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They Know The letters of resignation sent by members of the Coffin political machine should be read by every citizen who really would like to have a chance under decent and orderly government. The.-e men have in the past served the boss with a fidelity, devotion and zeal deserving of a worthier cause. Some of them have been close in on the councils of the machine it there is ever a council except beneath the hat of the boss himself. They at least, understand the tricks and the trickery, the schemes, the praetices and the purposes of the master they now leave, or say they leave. They are experts, these Ilutsclls, the \ oungs fend the one Tutewiler, in Coffinism. They declare that the machine has become to far removed from any thought of the people or of the public welfare that they cannot £tand it longer. When they talk about Coffin and Coffinism, they speak as experts. They know. They have been a part of the machinations that have (disgraced the city and given it bad reputation abroad and bad government at home. The same old machine, now too corrupt for its own cogs, played with btephenson. It is the godfather to Robinson, who attains distinction by voting with Ivlansman Heflin in the Senate. It gave its strength to Watson. It has been a part of every corrupt deal in governjnent that has been perpetrated since the days of Stephenson. If there was needed any evidence that the city must be protected from this machine, these deserting lieutenants of the boss furnish it. There is danger ahead, the city manager law is being attacked in the courts. The machine believes that its political power will decide. It believes that the demands of five-sixths of the citizens will be set aside. Iwo lines of battle exist. If the city manager law is upheld, the people must unite to elect commissioners who will not be compelled later to run from the stench of their own camp. It it is thrown out, it will be more necessary to unite to save the city from the gra>p of this greedy organization. ’i hese henchmen who served Coffin so faithfully and well are performing a service when they call attention to the inherent rottenness of Coffinism. A Jailer’s Mistake There are few so mean as to take pleasure in the present discomfort of Harry F. Sinclair. And yet the whole country is interested acutely in his daily life in jail. This is so because the incarceration of the multimillionaire who corrupted a President's cabinet to gain possession of oil reserved for the nation’s defense is seen as a vindication ot the theory that there is only one law for the rich and the poor. This theory has needed vindication sadly. Down to the very hour when the jail doors opened to receive him, there were many indeed still unprepared to believe it ever would happen. This is not the time to argue why this is so. It is simply a fact, a fact commonly expressed in the saying, "you can’t put a million dollars in jail." Sinclair has been put in jail. But many people Still are skeptical. Jail for Sinclair, they believe, will somehow not be jail as common offenders know it; It will be jail with the rough edges smoothed away. The according of special privileges to important personages who land behind the bars is an old story, familiar to everybody. Shall such special privileges be granted to Sinclair? People want to know that. This curiosity is not born of cruelty. It is born of Bn instinctive sense of justice. The people want to know whether Harry F. Sinclair’s prestige or the prestige of his money is sufficient to obtain for him treatment different from his fellow prisoners. The course yesterday taken by George S. Wilson, superintendent of public welfare of the District of Columbia, is certain to cause the people of the country to answer this question in the affirmative. Wilson has barred the public's representatives from the jail until Sinclair's term has ended. The public is not to know whether this particular prisoner is being treated as other prisoners or whether obsequious custodians are setting him apart lor special consideration. Wilson would do well to consider the full implications of the thing he has done. If he does, he will withdraw his unprecedented order. Disarmament Discussions The preparatory disarmament commission, which has adjourned at Geneva, has opened the way for the long-delayed general disarmament conference. American leadership is credited with the progress made. Whether the way thus opened is followed depends on the willingness of the powers, including the United States, to put their new pledges of co-operation into action. There have been so many similar promises in the past that the hope of the common people ot the world today necessarily is tempered somewhat b> watchfulness. The official reason for adjourning the preparatory commission is to give the five naval powers time to work out among themselves a tentative understanding on the basis of the new American method of "equivalent tonnage." These discusions will take the form of direct negotiations, and even may result in a formal preliminary naval conference in Washington. After the tentative naval agreement, if any, there will be a brief meeting of the Geneva preparatory commission, followed soon by the general disarmament conference. The original American proposal to coi/.inue tie

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discussions at once was sidetracked because of the British general election, May 30. Since the American plea for disarmament through mutual concessions stimulated the world to new hope two weeks ago, there have been discouraging developments at Geneva. It seems clearer than ever that a genera! sea-land-air armament agreement, if attained, will be bought with costly and vital compromises in the ideal of disarmament. To placate France, the United States has withdrawn objection to peace-time conscription and large army reserves, which thus will be left untouched by a limitation agreement. On the naval side, some foreign experts believe the new American "equivalent tonnage’’ method will increase rather than diminish the points of conflict in the coming Anglo-American negotiations. Finally, the other powers in voting. at Geneva would not commit themselves to the basic American proposal for arms "reduction" instead of more “limitation.” Despite these difficulties ahead, however, the deadlock is broken and the mood of utter hopelessness is past. With the right spirit, the powers ought to be able to get together and actually cut armaments. Otherwise their signatures to the Kellogg anti-war pact don't mean anything. Alice Blue vs. Gann Green Washington's latest social war is opening all kinds of other battles. Not the least of these is Speaker Longworth’s fight for the prestige of congress, the people's branch of the federal government. Whether the victorious colors shall be her own "Alice Blue,” or what Alice Roosevelt Longworth is allege! to call "Gann Green” in the row 7 over the social rank of the Speaker's wife versus the VicePresident's sister and hostess may seem unimportant to the rank and file of us. But to the Speaker the issue involves the rights of the people. The official representative of congress is the Speaker, and congress should rank second to no other branch of government. Congress should not be outranked by the chief justice, representing the judicial branch, and certainly not by the sister of the VicePresident, whose constitutional status really is that of presidential understudy. At least, that is the way Speaker Longworth feels about it. As for the social war, we leave that to the matronly legions of Alice and Nick and to the defending forces of Dolly and Charlie, asking for ourselves only the right of humble citizens to enjoy a good fight. But if Nick wants to fight for congress, we hope he will save some of his strength for the political battle. There are lots of leaderless citizens—who never saw a Washington drawing room—who think that the executive and judicial branches of the federal government are becoming too powerful at the expense of the legislative branch. Both the President and the supreme court continue to appropriate to themselves quasi-legislative functions, which the Constitution reserved for congress. That path leads away from representative and democratic government. Indeed, the administration high tariff bill which Nick at this moment is trying to railroad through the house increases the President’s power under the flexible provision tc fix rates, a legislative function; and makes more subservient to the President the tariff commission, originally and properly responsible to congress. So there is plenty to be done in restoring the prestige of congress, whether or not Alice and Nick beat Dolly and Charlie to the banquet boards. Why doesn't Senator Heflin copy and learn that little five-word speech Colonel Lindbergh delivers to newspaper men so nicely? The revolution in Mexico has petered out. Now would be a good time for the railroads of the United States to start improving the roadbeds.

David Dietz on Science-

Soup Fog in London No. 350

FjOGS are divided popularly into a number of classifications. From the technical point of view, there are two classifications, depending upon the origin of the fog. The first type is known as radiation fog. This is the type (previously described in this series) which forms along rivers and creeks and in valleys in the latter part of any still and cloudless night of summer

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An advection fog is one produced by the horizontal jnovement of a mass of air from one place to another. Winter fog. formed by the drifting of a mass of relatively warm and humid air over a cold snowbank, constitutes an advection fog. Another fog which would be classed as an advection fog is the heavy one which forms when the wind blows large masses of air from over a warm ocean current to a point over a cold one, as from the warm Gulf stream to the cold Labrador current. Another type of advection fog forms when cold air slowly flows in over warm water. The warm water continues to evaporate, but as fast as the vapor rises into the cold air. it condenses into fog. This accounts for the "steaming ’ of rivers on frosty mornings. It also accounts for the similar fogs encountered in Arctic regions, known by the picturesque name of "frost smokes." "Steaming" does not take place, however, if the wind is too brisk. In that case, the moisture is blown away ahead of the cold air. It is only when the cold air flows in gently that the phenomenon takes place. Fogs frequently are classified by the amount of moisture they contain. One containing little moisture is called a dry fog. One which is exceedingly damp is called a wet fog. Black fog is the name given to the type which frequently forms over industrial cities and contains considerable soot and smoke. In London there are fogs which contain a slight amount of smoke and as a result have a rather yellowish color. These are known to Englishmen as "pea soup fogs." The fogs over polar seas sometimes are “ice fogs." in which the condensing moisture is frozen into tiny crystals of icfe

M. E. Tracy SAYS:

One Reason Why So Many People Remain Poor Is Lack of Investment Opportunities. TOHN J. RASKOB proposes an investment trust for workers. Why not? Why shouldn't ordinary folks be given a chance at the gravy, or the gamble, if you prefer, with something like a fair break? As things now stand, they virtually are barred from the safe, constructive side of the stock market. About the best they can do is put their money in a savings bank, buy a baby bond, bet what they have on a few shares, deal with a bucket shop,-or fall prey to some shyster salesman. a a a Need for Investment ONE reason why so many people remain poor is lack of investment opportunities. The existing system makes it practically impossible for them to share in the profits not only of speculation but of legitimate business. There are plenty of institutions by which rich men can take comparatively safe advantage of the stock market. There is none for the poor—none that can handle the SIOO of a carpenter in the same way the million dollars of a banker is handled, yet 10.000 carpenters with SIOO each would represent an equal amount of capital. a a a Raskob Has Right Idea SAVINGS banks, building and >3 loan associations and insurance companies have done splendidly by people of small means. If there is a way to let people of small means profit through real estate mortgages, the construction of homes and life insurance, there ought, to be a way to let them profit through the rise of stocks, the organization of industries and the general increase of health. That seems to be what Raskob has in mind, and it seems to represent merely the application of perfectly sane principles to an obvious need. IF it is protection the country *ants—protection that takes no account so the consumer, or of what other nations may do to retaliate — the new tariff bill more than supplies the demand. The Republican party proposes nothing less than to build such an economic stone wall around this country as the most powerful broadcasting station could not penetrate. Business might flourish because of such a barricade, but the home folks would certainly pay for it. There hardly is a necessary of life but what would go up under the proposed bill. It goes without saying that the burden would fall heaviest on the ultimate consumer. a a a Overdoing Safeguards ANOTHER feature of the proposed tariff, and by no means the least Important, is the increased rates on imports from some of our nearest neighbors and best customers. Canadian grain, wheat and dairy products are hard hit. Argentina could not help feel the pressure on wool, corn and beef. Although the committee had sense enough not to put a duty on Philippine sugar, it raised that on Cuban sugar, which will be felt not only by the Cubans but probably by every housewife in America. Protection, like everything else, can be overdone. a a a Mexico’s Problem PRESIDENT PORTES GIL of Mexico expressed a willingness to confer with Archbishop Ruiz and Archbishop Ruiz having expressed a willingness “to co-operate.” it seems as though the church-state problem in Mexico might be settled. However, one may feel with regard to it from a religious or political standpoint, it will have to be settled before Mexico can look forward with confidence to enduring peace. It is unthinkable that a people so largely Catholic by training and tradition can dwell without thoughts of disconent as long as their government and the church are estranged. Such a condition is asking too much of human nature. Further than that, such a condition can be ended at any time when the leaders are willing to sit down and talk things over in a frank, sincere way. a a a Thanks to Mr, Young - ANY issue can be made the basis of a quarrel or conciliation. Men have worked themselves into such a passion as to kill each other for a dime. On the other hand, men have composed seemingly irreconcilable differences by no greater sacrifice than using their wits. But for the patience and resolution of Owen D. Young the peace conference would have fallen flat. It is not going too far to say that neither the German delegates nor those of the allies were in a frame of mind that promised anything but a deadlock. Asa matter of common knowledge, the reparations conference has been on the point of breaking down several times. Just now, and in spite of all the turmoil, it seems probable that the conference will result in an adjustment of this most perplexing problem. If it does, the world can thank Young and it can also thank his disposition quite as much as his ability.

or autumn. It is due to the radiation of heat from the earth's surface and the consequent cooling of the air to the dew - point, the point where the moisture in it condenses. The second type of fog is known as advection so g . “Advection” comes from two Latin words which mean “ carried to.”

Daily Thought

The desire of the slothful killeth him: for his hands refuse to labor.—Prov. 22:25. a a a LAZINESSS travels so slowly that poverty soon overtakes him.— Benjamin Franklin.

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BY DR. MORRIS FISHBEIN Editor Journal of the American Medical Association and of Ilyjreia, the Health Magazine. THE notion that typhoid fever comes from fish in drinking water, from dead weeds, or from similar contamination, is a relic of the dark age before the discoveries of Pasteur. He proved that bacteria are responsible for infectious diseases of the type of typhoid fever. In the fifth centry. B. C.. writers described continued fevers of the same nature as typhoid and in the middle ages some physicians wrote descriptions of cases which are easily identified today as typhoid fever. After Pasteur made his important announcements in 1878-1879, a German scientist, Eberth, found a short

IN talking to the editor one day I mentioned the fact that paragraphs saying, “Goof Preferred is being accumulated by big interests,” were interesting to us investors. He answered that he didn't want to have stock market tips in his paper, as the thought of widows and orphans losing their hard-earned savings would keep him from his sleep at nights. But as the gentleman in question gets up at 9 or 10, or some such unearthly hour, his sleep can’t be much good to him in any case. Still, I understand and respect his ethical attitude. I, myself, would not care to tempt widows into any unhappy flyers. Nor orphans either. The savings bank is the place for hard-earned nest eggs. But my capital represents nothing more than the residue accumulated in twenty years of newspaper work, and so I can afford to say, “Easy come, easy go.” a a a These Are My Jewels AND a duty devolves upon me to tell all. Congressmen are always pestering Mr. Mellon as to what stock he holds and what he doesn’t. A like curiosity is pardonable concerning columnists. If I spoke in kindly fashion of some railroad, the public has a right to know if I am ’ influenced by heavy commitments. Before any senatorial investigating committee is appointed, let me confess right here that I am the owner of twentyfive shares of Pennsylvania Railroad, which has gone down no more than 2 points since I bought it. And yet I believe that my financia’ interest in the corporation is not going to influence my critical judgment and newspaper integrity. I still think they put too many onions in the chicken potpies on the diner. To get back to the widows and orphans. I must insist that not one of them read any further in this column. Penn R. R. may be all right as a staff upon which to hang the hope of a comfortable old age, or little Bobby’s opportunity to go to Yale and by some coincidence get an education, but the rest of my money is in things more volatile. Take for instance United Corporation of Del., of which I have another twenty-five shares. This is frankly speculative. At least I thought so when I bought it. but since it was up 64 points ten minutes ago, it is beginning to look like an investment. When anything goes up it ceases to be a gamble. aan Self-Ownership? NEVERTHELESS, United Corporation of Del. has me worried, for I am beginning to learn that we control public utilities. It is even possible that we have bought into newspapers. Some day I might be working for some newspaper and find out to my consternation that I owned it myself. Then Broun the capitalist might say sternly to Broun the columnist, “Lay off anything about public

Maybe This Is What They Mean

Fish and Typhoid Have No Link

IT SEEMS TO ME

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germ in the tissue of persons who had died of typhoid fever. Four years later, another investigator named Gaffkey got the germ out of the tissue and made it grow. Thus he established definitely the fact that typhoid fever is caused by the germ. Tire next step in the investigation was to find out how this germ spreads from one person to another, because the germ must get into the in estinal tract before one develops the disease. It soon was found that the typhoid organism is spread by sewage passing out of the human body and contaminating food, water and milk. The lower animals do not become infected with the typhoid organism, but they can carry it about in their bodies and spread it through contaminating food sup-

ownership in your articles. We don’t want any of that sort of stuff.” And in that contingency, Broun the columnist would have to decide whether to say, “Very, good, sir.” or punch himself in the nose and resign. But if I know my Broun he would not let any fat and pompous bully like that dictate to him. This is not even yet the full extent of my involvements. For instance, I have St. Louis & San Francisco railroad. Not all of course, but just a sample. This investment has also been productive of worry. Our terminals don’t appear attractive. The muchtouted San Francisco has always seemed to me a dreary city. Its fog has been celebrated several times in lyric verse, but I have found it chill and forbidding. Still I suppose the line is all right for one-way traffic. In leaving St. Louis, any place you get to is jv't so much velvet. And the.c is United States Steel. Although a big corporation my personal contacts with it are few. I think we will be able to get along without much interference with one another. As to General Realty I am wholly in the dark. This was purchased upon the advice of a friend and he really meant the preferred while I took the common. If by any coincidence I am my own landlord, I intend to see to it that I get the broken pane in the doorway put back again. And certainly the ele-

HpASSSai ■iS'THief-

SPAIN IN FLORIDA May 9 TODAY is the anniversary of perhaps the greatest single aid Spain, as an ally of the American colonies, gave during the Revolutionary war. For about two years prior to May 9. 1781, Galvez, the Spanish commander at New Orleans, had harassed British forts along the southern length of the Mississippi river with considerable success. He then planned a campaign against the British on the west coast of Florida, in the hope of reclaiming the territory for Spain. His operations were delayed at the outset by the first hurricane in recorded history to strike Florida, and the adjacent territory on the Gulf of Mexico. But on May 9, 1781, Pensacola, with a garrison of 800 men and the whole of Florida’s west coast surrendered to Galvez. The Spanish victory was favorable news to the struggling colonies, but it was to give rise later to a prolonged border dispute between the United States and Spain. It was not settled until forty years later and meanwhile, provoked much ill-will between the two countries. Do wolves suckle their young?

| plies. Some people who recover from : typhoid fever carry the germs about | in. their bodies and act as typhoid ! carriers. Flies serve as carriers of j infection. In the combat against typhoid ! fever, modern scientific medicine controls the condition by eliminating flies; by controlling milk, water | and food supplies, and by proper I treatment of the typhoid carrier. When a person is sick with typhoid J fever, all his excretions are disin- | fected before they are disposed of. I In the battle against Infectious diseases, the greatest enemy that science has to overcome is ignorance and superstition. As long as there are people who believe that typhoid fever is due to dead weeds and fish in the water, the attempt to control the disease by scientific sanitation will be difficult.

By HEY WOOD BKOUN

vator ought to run all night for anybody who owns fifty shares. Rounding off the list is Arkansas Natural Gas Pf. All the other selections were dictated to nfe by wiser and more experienced heads. Natural gas was my own idea. Upon the curb the other day 500,000 shares changed hands, and according to my theory, where there’s so much smoke there must be some gas. But if by any chance we corrupt state legislatures or bribe Governors I want to get on record now as saying that I didn't have anything to do with it even if I do possess 100 shares. Faithful to Trust IN spite of all these divergent interests I will try to give my best services to the nawspaper. On the whole my battle with Wall Street may work out to the making of a better column. Before I got into capitalism it was my custom to lie in bed quite late on many mornings. Nine. 10, 11 o’clock, or even noon was nothing to me. It w T as my contention that there were few interesting people to be met before Ba. m. And those you run into at midnight are apt to be even more lively. Now my whole schedule has changed. It is essential, I feel, to be up and around before 3 p. in. Mornings have now anew vitality. Pleasantly the hours drift along in the broker’s office. Stock market conversation, I find, is the easiest known to man. It is not necessary to quote Keats or have an interest in any play or book or current tendency in art. In this new world It is possible to gain the reputation of being a brilliant talker without ever having heard of Behaviorism or Eugene O Neill. It is merely necessary to greet each passerby with an affable smile and inquire as if you really cared, “And what do YOU think of the market today?” iCopyright. 1929. by Tbs Times)

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MAY 9, 1929

REASON Bv Frederick Landis -

The Farmer Recalls That When the Manufacturers Want Help They Expect to Get It From Washington, Not Heaven. SENATORS and representatives at Washington could contribute to the cause of law enforcement by surrendering their right to "freedom of the port." If a statesman goes abroad and returns, there's no good reason why his baggage should not be searched just the same as if he were a private citizen. To grant him immunity is privilege, pure and simple, and the rank growth of privilege in this country has done more than all else to bring all laws into contempt. a a a That was a fine tribute President Hoover paid his late opponent, exGovernor Smith, when the latter received his decoration from Notre Dame. As General Garfield once said, the finest flowers are those which are thrown over the political garden wall. a a a Sir Thomas Lipton may be defeated once more when he brings over the Shamrock V to compete for the American sailing cup. but he is sure to get the advertisement, and we strongly suspect this is what Sir Thomas has been after all these sailing years. a a a THESE twenty-eight snakes were found in Oklahoma, coiled in a ball, suggest the intrigues of. European politics, from which we will hold aloof if we know our business. a a a Charles E. Hughes evidently looks over his long political experience and finds if attractive, otherwise he would not have his son and namesake become solicitor-general. a a a There should be quite a sale of medicine balls t-o the corpulent since the President announces that he has taken off fifteen pounds in sixty days. a a a Mexico has not protested because we gave asylum to the rebel generals, but she did let out a roar when those patriots sought to get away with $750,000 in Mexican gold. Which reminds us that on learning that the north had lost six brigadier-generals and fifty mules in a certain battle, Lincoln said he didn’t mind losing the generals, but he did hate to lose the mules. a a tt Marion Talley's statement that she knows of no one who wants to marry her doubtless will bring a barrel of proposals, just as soon as the chivalry of the republic checks her up in Bradstreet.

Times Readers Voice Views

The name and address ot the author must accompany every contribution, but on request will not be published. Letters not exceeding 200 words will receive preference Editor Times —I note the daylight saving bunk is to be brought up at a meeting Thursday night in the Indianapolis council, with a view of disregarding the law passed by the last legislature. Our President in a recent speech said the people of the country should respect the law. Here is a body of lawmakers openly expressing disrespect for a law passed by the legislature. Fine example. A READER. Editor Times—ln regard to daylight saving time, I wonder if there was such a muddled-up and rnussedup affair when time was changed from the old sun dials and standard time established. What is good for the goose should be good for the gander. Suppose the railroads would try daylight saving time and shove their clocks back and forth every time the moon changes. I wonder just who is responsible for daylight saving time. For it is just too bad he didn’t have the power to speed the sun up one hour and then hold it back for an hour. I wonder what this wise man’s idea was. I wonder if he thought, he could fool all the people and makp people believe they were getting up at the sane time, going to work at the same time, and then make them believe they were quitting one hour earlier. Who is the real beneficiary? If the employers want early time, why not just order their plants and stores to open one hour earlier and close one hour earlier, instead of making a big muddle of the time and causing many to miss tranis that run on standard time. There always is a commotion and inquiries of “what kind of time” under the dayilght saving plan. If daylight saving goes into effect here my clocks will not be changed and I will say stores open at 7 o’clock and close at 4 o'clock. If any one asks me the time of day I will give them central standard time. E. J RODENBERG. 2539 North Talbot avenue.