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Party Labels The dissension within the Eepublican State committee, and the domineering attitude of the Watson-Klan-Coffin-Kobinson machine to pre- . vent any; real friends of Mr. Hoover from having more than a sideline view of the campaign was not necessary to warn discriminating voters that in Indiana this year the Republican party label covers two distinct kinds of candidates. It is inconceivable to think of Mr. Hoover and the heir to Jacksonism and Stephensonism and Klanism in the same tent. f Discriminating voters know that if Mr. Hoover truly represents Republican principles and purposes, then the State ticket is representative of something else. The State organization is very much on record in its admissions and its confessions that it recognizes this vast difference of principles and purposes and morals between its State candidates and the national candidate. Until the final vote was cast at Kansas City, th<£ State chairman was vociferous in his denunciation of Mr. Hoover and went as far as he could to suggest that Mr. Hoover was not and is not a Republican. On the side lines and giving tacit approval was Harry Leslie, the desperation candidate for Governor. In the office -was Senator Robinson, voicing no protest against the very rabid denunciations of Hoover by the State chairman and the candidate for Lieutenant Governor. This w r as fortunate for Mr. Hoover. It happened that the vast majority of Republican delegates did not agree with the Indiana leaders, and that instead of reading Hoover out of the party, they adopted platforms and a candidate which makes the test of Republicanism fidelity to the things for which Mr. Hoover stands. The o'fily connection which the Republican State ticket and the organization has with the Republican party is the name. They deliberately placed themselves in position to claim no other heritage. This is not a year to be fooled by party labels. It is not a year to let enthusiasm blind the voters to a real duty. This is the year when Indiana needs something different than has been given it by those •who still hold title to the party name. . The State committee has, apologetically and reluctantly, permitted Mr. Hoover to name one member of the executive committee. Presumably the one man will be on guard against treachery and betrayal. The facty should not blind the real admirers and supporters of Mr. Hoover to the vast chasm between the State ticket and the national ticket. They simply do not belong to the same party. Real Republicans will answer the brazen duplicity of the crowd in control by defeating the ticket named by -forces which have confessed that they are not in accord, in purposes or principles, with the national ticket. Mr. Hoover is too fine and too big and too tolerant to be used for the sinister purposes of putting back into power the influences which have disgraced Indiana. Southern Patronage Information on the manner in which Federal patronage la handled in the South, now being collected by a committee of United States Senators, deserves more attention than it is likely to get in the summer of a. presidential year. The Georgia Republican State central committee, It has been shown, receives regular monthly contributions from postal employes in the State. Contributors are card-indexed. Monthly payments range from $8.50 to $12.50, Officers of| the central committee denied the payments constituted levies, although the treasurer admitted he had written some letters inquiring whether those who had been paying intended to continue so doing. The Senators declined to believe that the payments were voluntary, as claimed. There was additional evidence relating to payments by postmasters and others seeking Federal office. The evidence in Georgia lends weight to repeated charges of corruption in Southern patronage made in recent months. The situation is one about which there has been complaint almost since the Civil War. The Republican party in the Solid South has become nothing more than a machine of officeholders, who every four years exchange delegate votes at nominating conventions for the privilege of dispensing offices. There are some . 25,000 jobs at stake in Southern States which pay in excess of $35,000,000 a year in salaries. That is the prize. There are few Republicans in the South. The States cast no Republican votes in the electoral college, yet they exercise great influence in the nominating convention. The ten States of Alabama, Arkansas, Florida, Georgia, Louisiana, Mississippi, North Carolina, South Carolina, Texas and Virginia in the last convention had 136 votes of the total 1,089, conceivably enough to determine the nomination in a close contest. It is to be hoped that the Senate committee now at work will do a thorough job of exposing the sale,of offices, and that the information will be used to effect the reforms that have been advocated without result for a quarter century. A big public utilities company has been fighting public ownership ideas by issuing parodies of wellknown songs. We are expecting to hear something like “Bye Bye Dividends,” or “It Ain’t Gonna Pay No More.” ...

When the Winds Call A high school lad was picked up, penniless, In New York the other day. He had run away from his middle western home to go to sea; and he confided to the officers who took him in tow that it was all the fault of the west wind. He didn’t exactly put it that way, of course. What he said was that every morning, as he went about his tasks on his father’s farm, the wind came sweeping in over the meadows, clear and odorous with the wlney scent of a country dawn. It stirred strange longings in his breast; his attempted flight to sea was an effort to realize those obscure urges. He was given a railway ticket and sent back home. He may never see salt water again. But the wind probably will continue to torment him. It is one of the little spurs with which the earth rowels her children now and then, so that they may not be content to become clods or automatons. There are many similar little spurs in this life; things that stir us to sudden longings for escape, that persuade us that there are rich experiences in the world which our daily lives miss. Yet to yield to these moods—to run away to sea, as this farmer’s boy did—is to miss the point entirely. Consider the farmer’s boy for a minute. He stands in a dewy pasture, just as dawn, and the morning breeze sweeps in on him and makes him feel that there are far places and great events awaiting him elsewhere; so he wants to go to sea. Yet if he should become a sailor, and ship for Singapore or Socotra, he would be no better off. The wind and the dawn would still delude him, though his ship were anchored at Mandalay itself. For the truth is that these disquieting hints given us by nature are ends in themselves. They are not meant to be acted on, for that is impossible. When you look down your street on a quiet moonlight night, and the familiar scene is transfigured, so that you feel that life somehow ought to be richer and more beautiful than you have found, it—that, in itself, is enough. Unless you are more fortunate than most you never will be abte to indulge the wanderlust that a fresh morning inspires; but to feel your heart beat in unison with the morning is sufficient. The savor of life is made up of just such trifles. To be able to catch the hints that nature throws out, even if you can not act on them—that is the secret That brings conviction that the earth is lovely. It brings understanding—and a measure of deliverance. . j Defying Dr. Doran James M. Doran, prohibition commissioner, announced the other day that there would be no more “rough stuff” in prohibition enforcement. Officers were admonished to fire on suspected law violators only in self-defense or to prevent a felony. They were told to be cool and deliberate, and were warned against promiscuous use of firearms. Now comes a story from Buffalo Which indicates that a coast guard boat on Lake Erie acted in total disregard of Doran’s instructions. Persons aboard a pleasure yacht discovered that they were being fired upon. They had been given no signals or warning, so far as they knew. They discovered a coast guard boat at a distance estimated by one of the passengers at two and p. half miles. The coast guard commander questioned those aboard the yacht for a few minutes and then ordered them to proceed. On board the yacht were Frank G. Raichle, law partner of William J. Donovan, assistant United States attorney general, and numerous other reputable persons, some accompanied by their wives. The incident might well have led to tragedy comparable to that in the recent shooting of Jacob D. Hanson of Buffalo by coast guardsmen. • Protest has been made. It is recalled that Doran declared that those who disregarded his warning would be held responsible. Now we shall discover what he meant by that.

.David Dietz on Science

A New Star Blazed Forth ' No 99

ANEW Star suddenly blazed forth in the constellation of Cassiopeia in the year 1572. This stranger in the sky appeared near the star Kappa. It was first observed on Aug. 6, 1572, by an astronomer at Wittenberg, Prussia, named Schuler. It was subsequently studied by the great Danish astronomer Tycho Brahe and so came known as

But instead, he secretly studied mathematics and astronomy. Needless to say, an estrangement between father and son followed. It was aggravated by Tycho marrying a girl of whom his father did not approve. At the age of 30, however, Tycho had achieved such a reputation as an astronomer that King Frederick II of Denmark built him a magnificent observatory on the island of Hveen off the Swedish coast. Tycho, when making observations, always wore the same court robes which he wore when entering the royal court. For Tycho regarded the heavens and their stars as the court of God and he felt that if ceremony and respect were due to the court of an earthly king, far greater respect was due the court of the King of Heaven. Tycho’s nova, soon after its appearance, flamed to such brilliance that it outshone every other star in the sky. For a time its brightness was so great that it could be seen in the daytime as well as at night. But after a years the clear white light of Tycho’s nova began to fade. Its hue became yellow, then yellowish orange. Finally it became ashy pale and in the year 1574 it disappeared from sight entirely. Astronomers have often speculated upon the possible return of Tycho’s nova. Consequently, an astronomer never gazes at the star Kappa in the constellation of Cassiopeia without glancing at the sky nearby. I recommend the same procedure to all readers, for the return of Tycho’s nova '"->uld be a great event and it would be a fine d’ctlncLl-n to be the first to discover iti Other famous novae and something about presentday theories pf their cause will be discussed next* V 1 V

M. E. TRACY SAYS: “Courage Is a Virtue. It Expresses Itself in Many Forms, However, and What We Have Never Agreed On Is the Finest Form.”

NEW YORK, July 11.—Acts of heroism, alleged and otherwise, figure prominently in the news. A girl dares a society man to jump from the deck of a liner, and he does, giving her more of a kick than she bargained for and a lot of other people unnecessary trouble. A Brooklyn real estate man, regretting mistakes, of which he did not make enough to prevent the accumulation of a large fortune, and fancying himself a coward, commits suicide to prove that he was capable of “one brave act.” On June 30 five men and one woman left New York in the Rosa, a fifty-foot yacht, on a race to Spain. It was a venture that called for pluck, and the fact that it resulted in a shipwreck that might have proved fatal but for a timely; rescue, does not alter its character in this respect. Six weeks ago, Gen. Umberto Nobile and seventeen companions flew over the north pole only to encounter headwinds and crash against a mountain on their return trip. Ever since that disaster, their struggle for life and the various attempts to rescue them have led to a matchless chain of heroic deeds. a u tt Forms of Courage Courage is a virtue. We can all agree on that. It expresses itself in many forms, however, and what we have never agreed on is the finest form. Some people regard suicide as proving lack of courage under any and all circumstances, but as a general proposition, the suicide regards himself as brave. No doubt that young man who jumped overboard thought himself a hero at the time, though he might have felt otherwise about it afterward. The monuments with which this old world is cluttered leave the question hopelessly unsettled. No less an authority than Mr Gibbon thinks too many of them have been erected to destroyers. By and large the warrior has been accepted as the best example of courage. Facing death on the battlefield whether one dies or not, is still, perhaps, the most exalted role tt u Confusing Prejudice Obviously, it takes a different kind of courage to work against adversity for fifteen or twenty years than it does to gamble with death in some moment of such ecstatic emotion as obliterates fear, not to say reason. Finding himself a bankrupt at the prime of his life, Sir Walter Scott worked madly to pay his debts. The same was true of Mark Twain. It is a curious circumstance that we think of these men as authors, rather than heroes, forgetting that grit, rather than inspiration, was responsible for much of their success. The late Senator La Follette, stood up alone and voted against this country’s entrance into war, while his seventy-nine colleagues sneered and jeered. That took nerve, but the immediate reaction expressed itself in yells for his expulsion, not in cheers for his bravery. Too much of our applause for courage depends on whether it takes a direction we like. More often than not, we confuse bravery with prejudice. a a Women Show Bravery It is quite possible for a man to be courageous in one respect and cowardly in another, as is illustrated by the following incident which occurred during the hurricane that swept Galveston Bay in 1915. On Virginia Point, where the Galveston causeway reaches the mainland, there stood an old wooden hotel to which some twpnty-five or thirty people fled for refuge when the storm broke late in the afternoon. There were several women and children in the party, as well as a minister, a lawyer and a man who had too many notches on his gun for any one to doubt liis courage. It became a typical party of prayers, tears, regrets, repentances and addlepated optimism as the night wore on. Some grew cooler with the rising of the wind and water. Ac is not unusual when they have time to get set, the women faced their fate philosophically. Sometime after midnight, when the water had risen to a depth of two or three feet above the floor and when it was only a question of moments before the house would float away or fall to pieces, the man with the notches on his gun drew it out of the holster, put it against his temple and, shouting, “I can’t stand this any longer,” pulled the trigger. tt a a Gunman Weakens First Some 'fifteen people were crushed or drowned when the hotel collapsed, while eight or ten others saved themselves by clinging to p 3ces of the wreckage and floating around until they reached places of safety. Half a dozen were washed up against a string of overturned freight cars, on to the sides of which they climbed and stayed until morning. One saved himself by wrapping his legs and arms around a telephone pole, while two or three made similar use of fenceposts. The point is, that, living or dying, the entire party conducted itself with courage, with the exception of the one man who had too many notches on his gun for any one to doubt. How many acres of land in the United States are used in fanning? The total farm acreage in the United States in 1925 was 924,889,380.

Ty c h o’s Nova. Nova is the Latin word for “new.” Tycho is one of the most interestearly history of ing figures in the modem astronomy. His father was a nobleman. He sent Tycho to the u nlversitie s of Copenhagen and Leipzig to have him prepare for a diplomatic career.

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Value of Ultra-Violet Rays Discussed

BY DR. MORRIS FISHBEIN Editor Journal of the American Medical Association and of Hygeia. the Health Magazine. DURING the last few years newspaper health columns, popular magazines and much advertising matter have urged on the public the importance of plenty of sunlight not only for the purpose of preventing rickets in growing children, but also for such general effects as sunlight may have in building up the resistance of the body to infectious disease. It is known that sunlight acts upon the substance ergosterol to produce within it vitamin D. Hence already there are available in drug stores concentrated preparations of vitamin D, made in this manner. Furthermore, Steenbock of Wisconsin developed a method of exposing ioods to ultra-violet rays

Bridge Play Made Easy BY W. W. WENTWORTH

(Abbreviations: A—ace; K—king; Q—aueen: J—jack; X—any card lowethan 10.) WHEN your partner bids one no-trump he expects to find in your hand one and a-half quick tricks. For every one-half quick trick, above one and one-half that you hold in your hand you are justified in raising your partner’s notrump. once. Applying the foregoing principles to the following illustrations, assume your partner has bid a notrump and second hand has bid two spades. Holding the hands described below you should proceed as follows : 1. Spades A X X; hearts K X X; diamonds XXX; clubs XXX X. You merely hold normal strength —one and one-half quick tricks. Your hand is not therefore strong enough to raise. 2. Spades K J X; hearts K Q X; diamonds Q J 10; clubs J X X X. You hold a stopper in spades and two and one-half quick tricks. You may therefore raise your partner’s no-trump twice if necessary. 3. Spades XX X; hearts A K; diamonds J X X X; clubs Q X X A You do not hold any stopper in spades. Do not raise. 4. Spades A J X; hearts Q J 10 X; diamonds XXX; clubs Q X X. You hold two stops in spades. Although the hand does not contain fully two quick tricks, you may raise once in view of the two stops in opponents’ suit. 5. Spades X X X X; hearts K J X; diamonds A Q X; clubs K Q X. You hold no stop in spades, but great strength in other suits. In spite of the fact that you do not hold a stop in spades you may raise once because opponents may not make more than four suit tricks in spades and furthermore, if they should bid three spades, you are in an excellent position to penalize them with a double. The essential requirements for raising partner’s suit bid are. first, normal support in trumps and, .second two assisting trick.s. Over 80 per cent of initial suit bids are made on suits containing not more than five cards. The bidder logically expects to find some cards of the declared suit In partner’s hand. If the declarer controls less than seven trumps, game Is seldom possible. The trump-support that your partner normally expects to find in your hand and on which your partner relies in making the initial bid consists of trumps as good as A X, K X, Q X or X X X, known as normal trump support. (Copyright. 1628. hv the Ready Reference Publishing Company)

Daily Thoughts

Blessed is the man that enduretb the crown of temptation, for when he is tried he \shall receive the crown of life.—James 1:12. nan The virtue which never has been attacked by temptation is deserving of no monument.—MUe. de Scuderi,

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coming from intense sources of such energy, and in this way supplying the body with its vitamin D. Finally, numerous methods are available for giving directly to those who wish it concentrated sunlight from ultra-violet ray apparatus. Many physicians have viewed with alarm the possibility that too much vitamin D will thus be available, not only to growing children but to the public in general, and that harm may result from overdosage. In Germany recent investigations have dealt with the question of how much vitamin D is dangerous. Feeding experiments on rats and mice indicated that the fatal dose is very large indeed, about ten thousand times the dose necessary to heal disease.

In human beings at least twenty

With Other Editors

South Bend News-Times Good Republican papers, like the Chicago Tribune, are shocked and horrified at the “taint” of Tammany they profess to see clinging to the Democratic nominee for the presidency. Their minds go back (fortunately beyond the piping times of Sinclair and Fall and Forbes and Daugherty and other shining lights of the Republican party) to the good old days of Tweed and Croker. The Tammany they conjure up is the Tammany of the seventies and eighties. We shall not undertake a defense of the Tammany of today, save to say that the association is, as it has always been, typical of New York politics, and that it is less vivid and certainly less corrupt than the old organization. But we would like to call attention to the fact that in their onslaught upon Tammany and the Democratic candidate, they have unanimously forgotten the more pertinent question of Republican corruption, and that this corruption is a matter of 1928 and not of 1880. Tammany, in all its wretched history of selling franchises,'stealing elections, grafting in building and supplies and the other evils which Tweed went to jail and Croker suffered exile, was rather a jelly little infant compared to the recent national administration. It is the manufactured “evidence” against A1 Smith (whom they would convict of Tweed's misdeeds) that marks the height of hypocrisy in the Chicago Tribune, and which causes many honest citizens to wonder which one of the Anti-Saloon League captains, or which of the Ku-Klux Klan emperors, or which of the oil-ring magnates has shown the light of reason to its owners and editors. It is not necessary to recall to the public the heated denunciations of the league that appeared in the Chicago Tribune when the league supported Frank Smith for the Senate, despite Smith’s corrupt acceptance of Insull’s money At that time, the Tribune’s very sound argument was that “the Anti-Saloon League will swallow any kind of a candidate provided he talks dry.” The Tribune now puts itself in the Anti-Saloon League’s class—nay, It goes further—by swallowing the league, the Klan and the oil men at one gulp, merely to support a Republican candidate. Politics does make strange bedfellows. We had always thought that If a reformer, a crook, and a Chicago Tribune editor were to find themselves in the same bed, two of them would be kicked out on the floor. But here they are, all snoozing away as comfortably as you please. Meanwhile, the Tribune has found a bottle beneath A1 Smith’s bed, has reported the fact to the prohibition enforcement officials, and has the pleasant satisfaction of doing its duty as Dr. Shumaker would want them to do it. Brothers McCormick, Diuwiddie, Mcßride, Shumaker, Evans

times the usual dose daily over a long period of time would be necessary to induce serious symptoms. Obviously therefore the damage is not great so far as we now know from the amount of ultra-violet rays, irradiated foods, or vitamin D that the human being may receive. It is. of course, possible that relationships between the vitamins are important, and that too much of one with too little of another may produce effects of which we now have no knowledge. It is possible that the anxiety of manufacturers in promoting these things may lead them to place on the market far too many irradiated products and thus affect the infant to its advantage. The public will do well to await the arrival of actual knowledge before considering the employment of such foods and methods as panacea.

and Sinclair will now dance ring-around-a-rosy. (Hammond Times) There will be no drift by mid-dle-west farmers away from the Republican party in November. This is apparent to even the politically unschooled. The “farm revolt” never existed except in the fertile imaginations of a few politicians who had to promise their agricultural constituents something and could think of no better vote-getter than high-sounding schemes for making the farmer rich without working. Before the national conventions farm bloc Congressmen were talking of bolting their parties if the platforms failed to pledge some specific form of farm relief. Both platforms lack such a plank, but not a farm leader was deserted his party. Senator McNary has announced his whole-hearted support of the Republican ticket and predicts victory for Hoover and Curtis in every State of the corn belt. , He argues that the majority of the farmers realize that for any substantial aid they must look to the Republican party. Another farm bloc leader who has climbed aboard the HooVerCurtis band wagon is Representative Morton D. Hull of Illinois, a Lowden man and a McNaryHaugen last-ditcher. This significant statements comes from his lips: “The farmers throughout the central West have no reason for leaving the Republican for the Democratic party. There is nothing in the Democratic platform that would give them any advantage over the Republican platform. ' “The farmer realizes his difficulties in legislation and will not take the chances that go with changing horses in midstream and then be carted off in a chariot drawn by the Tammany Tiger.” . The farmers did not march on Kansas City, but they will march on the polls in November to vote 'the straight Republican ticket.

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i ULY 11,1928

KEEPING UP With ■ ' THE NEWS

BY LUDWELL DENNY WASHINGTON, July 11.—In the daily rise and fall of issues for campaign purposes farm relief was uppermost today. A Developments included: V 1. Hoover's reported decision not ■ to answer the questions of W. H. Settle, president of the Indiana Farm Bureau Federation, regarding his “personal position” on farm relief, as A1 Smith has done. 2. Report of the Agriculture Department On prospects of a record crop acreage for the country. 3. Demands by a minority farmer- ( labor meeting in Chicago for new party realignment on the agricultural issue. Political chiefs of the two old parties are not much concerned by any action which may be taken by the Farmer-Labor meeting, though such constant repetition of the charge that the farmers can expect no real relief from Democrats or Republicans tends to keep the political sentiment of farmers “unstable,” it is said. < If Hoover’s associates are informed accurately, the Republican f presidential candidate definitely has made up his mind not to state his ' personal position on farm relief, as requested by Settle. His aids explain this decision by saying that Settle is a Democrat and that therefore Hoover is under no obligation to answer him. They add that Hoover repeatedly has refused to outline his policies on any _ issue pending his speech accepting the nomination. tt t tt tt THEY promise in the acceptance address that their candidate will be sufficiently explicit to satisfy - any reasonable demands of farm voters. But observers have no reason to believe the Hoover plan will depart very far from the general pledges laid down by the Republican platform. “We promise every assistance in the reorganization of the marking, system on sounder and more economical lines and. where diversification is needed, governmental financial assistance during the period of transition,” that platform said. It also pledged creation of “a Federal farm board clothed with the necessary powers to promote the establishment’of a farm marketing system of farm-owned and controlled stablization corporations or associations to prevent and control surpluses through orderly distribu? tion.” Hoover is also expected to stress the platform promise to broaden export markets and. to enact “measures which will place the agricultural interests of America on a basis of economic equality with other industry.” If the candidate intends to commit himself to a single definite measure of legislation to effect this , “equality” desired by the farmers, * there'is every reason to believe it will not follow the McNary-Haugen "equalization fee” principle which President Coolidge vetoed as unconstitutional and fallacious. Democratic leaders claim Smith has gained an advantage over the silent Hoover by replying to the Indiana Farm Bureau official. Smith said that, if elected, he would call immediately a farm relief conference to mature legislation for presentation to the new Congress without delay. a tt tt SEVERAL new factors have been injected into the farm relief political debate by the Agriculture Department’s crop report. If the department's prediction holds good there will be the largest crop acreage this year (since 1919. Production, however, is estimated as about 6 per cent lower than the annual average for the last ten years. Increased acreage is accounted for by recent rises in farm product prices, and also by tight industrial employment conditions in many • cities, which tend to drive farm boys back home and keep others at the plow. Since over-production would make more acute the present problem of marketing surpluses, economists are asking what effect artificial pricefixing and prise-raising would have in stimulating production, which already is back to the excessive wartime total. The department’s crop forecast, follows in part: “If the increases that are now in prospect materialize the harvested acreage will be the largest since 1919. M “In round figures, the most imS| .portant increases are: Corn, 4 per cent; barley, 30 per cent; cotton, 11 per cent; potatoes, 9 per cent; to,- - bacco, 18 per cent; beans, 7 per cent. The most important decreases are: Hay, 4 per cent; wheat, 1.5 per cent; < rye, 4 per cent. “The increase in total crop acreage is most marked in some of the semi-arid sections and in those parts of the Mississippi and hio valleys, which suffered from overflow or from excessively wet conditions dur-, ing the spring of 1927. “In other sections, the increases reflect chiefly the general favorable weather for planting, the somewhat better prices for farm products, and the ample supply of farm labor. . ~ “The composite condition of the* 35 principal crops on July 1 was 5.8 per cent below the average” the last ten years. .

This Date in U. S. History

July 11 1767—Birthday of John Quincy Adams, sixth President. 1790—First Methodist sermon in America preached in Boston. 1804—Alexander Hamilton and Aaron Burr fought a duel; Hamilton mortally wounded, y 1864—First organized national bank opened in Philadelphia. 1864—Confederates under Genera! Early advanced to within threa miles of Washington, D. C. 1890 —'Wyoming admitted to tha L Union.