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A Civic Asset ' The Indianapolis baseball team has demonstrated its superiority in minor league baseball and the championship brings line and national advertising to this city. Any baseball team is a civic asset. It helps to give civic spirit. It furnishes, a rallying point of common interest. __ Men who may differ in religion, politico, taste in clothes, their preference for blondes or the right way to enforce prohibition will unite in cheering for the home team. It is always well to have something about which all can agree. But to have a team that came from nothing not only to a championship in its own league, but to the championship of the minor leagues is worth more. Here is something to brag about. And of course every one will be eager to tell James Perry what a line thing he has done for the city and how glad they are he cut loose with money to get enough good players to win the pennant. Those nice words are about all that Perry will have this year for his money and effort. It is rather lamentable that even in the championship series the attendance was not such as to give the owner any chance to recoup his loses during the season. It may be that the trouble is with the location of the park and the facilities. Eailv in the spring Perry tried to build a really fine park, but he received only opposition and no encouragement. One thing is very certain. Any enterprise that ads fame and value to the city but which is operated at a constant loss to its owners will not operate indefinitely. Certainly Indianapolis does not want to be a continuous object of charity and under debt to benefactors who spend their money to help its good name. Winning championships is fine business for the city. It brings pride and applause. But when those who bring fame and good will and better things are limited to applause, it only raises the question of whether Indianapolis is really worthy of championships.

Hoover on Muscle Shoals Herbert Hoover has strengthened his hold upon liberal voters by declaring for continued Government ownership and operation of Muscle Shoals. Hoover’s statement was made to a representative of the Scripps-Howard newspapers following his speech at Elizabethton, Tenn., in the Muscle Shoals region. In his formal address, he had repeated his opposition to government competition with private business as a general principle. "I do not favor any general extension of the Federal government into the operation of business in competition with its citizens,” he said. ‘‘lt is not the system of Lincoln or Roosevelt. It is not the American system. It not only undermines initiative, but :t undermines State and local self-government.” But he added these significant reservations: “Democracy, however, must be master in its own house. It can assure the conservation of our governmentally controlled natural resources in the interest of the people. It has demonstrated that by the power of regulation it can prevent abuse; it can and must control natural monopolies in full public interest. “There are local instances where the Government must enter the business field as a by-product of some great major purpose such as improvement in navigation, flood control, scientific research or national defense, but they do not vitiate the general policy to which we should adhere.” He declared to the representative of this newspaper, following his speech, that Muscle Shoals was one of those “local instances” to which he had referred. We believe that hundreds of thousands of voters in communities exploited through unjust electric rates by the private power interests will welcome this announcement by the man who probably will be the next President. And farmers, who have carried on the long fight for government retention of this potential source of cheap fertilizer, will welcome Hoover’s help. But regardless of its campaign consequences, Hoover’s statement will have wide effect. For Muscle Shoals long since has become the very spearhead and symbol of the people’s drive against predatory practices and aims of the power interests. That Anglo-American War The danger of war between Britain and America is as real today as it was between Britain and Germany back in 1905. So declares Commander Kenworthy, prominent British laborite, addressing the members of his party in convention at Birmingham, England. He was taking the present British government of Premier Stanley Baldwin to task for its so-called secret naval agreement with France and the impasse between Britain and America ever naval matters in general. “We are heading straight for the same tragedy as in 1914,” he warned. Without taking Commander Kenworthy too seriously—he is somewhat given to sensational speeches—it must be admitted that what he said comes too near the truth for comfort. War between Britain and America, of course, is entirely possible, hands-across-the-sea oratory after a good dinner to the contrary notwithstanding. The World War was about as “unthinkable,” before it burst upon us, as any war very well could be. Yet it happened, as a good many of us are aware. And so can an Anglo-American war happen if the same, pre-war variety of statesmanship is applied to the problems now confronting the two nations. The paths of Britain and America cross at a number of places. They cross on the high seas, in world trade, in the size of their navies, in the oil fields, in control of raw materials, there is even friction over

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war debts, and elsewhere in the most unexpected places. The World War, we have said, was one of those things which was too big and too terrible to happen. Yet it happened. And “happened” is the word. It could have been prevented, but wasn’t. It was not the result of any one gigantic provocation making war inescapable. It grew out of a dozen situations of years’ standing, which European statesmen allowed to drag along until what we might call “a state of mind”—a state of general public irritation and international suspicion and hatred—called for a showdown. The impossible and the unthinkable became the inevitable. It is thus possible for a war between Britain and America to “happen” in the same way, and to keep on patroting the phrase that such a war is “unthinkable,” without doing something to prevent it, is the surest way to make it certain. Fifty years ago, had the present situation existed, we should have had a conflict. It was British tradition to swat the head of any rival that showed above the horizon. The sudden rise of America would have provoked a British challenge and, quick to pick up the gauntlet thus thrown down, we should have found ourselves at war. Such was the nature of the diplomacy of those days. But the world has improved considerably since then. At least we hope it has. The question is, has our statesmanship kept up with the times? The secret of peace is there. If it has not. then we may expect trouble. What Commander Kenworthy and a good many others fear almost certainly will come. Surely, though, we can find statesmen in America and In Britain with sense enough to see a truth as big as a mountain at close range—that there are no problems between the two countries which can not be solved if a modicum of good will is used on both sides; that their interests lie in working together to make this the most prosperous and peaceable of worlds; and finally, that war would doom not only both peoples, but white civilization entire into the bargain. If we can't find such men, then we deserve to be doomed. France and Her Debt Boiled down, France’s attitude toward war debts appears to be that she wants Germany to pay her debt to France —reparations—but doesn’t want to pay her own to Uncle Sam. To put it another way, if Germany can’t pay her debt to France, then France would like to have us pay it. The debt situation appears to be working around in the French mind to where France thinks we ought to pay for the war and pay her something besides for having permitted us to help win it. About all that is left is to charge us with having started the darned war. / The M. E. Church, South The Baltimore Conference of the Methodist Episcopal Church, South, has decreed by resolution that pulpits are not to be used for political purposes. With Mrs. Mabel Walker Willebrandt exhorting the churches to enter the campaign on the side of Herbert Hoover, and with various church leaders throughout the country actively fighting Smith and enlisting church organization against him, this action is distinctly refreshing. The conference adopted this resolution: “In view of the present inflamed condition of the coun'ry, growing out of the pending political campaign, we deem it both wise and expedient to exclude from our conference and from our pulpits the discussion of these phases of the aforesaid campaign that legitimately may be considered as the committal of the church to a party political issue. “And instruct that the Board of Temperance and Social Service present to the conference a clearcut declaration of our historical position on tern- j perance and other social problems, that nc doubt ■ may be raised as to our stand in these matters.”

David Dietz on Science The Solid Foundation No. 175 OBSERVATION and experimentation have furnished the solid foundation upon which the modern practice of medicine is based. Many of the great names in the history of medcine are the names of men who brought the profession back to these things when it tended to lose itself in the entanglements of vague theories.

changes brought about by disease and was responsible for the establishment of many medical museums. He was the youngest of ten children. Asa boy he showed little interest in schooling and was sent to Glasgow to learn the trade of cabinet maker. One of his older brothers, William Hunter, had become famous in London as a physician and the bead of a medical school. Dissatisfied with life in Glasgow, John went to London to help prepare dissections in his brother’s school. Here his genius first showed itself and within a few years he had become an authority upon anatomy. Next he took up the study of surgery and in 1756 became house surgein at St. George’s hospital. He next served a number of years as an army surgeon, seeing active service. During this time he made many important advances in the treatment of gunshot wounds. In 1763 he returned to London to continue his career as a surgeon. He gave much time, however, to research, teaching and writing and soon became famous. In 1767 he was elected a fellow of the Royal Society and in 1776 he was appointed surgeon-extraordinary to the king. One of his pupils was Edward Jenner, who later became famous as th originator of vaccination. It was to Jenner that Hunter gave his famous piece of advice, “Don’t think, try!” _ Hunter spent much of his time in tse study of comparative anatomy, that is, the study of various forms of life. He made dissections of many different types of animals, Insects and plants, gaining thereby great insight into various functions of living organisms.

M. E. TRACY SAYS: “Health, After All, Stands Forth as the Most Desirable Objective, and Even Health Demands the Sacrifice of Innocent Victims That Society May Be Protected. 0

THE Smith crowd has looked another “whispering” preacher. Like fishing for tarpon, it should be lots of fun, but what good is a tarpon when you get one? Most sport is harmless, except that it diverts interest and attention. We are glad to see somebody go after the whisperers, but not without apprehension as to where the habit may lead. You know what golf has done to men, and bridge to women. By the same token, this whispering hunt could have an effect on Governor Smith. He might become so infatuated with it that if he were elected President and some old woman were to say something he did not like to a neighbor over the back fence, he could not resist the temptation to knock off work and run it down. Os, if some village wag made an unpleasant wisecrack, he might want to suspend the administration to hold a joint debate. a tt a Political Trends As the campaign grows milder, “whispering” gives way to trends. Most everyone is seeing them— Raskob, Work, Curtis, Robinson, Pat Harrison and the rest. Apparently, they contain little more truth than the “whispers,” and are far less disreputable. Their value consists in what they reveal concerning the wishes of those who see them. You can tell exactly how a man is going to vote by the trend he holds. A democratic trend invariably identifies a Smith Booster while a Republican trend just as invariably identifies a Hoover supporter. Thus far not a single individual has gotten his wires crossed. tt tt u All Lose in Strike The New Bedford Textile strike has been settled. A local paper describes this as a victory for the community, not for either side. That is wrong, of course. It is a defeat for the community and both sides. Everybody concerned has lost, and not all they will. The workers’ acceptance of a 5 per cent wage cut, where they wa**red no wage cut at all, and the operators’ acceptance of it, where they wanted a 10 per cent wage cut, justly may be described as a compromise but it does not repair th| damage. New Bedford has dropped something like $15,000,000 and six months time which can never be replaced. Worse than that, she has dropped her position in the textile markef which can not be regained immediately. The common assumption with regard to strikes is that, they cost nothing, except the loss of so much time, wages and profit, and that when the strike is over business can be resumed as usual. That may be true with regard to a monopoly such as the telephone or street car. It is not true with regard to any competing enterprise. a a a Ban Typhoid Carrier Frederick Moersch is labeled as a typhoid carrier by the New Yonc health authorities and sent off post haste to Riverside Hospital. He and his two daughters opened ar. ice cream parlor in Greenwich Village some six months ago. They were getting along all right until an epidemic of typhoid broke out in the neighborhood, sending some sixty people to bod and causing several deaths., After an investigation the doctors declared that Moersch was a carrier—one of those peculiar souk, doomed by fate to spread disease broadcast, though immune to it himself. It was the case of “Typhoid Mary Mallon” over again, and will be handled the same way. “Typhoid Mary,” you remember was discovered some fourteen years ago, since which time she has been isolated. Testifying in the suit she brought for liberty, one' doctor declared that if lot out she would cause more destruction than a hostile army. it a tt

One of these men was John Hunter, the British physiologist, who lived from 1728 to 1798. Hunter led medical men to view their science as one of the natural sciences. As Sir William Osier said he made all thinking physicians naturalists. He popularized :he study of -the an atomical

Safe-Guarding Health It is easy enough to put people like Frederick Moersch and Mary Mallon away, but what about their rights? What about Moersch’s two daughters, one of whom has just become a widow and a mother? What does society owe him or them, if anything? Other people have a right to protect themselves, but have they a right to do so at the expense of one individual or one family? Moersch and his daughters have committed no offesne, yet they must suffer that other people may be safe, must sacrifice their right to "life, liberty and the pursuit of happiness.” # n n Deny Personal Liberty “Personal liberty,” we explain, as though it were easy to understand, much less to guarantee; as though it depended on some political arrangement; as though people were not constantly being robbed of it by some caprice of inscrutable fate. The right to live—what does it prove when disease takes a hand? The pursuit of happiness—what does it include for a cripple or a paralytic? The battle to protect people against tyranny is not entirely one of law and politics. But for the doctor, the plumber, the chemist and the engineer, a good many of us would not be free as we are. Health, after all, stands forth as the most desirable objective, and even health demands the sacrifice of innocent victims that society may be protected.

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Skin Regulates Evaporation of Body

BY I)R. MORRIS FISIIBEIN Editor Journal of the American Medical Association and of Hyreia, the Health Magazine. r T'HE skin is the outer covering -*■ of the body and easily available for study, but most people know less about the skin than about their internal organs, and most of them know little about the lungs, liver and intestines. The skin has other purposes besides holding the tissues in. By regulating the water evaporation of the body it permits the human body to maintain a constant temperature, which the human body always does in health. Not only does it prevent water from passing into the body, but also dangerous chemicals, bacteria

Reason

LINDY made his first mistake when he got into this campaign. We do not mean that it was a mistake for him to declare for Hoover; we do mean that it was a mistake for him to declare for anybody. Having become a national institution, he should have played it out that way. He held up the light of inspiration to American youth and we are sorry he put that light down to grab a campaign torch, a a a Secretary Mellon tells FTance that what Germany owes her has nothing in the world to do with what she owes us. Andy may have wine in his cellar, but he has no bats in his belfry. a a a This American bandit who held up the Canadian train evidently became confused in his geography and thought he was in the United States. He now stands to get a life sentence and forty lashes, for Canada exceeds us In common sense more than we exceeded her in population. a a a This Chicago bandit who killed the policeman and now begs for a life sentence to escape the chair answers the foolish notion that criminals prefer death to imprisonment. They know that they will probably get out; they know that our sloppy sentimentality has taken the “F” out of "Life/* a tt tt Mrs. Margaret Emerson Baker, fresh from the Reno divorce mill, is right in saying that three marriages are enough for anybody and that she will swear off. The habitual idea is the thing; if you commit three crimes or three matrimonies you ought to be put where your power for evil is ended.

Thumb-Nail Sketches

The high-pitched chitter chatter in which Mrs. Jones and Mrs. Green had been engaged over the fence which divided their properties was changed suddenly to a low, ominous tone as their neighbor, Mrs. Barnard, marched steadily past. “He makes $31.50 a week and yet that woman goes out to do washings and leaves them kids to run loose all over the neighborhood!” Their whisperings did not reach Mrs. Barnard’s ears, but that was not necessary; she knew what they were saying about her. She knew what the whole neighborhood thought. But she was not one to confess publicly that her once kind husband beat her unmercifully when it pleased him and all but drank up the $31.50 a wee, causig hner to go out and supplement his income. She did not admit any of this until the Catholic Community Center had been notified that ti e Barnards were neglecting their children and had sent a worker to try to straighten out the tangle. Something else was apparent to the worker, too. Mrs. Barnard

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and other things not suited to the human system. The outer or horny layer of the skin is impervious. It is a dead tissue constantly sloughing away in the form of dandruff and this very sloughing permits the skin to throw off bacteria. The skin is thicker in some places than in others, being about sixteenhundredths of an inch on the palms of the hands and the soles of the feet, and about two-hundredths of an inch in the thinnest places. Few people realize that there are no blood vessels in the outer layers of the various layers that make up the skin. The blood vessels come to the lowermost layers and from them the fluid passes by a sort of seepage to the sweet glands that get rid of the fluid.

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By Frederick LANDIS

THIS is a dangerous year for babies to come into the world, their foolish folks being likely to name them after statesmen. But it’s now comparatively safe for an Indiana baby to be born in a political year, for we have learned that it isn’t safe to name one after a Governor until the Statute of Limitations has taken effect. Being absorbed in politics, most people overlooked the fact that the ship, America, plowed through a stormy sea and saved the crew of a sinking Dutch freighter, twenty seven of them. , Times have changed, for now piracy is on the land and chivalry is on the sea.

Times Readers Voice Views

The name and address of the author must accompany every contribution, but on request will not be published. Letters not exceeding 200 words will receive preference. Editor Times: Your editorial, “Smith’s Great Mistake,” appearing in your issue of Oct. 4, leaves me badly confused, including that portion of it quoted from a communication addressed to the ScrippsHoward newspapers. If a course of training in foreign lands is essential for a successful handling of the presidency, surely this idea represents anew line of thought in American politics as well as a radical departure from generally accepted standards. Cleveland, Roosevelt, Wilson and

looked like a tuberculosis case. The heavy washings in which she was engaged had done her no good, either. A clinic examination re vealed the truth: She was tuberculous and on the road to serious illness. A place was found for her at Sunnyside Sanatorium and under the careful supervision she began to improve. Meanwhile, at home, the worker had a problem on her hands: How to convince Mr. Barnard that sobriety must take the place of drunken brutality if the home was to be saved. With the departure of Mrs. Barnard for the hospital the man finally was shown that now he had a double responsibility. He must be both father and mbother to those youngsters—and he must keep sober to do it. By the time Mrs. Barnard came home the hands that once struck and abused her were busily engaged in building a sleeping porch in the house to help her in her winning fight against the white plague. Reconstruction in this family was possible because of YOUR COMMUNITY FUND

There are sweat glands to the amount of over a thousand in a square centimeter on the palms of the hands. Growth of Hair Hair is considered medically merely as an outgrowth of the cells of the skin. The hair consists of cells pushed out by the skin from an actively growing nest of cells beneath the surface. The hair material Is about the same as that of a callous or horny spot on the surface of the skin. The color of the hair is determined by pigments just as the color of the skin may be, these being controlled largely by heredity. People are brown-haired, blackhaired or blond, just as they may be white, yellow, red, black or brown according to their racial type.

SORRY LINDY DID IT n a a THE lIANDCAR COMING a a a BAD YEAR FOR BABIES

JAPAN has adopted the jury system for criminal cases, which means that where she once watched rival nations, she now will give her undivided attention to jury packers. a tt a The fact that the New York Sun and the New York Telegram have come out for Hoover, the Republican candidate for president, and for Roosevelt, the Democratic candidate for Governor, testifies to the growing feeling that national issues are as much out >f place in the selection of State officials as a hydroplane in a gravel pit. u a it We hate to see any Americans hissed by foreigners, but we are not surprised at the Italian outburst against the Tunney?. When a prize lighter attracts more attention than all the hardworking people of the world, any kind of an eruption is welcome! a u a Senator Caraway of Arkansas is to follow Senator Borah, which is not strange, as the handcar frequently follows the limited express.

Coolidge, all former Governors, by the way, and American trained, seem to have done very well as chief executives. Mr. Taft had more foreign political experience than all these gentlemen put together, yet his own party repudiated his administration in a most decisive manner. Regarding senatorial experience: The late President Harding’s administration resulted so disastrously that even Mr. Hoover, a cabinet member in that administration, so far has failed to as much as mention Warren G. Harding or his contribution to American history. On the other hand, he has been very generous in his praise of President Coolidge—an ex-Governor. Then again, if Senators rate so highly as presidential timber, why didn’t the Republicans avail themselves of Mr. Curtis as a standardbearer? Returning to the question of availability as between Mr. Hoover and Mr. Smith: It strikes me as being a rather difficult task to convince the average American citizen that a man who has spent the major portion of his life abroad is fitted better to serve the republic as President than one who has spent his life, both public and private, right at home among his fellow-citizens in a strictly American atmosphere. ELMER HOCKADAY, 847 Greer St. How can warts be removed from the mouth of a dog? Do not cut the warts in a dog’s mouth because the bleeding may cause them to spread. Tie a piece of silk thread around the large isolated warts and they will drop off in a few days. Smaller warts in the mouth may be removed by swabbing them three times a day with a teaspoonful of common soda in half pint of water, or vinegar, or tincture of irn chlride. Flat warts on the body can be removed by touching them with nitrate of silver.

.OCT. 8, 1928

KEEPING UP With THE NEWS

BY LUDYVELL DENNY WASHINGTON, Oct. B.—Four weeks before the election Hoover apparently maintains his safe lead in the Nation, despite Smith’s increased strength in New York State through the Democratic gubernatorial candidacy of the popular Franklin D. Roosevelt. Unless there is an unexpected fall in farm prices it does not appear from present reports that Smith can cut into the electoral vote of the grain belt enough to embarass Hoover. The exception is Wisconsin. There are other doubtful western States, such as Minnesota, the Dakotas and Missouri. But Hoover's chances of losing them seems to be less than his chance of taking away from Smith certain border or southern States. The major campaign factor, beneath all the heated debate ove> more controversial subjects, con. tinues to be improved business conditions in the country as a whole, which operate to keep the usual Republican majority from “risking a change.” Correspondents who have traveled with both candidates think Hoover’s speech at Elizabethton, Tenn., Saturday the most effective he has made. The correspondent of one of the most influential and militant pro-Smith newspapers in New York, after touring the West with Al, wrote from Elizabethton: “Herbert Hoover’s invasion of the South resulted in as fine a demonstration as the campaign has yet developed.” a it TTOOVER’S statement to Scripps- -*• A Howard newspapers, favoring government retention of Muscle Shoals, is expected to help him in Tennessee, in other border states, and indeed in most states of the country where water power and electric rates are local issues. Straw votes and press polls continue to show the Republican candidate leading by two to one, or by a large majority. Betting in Wall Street favors him at odds ranging from three to one to four to one Even money is offered that he wili get 300 electoral votes, which is 34 more than necessary for election. This rather general certainty of Hoover’s election with a comfortable leeway, may seem surprising in view of his opponent’s undoubted gains during the last week in New York and Wisconsin, which have a total electoral vote of 58. Republicans do not deny that Smith’s choice of Franklin D. Roosevelt as New York candidate for governor greatly increases his chances of carrying his home state, and therefore is one of the few majoi campaign developments so far as an indication of Roosevelt’s pulling power, two New York papers supporting Hoover have come out for him. '\T EW YORK republicans hope to , i offset Roosevelt’s strength, at least in part., by their stronger senatorial candidate, Alanson B. Houghton, ambassador to London, and by the State speaking tour of Charles Evans Hughes, former United States Secretary of State and former Governor. Wisconsin developments favor Smith, because his wet views are popular in such cities as Milwaukee, and because some of the progressive leaders are reported ready to throw as much as possible of the dominant La Follette vote to Al. From Hoover’s point of view this bad situation has been made worse by the National Republican Committee's recognition of the anti-La Follette local committeemen, and by threat of the Democratic senatorial candidate to withdraw in favor of Senator La Follette. The reason these Smith developments have not changed the national betting in his favor is that even yet he is not assured of carrying New York and Wisconsin, and that even those fifty-eight electoral votes would not put him within hailing distance of the presidency unless he also carried a dozen other doubtful States.

a a a A/TEUTRAL observers grant that J. x( Smith conceivably might overturn all the “dope” of the advance polls and carry half or most of the doubtful States. But they can not believe he will capture al! the doubtful States, which is practically what he would have to do to win For the sake of argument, rule! out Hoover's chance of picking up one or more Southern States, and grant Smith those solid 114 electoral votes. Then give Smith all the large Eastern seaboard doubtful States, including New York. New Jersey, Massachusetts, throw in Rhode Island, Maryland, Delaware, and Republican Finally give him the two most doubtful important Western States. Wisconsin and Missouri. Smith’s total then would be only 255 And that improbable total still i eleven short of victory, requiring three or four more of the smaller Western States to push him over. In short, nothing less than a landslide will elect Smith. Allowing for near miracles in the month to go, today there are no apparent signs of such a coming landslide.

This Date in U. S. History

October 8 1492—Columbus' crew threatened to throw him overboard. 1782—John Adams, American minister, concluded a treaty with Holland. 1869—Franklin Pierce, fourteenth President, died. 1871—Chicago fire destroyed 17,500 buildings; killed 200 and caused loss to property estimated at $200,000,000.

Daily Thoughts

The tree is known by his fruit —Matt. 12:33. a a a A bad ending follows a bad beginning.—Euripides.