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Show PRECIPITATES County Vote In Pounds. 137,500 votes are expected to be cast in Salt Lake county this election. elec-tion. In preparation 140,000 ballots were printed. It took 7V4 tons of paper for the necessary stock. And that confirms what the orators of both parties have been saying for weeks: voting is a weighty matter. If you haven't placed your election elect-ion bets yet and it is not too late to suggest a formula for your use In selecting favorite, you might use this system: See how close the two men, Lan-don Lan-don and Roosevelt, approach to the American ideal of six-feet two-inches, prominent features, blue or light eyes and light hair. Multiply thier respective batting averages, so to speak, by the Literary Digest poll, subtract respectively Farley's and Chairman Hamilton's claims, allow for Lemke and Father Coughlln, forget all about Townsend and Earl Browder, and the answer may indicate indi-cate who will be elected on Nov. 3. So says a New York writer. And in case this is the first time you have heard of an "ideal" in presidential presi-dential physiques, here's some interesting inter-esting data: Lincoln stood 6 feet 4 Inches, "with uncommon length, of arms and legs. In a head not over large, each feature was rough and prominent". He had grey eyes. - Andrew Jackson Is described as being tall, thought to be well over (I feet, of angularity and boniness with blue eyes and light colored hair. All this casting canddidates to fit a type can be carried back to the first President and Father of Our Country. "Washington," says the International Internat-ional Encyclopaedia, "was 6 feet 2 inches in height, with brown hair, blue eyes, large head and hands, and strong arms." Why Policemen Have Flat Feet Stan Davies and Jack Householder Household-er were standing together on Main street one night this week when a flustered father approached and handed them car keys his young daughter had taken from a car parked on Main street. Jack walked down Main street! and back up the other side, searching search-ing for a' parked car the keys would fit. After an hour or so he met Stan Bgain. "Say, I can't find the car that kid took these from." i Stan looked at the keys and gulped, gulp-ed, "Never mind looking! They're mine!" Have you ever noticed that John Stampfel answers the stock query, "How's business?" with the same answer: "Dead." |