| Show 11 Q o J Case After Case I I Io WHEN th the Truman H. H Newberry case cas 1 came caine to a vot vote in ill the United States State senate in t 1022 and six forty Republican senators sena t tors rs voted ted to seat Newberry which Newberry-which which rry-which which did seat him though he resigned no subsequently no nobody body had any idea how much trouble was J ahead for the sella senators tors who cast those Newberry Newberry Newberry New- New berry vot votes S. S The opposition has hammered them for it ever since Nor has the hammering hammering ham ham- mering be been n without effect Fourteen Fourte n of said senators had been beat beaten n either cither in pr primaries maries at the polls up tip to th the middle of f August Two wo were wr not candidates for perhaps perhaps- because they knew they couldn't get 1 them if they tried Against the thirteen who w were re in the run- run ring in mid-August mid their Newberry v votes tes were their he heaviest handicap The rest of the six forty-six di died d in hi office office nine nine of them them them-or or have been re-elected re or do not face the voters until 1928 All in all it wits was a terribly h heavy avy political mortality rate Now two more moreN N Newberry cases are promised for next year only much worse worse the the cases ot of William Scott Vare of Pen Pennsylvania a and Frank L. L Smith of Illinois This of course is that Vare Yare and Smith are elected but the former comes froman from froman an almost overwhelmingly and the latter from froni froma fronia a very strongly Republican state If they win the senate nate He Republicans publicans undoubtedly will need them badly but will a majority dare 1 to vote to seat them after what has happened to so many of or those who voted to seat Newberry And Newberry's campaign expenses were small change compared with Var Vare's Vares s 's and Smiths Plenty of ot seeing far-seeing Republicans wish to high heaven that Vare and Smith would retire from the senatorial race but there are few signs that they will They spent a great deal deat yes their backers say but politics politics poli poti tics is expensive now now legitimately legitimately not corruptly corruptly corruptly cor- cor so Why should they quit 4 I I More Mor D Debt bt Troubles I I 0 4 ft HIS g generation has one great advantage I over the next one What hat this one does docs the he n next one is in no position to say anything anything any any- thing about until long after it is too late to do anything The next one can be as sore as asit it likes ab about ut the way this one has treated it but this one will be dead hence wont won't pare care parea sarea a a hoot For instance Chairman Madden of the appropriations committee of the house of r representatives s calls on President Coolidge to discuss d details tails of the repayment of the national national na na- na- na debt Congressman Madden points out that at the present rate the whole thing will be e liquidated in about twenty years The idea of a country without a national d debt bt rather shocks Congressman Madden He never heard of such a thing Besides Europe will still be remitting to us annually what she owes us It will ill simply pile up in the treasury a temptation to congress to waste points out Congressman Madden It will also I be irritating to Europe to see us rolling in I money she is pinching herself to supply u us with to play at ducks and drakes with it it Wouldn't it be better for all concerned queries the congressman to slow up on the iping wiping out of the national debt P Pass ss some som of 91 it on to the next generation It will be a g good od thing for the next generation because then it wont won't have all that trouble with extravagant ex ex- congresses Neither will it t be bothered both both- cr ered cred d by so much European jealousy Inci mci- dentally this dentally this is a mere bagatelle such bagatelle such i a L policy will reduce this generations generation's taxes Another Another Another An An- other curious thing thing Madden Madden assumes that thai I Europe will pay what she owes us Its It's a convincing argument for argument for this gen eia ion The next one might not be knocked I over by it ii quite so headily but it isn't sa sary y to convince the next one It isn't here hen r ye yet However J the Hie next generation will vill have havi havea a i chance han e to do the same thing to subsequent t ge generations r I r. r The Th High Flier 1 0 THE lIE HE news from France is that M. M n nt t i has broken the worlds world's altitude r record cord H He i stepped into his 7 plane at 5 o'clock one aft afternoon ft and took out down the field FlitS Tilt Flit S ing pg the wings he mounted swiftly among the clouds Wh When n his instruments showed he hew w was vas s eight m-les m above the earth he probably sa said said to d. d to him himself elf Well Vell here I 1 am higher than any human has ever been Guess I fJ turn arou around So he descended Iwo vo hou hoti am and twenty five minutes after taking off Callizo landed at Le Bourget In this snort short time he h had d done what no man ever had been able todo before Suppose something had gone gon wr ng with his plane platH If you want an idea of 01 how far he would have fallen start ou out arId and walk eight miles Of course even this thi record will b be broken in the future when better bet bet- ter Airplanes es have been built But just jut a at ati i present it is IS an astounding feat Man Maii watched the birds r s. s millions o of years before ef re he learned f dAo to o fly one I inch Ch hl himself l el ti tio f t- t Vi t oJ r I 7 1 s. s I |
