s and was afraid no longer. How could she be afraid of one who loved her so? Her response was clear and steady. She heard Steven's voice. Then there was a frosty circle of. Platinum and diamonds on her fin- ger, and Steven bent to kiss her. The minister smiled his congratu- lations and Ellen heard Molly sob. It was over. She was Mrs. Steven “Steven called her that first and left the Rev. Mr. Southey disap- pointed. Molly rushed up to kiss her and to kiss her new son. Myra who had become a bride five min- utes earlier was kissing them both and comparing her ring with El- len’s while Bert, a little in the background, looked shyly on and thought his own bride the most beautiful girl in the world, ee EUteN, still in a world of un- Teality, was resolving to be the best wife in the world to Steven. She accepted the arm he offered, clung to it and looked up confident- ly at her husband, her eyes lumi- nous and solemn as a child’s eyes. Together they walked out into the sunshine, There was rice after all—a small bag of it flung by Mrs. Southey from the steps of the church. The pell of solemnity disappeared in @ burst of hysterical laughter. Refreshments had been prepared in the parsonage, a tiny, white house in the shadow of the church, but the wedding party was too hur- tled to stop, much to Mrs, Southey’s disappointment. She stood on the sidewalk, shaded by a great oak tree, and waved until the big car was out of sight. ‘They had scarcely been gone & quarter of an hour before Louis Symes, Barclay’s lawyer, leaped from @ roadster that had come roaring down the highway, fran- tically rang the parsonage door bell and demanded to see Steven at once. Mrs, Southey, in a fever of interest and excitement, told had all ready where the bride ané bridegroom were bound, haps— “Let moe see your hushand,” Symes cut her short, Almost ‘before she had pointed out her ‘husband's study, Symes was striding across the room, knocked on the door and was in- \side. Within five minutes the study door burst open again. The lawyer raced from the house and She, thought per- able since 1922. Even though all of tics as are available indicate that Vincent's agina or trench mouth has increased tenfold from 1922 through 930. In Illinois the disease was made re- Daily Health News” ‘TRENCH MOUTH SHOWS RAPID INCREASE SINCE WAR Use of Sodium Perborate as Wash is Certain Cure portable in 1930, but the ruling is not strictly enforced and few den- tists or physicians realize that the disease is reportable. There is @ well-defined impression that this disease is spread by eating and drinking in restaurants and in other places where a considerable clientele is served and where precau- tions in the washing of dishes are not exceedingly strict. It is of course well known that the disease may be spread by direct contact such as oc- curs in kissing. Control of Vincent’s angnia *de- mands the utmost precaution on the part of the public generally afd on the part of those who have the dis- ease to make certain that they do not spread it. It demands special care in the handling of dishes, glasses, towels and every other material that may come in contact with the infected individ- In this disease, small patches, gray and ulcerating, appear around the teeth and gums, on the cheeks and even in the throat. Some time ago it was shown that the disease is controllable through the use of an inexpensive substance Cesig sodium perborate as a mouth wash. : READY, TO START, COSMIC RAY HUNT, gael Dr. Arthur H. Compton, University of Chicaga physicist and Nobel prize winner, is shown lining up his cosmic ray-detecting apparatus be- fore leaving on a tour of the world’s most prominent mountain tops, He Intends to take “counts” of cosmic ray frequency and intensity in many Parts of the world. down the shady sidewalk to his car. The Rev, Mr. Southey came from his study and paced the floor, a sign that he was deeply agitated. He did not respond to Mrs. South- ey’s anxious questions. He only told her that they both must hope Mr, Symes could locate his client. A few hours later while Symes was scouring New York for them Ellen and Steven made their last visit to Mike at the hospital. The boy was excited and nervous be- cause of the crowd in his room. He did not know whether to laugh, cry or be cross. When Bllen at- tempted to take him into her arms, Mike wriggled free to demand it she would bring him something from London. Ellen assured him: she would. But she‘ felt the familiar pang the child had been so adept at causing lately. Just then he did something with the peculiar graciousness of childhood which made her forget. Mike stretched out one brown little paw and grabbed Steven's cuff, “I'm awful glad Ellen married is you,” he announced frankly. “I like you.” They all laughed. Myra de- manded to know if he were not glad she had married Bert. In a fit of shyness Mike refused to an- swer. Ellen had been made proud and happy, and despite Mike's pro- tests, she gathered his head into her arms and gave him one of their old bear hugs. She did not know just why she should feel so grate- ful to him, eee ‘HERE were tearful goodbys on the hospital steps and one hor- rible moment when Ellen felt she could not leave Myra and Molly and almost said so. Then the next minute she and Steven were in the car. There was no chauffeur now. “I wanted to be alone with you,” Steven said as whirled away. They were driving to his coun- try home—now her home, too, a great house on Long Island that had been put in order and opened Just for that night. It was not so many miles from Manhattan, just & pleasant drive through the still, breathless evening. When they were clear of traffic and on the long, silver road Steven pulled her close to him. She dropped her head to his shoulder. Strange that she had never be- fore thought. of Steven driving a car. She felt safe and secure as she watched his hands, steady at the wheel. Would life with him be always safe? Suddenly she knew that she was hungry. ; “We're almost there now,” Bar- clay told her, almost as if he read her thoughts. “The place. isn't staffed—just the butler. But he'll you've eaten. today?” “I haven't,” she admitted, awfully hungry.” “We'd have eaten im town if only thought! fous for you to see the place that| “I'm They drove on through the Sep- tember night. a Ellen felt small and insignificant, not married at all, as the car turned through high iron gates, crackled up a smooth driveway that was like a long, white ribbon, and at last hesitated beneath the Porte cochere of a great stone house, windows on the lower floor. i bested had driven through land- caught a glimpse of the swimming pool gleaming with stars. Stevens had pointed out the stables and tennis courts, had spoken of golf and boating. Could this be home? Could this ever be home to her? . She had tion that he and she might be dropped into separate wings of the Sreat house and be unable to find each other for days. When they were inside it was not like that at all. ‘i They entered a long, softly lighted living room with strange gleams of copper from the walls and the soft shine of old and well worn furniture, The room was per- fect even to a copper bowl of yel- low roses on the coffee table beside & rosy wood fire lighted against the chill outside. about her, silent with delight, Why had she been so afraid of wealth when this was what wealth brought? breath away. “Do you like the place, Ellen?” Steven asked softly, “Oh—so much!” “My darling, darling wife,” ho whispered. Th husky, whispered voice that filled her heart with panic, not now! Not until she had a little while— Steven must have read her face, When he was beside her he put an arm about her shoulder and led her to a place by the fire, She heard him speaking, “We'll have that food,” quietly, ae nect gus. With that he was gone, trembled as she saw ey pe Foc. le waited five minutes, 10 - utes and with each passing es ment she felt her courage revive, She -began to wish that he would return, ne os the coffee table were @ morning newspaper: Me eked and tetas ane lanced casually at the head)! then Aprah to turn the ps ee Search of a favorite col have food for us, 1 don’t belleve| the society page Dipped nh Daused. t There was a brief announcentent that the engagement between Law. Y'a|Tence Harrowgate and Elizabeth But I was so anx-| Bowes had been broken. to be our home, Ellen.” Lights burned from all the eee scaped grounds and she had judden hysterical no- Ellen looked Beauty that took the re was something in the Not now— “The bells aren't ° d and I'll have to find Fer Ellen that he had How good he was! Uncreased, She As she (To Be Continued) 4 * | a a r