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Show i THE CITIZEN 16 POOR MAY RUN By Frank P. Litschert Former Governor Pinchot of Pennsylvania, who was one of the forward looking statemen active in the introduction of the reform known as the direct primary expresses the opinion that about $120,000 is about all that a candidate for the senatorial nomination in the state of Pennsylvania should be permitted to expand. Larger should be permitted to expend. Larger expenditures, he believes, would tend to keep poor men out of the primaries and make public office the exclusive prerogative of the very rich. The admission by. Governor Pinchot that an expenditure of more than a hundred thousand dollars is necessary in order that a candidate may have a look in on the Senate in his state, is a sufficient commentary on the value of the direct primary as a reform. Such a situation in itself presents an insuperable obstacle to anyone not in the millionaire class. Assuming that such an expenditure SHAMS CIGARS and TOBACCOS 60 W. Broadway HOTEL as $100,000 is a state wide primary is morally proper, how can it be ly argued that an outlay of a half million dollars is any more immoral, provided that the money be spent legitimately, for the distribution of literature and the creation of an organization ? The truth is that the necessity of such an expenditure as Governor Pinchot himself admits making in his effort to secure a seat in the Senate is ni Itself a scandal; a scandal made necessary by the direct primary system, under which a candidate must make himself well known to every one of more than a million voters in Penn- sylvanias case. The direct primary has made boodle and ballyhoo the dominant factors in politics. It has quite palpably lowered the level of public life. It has made of officeholding and office seeking a high- ly organized and heavily financed special interest. But, it is suggested, primary expenditures should be limited to a very modest point. But this gives a decisive advantage to the incumbent of any office; for instance to a sitting Congressman or senator whose official station gives him unusual publicity, who is enabled to bestow favors on constituents by use of his official post and to fill the mails with franked speeches and other documents. It gives an unfair advantage, too, to the candidate who has strong newspaper backing as against the man who may lack it. The millionaire who owns newspapers or groups of newspapers may be enabled to give millions of dollars worth of space to one candidate, while his opponent is prohibited even from buying space to get his side before the electorate. The direct primary was adoped in the belief that it would improve political conditions. There were abuses under the representative convention system of party government against which the people revolted. The people changed rather than reform the system. It is quite evident that they jumped out of the frying pan into the JAMES LATSES Wholesaler Strictly Modern FRUITS Absolutely Fireproof 253 South State Wasatch 6781 and PRODUCE fire, when so active an advocate of the primary as Governor Pinchot admits that a hundred thousand dollar jackpot is a necessary part of the equipment of even a pure and upright politician if he expects to get even to first base. At any rate, so long as we cling to the direct primary, let us not be so very noisy in criticising the huge expenditures which are apparently a necessary and inevitable accompaniment of this method of making party nominations. At any rate let us take with a grain of salt the outcry of those to whom Mirabeau might have addressed his famous admonition: You turned loose the bull; you now complain that he gores you. being sent by wire in colors. of business houses are using vice constantly. rto The legal profession has photography of value for mission of picture which accepted as evidence in Christmas, New Years Eastern Mothers Day telephotograpb served another use namely, p the sending, of personal greeti these cases the autographed. In fact, the commercial uses photographs are expanding r9WI so that hardly a day passes a emergency does not arise, nectg ing their use in a new field, firti such emergencis result in the f ued use of telephotography of the need of accuracy and tj fo: thet hal I1111111 PICTURES BY WIRE ARE USED BY BUSINESSMEN It is now only a little more than two and a half years since the commercial transmission of pictures by wire was first undertaken by the American Telephone and Telegraph Company. In that short period of time the new undertaking has become a thoroughly estbalished business and is no longer regarded as being in its experimental stage. Improvements, however, have been made continually in the quality of the transmsission. At the start it was believed that the of telephotographs principal use would be as news pictures in newspapers and for picture agencies. As a matter of fact, however, other commercial uses have proved of greater importance in America than newspaper use, although the use of such transmitted pictures in newspapers is constantly increasing. For the most part, however, it is confined to disasters, sporting events, personalities in the public eye at the moment and other matters of considerable importance from a nation-wid- e standpoint. There has been a constantly increasing application of telephotographs .to business purposes and this has been confined not merely to pictorial reproduction, but in many cases to long messages, typewriting or printed matter which has been transmitted by wire, not only with dispatch and accuracy, but with economy, when compared with other existing means of rapid transmission. 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