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The New Deal Apparently the long promised “new deal” in the Republican State affairs has been accomplished. No other explanation than a very earnest and perhaps desperate desire to convince the voters of that party that the present organization is different from the past could account for the most unusual announcement of ethics by Chairman Rogers. Os the edict to the women employ q* of the committee forbidding their visits to any portion of the hotel in which the headquarters is situated without permission, the less said the better. It is either an indictment of former party management or pure insult. But just why did Chairman Rogers find it necessary to warn employes against bringing liquor into the political headquarters? The party has been very close to the AntiSaloon League, very close indeed. It has received the unfailing support for many of its machine candidates, especially those favored by the Klan and Boss Coffin. Presumably the party and the league were possessed of a common hatred of booze and a fervent desire for prohibition. The party platform always pledged it. There could have been no reason for this order unless the new chairman, working for the “new deal,” had discovered that in the past the party professions and the political practices were somewhat at variance. (i'an it be that Chairman Rogers has heard the story of the Squibbs whisky ? Can it be that he has caught the more than whisper that the confessions of the three Negro janitors that they stole $300,000 worth of liquor from the Federal building and paid the terrific penalty of four or six months in jail did not tell the whole story of that theft and scandal? Can it be that he has found out that while battling for a* bone dry State, many of the ardent associates and indorsers of Dr. Shumaker were accustomed to find courage for the fight in an illicit bottle ? Why is it necessary, after a decade of prohibition, after the magnificent triumph of the passage of the Wright law, after the repeated professions of his party in his State for dry laws, to now issue an order that the law must not be violated in the seat of party strategy? It must be the “new deal.” One was promised. No sign of it appears elsewhere. The party in the State is slowly changing for the better. At last there is to be one arid spot in the campaign. The party can now point with pride to the fact that its headquarters no longer permits drinking bootleg liquor or confiscated booze within-its sacred confines. What a triumph—and what a farce.

Preachers On Prohibition One of the most remarkable documents on the great controversial subject is ‘ Prohibition as We See It,” released by the Temperance Society of the Protestant Episcopal Church for publication today. The story of the report will be found elsewhere in this paper. The document is remarkable in two chief respects —because it is an expression from ministers of the Gospel, not laymen, and more particularly because it goes deeper into the subject than any other publication ever issued. It presents not only the conventional arguments against prohibition, but challenges on theological and philosophical grounds the whole theory of prohibition as a means of social reform. It assails the virtue that arises from being sheltered from evil, and exalts only that which arises through the strength of character that is born of temperance attained through self-control. It emphasizes and urges “lead us into temptation” instead of “lead us not into temptation” as the means by which strong character will be developed. “Prohibition,” it says, “is a Mohammedan doctrine. We might be willing to exchange for it the Greek and Christian theory of temperance, if anywhere in the world prohibition had ever succeeded. But in matters of food and drink, as in matters of opinion and belief, there is nowhere a police force sufficient to compel all men. The success of prohibition, as the prohibitionists themselves tell us, depends on a voluntary cooperation of the citizens as a whole. But such cooperation, if it existed, would be not prohibition, but temperance. If, having attempted to improve man by force, we must in the ena appeal to his better nature, why not appeal to that better nature immediately and first of all?” Against prohibition it lets up temperance as implying “self-control, self-respect, self-discipline, respect for others, and respect for law.” Reinforcing that statement of general philosophy, it quotes specifically from ministers. Says the Rev. W. Fred Allen, chaplain, Philadelphia City Mission, Philadelphia, Pa.: “The question of success of failure of the act is not to the point. It prohibition had proved able to remove every drop of liquor frofn domestic use and cure absolutely the drink evil that would justify it. Prohibition, in itself, morally is wrong and violates fundamental moral principles. "If men oould not get liquor and so did not get drunk that would not improve their characters. They are not better men because they do not drink simply because they can not. “That is not the divine way. A man is placed in circumstances where it is possible for him to go astray, and his moral strength, his manliness is developed by self-control doing the wise, strong thing when it was possible to do the other. “We need strong men with ‘stiff backbone,’ not spineless things that are sober only because they can not get drunk.’ \ ■ r nt 1

Says the Rev. J. Lewis Gibbs, Emmanuel Church, Staunton, Va.: “Personally, I never have believed that the church as such (and I mean organized Christianity rather than our church in particular) has any business appealing to the method of force to compel obedience to any moral ideal. I felt when the Christian forces claimed the prohibition amendment as a victory for them, that as a matter of fact, it was the most complete and humiliating confession of failure which the church has ever made. I can not evade the feeling that the church in allying itself with the civil government has fallen before the third -temptation of the Master. “The attempt to make use of a quick and easy solution of the evil of intemperance has not only failed lamentably, but has seriously discredited the church.'* Says the Rev. k. P. 'xratchley, Murray Hill, New Jersey: “It makes little difference to me whether temporarily a law works for the benefit of some people or not, if it destroys personal freedom. Wherever a law hampers the gowth of personality in a human being by taking away freedom of choice between good and evil, it is vicious in nature.” Says the Rev. James B. Werner, Grace Church, Nbrwalk, Conn.: “I feel most strongly that the Eighteenth Amendment is wrong, and vicious in principle. Presumably the object is sobriety. There can be no question of the worthiness of such an object, but they have gone about it in the crudest manner by cracking the whip and saying you shall not drink. “I could lock up my son and go about among my fellows saying he is an honest "man because he steals nothing. If it really were true that no one drank because no one could get anything to drink, that would be nothing to be proud of. To lock men up to keep them sober is an act of despair. “Then, too, prohibition is so unchristian. Can you imagine Him, whose appeal was always to conscience, employing such a thing as this that our friends are trying to force upon us. “If I had ten sons, I would rather see each of them stagger to a drunkard’s grave than to see them go through life as hypocrites. Drunkenness, after ali, is a matter of the flesh, but hypocrisy is a disease of the spirit.” Whether one agrees with the philosophy thus expressed, or disagrees, it is at least refreshing to see the subject approached from some other than the conventional angles of expense, loss of governmental revenue and profit to bootleggers, which have chiefly characterized the prohibition debate during the ten years that prohibition has been on the statute books. Those phases of the discussion are worn threadbare. The philosophic phase, that after all contains the real meat of the whole question, has up to now been given little or no attention. If the philosophy as expressed in the quotations above is correct, prohibition ultimately must fail. If it is wrong—if it is possible for human beings confine and control moral conduct by fencing it around with statutes, then prohibition may ultimately succeed. But one thing is certain. It hasn't succeeded yet. Lightning killed a barber in South America as he was shaving a man. Those who have listened to insistent declarations that the hair “needs a little wash, some tonic and a singe,” know no\# that Justice occasionally takes that bandage off her eyes. General Coxey says we are in the hands of burglars, bootleggers, bankers and brokers. The general must have forgotten all about the league between chewing gum manufacturers and stenographers.

Candiate Hoover says the 12-hour day has been abolished. Maybe he’d revise that slightly if he would drop in to call on an editor about midnight of election day. One thing nice about Russia—there is practically no used razor blade problem there. Beacon Light of Greece - No. 133. MEDICAL science, like the other branches of knowledge, had its beginnings in ancient Assyria and Egypt. Our debt to these ancient nations is great.

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Greeks is close to us, for in philosophy, modern civilization is the child of ancient Greece. Greece lighted the way. Lucretius, the Roman poet, wrote: “Out of the night, out of the blinding night Thy beacon flashes—hail beloved light Os Greece and Gjreci- , hail, for in the mirk Thou dost reveal eacu valley and each height.” We, too. can hail the Greeks as did the Romans, for they pointed the intellectual path, not only for the Romans, but for all! who came after. The earliest Greek philosophers did not contribute much to medicine. But their spirit and outlook was such that it paved the way for the Greek physicians who came later. Medical schools \pere founded in Greece as early as the fifth century, B* c. The most famous of the early ‘physician philosophers,” as some authorities have called them, was Pythagoras. The world todefy remembers him more as a mathematician than as, a physician. But he had great influence upon the, development of medicine. He founded a school at Crotona from which his students carried his medical views to all parts of Greece. These students Included Alcmaeon. He became a distinguished authority of the day. He was the first to recognize the brain as the organ of the mind. He made important advances., in physiology and anatomy. He made dissections, tracing the nerves to the brain. He also demonstrated the existence of the optic nerve. He advanced the theory that good health was the result of, a sort of equilibrium in the body.

M. E. TRACY “War, in Spite of the League of N'ations, the Locarno Treaty and the Kellogg Plan, Still Is Taken for Grante.”

A LL last week, the Royal Air Force, maneuvered over London playing at war and trying to show what would happen if England were attacked by a continental power. Os the fifty-seven daylight raids undertaken, nine proved completely successful and many more partially so. After balancing the tally sheet, experts figured that 300 tons of bombs had been dropped on the metropolis and that It could be regarded as practically helpless. News dispatches say that the English public is dismayed. If that is true, this spectacular bit of military propaganda suggests more than it would seem to at first glance. a a a England Fears Enemies The British public would hardly be afraid of what air raids might accomplish, unless it was afraid of actual war. The only reason" for alarn at the possible result of such an assault is the suspicion that some European country might make It. In other words, England feels that she has potential enemies. That, after all, is the significant idea. All the talk of arbitration and anti-war treaties has apparently not aroused the confidence some statesmen would have us believe. The people not only of England, but of other countries, though willing enough to see their leaders sign on the dotted line, seem reluctant to take much stock in It. War, in spite of the League of Nations, the Locarno Treaty and the Kellogg Plan, still is taken for granted. tt tt tt War on New Plane What really hurts is the painful truth that people can not make war safer for themselves by making it more horrible for others. This illusionment has plagued human history from the very beginning. People have been enthusiastic for war because of a firm conviction that the enemy would suffer most, because they have convinced themselves that they could protect their own cities, homes, women and children while carrying death and destruction to the enemy. Aviation has gone far to reveal this illusionment in its true light. Flying means that men can travel a high road which can not be walled off or blocked by barricade and battery. The sky has no boundaries, no mountain ranges, no rivers or seas, no physical obstructions that can be employed as means of defense. It is a main highway for all mankind, and it puts war on a different plane. a a a Channel No Barrier About • the only reliable defense against a hostile fleet of airplanes is a bigger fleet of airplanes. Even that guarantees little, since there is too much territory to be covered. Twenty-five years ago, the English Channel looked like a real bulwark, men could not cross it save in ships, and England felt secure in the thought that by the time those mean reached her coast she would be able to muster a sufficient force to repel them, even If her navy had failed to meet and sink them beforehand. Five hundred years ago, Earl, Knight and Baron felt the same way with regard to the twenty-foot ditch surrounding their castles, but just as gun powder destroyed the effectiveness of that ditch, the airplane has destroyed faith in the English Channel.

tt tt a World-Engulfing Strife We are clearly coming to anew phase of human history—a phase which must result in world-engulf-ing war every time hostilities break out on a major scale, or in organized peace. With the instrumentalities civilization has placed at our command, we no longer can confine strife to certain areas or force it to follow beaten paths. Neither can we turn it aside from particular points by taking advantage cf the earth’s topography, or by builfing forts in stragetic places. England has been given a simple lesson in the obvious—not only England, but the whole world. The difficulties of the situation can best be understood by asking what England is going to do about them now that she knows what they are. How will she make London safe against continental air raids? a tt tt Need Reign of Law Science is like rain. It comes to both the just and the unjust. People do not have to be Christians to fly, or even Democrats. While it takes a certain amount of genius to invent, it takes very little to copy. Oriental people will find it far easier to understand our machinery than our religion or politics. One hundred years hence will see more military planes than church steeples in China, not to mention Russia, unless we change our tone. While civilization, as we call it, has little hope of surviving unless it can bring itself under the rule of organized peace. European and American nations have it within their power to destroy this monstrous illusionment of safety through war that has come down to us from the jungle, this nightmare of bloodshed, the end of which is self-destruction, but not if they continue to visualize their salvation as dependent on physical force. The only hope of safety we can rely upon consists in bringing the civilized world under a reign of

But it seems small compared to our debt to the ancient Greeks. All branches ot knowledge flowered under the care of the Greeks with a magn if i cence which the ancient world had nevex never seen. The philosophic thought of ancient Egypt and Assyria seems strange to us today. But the philosophy of the

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This Date in U. S. History

Aug. 20 1833—Birthday of Benjamin Harrison, 23d President. 1861— Convention at Wheeling adopted an ordinance for the new State of West Virginia. 1862 Clarksville, Tenn., surrendered to Confederates. 1866—President Johnson proclaimed rebellion in Texas suppressed.

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The name and address of the author must accompauy every constribution, but on request will not be published. Letters not exceeding 200 words will receive preference. Editor Times—ls you think everybody is employed, just go to almost any large factory, especially on Monday morning, and see the numbers there hunting for work. Both political parties threw sops to the voters—the Republicans by selecting a city man for vice president from a farming community, the Democrats by selecting a man

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Munrie Press Prohibition officers raiding a country home in Indiana shot a 10-year-old boy in the arm and it was necessary to amputate the arm. It seems there was a still about the premises and the officers did not wish the still to operate. The enforcement men say they did not have any intention of shooting the boy in the arm and there is nothing to indicate the boy resisted their efforts to raid the place, but anyway the boy will go through life, now, with only one arm because somebody committed a serious error. It is not too much to say that it was a serious error. But there is too much of this thing of shooting first and being sorry afterward. Too many persons, including some officers of the law, are permitted to carry deadly weapons. Kokomo Dispatch It must be a rather painful surprise to some of Herbert Hoover’s friends to learn that the “wets,” some of them at least, are placing a “wet interpretation” upon the candidate's acceptance address. These “wet” boosters for Hoover are pointing out that while the candidate unequivocally declares against repeal of the Eighteenth amendment, he neglects to say anything about the Volstead act, and rather hints that he might favor a change in the enforcement law by suggesting’ that it would be wise to appoint a commission to go into the entire problem of prohibition to learn whether it has been a success or not. The Chicago Tribune even goes so far as to say that 2.75 per cent beer might be possible with Hoover as President, nd that workmen might get their beer and light wines “in peace” if Hoover is elected. Even the Scripps-Howard papers, of admittedly wet leaning, say they “have faith” that Hoover will aid in a “constructive” change in the prohibition laws of the country. All this must be somewhat of a painful surprise to all those whose principal reason for supporting Hoover is because he is “dry.” Ft. Wayne Journal-Gazette It was a fine compliment paid by the Real Estate Board of Indianapolis to Mayor L. Ert Slack in adopting resolutions expressing confidence in him and praising his administration of the government of that city. These encomiums take their best savor from the fact they are so well deserved. Mayor Slack has been in office little less than three-quarters of a year. During the far greater part of the time he was in persistent doubt both as to his status as the city’s chief executive and the probability of his tenure. No sooner had he been elected by the city council to the vacant mayoralty than his right to hold the office was attacked. One man claimed it by x-ight of succession to the place as controller for a day or two while the ousted Mayor Duvall’s wiffe assumed to

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for the same office from a dry territory. If A1 Smith, if elected, can’t change the dry law what good will it do the wets to elect him? Both old parties are grabbing at straws by stating some prominent man says he is going to vote for the other fellow. Hoover said, “The poorhouse eventually will be abolished.” Christ said, “The poor ye will have with ye always.” TIMES READER.

be mayor. Another claimed it by right of succession as controller in the Shank administration, that claim resting upon the singular ground that Shank, though surrendering his office and ceasing to function, had never ceased to be mayor, and meanwhile had died. It was a complex and grotesque mess which the courts were given to retrieve from confusion. The Supreme Court the other day upheld Mayor Slack’s title to the office and for the first time since he had taken over the government of the city he was permitted to exercise his lawful functions without question of his authority to do so. The credit of the city was restored and means to carry on the government became available without any intervention of doubt. Yet, during the months that he served through the beclouded situation, Mayor Slack gave the people of Indianapolis capable and decent government—the first experience of that which had been permitted them since Duvall regime entered upon its delirious and scandalous course in January, 1926. It was a season of great trial for the mayor while his office was under assault. He made the most of all his opportunities within the narrowed latitude created by suits against him and Indianapolis has done much to regain the decency of her repute.

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You can get an answer to any answerable question of fact or information bv writing to Frederick M. Kerbv Question Editor. The Indianapolis 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 confidential You are cordinally Invited to make use of this free service as often as vou please EDITOR Why is the feminine personal pronoun applied to ships, engines and similar inanimate things? Personification by the use of pronouns occurs when a masculine or feminine pronoun is used to refer to a neuter noun as if that noun represented a person and were itself of the masculine or feminine gender. Thus poets and orators speak of the sun as “he” and of the moon as “she” and a sailor speaks of his ship or a railroad man of his engine or train as "she.” There seems to be no other reason than custom and tradition for applying the feminine pronoun to ships or locomotives. . Do pecan trees have flowers? There are two flowerings of a pecan tree The first flowers are conspicuous and shed pollen. The second flowers are small, almost colorless light green clusters, which appear at the end of the new shoots, and they bear the fruit of the season. Is “kine” a form of the word “cow?” It is the archaic plural of cow from the Anglo Saxon “cy” plural of "cu,” cow.

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Kellogg Pact and England s Egypt Policy

BY GILSON GARDNER THE “British Monroe Doctrine,” coming into the open as an incident to the Kellogg anti-war treaty, is having anew try-out in Egypt. On account of the Suez Canal, a British enterprise, and its main highway to India, the British have a “Monroe Doctrine” interest in Egyrt. Fifteen years ago the supposed menace was Turkey. No “outside” government must intrude on.. the Egyptians, and thus intrude on British rights to control the canal. All very good. Egypt accepted tutelage for a limited time. Was it seven years? That is unimportant. The British filled Egypt with troops and duplicated all the civil administration of Egypt with British administrators. At the elbow of every Egyptian was an Englishman to tell him what to do. So no mistakes were made. s: a tt BUT as long ago as when Colonel Roosevelt- was in Cairo on his way back from his hunting trip, Egypt was seething with discontent and demands for self-government and constitutional freedom. There was a noisy demonstration in front of his hotel, and he was warned not to make a speech in public, discussing current affairs. Since then Egyptian affairs have gone from bad to worse. British bad faith in failing to carry out promises at a certain time has been met by political assassinations. | These have been made the excuse i for further shackles by the British. Money penalties and harsher rule followed every outbreak. Finally, a puppet king was set up by Britis hbayonets over the Egyptian people. The Egyptian parliament passed a law which the British home office decided might infringe rights of English in Egypt, and London vetoed the law. The ! king then dissolved the Egyptian i parliament—announced its suspeni sion for three years or longer, together with t v e Egyptian constitution. This is was generally reported was done at the “unofficial” instigation of the British. A treaty had been drawn up by London and offered to the Egyptian parliament just before it was dissolved, and rejected by the Egyptians. a o o SIR AUSTIN CHAMBERLAIN, foreign secretary, has been interrogated as to what is going to happen next, and whether all this is to proceed as part cf the British idea of “self-defense" under the British Monroe Doctrine, and whether this doctrine will extend to the use of British troops in Egypt to put down any effort at counterrevolution and to persuade the Egyptians to accept the kind of a treaty which London desires. To all of which Sir Austin, of course, replies in the stereotyped phrases about using the troops “to protect lives and property” and that“ this is not an apspicious time to discuss the treaty." So we see that stubborn imperialism is going to present some difficult problems in the interpretation of the “Kellogg Peace Pact.”

Daily Thoughts

For every man shall bear his own burden.—Gal. 6:5. it a tt THE plea of ignorance will never take away our responsibilities. —Ruskin. What was the prize offered to the person who swam the Catalina Channel by William Wrigley, Jr? It was $25,000 to the man or woman finishing first, with a provision that if a man finished first and a woman completed the swim after him, an additional prize of $15,000 should be awarded to her. Since no woman completed the swim in the original competition, the $15,000 was not awarded. What is postage on a letter to England? Two cents for every ounce or fraction thereof, the same as for the United States. What are the principal languages in Austria, Hungary, and Czechoslovakia? German is the language of Austria and Hungarian is spoken in Hungary. In Czechoslovakia, which formerly was a part of the AustroHungarian empire, the language is Bohemian.

How many forest fires occurred in the United States In 1925 and what was the .property damage caused bv them? The total numbet of fires w’as 85,762; total damage $28,054,878. What causes rings around the moon and the sun? They are known as halos and result from refraction of light by minute ice crystals floating in the upper air. What is “electrochemistry?” A branch of chemistry that treats of electricity as active in effecting chemical change. How long do cats live? Between twelve and fifteen years. They have been known to reach the age of forty. What is the salary of the President of the United States? $75,000 per year with an allowance of $25,000 for traveling and entertainment expenses. Is the “y” pronounced in the word “yeast”? Yes. Who is the author of the book, “Nigger Heaven?” Carl Van Vechten. Are silver and gold dollars always worth intri—' fly their fvaluc|| The price of gold is fixed by lafl and a gold dollar is always wort* its face value. The intrinsic valiH of a silver dollar fluctuates with ttfl price of silver.