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Up to Republicans To a very large extent, perhaps almost entirely, the reputation of Indiana and the future of their own party lies in the hands of the rank and file of the Republican party which, months ago, showed every determination to secure anew deal for their party and a cleanup for the State. That same rank and file of voters within the party exhibited their determination in the primaries when they voted by a majority against the candidates who had alliances with the forces which disgraced the State and for those who had denounced corruption. When the primaries failed to produce a majority candidate and the convention fell under the control, open and brazen, of the same old forces of hate, the Republicans had a very thorough demonstration of the fact that sinister forces still controlled. In this county Boss Coffin rides high and handsome and he will ride higher and more handsome if the State Republican ticket and Senator Arthur Robinson should, by any misfortune, be successful this fall. The methods of Coffin are a matter of record. They were written into the trial in the criminal courts not only in his own indictment, dismissed because of the statute of limitations, but in the case of Earl Klinck, first lieutenant of Stephenson, convicted and under sentence for attempting to perpetrate a forged affidavit upon the Federal courts. That case of Klinck is rather important, not because it was based on an effort to secure, through this forged instrument, the indictment of the editor of this newspaper and of Thomas Adams in the hope of staving off exposures, but because it showed the morals and manners of those in control of affairs. It is significant that the affidavit was presented to the Federal Court and taken before a grand jury by District Attorney Ward, and that so far as the record goes, no action was taken on the Federal Court to punish either Klinck, who produced the fake notary seal, or Boss Coffin, who carried it personally to Ward. The revelation of the part of Coffin was left to Prosecutor Reiny in his speech to the jury. The prosecution and conviction of Klinck was also the work of Remy. It is a fair deduction that the power of Coffin was very strong and that it was used, as is now demonstrated, for the purpose of attempting to prostitute even the Federal machinery of justice to defame two citizens, if not send them 10 prison through forged instruments. Certainly there is every reason to get rid of Coffinism and Stephensonism and every influence which was either born and propagated by them. It is not a task of Democratic voters. It is a job for Republicans who hold any regard for Herbert Hoover ana any ideals of Lincoln and Roosevelt. The voters of the Republican party will be put uuder great stress in the next few weeks when, it is most apparent, every effort will be made to frighten them into believing that it is unsafe to vote anything but a straight ticket. This fear is not in behalf of Hoover. He needs no such whispers or fears and would, scorn them as he has scorned them. That fear is being used to carry into office the same old forces that have disgraced Indiana. •[ It is time for the real friends and admirers of Herbert Hoover to sit steady and not be dismayed by any of the fake fears that are broadcast. Hoover is in no danger in Indiana. The ticket which bears his label in this State and which has no real connection, in sentiment, principle or history, with his campaign, is very much in danger. The only way for a Republican to lose his vote for decency and for real Republican principles and traditions is to vote a straight ticket. Main Street’s Foreign Investments Up to the end of 1927, Americans had invested $11,659,000,000 in foreign countries, says a Department of Commerce bulletin, just out. During the first nine months of this year another billion dollars was added to that. By Jan. 1 the total will be about $13,000,000,000. But, great as this sum is, it does not tell the whole story of our stupendous stake abroad. Not by a jugful. The above figures include only the loans officially offered for public subscription. Many Americans have invested large sums directly in foreign fields. Dr. Max Winkler, vice president bf Berton, Griscom & Cos., New York, internationally recognized expert in such matters, estimates that as far back as 1926 Americans had invested at least $13,000,000,000 abroad and that by the end of 1927 their foreign holdings represented something like $14,500,000,000. Thus, by the end of this year, our total foreign investments will foot up to pretty near sixteen billion dollars, not counting the wa: debts. ' Including war debts, amounting to some $12,000,000,000, foreigners soon will be owing the American people no less than $28,000,000,000, or considerably more than our entire national wealth sixty years ago. Putting it another way, our present interests abroad are worth more than all the livestock in the United States! all. the farm implement; all the railroads

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and street railways; all the factories and machine tools; all the telephone and telegraph systems; all the electric light and gas plants; all shipping and canals, pipe lines, Pullman cars, vehicles' gold, silver and bullion were worth, put together, in 1900, a bare twenty-eight years ago. None of us can quite realize it as yet—it has como upon us too suddenly—but a perfectly amazing thing has happened to our country since the start of the World War, virtually, the citizens of this country have acquired foreign interests almost double the value of the total wealth of the United States the year the Civil War began. The American dollar, says the Department of Commerce, “has gone into the building of better docks and harbors in Canada, Latin America and the Philippine Islands; into automobiles, tobacco, rubber, fruit, cable, textile, lumber and glass companies in various parts cf the world. The American dollar also has gone into foreign chain stores and even into churches and schools.” A few years ago the American public might have said, with reason: "Oh, well, I should worry. That’s Wall Street’s business.” But the public can’t say that now. Wall Street —American banks—may, and do, act as middlemen in placing investments abroad, but these twenty-eight billion American dollars now invested in foreign lands represent the savings of just plain American citizens scattered all over the Nation. Main St. has more money tied up abroad than Wall Street. Decidedly here is something for us to think about when we go to the polls next month. The next President of the United States must be a man not only of exceptional ability, but he must have a wide range of knowledge plus experience in foreign affairs. Not only will he have to know something about our farm, industrial and other problems here at home, but he must be able to understand and manage our hook-up abroad as well. A Grim Paradox For months Secretary of State Kellogg has been holding high aloft the'torch of international peace. So it is perplexing and distressing today to find the Department of Labor publicly declaring that ti\e man or the woman who does not approve of war has no right to citizenship in this country. Madame Rosika Schwimmer, Hungarian, is a pacifist. When she was being examined as a preliminary to naturalization, she reaffirmed her faith that war cannot be justified. And so she was refused citizenship. A higher court reversed that decision. But now the Department of Labor plans to carry Madame Schwimmer’s case to the United States Supreme Court, and argue that she is not a fit person to be an American citizen. “We condemn war . . . and renounce it ” says the Kellogg pact. And do we also laugh at anyone who takes us at our word, and condemn to outer darkness all who believe what we profess? Baloney, Not Bacon Anticipation, unduly stimulated, always brings disappointment. ' Al’s admirers in his own home State overplayed their enthusiasm. Just wait until he gets out among ’em. They said, “He’ll knock ’em cold.” The general burden of the prophecy being that a combination of Marc Antony, Demonsthenes and William Jennings Bryan was about to start West; and that before this super-campaigner votes would fall like playhouses in a hurricane. Now, while A1 is a good campaigner all right, especially among the folks in New York who know him, he isn’t any Antony-Demosthenes-Bryan combination and the net result was that he did not do what (,he advance notices prophesied. He did not knock ’em cold. He did not return with the farm belt. He brought home the baloney, but not the bacon.

David Dietz on Science Life Arises From Life No. 170

IF you spent any of your youth on the farm, perhaps you assisted in scientific experiments with the aid of a hair from a horse’s tail and the water trough. The idea was that if you placed the hair in the water, it would come to life and turn itself into a hair snake. While the rural youngsters didn’t know it, that was

For example, there was an old belief that if you buried the head of a bullock a swarm of bees would arise from it. Flies were believed to be generated spontaneously from decayed meat. And so it went. There was even a belief that mice came to life out of the mud of the Nile River. Lazzaro Spallanzani, while a student and later a professor at the University of Reggio in Italy, naturally heard much talk of these theories. Then one day he came across an old book written by a man named Redi. This book and later events made a microbe hunter out of Spallanzani. It seems that Redi set out to prove that flies did not arise spontaneously from decayed meat. So he performed a simple experiment. He took two pieces of meat. He placed one in the open. He put the other in a. jar covered with a fine net. He noticed that flies settled on the first piece. After a while maggots appeared on it. These later turned into flies. But flies could not get at the second piece of meat and as a result neither maggots nor flies arose from it. It was plain that what happened was that the female flies laid eggs on the first piece of meat which later hatched into maggots. Flies did not arise spontaneously, but only from eggs laid by other flies. This experiment of Redi pointed the way when grallanzani undertook to hunt microbes.

M. E. TRACY SAYS: “In All This Hectic Campaign, the Idea of Making Hootch Safe Has Overshadowed the Idea of Making the Auto, Mill, Mine and Highway Safe.”

WEEK-END prees send two to the graveyard and twentyseven to the hospitals in New York. Though admitting the toll is unusually heavy, authorities are not amazed. Still, they will make a few raids just to show they have the public interest at heart. The word has gone out from police headquarters, we are informed, to search out those speakeasies where bowery “smoke” and other dangerous intoxicants are sold. The inference is that other speakeasies have nothing to fear. New York authorities, it would seem, make a distinction between poison hootch and the other kind. Bootleggers do not. That is where the trouble lies. tt tt tt \ Reckless Driving Toll Great as is the price we pay for proving Andrew Volstead was no prophet, it seems small compared to the tribute we continue to offer the godd of speed and power. The victims of bad booze make a poor showing beside those of reckless driving. The same Sunday that saw two die and twenty-seven made ill through drink, saw thirty killed and many others injured through grade crossing accidents in only three eastern States. If death and disease furnish a good argument against Volsteadism, why not against other things? # a m Clamor for Safety Ninety-five thousand people died from avoidable accidents in this country last year, while five times as many were seriously injured. Automobiles accounted for more than one-fourth of the victims, i Though neither Smith nor Hoover ’ has mentioned safety as an issue, J some people think it should be so considered. Some people think that this age | of machinery is taking an unneces- I sary toll of life and limb, and that constituted authority shonld do something to prevent it. Some people think that careless driving, poor traffic regulations and failure to adopt remedial measures are responsible 'for the grim record. Some people think that the abolition of grade-crossings, improved highways and severer penalties would help a great deal. tt tt tt Century-Old .Chatter Six thousand such people are now meeting in New York. The majority of them are giving their time and money to promote safety. They feel that it is not only a worthwhile cause, but that it has been so neglected as to call for voluntary efforts. The din of politics makes it hard for them to make themselves heard. The terrific chatter over centuryold questions leaves scant room for the discussion of such anew problem. “Whispering” seems far more ac- | ceptable, even on the front page j of metropolitan dailies, than the i idea of trying to prevent 100,000 unnecessary deaths and 500,000 un- j necessary injuries each year. u u n Dry Law Tinkering Tn enumerating the inalienable j rig.its, Thomas Jefferson placed! life first, but life is the last thing we talk about on the poltical platform, unless it is the life of some scalawag, who has been convicted, and whom somebody wants pardoned. The thousands of women and children who are crushed to death beneath the wheels of our vehicles and manufactories go unwept and unsung. In all this hectic campaign, nobody has found time to say a word in their behalf. Os all the issues raised, and all the questions discussed, safety has not enjoyed even honorable mention. Taking it for granted that the fatal, or injurious effects of acute alcoholism might be reduced by tinkering with prohibition laws, our big, broad-minded, sympathetic leaders, appear never to have thought that the fatal and injurious effects of machinery might be reduced by tinkering with other laws. The idea of making hootch safe has overshadowed the idea of making the auto, mill, mine and highway safe. a a Want U. S, Protection I am one of that dwindling minority who wants the Government to do for me and mine what we cannot do for ourselves, and who feel no need of its meddling in matters that we can handle. I can be temperate, prohibition or no prohibition, and raise my children to be temperate, but I cannot pretect myself and them against crime ahd carelessness. I expect the Government to see that it is safe for me to cross a public street, to insist on reasonable precautions wherever there is danger. Yet I find the Government far more interested in protecting my morals than my safety. I find a great solicitude for my spiritual well-being, my financial condition and my social attitude. When it comes to life and limb. I find the Government rather indifferent. It does not seem to be doing much to prevent me from getting killed or injured by those very machines which it licenses, and which it is supposed to regulate. It is careful to provide me with a tariff, to see that I pay the right amount of income tax, to prescribe what I can, or can not drink. It gets highly emotional over my atti- ] tude toward Nicaragua, or the cancellation of foreign debts. Ninety - five thousand killed through avoidable accidents and 500,000 injured each year—why isn’t that a legitimate issue for our big hearted - leaders to discuss?

a mistaken idea more than 3,000 years ago. One of the earliest erroneous ideas of mankind was that life arose s p o n taneously from inert matt e r. Scientists call it the theory of spontaneous generation. It was assumed that many forms of insects could arise spontaneously.

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BY DR. MORRIS FISHBEIN Editor Journal ot the American Medical Association and of Hygeia, the Health Magazine. SEVERAL hundred years before the Christian era, the philosopher and physician Hippocrates said, "Growing bodies have the most heat; they therefore require the most food.” His belief was based on accurate observation, but more than 2,000 years passed before it became possible to measure accurately the differences between the energy requirements of the child and of the adult. During the first week of a baby’s life chemical changes that go on in its body are lower than those of the adult, and much lower than those of older infants and children. By the end of the first two weeks the rate rises approximately to that of grown-ups. From that time on it continues rising rapidly, until the end of the first year or the early part of the second year of life, when it reaches the highest point in the normal life of the person concerned. Then it declines gradually until a period just before the changes from youth to manhood or womanhood, at which time it seems to

WITH their World War wounds hardly healed, the people of Great Britain wonder what gunpowder obligations have been assumed for them by their statesmen in the secret pact with France. Fortunately for the American people, no administration can make a date for them to be shot at in behalf of some other country, without consent of the United States Senate. a a a After all all the money she has spent all these years for advertising on an inside page, it must make our old friend. Lydia Pinkham. boil with indignation to see Mabel Willebrandt get a million dollars worth of advertising on the front page without the expenditure of one cent. a a tt We are not surprised to hear that Benito Mussolini is not going to Gene Tunney’s wedding for Benito attends no functions merely as an onlooker. No weddings for him unless he can be the bridegroom. a a Oklahoma has the most wonderful record of any State in the Union; she has six ex-Governors living—and every single one of them at large!

Lest chords, unfinished symphonies, unended tales bring to mind Janet, whose story never has been finished. Did she take her baby and go West to marry the little one's father? Her ticket was for Kansas City. She promised the welfare worker she’d write about the wedding—but that was months ago! Janet's baby stopped a meteoric, and semi-criminal career. Janet joined a troupe of thirty young men and women headed by one Jasper, whose past bordered on the deep purple. His game was to canvass the country, getting magazine subscriptions for an eastern publishing company. Working just within the law, the scheme was to solicit subscriptions from door to door on a basis of a dollar down and the balance with the small notice left by the solicitor. Careless subscribers failing to send in their slips right away were amazed to find that their delay had caused them to lose both the dollar and the magazines. Sometimes Janet worked in a nurses’ uniform and was supposed to be securing proceeds from advance magazine subscriptions for a hospital fund. At other times she donned knickers and worked the factory districts. Easy money, e&sy ways bred loose habits. Young men and women

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halt, to decline temporarily, continuing then to the adult rate. The changes that go on are called basal metabolism, the method of determination being relatively simple and involving the use of an apparatus which carefully records the interchange of oxygen in the body. Practically all body chemistry depends on oxygen consumption. Out of every 100 calories of food taken into the body, some is wasted in the process of distributing the food to the various parts of the body, the remainder, being used in body activities. It has been observed that the metabolism of the baby may be raised 200 per cent by vigorous crying. The average infant will regularly raise its metabolism about 65 per cent in crying. Anyone who has watched the increase of the weight of the child with growth will realize that the amount of food taken in must be at least proportionately to the amount of weight added. The periods of greatest storage occur in the first year of life and again between the ages of 12 and 16 years. In the second period as much as ten to twelve pounds may be added in a single year. Obviously this de-

By Frederick LANDIS

HOWEVER, the denial by Curtis does not end the monmentous question, a Baltimore lawyer claiming that the vice presidential nominee gave him a drink from a bottle at a race track. But we don't believe this, for if Curtis had given a lawyer a drink that lawyer would have kept the bottle! a The mayor of Philadelphia wants to acquire the house where Betsy Ross made the first American flag. Now that the town has almost coompleted buying all the crooked politicians, it ought to buy the Ross place, if it has any money left. a a a Bandits hold up an lowa poker game and take not only all the money, but the trousers of all the players. It’s time to call the marines back from China.

traveling together day after daywell, what happened was that Janet began living with one of the young men. When the baby came along, Janet was left behind in Indianapolis while the troupe went on to fresher fields. Destitute, she sought the aid of the Family Welfare Society. Hospital care was given her and a home was provided until she was strong enough to leave. Her story came out and in an attempt to locate the responsible young man, the Welfare Society wrote to the Eastern publishing company, seeking whereaoouts of the troupe, and threatening an expose of a doubtful business venture. Came a letter back from the company saying that no one named Jasper was employed by them. But on the same mail Janet received a letter from Jasper and from hex lover imploring her to keep quiet and to join them in Kansas City This she begged to do. The boy had offered marriage and she wanted to go to him. What else was there to do? The ticket was purchased and Janet and her baby were put on the train. But that was months ago! Some problems have no solution, but the best answer possible under the circumstances is always given through YOUR COMMUNITY FUNIJ

mands a great food intake to" provide the needs of the body for energy as well as for the increased body structure. The experts have computed the number of calories per pound of body weight, and by the day, that children should take. The child under 1 year should have forty-five calories per pound; from 2 to 5 years, forty calories per pound; from 6 to 13 years, thirtyfive calories per pound; from 14 to 17 years, twenty-seven calories, and from 18 to 25 yeras, about twentytwo calories. In daily quantities, under two years of age approximately 1,000 calories per day are required; at 5 years of age, about 1,300 calories per day; at 10 years of age, about 1,700 calories per day; at 12 years of age, about 2,000 calories per day, at 14 years of age, approximately 2,500 calories, and at 17 for boys about 3,000 and for girls about 2,500. Any good book on diet written for the public will include a table of foods and the proportions necessary to provide 100 calories. Such information is fundamental to the seletcion of proper diets and the quantity of food to be eaten.

THE SENATE SAVES US tt tt tt LYDIA PINKHAM SORE tt tt tt HAS AL HAD A DRINK?

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NICARAGUA is going to prevent repeating by her voters by stanining their hands when they cast their ballots. If we tried this in the United States, our fellows would come up the second time and claim they had been hulling walnuts. tt Secretary Mellon denies that he is in the rum business, but he doesn’t deny that he has it in the cellar. He is the only member of the cabinet who takes care of his own furnace. tt * Harld McCormick, head of the International Harvester Company, says that his wife, Ganna Walska, maintains her own establishment in Paris, but it would be a mistake to infer that they are not synchronizing perfectly. There’s nothing between them, except the Atlantic Ocean. tt tt With so many saying Bryan, if alive, would support Smith and so many saying he would not, the only way to settle it is for Conan Doyle to call the Commoher on the long distance wire and have him issue a statement. a a a Now that Hoover and Curtis have declared that they have not had a drink the country waits breathlessly to hear about Smith. Millions of his devoted followers want to know whether A1 has had a highball, and if so, what it cost and where he got it!

The name and address ot the author must accompanv event contribution but on request will not be published. Letters not exceeding 200 words will receive preference. Editor Times—Consistency, thou art a jewel. When the airport site committee appointed a sub-committee from the Indianapolis Real Estate Board to apraise the different airport sites, they instructed them to appraise them as farm property. Whoever is responsible for their present values based them on their proximity to Indianapolis and their availability for platting purposes, forgetting entirely the farming phase of the affair. i We farmers get it in the neck, both coming and going, and are supposed to accept any price for our properties that a few city chaps offer us, and offer never a word of protest. I repeat, with more emphasis than previously, consistency, thou art a jeweL D. A. MITT.

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BY LUDWELL DENNY WASHINGTON, Oct. 2.—Friends of Candidate Smith will be pained to learn that the Republicans are getting ready to attack the one thing he boasts of most—his frankness. In this intervening month before the election G. O. P. orators will endeavor to get across to the country that Al’s pex-sonal platform as outlined on his western speaking tour is not what it seems, that he Is trying to goldbrick the voters. For two weoics Smith has been expounding his “prescription” for making this a happy and prosperous country in contrast to, what he calls, the awful mess the administration has put us in. By so doing he has given the Republicans something to shoot at. They propose to show that his prescription is quackery compounded of evasions. Here is the ammunition that will be used to shoot holes through Al’s "frankness”: a a FIRST is prohibition. In wet Milwaukee he makes modification a major election issue. In dry Omaha he denies that he believes "liquor is the great issue in this campaign,” and reminds his dry audience “there is nothing the President can do about liquor—all he can do is to recommend to Congress." In Milwaukee he proposes to solve the present liquor problem by amending the Eighteenth Amendment to the Constitution, although every one knows it is politically Impossible to induce both branches of the Legislature of three-fourths of the States to repeal or change chat amendment now, if at all. While insisting on the impossibility of Federal enforcement of nation-wide prohibition, he proposes State option, which would make t more difficult for dry States to enforce their laws. In view of the present undisputed dryness of Congress and the Improbability of quick modification, Smith pledges himself to honest enforcement in the interim. But what greater handicap could happen to enforcement, or, if necessary, to making a difficult change in the present experiment, than the leadership of a President avowedly opposed to the thing he tries to enforce and hostile to the experiment ? Second is farm relief. At Omaha he announced his conversion to the McNary-Haugen principle of farm relief, which the country including his own chief editorial supporters interpreted to mean his advocacy of the disputed equalization fee opposed by Coolidge and Hoover. Later he denied he was advocating the equalization fee, or any other specific machinery for disposing of the farm export surplus. This machinery which he now calls relatively unimportant compared with the “principle,” is to be left up to a commission of experts. But in fact the “machinery” is precisely what all the row is about. So actually he has no definite solution to offer now. Third is immigration. In his acceptance speech he opposed retention of the 1890 census basis of immigration quotas, which favors Northern Europeans rather than Southern Europeans, and which Hoover suports. But in his speech at St. Paul, where Scandinavian and other Northern European immigrants predominate, he apparently reversed his position by saying there was no issue between himself and Hoover on immigration. Fourth is intolerance. While attacking those who are trying despite constitutional guarantees to bar him from the presidency on account of his religion, he in turn tried to brand as bigots and as insincere persons. Everywhere who dares question his Tammany connections. Fifth is tariff. He is evading the tariff issue, though he is frankly appealing for support of big business and though his party platform deserts the traditional Democratic position to straddle in the direction of Republican protectionism. a a a NOW these arguments may be truths, half-truths or notruths. But they are of the type which, unless all signs fail, will make Smith's going much harder in the wind-up than it has been in the earlier stages of the campaign. When this campaigner, whom Senator Walsh calls the “happy warrior,” starts out next week on his second and final swing around the circuit he will meet two obstacles to happiness. He and his prescriptions will be an old story on his return engagement. And in the minds of his audiences he will find many wicked doubts, planted there by such shrewd and experienced spellbinders as Curtis, Hughes, Borah and a flock of others. Os course, that does not mean that Smith is beaten. Indeed, he is usually at his best when the fight is hottest. But it does mean that the fight of his life is coming to him soon.

This Date in U. S. History

October 2 1774—Henry Middleton of South Carolina elected president of the continental congress. 1780—Major Andre hanged as a spy after being convicted by a military board for treason. 1833—Anti-Slavery Society formed in New York. 1871—Arrest of Brigham Young at Salt Lake City, Utah, for polygamy. 1889—Pan-American Congress organized at Washington, D. C.

Daily Thoughts

For dust thou art and unto dust thou shalt return.—Genesis 3:19. nun IF I must die, I will encounter darkness as a bride, and hug ,t in mine arms.—Shakespeare. .