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Sporting Blood Comes now Senatoi’ Watson with a very unique reason for casting a ballot for Harry Leslie for Governor. It’s sporting blood to which the Senator makes his appeal. Any one with an ounce of it will vote for Leslie, says the Senator. And every one without any of it will probably be asked to vote later for Arthur Robinson on the ground that he is needed in the nation to help the professional dry leaders suppress any appearance of sporting blood. Somewhere in the distant past Leslie won a football game and a nickname. Therefore, so urges the adroit and perhaps hard-pressed Senator, Leslie should be made Governo* of Indiana to continue the reign of Jacksonism, for which Leslie is now defender, and Bossertism, which asserts its ownership of the Leslie candidacy most arrogantly and shamelessly. ' The appeal of Watson is important only as indicating the bai’renness of argument in favor of Leslie, who ran fifth in the Republican primary, but was selected by a massed action of delegates who in other years followed the leadership of Stephenson and Bossert, for a time forgetting their family differences in an effort to keep the nightgown on the Statehouse. If Watson could have found a plausible argument for Leslie, he could be counted on to bring it forward. Asa matter of fact it should take more than ‘‘sporting blood” to induce any one to vote for Leslie this year. The voter will have to have enough of the gambler in his make-up to bet that Indiana can survive another four years of the same influences which sent its Governor to a court with a plea of the statute of limitations to keep himself out of the penitentiary. Not even the Senator had sporting blood enough to do what Leslie did—praise the State administration and defend the group of which Leslie is the heir and successor. Even Jim wouldn’t take that chance on making himself ridicxilous. N Good sportsmanship, if it rules at all, ought to urge the voters to give Indiana one chance to redeem itself, and rid itself of the shame and humiliation which it has long suffered. But Watson found a reason for Leslie. Sporting blood; and that’s all —and funny. Our “National Honor” Our country has now solemnly renounced war as an instrument of national policy. Our country has formally agreed, in writing, that the settlement of disputes with other countries shall never be sought except by pacific means. There are only three articles in the pact signed Monday in Paris. The above paragraphs cover the whole meaning of two ot them. The third merely provides that the treaty must be ratified by each government in its constitutional manner. That means, in our case, that it must be ratified by the United States Senate and there is little reason to believe that the Senate will fail to do this. A phrase commonly used in all civilized countries —and, no doubt, in some not considered civilized—is “national honor.’ Despite its universal use this phrase has heretofore had only the vaguest meaning. We will not consent to arbitrate any dispute “involving our national honor,” statesmen in the past have declared on behalf of our country. Just what was to be understood by that never was very clear. Sometimes we suspected that it didn’t mean anything whatever, that it was used simply to gloss over a purpose to go to war in any contingency that might appeal to the statesmen concerned. For with it went the expressed or implied intention of the statesmen themselves to decide what might or might not affect “our national honor.” Naturally some statesmen are more sensitive than others. Some are downright touchy. Some, like other humans, go about the world looking for affronts or slights to their dignity, or the dignity of their .governments. You know people like that and some of these people, unfortunately, occupy positions that make them important factors in the keeping of peace or the making of war. Rub one of them the wrong way and “th,p national nonor” of his country immediately is involved as he sees it. Probably, however, we are pretty well past that stage of history when personal slights precipitated nations into war. A latter stage, one hardly remote from the present time, is familiar to all of us. In this stage self-seek-ing business would set up shop in a foreign land. In the course of events they trespassed on the good nature of their hosts and aroused-the anger of the populace. Somebody got hurt. Thereupon the home governments—if it were a powerful government —issued threats and warnings in the name of its national honor, and eventually dispatched some battleships to the scene. It may be tnat the buccaneers were seeking to do things in the foreign country that violated the law. That made no difference. The “national honor ’ had to be asserted. When the assertion was completed—when the war was over, that is to say—it usually happened that the nation with the sensitive honor had in some manner taken over a large section of the weaker country. The national honor always has been useful to a nation seeking ertlpire. It this new pact of Paris accomplishes its declared purpose the national honor of the signatory nations no longer can De used to cover the hidden purposes of war. That is, if we have national honor. And now we are talking about something entirely different; not national vanity or national sensitiveness or national prestige d!r national ambition. Just

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honoir. Honor as a single citizen has it—or, at any rate, as an honorable citizen has it. Does the United States, for instance, possess national honor? Don’t be too quick to say yes. Are we as honorable in the mass as we are in the individual? Have you never seen a baseball player do something in a hot game—something for the team—that he wouldn’t do for himself alone? Have you never seen a baseball crowd cheer a ( wrong decision oy the umpire when the umpire’s error happened to help the home team? Hasn’t most of the world subscribed to the philosophy that all’s fair in war? Can- you reconcile that philosophy with the notion that there is such a thing as national honor? Well, maybe you can vnd we won’t argue about it. All that we have in mind here is the suggestion that there is a form of national honor to which we can all commit ourselves. And that is a refusal to enter into any war dishonorably. A requirement that our country to be as honorable in Its dealings with other countries as we try to be individually in our dealings with other individuals. Secretary Kellogg has signed a treaty in good faith. He has pledged the good faith of our country, the good faith of each of us. And he really represents our attitude of mind at the moment; that is why there need be no fear that the Senate will reject the thing he has done. k m Are we capable of living up to our engagement with the rest of the world? Ar we capable of requiring our Government to live up to it, this year, next year and all the years to come? If so, our national honor ceases to be a convenient phrase and becomes a tremendously Important fact. # Higher Taxes? This newspaper frequently has pointed out that Federal expenditures steadily are increasing, and that there is no prospect of an early reduction. Budget Director Lord’s annual report to President Coolidge abundantly testifies to this tendency. What was to have been a surplus of $252,540,000 for the current fiscal year ending June 30, 1929, according to estimates made eight months ago, has developed into a prospective deficit of $94,279,346. There has been an increase in the estimated expenditure of $244,283,891, while estimated revenues have declined by $101,995,738. Appropriations for the current year, according to the official figures, were $3,569,000,000. Next year, it is estimated, $3,700,000,000 will be required. Actual expenditures are likely to be considerably more. The Government actually paid out in the fiscal year ended June 30, 1928, the sum of $3,643,000,000, which was an increase of almost $150,000,000 over the previous year. Treasury estimates and predictions in recent years have been wrong so frequently that it is difficult to predict the future. The layman will wonder, however, if there must not be an increase in taxes, since present revenues do not pay the bills, and even greater expenditures are in prospect in the next few years. * , Massachusetts Moves * Boston does not intend to execute Dr. Horace M. Kallen, philosopher, college professor and writer, if he is found guilty on its charge of blasphemy. It would have done so once, but it is a progressive community. In 1697 it amended its blasphemy law to do away with the death penalty. If it finds Dr. Kallen guilty it will only fine hfin or imprison him. This, from Boston, is a hopeful sign. And other indications of progress, from the great * commonwealth of Massachusetts, are not lacking. The city of Salem, for instance, has discontinued the practice of hanging persons accused of witchcraft. The people who want to change the calendar and make the year thirteen months long probably merely want to put off their Christmas shopping a little longer.

.David Dietz on Science

Arabs Carry Torch

No. 141

THE world owes a great debt to the Arabs, for it was the Arabs who carried on the torch of civilization when the barbarian tide overwhelmed Rome. The science of Rome had been the science of Greece. In medicine, for example, no new school of thought had been developed in Rome. And when Rome fell, the world would have lost Greek thought had it not been for the Arabs. But Greek learning had reached them as well as

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In the reign of the great Harun El Rachid, the development of the medical schools reached a still higher plane. The Arabs not only absorbed the lore of Greek medicine, but they also became acquainted with Indian medicine and there were many physicians from India in the Mohammedan empire. Arabian medicine reached its highest development in Spain in the period from the tenth to the thirteenth century. Rhazes, an Arabian physician, who lived about 925 A. D., was the first to describe accurately the diseases of measles and smallpox. Hali, a Persian, wrote a treatise on medicine called the “Royal Book,” which became the standard authority upon the subject . In the eleventh century, the gre.Tt authority was Mesua, the Younger, of Damascus.' He wrote a great work, known by the Latin title of “De Simplicibus.’- It dealt with drugs and remedies and what today would be called “materia medica.” The book became the recognized authority of the civilized world and went through twentj*six editions, soem of them published in the fifteenth century and later. It was used in the formation of the first London pharmacopeia, issued by the College of Physicians in the reign of James I. There were many important medical men in the Mohammedan empire and modern medicine owes much to their work.

M. E. TRACY SAYS: “Take Aivay the Country Doctor, Who Travels Day and, Night With His Pill Box, Knoiving the Peculiarities of Every Patient and Treating Them as Human Beings, Not Specimens, and What Would Bechme of Us.”

MEN have won immortality in various ways; some by making money and some by making fools of themselves. "Beau” Brummell offers a shining, example of the latter method. The French towns of Calais and Caen are getting ready to celebi'atc the 150th anniversary of “Beau” Brummell’s birth. They are a little late, since, according to the Encyclopaedia Brittanica, he was June 7. Besides that, th.e show seems more in the nature of a trade drive than a memorial service, since the proprietors of gents furnishing stores and haberdasheries are sponsoring it. In spite of all the moralizing about thrift, hard work and perseverance, “Beau" Brummell proves that a fop, a sponger and a ne’er-do-well can make a favorable impression by excelling in his chosen field. It is not what you do that tells the story, but whether you surpass other people in doing it. “Beau” Brummell won the friendship of a king by his wits and lost it through a wisecrack; inherited a fortune of 30,000 pounds and wiped it out through extravagance; wasted his youth trying to be the best dressed man in London and died an object of charity; set the style for twenty years and ended a sloven. a a a Speed Widens Market A Frenchman rises to remark that Robinson Crusoe was not so much after all, since he overlooked the lobster trade for which his “desolate island” has become famous in recent years. That is nothing thart a libel on Robinson Crusoe. Lobsters did not mean so much in his day. In the first place, there were too many of them, and in the second, there was no refrigeration or fast steamers to make their shipment safe. Civilization has made many products valuable that were worth nothing to primitive men. At the same time, it is interesting to learn what great prosperity the humble lobster has brought to Crusoe’s place of exile, especially since the enterprise was born of a romance almost equal to his own. The crew of a French vessel, it seems, got too drunk to manage her. She was wrecked and every one was lost, except the onjy passenger, who swam ashore on Juan Fernandez. A year’s sojourn cn that island convinced him that there was profit in the lobster trade if he could get a fast ship, which the fortunate visit of a wealthy friend enabled him to obtain. b b b Dressing Afghanistan Transportation plays a big part in progress. The same thing that makes it possible to ship lobsters from Juan Fernandez to South American ports makes it possible to ship ideas all over the world. What the King of Afghanistan is doing proves the point. The King of Afghanistan, you remember, took a recent trip through Europe, visiting all the principal cities. Having seen how the people dressed, lived and worked, he came home a hell-bent reformer. The 700 members of parliament have not only been dressed up in .frock coats, but have lost their whiskers. Women have been ordered to unveil in public and some of them have already learned to drive high-powered cars. Chairs, cups, saVcers and spoons have been introduced. The King of Afghanistan is not original, since Mustapha Kemal beat him to it in revolutionizing the ways of Turkey. Mustapha Kemal has been obliged to set up more than one gallows to keep the reform movement moving, which is a part of the show the King of Afghanistan has yet to stage. x # tt u Lauds Country Doctor The celebration in honor of “Beau” Brummell’s birthday, the rehabilitation of Juan Fernandez and the reforming of Afghanistan are hardly more important to those concerned than is the tribute which the town of Bunker, Mo., will pay to its venerable and still active Dr. J. B. Gordon, who for fifty-six years has felt its pulse, looked at its tongue, prescribed for its aches and pains and brought its babies into the world. Os those babies, there were, or are not less than 6,744, which is some record for a physician, who has spent his life in a town of 700 people. What would Bunker have done without its doctor? More than that, what would any country village do, or any neighborhood in the great city? BUS Friend of Humanity We have our famed specialists, our great hospitals, our endowed clinics and our stupendous laboratories and we are justly proud of them, but take away the country doctor —the old-fashioned family sawbones—who travels night and day, with pill box in his hand, knowing the peculiarities of every patient, and treating them as human beings, not specimens—and what would become of us? This friend of humanity seldom becomes great, seldom makes the front page, seldom accumulates much money, seldom does anything to startle the world. It is his job to make medicine of practical value to those "’ho cannot reach, or cannot afford the luxury of specialized treatment. His lot is cast among people who are comparatively poor, or who dwell in far places. But there would be fewer of us enjoying good health if he were not content to trudge his x#|ary way.

Rome and so when Rome was no more, they carried on the torch. Schools of medicine, schools of pharmacy and hospitals grew up in all parts of the Mohammedan empire. Greek medicine flourished at Damascus pa r t i c u 1 a r ly, with the aid of Christian and Jewish teachers.

THE INDIANAPOLIS TIMES

BY DR. MORRIS FISIIBERN Editor Journal of the American Medical Association and of Hygeia, the Health Magazine. THE average baby walks when it is about eighteen months of age. As the colored boy said when asked as to his tip, “The average is a dollar, but most men do not come up to the average.” Mothers should not be disturbed if their babies fail to walk at fifteen months of age merely because a neighbor’s child or Aunt Susie walked when she was thirteen months old. When the child is born its brain is a well developed structure capa- ■ ble of learning. It has certain pat- j terns of conduct that are inherited. | For instance, it will grab anything j put in its hand and hang on. By the time it is six months old ] it can roll over. Some children begin to say recognizable words at nine months, few children use more than five or six words by the time they are thirteen months old. Some infants can drink from a cup at the age of a year, others continue to use a bottle after two years, although this is somewhat delayed development and can probably be corrected by proper teaching. The four-year-old child should be able to dress itself and to wash its face and teeth. Some children point to the nose, eyes or hair and

(Abbreviations: A—ace: K—king; Q—queen: J—jack; X—any card lower than 10.) Os all the pleasures afforded by bridge, none is more exhiberating than the ability to read the cards held by your partner and your opponents—to see in your mind’s eye the unseen—to divine by the process of reasoning what tricks they may win. Their holdings may be ascertained from their bids, leads and signals. If they bid and play conventionally, the task is all the lighter. From the moment the bidding begins, you should endeavor to visualize the cards held by the other players. A bid, raise, double, or pass should convey definite information to you. Then, when you play your hand, you should utilize this information. It should assist you in determining the location of the high cards and counsel you in your finessing. If in playing your hand you do not take advantage of what you have learned during the bidding, you will lose many games which could be won. When you are on the defensive, the bidding should mark the location of high cards to be taken at the first opportunity so as to prevent your opponents from framing. Assume that your partner has bid one heart iintially and you hold these four hearts, A K Q X. You can readily mirror your partner’s heart suit of five cards headed by the Jack-10. If he is bidding correctly, he holds three outside quick tricks which are probably divided between two suits. Since he has not bid a no trump, he probably holds a singleton in spades or diamonds. You may therefore mirror your partner’s hand as the following, or its equivalent: Spades, X; heart, J 10 XXX; diamonds, A XX clubs, A K XX.

August 29 1642—First representative assembly met in New York. 1778—Lafayette rode from Providence to Boston in six and one-half hours to beg D’Estaing to return with French fleet to Narragansett. 1809—Birthday of Oliver Wendell Holmes. 1877—Brigham Young, Mormon leader, died.

Yes, the Fall Styles Are Here

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Here’s What Average Baby Can Do

BRIDGE ME ANOTHER (Copyright. 1928. by The Ready Reference Publishing Company) BY W. W. WENTWORTH

This Date in U. S. History

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can climb steps at one year of age, but the average for this conduct is about eighteen months. A two-year-old child, as established by Dr. Arnold Gesell, can fold paper, use simple sentences and phrases, name familiar objects like keys, pennies, watches, etc., and listen to stories and look at

Times Readers Voice Views

The name and address of the author must accompany every constrlbutlon. but on request will not be published. Letters not exceeding 200 words will receive preference. Editor Times—Upon comparing the opinions of H L. Mencken and Bruce Barton, in regard to the presidential nominees Herbert Hoover and Governor A1 Smith, as outlined by Alice Hughes in The Times of Aug. 22, we find two rather radical ideas. Possibly the majority of votes will be cast from about the viewpoint of Mencken and Barton. It seems just too bad that we can elect only one of these greatest of American Statesmen and defeat the other one. We agree with Mencken in his belief that, for common-sense legislation, individual rights, the general betterment of conditions in agriculture, industry, society and in the home, Smith is the man to trust with these everyday issues. Let him work them out his own way, humorously, if, in his judgment,

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(South Bend Tribune) Citizens of Indiana have been showing a pardonable lack of interest in the affairs of D. C. Stephenson. This is traceable to the former klan dignitary’s failure to take advantage of opportunities to “tell all.” The stage has been set several times for Stephenson’s supposedly startling disclosures, but the chief actor always balked. The citizens who earnestly desire to see justice rendered to him have accepted those queer demonstrations as evidence that Stephenson hasn’t much to say, after all. Stephenson has insisted from the beginning that he was railroaded into the State penitentiary by influential people who were afraid of him and resorted to the double cross to put him down and out. He has produced no evidence that strengthens his contention that he should be outside penitentiary walls. The prisoner has also charged that his enemies were using their influence to have him broken physically and mentally, supposedly to make it impossible for the public to hear the -much-advertised “inside story.” That charge has also been taken with a grain of salt. The public may feel differently about the testimony of James B. Davis that a conspiracy exists to drive Stephenson insane by brutality in the penitentiary. Here for the first time Stephenson’s charge is corroborated. (Gary Post-Tribune) Now that both candidates- for President have indicated their attitudes toward matters of larger importance it is possible to gain some impression of those differences which will tend to win votes. One of the surprising minor differences is in the radio voices of the two men. 0 Smith has been praised for his ability as a speaker and Hoover has been regarded as a washout, but in the first contest over the radio the Hoover voice easily gets the blue ribbon. That may not be highly important, but again it may indicate that Hoover is not the voiceless creature he has been depicted. Smith’s voice was harsh and his speech was halting as one reading a strange manuscript. Os course, it wasn’t strange. As was expected, the main difference beween the candidates is on the liquor question. Smith would change the Volstead act so as to give a scientific definition to liquor that is intoxicating, which means he woujjd do what

pictures and attempt to describe its own experiences and ask for things at the table by their names. Above all, it is important to rememb'er that children differ. Not all of them can be educated in the same way; much depends on the environment and handling of the individual child.

that is the line of greatest accomplishment On the other hand we agree with Barton in his contention that “Hoover who knows Europe,” might be a bit better acquainted with the fossilized statesmen of Europe” and might even be able to talk to some of them in their own language. But the interest of the great mass, the ones that go to the polls and cast their vote, is right here at home. Mr. American Farmer is trying to live at home, not in Europe. Parents who try to educate their children in temperance and the arts of industry, do not live in Europe, but when these same children become the victim of the bootlegger or the target of some blood-thirsty dry agent, the sanity of the “fossilized statesmen of Europe” becons them to come. Hoover, with his superior prestige among the foreign nations, would be a wonderful secretary of state, and Smith just as wonderful as head of the nation. Too bad that Hoover is not a Democrat. J. S. SADLER.

he could to make it possible for each State to raise the alcoholic content of liquor that is intoxicating. He would also try to change the Eighteenth Amendment $0 that each State # could decide whether it would manufacture and sell intoxicating liquor for use in the homes. Hoover, on the other hand, admits there are some grave abuses in the enforcement of prohibition and he promises a searching investigation to determine a policy of correction. Yet he regards prohibition as a noble experiment and has no intention Os asking for a change in either the Volstead act or the Eighteenth Amendment. He opposes nullification but would permit every individual the right to advocate any change in either the law or amendment. That is really the only fundamental difference between Smith and Hoover that is indicated in their speeches of acceptance. Smith is wet, Hoover dry. (Newcastle Courier) Governor Alfred E. Smith, in accepting the Democratic presidential nomination, leaves no doubt as to where he stands on the liquor question. There may be some debate on the success of the present prohibition laws, but Candidate Smith’s position is a damp one to say the He likely will find out that the people will not return to a condition where one State is wet and the other is dry. We had an example on a smaller scale during the local option days. It is far better that all States be dry. The referendum he calls for will be held this fall. The Governor brings the liquor issue to the front and it will be well that the people decide once and for all time whether prohibition is here to stay. His appeal is directly to the wets and his position will never be accepted by the drys. (Wabash Plain Dealer) Smith met Hoover’s challenge to anyone who would nullify the Constitution and simultaneously promised the wets his own services toward immediate relief and pointed out to the drys that it was after all, for the people and their representatives and not for A1 Smith to decide finally what was to be done about prohibition.

AUG. 29, 1928

Royalty Idols Are Not Sacred to Their Dogs

BY N. D. COCHRAN DESPITE our democratic professions we Americans still have a hankering for royalty. Just why, we don't know. Maybe it’s because in our callow youth we read of princes, princesses, earls, dukes, duchesses, counts and countesses, barons and baronesses, and many things like these. There was something of romance about royalty—something that took us in our dreams away from the sordidness of bread and butter, ham ■ and eggs, liver and onions, and other substantial contributions to physical well-being, and took us off into the unsubstantial air of dreams. Adolescent young American boys dreamed of princesses, who stepped down from their high station and acted like human beings with democratic masculinity. In their dreams adolescent denfocratic maidens dreamed of love affairs with handsome princes—and dreamed dreams their puritanical inhibitions prevented them from telling their stern and unsympathetic elders. #OO NOW all this gets an awful shock when the imperfections of royalty are thrown on the screen. For example, at a meeting of the Royal Society for the Prevention of Cruelty to Animals somebody kicked up a row ai;d a regular English baron, Lord i-anbury of Southam, told a fellow member of the society to “get to hell out of here” and poked his royal fist in the plebeian ribs of said fellow member. Whereupon Lady Cory, with her pet poodle under her royal arm, leaped to the stage and urged a vote of censure to His Royal Nibs, the baron, for “degrading the society.” The unfortunate thing about this gesture was that the royal lady forgot the human attributes of the dog when she leaped to the stage and unconsciously, or subconsciously, gave said dog a squeeze that made him yelp like a regular dog and resulted in the royal lady’s motion being lost. 000 THE trouble really is with the dog. Dcgi don’t understand social distinctions. Few if any of them see any ftifferenqe between being unduly hugged or squeezed by royalty or the scrubwoman. And it develops, after all, that Bridget O’Grady and the captain’s lady are all the same under the | skin; and that it is just as unsafe for a British baron to step on the aristocratic corns of an English lady as it is for Mickey O'Connor to kick Heinrich Schultz in the pants.

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Daily Thoughts

Yet man is born unto trouble, as the sparks fly upward.—Job \ 5:7. Tribulation win not hurt you unless it hardens you and makes you sour and narrow and skeptical.—Chapin.