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The Gang Confesses f ifr; that 'kodnes- and graft are the weapons of the _ang when it goes after the control of offices is made in the brazen boast that, through trickery, the city manager law pern. • the chairman of political parties to name the precinct election officers. Oj course, if the law is interpreted as a legal matter, it i- quite likely that the boss is mistaken. If is very certain that the legislators and the people believed 'hat the city manager law is drafted for the purpose of keeping partisan politics o i’ of the election and that safeguards were thrown about the law to prevent the henchmen of Coffin from bulldozing and stealing and cheating at the polls. It ha- bepn notorious that in past in mane precinct- the election officers named by Coffin have b'en men on parole from the courts. con\:cts. known bootleggers, petty violators of lav.men and women who live under the fear of the law. It was to prevent just this thing that the ntv manager law provided for a special elect r cm . cctr.issioti v hieh would select judges and clerks of election who would have no other purpose than the honest count of votes and the prevention of frauds. Judge Chamberlin of the circuit court, in the selection of William Remy, former prosecutor. made certain that the intention would be carried out. The gang knows that Remy knows these crooks. They will not serve under Remy. The one purpose of the boast oi Coffin and his organs and mouthpieces that he will name tlw election officers is to build up the waning hopes of his followers. He must make a show of power. He mu t give them some assurance that he is -till the master. 31 ore brazen and of more importance are tho whispers w hich apparently emanate from the same Coffin quarters that the supreme court stands ready to throw out the city manager law as unconstitutional. That is libel on the supreme court. For it is unbelievable that any member of the court has even intimated to Coffin what his decision will be in a case not yet filed in that court. The court could have saved itself the embarr. ssment of such whispers had it taken a bold stand with Judges Martin and Gemmill when they wrote a decision that the law is valid and constitutional. That decision shows that in fittocn other states the law has been upheld. Unfortunately one judg \ in the early dawn, eliminated a letter “s” from the decision and leaves the door open for all the foul slanders that the gang wishes to circulate concerning its “control over the high court. It is time for the people to be on guard. It is time to organize. It is time to solidify again- a gang that confesses, even as it boasts that i --till has the power to put known crooks on election boards at which the fate of Indianapolis is at stake. Aviation Week Whether Indianapolis does or does not become the center of all aviation activities, the site of the great factories which will build them, the point from which the many lines that will soon cover the continent will diverge, can be left to the future. That will be fettled by many factors. This city has many advantages in its form. What is very important is to have a city very enthusiastic and very wpll informed as to the progress cf this new means of transportation. The community that first gets rid of its fears of flying is much more apt to be the aviation center than the one which is handicapped by a load of doubt and distrust. Detroit -topped out and became the automobile center very largely because it had citizens who did not believe it sacriligious to banish the horse and who saw the auto as a very creat advance over former means of travel. Much more quickly than most of us realize, flying has arrived. While the accidents still get news space, they are few in comparison with the flights. They are still dramatic, but not greater nor more frequent than occur upon highways or the iron tracks. This week the young men of Indianapolis stage a show tha- will still further enlighten us to the advances in manufacture. Noted fliers w - ill be here as the city s guests. It should be a great week of education. If you are still frightened, go out to the fairgrounds and examine the planes. You will probablj be tempted to fly. If you have the chance, go up and look down on the world and lose more of your fears. Enthusiasm and interest will do much to attract this new industry. Indianapolis can use it. Think Fast. Dictators! So the house Republicans intend to jam their higher tariff bill down the country's throat without even the ceremony of adequate debate. Well, they can do it No one can stop them. But there always is a later day of accounting. For all the nose-thumbing arrogance of the G. O. P. congressional leaders, they still are subject to the voters who elected them. And the American voters have ehown more than once great delight in taking a fall out of legislative dictators. Americans back home in the districts from which these would-be dictators come are old-fashioned enough to expect congress to conduct itself as a deliberate assembly and not as a chain gang. There is as little popular sympathy, as there is parliamentary excuse, for the house vote adopting the rule which will exclude all debate on all tariff bill amendment* other than those approved by the

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Repubican bosses of the ways and means committee. Fair minority discussion of the Republican bill is especially necessary, because it violates by wholesale increases the Republican campaign pledge of limited revision; because it will boost the price of living for farmers and city workers, and because it already has provoked threats of serious trade reprisals by foreign nations. This bill is the most shameless high protection orgy in a generation. Utterly ignoring the Hoover campaign promise which helped elect them, the Republican leaders in the house have not limited tariff revision to the agricultural schedules and a few industrial adjustments. Instead, the already high wall of the Fordney-Mc-Cumber law against industrial imports has been raised 11 per cent to an average industrial duty of 38.63 per cent. Those are the figures of the United States tariff commission. Living costs would be increased by this bill upward of $700,000,000 a year, it is estimated, and on such essentials as food, clothing and shelter. But these considerations don’t trouble the strongarm boys of the house. They have a big Republican majority, so why should they let the Democrats and the Progressives even discuss the bill? Hence the gag rule by which they will pass the bill Tuesday afternoon. Fortunately, the bill after being railroaded through t.he house still must get by the senate and the President. And after that any tariff law which is a bread and butter matter in every home has to be acceptable to the voters. To the house, the best advice of Republican strategists with an eye to the next election should be, “Think fast, dictators; think fast.’’ Good Advertising The determination of the great chain cigar stores to abandon coupons is merely another step in the rationalization of business. In the long run consumers will lose nothing and this branch of business will get closer to sane methods. Nobody gets something for nothing. There is no reason why anybody should. Premiums given to customers in the purchase of any commodity are paid for by the customers, of course. If chain stores sell any commodity below cost to entice customers into their stores, it is unfair to merchants who build up their business on the sale of that particular commodity, although the right of any merchant to sell below cost if he wants to may be conceded. Selling below cost may be successful temporarily as a trade stimulator, but taking business as a whole, it is bad for business. Nobody objects to a legitimate profit on everything sold. But where there is a loss on one commodity, any sane merchant expects to make it up on excessive profit on something else. It simply is a foi'm of advertising, and a form that is dying out. because it ought to die out. There has been a steady improvement in advertising, the tendency all the time being toward advertising that is not intended to deceive but rather to invite confidence by deserving it. One of the things that makes advertising profitable is the reputation back of the advertiser. If he lives up to his adiertised promises, he gets the cumulative effect of good advertising, he inspires confidence by deserving it. No merchant can have a better business asset than the confidence of his customers. All of us learn by experience, and experience teaches that nothing builds up a dependable business better than the reputation for square dealing. The essence of good advertising is to convince your public that you mean what you say in your advertisements and that you deliver the goods. “Quake Again Hits Bologna,’’ says a newspaper headline. But. as your old friend A1 Smith might say. "no matter how many quakes hit it, it's still bologna.” This may be a rising market, but manufacturers are still making money selling dresses short.

-David Dietz on Science

Su m mary of Cloud Forms

- No. 365

THE ten cloud forms officially agreed upon by the International Meteorological committee have been described in this series. A brief summary of them, made from the British publication, Cloud

Cumulus Clouds

stratus: A thin sheet of whitish cloud; sometimes covering the sky completely and merely giving it a milky appearance; it is then called cirr-nebula or cirrus haze; at other times presenting more or less distinctly a fibrous structure like a tangled web. This sheet often produces halos around the sun or moon. Intermediate Clouds—No. 3. Cirro-cumulus: Mackerel sky. Small rounded masses or white flakes without shadow, or showing very slight shadow; arranged in groups and often in lines. No. 4. Alto-cumulus. Larger rounded masses, white or gravish. partially shaded, arranged in groups or lines and often so crowded together in the middle region that the cloudlets join. No. 5. Alto-stratus: A dense sheet of a gray or bluish color, sometimes forming a compact mass of dull grav color and fibrous structure. Lower Clouds—No. 6. Strato-cumulus: Large lumpy masses or rolls of dull gray cloud, frequently covering the whole sky. especially in winter. No. 7. Nimbus: A dense layer of dark, shapeless cloud with ragged edges from which steady rain or snow usually falls. If there are openings in the cloud an upper layer of cirro-stratus or alto-stratus may almost invariably be seen through them. No. 8. Cumulus: ‘‘Woolpack or cauliflower cloud." Thick cloud of which the upper surface is domeshaped and exhibits protuberances while the base is generally horizontal. No. 9. Cumulo-nimbus: The thunder cloud: shower cloud. Great masses of cloud rising in the form of mountains or towers or anvils, generally having a veil or screen of fibrous texture (false cirrus'* at the top and at its base a cloud mass similar to nimbus. No. 10. Stratus: A uniform layer of cloudlike fog not laying on the ground.

M. E. Tracy ' SAYS: I We Arc More or Less Asleep and Would Remain That Way Unless Someone Pulled a Surprise Now and Then. WITH elaborate preparations, and six men to carry them out, the United States army suc- | ceeaed in keeping a plane aloft 150 hours. With little to back them up except nerve, two Texans smashed this record in a second-hand machine. Aviation companies had promised the Texans SIOO for each hour they remained in the air after smashing the record. They would not lose money had they promised ten times as much, since the advertising is worth a million dollars, neither would the fliers be overpaid. tt tt tt Someone Must Show Way ORGANIZATION is all right after someone has showed the way, but when it comes to showing the way, we still must look to personal skill, courage and initiative. There was plenty of organization in the mill strike at Elizabethton. Tenn., but matters only grew worse until Miss Anna Weinstock, a clever young woman from the labor department at Washington, tackled the problem. Two weeks were enough for her to smoothe out the trouble, which shows wnat the right person can do. a tt tt Hospital on Vast Scale C CONSTRUCTION of what is said J. to be the largest hospital ever projected just has been begun by the state of New York. This hospital, designed for the tieatment of mental diseases, will be located on Long Island on a 500aerf tract, consist of some eighty buildings, and accommodate 10,000 patients, require the services of 1,500 employes and cost $30,000,000. A magnificent monument to the spirit as well as to the power of New York, but one which can not accomplish much without the right kind of doctors to do the diagnosing and prescribing, the right kind of nurses to carry out their instructions, and the right kind of management to oversee it all. a tt tt Taking the Wrong Track THE danger of institutionalizing things consists in the fact that ic seems to make the individual less important w'hen it actually makes him more so. Instead of escaping personal responsibility through this organizing, massing, and mechanizing, as most people appear to think, we only increase it. An old mule driver can take the wrong road without doing much harm, but look what happens when a train dispatcher sends a train over the wrong track.

Saved by Carelessness WE spend much time contriving ways and means to prevent mistakes. The funny part of it is that sometimes a mistake is the best thing that could hav happened. William Banks of Brooklyn, N. Y., his wife and five children probably would be in their graves if a careless telephone operator had not rung his number by mistake. The family was asleep, with no idea that a water heater was leaking gas. When the phone rang Banks barely was able to reach it. After discovering it was the wrong number, he tried to wake his wife to tell her of his illness, but only to discover that she was in even worse condition. Then the police were called and saved the household. tt ts tt Secrecy Rule to Go LITTLE incidents continually are cropping up to save people from their lethargy. If Paul R. Mallon of the United Press had not dug out and published the Lenroot roll call, who knows but what our noble senators would have gone right on being satisfied with the secrecy rule. As it now stands, fifty-five of them or a clear majority feels quite certain that the rule should be abolished. a e v We Need Surprises WE are all more or less asleep in contentment with our hopes, habits, and our traditions and we would remain that way if someone did not ring the wrong number or pull a surprise now and ‘then. We became so drowsy with the thought that war had ended, that we could not believe our senses when the kaiser kicked the lid off in 1914. Then we became so drowsy with the din that we thought it must go on forever. When it stopped, we were so drowsy with victory and enthusiasm as to imagine that all human problems had been solved and that Germany would pay full for their solution. 808 Lloyd George Wrong LLOYD George says he never felt that way about it. Which shows how quickly people can go to sleep in another direction. Lloyd George says he never wanted to hang the kaiser, but only to thrash him. In either case, it was an unfulfilled wish, as Lloyd George gracefully should admit. The kaiser still is sawing wood, writing memoirs, keeping weather records, scolding his wife, and drawing down a bigger income than he can possibly spend.

Forms, follows for purposes of quick and ready reference. Upper Clouds— No. 1. Cirrus: Detacher clouds of delicate appearance, fibrous i threadlike) structure and featherlike form generally white in color. A familiar form is known popularly as ■ mares' tails.” No. 2. Cirro-

FARM relief is an economic, not a political, question, a question of dollars in or out of pocket.— Representative Hill, Washington. a a a I presume an investigation would show that almost every newspaper in the country had had an opportunity to sell to the power interests. —Senator Norris, Nebraska. a a a I very strongly suspect that if there were but one nation in the world supplied with an army and navy, and, to make the supposition

THE INDIANAPOLIS TIMES

SOMEBODY should tell the members of the United States senate that they constitute a national legislative body and not college boys in a Greek letter fraternity. It is an impudent thing for the senate to meet in secret session when voting upon the confirmation of a federal judge. The Constitution makes no such stipulation and senatorial secrecy is clearly in violation of the public good. If there are valid objections to an appointee, the public of the United States has a right to know just what objections are being made to the man under consideration and to exercise its own judgment as to their weight. It is an even more impertinent thing for the senate to try to penalize a newspaper reporter who succeeded in obtaining the detailed vote upon a confirmation. Does the senate by any chance imagine that a correspondent is a mere messenger boy to hang about outside barred doors until they whistle him in for a handout? a a tt Confidential Sources Moreover i hope that if an inquiry is held, there will be convincing argument for the principle that a newspaper man has the same right to protection of his sources of information as a physician or lawyer. The senate has no more i-ight to ask Paul R. Mallon to disclose the name of his informant than it has to require a doctor to tell the confidences imparted by a patient. There should be at the very least a severe curtailment of the gentlemen’s agreement which diminishes the efficiency of Washington reporters. In other cities the rule is much better defended. If a newspaper man in New York undertakes to interview' a person, it is understood that nc privilege extends to what is said unless the man being interviewed makes that a condition before he talks. It seems to me a fair practice. As a reporter, I never was willing to allow a man to tell me a lot of things, and then say as an afterthought, “Os course, I don’t want to be quoted on any of this.” I always answered, “You should have said that in the beginning.” The Senate Vs, U, P, STRICTLY speaking, the issue is not between the senate and the United Press. The anger of the law-

Quotations of Notables

as strong as possible, if that nation were our own, it would not be long before the other nations had been overrun.—Calvin Coolidge. (Ladies Home Journal.) tt tt a If we enforce our rules on ourselves we will not have any trouble with the newspapers —Senator Borah. Idaho. tt B tt We may see, in the near future, passenger planes controlled by automatic pilots.—William P. MacCracken. Jr., assistant secretary of Commerce for aeronautics.

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Medical Education Needs Increase

BY DR. MORRIS FISHBEIN Editor Journal of the American Medical Association and of Hygeia, the Health Mazarine. IT is no longer possible to begin the study of medicine with a high school education or less. Indeed, it is difficult to study some of the single track branches of medicine with this minimum amount of education. Every reputable medical college now requires two or more years of work in an approved college of arts and sciences, in addition to a fouryear high school education, before a man can take up such subjects as anatomy, physiology, pharmacology or bacteriology, which are among the fundamental branches of medical education. Several of the colleges in our

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I country require three years of college work; namely, California, Cornell, Dartmouth, Missouri, Oregon, i Pennsylvania, Rochester, Stanford, i Tulane, Utah. Vanderbilt, Washing- ! ton, Western Reserve and Y'ale. Two medical colleges, namely, Rush and Johns Hopkins, require | a college degree before a student | can take up the study of medicine. Furthermore, 39 of the state licensing boards also insist on two years of work in a liberal arts college before the student takes up medicine before these state licensing boards will permit a man to appear for an examination to receive ! a license in their states. 1 It is, therefore, important for the ! prospective medical student to find | out in advance the requirements in | the state in which he plans to prac-

makers really is directed against the public which wants to know. I do not see why any branch of governmental activities should be shut off from the citizens of the United States. It is our government, it belongs to us and on demand should unbutton its overcoat and reveal whatever packages are underneath. It may be argued that certain delicate foreign negotiations are impeded if the white light of publicity beats upon them during discussion. I am willing to admit that under certain circumstances a full report may create friction and embarrassment. But, even so, I hold that in the long run free and frank discussion is the better way. Occasional embarrassment is better than the growth of any sort of secret agreements. And if it is established that our set policy, even in delicate diplomatic dealings, is one of complete publicity, there need not be cause for friction. Surely the secrecy which surrounded President Wilson’s negotiations in Paris was the very factor which wrecked any possibility of our entrance into the league. There was too much to digest all at once when the plan was presented to us. If the American public had been able to follow the scheme through its various stages there would have been much more sympathy with the plan tt tt tt Surprising Attitude j AM startled to find the Evening J. Post supporting the action of the senate. “As to the exclusion from the floor of the senate of Mr. Paul R. Mallon. correspondent for I the United Press, for publishing the ’ executtoe session’s roll call, we hold j this disciplinary action to be eni tirely proper. The senate extended to him a j privilege based on its belief in his : good faith: he abused that good faith in making public something that the rules of the senate made secret.” This seems to me an extraordi- ! nary position for a newspaper to take. It undermines the fundamental responsibility of the reporter. He is above and beyond everything else responsible to the pubi lie. He serves not the senate, but the senate’s master. If the senate is unfaithful to its trust by setting up an invisible government, all the more it becomes the reporter’s duty to “break through the conspiracy of ; silence and bring forth the truth. If it were possible for the reporter to obtain information and he suppressed that information, then he would indeed be guilty of a breach of faith to the wide community which he is called upon to serve. * ff tt tt Proud Achievement tt THINK the proudest achievement I of modern journalism has been the manner in which it has been able in every capital to ferret out matters which governments wished to keep quiet. And when a government says that some matter must be concealed from

tice before he selects a medical college. This is done easily by writing to the secretary of the state board of medical registration in the capital city of the state, who will be glad to send to the student a list of the requirements. The American Medical Association at 535 North Dearborn street, Chicago, publishes a pamphlet on “The Choice of a Medical School,” which gives full information concerning requirements in various states relative to admission into various medical colleges and other matters of importance to the prospective student. This pamphlet is | sold for 15 cents. Next: Opportunities for the I physician.

Ideals and opinions expressed in this 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 paper.—The Editor.

By HEYWOOD BROUN

public knowledge for the good of the country, depend upon it that this really means for the good of the party in power. I can conceive of no situation in any land in which the citizens of the country have not a right to demand tha truth, and all f it, Some of the lawmakers in Washington seem to have become afflicted with the Mussolini complex. In laly correspondents are famliar with the order, “This you must not say, every though it happens to be the fact.” And correspndents have been expelled from Italy for violating the censorship imposed by the dictator. But may I ask in no humility at all where the senate of the United States, directly elected by the people of the United States, gets oif to impose in peace time any sort of censorship? 'Copyright, 1929, by The Times)

Daily Thought

Slothfulness casteth into a deep sleep; and an idle soul shall suffer hunger.—Proverbs 19:15. a a tt AN idler is a watch that wants both hands.—Cowper. 935 May Be Graduated B,u Time* Special BLOOMINGTON, Ind., May 27. Nine hundred and thirty-five candidates for degrees are listed in the tentative advance list of Indiana university graduates announced by John W. Cravens, registrar. In addition about 200 students who will complete their work in October will be counted as members of the 1929 class and will be eligible to participate in commencement exercises.

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.MAY 27. 1929

REASON Ey Frederick Landis But for Faith. Most of It Unconscious, the Human Race Would Have Jumped in the River Long Ago. MOTHERS everywhere tucked their children in bed a little more tenderly after reading of the death of Duane Howe, that 7-year-old boy in lowa, who drowned while picking wild flowers for his mother on Mother's day. Just the child of poor folks, but in a way a greater tragedy than the death of a king: How can that mother pick up her burden and go on? Faith! But for faith most of it uncon- ! scious, the human race would have | jumped into the river long ago! a tt tt President Hoover did the unusual i thing when he invited Democratic I as well as Republican leaders to his | conference to consider the revision j of the American claims against Ger- | many. That’s real statesmanship, as well ! as good politics. | Nine-tenths of all success with Presidents as well as with other 1 people is in being neighborly. tt tt tt A marvelous thing has occurred in Mexico. General Calles. the “iron man,” voluntarily has retired to private life after putting down the rebellion. Heretofore such idols have conspired to seize the land they saved. B tt B THE New York Times publishes the pictures of twenty of George Washington's “descendants,” which is rather noteworthy, when you recall that Washington did not have any children. a a a We don’t know what this last war in China means, except that, | our grandchildren will not have quite so many of them to fight. tt tt B Even if all the hotels follow the example set temporarily by the Hotel Stevens in Chicago and refuse to serve cracked ice and ginger ale in the rooms, the devoted will temper it with benzine and drink it down. tt tt B Reading of the death of Henry Watterson’s widow reminds us of the. night we heard that brilliant editor, orator, and ex-Confederate deliver his great lecture on Abraham Lincoln. tt B tt THE next time your automobile motor dies at midnight, ten miles from any town, don’t talk like ! a golf player, but thank Heaven you are not out in a Zeppelin. a o a After hearing Senator Borah’s radio warning of Europe’s tremendous preparations for another war, one feels that the bureau of engraving and printing at Washington should prepare a beautiful card of regrets for Uncle Sam to send over when ; Europe invites us over.

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THE TELEGRAPH May 27

EIGHTY-FIVE years ago today America thrilled to the announcement that Samuel F. B. Morse's invention, the telegraph, had proved itself a success. A message had been sent over the experimental wires between Washington and Baltimore. The text of that brief message, “what hath God wrought?” since has been taught to every schoolboy. The experiment was made possible by the fact that congress appropriated $30,000 in the closing moments of the 1843 session to pay its cost. Morse’s instrument was set up in the chambers of the supreme court in the Capitol and from there the first message was sent. The telegraph that Morse invented weighed approximately three hundred pounds. Today’s instrument weighs less than three. Despite this, however, there have been few essen- ! tial changes made in the principle. A little known fact about Morse ; is that he received, as the result of ; his revolutionary invention, more medals and honorary degrees than perhaps any otper man who ever lived. He experimented with photography in its early days and took the | first daguerreotypes in the United ! States.