Show Today She Slapped a Preacher A Democratic Issue Cruelty Why Not Conto Control Speed 7 BY ARTHUR BRISBANE Copyright 1928 1926 By By the Star Stir Company Co nip a ny This will cause argument Miss Martha Bates an old fashioned Kentucky mountain girl with mod modern em ern bobbed hair walked up to the pulpit ot of o Rev Anile Arlle Brown Bro old fashioned Kentucky Baptist preach preacher er and slapped his face He lie bad had said that no vIrtuous woman would v bob Job her er haIr Chapter two bo opens with Martha Dates nates sentenced cod by an old fash lash fashioned lon toned d jury to 40 days daD In jail for slappIng a preacher She served 16 days then Kentucky's Kentucky old lash fash fashioned toned governor William J FIelds Investigated Last Laet J Friday he be gave Martha Bates Dates a full pardon and denounced what he calls pulpit cowardIce There are enough things in the Bible DIble for preachers to talk about without crIticizing womans woman's dress dren Perhaps he has as not noticed that the the Bible Dible also Is i l Interested In that sUbject Women must have huc their heads covered and hold bold their peace In church Isaiah would not have them walking and wincing as they go You learn In the last chapter of ot Proverbs that the vir virtuous womans woman's clothing Is silk and purple and that she herself coverings of ot tapestry Female dress and manners mannen are arc Important They Indicate charac charac- character ter ten or lack of ot It and w what at women are in jn this generation the next generation will be Hunting for tor an Issue some Tea Tea- Teason rea reason son why Coolidge plural plural- plurality plurality ity lly should change to a Democratic plurality Democrats chose the tar tariff ill iff They pick an Issue that would Increase the Republican vote Even the much Injured farmers are not anxIous to throw American mar markets open pen to competition with Eu El Ei European labor and European currency cur currency rency at ten cents on the dollar The Democratic Issue already made for them Is light wine and beer The south does not DOt like or want it But Dut right or wrong It has votes and the vote is the thing The Republican candidate must be dry cIty his platform must be dry A dry Democrat would be only II a me too me-too too and if he happened to ills dis I please high finance which picks Its Democrat for lor accident Insurance ance his run would make Park ers er's performance look like a whirlwind wInd Let Democrats find something to unite the agricultural west and Hamilton south as Editor Ham lain ilton lIlon of ot Augusta puts it Let them promise farmers wheat cotton colton and other growers something big Let them study Cappers Capper's Weekly printed by the senator from Kans Kans- Kansa Kansas a as ai read on more than a million farms In a recent issue Senator Cap Cap- Capper Capper per on the front page say says Stand Standard and ard Oils Oil's July dividend exceeded 60 50 million dollars For the first halt half of the year Standards Standard's Standard profits wilt be 31 91 millions If It this rate con con- Unu tinus continues s Standard Oil stockholders wilt will receive a greater sum in div div- div dividends divIdend than the net earnings ot of all the farms of Kansas KanBa any rec record ord year Standard Oil Is by corporation laws Just now DOW the th copper Industry functioning under the provisions of the erene act has arranged for tor reg reg- ular regular exports of ot copper etc Cappers Capper's Weekly says the farm farmers ers era must make the government do something for tor farmers set up Some machinery that will help farmers to deal profitably w l theIr surplus I S Democrats should promise to todo do all that and more It if they want the wheat farm vote and vote and even then they would not get it Their only real Issue is prohibition and with with women voting that might not be much of ot a winner winner unless for tor a candidate like Governor Al AI ASmith Smith for tor whom millions of wom en would vote Tote on any platform As regards oil profits prouts the Stand Stand- ard and companies operate In every state a at every enry crossroad and In every nation on earth Compari Compani Com Comparison pAri eon son of ot their earnings with farm earnIngs in the one state of Kansas Kans Kansas as may not mean much Also It farmers were organized Industrially with modern machin machinery ery cry financially and politically a awell aswell i well as Standard Oil their sorrows would diminish People could If it necessary do without They cannot do without food Farmers control the thereal thereal real necessities of ot life and coul could operate the greatest monopoly Sf It they knew how But Dut ut that demands organization A solemn Republican statesman warns the lIon n nation against blocs In Inthe inthe inthe the senate arid d house First thing InI I YOU know says sa the your congress wilt will ui be like ih lb French chamber of ot deputies cut cutup Cu cutup up into so 50 many parties sections or blocs that any definite govern government ment action will become impossible sible aible Many feel eel that the good old Wall WallStreet WallStreet WallStreet Street bloc should be bo the only one of any size and be In ln in tact fact tac the thereal thereal thereal real with senate senate with perhaps some radIcal law class opposition j st enough to make the nation a ap predate the smooth work of the big bloc A rich Individual of ot Newport gets a separation from front his biD wife wIre on charges or of o cruelty sufficiently sufficient unusual to arouse Interest The lady asked a ked her husband for Cor to and when h said uld no she knelt down and prayed God to curse him That would make any man nervous And worse the wife wIre barrIcaded herself hersell In hor hon husbands husband's apartment and gave the reporters unpleasant statements about him She would write out what her er heart dictated pIn the note to one ot of her hus- hus husband's hus husband's bands band's silk shirts and throw the shirt to the reporters through the wIndow This and similar Ingenious de devices do- do vices broke down the husbands husband health You need not envy the rich they arc are not always happy Ten were killed 41 when a motor bus fell over a cliff Passengers said the driver goIng Control too fut fast lost control Con of speed should be a public regulation omnibuses on all public omni omni- omni omni- buses and might well be applied to private automobiles A simple I device sealed up by the author author- author control maximum speed except down hill without dimin diminishing power tor for hill bill climbing In any way WilY Why leave leavo speed and the lives of passengers to the discretion ot of ofa a a In a hurry to get home Officers of ot the Leviathan deny that rum Is sold on the ship Per haps it is Ia not but but- the temptation must be great for lor the stewards They mix the cocktails and serve the drinks for tor passengers on that prohIbItion U S A line No Noone Noone None one will deny that Passengers bring their alcoholic Supplies on board everybody on the orthe ship sees the drinking done NothIng NothIng- is gained b by adding hypo hypocrisy to bootlegging The rich In this country want alcohol and get it The Tho poor are controlled to some extent by high prices but oven even they can get bargain rates from men that re re-distill denatured al alcohol cohol They pay with their kidneys and with shorter life but that seems not to disturb them |