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Show I A POLITICAL PARADOX j :H a! Representative James W. Fordney of Saginaw, Mich., is a political paradox. para-dox. Expressed in mathematical terms, he would be parallel lines which meet or a half that is greater that its whole. For Mr. Fordney, in the last congressional con-gressional election, though everywhere every-where defeated in detail, was victorious. victori-ous. He was beaten in each of the four counties that compose his district, dis-trict, and yet was elected. In each of these counties he ran second and when sum of them was taken, he ran first. Against Mr. Fordney, who is a Republican, there ran a Democrat and a Progressive. In two of the four counties of the district the Democrat won over Mr. Fordney by a small number of votes; the Progressive, however, was left far, very far, behind. be-hind. In the other two counties the Prnprpsfiivp rnmA nut first- with Mr "' - Fordney a very close second; thd lei Democrat, though, was badly distanced. When the sum total of the votes of tfr the four counties was added up, it was found that, while the Democrat and Progressive had each polled about tha same number of votes, Mr. Fordney Jti had beaten them both by a substantial number. ril, Thus, after three thousand years, nearly, was justified the remark of old .j Hesicd: "It is only a child who doesn't know that the half is greater than 1B the whole." U' .fniiiii - n mi. |