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VOL. XXVII. NO. 13 Published Every Tuesday, Thursday and Saturday
COOLIDGE EXPECTED
TO ASSUME FIRMER
GRIP ON CONGRESS
Victor at Polls, He Will Not
Repeat Errors of Pas
? sive Leadership
BY DAVID LAWRENCE
{Special Leased Wire ti> The Journal—Copy
right, 1924.)
WASHINGTON, Nov. 6—Calvin
of the campaign, silent, cau
tious disciple of the political faith
which utters no superfluous word or
undertakes no unnecessary task, and
Calvin Coolidge of tomorrow, with
f the barrier of a third term giving
him the strength to be an independ
eit executive, may develop the con
trast which for many months his
oosest friends have been privately
predicting.
There is no question but that the
personality of Calvin Coolidge is to
a large extent unknown. As gover
nor of Massachusetts, he showed at
times qualities of leadership which
were not asserted in the past year
here as president of the United
States, especially in dealing with
congress. The explanation usually
made was that in a political year
much must be forgiven which ordi
r arily would not countenanced.
Defeats in Congress
f Enough of the president’s attitude
toward public questions has been re
vealed to show that he moves along
conservative lines and that once he
takes his position, he is not given
to reversals or wavering. But in
dealing with congress,, the president
has not been particularly fortunate.
His own leaders have not been able
to work out a laison that was satis
factory. Tiie fact that the balance
of power was held by the La Follette
Republicans in the two houses of
•, congress has usually been accepted
‘ as an excuse for what happened, but
those who follow the maneuvers of
congress can not but concede that
many of the advantages obtained by
the radicals in the last session of
congress were due to the mistakes
in tactics by the cons irvaiive lead
ers.
With the house in control of the
conservative Republicans, there will
be a better opportunity for the ad
ministration to get its legislation
' through than before. In the senate,
aowever, the moderate progressives
still can awing awav from the ad
ministration. ihe senate will prove
the stumbling block for manv pieces
of legislation which should go
through the house rather easily.
The Fighting Conservatives
, The psychological effects of the
* president’s victory will be felt all
along the line. The conservatives
will dare to be bolder and the radi
cals will not have the same aggres
siveness as heretofore. The readi
ness of conservative Republicans to
bolt their own ticket and support a
Democrat as they did in lowa in an
effort to beat Senator Brookhart is
almost the outstanding feature of
the whole election result. Official
returns may prove Brookhart the
victor, but by such a narrow squeeze
that he will be a sadder and wiser
man when he enters the Republican
cloakroom.
In Minnesota, too, the downfall of
Magnus Johnson is significant of
conservative Republican tactics.
There a regular Republican was
nominated who was by no means as
radical as Johnson, but who has
been identified with the progressive
group. It was a case of fighting
fire with fire and though one wing
of the Republican organization didn’t
like the nomination of Thomas D.
Schall, they did admit that Schall
was a safer and more reasonable
man to represent Republican voters
than was Magnus Johnson.
Schall is very friendly to the rail
road brotherhoods and union labor
> and can be expected to support the
labor side of legislative issues. But,
at that, the Republicans themselves
put him up and while he won with
the very support which ordinarily
would go to a La Follette type of
senator, he was given the whole
hearted vote of the regular Repub
licans. Schall, like others elected
this time, will not be so much in
clined to the radical or insurgent
* side as to lose the support of the
regular Republicans in his state.
Men like Schall will follow Presi
dent Coolidge on measures that are
of national benefit, but Mr. Coolidge
■will find Schall, as well as others,
inclined to join with the Democrats
whenever any measure sectional in
character is proposed. Unless the
administration, for instance, takes
» the iniative in a constructive pro
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gram for agriculture, these western
senators will be found reviving the
farm bloc again.
To Lead Congress
Mr. Coolidge has not tried to drive
congress. The development of new
leaders in both houses of congress
may make that unnecessary, but it
is no reflection on the president’s
careful policy of the past to say
that congress will ask him more and
more for guidance, especially in ad
vance of the passage of legislation.
For while technically speaking the
I legislative and executive are two
* ’ separate branches of the govern
ment. they get along most effective
ly when the leader of the party in
the While House speaks his mind
before his colleagues in the senate
end house commit themselves to a
course of action.
There is little doubt that if Mr.
Coolidge had sent a message threat
ening to veto the soldier bill that
It might have had harder sledding
than it had when the measure
* came up for re-passage. The execu
tive also acted too late to prevent
senators from lining up on the Jap
anese issue.
•‘We would stultify ourselves.”
■aid a New England senator the
other day, "if we reversed our posi
tion after a veto came to us. What
we need is enlightenment ahead of
time. before we have committed our
selves.”
Probably nobody realizes this par
ticular phase of executive leadership
more keenly now than the president
himself. The effect of the election
on Calvin Coolidge may be not imme
diately apparent, but the develop
t ment of a stronger executive may be
« 5 • expected.
WORLD NEWS
TOLD IN BRIEF
SANTA FE.- Governor J. F. Hin-
Ikle. of New Mexico, proclaims mar |
tial law in San Miguel county, to ;
I whose comity seat, Las Vegas, state
i troops have beeu sent to prevent
[it is intimated, possible trouble at
I polls arising from local political sit- \
I nation.
WASHINGTON—With North Da
i kota and New Mexico in doubtful \
‘ column. President Coolidge is as- ’
I sured of 374 votes in electoral col
lege while Davis’ total stands at 136 |
I and La Follette’s 13; Coolidge on
latest returns leads in both doubtful ;
states.
■ •
LONDON. —Geneva sees in election
of Coolidge, increased co-operation
with League of Nations; London
press comment emphasizes prevailing
I desire of democracies for quiet, sta
ble government rather than experi
ments of progressivism.
NEW YORK.—Millions through-1
out nation hear election-eve ad- I
dresses of President Coolidge, speak
ing at. Washington, and John W.
Davis, at New York, as nominees
utilize radio to say last word to
voters.
NEW YORK—National Y. W. C.
A. declines to join with United |
States Board of Education in ob- !
serving Education week, November !
17-23, because of alleged domination I
of program by ‘‘military organiza- '
tion.”
WASHINGTON. Republicans,
with 246 seats secure, are assured I
actual control of house of representa- j
fives, but pending outcome of sev- i
eral contests in west doubt exists
whether party will control the sen- I
ate.
WASHINGTON wil.
have paper majority in both houses
of congress, but it is uncertain
I whether Republican strength will ex-
I ceed combined opposition of Demo
crats and insurgent Republicans.
WASHINGTON.—President Cool,
idge, on basis of revised returns, is
assured of more than one hundred
votes in electoral college over what
is necessary to elect, and largest
popular plurality in history.
AUSTIN. —Because her opponent,
Dr. George C. Butte, of Austin, re
fuses to concede her election as gov
ernor of Texas, Mrs. Miriam A. Fer
guson asks people of state to ex
pedite counting of votes.
BUTTE. —Re-election of Senator
Thomas J. Walsh, Democrat, Mon
tana, prosecutor of senate oil com
mittee, by .substantial margin is as
sured, according to unofficial and
incomplete returns.
I NEW YORK.—George Blumenthal,
president of Lazard Freres bank, of
New Y’ork, is made officer of French
Legion of Honor as reward for work
in connection with stabilization of
French currency.
DES MOlNEsTd’iiofficial, but re
checked returns in lowa show that
Smith W. Brookhart, insurgent Re
publican, defeated by narrow mar
gin, his Democratic opponent, Dan
iel F. Steck.
NILES, Ohio.—Gov. Donahey signs
proclamation lifting martial law, but
military board of inquiry will in- [
vestigate causes of recent outbreak I
between klan and anti-klan forces.
MEXICO CITY. — Mexico, in car
rying out its policy to sever rela
tions with Great Britain, orders its
consulates in Canada and other Brit
ish dominions closed November 20.
HAVANA, Cuba. —Secretary of in
terior announces that Gen. Gerardo
Machado, joint liberal and popular
party candidate, has undoubtedly
been elected president of Cuba.
WASHINGTON?—Defeat of Sena
tors Magnus Johnson, farmer-labor,
Minnesota, and Smith Brookhart,
Republican, lowa, members of insur
gent bloc, appears to be certain.
CHICAGO. —Malcolm MacDnoald,
son of the British premier, leads
Oxford university team to victory
over University of Chicago team in j
debate on prohibition. •
ESSEN, Germany.—Dr. Otto |
Wiedfelt. German ambassador to ;
Washington, will leave soon to re- |
some next spring his former activi- I
ties with the Krupp directorate.
PITTSBURG.—PIans are an- ,
nounced by the University of Pitts
burg for a fifty-two-story building,
designed to accommodate 12,000 stu
dents and to cost $10,000,000.
BOSTON.—Little hope is held for
recovery of Henry Cabot Lodge, sen
ior senator from Massachusetts, who
suffered stroke Wednesday while
patient at Boston hospital.
LONDON.—Prince ot Wales re
ceives Owen D. Young, former I
agent-general for reparations under I
the Dawes plan, en route to the
United States.
TIENTSIN.—Gen~ Wu Pei-Fu.
ousted field marshal of the Pekin
armies, sails from Targku, on the !
Gulf of Chihli, for an unknown des
tination.
LONDON.—King approves person
nel of new British cabinet, sub
mitted by Prime Minister Baldwin,
which includes Winston Churchill as
chancellor of the exchequer.
PARIS. —Alexandre Millerand. for- j
mer president of France, formerly ;
re-enters politics as chairman of a
new party—the National Republican
league.
HAVANA.—Election of General I
Machado to Cuban presidency is I
conceded by Former President Mario
G. Menoeal, defeated conservative
candidate.
NEW YORK.—The will of Laura I
Jean Libbey Stilwell. novelist, is 1
filed with an executors' report esti-|
mating estate to be in excess of
SII,OOO.
ST. PAUL.—Senator Magnus
Johnson, Farmer-Lalor, Minnesota. I
concedes his defeat when Represen
tative Thomas D. Schall, Republi
can, takes lead of 10.000.
Victor Berger Wins
Congress Seat Again,
Newspapers Declare
MILWAUKEE. Nov. 6—Victor
L. Berger. Socialist representative in
congress from the Fifth Wisconsin
district, has been declared winner
over Ernst A. Braun. Republican, by
three daily newspapers here.
A fourth newspaper, however, in
first editions still finds that Braun
is leading bv a small margin.
I The official count was begun at
■ 9 a. nr today and until it is com-
I nleted the result will remain tn
doubt.
SEW LODGE IN
MOIL CDNDITION.
PMCMMITS
Veteran Lawmaker Uncon
scious After Suffering
Stroke in Hospital
CAMBRIDGE, Mass., Nov. 6.
i The condition of Senator Henry Ca
bot Lodge, who suffered a stroke
yesterday at the Charleston hospital
here, was declared in a bulletin is
sued at the hospital shortly after
nqon, to be “unchanged, and not
i hopeful.”
Senator Lodge was still uncon
scious at the time the bulletin was
issued, having remained in that con
dition since he was stricken 24
hours before. The brief statement
was signed by Drs. John 11. Cun-
I ningham and Frederick H. Winslow,
; who have been in constant attend
! ance upon Senator Lodge since yes-
I terday.
j ■ Dr. Cunningham, earlier in the
1 day, said that the senator’s con
i dition “must be considered critical.”
I Dr. Cunningham’s statement re-
I viewed the history of Senator Lodge's
I case since July 27 when he sub
mitted to an emergency operation
from which he made good recovery.
On October 20, a second operation
was performed.
"The senator s convalescence was
surprisingly good,” Dr. Cunningham
said. “He was out of bed on the
third day and sat up daily thereaft
er, reading and dictating letters, and
.he indications were that he would
leave the hospital next week with
every assurance of being better in
health than he had been for some
time previous to the operation. There
was every indication that he would
be present at the opening of con
gress, December 1.
“Yesterday at noon he was sudden
ly seized with a stroke and became
unconscious. He has remained un
conscious since and ’his condition
must be considered critical.”
Later Dr. Cunningham issued the
following bulletin;
“Senator Lodge’s condition con
tinues exactly the same. He may
continue in this condition for some
time. It is impossible at the pres
ent moment to state what the out
come will ’be.
“I anticipate no immediate
change.”
WHITE HOUSE CONCERNED
OVER ILLNESS OF LODGE
WASHINGTON, Nov. 6.—Great
concern was exhibited at the White
House today over the illness of Sen
ator Lodge.
President Coolidge was keeping in
touch with the veteran senator’s con
dition by frequent long-distance tele
phone calls to Cambridge.
Sze Attacks Nations
For Letting Chinese
Obtain Opium Easily
GENEVA, Nov. 6.—(By the Asso
ciated Press.)—Sao-Ke Alfred Sze,
Chinese minister to Washington, and
his nation's delegate to the interna-
I tional opium conference, enlivened
today’s session by vigorous criticisms
1 of the opium policies of the great
I powers which have far eastern pop
| illations where opium smoking is
I customary.
Accusing these nations of making
it too easy for the Chinese to ob
tain opium, Mr. Sze alleged that the
Portuguese colony of Macao thrived
upon opium and gambling and de
clared that if the French could not
keep opium out of Indo-China, this
proved the inefficiency of the French
administration there.
Answering these criticisms. Eng
lish, French and Japanese delegates
' asserted that hte Chinese represen-
I tative made his criticisms in order
to forestall attacks on his own na
, tion.
U. S. Agents Smash
Counterfeiting Ring
In Providence, R. I.
PROVIDENCE. R. 1.. Nov. 6.
; With the arrest of Nicholas Derien
i go. of this city today, the federal
authorities believe they have broken
; up a gang of seventy-five men which
has been flooding the eastern part of
: the country with counterfeit $lO
Federal Reserve Bank of Boston
notes. The bills were made here and
i in Burrillville.
Deriengo pleaded not guilty to a
i charge of selling .SI,OOO worth of
counterfeit notes to Newark. N. J..
| men for $320. The bills are believed
to have all been passed in Newark.
• Deriengo was held in $2,500 bail for
' appearance in the federal court in
| New Jersey.
The federal authorities have seized
j $75,000 worth of the counterfeit notes
up to date.
The Weather
Forecast for Saturday;
Louisiana: Colder in south portion.
Arkansas; Generally fair.
Oklahoma: Fair, warmer.
East Texas; Partly cloudy prob
ably widely scattered showers;
i colder.
West Texas: Colder.
Virginia: Rain and colder.
North, South Carolina and Geor
gia: Partly cloudy with rain and
u. *ldcr.
Florida: Generally fair.
Extreme Northwest Florida:
Colder.
Alabama: Probably fair and colder.
Mississippi: Fair and colder,
Tennessee and Kentucky: Fair and
colder,
Port Bill Defeated
In North Carolina,
Morrison Concedes
RALEIGH, N. C., Nov. 6.—Gover
nor Cameron Morrison late. Thurs
day admitted that the port terminal
department bill had been defeated.
He said that although the race was
close, he felt that the final count
would disclose a small majority
against it.
Governor Morrison previously had
refused to admit the possibility of
the bill being beaten, although tabu
lations of the vote showed a constant
majority piling up against the meas
ure. The vote tabulated at the time
the governor issued his statement
was from 724 of the 1,730 precincts
in the state, several of them the of
ficial vote, and showed 72.421 for the
bill and 85,990 against it.
■M WILL DUN
FDD SPEAKER TO
SUCCEED GILLETT
WASHINGTON, Nov. 6.—Repre
sentative Martin B. Madden, Repub
lican, of Illinois, announced today
he would be a candidate for speaker
of the house to succeed Frederick
H. Gillett, who has been elected to
the senate in Massachusetts.
Mr. Madden is chairman of the
house appropriations committee, and
has been a member of congress for
20 years. He was placed in nomina
tion as a candidate for speaker last
session but declined to conduct an
active campaign against Speaker
Gillett.
Friends of Representative Nich
olas Longworth, of Ohio, Republican
floor leader, have expressed the be
lief that he also would enter the
race, but there has been no state
ment from him on the subject and
no other member of the house, han
announced his candidacy.
Ability of the Republican organiza
tion to control the new congress
elected Tuesday appeared today
to hinge on the outcome of
senator contests in three states —
Minnesota, New Mexico and Wyom
ing. There was little doubt that it
would have at least a bare working
majority in the house over Demo
crats and La Follette insurgents.
If the Republican candidates for
the senate in two of the three states
still in doubt are victorious, and the
vacancy in Connecticut is filled by
a Republican, a coalition of Demo
crats and consistent supporters of
Senator La Follette would fall two
short of a majority.
In Minnsota ana Wyoming the Re
publican nominees are leading on the
face of incomplete returns as re
ceived today, but in New Mexico
Senator Bursum was trailing his
Democrtaic opponent, Sam G. Brat
ton.
With the result in sixteen con
gressional districts still in doubt the
line-up of the new house, based on
unofficial returns, was, Republican.
238; Democrtas, 177; setatered, 4. Os
the missing districts, nine now are
Democratic and seven are Republi
can. but even should all of these
seats he captured by the Democrats,
the Republican organization still
would have a majority of nineteen
with which to offset defections in
the La Follete bloc.
This majority is a result of in
roads the Republicans made on the
Democi talc side. They recaptured
twenty-three seats, while the Demo
crats took only three p'aces from
them. With the last doubtful dis
trict in Pennsylvania finally swing
ing in .<> the Republican -damn, the
Democrias will be without represen
tation in the delegation from that
state, having lost the six seats they
now hold.
In lowa, Sentaor Brookhart, a
La Follette supporter, defeated Dan
iel F Steck, a Democrat, by 66 votes
on the face of complete unofficial
returns.
This contest did net have any ef
fect on the calculations as to a Re
publican majority in the next senate
as the organization had nothing to
gain, irrespective of the final out
come.
Davis Will Return to
Practice of Law After
Mediterranean Cruise
NEW YORK, Nov. 7—John W.
Davis, defeated Democratic nominee
for president, will return to the prac
tice of law in New Y’ork after a
holiday to be spent on a cruise in the
Mediterranean, it was announced to
day by his secretary. Mr. Davis
will leave within a few days to visit
his former home, Clarksburg, West
Va.
Mr. Davis spent yesterday at the
New York home ot Frank L. Polk,
former assistant secretary of state,
and today at his home at Locust
Valley, Long Island.
Upon his nomination for president,
Mr.. Davis resigned from the law
firm of Stetson. Jennings, Russell
and Davis, which he joined in lf2l
on finishing his service as ambassa
dor to Great Britain. At the same
time he gave up directorships in sev
eral corporations.
Mrs. Harding Better
Physician Announces
MARION. 0., Nov. 6.—Mrs. War
ren G. Harding's condition continues
to improve, her physician. Dr. Carl
W. Sawyer announced today. He is
sued the following bulletin:
“Mrs. Harding rested most of the
night and is improved today. The
complications that had developed in
the upper abdomen are slowly sub
siding.”
World Fliers Take
Separate Directions
EL PASO. Tex.. Nov. 6.—Ameri
ca’s world fliers took separate ways
when they hopped off from Fort
Bliss flying field, for Dayton. Ohio,
today.
Captain Lowell Smith piloted the
“Chicago” toward Dallas, while Lieu
tenants Wade and Nelson headed for
San Antonio, en route to New Or
leans.
MELLON EXPECTED
TD STAY IT HEAD
DF THE TREASURY
Better Times Ahead, Secre
tary Says Cabinet Re
arrangement Rumored
WASHINGTON, Nov. 6.—Presi
dent Coolidge today designated John
Hays Hammond to represent the
government at the celebration of the
centennial of the first meeting of
the legislative council of the terri- '
tory of Florida, being held this
month at Tallahassee. The appoint
ment was made in accordance with \
a congressional resolution.
In the discussion of cabinet
changes it w»«< generally agreed by
government officials today that Sec
retary Mellon, who has been work- :
ing on taxable questions, would be 1
content to remain at the head of |
the treasury department if his serv
ices are desired.
Mr. Mellon declined to discuss the
subject, saying he had given it no
consideration. He added, however, >
that he had not considered asking 1
the president to look elsewhere for >
a head for the treasury department
after next March 4.
Secretary Predicts Boom
General business sees a “clear i
sky,” in the opinion of Secretary |
Mellon, w’ho now expects that doubts
as to the future will be removed
and commerce and industry will go
ahead with a program of expanding
development.
The secretary, it was said today;
at the treasury, believes that Tues '
day’s election has taken off “brakes”
that have held back business some- (
what in the last several months. He j
thinks, also, it was added, that the
railroad managers will feel that they
maj’ lay out programs for the next
few years with more confidence that
moves inimical to them will not be
made by congress.
With the uncertainty of a possi-'
ble deadlock on the presidential vote 1
removed, it was said, Mr.‘Mellon
foresees a generally healthy condi
tion both at home and abroad. He
traces the improvement in Europe
to the settlement of the reparations
problem through the Dawes agree
ment and expects that better condi
tions will result not only in the
countries immediately affected by
the settlement, but in the United j
States and in other countries which |
have important trade relations with j
those who have signed the repara
tions settlement.
The treasury itself is preparing
now to round out its suggestions to
the next congress on taxes, but
these recommendations, it was said,
will be largely a restatement of the'
position taken last fall. The pro-i
posals will be made in the treas-;
ury’s annual report and probably!
will include suggestions for certain |
tax “reforms” as well as references
to methods of dealing with the ques
tion of tax-exempt securities.
With the evidence of his popular
in dorsement steadily increasing as
election returns continued to come in,
President Coolidge turned his
thoughts today to plans for the nexti
four years, including the setting up!
of his own administration and the I
framing of a legislative program to
be presented to congress.
In the latter connection, interest
at the White House centered today !
on the results of the congressional
contests. The present congress, I
though nominally in control of the
Republicans, has been dominated by I
the balance of power held by the La
Follette group in both branches. Be- '
cause of this, it is expected, few
measures except the usual approp- I
riation bills and possibly farm relief I
legislation will be presented bv the
president to the final session of the
sixty-eighth congress which begins
in December.
Tax Reform to Wait
While Mr. Coolidge has declared
for further tax reduction and “tax ‘
reform” it is the opinion of those i
close to Secretary Mellon, of the
treasury department, and to the |
president, that such legislation will i
not be pressed by the administration I
at the short session. Nor will an j
extra session be called after March i
4 for this purpose alone, it is be- |
lieved, unless clear working major!- |
ties in each branch of congress are !
assured and other emergency legis
lation is deemed necessary.
Meanwhile, Mr. Coolidge will be
confronted with the problem of se
lecting a cabinet. It is thought like
ly that several of the present mem
bers will retire for personal reasons
to private life, and it is understood
also that the president has in mind
some changes in the alignment,
though no wholesale transferring of
department heads is expected. No
outstanding changes, however, are
looked for prior to the inauguration.
As on yesterday, it •was “business
as usual” today at the White House.
Mr. Coolidge, as customary, appear
ed earlv at the executive offices,
giving his attention to government
affairs.
Immeditae problems facing him
are the selection of the proposed
agricultural commission to irtvesti
gate farming conditions, the appoint
ment of a secretary of agriculture to
succeed the late Henry C- Wallace I
ami a decision on the report of the 1
tariff commission on the sugar duty. '
“Cascade” Distillery
Burns m Tennessee
NORMANDY, Tenn.. Nov. 7. —The
famous Cascade distillery, founded
a half century ago by Victor E.
Shwab. who died Sunday night in
Nashville, was burned here last
night. It whs ignited by forest
fires.
Cascade whisky, formerly made at
the distillery, was advertised as be
ing “mellow as moonlight,” and at
tained an international reputation.
Forest fires in this vicinity still
are burning fiercely; squads of men
worked through the night in an at
tempt to check the flames.
Three Drowned in Lake
WATERTOWN, N. Y.. Nov. 6 -
Three men were drowned in Lake
Ontario near Cape Vincent early
this morning when the steamer
Grand Lockie went ashore on Char
ity Shoals.
How to Stop Fit Attacks
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a bop*® treatment which ha« 5-topped the ar*a<-"’
m hundred* of Jr zivr? immediate re’ *'. •
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Atlanta, Georgia, Saturday, November 8, 1924
FORD MET HIS WIFE AT BARN
DANCE AND IT WAS A CASE OF
ItOVE AT FIRST SIGHT FOR HIM
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, FORD BECAME RICH.
Auto Magnate’s Wife Says
She Picks Up After Henry
but She Doesn’t Kick and
Warns Other Wives Not To
1 DETROIT, Mich., Nov. B.—lt was
“love at first sight” for Henyi- Ford’
There was something about little
> Clara Bryant, who lived on a farm
> near Redford, Mich., that atttracted
Henry.
> And that attraction grew rapidly,
‘I and three years later the Bryant
1 girl became Mrs. Henry Ford, des-
I tined to be the wife of one of the
world’s richest men, and herseff
probably J;he world’s richest woman.
Thirty-nine years ago at a barn
dance near Dearborn, Mich., Ford.
I then a tall, thin, gangling youth,
I espied a small pretty girl with ex
i pressive blue eyes and long chentnut
colored hair.
He obtained an introduction. They
! sat oui two “square dances” to talk
! about his nobby—watch making. She
was sympathetic. He showed her
I a queer watch he had made. It had
two sets of hands, recording’ both
I standard lime and sun time.
Fired His Ambition
She was enthusiastic, forgetting
i entirely about ’the two dances. She
i fiied his ambitions. She had f?i'.h
! in him, he know. And he fell in
love with her there and then. Ever
I s-.nce she has bad faith in him.
I “I knew or.ly a few minutes after
j talking to her'that she was the one
i for n>e,” Ford said recently. “I was
I sure from the start. And it s al-
I ways been that way with me since
I She had faith. She was the believer.
I never had a word of discourage
ment from her.”
But Mrs. Ford didn’t fa’l in love
with Henry right off the bat. It
was nearly a year later.
“He impressed me very much as
he didn't talk about the useless
things whi h . young' men usually
talk about,” she says in telling of
their courtship.
“But I didn't fall in love with him
until about a year later. We w aited j
two more years before marrying.
Says Henry Careless
“I have always waited on him, and!
still do. He's a careless man. He’s
a clean man, but he’s careless. He’ll i
Blind Bank Wrecker
Brought to Pen Here
To Serve 15 Years
NEW H WEN, Conn., Nov.
G. Harold Gilpatric. former state ;
i treasurer and defaulting cashier
• whose speculations wrecked the
First National Bank of Putnam, i
Conn., left here this afternoon for
the Atlanta penitentiary to com
mence service of the sentence of
fifteen years' imprisonment imposed
in the United States court last week
by E. S. Thomas.
Giloatric, who is blind, was in
charge of U. S. Marshal ,T. D. Wal
ter, who with deputies had three
other prisoners convicted of viola
tion of the narcotic and other fed
eral laws.
Before leaving the county ini’
here, Gilpatric took leave of his wife
and other friends. He expressed
the hope that he would like to serve
,out his sentence and-return to his
family.
Blinded as a result of his at
tempted suicide by a self-inflicted
bullet wound, he said he would at
tempt to learn the use of raised
■ letters and other facilities for blind
I persons.
i
j He pleaded guilty to charges of
; embezzlement of amounts aggregat
ing about $330,000 from the Putnam
i hank discovered after hi® attempted
I smetde jit ius ijctme last I
drop his collar and his clothes about
anywhere, and I have to go picking
up after him. I don’t say anything
about it.
“1 don't scold because I know his
mind is full.of bigger things and he’s
! for cleanliness,” declaring such an
She warns wives against a “greed
ofr cleanliness,” declaring such an
attitude carried 'to extremes will
’ drive husbands out to the friendly
' club, where he can drop ashes where
. he will.
The greatest hours of their ro
-1 mantic lives were the last. 48 hours
1 that her husband worked on his
first automobile which was to carry
them to fame and fortune. Forty
eight hours without sleep.
Watched Success
The second night Mrs. Ford sat up
until 2 a. m., when the little car was
finished and ready for a try-out. It
was raining and Mrs. Ford threw a
1 cloak over her shoulders and fol-
■ lowed Henry to the small shop near
■ the house.
Ford rolled the car out into the
alley and started it. It ran only a
short distance. But it ran! One of
the foothills of the mountain of suc-
■ cess had been topped.
! ) But there were other hills to
climb. When Ford drove his odd-
; looking contrivance, horses balked,
drivers swore. Jeerings crowds
I gathered.
The populace called him "crazy”
! and “half cracked.” But through it
’ all Mrs. Ford stood by him—urging
him on wnth her confidence. She
: was about the only person who hai
'I the “nerve” to endure the hoots of
the crowd and ride through Detroit
'I streets with him in his “horseless
carriage.”
Home-Loving Woman
Home-loving and thoroughly unpre
tentious is this tremendously rich
woman.
Despite her millions, she dresses
like any middle class woman. She
cares nothing for jewels. In dresses
the shades she likes are brown or
blue. Mink and sable are her fa
i vorite furs.
Mrs. Ford believes that good cook-
I ing is the biggest part of a woman’s
i job. That’s her forte. Indeed she
1 refused to have any servants around
her house until a few years ago.
; She's proudest of her apple pie. She
; calls it “bird’s-nest pie.”
“It's quite simple to make,” she
! says.
And Henry likes it.
I (Copyright, 1924, NEA Service, Inc.)
Young Duck Hunter Is
Killed by Own Gun on
Pond in Fayette County
FAYETTEVILLE, Ga., Nov. 6
Cecil Driver, the 19-yearold son of
William Driver, living ten miles
: north of here in the vicinity of Lee’s
Mill, was found dead in a boat on
the pond one hour after sunup this
morning. The youth had left his
home before sunrise to shoot wild
ducks on the pond, and every indi
cation was that his shotgun was dis
charged accidently while lying in his
lap, the whole load entering his
heart. A chance passerby saw the
boat with the body in it drifting on
the pend. The boy had fallen for
ward on his face.
He is survived by his parents and
several brothers and sisters.
Surviving him are his father, W.
M. Driver; five brothers, J. E., T. J ,
W. E., IL M. and M. Q. Driver and
two sisters, Mrs. Noah Turner and ’
Mrs. Boy Victory, all of Fayette j
county. The remains were removed i
to A. C. Homper.’ey & Co f , and fu-1
neral arrangements are to be an
i npunced
i CENTS A COPY,
SI A YEAR.
BROOKHART LEADS
IN IOWA BUT RAGE
yet is most
Complete Unofficial Returns
Give lowa Senator Lead
of Over 1,000
DES MOINES, Nov. 6. (By the
Associated Press) —A complete check
of unofficial returns on the United
States senatorial contest in lowa
showed that Senator S. W. Brook
hart had a majority of 1,068 over his
I Democratic opponent, Daniel F.
I Steck, of Ottumwa. The vote: Brook-,
hart, 447,524; Steck, 446,456.
In a telephone message to the As
i sociated Press, Senator Brookhart
! today said he expected the re-check
ing of the counties to give him an
advantage that might mount into the
thousands.
Counties he had heard from at
Washington, his home, reported
changes, he said, that indicated the
errors uncovered were chiefly due to
failure of the election judges to
count straight Republican votes. Er
! roneous marking by voters who
I wished to scratch their ballots also
were believed bv the senator to have
■ confused the judges in some dis-.
! tricts, he said.
Senator Brookhart late Wednes
! day had conceded the election of
| Steck.
It was considered certain that
Steck would await an official count
before conceding the election to Sen
ator Brookhart.
REPUBLICAN VICTORY GROWS
AS COUNTING PROGRESSES
NEW YORK, Nov. 6.—(By the
Associated Press.) —The Republican
, triumph in Tuesday’s election as
sumes an even greater magnitude as
the counting of the ballots neats
completion.
Overnight returns not only boosted
the total of electoral votes credited
to Coolidge and Dawes, but increased
the likelihood that the new adminis
tration will have' a dependable ma
jority of its own party in congress.
They likewise lifted to new heights
the vast Republican majorities in
several states already counted in
the Coolidge electoral column and
gave indications of depositing there
all of the electoral strength now
classified as doubtful.
The latest triumphal procession
are Montana and Nevada, having be
tween them seven votes in the elec
toral college. That would increase
the party total to 374 or 108 more
than is needed to elect. For a time
La Follette had threatened to cap
ture one or the other but the figures
available today appear to make both
safely Republican.
New Mexico Doubtful
The electoral bag of Davis and
Bryan remained meantime at 136
and apparently the only chance of an
increase was New Mexico, where the
Democratic ticket was holding the
lead by only a scant plurality. Coob
idge was gaining at a ratio which,
if maintained, would add the state’s
three votes to the Republican total.
La Follette’s last opportunity to
increase the electoral vote of the
thirteen given him by Wisconsin
seemingly hinged on the returns
from North Dakota, with five votes.
Coolidge remained in the lead on the
face of returns from two-thirds ot
the state, but his plurality was di.
minishing as a mounting La Follette
vote came in from the country dis.
tricts.
The congressional returns lifted
the Republican majority in the
house to a point where it seemed
probable that the administratioi;
would be able to out-vote there any
combination of Democrats and La
Follette insurgents. Thus it ap.
peared that the Wisconsin senatol
had been held to a minimum of eleo
toral strength in his fight for the
presidency but was in jeopardy ot
losing the commanding position he
has held for the past two years as
leader of a group holding the balance
of power in senate and house.
To Perpetuate Party
Despite this situation, the leaders
of th e La Follette group were plan
ning today to keep a party organi
zation together for the future and at
the same time the Democrats, bur
ied under a second Republican land
slide in four years, were trying to
dig their way out far enough to take
stock of the probable consequences
to their party.
John W. Davis, the defeated Demo
cratic presidential nominee, will talk
over party reorganization plans with
National Chairman Shaver and oth
er chieftains at a lunch
eon here but it is probable that some
time will elapse before there is a def
inite movement to put the party ma
chinery into running order once
more.
Wyoming
CHEYENNE, Wyo., Nov. 6.—Al
though President Coolidge carrterf
Wyoming, and swept with him into
office senatorial and congressional
candidates, the state chose a wom
an, a Democrat, for governor. She
is Mrs. Nellie Tayloe Ross, widow
of the late Governor William E.
Ross.
With returns still incomplete, Eu
gene J. Sullivan, Republican oppo
nent of Mrs. Ross, late last night
conceded her election. With 107
precincts still missing, the count
was: Ross, 38,341; Sullivan, 31,119.
The presidential vote stood: Cool
idge, 36,789; Davis, 11,965; La Fol
lette, 21,981.
United States Senator Francis BJ
Warren, Republican, had a comfort
able lead over Judge Robert Rose,
Democrat, for re-election. The vo»*S
Warren, 36,599; Rose, 29
SOUTH DAKOTA
SIOUX FALLS, S. D., Nov. 15.
(By the Associated Press.) —Practi-
cally every return which reached
here last night from Tuesday’s bal
loting served to accentuate the vic
tory v.on in South Dakoki by Presi-
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