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The Crowning Test for “Liberalism” Is the Democratic party “through”? That question arises out of the 1928 election. More and more that party has been losing its reason for existence. More and more it has been straying after false gods. Once it was the party of true liberalism in the Jeffersonian definition of that term. It is no more. Those principles which once distinguished it have been lost in a scramble to appropriate for reasons of expediency and strategy, doctrines that are essentially Republican. In 1920, 1924 and 1928, the platforms of the two parties showed little difference. In 1928, Smith injected prohibition after the party had dodged it. With that outstanding exception, the campaign just closed has presented little to differentiate the Democratic party from the Republican. The Democrats accepted the Republican tariff. They took unto their bosom the bureaucracy of McNary-Haugenism, while Hoover proclaimed the individualism which was the basis of Jefferson’s belief, but which no longer is the Democratic creed. So overwhelming was the defeat that the Democratic party’s ability to survive now seems doubtful. Ours is a two-party system. If one of the two major parties dies, another must take its place. For we still must function along two party lines. Anew grouping seems not unlikely in the next f cur years. “Generally speaking, politics is a state of mind and rided into two classes, commonly called liberalism and conservatism. Duplicating as it has to an increasing degree the Republican philosophy, the Democratic party has been less and less one to which liberals could turn. Accordingly, for want of a liberal party as such, the liberals of the nation have been dividing into two camps, selecting what they regarded as the lesser of two evils. Should the next four years of Republican administration be reactionary as those of McKinley, Taft, Harding and Coolidge, there may emerge in 1932 an effective organization of liberals, challenging the right of the Democratic party to live. But should Hoover instill into the Republican party the liberalism that, with the exception of the Rooseveltian era, it previously has lacked, the possibilities for the growth of anew liberal party would be diminshed correspondingly. Is Hoover a liberal? The essence of his philosophy as expressed in 1928 has been equality of opportunity. He has stressed that theme repeatedly. Equal opportunity in itself is a liberal creed. It is the opposite of the conservative or reactionary ideal. The conservative believes in government by the “best minds,” The liberal believes in government by all the people. The “best mind” philosophy is the philosophy of special privilege. Through special privilege, the “best mind” thinks the country can prosper and that such prosperity benignly husbanded can be passed on down to the rank and file. It is the idea of largess. Equal opportunity, on the contrary, means that the mission of the government is to guarantee opportunity to all, rather than supply special privilege to a few, that the few may act as guardians of the many. Individual opportunity is the philosophy of individualism as against bureaucracies. It was so expressed by Hoover in his Madison Square Garden speech. Hoover’s basic idea, therefore, put into practical operation, would bring a change in the whole mental attitude of the Republican party. It would be an intensely liberalizing process. Hoover’s nomination came from the rank and file, which forced that nomination because of a belief, that Hoover would represent the antithesis of standpatism. His previous public record had indicated him to be a liberal. During the campaign he utilized the organization of the party that had nominated him. In that organizatimi were the conventional standpatters who for years have been running Republican affairs. Liberals, who had been enthusiastic about his nomination, began to have qualms as they found themselves in the company of the Watsons and the HillCses. But despite those qualms, many liberals saw the practical reason why Hoover, the nominee of a party which contained great numbers of reactionaries, could not. hope to win by declaring war or> his own following. From now on it is a case of the proof of the pudding.

Averting a Calamity Trainmen and employers on the western railroads of the United States, who have been engaged in a wage controversy for more than a year, no doubt will accept one of the three proposals for a settlement submitted by the President’s emergency board. Although the tribunal to which the dispute finally was referred by President Coolidge is without power to enforce its findings, the whole structure of the railway labor*act, under which the board was appointed, is based on a spirit of conciliation and cooperation between men and managers. Having carried the controversy through all the stages of mutual debate, arbitration, mediation and presidential negotiations, the very essence of the act would be set at naught were either party to refuse to conform to the emergency board’s recommendatioifc. Those who have followed the course of the wage dispute and have noted constantly how small the gap appeared to be tfhich separated the roads and the workers, will agree with the emergency board in saying: “it is difficult to see why this controversy should have arrived at a stage where it could not be settled by mutual negotiations. At one stage or another of this long-protracted dispute the carriers have offered 6% per cent increase with no change in rules; and at one stage or another the employes have expressed a willingness to accept 714 per cent increase, with no change in rules. “The difference between those offers, expressed in cents per basic day, amounts to from 5 to 7 cents a day. The. board regards this difference as too small to justify an interruption of transportation in the territory affected.’’ Howevfer. it is to the credit of the two sides to the dispute, involving 66,000 trainmen and conductors and 60 per cent of the country’s total steam mileage, that the questions at issue had been reduced to a minimum before coming before the emergency board. The averting of a threatened disruption of trans-

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portation in a section of the country traversed by 138,672 miles of railroad is a satisfying achievement in the realm of industrial reason. At this very foundatio nlies the admirable desire on the part of carriers and employes to adjust their family differences amicably—without injury to the public. \ A Chance to Be Himself Herbert Hoover can be his own president. No man, no group, can say to him, “We made you; you are ours!” The east can not say it, nor the west, the north, nor the south. The protected industrialists can not say it, nor the banking interests; neither the farmers nor labor. Less than any can the rjibid prohibitionists and the religious intolerants claim Hoover as their product. Their votes swelled the amazing total, but it can not be claimed that Hoover would have failed without them. . Hoover can be his own man—President of all the people of the United States. Hoover is not the type that takes orders, anyway. He is accustomed to think and to act for himself. That is why he has arrived where he is today. His associates always have called him, “the chief.” Some critics think he is too much an "autocrat.” Such criticism is a good sign. The same has been said of every great President—certainly of Washington, Lincoln, Roosevelt, Wilson. It is said of every great business executive. It signifies genius for responsibility, courage, leadership. The nation needs such leadership. Hoover has another quality of the great. That is a deep sense of loyalty. His attitude toward Coolidge, with whom he so often has disagreed and from whom he has suffered affront, proves that. Neither Hoover nor any President can or should b; influenced entirely by his political associates and benefactors. It is particularly fortunate, therefore, that Hoover in unique degree will escape the customary conflict between loyalty to political debtors and loyalty to self For his political debts, if they can be called such, tend to cancel each other. Every section of the country, every class, every party faction, and nonpartisans have contributed to his election. The only legitimate claim any can make upon him is that he do his duty as he sees it. We believe he will be himself. If he is himself, he will be the kind of President which long ago made the name of Herbert Hoover to many people a symbol of wise, kindly, and progressive leadership. Ahmed Zogu is paid $96,500 a year as president of Albania. If the present rapid rate of growth of the United States continues, we may be able to afford a ltitle raise for our President, too. The political writes, all of whom seem to be analyzing the vote now that t|ie election’s over, haven’t told us yet who got the mechanical man vote. Aimee Semple McPherson held a meeting in Glas- ' gow. Maybe Aimee isn’t out so much for the money, after all. Time-honored custom compels us to announce today that in Evansville is a firm known as the Flatt Tire company. A woman in Evan'ston, 111., defied the jinx, walked under a ladder and it fell on her head. But probably her feminine "intuition” told her it was going to happen just like that, and she walked under the ladder just to test the premonition. The former German crown prince writes a magazine story of how h i lost at Verdun. The St. Louis Cardinals ought to lmd out how he does it.

David Dietz on Science Koch Finds Deadly Germ No. 202 ROBERT KOCK wanted adventure. He planned of dangerous expeditions to the heart of Africa and far-off oceans. But he found adventures more exciting and perilous than any geographical expedition ever offered. He found them gazing through a microscope in a little German village in such spare time as he could steal from his

in blood. But drifting between them were little rodlike things. They looked like little sticks. Some of them were very short. But others were joined together so that they formed long slender threads. Other experimenters had seen these threads. Pasteur and other investigators had seen them in France. Pasteur was positive that they were microbes which caused the disease of anthrax. Most scientific men of the day laughed at the idea for they were by no means convinced that microbes cause disease. Koch decided to find out if the little rod-like things were the cause of anthrax. So he got a trap full of live mice. Then he took a clean splinter of wood and dipped it into a drop of blood from a cow which had died of anthrax, a drop of blood which the microscope revealed to be full of the rod-like things. He took one of the mice, made a tiny scratch with a knife on the mouse’s tail and with the splinter of wood put a bit of the blood from the dead cow into the scratch. He put the mouse in a cage by itself. The next day the mouse was dead. Furthermore, it showed all the characteristics of an animal which had died from anthrax. Koch cut open the dead mouse. He put a drop of its blood under the microscope. Like the original drop from the cow, it was swarming with rod-like things. Koch was positive now that the rod-like things were living microbes which caused the dread disease of anthrax. But good experimenter that he was, he was not satisfied. He felt that he must actually see the rodlike things grow and increase in numbers to be positive. So he set about to devise new experiments.

M. E. TRACY SAYS: “It Looks as Though the Miracle Had Happened and That the Solid South Had Drifted Into the Realm of the Past T p/nsc.’’

WHAT happened in the south and why? That is the biggest question mark left by the election. Mr. Hoover not only did better than any one expected, but he did something that no one expected. A few hearty forecasters opined that he might carry North Carolina and fewer still thought he might have some chance in Florida. They could hardly make themselves heard above the din of scoffs and sneers, however, and when it came to suggesting that Virginia or Texas were doubtful, those who harbored such a thought were put down as verging on insanity. Well, as Governor Smith would say, it looks as though the miracle had happened, and that, like so many other human creations, the “solid south” had drifted into the realm of the past tense. tt tt tt Breaking the South Mr. Hoover is really being credited with more glory than he deserves. The only way we truthfully could speak of the south as solid since the Civil war, was by constantly letting it shrink. In 1896, for instance, the “solid south” included fourteen states Maryland, Virginia, the two Carolinas. Georgia, Florida, Alabama, Mississippi, Louisiana, Texas, Arkansas, Missouri, Tennessee and Kentucky but in that immemorial year of “16 to 1” and the “front porch campaign,” William McKinley carried Kentucky by 281 and Maryland by more than 30,000. The headlines that greeted his success looked much as they do today. "Smashes the solid south,” we read in the cold, gray dawn. Eight years later, Colonel Roosevelt made another dent when he carried Maryland by forty-nine votes and Missouri by 25.000. In 1920 Harding dealt a smashing blow to the "solid south” tradition by carrying Maryland, Missouri. Oklahoma and Tennessee. Four years later, though failing to match this record, President Coolidge carried Kentucky, Maryland and Missouri. Only by reducing the number of states to ten, were we able to retain a “solid south” for this election, and if we retain it for the next one, it appears as though we would have to reduce the number to six. a a a Tolerance and Votes Bigotry did it, according to some, though it is doubtful if political leaders in either camp will care to indorse the idea. Bigotry did not play a more important part than the loose talk about it. From the outset there was a certain amount of intolerance in the yell for tolerance. The way it was capitalized, quite as much a-s the thing itself, helped to accentuate the religious issue. In no section of this country can the people be stampeded by calling them narrow-minded. To be more specific. New York cannot drive the south to do its bidding by broadcasting disagreeable activities on the part of a small minority which are not characteristic of it and which it has been doing its best to suppress. Such phrases as “the Bible belt,” the • “region of hook-worm and Baptism,” the “anti-evolution spirit,” and "rural ignorance” did a lot to make votes for Hoover. The south entered this campaign with more than one grievance. In the first place, it felt that its attitude toward prohibition had been overridden. In the second place, it felt that this was done on the assumption that it would vote the Democratic ticket, no matter what happened. In the third place, it inferred that those who regarded it thus lightly would give it no voice in a Democratic administration. The south simply made up its mind to show the country that it was not a doormat for Democratic politicians.

South Asserts Itself As one who lived in Texas for many years, who helped wage a successful campaign against the forces of intolerance, who saw the KuKlux Klan rise and fall and who thinks he understands the predominant traditions and ideals, this writer believes that the people not only of that state, but of the south, did the natural thing. The time had come to convince the north, and more particularly Democratic politicians of the north, that the south was not so sodden in its tradiions, not so hopelessly obsessed with the brass collar complex, that it would stand for anything. The result is not only for the south, but for the entire country. U U tt Political Revolt Those who suppose that the KuKlux Klan and Anti-Saloon League are measurably responsible for the great shift in southern votes merely deceive themselves. If that is their interpretation, they are only chasing one more illusionment up a blind alley. Outside of two New England states the onee section which Governor Smith carried is not only Protestant by an overwhelming majority, but is centered around the palace of the invisible empire. That should be enough to rid any one of the notion that Republican gains were of tar bucket manufacture. Those states which Hoover appears to have carried were, perhaps, least subject to the organized forces of intolerance. In Georgia and Alabama, where Ku-Kluxism still enjoys its greatest influence, the Democrats won. In Texas, North Carolina and Virginia, where Ku-Klux-ism was long since overthrown, they lost. The-revolt was political, not religious. x

practice as a country doctor. Cattle all over Europe were dying from a dread disease called anthrax. Koch took a drop of blood from a cow that had died of the disease and put it under his microscope. The microscope revealed the tiny little globules always to be seen

THE INDI AKJ.TvaLIS TIMES

BY DR. MORRIS FISHBEIN Editor Journal of the American Medical Association and of fiygeia, the Health Magazine. A FEW diseases are particularly associated with races or with special types of human beings. The Jewish people have preserved their racial type to a remarkable degree. There are now about tnree and a half million Jews in the United States, and their health conditions constitute an important problem. It is known, for instance, that diabetes is more common in Jewish people than In others. Obesity occurs among them to a larger extent than among people generally. On the other hand, they have a comparatively higher resistance than do other groups to tuberculosis, and their sobriety is proverbial so that alcoholism is exceedingly rare. This does not mean that they are

Reason

WELL, it’s all over now. Opponents cai\ be friends again; candidates can take their nands out of circulation; telegraph poles can take off their pictures; newspapers can stop quarreling; prophets can stop reading the palm of the future; losers can wheel winners round the block; whispering squads can talk out loud; spellbinders can park their hot stuff; those who were elected can prepare to save the country and those who were defeated can prepare to go into the insurance business. a tt a It's a tough break for Uncle Sam that Captain C. B. Collyer, flying meteor de luxe, should crash to his death in an Arizona canyon, and not one single bandit of the hundreds, burning up the pikes of the United States, end his striped career in the ditch! e Our political losers should read how soviet Russia clamps Trotsky, former high mogul, into exile, and console themselves with the thought that it might be worse. <ras If we did business like the Bolshevists, Hoover’s crowd immediately would banish A1 Smith to the petrified forest, while Raskob would probably wind up an exile in the Utah desert tt tt It’s not square for Mussolini to paste a blanket tax on Italian bachelors without making an effort to learn whether there may be extenuating circumstances. In all cases where gentlemen have been given the gate by their ladies, the ladies should pay the tax.

BY FABYAN MATHEY There are no trumps andSouth has the lead. North and South must win five of the seven tricks, against a perfect defense. S—B-4 H—None D —Q-J-9-5 C—2 NORTH S—Q-9- S -”°- 5-2 *- ® H—None 12 <2 n~, N ° n t f D-Hione * 2 D ~J o ’ B ' C—K-7-4 p l SOUTH C 3 a S—K-7-3 H—None D—7-2 C-A-9 * LAY out the cards on a table, as shown in the diagram, and study the situation. See if you can shad the method in which North and South can get five of the seven tricks. The solution is printed elsewhere on this page.

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total abstainers, but father that they do not drink to excess. In this connection, it is interesting to point out, as does Sir Humphrey Rolleston, that when the modern Jew cuts himself adrift from the influence of his race, he does not remain sober. One of the unusual conditions which occurs more frequently among Jews than gentiles is called thrombo-angiitis obliterans, a form of disease of the blood vessels with redness of the feet, severe pain occasionally, and sometimes such interference- with the circulation that removal of the limbs may be necessary. It is a rather interesting fact that recently, since the condition has been definitely established, cases are also seen in other races, so that of 300 cases seen in one large clinic, 50 per cent were Jewish end the remainder was distributed among many peoples.

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By Frederick LANDIS

PAUL POLLARD, student of DePauw university, got into a dispute with his teacher by defending evolution, after which he gave strong support to the theory of his descent from a monkey by leaving the university and enlisting in the United States army. 000 The people of Whitesburg, Ky., are putting on airs because the whiskers of their aged fellow citizen, Isaac Fields, are turning black after having been white for fifty years. This is no miracle at all; Uncle Ike simply has been following the ladies to the red front drug store. 000 Reading that the Lincoln park zoo of Chicago just has bought a porcupine from Wisconsin causes one to wonder whether it’s the same one that has been handing its quills to the Republican party for the last twenty-five years. 000 We don’t feel half the sympathy for the defeated candidates that we do for the farmers of the United States. Hoover and Smith have been playing the banjo under agriculturists’ window evo*y night since June, and now there won’t be any more lovemaking for four long years!

The Solution

THIS is a comparatively easy problem. But it points to a play of which few players take advantage, and yet which is bound to occur at least once in an evening of Bridge. South leads a diamond, North playing low and East winning the trick. East’s lead now is of little importance, since North and South are bound to win a spade trick, a club trick and three diamond tricks. The play in particular, of course, lies in the first trick, since North, by playing low, simultaneously establishes the diamonds and insures a re-entry from the South hand. If North had played a high diamond, East and West would have easily defeated the problem. When you intend to establish a suit and you know you must lose a trick in it, be sure to lose the trick before your re-entry is destroyed. /(Copyright, 1928, NEA Service. Inc.)

| Rolleston considers that there is Ia racial liability to the special | disease of the arteries here conI cerned, and that excess smoking is ! in some way associated with its ; onset. As has been pointed out, diabetes occurs more frequently in Jewish persons than in others; indeed, it j has been estimated as being from j twice to six times as high as in ' ether races. There is a definite relationship between overweight ! and the onset of diabetes. One series of figures indicates that diabetes follows overweight in one out of every twelve gentiles and ' in one out of every eight Jews. That obesity must have some definite relationship is indicated by the fact that Jewish children do not have diabetes more often than gentile children, but that the inj creased rate occurs most frequently | between 40 and 50 years of age.

IT'S ALL OVER NOW tt 0 • • IT’S A TOUGII BREAK tt U tt THEY MIGHT BE EXILES PROFESSOR James' K. Chapman, of Wabash college, just dead at Crawfordsville, earned a Carnegie medal many times over by teaching his classes for six years from his sick room. The fellow who keeps a stiff upper lip through a long, losing fight has braver stuff than the man who is pitched into glory by sudden impulse. General Grant was always brave, but he was bravest, when near the end of the road, he hurried to complete his book, so his family would have something to live on. a a a John W. Davis was a hopeless spendthrift to give five reasons for supporting Al Smith, when no presidential candidate asks any supporter to give more than one.

Questions and Answers

Xou can get an answer to any answerable question of fact or information by writing to Frederick M. Kerbv Question Editor The Indianapolis Times' Wash iugton Bureau. 1322 New York Ave Wahlngton. D. C. inclosing 2 cents in stamps for reply. Medical and legal advice cannot be given, nor can extended research be made All cthei questions will rectlve a oersonal reply nsigned requests cannot be answeted All letters are confidential You are cordially Invited to make use of this What is the meaning of the name Roger? It is from old high German and means “famous with the spear.” Where can one get a list of universities and colleges in the United States? Patterson’s American Educational Directory contains a list of universities and colleges. It is published by the American Educatipnal Company, Chicago, and can be purchased at any book store. . - j Is Greenly Island, on which the German and Irish aviators landed, ft part of the American continent? Islands adjacent to a continental land mass are geographically considered part of the continent. Greenly Island is, therefore, part of the North American continent. When should the permanent teeth of a healthy child come? Pour first molars, one on each side of each jaw, 5 to 7 years; two lower front teeth, 5 to 7 years; two upper front teeth, 6 to 8 years; two more upper front teeth and two more lower teeth, 6 to 8 years; four bicuspids, two upper and two lower, 8 to 10 years; two eye and two stomach teeth, 9 to 12 years; two upper and two lower second molars, 12 to 14 years; two upper and two lower third molars, 17 to 25 years. What is Icelad spar? Transparent calecite, which, owing to its strong double refraction, is largely used for optical purposes. What is the nationality and meaning of the family name Gish? It is English, derived from the Anglo-Saxon “gis” meaning “firm.”

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KEEPING UP ■4 With THE NEWS

BY LUDWELL DENNY (Copyright, Newspapers, WASHINGTON. Nov. B.—. Alfred E. Smith has proved that a wet has a good chance of being elected President next time—provided only that he is a Protestant wet. This will be the contention of prohibition opponents. That may sound absurd to those who have been hearing repeatedly during the last forty-eight hours that prohibition was a major cause for Smith’s “overwhelming” defeat, and especially those who have accepted the official anti-saloon clain !of practically all the credit foi crushing Al. Nevertheless, a nonpartisan stud; of the facts and figures shouh alarm the drys, and encourage the wets. It is true, as the drys claim, that prohibition helped defeat Smith. Bui it is not, true that prohibition was the only or the major cause. And it is not true that he was overwhelmingly beaten by the voters. On the contrary, the popular election relatively was close. With the exception of 1916 this was the closest popular election in twenty years. The joker, of course, is in the electoral college system. Smith apparently received only eightyseven of the 531 electoral votes, or only 16 per cent. That is no consolation for Smith. But neither is it consolation for his dry enemies. For the only test of wet-dry sentiment is the popular vote, and Smith has 13,000,000 votes, with several million yet uncounted. This means Smith got about 42 per cent of the total votes. Davis four years ago got only 28 per cent; Cox eight years ago only 37 per cent. * * n OINCE Smith was thus within ! striking distance of a * popular majority, the following questions are pertinent: What would have happened had his opponent been a less able and less popular man than Herbert I Hoover? | What would have happened if Smith had been the candidate pf j the majority instead of the minority party? What would have happened if Smith had been a Protestartt instead of a Catholic? Speculation is futile because n< exact answers are possible. But th facts behind those questions fa from being futile, are the fundamen tal elements in this election, in th judgment of nonpartisan observer; Or put it another way: The Anti-Saloon League say prohibition was a campaign facto and tried to make it the majc issue against Smith. But there was another major sac tor, that of sectarianism, which generally credited with breaking th solid south. Thus by common agreement th extreme drys had one of the mo. j powerful allies possible. And Smit had the worst handicap a wet pres | idential candidate will ever have. If one eliminates the persons wh( voted against Smith on sectarian j grounds, how much would remain ot that narrow 8 per cent margin by | which the wet candidate lost the i popular majority?

0 0# THE answer would seem to be that In this normally Republican country, any normal wet Republican candidate in a normal campaign year could be elected. And, since the Republican party as such is not so dry as the Democratic party of the south, it is by no means certain that the drys can always prevent nomination of a wet Republican. But take the Democratic party. Because of this year’s break It is less under southern control, and as a minority party it is more in need than the Republicans of anew leader and a popular issue. It is not improbable that the Democrats will choose a wet four years hence; for the same necessity of carrying the east—which was their sole reason for nominating Smith—will be even a greater necessity next time. Indeed, a powerful southern Democratic dry leader already has intimated precisely this in praising a wet Protestant Democrat who won in this election. Governor Dan Moody of Texas said yesterday the election as Governor of New York of Franklin D. Roosevelt “marks for him a continuous and growing place among the leaders of though i in national affairs.” A comparison of the Smith with the Davis vote four years ago ii the east indicates that Smith’s vot in the east was more significant oi the prohibition issue than Hoover’, vote in the south. 0 0# SMITH, the wet, apparently woi Massachusetts, thereby switch ing over 422,000- votes which wen Republican four years ago. He apparently won Rhode Island, thereby switching 50,000 normal Republican votes. In Connecticut he cut th< Republican majority to 39,000 thereby switching 100,000 Republican votes. And in New Jersey hr captured another 100,000 Republican voters. Therefore, with Smith only abou' 8 per cent short of a popular major ity, advocates of prohibition modification are asking; With a wet Protestant candidate what can keep us from winning next time?

This Date in U. S. History

November 8 1856—Buchanan’s popular vote for President announced as 1,838,169 against 1.341,264 for John C. FremOnt. . 1864—Lincoln elected President. 1889—Montana .admitted to the Union, it. 1892—Grover c Cleveland elected President; defeating Benjamin Harrison. 1 ■— 1904—Roosevelt elected President