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Pekin and Uncle Sam With the fall of the Chang Tso-Lin dictatorship and the nationalists’ rise to power in China, a grave responsibility devolves on the United States. A vast new nation, bigger than the United States and with 400,000,000 people, is a-borning. About its cradle are grouped powerful influences which gladly would strangle it in its infancy. Others would stunt its growth, if they could, to keep it docile and weak. Almost alone among the great powers, the United States sincerely desires a strong, united China. For almost alone—we hasten to add lest we be accused of assuming a holier-than-thou attitude in the matter —we have nothing to lose and much to gain by helping her to be strong. If China is partitioned, we lose everything, for we would not accept an inch of Chinese territory. Buc if China grows we will profit directly as her purchasing power increases. Put it on this lowest of bases, if you will, but China’s best interests are our best interests. As soon as posible, then, we should recognize the new nationalist regime without, at the same time, leaping before we look. In recent years Washington has not been at all squeamish in recognizing Pekin governments. Whether they fought their way to power, or bought their way. - or tricked their way in, once in, Washington, in common with the other foreign nations, quickly has extended recognition. The reason jor this, as given at Washington, was that it was convenient, if not necessary, to keep communications with China open, and recognition of the various Pekin governments afforded the means. With which reason tew observers will quibble. But, at the same time, having recently swallowed many a camel, now is hardly the time to begin straining at a gnat. The nationalists, of course, are not supermen. They are not going to usher in the millennium. All the wrongs in China will not suddenly, be righted. Plenty of trouble, undoubtedly, is still ahead. Fundamentally, however, the nationalist movement now under way is the most wholesome fact that unhappy country has seen in a thousand years or more and the United States should and must do everything it possibly can to keep the spark alive. If it does not do so, no other great power will. Likely there will be more civil wars. Factions, , doubtless, will battle faction. Regrettable acts maybe committed by extremists, for it takes all kinds of people to make a nation—even a nation like ours. But such things humanly are to be expected when 400,000,000 backward people fight their way out of darkness into light and so the foundation of our China policy should be patience. Prompt recognition would help immensely through increasing the prestige of those who have now brought all China, nominally, at least, under their sway—the first time any government has done that since the fall of the monarchy seventeen years ago.

It’s the Man That Counts The Democratic party platform contains as constructive a foreign policy plank as has been offered the people of this country in some time. It omits all mention, by name, of the League of Nations and the World Court, but it puts the party on record as favoring “full, free and open co-operation with all nations for promotion of peace and justice throughout the world." Further, it indorses outlawry of war; reduction and limitation of armament; noninterference with the internal affairs of other nations; abolition of the practice of presidents intervening with armed forces in foreign countries without the sanction of the Senate, co-operating with Latin America in upholding the Monroe doctrine; restoration of America to former place as leader among the nations cf the world; an adequate Navy and merchant marine; a national, rather than a partisan, foreign policy; protection of American lives and interests abroad; no entangling alliances, no militarism, no imperialism and no conquest. is a program the rountry as a whole can stand on. That is its virtue. The G. O. P. as Well as the Democratic party can stand on it. Herbert Hoover as well as A1 Smith-in fact, both parties 'already do, to hear them tell it, which is to say it all depends upon the point of view. The important thing is what kind of man we have in the White House. The rest matters little. To illustrate what we mean, President Wilson was an ardent believer in the fundamentals of the foreign policies outlined above. Yet he believed he was doing the right thing when he sanctioned intervention in Haiti. Nicaragua and Mexico. President Coolidge believes in cooperation with the rest of the world to promote peace, just as President Wilson did. But his interpretation of what “cooperation” means is as far from the Wilsonian conception as the poles are apart. Make no mistake: It’s the man in the White House that coiints. Cooperation with other countries to promote peace may mean joining the League of Nations and the World Court, or it merely may mean telling the w r orld to watch us and learn something. An adequate Navy can mean the greatest armada that ever sailed the seven seas in search of an adversary, or it can be interpreted to mean a couple of mud scows armed with popguns. Encouragement of the merchant marine can take the form of cl eerful words or of looting the treasury to provide colossal, unearned subsidies. Protection of American lives and interests abroad can mean diplomatic protection and note-writing or it can mean 10,000 armed troops stationed on foreign soil, as is the case today in China and Nicaragua. Go right on down the line and the thing will work out the same in every case. Everything depends upon what interpretation one chooses to put upon the platform. In the final analysis, our foreign policy will be determined largely by the man to be elected next November. Herbert Hoover or A1 Smith will decide, when it comes to the test, what our relations with the rest of kfhe world will be during the next crucial years. scientist who described a pig found in Texas day as resembling an elephant must have a Republican. A Democrat surely would have CTfflA Q ed 11 as an elephant resembling a pig.

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An Interesting Experiment Muscle Shoals City, a little municipality within a short distance of the Government’s hydroelectric development, has renewed its request to the War Department that it be permitted to buy some of the electricity generated. It is indicated that the request will be granted. The city proposes to buy the current on the same terms as the Alabama Power Company, and distribute it to citizens. The Government will be paid a reasonable price for the current, wholesale, but citizens will be required to pay only a fraction of the cost charged by private companies. Originally, it was proposed to give any home all the electricity it could use for a flat price of a dollar a month, and it is presumed this idea will be followed. There is ample current available for this purpose, for during 1927 the Alabama Power Company used only 58 per cent of the amount generated. Other Alabama cities will do well to follow the example of Muscle Shoals City, for their own interest. From a national standpoint, a valuable experiment will be offered. It will be shown how much the distribution, of electricity really costs, and how much of the citizen’s monthly electric bill is reasonable profit. The Public’s Water Power Theoretically, the public interest in water power sites is adequately protected by the Federal water power commission. Actually, this is not so. The law provides that the commission may issue licenses for the development of power sites under fifty-year lease. At the end of that time the Government may gain the site by reimbursing the private operators ior what they have spent. However, tne commission has been obliged temporarily to suspend the issuance of water power licenses, because it is so far behind in its work. C. 0., Merrill, executive secretary, estimates that with double its present personnel the commission could catch up in five years. The commission must investigate applications and check on the amount of money spent in development if the Government is to know what investment has been made at expiration of the license, and if there is to be any adequate check on rates. It has been impossible for tne commission to carry out this part of the instructions of Congress. The Second Battle of Louvain “Mob tears down anti-hate pillars in Louvain dispute,” reads a headline. Whereupon we pause in our reading long enough to regret that some Americans who ought to have more tact, haven't. Back in 1914, when the Kaiser’s legions trampled over Belgium in their march on Paris, they laid historic Louvain waste. Among the buildings destroyed was the famous old library of the university. Since that time money was raised in the United States to rebuild the library. Whitney Warren, brilliant American architect, designed the new structure. But the dedicatory inscription across the stone aalustrade remains to be carved and over that inscription the second battle of Louvain is raging. Whitney Warren insists it shall read: “Destroyed by German fury; rebuilt by American generosity," and backing him are many students and citizens of the town. Opposed to this faciton is Monsigr.or Ladeuze, rector of the university. He is all for the “American generosity” part, but why, he asks, should anybody want to perpetuate grudges between peoples in stone, which is to endure through the ages? Thus inspired, the rector had the workers install the balustrade, minus the legend and stationed policemen about it to prevent trouble. But pro-Warren students broke through the police lines and smashed the columns, and so the war goes on. Warren is wrong for at least two reasons. First, as an American it comes in bad taste to insist upon an objectionable sentiment being carved across the facade of a. gift to the Belgians from the American people. Second, world statesmen are trying to end international discoid, not promote it. Monsignor Ladeuze is right: Why build monuments to hate?

Greek Letters and Stars No. 94

MODERN astronomers, more prosaic than the ancient Greeks and Arabs, give the stars letters and numbers instead of names. Perhaps it is unfair to say that they are more prosaic, for it has been my finding that the astronomers of today are fully alive to the beauty and poetry of the heavens. But an exact science, such as astronomy now is, for an exact terminology. Accordingly, astronomers have adopted the system of naming the stars in each constellation after the let-

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the brightest star in the constellation. Kochalb, the star at the end of the bowl, easily found because of its bright ruby color, becomes Beta. The star immediately below Kochab is the third brightest and therefore called Gamma. The accompanying illustration, which gives both the Arabic names as well as the modern designations, will help you locate the various stars. The star next to Polaris in the handle of the dipper is the fourth brightest. It is known therefore as Delta- Its Arabic name is Yildun. The star next to it is fifth in brightness. Therefore it is known as Epsilon. The next star, which forms the juncture of the handle and the bowl of the dipper, is sixth in brightness and as a result called Zeta, while the star immediately below it is least bright of all the stars in the dipper and therefore called Eta. The four stars in the bowl of the dipper form a convenient chart for comparing stellar magnitudes. This is because Beta is a second magnitude star, Gamma a third magnitude one, Zeta a fourth magnitude one and Eta a fifth. You can usually judge the magnitude of any other star in the heavens fairly well by comparing with these four. •

M. E. TRACY SAYS: “If the Farmer Needs One Thing More Than Another, It Is a Marketing System by Which He Can Get a Bigger Share of What the Consumer Pays."

THE Glorious Fourth has come and gone with its fireworks, wild parties, scared dogs and auto accidents. Once more we have demonstrated not only our patriotism, but the amount of cash we can spare. Whether we celebrated independence as we should, we certainly celebrated the prosperity we enjoy, and whether that prosperity is as great as some politicians would have us believe, it is great enough for most everybody to have a good time. atto Money Is Plentiful Speaking of prosperity, call money went to 10 per cent in New York Monday, which was the highest rate demanded in eight years. It looked as though the wild trading in stocks would be stopped, and it probably would if call money had not dropped to 5 per cent by Tuesday afternoon. No matter how much unemployment there may be, there is more cash than some people know what to do with, and no matter how many loans the banks close out, there was enough capital anxious to take advantage of the high rate to more than offset the shrinkage. tt tt St Wheat Profits Lost Meanwhile, Russia is reported to be buying wheat wherever she can get it. That should mean prosperity for the American fanner and it would if the speculator did not stand between him and the market. The farmer's trouble is not due so much to the low prices he has had to accept, as to the high ones he has never been allowed to receive. When his products are down, he is permitted to sell them the best he can, but when they are up, he is surrounded by a hoard of brokers reaping the profit in handling his grain. If the farmer needs one thing more than another, it is a marketing system by which he can get a bigger share of what the consumer pays. r a a Resisting Propaganda With the thermometer a", 90 in the shade, it is hard to visualize the condition cl men marooned on ar ice floe, yet that is what modern life calls for. For the first time in history, men are compelled to take quick account of far away conditions and distant problems if they would use the agencies that human ingenuity has placed at their command to good advantage. If this implies one thing morn than another, it is that the basis of education must be altered. Traditions, especially of a local charactei, can no longer play the part they once did. and propaganda must be .esisted with renewed rigor. a a a Utilities on Texts Propaganda has become a distinct menace to education, especially for an economic standpoint. We have freed ourselves from an influence in a political and religious way, only to find it assuming new importance in a business way. The same thing that causes corporate wealth to become a problem of legislation causes it to attempt the moulding of public opinion, and since public opinion is made in the schoolroom to a large extent, there is where it strikes first. Disclosures of the power investigation illustrates a state of affairs which is more general than most people suspect. Many of our text books on Government, politics and economics have been written by those who represent either some particular interest, or theories which serve that interest. a a a Overshadow Cities Business has passed from the hands of individuals. It is now an organized affair. The 412,t)00 corporations which have been chartered in this country probably represent 90 or 95 per cent of the wealth producing power. Some of those corporations, such as the American Telephone and Telegraph Company, General Motors and two or three of the larger railroads, represent a large aggregation of money and a greater mass of people than most of our cities. There are comparatively few cities in this country valued at a billion dollars, or containing more than 200.000 workers. The Ford company, which has only three stockholders and more than 100,000 employes' is actually larger, whether measured by money or men, than many American cities. a a a Contribute to Schools It is only fair to say that from a technical standpoint the business interests of this country can make valuable contributions to our textbooks. Experts in such a concern as the General Electric Company are much better qualified to write on recent electrical develonments than are most college professors. But that is not the same thing as attempting to influence the child’s mind with regard to political policies, and the National Educational Association is right in taking a vigorous stand aganst propaganda of a political nature. Asa matter of common sense, the problem of transmitting the scientific and techncial knowledge which we possess Is big enough without introducing politics. If our schools were to teach only those things that are known, and that are beyond dispute, they would be unable to do a complete job. Every moment they waste over a policy, a doctrine or a theory that admits of doubt prevents some child from learning facts which he will need in later life. A

ters of the Greek alphabet, calling the brightest star Alpha, the first letter of the alphabet, the next the second letter, bri g h t est Beta, and so on. According to this system, Polaris, the north star, becomes Alpha in the constellat i o n of the Little Dipper or Little Bear as it is sometimes called, since it is

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BY DR. MORRIS FISHBEIN Editor Journal of t ho American Medical Association and of Hv?eia, the Health Magazine. THE first scientific consideration of the value of residence at the seaside in relation to health was written by an Englishman named Richard Russell. Since that time many others have studied the relationships of the sea to health and nowadays in many places in the world advantages are taken of such natural conditions. It might be well to emphasize that, as with every other method, the wrong use of sea bathing may be harmful. Some time ago, Dr. Philip Marvel pointed out that children are injured by prolonged exposure to cold water, that they are likely to become overfatigued due to the enjoyment of the seaside conditions, and that few bathing resorts have adequate provisions for children. On the other hand, the air, the sunlight, the change of habits, the salt water, the breeze, the changes in the diet, and many other factors associated with residence at the seaside may be of the greatest value in stimulating a healthful reaction in the human body.

Exposure to radiation has already been proved to be of the greatest

(Abbreviation!: A—:ice; K—ing: Q—oucen; J—jack. X—any card lower than 19.) YOUR partner has bid a no; trump. Second hand har. passed | There is no contest and the sccre ; is clear. What should you. as third hand, do? Should you pass or hid a suit ? j Why and when should you show" j your strength or your weakness by a suit bid? Should you show' anything. Many an argument at the bridge table lias followed a take-out. When should y’ou take out? To answer what procedtire to follow is at times baffling. There is no unanimity of opinion thereon among advanced players and even the experts differ. What then, is the average player to do? Bear in mind that the principal aim of bidding is to make game. Every initial bid is made with this object in view. To accomplish the result, however, is not always possible. After the declarer has made an initial no trump bid you must examine} your hand for the purpose of ascertaining w'hether game cai; more readily be made at no trump or in your major suit, or whether it is more desirable to play the combined hands in your minor suit Your partner by bidding a no trump has merely said to you, “I would like to play this hand in a no trump. If, how'ever, you have sufficient strength in a major suit, making game mav be easeir in the major than in the no trump; therefore I want you to declare your major. If your hand offers no assistance for my trump and game at no trump and game at no trump does not appear probable, it may be advisable for you to show me your weakness by declaring your minor suit.” In taking out. you always must bear in mind that game can mor n readily be made by playing the hand in a major suit declaration than in a no trumo or a minor suit (Copyright. 19?<t. bv the Reedy Reference Publishing Company)

July 5 1777—Americans abandoned Ft. Ticonderoga. 1364—Federal troops drove Confederates from Jackson, Miss. 1864—Lincoln declared Kentucky under martial law'. 1900—Democratic national convention nominated Bryan and Stevenson.

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value in preventing rickets, and there is reason for believing it has some relationship to building resistance against disease. The cold at the seaside seems to work differently than that in the mountains. Leonard Hill, the eminent physiologist. found that the reactions that go on in the body can be stimulated by exposure and by bathing in the salt water of the sea. Add to this the cooling action of the winds and the stimulating effec sos alternately heating and cooling the bedy. and plenty of reason is established for the beneficial

(Anderson Herald) The Democratic ticket has been provided properly for the voters at the election in November. Governor A1 Smith of New York and Senator Joseph Robinson of Georgia are the standard bearers. Governor Smith is a man of delighthful personality and possessed of a magnetism remarkably cor pelling. Were it all a matter of persona fcy, this business of being Presid nt., the people of the Nation would not lose on either of the candidates of the two great parties. Both are delightful gentlemen and either would be a choice member of any group of friends, but being President of the United States of America is something more than a matter of a charming personality. It is a business of being an executive for the greatest people on earth, protecting their integrity and protecting their well being in all things. Governor Smith’s known attitude upon the prohibition question immediately sets him In a position that is not in’ harmony with those w'ho wish the Eighteenth Amendment interpreted literally and enforced to the letter, and that is exactly what the great bulk of thinking American people do want. Governor Smith is running on a dry platform as a compromise with the dry people in his own party, but his own conviction is against prohibition. Where the head and the heart are at variance, the heart usually triumphs, and prohibition would be surely jeopardized >if he were to win in the election this November. The people of America want prohibition, and they know that Herbert Hoover is the candidate who will give it to them as President

Gary Post-Tribun The nomination of Al Smith was simply a ratification of the decision previously reached by democratic leaders all over the country. Months ago it was evident that Smith would be nominated if the party desired to remain intact. All of which does not take away from the fact that Smith is easily the best vote getter and biggest public man in the Democratic party. He fairly won the nomination by his work as Governor of New York. His career is probably without a parallel. Born in a New York tenement, Smith was a member of Tammany by the time he reached the age of manhood. For some years he gave no indication of being different ‘from the other products of Tammany with whom he associated. But his years in the New York legislature gave the young politician anew outlook. He worked at his job and became an expert on the affairs of his state. Later, when elected to the governorship this knowledge formed the foundation of an administration that has been highly praised by friends and foes. Smith’s education is largely from the school of experience, but such is the innate common sense and humanity of the man that the lack of a formal education is no- '' . J

effects that have been in general noted to follow' residence at the seaside. These factors apply, of course, in the main to those who are in healthful condition. People with temperatures below normal must bathe in the sea with caution. Prolonged sea baths cause a slowing of the pulse and lowering of the body temperature. People with infections in the nose and throat, with rheumatism or gout, and with other diseases in which cold and damp are known to be unfavorable must indulge in sea bathing and in residence at seaside resorts with caution.

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ticeable only in those minor characteristics that show' in the tilted brown derby and the ever-present rakish cigar. When he is tackling affairs of New York Smith knows his stuff and he makes few mistakes. Doubtless this is partly due to his ability to surround himself with first-rate men and w'omen with whom he confers and to whose judgment he must often defer. Smith is a w r et. Indeed, it is charged that it is simply because he is a wet that he has been nominated. We do not believe that charge. Smith is much more than a wet. He is a sound thinker in governmental affairs and further he is one of the most progressive and liberal of all our public men. Free press, free assemblage, free speech, all the fundamental principles of democratic government are assured in New York as long as A1 Smith is governor. Always whenever there has been a collision between precedent and progress he has taken his stand with progress. Never has he sold out the people he serves for political advantage. We have no doubt that Smith w'ould make a record as President that w'ould be eminently satisfactory to the country. From him the country has absolutely nothing to fear. Though a w T et we believe he w'ould support the Constitution and the laws as vigorously as anyone else. That is our opinion of Smith. Such a man with such a record deserves fair and decent treat*ment. But despite all the fine record of the man this newspaper cannot support him for President. And the reason is Herbert Hoover.

You can Ret an answer to any answerable question of fact or Information bv writing to Frederick M. Kerby. Question Editor. The Indianapolis Times' Washington Bureau, 1322 New York Ave., Washington. D. C., enclosing 2 cents in stamps for reply. MedlcaT and legal advice cannot be given, nor can extended research be made. All other Questions will receive a personal reply. Unsigned requests cannot be answered. All lettei*. are confidential. You are cerdinally invited to make use of this free service as often as you please. - EDITOR. What was the total attendance at the Dempsey-Tunney prize fight in September, 1927? The total paid admissions were 118,736. In addition 25,732 were admitted on passes, which made a total attendance of 144,463. How many railway mail clerks are thore in the United States postal service? Approximately 21,000. How did the custom of April Tools’ day originate? There is a tradition among the Jews that the custom arose from the fact that Noah sent out the dove from the Ark on the first of the month corresponding to our April, before the waters had abated. To perpetuate the m'mory of the great deliverance of Noah and his family, it was customary on this anniversary to punish persons who had forgotten the remarkable circumstances connected with the date by sending them on some foolish errand, similar to that on which the Patriarch sent the luckless bird from the windows of the Ark.

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.JULY 5, 1928

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BY LUDWELL DENNY WASHINGTON, July s.—Politicians of both parties are frightened by the gaining momentum of prohibition as a campaign issue. With each party divided against itself on the question, Republican and Democratic bosses foresee a crossing of party lines “in which anything may happen” unless the issue is soft-pedaled as inthe last two national campaigns, v But the politicians apparently ara. powerless to put down the drywet debate which is flaming up alt over the country. Hard upon A1 Smith’s modification statement, dashing over the carefully wrought equivocating eniorcement plank of the Democratic convention, wtet organizations are encouraged to anew offensive by, the North Dakota referendum. Incomplete returns from an unexpectedly heavy vote that hitherto bone-dry area indicate the drys have retained the State only by a close majority, and that two of -the three congressional districts seem to have gone wet. a a a THE resusitated association! against the prohibition amendment announced today it would fight,a vigorous campaign in the. second and third districts of that! State to elect wet Congressmen iq: November. “Democrats, who have just got back home from the Houston convention will be interested to know that while they were pussyfooting, about prohibition the voters of the dry State of North Dakota came within an inch of throwing prohibition out of the window altogether.’’ said Henry H. Curran, president otj the association. “The associations against the prqk hibition amendment have been working hard in the North Dakota referendum campaign for the last three months. “This State has been bone-dry by constitution since 1889. People talked about North Dakota’s dryness the way they talked about Kansas and Maine and yet our latest returns from the State-wide referendum show that while 86,000 men and women were voting to keep prohibition in their State constitution 82,000 were voting to throw it out. “At the same time we carried two out of three congressional districts and we are going right into both of these districts this fall to elect Congressmen, who will oppose prohibition and thus play fair with' their constituents." The fact that the total referendum vote was larger than the vote for Governor in 1926 shows the widespread public interest'in this question, even if the State has been dry ever since it became a State forty years ago. As North Dakota's population is over 85 per cent rural, this referendum has caused much speculation regarding the accepted political axiom that, farm districts and rural communities are overwhelmingly dry.

a a a BUT the politicians are still far from accepting the extreme wet interpretation of the North Dakota referendum by the Association Against the Prohibition Amendment. They argue that the best national “referendum" on prohibition is Congress. Congress is probably twothirds dry. It is the business of a Congressman to keep his ear to the ground and be sure how hia constituents are thinking. He is not apt to be dry, or to remain so long, unless he has good reason to believe that “the folks back home’’ are dry. The average neutral observer in Washington is apt to put much weight on this evidence, for he knows how well Congressmen like to keep on the winning side. But the wet propagandists are not convinced. They admit that most Congressmen—some of whom drink wet—think the country as a whole is dry in its convictions. This is a misapprehension caused by the very clever and always vocal prohibition and church organizations, the wets reply. Bo the argument swings around to the wisdom of Smith’s post-con-vention statement favoring modification of the Volstead act. < a a a > Admitting, what most persons believe, that a national referendum today would give the drys a majority, it is still possible to argue that Smith’s stand is not only honesty, but politically expedient. For Smith’s chance of election depends not on a national majority of the popular vote, but upon a majority of the electoral vote. Few deny that the solid South is predominantly dry. Yet for reasons of Democratic party loyalty, all of the solid South—or certainly most of it—will go for Smith. If a prohibition third party is formed in the South, it is not expected to achieve much. More Smith opponents probably will express their protest negatively by staying away from the polls than by a positive vote for another candidate. If Smith is to win the election he must carry the Eastern States with the large electoral votes. These, added to the solid South, will put him close to victory. But these States, such as New York, New Jersey and Massachusetts, are normally heavily Republican in presidential elections. On-what issue can Smith convert the Eastern Republican lead into a Democratic majority? Obviously A1 has decided that if this can be done at allit. must be done by appealing to the wet sentiment in these industrial urban States In addition, Smith probably figured that he has a chance of winning as a wet candidate in Illinois Wisconsin and Missouri. If these hopes hatch, along with tbs Northeast and South, it might very well be that the country would ba singing "The Sidewalks, of New York” the morning after election. All of which is arousing the powerful dry organizations to renewed efforts, such* as the Asheville, N. C., conference next week.