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Leslie, Housecleaner

At the last moment over the radio, Harry Leslie says that he intends to clean house where it needs cleaning, if indifference and prejudice makes him Governor. The trouble is that Leslie, having had his chance to do something towards destroying the influences which corrupted the government, used his office to suppress investigation by the legislature, an inquiry that would certainly have resulted in impeachments. Before a legislative query, it would have been impossible for Governor Jackson to plead the statute of limitations and his story of the $2,500 horse would have been more completely told. It may be said, of course, that only since he received his nomination fro mthe aids and lieutenants of the dragons and goblins has Leslie come to understand just how badly the state needs a house cleaning and that he has only last night become converted, possibly by Frank C. Dailey, to the cause of good government. If that be true, Leslie should become specific and tell the people exactly where he intends to start. Does he intend to throw out Alfred Hogston, the fire marshal who is paying salaries from the people’s money to lieutenants of Stephenson who boast that they do nothing but call at the office and draw their checks? Does he intend to toss overboard the partners of Goodrich when they come to tell him whom to name on the utility commission? Thus far he has said that everything at the statehouse is the best in the history of the state and in the country. He has lauded Jackson and the rest. He has said that everything is all serene. It will be remembered that Senator Watson announced that he would lead a great “cleanup” crusade in the spring and redeem the state. He did it by denouncing Herbert Hoover and nominating Leslie. The way to cleanup is to really clean. The election of the Democratic state ticket, with the exception of Judge David Myers, who has stood for the constitution and who is threatened by the despotic dry leader with defeat, is the bast way to really accomplish what Leslie now admits needs doing. Summing It Up Election day is upon us. Campaign prejudices have run their course. The voter who is free and intelligent will shed those prejudices, and tKe up the ballot soberly, in the true spirit of democracy. Ten months ago, when predatory interests and reactionary politicians were trying to prevent the nomination of Herbert Hoover, this newspaper declared for his nomination and election. It declared at the same time that it considered Alfred E. Smith the best available Democratic candidate. When Hoover was nominated in Kansas City and Smith in Houston, a superior President was assured. Whether Hoover wins or Smith, the United States will have leadership likely to live in history. As between Smith and Hoover, we felt ten months ago as we feel now, that Hoover is the better man. Our choice was on a basis of Hoover’s superior experience and training in national and international affairs. That basic reason has not disappeared in the tumult of the campaign. Our support of Hoover naturally has been critical, because nonpartisan. We are not tied to him nor he to us. We are not in the slightest indebted to him; and he is not indebted to us. We simply share an obligation to the public interest. To certain Republicans and certain Democrats, our disagreement from time to time with some of our candidate’s policies has seemed unusual and inconsistent, but there is ro other course for a newspaper that is independent. For the journalistic issue involved is more far-reaching than consistency. An independent newspaper owes more to its readers than to its candidate. Its duty is to see all candidates critically and to discuss all issues critically and honestly, so that its readers may make their own decisions intelligently; to give light, that the people may find their own way. Here, then, is our critical summary: Foreign affairs: We feel that both Hoover and Smith have failed to give international questions the attention during the campaign that their importance justifies. But as between the two, in the vital matter of experience and training, Hoover’s advantage is clear. Hoover’s vision is world-wide. The very thing that has made Smith a great Governor of New York, his long concentration of attention there, has restricted his view of international problems, the future handling of which will determine America’s relationship with the rest of the world and all that such relationship implies in terms of peace or war. Domestic prosperity: Never have the economic forces that affect human society in America been so intricate and so interdependent, so charged with good or harm, so dependent on the understanding .of leaders of industry, commerce, labor and government. The breadth of Hoover’s understanding has beeil demonstrated by actual results in his conduct of the department of commerce. During the campaign he has revealed the reasons for that success—his comprehension of the relationship of high wages, mass production, waste elimination and labor-saving invention ot material prosperity. Therein his experience and his training again call for his election. Hydroelectric power: Hoover favors private development under government regulation, except in unusual cases such as Muscle Shoals, where the government, he believes, should own and operate the plant and produce power as a by-product. Smith advocates government ownshlp and operation of the plant for primary power purposes, the power to be sold to private companies for distribution. He refers to his plan as being approved by Owen D. Young, head of the General Electric Company, the most important man in the electric industry. As protection against a power monopoly, we do not believe either Smith’s plan or Hoover’s is sufficient. Faiure by either to restrain such a monopoly will, we believe, call for a system such as that employed in Ontario, whei;e the government distributes the power it produces. It seems obvious to us that government cannot restrain privat power monopoly by half-way measures through which the government, after spending public rponey to build the dam and operate the plant, must

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sell to that mohopoly at the latter’s own price. Power is, in part, an engineering problem. Hoover is an engineer. Smith is not. How far the government will have to go in handling this whole problem of monopoly will depend largely, in our opinion, on the future conduct of the power utilities themselves. Farm Relief: Hoover has stood out flatly against the popular but highly questionable McNary-Haugen panacea. On the basis of his record in aiding, through voluntary governmental co-operation, other industries to reorganize and find better markets, Hoover promises scientific, sincere, and speedy handling of the agricultural problem. To us this commends Hoover over Smith, whose tardy conversion to McNaryHaugenism, with an evasion of commitment on the equalization fee, has impressed us as campaign expediency rather than a practical answer to the great farm problem. Intolerance and Corruption: Many conspicuous bigots who Infest America have identified themselves with the Hoover cause. Though detesting such company, we do not consider that a reason for condemning Hoover himself. Hoover’s whole life and seivice have revealed the spirit of tolerance, and it is Hoover that we are discussing. Bigotry is not confined to any one political party or to any one group. The corruptionists and the tricksters in the Republican party have earned the public’s condemnation. Smith’s Tammany connection has been assailed by Republican speakers. But the records of both Hoover and Smith are assurance that corruption will not live in the next presidential administration. Prohibition: We agree with Smith’s general position as against Hoover’s, but because of the cross currents that so greatly cut part ylines, prohibition will not be the dtermining pactor in Tuesday’s election. We regard the sum total of other Issues as more important than prohibition. Tariff: Smith accepts the Republican high protective principle which both he and Hoover promise to enforce justly. Assuming continuance of that system, a system that is essentially Republican in its origin, the Republican candidate rather than the Democratic would appear the logical one to apply it. On civil liberties and anti-labor injunctions, Hoover and Smith make similar pledges. Their solutions for unemployment are similar. Immigration: Hoover definitely has stood against a change of the present restricted quota basis. Smith, at the outset of his campaign, favored a change. Since then, from time to time, he has been self-contradic-tory. We feel the above summary- shows the score to favor Hoover, because in matters that most closely touch the welfare of the average American, training and experience are determining factors. We believe Hoover should be elected President. Scientists find that the earth has speeded up, making its accustomed rotation in less than twentyfour hours. Probably it’s only trying to shake off the effects of a few political speeches. A British publisher told an audience in Winnipeg that he found Chicago a nice and orderly city. Sure, you’ve got to be nice and orderly in Chicago—if you don’t, the gangsters'll get you. Union men, meeting in Pennsylvania, urged the wearing of hats to help the crippled hat industry, but took no action on a proposal to favor longer skirts to aid the mills. One can’t get around to everything. Some cattle raisers in the southwest are experimenting with cactus as food for the cows. Maybe they’re only trying to spike the milk.

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Defeat, Then Victory —No. 198

DR. KEEN summarised the change which Lister brought about in surgery in his lectures on “Before and After Lister,” when he said: “Yesterday the dominant note was one of despair and defeat. Today the dominant note shall be one of joy and victory. "Instead of hospitals reeking with pus and emptied by death, of operation after operation, when the roll

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fractions of 1 per cent.” These changes were wrought primarily by Lister. And he brought them about by applying Pasteur's theories to surgery. It will be remembered that Pasteur came to believe that the microbes which were floating about on the particules of dust in the air were responsible for most diseases. Pasteur had no direct proof of this. He had not, at this time, seen any germ which was the cause of human disease much less found it floating in the air. But he had seen disease germs in silk worms and he had seen the tremendous power of yeasts to manufacture alcohol and of other bacteria to manufacture lactic acid. Asa result, he had become impressed with the power of these microscopic organisms. Lister was impressed with Pasteur’s idea. He had seen the terrible infections which set in after operations. He had seen the epidemic of hospital gangrene and other infections sweep through ward after ward of the hospital. He became convinced that Pasteur was right. This was contrary to the general belief of the surgeons of the day. They believed that the oxygen of the air caused the infections. But Lister was convinced from Pasteur’s work, that an infection occurred only when germs were introduced. And so he began to devise the methods which are now the common technique of every surgeon in the world, the methods of antiseptic surgery. We know today—in fact Lister discovered it himself—that we need not be so concerned about the germs in the air. Fortunately, the air is not as filled with disease germs as Pasteur feared. If it were, human life would not survive. But Lister did show the world that by antiseptic methods and the sterilization of surgical instruments, dressings and so on, the old infections could be wiped out.

M. E. TRACY SAYS: "According to the Literary Digest’s Poll Hoover Will Be Elected by a Tremendous Majority, . . The Cross Section of the Country as Represented by That Poll Has Glaring Defects.”

Governor smith gets a great reception in New York and Herbert Hoover gets a series of ovations in the west. The partisans of each are heartened. They are heartened because this country has grown so big as to spoil their sense of proportion. This country has grown so big that the biggest crowd is small by comparison. Did you ever see a million people assembled in one place? Did you ever count a million of anything? It would take you ten days, working eight hours a day. At the end you would have counted less than 1 per cent of the people in this country and less than 3 per cent of those who will vote. Time was when the shrewd observer could tell something aobut public sentiment in America by sizing up audiences, but that was long ago. Today even the most gigantic nose-counting experiments fail. mmm Poll Proves Nothing According to the Literary Digest’s poll, Herbert Hoover will be elected by a tremendous majority, while Smith will get a tremendous Republican vote. These two Indications do not square with each other. The cross section of the country as represented by that poll, though It Included nearly three million, has glaring defects. We are dealing with too large numbers, and too many cross currents to guess the outcome accurately. The cross currents originate in the fact that- our parties have split within themseh es, have become immobile with thexr own discord and leave many people no opportunity for an honest expression on several issues, unless they bolt. m • m Facing the Facts Though the Graf Zeppelip has completed the most successful transoceanic flight of any airship. Dr. Eckener, her designer, says she falls far short of what is needed. That is the kind of frankness which makes science the driving force of civilization. If Dr. Eckener were an American politician, he never would make such an admission. His attitude represents the difference between the scientific and political mind. It also explains why the scientific mind accomplishes so much more. But is Dr. Eckener dismayed, or discouraged? Not at all! He accepts the Graf Zeppelin’s defects as a challenge to go on, to build an airship that will meet the requirements: to take every possible advantage of wliat he has learned and to blink at nothing. n n * New Dawn in Mexico Mexico will broadcast the trial of Obregon’s assassin, which opens another field to radio. Not only Mexicans, but people in Central America and in the southwestern section of the United States can hear the testimony, the arguments, the Judge’s charge and the verdict if they have receiving sets and understand Spanish. Who knows where this experiment may lead? Illiteracy is the bane of Mexico and other Latin American countries, especially in their efforts to establish democracy. Because such a large percentage of their people is unable to read and write, they find it hard to develop the necessary intelligence. Radio may help them to overcome the difficulty. People do not lack brains because they cannot read or write. Who knows what the spoken word can be made to do in their behalf? u n Enough Words, No More We remember Woodrow Wilson as a scholar, which he was, but we also remember him for the fact that he could talk plainly and briefly when occasion required. "There comes a time,” he once said, “when you can’t do anything with a man but knock him down.” Now a British newspaper credits him with an even more punchful statement. It was in 1918, and the Allies were fighting with their backs to the wall. Lloyd George, the British premier, asked Lord Reading, who was ambassador at Washington, to explain the situation to President Wilson and see if he could not induce the latter to hasten American aid. President Wilson listened to Lord Reading for a few moments. Then he broke off the discussion with the remark, "We will do our damndest.” The chances are that Lloyd George would not have asked a more reassuring expression. mum Test for Germany Germany has an arbitration law by which the government is supposed to be able to settle industrial disputes. Up to this time the law has worked very well, chiefly because neither workers nor employers attempted to defy it, but a situation has developed in the Ruhr which will test the government’s power to enforce it in the face of defiar I* An arbitration board just has decreed an increase in pay of 1% cents per hour for 225,000 metal workers, which the employers refuse to accept. Though the government has created the impression that it had authority to enforce the law, though it has threatened to run plants in case the owners fail to accept its decisions and to confiscate strike funds in case the unions fail to accept them, It now admits that it can not do much of anything, except resftrt to moral suasion.

was called, reporting a mortality of 40 per cent, 50, 75, 90, and 100 per cent, we have hospitals of immaculate whiteness and emptied by quick recovery, while the roll-call of operations reveals few mortalities exceeding 10 per cent, most of them having fallen to 5 per cent, 2 per cent, 1 per cent, and even small

THE INTIANAPOLIS TIMES

BY DR. MORRIS FISHBEIN Association and of Hrttla, the Editor Journal of the American Medical Health Maraalne. NUMEROUS outbreaks of food poisoning have been associated with the eating of shellfish, oysters and mussels. In many instances these poisonings were due to bacterial contaminations and epidemics of typhoid fever have been traced to the consumption of mussels taken from sewage polluted waters. Cases of poisoning from eating mussels at one time were sufficiently frequent to create a definite public prejudice against this food. Recently but few such cases have been reported and the prejudice seems to be disappearing. Investigators in the University of California recently studied shellfish poisoning as it occurs on the Pacific coast. In July, 1927, there was a definite outbreak of poison from the eating of mussels gathered on the rocky coast south of the golden gate near San Francisco.

ROBERT LANSING, Wilson’s former secretary of state who just has died, simply followed the precedents of his stormy office when he resigned after a quarrel with his chief. Our presidents have had an exasperating time, getting along with their secretaries of state all alont; the line, most of the fusses being concealed, but many of them bein bopen eruptions. m m m Washington had trouble with Jefferson; Lincoln wrangled with Seward; Harrison fought with Blaine, and Wilson went to the mat with three of them, Bryan, Lansing, and Colby. This incompatability of temper is largely due to the fact that the secretary of state is usually presidenial timber and thinks he should be In the White House instead of the other fellow. m m m However, secretaries of state arc not the only belligerent members of cabinets, the other members reserving the right to assail the views of their associates on matters of national policy with vim and vinegar, to the end that many cabinet sessions have verged on roughhousc. One irritant in cabinet conferences is the desire to be most influential with the president, which shows that the human race runs true to form wherever you put it. a a The papers said that Smith went to Raskob’s country estate to get peace and be alone, but he was not overwhelmed by a sense of lone - liness, as there are something lik j fourteen members of the Raskob family. m m Vice-presidential candidate Curtis is making an elaborate appeal to the sympathy of the country on ac count of that thumb which he mashed in the automobile several weeks ago. His hand Is done up elaborately and rests in a sling which hangs from his neck, the same being worn outside the overcoat. All in all, he is getting more publicity out of a mashed thumb than many a soldier got out of the loss of a leg in the Argonne. MUM Fifty-seven thousand cases of Volstead law violation were tried in the United States last year, but this is nothing at all alongside the number of cases that were imported. What causes shadows? Shadows are cast by material objects when such objects intervene between a source of light and another object or the earth. The reason they cast shadow is because the particular rays of light passing across the space occupied by such bodies are interfered with and stopped, and these rays of light do not reach that part of the earth or other body in the line of the body stopping the rays.

These Are the Anxious Moments

DAILY HEALIH SERVICE Mussel Poisoning Is Mysterious Malady

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Within three days six deaths and many severe cases of poisoning were reported and eventually it was determined that practically everyone who had on Sunday, July 17, 1927, eaten sea mussels gathered in certain localities along the coast had been poisoned by the food. Apparently, at least, 102 people were concerned, of whom 56 were men, 8 boys, 34 women, and 4 girls. Ten minutes after eating the mussels there developed numbness of the lips, tongue, cheeks, finger tips and toes. On the next day the patients were dizzy and weak, with additional signs of numbness. There was nausea, sometimes tingling sensations followed by numbness. In a few cases there was fever. In the fatal cases death occurred within from three to ten hours after eating the mussels. In some cases the material was thrown into garbage cans and eaten by animals so that records are available of three cats and eleven chickens fataly poisoned and sev-

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By > Frederick LANDIS

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The Solution

THIS problem contains no particular feature, but rather clever play is required to reach the solution. South leads a diamond, North discards a club, and East wins the trick with the ace. East then leads a club which South wins with the queen. Now South leads another diamond, which West covers with the jack and North trumps. North next leads a low trump, South winning the trick with the eight and then leading his last diamond, North discarding his last

eral cats and dogs temporarily paralyzed. Experiments indicated that the poison was a chemical substance of complex combination. The evidence is not certain as to just how the poison gets into the mussel. It is believed to be either associated with the absorption of poison from the pilings on rocks near the coast or from the association of the mussels with certain poisonous crabs in ocean waters. The poison is not apparently related to bacterial contamination, but is due to some disease of the mussel which has a definite effect on its tissue and which has not yet been studied sufficiently to permit accurate classification. In the prevention of such cases it is important never to eat mussels which have the slightest odor of purification and which are taken from stagnant water. The California health authorities forbade the sale of mussels taken from the areas along the coast.

MOST OF THEM FIGHT BOSTON *IS* EUROPEAN u a a EXPLOITING A THUMB

THE last person to change political boarding houses is Mrs. Constance Williams, daughter of the late Henry Cabot Lodge, former Republican leader of the Senate, who has declared for Smith. If you are not satisfied with your political environment, pack your trunk and move, for everybody’s do-

club. North now takes the final trick with the ace of trumps. If West had refused to cover the second lead of diamonds. North would have then discarded his last club and North and South would have won the last three tricks with trumps. If West had played his jack of diamonds at the opening trick, the problem would have merely been somewhat simplified. The main object. of course, is to establish a diamond trick in the South hand. And this is insured by leading that suit at the opening. (Copyright, 1928, by NEA Service. Inc.)

Questions and Answers

You can get an answer to any answerable Question of fact or Information by writing to Frederick M. Kerby. Question Editor The Indianapolis Times’ Washington Bureau. 1322 New YorK Ave.. Wellington. 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 Dersonal reply nslgned requests cannot be answered. All letters are confidential You are cordially Invited to make use of thir What Is the value of the Astor estate? What member of the family now controls it? The Astor estate is valued at about $100,000,000 and is owned principally by Vincent Astor. How many Negroes were delegates to Republican national convention In 1920? There were twenty-seven Negro delegates, as follows: Florida 4, Georgia 8, Louisiana 6, Mississippi 6, South Carolina 2, Tennessee 1. What makes the moon shine? It shines by the reflected light of the sun.

NOV. 3, 1928

KEEPING UP With THE NEWS

BY LUDWELL DENNY (Copyright, Scrtpps-Howard Newspapers. 1928) WASHINGTON, Nov. 3.—A1l politicians admit that the five or six million new women voters are apt to determine the election next Tuesday, but naturally Republicans and Democrats can not agree on how women will determine it. Although the most accurate thing that can be written on this major election factor still is a question mark, certain general trends in the “woman vote” have been discovered by the politicians. There are: 1. The “woman vote” does not exist. That is, women by and large do not vote as women, but as individuals. It has taken the politicians a long time to learn the same thing about the “farm vote,” the “labor vote,” the “foreign vote,” the "Negro vote,” and other supposed blocs which exist only on paper. Like these other classes, the woman vote is divided, not only by individual differences, but also by geographical, economic, cultural, and other distinctions. 2. The familiar argument of presuffrage days that wives would vote like their husbands and daughters like their fathers is not supported by evidences in this campaign. Politically split households seem to be the rule rather than the exception. 3. The women voters, and especially the new women voters, apparently are giving more individual thought to campaign issues and candidates than are men, if for no other reason than because a fresh duty is taken more seriously and because novices more frankly recognize their lack of knowledge. 4. Women voters are apt to be predominantly Interested in those campaign issues in which they see a “moral” or humanitarian significance, and to permit such issues to determine their vote. But, as indicated, this tendency is not so absolute as to create a distinct and separate "woman vote” on any given issue. tt a a A LTHOUGH most politicians and Tm. observers probably are fairly well agreed as to these four generalizations, there is less agreement in applying such generalizations to the benefit of Smith or of Hoover. Take the sectarian issue, which both 'candidates and both parties officially disavow, but which correspondents and politicall scouts admit is a major issue. As there are more women church members than men. probably more women will be swayed by the sectarian political issue. The fact that Protestant women far outnumber Catholic women would indicate superficially that this trend would elect Hoover. But, because of the electoral vote system, the sectarian Protestant women’s vote can be discounted in southern states, where Smith will win anyway, and in certain northern Repubican strongholds like Ohio, where Hoover would win anyway. This leaves the “doubtful” states as the only important points, and in these the electoral votes of such states as New York, Massachusetts and Rhode Island, where Catholics hold the balance of power, are more than double the electoral votes of the close Protestant states, such as Oklahoma, Kentucky and Tennessee. The same applies to prohibition. More women than men probably will disregard other issues and vote either as wets or drys. And it is clear that a large majority of women are drys. This is shown by tha entire history of the prohibition movement, by women membership in Protestant Evangelical churches, and by the woman membership in the Anti-Saloon League and Women's Christian Temperance Union, contrasted with the small number of women in wet organizations. mom BUT here again, although the country as a whole is dry, the large electoral vote eastern states, which Smith must gain to win, are wet. So Smith, who has tire dry south anyway, perhaps will be helped almost as much by the eastern wet vote of women as he will be injured by the larger women's dry vote in the country as a whole. This might be summarized by the statement that the number of women who will vote against Smith on the sectarian or liquor issues is sufficiently large to prevent A1 from sweeping the country, but the number of women votes which he will receive on these issues in strategic eastern states might help to elect him when added to the solid south. Finally, it is believed that women tend to vote against change, when the issues are "political” rather than "moral.” This was true in the recent German election, one of the few instances in which a careful study has been made of the women’s vote. If this holds on Nov. 6, it will of course go a long way toward swelling the normal Republican majority and electing Hoover.

This Date in U. S. History

Nov. 3 1762—France by secret treaty ceded all her western lands to Spain. 1783— American army officially disbanded. 1794—Birthday of William Cullen Bryant, American poet. 1868—U. S. Grant elected president; Virginia, Texas and Mississippi did not participate in the election. 1874—Michigan defeated woman

Daily Thoughts I

To everythin? there is a season, and a time to every purpose under the heaven. —Eccl. 3:1. * u OBSERVE degree, propriety and place.—Shakespeare.