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Show BEDE CONDUCTS MLLJLOF FUN Large Audience Hears Political Address of Humor and Seriousness "Keep your head cool, your feet warm, vote the Republican ticket, and become an optimist." This was the formula for-mula proscribed last night by J. Adam Bodo. Chautauqua humorist and former for-mer congressman from Minnesota, to an audience which filled the Alham-bra Alham-bra the-itre. "Tills will net ub on the right road toward obtaining peaco without danger and solving tho many problems which now confront the country. Wo must bring happiness into the homes of our American toiler before be-fore attempting to solve the complex problems of Europe." he .said. Tho humorist kept his audience in an uproar a large portion of the time and then plunged his hearers Into seriousness ser-iousness as he sounded the warning of the grave problems which he said threaten and will have to be met by the next administration He declared the Republican party was making no boasts of immediately placing tho country back into Its normal pre-war condition, but said that Senator Harding Har-ding as president, and a Republican congress could do milch to bring this about. CAMPAIGN' PttND "Tho Democratic part,"' tho speaker speak-er Hld, "charge ut with having a campaign cam-paign fund of $15,000,000 But if the statement which was filed today l I read, it will show that the total (amount Is but 5 S. 000.000 N'ow lot me I show you how far this amount will go In a national campaign, and how "it will take nearly the entire amount i to send one letter to each of the fifty million votors in tho United States." "Ono typed loter, with envelope, stamp and labor costs approximately five cents. If one letter was sent to the fifty million voters alone, it would cost a party $'-. 500,000. Then there would be half a million dollars left Tt might be suggested that On balance be talsfcn to send a postcard telling tho voters that the letter Is on the way. But with the present efficiency of the postal department it is probable prob-able that neither the letter or postcard post-card would reach their destination until un-til after election " FOUKTEEN' POINTS In regard to the league of nations Mr Bcde said. "Europe made the covenant and Mr. Wilson signed it. Mr- Wilson started to Europe with fourteen points but one by one they were eliminated through the maneuvering bj the brilliant statesmen of European nations. If we ratified the cocnant as It now standi, with article X Included we would be bound to send our soldiers to the end of the earth if called by the nations ot Europe. The constitution prescribes that conjjrehs only can declare war, but the constitution also treats a trcat as supreme and to fulfill our promise, tho United States would be cumpellod tn send our soldiers if called, without an act of congress declaring war." "If a person will go back into history, his-tory, he will find that there never has ueen an instance where the common peoplo of one country ever declared war on the common people of another country. So tho way to stay out of war Is to get the nations of Europe Into tho hands of the common peoplo as- In America. We have set this example ex-ample and other nations arc struggling to follow Other nations will become republics In the futuro and will come Into tho hands of the common poople, If only wo can et the exumple. With j the common people In power, there iwlll bo no tuturo wars." TELLS A STORY In speaking about the billions of doll'.n-s loaned to Europe during tho war, the speaker told a 3tory lie said "Two newspaper men. Smith and Jones wero employed on the samo PJ-per PJ-per In the southern states and Smith one day borrowed fifty dollars from Jones. Time passed and tho mone j was not repaid. Jones a ar latei went to New York and was working on la newspaper theie. when one day ho 'met Smith who was visiting the citj "Jones invited Smith to luncheon in tho hopes that his friend would remember re-member tho loan. But the dinner was finished and no mention was mado as to payment of tho money. Jones went back to his office and wrote a brief note which appeared In tho afternoon j edition as follows- H A. Smith, a I member of tho staff of the Memphis l Glade is in Now York looking over his r'permancnt Investments" ' I 'So it Is with Europe- We may term much of tho money loaned to European Euro-pean nations during tho war as por-'mancnt por-'mancnt investments.'" I rn |