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Fight Assured there needed any additional reason lor the Coffin machine to fight to the last against the holding of a City Manager Mention, it i s furnished by the appointment of William Remy as election commissioner. Remy is named by Judge < hamberlin. Tie* e ; ty council will name a second member and ( ity Cleric Boyce will be the third. That is a somewhat different hoard than is obtained when the bosses rule. Under the old law for partisan elections, the party chairmen name the commissioners. It is a matter of current history that the member named by Coffin is the lawyer who appears for most of the imported gangsters when they are arrested. It is also a matter of history that tiic ma chine has won more often by fraud than it has by the indifference or apathy of the people, li has never won by approval of its methods <>r its candidates. Relying largely upon fraud for its victories, the machine undoubtedly will endeavor to dodg' an election over which Re my has control. The machine does not like Remy. It remembers the things he did to the machine prosecutor. It remembers the indictment of Coffin and Jackson and the subsequent plea of the statute of limitations. It remembers Stephenson. It remembers Duvall and the crooked councilmen. And it knows that Remy has been in position to know the crooks in elections and where to hunt for frauds and to prevent them. Therefore the people may • confidently expect that the legid forces for corruption will begin new assaults on the City Manager law, hunt for new excuses for Ihe supreme court.to throw it off the statute books, or. at least prevent the holding of an election under it. The people, in the meantime, can rejoice that their chances for self government improve. If there is an election, with Remy Boyce on the board it will be an honest one. “Gentlemen of the Press” A certain dentis* is responsible for this editorial. For the last two weeks not a day has gone by without some friend saying, “Did you see “Gentlemen of the Press?'" Often the inquiry is accompanied by a leer, sometimes by an audible snicker. For “Gentlemen of tiie Press" is a movie depicting some of the worst aspects of newspaper work and workers. Well, we have seen the movie. On the whole wc enjoyed it, finding it a racy farce-comedy in the main, with a tragic or. at least, melo-tragic finish. It didn't occur to us that other spectators would see in it anything more than But the succession of leers and snickers gradually brought us to realize that perhaps to folks not in the newspaper business “Gentlemen of the Press" represents a fairly truthful presentation of the life we live. We began to grow sensitive on the subject, but doubtless never would have spoken out if it hadn’t been for the dentist. We are willing to stand a lot from that dentist, willing to let him probe and probe until he finds a raw nerve, willing to lei him rub that raw nerve the wrong way as long as we can stand it; for he is entitled to take some pleasure from life and that is the way a dentist takes his. We are willing even to be generous about it and concede that he doesn t jab the nerve just to see if we ll jump. B’ut when he pokes an exploring nut-pick into the inner recesses of our soul, we rebel. We want to tell him now what we couldn't tell him with our mouth full of his fingers and whirring machinery. And that is this; “Gentlemen of the Press" is just as faithful to life as another movie we taw recently, and no more so. This other movie depicted a scene in a dentist's office. The dentist had his forceps clamped on a victim's tooth and the two struggled all over the shop, fairly wrecking the place. Out of this melee the dentist finally emerged triumphantly waving aloft—-the wrong tooth. It was an excruciatingly funny movie, but it may be doubted that dentists enjoyed it. In the last few days wove been asked another question rather frequently. It is this; “Do you know Paul Anderson?" And we answer with modest pride that wc do. Paul Anderson is a gentleman of the press. The Inquiry is prompted by the news published last week that he had been awarded the SI,OOO Pulitzer prize for his work as a reporter during the year. Anderson, aside from a nifty mustache, is an average-looking Washington correspondent, of average good habits and manner of living and something more than average ability. Following the death of his father he worked his way through school in Knoxville. Tenn.. as night copyboy for a newspaper. He became a reporter when he was 17. Getting a job in St. Louis he distinguished himself by exposing vice and corruption. One feat was ine obtaining of a confession from the leader of a mob that had lynched a German coal miner during the war hysteria. He has been a Washington correspondent for the St. Louis PostDispatch for several years The prize awarded him was the result of a persistent series of interviews and news articles concerning the disposition of the $2,770,000 of Continental Trading Company Liberty bonds that remained after $230,000 had been used to convince former Secretary of the Interior Albert B. Fall. Anderson wrote these stories in an effort to move President Coolidge. Attorney-General Sargent, or another responsible agency to clear up this important question. The eventual result was that a senate inquiry was begun, and the mystery was solved. Minor consequences include the ousting of Robert W. Stewart from the chairmanship of Indiana Standard Oil. the decision of H. M. Blackmer and James E. O Neill to remain indefinitely in France, and the in- \ oluntary ninety-day sojourn Harry F. Sinclair in the district of Columbia jail. \ All that Anderson contributed taking

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was straightforward newspaper work. There was no stealing of secret papers, no listening at keyholes, no bribing of cheap employes, no getting of servants drunk. He dug facts from available records, he in--rrviewed responsible officials, he kept the story alive n ways that were legitimate until the inevitable time came when it no longer could be ignored. In the end he had a great public service to his credit. Maybe, to be completely honest, there was a wee bit of truth beneath the thick exaggerations that made up the movie. “Gentlemen of the Press. ’ But we know how few there remain of the types picked for that picture. As for the type represented by Anderson year by year the tribe increases. Senate Secrecy Public business is public business. When the United States senate debates the merits of a man nominated to the federal bench by the President and then votes its decision in the matter, that is public business. It is not the senate's private business. United States senators, as individuals, have private business, just as other individuals have. But their vote on public issues is not part of their private business. If there is anything the public is entitled to know, it is how senators, elected by the public, vote on every issue tiiat comes before them. This is a, right of the public, transcending any rule the senate or any senate committee may adopt. Some senators may be ashamed of the votes they cast on the confirmation of Irvine L. Lenroot to the federal bench. That is just too bad, for it is no longer a secret shame. It is not, thanks to the fact •hat one or two newspaper correspondents happen to have a better appreciation of public rights than the senate as a whole. We say the senate as a whole since one or two—o’ maybe a dozen—of the senators disregarded the senate’s utterly indefensible rule and gave out, through these correspondents, the information to which the public is entitled. The senate rules committee is undertaking to discipline those senators who let the light into the senate's secret proceedings. They have summoned one of the correspondents, Paul R. Mallon of the United Press, to tell who told him the facts he published. They don't expect Mallon to do this, of course, for every member of the rules committee is aware that reputable newspaper men do not violate confidences. Mallon didn't violate any law. What he did was periectlv legitimate. The offenders against the senate rule were those senators who gave him the information. But if he doesn't reveal their names, the rules committee may seek to convince the senate that its dignity has been sorely abused and that Mallon hould be taken into court and tried for contempt of the senate. Wiiat then? . Well, by that time the senate probably will have obtained a little truer perspective on the situation in which it has involved itself. It is not likely the senate will wish to undertake to persuade twelve average jurors that it actually has a right to transact the public's business inf secret. The lady next door has taken up politics seriously and intends to join one of the major parties before the next election. She hasn't made up her mind about which one yet, but says the name “pseudoRepublican" has a nice sound. A1 Capone has been lodged in a common cell in a Philadelphia jail, and is treated just like the rest of the convicts. He should have taken up some sideline in his youth, as pharmacy. An Illinois woman is mayor at 35. A woman who will admit she's 35 deserves some sort of an honor. The police chief of a Kansas town was let out the other day on a charge of discourtesy. Paste that up on your windshield.

—David Dietz on Science —— —“ The Cauliflower Cloud No. 362

THE woolpack or cauliflower cloud is the picturesque name sometimes given to No. 8 in the official list of clouds. The scientific name is the cumulus cloud. The official description is as follows: “Thick cloud of which the upper surface is dome-shaped and

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of the protuberances. When, on the contrary, it is on the same side of the observer as the sun it appears dark with bright edges. “When f hc light fails sideways, as is usually the case, cumulus clouds show deep shadows. “True cumulus has well-defined upper and lower margins: but one may sometimes see ragged clouds —like cumulus torn by strong wind—of which the detached portions arc continually changing: to this form of cloud the name fracto-cumuius may be given " Observation shows that the cauliflower heads and sides of cumulus clouds to be in a state of rapid change and constant turmoil. Cumulus clouds are caused by the lower air being so much warmer than the upper air that it is pushed up just as warm air is pushed up a, chimney. A forest fire sometimes will cause the formation of cumulus clouds. In this case, they are the result of the ascending columns of warm air plus the moisture liberated from the burning trees. This is estimated as one gallon of water for every fifteen pounds of wood. Cumulus clouds are very common in the equatorial regions and in the temperate zones during the summer time. They occur mast frequently over land in the afternoon and over water late at night. They often follow a coast line, appearing over the water at night and over the land in the daytime. They frequently occur over islands and as a result, navigators are often able to spot the location of an island by the cumulus cloud while the island itself is still below the horizon. The cumulus cloud always is a thing of beauty. On a late summer afternoon, it adds variety to the sky. The cumul# cloud gets its name from its appearance- “Cumul is the Latin word for “heap."

M. E. Tracy SAYS:

There Was No Reason i)i the World for the Senate Not Voting Publicly on the Lenroot Nomination. THREE years ago, four scientists plunged into the Congo fer the purpose of investigating the tsetse fly, which causes sleeping sickness. There was more to the problem which they faced than catching or studying the bug. One was killed by a spear thrust, one was gored to death by a rhinoceros and one died of yellow fever. As though that were not enough, the sole survivor. Dr. Daniel Davenport, was bitten by a cobra and shot by a pigmy. Still they played the game through like men, and Dr. Davenport believes their work has led to discoveries which will make possible the eradication of one of the worst maladies in central Africa. tt a Wants Tunney to Pay THE news groans with trivialities, worth noticing chiefly because of association with some well-known person, or important event. Mrs. Katherine King Fogarty wants to relieve Gene Tunney of $500,000, on the ground that he broke his promise to marry her. Mme. Tetrazzini, on the other hand, wants to be relieved of a man who kept his promise. tt tt tt Some Items of the Day A WOMAN, presumably insane, since she seems to have acquired the habit of asking for money in gobs of $50,000 by mail, is being questioned as the supposed author of the death threat demanding that sum from Constance Morrow. A Mexican, who claims to have invented an airplane motor in which he hoped to interest Colonel Lindbergh, is arrested at Rockland, Me., quizzed by the sheriff and then turned loose. The ghost of Prinz Von Bismarck speaking through the pen of a German editor, as we are told, prophesies’ the complete annihilation of England at 11 o’clock next Saturday and a general European row during the present summer. The expulsion of Dr. Schmidt by the Chicago Medical society for being connected with a health institution which advertised, is upheld by the Illinois State Medical society. The senate spends an entire day arguing over a supposedly secret roll call which the tJnitd Press learned and reported. tt tt tt Rule Doesn’t Work SUCH incidents make interesting reading chiefly because of the persons, institutions, or activities involved. If it were any other body than the United States senate, the debate on secrecy, the sacredness of rules, newspaper ethics and. the question of whether anyone who squealed ought to be expelled, would -seem ridiculous. The fact that the rule did not work suggests that it was no good, even though it was 150 years old. There was no reason in the world why the senate should not vote on the nomination of former Senator Lenroot as a customs judge, publicly and openly. On the other hand, there was every reason why it should. tt tt tt Secrecy Has No Place is all right as an alibi O for cowards, or a smoke screen for crooks. Otherwise, it has no place in public business. People are justified in suspecting every secret procedure, except in time of war, when the essence of the game is to keep the enemy in the dark. More often than not, the motives of those who act in secret are pictured as worse than they really are Instead of being encouraged, or protected, secrecy should be avoided on every possible occasion. B B B Rule’s Worth in Doubt ABOUT the only defense the senate has for voting in secret, and about the only excuse some of its member's have for getting mad when the secret leaks out. is a rule. The question of whether a rule should be obeyed goes back to the rule itself. Was it worth making in the first place; does it serve any good purpose: will normal people observe it under normal circumstances? It not, why keep it on the books? aan Jones Is Sensible SENATOR JONES takes a sensible O view in suggesting that this moth-eaten regulation which provides for secret ballots when there is no sense in secrecy should be changed. It is obvious to him. as it is to other people, that no one outside the senate considers such regulation reasonable, and that it works only when no one is interested partto”larl\ On the present occasion there was some curiosity as to how various senators voted with regard to Mr. Lenroot s nomination. It was not an especially deepseated or violent curiosity, but it was more than sufficient to spoil the rule. That, more than anything else, shows what the rule is worth.

exhibits protuberances while the base is generally horizontal. These clouds appear to be for mc and by asenscional movements of air in the daytime which 3i-c almost always observafc le“When the rioud and the sun are on opposite sides of the observer, the surfaces facing the observer are more brilliant than the margins

Daily Thought

That which is crooked can not be made straight: and that which is wanting can not be numbered. —Eccl. 1:15. BBS Believe, if thou wilt, that mountains cliange their places, but believe not that man changes his nature.—Mohammed. In what year did Montgomery and Stone appear in “The Wizard of Oz?" 1003.

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BY DR. MORRIS FISHBEIN Editor Journal of the American Medical Association and of Hvjtcia, the Health Magazine. THERE is not, of course, any reason to believe that the blowing of any musical instrument will injure the lungs; in fact, it is more reasonable to assume that such a performance will exercise the lungs and thereby make them more capable and more healthful. Some of the superstitions associated with the playing of musical instruments constitute in themselves remarkable notions. Many people think that all violin players have long hair and there

'“SPHERE is a notion that all columnists are cynical city chaps caring nothing about nature. That isn’t so in my case. I love nature, but I don't see why I should break my back to get there. If nature wants me. she knows just where I can be located. Moreover, this system of letting the birds and flowers do the chasing seems to work out admirably. A street vender has found his way up to my penthouse heights and now the roof is riotous with geraniums. I didn’t have to turn my hand, but merely put it in my pocket. At the moment there are far more flowers on the roof than ever grew on the rocky acres of the Connecticut farm. And yesterday morning a bee came up unannounced. Decidedly I was flattered. As he droned around I could imagine myself in the open spaces, even though the tall buildings towered above us. This was a bee of enterprise and spirit. No doubt the pollen tasted sweeter after he ranged above the chimney pots to get it. tt tt tt Broun and the Bcc I'M ALL for enterprise in bees. If one is willing to meet me nine- | tenths of the way, why should I disj courage the exploring instinct of an j insect? If he had ever gone back to I his own kind, he would have had ! tall tales to tell what might have j become best sellers. But he will not return. The 'olarrc may fairly be divided. I hold that it j was a plain case of self-defense and if anybody makes an issue of it, j I’ll take my shirt off to show them. According to tradition, bees are ! never guilty of aggression. They'll j say that I frightened him or nagged

WE promise brotherly support: for the German Communists from the communists of all the world. There shall be a glorious red future for Germany—Gregory Zinoviev, former director of the Russian Third International. B B tt This, sir. is the moronic era of the age of bunk.—Senator Johnson, Cal. B B B Science is nothing but a per- ] sistent and organized effort, to talk sense.—Max Eastman 'Harpers). tt tt tt The annual bill for medical care in the United States is between $2,000,000 and 54.000.000 depending on the authority quoted. The lesser figure is usually considered a fair estimate.—Dr. Harold E. Hullsick, St. Paul surgeon (Plain Talk). BBS Philadelphia is proud, pious and pusillanimous. It has a thousand churches, and its saloons and speakeasies number 13,000. It is the Cradle of American Liberty and the home of the most corrupt political machine in the country. —Saul P. Carson. Philadelphia newspaperman (Plain Talk). BBS France is the most alcoholized nation in the world, and what we call public morals is what they have not

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HEALTH SUPERSTITIONS—No. iS

is hardly a bald-headed violin virtuoso who does not spend at least 5 per cent of his income on hair tonics trying to justify this superstition. It is argued that all players of the base horn are obese. It is said not only the trombone, but also the cornet, and particularly the oboe, interfere with the condition of the lungs. Probably the statement about the trombone and the oboe arises from the fact that the former has a great long tube and the latter the smallest outlet for the breath of any of the wind instruments, and that therefore strong efforts are required to blow either of these musical devices.

and bullied until he lashed out in righteous anger. But that’s a lie. I was minding my own business on my own roof, and made no effort to keep him away from the potted plants. For all I cared he could i take all the geranium juice he j wanted. j But he persisted in bumping into I me. The roof is much bigger than I am and there were yards and | yards of unoccupied space to which he might have devoted his attention. That wasn’t his way. He'd take a good swig out of a flower pot and then come rip roaring in my direction. It’s true that at the other end of the roof there is a daisy patch and ! he seemed to act as if I were trying to lay him a stymie. But a bee capable of scaling the walls of a ten-story building ought to be able to achieve enough altitude to fly j over the head of a reclining columj nist. I’m not one to strut except | when on my feet. tt tt tt Knew His Geometry AS F’AR as I know, there is nothing in the code which says that | a bee must fly in a straight line, | unless my education was neglected. Euclid proclaimed that a straight line is the shortest distance between two points, and I know bees are busy. So are columnists. At the moment I was thinking. I was working on a joke and rolling over might have ruined the whole idea. But this bee was bull- | headed and nothing would suit him except to fly straight through me. I hate to be pushed about, what with U. S. Steel making anew low every day. Since I bisected the straight line which he planned to follow, it

in France. —Bishop James Cannon, Jr.. Methodist Episcopal church, south. B B B The aphorism that disrespect for one law leads to contempt for all is equally useful to the drys, who argue that unrepealable laws should be enforced, and to the wets, who argue that unenforceable laws should be repealed.—Robert C. Binkley < _ he New Republic.) Has the ringing of Lifrty ever been broadcast? Liberty Bell cracked on July 8. 1835 —exactly fifty-nine years after it pealed forth the glad tidings of independence—while tolling for the funeral of Chief Justice Marshall, who died in Philadelphia two days before. Three bells have hung in Independence hall. First “Old Liberty.” which cracked and has ever since been silent; the second bell which was removed to Germantown town hall in 1877. and the third now hanging in the belfry. The ringing of the latter one has been broadcast. Who is provisional president of the lepublic of Ecuador? When was he elected? Dr. Isidro Ay or a, who was reelected provisional president of the constituent assembly on Oct. 10. 1923 by fifty-five out of fifty-seven votes. -

An orchestra leader who has had opportunity for many years to observe musicians, reports that he knows no basis for either of these superstitions. Trombone and oboe players are just as healthy and live just as long as do players of any other type of musical instruments. There is no reason, therefore, to suppose that the playing of an oboe or trombone in any way injures health. It is not certain, of course, as to just how much practicing and playing on these instruments shorten life. No doubt the statistics for this point depend on the irritability and homicidal tendencies of the neighbors.

Ideals and opinions expressed ir* tbi* 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 of this pa 'r.—The Editor

By HEY WOOD BROUN

seemed to be his intention to tunnel. He didn't even seek to move me by an act of faith for which there is scriptural warrant. Perhaps this bee was thinking of another part of the Bible and figured that I might divide like the Red Sea and open up a clear path to the Promised Land. Three times he flew bang against my chest, and as I held my ground each time he bounced off again. I was in no mood to be nudged and he, for his part, fretted himself into an ugly temper and buzzed ferociously at each repulse. Perhaps we were both a shade obstinate. tt tt tt Soft Answer Fails QTILL. I kept my temper and never said a word until the third collision. Even then I spoke to him in the mildest sort of way, which should not have caused him i either anger or fear. What I said j was, “I wouldn't do that any more | if I were you.” | However, there was certain blue- | steel quality in my voice which jhe missed. Others have sometimes underestimated the quality of anger in a Broun when roused. We have an old family motto which runs, “Don't tread on me more than five or six times.” My mild warning threw him into a violent rage. Sounding his rattles, he dov’e into me head-on and stung me violently in the chest. Upon that instant I confess a primitive rage overpowered me. I'm not going to pretend that I did not : know my own strength or that I I merely tried to stun him. I struck I to kill and under the same cireum- | stances I would do it again. ; A bee is all right only when he iis willing to behave himself. I hope the issue won’t arise again and in j order to avoid confusion in tho ; future, I plan to have my chest tatoced in large blue letters with a sign reading, “No Thoroughfare." In a way the poor bee did not die unavenged. In addition to the pain there was the worry that it took me almost an hour of hard thinking to remember whether it is gin or whisky that you have to use : to cure a bee bite. ■ Copyright. 1929. for The Times

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REASON By Frederick Landis This Drunken Drii'cr in Chicago, Who Killed Three School Boys, Should Get at Least One Electric Chair. Argentine wants to get rid of the Monroe Doctrine, without which she would probably now be the possession of some European power, rather than an independent nation with a boundless future. Which reminds us that little while ago Argentine bluffed Mussolini, but if Mussolini had called the bluff, she would have hotfooted it to Uncle Sam for the Monroe Doctrine's protection. B tt B Lindbergh's marriage is not to make him earth-bound, as his contemplated flight to South America shows. You never can tell, but it may cause him to spend more hours in the sky than ever before. Matrimony has caused many to fly who never flew before. BBS Dempsey declines to fight for $500,000 and demands $1,000,000. If this world ever is made over, we hope the Creator will arrange it so there will be a higher reward for lifting humanity up than for knocking it down. tt tt tt THE health commissioner of Chicago states that smoke kills 6.000 inhabitants of that city every l year. The thing to do is to get the gunmen to use smokeless powder. B B B i There’s no question that this i world would be much more hard ; hearted, were it not for the pet names we call our prize fighters and motion picture people. B B B There's only the breadth of a hair between the mountain top and the valley in politics. Take the case of Lenroot. just named judge of the customs court, for instance. Had the man who was to nominate him for Vice-President with Harding not left the convention hall, Lenroot, instead of Coolidge now would be a prosperous ex-Presidcnt. writing the story of his life for the magazines. n b b This drunken driver in Chicago who i - an down and killed the three school boys should receive at least one electric chair. 808 Whether they are learning a language, planting a garden or building a nation, the Japanese proceed with endless patience and perseverance, which explains why this 15-year-old son of a Japanese importer spelled down forty American students in the Atlantic City match, held to select a representative for the national spelling bee. David "george is stretching the license of a camj paign speaker when he calls the American-British debt settlement “one of the most monstrous bargains ever made by any minister.” As wc recall, the United States made a great reduction, both in principal and interest. But then all that’s good in a fellow usually takes a vacation when he runs for office. BBS Among the penitents who recentI ly visited China's holy mountain was an elderly gentleman who . traveled twenty miles on his hands and knees, his 165-pound wife riding him the entire distance. He may have saved his soul, but you'd think he had lost all of his I authority around the house. B B B Asa result of this supreme court ! decision, increasing railroad valuaS tions. there will now be a boost in ! freight rates, ail of which will be ; paid by the well-known ultimate I consumer.

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CAPTAIN KIDDS DEATH

ON May 23. 1701, Captain Kidd. history's most famed outlaw, j was executed in London, j Tradition has woven so many ! fanciful stories about the activities j of Captain Kidd that he has become i almost a mythical figure. Enough |of his life is known, however, to prove false most of the stories told ! about him. In fact, there is some dopbt that he was a pirate at ail. He insisted to the end that his activities on the high sea were in the name of the English crown. He turned over valuable treasures to the government, and claimed that they constituted all the spoils he had taken, but the rumor began ' th&t he had buried vast stores on i the southern coast of the United j States. His trial was marked by grave injustices. At one time early in his career the Council of New York awarded : him 150 pounds sterling for services rendered the colony. In 1695 he was appointed by the governor of New, York province to assist in suppressing piracy off the coast.