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The Difference Not even the most zealous member of that fine body of men and women who have worked and are working to save the city from the graft, inefficiency and waste of political government would suggest that the seven candidates of the City Manager League have a monopoly on honesty, brains, intelligence or high purposes. Nor could the harshest of critics or the most venal tool of bossism have the temeiitj to suggest that they do not have brains, intelligence, honesty and high purposes. They have these, which are shared by many others, and they have something moie. They have in their keeping the hopes, wishes and confidence of the thousands who rebelled against Coffinism and bossism, who were tired of political control of municipal government, who want nothing out of government but a square deal, who do not believe in protection of the law' violator, the granting of favors in contracts, the appointment of unfits and misfits to public jobs. These candidates are underwritten by the men and women who led the protest against evils in government. > These candidates, when they go into office, will have, if possible, a heightened sense of responsibility. For them to falter or to fail would be to betray the hopes of the thousands of unselfish men and women w ho have given time and effort to a cause with no hope of personal advantage or of gain. The difference between the City Manager League and the Coffin machine lies in this fact. Those who have worked for the league have not sought jobs or contracts or graft or protection from the law. Those who work for the Coffin machine expect ultimately to "get theirs.”It would be well for any man or woman who is tempted to become a candidate against the indorsements of the league to remember these facts. The field, of course, is open. Any citizen has a right to become a candidate for these offices. It is the hope of the forces of greed that there will be many candidates, so many that the people may be confused and thus peimit bossism to put into power its secret servants. There will be, probably, two kinds ot candidates. One will be the real candidates of the bosses. The old politicians of all breeds will probably have an understanding before the election. They can not be expected to run away without a fight. There will be other candidates, honest and patriotic, who will be inspired to announce themselves. Any such who is asked by his “friends” to be a candidate, should ask himself whether he believes that the ticket of the league will not furnish the good and efficient government which is promised. He should ask himself whether these seven will not protect the people from graft, pillage, oppression and indecency. He should ask himself whether he would prefer a city managed by these seven, under the scrutiny of the thousands who give them their confidence, to a board picked by Coffin or other professional politicians. For one thing is certain. The city will be run by thc c seven or it will be ruled by bossism. Before any one becomes a candidate, he should be able to definitely state why he believes that the league ticket will fail to deliver all that has been promised.

Hoover’s Test From the standpoint of the taxpayer, one test of a President is in the amount of money that his administration spends. President Hoo-er is about to face this test. Will he continue the so-called Coolidge economy program, will he be more economical, or will he prove a spender? The answer soon is to be known. The budget bureau Is completing its report on the departmental estimates in preparation for presentation to congress when It convenes for its regular session in December. Taking advantage of the change in administrations, the government departments have submitted estimates so far in excess of the current year's expenditures that the budget bureau declares sweeping reductions must be made if a semblance of economy is to be maintained. Hoover at the outset announced that expenditures for the next year must conform to those now in effect. For the President to say so is one thing, and to get it is another. Will Hoover see that his budget limit is adhered to, or will he weaken? If Hoover remains firm, the budget fight will be over almost before it starts. If he shows signs of letting down the bars, he will find himself facing increased expenditures all along the line. The budget is submitted to congress, which after all makes the appropriations. If an unusually large one is brought in. congressmen are not backward in tacking on additional items for activities in their own districts. If they think some bureau is being favored specially, government departments have a way of enlisting the aid of congressmen in getting additional money for their own divisions. Particular attention is to be paid this year to the budget of the White House itself. The President has more secretaries than any predecessor. He has named numerous commissions since taking office. The executive offices have been remodeled to care for the increased stall of employes. These In themselves may

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offer an excuse for unusual demands from other sources. The budget period is a trying time, particularly for the President. The Unforeseen There are limits to human power, no matter in what field It is exercised. After every precaution has been taken against accident or disaster, there is ever present that one- chance furnished by the uncontrollable elements of nature. The dramatic tragedy to the great airplane may be interpreted by many as proving that aviation is not yet safe and that transportation by air carries too great hazards. The plane fell in the vast mountain ranges, inhospitable, menacing and threatening ever. Into vast reaches only the most hardy and the most courageous venture. There are jagged rocks, deep chasms, sharp declivities. But it came down only because it had been struck from the skies by a lightning bolt. That might have happened had the passengers been traveling in other vehicles. Man has not yet learned to control lightning. He has not learned to control storms, such as sent scores to death in the Pacific a week ago. It is in these uncontrollable forces that danger ever lurks and will always menace those who do not live in sheltered seclusion. The tragedy is most lamentable. It shocks by its drama. It stuns w’ith its swiftness. But it will not halt, nor perhaps even hinder the day when air travel will be universal. Men have never discarded any means of new transportation because of dangers or of disasters. The effort of man through the ages has Deen to obtain speed. When man provides safeguards against mechanical defects of his own inventions and plans carefully against know’n dangers, he reaches his limit. After that comes nature, with her lightning bolts, her tornadoes, her high seas and tidal waves, and man is a babe. There may be other disasters in the air, probably many. But that will not prevent or stop aviation, which each day becomes more safe against ordinary dangers and helpless against only the unforeseen, A Belgian woman told police the other day she had been married fifty times and engaged to 652 men. and none of the jilted 602 seems to have sued her for breach of promise. The United States’ idea of reparations seems to be quite, a healthy Young plan. Two bandits scolded a Kansas City man who happened to have only 50 cents when they robbed him. That should be a lesson to him. Some men find obscurity naturally and others become the husbands of well-known women. A small town is one whdre one of the leading citizens deplores circuses because they take away so much money. The new golf balls are appearing on several courses. The consensus seems to be that if they are no better than the old ones they couldn’t be any worse.

REASON By LANDIS

JUSTICE FABER of the New York supreme court upholds a Mexican divorce issued to Americans when the whole thing was done by mail, neither party going to Mexico. If the parties agree, Mexico will untie them without cause and without delay, and if only one wants to get a divorce and has enough to buy it, the divorce will be forthcoming. * a tt Thus the suddenly rich gentleman speedily may shed the old-fashioned mate who has helped him climb from poverty, but who now is too slow for him. Such divorces come high, costing from SSOO to 52.000, but every day some American “invests.” Drop the price in the slot and take out a divorce. an a As it can all be done by mail, divorce mail order houses will possibly spring up south of the Rio Grande, sending to the United States spring and fall catalogs which will show the customers the very latest thing in separations. American judges should hit these Mexican divorce bootleggers with a club by refusing to recognize their crooked decrees. tt it AFTER forty years’ service in the railways of England a veteran has been retired on $2.46 a week, which should cause the retired railroad veterans of the United States to compare notes, then all join in singing three stanzas of “The Star-Spangled Banner.” tt it Because a student's death was attributed to his rough initiation into a fraternity, Professor J. J. Robinson, dean of men at Indiana university, sent a questionnaire to the fraternities and all but three of them agreed to stop the violence. If Indiana university has any intestinal fortitude it will compel those three fraternities to stop their roughneck tactics or put them out of business. tt B tt There must have been a terrible epidemic of pyorrhea among the mastodons in the oid days, considering the number of enormous teefh now being dug up all over the land. a B a It's a free country and Thomas A. Edison is entitled to say the heliotrope, dahlia and golden rod are his favorite flowers, but there's the hollyhock, most picturesque citizen of the blooming world and there's the dandelion, hated because it's so numerous. If dandelions only could practice birth control, all the florists would be raising them. tt a a HOOPESTON. 111., fairly rolls in economy by paying her mayor 50 cents a year and her alderman half as much. We trust the statesmen are virtuous in all their public dealings. a a u We marvel at the duel recently fought between two Cuban senators, but not so many years ago Abraham Lincoln prepared to fight a sword duel with General Shields of Illinois, the affair being adjusted at the last minute ’.he killing of Alexander Hamilton by Aaron Burr at Weehawken. N J.. did more than any other thing to make the duel bad form in this country. a a a Mrs. Susan D. Grove of Hagerstown. Md., 69-year- j old mother of five children, plans to go over Niagara: Falls in a rubber ball. I After raising five of them, Susan should find the whirlpool very tame. ~

M.E. Tracy SAYS:

The Sinclair Expose * Shows That, Say What You Will, Publicity Is to Be Reckoned With. FIRST, a branch clinic Is established for the benefit of prisonj ers stout enough to unload ships; second, Jail Physician Hyman is asked to show up every day or so; third. Jail Physician Hyman requests the services of his faithful and efficient drug clerk, Harry F. Sinclair; fourth, Jail Superintendent Peak approves the program; and fifth, Mr. Sinclair gets an occasional airing. There will be those unkind enough to say that it was all carefully worked out as an excuse to give a millionaire prisoner some special privileges, but let us be reasonable. Let us assume, for the sake of argument, at least, that everyone concerned acted with the best intentions, and that Superintendent Peak was justified in explaining that the apparent favor granted Mr. Sinclair w'as due to the nature of the work assigned him, and that the work assigned him was due to his peculiar fitness for it. tt tt tt Publicity Still Counts SUCH interpretation of the case leaves only one mystery. Why w'ere the rides stopped so soon after the story w T as published? Or, to be a little more inquisitive, why was Director of Public Welfare Wilson left to learn about them by reading the newspapers? Is it possible that the program did not look so well in print, that twocolumn heads caused Mr. Sinclair’s services to seem less essential, and that broadcasting inspired doubt? Say what you will, but publicity still counts for something. tt tt tt Zep Flight Not a Stunt Everyone knows, or should have known, that the flight of the Graf Zeppelin w'as a great adventure in salesmanship. Dr. Eckener was not performing a stunt, but trying to promote a type of transportation of which he has become the master and in which he thoroughly believes. Neither is his work less worthy on that account. For some inscrutable reason, people glorify stunts, while they sneer at honest efforts to commercialize inventions, yet what would inventions mean to you and me if confined to the realm of stunts? Dr. Eckener is to be congratulated on his success in lifting the dirigible out of the thriller class and visualizing it as an instrument of service with one tremendous feat. tt tt tt No End to Survivors THE last survivor of the Mexican war, which ended eighty-one year ago, died Tuesday. If the law' of averages runs true to form, the last survivor of the Civil war will die not earlier than 1946, and the last survivor of the World war not earlier than 1999. Again, if the law of averages runs true to form, we shall have veterans of several other w r ars ready and w-aiting to take their places. No great nation has dwelt in peace long enough to be without war survivors, W'hich is rather shocking in view of al that has been said on : the subject. tt tt tt East Meeting West THOUGH a renowned poet has said “east is east, and west is west, and never the twain shall meet,’’ it looks as though the east were coming more than half w r ay. The Turk has discarded his turban, the Chinaman his queue, w'hile Tokio has adopted the skyscraper and Afghanistan is in revolution over the issue of European clothes. If that is not enough to convince skeptics, let them contemplate the fact that Calcutta is out to beat Chicago in the construction of a first-class subway. The subway will connect Howriah and Sealdah, passing Under the Hoogly river, with five stations, and provide for trains every two minutes, with a passenger capacity of 30,000 every hour. tt tt tt Good for Bootleggers Bootleggers of Washington, D. C., have hit on the happy device of equipping their automobiles with congressional license plates. These license plates are among the gratuities which a grateful republic furnishes its legislators, and they are supposed to guarantee the holders certain courtesies, if not privileges, at the hands of local police. It requires no great imagination to understand how a bootlegger could use them to advantage, but how a bootlegger can get them is another story. According to a news report, thousands are in evidence, though the sum total of our senators and representatives is only 531.

Questions and Ansivers

Is there a federal widows' pension law? Widows of men who served in the army, navy or marine corps of the United States or in any of the wars of the United States are, under some conditions, entitled to compensation from the government on account of the service of their husband, but there is no federal law providing a general pension for widows. Were Euodias and Syntyche men or women? These characters, mentioned by Paul, were Christian women, perhaps deaconesses, or women of great influence in the Christian church at Philippi. How long was Friederich Ebert President of Germany? Ebert was president from Feb. 11 1919 until his death, Feb. 28, 1925. Who said "What this country needs is a good five cent cigar?” The late Vice-President Marshall was the author of that aphorism.

A Birdseye View of the Situation

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DAILY HEALTH SERVICEDifferent Breads Vary in Food Value

Editor’s Note: This is another in a series of articles by Pr. Morris Fishbein entitled “Know Your Food Values.’’ BY DR. MORRIS FISHBEIN Editor Journal of the American Medical Association and of Hygeia, the Health Magazine. BREAD is the staff of life, but bread means a lot of different things in a lot of different places. There are the scone of Scotland, the long loaf of France, the twist of Poland and the American bread untouched by human hands. Modern bread, having a scientifically established competition, is a sensible food. It is rich in carbohydrate and protein, provides mineral salts, fats and some vitamins. Bread made with white flour, yeast, salt, malt extract, sugar, shortening and water will not have the same food value as bread made of the same constituents W’ith the milk required by .modern baking standards. Whole bread has vitamins and roughage not present in white bread. When bread is made with

IT SEEMS TO ME * ™ D

WITH Labor day come and gone I suppose summer officially is over. And the readers of this column owe me a vote of thanks for during the recent outdoor season a very scant amount of space has been devoted to fishing, airedales, painting and other outdoor sports. It would have been possible to do several hundred words about the ten-pound pickerel that got away, and Captain Flagg has been more than usually energetic and amusing. But people don’t seem to like fish or dog stories, so I have remained silent. Yet I haven't enough character iO resist mentioning the fact that on Sunday afternoon I sold one of my own oil paintings for $5. This is not the first time I have sacrificed my amateur standing. Two years ago I got $3.50 for a landscape and the year before a still life fetched a cool $2. Even so the new high was not the only factor which moved me to jubilation. The ease of the transaction impressed me. , , . A visitor dropped in for tea at tn. house of Miss K. After the second <dass of fruit punch he looked at my picture called “Fair and Colder on the Coast of Labrador.” “That,” said the visitor, “is somewhat better than your others,” and naturally I acknowledged this high praise. , „ , Half an hour elapsed before he remarked, “Do you want to give me that?” Luring the Buyer THIS was the best offer which had come along for some time, but I held out and answered firmly, “no.” The pitcher was filled once more and then again with the delicious fruit juices before us he said: “Would $5 appeal to you?” Taking a single bound I had pen, ink and blotter and blank check by his side. The expert was still able without too much difficulty to sign his name and within five minutes this particular deal in fine arts was a matter of history. After figuring out wear and tear, paint, canvas, lemon juice and time I figured that my net profit stood at $1.12. But for the high cost of living it would have been more profitable. Zuloaga. also a painter, was once a guest at, a dinner in New York where an attendant critic said that everybody was anxious to know 7 with what school the maestro identified himself. Was he influenced most by Velasquez or Goya or Grescco?

Daily Thought

Seek good, and not evil, that ye may live.—Amos 5:15. ana GOOD qualities are the substantial riches of the mind; but it is good breeding that sets them off to advantage.—Locke,

fruit or raisins or nuts its value is still further modified. Tw'o biscuits make 100 calorics, a three-inch piece of coffee cake makes 300 calories, a large graham muffin makes 208 calories, a six-inch waffle makes 100 calories, a large parker house roll makes eighty-two calories, a slice of raisin bread provides 135 calories, a slice of ry bread provides 100 calories, one slice of cinnamon toast is 150 calories and two slices of Melba toast make 100 calories, and three pieces of Zwieback make 100 calories. Almost all breads have calcium and phosphorus in small amounts, but very little iron. Almost all modern breads have some vitamin A and B, but are not rich in vitamin C or vitamin D.. Breads are about like the vegetables in their protein, carbohydrate and fat contents. It should be recognized that man does not live by bread alone. It would be possible to live for a considerable amount of time on a bread and water diet, but not at all de-

And the painter, somewhat embarrassed, rose and asked indulgence on the ground of his faulty English. tt tt tt Cohan's Secret MAY a more or less old-time performer be allowed to add a few words to your remarks about George Cohan’s acting?” writes X. Y. Z. “What you say about George Cohan—his quiet method, his economy of effort, his sureness of gesture—is all perfectly sound, but it seems to me that there is .something more. “In George Cohan’s acting you will find a quality that is present in the work of every great artist in any line you care to mention. Babe Ruth and Bobby Jones both have his quality. So have Bill Tilden, Charlie Chaplin, Zimbalist, Tommy Loughran, Willie Hoppe and so on. “I am quite sure that Grantland Rice has discussed this particular quality that is the possession of all the best ones.

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CONTINENTAL CON(TRESS Sept. 5 ON Sept. 5, 1774, the first Continental Congress met in Carpenter hall. Philadelphia. Fifty-five delegates, representing all colonies, except Georgia, attended the first assembly. They represented a population of 2,200,000. Resolutions from various sections of the country, stating their wrongs, were presented to the congressmen and a petition to the British king I (the declaration of rights and grievances) was ordered, assuring him that by abolishing the system of laws and regulations of which the colonists complained, harmony would be restored. ; “We ask but for peace, liberty and safety,'’ the petition stated. j‘‘We wish not a diminution of the , prerogative, nor do we solicit the grant of any right in our favor. I “Your royal authority over us and | our connection with Great Britain we always shall carefully and zealously endeavor to support and maintain.” The resolutions bound the colonists to a common resistance to acts of force against all, or any one of them. The representatives agreed that, another congress should be held within a month unless the redress of grievances which they desired was obtained before that time. The first Continental Congress adjourned, Oct. 26, after a secret session of fifty-one days,

sirable, and after a little while the person would begin to show some sign* of deficiency. However, the eating of white bread as one constituent of the diet has nothing whatever to do with the causation of different diseases, and it is not safe to say that the substitution of whole wheat or of various modified breads for white flour bread would cure or prevent any of the diseases that currently afflict mankind. Then there Is cake. Angel food, devil food, fruit cake, pound cake, chocolate cake, sponge cake and white cake have various food values depending on what goes into them. The number of eggs, the flour and the other ingredients such as sugar, flavor, milk and fruit make up the food value. f Cake is not good stuff either for reducing or gaining weight. An average slice runs from 200 to 400 calories. It is filling and satiating. It belongs, like candy, toward the end of a meal.

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.

“I am groping around in my mind for the exact word that will describe this quality—you will have to help me out. It is a matter of poise, balance, timing or rhythm. Rhythm is the word that I prefer. “At any rate, all the topnotchers have it, and I venture the opinion that it is this essential in their work that furnishes the thrill. tt tt Have Rhythm WHERE did George Cohan get his perfect sense of tempo, who else has it? Alice Brady has it. Peggy Wood has it. These two young ladies are trained musicians. George Cohan is also a trained musician. Jack Donahue has this rythm thir.g. Donahue is a trained dancer. George Cohan is also a trained dancer. “And so I arrive at a conclusion. Isn’t it possible that George Cohan during his many years of training and work in music and dancing has developed in himself such a complete sense of poise and rhythm that it carries over into his acting even in parts where dancing and music do not appear? This seems to me to be logical. “Therefore, from now on. my advice to you youngsters who want to be fine actors will be ‘Study dancing—study music—study George Cohan.’ ” (Copyright. 1925. by The Times*

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SCIENCE

BY DAVID DIETZ Srripp* Howard Science Editor Dr. Harlow Shaflcy Is Great Astronomer to Whom We Are Indebted for Much Recent Knowledge . IF you saw a youthful-looking man of less than average height and weight, smooth-shaven and with mild eyes and a quiet smile, here at the annual meeting of the American Astronomical Society in Ottawa, Canada, you hardly would guess that his chief occupation was pushing out the limits of the universe. Eut that is exactly the case. For the man just described is Dr. Harlow Shapley, director of the Harvard observatory, thanks to whose researches we know today that the universe is about 10,000 times as large as it was thought to be twenty years ago. Dr. Shapley, who looks closer to 24 than to his real age of 44. is famed among his friends for his sense of humor and his hobby—it is the study of ants. He is an adept at popularizing the findings of astronomy, being the author of a number of books for lay- | men and a fairly frequent speaker j over the radio. It was shortly after he received his Ph. D. from Princeton university that he began to push out the limits of the universe. He then was an astronomer at the Mt. Wilson observatory in California. It was with his study of the Ma- ! gellanic clouds that Dr. Shapley bej gan the business of expanding the i universe. tt tt tt Magellan THE Magellanic clouds received their name from the fact that, they were given their first adequate description by the famous explorer, Magellan, after his exploit of circumnavigating the globe. Asa matter of fact, however, they had been noticed and described previously by Marco Ploo. The Magellanic clouds are in the southern hemisphere of the heavens and hence invisible from the United States. They are luminous cloudlike objects, resembling the Milky Way. In fact, they look very much like pieces of the Milky Way which had somehow gotten separated from it. Many astronomers, until the time that Dr. Shapley tackled the problem were inclined to regard them as such. The outer limit of the Milky Way was then thought to be about 10.000 light years. A light year is the distance a beam of light travels in a year and is equal to 6,000,000,000000 miles. Dr. Shapley’s early work showed that the limits of the Milky Way were much greater than supposed. But more than that, they showed that the Magellanic clouds were not parts of the Milky Way, but great collections of stars lying far beyond it. Dr. Shapley showed that the larger of the two clouds is 14,000 | light years in diameter and at a distance' of 112.000 light years from I the earth. The smaller cloud is 6.500 i light years in diameter and 102.000 light years away. Another interesting fact which came out of his work was the speed with w'hich these great collections of stars are moving through space. The small cloud has a speed of j 105 miles a second, while the large I cloud is rushing through space with j a speed of 170 miles a second. tt tt a Galaxies FROM the Milky Way and the Magellanic clouds, Dr. Shapley has passed on to the still more distant spiral nebulae, great collections of stars at immense distances from the Milky Way. Other astronomers, of course, are also working on these same problems, notably Dr. W. S. Adams end Dr. Edwin P. Hubble of the Mt. Wilson observatory. Dr. Shapley’s most recent contribution to astronomy has been to show that many of these spirals or exterior galaxies, as they are frequently called, are organized into groups. He calls these groups, galaxies of galaxies. The galaxies of galaxies in turn are organized into supergalaxies. Dr. Shapley is now studying such a super-galaxy which lies in the Coma and Virgo constellations and is known, therefore, as the ComaVirgo group. There are 300 spirals or galaxies in this group, Dr. Shapley finds. The diameter of the group is 2,000,000 light years and some of the galaxies in it are 170,000,000 light years away from the earth. Dr. Shapley believes that there are at least fifty other super-ga-laxies like the Coma-Virgo group. It is for the study of these supergalaxies that Dr. Shapley has suggested anew astronomical unit 1 equivalent to 10,000,000 light years.