| Show 11 1 i jORT M i SHORT SPEECHES I It t I tV t c 1 It is said is that Mr lUl Hoovers Hoover's J speech of acceptance will ecru occupy r 40 T minutes of time J I t t 7 f What I i the public wants in any candid candidate ate is for him to be short on speech and long on performance But at best a speech accepting the nomination as a candidate for President is only bluster What can either Al AI Smith or Hoover say in 40 minutes a or even in two hours any more than a few chosen chofen words of platitudinous phrasings One simply can not t i I get over more tha thaS the high lights and these are forgotten in a week or of two i i This campaign like all others other will be fought out during the j month of October In fact elections even of n national import are lore won or lost the last week or two of the campaign Much of ft tb fired b by the Iem Democrats and Republicans the I i. i j frys kY ry wand and the wets the high and low the I s farm fann l relievers tc i and y industrial protectionists is simply so much s power shot into the air guns gun- gun Old Average Man fan and 1 Mr Independent Voter including Mrs 1 Voter are going to listen to t tie e testimony of the witnesses on I both sides and then retire to the voting booth and V vote as their conscience and nd good judgment direct Acceptance ance speeches plat plat-I platforms plat plat- forms political gestures propaganda red fire and bands are a part of the national nation al sport We Ve couldn't do without t them hem and I I enjoy enoy J oy th the campaign But the they y dont don't always win elections t 1 8 I l a republic nc like America or a democracy if choose to j et l M-iI M it fV that the fact is that you jOU no man has ever been been so big and so that the country would go to the dogs if he I weren't elect- elect TeJ d I President We will go further and that in tf 7 or or so people in the United say every thousand j States picked at random r there could Q be lie fo found nd a person who if j suddenly thrust into the Presidents President's i. i 11 could the place with considerable able credit to the provided ded the shock country of t 1 sudden honor and egotism didn't ft off ff the first week I kill him J Babe Ruth has hit his fortieth home L L S t S run of the season at t writing beating his record of this date T last year year- here t. t J ere rc are arc prodigies in athletics as in all professions Ruths Ruth's uth's s lf tp runs nie-runs ru e-ru i are re so common that they are taken for granted h host ost news Its It's n vs when he doesn't make one Those who pine for the tion tiara in good old days might find I hunting n up I an old flivver er with a crank starter I One good Food thing about Prohibition If you dont don't like it where lt its it's s dry it its it's s seldom more than a gallon or two of gas to where its it's wet place H Home me is t that lt grand old i. i place where e yoU may do as lea you please so 9 long ong as It it pleases er every everyone one else in e j a v- v I x t t the family I t 1 tl t j J i k J A |
