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The Finest Convention Candidate Glossbrenner performs a public service when he invites attention to the meeting of the Republican committee which nominated him and praises it as the finest example of the convention system. It was just the sort of a “convention” which the foes of the primary system have dreamed, for in that gathering was no man with a mind of his own no one who voted his own preferences, no one who dared protest against the edict of the boss. The ticket of that gathering was arranged as the enemies of the primary system wish to arrange all tickets—in a secret conference dominated by a boss. No one is guileless enough to believe that Mr. Glossbrenner or any o f the other candidates would have been considered had not Boss Coffin in advance not only given approval but orders for their nomination. Had the same names been presented to a similar Coffin gathering four years ago, Mr. Glossbrenner would have been hooted and jeered and the candidate would still have been Duvall. This gathering was s. convention in name only. The men ;hd women who went through the motions knew that to oppose Coffin meant removal from their position on the committee. That was the threat, made possible through supreme court interpretations of election laws so that the chairman becomes the master of his party and the keeper of its conscience. Only the positive knowledge that to name one of the old type of men who served him meant defeat at the polis could induce Coffin to select a ticket for which no apologies needed to be made on the ground of respectability. Otherwise he would have nam/ed candidates who were ready to believe the statute of limitations is the bill of rights. The repeal of the pnmarymeans the end of self government. It means that the decent and orderly portion of society must bargain with bosses for crumbs. It means that fear alone will force concessions to honesty. It means the end of popular government. It means, to those who have fought brave battles for popular government, that the influence of the Beveridges who made such fights is gone and that bossism, autocracy and political tyranny have again returned. Peace —And Population From The New York Telegram While President Hoover and Premier MacDonald have their heads together for discussion of disarmament and world peace, they doubtless are thinking and talking In terms of political government. Representing two of the most powerful governments in the world, their efforts to establish or preserve peace will have international interest, and their conclusions will be influenced not only by their interpretation of public and political sentiment in their own countries but also by what other great powers may be expected to support in the way of international effort. But world peace isn't entirely a matter of political concord. No way has yet been found to subordinate the laws of nature to those of man, and at the moment when the world is watching Hoover and MacDonald and praying for peace there comes from the press a most significant book which deals with nonpolitical influences all over the world that are Working for war. We refer to Warren S. Thompson's "Danger Spots in World Population." which surveys the world as an economic whole and points out where political government Is blocking the economic organization of the world. Existing national boundaries are arbitrary, of course; they were fixed by force in wars of the past. Distribution of the earth's surface hasn't been governed by natural necessity. What portion of it any political government controls wasn't determined by that nation's needs. Dr, Thompson, director of The Scripps Foundation for Population Research, endowed in 1922 for $500,000 by the late E. W. Scripps, founder of The Scripps-Howard newspapers, points out, for illustration, the growth of population in Japan and Italy to the point where It overflows national boundaries and eventually either must starve or fight for more room. At the same time Great Britain, France and Holland hold out of use vast areas In colonial possessions that they can't colonize themselves and will not let other nations colonize. Australia, with its determination to remain a white man's country, has vast areas of productive land in the tropics where the white man can’t work or live except as an exploiter of colored labor and yet won't permit colonization by Japanese, who are of Malay origin and can live in the tropics much better than in northern Asia. France and Great Britain control Syria and Iraq and can’t colonize those countries, whereas they would suit the overflowing population of Italy perfectly. Dr. Thompson takes a long range view of world population and its pressure on subsistence, to be sure. There is no immediate danger of war, and for the time being makeshift arrangements between political governments may patch up world peace. But he invites attention to the danger a few generations in the future, when overgrown countries will have a population that will have to have more room, mere food, more raw material and altogether a fairer chance to live. His proposed solution of the problem is a fair, and peaceful arrangement whereby a more equitable distribution of land may be made. and. considering the selfishness of human nature and the pride of nations. he evidently isn't very hopeful of any such solution. Nevertheless, there is much in his argument for the world's statesmen to chew on while they are trying to adjust world relatiegs by political conferences.

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for, after all, economic laws must ultimately rule the world and political laws will have to* conform. When Hoover and MacDonald finish their sessions it might be well for them and political engineers in the other countries to sit down, read Thompson’s book carefully, and then do & big Job of hard thinking. With ever-increasing knowledge of science and the steady triumph over disease, with the persistent industrialization of agricultural countries, war, pestilence and famine can no longer be trusted to regulate population growth, and we will have to find new and better ways than war to keep peace in the human family. Where Is the A. F. of L.? To anyone interested in the rights and welfare of the workers, the American Federation of Labor, meeting in Toronto this week, is a somewhat pathetic organization. It has to report a failure to make appreciable gains In membership, being now below three million, compared with its five million and more in 1920. It has to report a labor awakening in the south in which it has little share, and industrial warfare in the south Vhich it lias done little to mitigate. It has to report increasing technological unemployment caused by machines doing the work of men, and its own inaoility to obtain governmental unemployment and old age pension systems to protect scrapped labor. It has to report basic industries, such as steel, automobiles, rubber, oil, in which labor has neither organization nor collective bargaining. It has to report other basic industries, such as coal and textiles, in which chaotic conditions drift from bad to worse, with the federation having no constructive program to prevent increasing suffering in those trades. It lias to report growth of the anti-labor injunction evil handcuffing the unions, and its helplessness to protect the constitutional civil rights of the workers. And all this is happening in the most powerful, most prosperous, and allegedly most enlightened democracy In the world. It would seem that there is something seriously wrong either with the country or with the American Federation of Labor. Perhaps much is wrong both with the country and with the A. F. of L. Certainly government and industry are jointly responsible when the secretary of labor must admit that "there are among us from 10 to 20 million people who do not share as they should in the prosperity enjoyed by the rest of us.” Certainly government and industry are Jointly responsible for the legal and physical terrorism which victimize workers and their unions. But, after all. what is the American Federation of Labor for? Unions are organized in trades and federated in a national body for the specific purpose of protecting the interests of labor. If the A. F. of L. can not get justice for labor in congress, in the courts, and in industry, who can? The truth is that the A. F. of L. is failing miserably In its stewardship. Every year its weakness is more apparent. The southern textile situation is a vivid example of that failure, but it is only one of many examples. For thirty years the A. F. of L. has ignored the field, except for easy resolutions and a handful of organizers. The job has been lsft to the Communists. While the hungry southern mill hands are facing alone the organized employers and hostile authorities, beaten by mobs and shot down by sheriffs, the sleek A. F. of L. officials sit twiddling their thumbs at mahogany desks in Washington or make patrioteering speeches to the National Security League or at West Point. The A. F. of L. is accurately described as the aristocracy of labor. All aristocracies are subject to dry rot.

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THAT was a bright Idea somebody offered to make Ambassador Charles G. Dawes mayor of Chicago, for that town needs a dynamic, fearless mayor as much as any foul area ever needed purification by lightning. And if necessary he could run over to London every ninety days and attend to the diplomatic work over night. * an As mayor of Chicago, Dawes would cut the tie between politics and crime; he would bathe the underworld in carbolic acid; he would drag Father Dearborn from his long slumber and rescue civic consciousness from its coma; he would buckle the flapping belt of law enforcement and comb the moss from off Chicago’s "I will.” n n n Stone mountain, down in Georgia, is the only tive volcano in the United States and it has been in eruption almost constantly ever since the movement started to chisel the Confederate memorial upon its granite cheek. The last hot lava thrown up is the indictment of Gutzon Borglum for taking away his models when he quit. nun RIGHT now when we are all so interested in strengthening law enforcement, it doesn’t help much for the treasury department to issue orders that congressmen and other high officials returning from abroad may enter without having their baggage inspected. It will take a special dispensation of Providence to enforce the idea of the absolute equality of all men before the law. n n n Costa Rica has ratified the Kellogg pact, renouncing war. which is enough to cover the God of War with goose-flesh. n n n We are not surprised to read in the papers that ex-Secretary Fall registered illness when called to Washington to face another criminal trial. In fact, we warned you several weeks ago that he would show up with a relapse, for he always has done so. Since he was first indicted. Fall has filed affidavits, showing that he had everything except tape worm, and more people have looked at his tongue than ever looked at the Leaning Tower of Pisa. n n n But even should Fall, Sinclair, and Doheny ultimately escape, they would give anything to blot out the past for all of them have been branded by the supreme’ court of the United States and for eight long years they have been in the prison of feai. Every time they’ve seen a teapot they’ve had a chill. m m u THIS last American Legion convention at Louisville was a wonderful tonic for the country. War is the sum of all horrors, but without its sacrifices and its glories, we would have few things to recall with pride. These men of the Legion are the great asset of the future.

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M. E. Tracy SAYS: What People Want Now and What They Have a Right to Expect Is Freedom to Make Use of the World. \ PREMIER MACDONALD’S visit to the United States overshadows I every other event in the news. The presence of the head of the i British empire in Washington marks the end of an era, especially since it is designed to promote progress of international relations which must include the civilized world to be of practical benefit. The British prime minister* and the President of the United States are revealed as working for the betterment of humanity, and as representing anew kind of statesmanship-. tt a tt Who has the hardihood to hope for failure? who wants another Shearer at the conference which will meet in London next January? Who believes that the further advancement of civilization offers more than one choice? Obviously, we have come to another parting of the ways, with the alternative of accepting bigger and broader responsibilities, or setting the clock back. Accumulated knowledge has led mankind to break down national barriers in every respect except politics. Trade, travel, art, culture and industry no longer recognize them as of primary importance. What people want now, and what they have a right to expect, is freedom to make use of the world. What they ask of statesmanship is ways and means of maintaining the necessary order. tt tt u Must Guarantee Peace THE issue thus raised includes far more than the simple question of whether sovereign governments shall continue the mad race of armed rivalry, and be permitted to wage war at will. If these time-honored privileges are to be set aside, anew system must be devised —a sytem which will offer guarantees of peace that are as effective and as practical as those disestablished. Tradition says, “It can't be done,” but that is what tradition has said with respect to everything new and progressive since the dawn of time. a tt tt Who is opposed to fire prevention? Who thinks it glorious to burn a building, or reprehensible to keep one from burning? No one, of course, yet quite a strong argument could be made in defense of fire by adopting the logic that some people employ in defense of war. Fire has cleaned out more than one slum district and given birth to a sadly needed construction program in more than one community. Most people believe we have grown sensible enough to do what we ought, without the spur of such a costly incentive, and that we can unite in an effort to prevent fires, without losing our taste for better buildings, or becoming indifferent to filth. it tt tt See War as Inevitable IF we have become intelligent enough to do what we ought, without fire, why haven’t we become intelligent enough to do what we ought, without war? To hear some folks talk, however, one would suppose President Hoover and Premier MacDonald were in a conspiracy to destroy civilization, that a disarmament conference was one of the seven deadly sins, and that any man who tried to prevent war in any way, except by advocating bigger armies and navies, was a traitor. In their opinion, war is inevitable, and the only way to postpone, or avoid it, is to keep the other fellow scared. m 'm a Time was when men looked upon every kind of misfortune as inevitable—flood, famine, smallpox, cholera, yellow fever, fire and war. Time was, when they saw no other way of meeting epidemic than by keeping a goodly supply of coffins on hand, when their one hope of escaping swollen rivers was in flight, and when they could think of nothing in the face of blighted crops but prayer. Time was when those who advocated scientific measures were regarded as in defiance of the divine plan, and they actually were put to death in some cases to forestall the wrath of an outraged God. Time was when pain and suffering, whether inflicted by nature or man, were looked upon as essential purifiers of the human soul. a a a Within the last few hundred years men have come to realizeithat they could improve themselves and their conditions without being driven to it; the poverty was not indispensable to the production of genius; that a sense of honor was not irreconcilable with clean clothes; that social order was a matter of education, rather than of fear, and that suffering could be avoided without breeding a race of cowards.

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Editor Times—l notice the pictures of the Democratic city ticket in vour paper and also what church they all belong to. Why is it, that it is so important in Indiana that every time a man moves to Indianapolis, or is appointed, or nominated to any office, they must tell what church he belongs to? What difference does it make, if the man is all right? Was it always so? A DAILY READER.

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And ye be kind one to another, tenderhearted, forgiving one another.—Ephesiains, 4:32. • mm As nice as we are in love, we forgive more faults in that than in friendship.—Henry Home.

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DAILY HEALTH SERVICE Child Health Conditions Far Better

BY DR. MORRIS FISHBEIN Editor Journal of the American Medical Association and of Hygeia, the Health Magazine. IT long has been understood that the infant mortality rate of the community could be taken as a fairly good measure of its healthfulness. The American Child Health Association regularly reports on more than 700 cities of the United States as to their rates of deaths for infants within the first year of life. There was a time when some cities had rates as high as 200 or more to the thousand; in other words, at least 200 babies out of every 1,000 that were born died before they were 1 year old. The latest studies by the Child Health Association show that the rate for 719 cities in 1928 was 69.2, as compared with the rate of 63.9 during 1927. The rate for 1928 is therefore slightly over three points

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AMERICAN newspapers have | been far too lenient in their comments about the breakdown of law In North Carolina. Editorial commentators have allowed the red herring of Communism to draw them off the trail. A somewhat perfunctory regret has been expressed at mob action, but there has always been the postscript that “of course, much can be said on both sides.” Many an editorial writer still seems to feel that It is something less than murder If a Communist gets killed. I am ready to agree that the presiding judge did everything in his power to afford a fair trial to the workers of Gastonia. Yet even this seems to me a thing that should be taken as a matter of course, rather than the subject for celebration. I always had supposed that our scheme of government invariably guaranteed a fair trial except, of course, in Massachusetts. tt a a There She Stands s t THE moment there remains much for North Carolina to do if she is to lift herself above the level, of the debased commonwealth where Webster Thayer still sits up on the bench unashamed. North Carolina is not at this moment deserving of a place among civilized American communities. It is true that a number of defendants in the Gastonia case have been released, but this was strategy rather than impartial justice. After all, even a vindictive prosecution hardly can afford to try prisoners

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CHICAGO’S GREAT FIRE Oct. 8 ON Oct. 8, 1871, Mrs. O'Leary’s cow kicked over the kerosene lamp that started Chicago’s great fire. The cow bam’ in which the fire originated was on De Koven street, near the corner of Jefferson, on the west side of the river. This region was composed largely of shanties and the fire spread rapidly, very soon crossing the river to the south side and fastening ou that part of the city which contained nearly all the leading business houses. Fanned by a gale, the fire raged uncontrolled for two days and nights, sweeping over 2,100 acres, destroying 17,540 buildings and causing 200 deaths. The amount of the total property loss was estimated at $200,000,000. Os this vast sum, about half was covered by insurance, but under the tremendous losses many of the insurance companies were forced to the wall and the victims of the conflagration recovered only about oneflfth of their aggregate losses. , T AV- l ‘ .

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higher than that for 1927, but still is the second lowest infant death rate ever recorded in this country. There are, of course, many factors which may influence the death rate badly or favorably in some cases. Obviously a city located like Seattle or Portland is more healthful than one with a climate like that of many of the cities in the south or southeastern portions of the United States. For years the rates of the cities in the northwest have been low. In 1928, Seattle and Portland had rates of 43, and San Francisco a rate of 46. In 1927,' Seattle was first with 41, and Portland and Minneapolis tied with 47. Among cities of over 100,000 to 250,000. Oakland Cal., led with 47. followed by Spokane, Wash., with 49. Os cities between 50,000 and 100,000, Berkeley was first with 31 and Union City, N. Y., second with 32.

against whom it has not a scrap of evidence. It was entirely reasonable that certain Communist leaders should have been brought to trial after the killing of the police chief, but it was monstrous to use the killing as an excuse for spreading a dragnet to catch every radical organizer connected with the strike. The state of North Carolina will be in no position to receive congratulations unless it shows the same energy in running down the killers who shot a woman striker as it has bestowed upon the effort to convict the slayers of the police chief. a tt a Something Else AND the recent bloodshed in Marion, where four union men died under the fusillade of the sheriff’s deputies, puts an entirely new complexion upon the temper of the state’s law officers. Obviously, there was never very

Questions and Answers

Was Kerensky or Lenin the leader of the revolutionary movement which overthrew the czar of Russia? Neither was the leader of the revolution. On March 12, 1917, the Russian duma carried through a coup d’etat, as a result of which the Emperor Nicholas II abdicated. A provisional government under Prince George Lvoff was set up which held office until May 16, 1917, i when It was reorganized. On Aug. 6, 1917, occurred what is sometimes called the second revolution when a new cabinet under Alexander Kerensky was formed. This government maintained itself until Nov. 7, 1917, when the Bolshevik revolution or third revolution occurred under the leadership of Lenin and Trotsky, and the military revolutionary committee seized the government authority and handed it over the next day to the all-Russian congress of the councils of workmen's soldiers’ and peasants’ deputies. What has been the increase In the Negro population of the United States in the last twenty years? According to the 1910 census there were 9,827.763 Negroes in the United States. The 1920 census showed 10,463.131. There are more than 11,000.000 Negroes in the United States today. What place in the United States has the greatest amount of rainfall? Glenora. Tillamook county, Oregon, avering 131 1 i inches of rainfall a year. i What is the smallest gold piece ever issued by the United States? The one dollar gold piece. What is the highest rank in the United arm j. V i*

Among cities of 25,000 to 50,000, Alameda, Cal., was first with 25; Medford, Mass., second with 30, and Oak Park, LJ-. and Everett, Mass., third with 31. In the smallest population group, Holland, Mich., was low with 21, then Baintree, Mass., with 22, and Stonington, Conn., with 24. Os the largest cities in the United States, that of the rate of Los Angeles fell in ten years from 69 to 66; Cleveland in ten years from 109 to 60, and Baltimore from 122 to 82. The states with the highest infant mortality rates during recent years have been Arizona, North Carolina, South Carolina, Georgia, Tennessee, Alabama, Virginia and Mississippi. Obviously the health work in our large southern communities is influenced badly by the large number of Negro population and by similar factors.

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much truth in the assertion of mill owners that they regarded themselves as patriots fighting the Red menace. The American Federation of Labor was behind the Marion strike ana members of this conservative body have faced even worse at the hands of the police than did the more radical union in Gastonia. There is every reason to believe that North Carolina mill owners are plain and simple liars when they bleat about the flag and aliens who would tear it down. The only things these business men are out to protect are profits. In describing the outbreak of the bloody riot at Marion, Sheriff Oscar Adkins tried to convince the newspaper men that he was a peacemaker dealing with desperadoes. . His version of the affair is somewhat marred by the fact that all four men who died were strikers and that of the twenty or more wounded only one was a sheriff's deputy. It is also interesting to note that the officers of the law were armed while the pickets had no more than perhaps a few sticks and stones. If the necessity in Nicaragua is no longer pressing, I suggest that the President lands marines in North Carolina to protect American citizens in their inalienable right to organize and agitate against alaw Tless tyranny.

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