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The Coffin System There is a frankness about Boss Coffin that should thoroughly enlighten, not to say warn, the people of this city concerning his viewpoint on government. The city council created fourteen new precincts. That might, mean twenty-eight new votes in the Republican city committee. The rules, as carefully prepared for Coffin usage, give him the right to pick his own men and women in any new precincts. “I will not name the new committee members because it is unnecessaary,” says the somewhat confident boss. That means, of course, that if the revolt within his ranks had gained any serious proportions, he would disregard the ethics of the occasion and name enough new members to give him control over the convention. This frankness should be appreciated, for it means that whatever the convention does in the way of nominations will have the approval in advance of the boss. It will beai the Coffin label. Four years ago it was very necessary, apparently, for some things to be done to insure the election of John Duvall and the Four Horsemen, who were Coffin selections during the period. An inquisitive grand jury later questioned the acts that were performed and as a result Duvall is appealing to the supreme court to save him from a jail sentence which the appellate court has twice approved as perfectly justified. The Four Horsemen have gone into oblivion after confessions of crimes. Perhaps the city of Indianapolis needs a guiding genius who will do whatever is “necessary.” It is convenient or humiliating, as you view it, to have a man to w r hom a group of the great and respective can go and know that when the arrangements have been completed, everything necessary to be done will be done to carry out the program. That makes it much easier than presenting candidates to the people and permit them to decide their own problems. This year, after his successful assault upon the city manager law, into which he openly sent his legal staff, Coffin may well feel desperate. He knows that the statute of limitations does not run against human memories, even though it sometimes saves the man wffio does whatever is necessary. He sees the revolt against the high taxation which his vassals make necessary through waste and extravagance. The extent of his fears can be measured by the fact that he is ready to listen to men vhen they plead for a candidate with a reputation instead of the sort he picks when he is sure that a party label is enough to win. The real way to end Coffinism is to take away from him the slightest chance*to control his own party or any public office. The city and county and state surely have suffered enough. The World's Loss When a great statesman died it used to be said that his country had suffered a heavy loss. Now the world is related so closely for good or ill that the death of a national statesman may be an international tragedy. So It is with Gustav Stresemann, German foreign minister. His contribution to his party and his country was important. He was the strong man, who more than once kept the cabinet from crashing. But his greatest service to his country was his service to world peace. Asa young man, he was an active Nationalist. The war made him an internationalist. He had the vision and the courage to lead a defeated people from the darkness of revenge to the light of international friendship. Without that spirit on the part of Germany during the last decade, the injustices of the victors’ settlement at Versailles would be brewing another world war today. Instead, Europe is on the better road of Locarno and Geneva which should lead to peace. French and British statesmen, who labored with him for reconciliation, are the first to credit him with leadership in their joint achievement. To the younger generation of the world Germany does not mean the kaiser; to them he Is as far away as the Caesars he tried to imitate. Germany means those giants of peace—Eckener, Einstein, Stresemann. t Reds and Red Herrings The fatal clash between deputy sheriffs and textile strikers at MftriCn, N. C.,’should be a lesson to North Carolina and other southern states. For it proves beyond the dispute of mill owners and conservative public officials, including county sheriffs and Governors, that the basic issue in the present industrial upheaval is not communism. These strikers are members of a conservative A. F. of L. union. They are not driven by theories, but by Just grievances against long hours and low pay, and the system of feudalism prevailing in mill colonies of many southern industries. When there were killings and kidnapings at Gastonia, the cry of communism was raised by local officials arid citizens. The violence was blamed on the Invasion of workers' party representatives and the resentment of the strikers themselves against these alien ideas and influences. Bad conditions in the factories and mill colonies were admitted. But the communists, it was asserted.

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were not the kind of people who help to improve them. Governor Gardner said he did not know how to “speak with these communists.” Others declared there could be no peace until the “reds” were driven out. The strike at the Loray mill in Gastonia was broken by this kind of counter-propaganda and by violence, which provoked the strikers to violent retaliation. The need for reform was forgotten in the war on the “reds.” Gastonia now has peace of a sort~an armed peace! There were no “reds” at Marion, however. The strike there was sponsored by the A. F. of L., which is opposed bitterly to the communists. The first strike was fairly successful. The company reduced hours and eventually granted a small increase in pay. But it refused to take back some of the union leaders, and another strike was called. During an exchange of shifts there was a clash Wednesday between day and night workers, and some-body-testimony Indicates it was one of the deputy sheriffs—shot into the crowd. Three strikers were killed and four others may die. The sheriff admits that he saw no striker with a gun. Not a ‘ red” on the scene, not a “red" within eighty miles—except a red herring. Welcome, MacDonald! America welcomes Premier MacDonald. America has faith in him and in the man he comes to meet in the White House. These two statesmen can achieve the long-sought naval reduction agreement between the United States and Great Britain, as the basis for world arms limitation, if anyone can. They have the vision. They have the practical knowledge. More, they have the support of the British and American .people in this task. Their discussions will not be limited to technical naval affairs. A tentative cruiser understanding already has been arrived at in several months of careful negotiation. It can be improved by reducing further British tonnage with which America has been granted practical parity. But that, doubtless, will depend on larger issues. The main thing is a general working accord between these two nations, the most powerful in the world. War and peace do not hang on any single factor, such as naval rivalry, which merely reflects wider economic and political conflicts. So long as both Britain and United States have vital interests extending throughout the world, it is inevitable that those interests at times shall clash. There will continue to be competition over foreign markets, oil, raw materials; and rivalry in shipping and communications system. There will continue to be conflicts in diplomatic policy. But the problem is to create an Anglo-American atmosphere which these natural conflicts of interest as they arise may be handled rationally instead of being allowed to fester into armament threats, diplomatic attacks, popular hatred and fear, and finally war. Europe need not worry lest such an AngloAmerican understanding become an alliance against the world. An Anglo-American armed alliance to exploit other nations is as impossible as it is undesirable. The world's fear should be rather that these two great powers may some day let their rivalries get out of hand. For if that were to happen, the rest of the world would be dragged in and suffer. MacDonald’s visit and enthusiastic reception are evidence that the two nations are finding a better way than the fists-across-the-sea attitude of the Baldwin and Coolidge governments a year ago. Dispatches from Paris announce several new feminine styles. That will be quite a change.

REASON

THESE hurricanes which leap upon Florida are her worst foes, but one of them did a great favor for our forefathers. It was almost 200 years ago and the place was the island of Nevis in the West Indies. A hurricane swept that island, observed from start to finish by a toy who took his pen in hand to describe it, and the picture he drew earned for him an education in the United States, and then immortality. The boy was Alexander Hamilton. tt tt tt That his pen was later to be of invaluable service to George Washington in war and in peace, while the eloquence of the West Indian prodigy was to save the newly formed Constitution from rejection by the state of New York, Hamilton conquering his gifted antagonists and causing them to confess it, a miracle seldom wrought in deliberative assemblies. And then this youth was to organize our financial system and to this day it runs along the lines he laid down. tt tt tt Those who heard both Alexander Hamilton and Daniel Webster in law suits claimed that Hamilton was his equal in argument, for while he had little of the intoxicating atmosphere of sentiment in his addresses, they were irresistible because of their clarity and the fact that his conclusions marched like armies. He piled up his facts and ’his deductions like great cubes of crystal one upon the other and he never had a superior at the American bar. tt * tt It was a long trip from the hymn of hate which the Germans sang with revolting lury during tne World war to the tearful farewell the German girls gave the English soldiers when they evacuated the Rhineland Forgetfulness is the greatest of all fire entinguishers and but for it the grudges of the world would consume us. tt tt tt THIS Lincoln bed at the White House in which Ramsay MacDonald is to sleep is nine feet long, having been designed by the Emancipator and built in Illinois. Possibly he craved the spacious proportions because in the old law office at Springfield his bodyextended a yard or more from the end of the old sofa, the projection being propped up by chairs. It was in this position he used to read out loud while his partner, Herndon, was trying to work, r o a But even with this long bed, Lincoln would have found it too small to hold him and the radicals in house and senate nad he not been assassinated. There would have been open revolt and Lincoln would have fought the fight which fell to Andrew Johnson. The radicals gave no expression of grief when Booth fired that fatal shot, for they hoped Johnson would gc with them in their program to treat the South as a conquered province.

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THE INDIANAPOLIS TIMES

M. E. Tracy

SAYS:

The Movement for World Peace Gains Because It Is Rooted in Common Sense. Gustav stresemann, who did his best work trying to heal the scars of war and establish peace on a firm foundation, dies the most respected man in Germany. It is a vivid illustration of how profoundly popular sentiment has changed during the last ten years. So, too, is the coming of Ramsay MacDonald to this country. The peace movement no longer depends on a few so-called intellectuals. It has arrived at a point where it not only challenges some of the brainiest statesmen in the world, but where great parties dare to endorse it. Provincialism cries out in alarm. Some business enterprises that look to preparedness for profit stoop to the employment of propagandists. Not only are sneers heard every time a disarmament conference fails, but, what is worse, money often is spent to make it fail, with honest patriotism misled and good intentions tricked. tt tt tt Common Sence Prevails THE peace movement gains, however, because it is rooted in common sense. Twenty-five or thirty years ago, people regarded it as based on pure idealism, as righteous in theory, but hopeless in practice. Now' they realize that it was shaped by the necessities of modem civilization, that the twentieth century world could not afford to ignore it, and that instead of being a romantic dream, it was rooted in the fundamental needs of hardheaded progress. tt tt n Nations are beginning to understand that they can not live by the law of the jungle, that world-wide trade and intercourse calls for world-wide order and that they must recognize the common inter- j ests if they would enjoy the com- ! mon benefits of civilized life. In this respect, humanity merely I is applying on a grand scale those 1 ideas which it has found necessary to apply on a small scale since the dawn of consciousness. Time was when each family lived | unto itself and looked to its own i strength for protection, and time was when each tribe claimed the right to make war at its pleasure. tt a u Bows to Compromise Unrestrained soverignty, as we call it. has bowed to the laws of relativity and compromise In the beginning it was exercised by the individual; later by the family; still later by the clan; and then by the nation. Each step upward has led to its subordination. Right now there are only fiftyfive governments who pretend to enjoy it, and the vast majority of those have yielded to the extent of joining the League of Nations, entering the world court, or subscribing to the Kellogg pact. tt a Humanity has not been following a poet's fancy in this expansion of ideas, but has found virtue in what was profitable, in what paid, in what was indispensable to the growth of intelligence. When one comes to think of It, such a reign of law as Woodrow Wilson visualized is no more of an innovation for the present day than was the union of a few savage tribes 5,000 years ago, nor are the underlying reasons for it any different. What we mean by the right of defense is peace, and what w r e mean by peace is the right to enjoy those things which discovery and invention have made available. Peace, in the modern sense, has become an international problem because discovery and invention have made health, happiness, work and prosperity dependent on international trade. What the average man wants he no longer can get if there is disorder in any large area, which means that the problem of defending and protecting him has become a world-wide affair. tt tt Millions Suffer During the last war millions of people who took no part in it, and whose governments tried to maintain neutrality, suffered untold misery because they could not get the right kind of food or clothing, and because the demoralization of industry threw them out of employment. That, more than anything else, caused men of vision and ability to realize the next great step humanity had to take. Between 1914 and 1918 ten million of the finest young men on earth were killed, twenty million were crippled and perhaps fifty million children were denied their rightful opDortunities. What did humanity gain to justify such a sacrifice, unless it was the vision of anew order?

Questions and Answers

Can Indians on reservations be l drafted in the army in time of war? Yes. TVhat Is the heaviest substance known? Osmium. How do the number of motor vehicles in France, Germany and the United States compare? There are 1,098.000 motor vehicles In France: 531,000 In Germany and 24,493,124 In the United States. From what language was the word garage adapted? „ Garage is from the French word garer which means to shelter or J secure. If a fly ball bounces out of the hands of one fielder into the hands of another who holds it, who gets credit for the putout? The player who finally makes the \ catch is credited with a put-out.

The Whole Hook-Up Looks Bad!

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Be Temperate; Avoid Angina Pectoris

BY DR. MORRIS FISHBEIN Editor Journal of the American Medical Association and of Hvgeia, the Health Magazine. ANGINA PECTORIS is a painful condition of the heart which develops not infrequently in old age and which is associated in many instances with a hardening of the blood vessels that supply the heart with nutrition. Dr. Harlow Brooks recently has pointed out that there are many families particularly likely to suffer with hardening of the arteries, high blood pressure, and other symptoms associated with hardening of the arteries. In these families, deaths from angina pectoris or from apoplexy are the usual form. Dr. Broks believes that any family which has such a record should train its youthful members to a course of life which will help perhaps to protect them against this apparently inevitable future. The young people of a family in which the older members have died from angina pectoris, Dr. Brooks

IT SEEMS TO ME

DR. CHARLES FRANCIS POTTER, who used to be a Unitarian, plans to start anew religion to be called Humanism. With many of the preacher's purposes I am in sympathy. For instance, he explains that under the established denominations it is held that “man is inherently evil and a w T orm of the dust.” The Humanists will preach, “man is inherently good and of infinite possibilities.” To that I say “Amen.” I think there ought to be less talk about “original sin” and more about “original virtue.” But maybe they wouldn’t let me say “Amen” in Dr. Potter’s church because prayer is one of the phases of religion with which he would dispense. “Prayers will not be heard,” said Dr. Potter, “as they are inconsistent with the Humanist conception of religion. Prayers are in essence the begging of favors, material or spiritual, from a monarchic deity. “The classical prayer consists of the giving of praise to put God in a good humor; then of thanksgiving to show that you appreciate favors, and then of petition.” t a tt Pressure Praying I CAN sympathize with Dr. Potter’s feeling that there is something crass and material in such petitions to the deity. It is a form of spiritual panhandling and many have attempted to higgle with the Highest promising a small measure of repentance for a great bargain in rewards. Still, it is not fitting for me to be severe against any who pray in such, a selfish way. In tight places I have sent up petitions which were intended to save my own skin and no other. When shells fell closer than I liked them (that would be any place within half a mile) I used to pray that I should come through that particular newspaper excursion un- ! scathed. Yet even at the time I wpuld have | admitted readily that th£re was no ! reason in the world why the Creator should protect me rather than ! the many millions much closer to ’ the line. n tt n Blasphenmy Although not an agnostic, i never could understand the reasonableness of the traditional ; form of prayer. Indeed at times it seemed to me a form of blasphemy. | For instance. I regarded it as a great piece of impertinence whi n a chaplain stood up before a national political convention and "Oh , Lord, Thou knowest that the Repub- , lican party is assembled in conveni tion here in Chicago ” There was | a distinct suggestion on the part of the preacher that he was addressing

.DAILY HEALTH SERVICE.

insists, should not undertake football, rowing or long distance running in high school or in college. Adequate physical exercises should be begun early in life and continued in temperance as the person grows older. The special exercises for those of families with high blood pressure and heart disease are walking, golf, swimming and horseback riding, but never in excess. The person who is a member of a family with high blood pressure or with heart disease must remember above all things self-control in his physical, mental and emotional life. During youth he must develop habits of adequate sleep and rest and he must choose hobbies and relaxations which are maintained into adult life and which relieve his mind from the stresses of business and the working world. The person with high blood pressure or heart disease must choose the word temperance as his guiding star. Temperance in all things, particularly in the use of alcohol, tobacco and condiments, practically

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someone not quite in touch with the latest evening papers. At the time I had a strong suspicion that the less the Lord saw of that particular convention the better. And there was another sanctimonious lay preacher who ran a hotel in which he conducted afternoon prayers in which he never missed a chance to thank the Lord that the Lake View House had so much cooler weather than the sweltering city of New York. Always I trembled for fear that he would use the prayer to quote the weekly rate for single room with bath. tt tt tt Inspiring YET there is a wholly different sort of prayer which I think has inspired heroes and martyrs in the march of the world. I mean the prayer which man addresses to himself in time of crisis. It never is particuarly articulate and possibly it falls, in its actual form, into a petition to the Lord on high. What I mean is that a man racked for righteousness has every reason in the world to say in his heart, “Give me strength. Don’t let me weaken and betray the things for which I stand.” Any such petition seems to me to have ample justification for dig-

BATTLE OF GERMANTOWN Oct. 4

TODAY is the 152d anniversary of the famous Battle of Ger- ! mantown which took place Oct. 4, 1777, between the Americans under Washington and the British and Hessians under Howe. Washington opened the engage- ! ment early in the morning of the : Oct. 4 and at first his army forced back the British and victory seemed almost certain. But the Americans became confused in the fog and opened fire on each other, while a body of English, who had taken refuge in a large stone house, in the rear, detained a part of the American forces. The accident, coupled with the continual firing in the rear, threw the American troops into confusion, but Washington succeeded in restoring order and. led them from the field. The British lost 575 men and the Americans 673. Germantown, a former suburb of Philadelphia, since 1854 has been Included within the municipal limits and now forms the Twenty-second ward of the city.

all physicians insists must be observed if the person is to fill even the normal life expectancy. Dr. Broks mentions particularly the value of the growing habit of taking a vacation, but points out the special importance of a safe vacation. “The physician may find, for example, on any golf course,” he says, “men the subjects of real or tentative angina who under the delusion that they are benefiting their health, all untrained and unprepared from a physical standpoint, indulging in stresses well fitted for the young college athlete, but not for the mature and frequently over-plump business or professional man who six days out of each week must sit at his desk, stand on the turbulent floor of the Stock Exchange, or under the tremendous responsibility of the operation theater. “Old men try to play tennis with their sons, to defeat them at hand ball, to outdistance them in swimming, to outclimb them in the mountains—many of them develop angina.”

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 es this paper.—The Editor.

nity. Prayers of this kind are often shot into the air like arrows. Every man has a right to his own particular sort of deity and even if the God of yours is a faith in the machinery of evolution itself I can not see why so vast a force should not deserve a prayer. The human soul is a curious thing and on either side are fastened bootstraps. Prayer is the only means I know of getting hold of them and tugging yourself into a fitting upright posture suitable for any eventuality which death can bring. (Copyright, 1929, by The Times)

Daily Thought

Set me as a seal upon thine heart, as a seal upon thine arm; for love is strong as death; jealousy is cruel as the grave; the coals thereof are coals of fire, which hath a most vehement flame. —Solomon’s Song 8:6. it tt a There are no little events with the heart. It magnifies everything; it places in the same scales the fail of an empire of fourteen years and the dropping of a woman’s glove, and almost always the glove weighs more than the empire.—Balzac.

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OCT. 4, 1929

SCIENCE

• By DAVID DIETZ-

Famous Surgeon Reveals Story of Secret Operation in 1593 on President Cleveland. ONE of the most interesting chapters in the history of the United States—how a group of America’s most distinguished surgeons worked to save the life of the nation’s President and at the same time conspired to avert a financial panic by j keeping the President’s ailment a secret—is revealed In the published reminiscences of Dr. W. W. Keen. Dr. Keen is one of the most interesting figures in American science. A surgeon in the Civil war. he is still active, though now 92 years old. Each year he attends the session of the American Philosophical Society at Philadelphia. This year. J despite a broken arm which resulted ' from a fall and necessitated wear- j ing his ann in a sling, he was present as usual. Grover Cleveland was the President and 1893 was the year in which tne operation took place. A world-wide financial crisis existed in 1893, largely due to the derr.onitization of silver by the leading nations of the world. Call money was at 73 per cent in the United States and banks required thirty days’ notice for withdrawal of deposits. Cleveland favored a repeal of the Sherman silver purchase act of 1890,* which he regarded as a weak compromise with the silver advocates. Cleveland's Vice-President. A. E. Stevenson, was a stanch silver advocate and Cleveland regarded his views on currency as a menace to the nation. It was at this cruical point that Cleveland found himself in need of surgical treatment. tt tt a Cancer EVERY effort to keep the President’s ailment a secret was made and Dr. Keen’s revelation is the first authoritative statement of 1 what the trouble really was. Dr. Keen tells that President Cleveland suffered from a cancer. He tells that on June 18, 1893, Dr. R. M. O’Reilly, later surgeon-gen-eral of the United States army, examined the l’oof of President Cleveland’s mouth and found a rough spot the size of a quarter. He also found some diseased bone. He diagnosed it as a malignant growth, in other words, a cancer At his suggestion, a group of eminent surgeons were called in, the diagnosis confirmed and arrangements made for an operation. The diagnosis was confirmed by Dr. Edward G. Janeway, then called “the greatest diagnostician in the world,” and Dr. William H. Welch. The operation was performed by Dr. Joseph D. Bryant of New York. His assistants were Dr. John F. Erdmann and Dr. Keen. It is interesting to note that of this group, Doctors Keen, Erdmann and Welch still are living. President Cleveland decided upon July 1 for the operation and on June 30 issued a call for congress to meet on Aug. 7 to consider thej repeal of the Sherman act. It was decided to perform the operation upon Commodore E. C. Benedict’s yacht, the Onedia. Dr. Keen tells that nitrous oxide was administered to the President and two teeth pulled by Dr. Ferdinand Hasbrouck, a well-known dentist. The surgeons then switched to ether as an anesthetic and Dr. Bryant performed the major operation. ft St tt Secrecy ALTHOUGH there were many rumors in the nation as to the President's health, Dr. Keen says that the full significance of the operation never became known. He says that practically the entire upper left jaw of the President was removed. Particular care was paid to see that no outside scars resulted from the operation. Then Dr. Kasson C. Gibson was called in to mold an artificial jaw for the President. Dr. Keen also tells that a second operation was performed on July 17, the surgeons fearing that all the cancerous tissue had not been removed. This second operation, he says, never has been disclosed before. The President recovered after the operations and on Aug. 7, the session of congress was held as per schedule and the Sherman act repealed. k Cleveland lived until 1908, fifteen* years after the operations. Dr. Keen feels that there was every reason for the secrecy with which the operations were surrounded.