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Party Responsibility Now comes the usual plea from the newspaper organ of the Republican machine to elect a straight. Republican ticket and get "party responsibility.” The argument is made that if Frank Dailey were elected Governor he would have a Republican Legislature which would do nothing at all that he desired and that he would be helpless. Scanned closely, this argument should be construed as a confession that the Republican machine in this State will never, even under stress of executive appeal and public opinion, take any of the steps for decency and dignity which Dailey would demand. The Times has a better opinion of the rank and file of the Republican membership than has this spokesman for its organization. It has a better opinion of the intent and purposes of the members of the Legislature sent here from counties and districts which are not under the fell influence of Boss Coffin and the other leaders who are linked with him. It does not go to the length of its latest appeal which would ask the voter that every Republican candidate for the Legislature be defeated in order to make the cleanup program of Dailey effective. If there be such a thing as party responsibility, then the Republican party in this State has much to answer for. Asa matter of fact it is because there has been no responsibility by the machine to the voters of the Republican party, that its name has been disgraced. If the party has been responsible, then it has forfeited its right to any sort of continuance of power. For that would make it responsible for the horse trade of Jackson and the sale of the Senator to D. C. Stephenson for the unusual price of $2,500. That would make it responsible for the j-Jackson plea of the statute of limitations after evidence had proved, some believed conclusively, that he had tried to bribe Warren T. McCray in order to control the prosecutorship of this county. That would make it responsible for the written contract which Congressman Updike made with D. C. fetephenson. That would make it responsible for the stealthy attempt in the Federal Court to indict the editor of this newspaper and Thomas &dams by means of a forged affidavit, whose purveyor is now under a felony sentence foi his participation. That would make it responsible, and there is ground for this, for the suppression of an investigation of corruption, largely through the efforts of Harry Leslie. That would make it responsible for the taking of commissions on deposits of State funds by former treasurers. That would make it responsible for political infamies which came to this city through Duvall and Coffin. The plea, of course, is the last resort of a desperate cause. The signs of the times point to a very earnest desire of thousands of Republicans to join the crusade of Frank Dailey for decency and dignity and common honesty in his State. If the Republican organization proposes to give bond for Leslie, who will give bond for the organization? The Common Sense of It Asking embarrassing questions of a candidate is an old trick. The purpose is, of course, to get the candidate in trouble; for embarrassing questions are asked only by unfriendly critics. It is easy to ask Hoover if he approves of Fall, Denby, Daugherty, Forbes, Sinclair and Miller; or to ask him if he stands on the whole record of the Republican party during the last seven and a half years. Anybody who knows anything of Hoover's record knows there is nothing in either his private or public career that would create the slightest suspicion that he is other than clean and honest. But he is running on the Republican ticket, as the nominee of the Republican party. He knows that there are sheep and goats in all parties, honest men and political crooks. But he isn’t going to attack his own party during a presidential campaign any more than Smith is go.ng to attack Tammany. It isn't common sense. By no stretch of the imagination can Hoover be jharged with any part in what happened during the Harding administration, even though he was a member of the cabinet. He minded his own business and made the Department of Commerce one of the most important in the Government and there was no crookedness there. - When Governor Smith encountered any sort of crookedness in the state government, he handled it like an honest Governor, but he hasn’t spent his time investigating into what Tammany might be pulling off in the government of New York City. He left that to the city government. In these two situations you find your political parallel. And that is why in the public mind the corruption charges offset each other. Tammany negates the Ohio gang—and vice versa. Charles Schw r ab says ‘‘no one can help being optimistic in this world of change.” Os course, Charley, il you’ve got enough of it. A
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The Penalty for Nonconformity The Government, It now appears, is opposed to granting citizenship to Mme. Rosika Schwimmer, the Hungarian peace advocate, because it fears her views .nay be adopted by others. The Court of Appeals at Chicago ruled that Mme. Schwimmer could not be barred from citizenship because she personally was unwilling to bear arms, and had said, ‘‘l would not kill another person, even to save my own life.” The Department of Justice, in appealing the case to the Supreme Court for the Department of Labor, includes this remarkable paragraph in its brief: ‘‘Because of her sex and age there is, of course, no possibility that the respondent ever will be called upon personally to bear arms in defense of this country; but she does not believe in other people bearing arms in defense of the country, and she is a writer, author and propagandist by profession. ‘‘She does not believe in organized government as we understand it, because organized government can not exist without military defense. ... If every citizen believed as she does and acted as she will, we would have no Constitution and government.” We disagree with Mme. Schwimmer’s ultra-pacifist views. But we can not see that they have any bearing whatever on her right to citizenship. Certainly we have not yet reached the state where it is necessary for the Government to protect us against the philosophies of extremists. The American people are neither nit-wits nor milksops, and Mme. Schwimmer is rated a brilliant woman. If she has anything to say, why not hear her? Furthermore, we are indeed unfortunate if it is necessary for a person to agree with the dogmas of the majority to be accepted as a citizen. Many sensible persons believe that the greatest incentive to war is the belief in its inevitability, just expressed officially by the labor department and the competitive preparation for it as a result of that belief. It is a fundamental of our theory of government that any person should be free to thing as he pleases, to seek peaceably to persuade others to his views. It is regrettable that the Government should violate this principle. An Unequal Race One of the most popular but unprofitable highway sports of Americans is the attempt to beat railroad trains to grade crossings. It is an unequal race. On a recent Sunday sixteen persons met death in the East in grade crossing accidents. Statistics compiled by the American Road Builders’ Association for the main steam lines only, show that during the last ten years 20,427 people have .been killed and 57,625 seriously injured in grade crossing crashes. The association holds that the chief reason for this astounding total of fatalities is the desire of the motorist to “beat the train to it.” Support is lent to this conclusion by the fact that last year 238 persons were killed by running automobiles head-on Into the sides of moving trains. It is not possible to eliminate all the 207,000 unprotected grade crossings to be found on the country's main lines alone. The more dangerous ones and those in congested districts, it is pointed out, can be done away with, but a great number must still remain marked only by warning signs and safety devices and still open for the careless or foolhardy to endeavor to negotiate in advance of charging locomotives. A mechanical man as a street car motorman is, being experimented with in Cleveland. It looks feasible. Many street car riders for years have >cen the most mechanical of people. A1 Smith is picking up statesmanlike ways rapidly. There's more discussion about his statement on farm relief than there was even over President 1 Coolidge’s “do not choose.”
David Dietz on Science.
Vegetative Force Myth
No. 173
SPALLANZANI believed that his beautiful experiments had proved that microbes must have parents. But Needham, the British experimenter, was not so easily silenced. Needham had heated mutton gravy and then let it stand for several days. When he examined drops of it under a microscope, they swarmed with bacteria. He insisted the microbes had come to life spontaneously from the gravy. Spallanzani believed that a few microbes were in
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flask. No microbes could be found in the gravy. But Needham, meanwhile, had gone to Paris and made the acquaintance of Count Buffon who liked his theory. So Buffton thought up an explanation to confuse Spallanzani. He said that the gravy and the various soups of almonds, seeds and so on which Needham used, contained a force. He christened this the vegetative force. It was this force which brought the microbes into existence. Buffon said that the reason Spallanzani got no microbe was because he boiled his gravies and soups so long that he killed the vegetative force. Soon everybody on the continent of Europe was talking about vgetative force and Spallanzani was furious. • So he started some new experiments. Buffon had said heat killed the vegetative force. Accordingly, he boiled soups for several hours in contact with the air. According to Buffon this should have killed the vegetative force. But at the end of several days, the microscope showed the soups to be swarming with microbes. Spallanzani had won the battle. He had definitely shown that it was contact with the air which let the microbes get in. All the talk about a vegetative force was nonsense. Spallanzani became more famous than ever. Frederick the Great wrote personal letters to him and made him a member of the Berlin Academy. Other scientific organizations throughout Europe conferred honors upon him.
M. E. TRACY SAYS: “The Idea of Preventing Corruption in Office in Any Other Way Except Arresting, Convicting and Punishing Those Guilty, Is Absurd.”
TUNNEY is married, the world series is on, Hoover’s campaign fund nears $2,000,000, the Democrats have Mrs. Willebrandt for an issue and all candidates think they are going to win. Unlike religion, sport refuses to mix with politics. For the next few days, our orators will take a back seat. What the American people want to know just now is whether the Yanks are better than the Cardinals. Judging from the crowds around bulletin boards, baseball is a better drawing card than either Smith or Hoover. Judging from the various conferences and conventions being held, people are looking to something besides politics for a solution of many problems. tt' a a Alibi for Crooks Ninety-eight per cent of all the industrial accidents are avoidable, we are told, but if they are avoided it will be through efforts, activities and arguments overlooked in this campaign. We are also told that the American people lose $20,000,000 annually through short measured gasoline. That is something else which was not made an issue. In fact, when you come to think it over, a good many of our perplexities, worries and bewilderments seem likely to continue, no matter which party wins. Some doubt, indeed, whether this election will end corruption in Government. The idea of party responsibility for theft, bribery, conspiracy to defraud, malfeasance in office, misappropriation of public funds and other ordinary, every-day offenses, is all right, except that it gives the crcoks a good alibi. What do the crooks care, if the party is going to be held responsible and made to suffer for their offense? If lit is only a matter of throwing an election and if they are allowed to get away with the loot, what can we hope to gain? If a man is a crock, he is just as disloyal to his party as to the government. The idea of preventing corruption in any other way except arresting, convicting and punishing those guilty of it, is absurd. u tt tt 50-Century-oid Crime Five thousand years ago King Cheops buried his mother. A short time qfterwards *her coffin removed from the original tomb and placed in a vault at the bottom of a 100-foot shaft. The shaft was then sealed up with solid masonry. A Harvard expedition has just burrowed its way down to the bottom of this shaft. The alabaster chests and other objects were exactly the same as when placed there fifty centuries ago. But the coffin contained no body, which leads Dr. George R. Reisner to reconstruct a curious and apparently undetected crime. He believes that the original tomb was rifled by workmen employed to seal it up, that they broke open the coffin and broke up the mummy in order to get the ornaments concealed in the wrappings, that guards discovered the .sacrilege and reported it to court authorities, that those authorities being afraid to tell King Cheops the truth, advised him that a robbery had been attempted and that while they had been successful in thwarting it, the safest course was to place his mother in anew and more secure tomb. a a a Honesty in the Mass Fashions change more than human nature. We do not rifle tombs these days chiefly because they contain little worth rifling, but where there is loot to be had there you will find the thief. The American Automobile Association reports that a country-wide checkup warrants the conclusion that the American people are losing no less than $20,000,000 anually through the short measuring of gasoline. Responsible oil companies and filling station owners are not to blame. They appear as anxious as the public to stop the dishonest practice which seems to flourish among helpers and pump attendants. Such a condition, while showing up age-old defects of human nature, reveals how they are being overcome by organized industry. People are rather more honest in the mass than individually. The reason is that they -watch each other. Great corporations may overcharge the public and earn unreasonable profits, but they seldom descend to common thievery. Very few robberies and still fewer murders can be traced to organized industry or politics. Whenever and wherever organization enters crime, it is purely of a criminal character. a a it Curing Criminals The same intelligence which has enabled us to develop organized commerce and industry has taught us tl?e wisdom of honest dealing. You find bank cashiers and tellers still embezzling, but you do not find the bank doing it. You find the corporation treasurer running away with cash or securities, but not the corporation. In all essentials, crime remains a person matter . That is why doctors, alienists and scientists have come to regard it as a disease in many instances. It has become common to hear of cases where apparently habitual criminal was paroled to some physician. One occurred in Staten Island last spring. Another was reported from Baltimore on Thursday. In this latter case, a thyroid operation was performed, and the physician in charge believes that a cure has been effected. (
the gravy to start with and that more had fallen in during the several days that Needham let the gravy stand. To prove his point, he heated gravy for an hour in a sealed flask and then let the flask stand for severay days. At the end of that time, he broke open the
THE INDIANAPOLIS TIMES
BY DR. MORRIS FIKHBEIN Editor Journal of the American Medical Association and of Hvgfia, the Health Magazine. SOMETIMES a family is found in which one or more of the family have five fingers instead of four. Sometimes a person is discovered with two joints instead of three on the fingers, and a thumb with one joint instead of two. Investigation reveals that these characteristics run in families. Cataract is a disease of the eye in which a part that is usually transparent becomes cloudy and opaque so that the person cannot see. In a study of hereditary blindness made by Clarence Loeb in 1909 he found 58 per cent of 1,012 children in 304 families subject to hereditary blindness from cataract, a number that corresponds to the percentage expected when normal people marry those with a hereditary defect
THIS is the 74th birthday anniversary of the late William C. Gorgas, formerly surgeon general of the United States Army. His fame does not rest on lives lost in battle, but on lives saved from yellow fever, and this is why twenty-four American republics honor his memory. He was a great doctor and a hemisphere was his patient. tt u a Sent to Cuba to rid it of the yellow plague, he proved that plague was caused by a mosquito and with kerosene, petroleum and enforced cleanliness he exterminated it, his discovery serving not only Cuba, but all the tropics, as well as our southern States, which until then had suffered from the imported scourge. a u u But for Gorgas, the Panama Canal could not have been constructed The French tried to do it, but 33 per cent of their men died from yellow fever and malaria, but Gorgas made the isthmus a health resort; the work was done and the oceans came together. He died in 1920, but he will be remembered as a benefactor of mankind. a u tt The only objection to the campaign picture of Hoover and Curtis is that the likeness of the candidate for President is much smaller than that of the candidate for Vice President.
You can get an answer to any answerable question of fact or information by writing to Frederick M. Kerby. Question Editor The Indianapolis Times’ Washington Bureau. 1322 New York Ave.. Wahington. D. C.. inclosing 2 cents in stamps for reply. Medical and legal advice cannot be given, nor can extended research be made. All ether questions will rective a personal reply, nsigned requests cannot b answered. All letters are confident!. . You are cordially invited to make use of this How are lavender leaves dried so as not to lose their odor? Lavender may be dried with little loss of the essential oil. Spread the leaves over a fine mesh screen or very thin cloth, so that you can stir them frequently, to prevent molding Keep them in a well ventilated room but do not put them in the sun or allow them any direct light. Who is the president of the New York Central Railroad Company? P. E. Crowley. Docs an American citizen need a passport to travel in Mexico? Not unless he is going by way of a third country. A certificate of identity in lieu of a passport is sufficient for direct travel in Mexico. Is collective bargaining and cooperative marketing the same? Collective bargaining is employed by associations of employees, not-
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Heredity Is Cited as Character Inf luence
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DAILY HEALTH SERVICE
Similar studies of congenital deafness and deaf-mutism show that these are also inheritable in this way. 'fhe investigators who have studied heredity in relation to feeblemindedness find that the great mass of this type of mental defect is due to bad heredity. If a feeble-minded child comes from parents both of w'hom are congenitally feeble-minded or who both have a great deal of feeblemindedness in their ancestry, that child is likely to have a double dose of the factor for feeble-mindedness. If a person comes from parents one of whom is entirely normal and one feeble-minded with many fee-ble-minded ancestors, it is probable according to Downing, that such a person will pass for normal, since feeble-mindedness is what the Mendelian Jaws of inheritance classify as a recessive character. If, however, such a person married
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By Frederick LANDIS
SENATOR BROOKHART of lowa states that Mr. Hoover asked him to go to President Coolidge and urge him to sign the McNary-Hau-gen bill. Inasmuch as Hoover openly opposed that measure, one is forced to conclude that Brookhart has been listening to some of the faries that Conan Doyle says are all around us. tt a a Patrick Hanley of Middletown, N. Y., just has been arested the sixtyseventh time for violating the liquor law. Pat is one gentleman who has the courage of his convictions. u u tt During his wedding ceremony, Prince Chichibu of Japan told the sun goddess, the imperial deity of the imperial house, just what was going on. The prince's word goes farther than that of anybody else we’ve heard of. u u u We cannot understand why Smith should speak about prohibition at Milwaukee, for it is no longer an issue there; it is ancient history.
Questions and Answers
ably trade unions, when negotiating with representative of employers lor wage increases, and changes in working conditions. Cooperative marketing is selling by a group of producers direct to manufacturers or consumers without the intervention of middlemen. How many Indians are in the United States? 354,940. What is the address of the Guggenheim Fund for the Promotion of Aviation? 598 Madison Ave., New York. Are the words, “Holy Catholic Church,” used in the Apostles’ Creed found in the Bible? What does the word Catholic mean? 'They are not in the Bible. The word “Catholic” in the sense used in the Apostles’ Creed means “general” or "universal.” What offices in the cabinet have been held by citizens of North Carolina? All North Carolinians who have served in the Cabinet have held the office of Secretary of the Navy They are as follows: John Brand under Andrew Jackson; George E Badger, under William Henry
one of complete feeble-minded ancestry, one-half of the children would probably be feeble-minded and one-half normal. In the days before the Civil War a young man, to whom Goddard, who described the case, gave the name Martin Kallikak, had children by a feeble-minded girl. Four hundred and eig’ descendants of this mating were traced and all of them were found to be below normal intelligence. Later this man married a good Quaker girl; 496 of the descendants of this marriage have been traced and all of them found normal mentally. The case described is the famous Kallikak case, which is mentioned in every modern discussion of heredity in human affairs. It is instructive as to the dangers of mating when some of the family have hereditary forms of mental disturbance.
BIRTHDAY OF GORGAS ti urn LISTENING TO FAIRIES tt tt tt AMERICA LOST THE WAR
POSSIBLY the most dignified campaign now being waged by any candidate for office is that of Anton Cermak. wet candidate for the United States Senate in Illinois, who is distributing bottle openers to the people. Tell this to the gentleman who wonders why we have crime. it a a Ambassador Houghton, just nominated for the United States Senate in New York, has a unique claim to fame. * When the American Legion went to the Paris convention, then visited London, Houghton amazed everybody by saying at the banquet that he hoped the Americans would not do anything to disgrace their country. tt tt Premier Poincaire of France declares that France cannot cut down her reparation charge against Germany until we make a corresponding cut in the debt which France owes us. In other words, after saving the life of France, we are to pay part of the German debt. It begins to look as if Uncle Sam had lost that war. it a u If there is one man in America, really devoted to his art, it is Norman Thomas, who is speaking all over the United States as the Socialist candidate for president.
rison; William A. Graham under Millard Fillmore; James C. Dobbin under Franklin Pierce; and Josephus Daniels under Woodrow Wilson. What language is spoken in Brazil? Portuguese. Did Georges Clemenceau, former Premier of France, ever make a speaking tour in the United States Yes, in November and December, 1922. He came here in an unofficial capacity. Docs France have a state religion? There is no state religion. The population is predominantly Roman Catholic. The Protestant population is about one million. llow old is the King of Italy? Vittorio Emanuele 111, reigning King of Italy, was born Nov. 11, 1869. What is the name of the executioner of Ruth Snyder and Judd Gray? Robert Elliott. What is the world’s record for the fifty-yard run for women? Six seconds.
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KEEPING UP With THE NEWS
BY LUDWELL DENNY WASHINGTON, Oct. 5.-What has become of that Smith attack on Republican foreign policy about which there was so much advance ballyhoo at convention time? Why hasn’t it materialized? Two groups of politicians are trying to find answers to these questions, the G. O. P. strategists and a Democratic minority. Smith has “run,out” on the foreign policy issue, critics in his own party charge. Two possible answers are suggested. Either Smith has discoveied that he and his party leaders are not as far from accepting the fundamentals of Republican policy as he originally supposed, or else he has decided that the administration’s foreign record is not sufficiently unpopular with the voters to make an attack expedient. Apart from such speculation regarding the cause of Smith’s attitude, it is a fact that: 1. After starting out with a platform and an acceptance speech which made foreign policy a major issue, the Democratic candidate has campaigned for six weeks almost completely ignoring the subject. 2. The Democratic party is split over foreign policy. Smith’s running mate, Robinson, is part of the wing close to the Republican position, as shown by Robinson’s record while Democratic leader of the Senate This split is also revealed by the conflicting views of such Democratic leaders as Senator Walsh of Montana and Senator Heed of Missouri. tt tt a SMITHS original complaint against the administration’s record, and a criticism which was expressed in the Houston platform, may be roughly exressed by the word imperialism. It was on this alleged basis that he objected to Republican policy in Nicaragua and the Caribbean countries generally. Another name for this alleged imperialism is “dollar diplomacy.” And now Smith’s critics within the party ask whether his general bid for support of “big business,” exemplified by his public appeals and appointment of Raskob of Genera' Motors as his campaign chief, means also that he has developed new sympathy for the protection of American foreign investments which Is the basis of Republican policy in Central America? Concerning American intervention in Nicaragua, Haiti and other Caribbean countries, it is recalled that this policy was at Its height under President Wilson and under Assistant Secretary of the Navy Franklin Roosevelt, whom Smith has just picked as New York gubernatorial candidate. Party leaders are now trying to get Smith to devote qne or more campaign speeches to committing himself irrevocably to his acceptance speech pledge: “I personally declare what the platform declares: “Interference in purely internal affairs of Latin American countries must cease,’ and I specifically pledge myself to follow this declaration with regard to Mexico as well as the other Latin American countries.” u u a THOUGH these critics appear most hopeful that Smith will restate again this general positipu, It now seems improbable that the candidate will pledge himself to immediate and unconditional withdrawal of American marines from Nicaragua and Haiti. / Smith’s party is split also over the Kellogg multilateral pact to outlaw war with reservations, which is expected to be ratified by the next session of the Senate. This is recalled in connection with Smith’s campaign failure so far to develop his apparently critical attitude, expressed in his acceptance speech Then he supported all “real’* steps toward arbitration and out. lawry of war, but deplored the reservations of this and foreign governments which “materially impaired” such treaties.
This Date in U. S. History
October 5 1502—Columbus discovered Costa, Rica. 1787—Congress recalled the American minister, John Adams, from London. 1830—American ports reopened to British trade.
Daily Thoughts
Let your loins be girded about and your lights burning.—Luke 12:35. tt tt tt STRENGTH alone knows conflict; weakness is below even defeat and is born vanquished.—Mme Swetchine. Is the Stromboli volcano active? It is an active volcano on the island of the same name, one of the group of the Limpari islands, north of Sicily. Stromboli has been uninterruptedly emitting hot stones and clouds of stiam from the basin of molten lava since the earliest period of history. The lava in its crater rises and falls with a slow rythmical movement. At every rise, the surface swells in great blisters, which burst, and clouds of steam rush out carrying hundreds of glowing fragments of lava, often to the height of 1,200 feet. For centuries its glare at night has served as a beacon for mariners. Stromboli is almost in a straight line between Vesuvius and Etna and is supposed to be one on the same geological fault, but there is no evidence of any subterranean connection between them. Even during the the most violent eruptions of Vesuvius, Stromboli has continued its normal eruptions. It was in violent eruption in 1907, 1912, 1915 and and caused widespread destructJ^V What is the meaning of the Ferguson? It is Scotch-Irish, meaniiFi?.*’ / \ of a very young man,” fer