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Visit Frankfort The civic organizations of Indianapolis could do a lot worse than make a pilgrimage to the city of Frankfort before the summer season closes. For that little community has an institution which should interest this city. 'silors would be struck with a very remarkable swimming pool, just completed. Other cities have swimming pools, of course. >Some of them are much larger, but none are liner or more complete in their equipment. But this is not just a swimming pool. It is a lesson in municipal economy. The swimming pool did not come from taxation. The citizens are not loaded down with a bonded debt on which to pay interest for all time. This pool was erected and paid for out of one year s profits from an electric plant which the people own and operate. It is that feature of the pool which should interest this city in view of its own opportunity and perhaps duty to take over in 1930 the plant of the gas company under the terms of the agreement under which it was formed. There is a great deal of propaganda in this country against' municipal ownership of utilities. The people are told they do not know enough to operate a gas or electric or water plant. They are told that politics always ruins the operation. Frankfort has a different story. It built its own electric plant about five years ago. It has paid off the original cost and now has the problem of spending each year the profits from its operation instead of digging up deficits. The profits this year meant the magnificent swimming pool which has just been completed. The rates for electricity are less than in neighboring cities served by the Insull interests which are seeking to secure a monopoly in the State. The rates, as a matter of fact, are so much less that other neighboring cities are trying to buy service from the municipal plant at Frankfort. The people of this city ought to be able to do with a gas plant what Frankfort has' done with its electric plant. There is no question of the profits from the sale of gas. And, of course, there should be no difficulty at all about the people being able to take over the gas plant. "When that company was formed some very high-minded men of vision dedicated it to public ownership and provided the method by which the people should obtain it. They set the interest rate on the money they invested and publicly pledged their honor as citizens that when they had received the interest and their original investment they would turn the plant over to the city. It is unthinkable that any of the men who so dedicated themselves to public interest would now, by resort to courts or technicalities, attempt to prevent a consumation of the gain. Perhaps this city may some day reap dividends, as Frankfort does, from its utilities. Full Details Needed Thus far only the propaganda agencies of national and regional associations of power companies have been investigated, and these only partially. Propaganda activities of large operating and holding companies have not yet been touched by the investigation at all. While the able investigation conducted by the Federal Trade Commission thus far has clearly disclosed the broad outlines of the propaganda methods used by power interests, there is a great deal to be said in favor of having hearings continued on this phase of the power question until every relevant fact has been dragged into the light. Referring to the power propaganda disclosures made by the commission thus far, Senator Walsh of Montana recently said: “The portentious movement of which the commission through its hearings gives reliable information is anew development in American life. It may have had its prototypes, but nothing approaching it in magnitude, in perfection of organization, or in the means commanded for influencing public opinion for private gain is known to our history or probably to that of any other country.” That statement forcibly suggests the desirability of getting every possible bit oi information about the power propaganda machinery, at present operating in the country. The very novelty of the propaganda layout of the power interests, as well as its enormous force, would justify the commission in sticking on the job ot investigation until every phase of it has been covered in detail. A Relic of Tragedy It was rather a grim clew that was washed up on the coast of Iceland the other day. A lone airplane wheel affer drifting nobody knows how long, bobbed up and was found by fishermen. The wheel bore the name of the London factory that made it, and factory officials say it is just like the wheels carried by the 63-year-old Princess Ann of Lowenstein-Wertheim when she tried to fly across the Atlantic. Nothing has ever been seen or heard of the princess since she hopped off a year ago. But the appearance of that lone wheel, drifting miles to the northward, tells all we need to know. If you will let your imagination play for a moment you can picture the whole tragic story.

Gang Government When the police of St. Louis followed trails of suspicion connected with Indianapolis crime, they came upon an arsenal. In the apartment of a woman, they found a machine gun, a rifle, nine revolvers and a thousand rounds of ammunition. Not exactly the traditional idea of the furnishings or decorations of a boudoir, but so have times changed with the coming of gangs and the threat of gang government to our big cities. While the gangs have wars among themselves and settle their own differences as to the ethics of stealing the other fellow’s load of alcohol and whisky, they also war upon the public with raids upon banks and merchants and social gatherings. They have nourished in the larger cities because they have been tolerated and have been useful on election days. They can never flourish long in any city unless they have important connections with the respectable world and fronts and friends among the politically important. It may or may not be significant that when a gangster gets into the hands of the police a very respectable lawyer comes to the front with sage advice as to silence and bonding companies, operating under sanction of the law, see nothing anti-social in getting a fee for supplying bonds for their liberty, during which they can prepare perfect alibis or perhaps raid other banks to recoup their losses. It is a matter of common knowledge that these gangs start with the business of selling booze. They are organized for the purpose of transporting it from the borders or from alcohol plants to thirsty cities. They exist because of the rather heavy demand for their merchandise. They are tolerated by some authorities, many of whom are fixed or become blind to their activities. The gangs and individuals have customers in this city. It is only recently that the city has become interested in the menace of the other activities of the gangs, the holdups and the rattle of the machine gun on the thoroughfare as they fight their battles. It would be unfortunate if there should arise any suspicion that the gangs find any aid, comfort or sanctuary in this city, such as they have had in Chicago or Philadelphia or other cities. Those who do not desire gang government might remember the menace the next time they patronize a bootlegger. For the traffic in contraband booze is the basis of all gang rule and gang activities.

Bare-legged schoolgirls seem to provide the issue this year. Wise school principals aren’t making any statements until the first frost. Philadelphia bootleggers made $10,000,000 profits In ten years, says a dispatch. The city must be pretty well dried up. Commander Byrd is taking a ukulele player with him to the South Pole. Well, that’s one less anyhow. Now that the ladies have abandoned the diet idea and taken to eating again, it’s harder to fl’l a date than it used to be. David Dietz on Science Lesson of the Mines No. 149 THE Sixteenth and Seventeenth centuries, writes Sir William Osier, did three things in medicineshattered authority, laid the foundation of an accurate knowledge of the structure of the human body and demonstrated how its functions should be studied intelligently. The first figure we find in this age of revolt is that of Paracelsus. In his day, he was called an ignorant vagabond. His actual contributions to medicine are almost none. Ke

door. His mother, prior to her marriage, had been a hospital superintendent. Paracelsus received his first medical training from his father. At 16, he entered the University of Basel, where he drifted from medicine into what then passed for chemistry. But he became disgusted with the vain efforts of the day to turn mercury into gold and to discover the "philosopher’s stone’’ with its secret of eternal youth. He left the university to take a post in the Tirol mines. It was here that the foundations of his character were laid. The mines represented reality. Here was no vain search after will o’ the wisps, no searching of ancient texts for what someone had said five centuries before. The mines presented real problems. In the earth were ores which contained precious metals. The first task was to get the ores out of the ground. The next, was to get the precious metals out of the ores. The mines Were a school in which Paracelsus learned to trust observation and experiment instead of the philosophical arguments oi dead scholars. Accidents to the miners were not infrequent and Paracelsus had an opportunity to practice medicine. Here he began to put into effect the lesson that the mines had taught him. He began to put more trust in what his eyes taught him than in what some ancient Greek authority had said.

M. E. TRACY SAYS: “To hear the chatter you would suppose that if we repealed the Eighteenth Amendment and scrapped the Volstead Act, we would have nothing else to do except to sit down with golden harps and Sing”

THERE were two Robert Ingersolls. They were no relation. Robert H„ who died last Tuesday, proved that Intelligence could make a dollar watch tick. Robert G., who died twenty-nine years ago, tried *<to prove that no intelligence was required to make the universe tick. Both men were brainy. One believed in materialism, but pursued an intellectual career. The other believed in God, but devoted his talents to material production. Just one more of those paradoxes which make human nature so hard to understand. tt tt tt Hothouse Mortals That Lake Ontario contest was not a swimming race, but a freezing match, and every one of the 199 entrants lost. Here is a vivid illustration of how weak we mortals are. Just a little change in temperature, and we become paralyzed. Conditions must be favorable not only for us to do our best, but to live. We cannot stand much cold, without a fire or a fur coat, and we cannot stand much heat, without an ice box. Beyond the atmosphere, they say the temperature is down to absolute freezing. That is one reason we have been unable to go up more than eight or nine miles in a balloon or airplane. There are regions on the earth where we could not live, except for the devics which civilization has made available. U tt o Our Provincial Globe It is only when measured by primitive conditions that human progress seems remarkable. Compared to what the cavemen knew, we know a great deal. Compared to what remains to learn, we know very little. We can keep fresh meat and vegetables from one year to another, can talk with each other over long distances, can travel faster than any animal, can broadcast political hooey over the radio, and fly We have not succeeded in establishing communication with the nearest planet, much less commercial intercourse. Our exchange of ideas and commodities remains purely a domestic affair. We do not know yet whether the man in the moon is alive or dead. We have counted millions of stars, but that is about all. We are unable to say as yet whether a single one of them resembles this earth, except in form. Our achievements thus far have been limited to the production of a few creature comforts and a few speculations as to what may be, might be, should be or could be.

Another Goat . The mayor of New York has ordered Police Commissioner .Warren to make a survey with regard to speakeasies, arrests for drunkenness and difficulties encountered in inforcing the prohibition law. Why not include gamblers, fences, thieves and undetected murderers? Twenty-five years ago, the saloon was blamed for must human ills. Fourteen years ago that role was forced on Germany. Now that we have another goat, we are just as Lappy as though we had not made these two mistakes. To hear the shatter you would suppose that if we repealed the Volstead act we would have nothing else to do except to sit down with golden harps and sing. This is just another patent medicine advertising campaign, just another ballyhoo to sell the idea on the ground that it will bring the millennium. a u tt Deeper Than Thirst As I have often said in this column, I believe that modification is desirable, but I do not believe that it would put an end to lawlessness. The kind of lawlessness from which we are suffering goes deeper than thirst. It may have received considerable encouragement through the agencies that have been developed to satisfy thirst. Bootlegging especially as it has been organized for transportation and distributing purposes certainly furnishes the criminal anew background as well as new ideas. a 9 tt How to Check Crime Many reasons have been advanced as to why we lead the world in murder, theft, thuggery and other criminal activities. One is lack of coordination in our lawenforcing machinery. Conflict of authority between the Federal Government, the State and political subdivisions has come to serve no purpose so distinctly as to handicap the administration of justice. The criminal operates and organizes without regard to political boundaries. That is one reason why he gets along so well. • The Chicago gang does not worry about national, State of municipal rights when it enters Philadelphia or hooks up with Detroit and Cleveland. The crook or confidence man does not have to stop when he comes to a State line. Officers of the law are permitted to move with no such freedom. Thev are handicapped with all kinds of limitations and restrictions. More often than not one group interferes with another. We not only have several classes of law officers, but many of them are under local control. The police force and sheriff’s department, though created for the same purpose, feel little interest in eacn other. The same thing is true with regard to the police forces of various cities. Our battle against crime is characterized by lack of untiy and concerted effort.

is important for the spirit which he brought into medicine. His real name was Theophrastus Bombast Von Hohenheim. Paracelsus seems to have been an epithet of his own choosing. He was born near Etnsiedeln, Germany, in about 1490. His father was a physician who had a hard time keeping the wolf from the

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This is the first of a series of three articles on Tuberculosis. BY DR. MORRIS FISHBEIN Editor Journal of the American Medical Association and of Hygeia, the Health Magazine. THE treatment of tuberculosis as emphasized b v Dr. Lawrason Brown, is based r■* four fundamental factors—rest good food, fresh air and educati n. Rest is considered today as of the greatest importance, whereas formerly the greatest emphasis was placed on food and fresh air. Most patients begin to protest against too much rest, arguing that the organs will not function without exercise. However, a diseased

WHATEVER feelings one might have for Mrs. Knapp, former Secretary of the State of New York, just sent up for thirty days for lifting $30,000 from the public treasury, they are lost in the pity one has for the judge who thought it necessary to explain why he sent her up at all. If it had been the case of a scrubwoman who had stolen a coat, well —you understand. a a a Every day, somewhere in America some influential defendant throws a kiss to the Goddess of Justice whereupon she puts down her scales powders her nose and waves him up on top of the courthouse and then the two of them dance the Black Bottom on the merits of the case. And yet jurists affect to w'onder why plain people do not have more respect for courts! a u it Possibly former Secretary Charles E. Hughes is returning from Europe earlier than was expected not in order to campaign for Mr. Hoover but to avoid being utterly eclipsed as a distinguished American abroad by the rising tide of homage with which Europe greets Mr. Gene Tunney. BRIDGE ME ANOTHER (Copyright. 1928 bv The Ready Reference Publishing Company) . BY W. W. WENTWORTH (Abbreviations: A—ace: K—king: Q —queen; J— jack; X—Any card lower than 10.) THE purpose of covering an honor with an honor is to establish a trick in your own haand or that held by your partner. When you have nothing to gain by covering, hold up your honor. Bear in mind the probabilities of the situation and be guided accordingly. This point is clarified by the following illustratfon: Dummy holds spades A J 10 9; declarer leads spades Q. West holds spades K 8 4 3. Should west cover immediately with the king of spades? If he did so, the dealer would win every spade so, the declarer would win every spade trick in the dummy. West has everything to gain if he does not cover. If the declarer finesses the queen of spades, he must take the next spade trick in the dpmmy and it is probable that he will eventually be compelled to lead up the king of spades. When to cover an honor with an honor and when not to do so is further exemplified in the illustration which follows: Dummy holds hearts A K 5; declarer leads the heart J. West holds Q 4 2. The 10 of hearts is neither in west’s hand nor in dummy. Possibly east holds it. The declarer obviously plans to finesse the Jack of hearts. West should cover and play the Queen of hearts! This will establish partner’s possible 10 of hearts

But It Takes a Governor’s Reach for That

DAILY HEALTH SERVICE Rest A Big Factor in Tuberculosis

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organ particularly requires opportunity to recuperate after fatigue. Every living thing requires rest because activity uses up certain materials. Injuries demand rest for repair. If the skin over the knuckle is broken, the knuckle must be held still so that the tissues may properly recover. Tuberculosis is a disease that burns up body tissues. Hence prolonged rest is necessary for repair. The time given to rest varies with each person and the patient with tuberculosis must be studied as an individual in order to determine just how much and what kinds of rest he should have. Dr. Brown insists that when high

m m By Frederick LANDIS

THE word from Prussia is that the military mustache has gone out of fashion. One of the greatest responsibilities the Kaiser had was that of commander in chief of all the mustaches which were upside down! a tt it The way* these European nations are demanding reservations, they must think Secretary Kellogg’s document is a sleeping car diagram, instead of a treaty, outlawing war tt a it A Chicago scientist has unearthed the famous stables of King Solomon at Armageddon, Palestine. There will be a filling station there before long. a a u If John Coolidge is going to get married, it won’t take her very long to decide whether he becomes a bookkeeper or joins that musical revue.

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You can get an answei to any answerable auestion of fact or Information by writing to Frederick M. Kerbv Question Editor The Indianapolis Times Washington Bureau 1323 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 reauests cannot be answered All letters are confidential You are cordlnallv Invited to make use of this free service as often as vou please. EDITOR The statement has been repeatedly circulated that Herbert Hoover once applied for British citizenship; is this true? We have obtained from Mr. Hoover’s Secretary a photostatic copy of a letter dated March 3, 1920, from the British Cabinet official in charge of citizenship records, stating “that no application for naturalization has been rceived from Mr. Hoover either under the British Nationality and Status of Aliens Act of 1914 and 1918 or under the Act previously in force—the Naturalization Act 1870.” Is there a planet called Vulcan? Vulcan was the name given by Leverrier to a supposed intraMercurian planet, the existence of which he predicted in 1859. Loscarbault assignee l to this pseudo-planet a period of twenty days and a mass somewhat exceeding that of MerDaily Thoughts ! It is bes er to go to the house of mourning tha.fi to the h< use of feasting. —Eccl 7:2. a a it GREAT sorrow makes sacred the sufferer.—Meredith.

fever is present, the patient should not be allowed to move either hand or foot, writing must be forbidden and even reading greatly curtailed if it is permitted at all. Visitors are excluded, all excitement avoided and talkative nurses particularly kept away from the patient. Rest in such cases means not only absolute physical rest, but also complete mental rest. The length of time the patient remains in bed depends entirely on his condition and the speed of his recovery. This must be determined by the physician in each case. Next: Food for the Tuberculous.

PITY THE POOR JUDGE a a a MUSTACHES ARE DOWN tt tt tt TWO TAILS THAT TALK

AS Gen. Smedley Butler, over in China, recalls how the Phila - delphia politicians stopped his law and order crusade the minute he started to close the high-toned clubs, he must smile at this Philadelphia mayor’s edict that all law violations must cease immediately. a u a The Governor of Georgia is a doctor and a student of phrenology, and determines the guilt or Innocence of those who apeal for clemency by feeling their domes of thought and scanning their countenances. It won’t do, for there are many beggars who look like cathedrals and many captains of industry who resemble Chinese laundries. a u it If the Republicans are wise, they will not send any northern speakers down into Dixie, but will let the members of the family fight it out. In past campaigns nothing ever brought the Republicans into line quite so effectively as the southern statesmen who came north to speak. a u u There’s one thing strange about this campaign—the heads of the tickets are silent, but the tails are talking all the time.

cury. and fixed dates for its future transits. They, however, failed to take placee, and Leverrier’s observation is now admitted to have been illusionary, as no such planet exists. Why are the towlines from tugs to barges so long? The reason that barges are towed with a long line is because it is easier an the towing bitts when the tug and barge get into rough water, and also because a long line gets the barge out of the wash from the tug’s propeller. What is the meaning of the name Elaine? It is from the Greek and means “bright.” Should a wrist watch be worn on the right or left arm? It is better for the watch to wear it on the arm that is used least. Who wrote the following verse: I love thee, I love thee. With a love that shall not die Til the sun grows cold And the stars are old, Ar.d the leaves of the Judgment Book unfold. Bayard Taylor in “Bedouin Song. What is the history of Ken Maynard, the motion picture actor? He was bom in Mission, Texas, July 21, 1895, and is married. He served for a while in Mexico under one of the revolutionary generals. He starred on the screen in “Senor ! Dare-Devill” and “The Unknown Cavalier.’ - He is 5 feet 11% inches ! tall, weighs 181 pounds and has gray j eyes and black hair. His address is 1 First National Studios, Burbank, Cal.

_SEPT. 7, 1928

KEEPING UP With THE NEWS

By LUDWELL DENNY WASHINGTON, Sept. 7. Negro voters can turn the national election in doubtful States. Hence, politicians are scurrying about trying to devise ways and means to make the Negro vote safe for Hoover or Smith, as the case may be. Republicans have reason to fear a revolt at the polls in some northern cities where Negroes in the past have ’•'■'ted with almost automatic'' regularity for G. O. P. candidates. These changed conditions are said to be due to younger radicals of the race, who are preaching to their fellows that the Republican party long has exploited them by taking their votes without doing anything in return to justify the boasts of “Lincoln’s party.” Quick to take advantage oi this discontent, Democrats are going out for the first time with an almost nation-wide organization to catch these racial ballots. According to campaign strategists on both sides, there are three fronts in this battle: Industrial centers of the North, such as New York, Chicago and Indianapolis; border States, including Missouri and its St. Louis color belt, and. of less importance because of so-called disenfranchising laws, certain southern States, such as North Carolina, where election returns conceivably may be close. The Republican and Democratic problem in the industrial areas of the North is both political and economic. To meet racial discontent this year, they find they must pledge not only adequate political representation, but also protection for the welfare of the Negro workers who are becoming “class conscious.” Unfortunately for the politicians, however, they find that the very propaganda required to capture the Negro vote is the kind that will lose white votes in the doubtful border and southern States. a tt u IN the North, Republicans are trying to sell their ticket on the basis of being the traditional party of the Negro, committed to championing his equality of rights. But with Hoover trying to crash the border States and lead the G. O. P. into the Solid South for the first time, Republicans find their worst obstacle the Democratic warning to whites to beware of the “Negro’s party.” This situation is becoming no less embarrassing to the Democrats. In the North they want the valuable Negro voters to forget that the party in Congress is dominated by Southern whites. In the South they want the whites to forget the Democratic appeal being made to Negro voters above the Mason Dixon line. Smith’s aids are working Harlem, the New York City belt. Organizations include Colored Democracy, led by F. Q. Morton, a Negro municipal employe, and the Smith for President Colored eLague. The latter body, under the national Democratic committee, is said to bs active in many States. In Chicago Republicans hope to hold the Negro vote by allowing a Negro to succeed the late Martin B. Madden in Congress. Direct political representation by a Negro congressman generally is recognized by politicians lo be the most effective manner of “keeping the colored vote in line,” provided this end can not be achieved “less expensively.” Not to be outdone In this the Democrats have broken precendent by backing a Negro for the congressional seat from the Twelfth Missouri District in St. Louis. This young man is Joseph L. McClemore, formerly an employe at the national capitol. He is running against Representative G. Dyer, author of the anti-lynching bill and popularly known as “the Negroes’ best friend in Washington.”

THERE has been no Negro in the national House of Representatives since George W. Murray of South Carolina, who served from 1893 to 1895. The last Negro Senator was Blanche K. Bruce of Mississippi. who sat in the upper House from 1875 to 1881. Including the “Carpel Bag” days following the Civil Mar, there have been twenty colored Representatives and two Senatoi 3. Both Hoover and Smith are being attacked openly and in whispering campaign for their alleged bids for Negro votes. Senator Blease, Democrate of South Carolina and others charge Hoover with sponsoring an order while Secretary of Commerce permitting about fifty Negro census office employes to work in rooms wtih white clerks. Official announcement that this order followed a general Administration policy in Government departments laid down before the campaign has not silenced the attack. From a different direction Senator George Norris, Progressive-Re-publican of Nebraska, and others attack the Republican party for alleged “buying and selling and trading and trafficking in (Negro) delegates from the solid South” in connection with the national convention. Smith in turn is blamed in the South for alleged equality reference by Mayor Jimmy Walker in welcoming to New York last month the National Negro Business League. Meanwhile, Jack Johnson, the old Negro prize fighter, is reported eager to take the stump for Smith. This Date in LJ . S. History Sept. 7 1643—Commissioners of the New England confederacy held their first meeting; John Winthrop, president. 1891—American warships were sent to Hawaii to protect American interests. 1892—John Greenleaf Whittier, poet, died.