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Alas, Poor Yorick

How often have I seen the smile upon his lips, the flush of power upon his countenance, the sternness of regality when goblins ruled and hooded men did serve him. And now Governor Ed Jackson, because of political expediency goes into the discard. Or, to choose another metaphor, last night Harry Leslie, with perhaps ingratitude, tossed overboard the incubus of Jackson in order to sweep to a victory flight. Rather a desperate move for a Republican candidate to openly denounce a Republican Governor. And rot so desperate as late. This newspaper, independent always, congratulates Mr. Leslie on ridding himself, if he has done it, of the man who pleaded in the last stage of a criminal trial the cringing plea that the statute of limitations had prevented a jury from sending him to the penitentiary. But can Mr. Leslie throw overboard the Governor at this late date without losing a lot more of the ballast that has kept his Zeppelin rather close to earth? It is something of a victory that Leslie does not now believe that the statute of limitations shows proof of innocence. It may be unkind to remind him that last spring Thomas Adams, now indorsing him, called upon him to make this same statement and that the answer was silence. There are times of war. There are times of peace. In the primaries the Republican party was aflame with a very earnest desire to rid itself of all the influences that had disgraced it. The voters of that party, like shock troops, voted for Adams and Landis and Jewett and a few for Leslie. / And then came the convention where the old leaders of hate walked in the corridors and down the aisles, and out of the tumult and the chaos came Leslie. He was Leslie the silent. He was Leslie, who had prevented an investigation in the body of which he now claims he was Czar. It was the Leslie who now boasts that he balked Stephenson by illegal means. The people of this State happen to know who nominated Leslie. They know that it was the remnants of the old army of hate which put over Jackson, now so poor that not even Leslie does him honor. They know that on that State payroll from the one office which Leslie does' not dare disown are all the the old lieutenants of Stephenson. To jab at Jackson, the discredited, is cowardly. When, Mr. Leslie, will you disown Ilogston, who furnishes fodder for the grazing Stephenson herd? When will you disown Robinson, the protege of Jackson? When will you disown Watson —but of course that would be very easy. He has disowned you. When, Mr. Leslie, in plain words, will you be the decent citizen you would like to be and indorse Frank Dailey? Temperance Without Coercion It frequently is asserted that the consumption of alcoholic beverages in the United States was decreasing rapidly fcrior to the advent of prohibition. People were learning the wisdom of temperance. The men addicted to the excessive use of alcohol found it incrasingly difficult to get ahead in a business way, and the cup that cheers was losing its popularity in a social way. Apparently England is undergoing a somewhat similar experience, if the Daily Express of London is correct. The country rapidly is going dry, according to this Journal. In 1900 the consumption of alcoholic beverages was 32,239,522 gallons. Last year it was roughly a third of this amount. The Express estimates that where there werej 2,000,000 abstainers before the war, there now are 10,000,000. “This great social evolution is due partly to education, partly to the motor car, partly to experience, and partly to the increase in healthful amusement,” in the opinion of the Express. And, it might be added, the social evolution has been accomplished without the crime and violence and the breakdown of law that has occurred in other countries that have attempted the same reform through coercion. The Champion Nose-Buster With both the United States Embassy and the consul’s office officially represented at the Rome wedding of the late champion prize fighter of the world, the retired bruiser and budding literary and social luminary may be said to have been given an official American start in his new career in the world of business and the New York social register. It may be well to remember that though an American boy may become president, mighty few of them have the necessary qualifications of mind, muscle, lungs, biceps and heart to become champion nosebuster of the world. So it is still safer to emulate the character of George Washington than that of Gene Tunney. Suggested campaign song for 1828: “Whisper and I Shall Hear.” Just think what a wonderful cheer leader Mabel Walker Willebrandt would have made! C Loose conduct leads you into tight places.

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Peace Pacts and Dry Powder General Pershing and Field Marshal Viscount Allenby, deliverer of Jerusalem, speaking at San Antonio before the American Legion, gave the Kellogg outlawry of war pact their hearty indorsement, but warned that nations must be prepared to defend their interests. What a ghastly commentary on honor among nations! Each and every one of the great powers, Britain, America and the rest, just has signed the pledge never again to resort to war as an instrument of national policy, yet no well-informed person really takes them seriously. A gentleman’s word is as good as his bond, but a mighty nation’s formal treaties generally are expected to become mere scraps of paper if and when it sees where it can advance its own interests by tearing them up. So the speeches of the heroes of Palestine and St. Mihiel were neither hypocritical nor paradoxical, but coldly practical. Viscount Allenby is perfectly aware, ;he world being what it is, that Britain would not long survive were it not for her physical might, and General Pershing knows just as well that America would perish quickly were it known that her possessions and .other interests no longer would be vigorously defended. China is the perfect example of an unarmed state in a selfish world. She wants war with nobody, yet constantly is being picked on by everybody. Only the vague fear of the might of the United States has saved her from complete dismemberment more than once. The saddest thing about the advice of Pershing and Allenby at San Antonio is that it is sound advice. iVe would love to have it otherwise, but we can’t. For the United States to set op its navy and muster out its army would be to invite the fate of China. That the world is getting better there is no doubt. Some day, perhaps, there will be no more war, but one must be a dreamer indeed to believe that the millennium already has dawned. We may as well face the facts, therefore, ugly as ;hey undoubtedly are, and carry on from there. First, let us make sure we can defend ourselves against any possible outlaw aggression and then, second, work our way slowly and painfully toward that universal moral disarmament essential to national security sans arms. Boiled down to eight homely words, the San Antonio formula is: “Plug for peace, but keep your powder dry.” What Government Ownership Means Government ownership of such a vast enterprise as Muscle Shoals is the Nation’s safeguard against extortionate exploitation by the private power interests —power being a natural monopoly and thereby subject to the instincts of greed, to which private initiative is heir. So long as the Government retains ownership of such a power site, it possesses a club which it can use in event of need—in event that private interests get out of bounds. So long as it owns it can operate, and by operating it con estaDlish a standard by which the public may compare its rates with the private operators, and through that comparison keep the private utilities in line if and w'hen they become greedy. By such ownership private initiative can be both maintained and controlled. Accordingly, Hoover’s declaration for Government ownership of Muscle Shoals is an extremely important campaign development.

—————David Dietz on Science . Man Indebted to Jenner No. 177

FEW PEOPLE today realize what a scourge smallpox once was to the human race and how much mankind owes Edward Jenner. It was in 1798 that Jenner published the small volume which set forth his experiments with vaccination. Sir William Osier once remarked “From this date, small-pox has been under control.” T - if V-nfnr lie

scarred.” Jenner had become interested in the subject of smallpox while still a student. There was a belief current in Gloucestershire that people who had contracted cowpox from diseased cows never contracted smallpox. , Jenner mentioned this matter a number of times to Hunter and others of his teachers and later spoke of it occasionally to colleagues when he embarked upon his own practice. It was not until 1796, however, some twenty years after he had first become interested in the subject, that he put his theories to test. On May 14, 179 G, he inoculated James Phipps, a boy of 8, with matter from a cowpox vescile on the hand of Sarah Nelmes, a dairymaid, who had contracted cowpox. On July 1 he inoculated the boy with smallpox matter. The boy did not contract smallpox. The cowpox inoculation had rendered him immune. / Soon the fame of Jenner spread all over England, and from England to all parts of the world. His work was at first hampered by the fact that a number of other methods, wrong in theory and practice, almost immediately sprang into popularity and many of these -were used by physicians not fully acquainted with his iwork. But in spite of this fact, great progress was immediately made in the control of smallpox. In 1803 the Spanish government sent a medical expedition around the world to introduce vaccinaticn into every Spanish possession. The empress of Russia had the first Russian child vaccinated officially named Vaccinov and ordered that he be educated at public expense. The honors which came to Jenner were many. He was elected to membership in the most important scientific societies of the world. Vaccination was introduced into the United States by Dr. Benjamin Waterhouse, a professor at Harvard University. There has always been some opposition to vaccination and many sincere men are still opposed to it. The medical profession and scientists in general, are convinced that this opposition is based on faulty premises.

M. E. TRACY SAYS: “The Windy City, According to Its Health Authorities, Is Threatened by Nothing Worse Than Colds, arid Needs Nothing So Much as an AntiKissing Movement.”

WHISPERING” did not turn out to be such a wonderful issue after all. At any rate, both sides appear more than glad to drop it. They. also appear more than glad to drop prohibition, farm relief and water power. Things might have been different, if either of the two candidates had beeen willing to take such a cleancut stand as needed no qualification. Be that as it may, we are back to the tariff —the good old tariff, that has served as a last ditch since Jackson’s time. This year, however, the tariff represents a scramble, rather than an argument. The Democrats are just as anxious as the Republicans to convince the public that they will do nothing to the tariff. SS St ft Arrested for Idleness New Bedford police arrest thirteen radicals. Just why, is not so easy to understand. They are charged with idleness, disorderly conduct and no visible means of support. Such charges could be made to include a lot of folks. England treats radicalism differently. They are not only permitted to shout their wares from the foot of Lord Nelson’s statue, but to peddle pamphlets which would horrify us Americans, as Phil Simms graphically explains. In such a season of prosperity as we are now enjoying, it seems harmless enough to pick up a few radicals I on the ground that they are bums. ! It would not seem so harmless in a season of widespread depression and unemployment, when millions could be muzzled by threats of arrest for “idleness, no visible means of support,” or even that elastic offense of “disorderly conduct.” There is no doubt that the right of free speech can be abused until itbecomes a nuisance. It leaves room for loose talkers, as well as careful thinkers. Its abridgement is equally universal in effect. Shutting the soapbox orator’s mouth could easily be made a precedent for shutting that of a statesman. St tt tt Kissing Imperils Chicago Kissing has become a menace in Chicago, we are told, which sounds ridiculous. The gangs must have more than made up. At last reports they were not only glaring at each other, but using machine guns and hatchets on occasion. The Thompson-Dineen row left a distinct impression that Chicagoans hardly spoke to each other, much less kissed when they met. But now it is different. The Windy City, according to its health authorities, is threatened by nothing worse than colds, and needs nothing so much as an anti-kissink mo- ement. Twenty million dollars, one official asserts is lost annually because of interrupted work through colds, not to mention 2,500 lives. Chicago is to be congratulated on her jp-')us emergence from gang rule, is tough on her young people, however, to find themselves unable to express their new found happiness In the good old-fashioned way. *■ tt tt tt Poison Liquor Menace New York is less fortunate. She faces a flood of poison rum. Commissioner Doran says it is due to the fact that his minions have stopped the flow of foreign vintage. Other people disagree, but let that pass. During the last few days no less than thirty have died from bad liquor in the metropolis, while more than 200 have been taken to the hospital. Os ten autopsies performed at the morgue, all disclosed death as due to poison liquor. Police authorities and Federal agents are cooperating ing to suppress those speakeasies which deal in the deadly beverage. Other speakeasies, it is to be inferred, may continue business as usual. tt tt tt Lower Border Gates The Supreme Court decides that Canadians may enter this country for daily employment. In the old days when people walked, or drove to work, that would not mean so much. In these days when they can go in high-powered cars and airplanes, it may mean a lot. Many Americans commute for a distance of fifteen, twenty or even thirty miles. Such a practice along the border would permit the employment of many Canadians, which is all right, perhaps, but which does not square with our immigration pc’icy and its chief objective. Furthermore, it-is to be presumed that those rules which apply on the Canadian border, will also apply on the Mexican border if that is so, American labor will have little protection along the Rio Grande. tt a Improve Flying Safety During tile first six months of this year there were 390 airplane accidents in the United States, with 153 deaths. / During 1927 there were only 200 such accidents, but the death list totaled 167. The increase of accidents is obviously due to the more general use of airplanes, while the proportionate reduction of fatalities is just as obviously due to greater skill In their construction and operation. This conclusion is borne but by the percentage of airplanes that could be salvaged. Os the 200 airplanes wrecked in 1927, only thirty-three were worth i repairing, but of the 390 wrecked in the'first six months of this year, 218 were worth repairing.

It is hard for us today to realize how prevalent small-pox once was. Osier expressed it well once in addressing an audience. He said, “Thanks to Jenner, not a single person in this audience is pockmarked. A hundr e and twenty-five years ago the faces of more than half of you would have

THE INDIANAPOLIS TIMES

BY DR. MORRIS FISIIBEIN Editor Journal of the American Medical Association and of Hygeia., the Health Magazine. ABOIL is an infection of the skin. It usually follows a breaking of the skin, such as occurs when the back of the neck is contantly rubbed by a collar with a serrated edge. It is likely to occur on those parts of the skin that are covered by hair, since the hair follicles offer increased opportunity for irritation and for the entrance of germs beneath the surface of the skin. In some diseases, such as diabetes, the skin of the person seems to react unduly readily to infection and boils occur with great frequency in diabetics.

NOTHING could be more disheartening to those who dream of better international relations than for a government to descend to the level of a bootlegger, and Americans are amazed and disappointed to learn that Canada will opena liquor store on Pelee Island in Lake Erie, only four miles from the Ohio shore, and from this vantage ground deliberately solicit the violation of our law. It is astounding that our northern neighbor should value a little liquor money more than a continuation of the high regard of the United States. u tt Some chivalric southerners threw eggs at Congressman Bankhead of Alabama when he defended Governor Smith in a campaign speech. It requires higher mentality for a hen to lay eggs than for a coward to throw them. a tt tt Tennessee had a great guest when Hoover came to Elizabethton, and she heard a great speech, a speech as high above ordinary political clap-trap as constructive achievement is high above partisal expediency.

The name and address of the author must accompany every contribution but wi reauest will not be published, LetWrs not exceeding 200 word* will receive preference. Editorial Note: The writer of the undesigned letter, Milford Voyles, is custodian of the L. S. Ayres & Cos. store. He was one of five men handcuffed and bound to paper boxes in the basement of the store and while under bandit guard, broke the handcuff chains, and called the Indianapolis police, at the risk of his life. He also, as a witness, positively identified Thomas Touhey as the bandit who stood guard over the five men, and by his testimony prevented Touhey’s release on writ of habeas corpus filed before Judge Sidney D. Miller In Superior Court Room 3. and later aided the State in securing his conviction in the Criminal Court by the same testimony. Editor Times—lnfluences are at work to secure the dismissal of affidavits charging felonies in the perpetration of burglary in the city of Indianapolis by Thomas Touhey, now serving a sentence in the Michigan City State prison. It is understood that these efforts are directed with a view of the filing of a petition for the parole of this ' convict. Surely the officials of Marion County will assert their efforts to prevent the release of this prisoner one of eight gunmen, who feloniously entered the store of L. S. Ayres & Cos. the night of June 24. 1924, from tne roof of an adjoining building, held up and handcuffed five employes, blew open and looted three safes on different floors, packed $20,000 in cash in grips, all of which they left behind except $2,000, when they fled before the approach of the police. The operation of organized crime in Marion County has reached that stage where all right thinking citizens should insist that public officials assert not only a determina-

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] peated infections of the skin, such as pimples ana boils, are the result of generally lowered resistance of the body to disease. Such a lowering may come with increased fatigue, with bad diet, with constipation, with insufficient sleep and fresh air, and with geni eral deficiency in all of the health habits that are associated with good i hygiene. I Persons who have boils frequent- ! ly must try to keep the body in the i best physical state by establishing I good health habits and by having general infections in the ears, nose and throat, as well as the teeth, or elsewhere in the body promptly attended to. The advantage of applying heat to a boil is that the heat will bring

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By Frederick LANDIS

ARGENTINA’S team beat our boys playing polo on horsejack, but we don’t mind it half as -nuch as if the championship had jone across the Atlantic. In fact, the older brother of the western lemlsphere takes a certain pride in ;he achievements of the younger ooys. a a a It was bad enough for Grover Cleveland Alexander to lose that world series ball game, but it was terrible to be beaten by a fellow by the name of Pipgras. tt tt tt Life is a constant readjustment Df human values and the latest shift we have made Is to give all the convicts in Americt a higher ratiing than these New York theatrical people, involved in putting on this dirty play, recently dumped into the garbage can.

tion to ferret out organized crime, but to convict criminals of the crime that they commit and see that they serve their sentence when convicted. Why should Thomas Touhey be paroled? Why was not the case, No. 56,838, charging automobile banditry and cause, No. 56,840, charging robbery of the store of the Kiefer-Stewart Company by this same convict and others on the night of April 6, 1924, ever tried? Why have these cases been permitted to pend untried on the Marion County Criminal Court dockets since July 3, 1934? Is this the kind of law enforcement good citizens of Marion County demand? A stray bullet does not mean a thing to a gangster. Why should a citizen risk his life in the protection of property by sending timely warning to the police to secure the arrest of crooks, when the prosecuting attorney neglects to try the criminal for crimes which he by his affidavit charges him with committing? Why should a witness risk his personal safety to make the necessary identification of criminals at trials, il public officials do not exert a determined influence to see that gangsters serve their sentence when convicted. We read much in the daily press of sensational crimes and of crime probes by grand juries and the prosecuting attorney, but these will avail little, unless hardened criminals are tried for every crime they commit and forced to serve their time for every conviction secured Let us elect public officials on Nov. 6, who will make a serious business of law enforcement. Respectfully yours, M. B. *VOYLES, 1355 Olney St.

a good supply of blood to the part concerned. This will aid the destroying of germs through the natural defenses of the body and also aid in bringing to the spot the cells that wall off the boil. The opening of a boil is a serious surgical operation.. The boil should not be opened by any one who happens to think himself competent merely because he does not faint at the sight of blood. An improper opening of a boil sometimes results in spread of the infection to the adjacent skin, in causing it to be disseminated thoughout the body, and even in death. The opening of the boil and the after treatment are matters for the attention of a competent physician.

JUST A BOOTLEGGER tt M tt LAYING AND THROWING MABEL PUT BILL OUT

WILLIAM ALLEN WHITE is not going to make any more campaign speeches because while he was in Europe Mabel Willebrandt grabbed his part and threw the heaving bosom into it, so Bill's rendition of it is too tame for the customers. a a tt The League of Nations Opium Control Conference displays rare humor when it claims to be disappointed at Uncle Sam’s refusal to sit in on its 1928 farce comedy. We sat with them last year and were almost thrown out when we took the matter seriously and proposed a plan to stop the dope traffic, England being paiticularly offened. England is about as much in favor of stopping the opium trade as the corn borer is in favor of the quarantine. British scientists do not believe the statement of Sir Hubert Wilkins, who flew over the north pole, that there are people with tails in Australia. We don’t know about Australia, but we do know that this presidential campaign has brought forth a number of prominent agitators, entitled to wear them. u tt tt The arrival of the German Zeppelin next week, the first of the regular service, sets the sky aside for passenger and express service and the ocean for freight and incidentally it makes all naval power a last year’s bird’s nest. tt tt tt It gives you a cold chill to read of this minister of the gospel who told the stories about Smith's alleged drinking. The thought of receiving salvation from such a gent is as repulsive as the thought of receiving a dill pickle from one who has been handling snakes.

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OCT. 10, 1928

KEEPING CP With THE NEWS

BY LUDYVELL DENNY WASHINGTON Oct. 10.—Of all the many paradoxes ol thin confused presidential campaign, the sudden emergence of the tariff issue is the queerest. Along about the middle of October in every national campaign, tradition and the “rules of the game” require party strategists tc “spring a surprise.” The idea is that the voters after six weeks or so of hearing party pledges over and over again, and of hearing about faults of opposing candidates, are getting pretty weeary with tho whole show. So at about this time, as the campaign swings into the last lap, your party manager is supposed to revive the drooping voters with anew issue designed to waken the people and burn the enemy. Like most “rules of the game” this one has the slight fault of being no surprise to the enemy. The Democrats have succeeded though, after a fashion, this year. That is, the Republicans were expecting certain other last minute “surprises” but not this one. a tt tt NOW that Smith and Raskob have picked the tariff as the home-stretch issue, it is hardly a violation of confidence to report that the Republicans arc relieved and gratified. This tariff talk is welcomed by them like manna from the skies, a blessing unsought but eagerly pounced upon. Indeed the G. O. P. Is so well pleased with this Democratic surnrise, it is about ready to omit its own traditional surprise. There is no question that tariff is becoming the closing issue. Smith is going to discuss it at Louisville on Saturday, considering it so important from his campaign point of view that he can not wait until he gets back into the eastern industrial region to state his position. Hoover is going to use it as his theme at Boston next Monday. Senator Moses, eastern Republican campaign manager discussed it Tuesday, and is going to repeat again today at Plainfield, N. J., over a wide radio hookup. Curtis, Republican vice presidential candidate, is doing the same out in the West. Dr. Work, Hoover's campaign manager, let out a long blast on the subject today, replying to one by Smith’s manager, Raskob. Here is the paradoxical issue: The Democrats say they now accept the protective tariff principle, and only disagree with the,Republicans over its application. The Republicans answer that most of the Democratic party favor its traditional policy of tariff for revenue only, but that a few like Raskob are trying to “steal” this Republican protectionist plank. They add, of course, that if the country is to continue protection the Republicans can be trusted better to apply it. tt tt tt /"\BVIOUSLY this situation puts the Democrats at a decided disadvantage. Hence the question, why did Smith and Raskob choose to put themselves into what the Republicans call such a hole? The Republicans will tell you that Raskob had n6 choice, that he chose the lesser of* two evils when his scouts began to report that several western States and the industrial eastern States were in danger of blackballing Smith on the theory his administration would "reduce tariffs and increase unemployment.” Chairman Work’s letter to Chairman Raskob today was filled with personal jibes at the latter, such as these: “May I suggest that while as a Democrat you are only a few months old, the tariff policy of the Democratic party—one of opposition to the protective princnple—is more than a hundred years old. “If you were to undertake to get the Democratic candidates for Congress to join you in advocating a protective tariff, you would be abandoned by most of them.” tt a tt candidate (Smith) does X not make himself clear on the question. Does he approve the (Democratic) Underwood tariff law, as he indicated in his acceptance speech, and as he and his party did when it was passed, or does he condemn it?” But the Democrats think they can drive home to the voters that the Republicans have been administering the high tariff—now ellegedly acceptable to both parties—in the interest of monopolies, such as the Mellon aluminum “trust.” As Raskob puts it in his challenge to Work: “Os course I am well aware that, in practice, your (Republican) party has treated certain schedules as political footballs. For example, you have accorded rates practically at their own demand to such private monopolies as the aluminum trust. Your party has acted in many such cases with no regard whatever to the necessities of such monopolies against ruinous foreign competition.”

This Date in U. S. History

Oct. 10 1780—Connecticut offered its western lands to Congress. 1863—Lee began unsuccessful flank attack on Washington, D. C. 1883—Two-cent letter postage went into effect. 1911—California adopted woman suffrage.

Daily Thoughts

We all do fade as a leaf—lsaiah 64:6. tt it it AS sailing into port is a happier thing than the voyage, so is age happier than youth; that is, when the voyage from youth is made with Christ at the helm.—The Rev. J. Pulsford.