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True to Form Once more the Coffin political machine indicts itself. Once again it reveals its infamies, its lack of any decent regard for public welfare, its vicious viewpoint of government. Where it can not rule, it ruins. Where it can not pillage, it destroys. Where it can not profit, it snarls its contempt for the public welfare. The civic organizations interested in reducing taxes, appalled by the high cost of bad government, demanded a reduction of expenses. It pointed out very specifically spots where there was apparent waste. At once county council, dominated by the henchmen of the coffin machine, seized upon the appeal as an excuse for rendering powerless the official who is not a slave to this organization and to give more money to the offices under the control of the machine. The organization was very anxious to reduce the expense of the office of prosecuting attorney. There the machine revealed itself thoroughly. It does not like an efficient prosecuting office. It does not like, personally. or officially, Prosecutor Stark. The machine, in order to work smoothly, needs either a prosecutor who will be blind to the iniquities of its henchmen or so handicapped as to be unable to match the machine criminal lawyers who appear for gangsters, election crooks, bootleggers and other criminals generally supposed to contribute largely to the success of Coffinism at the polls. So under the plea of economy, the council proposes to reduce the number of assistants of Mr. Stark to a point where his office can not hope to get convictions, and especially , convictions of those who receive machine sympathy when caught. At the same time, the council proposes to raise the salaries of the deputies of Sheriff Winkler, now the fair-haired favorite of Coffinism. Just what these deputies have done to entitle them to more money should be listed among the new mystery novels of the year. Just how they have earned more pay remains unexplained. Certainly conditions in the county, the enforcement of law, the safety of highways, do not suggest that these increases can be regarded as rewards of merit. The only other explanation is that they are useful to the machine in elections. The policy of the reductions and increases is so shameless that it should condemn forever the machine and those who serve it. It is the same machine which plots to defeat the City Manager ticket this fall and put its men in power at the city hall. It is the same machine which is a factor in state government and works so smoothly with the Lake county rottenness. High taxes, wasted funds, pampered pets are but part of the cost of Coffinism. The other is the destruction of any official who attempts to do his duty and not take orders. What a place this will be if ever the office of prosecutor falls into the hands of this machine. Let it be hoped that the civic organizations interested in economy will protest against the handicapping of justice just as strongly as it rebels against extravagance and waste. America Lags Behind Two events at Geneva show the international backwardness of the United States compared with other nations working for peace. J*irst, a special conference of world court members unanimously has accepted the unofficial protocol presented by Elihu Root fixing the conditions of American adherence to the court. This- protocol is necessary because the United States senate claims unique privileges without which America will not join. The senate's fifth reservation, giving us virtual veto power over all court decisions, obviously could not be accepted by other nations without destroying the court. The Root formula tones down that reservation, but retains for the United States the right to prevent without its consent court advisory opinions on disputes to which we are a party. It also provides machinery for negotiation when there is disagreement over submission of a dispute in which the United States is not involved, but claims an interest, lour right to withdraw from court membership is In other words, the nations have met us far more than half way. They have not only granted us special privileges, but formally have acted on the Root formula, which was prepared by the state department, but for which the Washington government is too timid to take official responsibility. When the other nations ratify the conference's acceptance of the protocol, then the state department promises to sign and to recommend its acceptance by the senate. There is some question whether the senate will accept it. While the United States is trying to make up its mind whether it can follow the lead of fifty-one other nations in joining the court, Great Britain has forged miles ahead of us on the road to peace. She announces that she will sign the court’s famous optional clause. By so doing. Great Britain will bind herself to recognise as compulsory the ciurt s jurisdict on in ail disputes concerning trea.ies questions of international law, and violations of international obligations. sweeping clause already has been accepted bv fortv-four nations, including Germany. France and Japan have promised to sign it if the other powers wilL Hence the significance of Britain’s an-

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nouncement, and of Canada’s similar announcement. With all our boasting about our peace plans, the actual arbitration record of the United States has been worse than that of any other major nation—largely because the senate for years has emasculated arbitration treaties sent to it. If we are so backward that we can not follow Great Britain and others in accepting compulsory world court jurisdiction, we should, at least after all these years of bickering, be able to tag along at the end of the procession with our special Root reservations. Few more tasks before President Hoover are more important than prompt submission of the new protocol to the senate. There is no excuse for the year or more delay proposed by Secretary of State Stimson yesterday. Without u r orld court membership and arms reduction, the Kellogg treaty renouncing war is hypocrisy. The Latest Smith Story A1 Smith stories are becoming so numerous that they have replaced the flivver gags of a few years ago. Scarcely a day goes by but what someone tells one and the irrepressible A1 gets his name in the papers again. The latest is that A! will be appointed United States senator to succeed Royal Copeland. Copeland has shown no intention of resigning and Smith has shown no public desire for the office—but, anyway, it's a good story. When Smith was defeated for the presidency last November, those who opposed him politically hoped he was permanently on the shelf. Smith helped the idea along by announcing his retirement from politics. But this man Smith is a remarkable individual. He rose from the sidewalks of New York to the governorship. He can operate a truck, sell a fish, write an autobiography, or build a skyscraper. It is not to be wondered that even though he lost the presidency, Smith has not lost the limelight. ■Whither all this is leading, we do not presume to guess. We feel quite certain it is not toward the United States senate. The idea of Smith getting another man to resign in order to take his place doesn’t fit into the picture. It doesn’t sound like Al, A Propagandist in Trouble Senator Borah of Idaho, in common with a good many other taxpayers, is curious about the part played by W. B. Shearer in big navy agitation. It will be remembered that Shearer, who functioned as a big navy lobbyist at the capital and at the abortive Geneva naval conference, has sued certain shipbuilding companies for $250,000 on account of those services. Senator Borah recalled in the senate that some of those shipbuilding companies now hold contracts with the United States government to build cruisers, which contracts they probably would not have got had the Geneva conference not failed. Senator Hale of Maine, chairman of the senate naval committee, has promised, under prodding from Borah, to call the committee together and see if it wants to investigate Shearer and his activities. And, Borah premises, if the committee doesn’t wish to do so, to introduce a. resolution directing the committee to undertake the job. The committee should be willing to find out about Shearer of its own motion.

REASON

THE other day an Indiana woman made her will and after disposing of her property, provided that the old family horse should be taken care of and never sold. Such an act pins a much larger bouquet on the human race than many of the things seen on the front page of the daily papers, such as industrial mergers, stiits for alimony and wars and rumors of wars. tt it it Yet many a person who is presumed to have red blood in his veins, instead of aqua pura, turns his back on an old four-footed comrade as nonchalantly as he knocks the ashes from his perfecto, and tied to some servile finish, the old horse, with dimming eyes, picks his way along the road down which he dashed in better days. tt tt tt We saw a pathetic picture of this only today. As we sat. on the porch, we saw an old iron gray steed plodding stiffly, tied to a wagon load of street rubbish. It seemed we had known the old boy somewhere and we asked the driver about him. Sure enough, he had been the old hose cart horse and when he had hurled himself toward a fire, mane flying, nostrils distended, you thought of a battery flying into action upon the battle field. There he was. stumbling along with head down, as if brooding over the anti-climax. tt tt tt THIS is the highest price we have paid for the automobile —the passing of #he horse, and when we read of the shooting of great herds of wild ones out west, it brings a pain to the heart. In older daj's such wild horses were brought to town several times a year and sold for S2O to $25 to those who would buy and break them. They would offer the kids 50 cents to mount and stay on the wild creatures five minutes, most kids finding themselves in the road with four and a half minutes to go. tt tt tt But this thing which we call progress has perfect control of its emotions. It does not care and the end justifies the means. The automobile is on the highway, the truck is hauling freight, the tractor is pulling the plow, and the horse is in the discard. We may travel faster by motor; we may annihilate distance by airplane; we even may rip through space in rockets, but we never will find a friend in ail this lightning transportation comparable with the old family horse. tt tt tt HE was a little slow, perhaps, but he always arrived. The roads were not built for speed in his day, for the mud often was up to the hub and it was a day's journey from farm to county seat and back. He never knew the luxury of being gone over by an expert every 500 miles and he never was washed and polished by experts. * tt M And the uncomplaining hours he stood, hitched to the rack round the old courthouse square as his driver visited with the merchants of the county town, or as often happened, while his gallant master sat in some barroom, lining his system with alcohol. How cold it was. those bitter zero days and nights, with not even a blanket on his back. u n tt How he hurried out of the stable at midnight for the long dash'for the doctor when the children ware sick: how he hauled them all to the county fair; how he took them visiting; how he put in the crops and how he charged the guns in time of war! He’s going—this old hero—the best friend humanity s ier knew, and the .world Is poorer lor It,

FREDERICK LANDIS

THE INDIANAPOLIS TIMES

M. E. Tracy

SAYS:

What Do We Gain by Saving People From Smallpox or Consumption, Only to Kill Them by Machinery?

SERGE VORONOFF, who has w T on world-wide distinction as a transplanter of glands, says he is going to produce a race of supersheep. He says he is going to do this, moreover, not only to “confound the skeptics,” but to provide cheaper mutton and wool. Admitting that his success probably would convert many a doubting Thomas to the gland-grafting theory would it necessarily bring down the price of mutton and wool, unless he developed a super-grass with which to feed the super-sheep? tt tt tt It's All 'Super' SERGE VORONOFF is just one more poor mortal who thinks of bigness as an unmissed blessing. He visualizes a race of super-sheep and possibly a race of super-men as the all-important objective. Others prefer super-power, superspeed, or super-consolidation, but it all goes back to the same idea. Just now British and American statesmen are discussing 10,000-ton cruisers and ten-inch guns, as though they spelled the difference between peace and war. a tt New Peril for Race DR. LEONARD HILL, head of the department of applied physology of the British national institute of medical research, says that a new bacillus has been discovered so deadly in character that a gram of its toxin probably would be sufficient to kill 1,000,000 people. If the art of war centers around the idea of killing people, as we have been told by every great military leader since Agamemnon, and as every appliance designed to promote it suggests, and if this toxin could be produced in the form of a powder and scattered by airplane as Dr. Hill declares, what need to worry about 10,000-ton cruisers, or ten-inch guns. tt tt tt Don’t Count Cost MATERIAL progress is breeding anew and powerful superstition in favor of size, speed and power. Otherwise, civilized people would not be so content to pay the price. We are shocked, and rightly so, at the number killed in Palestine during the last ten days. If those ten days ran true to form, three times as many were killed by American automobiles, but we are not shocked. We have come to a point where we are willing to count the cost only in spots. tt it tt New Diseases Here According to a report, of the Bureau of Labor statistics at Washington occupational diseases are costing this country $10,000,000000 a year, or about one-tenth of the national income. While some of the diseases are very old, many of them can be traced to machines or materials of comparatively recent origin. There are diseases of the lungs, such as those brought on by granite, coal, or steel dust; diseases due to poisoning, such as those brought about by lead, mercury or phosphorus, disease of friction, such as those brought about by the constant rubbing of the hand, leg or part of the body, and diseases of posture, such as those caused by holding the pneumatic drill, or other instrument in some fixed position. a * tt Indifference Increases ONE need not believe that progress should stop in order to recognize the necessity of paying more attention to its cost. The prevailing indifference to the sacrifice we are making is developing into little less than a blind and stupid faith. We w’orry a great deal about the tolls taken by such maladies as tuberculosis and cancer. We have waged a successful campaign against the former and are trying to start one against the latter. Meanwhile, occupational diseases and accidents are coming well to the front as a cause of death. Not only that, but diseases that obviously are stimulated by the shock and strain of modem life appear to be increasing. a tt a Life Is First WHEN Thomas Jefferson enumerated the inalienable rights, he put that of life first, and the chances are that most people agree with him. That being so, what do we gain by saving people from smallpox, or consumption, only to kill them with machinery? Secretary of State Cook announces that there were 1,500 more deaths in Massachusetts during the first six months of this year than during the first six months of last year. What is even more startling, between 4 and 5 per cent were due to violence, while affections of the heart accounted for more than 20 per cent. y

Questions and Answers

Who composed the main cast of the motion picture “Brotherly Love?” Karl Dane, George K. Arthur, Jean Arthur, Richard Carlyle, Edward Connelly and Marcia Harris. Does merenry attract silver? There is no substance that attracts silver, but silver will amalgamate with mercury so that if it passes over mercury it may be caught and held. Will diamonds barn? Not if they are thrown in a fire, but diamonds will burn in the presence of oxygen. Fire might injure them so seriously that the value gwculd be destroyed,

Gas Stations Go Into Hot Dog Business!

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Milk Only Drink With Real Nutrition

Here is another article in the series, “Know Your Food Values,” by Dr. Morris Fishbcin. BY DR. MORRIS FISIIBEIN Editor Journal of the American Medical Association and of Hygeia, the Health Magazine. AMERICANS are a drinking people—that is to say, we consume vast amounts of coffee, tea, milk, cocoa, soft drinks, modified drinks, and even yet liberal quantities of alcoholic liquors. The average man who drinks a drink seldom thinks of what it means in the way of nutrition or food value. He drinks his drink because he likes it, because he gets a kick out of it, because he has been in the habit of drinking it. Milk comes the nearest to being a perfect food of any of the drinks in which human beings indulge. A glass of milk provides about 200 calories. Most of the fluid is, of course,

IT SEEMS TO ME

“/t'HE objects of the sciences are A more ideal than the objects of the churches,” Professor J, McKeen Cattell declared before the delegates of the International Congress of Psychology held at Yale. “Their sacrifices are more Christian.” Such a swinging statement deserves consideration before it is accepted or opposed. Probably no such genevalization can be wholly true. Science hardly can be acquitted of having dene its share to increase the horrors of war. Yet it is interesting to note two episodes which occurred on the same day, one in the field of science and the other within the church. Professor Cattell devoted a considerable portion of his speech to a discussion of what science might do for universal peace. He expressed the opinion that psychology might provide the way out. Disagreement depends to a great extent upon misunderstanding. It also is true that the familiar shoulder chip which is known as national honor in most instances can be rationalized out of existence by those who comprehend the underlying motivation of rage and price and fear. * tt tt Preparedness AND while Professor Cattell was predicting the coming of anew tvpe of worldwide solidarity, the Rev. William Graham Everson of Mimcie, Ind., was talking of the necessity of preparedness for war. The preacher has just become ad-jutant-general of Indiana, and he sees no conflict between this task and his pastorate. On Sundays from his pulpit he preaches Christ and then on week days goes to superintend instructors who tell young men the proper place in which to thrust a bayonet. “Let the pacifists pray that m make good,” was his comment when the incompatibility of the two jobs ■was called to his attention. He purposes to retain his post as pastor of the First Baptist church of Muncie. The building alone cost $345,000. Os course It can be said that science has not yet banished war or the threat of war from the world. But, after all, its shift has been much shorter than that of organized religion. The church has failed. I think science deserves its chance.

Daily Thought

Nevertheless, if thou warn the wicked of his way to turn front it: if he do not turn frdm his way, he shall die in Iniquity.— Ezekiel 33:9. * * tt HE who has It In his power to commit sin, is less inclined to do so. The very idea of being able, weakens his desire^-Ovid,

.DAILY HEALTH SERVICE-

water, but there is held in suspension about 10 grams of protein, 11 grams of fat and 14 grams of carbohydrate. There is calcium and some phosphorus but little or no iron. There is much vitamin A and B and a little C. D and E, but hardly enough of the latter to meet the body needs. *• in skim milk the vitamin A is lost; it takes 2%. glasses to give the same amount of calories. One-fourth of a cup of cream gives 100 calories and one-half a cup of cream gives 200 calories. When it is considered that a full cup of buttermilk yields only eighty calories, the reader can decide what he wants to use in his reducing diet. A cup of clear coffee adds nothing in the way of calories to the diet and nothing in the way of food value, but it provides a grain and a half to two grains of caffein which acts as a stimulant or pick-

HEYWOOD BROUN

William Jennings Bryan and other noted evangelists have been fond of drawing a distinction between wisdom and goodness. Bryan used to say that it was better to have a sound heart than a fine education. He felt that knowledge without denominational religious fervor was a danger rather than a blessing. I don’t agree. It is not possible, I think, to draw a line between virtue and understanding. I have never known a person of first-rate intelligence who was not a good man. There may have been such, but surely they are in an insignificant minority. Injustice and wisdom are not compatible. There is no cleverness in cruelty. Hate, prejudice, and aggression almost wholly are motivated by ignorance. m tt tt Master Mind THE public mind generally refuses to accept this fact, because it carelessly accepts misleading catch words. Readers of crime news and mystery stories hear much about “the master mind.” He is the arch-villain who sits and plans deviltries for hirelings. Fiction writers and reporters have pictured him as versed in science and wise as any serpent. But this individual does not exist. Here and there we may unearth some slick crook, but it is foolish to confuse mere sharpness with true intelligence.

M'KINLEY ASSASSINATED Sept, 6.

WILLIAM McKINLEY, twentyfifth President of the United States, was shot fatally by an assassin while attending an exposition in Buffalo, N. Y., on Sept. 6, 1901. McKinley held a public reception in the temple of music, in the exposition grounds, on the afternoon of the 6th and it was then that the shooting took place. The one fatal bullet of the two fired was found to have passed through both walls of his stomach, but due to the President’s sound constitution, it was at first believed he would reedver. But he suddenly underwent a change for the worse and died Sept. 14. The assassin was identified as Leon Czolgosz, a Pole, having reputable parents in Cleveland, 0., but who had come under the anarchist influence and been taught to believe that all heads of government were enemies of the people and ought to be killed. The assassin was arraigned in county court Sept. I 7 and on Sept. 26 was sentenced to be executed, in the state prison at Auburn, within the week beginning Oct, 28,

me-up. The same is true of tea. A full cup of ordinary root beer makes a refreshing drink, but yields only eight to ten calories and its vitamin value Is highly problematical. A full glass of ginger ale yields fifteen or twenty calories and has a very slight kick to it and is pleasant if one likes it. A cup of grape juice yields 200 calories. One gets carbohydrate chiefly in these soft drinks. A cup of orange juice or lemonade means 100 to 200 calories and vitamins A, B and C. Chocolate drink toddy, malted milk, and similar enriched milk drinks are high in carbohydrate and have caloric values of 200 to 400 for each cupful that is taken. The carbonated waters are refreshing and slightly antacid, but there is little of food value, since what they have depends on their content of fruit juice and sugar. Any drink can be enriched as to food value by adding cream or egg.

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

The most characteristic quality of every criminal is stupidity. How do you suppose the police would make so many arrests if it were not for the weakness of the lawless? Criminality is moronic. Again and again it has been pointed out that the average bank robber, almost the highest cult in the profession, works long and arduous hours for meager pay. Honesty still is the best racket. Sinclair Lewis can make more money out of a single novel than the best bandit in America can obtain by holding up a mail car. tt tt a Larger Planets UPON a somewhat higher plane it seems to me that we are not likely to find petty meanness and parochial prejudice in any man who has scanned the skies and mapped the courses of the stars. The astronomer who knows the sizejof Betelgeuse will not be torn by grinding jealousy when he looks out the window in the morning and observes his neighbor's new straighteight. and streamline motor. During the late campaign I listened to a Republican worker who fulminated against what he called the “ignorance and superstition” of Al Smith’s church, and when he paused to light a cigar, he quickly said, “Not three on one match, buddy.” (Copyright. 1929, by The Times)

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SEPT. 6, 1929

SCIENCE

•BY DAVID DIETZ-

Scripps-Howmrd Selene* Editor “Father of Meteor Investigation,” Mourned by Fellow Scientists at Convention of Society . ASTRONOMERS gathered in Ottawa. Canada, last week for the meeting of the American Astronomical society, joined the scientific world in mourning the passing of Dr. George P. Merrill. Dr. Merrill, who died recently at, the age of 75 of a heart attack, was head curator of geology of the United States national museum, and the world's greatest authority upon the subject of meteorites. If you go outdoors any clear night and watch the sky for a few minutes, you will see a streak of light flash across the sky. Such a streak is known as a “shooting star,” but it is not a star at all. It is only a little piece of rock which has entered our atmosphere from outer space. Friction against the atmosphere turns it white hot and burns it up. The streak of fire is the result. The astronomical name for a "shooting star” is a meteor. Occasionally, a rather large meteor enters the earth’s atmosphere. All of it does not melt as it speeds through the atmosphere and a piece falls to earth. Such a piece is known as a meteorite. Dr. Merrill gave much of his time to studying meteorites, particularly to the task of making chemical analyses of them. Meteorites are so important because they are our only direct link with outer space. We can study the other heavenly bodies with telescopes and other instruments. But we can not touch them. an a Problem MUSEUMS like to have meteorites upon display. Professor Merrill preferred to subject them to chemical analysis. When the meteorite is small, a real problem is involved. A thorough chemical analysis means that by the time it is completed. there is no meteorite left. In this connection, astronomers here recalled an amusing remark which Dr. Merrill once made. Speaking of a, meteorite, he said, “I would rather not have it ahd know' what I didn’t have, than to have it and not know what I had.” The work <jf Dr. Merrill showed that all meteorites could be divided into three classes, known as the iron meteorites, the stony meteorites and the iron-stony meteorites. The iron ones consist chiefly of iron associated with nickel and some traces of other metals. The stony ones consist chiefly of a heavy mineral known as peridotite a chemical mixture of iron, silicon, magnesium and oxygen. The iron-tony meteorites, as their names indicates, are a mixture of the other two types, composed chiefly, therefore, of iron and peridotito. The constitution of meteorites has led to the theory, now generally held by geologists, that our earth has an iron core surrounded by a great layer of peridotite. This is because it is felt that both our earth and the meteorites originated in material hurled out of the sun and therefore would have the same general composition. tt a Disaster A METEORITE of a almost any size is likely to fall anywhere at any moment. This is not a pleasant thought. Records of large meteorites are eltremely few, however, and there is no reason, therefore, why anyone should worry about it. The largest meteorite known to strike the earth in modern times, landed in northern Siberia, 500 miles north of Taishet, a village on the trans-Siberian railway, July 30, 1908. The story of this meteorite is almost unbelievable. News travels slowdy in the wilds of Siberia and it was not until 1914 that sufficient stories had trickled into the big cities of Russia to arouse general interest. Then the World war became the center of all activity. Two years ago, however, the Soviet government sent an expedition under Professor Leonide A. Kulik to investigate. He found that a huge meteorite had struck the earth, making over 200 depressions, some of them more than seventy-five feet in diameter. Around this area he found the ground seared and charred as if with a gigantic blow torch for fifteen miles in all directions. For an additional twenty miles in all directions he found trees uprooted and pointing away from tna central area. He believes that the explosive violence with which the air rushed out from the point of impact uprooted these trees.