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The Permanent Cure When it becomes necessary for organizations of citizens to appeal to the courts to prevent officials from confiscating property through high taxes, it should be time for all citizens to seek a permanent cure rather than temporary relief. The high cost of bad government is now being felt. The higher cost of the trimmings which do not get on the tax list at all is even worse. The management of public schools is such as to give little confidence. The costliness is apparent.. Not even the fake squabbles between the members of the board can disguise the fact that the schools are in the control of bossism and greed, that they are managed for private profit rather than education, that they are used to force citizens to pay unnecessary sums for maintenance and for books. The schools have been and are, apparently, under the control of Coffin, political boss, and of Shipp, the vendor of ventilators. It should be significant, at least, that wherever Coffin rules, the cost of government becomes onerous and burdensome. Coffin controls the county council and the Chamber of Commerce finds it necessary to protest against the tax rate. Coffin controls the schools and the cost is such as to threaten the school city with bankruptcy. Coffin does not control the city council and that body adopted the recommendations of the civic committee which had studied the needs of the city. Sometime the people may get the idea that Coffin is too much of a luxury to have in control of any part of the government. Yet there is a very great danger that he will continue his grip upon the affairs of the city, the county and the schools. His fake “good” government clubs are busy trying to stir up prejudice and hate and latent greeds in order to continue Coffin in power. In school circles, he has planted ambitions in the heart of many in order to confuse voters who are in sympathy with the citizens revolt against conditions. This is no time for quibbling or for petty dissensions. It is time when the people must stand together for self-preservation and selfprotection. No good citizen will lend himself or herself to the trickery of Coffin to divide good citizens at the polls. It is no longer a question of whether the City Manager League has the strongest possible ticket or whether the school revolt is omniscient in its selection of candidates. The real issue is whether the people will stand to together and throw off the Old Man of the Sea from our taxed backs.

Patrioteers vs. Patriots After years of running the country, the patrioteers are on the run. Too long they have perverted patriotism int§ a club for militarism and reaction. The country is getting tired of all his flag-waving every time one of them wants to attack labor organizations, civil liberties, or disarmament. The sudden change in sentiment toward propagandists like W. B. Shearer is only one of several recent signs that government and public are about ready to demobilize the war psychology. It is significant that Shearer was as popular with the government and public two years ago, where he was helping to break the Geneva arms conference, as he is unpopular today. Since then he had, at times, the sympathy of some navy department and congressional officials, of many patriotic organizations, of the Republican national committee, and of certain newspapers. Now Shearer is scored by the President, the admirals, and the press generally. The patrioteering group which some time ago captured the Daughters of the American Revolution also is on the defensive now. Not so many months ago it had the government on its side in the hysteria against pacifists. Now it is fighting the government. When the state department recently granted, on the strength of a substitue pacifist oath, a passport to Dorothy Detzer, executive secretary of the Women's International League for Peace and Freedom, the D. A. R. protested. The department replied with a public defense of the right of pacifists to passports. Since then it has not even deigned to notice the shrill cries of the D. A. R. counsel.; • • • The National Republic, a patrioteering publication, once organ of the Republican party old guard, recently tried to finance another red hunt. But—much to its surprise—the conservative senators whose names it used denied connection with the project and charged that their signatures had been used without their consent. Professor Macintosh of Yale Divinity school, a Canadian World war veteran, was denied citizenship last June because he would promise to fight only in future wars if justified by his conscience. Now his appeal case has been taken by one of the most conservative law firms of Wall street headed by John W. Davis, former presidential candidate. More important, the United States government has initiated and signed a world treaty renouncing war, which is the sort of thing the patrioteers have been fighting for years as pacifist treason and communist conspiracy. With the help of a pacifist British premier, a Quaker in the White House is insisting on

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naval reduction and uncovering the alliance between cruiser-building companies and war propaganda. The public in its reaction against patrioteers should not confuse them with sincere citizens who oppose naval reduction, arbitration, anti-war treaties, and civil liberties, by legitimate methods. Any American has a perfect right to work for the biggest navy in the world, for abrogation of peace treaties, for a constitutional amendment destroying the bill of rights. But he has no right to pose as a disinterested patriot when he is in the secret pay of armament makers, as Shearer was. He has no right to camouflage with flag-waving his war on constitutional liberties, as some among the National Security League and D. A. R. have done. That is patrioteering. And patrioteering is the enemy of patriotism.

The Farmer’s Gold Brick One of O. Henry’s stories is about a modern farmer who only smiled at the clever new devices of a city slicker who was endeavoring to separate him from his money. But when the slicker brought out the old familiar gold brick, the farmer weakened and bought it. He knew it was phony, but he just couldn’t resist the familiar lure. The tariff activities of some of the farm organization leaders in Washington remind us of this farmer. The farmed can be benefited by the tariff in only two ways: Lower rates on manufactured products may lower the prices of what he has to buy, or effective high rates on what he raises and sells may increase his income. The catch is in the word "effective.” High tariff rates were given the farmer in the 1922 tariff act, which also gave industry high rates. But, according to economists, notably Dr. John R. Commons of the University of Wisconsin and his colleagues, who just have completed a special study of the tariffs on farm products, these high rates, for the majority of farm products, are absolutely useless. The explanation is simple. Os most major farm crops, such as corn, wheat, pork, etc., our farms produce so much that the people of the United states can not buy and use them all, and the surplus must be sold abroad. For this surplus we get only what the world will pay, and the world price tends to set the price here at home. Unless and until farmers raise only enough for the United States to consume, tariff rates can be sky-high, with little or no effect on prices. The farmers’ leaders assert with justice that the present set-up is unfair to the farmer, compelled to pay tariff-inflated prices on practically all that he uses, but compelled to sell most of his crops at low world prices. They have asserted with justice that the present tariff bill raises industrial rates more than agricultural rates, making conditions even more unfair to the farmer. But their remedy shows they still grasp for the. gold brick. They demand higher and higher tariffs on more than a score of farm products, and thc> apparently are willing to let industry grab all it pleases, provided they can grab the gold brick. This is hardly inspired leadership.

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AS for culture, Ramsay MacDonald, premier of Great Britain, has that dull satin finish, found only on the best furniture. He has a country estate and carries as many golf clubs as any Tory. Like Baldwin, the conservative whom he succeeded, he smokes a pipe; like Churchill, he favors imperialism with a navv big enough to back it up; like Chamberlain, he thinks John Bull is the only pebble on the beach, and so England loses no sleep on account of her Labor ministry. B B B Up in Ontario, a police magistrate decided that twenty-two miles an hour is too slow a pace for funeral processions but it’s fast enough unless one be consumed by curiosity to read the will. • We remember how horrified we used to be to go from the country to the city and see funeral processions proceeding at a trot. 808 For good reason the nations of Europe do not want their people to read Remarque’s war book. “All Quiet *on the Western Front,” for it shows war to be a thing of mud and rats and blood and brutality and avarice, and the imperial politicians wish the people to regard it as a thing of glory. Let the people behold the beast as it really is and they will shun it.

THE government hopes to try Ex-Secretary Fall next month for turning over the Elk Hills oil territory to Doheny, but Fall's failing health never has failed him and he probably will get another continuance. Up to date he has had hob-nailed liver, floating kidney, lumbago, curvature of the spine, total paralysis, shingles, hay fever, varicose veins and inflammation of the gizzard, but when the time comes his attorneys will bring forth anew ailment. 8 8 8 Somehow we feel a little closer to President Hoover since reading that he likes to watch and hear the kids play ball on the lot south of the White House grounds. 8 8 8 When these American tourists return from Russia after having seen what that government wanted them to see and begin to lecture in the old home town about the beauties of the Soviet system, just ask them about the case of Paul Marion, former head of the Communist propaganda bureau in France, who has quit the reds because he said his trip to Russia had convinced him that it had the most cruel domination imaginable. 8 8 8 ACCORDING to the Mayo clinic ether is going out of fashion as an anesthetic and local anesthetics are coming in. When they hand you a local pain killer, then proceed to carve your throat, it does not hurt, for your throat feels as if it were made of reinforced concrete, but there’s something rather sickening about the consciousness of being sliced. 8 8 8 Mrs. Augusta Kusner of St. Charles. HI., celebrated her one hundred tenth birthday and said she had traveled that far because she always worked hard and never worried. It's an old-fashioned remedy, but a better recipe for long life than all the monkey glands Harold McCormick can buy. 8 8 8 Governor Roosevelt urges people to have an annual medical examination to keep fit, but nobody will take the advice seriously. We all have our cars overhauled every little while, but we had to pay for them and we got our bodies for nothing.

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M. E. Tracy SAYS: TFor Has Become a Matter of Mechanics and Science, With Personality Playing Little Part. WHETHER the Chinese have run out of copy paper, or the Russians have decided to take a breathing spell, the news from Manchuria grows too tame for prominence once more. The same is true with regard to that from Palestine, though for more obvious and satisfying reasons. It is amazing how quickly such great storms subside, and how easily they are replaced by minor incidents. With nothing more formidable than a law suit, a party named Shearer has swept about everything off the front page during the last few days and what he overlooked was cleaned up by a party named Waggoner. To be perfectly candid, the Waggoner person appears to have cleaned up in more ways than one. He not only took some of New York’s best bankers for a ride to the tune of $500,000, but did it so smoothly that many lawyers doubt that they can get the money back, though they know right where it is. Query—ls they can not get the money back, did Waggoner commit a crime, and if Waggoner did commit a crime, why can’t they get the money back?

Riot in New Orleans BUT for a riot in New Orleans there would be little in the nature of violence to discuss, and that would not have amounted to much, in the opinion of Acting Mayor Walmsley, if the police had refrained from using tear bombs. There are those who will regard the dynamiting of a car as more serious than that of dousing a crowd with tear gas, but Mr. Walmsley, while failing to express himself on the former incident, declares the latter to be "a public disgrace.” The New Orleans car strike is one of those cases in which a local labor organization refuses to follow the nation’s leaders. Nine days ago an agreement was signed by William Green, president of the American Federation of Labor, and General Manager A. B. Patterson of the New Orleans Street Car Company, by wihch it was supposed the strike had been settled. Not only that, but the agreement was approved by W. D. Mahon, president of the National Carmens Union. The New Orleans strikers would have none of it, however, which explains the continuance of the strike, as well as the rioting. •t) tt a Spirit of Peace Gains THOUGH unsuccessful in New Orleans, the spirit of reconciliation has had better luck elsewhere. William F. Kenny, the New York millionaire, has chosen to let English barbers cut his hair rather than risk precipitating an international crisis, while the tonsorial artist he summoned from this side of the Atlantic has expressed a willingness to do the same. As though that were not enough to show how definitely the world is improving, Benito Mussolini has given up seven of his cabinet positions. Francis P. Garvin, in his address accepting the Priestley medal, the highest honor known to the chemistry profession, suggests that the terrors of inventiveness and discovery not only have helped to make us good, but promise to make us even better. ✓ "I am convinced,” he writes, “that in case of another war between great powers, it would be foolish and useless for a battleship or cruiser to leave its dock, or for an army to take the field. "The common people of the world, as well as our wise rulers, President Hoover and Prime Minister MacDonald, realize the horror of war and its tremendous wastage of life and of the means of living.” A deal of truth in that. Men are growing scared of the destructive powers they have called into being. To a measurable extent the cry for peace is due to alarm.

'Honor’ Has Vanished ORGANIZED war has transcended all semblance of sportsmanship. Except in a few isolated activities, individuals no longer can prove their merit on the battlefield. The game has become one of mechanics and science, in which personality plays little part. One can understand how the profession of arms appealed to men when they fcught “foot to foot and eye to eye” and when victory brought something by way of tangible honor to him who won. But we are dealing with an entirely different situation. The Germans are right in classifying soldiers as cannon fodder. What cannon and machine guns have done, however, is as nothing compared to what poison gas, death rays and deadly germs could be made to do. What is the meaning of the surname Bradley? It Is an English name meaning broad meadow (lea). How is papier- mache made? It is a tough plastic material made from paper pulp or from paper that has been reduced to a pulp, mixed with glue, paste, oil, resin or other sizing. Properly speaking it is paper pulp molded into shape. It is used to make small articles such as boxes and trays, and in the interior decoration of houses for cornices and ceilings. Where and what is the Hall of Fame for Trees? j About , eight or ten years ago the I American Forestry Association, at Washington, conceived the idea of establishing a Hall of Fame or roster of famous trees. Since that time publicity has been given the idea in newspapers and their own maga - zine. Nominations for inclusion in this list of trees are made to a committee which considers the historical significance of the tree and its bid for recognition. The list includes eight or nine hundred trees.

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DAILY HEALTH SERVICE Aluminum Ware Can’t Harm Health

BY DR- MORRIS FISHBEIN Editor Journal of the American Medical Association and of Hvgeia. the Health Magazine. THE propaganda against alumninum cooking utensils and baking powder containing alum has been so extensive in recent years that investigators In various medical laboratories have given much time to the study of this substance. A long series of investigations has been carried out by Professor F. P. Underhill and his associates in the physiologic laboratory in Yale university. The significant facts were determined that aluminum when taken into the body is absorbed, circulates in the blood, and settles in some of the tissues. An excess of this substance over a certain small amount promptly is excreted from the body, some cf it in the bile and some of it in the urine. A small amount of aluminum may be found in the blood of normal persons, although some people do not hav§ aluminum in the blood. The amount of aluminum also varies from time to time. As might be expected, aluminum occurs also

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Even the most level-headed individual never is quite the same after his name has appeared upon the front page. The walk becomes a strut. Before he talked, and now he issues statements. His very thoughts run in the form of headlines. Nor is there any known method of taking away the habit-forming drug. The man who has been on the front page once never can be happy until he gets preferred position once again. He will sit up and beg for it. He will stand on his head. One of the saddest tragedies in the whole mournful history of front page fields is now being played out before my horrified eyes. I refer to the case of Professor Robert E. Rogers of the Massachusetts Institute of Technology. You may remember him as the big be-a-snob-and-marry-the-boss’-daughter man. In college he was a mild and inoffensive, stoutish lad, known to his associates as Bobby. Asa senior he became class poet, but since the hymn he wrote did not spell out anything in particular if you put the first five letters together, it made little impression. a a a Living Dead AND then (this was twenty years ago) Bobby Rogers disappeared. I don’t mean that the police were asked to look for him or that many ponds were dragged, but when anybody inquired about him somebody would reply vaguely, “I hear he’s teaching somewhere.” And after a couple of years people forgot to ask. The details of Bobby's sojourn in Siberia are not known by me. Teaching is dull business, and its most tedious branch is English composition. The victim spends long nights marking ‘‘C minus” in red ink on themes entitled “My Two Weeks at Long Branch” or “Why I Went to College.” After the hand becomes cramped from this routine it is customary to mark “B plus” on every other composition in order to relieve the wrist. After the long, lean years during which all the nights were twentyfour hours long. Bobby Rogers was invited to deliver an address to the graduating class at Tech. The opportunity went somewhat to the head of Rob-

Daily Thought

Therefore, we conclude a man is justified by faith without the deeds of the law. —Romans 3:28. JUSTICE is the insurance which we have on our lives and property; to which may be added, and obedience is the premium which we pay for it—William Penn.

The Price of Patriotism

in many vegetables and meats. Fairly large quantities were found in cherries and onions, in lettuce, milk, flour and liver, Aluminum was also found in string beans, beets, cantaloupe, sweet corn, peaches, pears and potatoes. Little aluminum was found in apples, eggs, lemons and watermelon. Since aluminum is taken into the body therefore by the eating of the substances that have been mentioned, it is unlikely that the very small amounts of the substance that might come by way of aluminum from cooking utensils and alum in baking powder could be harmful to the body. x Just as the soil of some states contains more iedine than the soil of others, so also the soil of certain states is richer in aluminum than is the soil of others. Organs from people' who had died due to various diseases in different states were examined to find out their content of aluminum. It was found that the livers of those who had lived in Michigan contained more aluminum, for example, than of those who had lived and died in Florida.

ert E. Rogers of the English department. He proceeded to make the speech in which he advised all the young engineers to be snobs and marry daughters of the bosses. Didn’t'Know THE poor young man didn’t know the talk was loaded. He woke to find himself famous. Even the tabloids gave him space second only to that which they had bestowed upon Daddy Browning. Interviewers besieged him. He got an assistant to mark C minus on the themes. There was talk of a lecture tour. People who had never heard Bobby Rogers attacked him with violence. It was too much to expect that after all this, Bobby could sink back again into the obscurity of the English department of M. I. T. He had subscribed to a clipping bureau. And it was necessary fdr him to make good. Practically everybody likes publicity, but a front page professor will trample down torch murderers and channel swimmers in the rush. A professor at one of our big eastern universities went so far as to ask

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GENERAL WOLFE KILLED Sept. 13 ON Sept. 13, 1759, James WOlfe, the famous British general, was killed in a battle on the Plains of Abraham, a mile south of Quebec, while attempting to drive the French out of Canada. The first step in the scheme to expel the French had as its object the capture of Quebec. Wolfe sailed from England in February, and four months later landed on the Isle of Orleans, a few miles below Quebec. Wolfe's force numbered about 9,000 men, including six companies of New England troops, while the French strength comprised a garrison of 2,000 men at Quebec and 14,000 men, of whom only a small part were regulars, at Beauport, below the town. After failing in two attacks, Wolfe decided to cross the St. Lawrence river and scale the heights above the town, a hazardous procedure. The French were surprised and in a few hours 4.500 men. with two guns, had climbed the steep heights and were drawn up on the plains. They were then engaged by a French army of about the same number, but the French lines were shattered by the British fire and broke. As he led the charge, Wolfe was struck three times and was forced to He down. He died while the pursuit was still under way.

Aluminum was found in the livers of men who had died with high blood pressure and also of those who had died with low blood pressure, hence no apparent relationship could be found between the intake of aluminum and these conditions. Neither could any relationship be found between the intake of aluminum and hardening of ‘ the arteries. There is, of course, a possibility that a large overdose of aluminum would be harmful. It is possible to poison an animal with an overdose of copper, of phosphorus, of calcium, or of many other substances which are considered essential to human life. It is hard to conceive, however, how a dose of aluminum, sufficient to be harmful, could be had through baking powder or through the use of aluminum cooking utensils, particularly since the evidence seems to indicate that the aluminum does not accumulate in the body. The burden of proof is still on the propagandists who have attacked the use of aluminum, rather than on those who have promoted the additions to our modern civilization that are represented by aluminum products.

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.

Gene Tenney to deliver a lecture on Shakespeare. a a a Act in One BUT Rogers had no intention of splitting his spotlight. He found his way to headlines under his own steam. This time it was the declaration that American thought is becoming feminine. Bobby Rogers was shrewd enough to explode his sawdust bomb before a business men’s luncheon. The thought was new to them. Maybe any thought would have been. Rogers thumped his chest and said he would hazard “an unpopular guess” as to the cause of all this. He blamed it on women school teachers. Boys should be instructed by somebody more virile. To be sure, Bobby didn’t go to the source of the problem. Many modern psychologists agree that the most impressionable period occurs in the first six years of a child’s life. Even though at 14, he gets hts algebra from a he-man, this may be much too late. Instead of suggesting the removal of women teachers, Bobby ought to advocate the abolition of mothers. However, he has by now amplified his original advice to college men. It now runs, as I understand it, “Bea virile snob.”

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SEPT. 13,1929

SCIENCE BY DAVID DIETZ Experts Regard Skyscrapers as Just as Great Triumphs in the Field of Art as in the Realm of Engineeiing. PARALLELING the remarkable development of science and engineering in the United States, many experts are looking to a widespread similar development in the field of art. As indicative of the new trend, they point to the great skyscrapers now going up in the United States. They regard these new structures as just as great triumphs in the field of art as they are in the fields of engineering. Many great foundations which to date have been interested chiefly in the promotion of scientific research are turning their attention to the realm of art. And just as the growth of science in America has occasioned a widespread popular interest in the subject, a similar, popular interest in art is anticipated. "Art is the great field for adult study in the United States,” says Dr. Frederick F. Keppel, president of the Carnegie Corporation of New York, one of the leaders of the adult education movement in the United States. The Carnegie corporation was founded by ‘Andrew Carnegie. It is the organization which has built the "Carnegie libraries” in all parts of the United States. bub Millions' THE first identification in a large way of a foundation with the fine arts was the creation in 1920 of the Julliard musical foundation. This organization, with millions at its disposal, is devoting all its attention to music. The largest single gift from a foundation for fine art purposes came in 1928 when the general education board, founded on Rockefeller funds, gave $500,000 to the Fogg art muSeum of Harvard versity.While libraries have been the chief interest of the Carnegie corporation, it has turned its attention to other fields and during the last five years, according to Dr. Keppel, has made twenty-seven gifts to colleges and universities to further the fine arts and has granted seventy-two fellowships in the field of the arts. Commenting on the arts and adult education, Dr. Keppel says: “It was less than ten years ago that we began to realize in the United States what had been known in Denmark for nearly a century and for perhaps half as long in England, namely, that the education of adults just as much as the education of children is a matter of community concern and planning all along the line, not merely of individual concern and planning. “There is a close relationship between the arts on the one hand and the education of adults on the other. “We have much to learn about the education of adults, but at least we have learned this, that the important part of it is not the acquiring of new facts, but the toning up of the entire personality.” B B B Architects A RCHITECTURE is partlcu--IA. larly important in the field of adult education in art, Dr. Keppel believes. Courses given by the Amerian Institute of Architects at Harvard university this summer have been financed by a gift from the Carnegie corporation. "The adult is a person with a job who comes to the task of increasing his store of wisdom at the end of a day’s work,” Dr. Keppel says. "There may be a few who have the tireless energy to tackle a dull subject night after night under these circumstances. "For the majority, however, the only chance of sticking at an additional task long enough to draw dividends is to provide an element of enthusiasm and excitement. The great realm of providing continued excitement and thereby continued stimulation for the mature mind is the realm of the arts. “So far as literature and music are concerned, this is fairly well appreciated and understood, as well perhaps as anything is appreciated and understood in adult education. "Asa nation, however, we have no conception of the place the other arts, such as the art of design, painting, sculpture and architecture can be made to play in normal human life, and I believe that here the architect is the predestined and inevitable leader of his fellow citizens.” _