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"History will not overlook the fact that the execution of the great emer-- gency measures of the administration have been committed by the president to his secretary of commerce. "He has been to his chief and leader a loyal and devoted aide, a powerful and understanding friend. A never "This historic party of achievement has never been able to submit to the the constructive policies of a great tremendous power of that spiritual force upon the affairs of today. That womanhood, too, is on the march be-- side its sons who have grown to man-- hood's state. Their faith and prayers are fixed on him. And shall we dash their hopes and ignore their appeals? Better, is it not, that this mighty force for human betterment should find its abiding home in Republican party than turn to other faiths. make up the womanhood.--of America. "They are on the march today, and the political party that fails to heed their voices is headed for disaster. Be-- tive acdons. The spirit of forbearance and pa-- tience which has marked his career through life was bred in him by those who guided the steps of his infancy "He emerged into public life in the first class of engineers to leave Stanford University. With pick in hand he worked as a common labor-- er in the drifts of the old Mayflower mine in California. There were laid the foundations of that enduring sympathy he has always shown for the laboring man. But he has been no less the consistent and construc-- tive friend of industry and com-- "The story of his life is an epic of modern achievement. Descended from seven generations of American ple of the heights to which pure Americanism, by sustained effort and devotion, may reach. "At the age of four, death took his father from beside the forge in the state of lowa. That loss was com-- pensated in the life which followed for he was reared in the sweet and tolerant atmosphere of an --American no less the consistent and tive friend of industry : merce. "The world's greatest suddenly over a startled -- with countless American: to be in the city of Lot great war machine rolled "The world's greatest war broke suddenly over a startled world. He, with countless Americans, chanced to be in the city of London. The great war machine rolled over Bel-- gium, leaving starvation and ruin in its wake. "Behea'rdtheoldcrythatrorg::: a hundred years has run out the waters of an angry sea--"Wom-- en and children first." He heard the cry and answered. In the pres-- ence of gaunt and tottering children he knew neither friend nor foe. To him, hunger and innocence knew no nationality. Millions knocked at hunger's gate. "To organize relief;: to secure the funds, to buy foodstuffs; to ship young men have grown to manhood since the signing of the armistice 'They are independent, thinking men. They live in the present. Their de-- mand is for a greater and finer America--an America of widened op-- portunities and greater hope for the The end of the great war has re-- leased forces no man can measure. Old political faiths have been shaken to their foundations Millions of submarines; to negotiate with gov-- ernments, to get food to the starvingz chosen in preferential primaries--to announce him the-- overwhelming choice of the nation's electorate. From the state of rugged old New England; from an almost unbroken Atlantic seaboard; from north and south alike they have thronged to this convention bhall to hear the mandatte of the peo-- ple. It is to the people themselves that we must give ear this day. Their voice is the dominant voice~ of put the name of Herbert Hoover up for nomination Thursday night be-- fore the Republican convention with the following address. "Mr. chairman, ladies and gentle-- men of the convention: "California's delegation, elected by 600,006 voters in an uncontested pri-- mary, presents to you for the presi-- denecy of the United States, America's greatest administrator in human wel-- fare--Herbert Hoover. "The united Pacific coast strides into this convention to declare him its choice. And from the great farm-- ing state of the Mississippi valley they come------these voices of the ballot, and the starving to the food--here was a task such as never before con-- fronted man. The feeding of those hungry children is the greatest practical romance in history. JOHN L. M°NAB LAUDS HOOVER "I'he call came overseas from his beloved -- homeland. The United States had cast her lot in the great struggle. «He was named food ad-- ministrator "Full well he understood that the proper execution of the task prob-- ably would mean the graveyard of all political hope. From the day he was appointed. he insisted that the one essential ~ group in America that must have protection was the American farmer. To quicken pro-- duction; to stimulate industry: to feed armies at a price that govern-- ments could afford to pay; to resist the mercantile profiteer, and to see that the farmer received the just re-- turn for his product was a task that called for both statesmanship and courage. Efforts Bring Results "His measures trebled the surplus food in the United States When the armistice came he saw with the prophetic vision of a seer the peril 'ered in a quarter of a century. "It would require the gratitude of peril in its history. # "Europe repudiated> its contracts to buy the hogs and wheat of Amer-- flood on the markets of the United States meant ruin for which our ag-- "Our people are aroused to the need of farm in all his construc-- with side the great lagoons. "If the American people a quar-- ter of a century ago had set about the task of preparing a man for the presidency, how could they have done better to equip him for those vast responsibilitiees than through the expertences which "T%hworkhaswonforhlmthe gratitude of unnumbered Americans man's life? "To insure to every American child equal opportunity in training and education;, to remove the drudg-- ery of the American housewife,; to brighten the toil of the workshop; with the American Red Cross, the secréetaries of the army and navy, be had telegraph -- lines strung, foodstuif moving, and the noble and splendid leaders of the south, most of whom were a political faith not his own, from New Orleans to Memphis, organized for instant service. have means to relieve 'the distress of the producer; to stimulate: healthy business methods; to advise, to en-- pattern he has been weaving for the last seven years for the do-- mestic America of the future. "Since the great war the United States has become the center of Vast forces fraught with evil if un-- controlled, freighted with blessings if understood, are in motion. "No one is so fitted by years of "He has quickened the industrial activities of the nation. He has proved that governiment business and moals go hand in hand. "It was his initiative that pre-- vented the spread of unemployment which had brought stagnation and despair to the rest of the world. He fought to a triumphant con-- clusion a world wide monopoly which threatened the rubber pur-- chasers of America. "In the midst of crowding duties soul. --Human suffering once more was at the gate. "The Mississippi had broken over the richest lands of the south. "For the first time in history, torrential rains fell in thirtyostates at the same time. Six hundred thousands were homeless; cities were flooded: the great and noble south is so adapted by temperament and sympathy to direct these forces to the betterment of his country as this wholesome son of the sturdy saw its richest possessions go "To whom should the president turn in such an hour of crisis? "To whom but to the man 'whose name we present to you this day lem can be trusted by the American farm producer to propose the meas-- ures that will bring lasting relief to the agriculture of the United States. came the head of the department of commerce. Always a republican, always a believer that there can be no satisfactory advance without the rival policies of a two--party system, he found in the republican cabinet a field for expending use-- fulness. "What a beneficence he: has made that department to the business and industrial world! ° "Into the department of com-- merce has been called the best talent that the nation could secure. equality with the industrial pro-- ducer. 5 "This great economist has solved every other economic problem that has come within his reach in a spirit of equality and justice. FHe who has mastered every other prob-- task have been accomplished. Only a man who possessed the respect of European powers could have enacted the agreements he demanded. "He compelled the disposal in Eu-- rope of the huge surplus of farm products. To him is due the early opening of the blockade on Ger-- many. Had it not been for his pres-- tige and his genius of persuasion the doors of Europe would have been locked to the product of our fields and American agriculture would "Herbert Hoover believes that the nation owes a special responsibility to agriculture as one of the great basic industries upon which our believes that national measures must be taken to the end that the farm "Summoned . by a republican president, © Herbert Hoover com-- menced the greatest romance . of modern industriat life. He be-- repay Herbert Hoover for his efforts to save the whole industry from col-- have crashed beyond all hope of re-- it & spirit of prophecy to foresee "Up Stairs; Down Stairs; in My Lady's Chamber" _ With an extension telephone you can make or answer a call at either instrument. This saves many steps and often enables you to talk privately, which might be impossible with only one telephone in the home. In ° time of emergency an extension is often priceless. -- & ; of WHEREV ER you are, in your house or apartment, your telephone will be in convenient reach if you have an extension. ILLINOIS BELL TELEPHONE COMPANY BELL SYSTEM One Policy -- One System -- Universal Service The Cost Is Smail Call Our Business Office of this He was taken to the Lake Coun-- ky General hospital where Dr.: Karl M. Beck attended:> him. ~He ~sus-- tained a deep cut on the upper lip and a two--inch cut on the chin. HMe returned to his home after being at-- the Callahan Dairy company of Waukegan, parked at the side of the road. The gasoline tank on Ames' car was punctured and the gas ignit-- ed. Ames managed to crawl out of the car before his clothes caught on fire. Alvin H. Ames, of the Waukegan ¥. M. C. A., an employe of the Hy-- drox "orporation,. suffered slight in-- juries and his car was ftotally de-- stroyed by fire in a two--car and truck collision which occurred at 8:30 o'clock Monday: morning just east of. the viaduct under the Chica-- go Mil. and St. Paul railroad line at Grand avenue. Ames was driving east and collided with a car operated by Pete John-- son of Gurnee. The impact threw Thrce persons were injured Sun-- day afternoon in an -- automobile motorcycle collision in Green Bay road at Washington street. Accord-- ing to the report made to Sheriff Lawrence A. Doolittle by Deputies George -- Heckinger and . William Kelly, the driver of the:>: motorcycle hit the side of the automobile. _ stitches. F. J. Runtz, 4450 North Kenneth avenue, Chicago. Neck injured and facial cuts. He also has a dislocated finger. ' _ After being attended at the emer-- gency hospital of Dr. J. A. Ross in Wauconda, they returned to their W. J. Proest, Surf Hotel, Chicago Face and hands lacerated. Machine In Ditch _ --Threée men were cut and bruised Sunday evening at 6 o'clock when the car in which they were riding left the cement near Wauconda and went into the ditch before the driver A mother, Mrs. J. V.. Walker +of Gurnee and her daughter were injured. Mrs. Walker had her left wrist sprained and lacerations over the left eye. Her daughter sus-- tained cuts and bruises Fred Van-- denburg, Thirty--fourth street, Mil-- waukee, operator of the motorcycle, suffered deep cuts on the face. 'the injured were treated at the Lake Roriculitnral blank in _ the | narty(chines, drove into a ditch-- He was 1t;g-ittf:ult:m-t,l plank in thefl'part:yI ised and s 'n' uo. _ . Wg o:i:n r}el::nonmou':tsed :he"pphl .t- . A machine driven by Ira Schicber form and read the short sharp of Minneapolis crashed into a car message from the farm governor.|OPCTated by George Moore of 6133 There was a momentary silence then|Kenmore _ Ave., Chicago Sunday a clattering of cheering and ap-- night, just south of Antioch on use mingled with notes of dis--| ROUtE 41. No one was hurt, but both g::'proval , machines were damaged -- consider-- * # ably. Schieber told Deputy Heck-- inger that Neil Amby of #86 Sixty-- AUTOS TAKE HEAVY | |eignth avenue, Milwaukee, _ caused m UR the accident. Amby was trying to LL OF lNJ ED pull a car from the ditch at the time. t §I -- Those involved in the accident set-- soutls(/t% tg;l\:glggn;r:x a? ahgl:hl )rat,e ofjtled the matter among themselives. speed and the driver apparently did Three Persons Hurt not see tke stop sign for the inter--| Three persons were painfully hurt secting highway The two machine<|in an accident in North . Chicago crashed almost headon and each over--, Saturday Right when cars drivan by tirned, firally stopping in the ditch{Steben Newton of North -- Chicago at the side of the road. land Joseph Siwula of 230 Four-- The occupants of the cars were pin-- teenth street, North Chicago c--ashed ned beneath thneir machines, but fi--]at the intersection of Victoria and nally managed to crawl out. They}Sixteenth streets, North Chicago. were «taken to the office of Dr. J. A.jSophia Mondro of Sixteenth street, Koss in Wauconda,-- where their in--|North Chicago, who was riding with juries 'were dressed. Misses Asorle.)Siwula, was thrown from the ma-- Emond and Filwell were taken to the|chine and suffered cuts about the Palatine hospital, where they were re-- |head and face. Siwula sustained a ported Monday as slightly improv--|broken arm, while the driver of the ed. : ----1lother machine was badly bruised. Machine In Ditch _ All three were rushed to the Victory _ Three men were cut and bruised|Memorial hospital after, having re-- Sunday evening at 6 o'clock when jceived first aid treatment from Dr. the car in which they were riding |A. E. Budde. They were released left the cement near Wauconda @Ndifrom the.hospital Sunday. The occupants of the cars were pin-- ned beneath tneir machines, but fi-- nally managed to crawl out. They were «aken to the office of Dr. J. A. Koss in Wauconda, where their in-- juries 'were dressed. Misses Asorie, Emond and Filwell were taken to the Falatine hospital, where they were re-- ported Monday as slightly improv-- county went home. * Sam Cohen of Milwaukee suffered Lowden's decision -- to withdraw his name took place after the con-- vention adopted the Hoover--Jardine agricultural plank in the party platform. The convention : was -- surprised when Otis Glenn mounted the plat-- form and read the short sharp message from the farm governor. There was a momentary silence then a clattering of cheering and ap-- FARM NEEDS BROUGHT OUT in any event brought the atten-- tion of the whole country to the situation confronting' -- agriculture," he said 'before leaving his hotel.. action of the convention means Frank O. Lowden, wartime governor of Illinois, Gdramatically withdrew from the republican convention last night as a presidential candidate, left the city and went back to his farm where he says he will con-- tinue his fight for "a better deal for the farmers." ies would just be it is now I have we have 15.-- Another thing hard to understand is why the average Libertyville man will lay the Monday paper down in disgust if there isn't some name in the Sunday auto casualty list of an acquaintance of his. his mouth and a. scalp wound about six inches long.© He is still at the hospital. Serious injuries were suffered Sat-- urday evening by Ben Slettelind, of Antioch, when a machine struck him as he was walking along the concrete pavement about one mile south of Antioch He was picked up and taken to the Lake County General hospital by Eugene Sheehan of, Lake Villa where Dr. Beck at-- tended him. He suffered a lacera-- tion just above the eye, a cut on the end of his nose and inside of June is the time when a lot of young people start in to learn what a liar the fellow was who first said that two can live as cheaply as one. To avoid hitting the cars of Di-- tello and Adams, Lawrence Greine-- nan of Bristol, Wis., who was driving directly behind one of these ma-- Qrder now for your c Winters needs ion in Green Bay Rd. Sunday : Machines operated by Tony cuts and his father and sister were shaken «un considerably Sunday girl sustained a severe cut over one eye and a knee laceration. Samuel D. Alexander, Marylan Alexander, and Mike Moss, all of Milwaukee, were riding with Ditello and were shaken up and suffered w -- urive in a Givcnh on United States Route 41 to avoid hitting a machine. 'The car did not overturn. Cohen had turned out to go tello of 515 Greenbush avenue, Mil-- waukee, and Rudy Adams of Zion collided at the intersection of Green SAVE with SAFET Y -- Bathing Caps Thermos Bottles Kodaks and Films First éid Supphes Decker & Neville FOR YOUR V A C A TITIO N ---- DRUG STORE when he was Bay Rd. Sunday night. erated by To%ynigm- hxs. . The investigation -- has uncovered the slimiest of slimy trails beaten by privilege. -- The investigation has shown, let us hope,. privilege at its worst. The trail is one of dishonesty, greed, wiolation of law, secrecy, con-- cealment, evasion, falsehood and cunning. It is a trail of betrayals by trusted and presumably hon~r-- able men--betrayals of a govern-- ment, of certain business: interests and the people who trusted and hon-- ored them: it is a trail showing a flagrant degree of the exercise of po-- litical power and influence, and the power and influence of great wealth upon individuals and political pear-- Slow to unfold itself and slow in being unraveled. the tale of those who engineered. aided and abetted in the naval oil reserve leases and the affairs of the Continental Trad-- ing company goes bevond the most fertile imagination. The enormity of the offenses involved in these trans-- actions is increased by the fact t:.at these great oil reserves, created by the acts of Presidents Taft, Roose-- velt and Wilson. were essential to the national defense and were in-- tended to be held inviolate until they were actually needed for the us> of the navy by reason of the depletion Never has the world known a case involving a degree of fraud, quite evident bribery, thievery, conspiracy and corruption, to compare with what has come to be known as the Teapot Dome--Elk Hills--Continental Trading company case. The leases involved in the case are estimated to have been worth not less than $500.-- 000,000, and were consummated, to use -- the language of the Supreme court of the United States, "by con-- spiracy, corruptioh and fraud." (U. 8. Senator from. North Dakota.) (Senator Nye was born in Horton-- ville, Wis., in 1892. At the age of 2 he moved with his parents to Wit-- tenberg, Wis., where he received his education. Nye began his career in the newspaper field and in 1915 be-- came manager and editor of the Daily Plain Dealer at Creston, Ia. About a year later he moved to North Dakota and purchased a local paper at Fryburg. In 1919 he settled down in Cooperstown, N. D., and be-- came manager and editor of the, Griggs County Sentinel--Courier. Nye was appointed by the governor as a member of the U. S. senate in 1925 and was elected to the same office in 1926.) HIGHLAND AWNING COMPANY _ Awnings--Tents ---- Covers IL SCANDAL GREAT FRAUD Carnival and Camping Tents for Sale or Rent. Duffy's Furniture Bldg. Provide a profitable and safe investment For your Savings. Tel. Highland Park 638 Our | Object Help You Own Y.our Own Home Slow to Unravel. 5) 20, 1928 -- °* i -- BOULEVARD § P ARK on west shore Slocum Lake,Ill. RrdrnadiaCadadiadia d 1edteo d 0,4"00000 1e 4* 1e 4%, * Mindtvdiadieadiodieé oo dto ho ste ste tte ate ote d ate se ate ate dte ate ate the ate ate tte dte ate dte ds ate ate ate ate ata ts ds ate ate ate ate ate dta it of other oil sources or for some other great national emergency. In addition to the startling story which the investigation itself has un-- folded, there are results, the direct outgrowth of facts uncovered by it, further to startle and stagger any mind which has followed the case Justice has been proved now a thing to be applied to and eujoyed by all alike, but, instead, a com-- modity to be hrought and otherwise influenced by wealth, and abl»e lawyers. ' : The acquittal verdicts which foi-- lowed the Fall--Doheny and the Rall-- Sinclair trails have been considered most deplorable failures of justire on every side, excepting only the side of privilege. These failures'haw» b--en of such nature as to prove the need for such changes in court procedure as will advantage no more easily to the criminal of great means than to the offender who comes out o' the mast lowly classes---- The board of supervisors Thurs-- viis motion on record without a L'«jote day afternoon on su'gv;tion of | until September. s Supervisor Arthur W. Vercde, of| Practically the entire county board Highland Park, chairman of the fi--|visited the poor fatm Thursday nance committee postponed action in| morning and made a thorough in-- the county poor farm matter unu'llspection of the buildings and 'pre-- the September meeting of the board.)mises. The board members found Supervisor Edward Mawman oflthe fire escapes to be faulty, the Lake Bluff, who launched a fight on buildings in a run--down condition Wednesday to get some needed i and the sewage conditions unusual-- provements for the county p'!" ly bad. Supervisor Mawman and farm at Libertyville agreed t leave other members reported in the af-- the matter go until September, pro-- | ternoon tz'at they were greatly im= viding it is made a special order of| pressed by the cleanliness of the business at that time. The ~board; old buildings. Mawman said that agreed to take this matter up first> Philo Burgess superintendent of the BOARD DEFERS FARM ACTION 5D HOMESITES .)) Sunday, June 24 12--Attractive Cottages--12 1 p. m. daylight saving time Supervisor Mawman started> the movement in behalf of the aged peo-- ple at the poor farm on Wednesday. after he had learned that because of Gefeat of the $250,000 bond issue that the poor farm committee intended to say nothing about the farm. He made a motion that $2,500 be appropriated for improvement purposes at the poor farm. He consented to leave this mo-- tion open until after the farm was inspected Thursday morning and then that afternoon agreed to leave this motion on record without a vote until September. 2 at the fall meeting. -- Supervisor _ B. ~C. Thompson, chairman of the poor farm com-- mittee _ ;conferred -- Friday with Deputy State Fire Marshal Paul E. Bertram in regard to the buildings on the poor farm, which he condem-- ned two years ago. He is to appear before the board at the September meeting and will advise against spending 'money on improvements. In fact, Bertram indicated, accord-- ing to Thompson that he will not allow the old buildings to be re-- paired. From what Thompson says it is possible that the poor farm ay have to be closed up. to be sold at and poor farm, and his wife, are de= mdmfl%&gum manner they keep structures. Supervisor Mawman said that he certainly did not approve of the fire escapes on the buildings, telling the board they are inadequate and in fact ot no value whatsoever in case a fire should break out. He said the roofs need to be fixed and that other im« provements should be made Supervisor Vercoe in making hig motion to defer the matter until fall said that the poor farm committee at that time should bring in & com-- plete report and make a recommen-- dation to the board as to just what fhouldbeour-e in regard to the poor discussion of the '"--_fl-'-"-- ruember of the boure ang :'m formally. outlined," said vyereqe. "If it is best to sell the present site in Libertyville and get a hf-xm" poor farm committee shoulq s, grece ommend in the fall. If there is to be no sale, it should be decided 2s 1o what improvements are to be madge and make the proper @PPrOopriation for 'same when the @appropristion measure for the fiscal year, whicn starts in September, is pessed. '"There is no question but what the roof is in bad shape, the fire escapes inadequate and the «vinage buad and in September there shou!q be an Open member of i'ne boar? angd a policy formally. outlined," sa'id vyercoe. "If it is best to sell the present site in Libertyville and get a n--w one, the poor farm committee shoulq so rece ommend in the fall. If there is to be no sale, it should be decided 2s go what improvements are to be mage "The modern girl's idea of a ki:. chen apron is something made «* silk, p:zt.ty to look at but perfect]y We read that a South Carolin: editor was recently robbed of $265 The part of the story we can't be lieve is that it was an editor. » **