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"¢ FRANKS CASE HELD CHALLENGE T0 AGE Noted Chicagoans Discuss Reactions Toward Brutal Slaying. SERIOUS POINTS RAISED < Might Mean Start of Decadent Era in America, Poet Believes. BY MARY FIELD, CHICAGO, July 26.—Can the crime of Nathan Leopold, jr., and Richard Loeb be traced directly to environ- ment or does its explanation lead back into the hidden sources of here- dity? According as we take one view or the other, we align ourselves with cither the prosecution or the de- fense. The prosecution accepts the statement of the lads that they com- mitted murder “for the sake of the thrifl” With much evidence on his side, Prosecuting Attorney Crowe locks to environment for the source of this crime 1f the prosecution’s contention is correct, then this case is of social Im- rortance. Then it has an immediate bearing upon the rearing of children and constitutes a challenge to Amer- ican institutions and ideals, as well as to our accepted formula for hap- Piness and success. Can Wealth Be Blamedt Can a crime such as this be ac- scounted for by the possession of great “wealth? Can it be attributed to the fast pace of modern youth? Can it be mhat education is at rauit? I askedq these questions of three #thoughtful people. a psychologist, a \Poet and a sociologist, all three of Whom have thought and written much about humanity in its normal and Dathological aspects. 1 asked Dr. Ellsworth Faris, pro- fessor of social psychology at the Uni- yersity of Chicago. He was Richard Yoeb's teacher. ; . 1 asked Carl Sandburg, the poet, a ¢ keen observer of human phenomena. T asked Jane Addams, who has con- tracted life in its many aspects and phases. Each one agreed that the tremend- ous interest aroused by this case was more than the morbid curiosity over a murder, but that in some blind, wise, blundering, open-mouthed way, society had felt a challenge in this case, and in Anglo-Saxon fashion, had gonc about examining old accepted \ faiths. Automatic Thinking. “Perhaps the deepest significance of this case” said Dr. Ellsworth Faris, “is that it has called attention to our habit of automatic thinking, to axiomatic beliefs which we have accepted without examining for our- selves. “A short time ago Richard Loeb wrote a thesis for me on the food taboos of the Jews. There is an illustration in point. People who contmue to live by these dietary laws do not think about them, reason them out for themselves. Their be- liefs are automati “Most of our so-called thinking is 4 of this character. The reason people prescribe hanging for murders, pre- scribing the remedy before diagnos- ing, is because it is an old and famidiar practice. We are brought up to it, accustomed to its practice from childhood. We don't think about it. We act automatically. We then, without original thinking, justify our action by endowing the criminal with the capacity to choose between right and wrong. That makes it right for society to hang. But on the part of most people, this thinking is auto- matic. Question Education. *“As an axiom, we believed that edu- cation would save an indlvidual from crime, and when, as with two extraor- dinarily well educated boys, it failed signally to do so, we question the Value of education instead of inquir- ing into the truth of our belief. “Education is not a way of salva- tion. Education is a tool, not to be discarded because it did not save SPECIAL NOTICES. PTANG — REPAIRING. SPECTAL SOUMMER st. free. ‘Geo. M. M. Walker. Col. .w., formerly head tuner nabe Co. K N. HOLMES WILL PURCHASE THE iz ctionery_and notion business of Mrs.'Margaret E. Wood, located at 1300 E &t s.w.. city. All claims and accounts against #aid business should be presented within five @ays to Attorney Hewitt Griggs Robertson, 705 Tist. Natl. Bank bidg.. Washington, D, G, o I WILL NOT BE RESPONSIBLE FOR ANY debts contracted by any one other than my ®elf. W. E. TUCKER, 1418 N. 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No one thinks of discarding chisels and a tomobiles because they are instru- ments of death in the hands of slayers, “Education to be of salvation must have penetrated to the instincts, to the origin and mainspring of action. No one is truly educated until_he knows how to use his education. Not until the word is made flesh and dwells within us are we truly edu- cated persons. “Education in the hands of a Pas- teur becomes a blessing to mankind. In the hands of Anatole France, who too, was precocious, a delight. Only An Instrument. “Another of our axiomatic beliefs is that in regard to money. Are we, contemplating this case, to discard the school and church ' taught ex- amples of financial successes—the poor boy who strains nerve and mus- cle toward the accumulation of a for- tune? Henceforth are we not to heed the advice of those who counsel thrift in order that eventual comfort may be attained for ourselves and our ¢hildren? “If wealth and the environment it creates is the direct cause of this crime, then those men and women who are now struggling to. bring lelsure and culture. and wealth to their children are working toward unsooial goals, xnd may be even the unconscious accessorics to future crime, N “Wealth is only an instrument, like education; a blessing in the hands of benefactors, a misfortune in hands like these boys.” Value of Freedom. And what of freedom, the new free- dom youth has wrenched for itself from its elders? Did that new free- dom, with its expression in jazz and speed and impatience at intellectual restraint or self-imposed inhibition bring about this crime? Is that the social significance that parents should consider? Education, wealth, self-expres- sion, all seem to have failed to pre- vent- this crime, all the foundations upon which we build a future of happiness and normal living seem tottering. 1 asked Dr. Faris if these factors having failed with these youths now being tried for murder, should we continue to trust in them—education, precocity, wealth, freedom. Of Use as Tools. “To trust them as tools,” he sald, “and not as ways of salvation; sharp tools, two-edged tools, cutting both ways, tools which may be used either for or against society, depending upon the Instincts of the individual who possesses them. The important tactor Is instinct.” 1 asked the poet, Carl Sandburg, if he thought this case had soclal sig- nificance, or was it of dramatic in- terest only. “Its significance is cultural” he sald. “It has had a cultural effect upon the more thinking portion of the people. It is making men and women pause in their judgments, making them ask questions, putting new words in their vocabularies, new tools for thought, making them listen to scientific reasons, accustom- ing them to the scientific method of procedure in the analysis of crime. Both prosecution and defense use the findings of scientists to support their claims. The influence of this case tried in this way will have tre- mendous cultural value and no doubt influence .profoundy our attitude toward crime. Red With Race Riota. “Chicago is a city that has glowed red with violent race riots. It has swarmed and lynched and burned. It has frothed with hysteria over the alleged crimes of anarchists and ox- ecuted mob violence. “Yet here in our city was a her- rible and revolting crime. But the challenge of this case with its back- ground of wealth -and opportunity and education—extraordinary condi- tions—bafles our _citizens, here. everywhere. Here, there, thoughtful people are taking stock of their beliefs, examining their formulas for Success, becoming a little less sure. These boys have sold their American birthrights. How could they do it! People are bewildered. Familiar §lema along the road to iife are torn down by this crime. “America Is Healthy.” “But it is in these moments of bewilderment, in these moments of examination and revaluation, that a person or a people grow intellectu- ally. Any act, even though it be a crime, that makes a whole nation think, withhold _ judgment. read evidence on both sides, listen to the words of society’s wise men, has tremendous cultural value and hence social significance. 2 “Egypt, Greece and Rome reached that pinnacle of culture and civiliza- tion when its rich and leisured and perfumed youths became decadent; racking satiated, blase brains for new trills, resorting to orgy for stimulation, practising strange rites " Could it be; Carl Sandburg asked himself, that this crime was socially significant in that it marked the Ve- ginning of a similar period of decay of our sturdy American civilization? Did this crime foreshadow the de- generation of American youth, rich beyond all youths? Interest In Lite. No, America’s healthy,” he answer- ed himself. “The interest in this Franks case shows that. Interest is life. Interest is health. The case is not' so significant as is the reaction of soclety to it. Why, this nation has had mental energy enough to think about this crime, to think about the retationship of crime to environment, to heredity, to think about responsi- bility. That's a long step for people to take. It is significant that with the commission of a shocking crime people have been bewildered rather than seen red.” And 50 I came to the wise woman— Jane Addams. “The social significance of this case,” she said, “may be its contri- bution to our understanding of the workings of such- brains as these boys'. Equipped with such scientific data, society may prevent the recur- rence of another murder. “The whole case is exceptionally weird and behind it must lie a back- ground of shadows. The #cientific explanation of a case such as this may mean that we will have to re- vise our attitude toward certain ab- normalities. It may seem that we will have to consider certain aspects of life, certain deviations from what is calied normal, from a scientific and historic point of view rather than from the punitive one. “It is a strange fact” she added, “that society itself is so often edu- cated by its abnormal members; di- rectly through its geniuses and ideal- ists, and then sometimes indirectly by those guilty of crime, who through their very act cause a deeper and profounder. understanding of this mystery called life.” Copyright, 1924, in United States, Great Britain and’ Canada by North American News- paper Alliance. All right reserved. —_— Flowers for All Occasions Order your favorite blooms Gude, 1212 F.—Advertisement. MACLEAN DIVORCE SUIT WITHDRAWN BY WIFE Maine Grand Jury Returns No True Bill, But Woman Charges Husband Smothered Child. By the Amociated Press. TACOMA, Wash., July 26.—The di- vorce suit filed against Kenneth R. MacLean, student of Bowdoin College, Brunswick, Me., by Nettie Volk Mac- Lean, child-wife, who figured in the death of the MacLean baby last Feb- ruary, has been withdrawn on the motion of Mrs. MacLean. The reason advanced today by attorneys was that the expense of obtaining evi- dence in Maine is too heavy. No reconciliation is to be effected, it is declared. A esuit for alienation of affection brought by Mrs. MacLean for $35.000 against Mr. and Mrs. A. R. MacLean, parents of Kenneth, still is pending. A no-true bill was returned by the Maine grand jury when the hearing was held there to fix the blame for the baby's death upon either or both of the MacLeans. However, in her divorce papers.now’ withdrawn, Mrs. MacLean charged her husband- with smothering the year-old gm. from WHEN IS MARSHAL NOT A MARSHAL? When, Reclassification Says, He’s a Bailiff, Tenant Asserts to Court. MAY UPSET MANY CASES Papers Served by Deputies Under New Salary Scale Declared Illegal Proces: Reclassification may play havoc with the cases which have been filed in the Municipal Court since July 1 in which summons have been served on defendants by men who before that date were known as depty marshals, but have since been classified as bailifts. . The law says. that subpoenas, especially in landlord and tenant cases, must be served by the marshal, but even if a deputy has all the pow- ers of his chief, a balliff is not so empowered and a service by a ballift is illegal. ¥ Tenant Is Challenger. This contention was put forward yesterday before Judge Charles W. Meehan " by Emanuel M. Hewlett, counsel for a tenant named Mills, who had been sued for possession by his landlord, named Smith. One of the former deputies, who recently suf- fered the loss of his bonus of $240 by the decision of the Re-classification Board, served the notice of trial on Mills. ~ Attorney Hewlett entered a special appearance for his client and urged before Judge Meehan that the service was bad because not made by a United States marshal or his deputy. Judge Meehan gave Attorney A. W. Scott until tomorrow to find an au- thority by which a bailiff may serve court summons and stated that unless the lawyer for the landlord could change the mind of the court he would hold that the bailiff is not em- powered to serve papers. May Affect Other Cases. Should the court be of the same mind tomorrow, it is likely that a number of suits may be thrown out ot court whers service of the papers ve_been made by th, y- bt ¥ the newly-styled he court was told that 17 of deputies had been designated !:: bailiffs under the new arrangement of salaries and their pay reduced $240 a year. The others remained as deputy marshals and are being paid at a rate which absorbed the bonus, it is said. The ruling of Judge Meehan will be awaited with interest, both by law- yers and bailiffs. The latter may get their bonus back as a result of the court’s finding, it is suggested. LOEB AND LEOPOLD OF DISEASED MINDS, DEFENSE TO CLAIM (Continued from First Page.) cial report. * He asked about th consumed in completing 1o ¢ M “Just give your best judgment. T am not trying to get you to say something you might not want to,” he assured the witnes: 3 They agreed on weeks” as the inter “There were a few more perfunc- tory questions. Then Mr. Darrow suddenly raised his volce and shot his accusation of falsehood. Gortland's denial came without hesitation. Mr. Crowe, on redirect examination, brought out that Gortland had volun- teered the information Thursday evening. “Friendly Judge” Remark. Attorney Darrow gained the last word by having Gortland atate again that he had written out in full a con- versation with Leopold at the Hotel La Salle, but had written nothing on the defendant’s alleged hope for the “friendly judge.” In the presence of the court and spectators today the bearing of the defendants was in marked contrast with that of previous days. Earlier in the week they sat for noticeable intervals apparently pay- ing only casual attention to the pro- ceedings. They talked light heart- edly and whispered frequently in jovial mood to their attorneys and guards. Today, however, the lads sat through the 2-hour session under ap- parent self-restraint. They appeared to pay strict attention to the trial, and spoke to each other only on two or three occasions—in sharp contrast to the jaunty demeanor of other days. And yet, outside the court- room, the restraint seemed tossed to the winds, and the easy nonchal- ance of the young students was again in evidence. Jaunty Once Again. “With our looks and Darrow’s brains, I think we'll get along pretty well,” was_Leopold's- comment after he and his fellow prisoner were taken back to the jail. Nathan Leopold's spectacles, set in an imitation tortoise shell fram . e,the slender clue on which the State's at- torney began the examination of the two youths, were again before the court today. They were identified positively by Jacob Weinstein, head of the optical house which produced them, as those constructed accord- ing to the specifications on a job ticket bearing Leopold's name. The prescription had been previ- ously identified by the optician who drew up the formula. It was these glasses, found near young Franks' body, that first led the investigators to the home of Leopold. Large pictures of the spectacles, the only clue in the hands of the police, were printed in newspapers several days after the body was discovered and opticians and oculists were asked to assist in_identifying them by means of the lens anaiysis printed be- side_the photographs. Added also to the mountain of evidence today were half a hundred large photographs taken by the state’s attorney's forces during the investgation. They were taken, the state ex- plained, to preclude 'the loss of im- portant parts of the story through the possible inaccessibility of wit- nesses. All were identified by Edgar H. Y. the photographer in charge. On Monday the state plans to offer testimony calculated to identify the handwriting of the prisoners. Then will come the testimony of John Levinson, son of another wealthy family, who was once considered as a possible victim of the slayers in- stead of young Franks, and Irving Hartman, ‘a school mate, who was the last person to see Franks alive. The grand finale of the state's case probably will come in the afternoon, when stenographers will be called t% read the confessions of the defend- ants. Then, perhaps Tuesday morn- ing, the defense will begin. —_— WILL CONTINUE STRIKE. New Haven Railroad Shopmen Not Ready to Quit. NEW HAVEN, Conn., July 26.—At a meeting here tonight, members of the railroad shop craftsmen’s organi- zation of the New York, New Haven and Hartford Rallroad, by an “over- whelming vote” decided to continue the shopmen's strike which has been in effect since July 1, 1922. It is understood that there were fewer than a dozen dissenting: votes on the question of continuing the strike, while the number ifi favor of. W0 or three it was over 300. 7 COUZENS DISAVOWS INITIATIVE IN MOVE FOR BUREAU PROBE (Continued from First Page.). sonally was opposed to going ahead with the investigation and, if the committes decided to go ahead, he would have to resign as chairman, which he did. The committee then accepted his resignation and elected me as_chairman Senator Watson wired Senator Ernst at Denver and got his permission to cast his ballot. “Considerable discussion was had as to the selection of an attorney to study the complaints and prepare for a continuance of the investigation: Numerous names were suggested, but no agreement was reached yesterday. The committee by unanimous vote decided to leave the selection of an attorney and such other officials as may be necessary to the chairman, Senator Watson, and Senator Jones. However, Senator Watson asked to be excused and the selection of the assistants necessary for the commit- tee was left to the decision of Senator Jones and myself. “A resolution was passed authoriz- ing the chairman, at the instance of any member of the committee, or on bis own election, to ask the Treasury Department for any information any member of the committee might deem necessary or advisable for carrying on the investigation. It was the im- pression of the committee that if rea- sonably prompt action was had in securing an attorney and other help, it would take the month of August' for them to get organized and make plans for opening the hearings, coupled with the fact that severai members of the committee had pre- pared certain questionnaires which they desired the Treasury Department to answer. In view of this it was decided that the committee would then adjourn until 10 a.m. September 2. Every resolution was unanimous- 1y carried, " “It 1s the committee's intention to investigate the income tax unit and the prohibition unit of the Internal Revenue Bureau for the purpose of seeing whether the laws are being properly carried out, and Nf any amendments to the laws would im- prove the functioning of the Internal Revenue Bureau. The committee is going into the matter with an en- tirely open mind as to conditions and as to what they might find or recom- mend to Congress when it convenes again.” Senator Watson, on learning of the Michigan Senator’s public statement. also summarized the events leading up. to the committes meeting in a statement of his own. Watson Iasues Statement. “Senator King, Senator Ernst and I are members of a subcommittee on the Mayfield case which met at At- lantic City about three weeks ago,” he said. At that time Senator King said he wanted to find out what Sen- ator Couzens and Senator Jones want. ed to do with refercnce to the com- mittee appointed to Investigate the Internal Revenue Bureau, saying that he regarded the action of the Senat as a mandate to proceed. About 1 days ago he and Senator Jones came Into my office in the Senate Office Cullding to talk with me about the procedure. 1 said that I was op- posed to any investigation whatever and that 1'did not believe that we had a right to meet during a recess. Senators Jones and King sald that they would look that question up and report to me later. “Three or four days after that they came back and Senator King had a legal opinion on that subject which he had prepared, showing that the committee had a right to sit during recess. At that time they suggested that they wanted Senator Couzens present, and thereupon Senator Jones Suggested that 1 get the secretary of Senator Congens to come to my office to ascertain his whereabouts. Senator Couzedsh secretary came to my office and informed me that Sen- ator Couzens was on his farm near Detroit, but probably could be reached by telephone, and’ stating that he would put in a call. “Within a few minutes my tele- phone bell rang, apd I'found Senator Couzens at the other end of the line. L told him that Senators King and Jones were in my office at the time and wanted to know whether or not he wanted to proceed with the hear- ings. He stated that he did, and then I told him that they wanted me to tell him to come on to Washington. He sald that he would leave that night, which he did. 1 told him on the tele. phone that I was opposed to any hear- ing, but that_the other members of the committe e were present and wanted to proceed. “I have persistently opposed these Investigations and made two speeches on the floor of the Scnate voicing my opposition. I resigned as chair- m3n of this subcommittee because 1 could not consistently retain that position while opposing the activities of the committee. It s very doubt- ful whether I shall remain as a mem- ber of the committee at all if they insist on sitting during the cam- paign.” —— RYAN CHAMPION BUSTER. Montana Wins Chief Event at Cheyenne’s Annual Roundup. CHEYENNE, Wyo., July 26.—P; Ryan of Miles City. Mont.. was pro. claimed world ~ champlon broncho buster, and Miss Lorena Trickey of Prineville, Ore, ~was hailed the champion cow girl rider of the world here yesterday. The grand finale of the 1924 Cheyenne frontier days' celebration was their coronation. Ryan, by his victory here, gains 120 points toward the Ro. trophy, now held by Yakima C; Jho won it last year at Pendieton, re. — KOREANS GIVEN LIBERTY. Russia to Allow Them to Form Own Government. ‘The Korean Commission here ye: terday declared it had received a dis- patch from Seoul to the effect that the Russian Soviet government had decided to permit Korean residents of Russian territory to establish “their own Republican government and conduct their national affairs under that government.” The first step, it was sald, will be a convention répresenting all Ko- reans in the Russian ' maritime provinces. — THREE HURT IN WRECK. Automobile Overturns in Ditch Near \Sflver Spring. Three persons were injured on the road near Silver Spring, Md., last night when an automoblie operated by C. F. Warner, forty-five, of River- dale, Md., was formed into a ditch by another car on the road, where it struck a culvert and overturned. Mrs. Warner and a daughter Jean, aged six years, as well as the hu; band, were taken to Casualty Hospi- tal for treatment. Warner suffered a broken jaw; Mrs. Warner sustained cuts and bruises and the child's col- bone was broken. Nong of them is in a serious condition. The auto- mobile was wrecked. AMUSEMENTS. Chevy Chase Lake Presents BEN LEVIN and RAY KENDRICKS Popular Eutertainers Lower Pavilien, 10:20 P.M. Great Falls Par Free - Admission Week D"c?.:dn:'_s"‘" o g e e tien with Great Falls ears laviag Ress'yn WOMEN-N TARRING EPISODE MAKE UP Wife Now Says She Was Driven to Attack Miss Grandon by Men. SCORE NAMED FOR Quiz Eight Released on Bail, While Vietim and Assailant Are Held at Myersville, Md. By the Awociated Press. FREDERICK, Md., July 26.—Mrs. Mary Shank, held in jail here in de- fault of $2,000 bail as the ring leader in the tarring and feathering of Miss Dorothy Grandon at Myersville Thursday night, today disclaimed the responsibility she assumed for the af- fair, when she testified at the prelim- inary hearing last night and laid the blame for it on men of the village. Harry Leatherman, one of the eight men released in $2,000 bail, and who denied knowledge of where the tar and feathers came from, was named by Mrs. Shank as the ring leader. Tar was taken from a road oiling outfit, she said, and a woman ripped the feathers from a pillowcase. Mrs. Shank declared that she was threat- ened with the same treatment accord- ed to Miss Grandon if she did not ap- Py the coat of materials to the vic- tim of the mob's rage. Witnesses at the preliminary hearing, she added, refused to give information under pain of also being tarred and feath- ered. ‘Women Become Friends. Prisoners in the same cell tier at the jail, and with the corridor ac- cessible to both, Mrs. Shank, who had accused Miss Grandon of improper re- lations with her husband, Lloyd Shank, and Miss Grandon have recon- ctled their differences, the latter say- ing she had forgiven the Myersville ‘woman for beating her and declaring that she would ask the court to be lenient when the cases are called for trial at the September term, in the event there are indictments by the grand jury. Myersvilie, the village where the outbreak occurred, is reported divided over the episode. some persons de- nouncing the conduct of the mob that attacked Miss Grandon after she heeded the sheriff's orders and was leaving the town, and others ap- proving it. The Grandon woman was a mile and a half from the village when she was attacked. “Sheriff Albaugh said today mnames of ‘24 persons alleged to be impli- cated in the tarring and feathe of Miss Grandon are in possession of State Attorney William M. Storm, it was learned tonight. Evidence secured by the prosecutor at the pre- Mminary hearing last night, together with other facts laid before him to- night {ndicates that 15 addltional per- sons have been f{mplicated in the affair in addition to the 9 already held for the grand jury. Lloyd Shank, husband of Mrs. Mary Shank, who admitted applving the tar and feathers to Misx Grandon, and who in accused by his wife of being too familiar with the victim of the moh visited both women at the county jaii today. Miss Grandon blamed Shank for the plight of the two women, it was raid. but he appeared to divide hix attention equally between them.” Mrs. Shank, whose evidence at the trial, police sald, tended to protect the men accused with her, went to fail in default of bail and tonight there were no indications that she would be at liberty at an early date. Penniless and without friends. a stranger in the community, Miss Grandon is held in $500 bail as a ma- terial witness for the prosecution. KLAN SPECTER APPEARS AGAIN TO HAUNT DREAMS OF DAVIS (Continued from First Page.) _ governorship nomination, but that he might run. * % % % This intimation created a decided flurry among the Democrats, who visioned in a contest between Gov. Smith and the New York_mayor a situation that might have serious bearing upon the presidential elec- tion in November. A split among the Democrats over the governorship nomination might imperil the carry- ing of* the State by John W. Davi Telephone Col. 4630 T ARGONNE : New Lincoln 2 TR, LTI, 15th St. and N. C. 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On the contrary, he has pledged his support to President Cool- idge and Gen. Dawes and will stump the State for the Republican national and State tickets. The Republicans believe they “have a look-in” in Nebraska, notwithstand- ing the presence of Gov. Bryan on the ticket for Vice President. Gov. Bryan is reported to have made some Vigorous enemies by taking sides in the con- test for the governorship following his retirement. Reprisals are hinted at through the national ticket. * kK ¥ 2 Republican leaders do not intend to let it be taken for granted that be- cause he is from West Virginia, John W. Davis has a mortgage on the vote of that State in the electoral college, but propose to make a vigorous fight for the State. West Virginia has been enjoying wonderful prosperity, grow- ing out of industries established dur- ing the war. The Republican argu- ment will be that the prosperity must he maintained by keeping the Repub- lican tariff law in force and that it would be impaired if Democratic tar- iff doctrines are enacted. iy A recent dispatch from Maine where Mr. Davis is sojourning inti- mated that the Democratic presiden- tial candidate may not be as radical on tariff reduction as the party pro- poses. He is talking now of a “com- petitive” tariff, which is construed to mean one which will recognize to a degree the protection principle. Tt is regarded as quite possible that he may put the soft pedal on tarift reduction. * k¥ % Reports from New York tell of a ¢ be presumed to achusetts, Connecticut Ny It is the attitude of busirn toward the Democratic national ticket. - While there is no complaint of Democrats as to John W. Davis' candidacy, there is said to be growing apprehcnsion of Charles W. 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The independent candidacy of La Follette for President and Wheeler for Vice President has the immediate extra burden of placing their electors on the ballot and secur- ing organization in the different States. This work is handicapped for lack of funds. “The immediate need for money is urgent. Prompt remittances to Treasurer W. T. Rawleigh, Morrison Hotel, Chicago, will be welcomed. A hundred dollars now will be worth a thousand dollafs later in the cam- palgn. The exaggerated statements recently carried in the press regard- ing the amount of money to be raised do_not help pay any bills." During the day Representative Nel- son and Mr. Ekern both conferred with Senator La FKollette, as_did Oswald Garrison Villard, New York editor. Representative La Guardia, Republican, o New York, who during the last session of Congress was identified with the insurgent bloc in the House, consulted with the cam- paign committee particularly with re- gard to the situation in New York ate. ‘WHEELER CONFIDENT. Expects to Carry Every State West of Mississippi River. SOUTHWELL FLEET, Mass, July 26.—Senator Burton K. Wheeler of Montana, vice presidential candidate on the La Follette ticket, arrived here today for a brief vacation. He expressed the belicf that the La kol- lette-Wheeler ticket would carry every State west of the Mississippi. STATE PARTY IN ILLINOIS. La Follette Supporters May Also Name State Ticket. CHICAGO, July 26.—Supporters of Robert M. La Follette for President are expected to create a State party at a convention hefe tomorrow to further the Wisconsin Senator's can- didacy. A party name and emblem may be adopted and a State ticket se- The Triangle of I : : . v THE SUNDAY STAR, WASHINGTON, D.- C. JULY 27, 1924—PART 1. ; 3 e s e S e e L 3 lected. Charles J. MeGowan, Chicago, chairman of the Illinols Conferenca for Progressive Political Action, will preside. At preliminary conferences today the name “La Follette Progressive” was suggested as the: name of the independent party in lllinois, with the “Liberty bell” as the party em- em. WILL AID LA FOLLETTE. By the Associated Press. INDIANAPOLIS, Ind., July 26.- Plans for carrying on the campaign in Indiana in behalf of the La Follette-Wheeler ticket were inaug- urated today by the executive com- mittce of the “Indiana Progressive Tolitical Action League. The committee, Session, met again tonight to perfect after a three-hour a set of campaign plans that will be laid before La Follette supporters here tomorrow. H. F. Magill of Valparaiso, Ind member of the executive commit said that the principal discussi today’s meeting concerned the of indorsing State candidate that final action on_ this question would be left to the State convention the State to be W. L. Putnam Dies on Raft. COTUIT, Mass., July 26.—Willi; Lowell Putnam of Boston, in-law of A. Lawrence Lowell, dent of Harvard Univer: denly today on a raft while at the latter's Summer h ~ He ha been bathing alone. Mr. Putnan an attorney of high standing, was 7. years of age, and director of a scor of industrial organizations = = = | ON GALLON OF GAS | A new auton | lating device ha John A. Stransky Pukwana, South which automobiles from 40 to 57 miles on a gallon of ' gasoline. It removes all carbon and prevents spark plug trouble and overheating. It can be in- stalled by any one in five minutes. Mr. Stransky wants agents and is willing to send a sample at his |own risk. 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