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Tom Taggart and His Career
Col. Thomas Taggart of Indiana made history for
46 years while he was on earth as a business man. a
financier, hotel proprietor, an owner of newspapers,
a maker of governors and senators and as a leader
of his fellows.
He was bom in Ireland. He came to America
when a little lad. His first job was that of a waiter.
His second Job was that of owner of a cafe where he
had served as a waiter.
Twenty years later he was a millionaire. First he
was the leader of the Indianapolis democracy. Then
he became the leader of the Indiana democracy.
Then he became one of the famous democratic tri
umvirate—Roger Sullivan of Illinois, Charles S. Mur
phy of New York and Thomas S. Taggart of Indiana.
He made governors and senators. He made Thom
as R. Marshall vice president of the United States.
He joined hands with Sullivan and Murphy to throw
William Jennings Bryan in the ditch at Baltimore
and make Woodrow Wilson the democratic standard
bearer.
After the passing of Wilson Taggart lost control.
During war-time a hundred thousand negro voters
from the south found jobs and homes under Hoosier
skies. These southern blacks voted the republican
ticket. They made Indiana a republican Gibraltar.
Taggart lost his health. He lost his fighting spirit.
* He lost his grip upon the rank and file of Indiana
voters. He fought his last great battle with the King
of Terrors and the king won. The King always wins.
There are no great democrats nowr on the banks
of the Wabash. They are in the graveyard. Taggart
was the last to go. Black battalions from the south
ern states made Indiana as solidly republican as the
state of Vermont, and the steel kings who owm Gary
and other industrial towns in the Hoosier state see
to it that there are no breaks in the political line
when important elections take place.
Legislative Power of the State
A committee of 15 were created by the Fortieth
legislature to be known as the tax survey commission.
Three members of the senate were appointed by the
president of that body; four members of the house
were appointed by the speaker, and eight “public
spirited and capable persons who are private citizens ’
were appointed by the governor.
According to the act creating the committee the
members were to receive as compensation the sum of
$10 per day for each clay they actually served, to
gether with railroad fare, hotel, telegraph, telephone,
postage and express expenses incurred in th dis
charge of their duty. A sum of $25,000 was appro
priated to defray the compensation and expenses of
the committee.
Representative A. H. King of Throckmorton de
clared the act was in violation of the constitution of
the state. He invaded the court. Finally certified
questions from the court of civil appeals were passed
on to the supreme court of Texas . It was a knock
out for the lawmaker members of the committee,
when this tribunal answered. It was declared that
they could not take down $10 per day for their serv
ices as the constitution decreed that $5 was the pay
of a legislator. As for the private citizen members
of the committee they were all to the good. Each
member received $10 per day and all expenss incurrd
while in actual service of the state. As to the consti
tutional provision the high court decision reads:
“The legislature is forbidden to provide any greater
compensation for the services of the members of the
legislature than the stated per diem and mileage.”
Dillon on municipal corporations was quotd by the
learned members of the supreme court as follows:
“It is a well settled rule that a person accepting a
public office with a fixed salary is bound to perform
the duties of the office for the salary. He cannot
legally claim additional compensation for the dis
charge of these duties, even though the salary may be
a very inadequate remuneration for the services.
Neither can he recover extra compensation for inci
dental or collateral services which properly belong to,
or form a part cf the main office. An express con
tract to pay such extra compensation or an express
allowance of it is void.”
This is the law of the commonwealth according to
the high court decree: “the trial court erred in its
holding to the effect that the resolution was uncon
stitutional and void in so far as it directed the pay
ment of money out of the legislature contingent ex
pense found for the expenses of the legislative mem
bers of the committee: but the trial court did not err
in the judgment to the effect that the resolution was
unconstitutional and void in so far as it directed the
payment of money out of said fund for compensa
tion to the legislative members of th ecommittee. The
trial court did not err in the holding to the effect
that the resolution was valid in so far as it directed
the payment of money out of the legislature’s con
tinued expense fund for compensation and expenses
of the members of the committee who were not mem
bers of the legislature.”
Former Gov. Oscar B. Colquitt is chairman of the
tax survey commission. He is a lawyer. Senator A.
E. Woods and A. J. Wirtz and Edgar E. Witt are
members of the commission. These gentlemen are
lawyers. There Is a former senator fa prominent
lawyer) “a private citizen appointed by the gover
nor.” Judges of the court of last resort interpreted
the constitution for the lawyers and the lay members
of the tax survey bureau or commission. A report
will be submitted to the special session of the legisla
ture of the activities of the tax survey. It will be
thrashed out by lawyers who are lawmakers and law
makers who are laymen at the coming special ses
sion in the month of April.
You can’t blame the Chicago police. Just when
they are ready to arrest “Scarface Al.” Mr. Capone
says he doesn’t think he wants to be arrested.—Day
tona Daily New*,
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SPRING AND UNPREPAREDNESS
This is spring
And I would now
Chirp and sing—
If I knew how.
I Squirrels fly
From limb to limb—
So would I
If I’d the vim.
Robins chant
With mocking boids;
But I can’t—
I’ve adenoids!
Lambkins gam
Bol all around;
Me? Oh, dam!
I’m muscle-bound.
Lovers sigh
’Neath trees and hold
Hands but I
Would catch a cold.
Comes the zeal
For romance ripe—
But I feel
I’m not the type
Lovers dream
And get their wish—
But I seem
To lack ambish.
Birdies woo
All day from dawn;
All I do
Is sit and yawn.
I would flit
With bees and hum
But my flit
Ter’s on the bum.
Comes the mood
For life intense:
Lassitude
Is what prevents.
Mossy mere
I yearn to tramp
But I hear
It’s pretty damp.
I would climb
O'er dale and hill—
Gee, but I’m
The Great Big Sill!
* * * *
MR. COOLIDGE IN NEW YORK
There was a young man who was sicker
Of spotlight and flashlight and flicker
Than anyone knew
And when asked “How are you?”
The silence grew thicker and thicker.
* * * *
Suggestion for a name for the Mt. Weather Sum
mer White House: The Manse to Which Nobody
Goes.
VERNAL FEVER
Now I recline and the world is mine
Absorbing the errant 6un.
As I sense its stir, some old loves recur
As I fondle them one by one.
I wander back on a misty track
To places where old dreams lurk.
And I'd think it great to emancipate
Myself from the world of work.
__ _ —Harcourt Strange.
By HERBERT C. PLUMMER
WASHINGTON, March 28.—The lowly ham om
elet may take first place among the breakfast dishes
in the land during the next four years. It is one of
the favorite foods of President Herbert Hoover.
So says Mrs. Mary E. Rattley, and she should be
in a position to know. For eight years she presided
over the culinary regions of the Hoover home in
Washington. And while she did not follow the Hoo
vers to the White House as she had hoped, neverthe
less she did advise the kitchen force at the executive
mansion what the president does and does not like
in the way of food, and how he wants it prepared.
For, she Is happy to state, Mr. Hoover never once
complained of her cooking in the eight years of her
service at the S street home. Only once in that time
did he make a request, and then he asked to have
his eggs cooked a little harder.
Presidential Recipe
Ham omelet a la Hoover, as prepared by Mrs.
Rattley, is as follows:
“Take six eggs and beat them all together. You
need not salt, for the ham does that. Add three ta
blespoons of cream and cook slowly in a well buttered
pan. When cooked on the bottom, put under toaster
flame about three minutes. Then lay the ground
ham already heated in a line across the omelet’s
diameter, and roll up without too much handling, as
you would a jelly roll. Surround it with a tasteful
fringe of the remaining ham.
“You must be artistic about laying the ham in
and rolling the omelet,” she warns.
On Sunday mornings President Hoover likes sau
sage and scrambled eggs and fried hominy.
“I was always very particular about the hominy,”
Mrs. Rattley continued. “I would insist on whole
grains, washed and drained and rolled in cream and
sprinkled with a little flour and browned in butter.”
The president is fond of many other things. In
fact. Mrs. Rattley says he likes everything that is
good and good for him. Berries with cream, vanilla
ice cream and watermelon appeal to his taste. And
pie of any kind. Cold sliced lamb surrounded by
parsley with jelly In the center is a luncheon dish
that finds favor with him.
Cooked For Lindy
At the first Mrs. Rattley thought she couldn't give
any of Hoover’s pet dishes, for she is not like many
other cooks. She does not say three teaspoons of this
or a cup of that. When we suggested that perhaps
she cooked intuitionally, she was quick with the
reply:
“No. scientifically. I have studied It all my life
and I love to cook.”
Her chief assistant is her son. Her living quar
ters at the Hoover mansion were next to her kitchen,
for like other famed good and happy cooks she is a
little too much to carry upstairs.
She says that she has been photographed by news
cameramen In every way but standing on her head.
Next to her pride in having pleased the president
with her cooking, she is happiest over the fact that
she once prepared a meal for Col. Charles Lindbergh.
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from Mr. Ripley, in care of this paper. ,, t A
Radio Bridge Analysis
i Being a Report of Bidding and Play Over
the Air from KWWG
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LEAD BRIDGE GAME
The twentieth and last of this
season’s Radio Bridge Games went
on the air Tuesday from Station
KWWG to the regret of the thou
sands of listeners-in who have re
ceived pleasure and valuable Bridge
instruction from this weekly game
lesson given by the country's great
est Bridge experts.
In this final game of the series
two of Canada's leading players,
William J. Wall cf Ottawa, and J.
H. Landerkin, of Toronto, were
paired against Mr. Whitehead and
Mr. Work.
The cards were: Mr. Work,
South: Spades, K, 9, 4; Hearts, A
K; Diamonds, 9. 7, 6, 5, 2; Clubs, A,
Q, 5. Mr. Wall, West: Spades, Q,
6, 5; Hearts, 9, 8, 6; Diamonds, A,
Q, Clubs, 9, 8, 7, 6. Mr. Whitehead,
North: Spades, A, J; 10, 7, 5, 4, 3, 2;
Diamonds, J; Clubs, J, 4, 2. Mr.
Landerkin, East: Spades, 10, 7, 3,
2; Hearts, Q; Diamonds, K, 10, 8, 4;
Clubs, K, 10, 3.
Mr. Work, as South the Dealer,
with three suits stopped, bid one
No Trump. Mr. Wall, in the West,
passed. Mr. Whitehead, North, with
a seven-card Major and a single
ton, properly took out the No Trump
bid of two Hearts. This bid of two
of a Major suit of course invited
South to rebid his No Trumps if
the Hearts did not suit him; but
had South done so, North would
have been jutsified in bidding three
Hearts. His holding of seven cards
of the suit—distinctly more than
the normal—was not to be expected
by his partner, and any denial bid
the latter might make could not
be based upon the supposition of
such length.
However, Mr. Work, South, after
a pass by Mr. Landerkin, East, al
lowed the two-Heart bid to stand.
Although Mr. Work had only two
Hearts, they were Ace-King, and
the balance of his No Trump not
being particularly dependable, he
preferred the suit bid.
Mr. Wall, West, also passed, and
North played the hand for two
Hearts. Mr. Landerkin, East, open
ed the 3 of Spades, the fourth-best
card of his long Spade suit—a lead
decidedly preferable to a blind lead
away from a King suit. From Mr.
Work’s hand, which became Dum
my. Mr. Whitehead played the 4
of Spades. Mr. Wall, West, played
the Queen, and Declarer the Ace.
Mr. Whitehead, North, then led
the Jack of Spades, having in mind
the later discard of his losing Dia
mond on Dummy’s King of Spades.
Mr. Landerkin played the 2 of
Spades ,thus showing that he orig
inally held a five-card suit. Dummy
played the 9 and Mr. Wall the 5.
Mr. Whitehead then led the 2 of
Hearts, Mr. Landerkin followed with
the Queen, Dummy won with the
Ace, and Mr. Wall played the 6.
Dummy led the King of Spades,
Mr. Wall played the 6, Declarer
discarded his singleton Jack of Dia
monds, and Mr. Landerkin played
the 7 of Spades.
Dummy continued with the 2 of
Diamonds; Mr. Wall played the Ace
Declarer trumped with the three of
Hearts; and Mr. Landerkin followed
suit with the 4 of Diamonds.
Declarer led the 4 of Hearts; Mr.
Landerkin followed suit with the 4
of Diamonds.
Declarer led the 4 of Hearts; Mr.
Landerkin discarded the 8 of
Spades; Dummy won with the King
of Hearts; and Mr. Wall played the
8-spot. Dummy returned the 5 of
Diamonds, which Declarer trumped
with the 5 of Hearts. Mr. Wall fol
lowed suit with the 3 of Diamonds
and Mr. Landerkin with the 8.
Declarer led the Jack of Hearts:
Mr. Landerkin discarded the 10 of
Spades; Dummy discarded the 6 of
Diamonds; and Mr. Wall played his
last trump, the 9 of Hearts. De
clarer then led the 2 of Clubs; Mr.
Landerkin played the 3; Dummy
finessed the Queen; and Mr. Wall
played the ft.
Mr. Whitehead, Declarer, got the
lead again by leading Dummy's 7
of Diamonds and trumping it with
the 7 of Hearts. Mr. Wall, West,
played the Queen of Diamonds and
Mr. Landerkin. East, the 10 of Dia
monds. Declarer then led his last
trump, the 10 of Hearts. Mr. Lan
derkin, East, discarded his 10 of
Clubs, in order to retain his high
Diamond over Dummy’s 9. Dummy
discarded the 9 of Diamonds; Mr.
Wall the 7 of Clubs.
Declarer next led his low Club,
the 4; Mr. Landerkin played the
King; Dummy the Ace; Mr. Wall
the 8. Dummy led the 5 of Clubs,
which of course was won by Declar
er’s Jack. Declarer therefore, by
squeezing East in the end-play,
made a Grand Slam on the hand,
scoring 56 points in the trick score
and in the honor score 40 for four
honors divided, and 100 for the
Grand Slam.
The Contract bidding of this
hand would be much more compli
cated than its bidding at Auction.
South’s opening bid of one No
Trump would be the same—he
would be just short of the strength
requisite for a bid of two. After
West’s pass, North of course would
bid Hearts—but in Contract there
would be quite a question as to how’
many. Some players with the North
hand would bid two, some three,
and some four.
As Mr. Work analyzed the hand,
North, sitting opposite a No Trump,
with seven cards of a Major suit
headed by Jack-Ten, and with the
other strength that his hand con
tains. would determine at once that
he wished to play a game contract
with Hearts the trump. Bidding
two Hearts might readily be fol
lowed by a pass by the No Trumper
and a consequent failure to reach
the game contract. Therefore, the
situation seems to call for at least
a three-Heart bid by North, which
would call upon South for which
ever game bid he prefers—three No
Trumps or four Hearts. As a mat
ter of fact, if South bid the three
No Trumps, North would have to
go to four Hearts, because, as has
been explained in the Auction bid
ding, South’s No Trump selection
would not be made with the knowl
edge of North’s abnormal length in
Hearts.
The play in the two games would
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be the same. Of course, with the
cards exposed, East would not lead
a Spade. His best lead would be a
Diamond, thus winning a Diamond
trick before North could discard his
losing singleton Jack. However, the
Radio Games are not played upon
the double-dummy basis of all the
cards being exposed, and for an
East who did not know the loca
tion of the cards he had not seen,
the proper lead would be the fourth
best Spade.
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Flashes of Life
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NEW YORK—Forty-six years ago
Frederick H. Ecker got a job sorting
mail for the Metropolitan Life In
surance company at $4 a week,
hours 8 a. m. to 6 p. m. Now he is
president of the company at $200.
000 a year.
MEXICO CITY—It is the usual
thing for children away at school
to visit their parents at Easter and
the indications are the welding
bells will ring in June. Miss Con
stance Morrow, sister of Colonel
Lindbergh's fiancee, has arrived
from Milton, Mass.
SALT LAKE CITY—Motorists
may roam at will in Utah without
being advised to select a particular
brand of smokes in preference to
any other commodity A new law
prohibits tobacco advertising on
billboards.
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By RICHARD G. MASSOCK
NEW YORK. March 28.—The
"most destructive force in Wall
street” has spent his energy. Jacob
Volk, picturesque house wrecker, is
dead.
No ordinary destroyer was Volk,
but a specialist in a big way, a razer
of skyscrapers, the taller the better.
Twenty-five hundred buildings
crumbled under his workmen's ham
mers and went tumbling down his
chutes.
“Dust to dust” might have been
his slogan, but it would have been
too sentimental. There wras no senti
ment in Volk where old buildings
were concerned. He liked so well the
tag once given him by a newspaper
friend that he put it on his signs
—“Jacob Volk—The Most Destruc
tive Force in Wall Street.”
He loved, if the term is not inept,
to tear down. No structure awed
him. A reporter, I think it was Carl
Helm of the Sun. once asked him if
he would contract to raze the Wool
worth building.
“Sure! Why not?” he said. “If
they give me a penalty or a bonus
I’ll tear ’em down. I don't care how
big or how tall they are. Start right
at the top. but in my chutes and
hoppers, and down it would come.”
TYPICAL SUCCESS STORY
That was the attitude that made
his fortune, that and speed and long
hours. He collected a bonus when a
building was demolished under the
time limit. Once the bonus was
$25,000. At that time, he said, he
worked “24 hours a day.”
In his office, however, there were
photographs showing him on horse
back in Central park or standing
with members of the Sullivan clan,
that storied political group of a for
mer day headed by Big Tim Sulli
van. And. at New Year's he dis
tributed handfuls of gold coins to
his intimates.
Born in Russia, he was reared on
New York’s east side, where his
father was a butcher. Thirty years
ago he went to work for his uncle,
who was a house wrecker, and on a
salary of $10 a week saved the $350
with which he started up in business
for himself.
The purchase of two wagons took
all his capital, so he borrowed $20 to
buy a horse and 330 more for har
ness.
“Then you know what happened?”
he asked his interviewer. “The horse
dropped dead! I’m telling you, the
house dropped dead!”
It was one of his favorite stories,
and he could well aford to laugh as
he told it. For. although he some
times took losses, they were few. The
job of tearing down old Delmonico's
on Fifth a\’enue cost him $16,000,
but that was a rare instance. He
made money, even when it cost him
$6,200 just to get out the kev of an
arch in a Broadwav bank building.
“I've got enough money not to
worrv much." he said less than three
months ago. “I don’t want to keep
on forever.”
STAGED BATTLE
The other day a news reel labor
atory received several cans of film
from Mexico, with exciting scenes of,
the revolution, unusually realistic
in detail—some too much so. They
wondered how the cameraman hap
pened to get such excellent views.
Then they received a letter from j
him.
“Some of the shots I sent may be
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The Matamoros
Cafe
Mrs. Emma Leonard
When In Matamoros
Stop at The
Matamoros Hotel
For a Clean Room.
It Is Safe.
Mrs. Emma Leonard
too gruesome," wrote. “But when I
asked the troops to stage a battle
scene they insisted on making a good
one, and they got a little too en
thusiastic."
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Who am I? In what production
did I appear in America a few
years ago? What part did I play?
To -whom was the Parthenon
sacred ?
What is Phi Beta Kappa?
“Wine is a mocker, strong drinS
is raging: and whosoever is de
ceived thereby is not wise.” Where
is this passage found in the Bible?
Today’s Horoscope
Persons born on this day are
lovers of justice and they try to see
that everyone gets a square deal.
Star Lore
By Arthur DeV. Carpenter
A belt of stars making a com
plete circle of the sky, is called the
zodiac (animal). It has 12 equal
divisions, every division but one
representing some living creature.
Man's keen interest in the zodiac
dates from ancient days when he
began to take note that all the
planets are found in it and are
circling around it; that the sun
appears to make its zodiacal rounds
annually, while the earth in its
orbit passes through it, the moon
making its rounds monthly. This
belt encircles the earth at an angie
of 23 1-2 degrees to the earth's
equator.
(More Tomorrow)
Answers to Foregoing Questions
1. Lady Diana Manners; The
Miracle; the madonna and the nun.
2. The Goddess Athena.
3. Honorary scholastic fratyjHy.
4. Proverbs xx, 1.
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