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Our Advertisement Indiana should feel proud to welcome Senator Charles Curtis, the running mate of Herbert Hoover, and outstanding American—but there must also be chagrin when the list of notables who met him at Evansville is published to the world. The first to greet him was Congressman Rowbottom and Mayor Herbert Males. Males, it will be recalled, admitted under oath to Senator James Reed that he had traveled to Washington immediately after he ha<i been elected as mayor of Evansville, to meet Wizard Evans and there get his orders as to what Evansville citizens were to be named to office. When the Black Boxes of Stephenson were opened they disgorged • a written contract signed by Rowbottom promising the patronage of his district in return for the support of the dragon. There was correspondence indicating that the contract was genuine and that the relationship was most friendly and intimate. If that were not enough, when the honored guest was given a complimentary luncheon, at the head of the table sat Governor Ed Jackson, who insists on projecting himself into the political campaign, probably at the insistence of the managers of Harry Leslie. Every public appearance must recall to the voters the fact that they have a Governor by grace of the statute of limitations. It may be true that our honored visitors are slightly curious and perhaps eager to see a Governor who can sell horses to dragons for $2,500 and may look upon the occasion of talking with a Governor who pleaded the statute of limitations as a special favor —for they have never seen his like before nor will again. It was, however, most unfair to Senator Curtis and to the candidacy of Herbert Hoover to compel an association with those that the citizens of this State are trying hard to forget and to attach to them any of the humiliation that comes.from open confession of such associations. The record of Hoover is much too fine to be used as a cloak for shames committed by those who now profess allegiance to his cause, although they bitterly denounced him before his candidacy. The one good result is to prove beyond cavil that there is no connection in this State this year between the State and national campaigns. The one is on issues that are national. The other is to get rid of rubbish.

Hoover’s Newark Address v As the formula for increasing profits, raise wages, shorten hours, cut prices. Imagine such a doctrine being expounded by a presidential nominee a third of a century ago. That Herbert Hoover now deals with that doctrine, not as a theory, but as an admitted and workable fact is striking proof that a single generation has traveled a long, long way from the time when a pail full of cold dinner was all the Republican party needed to offer to win an election. There is more of a gap than is told by the calendar between the McKinley era and ours. And serious though some of our economic worries are today, bad though conditions be in coal, textiles and agriculture, the Nation as a whole is so much better off that memory can not fully grasp the comparison. Hoover does not attempt to credit the Republican party with all the advances that have been made under the new economic philosophy. In fact, he does what political speakers usually don’t do. He actually goes out of his way to grant a bulk of the credit to science, invention, and intelligent effort of employers and employes. But throughout the address we are conscious that Hoover is on familiar ground, on ground that he loves to tread. And insofar as Government has played a part in developing the new economic philosophy, Herbert Hoover has been the greatest single contributing force, greater than any political party or any other man. Eight years ago, having finished the war work that had brought him world fame, Hoover was named to a cabinet post by the old guard that then was going into power. The old guard didn’t like Hoover and at the same time did not dare to ignore him. Accordingly, it derived no little satisfaction from the idea of shelving the man of doubtful party regularity in what was notoriously the least impressive of the cabinet chambers. At an old desk, in a rented building, Hoover we* to work, and during those eight years he made the secretaryship of commerce the most useful of all cabinet departments. Quietly, but diligently, in a co-operative rather than a bureaucratic spirit, he applied himself to the job of increasing efficiency in industry. Believing personally that high wages bring prosperity and low wages bring hard times, he set about to assist industry in finding out that the solution of its profit problem did not lie in outting wages, but rathei was to be found in elimination of waste, the speeding up of production, and the consequent lowering of production costs. Furthermore, he believed that to have general prosperity the pay to the individual worker must be great enough and nis hours of labor short enough that he might buy the things he produces and have leisure in which to use them. Such terms as simplification and standardization oegan to take their places in the vocabulary of business. Not thrilling terms in the human interest sense; nothing that gossips would chew over or on which whispering campaigns would thrive—but terms nevertha less that began to favorably affect millions of pocketbooks throughout the Nation, n And so t is that at Newark we see Herbert Hoover, ttw the presidential nominee, advancing in a larger

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way the Ideas that already have proved so effective in his eight years as a cabinet officer. In certain portions of the address, Hoover lapses into the conventional jargon of politics. In one portion, referring to the total unemployment of last winter as 1,800,000, we believe his figures do not jibe with those most generally accepted. But insofar as the document deals with unemployment and methods of its cure, the rights of labor, Government co-operation by voluntary action, as distinct from Government interference by law; immigration restriction as a compinlon piece of a protective tariff, causes of depression, and the l elation of invention to prosperity, the speech will live as a treatise on liberal and forward-locking economics long after the end of the political campaign that brought it forth. Our Duty to Porto Rico Porto Rico has been ravaged by a destructive hurricane. Scores are dead, thousands are homeless, and food, clothing and other supplies soon will be exhausted. Plea is voiced for immediate aid. Help for Porto Rico, full and complete, must not be delayed by so much as an hour. There are only some 1,500,000 people down there and if anything like 800,000 to a million people have suffered the destruction of their homes, half the inhabitants are in want. These, of course, are mostly among the poorer classes, barely able to struggle along at best. Today they are as helpless as children, which, naturally, many of them are. t Already the ever admirable Red Cross is taking steps to relieve the distress. It always acts in emergencies of this kind and with commendable promptness. But by the very nature of things, the United States Government is in position to act with even greater swiftness. At the various naval stations along the Atlantic seaboard, and even in Cuba, next door to Porto Rico, are large Government stores, tents, food reserves, clothing and medicine, along with doctors and nurses. And, if no other vessels are immediately available, there are plenty of speedy destroyers to rush whatever supplies and personnel may be required. Reports have it that the hard-surfaced roads leading into the interior have been almost obliterated. It is said that whole mountains melted like wet sugar under the tropical downpour, and oozed into the valleys. Crops were flattened out, gardens ruined, and water sources polluted. Pestilence is stalking only a pace behind famine. Washington has a peculiar duty to perform in seeing to it that not only relief, but prompt and ample relief, reaches the stricken islanders. It martial law is necessary, the United States Government should co-operate with local authorities to make it effective. Perhaps this would be the best means to maintain order, prevent panic, and distribute relief throughout the country. But the chief value of whatever assistance the Government gives in a time like the prseent, depends very largely upon the speed with which it is made effective. Private initiative can and will make itself useful in due time, but it must have time to organize. Meanwhile, almost a whole people must be fed, clothed and taken in out of the wet. We must not forget that Porto Rico is American territory, and her people American people, by our will, not theirs. We must rush help to them new, therefore, without stint, and in every way possible to a great country like ours. If Porto Ricans are praying for our aid now, the rest of the world, especially Latin America, is watching to see how we respond. A record-breaking number of tourists comes back to America with every ship. And a record-breaking number report “there was very little new to see.” Chang Tsung Chang has gone to the battlefront, leaving his twenty-eight wives. Well, and why not! > nan* Dietz on Science Reign of Instruments 1 No. 158 SCIENTIFIC instruments came to the aid of medical progress in about the year 1600. Asa result, the advance of the science was accelerated. The seventeenth century is important for the development of scientific apparatus in every field. The telescope had been invented in about 1590 and the compound microscope about 1608. Scientific experimentation with apparatus specially designed for the

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, entific instruments into medicine was Sanctorius, a colleague of Galileo’s at Padua. It was Galileo who made the first telescope and who introduced the method of direct experiment into physics. Sanctorius, apparently, attempted to introduce his colleague’s method into medicine. He made a study of bodily temperatures and is said to have been the first physician to make use of the clinical thermometer. He also made extensive studies of respiration and the physics of the circulation of the blood. Galileo discovered the principle of the pendulum, now used in all clocks, by watching the swinging of a chandelier in the cathedral. The first device which Galileo built employing principle of the pendulum was a device called the pulsilogue. He built this for Sanctorious who used it for timing the pulses of patients. For forty years of his life, Sanctorius weighed himself three or four times a day. He made a study of many bodily functions including that of perspiration. In many ways, he laid the groundwork for modern physiology. Among his works was one called “De Statica Medicina,” of which an English transltaion was published. He was born in 1561 and died in 1636. It is a curious fact that neither Harvey nor Sanctorius succeeded in impressing upon the medical men of the day the importance of the experimental method. That important task was accomplished, strangely enough, by a French philosopher, Rene Descartes.

M. E. TRACY SAYS: “Our Problem Has Come to Center Arotmd the Question of How Popular Rule Can Be Served and Fundamental Rights Safeguarded Through Technical Knowledge .”

KNOXVILLE, Tenn.—This city is in the midst of a discussion which seems worth mentioning because of the light it throws on a common problem. Col. F. W. Albert, engineer in charge of the water department was summarily dismissed by Public Service Director Mynatt last Friday wijh “Lack of cooperation,” as the reason. Many citizens do not regard this as sufficient. Monday, the Knoxville Technical Society, composed of architects, engineers and allied professions, went on record as opposed to Colonel Albert’s dismissal. As W. J. Savage, president of the society, expressed it, “it does not seem to us, as a body, of businesslike manner. Even if the charges made bby Mrs. Mynatt were true, they were too trivial to justify the action. that was taken. Knoxville cannot aord to lose the services of such a man.” Colonel Albert not only represented Knoxville in the construction of its splendid water plant, but has operated that plant fcor the last several years with entire satisfaction to the city. The issue thus raised is whether one official should jeopardize public interest by dismissing another because he has it within his power to do so, or, to put it in another way, whether politics should be considered as more important than expertness in the management of a water department. a * Government Changes Such an issue reminds us of how distinctly the functions of municipal government have changed during the last two or three generations. In the beginning, municipal government was looked upon as almost wholly a matter of politics, an institution to be developed and operated by ordinance and statute. With the coming of paved streets, public transportation, waterworks, sewerage and similar activities, municipal government has come to be regarded as an enterprise where special training is the all important factor. We used to develop our streets by passing regulations. The first ordinance enacted by the town of Cambridge, Mass., was that no citizen should allow a tree to lie across the road for more than seven days.

Experts Essential Inventions, machinery and organized production have forced us to lay such methods aside. We no longer consider it practical or possible to accomplish results by the mere passing of an act entitled an act. The engineer, doctor, the architect,, the educator and other experts have come to be regarded as essential to a well-governed city. A large proportion of the money for municipal work must go through their hands to be wisely spent and the operation of sdme of the most important branches must be under their direction to be successful. The idea of merely telling citizens what they should do has ceased to be effective. The modern method is to establish special departments for doing it and put more faith in expert knowledge than in political byplay tt tt a Rule by Science Much as we hate to admit it, government is becoming a science, it is becoming a science for precisely the same reason that medicine has become a science. The things we expect towns and cities to do for the public good leave no other choice in the matter. The untrained, inexperienced man Is no longer fit to direct many branches of government. The service of those who have been educated In a particular way has become mandatory. In the old days we could pick most any citizen to do most any kind ci a job because one citizen knew quite as much about it as another, but that is no longer true. Public business, like private business, has passed beyond the reach of ordinary training and ability. This being so, it follows that when cities find a good man for some particular place, it should be their object to keep him Government and particularly municipal government has ranged into activities where the old fashioned conception of politics does not fit, where we cannot afford to jeopardize public interest by allowing the game to be played without restraint Uses Taxes Wisely This is illustrated by the popular attitude toward schools. Time was when we elected practically all school officials, when there was as much campaigning for agent and trustee, as there was for justice of + he peace. The cry now is, “keep the schools out of politics,” and not only get, but retain, the best qualified people available. Other functions of government are traveling a similar road. Cities and towns simply can not carry on their work without yielding the same respect for training, knowledge and experience which private enterprise yields. The foundations of o r government rest on basic political principles, but the superstructure must be developed by the application of scientific principles. We have settled the question as to where the source of authority lies We no longer need to argue about the efficacy of popular rule or the recognition of fundamental rights. Our problem has come to center around the question of how popular rule can be served and fundamental rights safeguarded through technical knowledge, how the money derived from taxes can be wisely used, how modern appliances can be assembled and how we can take practical advantage of those inventions, discoveries and methods which represent civilized life,

purpose began to be developed not long after. The first man to introduce the e x p e r i m ental method into medicine was William Harvey who made the monumental discovery of the circulation o f the blood by that method. The first man to introduce sci-

THE INDIANAPOLIS TIMES

This is the third of a series of twelve articles on the health of the school child. Tomorrow: The School Luncheon. BY DR. MORRIS FISHBEIN Editor Journal of the American Medical Association and of Hygeia, the Health Magazine. ONE of the first effects of the craze for reduction in weight which swept over the world following the great war was the elimination of breakfast as a regular meal. People feund that a glass of orange juice or fruit of some sort would start off the day for the adult satisfactorily, particularly if combined with the stimulation of black coffee. Many mothers in the more prosperous class of society accustomed to sleep late eat a late breakfast and eliminate luncheon. Unfortunately these adult habits are likely to reflect themselves on the care of the children. The child walking a considerable distance to school and engaged for

THE poker player who deals off the bottom is thrown out; the prize fighter who fouls his opponent loses the match; the craps shooter who uses loaded dice is blacklisted, but in politics one may lie, steal, cheat, plot, slander and poison—and it is all “regular.” We are not going to get very far with decent government until politics is lifted to the dignity of the poker party, the prize fight and the craps game! tt tt a President Coolidge does not flash like Minister Briand of France, but the latter’s lamentable rupture of Franco-German harmony proves that a level head is more valuable In government than all the hills and valleys of temperament. tt it a We hope Queen Marie of Rumania marries this rich American; that is, if she comes over here and hangs up her crown. She is a fine woman, the least handicapped by royal birth of anybody across the water, and the recent furcr she created in our midst proves that she would go big in politics. But what we really want her to do is to come here and establish a court, satisfy America’s craving for royalty and enable ladies with cobwebs in their attics to be “presented” without going clear to London. BRIDGE ME ANOTHER (Copyright. 1928. by The Ready Reference Publishing Company) BY W. W. WENTWORTH (Abbreviations: A—ace: K—king; Q—queen: J—jack; X—any card lower than 10.) AS the dummy is exposed and the declarer plans to convert losing tricks into winping tricks, he prepares to utilize the working tools—finessing, squeezing, ruffing, fluffing (discarding low cards of another suit upon winning cards) and throwing the lead. At times, when finessing, it is advisable to employ the “feint” finesse, an illustration thereof being as follows: Dummy—diamonds A J 10 7. East— Declarer—diamonds K 9 6 5. West— You will ..note that the finesse may be taken either way. If there has been no indication of the location of the Queen of diamonds, the Jack of diamonds should be led from the dummy to coax East to cover with the Queen of diamonds. Regardless of whether East does so or not, Declarer should play the King of diamonds. On the next round he should lead the 9 of diamonds from his own hand and finesse unless it is covered with the Queen of diamonds by West, f ,

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at least four hours in mental activities should have fuel sufficient to carry it through its working day. A wholesome and tempting breakfast should be provided for every school child. If a good breakfast is prepared, and varied from day to day as to the fruit, the cereal, the bacon and the eggs, the children will eat with good anpetite and will thrive exceedingly. Fresh fruits sweetened with sugar are, of course, the prime ingredient. Orange, tangerines, grape-fruit, melon, pears, bananas and pineapple offer a wide variety. They have the effect of counteratcing acid in the body. Cooked fruits include baked apple, apple sauce, stewed prunes, stewed figs, cooked pears or apricots and are a good second choice. Cereals are offered today in a variety to tempt any appetite. Whole grain cereals, including cracked wheat and oatmeal, prop-

By Frederick LANDIS

THE greatest objection to Durant’s offer of $5,000 for the best plan from a school child for the enforcement of the prohibition law, is that it will make the parents of the contestants work too hard. a tt u The net result of the recent padlocking of New York night clubs is that it has enabled Texas Guinan to go into motion pictures. a u The Department of Agriculture announces an enormous increase in the consumption of peanuts. But the strong prejudice in the United States against cannibalism will save many of them. a tt tt The fact that Nicholas Murray Butler has come out for Hoover arouses the suspicion that the national Republican committee sent him a case of gin.

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The name and address ol the author must accompany every constrlbution. but on reauest will not be published. Letters not exceeding 200 words will receive preference. Editor Times—l want to commend the articles on the “gangs’' and the “rackets,” also on “government control” and “prohibition.” I am glad there is one paper in which I can get information on these subjects, as crime resulting from them seems to be submerging cur nation. THOUGHTFUL READER. Liberty, Ind. Editor Times—Mr. Tom Adams surely thinks all the people in Indiana are very forgetful. He speaks about a school bill being pigeonholed by Speaker Leslie. Now, Mr. Adams, was not that Carney’s Oleo bill that was lost? Mr. Adams surely has not forgotten Mr. Leslie is the same Leslie who was speaker when the Republican members met in the Columbia Club and voted to a man not to have an investigation oi Stephensonism through the Legislature. Mr. Adams, you would better look up the records and see what you Daily Thoughts Render therefore to all theii dues.—Romans 13:7. tt a tt A TENDER conscience is a stronger obligation than a prison, .

erly cooked, are excellent. The precooked cereals are‘helpful to those who have difficulties with digestion. Some of the special cereals provide enough roughage to stimulate the intestinal tract. Much depends on the way in which the milk or cream is added to the cereal. Soaking the cereal in milk or cream makes a soggy mass. The manufacturers are careful to suggest that the milk and cream be added at the side so that the crisp cereal may be sufficiently chewed and foistened with saliva before it is swallowed. The best beverage for the child is milk. Cocoa and chocolate are pleasant variants If the child wants something hot. Waffles and pancakes may be eaten occasionally, but should not be a regular diet for the child. They place too great a strain, particularly when soaked with quantities of syrup, on a sensitive stomach.

POLITICS AND POKER tt tt 9 WELCOME, QUEEN MARI tt tt tt THEIR SELF-STARTERS

THERE’S been no particular demand for all these automobile magnates to rush into the political headlines, but you can’t expect them to remain in obscurity when they are surrounded completely by self-ste rters! tt tt a A Delaware farmer raised a melon which weighed fifty-three and onehalf pounds. It’s almost as big as the Secretary of the Treasury. a tt tt What in the world has become of Mrs. Clem Shaver? We have not heard anything from her for six weeks. And we haven’t heard from Clem, but then we didn’t expect to. tt tt THE fact that we have a few giants in public life is proved by those members of the board of public welfare at Washington! who refused to take any action in the case of that 3-year-old child who smoked several cigars every day, saying the child appeared to be healthy. tt a tt CUBA has abolished the bond she used to compel tourists to deposit. A thirst is all they need now in order to get in.

had to say then about Mr. Leslie. It is indeed a surprise, Mr. Adams, to the decent people of the Republican party to think that you are going to support men whom you showed to be so closely connected to Stephenson that some of their wives received presents from him. Again we are made to say that politics make strange bed fellows. A REPUBLICAN.

Questions and Answers

What form of government has Russia? The government is made up of soviets (or councils) In which only workers and peasants have a voice. It is familiarly known as the “dictatorship of the proletariat.” The executive cabinet is the council of people’s commissars. Where can one apply for a position as harvest hand in Texas? To the United States Employment Office at either Ft. Worth or Amarillo, Texas. How is the depth of the sea measured? The latest method is by echoes. An electric oscillator at the surface of the water transmits a sound to the bottom of the ocean. An apparatus on board ship picks up the sound of the echo as it returns from the bottom of the sea and a third intsrument records the time inter-

JSEPT. 18,1928

KEEPING UP With THE NEWS

BY LUDWELL DENNY WASHINGTON, Sept. 18.—Herbert Hoover s speech on labor problems at Newark reveals the political strength and weakness of the man in the opinion of independent observers here. His address is said to show an unusual grasp of national economic factors without the popular orator’s power to arouse enthusiasm of partisans. Hoover was the typical social engineer outlining problems rathe?" than promising easy panaceas. To his friends, this means that Hoover is the safest man that coulxl be chosen to cope with the nation's problems which are increasing)’ economic, such as foreign trade. * dustrial unemployment and > relief. But his enemies dub his Take the situation in ou, \ industries, such as coal and fig.;: at Newark, the RepublicafV ligate recognized the retard: ; covery of these basic indust : but failed to prescribe a cure. ' The Democrats will tell you that this omission shows that Hoover \i either much over-rated as an economist and practical statesman, or that he is trying to win the favor of nonunion operators largely responsible for “over-expansion.” Hooverites reply that wherever given an opportunity—as when he brought temporary peace in the coal industry by encouraging the Jacksonville agreement between operators and miners—he has contributed to industrial concord and enhanched production on terms generally acceptable to union labor. a a a THIS discussion leads naturally to Hoover’s reference to unemployment. While his enemies stress his erroneous use of employment statistics, his friends emphasize his accuracy in describing business conditions as now on the upgrade. “An accurate survey of the Department of Labor showed that even including the usual winter seasonal unemployment, about 1,800,000 employes were out of work as contrasted with five or six million in 1921,” Hoover said.

This apparently is a misreading of the March statement of the labor department to the Senate, which estimated the increase of unemployment since 1925 at 1,370.000, without giving any figure lor unemployment in 1925. On the basis of these labor department figures at the time. Senator Wagner of New York estimated national unemployment at four or five million. Practically all official and unofficial estimates of present conditions, however, describe increased employment and encouraging business prospects. In this “prosperity,” probably no one will question Hoover’s personal contribution as Secretary of Commerce in stimulating foreign trade. The increase in our exports amounting to 41 per cent since 1922 “has brought a living to 500,000 according to the candidate. Similarly, business men of both parties appear willing to give Hoover major credit for bringing about the high degree of voluntary industrial simplification and elimination of waste, which have increased both profits and employment. His Newark proposals for the use of public works to assure employment in times of stress and for the collection of fuller employment statistics by the Labor Department are in line with suggestions of labor organizations and independent economists. They also are accepted by Smith, whose friend, Senator Wagner, put them into the form of resolutions in the last session of Congress. u tt tt THE dissatisfaction of certain labor leaders with some portions of Hoover’s address is sucji as to give no comfort to the Democrats. For these laborites are dissatisfied with Smith and the Democrats for exactly the same reasons. One point of friction is the injunction evil and the other is the continuing non-union policy of large American industries closely connected with both the Republican and Democratic parties. While Hoover said “it is necessary to impose restrictions on the excessive use of injunctions,” laborites complain of his use of the word “excessive” and other qualifications which to their minds diminish the value of both Hoover and Smith statements on this subject. Moreover, they challenge Hoover’s assertion that “both the majority of capital and labor discard the ancient contention that labor is an economic commodity.” They point out that in many large indust;l„Jf whose chiefs are now helping direct both the Hoover and Smith campaigns, labor is not allowed to organize, as in the automobile, rubber and steel industrie** Despite these sore spots, there was nothing in the Newark speech expected to lose for Hoover that wing of the organized labor movement which prevented the American Federation of Labor from going over the Smith.

val required for the sound to go to the bottom of the ocean and te>p .. echo to return. Half of the interval multiplied by the velocity of sound per second gives the depth of the ocean at that point. This Date in U. S. History September 18 1492 —Columbus and crew were encouraged by the appearance of many birds. 1777—Continental Congress adjourned to Lancaster, Pa., because of the approach cl, the British to Philadelphia. 1893—Cornerstone of capitol a Washington laid by George Washington. 1862—Lee recrossed the Potomac into Virginia,