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The Texas PrimaryHad there been no presidential election this year, the Texas primary of last Saturday would have come out just about as it did. This indicates Texas has not been politically upset oy the nomination of Smith and that Smith will carry' that State, because Democrats will not desert their party, even though prohibition and religious issues may raised It was expected that Governor Dan Moody would 3 renominated and he was. Lieutenant-Governor Barry Miller was expected to . un far ahead of Tom Love, former national committeeman, and he did. If anything, Love cost himself votes by bolting the party and announcing he would vote for Herbert Hoover in November instead of Smith. Senator Earle Mayfield was expected to run highest in the senatorial race, with Representative Tom Connally as his closest contender, and he did. Because there was little State-wide interest in anything but the senatorial and Lieutenant-Governor races, a vote of slightly more than 700,000 was cast. Such a vote is not below normal and Republicans scarcely can say that Democrats stayed away from the polls to avoid a party pledge and thus pave the-way for giving their ballots to Hoover in November. The election showed that Texas is not as excited be raised. over the national election as all the announcements of party bolts of the last few weeks would indicate. A1 Smith to Texas appears to be just another Democrat trying to become President, and Herbert Hoover just another Republican. Perhaps when the campaign warms up this fall, the situation may change. It will have to, if the Republicans expect to get any electoral votes in that section of the solid South. A British View of Hoover Presently certain Democratic orators will awaken the welkin with shouts of “Sir ’Erbert’’ and the like The moss-covered fable of Secretary Hoover’s friendship for the British will be retold to astonish the credulous voter. Taking advantage of the momentary quiet, it is interesting to observe what at least one English newspaper thinks of the Republican candidate. Probably the most liberal of British newspapers is the Manchester Guardian, noted the world around for its broadminded toleration of other people’s views. Yet the Guardian says of Hoover: “His many years abroad have not prevented his being something of a ‘little American.’ Some of the chief bankets of Wall Street opposed him in the preconvention campaign (though they will support hiy. now in preference to Smith.) “They did so on the ground that he would not be sympathetic toward the problems of international finance, and there is some reason for their apprehension in this regard. As an example of his attitude, British readers will recall his protests against the Stevenson plan for restriction of rubber exports; he has several times warned his countrymen against the dangers to be found -n ‘foreign monopolies’ of this and other tropical products. “It is safe to say that if the settlement of the war .debts had been left exclusively in his hands, some of the agreements might have been stiffer than they are.’’ Some Democrats may consider Hoover pro-British, but it is clear the BHtish do not. The Chemist Is King It has long been obvious that the modern chemist is the man who sways the destinies of nations. But the fact has never been presented quite so forcibly as in a recent address by Prof. O. R. Sweeney of lowa State College before the American Chemical Society Institute in Chicago. The lowly cornstalk, said Professor Sweeney, can replace both coal and oil in our industrial system. Gasoline can be made from it; paper, rayon, wall board, fireproof tile, synthetic lumber and insulating materials are a few of the other by-products. Cornstalks are full of cellulose, from which 3,000 commercial products can be made. Practically all the synthetic products now made from coal tar and other distillates of coal—and their name is legioncan be made from corn waste. . The manufacturing center of the future, he predicts, will be the corn belt. Vast populations will no longer congregate on the seaboard. Truly, the chemist is king. He can make and unmake industries, cities, States and social orders. He is the important man of the twentieth century. Some Rules to Keep Cool „ Continued hot weather in all parts of the country has brought a constantly growing list of heat prostrations. There are certain rules to be observed in hot weather if discomfort is to be avoided. Here are a few that you might bear in mind: Don’t overeat. Drink plenty of cool water, but avoid ice water. Do not exercise violently. Take the weather calmly: Fretting and worrying merely makes it worse. Bathe often, but avoid too cold water. Avoid alcoholic drinks. Dry Break Is Significant The Anti-Saloon League and the national Prohibition party have 1 alien out. D. Leigh Colvin, national chairman of the party, is quoted as saying that the ieague “is merely a group of paid superintendents” and that it “has engaged in a number of shady political deals.” The league and the party do not co-operate, he said. The Prohibition party is not an important factor in politics. Its repudiation of the league is illuminating, however, for Mr. Colvin and hit colleagues should be in a position to know what the league is and what it does. Henry Ford gave one of his new models to a Michigan station agent for the telegraph key Edison used as a young man. We have an old picture of the Floradora sextet at home—maybe we'll decide a Ford is the best buy-, after all. George Washington used to go fishing, too, and his diary mentions a night when 30,000 were caught. And they say George Washington never told a lie!

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Raskob’s Retirement John J. Raskob’s temporary retirement from General Motors was a wise act, taken in the public interest. Os course, anyone who stopped to think must have known that his selection as Governor Smith’s campaign manager did not involve General Motors as a corporation in any way. But many thoughtless people doubtless were wondering if there were not “something back of it;” if he had retained his old connections, it probably would have been whispered that General Motors’ vast organization was applying pressure all the way down the j line to swing votes for Smith. That, of course, would have been an obvious absurdity. But some people would have believed it. Raskob’s resignation clears the air and makes it plain to the dullest citizen that General Motors is an industrial, not a political, organization. Bluster from Italy „ Mussolini, incensed at the unkind things that are being said about Nobile and other members of his party, declares that the Italian government will investigate the whole thing and insists that the world reserve judgment until all the facts are presented. Obviously, it is unjust to form opinion on scanty knowledge. But Mussolini has only himself and his compatriots to blame if this has been done. Ever since the Italia crashed the Italians have been highly secretive. They have allowed widely different versions of every incident to creep out. Their attitude has not only encouraged the spreading of rumors; it has given the impression, rightly or wrongly that there was something they were trying to suppress. Mussolini demands that the world reserve judgment until it gets the facts. The world has a right to demand of Mussolini—with equal bluster, one might add—that the Italian government resort to complete frankness. Men’s Coats and Women’s Dresses We hear a great deal these days of women’s fight for sex equality, but there is one point in which woman gets all of the breaks. That is in the matter of hot weather clothes. Custom demands that a man must keep his coat on, no matter how hot the day or how clean his shirt. There is hope, however. In Berlin recently a business man, sitting in his office, removed his coat. Then he called his stenographer to take dictation. She took one look at him and fled. Then she filed suit to recover her wages, charging that her employer’s j removal of his coat constituted immoral conduct which compelled her to give up her job. The court, we are glad to hear, decided against her, ruling that a man’s right to escape the heat by sitting around in his shirtsleeves in inalienable. That’s fine. Some day we hope that coats will be laid away when July comes to be donned only on the approach of autumn. The library of Gene Tunney’s Connecticut home is stocked with forty books, says a dispatch. Why, even lowbrow sports writers have read nearly that many! The chemists’ meeting at Chicago has come and \ gone and still we don't know why a dog seems r.iore i affectionate toward mankind when he's shedding. An 8-year-old St. Louis boy has run away from home sixty times. Pretty soon his parents will begin to think he doesn’t like the place. Panama asks the United States to supervise an election. Sounds like propaganda by the ammunition people. A small town is one where a man can get his name in the paper by growing a mustache.

David Dietz on Science

Dolphins Rescued Him

- No. 116

THERE are other legends, besides the story of Orpheus and his unsuccessful attempt to bring his beloved Eurydice back from Hades, connected with the constellation Lyra. According to another, the bright stars of Lyra represent the harp of Arion. Arion was a famous musician in the court of King Periander of Corinth. He was returning from Sicily

.they carried him safely to shore. There has been some attempt to identify this story of Arion with the Biblical acceunt of Jonah and the whale. Biblical scholars, however, regard this attempt as far-fetched and unjustified. It is interesting to note that the Arabs frequently called the constellation the tortoise instead of the lyre. This is thought to have been due to the legend concerning the origin of the lyre. According to this legend, Apollo, the sun-god, found the empty shell of a tortoise upon the seashore. The tendons had dried and were stretched tightly across the back of the shell. That is supposed to have given Apollo the idea of constructing the lyre. The lyre was among the oldest musical instruments. It was the oldest stringed instrument known to the Greeks. The number of strings on it varied from four to eighteen. According to the Latin poet Ovid, the particular lyre which was turned into the constellation of Lyra had seven strings. This is interetsing to note, because throughout history, the number seven is supposed to have had mystical significance. Longfellow, the American poet, described Lyra in these words: “I saw with its celestial keys, Its chords of air, its frets of fire, The Samian’s great Aeolian Lyre, Rising through all the sevenfold bars From earth unto the fixed stars.” Lyra is sometimes called King David's harp. David according to the Bible, was an expert musician, “the sweet singer of Israel.” The anvient Britons called Lyra “King Arthur’s Harp.” In Bohemia it was known as "the fiddle in sky.” >

M. E. TRACY SAYS: “Aviation Passes From the Stunt to the Commercial Stage. . . . Los Angeles Is About to Put On the World's Greatest Air Carnival.”

ON his sixty-fifth birthday, Henry Ford gets up with the sun and saws wood for half an hour. Thousands of equally old men were up just as early and worked hard all day, they had to, and that makes a difference. Men who can afford to lie in bed and elude the buck saw commonly do. Your average millionaire is much more likely to be found on the golf course at 4 in the afternoon than beside a wood pile at 4 in the morning. Ford’s idea of opening a party may be unusual, but is not inconsistent with his career. The fact that he has reached 65 is less significant, perhaps, than is the fact that he made his fortune after 40. It certainly explodes Dr. Osier’s pet theory. According to Osier, Ford had passed the peak and was ready for the toboggan at the very time he began to do things. At 40, he had accomplished little. If apy one thought that one day he would be ranged as one of the greatest industrial leaders this world has ever known, it was not recorded. No doubt, he believed in himself, and quite possibly his wife and a few friends had hopes. As for the general run of liis acquaintances, they seem to have regarded him as just one more poor devil trying to get ahead. a tt tt Bootlegging Pays Bootlegging pays. If it didn’t, who would put up with the money to build, not one, but half a dozen such curious craft as the coast guard cutters have reported off the New England coast? These craft are not converted yachts or commandeered fishingschooners, but specially built for the trade. ✓ One hundred and twenty-five feet long, the story goes, with a four-foot sheer, a long low cabin forward, a short smokestack, stubby masts and Diesel engines capable of driving them at twenty knots and more. Obviously, someone with plenty of cash believes there is profit in rum running. Quite as obviously, the advent of these boats was timed on a shrewd appraisal of what New England’s summer tourists wanted and were willing to pay for. tx an Aviation Grows Up Aviation passes from the stunt to commercial stage. Cleveland’s airport,' which was looked upon as a dubious venture three years ago, has cleared 16,000 planes during the last twelve months. Lcs Angeles is about to put on the world’s greatest air carnival Fifteen hundred planes are expected to take part and the purses will aggregate $125,000. Among other features there will be six long-dis-tance races—four starting front New York, one from Windsor, Canada, and one from Mexico City, with the finish at Mines field. There will be the usual daredevil performances to thrill the crowd, but the manifest object of the carnival is to arouse interest in the more serious side of aviation, and that makes it worth while. a a a Another Pie Counter No matter what we do, the lawyer is right on the job. Whether it’s an ambulance racing down the street to pick up some maimed human being, a patent which needs a corporation to make it profitable or a reform movement calling for more regulation, he is right there to proffer his services. Aviation-finds him coming forward with a whole raft of suggestions. Prof. Otto E. Schrieber, lately arrived from Germany and holding the chair of “aerial law” at Goenigsburgh, says ‘air tiaffic will be so thick some day that policemen equipped with fast planes will be needed to prevent infractions of the air laws.’ You get the drift /of this sugges - tion when he goes on to explain that the -greatest need now is an international air code that will make uniform rules effective in various countries. , Here is a whole new field of opportunity opening up, not only for the educator who has special courses to sell, for universities which long to establish new departments and attorneys who feel the need of anew line, but for politicians who want a chance to “place” some of the boys. . An international code, uniform rules, congestion in the air, traffic cops—what does all that amoun f to but another pie counter? tt tt tt What About Police? Some people complain that we already have more law than we can enforce and the New York murder record seems to bear them out. Two hundred and seventy-eight homicides last year, with only eight persons sent to the chair, and only eighty-six given lighter sentences. Commissioner Warren, head of the police department, says that arrests were made in 82 per cent of the cases. He does not say w' at became of the one hundred and more who apparently were arrested but not convicted. Did the police force get hold of the wrong person in a majority of cases, or did the law fail to back it up? Commissioner Warren has made it very clear that he does not like to be quizzed. According to the New York Times, he warned a reporter the other day that if the reporter persisted in asking questions about the New York police glee club, said reporter would be barred from further conferences. Commissioner Warren appears not only to be more interested, but more effective in shutting up reporters, than in shutting up criminals,

by boat when he incurred the anger of the sailors who decided to throw him overboard. H e requested that he be permitted first to play upon his harp. His playing so charmed the dolphins in the stea. that they gathered about the boat. When he was thrown overboard,

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BY DR. MORRIS FISHBEIN Editor Journal of the American Medical Association and of Hygeia, the Health Magazine: A'vNE of the greatest difficulties in determining the proper care of those persons who are mentally defective has been the lack of any standard series of terms that describe the various conditions. In England, as pointed out by Surgeon J. S. Wilson of the United States Public Health Service, there is a national act which distinguishes carefully between the feeble-minded of various grades. In this country, in most instances, the American classification is followed, which divides persons mentally defective into three groups —idiots, imbeciles and morons. In Texas there is alaw r which defines a feebla-minded child as one who has such feeble mental or moral processes as to be unable to benefit by the ordinary method of education as employed in the common schools. A feeble-minded adult is one who is unable under ordinary circumstances to protect and support himself as a law abiding citizen because of lack of mental power. Doctor Wilson emphasizes the fact that this law does not properly distinguish between an imbecile or a person with a form of insanity like dementia praecox. The term “feeble-minded” should, of course, be limited to those who have a retarded or restricted development of the brain and who are

(Abbreviations: A—ace: K —king; Q—queen; J—jack: X—any card lower than 10.) INSTANCES when a finesse should be tried are as follows: 1. Dummy holds, A 6 5; Declarer, Q J 10. Three tricks may be made. Declarer leads Queen. If West does not cover with King, 5 is played from dummy. Then declarer returns to his hand in another suit and leads the Jack, following the same procedure. 2. Dummy holds A J 7; Declarer, K 6. Three tricks may b3 made. From the dummy the 7 is played and the declarer takes with King. Then he leads 6 and finesses Jack. 3. Dummy holds A 5 4; Declarer, K J. Three tricks may be made. From the dummy the 4 is played and declarer finesses Jack. Then he wins a trick with King and returns to dummy in another suit to play Ace. 4. Dummy holds K J 10; Declarer, 4 3 2. Two tricks may be made. Declarer leads 2 and finesses Jack or 10. 5. Dummy holds A J 10; Declarer, K 8 5. Three tricks may be made. From the dummy the Jack is played. If east does not cover with Queen, declarer plays 5. then leads 10 from dummy. 6. Dummy holds K J 3; Declarer, 5 4 2. Two tricks may be made. Declarer leads 2 and finesses Jack. Then he returns to his hand in another suit and leads the 4,finessing King. 7. Dummy holds J 7 6; Declarer, A K 8 2. Three or four tricks may be made. Declarer leads 2 and finesses Jack, unless west plays Queen. Then he leads 6 from the dummy and takes with King. Declarer’s Ace takes the next trick and if the distribution is favorable, the 8 may win a trick. 8. Dummy holds A J 8 3; Declarer, Q 6 5. Three tricks may be made. Declarer leads 5 and finesses Jack. If it works, he leads 3 from dummy and finesses Queen. (Copyright. 1928. by the Ready Reference Publishing Company)

It is not good that the mar should be alone.—Gen. 2:18. u u WHEN musing on companions gone we doubly feel ourselves alone.—Scott.

Lets Give This Little Fellow a Hand!

Grading Feeble-Minded Is Difficult

Bridge Play Made Easy BY W. W. WENTWORTn

Daily Thoughts

DAILY HEALTH SERVICE

unable when grown up to adapt themselves to the life of the community. Those who are concerned with the future of the race recognize that the lack of control over the feeble-mind-ed tends to permit them to propagate and to increase the number of mentally defective people for the future. The various grades of feeblemindedness must be considered, since there are some persons not able to use their brains to any advantage, who nevertheless may earn a living by indulging in definitely restricted activities. Hence any mental disturbance calls for a most careful consideration, a proper diagnosis and suitable

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You can get an answer to any answerable question of fuct or Information by writing to Frederick M. Kerby. Question Editor. The I.idianapolls Times’ Washington Bureau. 1322 New York Ave., Washington. D. C.. enclosing 2 cents in stamps for reply. Medical 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 letters are confldentlal. You are cordinally Invited to make use of this free service as often as vou please. EDITOR. ’ re did the custom of using s an emblem of Easter originate? Many ancient people regarded the egg as an emblem of life. Borrowing it from the ancients the Christians made the egg an emblem of the Resurrection rr.d ~ed it in Easter festivities. By them it was regarded in the light of a prison or tomb, from which future life escaped. The custom of coloring eggs appears to be exceedingly old. The Jews boiled their eggs hard and decorated the shells. Le Brun says the Persians always color their eggs and have had the custom since ancient times. Father Carmeli in his “History of Customs” states that colored Easter eggs are to be found in Italy, Spain and Province and that public sports with eggs are held during Easter period. It would seem that the original purpose in coloring eggs was to imitate chromatic dispersion with which nature adorns the earth by the rejuvenating breath of spring. When the original custom was taken over by the Christian Church the eggs were decorated principally in red, to denote the blood of Christ. What is “buying stock on margin?” It means buying on credit. Since the broker has to pay in full for the stock and the customer pays only part of the price, the usual practice is for the broker to borrow the balance from the bank, pledging the certificates as security for the loan. If the stock falls to a point where the “margin” given by the customer is siped out the broker immediately sells it to protect his P' u at the bank. The amount of the margin varies according to the • -ements of the brokers and the ~ vticular stock that is bought. W'hat is the salary of the Vice President of the United States and of the members of the United States Senate and the ' use of R presentatives? 1 iic salary of the Vice President i.i $15,000 per year; those of Senators and Representatives $10,00(). How many dogs were in the team that won the La Pas dog derby in 1926? Seven. ✓ I

care. Feeble-minded persons who are a social menace must, of course, be segregated in training schools. Those who are not anti-social in their tendencies should be provided for in special classes in public schools. Most important of all, however, is education of the public as to the potential danger of marriage when one or more of the ancestors of either one of the persons to be married are feeble-minded or mentally defective. Marriage license should be refused to any one who is feebleminded or insane, or whose blood test: is positive for the serious disease that produces such great degeneration when it attacks the human brain.

the corner cop when we pay him to serve us instead, costs us much more than necessary by reason of having four, five or six policemen on one corner, when a set of go-stop signs would not only change the traffic to better advantage, but would eliminate the hick town arrangement of having the police blow whistles, ring cow bells, etc. If they must play, get them a rattle Instead. Let the people cross the street at their leisure and not be compelled to swarm in Impassable mobs. It Is bad enough to make a mistake like this, and I wonder who it is that could not have told, after two or three days’ trial, that the present arrangement is very dumb. TAXPAYER.

What is “orthogenesis” and how is it related to evolution? Orthogenesis is evolution in a definite direction determined by environment. It is opposed to evolution through selection orw chance variation. What is the population of Italy? The official estimate for Jan. 1, 1926, is 42,113,606. What does Monongahela mean? It is a corruption of a Delaware Indian tribal word “menaungehilla,” meaning "river with the sliding banks.” Is Pola Negri an American citizen? Is that her real name? Her real name is Appollonia Chalupez. She is Polish by birth, but has taken out first papers to become an American citizen. Her mother is Polish and her father a Gypsy. How many architects are there in the United States? According to the last census there were 18,185.

EMERGENCY FIRST AID

First Aid in Broken Bone Cases Shown

-No. 3-

Bn Science Service A person who has broken a bone nearly always ieels faint and nauseated, is pale and may lose consciousness. The same thing occurs after every injury, including poisoning, apparent drow’ning, etc. It is known as surgical shock (not to be confused with electrical shock.) The patient should be made to lie down A'ith head lower than th<* rest of his body. He should be covered with warm blankets or clothing, and not water bottles should be put around him under the coverings. Hot bricks or stones may be used if you have no bottles, but be careful that the bottles or bricks are not too hot. An unconscious patient can not tell you when he is being burned. If the patient is conscious, give aromatic spirits of ammonia, hot strong tea or hot black coffee. If ne is not conscious, give nothing by mouth but pour a little aromatic spirits cf ammonia on a cloth and hold under -his nose. The arms and legs should be massaged, always rubbing toward the body, and keeping them covered while rubbing.

.JULY 31, 1928

KEEPING UP With THE NEWS

- BY LUDWELL DENNY TTTASHINGTON, July3l.—Wash- ▼ ington officials are cold to the reported British plan for another disarmament conference following the announced Franco-Brit-ish compromise naval agreement. They have not been informed officially of the London-Paris understanding. and expressed surprise today over press reports of Sir Austen Chamberlain’s statement to the House of Commons. The British foreign minister is reported to have announced that his government and the French had reached an agreement, presumably of an informal and tentative nature, on naval disarmament, which would be submitted to the other powers with an eye to another disarmament conference. Washington has known in a general way that London and Paris for several months have been trying to get together on their long dispute over submarines and related naval questions. But officials here did not know that an agreement had been arrived at, or that the British contemplated a disarmament conference. The Administation is described as gratified if any two naval powers, especially France and Great Britain, have succeeded in finding common ground on the matter of arms limitation. But such agreement, if true, does not seem to the United States Government to be sufficient excuse for ar other general naval conference new or in the near future. For seven 1 reasons:. 1. This being a campaign year leading to a change of administration, if not a party control, next March, President Coolidge and Secretary of State Kellogg are not in a position to speak for the new administration or to commit it on such a controversial issue as naval strength. Also a British general election is expected next May. 2. Even open preliminary negotiations on disarmament would inject anew issue into the American campaign, when neither Hoover nor Smith apparently desire to make definite pledges which would lose them either “big navy” or “pacifist” votes. 3. Failure of the Coolidge Geneva naval conference, which France refused to participate in officially and which Great Britain is credited here with wrecking, still is a very sore spot with both American admirals and diplomats. The admirals, for the most part, argue that another similar conference would be useless, because Great Britain would decline again to permit auxiliary and cruiser parity with the United States. The diplomats think Anglo-American relations received enough of a jolt at Geneva to last for some time, and that the strong popular feeling aroused in both countries should be allowed to die down now in the interest of a later agreement. 4. The Washington naval treaty, limiting capital ship construction and fixing a nominal 5-5-3 ratio as among Great Britain, the United States and Japan in that class of ships, provides fob a revision conference in 1931. With the powers thus already agreed to another naval conference in 1931, theree would be no point in a 1928 or 1929 conference. 5. This Government has no reason to believe that the British conservative government has changed its basic policy, which prevented a Geneva agreement, and certainly there is no change in American policy stated at Geneva, and none contemplated by the present chiefs of the State and Navy Departments. This Government is opposed to the British proposal for reducing the size of future capital ships, especially because it holds that the two British dreadnoughts, Rodney and Nelson, are larger than any American fighting vessels. The United States is not contemplating building any capital ships before 1931, so this dispute can wait until the conference fixed for that year. At the next conference the United States will attempt, as it attempted unsuccessfully at the Washington and Geneva conferences, to induce Britain to accept the same 5-5 parity in auxiliary craft which now exists nominally in capital ships. If the London government insists on refusing to grant this cruiser equality by treaty, then the United States will try to achieve such parity by building up to Britain's present superior position. Meanwhile, as a result of Geneva, the administration will try to force through the Senate at the next session of Congress the naval construction program which the House last spring cut down from seventyfour to sixteen ships. ' This disarmament conference talk from London and Paris is particularly displeasing to some officials here at this time, because it tends to emphasize the incompleteness of the Kellogg anti-war pact, to be signed in Paris about Aug. 28, These officials feel, in view of the alleged British responsibility for failure of • naval limitation at Geneva, and in view of the responsibility of these and other powers for the sweeping reservations in the final Kellogg pact, that the administration should be allowed to escape further embarrassing discussions in a campaign year.

This Date in U. S. History

—July 31— 1685—La Salle landed a colony In Louisiana. 1759—Wolfe defeated in assault of Quebec. 1813—British captured Flattsburg, N. Y. 1854—Gen. U. S. Grant resigned his post in the Army.