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Needed Legislation The entire state has an interest in a salary law which would take county offices out of the fee class and place them on a straight salary basis. Especially is this true of Lake county, the bad spot of Indiana in politics, and bad very largely because the fee system makes it possible to create and operate a vesy efficient political machine whose influence on the state is not the best. The old fee system has been wiped out in this, the largest city, and in some others. It should be abandoned everywhere, especially since the Wright dry law makes the fee system especially unworkable and most dangerous. The position of prosecuting attorney, for instance, in Lake county pays mere than the salrry of the President of the United States. The office of sheriff is said to run equal with the money which will be received by Herbert Hoover. These huge revenues come from the Wright law, which adds a $25 fee for the prosecutor for convicting common drunks. The theory of the professional dry leaders, who' framed the law, was that the prospect of these fees would make prosecutors especially vigilant in prosecuting all liquor cases, a sort of bribe to them to perform their plain duty. ’ * The result has been to make one county in the north almost the dictator of Indiana. From its legislative delegations, it seeks the leadership in the Senate and the speakership of the House. Its delegation in the past his been a harmonious unit on all legislation, and the bloc of votes it controls has been dominating in much legislation, much very bad legislation. If it be advisable to tack the extra fee for prosecuting liquor cases to the bill of offenders, there Is no reason why this fee should not be returned to the state. -Certainly there is no excuse for permitting officials to receive salaries out of all proportion to their ability and their services. No lawyer would contend that the prosecutor of Lake county should receive twelve times the salary paid in Marion county. , Os course, it would be a hardy and independent legislator who would dare to attack this evil system, which affects not only Lake county but others where its influence is less apparent. He would draw to himself the ire of the little state within the state and his measures and bills would probably suffer. But sometime there will come some one who will have the courage to start a drive on this most palpable evil. A1 Smith at His Best The happy warrior does not sulk in his tent after defeat. Instead of nursing election injuries and invoking wrath upon his opponents, Alfred Smith forgets the personal to think of his country's welfare and the contribution his party can make to that common welfare of America. “It will not do to let bitterness blind us to the fact that we are Americans.” Such was his campaign radio postscript last night to the fourteen and a half million citizens who voted for him. Herbert Hoover is not 1 to be President of the Republicans, but of the republic, he reminded his loyal supporters. That is good Americanism. We are glad Smith made this appeal. But we like to think it only confirmed what already was in the hearts and minds of his hearers. His statement of the high functions of a minority party was equally wise and is porably less generally understood. • No party in power, much less the traditional Republican party, can be intrusted safely with government without the compensating check and prodding of an alert opposition party. The danger is graver than possible misuse of power, for autocracy and corruption in a democracy usually dig their own graves. The primary need of our government is intelligence, and ever more intelligence to meet manifoldly complex problems. The two parties must function as positive and negative polls producing that current of intelligence. Smith calls his party in congress to action, which at one time may take the form of co-operation and at another time the form of opposition, which at all times is militant, which at no time is obstructionist. Certainly the country needs Jeffersonian principles, needs that liberalism of the simpler pre-machine age applied to this industrial era. Whether there is to be a rebirth of vital and effective liberalism in the Democratic party, as Smith hopes and believes, depends on that party. We are among those who look for such liberalism from Herbert Hoover and a Republican party reorganized by his leadership. But that is one commodity in which the country should fear no problem of surplus. Let there be unrestrained competition in this. Hoover liberalism should stimulate the Democratic party. And without a liberal opposition party, Hoover will have a hard time leavening the heavy lump of Republican reaction. Al’s prophecy, after a quarter century in public life, is that the future belongs to a liberal party. Neither Democratic nor Republican politicians can afford to ignore that warning. Our Purple Patriots The battle of the blacklist goes merrily on within the Daughters of the American Revolution. The latest incident is the expulsion of Mrs. Mary P. MacFarland by the national board of management, of Hanover, N. J. Mrs. MacFarland is state president of the American Association of University Women, an officer of the League of Women Voters, a graduate of Smith college, and is active in various social and religious organizations. Mrs. MacFarland is charged with disturbing the harmony of the society by circulating pamphlets and letters among the chapters in which she accused the president general and other officers of seeking to suppress free speech and criticised them for blacklisting numerous persons of liberal tendencies as speakers before D. A. R. chapters. Mrs. MacFarland is one of a little group of daughters who believed that the organization was making itself ridiculous by following the lead of Fred R. Marvin of the Key Men of America, and other flag wavers who profess to see the country in constant danger from the reds, and who seek to identify persons they do not like with the Bolshevists or communists. She objected, as did others, to having the soci-

ety’s spokesmen blindly follow the lead of those who supported Secretary Wilbur’s billion-dollar naval program. An effort was made to air the controversy before the society at its convention in Washington last spring. The daughters promptly squelched it. Mrs. MacFarland fought hard. She tried to reach the chapter! themselves to explain the ridiculous position in which the daughters had placed themselves, which almost everybody but a few of the leading daughters seemed to realize. She engaged in a rather acrimonious debate by letter with Mrs. fy. J. Brosseau, president general of the society, who apparently gave scant attention to her complaints. And she refused a summons to appear before the board to explain. For that she was kicked out. , She takes a place on the blacklist with William Allen White, Jane Adaams, Rabbi Wise, Senator Borah, Dr. David Starr Jordan, Florence Allen and others. “I rest quite content,” says Mrs. MacFarland. Teachers Taking Action Asa result of the quiz into propaganda activities of the utilities industry by the federal trade commission, parents have learned that school children have been absorbing much prejudiced, one-sided information on the subject of public ownership of power, light and fuel. They have discovered that much material has found its way into schools which was prepared and paid for by the press agents of the power industry. The disclosures have been disconcerting to the parents ar and even more disconcerting to school officials. While school officials and teachers are awake to the situation, yet the recent action of the National Education Association in appointing a committee of ten tg investigate the use of matter provided by outside organizations or agencies is to be welcomed. It is time educational authorities began to exercise some form of censorship over school propaganda. The committee, it is explained, “will state principles which should guide school officials and teachers in using such material, so children may be protected from one-sided viewpoints and from exploitation for commercial advertising purposes.” The survey can not begin too soon. The Sacco-Vanzetti Case The ghost of the Sacco-Vanzetti case refuses to be laid. A play has been written around it, and it is doing business to crowded houses. A novel has been written setting out the tragedy, and it will be on the book stalls for the Christmas trade. A magazine devoted its October issue to setting out new evidence which indicates strongly that the two men were innocent. “Gods of the Lightning” is the name of the play running at the Little theater on Forty-fourth street in New York. Its next engagement will be Boston. The novel is the latest by Upton Sinclair, the sales of whose books are said to be greater throughout the word than that of any other American author. The magazine exposure is in the Outlook. It tells of a confession by the crook who planned the Bridge - water holdup. It is poor comfort to be able to say, we told you so. Nor does it make one any happier to think of the dreams that must break the sleep of certain respectable people of Massachusetts. Making martyrs this way is not good for American institutions. President-elect Hoover, in his good-will tour of Latin-American countries, will have lots of conveniences, anyway. He’ll take the trip aboard the U. S. Superdreadnaught Maryland. Broadcasting would be improved if certain songsters we know of could be given the air.*

David Dietz on Science.

Laurels for the Brave No. 207

ASIATIC CHOLERA threatened Europe in 1883. A terrible epidemic broke out in Alexandria, Egypt. Natives were dying by the thousands. AH Europe feared an invasion of the dread disease. Men no longer laughed at the microbe hunters. Instead they turned now to them for help. So Robert Koch, the German country doctor who had become world-famous by his discovery of the germ of tuberculosis, packed his microscopes and test tubes

then with his researches on hydrophobia. So he sent two of his assistants—Emile Roux and Thuilliert—o Alexandria. Here was anew kind of race between nations. History books are full of races between nations seeking to dominate some distant colony. But here were nations competing to do a humane service. The epidemic came to an end almost as suddenly as it had started. Neither group had settled the problem. But the brave Thu'illier had contracted it and died of it. Koch, the German, laid wreaths upon the grave of this dead French hero, saying of his wreaths, “They are very simple, but they are of laurel, such as are given the brave.” Unwilling to give up the fight against cholera, Koch went to Calcutta, India, where he continued his researches, daily risking the/frightful death which Thuillier had met. Thanks to Koch, the world no longer fears epidemics of cholera. For he proved that cholera was caused by a specific germ and that this germ thrived in polluted water supplies. As long as water supplies were kept pure, there was no danger of cholera. Cholera recedes as sanitation advances. Medical men look forward to the day when cholera will be only an unpleasant memory of humanity. The German emperor conferred the Order of the Crown with Star, upon Koch. • But Koch remained very modest, saying, “I have worked as hard as I could. If my success has been greater than most, the reason is that I came in my wanderings upon regions where the gold was still lying by the wayside. And that is no great merit,”

M. E. TRACY SAYS: “If 36,000,000 Citizens Went to the Polls It Took Only 33 Cents Apiece to School Them. Not So Bad, Considering What They Got by Radio and Mail.”

OLD Neptune claims the front page once more. Another SOS has come from the sea, another ship has gone down, another operator has proved his heroism, another brave attempt at rescue has been recorded. It is one of the most familiar stories that we know, yet it never has and never will cease to be thrilling. Sinc6 men learned to sail, disaster has 'dogged their course on the sea. The glory of it all consists in the fact that they refused to give up. Time was when one out of every three voyages ended in failure. Os the first 8,000 people who embarked for this continent, 4,000 are said to have perished. Travel by water is safer than It ever was, but it is not absolutely safe, and the chances are that it never will be. For that matter, hardly any aspect of life is safe. a a * Auto as Killer The fate of the Vestris brings to mind many similar disasters. One needs to be neither very old, or very well read to recall several. Still, and this is worth considering, ships probably take less life than automobies. They seem to because they take it in such large doses. The automobile kills by ones and twos. That, more than anything else, creates an illusionment as to the total number. Twice as many people were crushed to death on the streets and highways of this country last week as were lost on the Vestris. What is worse, twice as many will be killed next week. Our pretended ability to understand figures is a myth. They only impress us when concentrated. We can appreciate the appalling toll of this shipwreck much better than we can appreciate the still more appalling toll of our automobiles each week, each month or each year. The reason we regard statistics as dry is because we have not reached a point yet where we can reax} them intelligently. n u b Cost of Campaign The campaign is said to have cost $12,000,000. That is a vast amount of money considered by itself. These are days, however, when no amount of money can be considered by itself. Whether a thing cost too much, depends on what other things cost. Before we get too excited over what we have paid for politics, we should remember how much we pay for candy, chewing gum and cosmetics. How long would $12,000,000 keep the movies of this country running, how many football games would it finance, what does it amount to when rated in terms of golf? If 36,000,000 citizens went to the polls and $12,000,000 was the cost of the campaign, it only took 33 cents apiece to school them. Not so bad, considering what they got over the radio and by mail. tt a tt The Man Who Gambles How long would $12,000,000 last in Wall Street when it trades to the tune of 5,000,000 shares a day? “But that is something different,” you say. Possibly so, but how much different? Whether we take a flier in stock, or contribute to some campaign committee, is there not quite a bit of the gambling spirit back of it? We refuse to admit as much, to be sure, and clutter our statute books with laws prohibiting slot machines and stud poker to prove it. The man who admits he is a gambler gets little but scorn in public at least. The man who gambles, but who does not admit it, is more fortunate. n n n Tragedy of Chance Gambling plays, and always has played, a tragic part in human affairs. Men have bet on their convictions with regard to heaven, gold mines and political dogmas even to the point of death. Many a war has been conceived and waged for no better reason than that some soldier had inspired his followers with the belief that some notion would bring them eternal bliss. Witchcraft, the Mississippi Bubble and the craze for tulips sent thousands into delirium. We have made but small headway in representing this spirit by denying it the right to express itself on the turn of a card. When it comes to hypocrisy toward law enforcement, to privately violating rules and regulations we publicly advocate, booze has nothing on gambling. All of which brings us around to the Rothstein murder. tt a Rothstein Murder The Rothstein murder occurred ir New York eleven days ago. The police department, the district attorney’s office and even Mayor Walker have all taken a hand in trying to solve it. So, too, have several newspapers. Thus far little has resulted except some interesting sidelights on the upper crust of New York’s binderworld. Through one source or another, it has been developed that Rothstein was a great gambler, though not always successful. Besides that, it -has been developed, he was one of quite a few great gamblers, the gambling fraternity was on more or less intimate terms with bootleggers, second-story workers, holdup men and other criminals and it enjoyed at least a speaking acquaintance with certain political leaders. In the minds of many people, these entangling alliances explain the difficulties which justice is encountering, and create the suspicion that there may be more ahead than a murder trial.

and started for Alexandria. Koch, who had risked his life a dozen times a day in the study of tuberculosis, was going to risk it again. With Koch went another deathfighter, brave as many hero of a battlefield, hi s assistan t Gaffky. Pasteur, the great Frenchman, was busy

THE INDIANAPOLIS TIMES

BY DR. MORRIS FISHBEIN Editor Journal of the American Medical Association and of Hvxeia, the Health Magazine. N childhood the symptoms of rheumatic infection are rarely seen in the first two or three years of life. The most serious danger of rheumatic infection in childhood is subsequent disturbance of the heart. Quite certainly rheumatism has oeen related to the attack upon the body of certain germs which tend to localize themselves in the joints and secondarily in the heart and in the nervous system. A child should be given every possible chance to avoid such infec-

SHOULD Swanson make good and drive crime out of Chicago, he would fall heir to acres of limelight and could run for President or something, also write syndicated articles and testimonials for hair tonic or liver medicine, the market being simply unlimited for one who can hurl his name against the public ear with sufficient violence. But, if Swanson does drive crime from its happy Chicago home, it will be hard on the neighbors, for the boys will simply open up shop somewhere else. This is the charming way in which cities have long handled their undesirables—threatens them with imprisonment unless they got out of town —in other words they dumped their social sores on the next town. It’s a national loss that the Governor should retire from public life, for he is an expert in state government, whose counsel and practical suggestions are needed sorely in this country. In the New York constitutional convention that Elihu Rot, the dean of American statesmen and the high priest of Republicanism, said that Governor Smith knew more about the government of that state than any other man, and this knowledge is of the utmost value to all the states of the Union. a tt it It is interesting to note that Senator La Follette received no contributions and spent nothing in his race for the United States senate, which is as it should be for every office in the land, and would be if all of us were as interested in our government as the builders of it anticipated. But if all money were withdrawn from campaigns, there would be nothing done and everything would go by default. Its even worse than it used to be, for then men did political work for the joy of it, but now almost all of them have to be paid.

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Rheumatism in Child Hurts Heart

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BY FABYAN MATHEY

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DAILY HEALTH SERVICE

tion by proper hygiene during infancy. Such hygiene involves routine in the care of its existence, so that variety in diet, exercise, games', scenery, and even environment generally should be the exception. Granted that the child is given suitable food, its digestion of the food will depend largely on its general conduct. It should have plenty of fresh air, adequate periods of sleep, enough exercise and above all things an early development of regular habits of bowel action. It has been recognized that some children come of rheumatic families and seem to have a tendency

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By Frederick LANDIS

Governor smith’s valedictory to the country was the utterance of a thoroughbred, and it should make some of those who struck him below the belt resolve to fumigate themselves and lead better lives. Just why the struggle for the control of government should be dirty instead of decent never has been explained, but politics probably always will continue to be the sewer into which human nature periodically casts its refuse. tt tt tt That the ravages of political destruction are constant is shown by the earing down of old machines and the building up of new ones all over the country, as a result of the late contest, the most celebrated pile of junk, borne to the scrap pile, being the remnants of the old machine of Mayor Thompson of Chicago. Big Bi’l has recently sustained countless licks, but “the blow which > killed father” was the election of Swanson to the district attorneyship, this event severing the old partnership between politics and crime. tt tt a No one is better qualified by experience and personality to lecture on the administration of government in the universities of the United States, and some of the phi-lanthropically-minded inhabitants of the Gold Coast should make such a national service possible. Most of our lectures on political economy are delivered by whitecollared theorists who have looked at government only through a magnifying glass, but Governor Smith knows all about it.

give North and South three tricks. The solution is printed herewith.

The Solution

IN this problem the opponents are gradually but very decisively placed in a helpless position. South first leads his trump, on which North discards a spade. South next leads his queen of spades, and then the three of spades, which West wins with the jack. West then leads his club, and North plays low. If East overtakes West’s club with the ace, North takes the final trick with the queen. IfEast does not overtak*. West is forced to lead a spade to South’s good nine. Os course the main point in this problem is whether or not North covers West’s lead of a club. If North does so, East and West, instead of North and South, win three of the five tricks. (Copyright. 1938. by MSA Service, Inc.)

toward disturbance of the joints. In such children the appetite must be controlled to prevent too great a strain upon the digestive organs. It has been shown often that the germs associated with rheumatic disturbances frequently gain entrance in the body through weaknesses of nose and throat tissues. Hence has come the great campaign for the removal of tonsils and adenoids, particularly when these are enlarged and visibly infected. 'in a child with rheumatic infection and with weaknesses of the nervous system and digestion, infections of the heart and chorea or St. Vitus’ darce are not infrequent complications.

lIE IS A THOROUGHBRED SMITH SIIOULd’IECTURE tt m m THE FUTURE OF RASKOB

IT’S entirely natural for the Democrats of the land to desire Mr. Raskob to take his hat and go, since Mr. Raskob is a Republican who left his party only when impelled by the pangs of thirst to seek an oasis. And one cannot see why Mr. Raskob longer should desire to massage the donkey, when the only jockey in whom he has any faith should refuse to mount it again.

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You can Ret an answer to any answerable question of fact or Information by writinß to Frederick M. Kerbv. Question Ed tor The Indlar.apolls Times' Washington Bureau. 1322 New York Ave., Wanington. D. C.. Inclosing 3 cents in stamps for reply. Medical and legal advice cannot be given, nor can extended research be made. All other questions will rective a personal reply, nslgned requests cannot be answered. All letters are confidential You are cordially Invited to make use of this To what colleges and philanthropic institutions has John D. Rockefeller made large gifts.? The Rockefeller benefactions include gifts to the University of Chicago of over $34,000,000. The General Education Board has received a total of $31,000,000. In addition many individual institutions have received contributions from his personal funds, including Harvard, Yale, Brown. Columbia and Johns Hopkins Universities: Vassar, Bryn' Mawr, Wellesley and Mt. Holyoke colleges and Rochester and Union Theological seminaries. The Rockefeller Institute for Medical Research was founded by him in 1901, and to it he has given the sum of $15,000,000. In 1913 he established the Rockefeller Foundation. Funds provided for its work amount to $125,765,856. What is common law marriage? Can a divorce be granted in cases of common law marriages? A common law marriage is one not solemnized in the ordinary way, but created by an agreement to marry, followed by cohabitation. In States where common law marriage is recognized a man and woman who live as common law wife and husband must first obtain a divorce before they, can remarry. Why is Pennsylvania called the Keystone State? It had a central position in the thirteen original colines, which form an arch along the Atlantic seaboard: hence it was nicknamed the Keystone State or central stone of the arch. A Reader—Postal regulations prohibit publication of any information connected with lotteries, therefore we cannot answer your question other than to advise you to get in touch with officials of the organization you mentioned. What is the axis upon which the earth turns? The earth’s axis does not actually exist, like the axle of a wheel, but is merely an imaginary line through the center of the earth from pole to pole. How long and how wide are the airplane carriers Lexington and Saratoga? They are 888 feet long and 106 feet wide.

ftOV. 14,1928

KEEPING UP With THE NEWS

BY LUDWELL DENNY (Copyright. Scrlpps-Howard Newspaper*, 1928) WASHINGTON, Nov. 14.—European disagreement with the United States’ newest interpretation of the Kellogg outlawry of war pact is expected to precipitate a fight over reservations when that treaty comes before the senate for ratification next month. What are we asked to ratify probably will be the first question raised in the senate. The official American answer was given by Secretary Kellogg in his Armistice day address. He said is was the text of the treaty renounenig war as an instrument of national policy, without any reservation*. But the European answer, as reflected in the European press criticism of the Kellogg statement, is that all the European nations signed the treaty after making official sweeping reservations. The European reservations, as contained in the foreign notes to Washington, were of three kinds. They specified: 1. That the treaty should not apply to the right of a nation to wage defensive war. 2. That the treaty should not interfere with the obligations of those nations as members of the League of Nations or as signatories of the Locarno security pacts. 3. In the case of Great Britain, that acceptance of the treaty would not apply to British defense of her interests in various unspecified areas of the world, which nominally are not part of British territory but upon which the safety of the empire is said to depend. The foreign notes in making these reservations, referred to American interpretations or reservations contained in Kellogg speeches. In those speeches Kellogg had said the treaty could not alienate any nation’s inherent right of self-defense. In those speeches also he said the United States did not interpret the proposed treaty as in any way inconsistent with the obligations of European nations as members of the league or as Locarno signatories. a it rw ELLOGG has not, however, : formally accepted the additional British reservation, which has come to be known as the new "British Monroe doctrine.” International lawyers are in complete disagreement, it seems, as to the legal status of these official reservations. stated in formal notes by the foreign governments as the conditions upon which they were signing the treaty. Does the fact that the reservations were not included as a part of the treaty text cancel the legal effect of the reservations? Yes, say the state department lawyers. No. say neutral international lawyers like Professor Borchard of Yale. No one questions the skill with which Kellogg/ by his method of voicing reservations but refusing to make those reservations a part of the treaty text, has obtained the support of the big navy and army group on one side and of the extreme pacifists on the other side. Critics of the treaty, however, say this temporary political victory by the administration which probably assures treaty ratification with both militarist and pacifist support, will I create a dangerous international misunderstandings. They point out that the net es feet of the administration’s insistence that there are no reservations is that the American people will believe the treaty actually outlaws war. Then, when one of the European nations does resort to war, as it has a right to do under the reservations. the American people will charge that nation with bad faith. u u THESE critics maintain that friendly and safe international relations can only exist on an honest basis, that the European governments have been honest in seating their sweeping treaty reservations and that in justice to all concerned the American senate and people should as honestly accept or reject those reservations. These critics applaud the frankness of the Coolidge Armistice day address, in which the President indicated that the Kellogg treaty could not be relied upon to change the international situation or remove the danger of war, or as he put it, the questions of defense and armament are left “practically where they were.” Many believe that the state department’s alleged illogical position regarding treaty reservations, which it does and does not accept, is explained by the United States’ unwillingness to recognize in any way the new “British Monroe doctrine.” Moreover, the United tates does not want' to raise at this time the American Monroe doctrine issue, which so far has prevented leading Latin American governments from joining in the Kellogg pact.

This Date in U. S. History

Nov. 14 1753— Washington started on trip to the* Ohio river. 1787—Late session of the continental congress opened in New York. 1832—Charles Carroll of Carrollton <Md.), last spring surviving signer of the Declaration of Independence, died. 1856—James Buchanan elected president.

Daily Thought

Do w; then make void the law through faith? God forbid; yea, we establish the law.—Romans 3:31. tt tt tt THE Americans have no faith. they rely on the power of the dollar: they are deaf to sentiment. —Emerson,