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The Machine Threat B"-- ( ,ft'n and his political machine ha-, filed candidate.- for mayor and threatens to hold a primary under the assumption that the supreme court may decide, when it does decide, the qiw-tion, that the city manager form of government i. unconstitutional. Tin machine does not intend to hold primaries Tim uia -itine is at present in such malodorous condition that it never will court any appeal to public opinion. What it really hopes for is the chance to dictate tickets without, consulting any one except its own masters and the evil influence which it represents. Unfortunately the supreme court has apparently found the problem of the legality of the city manager form of government so intricate that n ha- been unable to speedily solve it. Aic ciuou at this time would clarify the situation and permit the citizens who hop*, lor municipal ownership of public offices to gu about the ta k of getting it. It is most unfortunate that this inability to reach a speedy decision permits the politicians to slander the court and to whisper of secret doors to judicial chambers, to suggest that the decision may he written with a view to politieal results, to libel the judges by the covert hints that they will finally determine the matter because of influences that have been im* presstve on othT dep; rimenls of the government. But thal should not blind the citizen, who hopes for a free Indianapolis and for the government which the people indorsed and chose by a vote of six t<> one, to the threat of the machine. The bosses are working on the theory, or perhaps the hope, that the city manager law will be held invalid. They are planning, in that event, Lo select a ticket without a primary and without any resort to the voters. The laws seem to tit in with this plan. In the Kcpublicau party, should the city manager law be destroy cd In jnuicial decision. Coffin would have the power to select the candidates. Control of a city government, in the hapds of vicious, venal and g m< n is a powerful and profitable business. No one knows this hotter than tho-e who have found it profitable in the past. Control mean- the giving of privileges to the criminal ami the vicious. It means the padding of contract.'. It means the lax inspection of public vmk It means graft in every direction. Bossi-ni exist,- on a foundation of graft. This city ha- suffered from it iu the past. Tinpeople knew this when they voted for the city manager form which will drive partisan politics out of city affairs and open the way to a business administration in public office. The people should be alert to the danger. They -louild prepaiv to re-i-t Coffinism, if by any chance the machine should be correct in its foreeat- of the ultimate decision of the high court. They should be ready to unite in anew party that would rally the taxpayers to resist the tax eaters. course, iu 'he meantime there will be prayers that the supreme court will he able to render decision very soon. Long deliberation should i isttre a decision in which the people have confidence, and the deliberation has. apparently. been deliberate

Comment on Hoover Address

Editorial comment on President Hoover’s address in New VoiK yesterday included the following: NEW YORK TIMES—The President was accurate and justn..u ’n maintaining that the prevalence o crime In *.us country is a national disgrace and a cause for deep national concern. . . His speech is bound to quicken and direct American thought and sentiment on t us vital matter. NEW YORK HERALD TRIBUNE—His speech will go far to hearten every agency that has been laboring toward a reform of our judicial system in respect to the punishment ot crime. The general logic and the broad appeal ot the speech are unassailable . . . We cannot agree, however, that the eighteenth anmndmem has played only an insignificant role in the present growth of lawlessness. NEW YORK WORLD—It has been our own belief that it Mr. Hoover wished to deal with that specific part of the problem, which is relatively new and which has followed in the wake of unsuccessful attempt to enforce prohibition, he best could achieve his purpose by instituting a separate and special investigation into the breakdown of the law and the best means either of enforcing it or amending It. This opinion we still hold. SAN FRANCISCO CHRONICLE—'There is little it anything in Mr Hoover's speech that has not been said before many times. PHILADELPHIA PUBLIC LEDGER—It is not too much to sav. indeed, that the widespread criminal disregard for the safety of human life and property has created a great national emergency. BALTIMORE SUN—Mr. Hoover will find dissent In no quarter to the general tenor of his appeal. He will find, however, grave doubt as to whether a militant public sentiment for law observance can be aroused when almost the whole attention of the government is concentrated on efforts to make one particular law effective, and when he tries to ignore the fact that this law runs counter to the habits, morals, and sentiment of so large a proportion of the American people.

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Hoover on Crime In his laudable zeal for law enforcement. President Hoover seems to be overlooking basic social and psychological factors which increase the difficulty of the problem, but which cannot be ignored in any real solution. His New York speech was strong on the need for reform in the mechanics of our legal system. But, in our judgment, it stopped short of the vital issue as to the cause of national lawlessness. The President's description of existing conditions is as alarming as it is irrefutable. “Twenty times as many people in proportion to population are lawlessly killed in the United States as in Great Britain,” he points out. After listing other crimes, he concludes *;hat “life and property are relatively more unsafe iheret than in any other civilized country in the world.” That is true. What about causes? Mr. Hoover thinks “but a small percentage of these can be attributed to the eighteenth amendment.” Indeed, he goes so far as to say that “what we are facing today is something far larger and more fundamental—the possibility that respect for law as law is fading from the sensibilities of our people ” That is a serious indictment of the American people To the extent that it is a just indictment we be.eve it is attributable in the main to disrespect for the prohibition law. If honest disagreement with the prolibition law and disgust with the lawlessness of enforcement methods of that one law is not the chief explanation, what is the explanation? Is it that Americans have some original sin of lawlessness in their physical or mental makeup, or that Americans as such have some fundamental moral defect? That is hardly a reasonable conclusion. But what alternative conclusion is possible, if we dismiss prohibition as a major cause in the admitted widespread and peculiarly American disrespect for law?

The only kind of figures a few people in Europe who owe us monev seem to use in their conversation are figures of speech. A salvo of twenty-one guns was fired when King Victor Emmanuel left his palace in Rome the other day for the opening of parliament. None of the shots was a hit. however. Quite a few of the newspapers have referred to the new Mrs. Babe Ruth as an actress. The fact is she is a former Follies beauty. Gene Tunney and George Bernard Shaw have been traveling together in Italy. George Bernard Shaw is one of the men who picked Carpentier to beat Dempsey. Marion Talley is quitting grand opera for the farm. Probably satisfying the ancient feminine desire for bargain-hunting. Judging by proceedings in the special farm relief session so far. relieving the farmer seems to be mostly a matter of prohibition. A Connecticut woman is on trial for murder on the charge of having given her husband gas. When there's a falling out, girls, the best thing to give the boy friend is the air. A Chicago woman offered a conductor a transfer that was thirty-six years old. Just like a woman to stand there all that time and be sure the car would come. John D. Rockefeller says everybody should have ideals. Most everybody we know has. but buying them is another matter. Ai Smith is going to write for the magazines for $2 a word. Mr. Coolidge ought to ask for a raise.

. David Dietz on Science-

How to Judge Wind

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THE person who acquires the habit of actually notions the weather will find it a subject of considerable interest. Most people living in cities do not know the weather in the way that the farmer knows it. The average business man who dashes from his house to his closed car and then again from the car

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fice to look at the clouds. In fact, too, much attention to the clouds, might be disatstrous for the bumpers and fenders of his auto. But the weather is worth knowing. To a close observer, no two days are exactlly alike. Slight differences in the clouds, the wind velocity, the clearness of the atmosphere, and so on. give nature anew aspect each day. The world becomes more beautiful and interesting, once we really learn to observe the weather. The velocity of the wind can be judged with fair accuracy by observing its effect on objects. Christina Rosetti. the poetess, wrote: Who hath seen the wind? Neither you nor I. But when the trees bow down their heads The wind is passing by. Dr. Charles F. Brooks of Clark university gives the following rules for judging the wind: in a clam, smoke rises vertically. When the wind Is less than three miles an hour, smoke drifts with the wind, but weather vanes are unaffected. A slight breeze has a velocity of about five miles an. hour. Such a breeze can be felt on the face and causes leaves to rustle. One of ten miles an hour keeps leaves and small twigs in constant motion and extends a light flag. One of fifteen miles an hour raises dust and moves small' branches. This is a moderate breeze. A .strong breeze, from twenty-five to thirty miles an hdur. sets large branches in motion and makes it difficult to carry an open umbrella. A wind of more than thirty-five miles an hour makes walking difficult. When the wind passes forty miles an hour, twigs are broken from trees. Fifty miles an hour constitutes a gale, while higher winds are encountered in violent storms and hurricanes.

M. E. Tracy SAYS:

The Sublime Complacency With Which We Tolerate the Destruction of Mechanical Devices Is One of the Most Astounding Aspects of Pres-ent-Day Psychology. pvR. LEON NORMET, French biologist, has discovered a serum which he claims can be used as a substitute for blood. The serum, says Dr. Normet, has worked well not only in animals, but in human beings. Two hundred cases in which a severe loss of blood occurred have been treated with satisfactory results. Until the serum was discovered, there was no way to replace lost blood, except by transfusing it from one person to another, which involves a double risk, and which is often prohibitive because of the expense. tt a a Woman Scientist Scores DR. FLORENCE R. SABIN, only woman member of the National Academy of Science, has discovered a “fatty" acid which produces a, reaction similar to that of tuberculosis when injected into animals, and which may be the source of its origin and spread. Scientists have long suspected that some substance in the cell was responsible for the inception and development of the tuberculosis bug, and have believed that if this substance were identified, an effective remedy for the disease could be found. a a tt French Protect Health UNABLE to reach an agreement with British health authorities, France takes measures to protect herself against possible introduction of smallpox. Henceforth, any person traveling from England to France via the channel ports will have to show a certificate of vaccination within eight days, submit to a medical examination or carry a sanitary passport to be presented to the medical authorities of each French city they visit for a fortnight. Such a regulation is of startling importance to those 10,000 Americans now in England and ready to sail for France. b a Struggle to Aid Humanity '-tpHESE are but three examples of X how science is working to better the lot of humanity. If they told the whole story, we could afford to regard science as an untainted blessing. The point is. however, that while some branches of science operate to spare people, others produce instrumentalities for their destruction. What is the use in curing people of tuberculosis and then kill them with automobiles?

Killed Off by Scores THE same day that brought news of a serum which might be substituted for blood and of a “fatty” acid which might explain the origin of tuberculosis, recorded scores of deaths in auto and airplane crashes. Four people were killed and founinjured when a car plunged over a 100-foot embankment in Steubenvill, O.; five were killed and three injured when a passenger train j struck an auto in Gastonia, N. C.; | three were killed and six injured j when two cars collided on Broad street, in Philadelphia; two were j killed and three hurt when a sedan crashed into a concrete bridge near Norfolk, Va.; one was killed when a i sedan collided with a trolley car in North Arlington, N. J.; five were injured when an auto and an ambulance came together on Staten Island and six were killed when a | stunt flier struck a cabin plane at j San Diego, Cal., just to mention a j few of the fatalities which occurred ' during the week-end. ft n a Resources Destroyed Destruction of life and limb is not th 6 only, or perhaps, the I most alarming feature of mechanical progress. As Dr. Benjamin Miller, head of j the geologj- department of Lehigh university, points out. it gradually is exhausting many of our natural and irreplaceable resources. During the last twenty-five years, he says, we have exhausted more of the world's natural resources than during the previous 500.000. Most people console themselves with the thought that, no matter what, or how much we destroy, genius will find a substitute. When the gasoline has gone, they j say, and probably before, someone j will have discovered a better and ! cheaper fuel, while water power will j supply us with electricity when the j coal has disappeared. B b n The Water Power Myth THE illusionment with regard to ; water power is not only wide- | spread, but typical of the prevailing \ attitude. ; Where the idea originated is a | mystery. Asa matter of plain arithmetic, I i there is not nearly enough water power in this country to supply pres- ! ent day needs if every ounce were developed, yet ignorance goes sub- | limely believing that there will be 5 enough to light all the cities tun all the factories and do all the cooking ■ when the country has doubled in : size. B B tt Faith in Providence WE laugh at that implicit faith in providence which charI acterized the barbaric and semibarbaric world, but it was no more preposterous than is our faith in l human ability to overcome every i description of extravagance and 1 waste. The sublime complacency with which we tolerate the destructive- | ness of mechanical devices, whether i as measured by corpses and cripples. | or by the exhaustion of natural resources, is one of the most astound--1 ing aspects of present day i psychology.

to his office, gets little idea of the actual state of the weather. He knows, of course, whether it is raining or not. But it is doubtful if he has any clear notion of the wind velocity. It is pretty certain that he hardly ever notices the clouds. He is too busy watching the traffic signals on his way to the of-

THE INDIANAPOLIS TIMES

BY DR. MORRIS FISH BE IN Editor Journal of the American Medical Association and of Hygeia, the Health Magazine. SOME people believe that removal of the tonsils will interfere with speech, spoil the singing voice, or ruin the procreative power. The strange ideas that have developed relative to the danger oi removal of tonsils are, no doubt, due to the fact that the exact functions of the tonsils were not known fear many years and the imagination was therefore permitted to run riot concerning them. The tonsils represent the remains of lymphoid structures associated with the destruction of bacteria. Under* modern conditions of life,

HAPPY is the biographer who deals with lives which are uncomplicated. Francis Hackett lias been under the necessity of serving in the double duty of historian and biographer as well. It will not be feasible to write to Henry VII and leave out all mention of his background and the world's affairs which motivated most of his actions. Hacket, of course, can not be blamed for the fact that the stream of European history in Henry’s time was fretted vastly with cross-cur-rents. But I do accuse him of being overconscientious. The earlier portions of his book seem to me dull and difficult. There is so much background that even as iarge and colorful a king as Henry VII is all but lost in the first 100 pages. b b n The Old Triangle BY the time the reader gels out of the woods he will find a book of high interest and excitement. The great drama of Catherine, Henry and Anne is done with . fire and simplicity. Granted that much of the struggle was conditioned by the subtle interplay of European politics there remains an old-fashioned triangle play concerning two women and a man. Indeed, it seems to me that Anne and Catherine are rather more vivid in his pages than Henry himself—particularly Anne. As one little versed in English history, or any other, the story of this gallant flapper was to me not only moving, but surprising, too. Os course, it was not exactly news to me that she had said in the tower, "I heard say the executioner was very good, and I have a little neck.” But it was agreeable to learn that the Boleyn maid was actually a girl of such courage and high spirit when put under pressure. n n tt Church on a Neck AFTER all. a church rests large- . ly on that little neck. Had it not been for Anne. England might still remain a Catholic country. Although Luther's revolt was wholly independent and found the sternest sort of opposition in the heart of Henry, the king's lust for divorce contributed to the general slackening of the pope's temporal power. And though no particular defender of the protestantism which has produced our own Anti-Saloon league and such manifestations, I still believe that it was good to waken reformation in a church grown much too powerful. Asa small Episcopalian. I was much embarrassed by the fact that my church seemed buiif upon a kindly amour. And it disturbed me still more to read for the first time Katherine of Aragon's last letter to the king. It is an extraordinary, eloquent document rising to a heart-rending note in that last piteous cry, “Lastly. I make this vow. that mine eyes desire you above all things. Farewell.” But there was mettle also, in little Anne the commoner She knew what she w anted and got it. too. even though brave men died and cardinals w’ere thwarted. Whet her her passion was a wrong-

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Tonsil Removal Stirs False Beliefs

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| the bacteria which develop in the tonsils make them a source of ini' section to the rest of the body, as j well as a menace in themselves to I the condition of the throat. The fact that the tonsils have been removed safely in hundreds of 1 thousands if not millions of cases should be sufficient evidence to indicate the absolute lack of basis for many of the notions that have been mentioned. Many famous orators have found relief from sore throats and anew clarity of speech when enlarged and infected tonsils have been removed. Many famous singers have been enabled to develop more power through the removal of infected

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ful one is not to be set down with accuracy this side of paradise. But at least it was no mean and petty thing. Anne queened it with the best of them and did not whimper when she laid a fair head on the block to make amends. B B B Flapper's Grandma 'T'HAT there was virtue in the Boleyn line is evident, for from this union came the good Queen Bess. In the Hackett book of Henry she seems also the authentic great-great-grandmother of the girl known to us as the flapper. And, like Anne, this descendant is gravely underestimated and maligned. Anne and her daughters are judged too much by outw’ard appearances. “The hour of noon came and went. She has gained one more day. As evening drew on she prayed at times, and then she chatted freely, saying she would easily be nicknamed Anne Sanstete. And at this joke at her own lack of head she laughed. “Her laughter was no longer hys-

Quotations of Notables

IHAVE hardly spoken of independence since I came back from the United States. This is because I don't believe in fighting when we have no one to fight with.” —President Quezon of the senate, Philippine Islands. B tt tt “Now that war has become a matter of industries, we are the best prepared nation in the world. This brings us a frightful responsibility to do straight thinking on the sub-ject.”—Major-General John F. O'Ryan. Ufiited States of America, retired: former commander Twen-ty-seventh division, A. E. F. a tt a “I believe that intoxicating liquor sold as a beverage causes more injury than war. pestilence or famine.’—Albert C. Saunders, premier of Prince Edward Island, Canada. B tt B “The Great Lakes and. St. Lawrence river extend the generous hand of invitation to us. They fairly beseech us to co-operate in executing the most trivial works that will convert them into anew Mediterranean for the newer continent.”— James W. Good, secretary of war. BBS “Happiness is a by-product of self-fulfillment, which is the most important thing in the world.”—Arnold Bennett, British author. nan “It is flying to which we must look to stir in the youth of today the old pioneer spirit. That is why

Daily Thought

Better is a poor and wise cb.id than an old and foolish king, w ho will no more be admonished. — Eccl. 4:13. a a a HE who can take advice is sometimes superior to him who can give it.—Von Knebel.

tonsils ard their voices have not been altered in the slightest manner in quality. The notions as to the relationship of the tonsils to the procreative power are utterly without basis as demonstrated by millions of children of persons whose tonsils have been removed. No doubt, this belief has to do with the fact that one of the infectious diseases mumps sometimes has, as a secondary complication, serious inflammation of the glands that are concerned In procreation. The ignorant by analogy attach a similar relationship to the tonsils.

Meals and opinions expressed in thi- column are those of one of America’s most interesting writers, and are presented without regard to their agreement or disagreement with the editorial attitude oi this paper.—The Editor.

terical and she had returned to the quips so natural to h<jr disposition.” a a a Direct to God TO be sure, there was no lack of devoted courage on cither side ! during the great conflict about the divorce from Catherine. There, were those who steadfastly refused to yield to the will of Henry and went to bloody death. But these were priests and theologians, buoyed up by a faith in a power greater than i that of the king. When Anne came to her downfall, after a brief interlude of triumph, | she had no such constituted authority to lean upon. She no longer commanded the favor of the church j in which she had been reared. It was necessary for her to go more or less directly to God when j she prayed in her captivity. And ( every man’s hand was against Her. And if in such circumstances she 1 could still hold her head high and | have her little joke. I think her by i no means too slight a person to be | the mother of Elizabeth and the rounder of the Church of England. 1 (Copyright. 1929, tor The Timesi

my scheme for extending our air resources is based so largely on the children. When they grow up aeroplanes will be more common than motor cars, and fear of the air will have been banished.” —Sir Alan Cobham, British flyer. tt B B “My pet peeve is to be obliged to listen to a man soloist sing “Kiss Me Again.”'—The Rev Edgar DeWitt Jones. Detroit. b b n “I absolutely will not shoot on mv mouth about my new job. Colonel Henry L. Stimson. secretary of state. In the picture. “Weary River,” was tlie singing done by Richard Barthelmess or a substitute? A national magazine states that a double was used for the singing part.

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APRIL 23, 1929

REASON

-By Frederick Landis

One Ordinary Family, Minding Its Own Business, Is Worth More to America Than All the Foolish. Boozy Rich. IF you have tears to shed for the casualties flowing trom alcoholir excess, do not waste them on such cases as the one down on Park avenue in New York City, where two old married men flew their kites and fought over taking home the wife of a third man. as a result of which one of the disputants hapassed to the happy hunting ground and the other is free on bail, charged with having given the deceased his transportation. One ordinary family, minding its own business and living decently, is worth more to America than all the foolish, boozy rich from Maine to California! B n a The beautiful friendship oi Damon and Pythias wasn't in it with the undying fidelity of the Democratic party to the Republican party. The night is never too dark, nor the road too rough, nor the hills too high for the donkey to leave hi stall and rush to the rescue of the elephant. The most recent evidence of this deathless devotion is afforded by Representative Hull of Tennessee, who proceeds to rip the Democratic party open by challenging At Smith's tariff views, just as the Republicans promised to split over the proposition of Hoover’s message on farm relief. B B B The English anthropologist. J. M. Baker, informs the world that the inhabitants of the islands of New Hebrides, in the south seas, use pigs for money. That's all right, but it would be a little hard to make change.

You well may imagine how that , grim old war deg. Hindenburg, i yearned to kick King Boris of Bul- | garia in the pants when Boris went I to him to seek counsel as to how to proceed to find a wife to flood with j radiance the gloomy corridors of hi I heart. a a a This St. Louis fellow who wrecked ; the International Life Insurance I Company by removing $3,500,000 of its assets was sent up for three years, awards him more than a million a year fc his services. How gentlemen can find it pqsri- : blc to take small amounts when the;, know the disfavor with which wc rc gard petit larceny and the homage which we pay to grand larceny, is beyond one's comprehension. a b b SECRETARY OF WAR JAMES W. GOOD spoke by the card w*hen he told the D. A. R. that the American people are the most lawless outfit on earth, but he could not hope to get much of a rise out of the D. A. R.. whose eruptions in convention assembled arc the most Vesuvius-like of all our scethings. a b b Willard Dempsey, 3 days old, of Huntington, W. Va., weighs twentytwo pounds and as one recalls how new* mothers go into ecstasies over ounces added to their darlings, it is easy to imagine Willard's mother, chafing because she can't get out and go up and do war street, lording it over the rest of them.

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THE ELECTRIC LIGHT April 13

enpODAY may properly be cclrbrated as the birthday of American night life. Whether the term be used to include an evening 'pent in an isolated f arm hou ;e or in a metropolitan night club For exactly fifty year:; ago on April 22. 1872. Thomas Alva Edison was granted a patent oli the incandescent lamp—an invention which changed the after-sundown map of the world in less than twenty years. The basic principles underlying Edison's invention were known to science long before Edison exper.mented with them. His fame rests on the fact that he otercame enormous difficulties to make a practical public utility ot what had been merely a scientific toy. Contrary to populai belief. Edison's achievement did not ccn.ci : merely of placing a few magic virgin a ’'bottle'’ and hermetically scaling them with - a threaded cap. Tt included devising a practical nr hod oi supplying energy to in lamp, or in other words, originating powerhouses. The Pearl street powerhouse in New York, put in operation in 1882. was the first of the great central station systems of today.