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Stable and Sound For once, at least, the law and public sentiment coincide. The citizens of Indianapolis will rejoice that the decision of the Supreme Court in the matter of “who is mayor?” runs even with their own wishes. The establishment of L. Ert Slack in the mayor’s chair for the remainder of the period of waiting for the new commission government brings more than a sense of stability. It gives the people reason to believe that the Administration of that office will be decent, honest and intelligent. Whatever skepticism may have existed by Reason of the unexpected selection of Mayor Slack by members of the council who had confessed themselves unfit and unworthy has now disappeared. The public acts and policies of Mayor Slack have driven away the hidden doubts and anxieties of those who wanted only decent government and he has firmly established himself hi public confidence. Accustomed to a government by control of political bosses, this city found it hard to believe that it was possible to have an administration wherein some secret vender of privileges and protection and favors was not more powerful than the man upon the throne. That the people have been agreeably disappointed is but a mild form of expressing the facts. There have been whispers and tips for months that political considerations would determie the decision of the court, that desire for the machinery of government would find a way of writing itself into the law, that the office was to be taken away from Slack because he happens to be a Democrat. The oeople will rejoice evdn more that these whispers and innuendoes and “inside tips” were false and that the high court has decided the case on its merits and free from any of these rumored influences. It has been a long path and a hard one from the day when the city was taken over by those forces of hate and worse that were represented Mayor Duvall and his discredited city jcouncil. It has not been a pleasant situation to see the mayor of this city sentenced for purchase bf his office by secret deals, appealing now under the plea that his promises of power were not a violation of the law. It has not been a pleasant picture to watch feity councilmen bargaining for their liberty with their resignation and confesisng to crimes jyhile in office. But the nightmare is over. Indianapolis has ft city council whose standing is the highest of ftny in the United States. It has a mayor of srhom it is proud—and his job is safe. The people can now look forward to the flection of commissioners who will maintain the new high standard of municipal consciousness that began with the selection of L. Ert Slack as mayor. A New Alarm Sounds Anew danger has been found by the joint comfeiittee of National Utility Associations in the Boulder dam bill and the Muscle Shoals bill. These projects would shackle the ambitions of Workers. That’s the danger. “Little has been said from the viewpoint of the femploye,” says Philip H. Gadsden, vice chairman of the association, discussing “the menace of Government competition,” in a recent address. “Under private ownership of industry, the lad who fenters an establishment as errand boy may in future years become the head of the house. “Does Government ownership offer such a spur to the ambition and initiative of the employe? Not at all. In government preference goes either by political favoritism or a rule of seniority that discounts initiative. Imagine the power industry, for example, in the hands bf employes whose proper ambitions are thus ghackled!” Mr. Gadsden probably does not realize that it is fcnarchy he is preaching. “Abolish the Government,” he i3 saying, if his arguments are carried to their logical conclusion, “for Government now has in its employ thousands and thousands of men and women whose nroper ambitions are shackled!” ' Or, if not anarchy, you might call it contempt that this utility executive is voicing. For he would seem to belittle the presidency of the United States as a goal toward which to work. Surely there is at least as much logic in the idea of an ambitious young construction hand on a Government project working up x> the presidency of the United States as there is in the idea of his reaching the top bf any private power concern. But, as Mr. Gadsden doubtless would reply, all •this is beside the issue. The point is that Boulder pe.m and Muscle Shoals bills must be defeated. And jwith that end in view what are reason, logic or comtnon sense? Hand It to Herrick Twicf within a period of a little more than a year, Ambassador Myron T. Herrick has mixed common tense and diplomacy in a manner highly beneficial to gelations between France and America. The first instance was in connection with the landing of Lindbergh; the second, the reinstatement of jTilden on the Davis cup tennis team. The first is a matter of history, the latter of recent date. A small thing, perhaps, this sudden suspension bf the American court star, of interest only to tennis |ans; but not so in the eyes of the French people. And Ambassador Herrick, sensing the situation

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correctly, deserves credit for his tact and acumen and the retrieving of a faux pas. The French have proved good sportsmen. The world of sport itself is universal. As much international good will has been created on the courts at Auteuil as in the court at Versailles. It may be unofficial, but it is genuine and comes directly from the French people. For our part, we always have thought Ambassador Herrick was smart in his attitude toward Lindbergh; he realized instantly that anew and greater ambassador than he had arrived in France when the flying colonel landed at Le Bourget field. And we think he has been smart in interceding in the Tilden affair and putting "Big Bill” back into the game. A Busybody Rebuked Probably James E. West, chief Scout executive, has done some other good things for the Boy Scouts of America, but he just has done something that is one of the best things that ever happened to the Boy Scouts. Recently, the president of the organization in Cleveland attracted public attention by a foolish order that menaced the good standing of the Boy Scouts everywhere. He told the boys that when they saw a woman smoking cigarets they were to go up to her and ask her to refrain. West, at national headquarters, disagreed. He notified the Cleveland, busybody president that the Boy Scouts of America isn’t that kind of organization; that “it is not within the province of a local council or even of the national council, to undertake to pass resolutions or legislate on any one of the many problems before the American people.” He added that it was not only unfortunate, but absurd, that Boy Scouts be asked to approach women smoking in public and ask v that they give up the habit. West has saved the reputation of a fine body of young Americans who are working to build up wholesome bodies and healthy, straight-thinking minds. As for the Cleveland organization’s president, it is obvious that he should be eliminated. From Peeking to Peeping Peking, hereafter, is to be called Peiping, according to news from the Nationalist capital at Nanking. Peiping means "Northern Peace.” Peking means “Northern Capital.” Nanking means “Southern Capital.” It seems a sacrilege to change the name of a city which has become historic under that name throughout the centuries. St. Petersburg sounds much better than Petrograd, and better than Leningrad. And we very much prefer Queenstown to Cobh, which we can’t pronounce, and Christiania to Oslo. And so on. London has so much history that the very mention of its name gives a thrill. If it were changed to Georgetown, after England’s present ruler, it would leave us cold. And what would Paris sound like if they changed her name to Doumergue? And Washington were it called Coolidgeville? Or New York under the name of Smithton? Or Rome if called Benito Center? Or Greece, as Koundouriotis? Why can’t they leave the famous, atmospherey old names alone? The Penny Matches At any cigar stori or drug store you can buy a little box of matches for a penny. Offhand it would almost seem as if these were merely sold as a convenience; one would hardly suppose that the manufacture of penny matches was a great undertaking. Yet the Department of Commerce reveals that in 1927 there were 18 match manufacturers in the United States, doing a gross business of $24,785,835. These plants employed nearly 4,000 men, and paid out upwards of $4,000,000 in wages during the year. This hardly compares with the industrial giants, of course. But it is a safe bet that the business is far larger than most of us ever imagined.

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THE shining constellation of Lyra, easily identified by its brightest star, the beautiful Vega which is almost directly overhead these summer nights, represents according to one legend, the lyre

Orpheus was a musician of wondrous ability. Poets of all ages have written of him. Shakespeare, describing his genius, wrote in “Two Gentlemen of Verona:” “For Orpheus’ lute was strung with poet’s sinews. Whose golden touch could soften steel and stone, Make tigers tame and huge leviathans Forsake unsounded depths to dance on sands.” Now the music of Orpheus not only charmed the animals of the forest and the monsters of the deep, but it also charmed the beautiful nymph, Eurydice. But at the marriage of Eurydice and Orpheus, the torches smoked, bringing tears to the eyes of the guests, and the sages predicted that the omen was unfavorable. Shortly after the marriage, a shepherd saw Eurydice crossing a field. He pursued her. She fled and in her haste trod on a snake who bit her. She died from the biteOrpheus was disconsolate. Finally he determined to descend to Hades himself and to see if his music would not please Pluto, the king of the underworld, and persuade him to release Eurydice. Orpheus made his way to the throne of Pluto. There he sang his petition, accompanying himself upon his lyre. Pluto was so pleased that he agreed to release Eurydice on one condition. Orpheus was to lead the way out but he was not to look back at Eurydice until they had regained the outer world. The two started forth. But as they reached the gates of Hades and were about to step back into this world, Orpheus could not resist the temptation to look back and see if she had made the journey safely. He turned. She was there. But as he gazed at her, she slowly faded from his view. He had lost her,

M. E. TRACY SAYS: “The Notion That People Have Become So Infatuated With Fisticuffs That They Are Willing to Make a Millionaire Out of Some Pugilist Every Six Months Is Delightful, hut Dumb.”

THE Tunney-Heeney fight resulted in two knockouts. Heeney lost his chance to become champion and Tex Rickard lost $184,000. It is a debatable question who feels worse. Heeney has no alibi, but Tex blames the radio. He reasons that if so many people could not have listened for nothing more would have paid to see. It sounds logical but leaves out the element of advertising. Except for all the announcing that went with the broadcast, this show would have proved a sorrier flop than it did. The notion that people have become so infatuated with fisticuffs that they are willing to make a millionaire out of some pugilist every six months is delightful, but dumb. One Jack Dempsey to each generation is about all that could be expected, and he would never have become the drawing card he did, without such haggling, side stepping and delaying as whqtted popular excitement to fever heat. tt tt tt Gene Only a Novelty The literary halo with which Mr. Tunney has sought to crown pugilism means nothing. He not only made his money, but most of his literary reputation, in the ring. The prize fighter who can spout Shakespeare is a novelty, and this generation is peculiarly fond of novelties. Not that Mr. Tunney’s aspirations are to be discouraged, or ridiculed, but-that it is foolish to misunderstand why he has become so popular as a speaker at Y. M. C. A. classes, Boy Scout meetings and student gatherings. Being a prize fighter who can talk high-brow English, he is something of an exception, but the exception rests on the fact that he is & prize fighter. A stenographer, a carpenter, or even a civil engineer might know as much about Shakespeare and epic poetry as Mr. Tunney, and yet get nowhere. a u u Fight Boosted Radio • Regardless of its effect on Mr. Rickard’s pocketbook, Merlin Hall Aylesworth, president of the National Broadcasting Company, believes that the radio hook-up which carried the news of the TunneyHeeney fight all over the Englishspeaking world “was the most constructive thing ever done for the boxing game.” Whatever it did for the boxing game, I believe that it did vastly more for radio. Radio has demonstrated its capability. The people of London, San Francisco and Melbourne sat in their homes and actually heard what was going on in the Yankee Stadium at New York by means of a single human voice. We have developed not only a wonderful agency for the distribution of news, but a terrific vehicle of advertising and propaganda. The man who sits at the microphone, whether as prize fight reporter, publicity agent or candidate for the highest office within the gift of mankind, and is heard by 50,000,000 people, exercises a power which neither he nor they understand very well as yet. a a a Draw Line at Tammany Speaking of politics, former Senator Owen of Oklahoma, lifelong Democrat and a power in the Wilson Administration, says he will not support Governor Smith because he does not want to see the United States “Tammanyized.” Governor Smith replies that Senator Owen must have suffered a change of heart since 1924, because in that year, when he was a candidate for the presidential nomination, he asked Tammany for help. ' If Mr. Owen is sore because he failed to get help from Tammany, as Governor Smith implies, l the Democratic party in the South and West may feel it has a right to be sore on the same ground. Like Owen and most other aspirants for the presidential nomination. the party as a whole asked help of Tammany Hall in 1924 and 1920. Quoting Charles F. Murphy, late leader of Tammany Hall, “results speak for themselves.” a tt a South Has Alibi In both 1920 and 1924 a tremendous majority was rolled up in Greater New York for the Democratic gubernatorial candidate, while a tremendous majority was rolled up against the Democratic presidential candidate. In 1920, Cox, the Democratic presidential nominee, received 350,000 less votes tnan Smith, the Democratic gubernatorial nominee. In 1924, Davis, the Democratic presidential nominee, received nearly 450,000 less votes than Smith, the Democratic gubernatorial nominee. This surprising disparity may have been due to the relative popularity of the candidates, but an impression prevails throughout the country that Tammany traded votes, and that the party outside of New York was sacrificed in order that Tammany might retain control within the State. Admitting that Senator Owen is sore because he failed to get help from Tammany, which may or may not be true, a good many Democrats think they have an excuse for feeling the same way. If the South and West fail to bring out the usual Democratic majorities this year they will have just as good an alibi as Tammany Hall did in 1920 and 1924. They, too, can explain that no organization is big enough to control public sentiment.

or harp made by Mereury. Mercury was the messenger of the gods. Apollo, the sungod, gave this harp which Mercury made, to Orpheus. Orpheus was the skilled musician who accompanied the famous hero Jason on his search for the golden fleece.

BY DR. MORRIS FISHBEIN Editor Journal of the American Medical Association and of Hygeia, the Health Magazine. FEW people realize the numerous small details that are concerned in thq matter of prevention of infectious diseases and the great consideration given to the subject in hospitals for the care of contagious disorders. Laymen frequently ask how nurses and doctors work in hospitals and do not themselves become infected. The answer lies in the meticulous care that has been mentioned. In the Durand Hospital of the John McCormick Institute for Infectious Diseases a definte routine has been followed for many years to prevent infections with diphtheria and scarlet fever among the nurses. Special attention Is given to maintaining a high degre of cleanliness of the patients, their rooms and surroundings. The general health of each nurse is watched closely. Each week specimens of the secretions are taken from. the nose and throat, and studies are made of the bacteria thus found. Whenever a nurse attends a patient who has a profuse discharge from the nose and throat, or who otherwise is especially dangerous, by reason of restlessness or coughing, she wears a simple face mask made of three thicknesses of cheesecloth. The following rules developed for the protection of nurses will serve for any one who takes care of a patient with an infectious disease; Do not put fingers, pins, labels,

What are the French spoliation claims? Demands made by citizens of the

(Abbreviations: A—ace; K—tint: Q—queen; J—Jack: X—any card lower tt.an 10.) VERY often you can make the most of a suit by deliberately losing the first trick. This method of play, called “ducking,” is founded not only on the law of average probabilities, but also on the expectation that the cards are normall ydistributed. Unless the bidding has furnished information to the contrary, play the hand on the assumption that the cards of a suit out against you are evenly divided between your opponents or nearly so. Asa concrete example of ducking in actual play, examine the following explanation in which the declaration is two no trump: Dummy—holding spades J 3; hearts 4 3; diamonds A K 7 6 5 4; clubs 8 5 2. East—holding nothing of importance. Declarer—holding spades A 10 5 2; hearts A 10 9 5; diamonds 8 3; clubs A J 4. West—holding clubs K Q 9 7. West leads clubs 7 and declarer taxes with the Jack. To make game, declarer needs eight more tricks. He has three cure tricks, Aces, in his hand. He may win five tricks in diamonds by leading diamonds 8 and playing diamonds 4 from the dummy! The probabilities are that the five diamonds missing are divided three and two. By playing diamondse A on the next round of that suit and following with diamonds K all of the missing diamonds will fall, enabling the declarer to make the three remaining diamonds in the dummy good and giving him a total of five tricks in that suit. Lacking a re-entry to the dummy in any other suit, declarer would fail to make more than six tricks out of both hands if he did not duck on the first round of diamonds. This maneuver gives him his only chance of making game. (Copyright. 1928, by the Ready Reference Publishing Company)

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pencils or anything else to the mouth. Keep the hands away from the face. Do not allow a patient to come in contact with the face or hair. Always put on a clean gauze mask over the mouth and nose before caring for very sick or delirious patients having profuse discharge. Avoid as far as possible getting near, or in direct line with, the mouth of a patient who is coughing, sneezing, vomiting or spitting, when infectious material may be thrown out several feet. Wash the hands thoroughly after handling each patient. Before entering a contaminated area a gown should be put on and properly tied so that the nurse's uniform will not become contaminated. Before leaving, the gown belt should be untied, the hands thoroughly scrubbed and dried, the gown removed without touching the contiminated side, folded carefully and hung up, avoiding contamination of the clean side. Keep Nails Short Finger nails must be kept short and in good condition. On going off duty a cold cream or lotion should be used on the hands. A rough skin makes the proper cleansing of the skin impossible, thus rendering the hands unsafe for duty. Upon entering the living quarters remove the ward uniform, hang it in the bathroom, avoiding contact with clean street clothing. Wash the face, neck, ears and scrub the hands and arms to the elbows. Put

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United States for damages due to unlawful condemnation of American vessels and depredations wrought by French privateers during the wars between France and England in the eighteenth century. By the treaty of 1800 with France the United States agreed to waive these claims in return for the relinquishment of the alliance of 1778 by France, and to make payment of them to its own citizens. The claims then became a problem in American politics, and it was not until 1885 that Congress gave the Court of Claims the power to decide these cases. Hundreds of these claims have been settled, at a cost of more than four million dollars, but there are still some 1,500 claims which have not yet been adjusted. Who owns and governs South Georgia Island? The Falkland Islands, of which South Georgia is one, were discovered by Davis in 1594, and visited by Hawkins two years later. France took possession in 1764, and a small colony was established; this in 1766 was bought by the Spaniards. The English took West Falkland in 1767, but were driven out by the Spaniards. In 1820 a settlement was made by the Republic of Buenos Aires. The islands were 9nally taken by Great Britain in 1832 and in 1843 a civil administration was established. The colony has been self-supporting since 1885. What is cartridge cloth? A silk fabric made usually from the lowest grades of silk waste. How many persons are employed by the Government in the Panama Canal Zone? Ten thousand three hundred and seventy-eight employes are required for the operation and maintenance of the Panama Canal, including civil government and sanitation of the canal zone. x What is the proper way to give a pledge to the American Flag? In pledging allegiance to the flag of the United States of America, the approved practice in schools, which is suitable* also for civilian adults, Is as follows: Standing with right hand over the heart, all repeat together the following pledge; “I pledge allegiance to the Flag of the United States of America and to the Republic for which it stands; one Nation, indivisible, with liberty and justice for all. At the words “to the flag” the right hand is exvended palm upward, toward the Flag and this position is held until the epa of

on fresh clothing before going to meals. Never wear the uniform on the street. All floors are contaminated. Do not use handkerchiefs, towels, clothing, etc., that have dropped on the floor. Daily baths, scrupulous care of the mouth and teeth, nutritious food regularly, plenty of fresh water from an individual cup, good elimination, good ventilation of living rooms without drafts or chilling, eight hours of sleep, daily exercise out-of-doors—all play an important part in keeping up the resistance of the body. Nose and throat cultures must be made each week. Sore throat, rash or any other symptoms of illness no matter how trivial it may seem, must be reported at once. In addition, special efforts have been made to prevent diphtheria by the use of the Schick test and by injecting every nurse who was not apparently immune to the disease with toxin-antitoxin so as to increase her resistance to diphtheria. • In a period of fifteen years among 457 nurses there were only seven cases of diphtheria. Since the discovery of the Dick test and the preventive inoculation against scarlet fever that means has been used to immunize nurses who were susceptible to scarlet fever. Before the introduction , of the Dick test, 7.7 per cent of th nurses developed scarlet fever; since the introduction, only 1.1 per cent are infected.

the affirmative when the hand drops to the side. Civilian adults will always show full respect to the flag, when the pledge is being given, by merely standing at attention, men removing the headdress. Persons in uniform should render the right hand salute. Can a person who has been separated from a spouse for seven years marry again without getting a divorce? There is no such thing as automatic divorce, because of separation for seven years or any other length of time. Desertion, or in some instances, separation, for a period of years is cause for divorce in some States, but one is not free to marry again while the other spouse is living, without obtaining a court decree. On what day of the week did Oct. 9, 1903, fall? Friday. What do the names Barbara and Jean mean? Barbara (from the Latin) means “strange;” Jean (from the Hebrew Jane) means “beloved of God.” Does an American citizens lose his citizenship when he enters upon a homestead in the Dominion of Canada? Homestead entry in Canada is restricted to British subjects and to declarants to British citizenship. For a citizen of the United States to homestead in Canada, therefore, he would have to give up his United States citizenship and apply for Canadian citizenship. How many dimes were coined at the San Francisco mint in 1894? Twenty-four. Was Monte Blue ever the husband of Marie Prevost? No. Marie Prevost divorced her first husband, H. C. Gerke, and is now married to Kenneth Harlan. Monte Blue was divorced from Gladys Blue in 1923, and married Tovo Jansen in 1924.

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Unto the pure all things are pure.—Titus 1:15. MUM LET thy mind’s sweetness have its operation upon thy body, clothes and habitation.—George Herbert.

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BY LUDWELI. DENNY WASHINGTON, July 28.—The United States is prepared to intervene if necessarj to put down actual revolution in Janama. But the State Department has decided to ■ refuse the request of the opposition party to prevejt threatened revolution in connection with the Aug. 5 election. This statement of polcy is made by Secretary Kellogg, it follows the arrest in Panama cf 116 opposition leaders for stating that “there must be American electoral supervision or a revolution.” Fraud and corruption bj the Panama government is charged by the Porras National Coalition party, whose opposition presidential candidate is Dr. Jorge Boyd • Boyd married a niece of Mrs. Woodrow Wilson. Three factors are believed to have determined the Washington decision not to supervise the election and not to intervene except in an extreme emergency. 1. The Panaman government is considered able to handle the situation without American military aid, and is opposed to intervention. 2. American supervision of the Nicaraguan election and marine intervention in that country is proving embarrassing to the Washington Government because of native and American ciriticism of such a policy. 3. Anti-Yankee sentiment in Panama, following refusal by the native congress to accept the “military alliance” treaty with the United States would be increased by American military intervention. a it KELLOGG’S statement follows in part: “The opposition party has submitted to the Department of State charges of fraud and corruption on the part of the Government and has alleged that free and fair elections cannot be held without American supervision, and has asked that the United States intervene and supervise the elections. “A painstaking analysis of the representations made and of the documents submitted has failed to convince the department that there is sufficient grounds to authorize the intervention of the United States. “While the (American) Government has vital. Interests to protect in the canal zone and authority to intervene for the purpose of maintaining public order, the primary obligation, as the department has heretofore stated, to conduct a free and fair election and for the maintenance of law and order in Panama rests upon the Panaman government. “Between the two parties, the United States maintains an attitude of perfect impartiality and will do nothing to help either the party in power or the opposition party . . . “This Government is so deeply desirous, as contributing to the development, prosperity and well-being of Panama, that there should be a free and fair election, that it will follow the proceeding with the greatest interest. “The department nas been assured by the Panaman minister in Washington that his government will administer the law in a scrupulously impartial manner, as otherwise it would not expect recognition by the (government of the United States of the successful candidates. “The opposition party has stated that unless there is intervention by this Government, revolutionary activities will ensue. The department sincerely trusts that such counsel will not prevail. Nevertheless, should such a lamentable situation arise, the department believes the Panaman government will be able to preserve public order. “Should this unfortunately not be the case the United States would be compelled to exercise the power granted under the treaty and the constitution to maintain order.” a tt tt THIS Kellogg statement is interpreted as a double-barreled warning. To the party in power it is a warning that Washington will not recognize re-election of the present Government if the election is tainted with fraud or force. To the opposition party it is a warning that Washington will withhold recognition from the “outs” if they attempt to swing the election by revolution. Kellogg’s assertion that the United States has a right,to intervene under the treaty and constitution, and may exercise this right in an emergency, is considered more significant than the decision not to act on the request of the “outs.” For the question of American intervention rights as allegedly infringing Panaman sovereignty rights is intimately bound up with the bitter treaty dispute between the two countries. That treaty dispute is deadlocked since the Panama congress threw out the new treaty on the ground that it violated Panaman independence. The State Department argues that the new and objectionable pact simply spells out, the sweeping rights obtained by the United States in the original treaty of 1903, under which the Washington Government in its discretion can take over and rule all Panama if necessary for the military or sanitary protection of the canal.

This Date in U. S. History

July 2* 1729—Carolina became a royal ince1778—French fleet, advised by Washington, landed at Newport, R. I. 1863—New York supervisors appro1862—Confederate troops defeated at Moore’s Mills Mo. priated $2,000,000 for relief of drafted men. When was Flume annexed to Italy? March 16, 1924. How many forest rangers are employed by the United States Government? Approximately 1,000. **'■ ‘ *