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THE MERCEDES NEWS, FRIDAY, AUGUST 10, 1928
Close Election
PRINCIPALS IN JERSEY TRAGEDY
May Result In
Direct System
Congress Will Be Com-
pelled To Reappor-
tion Districts
Washington—(INS)—A closely con-
tested and bitterly fought presiden-
tial election this year may precipi-
tate demands for changes in the na-
tion’s political system far more im-
portant than the choosing of a chief
executive for another four years
from next March 4.
Direct election of presidents and
reappointment of Congress, bringing
with it a new distribution of elec-
toral votes, already are being sug-
gested with renewed emphasis on
the eve of the formal opening of
campaign hostilities.
Should either Gov. Alfred Smith
or Herbert Hoover be placed in the
White House on next March 4 with-
out receiving a majority of all the
votes cast for presidential electors,
which is possible under the electoral
college sytem, demands for a change
are sure to be made in the next ses-
sion of Congress.
Popular Vote.
Many presidents have been elected
by less than a majority of votes and
the injection of the European bloc
system into the political structure of
the nation has been avoided only by
the continued dominance of the Re-
publican and Democratic parties.
Should the Socialist or Farmer-La-
bor parties rise to an eminence
where they could command many
millions of votes the unique electoral
college system would be brought
more forcibly before the people.
With electoral votes apportioned
man for man among the states on
the basis of congressional represen-
tation many inequalities are certain
to be reflected in presidential re-
turns. The system, however, has
been defended on the ground that it
is the keystone of the representative
system of government as distin-
guished from a pure democracy.
An elector in Nevada represents
22,000 votes, while one in New York
represents approximately 220,000.
Each state is voted as a unit, and
therefore it is just as effective for a
presidential candidate to carry a
state by one vote as it is to carry it
by 500,000. This system makes it
possible for a candidate to carry
enough states by a small margin to
furnish the necessary electoral votes,
while the unsuccessful candidate
might gain great majorities in some
other states which would give him
the greater popular vote.
34 States Affected.
Added to the disproportion is the
failure of Congress to reapportion
congressional representation since
1911, although the constitution re-
quires reapportionment every ten
years. In the recent fight on re-
apportionment in Congress it was
shown that the representation in
Congress of 34 states would be ef-
fected by a new division based upon
the most recent census. The elec-
toral vote also would change.
Any reapportionment, it is point-
ed out, must necessarily give more
power to the great cities which have
increased so rapidly in population.
Some historians believe that the
electoral vote division, like represen-
tation in the Senate, was intended
to check the possibility of sectional
control of national affairs.
Many presidents, among them
Woodrow Wilson and Grover Cleve-
land, received less than a majority
of the total votes cast. Abraham
Lincoln was re-elected by 55 per
cent of the popular vote but with 90
per cent of the electoral vote.
The late Senator LaFollette urged
a constitutional amendment to per-
mit popular election of presidents
and Senator George Norris of Ne-
braska has announced that he will
devote much time to bringing this
about. No third party can gain a
foothold so long as the electoral col-
lege system exists, according to
Norris.
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Danish Merchant
On Hunger Strike
Berlin—(INS)—Rather than permit
his children to be vaccinated, the
Danish merchant Bjoerner, of Co-
penhagen, went to jail, where he im-
mediately started a hunger strike.
His family joined him in the hun-
ger strike and vowed to eat nothing
till he was released.
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Bull artists in Mexico are given a
pension, as they are here, but
without the formality of an election.
Labor Experts Worry
Over Unemployment
In British Industries
London—(INS)—England’s daily
grooving army of unemployed is
attracting the serious attention of
labor experts, who point out that,
with 1,217,500 persons unem-
ployed at the moment, there are
really eight million people on the
poverty line in the country.
Unemployment figures publish-
ed weekly by the Ministry of
Health have showed startling in-
creases of late, the figures rising
in less than one month from 1,- ■
162,500 to 1,217,500.
Coal mining, pottery, boot and
shoe, wool textiles, jute, tinplate,
and shipbuilding are the indus-
tries most seriously affected, the
figures show.
The wife and two children whom Dr. Arthur F. Woolsey, society dentist of Elizabeth, N. J. (right), declares
he slew because he saw no way to get out of debt. The dentist told his remarkable story to county officials
between puffs on his expensive cigar.
Wet Season Booms
Sugar Beet Crop
On Colorado Farms
Denver—(INS)—Prosperity appear-
ed on the horizon for the 1928 sugar
beet farmers of Colorado as the hail
season passed with very little dam-
age to the fields; adequate water
was available for growth, and a
high price was assured during the
marketing season.
A total of 154,000 acres were
planted in the state this year. It is
estimated that the yield will be
slightly more per acre this year than
last, when it was 13.4 tons.
Through a Supreme Court deci-
sion recently handed down, members
of the Mountain States Beet Grow-
ers’ Marketing Association, which
affects 45,000 acres, will receive $7
per ton for the beets, the same as
last year.
The decision of the court made it
possible for a farmer-member of the
growers’ organization to sell his
beets without the consent of the as-
sociation, which failed to negotiate
a contract with the great Western
Sugar Company.
According to reports, this has
been an ideal year for the raising
of sugar beets. Insects, including
the webworm, have been negligible.
Nebraska, with a record breaking
acreage of 74,000 acres, promises big
returns to the growers. Their pros-
pects are equally as good as those
in Colorado.
The total income for the state of
Colorado through sugar beets is ex-
pected to reach a total of more than
$15,000,000, while in Nebraska it is
expected to reach the $7,000,000
mark.
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Holland Queen Left
During Olympics To
Avoid Criticism
Berlin—(INS)—Queen Wilhelmina
of Holland went to Scandinavia for
the summer, according to German
newspapers, in order to be out of the
country during the Olympic games
at Amsterdam and thereby avoid
having to receive the Olympian vic-
tors.
The German papers attribute this
attitude of the Dutch Queen to the
crusade started by Dutch clergymen
against the Olympian games as a
“Feast of the Flesh” which glorifies
the flesh at the expense of the
spirit.”
Rather than expose herself to the
criticism of the church, Queen Wil-
helmina preferred to leave the coun-
try, the German papers say.
The crusade was started by Dr.
G. Wisse, pastor at Utreht, who
preached an impassioned sermon on
“Olympia and Golgatha,” in which
he denounced the Olympian games
as a “desertion of Golgatha and a
throw-back to Greek-Roman pa-
ganism.”
“The Olympian games are intend-
ed to make the flesh so vain and
overbearing that it will inevitably
turn to sin; sensuality and immoral-
ity are paired with modern superfi-
ciality which enjoys these games,”
Dr. Wisse thundered.
The German papers deny this con-
tention, however, and point out that
an athlete in training must lead an
even stricter and more frugal life
than a pastor or a monk.
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National Monument
For Former Kaiser
Is Plan For Birthday
Berlin—(INS)—A national monu-
ment to the former kaiser, showing
him “high on horseback, with the
fieldmarshal’s staff in his hand,” is
proposed by the Reichsboten, the
organ of the German evangelical
church.
The paper proposes that the mon-
ument be financed by a national col-
lection and that it be presented to
the former kaiser on his seventieth
birthday on January 27, next year.
An elaborate birthday celebration
program is already being prepared.
May Succeed Calles
Aaron Saenz, governor of the state
of Nuevo Leon and Obregonista
chieftain, who is looked upon as the
logical successor to President P.
Elias Calles of Mexico.
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Here Is Variety
There are ninety-five different
kinds of brussels sprouts, 120 of
lettuces and 194 of carrots.
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Americanism: Pretty ladies mur-
muring, “So pretty!” when a great
pianist has played something aus-
tere and savage.
Air Mail To Bring
U. S. Business From
Canada and Mexico
Chicago—(INS)—Air mail has not
only brought New York and the mid-
dle west within ten hours of each
other with only 31 hours separating
the Atlantic and the Pacific, but
American business men will soon
have overnight markets in Canada
and Mexico.
According to the American Air
Port Association, before the first of
the year it will be possible to send
mail and express to Montreal and
Mexico City by air routes.
The Association points out that
the good speed of the air mail will
make the customer in Canada and
Mexico write to American firms
about the communication of “yester-
day” and not “your letter of last
week.”
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$32,000,000 in Bonuses
Paid To Osage Indians
During Last Ten Years
Bartlesville, Okla.—Nearly $32,-
000,000 in bonuses, royalties and
taxes have been paid to the Osage
Indians and to Osage county in the
ten years ending in 1927, according
to statistics given out by the Phil-
lips Petroleum company and other
operators in the Burbank field in
that county.
Figuring the total of 2,229 head-
rights on the tribal roll, the Phillips
company alone has paid in nearly
$14,000 per headright.
The Phillips company is paying
nearly $2,500 daily as royalties in
Osage county, despite the fact that
little new production work has been
done for some time.
SHOOT!
The White Wing Season is Open—
Birds Are Eat and Plentiful
WE RENT AND SELL
SHOT GUNS
You don’t have to own a Gun to
enjoy shooting—Rent a Gun
here, and get your share of
White Wings.
Remington Shells
OF ALL KINDS
We Also Issue Hunting License
RIO GRANDE
HARDWARE & MACHINERY CO.
MERCEDES
Chevrolet Opens
Assembly Plant
At Atlanta, Ga.
350 Cars Per Day Being
Turned Out In 8th
Assembly Plant
The formal opening during the
past week of the Chevrolet assembly
plant in Atlanta, Ga., coming at a
time when a similar plant is under
construction in Kansas City, is fur-
ther indication that there is to be no
let-down in the company’s extensive
sales program.
The mammoth Atlanta plant,
which has been in operation since
May 1, is capable of turning out 350
cars a day, and was the eighth as-
sembly plant to be opened by Chev-
rolet in this country. The Kansas
City plant with the same capacity
will be the ninth.
Atlantans last week welcomed
their first opportunity of visiting
the great assembly plant, and seeing
the magic Chevrolet assembly line
produce the world’s most popular
automobile from a set of seemingly
unrelated parts. Atlanta newspa-
pers welcomed Chevrolet to the
southeast, and viewed the plant as a
southern institution. It was mainly
southern contracting genius that
built it in four months, one week and
six hours, several days before the
contracted time had expired. South-
ern help has been operating it ever
since the first car rolled off the line.
It serves the southeastern market
exclusively, supplying cars to the
dealers of Georgia, North and South
Carolina, Alabama and Florida. A
southerner, W. S. (“Crane”) Roberts
has been placed at the head of this,
the newest and one of the greatest
of the south’s industrial institutions.
The plant covers 32 acres and oc-
cupies 410,000 square feet ox floor
space. There are five buildings, and
in the main one the Fisher Body
Company is using 160 by 760 square
feet of space to build their famous
bodies for the Chevrolet closed cars.
The plant is ideally located with
the tracks of the Southern Railroad
paralleling its loading dock. Track
storage for 300 freight cars is pro-
vided. Another facility to speed up
deliveries is a drive away shed, 40
by 220 feet, where dealers from
nearby cities can take deliveries of
cars.
In his offices at the plant, L. S.
Costley, regional sales manager, has
been directing a sales legion that
has as its field 11,000,000 people in
the five southeastern states. Fig-
ures for the southeastern automobile
market show that it is rapidly be-
coming one of the best in the coun-
try with the demand for Chevrolet
increasing fapidly. Due to the per-
fection of its product and the expan-
sion of its sales forces, Chevrolet’s
sales record in the southeast has
been second to none.
Official figures show that the
number of Chevrolets sold in the
southeastern region were 16,390 for
the fiscal year, 1924-25. The follow-
ing year the figures reached 53,417.
Last year the figure was more than
81,500. This fiscal year close to
95,000 sales have been registered. ;
The Southeastern region, with
headquarters at Atlanta, is com-
posed of five zones with offices at
various key points in the territory.
These are located at Charlotte, N.
C., Columbia, S. C., Birmingham,
Ala., Jacksonville, Fla., and Atlanta.
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Some people would rather kick a
man behind his back than to say it
to his face.
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The best way to begin at the bot-
tom is to get in on the ground floor.
Complete Service
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Tire Service
Let us quote you on complete service for your car. It takes a lot
of unnecessary detail off your hands, and your car is always ready
to go when and where you wish.
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