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Two Campaigns No thinking citizen will for a moment attempt to identify the national campaign or issues this year with the State crusade for the redemption of Indiana. It is no secret to state that the one hope of the Republican candidate for Governor and his State ticket is that the popularity of Mr. Hoover and the desire of a majority of voters for a Republican national Administration may secure enough “straight” votes to carry them into power. The candidate, Harry Leslie, hurries to indorse Hoover, which is to be expected. It will be remembered that Leslie was one of the Indiana crusaders who went to Kansas City to warn the voters that Hoover could not be elected and stood by the ill-starred Watson drive of hate to the finish. The time for Leslie to have indorsed Hoover, if he wished to benefit from the good results of that candidate, was when Watson and Thurman and Chairman Rogers were denouncing Hoover. There is a reason, of course, for his indorsement. He hopes that his indorsement of Hoover will be accepted on a reciprocal basis, and -construed as a Hoover indorsement of himself. The truth is that the Leslie nomination came from the sources and influences which gave to Indiana its years of humiliation, shame and disgrace. The same old forces dictated his selection in order to prevent the nomination of Landis, who had denounced the group, or of Tom Adams. Leslie becomes the heir to the forces of Stephensonism, of Jacksonism and of Wizard Evans. Now he declares that the party is not responsible for the crimes which led to the introduction of the statute of limitations as a defense for the Governor. He says that he will make no apologies for the conduct of officials in the past few years. It will be remembered that it was Leslie, as speaker, who stood in the breach in the last Legislature when Walb cracked the whip and made suppression and refusal to investigate a matter of party loyalty. When the Legislature, under the leadership of Leslie, made the defeat of a resolution of inquiry which would have undoubtedly led to impeachment of high officials, a party measure, the party accepted the guilt of the individuals. It will be important to keep these facts in mind during the summer. This State deserves better than it has had. it must wipe out its past and the one sure and emphatic answer to past infamies is the election of Frank Dailey, brave, honest and courageous foe of corruption, as Governor of his State. \ The good citizens of this State must realize that there are not one but two campaigns this fall. The national campaign will be waged on national issues. There is no connection between it and the great and imperative purpose of giving Indiana anew deal and anew deck. Mexico Elects a President Once more Mexico has confounded her critics. Yesiarday she elected General Alvaro Obregon president of the repubUc. Her enemies had been saying President Calles would shove Genera 1 . Obregon aside and succeed himself. President-elect Obregon had no opposition. He was alone In the field. Thus he really was elected when the first vote was cast in his favor. The election, therefore, was pure form, something that had to be gone through to comply with constitutional requirements. General Obregon has been president of Mexico before. In fact, there is some opposition to him on that score. Many Mexicans, remembering Diaz, who succeeded himself over and over for thirty-odd years, fear another strong man may do the same. So, in the Mexican constitution, there is a provision that presidents may not serve two terms; but this has been interpreted to mean in succession. Which makes General Obregon eligible, since President Calles has served a full term since the general was in office. Last winter Generals Gomez and Serrano attempted revolt on a no re-election basis, but received little popular backing and quickly were defeated. They passed before a firing squad. General Obregon is regarded as one of the sanest and soundest, as well as one of the strongest, men modem Mexico has produced. “The reforms which Mexico needs,” he has said, ♦‘require at least four factors for their complete solu-tion-time, capital, education, and a directing hand. And I should like to add that the seemingly longest road to renovation is in truth the shortest, for in rebuilding a vast social organism one cannot improvise with safety.” Such is his platform and a thoroughly sound one it Is. it merits an answering, sympathetic echo north of the Rio Grande. Fortunately, there is reason to believe that she will get it. Already a stupendous change has come over Mexican-American relations in the last few months Lince the volt-face of the administration’s policy which Kent Dwight Morrow, to Mexico City as our ambassaAr. He and President Calles, cooperating on a basis friendship and respect, have worked General Obregon, it would appear, will only to carry on with Morrow or Morrow’s the general obviously has every intention of mby thinking,” he says, “the one sheet anchor of Bbr a country situated as is ours, must be

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sought, and will be found, in the esteem and good-will of our next door neighbor and of the entire civilized world.” General Obregon has made it plain that he wishes to restore harmony inside the republic as well as with his neighbors. He has promised religious freedom along lines already indicated by President Calles, that is to say on a mutual basis of non-interference between church and State. Seldom has Mexico’s future loomed brighter. Already she has the directing hand, so, given the other three Obregonian requirements—time, capital and educa non—tomorrow will find her in the van of American nations. Hoover and Prohibition Q. What did Herbert Hoover say about prohibition. A. He said it is “an experiment, noble in purpose.” And, that surely, is all that prohibition is. The nobility of the motive inspiring those good Ohio women who launched the crusade to make America dry, willy nilly, can not be denied by the most vociferous opponent of prohibition. But it was only an experiment that they and their followers finally brought about, only a laboratory test of the thesis that men may be made good by law. This newspaper believes that the thesis was unsound from its very inception and it believes that the experiment itself has proved it. There are others who believe that the experiment must continue longer before any decision can be made. And there are still ethers who will still believe, despite all demonstrations, that to correct any weakness of human nature you have only to pass a law. In which of these three classes Alfred E. Smith is to be found there is no question. As to Herbert Hoover, we believe that his statement, quoted above, < puts him in the second class.

We do not believe he can be classed with those who regard the question closed. To do so would belie the character of a marl who bases his views on facts. Unless Herbert Hoover approaches this problem in a manner different from his approach to every other problem, we are certain he eventually will reach the conclusion that the American experiment has proved that absolute prohibition doesn’t work. Maybe he won’t, but we think he will. That, perhaps is because we think such a decision is inevitable on the part of any person who balances his moral earnestness with sufficient cool reason, any person who has the capacity to weigh the facts that confront him. An experiment. An experiment, noble in purpose. But only an experiment. Stewart Acquitted Col. Robert W. Stewart has been acquitted of the charge of contempt of the United States Senate. Colonel Stewart, of course, was guilty of contempt. He flatly refused to answer questions put to him by the Senate and that, legally, is contempt. Harry F. Sinclair, for a similar refusal, was found guilty of contempt and seems pretty certain to spend six months in jail. There is a specific offense, in the law, known as contempt, and then there is the common human feeling that we call contempt. In view of the verdict in his case, what would you guess is Colonel Stewart’s present feeling toward the courts? The Old Word ‘Gob” An epauletted admiral at Washington has announced that the Navy Department frowns on the word “gob” as applied to sailors. Naval men are forbidden to use it and the general public is requested to follow suit. It so happens, however, that the enlisted men themselves like the word. It came into use some years ago when the general public was referring to the sailors as “Jackies;’’ and nothing ever made the sailors madder than that. They seized on “gob” In self-defense and the word has a distinguished record by this time. One suspects that It will take more than an edict by an admiral to kill it.

—-David Dietz on Science Sun Star; Stars Suns No. 91

A READER writes to ask what the stars are. He says, “Before telling more about the constellations, won’t you explain just what a star is?” Perhaps some other readers would like to ask the same question. Consequently, the answer will be given here. Stars arc suns. Our own sun is a star. Or to put

it the other way around, every star is a sun. Therefore, any knowledge w e have about the sun applies equally well to any star. Our sun is a great ball of gases at a tremendous temperature. The surface temperature of our sun is 6,000 degrees. Prof. A. S. Eddington calcu-

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lates that the temperature at the center of the sun must be 70,000,000,degrees. Our sun is 886,000 miles in diameter, about 110 times that of our earth. The stars range in size from stars smaller than our sun, less than half the size x>f our sun, to stars very much larger than our sun. The largest star we know is Antares. It has a diameter of 415,000,000 miles. The reader may wonder why so large a star appears so small in the sky. The reason is that the star is so far away. Our sun is 93,000,000 miles from the earth. The nearest star is 275,000 times further away. It is 25,000,000,000,000 miles away. Few stars are that close to the earth. Many stars are 100 or 1,000 or even 10,000 times as far-away. Stars vary in color, depending upon their surface temperatures. The red stars have a surface temperature of 2,000 degrees. Antares is such a star. The orange stars have asurface temperature of 4,000 degrees. Yellow stars have a surface temperature of about 6,000 degrees, a temperature like that of our own sun. The very brilliant white stars, like the beautiful star Vega, are the hottest of all. They have a surface temperature of 10,000 degrees.

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M. E. TRACY $ 4 YS: “We Are a ForwardLooking Folk, Vastly More Interested in Where We Are Going Than in Where We Have Been or What We Have Seen.”

Cincinnati, July 2. —sometimes the best thing about memory is its weakness. What a curse it would be if we reporters would not forget Kansas City and Houston. If we had to carry the din, the hoakum and the whoopla throughout our lives. Two days and 1,200 miles are qncugh to soften it with that haze of dim recollection which enables us to endure the circus of conventional politics. Also, they are enough to make us realize how little the public was impressed by the stage stuff.

Looking Ahead Only Sitting in those convention halls, with their blaring bands, their excied gesticulating orators, their whispering self-important readers and their thousands of applauding spectators, one found it hard to be- | lieve that the whole country was not on tiptoe and waiting breathlessly for every new expression. A night’s ride in a hot Pullman, however, and a delay at the New Orleans ferry which threatened to spiol a close connection proved sufficient to break the spell. We left Houston Friday night obsessed with the idea that the Nation was crazy over politics. We dashed through New Orleans Saturday morning to find people going about their work as usual. Even on the train, conversation soon drifted away from platforms, nominating speeches and other incidents which had been uppermost in the minds of the travelers for the last day or two.

We are a forward-looking folk, vastly more irfterested in where we are going than in where we have been. These people were on their wav home and glad of it. When they found the ferry was twenty minutes late they forgot everything else and pestered the conductor with all sorts of questions as to whether they would miss the L. & N. or the Southern, and how they could get from one station to the other in the quickest possible way. ova Launches Vice War We bought New Orleans papers, of course. We wanted to see what the reaction was there. But instead of finding them devoted to national politics, we found them tied up in a local vice war. What is more curious, we found ourselves really interested in it. There were the old familiar charges of police corruption, protected dive keepers, madams with a pull, bootleggers who enjoyed immunity and street walkers who had less to fear than the honest citizen who made a wrong left turn. The Times-Picayune asserted that delinquent girls were freed by the registrar while the paramour of the madam who employed them sat beside him on the zench. That represents a more intimate, if not more important side of politics than we hear about at either Houston or Kansas City. 000 Peril in Living Away from New Orleans we rolled to the shores of Lake Poncha Traine, where bungalows stand over the water at the end of 200-feet piers. “Gosh,” said a traveler, “I would hate to be in one of those in a hurricane.” "Ain’t, it funny?” remarked his companion, “what chances .some people will take.” Then we went to sea on the sevenmile trestle that crosses the lower end of the lake and afterward over 150 miles of flat land. In town and on the farm, the people pursued their labor just as though Smith and Hoover had not been nominated. Bare-footed Negroes sitting In their cabin doors, white people going into the fields with hoes on their shoulders, what did they care? Next November, however, they will vote—the whites at least—and each vote they cast will count as much as that of the spouting orator, the political boss or even the Presidential nominee. Ban Convict Leasing At Birmingham, which we reached at 6 Saturday night, it grew cool, and conversation switched to the weather. Occasionally, someone wondered if the “dry South” would bolt, but not for very long. The Birmingham Post informed us that two-thirds of the ministers of the city would preach against Smith. It also informed us that the system of leasing convicts was to be abandoned by Alabama, and that again was a more intimate, if not a more important, side of politics that we heard about at either Houston or Kansas City. Jack Bethea, editor of the Birmingham Post, deserves much of the credit for rousing Alabama against this antiquated and barbarous practice of selling the labor of its convicts, and of enabling unscrupulous contractors and exploiters to grow rich on the sweat and blood of helpless human beings. 0 0 # Heflin Missing Sunday morning we reached Cincinnati to learn that Kentucky wa6 suffering from a general flood with the “blue grass” section hardest hit, that southern drys were about to issue a “rebel call,” that our relations with Mexico are better than they have been for thirty years, and that rates of tuition had been raised for non-resident pupils in Cincinnati schools. < Yes, indeed, the stilted thunder of Kansas City and Houston seems far behind. There is one question, and only one, that lingers in my mind, and calls insistent>y for an answer. What has become of “Tom-Tom” Heflin?

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Patterns of Life Form in Early Youth

By DR. MORRIS FISHBEIN Editor Journal of the American Medical Association and of Hvgela. the Health Magazine THE human is slower than the animal in arriving at a period when he is able to take care of himself. Almost with birth the animal develops a behavior pattern which guides it in its conduct of life. Each species of bird has a definite way of building its nest. Experiments have been made witn one kind of bird being put on the nest of another partly completed. The first type could not continue with the partly completed job, but had to begin all over. On the other hand, the human being is not guided bu such definite behavior patterns. He thinks for himself and it is doubtful if any two human beings let alone would follow exactly the same plan in constructing shelters. During the long period of human childhood, however, the behavior pattern is being created which guides it later in life. If a situation arises to which the man is unaccustomed, he tries various solutions and eventually adopts one which seems to him to be best. The procedure is called the trial and error system. The human has progressed far beyond the animals, because he is able to study each situation as it arises and to learn from his mistakes.

Bridge Play Made Easy BY W. W. WENTWORTH

(Abbreviations: A—aee: K—kin*; Q—queen; ' J—jack; X —any card lower than 10.) IF your partner makes a bid, and second hand passes, any bid made by you thereafter should have only one object in view—to furnish such information as will aid in determining the best game-going declaration. By making another bid you are not endeavoring to prevent your partner from playing the hand. Proper information should be welcomed and never resented for games are often lost by the failure of partners to exchange it. The expression, “the partners are fighting” is erroneous. It is merely an honest effort to determine the best game-going declaration. No matter what declaration your partner has made there may be lurking in your hand a bettering bid. v Your hand may contain a danger signal of which your partner (should be apprised. The moment the first declaration is made, you should endeavor to visualize your partner’s cards. With a knowledge of the minimum requirements for an opening bid and an examination of your own cards, the least you can do is to make an effort to “read” your partner’s holding. This cannot be accomplished at the bridge table -without concentration. You may be forgiven for making errors in playing, but it is unpardonable to fail to make a real effort to draw some inference from your partner’s bid even if that inference be wrong. Reading cards is one of the greatest thrills and pleasures of bridge playing. This ability to read cards is possessed to a high degree by those players, who have so-called “card sense,” but it can be developed by any person who is willing to maser the conventions and probabilities of the game and to draw inferences. Experts find no difficulty in determining the best game-going declaration. By following certain accepted conventions and guides you too can reduce guesswork to a minimum. It is not mandatory that you make a declaration every time partner has bid. If you possess a valueless hand or you have a partial score, a bid made by you thereafter may be damaging and retro* gressive. (Copyright. 1928. by the Ready Reference Publishing Company)

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It is. of course, quite possible that when a child is born certain definite systems of action are already established. These have to do with the maintenance of life immediately after birth. The child does not have to be taught to suck or to swallow, it knows how to cry, to wink its eyes and to sneeze. It has to learn to walk, to talk, to

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, Danville Gazette) Can any one explain why it is that Republican leaders seem to find it necessary to have someone with shady records in places of influence? There have been numerous instances of the Republicans elevating warped characters to positions of prominence Prisoners have received some of these and others have escaped consequences of their misconduct on flimsy pretexts. The latest illustration of the matter in point is the accusation that Frank Rozelle, recently appointed marshal of the northern Indiana Federal Court, has been conducting a questionable mail order business. It will be recalled that certain politicians worked hard to get the northern district established, although there was no real need of the extra court, except to make more job3 to hand out. Then Senators Watson and Rob-

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The name and address of the author must ar impany every contribution, but on rer . will not be published. Letters : exceeding 200 words will receive prel. .nee. Editor Times—l nave addressed the following communication to the honorable board of safety: This evening, after talking on the southwest corner of Illinois and Market Sts., while speaking with friends near the curb on Market St., I was arrested by two policemen and under protest was forced into a machine, taken to the police station, not permitted to give bond, searched and not allowed to telephone to my wife. I was speaking along the line of the enclosed pamphlets. I explained to the police before being put in the car who I was; that I had been with one firm fortyfive years, a resident of Indianapolis and Woodruff Place sixty-eight years (and 72 years of age, weight only 134 pounds and could not have resisted if I wished) paying SIBB taxes, etc. I answered all questions politely, but the police were very curt and cutting in their remarks. Had it not been for the intervention of friends I would have spqnt the night in the station. Someone in the crowd asked me: “How about the American flag?" I answered: “It is the greatest flag in the world!” “How about the Eighteenth Amendment?” I replied: “The people have a right to repeal it!” I was not allowed to take along witnesses to the station. Any report handed in different from the above is an infernal lie. I was arrested once before as a ‘vag,” but did not make any trouble, appeared for trial, but was told by the police who arrested me that I was discharged. This time I also was slated as a “vag.” What do you know about that? I will add that I am not now looking for trouble, as there is enough of that in this world, right now, but the arbitrary manner of treating citizens as I have been should cease by the police. I shall be glad to appear before you at any time and repeat the exact occurrence, word for word. When I told the one policeman that I certainly would carry the matter to the board of safety he became considerably “het up.” The records will show who the policemen were. If I have .violated a city ordinance of any kind I do not know it. The Volunteeers of America speak every evening, the Mormons also, and every Saturday evening some half dozen others are speaking in front

feed itself. The child begins to learn almost immediately after birth. The habits ingrained in the first few months of life are perhaps the most important of all in creating a method of living for future years. Parents will do well to watch the rate of development, to encourage useful habits, and to discourage an-ti-social and bad habits.

inson tore their shirts to have Rozelle appointed marshal of the new court. He received the appointment. Now Rozelle is accused by a responsible party with operating a mail order business which preys on women. The accuser further charges that when he v r ent to submit his evidence to the Federal grand jury the district attorney called him to one side and said that Rozelle w T as planning to dispose of the questionable business and requested that the matter be allawed to quietly drop. It is in support of such practices that the Republican leaders seem at their best. And by stirring up religious prejudices they hope for a continuaiton of the support of decent people. Great are the political sins and criminal acts committed under the srnoke screen of the religious and prohibition issues.

of the courthouse on Washington St. I always thought the streets belong to the people (and that’s about all they own). The Constitution says: “The people may assemble peaceably, to redress their wrongs.” Very respectfully yours, CHARLES H. KRAUSE, SR. 674 E. Dr., Woodruff Place.

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JULY 2, 19ifS

KEEPING UP With | THE NEwd

BY LUDWELL DENNY ON TRAIN, en route New to Washington, July 2.—The solid South is going to accept A1 Smith, but with a sour face. Smith’s frank statement favoring modification of the prohibition provisions has wiped out—for the moment at least—the w'et-and-dry harmony which had been injected more or less artificially into the Houston convention and platform. That prohibition plank was intentionally evasive. It committed the party to law enforcement and went a mile around the modification dispute, which is the only real issue. That plank was subject to interpretation, and the southern political leaders were calling it a dry victory. They were going home to tell the ladies of the W. C. T. U„ in the home town that that man A1 Smith sent his forces down to Houston to force through a wet plank, but by the grace of the dry cohorts he had been stopped and made to take what was really a dry plank. But the downright A1 sent a message to the convention even before the drys could get out of town, reaffirming his wet position—as he was at liberty to do under the letter of the platform. Now, as you talk with these southern dry politicians aboard the train on their way home, you find them all glum and many bitter. We have no alibi, they say, or words to that effect. That Smith statement is going to lose us the border States sure, they say. Why, the prohibition organizations in some districts hold the balance of power and there is no way under the sun in which we can make them take Smith—though of course we have got to try. 000 IN other words, these political leaders almost to a man are con vinced that Smith is and has bee.: from the beginning the only Democrat with a ghost of a show of winning the national election, and they are going to do all in their power to keep their own people in line. In the solid South this will not be awfully difficult, for the worst most of the drys will do is to stay away from the polls on election day. The contemplated bone-dry party, probably will not get very fa*. But in the border States like West Virginia, Oklahoma and Tennessee, they think Smith has raised a barrier by his wet statement which he will never be able to hurdle. In the flush of their disappointment they are not ready to admit that Smith’s strongest asset in the country at large must be in the long run the people's confidence m his utter honesty, which necessitated his statement. Nor are they convinced, for tho moment, that A1 can win the eastern States because of his wetness. The normal Republican majorities in presidential years in Massachusetts, New York, and New Jersey weigh heavily upon them. But it is interesting to see ho® rapidly they are reviving. The™ same southern politicians are those who deluged you with forbodings about Smith at Houston the week before the convention and eight days later were almost wild with confidence of his November victory Then Smith’s Friday statement shot them into the pit of gloom again. But now on Monday, they have argued themselves into the necessity of “making the best of it” and are going to put on a smiling face to their constituents. 000 That is not going lo be easy. Smith probably will never realize how basic is the popular feeling these southern leaders are meeting and trying to overcome. For Instance, this train draws into Charlotte, N. c. A southern Senator leans out the window to buy a local paper. He reads the headlines and turns a near-green. He passes the paper over to you with a sigh of despair. You read: "Nation faces great moral crisis, says leading churchman. Nomination of Alfred E. Smith precipitated a grave moral problem upon the American people and Democrats of the South particularly, declared the Right) Rev. Edwin D. Mouzon, Bishop in charge of the Methodist Episcopal Church. South, in the two Carolines. He said : “In our hour of peril we turn again to the women of America, and say to them that they have come to the kingdom for such a time as this. Once more let them raise the cry, •For God and home and native land.’ Surely our women will not fail us in this hour of moral crisis. “The sidewalks of New York have had their temporary victory in Houston. The moral and spiritual ideals of our southern Democracy will now begin to make themselves heard in such a fashion as shall show that righteousness when aroused is always victorious.” The Senator No. 2 comes up and fans himself helpelessly as his eye catches this blow from the bishop of the two Carolinas: “The situation is vastly more serious than professional party politicians can imagine it to be.”

This Date in U. S. History*,

July 2 1760—Ail Canada came into possession of Great Britain. 1776—Colonial Congress adopted a resolution of independence. 1807—British men-of-war ordered to leave American waters. 1863—Confederates and Federal forces contended for possession of Round Top at Gettysburg. 1881—President Garfield shot by Charles J. Gulteau. 1912—Woodrow Wilson nominated for the presidency on the forty-sixth ballot by Democrats. Is it too late to apply for compensation for injuries received in the World War? No. The injuries, however, must be of service origin and cause a reduction in earning capacity of the ex-service man of at least 10 per cent.