Show 12 ll 11 n IT STARTED ral by JEAN EAN NEWTON addition division and silence ERE Is a phrase which somehow some liow hor HERE or other keeps cropping up every now cow and then particularly in ID reference as might be correctly correct imagined to public officers and quasi public officials or others who take advantage of 0 their position to plunder their benefactors or mulct those responsible for placing them in vantage points of authority tho rity it Is to the corrupt practices of unscrupulous politicians that the expression addition division and silence owes its inspiration W H U kemble at one time treasurer of pennsylvania Is credited with the authorship of the words which were em embodied boded in a letter published in the new york sun march 15 1872 ever since their first appearance they have found constant use since no other phrase could so eloquently eloquent i y ill fill the bill Q B 1933 bell syndicate service |