Toledo Thimble Race

Prominent in Toledo's mayoralty scramble last week were 30,000 thimbles and many a newspaper clipping. They were the weapons of Candidate George Winters, political foe of Walter Folger Brown, who is not only U. S. Postmaster General but also political potentate of Toledo.

Candidate Winters was assiduously distributing his thimbles among Toledo females. On each thimble was emblazoned the legend: "SEW UP THE MAYOR'S RACE FOR WINTERS!" The clippings he pasted up on the front of his official headquarters--tales of recent Toledo crimes--to remind Toledo voters that Potentate Brown's candidate for reelection, Mayor William T. Jackson, had promised a crime cleanup, had not succeeded. The prize clipping related how the Brown Chief of Police had paid $7 to recover his watch from a pawnshop, whither it had been brought by a thief who had sneaked it from the room in which its owner was sleeping; also how the Brown Chief never did get back the trousers which held the watch which was in the room in which he was sleeping.

Last week Toledo politicians were meditating on the possible significance of another event. Coming home to rest, also to obtain an absentee's ballot for the coming election. Postmaster General Brown found his new, freshly-painted model front-gate mail box bowled over, destroyed.