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Why They Fight Rather sickening is the turning of public attention from that fine crusade of the City Manager League lor a decent government to the sordid fight or fake fight of Boss Coffin and former vassals for control of the Republican nomination. The public is very solemnly assured that the fight between Coffin and a few' of those who formerly carried out his edicts, is real. The public is assured that Senator Arthur Robinson, in whose office the peevlings gather, is no longer on the list of Coffin favorites. As far as public interest is concerned, it makes little difference whether the quarrel is real or merely staged for the purpose of distracting attention from some of the infamies in which both factions, if they be factions, have had their share. No one has ascribed any deeper motive for the quarrel than a falling out over jobs, patronage and power. No one has had the temerity to suggest that the revolutionists in the Coffin ranks rebelled because of their disgust with Coffinism. No one would believe that and it is probable that they would resent in the name of party welfare, any suggestion that they would operate the city on other but boss tactics if their candidate happens to get away with the nomination and runs the ganlet of supreme court decisions as to the regularity of the election, convention or what have you. As far as the real interests of Indianapolis are concerned, its freedom from bondage and tribute, its escape from privileged loot and privileged immunities of various kinds, it makes little difference whether it be Coffinism or the boys he trained in trickery who run the affairs. There is lost in this party squabble that fine challenge presented by the City Manager League and its declaration that party politics should be eliminated from city government. That spirit and that enthusiasm should be preserved. It should be made effective. The organization of volunteers which contrasted so strongly with its machine followers in their thinking, their actions and their aims, should be held together if Indianapolis is to be saved from Coffinism as well as Coffin. There is no mistake as to the real enemy. It w'as Coffinism which led the legal battle on the law. It was Coffinism which challenged the movement. It is Coffinism which must be defeated. The way to beat it is to marshal the forces of good government into a fighting army which will guard the ballot boxes from fraud and the city hal) from the lieutenants of loot.

Write the President Every good citizen is interested in having the best possible judges in the federal courts and should be self-sacrificing enough to give advice to the President, who may be without full knowledge as to the fitness, desirability and background of men whose names are suggested to him. It is now revealed that the name of Judge Julian Travis of the supreme court has been very quietly suggested for the court of appeals, just vacated by Judge Anderson. That his name wa§ overlooked by the two senators when they were asked to furnish a list of possibilities must be charged as a dereliction against them. That has been remedied. The name is now before the President, sent there at about the time that the city manager law issue was closed and turned over to him for the duty of writing the decision. * Others were more discerning than the senators. One of the first was the leading attorney in the fight against the law. Others came from Michigan C.ty. From this city came a recommendation from Milt Clawson, who will be remembered for the ease with which he was tricked by one Klinck with a forged affidavit under which an indictment of Tom Adams and the editor of this paper was sought in the federal court. That should not detract from the value of the Clawson letter of praise. It might even add to it. The Times is most happy to shed light on one phase of hte judgeship appointment which has not been generally known. It prints today the list of the Travis indorsements and the dates on which they were sent. The President is entitled to all the information and all the light which can be had. Write to him today, if it had not occurred to you that Judge Travis might be available. The federal courts should have the services of the very best legal minds. They are entitled to men of courage who will declare the law bravely at all times and not be led astray by public clamor. If you have already given approval to other men whose names have been suggested under the impression that Travis was not on the list, there is still time to correct or revise your appeal. It is an important matter. All good citizens should at all times give their best advice on these important matters. Unquesionably the Resident will appreciate your help. Death in the Air A sericus problem developing in American aviation Is revealed by half a dozen scattered news dispatches appearing at the same time, such as: Lindbergh lengthens the regular air line to South America. Lieutenant Doolittle achieves “blind” flying and landing with new safety instruments which conquer for perils. Aircraft industry has record production. Week-end plane crashes increase. Federal gov-

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ernment appeals for better state laws and regulation of flying. Which means that rapid progress is being made In the commercial and scientific aspects of aviation, without accompanying progress in governmental safeguards. This is not the fault of the federal government. The department of commerce is developing and enforcing regulation of interstate traffic as rapidly and cautiously as demanded by anew and quickly changing industry. Federal legislation will be extended. But under our system of government there are definite limits beyond which Washington can not go, limits within each of the forty-eight states is its own boss. And that is the'rub. The mounting death rate and general confusion in the industry Is directly attributable in large part not only to the industry’s newness, but to the indifference and negligence of many states, which lack adequate laws and regulation. “The remedy under the existing federal law requires suitable state legislation, legislation which, among other things, must take into consideration the imperative need for uniformity throughout the United States, in the matter of airworthiness of aircraft, .competency of airmen, and most particularly in the operation of aircraft in the air,” according to a statement by the department of commerce yesterday. Model laws have been prepared by the department undr which each state would bring its safety standards up to those of the federal government. Surely there are few things more important in the state legislatures than speedy enactment of these laws, with ample provision for enforcement. Tell It to Grandpa! "Says no member of college today could pass entrance tests of fifty years ago.” That headlines President Nicohlas Murray Butler’s remarks at the beginning of the school year at Columbia university. Another sign, apparently, that the younger generation is going to the dogs—not only a fast lot, but stupid. But wait a minute! “What is this test of knowledge that would stump our flaming youth? “Greek grammar and composition, four books of Xenephon, Latin grammar and composition, seven books of Caesar’s commentaries on the Gallic war, six books of Virgil’s Aeneid and six orations of Cicero” are some of the old entrance exam subjects listed by Dr. Butler. * Instead, the hundred boys and girls who enter college now—compared with the one rich boy who got there half a century ago—are expected to know something about current affairs, factual biography, economics and the sciences. College students of today may not always turn out to be the snobs who marry the boss’ daughter, as Professor Rogers would have them, but when it comes to a knowledge of facts and intellectual honesty they at least have it on their grandfathers, who had a second-hand acquaintance with distorted history and Greek syntax.

REASON B y F S K

UTTERLY aside from the matter of the actual construction of warships, we never should subscribe to the proposition that Great Britain is entitled to have the greatest navy in the world, for national prestige is largely synonymous with national power, actual or potential. a tt a At the Washington naval conference during Harding's administration, it was conceded that the United States was entitled to equal sea power with Great Britain and it would be positive disloyalty to the United States for our statesmen formally to surrender that equality. it tt a We did not build up to the equality conceded us by the Washington conference and the chances are that we w-ould not build up to such equality for years to come, but we want the RIGHT to do it, if ever that should be desirable. Formally surrender this equality and we have a hard time getting it back. n tt tt TT’S never a good idea to sign a document, agreeing to play second fiddle to anybody else on earth and the New York lawyers who urge our government to do so are not qualified to advise this country on European matters, their sympathies, their vacations, rheir ideals all being beyond the Atlantic. a a tt We are glad to see that Paul McNutt, national commander of the American Legion has returned from France. McNutt has grown a lot this last year, but his hat is still the same old size. tt tt tt Attending a major league baseball game after the championship in both leagues has been determined is about as thrilling as sitting in a theater after the last curtain has fallen. a tt tt Mrs. Coolidge’s magazine article telling about that dinner at Washington where everything went wrong reminds us of an old political meeting where the local drunk agreed with everything we said and after he was expelled, an old Fremont voter threw a fit, and after he was carried out, a corpulent lady fainted, and as soon as she was given the evening air, the chief of the volunteer fire department dashed in and shouted that the postofflce was in flames, whereupon the whole audience got up and departed.

IT should cause rejoicing among the amalgamated cob pipe smokers of America to learn that the corn borer does not get into the cob, but does all his devilment in the stalk. a a it Corporal Martin J. Pauuwe of Michigan just has received the distinguished service cross from the secretary of war for capturing a machine gun nest during the World war. The best recipe for old age is to earn a war medal from the United States, then live to get it. • u a . Every time we hear of one fellow getting a medal, we think of the thousands entitled to them. Any fellow who will face gunfire fifteen minutes and not break the kaiser’s speed record is entitled to all the medals his wardrobe will carry.

THE INDIANAPOLIS TIMES

M. E. Tracy SAYS:

Whether the Tariff Should Be Flexible or Rigid Is a Problem in Human Nature Rather Than in Arithmetic. 'T'HIS certainly Is an age of inventiveness. One beholds it not only in the Held of mechanics, but in every other field. Think of the originality displayed by the Merchants’ Association of Belle Plaine, la., when it offered a prize of SIOO for the most flea bitten dog in four counties, to attract trade to the annual fall festival Forty-nine dogs were entered. They included all breeds from a poodle to a hound. They were examined miscroscopically, and the number of insects found on each carefully tabulated. The money went to a German police dog on which the judges discovered no less than 113 fat fleas. Without reflecting on the unimpeachable honor which should be an attribute of the owner of a dog so neglected, it still seems pertinent to wonder whether the fleas weren’t planted. tt a Oscar G. Olander, state commissioner of public safety in Michigan, reports that auto driving bootleggers have resorted to the “dust screen” for protection. They equip their cars with air compressors, he says, pick dirt roads and turn on the pressure. They could bother pursuers just as effectively by using their exhaust to create a smoke screen, but that is contrary to law, and even bootleggers respect some laws. One could write a good sermon on the sense of duty which their preference for the “dust screen” implies. It is a real problem in ethics, however, whether the use of dust for illegal purposes is right. Even though the silence of the law appears to sanction it. Meanwhile the remedy'is obvious —concrete roads.

More Than Murder FOR the same reason that the City Trust case was more than a bank failure, the Rothstein case may be more than another murder. That is why New Yorkers are willing to accept it as an issue in the present campaign. Rightly or not, they believe not only that it could have been solved, but that it would have been solved if powerful interests had not stood in the way. Former Police Commissioner Enright, now running for mayor on the “Square Deal” ticket, merely voices a popular suspicion when he claims to know that “certain prominent persons” borrowed money from the slain gambler. tt tt it While we talk about reforming the Calendar, Russia makes anew one. After next Sunday the Russian year will contain seventy-three weeks of five days each. Workers will be allowed one day for rest each week, but it will not be the same day for all—one-fifth laying off Monday, another fifth Tuesday, another fifth Wednesday and so on. Such arrangement not only abolishes Sunday, but the idea of a universal rest day. If one leaves out religion, the plan seems sensible. The question is, however, whether religion can be left out. tt tt tt Tariff Is Puzzzle WHETHER the tariff should be made flexible or rigid is a problem in human nature rather than arithmetic, the most important point being who does the flexing. As every one knows, the tariff represents a comparatively small tax for most people and a comparatively large profit for a few. The few not only have the motive, but the means to manipulate it, regardless of how conscientious public officials may be. They study it continuous'y from the particular angle in which it serves them. Asa general proposition, they may be no better prepared to talk about it than the average, but along specialized lines they are expert. Beyond that they usually represent financial, if not political, power, and can mobilize an influence which the public finds it hard to meet, much less to match. tt tt tt Unscientific as a rigid tariff may be, it has its advantages. The fact that those advantages are political, rather than ecohomic, should not detract from their substantial character. With a rigid tariff, the people can rest easy, between congresses at least. With a flexible tariff, which ought to work as often in their interest as it does the other way, they never can be quite sure of what will happen. Judging from experience, it is more likely to happen the wrong way. At all events, flexibility as practiced during the last 6even years, has resulted in far more increases of the tariff than decreases, and has not served to take the tariff out of politics. How high are the Tian-Shan mountains in Turkestan? They range in altitude from 16,000 to 20,000 feet. What is the theme song of the motion pictore, “A Woman of Affairs”? “Love’s First Kiss.” What is the value of a United States dime dated 1900? Ten to 12 cents, What 5-cent piece is valued by collectors at SSO? The Liberty head nickel 5-cent piece dated 1913. What does the name Jerome mean? It is from the Greek and means holy name. Is ft correct to say that Canada is in America? Canada is in the North American continent; therefore it la in America.

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DAILY HEALTH SERVICE Constipation Causes Many Ailments

BY DR. MORRIS FISH3EIN Editor Journal of the American Medical Association and of Hygeia, the Health Magazine. THE inability to cleanse the system regularly of the by-products of digestion long has been associated with various mental disturbances and with many other peculiar reactions. Most physiologists are agreed that it is impossible to say just what is regular or correct for all individuals. Human beings vary, some being comfortable with movements of the bowels once a week, others every three or four days, some daily.

IT SEEMS TO ME By BROUN

A STAFF correspondent from Gastonia reports that the mill owners are actuated by a sincere desire “to keep out the Red.” I doubt it. I think it much more likely that their patriotic fervor is motivated by a desire to keep out of the red. It is my experience that “dangerous radicalism” is very often just another way of describing anything which may cut down profits. Surely there are many of us now alive who can remember when the eight-hour day was attacked as rank anarchy. And while the Communist agitators have done many things in North Carolina that I don’t approve, everything said against them has been charged at one time or another against the now respectable leaders of that exclusive organization known as the American Federation of Labor. From my point of view it seems fair to say that Communism at its very best is an economic device which has not proved itself. Russia, while neither so black nor red as It has been painted, still leaves much to be desired in the eyes of Utopia seekers. tt tt u Prefers America I AM frank to say that I have not the slightest desire to be suddenly transformed out of this pleasant capitalistic community in which I live and work and exchange my lot for life under any Soviet regime. But it is much easier for me to applaud America’s economic organ!-

Times Readers Voice Views

Editor Times—While visiting on the “avenoo”—l refer to Indiana—l find the bootleggers and gamblers are very much elated over their victory in the defeat of the city manager form of municipal government. Being from good old Cincinnati, I feel sorry for all your honest citizens. The old “avenoo” crowd seem to think that their chief, old, wise, “George” they call him, sure enough has his mayor elected now. Having lived in your city a number of years, and known Mr. Sullivan, the Democratic choice for mayor, for almost a lifetime, and known him as an honest, fearless, good citizen, my advice to the City Manager League would be to get behind him and push on to victory. The W. C. T. U., of which I am a member, made this city its convention city, but if the Coffin gang gets control, the bootleggers and gamblers will establish their headquarters here. Now is the time for all good citizens to get the bull by the horns instead of the tail, and forget you have a political party, but try to tie the bull. MRS. HELEN C. McCABE. 33 Dexter place, Cincinnati.

Daily Thought

O Lord I know that the way of man is not in himself; it is not in man that walketh to direct his steps.—Jeremiah 10:23. a m We have all a speck of the motely. —Lamb,

A few physicians insist on several actions of the bowels each day for every one, but this point of view is not accepted by the majority. Dr. Ira S. Wile has made a study of the relationship of accumulation of by-products in the body to human behavier. He points out that not infrequently the child’s reaction is bad because it has learned from his family that it must have activity daily and it resents forcing. In other instances, the bowels have been so irritated by the use of cathartics and laxatives that the mind constantly is occupied with the process of evacuation. Thus Wile feels convinced that

zation than it would be for a mill worker in Gastonia. I should not like to have the task of convincing a 12-year-old child in a southern mill that our economic system is without flaw. And if I were commissioned to convince the sweated and suffering toilers that this is the land of equal opportunity, I don’t know whether I should weep or laugh. People seem to forget that the violence which has characterized a number of Communist labor disputes in this country can not fairly be blamed upon radical agitators. Nobody can agitate unless he has straw to work with. If North Carolina actually wants to keep the Reds out, the state is going about the business in a foolish way. No sincere movement can be mobbed to death a tt tt Bread, Not Bullets AS LONG as Gastonia mill owners pay starvation wages for a long, grinding day of toil they deserve all the trouble which Communist organizers have made for them. It is extremely narrow-minded for conservative opinion in the North to extend any sympathy whatsoever to the mill owners. Sound conservative common sense must inevitably be on the side of the Reds. Even if mercy is ruled out of consideration, self-interest should put us of the middle class against the exploiters. Asa member of the burgeois, I particularly have no desire to see Reds in the saddle in American government or industry. The middle class always gets swatted the hardest in any revolution. Feeling as I do, there is every reason why I should have contempt for the cupidity of the mill owners

“’•re OAVT

HOWE IN PHILADELPHIA Sept. 27 ON Sept. 27, 1777, General William Howe, a British officer entered Philadelphia after defeating Washington at Brandywine two weeks earlier. Howe is the officer who commanded the British at the famous battle of Bunker Hill in 1775. After this battle, Howe was victorious at Long Island, defeated Washington at White Plains and captured Forts Washington and Lee. He settled down in New York for the winter of 1776-1777. He again took the field in June, 1777. Desiring to capture Philadelphia, but fearing the dangers of a long march across country, he sailed down the coast and up the Chesapeake bay as far as Elkton, where he landed Aug. 28. Marching northward, Howe met Washington and defeated him Sept. 11 at Brandywine, and on Sept. 27 occupied Philadelphia. Howe arranged to remain in Philadelphia during the winter, while Washington encamped at Valley Forge. Howe resigned shortly after taking Philadelphia, but It was not until May, 1778, that Sir Henry Clinton was appointed to succeed him.

it is necessary to determine in every case what is regular or normal for that case. He feels also that too much attention is just as bad as no attention at all. The physiologists know that there are many factors which will influence action of the intestinal tract. The taking of food or any other irritation high up in the tract will begin movements downward. Anger and fear will cause unusual activity of the bowels or stop their activity. In most instances eighteen hours are required for the passage of material from the mouth to evacuation.

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.

of Gastonia and scorn for their stupidity. They are the people who have made Communism possible. Asa taxpayer, I wish there were some way in which I could bring suit against the government to compel the United States senate to pay me a refund because of the amount of time which that august body wastes in sheer irrelevance. The deliberations ought to be conducted like a college football game. tt tt tt Referee Needed ALONG the sidelines there might be a man with a whistle. Whenever any one or two arose to discuss matters having no national pertinence, the official would blow his whistle to indicate time out. And every senator would be docked for whatever portion of the afternoon was devoted to these pranks and antics. I am moved to this passion for economy by a recent exchange between Senators Smoot and Brookhart. The gentleman from lowa asserted that he had seen the gentleman from Utah at a Washington dinner where drinks were served. Senator Smoot denied the accusation. In fact, he almost intimated that it must have been two other fellows. Eventually testimony was brought out that the liquor was in flasks placed under the table. Everybody admitted that Senator Smoot never stooped for so much as a napkin. In a world which moves toward the reduction of armament, with the whole tax and tariff problem to be considered, the Senate of the United States can And nothing better to talk about than some little old las year’s bender. Why shouldn’t I want my money back? (Copyright. 1929. by The Tlmg)

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SEPT. 27, 1929

SCIENCE —By DAVID DIETZ —

Psi, You Will Be Interested in Knowing, Is the Smallest Thing in the Universe. STEP up and meet Psi (It’s pronounced to rhyme with pie.) If you plan to pay much attention to the newest scientific discoveries during the next year or two, the chances are that you will run across Psi frequently. Psi originally was a member of the Greek alphabet and it forms part of the name of a number of Greek letter fraternities. But mathematicians make use of the Greek letters as well as fraternities. There’s Pi, for example the Greek letter “p,” which is the mathematical symbol for 3.1416, the ratio between the circumference and diameter of a circle. And now a mathematical physicist has immortalized Psi. Psi, you will be interested to know, is th£ smallest thing in the universe. In the nineteenth century, it was believed that the atom was the smallest thing in the universe. In fact, that belief is signified in the name, atom, which comes from two Greek words, meaning “not cutable.” Then the epoch-making discoveries at the end of the nineteenth and beginning of the twentieth century, by Roentgen, Becquerel, Curie, Thompson, Loren tz, Rutherford, Millikan and others ended the reign of the atom. It became apparent that the atoms of matter were, in turn, composed of still smaller units. These were named electrons. a a 'tt Electron THE electron theory received its greatest development at the hands of Dr. Neils Bohr, Danish physicist, who had gotten his training at Cambridge, England, under the famous Sir Ernest Rutherford. According to Bohr’s theory, which is based in no small part upon Rutherford’s experiments, the atom consists of a nucleus which is a composite of positive and negative electrons. Around this nucleus negative electrons revolve, like planets revolving around the sun. The emission of light and heat waves from heated objects was explained on the basis of the Jumping of electrons from one orbit to an-' other, the wave length of the emitted w'ave depending upon the size of the jump. But there were a great many things which the Bohr theory failed to explain. For one thing, it did not explain why the electrons could revolve only in a certain limited number of orbits of definite size. De Broglie, a French physicist, came forward,, with a suggestion to explain some of these difficulties. His theory was that each electron was accompanied by a train of waves. The result of this would be that the electron could revolve only in an orbit which would be the equivalent of a whole number of waves. This* was the beginning of “wave mechanics,” the chief storm center of present-day physics, tt a tt Balloon WAVE mechanics came into their own at the hands of a German scientist named Schrodinger. His first suggestion was that the electron be done away with entirely. Instead of conceiving of the atom as a miniature solar system, he pictured it as a pulsating sphere of electricity, a sort of electrical balloon. He developed his theory mainly, however, as a mathematical one, without any attempt to be descriptive in any but the mathematical sense. Hence, he merely designated the pulsating element in the atom by the Greek letter Psi. Schrodinger’s model of the atom possesses many excellent features, but most experimenters felt that there was too much evidence for the existence of the electron to throw it overboard. Our notions about the election are going through a period of change and it is extremely difficult to express them briefly. But there seems to be a general opinion that the electron itself is composed of waves, or at least that it has some sort of internal structure. Some physicists are even beginning to speak of sub-electrons. According to their way of looking at things, Schrodinger’s Psi is the aubelectron. The diameter of the electron Is calculated to be about one twenty-five-triilionth of an inch. Since Psi is a constituent of the electron, it must be smaller than that. There is no general agreement yet as to its size.