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One More Day of Ignominy Harry Leslie has added one more day of ignominy to his record by refusing to apologize to the people for his attempt to gain their votes by a slander of Frank Dailey. Not even the reckless advisers of Leslie have persuaded him to repeat his charge in view of the immediate and prompt denial by Judge A. B. Anderson that they were true. So that the people may not be misled, they should remember that the charge was deliberately made, published in advance f.nd then broadcast by radio that Dailey had been negligent or corrupt as a prosecutor, and that he had failed to prosecute the politically corrupt until Judge Anderson had forced him to act and “kicked him to glory.” The people should remember, too, the statement of Judge Anderson, a Republican, whose Word is taken in this State and who will be believed as are few other men, that the statement of Leslie was untrue and that Dailey had been “vigilant, zealous and upright.” Leslie has been silent. Had he believed his own charges he would have had the manhood to say that he had been imposed upon. As it is, with day after day passing without apology or reiteration of bis charge he has branded himself as either cowardly or a deliberate slanderer. The people understand Leslie and the forces behind Leslie. They know that his one hope of success lies in such an overwhelming desire on the part of the voters to elect Herbert Hoover President that there will be enough timid souls, afraid to scratch their ballots, tc carry him into office. They know that his whole hope lies in a Hoover landslide and a fear on the part of the voter to lose his ballot for Hoover by attempting to vote for the Democratic state ticket and cleaning out the Statehouse. There is no reason why any Republican should vote for Leslie, even to be a “good sport,” as urged by Senator Watson, who hunted deep to find *mie reason for indorsing Leslie. There is every reason why the supporters of Hoover should vote Leslie. When he enters the presidency he should not be embarrassed by the thought that his popularity had worked against the redemption of Indiana. Leslie adds each day to the reasons for his own defeat. He runs away, runs from the scene of the political accident which occurred when he crashed into the reputation of Frank Dailey and called Judge Anderson as his witness. Scripps-Howard in the Campaign So much comment is appearing in the New York World, the New York Times, the Brooklyn Daily Eagle, the New Republic, and other publications, on the Scripps-Howard attitude toward the presidential campaign, that we are moved to ask our readers as well as the editors of those eminent journals to bear with us while we review briefly that attitude from the beginning. Last January, six months before the nominating conventions, the position of the Scripps-lloward newspapers was stated as follows: “First, that Herbert Hoover is the best-qualified active candidate for the presidency put forward in either party, by reason of his character, training, experience, and cosmopolitan outlook on national and international problems. . “Second, that Herbert Hoover among Republicans everywhere is the preference of the rank and file. “Third, having regard for the character and attainments of Governor Alfred E. Smith and his record of achievement as it accords with the liberal and constructive editorial policies of the Scripps-Howard newspapers, we considei him a desirable candidate for the Democratic nomination. “As between Hoover and Smith, we will support Hoover: as between a Republican like Dawes or Lowden, and a Democrat like Smith, we will support the Democrat.” Our thought at that time was that the first mission of independent newspapers was to use our influence to secure the nomination by both parties of strong presidential candidates. Such a mission successfully accomplished would assure that the country would be well served, no matter what the result in the general election. The people' would have a choice between two superior men rather than between two machine-made mediocrities. Both Hoover and Smith were nominated. Now, human beings are so constituted that no two individuals think altogether alike on all things. Accordingly, in this matter of editorial attitude toward political candidacies, it can not be assumed that everything about any candidate will appear perfect to the newspaper that is supporting him. The newspaper’s view of him therefore naturally must take into consideration all elements, those on which we think he is right, and those on which we think he is wrong—then strike an average, and ask ourselves, is this man in our judgment the best one available so rthe office to which he aspires? In that general conference, where Scripps-Howard editors considreed the 1928 presidential campaign, ample Lime was taken to size up not only Hoover and Smith, but every other possible candidate in either of the major political parties. Every participant in that editorial conference went there with an open mind and each spoke his mind. What were considered the strong and weak points of each candidate were analyzed at length. For example, in the consideration of Hoover, his attitude on prohibition and power were considered. It was understood at the time that we did not agree with him on prohibition, and that our position and his Li-

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position on power represented several lines of divergence. Smith likewise was analyzed, his record as Governor of New York considered and his stand on national questions. In some instances we found ourselves in disagreement with him and on some in agreement. The net result of the comparison of all men considered was that the best man to be President for all the people, regardless of all differences of opinion, was Herbert Hoover. With the nominations over, the campaign began. As it has progressed, we have found Smith taking positions with which we have agreed. On those positions we have stated our agreement. In other instances, we have disagreed with Smith and have so expressed ourselves. We wish that both candidates were perfect. But they are not. Neither is their environment. We don’t like Vare and we don’t like Tammany. We don’t like the Willebrandts, the Stratons and the Anti-Saloon League, and we don’t like the idea of a presidential candidate spending so large an amount of his precious campaign time proving he wasn’t intoxicated. We don’t like Hoover’s position on prohibition and we don’t like Smith’s on immigration. But, after tabulating all phases to date, the result remains the same. We believe that A1 Smith would make a good President of the United States. We believe that Herbert Hoover would make a better one—because, as originally stated, “of his character, training, experience and cosmopolitan outlook on national and international problems.” That is our position. * To some of our esteemed contemporaries who, through long habit of Intense partisanship, see only perfection in their candidate and only evil in the other, it may appear strange. But, this is the ScrippsHoward idea of journalistic and political Independence and public service. The Lesson of the Zep The world’s first commercial airship voyage across the Atlantic—or any other ocean—was completed successfully last night. Carrying a total of sixty persons, passengers and crew, and he German mall, the Graf Zeppelin, latest and biggest of dirigibles, has limped into port, and moored, after four and a half days In the air. It is estimated that she must have covered nearly 6,000 miles of land and water in her long swing southward over the sea. Some may find the feat disappointing. They will if all they were looking for was a dash against time. The SR-3, now the Los Angeles, built by the same concern and sailed by the same skipper, Dr. Eckener, did approximately the same course in 81 hours 17 minutes. The Graf Zeppelin, however, was not trying to establish anew record across the Atlantic, but something vastly more important to mankind. Its object was to >how the practicability of dirigibles as passenger, mail and express-carrying craft on regular commercial routes over the earth’s vast expanses of sea and land. This the big air liner has done, at least in part. To win public confidence completely will require many successful voyages. The train was hailed at first as a devil’s contraption in which only the reckless would risk their lives, and the dirigible, as a paying commercial proposition, need not expect to complete its conquest In a day. But a tremendous advance has been scored. Even the Graf Zeppelin’s so-called “hard luck,” the accident to her stabilizing fin and the strong head winds which she had to battle, will help rather than hinder in proving the dirigible’s case. Within ten years trans-Atlantic and trans-Paciflc travel aboard airliners doubtless will be commonplace, while in terms of the national defense /he merchant dirigible will be to the aerial fighting arm, the airplane, what the merchant marine is to the navy. That, we believe, is the lesson of the Graf Zeppelin.

• - —David Dietz on Science ■■■— Yeast Alive, Growing No. 182 LOUIS PASTEUR had promised the alcohol distillers of Lille that he would try to help them out of their business difficulties. Though he made no promise to the world at large, he was about to help it conquer some of the most important phases of the prevention and cure of disease. Many of the vats at the factories where alcohol was made from the pulp of beet sugar were “sick.” The

had been done by other scientists of which Pasteur undoubtedly knew. In all probability they furnished him with a clew for his investigation. In 1837, a Frenchman by the name of Cagniard de la Tour had made a study in the beer breweries. He took some of the foamy material from the beer vats and looked at it under his microscope., He found that he could see tiny globules of yeast and that these globules were multiplying, sprouting buds from their sides which looked very much like sprouting seeds. De la Tour came to the correct conclusion that the yeast was a living growing plant. Today we classify the yeasts as fungi, more specifically as among the fungi known as the ascomycetes. We know that as the yeasts grow they form certain substances which are highly active chemically. These substances are known as enzymes. It is the enzymes which change the sugars in the brew vats into alcohol. De la Tour, of course, knew nothing about enzymes, but he concluded quite correctly that alcohol formed in the vats only when the mixture in the vats contained live growing yeast. N Also in 1837, a very important discovery was made by a German by the name of Dr. Schwann. Schwann discovered that if you put a piece of boiled meat in a clean bottle and prevent any air from reaching it except air which had passed through red-hot pipes, the meat did not decay. But as soon as the cork was taken from the bottle and the meat was exposed to ordinary air, it began to decay. Schwann found the decaying meat full of microbes. He concluded that it was the microbes which caused the meat to decay.

M. E. TRACY SAYS: “The G. O. P. Has Little to Depend on in Massachusetts. Its Claim of Creating Prosperity Finds a Poor Reflection in Textile Mills Running Half Time, Wage Cuts and Strikes

BOSTON, Oct. 16.—Senator David I. Walsh, who is running for re-election and with whom I had a talk Monday afternoon, is convinced that Smith will carry Massachusetts. He says that the Democratic party in this state is united, well organized and enthusiastic; that the national ticket can depend on its maximum strength. Labor troubles in several centers have ptinctured the “prosperity” argument in the minds of many workers, he says, while religious intolerance has solidified the foreign vote in favor of Smith and alienated many liberal Republicans. But Walsh is more inclined to take account of difficulties than advantages. His calculation of the prospects is not based on argument as to why people should vote the Democratic ticket, but on reports he has received fr;-n various sections of the state and * ie registration returns. # Predicts Big Majority Senator Walsh believes that Boston will give the Democratic ticket at least a 100,000 majority, and that most of the other large cities, such as Worcester, Fall River, New Bedford, Lowell, Lawrence and Lynn, quite a few of which generally go Republican, will strengthen it by 60,000 or 75*000. He says that the French-Canadian vote, which is ordinarily Republican by a ratio of sixty to forty, will be 75 per cent Democratic, and that there will be a similar turnover among the Poles and Italians. What he regards as the most significant change, however, is among liberal Republicans, who, he declares, have become disgusted with “the pussyfooting and hypocrisy” of the present administration. a tt a Not So Sure Newspaper men with whom I have talked, are not so optimistic of Democratic success. Though conceding that Massachusetts may go for Smith, they say that the situation is too confused for any one to be certain; that in spite of an obvious drift of votes in his favor, the Republican habit is too strong, particularly in rural sections, to be lightly disregarded; that Massachusetts has not given a Democratic majority in a presidential election since the Civil war and that though Smith appears to have better prospects Ahan any of his predecessors, the race is still uncertain. Every one with whom I have talked, whether Republicans or Democrats, concedes Smith at least 85 per cent of the foreign vote, and the vote of a large group of educators and professional men, on account of prohibition and the part religious intolerance Is playing in the campaign. Even with the advantages, however, he is not sure of carrying the state. To a certain extent they have aroused and solidified the Republicans, have caused people who are ordinarily indifferent not only to take an Interest, but to go to work. This is markedly true of women. a tt a Abnormal Politically One hears Massachusetts described, as a normally Republican state by about 150,000. The truth is that Massachusetts is not normal ih anything pertaining to politics, least of all in majorities. In the presidential election of 1920, Massachusetts went Republican by more than 400,000. •In the senatorial election two years later, she went Republican by less than 8,000. In the presidential election of 1924, she went Republican by more than 420,000, In the senatorial election of 1926 she went Democratic by 56,000. Apart from the traditional habit of'voting the Republican ticket, the G. O. P. has little to depend on in Massachusetts. Its claim of creating prosperity through the protective tariff finds a poor reflection in textile mills running on half time, wage cuts and strikes. Hitherto the great industrial centers of Massachusetts have visiualizeti the protective tariff as their life blood, and no matter how opposed they might be to other party policies, that has been sufficient to hold their loyalty. This campaign finds conditions somewhat reversed. However other sections of the country may have prospered under eight years of Republican rule, Massachusetts industries find themselves littls better off. # it a Hoover Gets a Hand They do not blame, the Republican party for all that has happened, for the southward drift of cotton mills and the springing up of shoe factories in the west, but they have come to a point where they no longer believe in it as the source of economic salvation. This, coupled with a tremendous foreign population, Democratic control of several large cities, and an thor-ough-going party organization, give the Smith backers a right to be optimistic. But, as shrewd observers are careful to point out, the Republicans are not only alive to the situation,, but very much alarmed. They are working as they have seldom worked before, and they have a lot with which to work. Even in the city of Boston, which is recognized by both sides as Smith’s stronghold, Hoover received a tremendous reception Monday. Though his tour was through residential sections of the city, the streets were lined with people and five times as many applied for admission to the arena as it would accommodate.

pulp refused to ferment and no alcohol formed. Pasteur went to the factories. He filled some test tubes with fermenting pulo from the health / vats and othe’s with the material in the sick!' vats. Then he went back to his laboratory to see what he could do about it. Two important pieces of work

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BY DR. MORRIS FISHBEIN AT this season with the onset of many severe infectious disorders, physicians often are asked about inoculations against various infectious conditions. The most frequent question has to do with various vaccines or serums in the prevention of the common cold. It may be said that there is thus far not one vaccine or serum on the market proved to be of any virtue in the prevention of the common cold. The natural history of such infections is such that immunity created even by an attack of cold is very brief, so that it is reasonable to believe that inoculations are not likely to be developed that will be of service.

Vaccination against smallpox has been shown definitely to have virtue in protecting many people through-

THE happiest surprise of the autumnal season is the President’s assurance to the Episcopal conference at Washington that the world is getting better, for with the unveiling of the ladies and the wild stampede for pagan pleasures, quite a few felt that the race was headed in the wrong direction. The President should give his fellow citizens the exclusive information upon which his optimism is based. tt n tt Humor appears to come in wide waves, washing the shores of official utterance everywhere, for as President Coolidge was assuring the Episcopalians that mankind is climbing the golden stairs, Mussolini was addressing the muzzled press of Italy, assuring it that it was the freest in the world. tt tt It was a striking coincidence that on Columbus day, the four hundred thirty-eighth anniversary of the discovery of America, the German Zeppelin, establishing regular air transportation between the two hemispheres, sholud have been on its way to America. tt tt tt The American Legion knew its business when it adopted a resolution, recommending a single department of national defense to take the place of the war and navy departments and the placing of all aviation under one bureau. This will not meet the approval of the bureaucrats, but it will meet the needs of the country. a tt a Some say this isn’t Indian summer, but it looks like it and’beside there are more political Indians on the warpath than ever before in the history of American politics.

Together! Lfiughed in the rain. Together! Sang love’s refrajn. Together! As we’d both pretend It would never end Though it did. It couldn’t go on, under the circumstances. It wasn’t a question of love flying out of the window when poverty came in at the door, but it was a question of two young things marrying and trying to live on practically nothing a week, with the consequence that the things the boy wanted for the girl tempted him to provide them via someone else’s pocket, since his own did not afford them. He felt that the end justified the means, especially since his Maria soon was to have a baby. What is a judge to do in s’uch circumstances? The boy was as guilty as he could be. He had wilfully and deliberately taken what belonged to someone else, and it was necessary to sentence him for his offense. Because he was so yonug, and because this was his first offense, and because Maria, with her large dark

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out life against this disease, and in the vast majority of instances from five to ten years. It is regarded as good practice to be vaccinated against smallpox every ten years, and immediately in the presence of possible contact with a case or in time of epidemic. After a person has been vaccinated twice with a good vaccine and the vaccination has failed “to take,” it should be understood that the person is immune to smallpox. The use of vaccination against scarlet fever by the recent methods is still so new that it is impossible to say how long such vaccination will protect. A skin test now is used to find out whether or not the person is immune to scarlet fever. In the absence of such immunity and in the presence of contact with cases of scarlet fever, vaccination may be desirable.

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LANDIS

THE most emphatic proof of the looseness of party ties Is the prominence given to th'e declarations of prominent Republicans and Democrats that they will support their party’s candidate for President. In previous campaigns such support was accepted as a matter of course. * a u a It is estimated that more than two hundred thousand Chinese have been slaughtered in a religious war. For two human beings to fight over the origin of the universe Is a million times more absurd than for two cooties to quarrel over the origin of the World war. tt tt tt Mrs. Nellie Garnhart of Milan, 0., has enjoined a railroad from constructing a spur track to a gravel pit and thereby spoiling the beauty of Thomas A. Edison’s birthplace. Material progress has r.o more respect for the cradle of genius than a mole has for the grave of a hero. a tt tt This last month having been given over to declarations of political support by the millionaires of the country. let us devote the remaining part of the campaign to declarations by the common people, letting the artisians have a week in which to tell whom they favor, then a week for the farmers, and a week for the business and professional people.

eye*, was looking at him so, the judge put the youthful offender on probation, where he could be guided and watched over by an officer of law, that his development rqight be made along the lines of law and order rather than crime. In the meantime, the little family needed certain financial assistance. A job was found that the boy, an unskilled laborer, could fill. It paid better wages and promised a better future than anything he ever had before. He could see ahead to a brighter time when he could assume all the responsibilities of supporting his family. Until this vision became <a reality, the Catholic Community Center, called in to give emergency help, continues to look after the family’s needs and to see that Maria will have a healthy, well-cared for baby. Responsibility is being taught while a helping hand steadies them through YOUR COMMUNITY FUND.

Such Inoculation has not, however, begun to be as general as that against smallpox or the injections against diphtheria. In diphtheria the use of *oxinantitoxin to prevent the disease has become exceedingly general. In some communities every child has been inoculated and there were seven cities in the United States last year without a single death from diphtheria. The Injections against typhoid fever are supposed to protect the person inoculated from two to five years. These inoculations are also not recommended as a routine, but may be considered as desirable for a person going to travel in foreign countries, where drinking water, milk and food will be under suspicion, or if he is to take a vacation in the woods where he can not be sure of his water supply.

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UNLESS Hoover and Smith get busy before long on the stump they are going to be completely eclipsed by the running joint debate between Chairman Work and Chairman Raskob. These gentlemen were selected to serve as executives, but they have both turned out to be prima donnas. tt tt a The Valley Forge Park commissioh has had to protest against the parking of automobiles on ground containing the graves of Revolutionary soldiers. What an affectation for such coldblooded people to visit such a place as Valley Forge?

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A reproof entereth more than a wise man than an hundred stripes into a fool.—Prov. 17:10. A tt tt THE severest punishment suffered by a sensitive mind, for injury inflicted upon another, is the consciousness of having done it.— Hosen Ballou.

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BY LUDWELL DENNY YyASHINGTON, Oct. 16.—Smith * * thinks he has an ace left in his hand which will win sixty electoral western votes in the last round of the campaign. That ace is Senator George W. Norris (Neb.) Republican progressive heir to La Follette leadership. Norris is for Smith. Whether he formally will announce himself as such before election remains to be seen. But Smith managers seem confident he will.. If he does, he will swing many thousands of votes in the close states of Nebraska, Wisconsin, Minnesota, Montana and the Dakotas. There can be no doubt of that. Norris is rated the third and last of Al’s aces. The others were Raskob and Franklin D. Roosevelt. Smith from the beginning has had three major objectives to win as necessary to election. For each of these objectives, he counted upon an outstanding personality to help him. First, there is the necessity to banish the deep-seated “myth” that a Democratic administration is "bad for business.” Smith tries to do this by arguments. He points to the confidence which he holds of Wall Street and business interests in his home state. He pledges himself, moreover, to renounce the ancient Democratic principle of tariff for revenue only. But, knowing that personalities are more potent in a campaign that arguments, he needed a symbol of his friendship with big business. Hence his choice of the erstwhile Republican Raskob, head of General Motors Corporation, as Democratic national campaign manager. Second, Smith must carry his home state of New York with its forty-five electoral votes. Smith, a wet Catholic, was nominated by an overwhelming dry Protesan't convention at Houston because the dominant southern politicians of his party believed he was the only Democrat with a chance of carrying New York state and thus of carrying the nation. a a tt HIS own popularity as Governor of New York was not enough, however, in this close campaign. For New York in presidential campaigns is usually Republican.. That is, Republicans who scratch their tickets to elect Governor in “off” years have in the past stayed regular when it came to voting for a Harding on a Coolldge. To overcome this obstacle. Smith played his second ace; nominating the very popular Franklin D. Roosevelt as Democratic candidate for Governor. It is admitted on all sides that Roosevelt, who nominated Smith three times for the presidency and who ’served brilliantly as assistant secretary of the navy under Woodrow Wilson, will win thousands of votes for Smith. But even granting that Smith with Raskob and Roosevelt har Won the confidence of business men and assured himself a New York plurality—which, as a matter of fact, is not yet certain by any means—he still needs a substantial block of western farm states. Despite Smith’s belligerent, bid for farm votes in his first extended tour of the west, and his present speaking trip in the middle west, Hoover is believed by most observers to retain the edge in those states with the exception of Wisconsin. To win Smith must have not only Wisconsin but, say, three or four more of the northwestern states. Hence the Importance of Norris, who has more influence than any man living with the revolting farmers. Unfortunately for both Norris and Smith, the progressive leader is caught in a difficult position. He wants Smith elected. But he is even more anxious to assure election of western progressive senatots of three parties. These are: Republicans, Howell of Nebraska, La Follette of Wisconsin, Frazier of North Dakota: Farmer-Labor, Shipstead of Minnesota: Democrats, Wheeler of Montana and Dill of Washington. How can he help Smith without injuring the re-election chances of the Republican senators, Howell and Frazier? tt tt tt THE Smith idea Is that Norris should campaign for these senators as he is now doing, without specific reference to presidential candidates until the last week before the election. Then* after Norris has contributed his all to his progressive senatorial friends, he can and will announce himself for Smith—so the Democratic argument runs. Meanwhile Norris’ formal statement stands: 'lt must be perfectly plain that my statement) you would draw the conclusion In this presidential campaign that Smith on farm relief, foreign policy and water power, which I regard as the most important things, comes a great deal nearer meeting the progressive idea than Hoover does. . . , “But I am not going to take up the presidential candidates in this campaign for these progressive senators. . . . “I have not said what attitude (toward presidential candidates) I am going to take later.”

This Date in U, S. History

Oct. 16. 1768—Birthday of Noah Webster, American lexicographer. 1869—John Brown began a raid into Virginia to free the slaves. 1861—Every Missouri civil officer forced to take oath to uphold the Constitution. 1863 —General Grant appointed to command the western armies. What per qent of the population of New York is Jewish? The 1926 estimated population of New York is estimated at 5.924,000. The Jewish population is estimated at 1,643,000.