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...Youngstown Vindicator...
...survive a clash with professionals. This seems a rather unconvincing explanation of the failure of the Coalition party. It does not necessarily require a strong political organization and the backing of wealthy newspaper owners to hoodwink a city into choosing the wrong candidate. According to the "New York Tribune", Youngstown, Ohio, elected mayor one George Oles, a man who was backed by no party and whose reputation was due entirely to his own advertising. He has been a resident of Youngstown for only three months, having arrived there with a barrel of potatoes an his total assets, yet in that...
...which goes to show that amateur success in politics is not beyond the realms of possibility. Were it not for the fact that cities a hundred times the size of Youngstown permit politicians to "pull off" the most incredible hoaxes on the people, the case of Mr. Oles could be passed over as a joke. But remembering this fact, his election is an additional indication that the average intelligence in this country is such that a clever salesman can get away with almost anything...
...Youngstown State is the "Penguins." Akron has the "Zips...
...Salem; Mitchell Gratwick '22, of Buffalo, N. Y., and Horace Southworth Frazer '22, of Chestnut Hill, were chosen for the business department; William Harris Cary '22, of Brooklyn, N. Y.; Singleton Peabody Moorehead '22, of Andover; William Whitman, 3rd, '22, of Boston, and Arthur Joseph Grant '21, of Youngstown, O., were elected to the literary department...