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And Tomorrow? What will you think of Indiana tomorrow? Would you feel a thrill of pride if you discovered that Harry Leslie were to inherit the power of Jackson and that Robinson is to go back to the .Senate and Ralph Updike to„ congress? Would you feel that Hoosier pride was vindicated by such a result? If you have not voted, vote at once. Perhaps you can help to bring about a real feeling of rejoicing by casting your influence against §tll those forces that have dragged the name of the state in the mire of scandal. Dailey and Stump and Ludlow or the heirs to the Black Box regime? Nicaragua Elects a Liberal General Jose Maria Moncada, liberal, has been elected president of Nicaragua by a big majority over his conservative opponent, Don Adolfo Benard, a wealthy sugar planter. Thus has the liberal, or constitutionalist, revolution of 1926-27 been vindicated and the United States government rebuked for its intervention in favor of the conservative Diaz. Bac u in 1924 a coalition ticket was elected in the little Central American republic. Don Carlos Salorzano, a conservative, was elected president and Dr. Ju~n Bautista Sacasa—a highly educated liberal who had received his schooling in Washington and New York—was elected vice-president. Overthrown by the notorious adventurer, General Emiliano Chamorro, Solorzano and Sacasa were forced to flee across the border to save their lives. Solorzano resigned and Sacasa became president in his piace, as provided by the constitution. The United States, however, refused to recognize Sacasa. though several of the Latin American countries, including Mexico, did. Washington favored Adolfo Diaz, a former conservative president, and so managed to wangle him into power against the wishes, the liberals charged, of the vast majority of Nicaraguans. Meantime, a constitutionalist revolution had gotten under way for the purpose of installing Dr. Sacasa in his rightful job as president. General Moncada was the liberal commander-in-chief. He won every battle he fought with the Diaz forces, hands down, but suddenly the United States landed large forces of marines and bluejackets and prevented any further major engagements by declaring every incipient battle field beutral territory. Finally, upon a virtual ultimatum from Washington to cease fighting or else have the United States to fight, the liberals laid clown their arms on the promise that Uncle Sam would give them an honest election in 1928. That election took place Sunday with General Moncada still carrying the I'beral standard. Brigadier General Frank R. McCoy and 5,000 marines were in charge. There was complete order, we are told, and Moncada's victory fully justifies the liberal contention that the United States has been using its bayonets to keep a minority president in power. However, we have no intention of rubbing it in. Latin Americans will do that. But we do hope that the outcome of the elections, plus all the grief the state department has had at home and abroad as a result of its blunders, will teach it a lesson which it never will forget entirely.

Americans First When we go to the polls today it will be well for us—all of us—to remind ourselves that w'e are voting as Americans. That seems obvious enough, but in any kind of fight usually it is the obvious that is forgotten. There has been too much talk about party loyalty during the last four months, too much talk about Protestant loyalty, Catholic loyalty, Anti-Saloon League loyalty, class loyalty. Any man or woman who votes primariy as a partisan Republican, or partisan Democrat, or partisan anything else, degrades the high privilege of suffrage in a democracy. As free Americans let us vote on the political issues and candidates as we see them, unchained by partisanship. A sense of decency, of humor, of realities is necessary, not only today, but tomorrow. There has been so much rot talked about both presidential candidates, that whichever is elected he is in danger of facing a divided country. There is no choice between the Americanism of the candidates. Hoover is not going to turn the country over to the English king, nor would Smith favor the Roman pope. Hoover is not going to let the AntiEaloon League rule the nation, nor would Smith sell out to the liquor interests. The danger is not in the Americanism of these candidates, but of groups of misguided citizens whose lesser loyalties will continue to jeopardize the free unity of the nation after election. We believe as non-partisans that Hoover is the better fitted candidate and therefore hope for his victory today. But none should vote for him from prejudice. That goes equally for Smith. May the best man win! The Next War > Peace, disarmament, anti-war pacts, world courts, leagues of nations—what is the answer? In the “next war” are we to fight with table knives or all to be exterminated over night by poison gas and germ-infected water? When Jacob herded in Palestine the flocks of his father-in-law, part of his job was to protect the flocks from the raids of the Philistines. The ancient tribesman settled his differences, and protected his property, with the sword, the spear, the sling, the club, or the brawn of his own right arm. With the gathering of tribesmen into cities and the increase of the city variety of property, the job of protection had to be organized. The armed guard was created, and the “army.” Then cities warred against cities. This became an interesting game and it was enlarged and further organized. States warred against states. But It was discovered that too much warring between states interfered with industry. And industry had to go on, even if there was successful war. So Agreements were formed and so-called laws were

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set up by which the war of cities was abandoned, and later the war of states. Only nations had the organized guards—“armies.” In place of the sword were courts and a force organized and armed to enforce the decrees of courts. Violence was forbidden and penalties were set up. Thus peace prevailed where formerly there had been only violence. / After several centuries it has come about that only as between nations are settlements left to violence. The individual, the tribe, the city, the stateall have agreed to live without violence, leaving disputes as to person or property to law' and its enforcement officers. Nations still are living under the tribal custom of the spear and the club. They have no law, no representative body to make international law, no authorized court, no enforcement machinery to carry out decrees made by a court. Until these out-workings of enlightenment are worked out and set in operation, there still will be w'ar among nations. It is only a question of how' many days, or years, or centuries will be required for nations to see what has been seen by individuals, tribes, cities, and states. Commercial Air Liners “Darius W'as clearly of the opinion That the air also was man’s dominion, And that with paddle or fin or pinion, We soon or fate will navigate The azure as now we sail the sea.” The w'orld's first transoceanic commercial airship, the Graf Zeppelin, has completed its round trip to the United States. Trowbridge’s hick inventor, Darius Green, was, therefore, neither such a hick nor so green as painted, but a prophet far ahead of his time. From Lakehurst. N. J„ to Europe was done in two days and ten hours, or twice as fast as the swiftest ocean liners could do it. The complete journey inland to Friedrichshafen, Germany, was made in sixty-nine hours, or less than half the time required by the fastest ships and trains. The outbound voyage to America was with twenty passengers in addition to a crew of forty and considerable mail and freight. On the airship's homeward journey she carried twenty-four passengers, a stowaway, some freight and about a ton of mail, the latter earning for the Zeppelin company $75,713.50. Gross earnings for the round trip were in the neighborhood of $250,000 and expenses $125,000. The net profit, therefore, w r as approximately $125,000, or about 13 per cent of the dirigible’s cost, in less than six days of actual flying. No one, least of all Dr. Hugo Eckener. head of the Zeppelin w'orks and commander of the big airship, pretends that dirigibles are even nearing perfection. Admittedly they are about where steamboats were a decade after Robert Fulton’s voyages on the Hudson. But w r e are living in fast-moving times and stupendous developments are to be expected in the next few years. Dr. Eckener says the Graf Zeppelin, now the world’s largest airship, has many faults. She is too small, too slow and too much at the mercy of the wind, because under-powered. She can be improved in many ways, he declares, and very shortly will be. His sole contention is that the engineers have hit upon the correct principle of construction and that henceforth i tis up to the banker. In other words, experts are of the opinion that it is now merely a matter of time and capital before titanic, all-metal dirigibles, capable of doing 100 miles an hour or better, and carrying hundreds of passengers and tons of freight and mails, will be zooming up and dow-n the world’s air lanes, earning big dividends for t.ieir owners. A monument to the taxpayer is proposed by a Filipino legislator. We suggest a statue showing two corporation lawyers figuring up a big firm’s income tax. Bernard Shaw told an interviewer he would consider becoming emperor of America. A1 Capone w'ould have something to say about that.

David Dietz on Science Humanity Salutes Lister ! No. 200 THE British surgeons were at first slow to adopt the antiseptic methods developed by Joseph Lister. In 1877 Lister was brought from Edinburgh to London as professor of surgery at King’s college. It was not uncommon for a crowd of 500 to attend the lectures of the professor of surgery at King’s. Less than twenty students attended Lister’s lectures during

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fatal result was then believed unescapable. One distinguished surgeon in Lohdon, hearing of the operation, said, “When this poor fellow dies, someone ought to proceed against that man for malpractice.” But the “poor fellow” didn’t die. Instead, he made a complete recovery. Soon after a case was brfought to Lister of a man with a tumor of the thigh. Other London surgeons said that the dangers were so great that any attempt to perform an operation would be fatal. Lister performed a successful operation. Asa result, his position among the medical men of London grew by leaps and bounds. Two years later, in 1879, the seal of approval was put on Lister’s work by the International Medical congress held that year in Amsterdam. This date marks the general acceptance of Lister’s theories and the London surgeons capitulated as a result of the enthusiasm which the congress showed for Lister. London made amends. Lister was elected president of the Royal Society, the most coveted honor which can come to a British scientist. He was elevated to the peerage, finally being made a baron. In 1902, the Royal society gave a great banquet to celebrate the jubilee of his doctorate. Many distinguished guests were present. Bayard, the American ambassador, expressed the sentiments of all present when he said: “My lord, it is not a profession, it is not a nation, it is humanity itself which, with uncovered head, salutes you.” Bayard was right, for all the marvelous skill and of modern surgery would have been impossible without the antiseptic methods of Lister.

M. E. TRACY SAYS: y “Hoover Will Be Elected: His Majority of the Popular Vote Will Not Be Less Than 5.000,000, and of the Electoral Vote Not Less Than 200.”

SO many forecasts have been made, it seems almost unkind to afflict the public w'ith another. It has been my custom for thirtytwo years, however, and that is quite long enough to create an irresistible habit. Besides, and no matter how confused the situation may appear this time, it has one consoling feature. With Democrats predicting a landslide and Republicans predicting a clean sw’eep, it wou’d be impossible to make such a bad guess that somebody w’ould not have made a worse one. Most of the prophets have been careful to alibi themselves with the weather, the size of the vote, peculiar shifts, doubtful states and a multitude of other “ifs” and “ands.” That is hedging, not guessing. A state either goes or it doesn’t. If you are going to guess on it, name the result and take the consequences. Nothing much can happen, even if you are right In my own case, guessing election results has become a sort of solitaire. I play it chiefly to find out whether I am keeping in close touch with the drift of public opinion. With that as a preface, let’s go! a a tt Hoover Will Win Herbert Hoover w'ill be elected. There will be nothing close about the result. His majority of the popular vote will not be less than 5,000.000, and of the electoral vote, not less than 200. I think he will carry the following thirty-four states, with an electoral vote of 376: Arizona, California, Colorado, Connecticut, Delaware, Idaho, Illinois, Indiana, lowa, Kansas, Kentucky, Maine. Maryland. Michigan, Minnesota, Missouri, Nebraska, Nevada, New Hampshire, New Jersey, New York, North Carolina. North Dakota. Ohio. Oklahoma. Oregon, Pennsylvania, Rhode Island. South Dakota. Utah. Vermont. Washington. West Virginia and Wyoming. I think Governof Smith will carry the following fourteen states, with an electoral vote of 155: Alabama. Arkansas, Florida, Georgia. Louisiana. Massachusetts, Mississippi. Montana. New Mexico, South Carolina, Tennessee, Texas, Virginia and Wisconsin. I think that the Republicans will gain at least five seats in the senate, two of which are accounted for by the vacancies now existing in those of Pennsylvania and Illinois. I think that they also will increase their majority in the house.

G, 0, P, Stronger Than Ever Though I have placed Massachusetts in the Smith column, I would not be surprised if it went for Hoover, and I have similar doubts with regard to Florida and Tennessee. I believe that if anything, the normal Republican majority as indicated by the two preceding elections has been strengthened, that such bolts as Governor Smith's nomination inspired have been more than offset by counter revolts and that the result will be little different than it would have been had the Democratic party put forward a more orthodox, not to say mediocre candidate. The Democratic campaign has been based on an outcry against bigotry, an attack on prohibition and an appeal to the farmers. In each case, I am convinced that it alienated as many votes as it attracted. There is no doubt that Governor Smith will receive vastly greater support in the east than did John W. Davis, or James M. Cox. By the same token, there is no doubt that Hoover will receive vastly greater support in the south than did Calvin Coolidge or the late President Harding. As to the La Follette defection, which muddled the situation four years ago, I look for it to split pretty evenly as between Hoover and Smith. n n b Oil Scandal No Issue A great many people have thought that the oil scandal would affect this election. Apparently, they forgot what happened In 1924, when the oil scandal was newer, and, consequently, rather more impressive than it is now. More than that, every official connected with the scandal has been discredited and thrown out of office. Criticism of Hoover because he remained silent while a member of the cabinet has not appealed to people, unless they were prejudiced to begin with. A cabinet member is not expected to waste the public’s time and money berating his associates. He has no hand in their appointment, and if he tried to bring about their dismissal he would be doing something that is none of his business. A cabinet member's job is to run his department. What kind of a government would we have if our cabinet members spent their time bawling each other out in public, tattling on each other, trying to undermine each other, picking flaws with each other’s conduct and spying on each other. Their jobs are not so easy or simple as to leave room for such profitless work if they do what they ought. tt n a Wasted Opportunities Lack of constructive criticism, more than anything else, has prevented the Democratic campaign from making the most of its opportunities. While those opportunities were slight to begin wtih. they could have been used to much better advantage. Instead of a frank discussion of public problems and policies, the Democrats have wasted much of their time in personal attacks on Hoover, or in appeals to discontented elements that were too obvious to work. The program they offered was so palpably one of expediency and opportunism as to create an unfavorable impression on the minds of fair, conscientious and intelligent voters. They gained where they could stir emotions, but nowhere else.

the first month. But suddenly the situation was changed. Lister was obtaining brilliant results which made the profession gasp in astonishment. A bad fracture case was brought to the hospital. Lister opened up the knee - joint, something no surgeon of the day dared do, because the risk of infection with

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BY DR. MORRIS FISHBEIN Editor Journal of the American Medical Association and of llyjreia, the Health Magazine. COMMERCIAL canning is so standardized that but little danger is associated with eating commercially canned products. Food poisoning is becoming more infrequent and education of the public as to its dangers is making less likely cases of such poisoning on a large scale If people only would learn never to taste spoiled canned food, but to destroy without tasting the contents of suspicious jars or cans of food or of those which possess a disagreeable odor or how gas pressure. cases of food poisoning would be even more greatly minimized. Indeed, it is advisable to mix the contents of such jars with lye and then bury the jar and the contents. Otherwise, if the contents are

IT was natural for Governor Smith to express regret that he had never gone to college when the presidents, deans, and other things of those fifty-two institutions of learning called on him in New York City, but he is far better off than he would be had he been graduated from Harvard or \Jale, or bothThe country is bulging with polished second-raters, the kind of a man Smith would have been had Fate poured his personality into the concrete mixer of higher education. As Ingersoll said: “Colleges are places where pebbles are polished and diamonds are dimmed.” a a u Mrs. Claire Ada pis, the woman who rode to Europe on the Zeppelin, tells the women how to bundle up in warm clothes if they contemplate such a trip, and her elaborate suggestions remind us of how the old tramp printer used to ward off zero in the old days w hen we were carrying papers and the winters had whiskers. He didn’t have the elaborate w'arming outfit Mrs. Adams recommends for the ladies, at all; he simply unbuttoned his vest, if he had one, and wrapped a newspaper round his body, and he rode in a boxcar, w'hich in some respects was hardly as comfortable as a Zeppelin. a u If any lady, contemplating a trans-Atlantic voyage in a Zep, should ask us what to wear to be assured of comforting v: brations from the equator, w r e should advise her to w r ear one of Jim Reed’s campaign speeches. tt “Love is a delicate plant,” sighs an undernourished Chicago poet, but rich gentlemen who have been stuck for alimony are of the opinion that the plant belongs to the cactus family.

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merely placed in the garbage, they may be eaten by chickens or by household pets, which will die. or by mice or other predatory animals which will spread the infection. The majority of cases of food poisoning which have occurred in recent years have resulted from employing home canned food. Home canning is highly desirable economically and because it makes use of large quantities of fruits and vegetables which otherwise go to waste. The principal aim of canning is to prevent spoiling. Spoiling is itself not directly due to the action of air or of heat, but to the action of living germs. Therefore, canning involves sterilization by heating with proper observation of the method used in order to insure actual heating of all parts of the product to the required temperature.

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By t Frederick LANDIS

THESE two rich young gentlemen of Atlanta, who imitated the “perfect crime” of Loeb and Leopold might not have been inspired to such emulation had Loeb and Leopold been executed the day after their confessions. There’s but one perfect crime in America and it is the failure of criminal procedure to protect lawabiding people. tt e The formal, kid glove social stuff between Eckener of the Zeppelin and our public officials didn’t do half as much or a tenth as much to bring Americans and Germans together as did the wild enthusiasm of the common people of Germany for Red Terhune, the stowaway. a a It is good news that Canada is to consider controlling her rum runners, now engaged in shipping booze into the United States. If the pow'er of the tw’o countries were reversed and we should let our fellows ship dope into Canada, there would be trouble! tt St tt Now that the fight is over, it has been much milder than we anticipated, particularly with the highly combustible religious element in it. When the people of the United States heard that there had been an earthquake in El Paso they were beside themselves with anxiety for fear it had shaken a picture or something down on the dome of former Secretary of the Interior Albert B. Fall.

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THIS is an unusual problem. Although containing only four cards, it is liable to prove confusing. The solution lies in trumping high and then throwing a trump trick to the opponents. South leads the three of clubs, and North trumps with the queen. North next leads the eight of trumps, South discarding his spade and West winning the trick with the ten. Now West is forced to lead a club to South’s major ten-ace. Os course it is easy to see that if North trumps the opening lead with the eight, East will defeat the problem by winning two spade tricks. The only method lies in forcing West to lead. .(Copyright, 1928, NBA Service, Inc.). *

In places wdth high altitude this pressure may be less than in places of low altitude. In the western states sterilization in steam under pressure is necessary. For non-acid vegetables, such as asparagus, peas, corn, string beans, spinach and the root vegetables, sterilization simply to the boiling point of water is unsafe. Acid vegetables do not require such action. Fruit juices may be ruined as to taste by heating for too long a period to the boiling point, hence they are heated for longer periods at less than the boiling point. The University of California College of Agriculture has issued Circular No. 276. which presents the latest detailed data concerning safe home canning methods. A study of the circular w’ill mean increased safety and a lower incidence of food poisoning in future years.

PEBBLES AND DIAMOND u m n WEARING JIM’S SPEECH a 9 n NORRIS NOT TO BLAME

ONE is not surprised to hear that the wife of Senator Norris of Nebraska does not follow him in his journey into the Smith camp. The married men of the United States will not hold Norris responsible. tt U tt When the voting is over, no matter who wins, somebody ought to settle for all time the question which is wrecking the nervous system of this republic, did Hoover fix the price of wheat?

Times Readers Voice Views

The name and address of the author must accompany every contribution but on request will not be published. Letters not exceeding 200 words will receive preference. Editor Times: Your article recently relative to the Patterson road job is a worth-while exposure. The picture certainly shows that round gravel bowlders were used in this construction. Frim this picture it is easy to contemplate that very little of this material has passed through a 2 Vi-inch screen. My own idea of gravel for a concrete road is that 75 per cent of this gravel must be crushed and to conform at least to the following: 100 per cent through a Hi-inch hole and fibm 25 to 60 per cent through a l’i-inch hole; from 0 to 12 per cent through a half-inch hole and from 0 to 2 per cent through a quarter-inch hole. The s.bove should all be washed gravel, with no allowance for silt or other foreign substance. The sand to be used should be as follows: Mini- Maxmum imum Passing Retained Pet. Pet. 'i-liich screen y4-lnch screen .. 5 'ii-inch screen 10 mesh 5 25 'i-inch screen 10 mesh 5 -25 10 mesli 30 mesh 30 80 30 mesh 50 mesh 20 40 50 mesh 250 mesh 5 15 200 mesh .. 5 The above is written by one wh<? has been through the sand and gravel, as well as the crushed stone, game in an eastern state. I have noted the lack of crushing gravel in this vicinity, which is due mostly to flat top screens, thereby making material over lVs inches useless. CONSTANT READER. Editor Times The Republican party cannot do "the impossible, but it can do the unreasonable. The Republicans have been in power a long time. They have had their chanoj at honest legislation, but the party is not honest and never was. If we could put old wine in new bottles, then we could vote for the old Republican party, but poor people of this country are dependent on the farm, and the Republican party has legislated a boycott on labor, agriculture, and business enterprise, a condition which is not practical, and which spells bankruptcy. Fundamental principles of the Democratic party place agriculture labor and business on friendly and honest terms. FRANK WALTON.

Xov'. 8, 1928

KEEPING UP With THE NEWS

BY LUDWELL DENNY (Copyright. Newspapers. Washington! nov. 6.—wm the unprecedented collapse of party lines and emergence of new issues in today’s election force a revamping of parties and platforms during the next four years? Will a new party result? Politicians are not given much to speculation in futures, but these questions already are being discussed in their immediate application. Here are some of the problems which Republican and Democratic leaders must begin to face tomorrow morning: How can Hoover, if elected, unify the warring conservative and progressive factions of the Republican party, each of w'hich expects him to follow it and renounce the other? Unless Hoover satisfies the progressives, who probably will continue to hold senate balance of power, they can join with Democrats in binding Hoover’s hands and pushing legislation over his head—as they did with the conservative Coolidge. How can Smith, if elected or if defeated , mold into permanent form the conflicting elements which suspiciously have united around him for the duration of the campaign because they had no alternative? If Smith is to lead toward liberalism, how can he hold the southern conservatives, who constitute the bulk of his party? If Smith is to bring the wet millennium for the east, what about the dry millennium of the southern Democrats? Some are inclined to answer these questions with a shrug of the shoulders and the remark that politics is not logical, parties never unified, and that the Republican and Democratic organizations will go on without significant change as they have for years. a it OTHERS believe the change has begun already so far as the voters are concerned, and that the parties themselves will have to reflect that change as the price of survival. They point out the event in this campaign the two major parties have disintegrated to the extent that this has not been a battle of Republicans versus Democrats. but of Hooverites versus Smithites, of drys versus wets, of country versus city, of native versus foreign born —of a dozen different conflicts having no relation to an inter-party battle. Whatever the answer in terms of party reorganizations and realignments during the next four years may be. here are some facts cited to prove that the present situation is unique since the Civil war: Hoover, Republican candidate and probably the next President, less than one year ago had no power in the Republican party, eight years ago was a key man in a Democratic administration and a Democratic presidential candidate in state primaries. Raskob, Democratic national chairman, less than a year ago was an active life-time Republican of the old guard faction. Senator Simmons, for thirty years the Democratic dictator in the Democratic state of North Carolina and for years the Democratic fiscal leader in the United States senate, has led the bolt from Smith and today predicts the first Republican victory in his state. So with Heflin, Democratic senator from Alabama. So with exSenator Owen. Democratic leader of Oklahoma. While Senator Norris of Nebraska and Senator Blaine of Wisconsin have bolted the Republican party for Smith. Unlike previous years, when such bolting was limited to an occassional disgruntled politician or as in the Bull Moose period to a faction of one party, this year it shakes both parties from top to bottom.

a a a THE ease and speed with which Hoover. Raskob, Simmons, Norris, and apparently the millions of voters like them, can hurdle party lines is said to be explained by the fact that there are no longer any party lines nationally. State rights? In this campaign Hoover took the traditional Jeffersonian Democratic side, and Smith took the old Republican slant. Tariff? Smith and Raskob spent most of their time proving the Democrats have thrown overboard “tariff for revenue only,” and embraced the Republican high protection principle. Big Business? Smith, by specific pledges, by choice of Raskob of General Motors as his manager, and of Owen D. Young of General Electric as his adviser, and by matching Wall Street support with the Republicans, campaign contribution against campaign contribution, swept au’ay the Democratic issue of Bryan’s day. Foreign affairs? Neither on Wilson’s buried League of Nations, nor on any other question of foreign policy, has this campaign shown any actual difference between the parties. Therefore, voters in this election are driven largely to vote for Hoover as the better man, regardless of his party, or for Smith as the better man, regardless of his party. Or they are forced helplessly to vote for a candidate who believes with them on a given issue, but who can not make good on it because his party does not share that belief—as the wets who vote Democratic, despite the fact that the Democratic party, as a national and congressional organization grounded in the solid south, is overwhelmingly bonedry. Os the many live issues of today represented by neither party—such as labor issues, civil liberties, racial justice, anti-monopoly, antiimperialism—it is recognized generally that the wet issue, if any, Is most likely to force either realignment of the old parties under the new leaders, Hoover and Smith, or formation of anew party. THIS DATE IN U. S. HISTORY Nov. 6 1860—Abraham Lincoln elected president. 1861—Jefferson Davis chosen president of the confederacy. 1877—Thomas A. Edison received a patent on an electric fan. 1888—Harrison elected president, j