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Clean Out Cofflnism As imperative as the defeat of Leslie in the state and anew deal at the Statehouse, is the duty of Marion county to clean out Coffinism, which is responsible for much of the evil and disgrace. It would be a travesty to get rid of the Statehouse wreckers and permit Coffin, who gave them power, to remain in control of this county. The work of Coffin is Weil advertised and needs only to be remembered. It was Coffin who herded his hordes of hate behind Stephenson. It was Coffin who fathered the appointment of Robinson after Stephenson had gone his way to a prison cell. It was Coffin who was indicted with Jackson for attempting to bribe McCray, escaping a trial because of the statute of limitations which had been pleaded by Jackson. It was Coffin who put forward and elected Duvall, later convicted of obtaining office through violations of the corrupt practices act and forced to resign. It was Coffin who obtained from Leslie and the legislature the amendment to the city manager law through which Coffin hoped to extend the power of Duvall for two years and to prevent the people from obtaining the government which they desired. It was Coffin whose henchmen in the legislature lined up with Leslie to suppress the investigation of corruption. It was Coffin who sent Jackson to the Kansas City convention after the state Republican convention had refused to so honor him. It is Coffin who hopes to continue to rule, although he had voluntarily announced after his indictment that he would retire from political affairs. The people of Marion county have stood about all that should be expected from this boss. ■ Every man who owes his nomination to this boss should be beaten and beaten so overwhelmingly that the power of this so-called master mind of political manipulation will be broken and destroyed.

Hoover and Foreign Policy In his Boston speech Monday night, Herbert Hoover sketched a foreign policy for the United States which, for sheer simplicity and common sense, should commend itself highly to the people of this country. Steering clear of the attractively colored clouds of unrealities, he outlined a program of national and international action calculated to promote not only world peace, but that which makes the average man more secure in his job and happier in his home as 'well. Boiled down, the Hoover formula is this: The test of statesmanship is to make one’s country and one’s world a better place to live in. Every nation loses by the poverty of another. Every nation gains by the prosperity of another. And as prosperity thrives only in peace, as a practical proposition it behooves v.s to keep on the best possible terms with the other peoples of the world and to help them keep on good terms with themselves. Primarily, Hoover was not talking foreign policy to Boston. He was discussing our economic problems upon the solution of which, as he put it, “depend our prosperity, our standards of living and opportunities for a fuller life to every home.” But so interwoven are the fortunes of the various peoples of this sphere on which we live that his talk naturally revolved around our hook-up with the rest of the world—notably foreign trade, the merchant marine and the tariff. On farm and in factory, he observed, we are producing more than we can consume. This surplus must be sold abroad if we are “to insure continuous employment and maintain our wages” here at home. The ideal situation in business, he said, is to have regularity of production and regularity of employment, and the way to attain this ideal is to have the greatest possible number of customers for what we produce. The more foreign countries we spread our trade among, the more stable our production will be and the more secure our Jobs, “a security which reflects itself in the home of every worker and every farmer in our country.” If we had to suppress the 9 or 10 per cent of our : total production which now is sold abroad,” he .said, . “we might survive as a nation, but our whole standard of living would be paralyzed.” Shall we then wage a commercial war against the other countries? No, says Hoover. Trade is really not commercial war between nations. To the contrary, it is a “vital, mutual service.” We buy from foreigners the things we need but do not produce, and they buy from us the things which we produce, a procedure which reacts to the profit of the whole - international community whose increased prosperity we all share. As part of the vast prosperity machine which Hoover visions, he sees the merchant marine as indispensable, American owned and American operated. Without such shipping facilities of our own, he warns, American industrial and agricultural producers may see themselves cut off from their vital foreign markets or discriminated against as to freight rates to ■ such extent as to kill off our foreign trade. The farmer in Kansas can’t make a living lor : himself if shipping is lacking to get his crops to his market. The worker will be thrown out of a Job li the concern he works for has no way of getting the thing he makes to its foreign purchaser. The old local issues are mostly dead, Hoover concluded. The peoples of the world are too bound up : with the fortunes df one apother. World Issues are

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local issues. Foreign policies have become domestic policies. The world has shrunk until all the nations form a single community wherein war, poverty and suffering in any one part become the grief of us all, and vice versa. Tt is plain that these are the views of a man who doeu not see the world as through a keyhole. Smith On Federal Economy Smith misses the point. He spoke last night at Sedalia, Mo., on government finance, an important subject. He spent most of the hour ridiculing the Republicans for their excessive economy claims. What of it? Os course this administration and every other exaggerates about its economies, just as A1 does in boasting of his New York savings. Smith also emphasized the commonplace that federal departmental expenses are increasing. They should. This is a growing country. Such criticism of the Coolidge administration is on a par with Republican criticism of Smith for “trebling” New York state expenses. In both cases the point is not whether there is an increase, but whether it is legitimate. Ir. the Coolidge administration rising costs of government departments chiefly are not due to was;e, but to better and much-needed service. The agriculture department on a relatively small increase multiplied its aid to farmers. Would Smith cut down there? Under Hoover the commerce department with a modest outlay helped extend many-fold our foreign trade, as everyone admits. Would Smith reduce there? The fault of the Sedalia speech—and the very serious fault if it is an adequate revelation of Al’s mind—is that he appears so blusteringly unconscious of what the problem of federal economy is about. The problem is not that of the historical comparison in which Smith was entangled last night. Nor is it in the pins which Coolidge quite properly has been picking up. The problem is the staggering billions of dollars of added expenditure facing the next administration. Does not Smith know that the bulk of federal expenditure is fixed by payments on past wars and preparations for new wars; that much of the rest is for rivers and harbors, and other such public projects; and that none of this can conventional administrative economy touch? Does he not know that, in addition to the present high rate of expenditures, congress already has made heavy Increased authorizations for Mississippi flood control, federal buildings and roads, veterans’ compensation and hospitalization, inland waterways corporation, shipping board, the old naval construction program, and so on and on? These obligations have not been incurred by Republicans alone, but by bl-party votes in congress. More obligations are in the oiling; such as the fifteen or move new cruisers, the Great Lakes-to-the-sea waterway, and farm relief. Moreover, there is the charge for rapid retirement of the public debt, which Democrats have tried to delay. Those are the factors of governmental finance. They constitute together an infinitely complicated problem in financial and social engineering. That problem has precious little to do with Democratic and Republican dogmas or partisan bickering. It has a lot to do with the engineering ability of the next President. Smith, by his constant boast of campaign frankness, had prepared us for some kind of statement at least of how he proposed to reduce or direct government expenditures. By his splendid New York record he had led us to expect much more comprehension of federal finance than he showed last night.

Sour Milk Bacteria No. 183

LOUIS PASTEUR got out his microscope. On his laboratory tables stood two collections of test tubes. One contained material from the vats which were producing alcohol from sugar beets. The other contained material from the “sick” vats which were producing no alcohol. Pasteur placed a few drops of the foamy material from the healthy vats under his microscope.

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conclusion that alcohol formed in them only when the living yeast was present. Pasteur concluded quite correctly that De la Tour had been right. Here under his microscope he saw the yeast budding and growing just as De la Tour had seen it. Next he turned his attention to the stuff from the sick vats. He put a drop of it under the microscope. He stared in amazement. None of the yeast globules, budding and growing, were to be seen. Finally he noticed some funny-looking little gray specks. But he could not make out their nature in the confu; ed mess under the microscope. Finally he fished out one tiny speck and put it in a drop of clear water. Then he placed the drop of water under the microscope. The drop was filled with tiny little rod-like things, drifting about like so many logs on a river. They were far smaller than the yeast globules. This was only the beginning of Pasteur’s work. He got many more samples from the sugar beet factories. He examined them carefully. He not only looked at them under the microscope. But he also analyzed them chemically to find out what substances they contained. He found invariably that the material from the sick vats contained lactic acid, the same acid which is in sour milk. The material also always contained the curious microscopic rod-like things. And finally Pasteur came to the conclusion that these rod-like things must be alive like the yeast globules, that when they got into the vats their growth caused the yeast to stop growing and that whereas the growth of the yeast caused the formation of alcohol, the growth of these things caused the formation of lactic acid. It was a fine conclusion. But Pasteur was a good He knew that a conclusion was no good until it was proved.

M. E. TRACY SAYS: “In Every Field Except Politics We Recognize the Value of New Ideas, No Matter How Radical They May Be, but We Want No Lindberghs in Our Statehouses, No Isickeners in Washington"

Boston, oct. 17.— coolidge stood with bared head as the Graf Zeppelin passed over Washington. It was symbolic of relative values. Eckener and his associates have done something which may mean more to average men and women not only in this country, but throughout the world, than lies within the power of any political leader. His achievement may change one of the most important activities of life. Taking them at their word, the political leaders promise no more than a change in some routine detail "of government. Even that prosperity which some of them deny, and for which others claim credit, harks back to men of science and inventiveness. Democracy, when you come to think about it, is largely desirable because it guarantees human Ingenuity a fair chance to function. Without it, we risk suppression which might include more than Communist oratory and Ku-Klux Klaa propaganda. a tt a No Political Lindys Herbert Hoover drew large crowds at Boston and Governor Smith did the same at Sedalia, Mo., but they were small in number and perfunctory in their enthusiasm compared to the multitude that turned out to see the German dirigible complete her remarkable Journey. In every field, except politics, we recognize the value of new ideas, no matter how radical they may be or what they threaten with regard to existing customs. In politics we prefer to be cautious and conservative; we frown on experiments and doubt the wisdom of innovations. H< 'over’s strength consists chiefly in the fact that he promises to continue the government as it, and though Governor Smith began by emphasizing the desirability of certain changes, he now is trying to capitalize the same idea. We want no Lindberghs in our statehouses, no Eckeners at Washington, no suggestion that may upset the routine of government activities. n n Party Habit Tells The supreme court of Massachusetts has decided that the people can vote on the question of instructing their senators to petition congress for repeal of the eighteenth amendment. Paradoxical as it may seem, this decision is of distinct advantage to the Republicans. People now can register a protest against prohibition without voting for Governor Smith. Some of them will. Five people with whom I talked this afternoon mentioned it. I feel morally certain that one of them who intended to vote for Smith will not do so. Party pressure and the old habit is beginning to tell. Quite a few Republicans with whom I have talked, and who had about decided to switch, are beginning to look for excuses. I cannot get away from the idea that there will be rather less of a shift at the polls than has been indicated by the talk. a o a New England Candor There is more religion in politics to the square inch here than there is to the square yard in the south, but far less talk. What is more surprising, there is practically no illfeeling. The people of Massachusetts appear to have accustomed themselves to race and religious consciousness. The fact that an overwhelming majority of Catholics are Democrats and that an equally overwhelming majority of Protestants are Republicans is conceded with the utmost candor and without any cry of bigotry or intolerance. tt a a G, 0, P, Confident Having been saturated with the Democratic side of the picture by Senator Walsh Monday, I went to the state house for an interview with William S. Youngman Tuesday. Youngman has been treasurer and receiver-general of Massachusetts for four years. He now is a candidate for Lieutenant-Governor, which according to custom, buts him in line for the governorship two years hense. Beyond that he has been identified with the Republican end of politics for several years, and is said to be more familiar with the situation than any other man with the possible exception of Governor Fuller. Governor Fuller said at the Hoover meeting Monday night that the Republicans would carry Massachusetts by 200,000. While not disagreeing with this estimate, Youngman contented himself with the assertion that the Republicans would carry it. a tt a Reaction Sets In “The state might have been doubtful three or four weeks ago,” Youngman explained. "The Republican party then was in a state of complacency, while the Democrats were hard at work. Since that time con--1 *itions have changed. A reaction has set in. “Party workers have not only gotten the rank and file to register, but have ceated a surprising degree of enthusiasm. The metropolitan district, which includes Boston and thirty-eight other cities and towns, will show a Republican majority. “This leaves the contest to be determined between the outside cities of the state and its rural sections. I have no doubt but that rural sections will show their normal Republican majority, which is more than enough to offset all the Democrats possibly can gain in the cities outside the metropolitan district^,.

He found the drop full of tiny globules, yellowish in color. Within the globules were little moving specks. Soon he saw that little buds were sprouting from the sides of the tiny spheres. He recollected the work of the Frenchman, De la Tour. De la Tour, studying the beer vats, had ccme to the

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BY DR. MORRIS FISIIBEIN Editor .-ournal of the American Medical Association and of Hvacia. the Health Magazine. RECENTLY physicians who specialize in diseases of the skin have been seeing cases of inflammation which follow the handling of the rotogravure section of newspapers or the inks that are used in printing them. Dr. E. A. Oliver of Chicago collected records of fifteen cases of this character. In most of the cases the eruptions had appeared on Monday and Tuesday, so that the irritant substance had been handled on Saturday or Sunday. When the attacks were traced

THE W. C. T. U. of Wyoming warns its people to steer clear of cider after it is twenty-four hours old. Nothing could be more tragic than for a broad-shouldered Wyomian with hair on his chest, mountain lion scratches on his arms and tomahawk memories in his head to be led to his doom by a glass of hard cider! u it tt The Zeppelin will have to be fixed so It can rise and dip to avoid storms before it will be a success in transatlantic passenger service. There’s not enough margin between the storm-dodging bag and the swiftest steamer, and if there’s any difference in the seasickness, it’s in favor of the steamer. a tt The provision that senators and representatives were not to be responsible for their utterances In congress was intended to make them free to tell the truth as they saw it, for the benefit of free government. It was never intended to become a protection for one who indulged in personal defamation. tt tt a We hear a lot of political discussion about this and that, but one of the most important pledges the next President could give the American people would be to limit immigration from Mexico, then use all the forceOnecessary to patrol the Mexican and Canadian borders and stop the bootlegging of undesirables into the country.

Jix was a little-time juggler, onetime country lad, and all time “broke”. In private life, he was Just Sim, greatest juggler of the weekly deficit and the sweetest husband Helen ever had—so she said. He did a novelty act on a cheap circuit which included balancing a tew little things like a chair, an oil lamp and a jug, all atop a stack of stools. It was nothing for a young fellow with nerves like cast iron and muscles like steel. But one thing began to worry Sim the man and eventually to make telltale dents In the armor of Jix, the juggler. Helen, already in delicate health, soon was to give birth to an heir to the pair’s fortunes or misfortunes. The doctor at the last place shook his head over her condition and urged her to stay in a hospital there, but this she could not do. Leave her Sim? She guessed not! When they finally hit Indianapolis, the girl’s eyes were deeply ringed and told of a misery she would not confess. One night when the house was packed and Jix was waiting in the wings ready to go on next, a message arrived saying that Helen’s time had come; she had been taken to the city hospital. The curtain rolled down and rolled up again while Jix stood there staring at nothing. He had to go on! Mechanically he went through the gymnastic horrors that were

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definitely to the newspapers and the handling of these newspapers eliminated, the condition cleared up with the application of a simple lotion. The persons concerned were especially sensitive to the rotogravure inks. Most people who handle the supplements are not affected. The situation resembles somewhat that which followed the introduction of Mah-jongg into American life about five years ago. Many cases of skin -eruption were noticed following the handling of the Mah-jcngg tiles or the Mahjongg boxes by persons who were sensitive to the Japanese lacquer.

By Frederick LANDIS

THE fact that President Gomez of Venezuela has found it necessary to sentence 200 students of Caracas University to the chain gang for opposing his government is conclusive evidence that the Government of Gomez should be opposed. College students are wild about sor ? things but they have been the consistent friends of liberty, having tyranny and , rottenness wherever they found it. tt B tt It is not a very inspiring thing for Senator Couzens of Michigan to* plead iln a slander suit brought against him that his remarks in the Senate are privileged and he cannot be called to account for them. When accused of having done wrong, no thoroughbred anywhere along the line from the cradle to the grave will avail himself of a technical plea. a Physicians, attending the sessions of the American College of Therapy, tell us that a cold bath in the morning is the real fountain of eternal youth. It is also the main entrance to the cemetery for gentlemen with defective hearts.

part of his daily routine. Mechanically he prepared for his great feat with the chair, the oil lamp and the jug. And suddenly he forgot these idiotic three in a vision of Helen lying white and still and straight in a strange hospital. Down crashed the jug, followed by the lamp and the chair, and soon thereafter bv Jix, the “world's greatest juggler.” Shaken, his jaw cut and his wrist broken, he fled off the stage and left at once for the hospital. He fountl his fears were unjustified. Helen, though weak and exhausted, was expected to last out the fearful ordeal. With his own wounds dressed, he made his way back to the theater hours-later, to find that jugglers are not supposed to fail and that his contract had been canceled by an Irate manager. At the moment he didn’t care. Helen was safe and so was the baby! By the time she was ready to leave the hospital he had found another manager to take him on, but Helen was yet in no condition to travel and they were still decidedly “broke.” They found a friend in the Volunteers of America, and until Helen was able to join Sim with their baby she was sheltered and cared for in the Theodora home, an agency of YOUR COMMUNITY FUND.

The physicians studied first the composition of rotogravure inks; then in order to determine whether or not persons concerned were sensitive, 6mall amounts of the newspaper were applied to the skin of the back and the response of the skin determined. In sensitive persons, contact with the ink produced a redness and irritation within twenty-four hours. A soothing ointment resulted in recovery in ten days in every instance. An examination of the inks revealed that one ingredient known as para red is the irritating ingredient in most cases.

ONE- TERM PRESIDENT an a PATROL TIIE BORDERS a a a BEWARE HARD CIDER

THE elevation of spirit which has belonged to President Coolidge since his Black Hills renunciation of another nomination, is one of the best arguments for lengthening the White House term to six years and forbidding re-election. Every public officer should be guided solely by what he thinks is right, not by what he thinks is expedient, yet every one of them is influenced by the thought of reelection. But we doubt whether Mr. Coolidge will look back upon his White House tenure with much joy, for while he has had more than his share of glory, he cannot escape the idea that if he never had been President, his son and namesake might now be alive, for it was in Washington that he contracted blood poisoning. And Mr. Coolidge, being a human being, would rather have his son than have a billion White Houses.

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You can get an answer to any answerable question of fact or information by writing to Frederick M. Kerhv, Question Editor The Indiananolis 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 reauescs cannot be answered. All letters are confidential You are cordially invited to make use of this Would you please inform me of the address of Commander Byrd? Home address. Winchester, Va., or care of Bureau of Aeronautics, Navy Department, Washington. D. C. Who had the principal voles In the photoplay, "Parisian Nights”? Elaine Hammerstein was the leading woman and Lou Tellegen and Gaston Glass had the principal supporting roles. What newspaer has the largest circulation in London, England? The Daily Mail is the most widely circulated. It claims a daily circulation of 1,734,000. What is the value of a Mexican peso in United States money? 48.73 cents. What is the meaning of the Latin phrase “Sic transit gloria mund”? “So passes the glory of the world. Can a man who has once deserted rejoin the United States Army? It depends upon the facts in his particular case. The matter would have to be decided by the adjutant general of the Army, war department, Washington, D. C. What is the value of an American half dime dated 1852? 5 to 10 cents. On what day of the week did April 6, 1922, fall? Thursday. What is the largest city park In the United States? Fairmont Park In Philadelphia, Pa., area 2,648 acres.

OCT. 17, 1928

KEEPING UP With THE NEWS

BY LUDWELL DENNY VyASHINGTON, Oct. 17,-Sov- " let Russia has broken through the American credit blockade after eleven years. The General Electric Company recognizes Russia, regardless of the United States government. And where Owen D. Young has led, the state department sometimes has been known to follow. That is the significance cf the Joint announcemen t by General Electric and the Amtorg Trading Corporation of a provisional 11-year contract for electrical machinery involving possible long-term credits to Russia of $26,000,000. Russia needs diplomatic recognition. But she needs credit much more. Indeed the chief disadvantage of nonrecognition has been that it operated to prevent Russia getting long-term credits In this country. Thus the General ElectricAmatorg deal, in addition to creatting a stronger economic incentive for United States diplomatic recognition, makes such recognition relatively less imperative to Moscow. Furthermore, if Owen D. Young, and one of the largest corporations in the world are willing to trust the Russian government, may not other American banks and industrialists be inclined to follow? Nominally, there has been no industrial credit embargo here against the soviets, but there has been one in fact. The state department, with all its enmity and distrust of Russia, could not prevent citizens of a free country from trading with Moscow, though the department did request bankers to extend no financial loans. Thus the department’s ban, while limited nominally to financial loans, operated In effect to discourage industrial credits. Apart from this pressure, American firms naturally have been unwilling to do a large credit business with Russia so long as diplomatic nonrecognition prevented the regularization and legalization cf commercial relations upon which international trade and credit largely depend for protection. tt a tt THIS did not prevent RussianAmerican trade, but it materially restricted the abnormally large orders which Moscow wanted to place with American firms for giant industrialization. For the last five years Russia has been the largest single buyer on the American Cotton Exchange, and has placed many orders for agricultural ar.d industrial machinery—but always under the tight restriction of short-term credits. The Chase National Bank of New York and others mave floated this trade, usually with a six months’ limit and never with a credit longer than two years. Hence the importance of General Electric, with all its domestic and international business prestige, scorning the credit and diplomatic blockade and beckoning to outlawed Russia with a provisional five-year industrial credit of $26,000,000. But even this does not tell the whole story of Russia’s rapid commercial success in the United States. According to the figures of Amtorg, the chief Soviet trading organization here, total Russian-American trade turnover for the fiscal year 1927-28, just ended was more than $120,000,000. That was 30 per cent increase over the preceding year. It was a 300 per cent increase over the czarist year, 1914. Moscow’s third American success is its long-term contracts to supply about one-fourth of its total oil output to Vacuum Oil and Standard of New York. From this transaction Moscow gets $10,000,000 a year, and is able to laugh at efforts of Standard of New Jersey and the British trusts under Sir Henri Deterding to drive Russian oil from the world markets. tt a tt THE joint statement yesterday on the electrical credit follows: “International General Electric Company of New York and Amtorg Trading Corporation of New York announced today that they signed under date of Oct. 9, a contract covering supply of electrical apparatus for export to the U. S. S. R. The contract provides for purchase on the part of Amtorg of not less than $5,000,000 or more than $lO,000,000 worth of apparatus and material during the first two years. “Payment of 25 per cent is required before shipment of material and the balance is to be covered by trade acceptances falling due within a period of five years from date of shipment. Provision is made, upon satisfactory completion of purchases during the first two years, for continuation of the contract for a further period of four years involving purchases of not less than $4,000,000 annually. The contract and all acceptances bear unconditional guarantee of the Russian state bank.” This American material will provide equipment for numerous power stations and lines for electrification of Russia, the key to the soviet plan foj rapid industralization of that country.

This Date in U. S. History

Oct. 17 1683—First session of New York assembly convened. 1798—St. Croix river in Maine made northeast boundary of the United States. 1863—Lincoln called for 300,000 volunteers; draft to make up deficiencies.

Daily Thoughts

But foolish and unlearned questions avoid, knowing that they do gender strifes.—ll Tim. 2:23. a a tt FOOLS and sensible men aro equally lnocuous. It is in the half fools and half wise that the greatest danger lies.—Goethe.