Indianapolis Times, Volume 40, Number 140, Indianapolis, Marion County, 1 November 1928 — Page 6

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Clean Up, Don’t Cover Up Every speech and campaign activity in behalf of the Leslie ticket should impress the fair and decent citizen of the- state that the plain duty this year is to clean up the state house and the Marion county gangs. The campaign against Frank C. Daily has been unfair, malicious and vicious in its whispers and suggestions. The spirit of Stephenson and the poison squads direct the Leslie activities. The indorsements for Leslie are dubious andsdoubtful in both sincerity and source. Whenever Senator Watson and" former Governor Goodrich plead for the same ticket in this state, the cautious citizen will place his hand somewhere near his treasures. At least he has a right to be inquisitive as to which one is being merely “a good sport” and which one intends to run away with the perquisites. The utility activities of Goodrich and the political manners of Watson should be a double warning to the voters of the state. "The truth is that the gang is covering up and intends to rover up the same practices and activities which have shamed this state and brought it into disrepute. Senator Watson says that the indictment of five men prominent in the machine means nothing. Perhaps not. . t may be mere accident that the political morals of the machine Produces with startling regularity the sort of officials who attract grand jury attention and who plead the statute of limitations after they have succeeded in dodging prosecution and investigation. The plain truth is that the Republican party in this state has been ravaged, outraged and kidnaped by experts who know how to play on prejudice and passion and who have no conscience about creating hates in every neighborhood, bad feeling between friends, quarrels between neighbors if they can retain the places of power. The Leslie candidacy came from this source'. It is of small moment whether the letter written by Stephenson that he had pledged himself to Leslie for Speaker in 1925 was genuine or not. It has not been denied. The truth is that the same gang which came into power with Stephenson dictated the nomination of Leslie. That is important. The plain duty of the voters is to clean up. It can be done by electing Dailey and with him state officials who will sweep out the hidden disgraces in every state office where they exist, and, with the exception of the attorney general’s office, there have been suspicions in most quarters. It is time in Marion eountly to destroy the power of Coffin and his hordes. It is a duty that is higher than partisanship. ' The best compliment that could be paid to Herbert Hoover is to relieve him of any responsibility of having carried into office those for whom he would later feel shame. Every admirer of Hoover has every reason to vote against those who are using his name to cover up and hide their own defects and shortcomings. The gang which fought him in the spring so viciously has nothing in common with his purposes or his principles. The best advertisement for Indiana would be the defeat of every man who trafficked with the old forces of hate or who owes his nomination to Boss Coffin.

Tragic Interference Prom time to time aviation develops new hazards that demand attention from public authorities. Flying never can become casual, like motoring, but always must be governed by rigid safeguards and regulations. Among them must be strict rules concerning those allowed to sit at the dual controls in passenger planes. Four deaths already have occurred this month which have been charged to interference with dual controls. Two women passengers and a pilot plunged to death in Denver a short time ago because, according to the deathbed explanation of the aviator, one of the passengers “froze” to the duplicate apparatus. Last Thursday a large commercial monoplane crashed at Atlantic City, killing one passenger and injuring the pilot and six other passengers. The pilot claims in a signed statement that the man who was killed “interfered” with the dual operating mechanism and prevented his righting the ship. Atlantic City police have criticised the pilot for permitting the passenger to sit in the cockpit and occupy a place where, whether from ignorance, carelessness or fright, he could bring disaster to the plane and its entire personnel. There is no definite or conclusive evidence that the passenger caused the accident. But that the practice of permitting passengers to sit at the sensitive dual controls in airplanes is rank folly can not be disputed. One inadvertent move may result in wholesale tragedy. The cockpit should be reserved for experienced pilots or else the second steering system should be locked against interference and made completely fool-proof. Nine guests whose wealth totaled more than ten billions of dollars dined at the same table in New York the other night. Maybe this was a serious conference—do you suppose their wives had asked for new fur coats? In a middle-western city at an anti-Smith meeting “They Kertgthe Pig in the Parlor” was suggested as a Governor Smith denies it's a blind wjfam

Where Have We Heard That Before? Governor Smith is known as a friend of labor. Therefore, the country has been waiting all through the campaign to hear his original proposals for improving the lot of Rmerican workers. Last night at Newark he told us his remedy: “I favor the adoption of a government program to prevent the suffering and enormous losses of unemployment: To that end the department of labor should be given the necessary appropriations and charged with the duty of collecting accurate and comprehensive information on employment in important industries,” he said. Where have we heard that before? Speaking in Newark, Sept. 17, Hoover said: “The department of labor should be authorized to undertake the collection of regular statistics upon seasonal and other unemployment. We must have this fundamental information for further attack upon this problem, from the further solution of which will come still greater stability and prosperity in the world of the employer and employe.” Smith’s second proposal last night was: 'T favor the adoption, after study, of a scientific plan whereby during periods of unemployment appropriations shall be made available for construction of necessary public work.” Where have we heard that before? Speaking in Newark on Sept. 17, Hoover said: "In my speech of acceptance I outlined our national programs of prospective public works. ... I there recommended that, so far as practicable, this work should be carried on in such a way as to take up the slack of occasional unemployment.” Smith made a third pledge last night: "If the Democratic party is intrusted with power under my leadership, you have my assurance that a definite remedy by law will be brought to end the existing (anti-labor injunction) evils and preserve the constitutional guarantee of individual liberty free assembly and speech, and the rights of peaceful persuasion.” Where have we heard that before? Hoover in his very first campaign speech at Palo j Alto said: "We stand also pledged to the curtailment of excessive use of the injunction in labor disputes.” Smith last night had no other labor proposals of note —except the hoary Republican panaceas of protective tariff and immigration restriction, and on neither was he definite as to concrete application. He was silent on labor’s demands for unemployment, insurance, old-age pensions, and a federal antichild labor amendment. Smith’s omissions are the same as Hoover’s, and his proposals are the same as Hoover’s. Back of the Power Issue Senator Borah of Idaho, who has been stumping the country on behalf of Herbert Hoover, revealed his position on the important power issue for the first time at Norfolk Tuesday night. Borah disagrees with both Hoover and Governor Smith. Smith, he holds, does not meet the problem, because he proposes only to have the government build and retain generating plants at power sites without providing for distribution of current. "Government in business” is bad, Borah thinks. He believes there must be either complete government ownership, control, operation and distribution, or private ownership with complete public regulation and control. Power sites, said the Senator, “are natural monopolies and belong to the public.” They should "be dedicated to the use of the public,” and not used “as the basis for great and speculative profits.”

—" David Dietz on Science ■■ Before and After Lister No. 196 BEFORE we lean realize the revolution which Joseph Lister, the British surgeon, brought about in surgery by applying Pasteur’s work to it, we must take a look at hospital conditions as they were in Lister’s day. I know of no more graphic statement of the case than two lectures delivered in 1915 by Dr. W. W. Keen, emeritus professor of surgery of the Jefferson Medical college of Philadelphia.

These two lectures were delivered before the U. S. Army Medical school. The first was titled "Before Lister.” The second was titled “After Lister.” Keen had been an army surgeon during the Civil war. He was an old man therefore, when he delivered the two addresses in 1915.

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“I congratulate you in this more enlightened age and as students in this fine school where you are trained and drilled in matters which we had to cope with in our stumbling way by dint of desperately hard work without guidance, often learning only by our bitter mistakes,” Dr. Keen told the students at the start of his first lecture. “I have been so very fortunate as to live during the whole period of the greatest revolution surgery has ever passed through. “How strange seem these words of Erichsen, the then foremost London surgeon and Lister’s early chief at University College hospital, uttered in 1874, just as surgery was on the eve of its very greatest triumph! “ ‘Surgery is in its mechanical and manipulative processes, in its art in fact, is approaching, if it has not already attained to, something like finally of perfection.’ “Anesthesia in 1846 and 1847 had robbed operations of the terror of agonizing pain. Quick, ‘slap-dash surgery’—a necessity before the days of anesthesia—then gave way to delicate, painstaking, artistic surgery. "Antiseptics thirty years later relieved the patients from the terrors of death and gave to the surgeon restful nights and joyous days. “Hence when I received the kind invitation to address you, it seemed to me that I could possibly render you some service by describing the state of surgery ‘Before and After Lister,’ since my testimony would be that of an eyewitness. “‘Before Lister’ and ‘After Lister’ in the surgical calendar are the equivalents of ‘B. C.’ and ‘A. D.’ of your common chronology.” A summary of Keen’s picture, of “Before Lister” will be given next. -

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M. E. TRACY SAYS: ‘U)ur Grandfathers . . , Were No Pikers When It Came to Taking Chances. ... If They Were Alive Today They Would Not Let Europe Run Away With Aviation.”

NOTHING does more to give life a mysterious, uncanny flavor than freak ideas and strang coincidences. Sometimes they merely matte us laugh; sometimes they shcck us beyond expression, and sometimes they lead to beliefs and fancies which shake civilization. Who started the notion that old women could create thunder storms by pulling off their stockings? It sounds harmless enough in these days, but it sent 10,000 grandmothers and more to their deaths on the gallows or at the stake. The human mind is a reservoir of curious whims and unreasoned imaginings, which would be enough if life were not a compound of chance meetings and hair-trigger impulses. More often than not the combination tempts us to be fools or devils, but once every so often it reveais us in a better light. U U M Love or Murder? Elfrieda Knaak is discovered leaning against a pipe beside the furnace of the police station at Lake Bluff, 111., her clothing burned and her nude body horriby scarred. Authorities jump to the conclusion that murder has been attempted and go forth to find the culprit. So would you had you been in their place. Meanwhile, Miss Knaak is taken to the hospital, where, in moments of consciousness, she explains that she did it herself to test her love for a man who says he did not even suspect that she had "a crush” on him. If this 33-year-old woman were an idiot, or moron, the case would be easier to understand, but she is not. She is not even simple, or uneducated. She has not only been a school teacher, but has attended two universities. A Chance for Genius Bert Ferguson, a New Yorker, 32 years old, has a cataract on his one good eye and faces the prospect of inevitable blindness. At the same time, Charles E. Greenblatt. also a New Yorker, 32 years old, finds it necessary to have his right eye removed because of a tumor. A brilliant doctor, noting the two cases, believes he can take the sound cornea from Greenblatt's diseased eye which must be removed and graft it on Ferguson's blind eye. This requires two delicate and almost unprecedented operations, but the doctor is unafraid. Ten days will prove whether he has been successful. If he has been, everyone will agree that the result represents another triumph for opthalmic surgery. Still, it would not have been possible but for the coincidence which caused two young men living in the same city, of the same age and with eyes of the same color, to be stricken with their respective troubles at the same time. Not as of Old The Graf Zeppelin completes her journey: not only the first dirigible, but the first airship of any kind to make a round trip from Europe to the United States. Still, there is no money in the United States for experimenting with dirigibles. We prefer to loan it at 5 per cent, or bet it in Wall Street. That is our privilege, to be sure, but it is not in line with our grandfathers’ viewpoint. They were gamblers right. They were no pikers when it came to taking chances. They put their savings into ships when the hazard was so great that insurance could not be obtained for love or money. They bet on the railroad when most people regarded it as a doubtful experiment. They bought Bell telephone stock when the majority considered it not worth the paper on which it was prfhted. m m m Half-Forgotten Hero Robert Lansing dies. Ten years ago few Americans would have had to think twice to recall who he was. Then he ranked next to Woodrow Wilson in popular favor. A veritable tower of strength when it came to pitting our case against the central powers. How glad we were to see him take Bryan’s place as secretary of state! An expert at last we told each other. Here was a man who could swap diplomatic thrusts with the best of them, who understod international law, as well as the tricks of the trade, and who was recognized as an authority throughout the world. U U tt Party Ignored Him Robert Lansing, like several other able leaders who helped Wilson steer this country through one of the most critical periods in its history, should have ranked high in Democratic councils during the last eight years. He had contributed substantially to the success of a Democratic administration and deserved a better fate than to be so completely ignored by his party. That, however, is one of his party’s butstanding weaknesses. It is forever turning its back on somebody, or something. Its record stands for nothing more distinctly than a continuous abandonment of leaders and policies. Just now it is glad enough to recall the greatness of Grover Cleveland, who went to the White House from Albany, but in 1896. and while he was yet President, it was just as glad to denounce him and all he stood for. Though he failed to make a lasting impression on the Democratic party, Robert Lansing made a name for himself as secretary of state which will endure as long as American history survives.

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DAILY HEALTH SERVICE Diphtheria Under Medical Control

BY DR. MORRIS FISHBEIN Editor Journal of the American Medical Association and of Hvffeia, the Health Macarine. LAST year there were seven cities in the United States without a single death from diphtheria. Here is one disease for which medical science knows definitely the cause, the means of transmission, the method of prevention, and for which medicine has a specific method of cure. Whether diphtheria occurs in a family and whether a case is fatal depends largely on the willingness of human beings to avail themselves of the advance of medical science in the control of disease. In 1924 the city of Youngstown and Mahoning county in Ohio were selected for a demonstration of the effectiveness of immunization

Reason

HERE'S to Mme. SchumannHeink, who is selling her $250,000 estate near San Diego and giving the proceeds to the disabled former war veterans of Minneapolis. She is a great character as well as a great artist; she can talk about making kraut between acts; she is not bughouse and this is more than can be said for most of the emptyheaded inhabitants of the world of art. mum The most ferocious enmity in the United States is that which Jim Reed has had for Hoover ever since the latter loomed upon the international horizon, and as Jim contemplates the probability of Hoover's election, then recalls his own retirement from the senate, the self-imposed inability to harass his favorite foe must give him high blood pressure. m m m The former kaiser appears to have great humor, a quality rarely dwelling in the same life with egotism. During the Russo-Japanese war, when Japan had both hands full of Russian whiskers and the Romanoff day was dark, the kaiser urged the czar to go to the front and lead his troops, yet when the German army made its last stand in the World war, instead of leading it, the same kaiser broke the speed record from Berlin to Holland. mum This radio expert may be right in saying that the words of Moses are swimming about in the ether and might be picked up some day, but if the people wouldn’t pay any more attention to them than they pay to the ten commandments which Moses procured for us, then it wouldn’t be worth while going out into the ether and lassooing any of his remarks.

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BY FABYAN MATHEY Clubs are trumps and South has the lead. North and South must win one of the six tricks, against a perfect defense. a m u LAY the cards out on a table, as shown in this diagram, and study the hands. See if you can find how North and South can win

against diphtheria, because they had the highest cas£ and death rates from the disease of any Ohio communities. The number of cases dropped from 1,070 in 1923, to 323 in 1924. to 108 in 1925, 64 in 1926 and 118 in 1927. The death rate dropped from 84 deaths in 1923 to 27 deaths in 1924, 17 deaths in 1925, 6 deaths in 1926 and 23 deaths in 1927. It has been pointed out that diseases tend to take on increased severity at certain intervals, and that we are now passing through a period in which diphtheria is more virulent than it has been in the past. The toxin-antitoxin method of immunization against diphtheria is not dangerous. With a properly standardized preparation, a compe-

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By Frederick LANDIS

THIS judge at Rockford. HI., who suspended the jail sentence of a drunken driver until after election day, so the defendant can help us select a President for the United States, has a very keen appreciation of the wisdom essential to the running of a republic. m m m • Federal Judge Borah decided that a federal immigration agent hunting for an alien had no right to arrest a man he found violating the liquor law. This is as if a policeman, sent out to arerst a man for house-breaking, would be helpless to stop the man. if he found him setting the house on fire. The more you see of courts, the more you think of feeble-minded homes.

Questions and Answers

You can *et an answer to any answerable question ot lact or Information by writing to Frederick M. Kerby. Question Editor The Indianapolis Times’ Washington Bureau. 1322 New York Ave.. Wahington. D. C.. inclosing 2 cents In stamps for reply. Medical and legal advice cannot be given, nor can extended research be made All ether Questions will rectlve a personal reply nslgned requests cannot be answered. All letters are confidential You are cordially Invited to make use of this How is wheat flour milled? What is entire or whole wheat flour? Flour is milled from the wheat grain. In the old process, the wheat was ground between stones and sifted through bolting cloth. The modem process is one of gradual

one of the six outstanding tricks. Remember, there is only one correct solution. It is explained elsewhere on this page.

The Solution

TN this problem, which may seem L easy at first glance, an apparently ridiculous discard is the only possible way of arriving at the solution. South leads the king of diamonds. North discards the ace of hearts, and East trumps with the six. If East next leads a heart, with Wes trumping South’s ten. North will overtrump. If East first takes out trumps, then leads a heart. South will win the fifth trick with his ten and North the last trick with the ace of spades. But an opening lead of any card other than the king of diamonds will giye East and West all of the six tricks. (Copyright, 1928, by NBA Service, Ine.i

tent physician can give such injections with complete safety. The inoculation of more than a million children in New York City without a harmful result indicates the possibilities of this method. When a case of diphtheria does occur in a family, the saving of life depends on early diagnosis and on prompt injection of diphtheria antitoxin, the specific remedy for this disease. Any one who has seen a child strangle to death with the accumulation of the membrane of diphtheria in its throat and has been able to contrast this condition with the rapid clearing up when antitoxin is given early and in sufficient amounts will never hesitate to use this life-saving remedy.

SHE’S A GREAT WOMAN * m m JIM’S BLOOD PRESSURE mam KAISER HAD HUMOR

IF Smith really resisted the deportation of alien criminals, it's a horrible proposition, but not so horrible as the known fact that politicians of all parties have a perfect understanding with organized crime. Chicago has lived under a thugocracy for years. mum It seems a shame that there was no v,ay to tell this African elephant and crocodile. Just shot by the Prince of Wales, of the great distinction which w r as heaped upon them. mum If congress can help the American farmer to such a great degree that it would justify Hoover’s calling a special session, the farmer naturally wonders why congress has not saved his life before this. mum The first thing China’s newly organized ministry of health should do is to stop England's importation of opium from India, but John Bull probably would go to war to force dope upon the yellw hordes, as he did once before.

reduction. The wheat is cleaned, moistened and crushed between pairs of steel rollers, each pair being set closer than the pair before. The bran and germ are flattened and may be sifted out. The brittle parts are returned to the mill. By repeated grindings and siftings a fine white flour is finally obtained, which does not contain all the valuable part of the grain. Entire or whole wheat flour is flour that contains all of the grain except the coarsest of the bran. What is Frank C. Dailey’s religion? He is a Protestant and is affiliated with the Methodist church.

This Date in U. S. History

November 1 1701—William Penn returned to England. 1762 —Benjamin Franklin returned again from England. 1765—Stamp act became operative in the colonies. 1864—Confederate dollar valued at 4% cents. 1864—Postal money order system inaugurated.

Daily Thoughts

Let ns not be desirous of vain glory, provoking one another, envying one another.—Gal. 5:26. m m m ENVY lurks at the bottom of the human heart, like a viper in its hole.—Balzac.

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KEEPING UP ■ With THE NEWS

BY LUDWELL DENNY (Copyright. Scrlpps-Howard Newspapers. 1938> WASHINGTON, Nov. I.—With discontinuance today of the British Stevenson rubber restriction system, one important source of friction between the London and Washington governments has been removed. Moreover, another cut in the price of tires is anticipated. Herbert Hoover, who. led the American attack two years ago against the British world price -fixing plan, was too busy today closing his campaign affairs and starting west to comment on the collapse of the rubber corner first predicted by him. But at St. Louis tomorrow he is expected to discuss the American farm surplus problem, which the British have described as similar to their rubber surplus problem. Hoover has been consistent in opposing the McNary-Haugen equalization fee for agricultural products, which is attacked by some critics as a “reverse English” type of the Stevenson plan. Though American officials and rubber men here are happy over the return for the first time in six years to "the law of supply and demand” in the rubber trade, there are disquieting reports of attempts by British and Dutch planters to initiate an unofficial restriction plan like the Stevenson act. It is admitted that th> British and Dutch control worli rubber production, and will continue to do so for five or ten years until the new Firestone plantations in Liberia and the projected Ford plantations in Brazil are ready to to** mum YYUT there is some skepticism here concerning the ability of British and Dutch to get together and stay together long enough to reduce world production and drive prices up. For there has been growing emmity and competition between those two groups for markets. Long before the British government announced it would discontinue the Stevenson regulation Dutch production and sales completely had disrupted the British attempt at world monopoly and price-fixing. Though Hoover, through his plan for American rubber manufacturers to utilize substitutes, originally was given much credit for spiking the British system, it is accepted generally that Dutch competition was the main factor. Dutch East Indian production was only about 95,000 tons in 1922, compared with a British Malayan output of 300,000 tons. But as the British reduced production and boosted prices, the Dutch increased output, until last year it was 225,000 tons. Asa result of this Dutch competition, the price of rubber, which had been forced up artificially to $1.21 a pound, fell to the present price, around 19 cents. The price is not expected to go appreciably lower, because discontinuance of the Stevenson system | has been discounted since last | summer, when the Nov, 1 date )of termination was announced. | Furthermore, the present price is i said to be so low as to discourage ! production except on large and well-managed plantations. mum A REPORT just received by the department of commerce from j a representative in British Malaya, states: "The average cost of production f. o. b. seaboard for the better managed companies appears to be around 30 cents Straits, or 17.1 cents gold a pound.” Commenting on the failure of the v Stev on plan, the department says : "What happened in the east provided a striking illustration of Hoover’s contention that devices of this sort are essentially unworkable, because they go counter to basic forces. "No would-be monopoly in rubber, or drastic rubber restriction scheme, can be made effective under existing conditions. There are, or will be, too many sources of supply. "Extensive plantation rubbergrowing is under way in Africa and is contemplated in Brazil. Then, too, there are substitutes for the true rubber tree. In our own American southwest we have the guayule shrub. We must not forget the investigations and experiments of Edison. It is quite possible that his researches will lead in a few years, to a large production of rubber from milkweeds.”

Mr. Fixit Advocate\ of Fresh Air Tells His Troubles.

Let Mr. Pixit, The Times' representative *t city hall, present your troubles to city officials. Write Mr. Flxlt at The Times. Names and addresses which must be given will not be published. An advocate of fresh air today told his troubles to Mr. Fixit. Dear Mr. Fixit—Do the people of this city ever think of such a thing as proper ventilation of street cars? I believe not. At least it doesn’t seem that way. Every street car on every street car line should have proper ventilation, not only on or two days a week, but every day, morning and evenings especially, when working people are going to and from work. I have ridden several different street cars and find they are all sadly neglected so far as ventilation is concerned. Can’t something be done to remedy this? Illinois car line should be looked after first inasmuch as they are always jammed. YOURS FOR PROPER VENTILATION. Mr. Fixit referred your letter to the Indianapolis Street Railway Company. Superintendent James P. Tretton promised to give it consideration. Dear Mr. Fixit—Will you please remind the garbage collector that he has missed us at Tenth and St. Clair Sts., since Aug. 3. PROPERTY OWNER. Truly Nolen, garbage collection superintendent, promised to care for your complaint.